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

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Hello, welcome to the Fletch Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul but without Hayley Sproul today podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. So no Hayley for the next week, two weeks. Yeah, two weeks. And no Megan because she's on maternity leave about to squeeze out a baby. So it's, and we mentioned this in the show, it's like the old days, isn't it? Oh yeah. Just Fletch and Vaughan.

Yeah. Work ethic though. Yeah, we're going to have to work very hard the next two weeks, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Just Fletch and Vaughn. Yeah. Work ethic, though. Yeah, we're going to have to work very hard the next two weeks, aren't we? Yeah. Because we'll be talking more. Oh, that's hard. That's hard work.

That's hard work. Like, right now it's happening. Yeah, but we were paying Hayley for being here, and Megan's away. Shouldn't we get what Hayley's getting? Oh, yeah. But half that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm almost positive that is what's happening. Oh, really? Yeah, right. Because I don't remember that being told to us. We're definitely picking up the slack. Yeah, we're picking up slack. I mean, George is in doing Megan's, like, latest feature. She already gets paid.

Exactly. She's already here. So there's no point paying her anymore. It would make sense, vis-a-vis, that we are then paid half of what Hayley was getting to cover Megan for maternity. Which is fantastic. Great. Okay. Well, who do we talk to?

Accounting. Sounds great. Are you allowed to just authorize that? I've signed off on it, yes. Right. And I'll follow it up now with a rather terse email to accounting. Yeah, right. Exactly where I stand on the matter.

Okay. But no, that's taken care of. Congratulations on the pay rise. Thank you. Albeit temporary for two weeks. Fantastic. Just a little extra in the back pocket. Yep.

After the government's taken a slice of my right. Yeah. Taxes. Yeah, but. Nice. It's coming up to the end of the financial year. Speaking of tax. Yep.

March 31st. You're ready to get your spreadsheets out. Oh God, I hate it. Yeah. I hate it so much. Sitting down, blah, blah, blah. I don't know how people do, like, what's that job? Accounting.

Accountants. Uh-huh. Because maths is not my strong point. No. At all. And when you're a kid, you know, you dream big with your jobs. You're like, I'm going to be. But then even some, like, sometimes people will say lawyer, but they are imagining like a high court lawyer that I've seen on the

TV and the movies. And I'm imagining a lawyer that spends 16 hours of the day reading for somebody's mistake and the fine print. But, you know, there was, I remember a kid being like, what are you going to do when you leave school? And he was like, accountant. And I was like, you've given up already. But he's probably earning more than all of us.

No, the dude's sorted. I'm pretty sure he's got a beach house. A what? A beach house? Yeah, but he's not paying tax. You know how those accountants, they're the first to tell you you've got to pay tax, the last to put it on themselves. ZM.

Head music. Lives here. Fleece, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleece, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul, with no Hayley Sproul and no Megan. So it's like your reliever teacher is sick and now we've got...

We're just running it ourselves. The principal's like, look, leave the kids to themselves. Look, I'm only getting sound in one ear. Is it headphones? That's a you headphones issue, I think. Oh, no, because I've tried two different holes now. Do you want me to try your hole and see if my headphones work in your hole? Or you could plug my headphones into your hole.

One, two. No, I've got both ears. God damn it. So this is a headphones issue. Yeah. This is my own. Do I have a wiggly? Yeah, it's a wiggly wire because, look, I'm having a fiddle up here.

Oh, yeah, this isn't what you want on a short week. Oh, that's working for now. Just hold the wire. I'm having my... Manopause. Manopause. Getting a hot flush. Hey, we've got a big announcement.

I mean, this is like the old days, isn't it? Yeah. What do you mean? Oh, just us. Just us. Uh-huh. Do we have to answer the phones ourselves as well? No, I refuse to. Do you remember when you had to put in listener details and people won things?

And you always learnt about suburbs. Yeah. And postcodes. Every now and then I will still see a suburb and I'll be like, I remember someone being from there once. Yeah. Yeah. Those were the days.

Flatbush. That always cracks me up. Yeah. Because it's were the days. Flatbush. That always cracks me up. Yeah. Because it's a place. Because you're immature. No, no. It's just, it lacked any sort of inspiration when naming. It was simply named after the flat area with bush on it.

Bush on it. Flatbush. That's a funny suburb. What was another funny suburb? Bim, bim, dun? Sure. I'm just trying to think of a Wellington one now. Can't.

Coming up on the show, 8 o'clock, a big announcement. Yes. This is big. Something big this way comes. I think people have figured it out. There will have been some people. Because, you know, we do this every now and again, don't we? It goes big.

8 o'clock this morning, we will reveal everything. The top six is coming up on the show. Yes. Yesterday's Super Bowl. it goes big 8 o'clock this morning we will reveal everything the top 6 is coming up on the show yes yesterday's Superbowl um still don't get

how that game works old mate won yeah it's just basically Tom Brady yeah Tom Brady it's rugby with forward passes

and yeah gotta get over the line gotta be carrying the ball when they get over the line and they wear helmets cause ouch yeah it's a like tactical thing and you only have to, ouch. Yeah, and it's a, like, tactical thing,

and you only have to make a little bit of ground, and it's like, great work. You didn't go backwards, that sort of thing. But the ads were always massive at Super Bowl, and one of the ads featured Timothée Chalamet playing a young Edward Scissorhands. So I've got the top six modern problems that Edward Scissorhands would face. Because if you've seen the movie, it was like set in not now. Yeah.

And there's been so many technological advancements since then. Yeah. They've got the top six modern problems that Edward Scissorhands would face. All right. Next on the show, there's new research out of the United States. Yeah, we are having less of something than ever before. It's not chips. Nowhere.

Certainly enjoy those. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I've been saying it for years. Sex is overrated. Have you? Have you had a good dessert lately? Okay, not wrong. Not wrong.

Desserts are delicious. Get a good lemon meringue pie. Off the top of my head, these are desserts that are better than sex sometimes. Okay, right. Nope, struggling. Apparently, people are having less sex. This is comparing the last few years to the years 95 to 99. That was a very sexual time in the late 90s.

I wasn't having any. Don't worry about it. But I hear people were really enjoying it then. Where were they? Yeah, it was before the internet got in the way. If you think about it. Yeah, that's true. Before the internet got in the way.

And people could just... But then there's the argument that the internet and dating apps have fuelled sexual activity. Yeah, there was a lot of sex happening before dating apps. But also, the last couple of years, half of that has been a global pandemic. This is also true, but it dates back to even before that. Right. 2010 to 2014. And I'm guessing most of this includes or encompasses couples.

Yeah. Yeah. It's just general. It was a general survey conducted by the San Diego State University. There's a survey called the General Social Survey where they ask a bunch of questions and some of them. How do you just say, hey, I'm going to ask you all these like creepy questions? No, no, because it's just nestled in amongst us.

It's like they get their creepy stuff, but they're like, oh, what's your favourite colour? Do you have any pets? Tell me how often you have sex and who with. And do you like it? So, yeah, 95 to 99, nine times less a year on average. Right. When we advance that to more modern times,

then apparently they're very sexually charged 1990s. And if you take it back a little bit further, it's 16 fewer instances of sexual rendezvous for people per year. But they didn't have Netflix. They didn't have everything. Exactly. We've got all these modern distractions. TikTok.

So it's going to be done in 15 seconds or you lose your attention wanes. Yeah, like internet dating, like you say. The internet and pornographic material, easier than ever to get a hold of. So I've been told. Apparently it's on the internet.

I myself haven't stumbled across any, thankfully. God, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I saw a woman's breasts outside of marriage. I'd feel like I'd... Executive Internonia is in here. She feels my pain. I'd feel like I'd cheated on my partner if I saw another woman's breasts on the internet.

You don't want to talk to anyone, mate. I'd be riddled. I'd be... Am I not? What would be your advice to make this more believable? Stop talking. Stop talking. Stop talking. That's also what I'm told to do during sex,

which I'm having nine times less a year. And that's compared to in the 90s when I was having zero sex. So I'm having negative sexes a year, guys. Things are only looking up for you, aren't they? Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. A woman in the UK has gone viral. She posted to a Facebook page, which has started because of lockdown,

the family lockdown tips and ideas. Okay. So I guess tips to pass the time, tips to save money. Yeah. One of those kind of pages. Oh, those, they go off, eh? Well, yeah, they do. They go off. Because they're still locked down. Tell me how to save money. Yeah. One of those kind of pages. They go off, eh? Well, yeah, they do. They go off.

Because they're still locked down. Tell me how to save 11 cents. She posted a photo of her tub of margarine. Yuck. Well, these are money savings. She's eating goose fat, now. Well, that's why it was invented. People don't know that.

It was invented to fatten geese margarine. Yeah, yeah. But it was killing too many of them. So humans are like, I know what we can do with that. Yeah. Let's put it on bread. So she posted a photo of her tub of margarine and said, my husband thinks I'm weird for doing this.

And it's the way that she scrapes the margarine out. She goes, I'll show you a photo, Bourne. How would you describe that? Oh, so rather than working horizontally end to end, she works vertically from one end. So she digs down at one end and then excavates out. Like if you were in a digger and you would dig a hole and then get in the hole and then dig the rest of the swimming pool up. I know.

Because, I mean, when we had margarine growing up, we had margarine. You'd just go willy-nilly wherever. You'd go willy-nilly because it's in a container. You'd avoid the willy nilly wherever. You'd go willy nilly because it's in a container. You'd avoid the toast crumbs. Yeah! One end was for toast crumbs and dad would always clean it out and be like, can you bloody kids stop wiping your toast crumbs in?

Yeah. No harm, no foul. He'd eat it. Yeah. But she's gone like really clean left to right. No. It's in a tub. It's not like it's a toothpaste tube. It's not going to make you a harder job later on just going willy-nilly at the start. She's been absolutely roasted online though. I showed my kids, what was it?

Was it like a Nutella or something? I'm going to say Vegemite because it makes me seem like a better parent. Okay, story restart. Vegemite. I wasn't feeding my kids a jar of sugar. Of palm oil and sugar and a little bit of hazelnut. They were like, oh, there's no more Vegemite. Asterix.

And I was like, I've got a trick for you. And I got out the rubber spatula and I stuck it in, got it right in the corner and twisted it around. And they were just watching me and basically cleaned this jar out and had enough for like, because it was Vegemite you don't need much. It was Nutella and you had enough for half a piece. Exactly. And then

they had more for the toast. That's my tip to save you 11 cents. They're amazing the spatulas. You always think there's nothing left in here. Weren't you wrong. Have you cleaned it out with a spatula? Because otherwise I don't want to hear about it.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the oily ZM think tank, this is the Top 6. Hello there. Today's Top 6 dealing with the Top 6 modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face. The Top 6 other modern problems because the ad featured during yesterday's Super Bowl featured Timothy Schlemmerle as Edgar

Scissorhands. Now that's the son of Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp not in this ad but one owner writer is. If you've seen the classic 1990 film Edward Scissorhands. 1990? 1990. Wow. Yeah. Like I vaguely remember it.

So I don't know why he's got Scissorhands. I can't remember that part. I was always terrified of it. Yeah. I know. I was the same. I was just like, I don't need to watch that.

I'm surprised it hasn't been remade. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp. Was it a Tim Burton movie? It had a very Tim Burton-esque feel to it. Timothy Chamelet, though, a great actor. Yeah. He's in the new, is it June or Dune? Like a sand June. Sand June.

June. June. Dune. We say June, but do Americans say June? Sand Dune. They probably say Dune. They probably say Dune. Dune buggy.

Yeah, you gotta say Dune buggy. Say Dune buggy. Okay. So anyway, during this ad, it was for the new Cadillac. Right. Cadillac Lyric electric SUV. And for some reason, he can drive that, but he can't drive other cars. I'm not exactly sure of the Edward Scissorhands tie-in.

It just feels like they really wanted to use Edward Scissorhands. Good for people with scissors on their hands. Great. I mean, that's a new Cadillac. So many people have that problem. The top six other modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face. Number six, FPOS machines. Yeah.

Because you've got to touch the buttons. I mean, you could do pay wave, but then you've got to be in and out of your pockets. So you've got to be slicing up his pants. Yeah. Slicing up his pants. If I had scissor hands, I'd probably sellotape my FPOS card to one of my blades. That's a great idea. And then you can just pay wave. Just have the one of my blades. That's a great idea. And then you can just paint the chip on your blade.

That's a great idea. Number five on the list of the top six other modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face are Pringles and a tube. Unless you skewer all of the Pringles. No, because they crack. Yeah, true. Even with a really thin, like a needle-like blade. I think they'd still crack the Pringles.

Yeah, you're right. You could tip them in your mouth, but then you are like waving scissors-like blade. I think that'd still crack the Pringles. Yeah, you're right. You could tip them in your mouth, but then you are like waving scissors around your eyes. True. That's a problem. You could tip them into your hands, but then to get the hand into the tube, impossible with scissors for fingers.

Number four on the list of the top six modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face, track pants. Because you know how you've got to pull the cord tight and then tie it so that it'd fall down. So the main problem here know how you've got to pull the cord tight and then tie it so that it won't fall down. So the main problem here would be you're going to cut the cord with the scissors and fingers and the pants are going to fall down. You'd go for an elasticated band if you were

him. Heavily elasticated. Yeah. Well no, famously he went for leather. He wore leather and that takes us to number three on today's top six modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face. Global warming means that it's not likely to snow much in his neighbourhood anymore and that leather outfit is going to be no one's friend in a higher heat. Very sweaty.

Very. Not breathy. Not breathy at all. Number two on the list of the top six other modern problems Edward Scissorhands would face, touchscreen phones. Right. You can't do it with a pointed thing and also you'd just be Scratching up your screen

The whole time Yeah Not gonna work And number one on the list Of the top six modern problems Edward Scissorhands Would face playing with himself That's never gonna

I mean that was a problem Back in the day And we learnt just before On the show That people are having sex less Yeah Opting for Playing with yourself

Yeah Very dangerous game to play When you've got scissors for fingers That is today's top six Flesh, Vaughan and Megan The podcast Playing with yourself. Very dangerous game to play when you've got scissors for fingers. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. A worrying trend has been spotted online. This from a journalist who's based in Dubai.

Danae brought this to everybody's attention on her Instagram. Now, producer Jared's bringing in, I believe, a set of... These are iPhone headphones. Old school ones with an ox cord. These are waxy on the ear end. These are very waxy on the ear end. Whose are these? Do we know whose those are?

No, they were just out on one of the tables out there. Are you saying that because they're yours? And Vaughn said something nasty about your headphones? They're not mine. Okay. They're not mine. So these are the standard, because most people are using wireless now, like AirPods.

Oh, yeah, these are old school because they've got the old headphone jack on the end rather than the... Well, you can't even buy iPhones now with an aux cord. No. So Danae said this is concerning and she's talking about things that she's seen

on TikTok that worry her. Okay. She said she's seen eight-year-olds talking about their diets, 13-year-olds sharing their BMIs,

16-year-old males talking about eating disorders, a nine-year-old talking about their body weight, 13-year-old BMI, eight-year-old's their diets. Wow.

These are things that she's seen. I'm stalling for time because I'm wiping these nasty ass headphones. Yeah. Do your girls say anything like that? Nah. Nah. We're always pretty, we talk about how everybody's bodies are different. Yeah.

You know, if you're doing exercise and you're active and you're trying to eat right and blah, blah, blah, we don't worry too much about that. And plus, you like pudding, eh? Oh, my God, I'm not limited to pudding. I don't want to be guilted over my pudding. Yeah. I don't want them to ever feel guilty about pudding.

All right. Yeah, cool. I've wiped these. So this is a trend using headphones. This is the other thing she said. She saw a TikTok user take a standard set of headphones and to show everybody how skinny she was

around the waist, she wrapped it around her waist twice and then tied it off. And tied it off. Now here's the thing about girth. It's surprisingly circumferal. Yeah, so if you, this is true, if you use your finger, your index finger and your thumb and you make a circle and you're

like, oh yeah, that's not that thick or the circumference of that isn't that goofy, then spread it out and measure that. Oh, it looks longer. It's really, really long. Yeah. So it's deceptive. Yeah. It doesn't look as long as a circumference.

Now that is me just giving a little bit of an explanation as to why this isn't going to go around me twice. Why? Because these headphones looked really long

when I raised them out. Is that a metre? That's a metre long, eh? That would be a metre long. Oh, a metre one two. 1.2 metres, I reckon.

So I'm a metre 87 which means my wingspan would be about the same and that goes over halfway. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, metre, metre I reckon. So I'm a metre 87, which means my wingspan would be about the same, and that goes over halfway. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, metre, metre, metre. Now, you go around the waist, eh, not the actual belly button.

But that is the waist, isn't it? Is it? That's the hips. Below. Oh, do you go around the waist? The waist is the belly button. Oh, no, that's not. Is that right?

The waist is the belly button? Well, I can do it once. Tie it off. Brilliant. There you go. I'm just so good at doing it. And she could do it Well, I can do it once. Tie it off. Brilliant. There you go. I'm just so good at doing it. And she could do it twice. She could do it twice.

And it was a big... Oh, that's ridiculous. Tiny, tiny, tiny human. Tiny, tiny human. That's ridiculous. But she said, yeah, you shouldn't be putting your worth in how many times headphones can go around you. And that's a saying I never ever thought I would say.

I've always said, don't let your worth be decided by others. times headphones can go around you and that's a saying I never ever thought I would say. I've always said don't let your worth be decided by others and don't let your worth be decided by what people see in you if they don't know the real you. I never thought I'd say don't let your worth be decided on how many times a headphone cord can go around you. Firstly, Georgia, thanks for filling in for Hayley who's filling in for Megan. Hey, not a problem at all. You had a lovely weekend in the Coromandel, didn't you?

I saw that. Lovely. I've been gallivanting around. It's been great. Were you tenting or did you get a cabin? Tenting. Powered site.

Got a South Wales power cord. Powered? Yeah. I'm always worried that if you're in a tent and you've got a power cord that water's going to get in it. Do you know why though?

It's because when we grew up those ads were on TV and that person got electrocuted in the caravan. Do you remember that? Yes! They weren't earthed properly. No, they weren't earthed. They weren't earthed.

We grew up, Georgia. That's right. With ads about electrocution and ACC falling through the table. Oh, and the guy getting out of the shower and the woman who's like walking and talking and she falls down the stairs. Those ACC ads were good.

The guy that fell off the ladder when he was getting somebody out of the gutter and was like... This is why I'm too scared to go outside as an adult now. Yeah. And they wonder why our generation is so anxious and riddled with like anxieties

and constant fear. Yeah. That was before a pandemic. Anyway, so you didn't die in your powered tent at the weekend. I had to charge everyone's phones. Oh, good. That was my job. You got a multi-box? I did. How much does a powered tent No, I just had to charge everyone's phones so that was my job.

You got a multi-box? I did. How much does a powered tent site cost? Oh, this. I didn't realise until afterwards it was quite pricey.

It was $80 a night. $80? You can get a cabin for cheaper than that in other places. You were in high. I was. Beautiful spot though.

Popular. I would have just taken a bar heater or something that sucks the power to really get my money through. A dryer? Yeah.

You should take the dryer next time and have our own tent for the dryer and then that'll show them for charging $80. Now the thing you're about to show us that's driving everybody crazy, this is power run but is it batteries or USB charged? USB charged so it's pretty good.

I don't know how much has got left in it, to be fair. So you bring your lunchbox and this. Yeah. Describe to everybody what this, it's pink. It looks like a portable speaker. It does. It looks like a UE Boom, like one of the long UE Booms. But way cooler because I'm not an inconsiderate flatmate.

If I have one of these, you won't be an inconsiderate flatmate. Okay. This morning I had to leave early for you guys, right? Yeah. Can I put it on? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so this, I hope it's charged. Oh, no.

Oh, no, it died. It literally died. Oh, my God. What kind of USB cord does it run on? No, it's got its own. How many USB? Oh, no. got its own. A mini USB. Oh, no. This is anticlimactic.

Should I go and come back? Where's your charger? Well, we heard a little bit of mixing. It's a portable blender. Oh, no. Where's your charger? Do you not have it here? I don't think I did.

Because I've been... That was not for a thing. You have to drink a chunky, gross, chunky smoothie. Smoothie. It's not going to be a smoothie at all. It's going to be a chunky. Somebody does have a... Oh, yeah.

You're getting little bursts, aren't you? What am I going to do for breakfast? There's a blender in the main kitchen. No, but then you have to pour your stuff out of your blender and another blender and you... It's manky, eh? It doesn't all get... It doesn't all go.

Also, and there's other bits left in the blender. And this is not a good advertorial for this blender because you're like, yeah, I'm excited. And then it's like. So you are annoying the hell out of everyone here because you get to work the last few weeks and you blend. Yeah, and the producers both because I want to show everyone how cool this is. How much was it?

I don't, I didn't pay for it. Was it a gift? It was a gift. I think. Did for it was it a gift it was a gift I think did your boyfriend buy it for you no I found them on the gram

and I was like hey these are so cool I would love one of these wait and they sent you one for free oh my god

you're an influencer you're an influencer but you're doing the shittest job at influencing this is like you're doing a post on your gram

you're like hey I just got this blender I didn't charge it anyway hit me up for a discount code, Georgia10. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A parish council meeting. I'm not saying Paris.

A parish. Is that like a church meeting? So it's not. In England, if you own land, it falls under a parish. It's kind of like a council. Right. But a much smaller way. It's an administrative parish used for local government.

So it's like a local council. It's the lowest tier of local government. Right, okay. So in England, lockdown in the UK, so they've been having a lot of online meetings. It was this parish online Zoom meeting that it's like, if you've got a few minutes, watch the whole thing. Because it's buck wild, y'all. It starts off so tame. It starts off like a little bit boring and, you know,

a little bit like watching boomers on Zoom. Because when you showed it to me, I was like, well, where are we going with this? It quickly descends into this like crazy power grab and like people screaming. And yeah, there's a person with the power to mute people. But she shouldn't have the power because she's not like the chairman. She's just obviously the person that sent out the Zoom link. And apparently from the conversation we watched, this is not her first time going power hungry and crazy.

So we have now the first two minutes of this council Zoom meeting, which we will play for you. And like we say, it does sound boring, but it quickly escalates. Very quickly escalates. Hello again. Hello again. I thought it wasn't good to get in then when do we plan to start i think we could start any moment chairman um i think it's perhaps helpful just to go through the same things as we went through before which is just to

encourage people to switch off their microphones um because it does reduce the background can we be assured that we won't be thrown out of the meeting like we were last time um as long as we have reasonable behavior from everyone no one would be excluded from the meeting i was i was thrown out of the meeting uh so it was so was councillor broughton please let the chairman please disrupt this meeting i will have to remove you from it you can't it's only the chairman who can remove people from the chairman you have no authority here jackie weaver no authority at all keep an eye on him she's kicked him out he's gone don't don't she's kicked him out don't this is a meeting called by two councillors illegally illegally elect a chairman no they can't because the vice chair's here i take charge

read the standing orders read them and understand them where's the chairman gone like to elect a chairman for this meeting you don't have to elect a chairman there's a chairman gone? I'd like to elect a chairman for this meeting. You don't have to elect a chairman. There's a chairman already installed. The chairman of the council. Councillor Birkle, we've been through this. What are you talking about? You don't know what you're talking about. Can I ask you to be respectful to Jackie Weaver, I find that the person on Alex's Zoom is being very disrespectful to everybody. Oh, coming from you, from Berkley, that sounds good.

Wow, thank God for that. Jackie Weaver is the woman you could hear that was telling people to be respectful, but she apparently just is a member. She just sets up the Zooms because nobody else knows how. And she just boots people out as she sees fit. She booted out the chairman because he asked not to be booted out again. He's like, I don't want to be booted out like last time.

She's like, hey, respect. And he keeps saying, no, I don't want to be booted. Gone. It's like watching your parents and grandparents Zoom and fight. It's brilliant. It's amazing. It goes on. And Jackie Weaver's actually become somewhat of a star.

She, Piers Morgan and Good Morning Uke Britton or whatever it's called interviewed her. Yeah. About it. She's so ruthless with the mute button. She just mutes people. She encourages everybody to mute them. If they don't, she'll mute them on their behalf and then she'll just remove people from the meeting. It's a

good watch too when you've got the video because it keeps spinning around to different people and they start losing their minds. Yeah. There's no need to elect a chairman. We've got a chairman. No, he's been booted out. The vice chair is here. He's about to be booted out as well. Jackie's just ruthless in the Zoom meetings. When she was on TV

her caption is, Jackie Weaver has authority. She does and she's not afraid to wield it like a weapon. ZM's Fletch Warner She has the authority. She's not afraid to wield it like a weapon. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I was passing through Matamata on the way home from Rotorua at the weekend and drove past the cemetery that my granddad's buried in. And I was like, oh, it's been a while since I've popped in. I'm not like popping in to say hello or give him my thoughts or anything.

You don't just sit down and just talk to him like he's there? Nah. Okay. Nah, not really that sort of person. But just popped in. I don't know why because Nan would have been

in if there was any bird. There was a bird shit on it. Oh, did you clean that off? Yeah, I got some water and cleaned that off. You wouldn't have wanted that. So when I was there, I just find them

a fascinating place to have a look around. Especially the really old parts. You don't find it creepy, though? I used to be terrified of them. Not even that long. Maybe when I was 19 or 20, I was still freaked out by them. Because of horror movies.

Yeah. Because all the bad stuff in horror movies happens in cemeteries. And I used to be freaked out. You know how there's a little dip where they obviously dig it out and they put the coffin in and they put all the dirt back in and there's like a little dip or a little mound? I used to be freaked out by those for some reason. Because that happens, this earth slumps,

because, yeah, it's not compacted. Why don't they compact it down with one of those compactors the road worker people use? Because they put all the earth back in? I think so. But then you wouldn't want to get that vibrating machine because it would vibrate Grandad, wouldn't it? Well, he's dead, so I don't think he's going to mind.

Yeah, but they should do that. My biggest thing is what they should do is there should be some sort of fund to wash and keep the old ones nice. Because you think about someone that died in the late 1800s, their kids are dead now, and their kids' kids might even be dead. Yeah. So nobody's keeping it nice. Yeah.

Give them a wash. Sometimes they fall over. I don't like that. I don't know why they should be. Anyway, when I was at my granddad's grave, I was just like looking around at all the other headstones because that's another thing. I'm a bit of a headstone snob. Oh, right.

But you know those are real expensive, eh? Real expensive. Like you can see some people get some fancy ones and other people just get a nice simple one. Yeah. Nah. Give me something. I don't see, I don't want to be buried, but if I was, I would have a simple one.

There'd be no extravagance. It's a waste of money. What's the word I'm after where something's, like, extravagant to the point of, like, ugh. Like, is it gory? Odd, tacky? Kind of, like, tacky, but like an eyesore-y gory. I want that one.

Right. So I'm like giant angel with like huge wings. Right. So I cast a shadow on the ones around me. You need a big eagle. Yes, that'd be great of course.

Yes. That'd be wonderful. So one of the headstones, very simple headstone. Yeah. On the front has all the normal stuff. The name, the date of birth, the date of death, the family, the children, et cetera.

On the back, it says, I told you I was sick. And I was just like, what? That's the greatest headstone engraving ever. I told you I was sick. And now they're dead. And you wouldn't listen to me. It's their final. So it's going in my will that if I...

But that's the thing. I don't think I'll have a headstone because I think I'll just be cremated and then scattered. Scattered all around the place. Well, space is a premium. Yeah. But I was thinking, a headstone. I told you I was sick. It just fits everything so brilliantly. Yeah.

Even if you just died of old age of natural causes, I told you I was sick. It's brilliant. you just died of old age of natural causes. Yeah, I told you I was sick. It's brilliant. I think I've got something wrong with me. It's always like something's wrong. Oh, I've got a funny feeling. I think I might be sick. And everyone's just like, yeah, alright. Of course you are. I hope I can't drink an old person.

Do you think that's like, they've got those in like a, you know when you go get a tattoo and they go through the folders of different tattoos? Yeah. Do you think when you go get a tattoo and they go through the folders of different tattoos? Yeah. Do you think when you get a headstone there's those and that's like an option to get a funny line? Like a funny, yeah. Or do you think you have to request that?

Because there'd be like, some people wouldn't know what to put on there so there might be like a little poet like, the things you leave behind are memories or something like that. You know? Or like, footsteps in the sand sand, blah, blah, blah. But then there might be the funny segment at the back and people don't get that far through. Yeah.

So I don't know if there is. I've never organized a headstone, but flip right to the back, there might be some funny jokes. Right. Well, there you go. If you're getting a well and you want to be buried. Get it in there. Maybe, yeah, put a line in about that.

Yeah. Great idea. Yeah, told you I was sick. Just correct me if my mum was not. I was like, I'm going to put that on your head Great idea. Yeah, told you I was sick. Just, correct me if I'm wrong, my mum was not, I was like, I'm going to put that on your headstone. She was like,

don't you dare. Did she not find it funny at all? She didn't find it funny. Which was weird. I thought she would. Not at all. Not even a little total. I'm beginning to think

when she tells me about smothering her with a pillow. Well, euthanasia, euthanasia's been passed, right? That'll be, she'll be ready to go. Yeah. So there's probably no need for pillow smothering, but I'm beginning to think maybe she wasn't serious.

Which is lucky because I've hovered over her a couple of times. Bit of a light cough. Yeah. Pillow at the ready. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Hinge have released some stats. Hinge, the dating app, which I feel like people are using in New Zealand. Do you have any friends on Hinge?

Actually, I do. I think one of the chicks in the office, without naming names, uses it. I love that you're about to say her name, weren't you? Oh, it was close. I don't think she'd mind. But yeah, sure. What's the difference in here? Because what's the difference in this one?

Hinge. I don't know. Do you know that I've never used Hinge? What's the difference in here? Because what's the difference in this one? I don't know Do you know I've never used Hinge but I feel like in New Zealand it would go Because apparently it claims to emphasise

more long term connections between users which is absolutely not in your wheelhouse I feel targeted I feel assaulted So I feel like in New Zealand

it would still go like Tinder, Bumble and then Hinge and other dating apps But Hinge have other dating apps. But Hinge have come out with some stats about the busiest time, busiest usage times. And apparently, like the other dating apps,

the first Sunday of the year is the busiest day. They call it Dating Sunday because everybody's got drunk on New Year's and they've set some goals for the year. They're like, oh my God, this year I'm going to have a boyfriend. And they get on the app on Sunday and they've deleted it by Tuesday. And they're like, let's just be single for now. Right. But the other busiest time,

this weekend just gone. Why do you think? Why do you think? Valentine's Day. Yes, because Valentine's Day is this Sunday. But also you can't be messaging people just for a dinner date on Valentine's Weekend, is it? It's maybe to be busy for the day

so you don't feel so alone, maybe. You can't be expecting a present. No, hell no. Too early. Cheeky Rose? Too early for a Cheeky Rose. Cheeky Rose. Oh, maybe if that person's doing the rounds.

You know the person that goes around restaurants? Do people still do that? It's been a long time. I haven't seen that for a while. It used to be famously in Hamilton, this person would wander around restaurants selling roses. Yeah. They'd be like, a rose for the lady?

You'd be like, no thanks. $5? Why is she not worth $5 to you? It's just dinner with mum. Just leave us alone. They try to financially shame you in front of this potential suitor. Yeah. $5.

I thought you meant that you had to buy your own rose. I was like, ah, that would suck. Well, no, that's good. There's definitely people who have sent themselves flowers to their workplace, isn't it, to make it look like they've got a secret admirer. But if the weekend just gone was very busy and Valentine's Day, I'd say this week we'll be very busy on the dating apps. Right, people trying to get a Sunday picnic.

Yeah. Or just not feel so alone on Valentine dating apps. Right, people trying to get a Sunday picnic. Yeah. Or just not feel so alone on Valentine's Day. What are you going to do? Just not feel alone? Don't know. Probably just go get drunk with all my single friends.

On a Sunday? Yeah, why not? Oh, why not? You can deal with me on Monday. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. The Good Home in New Plymouth is the location for our next Bangers Bingo this Thursday.

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Never tell, does that? Never tell. Does it have a pool? Why do you require a pool now? Does Vaughan require a pool? Well, is it not on my list of things? Can we add that to my list of things I need at accommodation?

Well, I want to show everyone my cool new trick. I don't know how. I'll let you know. You don't know if there's a pool. What's your cool... Is this what you finally achieved this weekend? Yeah. An Overtel New Plymouth pool.

Let me have a look. See, my first question is does it have a pool? It doesn't. Now, there are other hotels in the area that do have pools. Is it too late for a change? Is it too late to make a switch to a hotel have a pool. It doesn't. Now, there are other hotels in the area that do have pools. Is it too late for a change? Is it too late to make a switch over to a hotel with a pool? I want to show you my cool new trick. So, I don't know how this happened because I haven't necessarily been practicing. Okay.

But we went to Rotorua at the weekend and the hotel we stayed at had a pool. Oh, yeah. And not like an Olympic length pool. I don't, I think it would be just shy of 25 metres. I'd probably put it at about 20 metres. 25 metres is your standard. Most swimming pools and lap pools are 25. Olympic length is 50, so you've got two lengths of a 25.

Yeah. Right. So this wasn't like 25. I'd say 20. Definitely 15-ish. At a hotel. Yeah. Okay. So I said to my kids, let dad borrow your goggles.

Okay. Were they cute in pink? They were purple. Okay. So I had to let them ride out. Okay. So they stretched and fit on my head. And there was like a smaller lens that sat on my eye sockets.

And Sade said it looked like, you know those torture scenes where they make people stay awake for like five days in a row and try to make them go crazy and their eyes are like held open? That's what it looked like. She said I looked very creepy, but despite the fact that I looked creepy, I did this thing I always dreamed of doing. I did a whole length underwater.

Of a hotel swimming pool. And I didn't dive in. I started in the pool. Oh, you pushed off. I went and ducked down and pushed off. Oh, yeah, okay. And swam underwater and got to the other end. Now, I've never been able to do that. That might sound like not much of an accomplishment for people listening.

They might have been able to do this as a child part amphibian. Or maybe they've got gills that they keep a secret. But I've never been able to do it. Even at primary school, we had a small pool because we were a rural primary school. We had a small pool, because we were a rural primary school. We had a small pool and I remember Mr. Mucker, he could whim. He's out there.

He's still functioning in society. He could dive in. And I thought it was a Dutch thing, because he was the only Dutch person I knew. So this is an insight into rural New Zealand life. If you only know one person from a country, you assume everybody from that country can do this.

So I assumed it was a Dutch thing that you could dive in one end and go all the way to the other end, turn underwater and come all the way back. You could do lengths underwater. I don't want to show off, but I have done that in the past. Two lengths of a 25. Underwater? Underwater, yeah.

On one breath? Yeah. You can dive in From one minute To 25 And go back I built up to it So you could do 50 metres underwater

Yeah I did this I did mornings I'd do like Swim sport Yeah what were you doing Swimming And then at the end But I didn't know

You were practising Going underwater It was just like a drill 50 metres Well my story Sounds shit now I mean I couldn't do it now

I couldn't even do 25 now. I think I tried like maybe a couple of months ago and I did like nearly did 25 metres. Really? On one breath? You and Wim Mucker, eh? Bloody hell. I'm part Dutch.

Do you not know? Yeah, you're Dutch. I knew it. I knew it was the Dutch. No, but you can train. It's like those free divers. You train if you just keep going at it and don't think about it too much.

I get blue in the lungs. I panic. I'm not an underwater guy. I've never been a swimmer. Right. I've never been an underwater guy. Just been informed there is a sauna at the hotel. It's there.

Okay, well, I'll be holding my breath for another reason. Okay. So I did it. Yeah. Granted now it sounds Like a lame accomplishment That I did a full length No you should be proud of yourself

Of a decent length pull Yeah We had like a para pull My parents have still got it And I could do a length Of that underwater But that's like a para pull It's like four meters

Yeah I know Proud of you But as I said I was never an amphibious child Water's never really been my friend But I finally did a full length underwater. Yeah.

As my adult accomplishment. And now I'm going for 25 metres underwater. It'll never happen, but we can train. You know what? If you keep, it will. It will happen. Okay. You just got to keep training.

This is good encouragement from you. We'll do it. We'll go swimming on Thursday when we're in New Plymouth at the 50 metre pool outdoors. Now, I do still have my Speedos. Should I pack them in? Don't. Well, don't.

You can wear those if you like. I just shaved my chest. Okay. Well, you'll be very slippery. I'll be like a seal. Through the water. Yeah. Good.

Okay. All right. Well, we can try that out. We can try and we can dream. But I was wondering if anybody else listed, it doesn't have to be a big accomplishment. Right. But something you always thought about doing as a kid or saw when you were a kid, if you saw an adult doing it. Yeah. And something you always thought about doing as a kid or saw when you were a kid, if you saw an adult doing it

Yeah. And now you can do it. Like when you accomplished that thing that you always wanted to do as a kid. So what did you finally achieve as an adult? Yeah. Hey, proud of Bourne proud of you. Thank you. At the weekend. It's very encouraging for you. And we are taking calls of those things you have finally

achieved as an adult. I'm trying to find out the length of this pool at this hotel we stayed at. It wasn't a full 25. I know that much. You managed to do a whole length underwater. Never been my thing holding breath. Could we call the hotel Executive Intern Anya please just

off here and ask them how big their pool is. Yep. Absolutely fine. Begrudgingly she'll do that. When you say absolutely fine next time, try not to sigh during. Yep, absolutely fine. That's absolutely fine. So, I mean, not to take away from Vaughn's record, though, but that's a very good underwater swim from you,

holding your breath the whole way. Well, I've never been a swimmer. So somebody texted, you know that world record? Andrew Trubridge. Yeah, who did that dive, was it in the Bah record? Andrew Trubridge. Yeah, who did that dive. Was it in the Bahamas? Yeah. Everybody was like, oh, it's going to be televised live.

But we in the media knew there was an hour delay on it in case he died doing it. And then we just shut up about it. And then no one would talk about it and say something went wrong. Yeah. So that was why there was this massive like an hour and a bit delay. But he did it. And apparently he'll go five lengths of an Olympic pull on one breath. So that's 250 metres, five turns on one breath.

On one breath. That is madness. For training. Does he have like... Megalungs. Megalungs? You just have an extra lung? Is that a thing?

Oh, that'd be handy. You have an extra lung. What organ would you give up for an extra lung? One of my... What do you have two of? Kidneys. Yeah, give up one of those. Can you do that? Uh, yes

No, you don't need to Paddy. Good morning Good night. What did you finally achieve as an adult? Just kicking a rugby ball nice and high in the air, you know dad used to kick it I swear it would nearly hit an airplane Yeah, when when adults when you're a kid in an adult booted it and it just went straight up. Oh, yeah. Good bomb. The old up and under, up and under.

A bomb. Yeah. Midfield bomb. Midfield bomb. So you can do that now as an adult and you're pretty chuffed, Paddy? Well, I don't know because I remember it being a lot higher than what I can do now, but I'm pretty sure I must be similar. You know, if a kid was to stand under a kick under a highball now,

I swear it would look the same, but... Yeah. You're a bit taller, though, now, too, Paddy, so that's another thing to take into account. It's like your dad's penis, Paddy. Yeah. When you're a kid, it seems really, really massive. But then when you grow up, I'm like,

mine's definitely not as big. Mine's definitely not as big, but it probably is. It's just that you're a little thank you patty you know what i'm talking about right patty you know what i'm talking about you know what i'm talking about everyone knows every adult male knows what i'm talking about you're waiting for it your whole life and then you realize it was probably just perspective and the fact that you were so small and you know sometimes there wasn't a towel in the bathroom, so they had to run to the hallway cupboard to get a towel.

Keep your calls coming in. You texted 9696. What did you finally achieve as an adult? Talking about those things that, as an adult, you've finally achieved. Born at the weekend, you swam the length of a pool underwater. Underwater. Unsure on the length of the pool,

Executive Intern Anya has made a call to the Rotorua Hotel, the Millennium. Yeah, so the lovely lass on reception said, it's pretty long. Oh, okay. But didn't have a metre-age? No, I said, where do you think it would be in

terms of 25 metres? And she said, certainly around that. She said, it's not too big and it's not too small. So that's the most concrete answer I could get for you there. I she said, certainly around that. She said, it's not too big and it's not too small. So that's the most concrete answer I could get for you there. Eye for detail, that one. Very, yeah, very vague there from the hotel. But very close to, I'd say 20 metres, Vaughan. Good from you.

Yeah, it felt like 20 metres. So we want to know what you achieved as an adult that you always dreamed you might as a child. Now, Heather joins us. Heather, you've recently achieved something as an adult? Yeah, I have, guys. Okay, so what have you learned? How to drive a manual car.

Oh, well done. Well done. So how long had you been driving an automatic when you learned how to do a manual? Oh, about 35 years. So you've broken a lifetime's habit there. Well done. That's nothing to be scoffed at.

It was a massive achievement. I felt very proud. And then when I told all my friends, they were like, what? You didn't know how to drive one? And especially 35 years ago, manuals would have been more prevalent than autos, right? Yes, that's right. But I did manage to find myself an automatic car back then, and I had it for years. Did you, now when you're driving, Mandy,

sometimes you forget and you realise you're in second gear, absolutely right? Well, I wouldn't say I'm the best driver, but I can drive. Yes, I love a bunny hop. I love it. Personally, I'm a big fan of a bunny hop. Thanks, you called some text messages. Somebody said, I always dreamed one day I'd jump out of a plane.

Oh, yeah. I did that. It was my first time in a plane day I'd jump out of a plane. Oh, yeah. I did that. It was my first time in a plane. What? And I jumped out of it. So the first time they went in a plane. Your first time is parachuting? Yeah.

Wow. Okay. I taught myself to do a headstand during lockdown at 44 years old. Could never do them as a kid. I was very proud. Headstand. Very hard on the head. Yeah.

I've got a couple of friends on Instagram that are always headstanding in locations. My fontanelle never shuts, so I've got to be very careful. You can't hit that fontanelle. I've got a couple of friends on Instagram that are always headstanding in locations. My fontanelle never shuts so I've got to be very careful every time. You can't hit that fontanelle. I've still got my soft baby spot. No, no, no. Just a light tap

on the wrong part of the head could render me absolutely out of the game. Which is quite often why you wear a helmet when you walk. Yeah, and these hats

that I wear, they're lined. My beanies in winter, they've got a Kevlar lining in them, yeah, to protect the old font fondant sauce spot. Spot it. If you ever see me without my hat on, you'll be able to spot it.

Yeah. Bit of a dip. Some other achievements. Somebody said, I just never learnt how to swim full stop. I was never taught as a kid, so I learnt how to swim as an adult. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. That's why that TV ad for the fish place resonates so well.

Yeah. You know, the one of the dead. You know, I don't watch normal TV. I think I've seen it pop up before YouTube. Oh, you've got YouTube premium. God, you are doing everything you can to avoid ads, aren't you? I certainly am. Speaking of which, we've got something to play now.

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Time for Bet I Can Guess Your Mum's Name. Vaughan, on a bit of a hot streak, Vaughn will ask somebody. I've been unstoppable. You have been, actually. Could be so bold as to say. You have been. Five questions about somebody's mum, and then you've got 15 seconds

to work out their mum's name. Yep. Playing this morning, we welcome Izzy. Good morning, Izzy. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good.

Already, what is that throwing you? That's short for Isabella, obviously. Isabella. Isabella. You didn't think I'm going for Bella as a nickname? I was told it was tried, but it didn't stick. It didn't stick. Oh, you're not a Bella.

Interesting. You're not a Bella. You're an Izzy. Yeah. All right, well, five questions about... It's my accountant's name. Yeah. It's your accountant's name, too. It's your accountant's name too.

She's Scottish. She's Scottish, yeah. She sounds like Mrs. Doubtfire when she calls. She's like, hello, dear. I've got bad news. Do you want more money? Okay. Okay.

All right, so I've got some questions for you about your mother, whose name I shall attempt to guess. Perfect. What is... If mum had the choice between an apple and a banana, which would mum eat? Oh, 100% an apple.

She's an apple lady. Yeah. Granny Smith or a gala? A gala. She's a hater of bananas. Oh, okay. Hates bananas. This is just a sub-question, not related,

not one of my five questions. Is there a history there? Not that I know of, Hanged bananas. This is just a sub-question, not related, not one of my five questions. Is there a history there? Not that I know of, but I don't know if it's something she just doesn't speak about, you know? Right, maybe she hates the stringy bits. A lot of people don't deal with the pith and the strings on the banana. I just love a banana, you know? I love an apple too.

I'd be really quarter-fake to pick a banana too. But is his mum? No. Definitively Apple. Yep. What kind of car does your mum drive? Um, a Hyundai Kona.

Oh, okay, right. Just gonna need to look up something. I think they're a bit sporty. Yeah,

maybe. Is it an electric? Is it electric? I've searched for the Hyundai Kona. The all-new Ford Perma has sponsored advertising to get in front. Oh, cheeky.

Very cheeky from Ford. Is it a new Hyundai Kona or is it like an older one? Yeah, it's a new one. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Sporty mum. Yeah. Yeah, definitely sporty mum I'm going to put Kate in there as a sporty mum's option You know like, hello Kate That's a sporty mum isn't it Where's Kate? Kate's down, you know Kate plays social netball on a Tuesday

At her age, well Kate shan't be stopped Alright Speaking of sport, does mum play any sports? Or has she, what sport did she play? Has she got a connection to a sport? Yeah, in the past she has been a badminton player, but also she was a really good runner. Oh, okay, right.

Fit. In the kona. Yeah. Yeah. Eating her apples. Yeah. Yeah. Eating her apples. Yeah. Jane. Okay.

Because Caitlyn, extra just to Caitlyn, her mum's name is Jane. Yeah. And I'm picturing her now. Oh, okay. Right. She loves a run. Yeah. And an apple.

Okay. Doesn't drive a Kona. All right. Next question. What are her siblings' names? So she has a sister named Sarah and then three brothers named Greg, Nick and Matt. Greg, Nick, Matt, Sarah and... Wow, okay.

They're all very similar kind of names. Yeah, aren't they though? Okay. I'm checking a coloneen on the list. And finally, how old is your mum? She'll be turning 57 in a week or so. Well, happy birthday. What day is her birthday?

Because I've got a fair few family birthdays in this month. It's the 24th. Oh, hey, that's more than a week away. Well, I said a week or so. A week or so, yeah. That's enough. How many more questions? That's all. Those are your questions.

Alright, well, Izzy, Vaughn now has 15 seconds to guess your mum's name. If you hear your mum's name yell out, stop, that's my mum's name. Your time, Vaughan Smith, starts now. Catherine,

Susan, Helen, Cherie, Wendy, Kate, Irene, Jane, Amanda,

Colleen, That's my mum's name. Which one? Amanda. Amanda, yeah. You are such a tinny prick. Like, how do you get this every time? This is like your, isn't this

your fourth in a row where you've done this? I don't know. Definitely on a hot streak. Alright, well, you know what that means? Siblings that went with it. Yeah, similar names from that time. When you said Greg and all that, I was like, there'll be an Amanda in the mix. All right, well, Izzy, that means we have triggered...

Bonus round! While you're on the phone, I'll have a go at guessing your dad's name. So you've got $100 in the bank. That's yours, Izzy. For another $100, one guess of your dad's name. Okay. No questions, just a guess. Vaughn, what is Iz of your dad's name. Okay. No questions, just a guess.

Vaughn, what is Izzy's dad's name? Amanda and... Oh, okay, so... It kind of feels like a Graham. Oh, yep, okay. That's a 90s dad saying that, Graham. Yeah, it's a real 90s dad saying. There's another one tapping around. Okay.

Do you know why? And I can't explain this, but when I was picturing Amanda driving around in the Hyundai Kona. Yep. Eating an apple. Eating an apple, reminiscing on her badminton days. Yep. And, you know, possibly going down to the park for aona. Yep. Eating an apple. Eating an apple, reminiscing on her badminton days. Yep. And, you know,

possibly going down to the park for a run. Yep. I don't know why, but I started picturing a famous New Zealander as her husband. Deceased famous New Zealander. Sir Edmund Hillary. No, younger.

Youngster. Robbed in his prime. I don't know. Who was that? Red Sox. Sir Peter Blake. Hmm.. I don't know. Who was that? Red Sox. Sir Peter Blake. Hmm. So I'm locking in, as my guess, Peter.

Get out. Nah. That's right. How did you do that? Pass off. Because Graham. Okay, so there's a little bit of a thought on it. What the hell are you doing?

How did you know that? Who you described, another woman I was picturing was, and Lynn was next on my list when you stopped me. Because I know a Lynn, and she was married to a Graham. Right. And I was like, Graham feels too old, but he always looked like Peter Blake. So I was like, I just followed this path and was just, because I never get the dads right, I was just

like, this is weird reasoning. I'm going to go with Peter. Does your dad have a moustache? Yeah, he does. I was picturing a moustache as well! Like Peter Blake! It was a moustache! And Graham used to have a moustache!

You know, with this kind of psychic, you could prey on vulnerable people for money. I could. And get them in touch with their lost relatives. Should I? No, I should. No one should. It's been a while since you picked the dad's name as well.

What is that, the second or third time ever? Blowing out the budget early in the year, in the financial, no, it's the end of the financial year. God, we'll probably go bankrupt from this. Izzy, $200. Congratulations. Amazing.

Thank you guys so much. Good job, boys. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, online over the last week, this has been getting pretty heated. It's a generational debate. No boomers involved in this debate. Millennials. I know, isn't this, this is a real change of the guard. It really is involved in this debate. Millennials. I know, isn't this

a real change of the guard? It really is. Because as millennials we've been the ones the boomers have been down on, but now there's a new gang in town. And it's coming from underneath. Yeah. The Gen Zers and the millennials are becoming the boomers. Well, just cross to the producers

booth now. The millennial correspondents who have been under attack from Gen Zers. Well, just cross to the producers both now, the millennial correspondents who have been under attack from Gen Zers. How old would we say Gen Zers are? What are they defined by as marketers? By the marketers? Under 20... I think I'm on the cusp and I'm nearly 25.

Right, it's under 25, like right under 24, 23? Yeah. Would we say? Well, they have fired shots in the past week and there's been a lot of talk on this online about skinny jeans. And they are saying skinny jeans are for millennials and they're out of date. They're not to be worn anymore. Baggy jeans are in.

But we had our baggy jeans. We had our baggy jeans. We had our baggy jeans time. It was, I mean, and various times of the baggy jeans. We had our baggy jeans. We had our baggy jeans time. It was, I mean, and various times of the baggy jean, late 90s for the older millennials, hugely baggy jeaned. Baggy, baggy, baggy jeans. Yeah. How do you feel about that?

Tight jeans. I'm on board. I'm still on board. Yeah. You haven't gone baggy, have you? I've got one baggy, but every time I wear them, I'm like, can I pull these off? And then when I'm in them, I'm like, can I pull these off? And then when I'm in them, I'm like, can I pull these off?

And then I just wear them anyway. But I feel like skinny is still flattering, you know? Yeah, I'm definitely more of a fan of the slim jean because looking back at past photos when we were in baggy jeans worn with big, thick skate shoes. Yes. You couldn't wear skinny jeans with a skate shoe if you were going to skinny jeans that you had to go for your chucks

or your vans. Yeah, you did. And they're horrible photos to look at. Horrible. Terrible. So why would you want to go back there? But that's the thing. We've had it. We've done it. We've learned from our mistakes. There'll be a time in the future and my God, I'm hearing myself. I sound like my father. I realise what's happening here.

You've got to let these kids make their own mistakes. You've got to let, it's experience. They're not going to listen to us. They're not going to listen to us. They need to make the mistakes themselves. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm hearing it. Yeah.

You sound horrible. Just let them do it. Let them do it. Because they didn't haven't, maybe because they haven't had the baggy jeans phase, they need a baggy jeans. Well, poll results are in. Thousands of votes in in the last few hours. Skinny jeans, classic or dated?

We've run a poll on our Instagram. 82% saying classic. Yeah. And 18% saying dated. So maybe coming there from the Gen Z voters, 18% there. A fan of the skinnier jean. They are classic, though, aren't they? You can't go wrong.

Unless you put on a bit of weight and then they become very, very skinny. That's confronting. Oh, that's like, because I just got a new belt. Oh, yeah. Because I'm like, same, exact same type of belt. But on the old belt, I was up to the tightest hole. Oh, yeah. Like the, mm-hmm.

And I felt good about that. Yeah. And I was good about that. Yeah. And I was telling myself, it's not because the belt's stretched over time. Now, I got myself exactly the same belt, but a new belt. And look, there's like... I can't get to like the last three holes. Now, that was...

Three! I know. That's how much the belt stretches. Do they stretch, though? Or have they just put the holes in it? Because, you know, belts come in different lengths. I don't know.

Like, not all belts are the same length. I think the AS colour belts are all just a standardised belt. Right. Yeah. Well, you may need to reach out to them, because they may have put the holes in a different place. I was thinking of asking. I wasn't, I'm not going to lie to you, I was thinking, have these changed? Because the last one I've had a couple of

three years. Right. So it may have stretched. I'm hoping that's the case. Yeah, because I don't. Well, it's good to have goals, though. A couple of notches left. Yeah. Probably not a healthy way to live, though, is it? No, no.

Always trying to find the skinnier belt. No. Yep. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day us from the American Dental Education Association. And I didn't think it was right, so I had to do some further Googling and I found confirmation of this on thedentalexpress.com. Okay.

Which is a dentist, like a franchised dentist operation throughout America. Okay. Looking into the history of American dental hygiene. Okay. And this is the most fact of the day. Americans didn't regularly brush their teeth until after World War II.

Now, Americans would brush their teeth when they felt dirty. That's every morning. I saw someone was saying this online, is that if Bridgerton was real, you know how everyone's into Bridgerton, everyone would have manky teeth. Nasty teeth. Everyone's like, it wouldn't look like that.

They'd all just be like, hello. So there were dentists, there were toothbrushes, there was toothpaste and everything in America, but apparently you only brushed it when you remembered or when your teeth felt dirty. Or you might have a routine where you shaved and then you'd brush your teeth and you'd do that every few days. But it probably came around because the toothpaste people

wanted to sell toothpaste, right? It was after World War II. It was when all American soldiers came back after World War II and they were brushing their teeth in the morning and at night and after some meals. Yeah. And everyone's like, what's going on? You're just going higgledy piggledy with this toothbrushing thing I thought

we agreed on once every few days. And they were like, oh, it's all the rage in Europe to brush your teeth. So they'd pick it up from other soldiers that they were stationed with. And they were like, oh, it's all the rage in Europe to brush your teeth. So they'd pick it up from other soldiers that they were stationed with or when they got time off and they'd go into towns and they'd socialise with the locals. The locals would brush their teeth in the morning and the night. Can you imagine what they were saying about the Americans? Like, good Lord.

But what if they went in to kiss someone? Would it just be straight breath on breath? Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah. But then everyone smoked back then, so everyone probably smelled like ciggies anyway. That's true. So it probably didn't matter. Were they chewing gum? Or maybe there was a lot of gum chewing? Oh, yeah. But then also, Americans

chew a lot of tobacco. Oh, yuck. So you think you need to brush your teeth after that, because that starts rotting out the old gums. I would have thought it would have been... Yeah. Europeans, always more sophisticated, aren't they? And they did brush, Americans,

but there was no sort of regimental way of doing it until the soldiers got back from World War II. So today's fact of the day is until World War II, Americans were pretty haphazard with when they brushed their teeth. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Producer Jared went away with the girlfriend and her family. This is the next step after meeting the family.

Having an outing with the family. Yeah, and do they like you? I think so. Okay, good. I think so. That's good then. If you got invited away for the family long weekend, then they must like you because they wouldn't if they didn't.

Yeah, no, I think they would have. Yeah. They would have still invited me, I reckon. It would've made it difficult for you though. Oh yeah, big time. You'd pick up on signs throughout the weekend. It's quite a big family as well. So it's, Emma's one of like six kids.

Six? Yeah, and she's the only girl so it was me and all her brothers hanging out. Oh, lads, lads, lads. Right, lads, lads, lads. Competitive nature? Very competitive. There was a lot of chess played A lot of Oh chess A lot of board games

Oh I was thinking like sports Oh we played like rugby and stuff on the beach Oh I watched They played rugby There it is You watched There it is Love it

Okay So Your Emma your partner has a A brother That is very fletch like Incredibly fletchch-like. Why are you saying this like it's a

bad thing? I'm hearing the tones here and I'm not appreciating them. Well, if he did one of those personality tests, I'm sure he'd come out as an architect as well. Oh yeah, on that 5%. Michelle Obama's an architect though. Yeah. Remember that? Yeah, he brought something along

that I saw it happen and I was like, oh man that's a Fletch thing to do. Okay, what did he do? He brought a Dyson. I've got a Dyson. Yeah, I would bring a Dyson to the batch if I had a batch. Yeah, I wasn't expecting it. And was he

very organised? Yep. Oh my god. Okay, so this is another Fletch attribute. He had a meal plan for the whole, because they're there for five days. Yep. There's a meal plan for every day. So, like, Friday, 19 people.

Dinner, sausages, steak, potato bake, beans, broccoli. Saturday, birthday night. Wait, was he cooking all this food? He cooked part of it for, like, he did the potato bake on Friday. And, Ben, if you're listening, excellent potato bake, mate. Excellent. Yeah, really. Tell a man about potato bake.

Lots of cheese. Heaps of cheese. And grilled. Yeah, good. But you're 19 people. You've got to be organized. You can't go into a long weekend with 19 people at a batch and willy-nilly the food. Yep.

He was so organized, he didn't want to risk the Airbnb not having enough plates and cutlery. So he brought his own. Wow. Did he just get the paper plates? Nah. Nah, he's bougie. Wow. Good lord.

I like this guy. Yeah, he's a good dude. This is flash. But taking away a vacuum cleaner. Did he bring his own pillow? I didn't go into his room, but I assume so. Yeah, I took my own pillow away the weekend. Did you?

But you're in a hotel. You stayed at the hotel with the pool that we don't know was how long. Yeah, I know, but you can't trust the hotel pillow.

No, you're right, you can't. But it's a lot of space. But you took the car, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't fly. You wouldn't fly and take your own pillow

because that's half a suitcase. I maybe would. Right, okay. I'd pack light just so I could fit the pillow sometimes. But I mean, a Dyson, that is above and beyond taking your own vacuum cleaner to an Airbnb, which would already have a vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, definitely. But not a Dyson. Definitely not a Dyson, though. Maybe not a good one. Maybe you wanted to test it. You said you were at the beach. Maybe you wanted to test how it handled sand. Oh, yeah.

That could be it. Sometimes when you get a nice piece of kit, you want to test it in various conditions and maybe it is not exposed to sand. A nice piece of kit. It's not a cordless drill, mate. No, it's a nice piece of kit, though. Yeah, right. Oh, I've got one.

It's a lovely vacuum cleaner. Well, on the back of this meal prep, but more taking the vacuum cleaner, what is the unusual item you've seen people take on holiday is our question this morning. Or maybe you've people take on holiday Is our question this morning Or maybe you've taken it on holiday Or maybe this person could be indeed you And maybe you're a Vaughan and you take your own nice pillow

Yeah Because hotel pillows aren't good enough I don't think that's weird You become accustomed to your own pillow Yeah, that's true And then, yeah, the minute you're like over 35 If you sleep on a pillow or the wrong sort of pillow You're more or less paralysed for a week

This is true And hotel pillows are either super slim or too high 35 if you sleep on a pillow or the wrong sort of pillow, you're more or less paralyzed for a week. This is true. And hotel pillows are either super slim or too high. Too high. And then, yeah, you can tell some of them are good. Yeah, I know. I don't blame the hotel. You think about how many rooms they had to have if they had to have a flash memory foam in every room.

It would cost them a damn fortune. Cost them a fortune. So talking about the weird, unusual things that you take away on holiday. Jared went on a long weekend holiday to the Batch with the girlfriend's family, and one of them brought a Dyson vacuum cleaner and all the plates and cups. Really? And organized all the dinners.

There was an itinerary. Brilliant. I love this kind of planning. I love this kind of planning. Hazel, what have you taken on holiday? Or a friend? Hello? Hi, how are you?

Hi, I'm Hazel. So I just went camping with my friends and we had a novice camping family with us. Yeah. And she arrived with her bedside table on her lap. She just couldn't imagine coming camping without her bedside table. That is out of all the home comforts to bring on a camping trip.

It's like, where do I put my glass of water at night? What if I get the dries? Just get a bottle of water. Just get a bottle of water. Yeah. I know. I love that. The rest of us have got our old scungy pump bottles lying down.

Yeah, yeah. Brilliant. Hazel, thanks. You called some tips messages. Somebody said, I've previously taken my iron on holiday. You never know if where you're staying is going to have a good iron. But they'll always have one, though. They'll always have an iron.

Yeah, but sometimes they're a bit dirty. But then if you're in a hotel, you can always get a new iron set up. We're talking about what you take on holiday. Producer Jared's girlfriend's brother took a Dyson away. I had a full itinerary for all the meals, everything. Really super planned. So we're talking about what you take on holiday. Someone said always pack a multiboard. I've learnt this too because then you

if you're going overseas, remember that but not something to worry about at the moment. One adapter would charge multiple devices. You put the adapter and then plug the multiboard in and then you've got six to eight. Although America's weird because their voltage is less.

So would you, if you're playing in a multibox, are you getting as much juice? Don't know. I don't have an answer for you. Nah. But I did do it when we went to America.

I took a shaver once and it went, wah. Yeah. It didn't work. It still works, but it's slower, right? Yeah.

Yeah. So someone said, I always take a house plant to spruce up the area. Yeah. But that soil goes everywhere. Yeah. So someone said, I always take a house plant to spruce up the area. Yeah. But that soil goes everywhere. Yeah. That must be driving holidays.

That can't be flying holidays because we'll be out because of the dirt. Someone said, it's a bit inconvenient, but I find I always have to take my kids on holiday. Horrible. That sounds horrible. I took a toasted sandwich maker to Fiji. I took a whole block of cheese marmite and made toasties for lunch for the kids every day to save some money. You know what? We famously have waited at, where were we saying that we were waiting for toasties?

By Treasure Island, the party one. Beachcomber. Beachcomber. We were at Beachcomber, asked for a toasted sandwich. They were like, oh no, there's no bread. There was literally two loaves on the counter. We could see the bread. Now, had we taken our own toasted sandwich and made our own loaf of bread,

we could have been making our own. Exactly. And somebody else along those lines said, I took a toaster once to feed my children. Wow. Yeah. All right, Jamie, what's the weird thing that you've taken away on holiday? Oh, it's my husband, and he takes our Nespresso machine.

I mean, in all fairness, they are small-ish. Oh, but we take all our cups and the glasses and a couple of tubes of pods and the frother that comes with it and the extra large frother that we bought to go with it. Oh, God, no, no, no, no, no. It's a lot. Now you're taking a lot.

You've got an extra large throffer. Froffer. Yeah. Yeah, just a milk frother, yeah. Just to make a bit more milk when we've got an extra large froffer. Froffer. Yeah. Right. Milk frother, yeah. Right. Just to make a bit more milk when we've got a few more people around. Right.

Really get those mum cappuccinos really puffed up. Really good. Really good. Wow. And you'd just be fine doing what? Instant or takeaway coffee? Yeah. I don't mind instant. But when he's on holiday, oh, he doesn't have instant at all.

So this is his thing. Yeah. He's a coffee snob. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't, I'm a simple man. Jamie, thanks for your call. Ben, what is it you take on holiday? It's not me, it's a workmate of mine.

We went overseas, and I saw him take out his shower head. Is that a universal connection, the shower head? I don't think so. I don't think so. But he seemed to have all these adapters in the bag and everything, and he wanted to have the same water pressure no matter where he went in the world. I guess you could get those, you know, those two kind of hose suction things that go over the bath tap.

Yeah. You could do that. But then you're not guaranteeing the water pressure. No, the pressure is taken care of before the shower head, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You could do that, but then you're not guaranteeing the water pressure. No, the pressure's taken care of before the shower head, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, I guess. I mean, I have no idea. It was the most randomest thing

when I saw him just have his little tool belt and Allen keys and all this other stuff when he brought it out of his bag. So he'll actually plumb the shower. He'll actually get out the toolkit. That's insane. But I mean, I get it because, you know, a horrible shower is,

there's nothing worse than a dribbly shower. That's part of living the house though. Yeah, it is. You run the risk. Hey, Ben, thanks for calling. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton to listen to?

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