ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 9th November 2020

Episode Date: November 8, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. And Megan was just talking in studio behind the scenes about her old lady hands. No, I'm scared of like, I don't want to, I've started putting sunscreen on my hands. You know I put sunscreen on your face every day, and then my hands show every day. And like sometimes in the car I'm like, I think my hands are burning. And so like, I was like, I'm going to put sunscreen on my show every day. And like sometimes I'm in the car and I'm like, I think my hands are burning. And so like, I was like, I'm going to put sunscreen on my hands every day. Because you're going to get old lady wrinkle hands. But that's just what happens when you get old, Megan.

Because my mum gets like lots of spots on her hands. And I'm like, oh, I don't want. Mum doesn't listen to the podcast. Yeah, but your parents have not been sunscreen advocates. Not at all. They're also not huge fans of wearing clothes in summertime. I know. Both of those have not been sunscreen advocates. Not at all. They're also not huge fans of wearing clothes in summertime. I know. Both of those have not fared them well.

They're very lucky they haven't. It hasn't been worse for them. Yeah. Given our harsh sun. But now it's just my paranoia. When you put sunscreen on, do you not just go your hands like that as well? No, but I put it on directly on the other side of my hands

and rub it in. Oh, right. So you're not just like not giving it the scraps, the dregs, the leftovers. You're giving it its own. But then I might have left it too late. Are you doing a quick mole check? No, it's just like I'll definitely, because I'll do a lot of cycling. Yeah.

And I don't do my arms, but I'll do my neck. No, you should do your arms too. Because why are you doing your neck and not your arms? Yeah, because look, it goes real white there. Are you just saying your arms are just used to it? Yeah. No, but they can still get sun damage. You should get a long lycra top.

Am I going to have wrinkly arms? Yeah. Oh, God. You'll have a leathery old purse for an arm. You'll just be a big leathery old turtle. Brilliant. Oh, you need some lace gloves. Harry Styles lace gloves Styles Harry Styles driving gloves

In his new golden video But then his tan will be in the shape of the doily The lace is on Yeah, that's the other problem You don't want that happening It's happened to too many good cyclists They've got out of the game because of the lacy doily tan ZM

Head music Lives here Fleece Fauna Megan The podcast Good morning, welcome to the show Fleece Fauna Megan ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Fawn and Megan, the podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Good morning. Morning. Morning.

Well. Is that that? Huh? That felt abrupt. Huh? Huh? Good morning. Huh?

Huh? I was just going to say something about the US elections, but I don't know what to say because it's kind of feels like everybody said everything. Oh that's inspiring. Well those guys in front of us You should work

in the media with that kind of rousing insight into political and current events. Like that guy that's been standing in front of that

CNN map for like 18 years straight knowing every county in the US. John someone John King or whatever his name is.

Phenomenal. How did you see him with his fingers? It'd always be like flick it and knew all the buttons. There's that other guy, Steve,

as it was, no, that's the Apple guy. Steve wasn't the Apple guy. No, he wasn't. Steve someone, he's, he had the,

on MSNBC, he was their guy on that channel. Right, on the magic wall. And apparently he was on like for the four or five days straight on the magic wall. And he's A long time on a magic wall. Kind apparently he was on like for the four or five days straight on the magic wall. And he's-

A long time on a magic wall. Kind of won some fame online as well for the electoral map. Yeah. But amazing that they know all the states like where to go and- Yeah. Like it's one thing to point to an area on the map, like a region, but then to know where the counties are- Yes.

In that state. I know. It's just blown away. I watched so much of it over the weekend. And then finally waking up Sunday morning and yesterday morning it was announced. And they were like, yeah, it's gone far enough. But Trump, he still hasn't conceded.

I just looked on his Twitter before he was going off about three hours ago tweeting about the election being stolen. He doesn't have to concede though, does he? No. It's just a formality. No. He won't. No. You know how concede though, does he? No. It's just a formality. No. He won't. No.

You know how they do like the handover? Yeah. He's not going to want to do that either. And there's a tradition as well of the president writing a note

and leaving it on the desk or in the drawer. Oh, he's not going to do that. For the next one? No, he won't do that either. Probably something really mean.

I'd love to see him marched out. Oh, it'd be so good. And then rumours that Melania's planning the divorce already. Wouldn't you be though? Absolutely. Get out. Probably got all that sorted.

I'm going to deal with Trump in the top six today. Yeah, the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House. If you've ever had to get a cat out of the ceiling in the garage or out of a tree or a rat out of somewhere you'll be familiar

with luring and then when you're out you shut the door and the White House can be Joe Biden's boom give it a deep plane

handover's not till inauguration it's not till January is it normally the first week I think they said January 20th it's like till January, is it normally the first week? Yeah, January, I think they said January 20th. It's like a specific date,

like with the election, it's the something, something, Monday of... Whereas here, it's like a week and you're in, right? They clear out all their stuff like a week or two before the election. Yeah, that's right,

it's an empty office. And then they move in. That's so weird. What? You get a presidency and a house, like a big house. Surely not in New Zealand, surely not government house.

They don't make you pack all your stuff into boxes just to unpack if you can stay. I think it depends on how you're polling. Right. You might want to do a little bit of bubble wrapping beforehand. I think Jacinda was like, Clark, don't worry about packing. Don't worry about getting the movers in just yet. Yeah, I wouldn't worry. Don't even worry about getting them.

I mean, the boxes are in the garage, but don't unfold them and tape them up so they're strong again. What is he going to do in the next two months? Wow. Anyway, scenes of jubilation from the US. We're going to cross to Jack Tame this morning, quarter to eight, who is our US correspondent for the election, especially sent over. Next on the show, though. If you're used to giving your child your phone and walking away,

maybe don't do that anymore. Is that you? Yeah, but I know what Megan's going to talk about and I've, this isn't a problem. You've got a safeguard. Yeah, multiple. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. An 11 year old girl

has done her parents a mischief. So they give her their phones and she plays games. This sounds familiar. This isn't out of the ordinary is it? No, gosh no. It shuts them up, doesn't it? Yeah, it gives you a bit of time to get done what needs

to be done. So she's been playing a live streaming app called Hakuna Live and I don't know what that is, but it has in-app purchases. Okay. So you can shop for gifts and other things. So she was on that and I don't know how it got to this point,

but the parents were saving for a house. Okay. And she spent New Zealand over $170,000. In-app purchases. Yeah. And this, it doesn't say over what period of time, but it must have been a while

and then they realised the money was missing from their account. What kind of credit card lets you have 170,000? Maybe it lets you have as much money as money you have in the account. Oh, yeah. Kind of like as your bank.

Yeah, maybe. They're in South Korea, so I don't know. Yeah, maybe it's different. Well, I certainly don't have any experience with South Korean banking facilities and credit limits. Well, I was there in the 87 crash, but came home pretty quickly, didn't I?

So the dad was like, obviously quite distressed. He reached out to a lot of the, it says the 35 streamers and asked for reimbursement. He managed to get back a lot of the, it says the 35 streamers, and asked for reimbursement. He managed to get back a lot of cash, but they still will have to pay $55,000 of it. Oosh. It's still a massive chunk out of their house deposit.

So she's just like, do-do-do-do-do. I don't know what, how does a kid spend that much money? I don't know. When you say reach out to the streamers, I feel like there'll be people on there streaming and you can like pay to be their friend or gift them things if you find them entertaining, you know, like Patreon. If there's a creator that you really like,

you can join their Patreon and it gets you certain things. She's just like, yeah, you have money. Yeah, you can have the money. You have some. It's not my money. Yeah, you can have the money. You have some. You have some. It's not my money. Yeah. But then how old was the kid?

11. Oh, okay. So old enough to like be communicating. Yeah. And be like, oh, thanks. Can I have some more?

And she's like, yep. Have some more. Okay. This is a great argument for her to get her own phone too. And her own credit card at 11. It's about time to start learning some financial responsibilities.

So you may have seen, if you've ever been in Australia, or you might have even seen it on the news, you know those Aussie comp shows. They get to wear caps. Are they like the street team or something? It looks like a casual cool cop. Well, just every day, yeah, if they're on patrol. In Australia, they'll just wear the caps.

Do they have a wide-brimmed hat or is that just the blue heelers? Well, they might actually have a wide, yeah. In Australia, you have the sun and everything, you'd want a wide-brimmed hat, maybe even with some corks. To keep his eyes from bothering you while you're a police officer. That would be good for tourists. They'd love that. Yeah, if the cops wore bribery and corks.

But police this month in New Zealand are trialling baseball caps. So apparently this trial is going to run in five districts. So this will happen in Auckland City, Northland, Wellington, Tasman and the southern police districts. Okay. So they're allowed to wear the cap just as it'll be added to the list of hats. So they've got the

big hat that they always wear. What, like the official police hat? Yeah, that they always wear. And the big thing on the front with the badge on it. Which apparently the police have to take off when they get in the car. So the cap's going to be better because they're not going to have to do that.

Why do they take it off? Because it hits the roof. Yeah, it hits the roof, I think. Do you remember being like, I can't even remember why it was, but it was like, oh, if a police officer

tries to give you a ticket and they're not wearing their hat, it's illegal. I remember people saying they've got to be wearing their hat. Which is rubbish. Because they get out of the car

and the first thing when you're looking in your rear view mirror, and you're like, oh, God, what have I done? They put the cap on, and you're like, oh, here comes my ticket. The hat goes on. Oh, they're a police officer now. Yeah, I don't think that's a thing. So the only rule, apparently the rule is, there's one clear rule with the trial of police caps.

Not allowed to wear it backwards. I'm not a real cop. I'm a cool cop. Guys, I'm a cool cop. I've got my cap on backwards. Just tell me where you got the drugs from, man. So apparently some, the traffic commercial vehicle safety unit

have always had caps in New Zealand. Okay. So I think they're the ones that pull over the trucks and they're like, we had caps in New Zealand. Okay. So I think they're the ones that pull over the trucks and they're like, I'm going to weigh your truck. Yeah. Oh, yeah. How many hours you been driving, mate? You know on the side of the road you see those little huts?

Yeah. And the weigh stations? Not as many as they used to be. Nah. So yeah, they've apparently always had them because I'm guessing they're getting under trucks and cars. Yeah. Didn't the canine units?

Oh, maybe. Yeah, maybe. the canine units? Oh, maybe. Yeah, maybe. I don't know if the canine units had a cap. But it's still, it's a blue cap, right? But it's still got the stripe on it. Yeah.

So there's a picture here. It's got the checkers, the checkered band that goes right around and then it's got police on the cap. What's the peak made of? It looks soft.

It looks like, you know those running hats, those flimsy running hats? Yeah. It does look like a flimsy running hat. And it's not a flat peg, and it's not a flexi-fit. No. So yeah. But apparently there's a few different styles of them. So they're going to be sent out to be

trialled. Okay. Well that's good for some protection, because those other ones probably don't have much. The little peck. Well yeah, and if you're chasing robbers and stuff, it's not going to come off as easy, so it's good. Right. But you're still not allowed to turn around backwards when you're chasing robbers to be faster, are you?

Like... I don't know. Here I come, turbo policeman. He's got a hat backwards. It's against the rules. Yeah. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. This one's almost slipped under the radar, this competition,

because it ends in a couple of days. But it was around last Christmas as well. This is the Prime Minister's official Christmas card competition. So you've got to do a drawing. Okay. Or whatever you can draw, you can paint, you can sketch. What else can you do? What's that one where you do the knitting through the thing

crochet you could crochet one because she'll just print it on oh you think she'll just scan the crochet yep 100%

how do you scan a crochet put it in the brother what a nightmare in the brother p-touch or whatever it's called couldn't you just cut the crochet out and add it as a flap

on the front of the card but then she sends this card to everybody this is the one that she sends out to all of her peeps. Oh God, and Justin Trudeau will get one. I know, and he can't, she can't,

she doesn't have the time nor the resource to replicate a crochet. But as you say, it'd probably be the picture of the crochet. Be a picture, yeah, picture. Is there an age limit on this? Well, judging by past years, Megan, I'd say yes. Or maybe not, a disclosed age. I can't see an age limit on this? Well, judging by past years, Megan, I'd say yes. Or maybe not. I've disclosed age. I can't see an age

limit. You can email your entries to priminister at parliament.gov.nz Priminister. Prime, yeah. Kind of halfway through. Is it not prime? Is it pry? No, it's priminister. Oh, I thought she was just

like, let's keep it short, pry.minister. But I just said prime minister. It actually does sound like I'm saying prime minister. Yeah, prime minister. I'm saying prime minister. But I'm saying prime minister. Right, so you could take a photo or scan it in and send it. Yes.

Okay. Yeah, you can send it in a private bag, 18888, Parliament Building, Wellington as well. 18888. Why don't they just get private bag 18888 Parliament Building to Wellington as well. Right. 18888. Why don't they just get private bag one? Well, yeah. I just feel I don't want people never going to remember the 18888 private bag.

Mind you, there's probably not as much mail as there is emails these days. But you do your New Zealand Christmas scene or what you feel represents New Zealand and you can send that in and you could be like the official Christmas card curator of the Prime Minister. Are you going to get Indy and Augie to do one? Hard sell. There's nothing in it for them. What, just being chosen by the Prime Minister

to be their Christmas card? To send to everyone. They'll be like, like Well what do you Get a bit of Do you get a bit of money What is there a prize here Totally Your daughter's

When you were a kid And entering colouring In competitions If the prize was shit You wouldn't have done it eh Nah Nah neither But sometimes

I deserve better than that If it was at a restaurant Sometimes the prize was like A family Like the family Could go and dine for free. Oh, yeah, that's worth it. And mum would always be like, you try your hardest on this one. Otherwise, we're not celebrating your birthday.

Mum just snatches it off you and she's like, no, give it here. Or my brother was the colourer. Yeah. He'd do the colouring, but we'd put my sister's details on it. Because she's younger. Yeah. And they'd be like, she's so advanced for two. Yeah, yeah. I like how she's done a Yeah. And they'll be like, she's so advanced for two. Yeah.

I like how she's done a felt outline of each colour segment and then coloured the interior with pencil. That gives it a real pop. You can always see. I just did that because there was no way I could trust myself to stay focused enough to not go over the lines. Well, because especially the crayons and pencils would always be a bit blunter, the tip.

Yeah. Unless you had a brand new one. Don't be afraid to sharpen a crayon. You know, that gives you a better tip, doesn't it? Yeah. But you can always see, you know, if stores put up like winning entries, you can always see when the parents have helped.

Don't be afraid to call out those entries. I've said bullshit when I was standing in the cashier before and I looked and it was like, Sienna, three. I'm like, bullshit. Have you ever seen a three-year-old hold something? No way. Sorry, Sienna, three. I'm like, bullshit. Have you ever seen a three-year-old hold something? No way. Sorry, Sienna.

Mum's done that and put your name on it. Unacceptable. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. A financial awakening. There is an age where it is most common and it's probably a little bit older than you would have thought. So it's thinking about your money and realising that you should save and live within your

means and everything like that. This financial awakening happens around the age of 33. Most people don't experience a sort of financial awakening until they're about 33. That's kind of true, right? Like in your 20s, you're pretty fast and loose with your cash. Comes in, goes out. Yep. Holidays.

Hey, you're keeping the economy moving, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're like, okay, I can't keep going like this. Yeah. And so unfortunately, it's often when people lose jobs or have some kind of health event that they realise, oh, okay, so I need some money hanging about

rather than just going paycheck to paycheck. But only half of the people that responded to the survey said they actually discussed finances with their family members growing up. So half of them didn't. Yeah, we didn't really. Money, you didn't really talk about it growing up. You knew we didn't have much.

But like, did you talk about your own, like they tell you about the importance of money? Not really. Just, we can't afford that. No, you don't need that was basically the thing. But then it's also, I've heard it's not like, it's not a great thing to put on kids. Like it's important they know how money works and whatever.

But like my parents had a farm and the interest rates Were 22% Imagine if they'd told you kids about interest rates I know I don't care I want to start a jacket No I had to like I bought my own clothes from quite a young age And I had to work

And then if I wanted a new phone They'd be like well you have to save up to get it So money works And like did banking from when I was little work and then if I wanted a new phone they'd be like, well you have to save up to get it so money works. And like did banking from when I was little but yeah, I'm still pretty frivolous. I can imagine you were just a big whinger and wanting, nagging wanting everything. Yeah, I did

and once I earned money I spent it all on whatever I wanted and dad wasn't too happy about that either. He was trying to teach you the value of saving. Yeah, but I was like, yeah, I've got it. Look at this new phone. And I remember getting

absolutely told off when I got a new green Alcatel OneTouch Easy. A green one? Yeah. I pretty told you off because the green ones were the ugly ones.

You should have got an orange one. Everyone had an orange one. No, orange. With the charging cradle? Yeah. It was orange. Isn't that beautiful as well? All of them are hideous. Yeah, I hear those. It was the early 2000? Yeah. It was orange, wasn't it? All of them were hideous.

It was the early 2000s though. Those were like, not hideous at the time. Yeah. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. From the unsightly ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Hello there. On today's top six, the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House. As yet to concede, still claiming voter fraud. Yeah. Yeah. He sent off a flurry of tweets about three or four hours ago. Yeah. Saying it was rigged.

Don't worry about changing the sheets, sweetheart. We're going to wash them. Burn them. Burn the sheets. Yeah, but they're got the same bed. That's a good question. No, they'd change the mattress, surely. You say they'd leave the bed base,

but they'd change the mattress. It's four years. That's like a long time to... Yeah. You don't inherit somebody else's bed after that long. I just... I don't know what it is, but I wouldn't want Donald's bed. No. I wouldn't. I don't know what it is, but I wouldn't want Donald's bed. No. I wouldn't.

I don't. I wouldn't want anyone's bed. I don't want to inherit anybody's bed after four years. You know when you, oh no, you probably don't know, but like. I mean, when you first go flatting, sure, secondhand bed. When you, you know, don't have the money, sure, secondhand bed. But president of the United States, yeah, I think you'd get a new bed. You know when it's, you put your fake tan on and you get a bit sweaty in the night and it stains think he'd get a new beard. You know when you put your fake tan on

and you get a bit sweaty in the night and it stains the... Seeps. Seeps? It'll seep right through the... He's got an orange mattress. Yeah, because you know, he wouldn't put a mattress protector on too.

No. He's living life. Living la vida loca. So the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House. Have you found anything if he gets a new beard? No. First ladies apparently redecorate and might be able to get new

fittings. Right. And also there are different bedrooms as well. The President's bedroom is a second floor bedroom in the White House. I'm just imagining it from House of Cards. Yeah, that's... I assume that that was based on the actual design. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Well, the top six ways to lure Trump out of the actual design. Interesting.

Well, the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House. Number six, a pile of lollies and some golf clubs. He loves his golf. Although from what I've seen, he doesn't look fantastic at golf. Really unusual swing. But a pile of lollies. You don't get that junk in the trunk without a love for the sweeties. Number five on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House.

Out on the lawn, you could put a box labelled Hillary's emails. And we're like, oh. He'll be out there in a second. He can't say no to those sweet, sweet emails, even though that was 2016 when Hillary's emails were the problem. What did you chuckle at there? Well, I googled what's Trump's golf handicap, and a story from 2019 says Trump has not entered a single score from the times he's played golf as president.

He doesn't hand in a scorecard. No. He just has a sock at the end of every game. It's not as good as what he wanted it to be. Probably. Wow. Yeah. Interesting to know.

Number four on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House, a new Bondi Sands named Orange Bloom. Orange Bloom. He'll be like, I'm just going to nip out. Out there where the helicopters usually land, there looks to be some Bondi Sands. I'll be back. But he won't be.

Out, change the locks. Number three on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House, a big long tie. Way too long. Number three on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House. A big, long tie. Way too long. He tells me big, long ties. Extra long tie. So you think it's slimming? Yeah, maybe.

He's a tall dude though, right? Like he's like 6'3". And his son's taller than him now. What's the youngest son called? The name is... Barron. Barron. He's even taller.

So they love a long tie. Number two on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House, a genie promising larger hands. Some have... He does have riddled tiny. I grant primarily hand-based wishes. And number

one on the list of the top six ways to lure Trump out of the White House, a life-size Putin cuddle pillow. For the last little bit, he's in the White House. He would just want to need a little cuddle. Need a little cuddle with his cuddle buddy Putin. That is today's top six. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. With COVID, it's taken away our overseas travel. I don't want to sugarcoat it. It's happened. And we don't know when we're going to be going again. Although, did you see Melbourne's direct flights from New Zealand to Melbourne can start today? But you've got to, I mean, you can go there. You don't have to quarantine.

But then coming back, you'd need the voucher and then the two weeks and you'd have to pay. So nah. And they're in short supply at the moment, aren't they? At least you're coming back after Christmas. Yeah, I think it's pretty much booked until at least the end of Jan

at this stage. At least you're in Solomio. Did you see Georgia from Broods is in the same predicament? Yeah. No one's helped her out, have they? Yeah, she got on Seven Sharp

and told everybody how she didn't plan her trip well enough. No, but she booked ages ago before the mandatory voucher came in and then they brought it in and no one told her. And so the voucher sold out and she's like, hang on a second. Apparently they emailed, but she didn't check. It must have gone to her Gmail.

Oh, spam account. Yeah, we're going to junk. Yeah. So those shows are in jeopardy. But people are saving for travel. People have travel funds. If you're planning on doing a big OE, could have been quite a bit of money in there.

So Kiwis are now repurposing that money to other things. Some of it's more responsible than others. Right. So some people are actually finding that they've got enough, if they take into account their KiwiSaver, to have a deposit for their first home. Responsible.

Rather than spending it on travel, which is also good, it's life experience. But putting it into homes. Not all Clintons though, right? Oh no. If you've got enough in your travel account, for a possible home deposit,

you probably had enough money to own a home already as well. True. Yes. But also, cars. Yeah. People are upgrading their cars now. I heard that. So I did that weekend drive in that Land Rover.

Yeah. And I said, oh, what's the, well, like, I wasn't going to buy it. I'm not going to be able to afford it. But they said they can't keep up

with demand because all these people who usually spend like an insane amount of money taking their family over. Going to those Swiss Alps. Yeah.

For skiing, you can't go, like, you know how expensive it is to go skiing in New Zealand. Chuck in some business class fares to bloody Switzerland and how much it's going to cost you to take the whole family over there.

There's people who make that much money, I know, and they're buying new cars and apparently renovations. Yeah, apparently. I was talking to a builder and it just said it's so crazy busy at the moment. People reno in their kitchens, their bathrooms. Putting in pools. Yeah, putting in pools. Because if you're going to,

everyone's spending so much time at home, you want to make it nice for yourself. Yeah, and people are like- I mean, up until now, we were happy to live in shitholes apparently. Because we could get out. And caravans. Yeah, apparently caravans-

Caravans are a big one. Yeah. Yeah. Are these people just hiring or are people buying caravans? No, people are buying them. Wow. And motorhomes because, yeah, we have to travel our own backyard. Yeah.

Does that mean in a few years when we can travel, there's just going to be this excess of full-sale caravans? Because people are like, this is horrible. It's so tiny. I was stuck. And you've got to shower in the shower blocks. Yeah. That was my parents bought a caravan when we were kids.

Yeah. And then my dad was like, oh, right. So we're going to be stuck if it rains. And it does. We're going to be stuck in this tiny area with the children. This is a terrible idea. We've made a huge mistake. And then what?

It just gets parked in the backyard. It got sold pretty smartly to be honest. I think it got sold back to the people that we bought it off. Right. Right. They missed it, did they? I know, it was like a lot. So they probably just whacked,

they probably paid, bought it back off us for less money and then put it back on for the same amount. Making great purchases. We wanted to ask on the back of this news story today, did you have some money saved before COVID for travelling? Like a travel fund, your holiday fund. Your OE fund. And what have you spent it on?

Like has COVID, the fact that we're stuck in New Zealand, made you just say, oh, well, I've got this money that I put aside. I'm just going to spend it now. I'm just going to do this now. I'm going to do this now, yeah. Do you want responsible ones or do you want like Gucci handbags? Okay, no one's calling to say they've spent their travel fund on a Gucci handbag. Because, although, like you say that.

Everyone will just think you got it from Thailand before the lockdown. Yeah, exactly. All right, so. The end go. Apparently, New Zealanders are spending their travel funds, their travel savings. Yeah. New Zealanders are spending their travel funds, their travel savings, on things here in New Zealand because obviously we can't travel and we

probably aren't for the foreseeable future. So we want to know what you've spent your money on and we joked about a Gucci handbag. But someone said you joke, but one of the girls on my team literally spent her entire European holiday money fund on a Gucci handbag. One handbag.

I told you, Fletch. That's the thing. It's one handbag. But also your entire European fund. What bag are they getting? Go to bags and stuff. What's that? One of them all?

Strand bags. Strand bags. Because they're not selling any luggage. I know. They need your patronage. You could buy 10 handbags. Different looks. Yeah, people still need suitcases for. You can buy 10 handbags. All different looks. Yeah, people still need suitcases for their New Zealand trips, don't they?

Yeah. But see, we say that, and I did say, I doubt anyone's going to buy a Gucci handbag, but I walked down Queen Street, and they're some of the only shops that are still with lines out them and people flocking to. Oh, really? All those expensive, like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, all those stores.

Just like, what recession? It's just Kiwis going in for a look, though, because there's no, like, lines from the cruise ships. I was warned to have a look on there. How much? That's ridiculous. So some other text messages in. My partner and I spend our holiday funds on a puppy

and a cheeky deposit on a house. Guess we aren't going on that, are we? But that's the thing. You could be waiting for years. You could be waiting for years. We don't know how long it's going to take. Some calls. Kelly, what did you spend the travel fund on?

I decided to buy a new horse. A horse. So where were you going to go? Where was your holiday plans? Me and my partner were supposed to be doing about six weeks over in Europe. Jesus, how much is a horse? Oh, it varies.

I know. You and your partner, what did your partner get out of this? Oh, he just put more money towards his house, so he didn't really get much out of it. Right, okay. Oh, okay, but he's got a house, you've got a horse. The difference there is just an R for a U, really. Yeah, pretty much.

Pretty much. Except yours dies one day. No, I don't want to freak you out about horses. Yeah, but the house could burn down too. Yeah, but you can't get horse insurance. Can't you? Well, you can for injury, but death is going to occur, right.

Paula, what did you spend the travel fund on? Well, I didn't, but my husband did. There's a few text messages coming in like this of people being like they didn't consult their partner, they just went out and spent the... So what did the husband buy?

A jet ski. Oh, wow. You can't be mad at that, Paula. Summer's coming. Oh, wow. You can't be mad at that, Paula. Summer's coming. Oh, yeah, yeah. We might get off holiday one day. And you'll be able to take your jet ski? Just like around New Zealand, you'll be able to take your jet ski?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, you could probably jet ski to the Gold Coast if you had enough petrol. Is it one that you can both ride? Yeah, yeah, we can both fit. Oh, that's good. But he just turned up at home with it and you were just like, what have you done? Yeah, yeah, we can both fit. Oh, that's good. But he just turned up at home with it and you were just like, what have you done? Yeah, kind of. He said, I'm going to look at one and he came back and said,

yeah, we own a jet ski. My dude. Wow, brilliant. Hey, thanks you call Paula. Hannah, what did you spend the holiday fund on? We're the ones who bought a puppy and then put a deposit on a house. Oh, brilliant.

Wow. So that's not bad. That's like responsible. Yeah, a bit of fun. I noticed you said the puppy first. So did you like get the puppy

and then realise that you couldn't have your puppy in your rental so you bought a house for the puppy? Yeah, pretty much. All the requirements

were for the puppy. Like, you need a yard, so. Yeah, yeah, brilliant. Hannah, thanks for your call. Stephen, what did you spend the holiday fund on? Four pairs of Timberlands and a Sparple. Four pairs! You must love Timberland.

Yeah, you've got to look fresh and you've got to feel fresh. What colours did you go for? What was that? What colours did you go for? What was that? What colours did you get the boots in? All four colours. Oh, no, I got some Brooklands and I got some six inches and I got some different ones that they got. They got a whole stack of different colours these days.

Wow. You're just like, well, we're not going on holiday. I'm getting new boots. Yeah, man, that's the way. Hearing from a lot of people's things, Stephen, a lot of people getting spaples. Spaples are like, we're getting so

many text messages about spaples. People have just been like, well, I was stuck at home, so I got a spaple. We always get real

hot after five minutes, though. You know you can turn the temperature down a little bit. Yeah, I'll just sit on the edge of it. Sit on the outside.

You get bored more than anything. One of the most popular other things we've been text messaged about is Invisalign or like getting their teeth straightened. Oh, yeah. But could you do that? Because do you remember the dentists were some of the last people

to go back to work? I don't think dentists could go. Everybody else was kind of back, but I think dentists were still, everybody else was kind of back, but I think dentists were still like, they had to wear the full PPE and minimal staff

and stuff. Yeah, they're all back now. Yeah, they're back now, but so do you reckon people were just aching

to get that invisible line stuff? Well, because it costs a bit of money, doesn't it? So they're like, well,

I'm not travelling, I'll spend it on my wonky teeth. Yeah, but then there's other ones and they're kind of like practical,

but sad. Someone said new curtains for the house. That ended up costing $10,000. Whoa! $10,000? That's very expensive. We were supposed to be going to Scotland for my daughters to meet their great grandad for the first time, but now we've spent $8,000

of that getting the paddocks re-fenced. Oh, see, I know that's necessary but man, that's such a lot of money just for a fence. For a fence. And you'd always look at that fence and hate it. You'd always be like, oh, you're my Scotland fence. You're a good one, fence.

I could have been in Scotland. That's COVID's fault. You can look at COVID and be angry, but you can look at that fence and be like, that's a beautiful fence. Nah, I'd look at it. You can't be angry at the fence. Don't begrudge the fence. No begr's a beautiful fence. Nah, I'd look at it. I can't be angry at the fence. Don't begrudge the fence.

No begrudging the fence. What else did people get? Yeah, another one for Invisalign. Someone's like, oh, I didn't want to message him, but now that you've said it, Invisalign. Invisalign? Invisalign. Invisalign.

Invisalign. How does that work? Isn't it just like a mouth guard that you always have to wear? Don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. I've seen how much it costs and I'm like, nah. Nah, that's how they came out my gums.

They were right like that. I'm not fussing. Nah. Your teeth are going to fall out in a few years. There's no point in straightening them. Exactly. Well, if you straighten them, they're just going to be harder to pull out eventually when I get my sweet false teeth.

Keeping up to date with the news just became a little easier. As at Herald's new podcast, the front page is your short, sharp daily news podcast. Join me, Damien Venuto, every weekday morning as I chat with journalists and newsmakers going behind the headlines

to break down what you need to know on the biggest news stories of the day. Listen to the front page at nzherald.co.nz slash podcasts and follow us on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Special votes were counted and taken into account and added up and plopped down,

and it took less time than it took Nevada to count their votes for the US election. But the recount and everything has happened. The final results came out on the referendums. This was all the final, final, final results. Yep, final results. On Friday for the New Zealand election. And the proposed cannabis legislation in favour of legalising cannabis came 2.4% closer to passing, but just fell short. It was really 50-50 in the end, wasn't it?

It was. It was so close. It was. It was really 50-50, given that the other aspects of the election weren't. Yeah. It was definitely the closest race of this general election with referendums. Because I found just on that, I found a list of all the electorates in the whole country and there's 64 of those.

Right. 65 of those and only 14 electorates in the whole of New Zealand passed it. Wow. And it's pretty much all the major cities. I was going to say it must have been the population hubs because if only 14 of the 65 voted yes, but it was almost 50-50, it must have meant the big city spots

must have the heavily populated places. So places like Auckland Central, Banks Peninsula, Christchurch Central and East, the East Coast, East Coast Bays, it passed there. Oh, sorry, Dunedin and East Coast, it passed. Hutt South, it passed. Calston, Mana, Mount Albert,

Northland, where else? Yeah, Northland. And yeah, Wellington Central and Rongatai as well. Wow. And Oh, Wellington Central and Rongatai as well. Wow. And Ohariu. Right. Yeah, so those are the only electorates in the whole country that passed. Where it actually passed.

Yeah. See? You can't give me crap about my hometown anymore because they didn't pass it. Nelson and... Nelson, do you know what failed in Nelson? 22,125 to 21,137. That's close. And most of these are so close.

That's so interesting. Right. Just to see a breakdown like that, yeah. It remains the same, but the government have said they're looking at changing some of the stuff to do with making it more of a health issue than a criminal issue. Right. Yeah, they're going to put some of the things

that would have been part of it in place, but, yeah, not changing the legal status of it. And it's also Labour got the National lost two more seats. Right. Yeah, after the recount and everything. Oh, that sucks. Imagine being on the buddy end of that National. You're like, oh, you're a non, no, you're not.

See ya. Yeah. Well, it was always touch and go. And the National Party Northland like, oh, you're a non, no, you're not. See ya. Yeah. Well, it was always touch and go. And the National Party Northland MP, Matt King, he had always talked about a recount, but then he tweeted over the weekend saying, you know what, it's not. It's been great.

It's good fun. Good luck. Yeah. Good luck. But no, he's not going to ask for a recount. But the Māori Party's got two seats now in Parliament. Labour put another one. So, yeah. It did change. Labour put another one. So yeah,

it did change. It did, like that final count, the special votes and everything, did change a little bit. ZM's Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast. Stepping up to the podium for the 10th year of Nauru. Your gold medalist. Where's my medal? Alright, it's a segment of the show

where we celebrate those small tiny life achievements that are a big deal, you know? Yeah. And it's just because maybe someone in your family announced a pregnancy that everyone wasn't that interested in hearing about how you

vacuumed. Finally. Yeah. And you even did under the couch, which is most unlike you. You usually just go around it. Do you remember when I was real proud that I cleaned one of the windows inside and out? The big windows in my lounge?

I've still got to do the other one. You did one of them. Yeah, that's good. I've still got to do the other one. That doesn't matter. You did one of them. You did one. I did one of them. Yeah. That's good. You gave it a go. I've still got the little step ladder and the cleaning brush and the towels. Is it just sitting there to encourage you? Yeah.

Yeah, it's been sitting there two weeks now. Do you know what? I'm going to feel so proud when I do the other one. Well, you can't let us know. I'm going to need to do the other one, though, because it won't be as clean now. Oh, you're going to need to do the initial one again. Yeah, probably. Oh, yeah, you've got staggered cleaning.

That's awful when that happens. I'm so proud of myself, though. Well, Trina, welcome to Where's My Metal? Good morning. Hi, morning, guys. Now, why do you deserve a medal? I finished a whole cup of tea while it was still hot. Wow.

That's good stuff. And then you're like, man, I could do with another one, but you just never hit it the same. Yeah. Nah, it's all right. I've got two kids, so it's a rare occurrence that we finish a whole cup of tea. Do you run classes on how to do that?

I should. Yeah. My wife could sign up. And when you only half finish one, do you kind of just leave it around the house in different spots wherever you were? Yeah, yeah. You sort of do a whip around and, oh, yeah, there's the tea I made two days ago. Yeah, yeah.

And if you put milk in it, it's got that gross film across it. Oh, yeah. Yes. That's nasty. I just had a bit of coffee and it was cold. It's gone a bit lukewarm. You need to set like a tea alarm because you'll need it to cool down, but then you forget about it.

Like the cup. The cup with a little alarm on it. Yeah. That is a good idea. And then like a minute later, it'll just be like beep, beep, beep. Or a cup that keeps the coffee warm or the tea warm. Yes. I like that.

USB. Yeah. Sure. All right, Trina, wait there. We're going to award our medals very soon. Chanel, good morning. Good morning. Why do you deserve a medal?

So I've actually finally kept this plant alive for over a year now. Oh, wow. Wow. Tell me your secrets, Chanel. Tell me your secrets. What kind of plant is it? Do you know? I think it's an

antheria, I think. I don't know what that is. Little red flowers. Yeah, that's the one. Girl, okay. You know your plants, girl. It's a green one. I've actually killed two cacti

in the past. Too much water. You much water, yeah. You don't water succulents much. No. I've killed a few succulents in my time too, Chanel, so yeah. If you feed them too much, they get soggy. Yeah, but are you meant to water them at all? Because there's no rain in the desert, is there?

Yeah, so one of them I actually underwatered and it died and then the other one I accidentally left out in the rain. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, which in New Zealand is not going to do well, is it? Alright, Chanel, brilliant. Alright, we're going to award our medals in just a second. We're going to hear from our final competitor this morning. Carly, good morning.

Morning. Why do you deserve a medal? Because I answered a call from an unknown number. What? Oh, what? No. Why? Don't do that.

Why'd you do that? I don't know. I just felt like being a little bit random. Okay, but adventurous. It still came up as a number or it was like private? No, it was a number, but I didn't even Google it. Wow. Okay.

And then, so who was it? It was actually just like one of those telecommunications people wondering if I wanted to do a survey or whatever. Of course it was. Of course it was. That's my excuse for not answering those calls. Yeah. Because I'm like, well, it never turns out great, does it?

It's just someone that wants something from me. Is that enough? And then you also bitch and whinge when there's a comma Brunton poll and you're like, no one asked me. Yeah. True. They never ask me for my opinion. Ring, ring, ring, ring.

Not answering that. So is that enough to put you off, Carly, from answering unknown numbers? Yes, I will be Googling from now on. Yeah. And then today, okay, yeah. I was just thinking we might call you back at some stage and our number always comes up private, so you wouldn't answer that. Yeah, a lot of people don't answer our number, do they?

It's no great loss, though, is it? All right, Carly, wait there. It's time now for the judges to decide. Our gold, silver and bronze medals today. This is my... Yeah, me too. You agree? Okay.

Fantastic. Oh, yep. That one first. Today's bronze medal. And where's my medal? Because really, the fact that she kept the plant alive is almost reward unto itself. It really is.

Chanel, congratulations. Thanks so much, guys. What was it? Anthurium. Anthurium alive. Good stuff. All right, you're the winner of our bronze medal today, Chanel. In silver medal place today,

she did what most mothers struggle to do. She finished a cup of tea while it was still hot. Rather than taking a sip from it a little bit later on, I'm going to be like, the temperature took me by surprise. Congratulations, Trina, for finishing your cup of tea. It has earned you the silver medal this week. Congratulations.

Which means... Representing New Zealand and doing what millennials just don't. Not only did she answer a call, she didn't even know the person that was calling. Oh, my God. Send that straight to voicemail and then never, ever check it again. A gold medal for her services to answering a telemarketer's call and immediately regretting it. Carly, congratulations.

Congratulations. Yes. A gold medal. Well earned. Well earned indeed. What did they want your opinion on when they called?

I didn't let them get that far. Yes. Yes. Shut them down. You are in charge. All right. Our gold winner today,

Carly, congratulations. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. America, the final season. Might have got a network deal to get another one. Right, okay. Might be getting a sequel. At this stage. Yeah, at this stage, but who knows?

It's not done and dusted yet. Joining us from those United States of America, Jack Tame. Hello. Hey guys, how you doing? Good. Now, what's it been like there over the weekend? Good lord. Just real chill, real chill. No one even really cares, it's just kind of like chill out. Yeah, the funny thing is, it honestly depends on where you are, right?

So I was in Washington, D.C. when all the networks finally announced that Biden had won the presidency. And immediately, like I was one minute from the White House, so I just ran straight down to the White House and people were already literally dancing in the streets. And you know that F Donald Trump song?

Yeah. I think it's like Nipsey Hussle. Yeah, yeah, everyone was playing that, like super loud. And in the think it's like Nipsey Hussle. Yeah, yeah. Everyone was playing that like super loud. And in the end, the police like shut off all the roads and people were just driving around the city honking and partying and stuff. Obviously, not everyone feels that way. Obviously, like there are 70 million Americans right now

who are very disappointed that Donald Trump didn't win a second term. And so, yeah, while in some of the big cities like New York and D.C. and L.A., they might have been partying on the streets, I think there are a lot of people who do not feel the same way. You weren't there. You weren't when he drove home from golf and saw everyone partying in the streets. Well, yeah. I mean, I was just down by the White House.

And the thing is, there was so much noise being made outside the White House too. But people were letting off fireworks and playing music and stuff and chanting. Everyone was doing the, you can imagine what they were saying. Actually, the most popular one was the good old na-na-na-na chant. You know, hey, hey, hey, goodbye. Everyone was doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's quite awesome.

And so there's no doubt that he could hear that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not awesome. And so, like, there's no doubt, there's no doubt that he could hear that from the White House. Wow. Yeah, yeah. He would have been able to hear that last night,

which probably explains, you know, why he was feeling pretty dark. But I don't know, like, while everyone's, you know, it's all good for everyone

who's celebrating, but again, I just think it's not very smart to kind of, like, rub salt in the wounds of 70 million people. I just, I wonder what will happen down the line, you know?

Especially when a lot of them have guns. Yeah, yeah. Something like, I think it's like eight of the, they have this like gun background check system that they sometimes use here. And apparently eight of the most, of the biggest weeks for that system have been this year of all time.

So like the demand for guns has been the greatest it's ever been since about March of this year in America. And America already loves guns. And I'm not saying that that means like everything's going to go tear-shaped, but it's also not like super confidence-inspiring. No, what about COVID?

Because that kind of took a back seat, and especially in the last, seat, especially since the elections. But they're also having... 125,000 people a day. Yeah, they're also having record amounts of people contracting COVID. Yeah, 1,000 deaths a day, 125,000 people contracting it. And honestly, it's only going to get worse because they know that in winter people stay inside more, which inevitably means that it spreads more easily.

And like some of the forecasts suggest that the death toll in America could hit 400,000 by February, March of next year, which is crazy, right? I just saw you in amongst the crowds and whilst you had your face mask on, I was like, oh, my God, Jack, be careful, babes. Well, yeah, I'm doing my best, babes, but it is a bit. It is. I mean, fortunately, D.C. is not actually, like, the infection rates there aren't nearly as bad as they are in other parts of the country. Okay. So, actually, it's interesting.

The bits that have delivered Biden the win, Wisconsin, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, those are some of the areas that have the highest infection rates in the country at the moment. And like Biden's saying that his number one priority is going to be to get COVID under control or something close to control compared to what it is now. And so it's kind of interesting, I think, that the places that are being punished the most by COVID at the moment are the places that have delivered the presidency for Biden. So they want something to be done. I just Googled it.

If that death toll does get up to 400,000, that's how many Americans died in the entirety of World War II. Wow. Yeah. Think about it this way. Think about how 9-11 has changed the world, right? Every time we get on a plane, all the security systems, you know, you fly to America, you've got to take your shoes off. Just think about the way that has fundamentally changed the world.

Now, I'm not trying to reduce that event because it was more than just human lives that were lost, but 3,000 people died in 9-11. Yeah. So already we're getting close to having 100 times more Americans have died from COVID-19. 100 than died in 9-11. Wow.

That is crazy, isn't it? So, yeah, things like that, we're going to put it into perspective, don't we? Wow. So, happy Monday, eh, guys? Yeah, happy Monday. Now, how long are we basing you in America for? How long are you over there as our U.S. correspondent? Flying back in a couple of days.

And then I've got two weeks in isolation. So, if you need any updates on Jet Park, I'll be in the sky. Oh, surely they're not going to put the National Treasure Jet Time in Jet Park. I think you get Jet Park. If you test positive, I think you get Jet Park. Yeah, you do. It's an extra motivator not to get going.

Are you? Because you also don't find out that you're going to be in Rotorua until you're on the bus on the way. So there's also that possibility as well. I feel like Rotorua could be okay because apparently you're allowed outside of Rotorua. So sort of, I don't know, I think different places,

like some places the rooms are better, some places the food's nicer. Yeah. You get outside. I don't know. I was going to say I live next to a couple of the COVID hotels, so if you do get one of those, I'll chuck a couple of muffins over or something and bring you a little care package and give you a wave.

Thank you so much. Yeah, I don't know. I think at the very end of it, at the very least, I'm going to have a new appreciation for how tough prison must be because two weeks in a hotel sounds terrible, but it's like, yo, we lock people up for like 20 years, but it was like, yo. We lock people up for like 20 years sometimes. It's like prison light.

Yeah, yeah. It's like prison with Netflix. Yeah, yeah. Jack Tame in Washington, D.C., thank you so much for your time, mate. Really appreciate it. ZM's Fletch Warner-Megan, the podcast. Oh, it's. It's really actually really sweet. So

producer Jared had an emotional moment. Have you been having a clean up? Yeah, yeah. I had a little tidy up of the room. Yeah. Because I'm inheriting his Chronicles of Narnia books. Yeah. Yeah, the girls are going to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's a classic.

It's a classic series. Cute. Not as cute as this though. Right, so you found something and you told us that it made you very emotional at the weekend. Yeah. You told us in the group chat over the weekend and we thought, well, we've got to see this thing that made you cry. It made me a little teary, a little nostalgic. Oh, shit, you're getting old pregos over there going.

That's actually, I keep opening it and then shutting it. I'm like, I can't look at that. That's just like. Oh, I did. Get into it. You're a robot. Have a hoon. So you found a little keepsake.

It's like a book of your relationship. Yeah. From your ex. One of my exes was from England and then came and lived here for a bit while she was nannying and then moved to Aussie. And when she moved to Aussie, she gave me that little book, like a little scrapbook of all our time together. It's got all of your time together.

It's got your first Tinder messages. First Tinder messages, all the tickets from all the shows we went and saw. Oh, my God. Old notebooks of relationships have Tinder messages in them now. That would have been a love letter.. That would have been a love letter. Your one would have been a telegram. Hello, sweetheart, stop. And that was all it said because it was very expensive.

You had to pay per word. Can I read out the first couple of messages? Yep. Yep. Is this on Tinder? These are the Tinder messages. So, Jarrett, was this your opening line? My opening line, yeah.

She was from, I should preface, she was from North Yorkshire. Right. So that might make this better. Did we say preface or preface? Preface. Preface? I don't know. I was going to let him have it.

Yeah, so she's from Yorkshire. And Jarrod said, I love your puddings. That's all I know. That's all I know. Yeah. That's all I know. That's what I was going to say. The pudding place. Yeah. Your pudding. And there's a terrier.

Isn't there a Yorkshire terrier? Yep. There's one of those too. Okay. She messages back. She bit. She said, well, our puddings love you. Oh.

Oh. Damn. And Jared says, phew, I thought it was turning into one of those one-sided relationships. You guys had cute banter. Now, this has, like, pictures of their whole relationship together. And, like, lots of messages. I won't read those. I feel weird.

But she's, like, stuck little stickers in, like, you are my sunshine. Always remember. I feel really weird. How long were you guys together for? About a year. Oh, wow. And so why did she leave? She was on a world trip

in OE, so she went and did her time in Australia. But she didn't come back? No. Did you think about moving over there? I did for a split second, but I kind of like working in radio, so I stuck around here. Yeah, right. Okay, fair call. And so it's over now? It's done deal.

At the very end, she's kissing your dog, Ruby, and then it's got the sticker, thank you. Oh, that is a bit sweet. I got her something a bit cute as well when she left. I do this thing sometimes where I'll write a story in Messenger

and then once a week, it's weird, Anna, they'll get a chapter in quotation marks. Okay. And then so like once a week they'll get a, it's weird, I know. They'll get like a chapter in quotation marks. Okay. So then at the end I compiled them all and printed them out and got them bound and stuff and had a little storybook. Oh my gosh.

That's actually really cute. Right. And is she in Australia now? Yeah. Is this like still going to be a thing? No, no. She's been seeing some dude for a while now. What's he like?

Shredded, jacked, very attractive dude. Oh my God, this story is not how the story is supposed to end. No, but it was a totally fine breakup. It was like we didn't hate each other. You've been going on some dates now anyway. Yeah. There's a new honey on the scene. New honey on the scene.

Yeah, okay, so don't worry about it. Have you been Yeah. Is the new Honey on the scene? New Honey on the scene. Yeah, okay. So don't worry about it. Have you been writing chapters for the new Honey? Not yet. I haven't got to that point yet. Regarding new Honey, don't make too much of a deal about old Honey's book. No, I wouldn't dare.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's time to make some new memories. I would have told National Radio that you cried over it. Yeah, I would have taken it on the radio and be like, oh, this is this really special thing I had with a girl that left me. That's the sort of thing that she's going to remember forever. Yeah.

In a nice six months time. In the face. Interesting that you, have you kept anything else from any other relationships? Or is this kind of the one? I've got like Polaroids in a little Polaroid box, but that's about it. Though Polaroids in this book.

That's a little ex-keep safe. Because when do you chuck things out? I don't know. I don't know if I can throw that out. Like if you were to get married one day, what's the point of having that? You've got to chuck it out. Because that was a section of his life, you know? It was a chapter.

It's kind of nice, like if you were going out with a guy to know that it didn't end because he was a douchebag. Yeah. Did you keep a memento from you and your first husbands? Oh, you chucked all that out, did you? My wedding ring. Because they're worth something, though, eh? Does that count?

No, I can't. I don't think I did. Well, I want to ask the question this morning. Is there any kind of keepsake or memento that you've kept from an old relationship? And what is it? Especially if you're with somebody else now. Do you hide it from them or are they okay with it? Or yeah, like you said, it's just an old chapter of your life.

It doesn't mean you still pine after them. No, no. It's just memories. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. You can't just pretend however long. Five years of your life just didn't happen. Yeah.

We want to know what you've kept from an old relationship. Jared, producer Jared, has kept a sweet little book that she made him when she left to go back to, was it England? And it's actually really sweet. It's got pictures of their messages, pictures of them together, and he's kept it. So we want to know what you've kept from a past relationship. And maybe you just have a little box and you put everything away. Just look at it every now and then.

Maybe your partner is okay with it, your new partner. All right, let's take some calls. Sarah, what have you kept from a past relationship? I actually have a photo book too that was made for me when I left high school. Oh, okay, right. And do you have a new partner? Just recently separated, so I was married. And so did you have to hide the photo book? No, I put it on the bookshelf.

So what's that guy up to now then? Could this be rekindled? Well, he's actually recently separated too and we've actually just reconnected as friends. Oh! Oh! Oh! Wow, okay.

Okay. So kind of what, going back to the high school sweetheart here? Yeah. Okay. I feel like we're... Wait a minute, let's take some sensible steps here. Why did you stop being high school sweethearts in the first place? We just went on different paths.

Okay, okay. Paths, they go apart, they come back together. You know when you go to a different uni and you just realise that doing long distance is a bit silly? Because of all those

high-weight parties? Hoties from other parts of the country? Yeah. Something like that. Do you find him attractive these days? Let's not go there just yet.

Just hang on and I'll talk to you after. I feel like we're invested in this love story now We'll need weekly updates Weekly updates Let's not ruin it for her Sarah, thanks for your call Kira, what memento have you kept from a previous relationship? Well, it actually wasn't mine.

It was my mum's. Okay. So she was married before my dad. Yep. Well, they split up. Yep. But they took the engagement and wedding ring and she turned them into diamond earrings.

Oh. She took his as well. No, sorry. My ring for my first marriage, I just converted them into earrings because there wasn't anything else worth keeping.

Oh, mum's got on the phone. You're not telling the story right. Give it here. Give it here. This is what happened. That's just a practicality thing, isn't it? You've got this jewellery.

You may as well repurpose it. Exactly. There just wasn't anything else worth keeping, believe me. Walk away. Brilliant mum's telling it like it is, thanks Kiera and mum. Anonymous, what was the memento you kept from a

previous relationship? Well, I've got this wee memory box that I have kept my whole life and I just add wee things to it. So I've got tickets and stuff that we went on dates and stuff, but I just remembered I have kept like my whole life and I just add like wee things to it. So I've got like tickets and stuff that like we went on dates and stuff but I just remembered I have a jar and it's written out like all the

things that like he loves about me and stuff that turned very toxic very quick and kind of abusive so I want to burn it all. Right. Yes. Why are you keeping it then? Well, I've moved out, so it's like in my

wardrobe at home. Right. Okay. That does sound like sort of a cathartic burning. Yeah. Yeah. Actual burning on a bonfire. Yeah. But take it out of the jar because the jar might crack. You could use that for some preserves maybe or some jam.

We are getting into harvest season. Yeah. And burn the actual, you know, reasons and notes inside, but not during the fire. There'll be a fire ban. No, there'll be a fire ban. No. So maybe do that before that kicks in for summer.

Thank you, Anonymous. Look at us, preserves, fire safety. Yeah. Covering all of it this morning. Yeah. Some messages in. I've got postcards and love letters from every country my ex went when he travelled around the world and little stories about

that country and why it made him think of me or whatever. Okay. Oh, that's sweet. Kept a hold of all of those. I tell you what, the most popular one is everyone saying, I kept the kids. Just don't, from the previous relationship, they're my little memento. One woman put it

best though, I just don't have the heart to throw the little shits away. My ex, this is someone who's reporting the ex keeping something. Okay. She kept the cloner willy that I made of my man parts for her. Really?

Yeah, what an interesting, I personally. Who would do that? I don't know. Do I know anyone personally that would? I don't know. Huh? know anyone personally that would? I don't know. Huh?

Like someone that went on a long... That tried at long distance for a while. Yeah. That made a plaster mould silicon copy of their junk. Who would do that? I don't know, Megan. No idea. No idea.

I certainly haven't had a friend that's recently drummed that bombshell after Ronnie and meeting. No, no. No, neither. I mean, if someone did make one of those, I could understand why they'd want to stay anonymous. Or maybe Andrew anonymous. You're going to get it. You're going to get it. I'd forgotten about that whole bombshell in a post-show meeting until that text message just came in.

Fantastic. Do you want to say anything, Megan? I don't know what you're talking about. Denial. It's a good tactic. Vaughn's getting in trouble when this mic turns off. You are. Why am I getting in trouble?

Why do you mention that they did that. You dragged that up. Only he did it. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah. You too. No word if she did it. I'm going to get it.

She was very coy about that whole situation. I'm going to get it. What, I don't want it? You hold on to it, sweetheart. I don't need it. I hope you're throwing that away. I need a carbon copy of it. It's a toy with junk, thanks.

I mean, I'll have a look. Would you? Why not? Why would you do that? Then you've got to look at him in the eye. But it's exactly the same. I know, but it's not as actual. But it's the same.

But it's not attached. It's like looking at a photo. Would you look at a photo of it? I'd probably look at a photo of it. Oh, my God. Mountie's ears are burning at the social media desk. She gets very flustered when things get a bit naughty. Okay, right.

Thank you so much, that person who texted. I wouldn't look at a photo of it. It would be weird. Then I'd have to see it again. A photo of the silicon copy or a photo of the original? Or the silicon copy. Can we end this conversation off national radio? Bizarre that you've still kept that.

Megan's doing the thing that Butch does when he's had enough tats to watch him move on. Come on. I'm glad that we could have got that out in the open. Goodness me We've had to bear that That's been something to shoulder So much

That's been something to shoulder Alright, turn the mics off Anyway, fact of the day What is next? Benny, super lonely I'm going to keep the mics on during the song So Megan can't tell us off Yep

I know I fucked up I'm just a loser Shouldn't be with you. I'm just a loser. You actually got the line. Shouldn't be with you. Guess I'm a quitter. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. So today's fact of the day is about straws. Okay. Drinking straws. We know that straws are called straws because originally they were made out of straw. Okay, makes sense. And you'd be like... Yeah.

It was right, like, the most common one was a ryegrass straw. But don't they have a bit in the middle that stops? No, they'd hollow out when they dried. Oh, okay. Yeah, they'd naturally kind of go hollow and be sort of rigid enough that you could use them as a straw. Because the ancient Romans would use bamboo for their frappuccinos. They would, yeah.

Because they're thicker for the ice gets up the straw. Yeah, they'd line up at Starbucks and Osis and use a long back straw because you couldn't use a rye because it was too chunky. Correct. But no, that dates back. They found it in some like really ancient Babylonian tomb.

They found some dude and he was buried with his straw because it was like old paintings. And then somebody, when they found it was like, it looks like they're using a straw. And then in the tomb they found like, yeah, and it was kind of, if you were like ancient royalty, ones would be made for you out of like gold and such.

Oh, wow. Otherwise, you just have to stick your lips on the cup and give it the old what's for. Like a poor person. But the first bendy straw is what I want to talk about today. The guy, today's fact of the day is about the bendy straw. Okay. It was invented by a guy who went to his brother's milkshake shop to buy his daughter, Judith was her name, a milkshake. And the straw was straight.

Yeah. And the bench was high. And I don't know if you guys have ever said like a kid's trying to like. Oh, yeah. And you've got to bend your head over like that to get down onto it. But you can't tip milkshake because when it's full, it'll tip on you. So you've got to get over the top of it.

And he was like, well, surely there's got to be a solution to that. So he put a screw, like a screw that you put wood. A metal screw. Yeah, a metal screw that you attach wood to wood with. Yeah. Down a straw and wound tooth floss around the screw. Yeah, a metal screw that you attach wood to wood with. Yeah. Down a straw and wound tooth floss around the screw.

He followed the... Popped the screw back out and then the screw thread had made the straw be bendable. Wow. Because it was a paper paraffin straw. That's really smart. But it took like 10 years for anybody to start using it.

He could convince people to do it. And you know the first people on board? Hospitals. Because when you're in a hospital and you're lying down and you can't sit up to drink, the old school straw was no good or you'd have to like roll on the side whereas in a bendy straw you could sit there and... But some of those straws that I'd imagine the early variations of that would have been because you know sometimes

you'd bend them and they'd get weak and pop. Yeah. But this was pre-plastic straws. Right. They didn't kind of take off until the 50s and 60s when they started going crazy. Anyone's scared, because I've got metal straws, is anyone scared they're going to poke their eye out with a straw? Have you ever gone in too hot and just absolutely, like,

sliced your gums or, like, hit your teeth? No. No, neither. Now I'm worried, but, like but I can imagine hitting the tooth. Yeah. Be a bit of a... Something to be careful about. Yeah, approaching the heat.

Now you've got me freaking out. I wasn't freaking out about them, but now I'm imagining like if you were sipping and you were driving and you crashed and it just went through your brain stem. What was he killed by? A straw. An environmentally friendly straw. Yeah.

Wasn't so cerebrally friendly when it got slammed through the back of his mouth into his brain. My gosh. Okay, great. Yeah. Guess it's back to the plastic now. Not if you're a turtle. Yeah, obviously. So today's fact of the day is the first ever bendy straws were invented by a guy who was struggling to watch his daughter drink a milkshake.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Mountie at the social media desk is angry because at the weekend something happened. And this is the first time this has ever happened. I think so, yeah. But you can remember this is the first time you've experienced this. Get ready for this because this will just only happen more and more. Oh, God.

What happened? Okay, so on Sunday I went to the movies, decided to walk there, and on the way back I thought, I could do with a beverage, you know? So I went into the store and went to the fridge and found myself a little IPA. And when I went up to the counter to pay for it,

I went to get out my ID and it was not necessary. You have experience for the first time not being identified for booze. It hurt. It hurt. You don't know what that feels like. I'm waiting. Of course you know what that feels like.

But did you get it out and they were like, oh, it's all good. I went to get it out, but the price had already come up on the little Air Force machine. It was done. It was a done deal. Ouch. Yeah.

Ouch. But I feel like in restaurants before, I haven't been ID'd. And it would be like, I'm an adult. I haven't got ID'd. You know, and like it used to be like, oh. Yeah. But now it's kind of settled in. Because don't you have to ID someone if they look under 25?

I'd ID you. I am 25. I want to look under 25. Might have just been a lazy moment at the store. Doesn't happen that much because they get huge fines. Do you get ID'd at restaurants? No, I don't usually, but I feel like that's a different scenario. Yeah, but it's because you're with your boyfriend and he looks very... restaurants? No, I don't usually, but I feel like that's a different scenario. Yeah.

But it's because you're with your boyfriend and he looks very... He ages me, I think. He does, yeah, because he's got... It's just a beard, though, isn't it? Yeah. But I tried to tell myself that it was because I was buying a real classy, like, option, you know? Like a craft beer. Yeah, it was. Like a real grown-up.

Whereas teenagers would be buying vodka cruisers. Exactly. The cheapest, highest percent alcohol drink. But the cashier must have thought, this girl knows what she wants. Here's a crafty 38-year-old hipster. Yeah. I mean, 38's a push, thank you.

I went for it. Okay, well, this happens from now on. Okay. Yeah, you're on like a slide down. To your 30s. To your 40s, To your 40s. To your 50s. Is there anything to look forward to?

Quarter of a century. Gold card. What's that? It's where you get to go on the ferry for free when you're over 65. Okay. By the time you get to 65, I'm pretty sure all the boomers would have run that system into the ground. Yeah.

There'd be no money left for any of this. And climate change. Yeah. Yeah. Although that's good news, there'll be no money left for any freebies. And climate change. Yeah. Although that's good news, we'll be taking ferries everywhere. There is this fun thing to look forward to. You're 25 now. Your metabolism kind of just shits itself.

Oh, yeah. That's really good stuff. Yeah. Well, my arms were looking real swole in that picture the other day. Yeah, this is what happens. So your body slows down and you get a bit fatter. You think you're getting muscly,

but then when you take off the clothes that are holding it all in, you're like, oh, I just need to go up a size. I always wanted to be a grown-up. Yeah, well, welcome to grown-up-ness. Thank you. It's good stuff. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Today is the day, November 9th,

where a travel bubble will open, travel bubble travel bubble will open between Melbourne and Australia. But it's the same situation as other Australian destinations. You can go there, but on the way back, you will have to quarantine for two weeks. Yeah, and I mean, news last week that the voucher booking system for quarantine has snagged a few people, called a few people out. Yeah. It's pretty hard to book in. I think right up until the end of Jan, she's pretty much chocker for all those that were coming

back for Christmas from overseas. Still blows my mind that people wanted to travel back to, like, spend a few weeks with their family, but they were happy to spend a few weeks in quarantine to do that. Yeah, and then not knowing what the quarantine situation would be when they got family, but they were happy to spend a few weeks in quarantine to do that. Yeah, and then not knowing what the quarantine situation would be when they got back

to where they were going either. Like Australia, this one has said it is not quarantine to go in. But then that could change if things, you know, pick back up. As it flares up again,

totally could. Well, Melbourne's been, and this may have changed, you know, in the last 12 hours or whatever, but they hadn't had any new COVID-19 cases since October 31st.

Yeah, I saw it. Yeah, friends posting yesterday from Melbourne, still no cases. They were counting their days. Yeah, which is fantastic. We've had a new one in the community, right?

Yeah, a new one yesterday. So Wellington. Travelled from Auckland to Wellington. Yeah, a member of the Defence Force. So Defence House, is that what they call it? Yeah, new one yesterday. So Wellington. Travel from Auckland to Wellington. Yeah, member of the Defence Force. So Defence House, is that what they call it? That's been deep cleaned. And members working from home.

I think 1,200, 1,300 people working from home. Just another reason to keep using the COVID Tracer app everywhere you go. Doesn't matter where in the country you are because as we've seen here, people can easily fly and go to other cities. Yeah, and you kind of forget how many places you go. We were away for the weekend

and scanning every time we went in anywhere. Yeah, you forget how many places you go throughout the day. So it's just easy to track it with that app. So if something does happen, you can be notified. But still, would you go to Australia? No. No, neither. Specifically Melbourne, no. No. Not right now. Would you go though if you No. No. Specifically Melbourne, no.

No. Not right now. Would you go, though, if you could come back without quarantining? No. That seems irresponsible. We're a while away, eh? Yeah. Yeah, from those weekends in Melbourne.

Yeah, long weekend. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hit music, lives here. ZM.