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ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Thanks Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Morning. Good morning. Day six. Seven. Seven. Seven. Thursday. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Seven.
Yeah, you're right.
You're not wrong.
Yeah, it'll be a week tonight.
A week, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, since she'll kick it in.
And somebody has brought in hot cross buns.
Homemade.
Not by me, but I have to bring in these hot cross buns
so that they don't stay in the house.
This was on your Instagram story. Holy
process. I watched the
whole process and I was just like
wow. It was like
so long of my life yesterday.
I was like, this is why I don't do baking.
Because it's boring. Because I saw
your Instagram story and it had
all the dots across
the top and I was like, this is most unlike you. And then there was the top and I was like this is most unlike you
and then
there was your eye
and I was like
oh my god
has she gone and had it
like lanced or something
nah
and then
um
I see Mr. TB
with the
the bowl of flour
and I was like
oh it is on
it's hot cross bun time baby
yeah
cause you forget
with everything going on
that Ace is coming up hot cross bun time, baby. Yeah. Because you forget with everything going on that Ace is coming up.
Hot cross buns.
Chocolate.
What else is sneaking up?
Daylight savings is sneaking up.
Oh, this weekend?
This weekend, yeah.
Yeah, lots of things sneaking up.
So spring forward, fall, so clocks go back.
Yeah.
An hour.
You get an extra hour of sleep.
So an extra hour in our homes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Great.
But guilt-free sleep in your homes. Yes. Okay. Great. But guilt-free sleep in your homes.
Yes.
True.
Positives.
Okay.
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The time, it was 2009.
New Zealand.
Yeah.
A simpler place.
Yes.
Well, we'd just had swine flu.
Right.
I was just trying to compare it to now
Swine flu was 2009
Right
Not as full on as this one
Heck no
As COVID-19
No shutdowns but everybody was being cautious about that
It was a simpler time
YouTube was in it's like infancy sort of thing
We had the social medias But but this really blew up online.
Barack Obama was elected.
John Key's government was a year old, pre-earthquakes.
Yep.
Yeah, she was a different world 11 years ago now,
because we're in 2020, but one of the most famous parts of that.
Captain Phillips.
Huh?
The hijacking, Captain Phillips happened. Get out of town. famous parts of that. Captain Phillips. Huh? The hijacking.
Captain Phillips happened.
Get out of town.
Yep.
I am the Captain.
I am the Captain.
That was 2009?
That was 2009.
I just googled.
Wait, the actual hijacking, not the movie that it was.
The actual hijacking.
Right, I was going to say.
And then the movie came some years later.
Michael Jackson died?
In 2009?
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
I just googled a list of things that happened.
And in New Zealand, the famous words,
always blow on the pie, were muttered.
I cannot believe that was 2009.
Well, Sergeant Guy, always blow on the pie,
Baldwin is back with another very important message.
Hi, everyone.
Ten years ago, I reminded you all to blow on your pies.
Always blow on the pie, safer communities together.
This thing is an invisible dragon.
Please, stay home, let's break the chain and save lives.
If we follow the rules, we'll end this lockdown sooner.
Let's slay this dragon and get back to doing the things we love, like eating pies.
Safer communities together.
Oh.
When do I really get stuck on the dragon metaphor there, didn't I?
You mentioned it twice.
Slay this dragon.
Slay the dragon.
It's an invisible dragon.
Maybe in quarantine he's catching up on Game of Thrones.
Or he's been playing a fair bit of Dungeons and Dragons or something.
He's really got into that.
But they've pulled out the big guns.
Good from the New Zealand police on their social media.
Yeah.
Did you see that one yesterday of the police officer in the car dressed with a stormtrooper
helmet?
Yes.
Did you see that one?
Yeah.
That was great.
Yeah.
Also, the New Zealand police last week did a Be This One, Little Piggy, and it was the
second time.
Oh, yeah.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home.
So it was like the stay home little piggy.
That was pretty cute as well.
But you can't,
New Zealand police
are always pretty
onto it with their socials,
aren't they?
And then every now and then
they'll check out
a picture of a police dog
and you're like,
oh my God,
there's a police dog.
I'm going to be a naughty person
so that one chases me
over a fence
and bites me on the arm.
Just like going on the training.
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Vaughan and Megan,
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Guys, guys, guys,
guys.
A coronavirus testing tent has been
stolen in East Auckland.
So this was one of those
drive in, stay in your car,
welcome to you, jam a swabby swab up your
nosey nose. Now was it just a gazebo?
It was bolted to the ground.
Oh wow, okay. It was straight up bolted to the ground. Oh, wow.
Okay.
It was straight up bolted.
It looks a bit bigger than a gazebo.
Right.
It's beside a gazebo.
Yeah, right.
But I almost feel like it's one of those ones,
it looks big enough that a car could drive in and then you would do the test.
Yep.
And then that, back out and away you go.
All the metal work of the frame on the ground was left behind.
So how are you even going to put it up?
Well, you wouldn't want to erect it on a windy day.
Now, what they've got there is a very bougie base to a pop-up.
But I've seen the coronavirus testing tents,
the ones that you drive into, the white ones.
Yeah, right.
And I thought to myself, yeah, I thought to myself,
I was like, that would make a great grow tunnel for veggies.
Okay, right.
But that's all I've thought.
I've never thought now, how would I steal that?
Yeah, right.
But it's also huge.
Huge.
And also people with COVID-19 have been in it.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So what are you thinking?
Yeah.
I feel like every day we're just going to be like,
guys, come on.
Don't be bloody.
There's just going to be a few come-ons.
I feel like there's going to be a few come-ons.
But then there's a few, listen to this message I got.
Okay.
Somebody very proud of their son's girlfriend.
Yep.
This is on Facebook.
My son's girlfriend who works at my work in an office,
this is at a supermarket.
Yep.
In the office part of the supermarket,
the admin side.
I took a call from an elderly gentleman last week,
worried as he was in his 80s
and his wife had passed years ago.
They had no kids
and he wasn't sure how he was going to get his groceries.
Oh.
Patiently,
she spent an hour after work
trying to help him navigate his way
to the online shopping site,
but obviously that was very hard.
So got his number tonight
and at her own time did a shop for him,
threw in a few treats,
and she told me he was very, very grateful,
tried to tell her to keep the change,
but she was like, absolutely not.
No, you put that in your rainy day fund.
Yep.
And then she said for the next few weeks
she's going to be doing this.
When isolation's happening,
she's going to be doing this weekly shop.
I'm a bit volney.
Yeah, that's so sweet.
I know.
How good is it?
How good is it?
Yeah.
And then when you drop it off,
you maintain your distance.
There's a friendly way.
When this is all over,
when this is all said and done,
you can get one of those old person hugs
yeah
yeah
yeah
oh that's so nice
well you don't want to
squeeze him too hard
yes
because you're like
I could break something
yeah
my nana was always like that
when she was getting older
she got skinnier
and I'd put my arms around her
and be like
oh don't squeeze too hard
and then she'd whack me
on the back
she was one of those
really like
hard hitting old girls.
Yeah, right.
And I was like, oh, I'm not going to break you.
You're going to break me.
Far quicker.
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So yesterday, it was even before I got home,
Shardé messaged saying, was there hot water this morning?
Uh-oh.
And I said, yes, there was hot water.
I had a lovely long morning shower as per usual.
Yep.
And she said, oh, I got a shower.
It started going cold towards the end.
And then now there's no hot water.
And we've got this thing in our hot water cupboard.
And it's the previous owners installed it.
And it was, you could set, it's like this little timer thing.
And you could set when the hot water thing comes on.
Oh, yep.
But I just love hot water.
Well, you can get a power plan that does that as well.
They only charge your hot water off peak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That situation.
So I think it was like that.
Right.
But without having to get it through the power company.
But I love hot water.
Yeah.
And I have a shower whenever I want.
Hot water all the time.
I just turn it on.
So it always just keeps the hot water hot.
Yeah.
So when I got home, I looked in the hot water cupboard
and that didn't have any power going to it.
Oh, okay.
I was like, oh, no lights, no nothing.
So I went to the fuse board expecting to see a flip switch.
Nah.
Okay.
So I said, I reckon I'm going to try the power company.
Okay.
Before I try, no, no, not the power company, the lines people.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
The people that used to, Vector. Vector Arena. I was going to say that's. Oh, yeah. Okay. The people that used to...
Vector.
Vector Arena.
I was going to say that's why I was pointing out there.
The people who used to have that arena.
Go to Vector Arena.
So I looked online and there was no reported faults.
That was a weird sponsorship, wasn't it?
Hey, let's go to that arena by the Lions Company.
The Lions Company sponsor.
You and I can't use the Lions Company, right?
Why not?
When would we engage and pay for the Lions Company?
Well, we do it through our power company, don't we?
Yeah.
The power company do it.
Yeah.
We don't.
Personally.
Like Spark Arena, you might be like, I'm going to Spark Arena.
You hear the thing and then when your cell phone contract comes up,
if you want to shop your stuff around, it's top of mind.
But I'm not like, oh,
heck,
I'm going to ring Meridian and make sure
they're with Victor.
I knew of Victor Arena
before I knew that
Victor was a thing.
But then if the lines
go down,
you ring Victor,
don't you?
No.
Yeah, but you don't pay.
You ring your power company.
You go to the
reported issues
part of the website
and if there's nothing there,
you ring them.
It was weird they
sponsored a stadium.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
Really weird.
For a long time, too.
Very long time.
Yeah.
We need to look into this.
I think we need to do a five-part podcast
looking into how Vector managed to sponsor that arena.
I mean, the power companies pay them for use of their lines,
but the power companies also have no other choice.
Yeah, but maybe it was a goodwill thing, a way of giving back to the community.
Or something.
I don't know.
Okay, you know what?
Let's launch a podcast.
Yeah.
What will we call it?
We'll just probably take off like a What's Another Popular podcast.
No, no, you've got to come up with like a pun on that.
Oh, right. Okay. Anyway, I've lived this as a What's Another Popular podcast. No, no. You've got to come up with like a pun on that. Oh, right.
Okay.
Anyway, this is a-
Power to the people.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
The Victor Arena story.
Yes.
I don't know if anyone will listen to this podcast.
And we'll go in and we'll say it's neutral.
Like, we're just delivering you the facts, but we definitely,
we've got an axe to grind against someone.
But it's not Victor because I've got an axe to grind against someone.
But it's not Victor because I've got no axe to grind against Victor.
I'm just puzzled.
Like you are.
Megan's on board now. For so long.
I don't have, again, no axe to grind because yesterday I rang Victor.
Yeah.
And I should have asked at the call centre.
Who I dealt with at the call centre couldn't have been more lovely.
Yeah, right.
They said no reported faults in the area.
And I said, I think it's because you know how your power for your hot water cylinder comes in differently.
Yeah.
And then I explained to Sade the early 2000s rolling brownouts.
Do you remember the rolling brownouts?
Vaguely, yeah.
The hydroelectric dams are very low.
That's right. And they said to reduce the strain on the power network,
there might be days where you have no hot water.
And I was like, how are they going to control that?
And that was the day I learned that your hot water,
the thing that powers your hot water cylinder,
can come in independently.
It comes in on the same thing, but they can turn it on and off.
Oh, wow.
Crazy, eh?
Yeah.
And I didn't know that until the rolling brownouts in the early 2000s. They can turn it on and off. Yeah. Oh, wow. Crazy, eh? Yeah. I didn't know that
until the Rolling Brownouts
in the early 2000s
and that was the big problem
with you.
That was the biggest thing
we had to deal with.
Maybe that could be
in our podcast.
Yes, of course.
I definitely have to look
into the Rolling Brownouts
because soon after
they were in charge
of the Rolling Brownouts.
And then soon after
they sponsor a stadium.
Bizarre.
Rolling Brownout money.
So there's rolling brownouts.
I learned that it comes in independently.
So I say to the lovely lady on the other end of the phone,
I say, look, this is fine.
Should I ring an electrician?
And she said, no, if you call an electrician,
you'll have to pay for them, but we come out free of charge.
And I said, free of charge? How did electrician, you'll have to pay for them. But we come out free of charge. And I said, free of charge?
How did you sponsor a stadium?
I didn't say that.
You should have.
You should have.
Had I been thinking about it at the time, I may have.
So I said, well, that'd be great.
She said, well, you may be aware that currently we're running on reduced staff.
And I said, why?
What's happening?
Oh, my God. You had to be that guy. Yeah. And she said, COVID-19. I said, why? What's happening? Oh, my God.
You had to be that guy.
Yeah, and she said, COVID-19.
I said, yeah, no, sorry.
This is not the time for silly jokes.
And she said, it could be up to four hours.
I said, I wasn't expecting service the same day.
Yeah, fine.
And she said, when the person gets there,
I'm just going to run you through our protocols.
Yeah.
Don't shake their hand.
Yeah.
Don't approach them.
Don't touch them.
Is there a gate?
Is there a dog?
I said there is a gate,
there is a dog.
I'll make sure the gate's open
and the dog's tied up.
And she said,
that's fantastic.
He'll ring you when he's outside
so you can open the gate
and tie up the dog.
Could you hear her eye roll
when you said you had
an electric gate?
No, I didn't say it was electric.
I just said it was a gate.
The gate, right.
I'm not going to rub it
in her face that I'm doing well.
I'm on a little bit of that rolling brown out money.
When are you going to start that
with us?
What, not rubbing it in your face? No, you
both need to hear this. You need to try
harder.
So,
four hours later, my phone
rings. The guy's at the gate.
Yep. Type the dog, open the gate.
I keep my distance.
Yep.
He gets out of the van, mask, gloves, the whole lot.
And he said, from there, hey, how are you?
I said, I'm fine, thank you.
I'm just going to stay here.
He's like, that's great.
You stay there, I'll stay here.
Where's your outdoor switch box?
I was like, down there.
And he went.
Yep.
And then he, I just heard the van start up and he drove away.
And then my phone rings again.
He's like, hey, I know you're inside with your kids.
I didn't want to knock on the door.
I thought I'd call you with the report from the end of your driveway.
I was like, this is exactly how I want every interaction with everyone to go from now on.
They come, we keep our distance.
I point them to what they need.
They call me when they've left.
And it was,
it was a problem
with the relay switch.
Right.
So he just,
apparently that's a thing,
he said it didn't activate
this morning,
so that's why your hot water
would have run out.
I was like,
great news.
He's like,
it's all fixed,
any problems,
give us another call.
Wait,
and that was free?
Free!
Well,
they won't be able to afford
to sponsor any stadiums
any time soon.
No more stadium sponsorships.
But how about this, that was a contactless, minimal talking interaction,
and that's what I'm all about.
Keep an eye out.
iHeartRadio and iTunes Review Podcast
are the power to the people, the Victor Arena story.
Yeah.
Coming to a podcast near you soon.
Megan has the latest.
I'm going to start my investigations now.
How does Victor make its money?
Kim Kardashian has revealed what shut down production of Keeping Up for a week.
This was pre-COVID-19.
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The latest.
You may have seen a teaser for Keeping Up with the Kardashians season 18.
Wow.
It's about to start.
Has it started?
I'm not sure if it's been put on hold or not.
But there was a teaser where we saw a physical fight between Kim and Kourtney.
And there was a slap, some scratching.
It almost looked like a punch.
And Kim Kardashian has joined Jimmy Fallon on his At Home Tonight show
and discussed what happened.
She scratched me so hard, which you guys didn't see.
I had like, I was bleeding.
And so you didn't really get to see that detail.
But when I looked down at my arm and I saw like she had really scratched me
and I felt it all on my back, I just, you know, went over and slapped her back.
So it's not like my proudest moment, but we were going through it,
and she's made the decision to take time off now,
and I think she really needs it.
When's the last time you actually had a fight with your sibling?
Like, do you think there'll be people that are having grown-up fights
with their siblings?
Maybe. Now.
You want my physical fussy cups.
Like, now that they're isolating together?
Yeah.
Like, imagine if families
have had to go into
iso together
apparently Kris Jenner
watched the clip
because she wasn't there
and she was like
she cried
and said who are you guys
what's going on
but it did shut down
production for a week
afterwards
because they were all like
we need to chill
but then also left it
in the show
because she's like
this will make great TV
of course
yeah
that is the latest
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alright the top 6 is coming up.
Yeah, the top six non-Netflix activities to do with your partner.
I mean, you've probably watched Tiger King.
Yeah.
Three times.
Unlike you.
Ozark season three already.
Of Tiger King?
No, Ozark season three.
Oh, Ozark season three.
I thought you said he's up to season three already.
I was like, what?
No.
What's happened?
No, I'm taking my Tiger King slowly. I'm letting said he's up to season three already. I was like, what? No. What's happened? No, I'm taking
my Tiger King slowly.
I'm letting each episode
marinate.
Oh.
I don't know how
you could do that
because I had to binge it all.
I'm familiar with the story
but the podcast
didn't have that
Doc Antle situation.
Yeah, right.
The grooming of the young ladies
and the sex cult
with the tiger's vibe.
Yeah.
So that's a very
interesting story element. If you don't know what Tiger King is, you're missing out. It's cult with the tigers vibe. Yeah. So that's a very interesting story element.
If you don't know
what Tiger King is,
you're missing out.
It's bananas.
Watch it immediately.
Absolutely bananas.
But the top six
non-Netflix activities
to do with your partner.
Change it up.
Next on the show.
Some supermarket workers
have spoken about
what they've had to deal with.
Yeah.
It's not good.
ZM's Fletch,
Vaughan and Megan,
the podcast.
A supermarket worker wants to remain anonymous,
but they've revealed some of the abuse that they've gone through.
They say on a daily basis there are checkout staff crying.
One woman is abused for not wearing a mask.
The Prime Minister's even said it's not essential.
If they feel like it will make them safer, they can do it.
They can find them themselves.
But yeah, one was abused and was crying in the middle of the customers.
And no one came up to ask them how they were going.
But they get abused asking why there's no stock on the shelves.
Someone had a basket thrown at them.
People are being racist.
What's wrong with people?
Calm down.
People get very violent when they're stockpiling
and stripping shelves of essential items.
When they're told that they, you know,
can only have a limited number of items,
people are getting violent.
I saw a guy with like eight loaves of bread.
Now, the limit was two at this particular time,
at this particular place.
And the lady said, I'm sorry, you can only have two loaves.
And I was like, there was no sign indicating that.
And there were signs everywhere around the bread.
I didn't see any signs indicating that.
There's no signs indicating that.
And this person was just like, I'm sorry, you can only have two loaves.
And they started getting
quite like,
angsty.
Well,
if you're going to say that,
there needs to be more signage.
And I just landed,
I said,
it was heaps of signage.
I said,
it was literally on every shelf.
Yeah.
So you didn't see it
and then it's there.
Yeah.
And then they looked at me
and the guy was livid.
Yeah.
Because I guess he just thought
he was going to, he was this big dude
and he was just going to stand over this checkout chick
until she gave him his eight loaves of bread.
Yeah.
But he was livid that I got involved.
Why is he entitled to eight loaves?
Fine, fine, fine.
Put them back then.
Fine, put them back then.
I don't want to argue about it.
Yeah.
They just started screaming.
She took them and put them to the side.
And I'm guessing there's people going around
putting that sort of stuff back at the moment. But I was just like, chill just started screaming. She took them and put them to the side, and I'm guessing there's people going around putting that sort of stuff back at the moment.
But I was just like, chill out.
Yeah.
We're all in the same boat.
Yeah.
Be nice to each other, be kind.
And that's why when they said, oh, the 10% bonus,
there was a bit of me that was like,
it's a good gesture, but it's not enough.
Yeah.
They're going home crying at the end of the day.
Just think about that.
All right, 12 minutes away from 7.
The top six is next on the show.
Yeah, then top six not Netflix activities
you can do with your partner.
All right.
Well, you're locked up.
Yeah.
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The podcast.
From the ZM Think Tank.
This is the top six.
Hello there.
I read an article.
This was on insiderider.com.
22 things you can do while you're stuck at home with your partner that don't involve Netflix.
And it was like a sweet list.
Like give each other at-home massages.
It was an eye roll.
Yeah.
Creating an exercise routine together that has multiple benefits.
Another eyeR there.
Start a virtual double date with friends.
I mean, these all sound...
Yeah.
Quarantining also presents a great opportunity to rearrange the furniture.
Furniture doesn't go too many...
There's not too many houses where furniture's got Tons of options
Yeah
But then also
If I move the couch
I don't think I could look
At the holes in the carpet
Where the legs were
Because you know
It pushes down the carpet
How long does that take
To bounce back
Yeah you've got to fluff
Those back up don't you
Yeah
It's horrible
You'll always know
That that's where it used to sit
Yeah I know
So put aside that
Sickening list for a moment
And engage me
With today's
top six
not Netflix things
you can do with your partner.
Okay.
That's the easy option,
isn't it?
Yeah, it really is.
Find something you both
are mildly interested in
and watch it that way.
So number six
on the list
of the top six
not Netflix things
you can do with your partner
while on quarantine.
Pretend not to hear each other.
Ever play this game?
Like they're yelling.
Well, sometimes he yells
and I just don't feel like responding.
I know, so it's easy to pretend you didn't hear it, right?
100%.
Well, you're like, I'm not.
This might seem like ridiculous for me to say,
but I'm not yelling back.
You're here.
They'll come and find me if it's that important.
Dad, dad. You're like, They'll come and find me if it's that important. Dad!
Dad!
You're like, no.
Not this time.
Your calls will go unheeded.
And it's the same time.
Born!
No.
I can't hear you from here.
Even though I can, I'm just not yelling back.
That's a fun game.
Yeah.
Number five on the list of the top six not Netflix things you can do with your partner while on quarantine.
Try your best to watch them do something that you hate watching them do.
Like video gaming.
Yeah.
Or cleaning.
Have you ever had someone watch you clean?
Horrible.
Horrible, yeah.
A, they could be cleaning.
Yeah.
B, you constantly feel like they're just about to be like.
Ah.
Oh.
Mmm.
And those are the only words that need to be said
when you're doing something
that somebody's not
well they just look at you
yeah
you're just sitting there
yeah okay
it's handy Annie in a bucket
how could I be doing this wrong
number four on the list
of the top six
not Netflix things
you could do with your partner
drink in different cupboards
okay like if you've got different cupboards. Okay.
Like if you've got two cupboards.
Like alcohol in a cupboard.
Yeah, have a drink in a dark cupboard.
Why do I feel like you've done that before?
Because I have.
Push the clothes to one end of the wardrobe
and you scooch in, you sit down.
Yeah.
And then you can pull the clothes back a bit
and you're kind of camouflaged.
And then as long as when they come
the ice in your glass
doesn't rattle
you're like
keep very still
it's a bit weird
like you're in
Jurassic Park
and there are T-Rex
you're like
don't move
they won't see me
and then they leave
and you're like
phew
back to drinking
in the dark
number three
and the reason you do it
in different cupboards
is it's some good quiet time and if you've got kids in a big enough cupboard you could probably go in the dark. Number three, and the reason you do it in different cupboards is it's some good quiet time.
And if you've got kids in a big enough cupboard,
you could probably go in the same cupboard.
Yeah, right.
But you might get a tie up the jacksie,
so you've got to be pretty careful there.
Number three on the list of the top six
not Netflix things you can do with your partner.
Recall and remember all those times
that you played board games together.
That way you don't even need to play board games to argue about board games.
You can just argue about how you record the arguments you had about playing board games.
And you don't need to get up on the stool to get them out of the top cupboard.
Yep.
Just be like, I was just looking at the board cupboard.
Do you remember that time we played Monopoly?
The time where I swept to the floor and then the argument starts.
Number two
on the list of the top six
not Netflix things
you can do with your partner.
Set up insane hypothetical situations
to test how much
they really love you.
It's your daily.
Yeah.
You're like,
if I fell into
an industrial meat grinder
and I landed
arms and legs first
and they were all gone.
Do you still love me?
Just a torso with a head.
It'll be a long recovery process
and I would get prosthetics.
But do you still love me?
Just ridiculous.
Yeah.
I accidentally got blackout drunk
and woke up with a dragon tattoo
that took up my whole back and the dragon was biting my butt cheek.
Would you still love me?
It's a great game.
Great game.
I didn't tell you, but I came home one day and I had a wig
and it was a really bad wig and a really obvious wig
and everyone would whisper behind my back,
say you're wearing a wig.
Would you still love me?
That's fun.
It's a fun game to play.
They'll always say yes, but you can tell by their
eyes if they're lying or not.
And number one on the list
of the top six not Netflix things you can do with your
partner, watch the hot people from
Les Mills do their workouts on the telly in the morning.
You don't do the workouts. No, you just the morning. You don't do the workouts.
No, you just watch them.
You just watch the hot people.
This is genius.
Yeah.
Because you know the people that run those classes,
they've got hot bods.
Yeah.
But you can't just wander into a Les Mills
and put your feet up and gawk at them.
Now they're in your house.
Yeah.
It's not your fault it's on television.
Very true.
And if you watch long, I haven't watched too many,
but each class is there a guy instructor and a girl instructor.
Well, it varies, I guess.
Something for everybody.
Yeah, exactly.
And they can't get angry at you if they're also perving at the hot person
that tickles their fancy in the Les Mills workout.
But yeah, it's a genius program.
It is.
That is today's top six.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Coming up on the show before 8 o'clock,
Lily and Richie from The Bachelorette.
But also soon, you know, we're in isolation.
We're having to, I guess, make our own food.
Some people aren't used to doing that.
There has been a...
Have you saved money?
Yeah, totally.
No.
It's insane.
It's a real wake-up call as to how much you're inessential spending.
And I have not gone without.
It's not like I'm saving money because I'm skipping a meal.
No.
But I'm eating.
Baby, I'm eating.
Well, we're all eating.
We're all going to the supermarket.
How many dishes are you making?
Lots of dishes. So many dishes. I'm eating. I'm eating. Well, we're all eating. We're all going to the supermarket. How many dishes are you making? Lots of dishes.
So many dishes.
I'm eating.
I'm eating.
So a lot of people cooking at home,
and someone has come up with a comprehensive list
of which wines will go with your isolation meals.
Like, which wine is best with baked beans on toast?
Yeah, not your bougie isolation meals.
That's a great question.
Yeah.
Because it's sweet, but it's red. Is that a breakfast food? Baked beans on toast? It could be, yeah. So you's a great question. Yeah. Because it's sweet, but it's red.
Is that a breakfast food?
Baked beans on toast?
It could be, yeah.
So you want a breakfast wine.
Yeah.
And also somebody, for example,
has found the perfect wine for two-minute noodles in isolation.
So we've got the wine pairings.
There would be a white chicken.
We'll guess because we're foodies.
I don't want to say full-blown foodies, but we enjoy a meal out, don't we?
Yeah.
And so you know, we'll guess.
We'll say what we'd pair them with.
Okay, well, I've got those wine pairings for your shitty isolation meals coming up soon.
Awesome.
Now, Easter is next week.
The end of next week is Good Friday.
Daylight savings is this Sunday as well, before you go to bed Saturday night.
Because those things are so much happening, you kind of forget what's happening.
Technically, we're on school holidays.
They push those forward?
Yeah, they push those forward.
Next Friday is Good Friday.
You'd pull those forward, though, wouldn't you?
Well, it depends where you were.
If you were behind them, you can push them.
No, but you're pulling them from the future.
No, you'd be pushing them from the future.
You can't push them because you'd have to be in the future to push them back.
If you were on the other side of the holidays, you'd push them back.
You'd push them back.
Yeah, but you can't because you're not on that side of the holidays
until the date actually happens.
So you're saying we pulled them towards us.
They've pulled them towards us.
Because you can't be behind the holidays to push them
because we haven't got to that date yet.
This is one of the
very few times I'll agree you've
changed my mind. Thank you.
My mind is not easily changed and most
of the time I'll be like, pull them.
Imagine you're on the calendar date
that is today and you need to pull
some other dates. But in my mind
we walked to the date that
they were supposed to be on and then pushed
them out. So what would you say though though, if we made the holidays later?
You'd push the holidays out.
Yeah, you're pushing them out.
Push them back.
You're pushing them back.
No, we're pushing them later.
We're pushing them later.
You should say you're pushing them back.
So I'm pulling them back.
No, you'd say you're pushing them back.
You'd pull them forward.
You're pulling them forward.
That's what we're doing now.
We're pulling them forward.
We're pulling them forward.
We're pulling them forward. Yes. Yes. Because doing now. We're pulling them forward. We're pulling them forward. We're pulling them forward.
Yes.
Yes.
Because you can't be behind them to push them.
No.
Yeah, good.
Okay, I'm glad that we've all agreed.
I've completely changed my visualization of this.
By the way, in my mind.
Mum's just messaged, you're right.
Yeah, thank you.
Good to have your mum's backing
because she'd be the quickest to mug you down.
Yeah.
If you were wrong,
your mum would tell you you were being wrong.
Absolutely.
Stupid.
Yes, we've pulled them forward.
Yes.
Not pushed them back.
But Easter is coming up and that can't be changed.
Now, wait a minute.
What are we doing with daylight savings this hour?
We are falling back.
Falling back.
Spring forward, fall back.
That's how you remember that.
So the school holidays have been pulled forward.
The time has been pushed back.
Yes.
And we now have to spend an extra hour in isolation.
Right.
That's okay. Yeah. Well, next have to spend an extra hour in isolation. Right. That's okay.
Yeah.
Well, next Friday, the supermarkets will be shut.
Now, usually Easter trading hours mean that things are shut on Good Friday and...
Easter Sunday.
Pretty good Sunday.
Yeah.
But it's open again for...
Rad, we get Monday off.
Yep.
But this year, it's changing.
Yeah.
So, we...
And it's not garden centres that will be flouting the rule.
No.
So supermarkets will be shut on a good Friday.
Correct.
But they will be open on good Sunday.
Easter Sunday.
Easter Sunday.
Chocolate Sunday.
Chocolate Sunday.
Chocolate Sunday.
Chocolate Sunday.
Oh, remember Sundays?
I feel bad for the supermarket workers.
They only get one day off.
I know.
And they need that time to restock as well.
And just stay with their family.
Yeah, still be people working.
So, yeah, the hours are going to be shut as,
but then, so you imagine it's usually crazy.
If the supermarket's going to be shut for one day,
there's always the craziness.
But now with the situation we're in,
it would make it extra busy.
Like the lines to get in would be extra long.
Well, start thinking about
that today and now.
Oh look, I wouldn't bother yourself with it today.
Seems like a next week task.
Or just buy an extra can or an extra
something now. You don't need to go
crazy and stockpile the day
before Easter. No.
But just think about that for now. You've got to maybe
balance it out.
Balance it out for your Easter baked beans.
Are we still doing Easter eggs for Easter?
Absolutely we are.
Okay, that's fine.
We didn't really need it.
We've kind of.
If you buy Easter eggs now, you know we're just going to eat them.
You guys aren't parents, so you won't have received the Easter Bunny newsletter.
Am I correct?
No.
What's the newsletter?
There was concern in my house that the Easter Bunny wouldn't be allowed to go around to the houses.
Right.
Because of coronavirus, the bubbles.
Yep.
And personal space.
However, Easter Bunny completely immune.
Yeah, because they don't get that.
Completely immune.
Can't even carry it to spread it.
But also, we don't see.
Like, we're not always distancing.
We're not interacting with Easter Bunny.
But if the Easter Bunny was to touch surfaces,
you'd be concerned about a sprang wipe
afterwards. Your six and eight year old need to
be more concerned with calicivirus, which
kills rabbits. Now calicivirus will tear through
a rabbit population. And not the Easter
Bunny. Absolutely.
It makes them turn on each other. Either that
or a central Otago farmer will shoot them.
The Easter Bunny cannot
be shot by any central Otago farmer. shoot them. The Easter Bunny cannot be shot by any central Otago farmer.
Too quick.
Too quick.
Too quick.
And, of course, they wouldn't.
They'd say, they'd line it, they'd identify their target
as the handbook of the New Zealand Gun Safety Regulation States.
Yep.
They'd identify their target and they would say,
safe to shoot, hold.
That's the Easter Bunny.
Don't shoot the Easter Bunny.
Don't shoot the Easter Bunny.
Fantastic news.
Easter still going. The bunny with the outfit bunny. Don't shoot the Easter bunny. Don't shoot the Easter bunny. Fantastic news. Easter still going.
The bunny with the outfit on.
Yep.
With a little vest.
I always imagine he's rocking a little vest.
And a bow tie.
Next on the show, 20 to 29-year-old females in New Zealand.
What have we done?
Lied?
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
COVID cases. Some statistics have been released and the numbers have been crunched. Lied? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
COVID cases.
Some statistics have been released and the numbers have been crunched with the age groups of who has COVID-19 in New Zealand.
And like I alluded to before, 20 to 29-year-olds, goodness me.
Females.
And females especially.
So in the age group overall, people in their 20s have the most COVID-19 cases.
But mild, right?
Around the world it seems to have been that age group is a huge spread,
but mild.
But people have died.
Yes.
In that age group.
Teenagers, infants, people in their 20s have died of COVID-19.
Correct.
So it's very serious.
And not only that, as we know and keep reiterating,
it's who you give it to and spread it to.
So in the 20 to 29 age group in New Zealand, 169 cases.
The next highest group, 40 to 49, has 103.
That's followed by 50 to 59-year-olds who make up 100 cases.
30 to 39-year-olds make up 90 cases.
Over 70s make up 44 cases.
Yeah.
That's the age group that's the most affected too.
But the people in their 30s,
actually that would be the fifth highest group
behind, you know, the 20 to 29s,
the people in their 40s, then 50s, then 60s, and then 30s.
So we're the good ones.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, not you, Fletcher.
15 to 19-year-olds make up 33 cases.
15 to what?
15 to?
15 to 19-year-olds make up 33 cases.
Is that all from that one school?
So yeah, the clusters of cases,
the biggest number of Marist College, 48.
And I think they've talked about, what,
up to 700 people being treated as...
Well, close and...
Yeah, a close contact situation.
The Hereford Conference.
What's that got up to?
That was 24 cases.
The Boomrock Wedding, 11.
Oh, my God.
People's weddings are going to forever be known as a cluster wedding.
I know.
I got married.
Oh, when did you get married?
March 2020.
Oh, God.
Whereabouts?
Boomrock.
You're not the Boomrock Cluster, are you?
You're the Boomrock Wedding.
I am, yes.
I got married that fateful day at the Boomrock Cluster.
Group travel to the US.
One group with 16 cases.
Arrest time in Hamilton,
14. The bar in Matamata,
23 cases. That would be
the third biggest cluster.
A US rugby team played against
the Air Force team in Blenheim.
That was nine cases.
A garden centre in Christchurch,
eight. So very
easy for this to be spread
so the biggest cluster though
is 20 to 29 year old females
yeah
because they're still socialising
you're still socialising
and still socialising
very late into the game
yeah
so sitting as you see
by the garden centre
or a wedding
or the bar
just sitting around
with your friends
yeah
it spreads it
wow yeah and then you're going to give it potentially to people wedding or the bar, just sitting around with your friends. Yeah. It spreads it.
Wow.
Yeah.
And then you're going to give it potentially to people who aren't,
have underlying conditions or like maybe your grandparents or something.
Sort of, yeah.
Super careful.
Stay at home.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Joining us on the show just before 8 o'clock,
Bachelorette Lily and Richie, who hold up in, I believe, Golden Bay.
Spoiler.
Spoiler alert.
They're isolating together.
Isolating together.
So we've got them on the show before 8 o'clock this morning.
Now, this has come out of the UK, so some of their foods are very UK-based here,
but a guy called Ben,
who is the founder and CEO of Wine Buyers,
has put out a list of what wines go with your ISO meals.
So these meals are obviously a little more basic.
Yeah, basic meals, but what wine goes with them. So, for example, baked beans on toast.
Now, I'll give you the food, and you try and guess what wine would go great with baked beans on toast.
Now, usually a tomatoey sauce.
If it was teamed up with a red meat, well, I'd go with a red wine pairing.
But you've got your white bread there.
Yeah, there's no meat.
Would you want a sort of a oaky shard?
Actually, I think that would go lovely with some baked beans.
Because it's dry.
Because it'd have that dry to offset the sweetness.
Because they are a sweet bean, aren't they?
Yeah.
You're a traditional bean.
Yeah, right.
Well, he said you need to look for fruit-driven reds
from warm climates, such as a Chilean Merlot
or an Aussie Shiraz.
So fruity reds from warm climates would actually be
the wine to go with your dinner.
They're baked beans on toast.
What are they adding in, like, super bougie wines
for, like, your baked beans?
Instant noodles.
What flavour?
They've gone here for chicken and mushroom instant noodles.
Okay.
Sav.
Yeah, I'd say a sav.
Sav.
Straight up sav.
He is recommending that you try pairing with a lightly oaked chardonnay
as it complements both meat and vegetables.
So a lightly oaked chard.
Interesting.
Interesting choice.
Okay, here's another one.
Tuna penne in tomato sauce.
So a penne pasta,
or I'm guessing we could just say any tomato-y pasta.
So like a fish, a seafood, you'd generally go a white.
Yeah.
What about a Gewürztraminer?
Oh, very sweet.
I was thinking a Pinot Grigio at the most.
Is Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris the same?
I think so, to the best of my knowledge.
That's sweet too.
Yeah, I know, but not as sweet as a Gewurztraminer.
God, that's my mum's level of sweetness.
Yeah, that's a dessert.
That's a post-dinner wine, Megan.
Well, I was just thinking you've got fish in there.
Yuck.
Have a nice sweet wine.
Well, this dish requires a red wine, but nothing too tannic.
Yeah, you go red with pasta
and fish. Red with pasta
and fish? No, you go white with fish.
You're a monster. You go white with fish, but it's totally
the exception because it's kind of a red fish.
Yeah.
Well, I'm guessing so.
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this guy's a wine expert,
so I mean, if you want to disagree with him, sure.
They've put here a vegetable soup, for example, a pea soup, a frozen't know. I mean, this guy's a wine expert, so I mean, if you want to disagree with him, sure. They've put here a vegetable soup,
for example, a pea soup, a frozen pea soup.
What the hell is that, British?
Yuck.
Weird.
A pea soup?
But what would you pair with that?
Probably...
I reckon a red with that.
Yeah.
Well, the natural sweetness in peas
is brought to life with an aromatic and bright...
Savignon Blanc.
A New Zealand sav as well. Oh, which one? They haven't said just a New Zealand sav. is brought to life with an aromatic and bright Sauvignon Blanc.
A New Zealand Sav as well.
Oh, which one?
They haven't said just a New Zealand Sav.
Ward Valley Triple Block Sav, 2018.
10 pounds 80.
That means like 21 bucks.
When you go overseas and you see New Zealand wines,
you're just like, how cheap are these? And then we get here and you're just like, what?
I'll get the cask. Pesto
pasta. White.
Of some description. They've said
here that's best with an Austrian
gruner. G-R-U
but it's got that little smiley eye thing
above it. What is that thing called?
Gruner.
Above the dots.
That's a white wine. Instant ramen.
What flavour?
Just says instant ramen, but this is a bit of a tricky one
because they've said here sake or lagers.
But that's not wine, so that's bloody stupid.
Linguini.
Champagne.
I'd go for a mum.
Right.
Fresh Portuguese reds.
Have we missed any?
What would be a kiwi?
A pinot noir.
We haven't had a pinot noir yet.
No, we haven't had a pinot noir.
I've been sitting on it.
I've been waiting for the dish to pop its head up
that says to me, pair me with a pinot.
Have we missed any isolation kiwi meals?
Cheese toastie.
Cheese toastie.
Pinot noir.
Pinot noir would go bloody good.
Ashley,
pain au mar would go well
with one of those
frozen pies.
You know,
that you heat up?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or a pizza.
Like a steak and
peppered steak.
Yeah, it'd go well
with Weet-Bix.
It'd go well with
bloody near anything.
I mean,
let's be honest,
you're going to drink
whatever's in the cupboard, right?
We had hamburgers last night with a roaring Meg Payne arm.
A medium red, what is it, country?
Medium white wine.
What are you, medium house dry?
Yeah.
And then you can use the pillow as, the goon is a pillow.
Amazing.
Brilliant.
All right, Megan, you've got the latest next.
I've got new footage of Joe Exotic.
It's been released.
Let's see if Cardi B's still on his side after this.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
The latest.
Joe Exotic, who is the star of Tiger King on Netflix at the moment.
It's the TV show that everyone is talking about.
And he likes to have a whinge, would we say?
Yeah.
I've finished it.
Vaughn, what have you got episode-wise?
I'm just only up to episode two.
No need to rush.
No need to hurry.
Taking it slowly.
It's a slow, enjoyable amble.
Number one on Netflix.
Someone asked me yesterday, like, a lot of people have said I should watch this.
What's it about?
How do you even start describing what it's about?
Everything.
It's got a bit of everything.
There's a love story.
There's villains.
There's a murder.
You say villains.
Literally everybody on the show is a villain.
Yeah.
They really are.
300% who you want to like.
Yeah.
Joe Exotic, he's funny,
but I wouldn't say
that he's necessarily likeable,
but somehow Cardi B
really liked him
and wanted to start a GoFundMe
to get him out.
Released.
You know in the first five minutes
he's in prison.
Yeah.
So that's not a,
okay,
yeah,
out of prison.
But this is part of the documentary,
like footage from,
that they got during the documentary, but they didn't put it in there.
I don't know why, but I don't know if Cardi B will like him after this.
What's going on here in this country?
It's absolutely pathetic.
I can't say the N-word, but you can get on YouTube and watch any black man's rap video and they're calling each other the N-word.
What the hell is this discrimination? I'm white. I can't say the N- video and they're calling each other the n-word what the hell
is this discrimination i'm white i can't say the n-word and i can't and wow wow okay yeah it's also
we tasted for someone who hasn't watched tiger king yeah he's the um he's the homosexual uh
tiger enthusiast who's married to two men who has a bleach blonde
mullet and I'm guessing
a meth issue. And sequined shirts.
Who pays his staff
who are all from prison
below minimum wage but lets
them have a go at the meat he's going to feed the tigers
before he feeds them to the tigers.
If you needed a reason to watch.
That is the latest for more
Go To ZM Online.
And that's just him.
Yeah.
There's like 18 more characters that are that crazy.
We've got Bachelorette Lily and Richie joining us on the show soon
before 8 o'clock.
And I'm wearing sunglasses in studio because I've still got a sore eye.
Yesterday I asked people for home remedies.
Well, I'll share some of them with you next.
Yeah, it turns out you're quite disgusting.
You can watch our live stream.
We're live, Facebook.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
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Megan is wearing sunglasses.
People are finding that a little peculiar, but it is only because you have a type of
stye on your eyelid.
It's called a...
I think we all crowd diagnosed yesterday.
I think it's a chalazone.
Like a calzoni?
Yeah.
But chalzoni.
A calzoni on my eye.
You've got a calzoni on your eyelid.
But my eye is pretty close to shut.
It's not too sore,
but I've been using a couple of home remedies
and I was like,
maybe there's something else I could do.
So we took to Instagram yesterday, showed everyone the eye and was like, is there anything?
Has anyone had this before?
Is there anything I could do at home?
I don't know.
Because how many replies did you get?
So, and I should have said, I did say the remedies that I've already done, but I should have said that I went to the pharmacist right from the get-go
because lots of people were like, doctor, pharmacist.
Thanks for that.
Trying to avoid the doctor because they're a little bit busy
and I just don't think it's necessary.
I'll go if it gets bad.
You'll go when your eye falls out.
Yeah, yeah.
Because then I know it's bad.
When the stye becomes your eye and your eye falls out.
Yeah.
But there's nothing you can really do with this.
So there was lots of people that are like,
this could be an infection, could get to your optic nerve
and might make you blind.
And then an optometrist messaged me and said that
there's nothing you can do, just put a heat pack on it.
Which is what the pharmacist said to me.
Right.
So these are two professionals in the field.
I feel like they...
Did you get a second opinion?
Well, she got a second opinion.
Yeah.
But we're in the same field.
Yeah, right.
Okay, good.
So they pretty much said just put like heat packs on it and wait it out.
So that's what I'm kind of doing.
But in amongst those, yesterday, so many different home remedies.
So a lot of people, including my mum,
said that breast milk was a good,
a really good remedy for like styes and...
Yeah, but you can't do that now because...
Conjunctivitis is a good...
Yeah.
When the baby gets conjunctivitis,
they're like, just put the...
Just give it a little squirt when you're feeding it.
With the bottle.
Or just squirt it in the eye.
I mean, it's not going to remember it.
It's like a tiny, tiny infant.
No, but imagine your 21st mum gets up and said,
oh, you had conjunctivitis and I squirted my nipple.
Yeah.
Embarrassing.
Well, it's not an option anyway.
We're on isolation.
I'm not keen to ask anyone for their breast milk.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. I was going to say, could a stranger breast milk. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
I was going to say, could a stranger, like, do it through the letterbox slot in the front
door, but that's still someone else.
What, like a nipple glory hole?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Just use a salt water solution.
That'll do it.
Yeah.
Cider vinegar was another one.
I actually tried that.
I dabbed some cider vinegar on my life.
Why are you saying apple cider vinegar?
You're saying cider vinegar.
Apple cider vinegar.
Did you dilute it?
No, that wasn't in the instructions.
Oh, Megan.
Did it sting?
Yeah.
Really, really bad.
So moved on from that one.
Someone else sent me an instructional video
on putting coriander seeds into a hanky
and then soaking it in hot water
and then dabbing that on my
eye.
Haven't done that one yet.
How'd that go?
What does coriander do?
Coriander seeds.
What does that do?
I don't know.
Some people will be against that.
Yeah.
Because they don't like coriander.
Yeah.
It'd be like soap in the eye for them.
Yes, it would be.
Genetics.
Tea bags.
I had tried English breakfast, but apparently that's wrong.
Like chamomile tea and other teas.
Does it matter what tea? Apparently it does. Oh. So yeah, I haven't yet tried that. What chamomile tea and other teas. Doesn't matter what tea?
Apparently it does.
So yeah, I haven't yet tried it.
How about one of those raspberry watermelon teas?
Oh, yum.
I love the raspberry fruit tea.
Yeah, I know you're a big fan of the raspberry fruit tea.
Sweet eye.
But the one that really baffled me,
and when I first got this in my DMs,
I thought it was just one person being a bit weird.
Yeah.
But I would have probably got five messages
all suggesting this one scenario.
It was to go to the bathroom,
wee in a cup,
and then take a cotton bud,
dip that in the wee,
and dab it on your eye.
Yeah.
There was five,
around five people telling me to use pee on my eye.
And they swear by it.
It wasn't... You're very desperate.
How desperate are you? I'm not.
You're not at that stage? I reckon she's done it.
I'm not desperate enough to pee on my eye. She's done it.
She's already done it. You've done it.
It's worse today. This is like one of those things where you bring it up
to, you know, take the
barometer of the room and then
you say, you know,
I didn't say it worked,
but I'm saying
you definitely put
wee-wees on your eye.
It's the worst today.
And then when you told us
and we were like,
oh, yuck,
you're like,
you know,
I didn't do it.
But if we'd said,
oh my God,
yes, yes,
I've done that,
it works,
you would have been like,
I've already done it.
I do this all the time.
I gauge the room
before I let anybody
know what happened.
You have totally done it.
Do I seem like the type
of person that would
be down for that?
I would, I thought you would have tried nearly anything.
Not yet.
I would need to like seal shut before I'm giving that a go.
I couldn't have something unshocking at,
I'd be playing with it the whole time.
No, it's sore.
Like I haven't seen you touch it.
No, sore.
And also I'm trying really hard not to touch my face at the moment.
You know when you get a pimple on where your lip meets your face?
Oh, yeah.
And it's like you feel it and you constantly add it with your tongue
and then you give it a squeeze, but it wasn't ready to be squeezed yet.
And then you've got to go...
To recover from that real nerve pain that it gives you.
Yeah.
I'd be like that the whole time.
I'd be shocking.
All right, well, if you've got any tips, fire them through for Megan.
Otherwise, I think you've got to wait this out.
Yeah.
It is 14 minutes away from eight.
Joining us on the show next, Bachelorette Lily and Richie in isolation.
They join us next.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Joining us by the magic of technology over Skype is Richie and Lily.
Good morning, guys.
Morning, Jen.
How are we?
They are joining us together.
Now, you can't see what we're seeing on Skype, but you guys are holed up in what looks like
a lovely Kiwi paradise.
Yeah, we have like a little love cult shed in the middle of Golden Bay, which is nice,
really isolating there.
Wow. Got a log burner in the background there.
I hope you've got a lot of firewood.
You might be stuck there for a while.
We plan on being here for at least four weeks if we both make it out alive.
We'll see how we go.
So, you'd obviously have to keep the fact that you're together a secret.
I guess you have to make a decision.
Do we wait until this is over or do we go into isolation and possibly hate each other
after the end of it? We're getting there yeah we kind of made the last minute choice about
like the night before we were supposed to leave and all the flights were going to be cancelled
we were really tossing up between whether or not we could spend four weeks apart or four weeks
together because our flatmates weren't cool with us coming and going and then we just kind of pulled
the pin and we were like, you know
what, let's give it a go. See how
it ends up. But so far so good. But only
day five. So there's still hope for one
of us to die. Is there just
the two of you there or are there other people as well?
Just us. Just the two of us.
Some real, real shady
neighbours. Okay, so after
five days of isolation,
what's one thing that's annoying you about the
other?
Just one?
For your
sake on day five, yeah, just one.
So I get
lots of mosquito bites and he doesn't let
me scratch them, which is really
frustrating because I need to.
Only because she scratches
half her skin off at the same time. I don't know if you guys can see, but it's pretty bad because I need you. Only because she scratches half her skin off at the same time.
I don't know if you guys can see, but it's pretty bad.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, yeah, no, God.
Lily, can I recommend some tropical strength date?
Do you know what else you can do?
Heat up a spoon in a boiling jug.
Now, don't put it
straight onto the skin
after you've put it
in the boiling jug
because that will
literally burn you
but you wait
until it's like
hot enough
that you can handle
and you push it on.
Does that stop it itching?
Yeah.
You put a hot spoon press
on a recent
fresh itchy bite
and yeah,
it'll kill the itch.
We're going to try this.
God,
why didn't you
enter the bachelorette?
That's interesting.
Because I'm married.
I mean, that was the only thing in my way.
Can you tell us how Lucina is doing after the final?
Because obviously she didn't pick anyone.
And there's been a bit of backlash because everyone really wanted her to pick someone.
And weirdly, we're not getting an interview with her.
Yeah, she's in Australia at the moment.
She's kind of clocked off her bachelorette duties.
But look, I understand where she's coming from.
At the end of the day, I think Healy's can be quite negative.
It sucks because we talk a lot about trying to prevent suicide and bullying and things like that.
But then people online are just taking an absolute dig out of her.
And it's quite sad just because she made a choice that she wanted to make.
And she's the only one that knows what's right for her.
So I guess I support her in that.
And that's all we really can do.
Absolutely.
And better than just choosing someone for the sake of it, isn't it, really?
And then being unhappy.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I definitely didn't know if Richie was my forever person,
but I knew enough to know that I wanted to give that a go
and I was really committed to that and vice versa.
And if she didn't feel that feeling with anyone,
then yeah, what's the point?
You don't want to fake a relationship.
That's bullshit.
Yeah.
So what lockdown games and activities have you guys got planned
for the next three and a bit weeks?
Alcoholism is one.
That's definitely one.
We purchased the tattoo gun before we got here.
Tattoo.
Do you want to see his tattoo?
Yes.
I gave him the tattoo.
No.
Where is it?
Wait, wait, wait.
It's just an angry cat.
Oh, no.
That's amazing.
Dude.
It's for every child of New Zealand.
That's actually amazing
though. Your circles are perfect.
I did it freehand.
And he's angry, if that means anything.
I was very cooked as well.
Very hungry caterpillar was bigger and friendlier
and hungrier. Look, and that looks like a very
messy caterpillar. It's like
skinny and angry
and it looks like it's stomping its feet.
Yeah, it's Richie's spirit animal.
Big time.
Four weeks on Argentinian beef.
Wow.
I'm just wondering, that's like really early on to be tattooing.
Is there going to be more tattoos at the end of this?
Did you watch the show?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, but like...
Next I'm getting Jessie tattooed on the bottom of my foot.
Well, there's always tomorrow or the next day or the next day
or the next day or the next day or the next day.
That could totally happen.
Well, best of luck in your beautiful Golden Bay isolation there.
It looks absolutely idyllic.
And if one of you is murdered, it'll be pretty obvious who did it.
You missed it. I'd still have to use the spade either be pretty obvious who did it. You missed it.
I'd still have to use the spade either way.
Yeah.
Get it done.
Hey, thanks, guys.
Thanks for the chat.
Thanks, guys.
Cheers, guys.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
He's back in studio after wandering the streets.
Just a little bit of a wander for an essential block of butter,
but I can't.
I've really let the team down.
You had one job today to bring butter to work
for Megan's homemade hot cross buns.
To be honest, that's on us,
because when he said, I'll bring butter, I was like, he won't.
Yeah, same, I knew that.
But I was like, give him the benefit of the doubt.
I'm such a predictable failure that you're taking the blame for it.
I want to say admirable, but at the same time it cuts deep, I'll tell you what.
I should have just bought some butter.
Thing is, there is margarine in the fridge, but we don't like margarine, do we?
No.
I mean, I would rather you didn't put margarine on these homemade hot sauce buns.
Just eat them as is.
Okay.
Pick them up and Vaughan's fairly, really upset about it.
Just thinking we're us in a pinch.
No, you've really stuffed it up, mate.
It's not happening.
Really sorry, everybody.
It's the times we live in.
Now, we counted on you and you've let us down.
I've really let everybody down.
Do you know who I've disappointed the most?
Myself.
I've let myself down.
Yeah, you have.
Now we just caught up earlier with
Lily and Richie from The Bachelorette
but also coming up from The Bachelorette.
We're going to talk to Aaron.
I feel like after watching
the, what do you call them, the reunion.
Yeah, we've got a bunch of questions.
I feel like he's got something
he needs to say to. Like where's butter?
What went wrong?
Where do you get butter at 8am during a lockdown?
And does Aaron really need two A's at the start?
Aaron.
Oh, it works, doesn't it? Aaron.
Aaron.
Then?
Aaron.
We could make an alliance.
I'd still say Aaron even if it just had a one A.
It was a real, it was a real, I need to be at the start of the names list.
If someone did one A, R-O-N, and put a thing above it, you'd be like.
A-ron.
Jouge yourself up.
I know an A-ron.
I do, I know.
I know an A-ron.
Aaron.
A-ron.
Yeah, I've just.
I do, I know one.
I just looked on Facebook.
There's A-rons?
Yeah.
Mutual friend?
Am I a mutual friend?
Oh, I've gone back and forth.
Is it actually pronounced A-ron?
I don't know.
I don't say it.
I think it's A-ron. I mean, mutual friend, but I don't know, I don't say it I think it's
A-ron. I mean mutual friend but I don't even
Know how to say his name but sure
A-ron. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan
The podcast. Quarantine
It's lockdown baby
Day seven. Day seven
Seven. Seven. Seven
There's only been seven
So you're probably spending a lot
More face to face time with the partner,
the loved ones.
Inescapable is the term that I've heard used.
Yes.
By my wife describing me.
But I felt a little on the chin.
Yeah.
But we want to talk about Mountie who joins us now, I believe,
from the social media desk.
Is that the desk you currently use?
It is. The live stream desk. You're currently sat, from the social media desk. Is that the desk you currently use? Yep, it is. The live stream
desk. You're currently sat at for the social
media. She's the one that's in charge of the live.
She's doing the cutting and all the graphics
and stuff. Yep. Baseline keys
up. What? Putting
the baseline keys up. What is that?
That's what they call when someone
is on the news and their name and stuff
pops up on the bottom. The baseline keys.
Is that what you're calling it?
Mountie?
I was just going with keys
but yeah,
that sounds good.
Yeah,
we're learning.
Okay.
Don't worry about it.
Can you do one of those
scrolling things?
It's like breaking news.
A ticker.
Vaughan Smith can't find butter.
809.
I mean,
I'd have to make it first
which takes a bit of time
but how much time?
I think a scrolling ticker
through our live stream.
Please don't give me more work.
Can we have a scrolling ticket tomorrow? Is that enough time think a scrolling ticker through our live stream. Please don't give me more work. Can we have a
scrolling ticker
tomorrow?
Is that enough time
for a scrolling
ticker?
Well I have to now
because we're only
You would just
change the
whatever words
were in there.
Yeah.
Yes!
Yes!
That's so good!
And that scrolling
ticker.
Like those morning
shows like coming
up 8.40.
Yes!
Interior house
specialist on the you know the best pillows for 8.40. Yes. Interior house specialist on the, you know,
the best pillows for autumn.
Yes.
Yes.
Coming up on the show 8.15, not quite sure.
Just put stuff in there that we're not doing.
Yes.
Like, yeah, best pillows for winter.
Sue us.
You were hanging around for a pillow chat that didn't happen.
It's great ad space.
Now that it's great ad space, that's a good thing.
And company, company thoughts there.
Yeah. Good synergy there for the company. in company. Company thoughts there. Yeah.
Good synergy there for the company.
Bogsy will like that idea.
Yes.
So you're the reason we actually came to you,
not tickers, baseline keys,
or what else we could promise and not deliver on.
More work.
Yep.
An ad space.
You've actually had to become somebody to your boyfriend.
Yeah.
You've had to become his.
Other than the love of his life.
Yeah.
Yeah. So I guess you to become his... Other than the love of his life. Yeah, yeah.
So I'm, I guess you could say his training partner.
Okay.
Because he's a fighter, isn't he?
He is.
He's an MMA fighter
and he trains every day
for several hours.
I don't really see him that much.
So he's not worried about carbs
through this whole thing, is he?
Well, he is.
Really? Yeah. Oh, okay.
But he is making an
exception. Right. Yeah.
So basically, last
night, he said, okay, we're
finally going to do some pads, because I did promise.
Yep. And
What's doing pads? Now that's for you
hold the pad. Oh. Yeah, so
I was holding the pads while he, like,
threw some combos, basically.
My...
How did that go down?
Because there's a weight difference.
There's a significant weight difference, yes.
I'm a very petite broad.
No, I described you as a petite broad over being cancelled by now.
But you've said that. You are. Yeah, I've said as a petite broad over being cancelled by now. But you've said that.
Yeah, I've said that on the record.
So, yeah, there is a significant size difference.
So it was very scary.
So did he have to hold back?
He couldn't do 100%?
I think he was holding back, but I was quite padded up.
Like I had a pad around the tum.
I had some pads in my hands.
He wasn't throwing the kicks though, was he?
No, this was just boxing.
Couldn't he just put the couch on one end
and just take that to the garage and punch that?
We don't have a garage.
Where was this happening?
In the living room.
This was in the living room.
We moved the table out.
Right.
Could you get, this is just thinking ahead,
when next time you see a mannequin in a bin,
could you grab that and put it in a concrete base?
Because we're always seeing mannequins in the bin.
Rat pads around that.
Yeah, yeah, rat pads around the old farmer's mannequin.
Yeah, we should have just got a boxing bag before all this happened.
We got a bike.
All that, yeah.
We got a bike.
But have you got something to hang the boxing bag off?
Not really, it's a rental.
Right.
No, I don't think landlords care if you screw that into the ceiling.
Oh, is that under these new rules, is it?
Yeah.
Under the COVID-19 rules.
I'll check with Brian.
Yeah, yeah.
Brian, we've just screwed something in the roof.
I just want to run that by you now that it's already done.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we want to know this morning,
Mountie's become an MMA trainer.
Yeah.
What you've had to step up to for your partner.
What's your new title at home?
You've had to help them out with something that they usually don't do at home,
but they've had to start doing it.
Yeah, maybe you've become an assistant
to your partner's work.
Or his at-home work.
Yeah, maybe you've been helping out
with your partner's work.
What's your partner made you do during isolation?
Give us a call.
0800 DARS at M.
You can text as well, 9696.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
First of April today, it's April Fool's.
So don't believe these stupid bloody things that are going on.
Bloody, it's not the time to be joking around like this.
Anyway.
I haven't seen any.
Have you seen any?
That's not really the right climate.
No.
I think it's a fair call, Fletch, there,
questioning the climate for such shenanigans.
Yeah.
Such tomfoolery.
We were just stoked it would be the first April Fools
we didn't have to do anything.
It's not the climate.
We've had a bit of luck lately.
Last couple of April Fools have been on weekends
because we don't like doing it.
We're lazy and prefer to just see what happens
and those require planning.
And they always end up being lame as well.
Yeah.
It's like a Stephen King book to a movie.
It's always like the end of it.
You're always like, ah, spread over two nights?
Really?
So Mountie at the social media desk has become her partner's MMA trainer.
Yeah.
So she's padding up and taking the training hits.
Not full strength, really.
No, not full strength, no.
Well, she thinks he's holding back.
I wouldn't even want to do that.
Like, no, have you seen?
Ouch.
Oh, have you ever had to hold like a rugby tackling bag?
Oh, yeah, horrible.
Absolutely horrible.
I make it sound like I've done that recently.
It would have been over 20 years ago when the school didn't happen.
But I'm still scarred from it.
So we want to know, in isolation, what your partner's made you do.
Have you become like an assistant or have you had to help out with work or something like that?
Leah, what are you doing for your partner?
So I've become my partner's building assistant.
Oh, okay.
And what does that entail?
So he works in construction
and he's just doing a few repairs around the house.
And so basically he's teaching me how to use a hammer
and all that.
I don't really know the jargon,
but you know, just how to put the screws with the washers.
Leah, have you done that thing where you get the tape measure
and you take it all the way out and then you go click?
No, no. And then it goes back out? way out and then you go... Click. No, no.
And then it goes back in.
Yeah, and then you put a pencil behind your ear.
Yes!
Don't do that with a tape measure.
It ruins it.
No, it doesn't.
Like, you know, that's...
Dad, you should always tell me off.
It's a weird thing.
The day you have your first kid,
you just get this ping and you're like,
oh, I don't want it on the tape measure.
And that's one of those, like, dad moments
that you only appreciate once you've actually become a dad
you'll ruin the spring
Leah thanks for your call
Nicola what have you
become at home
for your partner
I've become the yoga teacher
how's that
so you're good at yoga
but he's not
he's never done it before
and we're in our 40s
so you can imagine
how that's going
how's that
yeah because I've always
thought yoga would be good to do
but I can't I'm not very flexible well neither is he okay but how that's going. How's that? Yeah, because I've always thought yoga would be good to do, but I can't.
I'm not very flexible.
Well, neither is he.
Okay.
But then that's good.
At least he's trying it, right?
He's giving it a go.
He is trying it.
It's pretty funny for me.
So he's still heading off to work every day,
so it brightens up my day.
Right.
And he's going to keep doing it every day?
Well, I hope so.
Okay.
That's the plan.
That's the plan. Does he have an aim? Does he want to be able to do like it every day? Well, I hope so. Okay. That's the plan. That's the plan.
Does he have an aim?
Does he want to be able to do like a downward dog without going...
He just even looks at a downward dog and he's like,
I don't even know how that happens.
He can't figure it out at all.
Well, it sounds like you've got your work cut out for you, Nicola.
I surely do.
Nicola, Nicola.
Namaste.
Oh, namaste.
Namaste.
Namaste.
Namaste at home. namaste. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste at home.
Good from you.
Thanks.
Briar, what have you become at home?
Hi, I've become my partner's new rousie and wall presser in the wool shed.
Oh.
Rousie.
I was like, what's a rousie?
Rousie, yeah.
Well, he's a shearer by trade, but we're stuck on the farm,
so we've got to do all the farm shape.
And he shears and I squiggle the wool up and put it on the hay bales,
a wool bale, and press it down.
You got some nipple guards on there?
No, I don't.
You don't have nipple guards?
Why do you have to wear nipple guards?
Because you can get the fibres from the thing.
They get into your nipples.
Good Lord, you can get an infected nipple and all sorts of things.
You can get very sore, very, very sore nipples.
My goodness, I had no idea.
Yeah, no, no, no nipple guards.
He's pretty used to it.
He does it by trade.
No, no, no, not him.
You, if you're doing the rousing.
No, no, I don't chuck the wool out.
That's his job.
I just, I'm a teacher by trade, so.
Wait, so you said you were as rousing and that would indicate that you should be having nipple guards.
You're not playing fast and loose with your nipples, are you?
Are you allowed to ask her if she's playing fast and loose?
This sounds like a health and safety issue.
I'm worried about your nipples.
No, my nipples are fine, thanks.
But I didn't know that this could happen.
Yeah, no, it's different everywhere.
Really?
The fibres from the wool, yeah.
Because I've heard of hairdressers getting other people's hairs lodged in them
and they grow someone else's hair out of them.
They can, yeah.
In different spots.
Yeah.
Yuck.
Okay, will you be careful, please, Briar?
You say everything's fine, but everything's fine until it's not.
So you can answer up those nips, girl.
All right.
I told you about the first burb I told you about the first boob
I ever saw
what?
so this is a true story
it was shearing
it was summer
and I was at my
grandparents house
and the shearing gang
was in
and I walked into
you heard this story
I walked into
the shearing shed
and this
this older woman
because I was like a kid
I think she would have
been in her 40s
pulls her singlet up
over her head
tits out
and I'm
my job was, because I was just a little
tacker, I was carrying down the cordial
and the like things and I got it in and I was like
and I couldn't cover my eyes because I was
holding the cordial
and I was like looking around and my
grandad looked at me and he's like don't look at them
I was like well where do I look
because she was sitting right in front of me, he's like turn around I was like, I't look at them. I was like, well, where do I look? Because she was sitting right in front of me.
He's like, turn around.
I was like, I tried to turn around, but I was holding the cordial
and I couldn't turn around.
Wait, why did she have no top on?
Because she took them off to put the plasters on her nipples.
And then she's like, ah, you'll be fine.
I'm only going to be a minute.
But she wasn't using those like little easy to remove plasters.
She was using those fabric cut your own length plasters. Oh, yeah, right.
They were large nipples.
I thought that's what everybody's nipples look like for a long time.
And she just went straight across and covered the whole nipple.
And I was like, sorry.
She's like, ah, it's okay.
You'll see worse in your time.
I was like, oh, yeah.
Yeah, executive intern Anya has just messaged a group chat saying that you're cancelled now, Vaughn, I believe.
But she wasn't using those like, why am I cancelled?
Because you asked someone about their nipples who you've never even met.
No, but from a purely HR, health and safety position.
There was nothing.
Yeah, there was nothing.
Did you feel like I overstepped there, Brian?
No, no.
I mean, I've seen and heard worse in the last few days.
So you're fine.
I don't think that's a good gauge.
I've heard worse from other people.
So you're right, Vaughn.
Thank you, Bri.
Thanks for your call.
I just don't want anybody mucking around with a fleece
and not knowing the nipple dangers attached.
Well, I've learned that there are nipple dangers on the farm.
I had no idea.
How many nipples do you get?
What do you mean?
Two.
Two?
Exactly.
Oh, so don't waste them. Look after them. So, you know, like once you lose an eye do you mean? Two. Two? Exactly. Oh, so don't waste them.
Look after them.
So, you know, like, once you lose an eye, you can't get it back.
Yeah.
Same with your nipples.
Yeah.
They can try to make one look.
Okay, we're going to move on now.
We're going to have the same sensation.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Joining us from the Bachelorette soon, Aaron.
What?
Oh, good sell. Aaron. What? Good sell.
Yeah.
I was waiting for Megan to come up
come in with her impassioned
story about The Bachelorette.
I just wasn't sure if you were finished
with your sentence to be honest.
Okay. Aaron is going to join us
to talk about how he wasn't picked by Lucina.
In fact, no one was. No.
All right, that's coming up, but right now, time for...
Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day.
Today's Fact of the day, ladies and gentlemen,
is about the Dovrak keyboard layout.
The what?
The Dovrak keyboard layout.
So you're familiar with QWERTY.
Look down.
That's QWERTY.
QWERTY.
Yep, QWERTY because Q-W-E-R-T-Y is the first letters,
left and right, top row.
So that's commonly known as the QWERTY keyboard.
Invented initially because
typewriters were in
ABCD and the order, but
people were typing too fast, and
the little arms that went up,
were getting tangled in each other.
Oh, okay. They were all right next to each other.
And people were learning
to type too fast, so they moved it around
a little bit, so
it would be more spread out.
The consistently used letters were more spread out.
They weren't the arms right next to each other.
And it would also slow people's typing down a little bit.
And then we got to non-arm tappity-tapped keyboards
and it doesn't matter how fast you type now
because the computer can keep up with it.
But the Dovrak keyboard was a different layout.
It was invented in 1936 by August Dovrac
and his brother-in-law, William,
as a more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY keyboard.
Now, the Dovrac keyboard has fans to this very day.
Right.
Saying it requires less finger motion
and results in reduced errors, increased typing speed
and reduces repetitive
strain injuries. Right.
And this is how it's set up. Do you want
to know how it's set up? Yeah, I do. So
top, where
your Q, W and E
are. Yep. That is
I love it. We're all like sitting
here poised looking at our keyboards.
It goes apostrophe. Yeprophe, comma, full stop.
Oh, okay.
That's there.
Now, the same things are above them.
Arrow, arrow, question mark.
Okay.
But it's up there in the left-hand corner now.
Then where the R is, it goes P-Y-F-G-C-R-L.
Right.
So it's the same basic setup.
The letters are where letters are,
except it's different letters.
Now, next, it's an interesting situation.
A is where A is on the QWERTY keyboard,
on the second row.
Okay.
However, then it goes O-E-U-I.
All the vowels are on that left hand
for that left hand usage.
That's interesting because you'd be using vowels quite a bit,
but then you could pretty much keep your fingers there
and then just use your right hand to move around.
Now, the right hand has most of the other high-use letters.
R-T-S, which are always my first three guesses
if I'm playing like Wheel of Fortune or Hangman or anything. Yeah. You don't want to buy a vowel. Your A, your T, and, S, which are always my first three guesses if I'm playing like Wheel of Fortune or Hangman or anything.
Yeah.
You always go through R.
You don't want to buy a vowel.
Your R, your T and your S.
And then M and N are both over there as well.
Okay.
L playing a, you know, quite a crucial role.
I would actually just, it would take ages to get used to it
because we've been programmed on nothing but QWERTY.
But it would be interesting to see if you could,
how long would it take to adapt to this
and if it would really be better.
But then the thing is you could adapt to it,
but then if you went to use someone else's computer
or you'd need to install that keyboard, wouldn't you?
Or bring a keyboard with you.
Change it to the Dovrack setup.
So another thing
to take into consideration
is that there
were
the odd
computer that came out with
the Dovrack keyboard. Some of the early
iBooks, the Mac laptops, you could
order one specifically with the Dovrack layer
and get it done. Have you ever
used a foreign keyboard?
No.
That's very confusing.
Yeah.
I think I was travelling once.
Yeah.
You're like, okay.
You've got to go a little bit by memory.
But if you want to see what the Dovrac keyboard looks like,
you can just Google Dovrac, D-O-V-R-A-C-K.
I spelt that wrong because I'm using the Dovrac keyboard.
I'm not really.
So today's fact of the day is there is a different layout to the keyboard
where proponents claim it's much, much better.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Megan, you've got the latest.
Pictures of Britney show her connection to someone from Tiger King.
Details next.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
The latest.
So, Tiger King.
It's massive on Netflix.
I'm not going to give you any spoilers in this,
but if you haven't watched it, you may be a little bit lost.
So in 2001, the MTV VMAs performance of Britney,
she did I'm a Slave for You.
She's wearing a wraparound green top.
She has banana, the yellow python around her neck.
Very famous, very iconic.
Peak Britney.
Yeah.
Now, what you may not have noticed before, in fact, I never even
noticed there was, they're calling
it a tiger, but I believe, having watched the show,
I think it's a liger. Yeah.
There was a liger in the
cage when she got off,
like she was wheeled in
and she went out of the cage.
There was a liger in there with her.
And crouched down just to the side of Brittany was Doc Antle.
Now, he's quite famous in Hollywood.
He's appeared on all the chat shows.
You'll see that in the show.
He's one of the big cat trainers.
He worked on lots of movies.
Ace Ventura.
Anytime they had animals back in the day,
they kind of got him to go and help out.
But this was 2001 and, I mean, the Liger looked like it had been drugged.
And you'd probably, I don't know, that's probably why they wanted to put it in front of Brittany because...
Yeah.
Yeah.
So no comment from Brittany at the moment.
But then there's also another photo floating around the year later at the MTV VMAs.
There is a picture.
I don't know if it's photoshopped, but it looks to be, what's her face?
Carol Baskin.
Carol Baskin sitting beside her.
Where is your husband, Carol?
The giveaway is that she's wearing cat, she's wearing leopard print.
I don't think it's her.
It doesn't look like her face though.
It does look like her.
Have you seen the photo?
Yeah, I don't know.
Jury's out.
I want to see a full photo.
Why on earth was she sitting next to Britney?
Anyway, great show.
I don't know if Britney's watched it.
Number one show on Netflix at the moment.
And, you know, we're in isolation and we're all needing something to watch.
Yeah.
Worth it.
Everyone's obsessed with it.
It's crazy.
It's like if it was a scripted show, you'd be like, it's too ridiculous.
I know.
This is beyond comprehension.
But it's real.
Yeah.
That is the latest.
For more, go to ZM Online.
All right, joining us next on the show from The Bachelorette.
Aaron, let's see if he can spill some tea on just what happened.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Well, he provided us with one of the most juiciest parts,
I would say, from the Bachelorette reunion.
Aaron joins us on the phone.
Should we play?
Good morning, Aaron.
Morning.
How are we doing, team?
Good, mate.
Good, mate.
Not that you necessarily want a reminder,
but we're just going to play you from the reunion.
This is what happened.
Aaron, how are you now?
Have you caught up with Lucina after the show?
So I'm super confused.
We have, like, caught up a number of times.
I suppose I don't know how much detail I can go into that.
But we caught up a number of times,
and she just said that she didn't want to
lead anyone on further than what was necessary so that's kind of my confusion is we did kind of
hang out a couple of times and then if that's not um leading someone on I don't really know what
is and so I felt um as every day we get closer and closer to this day I've been I've been dreading
this conversation because I didn been dreading this conversation
because I didn't really want to have it
just because I don't know how to have it.
Oh my gosh, Aaron.
What happened?
Yeah, it was pretty crazy actually.
On the show, it shows us ending on the beach in Piha,
but pretty much directly after that,
we, like, that afternoon, we started seeing each other.
It was pretty crazy.
We spent that night together.
Like, it was, yeah, it was a bizarre, bizarre period for sure.
Did she initiate that after the show?
She did, yeah.
Yeah, directly after, which was, yeah, crazy looking back at it now,
but it's how it is.
So, when did it all grind to a halt then?
And how did that happen?
How did that happen?
That's a good question.
We're at, it's just kind of one of the times we're hanging out in Auckland.
It was just, she had just, I suppose, been angling to, looking back at it now, she was angling to end it, I think.
It was just at her house and that was, yeah,
it was a little over, I don't know, two months ago maybe,
something like that.
Right.
I suppose.
So that would have been pretty close to when the bit that aired last night,
the catch-up, the reunion show,
that would have been pretty close to when that bit that aired last night, the catch-up, the reunion show, that would have been pretty close
to when that was filmed then.
So when she called it off
and then you wouldn't have had too much time
before that filming session.
Is that kind of a fair assumption?
Yeah, fair-ish.
It was probably three and a half weeks, I suppose,
between ending it and then, yeah,
it was a little bit longer.
But yeah, so I had a bit of time to kind of try and gather my weeks, I suppose, between ending it. And then, yeah, it was a little bit longer. But yeah, so I had a bit of time to kind of try and gather my thoughts,
I suppose, as to what I wanted to get out of that reunion.
Yeah, it's so hard because you don't want to get into like a he said, she said.
And it's like, it's your guys' emotions and stuff.
But like, do you feel a bit wronged by her, by the whole situation?
Yeah, definitely at the time I did and I still think probably I do now
but so much time has kind of passed that point now
and so I suppose there's kind of no point crying about it anymore
and just moving on and trying to find something that's
going to be, I suppose, better and better for me in the long run. So it's time to move
forward.
Have you spoken since that reunion was filmed or since it aired last night?
No, we have not spoken since we filmed it.
Is that closure for you or do you want to have one more conversation? I think for me it was strangely getting closure
just because I think I went in there with some answers
and they left a bit out of the edit that they showed last night.
But yeah, for me, the questions that I asked,
I think she kind of bit around the bush a little bit
and didn't really just give it black or white.
She kind of always stayed in this grey area of what kind of answer was that.
So in a weird way, I think that was closure
because I don't think I was going to get anything kind of better than that.
So yeah, in a weird way, that was closure.
What have the DMs been like?
They've been
They've been pretty funny to be fair
A lot of support
Which is awesome
That's good
That's good, nice
Because when we talked to Jesse
Williamson
We asked him
And he said there hadn't been any
Nerds in the DMs
But he messaged me last night
Saying that
Yeah, we'd started something
He'd received
He'd received quite
a few yesterday.
Good on him.
I don't know, is that the sort of thing?
Because obviously we've got that power.
Let's not be
encouraging people to... By the way,
but if you say yes, you can't be
picky about what you get because he said he got a couple from
dudes yesterday.
And that was
okay by him.
You know,
I don't know. If that happened, I'd
be, yeah, it'd be interesting.
What about, because you're a teacher,
this was obviously on while school
was in. Were your students saying anything
to you about this? Oh, man,
every day. Every day
the kids saw me they were saying
something. A lot of it was positive, a lot
of it was just funny jokes
and all sorts of things
but yeah it was, I've definitely
got a ton of support at that school which was
awesome. That's nice and at least this
is all Ed when school's out so yeah
Yeah exactly, exactly
It would have been an interesting week
at school if it was airing right now and I had to teach today.
Well, we enjoyed watching you, even if you didn't enjoy it as much.
But Aaron, stay safe out there and thanks for chatting to us this morning.
Thanks very much, guys. Thanks for having me.
I've left the oven on.
It's been on for like half an hour.
I know, and I cranked it up.
Because you know when you're preheating an oven,
you can be waiting for it at 180.
If you crank it at 250, it'll get there sooner.
Ovens are meant to be on.
Ovens are meant to be on.
You know what?
He's got a point.
My panic's completely reduced.
Not 24-7.
Well, it's been on for 20 minutes.
It's okay.
We're trying to heat up the oven for Megan's hot cross buns,
the homemade hot cross buns.
We've been trying to do this all show.
We've managed to find some butter, which is great.
All right.
Homeschool.
Well, with it being isolation.
Yeah, yeah.
Lockdown.
Your little rat bags, your scallywags, you're running around, not learning.
We thought we'd set some homeschool, some homework.
And homeschool is basically where we'll set an assignment.
The assignment is a one-minute presentation.
Yes.
We give you a subject
and then the next day we check in with you
for that one-minute presentation.
Jackson, good morning.
Good morning.
Now, you've registered to play homeschool.
Are you ready to do some learning?
I am.
I'm excited.
Okay, all right.
Now, we've picked, I've picked a category and Fletch has picked a category,
and I was just going for a cute category that would be easy to present on,
but Fletch has gone for a hard-out category that I'm fascinated by.
Don't get me wrong, but you think it's a bit too niche, a bit too silly.
I just think it'll take longer than a minute.
Does Jackson get to choose whose category he would prefer?
Yes, he does.
Okay.
I think we should all come up with a category every day.
Can you think of a category?
And then they get to pick from our categories.
Okay, I'm just going to go look at a random news site.
Now, are we going to say what our category is?
What's your category?
My category is Kiwis.
The Kiwi bird.
The Kiwi bird.
The bird.
Our national symbol.
Jackson, you would have to do a one-minute presentation on the Kiwi bird,
or I am going for the subject of water locks today.
Now, this is the navigation device used by ships to change water areas,
i.e. the Panama Canal, which is a feat of engineering.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I love it.
It's a modern marvel of the world, is it not? a feat of engineering. Yeah, don't get me wrong, I love it. It's a modern marvel of the world.
Locks throughout Europe.
Yeah, yeah.
Where river travel was, you know, through the ages.
So important.
And Megan thinks that's bloody stupid.
That's her words before.
It's bloody stupid.
What could be thrilling about that?
What's your subject, then?
I've gone for a person today, someone we cheers all the time.
Princess Diana.
Oh!
Bad subject.
Cheers to Lady Di.
Cheers to Lady Di.
Cheers to Lady Di.
Jackson, what subject do you want?
Well, we all kind of know about Kiwis.
Well, I hope we would.
So I don't think I'll go down that route.
So I think I'll go with Fletcher's idea because I actually have no idea really about it myself.
So you see this
as a challenge to learn
but then also translate
it into a one minute digestible piece
to teach other people about water locks as well.
Yeah, that's what they say, isn't it? If you know
something, you're able to teach someone or something like that.
It's a great way to learn more about
something. Okay, well Jackson, we're going to
come back for your homeschool presentation
tomorrow on the show,
so get learning, my friend.
I will.
Thank you, thank you.
All right, Emily, good morning.
Good morning.
All right, so you unfortunately can't pick waterlocks
as your topic,
but would you like Princess Diana, Lady Di,
or Kiwis, the bird?
I think I'm going to go with Princess Diana.
Yes!
See, I told you your subject was stupid.
We know about them.
They can't fly.
Yeah, but how did they get here then?
Oh my God, how did they get here?
Okay, now you've solved that in one minute actually.
Less than one minute.
Thank you, Jesus.
Okay, Emily, your presentation will have to be one minute long and it will
be on Lady Di. Hold on, just quickly on the
Jesus with Kiwis thing, why didn't Jesus do something
about the rats and the possums that eat them now?
He's too busy with everything else.
Ah, okay, no, sorry, sorry to have asked.
Yeah, alright, Emily,
Lady Di will give you a call back tomorrow for your homeschool
presentation. Good luck. Okay, sure does.
Thank you. Alright, have a fantastic
rest of your day. That is our show today.
Thank you to our live streamers as well who have been with us throughout the morning.
If you want to see the entire live stream, it'll be on our Facebook page.
Should we leave the live stream running for a few more minutes so that we can eat the
hot cross buns?
Absolutely.
Do people need to see you eating buns?
Well, no.
People who have been invested, they've been sitting on the live stream all morning.
People have been gawking at that huge systema
of gorgeously glossed hot croissants.
Let's also touch on the subject,
the matter that Megan won't trust you
to take home her systema container.
I bought in oil from home.
But then I'm okay with it because she said,
I've got to take this one home
because this is the only one that the,
what are you making today?
Oh, the plum and custard tart
will fit in.
Plum and custard tart
will only fit in this
and steam around.
I was like,
I will carry those home
in my pocket.
Mr. Toyboy.
Tomorrow I get a slice of tart.
Mr. Toyboy is feeding us all.
It's unbelievable.
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