ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - February 4th

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

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ZM. Head music lives here. Flesh, Fawn and Megan. The podcast. Happy Tuesday. Good morning. Just hearing that story about the people that are being evacuated. How do we know if we take a flight if that plane was that one? It'll smell of heaps of Febreze. It'll smell heaps like it's had a wipe with a dead old wipe in her. Did you see all the Dettol purchases

at the weekend? People freaking out and buying Dettol because on the back it says it can kill coronavirus but it's another kind of

coronavirus. The coronavirus is just a virus like a cold and flu virus but it's this strain that we're talking about but we've just blanket labelled it coronavirus.

Yeah. But there's lots of different strains. It's any strain of that virus that looks like a crown under a microscope. The shape of the virus looks like a crown. The Spanish word for crown is corona, thus the name. Well, yeah, apparently supermarkets

are the weekend selling out of it. People just buy the box and sending it to their relatives. Somebody said hand sanitiser's better than the paper mask. If you have to rank. Because I've seen a lot of people walking around the street with paper masks and there's big gaps on the side.

And it can also get in your eyes. And then as soon as you touch it to take it off and then touch your face, it's kind of pointless, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of pointless. Yeah, I guess it makes you feel better. Yeah. Gives you a bit of... Yeah.

Yeah. Positive thinking about the end of the world, like that sort of stuff. Sure. Good to approach it in such a fashion. All right,

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It's story time. All right, three news headlines for story time. Interesting, quirky, odd news stories that I've found are around the globe and Vaughan and Megan must deliberate and decide and pick one headline only. Headline one, student expelled after school talent show. Headline two, headline two, airline removes passenger. And headline

three, wild herpy monkeys on the loose in Florida. Oh, I saw about the wild herpy monkeys. Yeah. So, and the picture they used was of a very wild herpy looking monkey. Yeah, it did look herpies looking, didn't it? So there's like, is there like a little park or something and they're actually

getting loose and terrorising people. Mm-hmm. And they look terrifying. Why do they look terrifying? They look like the howler monkeys which look terrifying anyway. They have,

like, sharp teeth. Yeah. Yeah. Does Florida have wild monkeys? Well, apparently. Well, they've escaped and bred.

They're on the loose, yeah. They're on the loose. Spread their herpes. I want to know why the kid got expelled. Yeah. So we're locking in story one. All right. We go now to a school talent show.

I'm just trying to find where this happened. I can't work out exactly where. It looks like it's in America. The performance was posted to Twitter. And apparently, the person that posted this to Twitter has said the student has been expelled. And this is only after a two-second performance on the drums. On the drums?

Were they naked? No, they are not naked. I will now play you the performance in whole. And you tell me if you can work out why he has been expelled. No, just sounds like a drum beat. Instantly recognised by the auditorium of horny teenagers. One more time. Here's a clue.

Porn hub. I'm glad I didn't pass that test. Vaughn got there. Vaughn recognised it. When you said horny teenagers I was like It's the Yeah

So I've heard So apparently Megan You'd know this from your one o'clock Jonas Sure Before a video plays On Pornhub This plays And so he of course got on the drums like I don't think he was telling

them maybe he told him he was gonna do it yeah maybe we got around that he was going to yeah there's no way you know, right? But when you hear it side by side. They are so stoked. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently he has been expelled. That's so, you wouldn't get expelled in New Zealand for that, would you? I don't think so at my high school.

Well, then you'd be the teacher. How do you know what that sounds like? Yeah. But also, like, you're still just playing a beat on the drums. Get over it. The video has already had two million plus views. How old? High school, you said, eh? Definitely high school, yeah. Can't believe

you got expelled. Yeah, that's a bit rough, yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and bit. A bit rough, yeah. The saddest thing I always find about people who have to do a 9-to-5 job is they don't get to nap. Although when I had a 9-to-5 job, I still napped. Yeah, there's under the desk. I napped under my desk. Ah, hot play.

Hot play. Yeah. But when do you guys, if you have a nap, when do you, is it the same time of the day every time? No, it's just when you get one. When your body's like. Yeah. Got to be up to get the kids from school.

You've got to do it before a certain time. You've got, yeah, any late in the day you ruin yourself when you've got to get up early because then you can't get to sleep when you want to go to bed. Yeah. Well, some experts have said they have discovered the perfect time of the day to have a nap. Well, this could work for the weekends for just anyone really. Yeah. Well, some experts have said they have discovered the perfect time of the day to have a nap. Well, this could work for the weekends for just anyone, really. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't have to work.

And also how long is the best time. See, that's what I struggle with. Because people always debate how long you should nap for. Yeah. Because should you do a little 10, 20 power nap? But then when do you set your alarm? Because it might take you 10, 20 minutes to fall asleep. And then your alarm goes off and you've only had a minute.

Because I'd set my alarm, but then I, yeah, it takes me a bit to go back to sleep, so then I reset it, but then it's just, I've woken up again because I reset my alarm. Yeah, right. But the best time of the day to have a nap is between 2 and 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Okay.

No later than that, because obviously you're going to expect your night time sleep. But this is for a standard wake up. I'd imagine. What do you mean? Well, if you're waking up at like 5 or 6 or 7. Right. Yeah, but if you get up a little bit earlier, would it move forward a bit?

Also, isn't that when everybody's at work? Or at school? That's what I mean. It's like right in the middle of it. But no, those are the Spanish. The Spanish. It's like right in the middle of it. Yeah. Those are the Spanish. The Spanish. That's why they do the siesta between two and four. Because Spain just shuts down,

doesn't it, mid-afternoon? Lazy. That's a good idea. But they may stay up late, though, don't they? Yeah. Yeah.

Do they? Do they stay up a bit later? Yeah, because they've had a two-hour afternoon nap and they're just like, oh, I can't go to sleep now. And the best amount of time should be

between 20 and 30 minutes. You'll be re-energised without affecting your night time sleep and you're not going to go into a deep sleep and then wake up feeling like

you're going to die. Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay, the top six is coming up. Yeah, Hamilton Gardens, my home city. Yeah, Hamilton

has opened a new garden. I went there when they were making this. And I was like, I cannot wait to see this. Yeah, well, it's open and it looks absolutely amazing. No, listen to you. Is it actually cool? Have you been to Never? Have you never been to a garden?

Never, never, ever been. I was like you until I went there and I was like, holy, what is this place? You're always looking for a new spot for a hot date. Okay. It's amazing. It's phenomenal. So you're saying go on a hot date? It's an old rubbish dump.

Is it? You're really selling this one. It's beautiful. Right, okay. Yeah, Hamilton Gardens is amazing. Okay, so you've got the top six. I've got the top six gardens they could put in next. I'll tell you about this new garden I've got,

and I'll also tell you my ideas for the next six gardens they could do. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Hamilton Gardens is a very proud centrepiece of the city of Hamilton. It's a lovely area, isn't it, Megan? It's wonderful. I've never been. Because everyone always used to say,

God, Hamilton Gardens is like, I don't want to walk around a random garden in the middle of a city. It's incredible. Right. It really is. There's different sections of garden. Right. Different styles.

Like the Japanese garden. Oh, okay. It's got a little... Do they have the little mini trees that don't grow very big? Bonsai trees. Yes, yes. Yeah, okay. They've got the sand that you can rake. Oh. Oh, okay. It's got a little... Do they have the little mini trees that don't grow very big? Bonsai trees. Yes, yes. Yeah, okay. They've got the sand that you can rake.

Oh, yeah, okay. The relaxy sand. Yep. Then there's the Mediterranean garden. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Isn't there like an Indian themed area? I haven't been for a while, but...

Like beautiful flowers. I always remember it was just lovely. Right. And they've got a new one in this garden. A new segment called the Surrealist Garden. And it's kind of like Alice in Wonderland. I showed Megan some photos. Edward Scissorhands.

Yeah, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands. Right. Sorts of thing. And yeah, there's even like, look at this little bit here. There's a bit where the plants are growing up these, but they move. So it looks like a movie living garden. Okay, that's pretty cool. They look like snails.

There's a little snail antennae. Yeah. Rolling around. There's those. There's like a curl. There's giant. So there's a wheelbarrow and a garden fork and a tap and a garden gate. And they're like five times as big as they should be.

So you feel a little like Alice in Wonderland. Nah, this is Instagram bait. Yeah. This is absolutely designed for Instagram. The lawn curves up in the corner here. Oh, okay.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's like Tim Burton designed it. Yeah. It's really trippy. I want to go because there'd be some good Instagram photos there.

It'd be hot. Didn't you go on a hot date to the Hamilton Gardens once? Didn't you? Oh, no. There were several. Well, a girl I was seeing was working there, and I just popped down to see her at lunchtime,

and it ended up being quite a pash session in the car. In the car? In the car. You could have been in one of the lovely gardens. We were young lovers. No, she couldn't go back in in her uniform and make out with some hairy lout at her workplace. Did she always pass you on in secret?

Yes. Very. Some would have said a shameful relationship. Yeah. She would have been on board with that. But yeah, lovely spot. And it used to be a rubbish dump. Really?

Used to be one of Hamilton's dumps. You know back in the day where they'd put a dump beside a river because then if the river washed away some of the rubbish, you've got less rubbish to deal with? Yeah. That was pretty much the approach there. Oh, you're good. So it used to be a rubbish dump.

Obviously significantly better now. Yeah. But I've got the top six gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs next to go with the new Fantasy Garden. Number six is that it's just got to weigh on me a bit, Gardens. Overgrown. Lots of weeds. Should be pretty low maintenance, this garden.

Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six other sorts of gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs. The Neighbours Cat Won't Stop Shitting In My Garden Garden. Oh, my God. This is a big problem for people. Black cat across the road. Have you got this problem?

Yeah. Shits in your garden. You can tell. The cat's poos is bigger than my dog's poos. That's cat across the road. Have you got this problem? Yeah. You can tell. The cat's poos is bigger than my dog's poos. That's how I can tell. That's because your dog's stupid and little. Yeah. Your dog's poos will be tiny. Nuggets.

Yeah. But the cats do a long... Like a rabbit. They do a longer turd, don't they? Yeah, they do. Cat. Yeah. Oh.

Gross. And your veggies. You plant some radishes. Number four on the list of the top six sorts of gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs next. The don't look in the glass house, it's just tomatoes, I promise garden. There's not a lot happening in the garden, but the tomatoes in the glass house seem to be thriving. No tomatoes yet, though. Nah.

Well, you want to get the plant as big as possible before it really fruits hard. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six other sorts of gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs, the North Canterbury Drought Garden. It's just a lot of dead lawn and empty flower beds and some old mate walking around going, shit, it's dry. Shit, it's dry.

Yeah. It's so dry. Number two on the list of the top six other sorts of gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs is the West Auckland Old Cars Garden Features Gardens. Parked up on the lawn. Yeah. But they're also like, you get a car and it rusts out and it fills with water and you have fish swimming in it.

Oh, lovely. Or beautiful. Or just frogs. Or just like stagnant water full of mosquito larvae. Yep. You know, that real West Auckland feel to it. Perfect. There's maybe a vine growing through the car.

Yep. Yeah. Lovely. Some noxious weed. Couple of old swapper bottles. Yes. In the back seat. Smashed, of course.

Yep. So you wouldn't want them whole so you could use them again. Heck no. And number one on today's top six other sorts of gardens that Hamilton Gardens needs. I've just put concrete down everywhere because I didn't want to have to do the gardens garden. Yeah. It's just a concrete, concrete slab. Yeah, you have that one for contrast.

Yeah. It's a little bit of contrast to the rest of the greenery. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The Bachelorette pool party is happening real soon. We are going to the Bachelorette Mansion, which you've seen on the show, and we are going to have a pool party. If you want to join us,

you just need to text mansion to 9696 or you can register at ZM online. And it's fancy. It's real fancy. It is fancy. Now, this is quite a segue into the fact that executive intern Anya has a podcast. Yes.

And it is that podcast that we want to talk about because there's some details. A ranking. We were sent yesterday by Gary that you are number one on iHeartRadio. Not quite. I'm number one in the room. Number two on iHeartRadio. Oh, who's ahead of you on iHeartRadio? Bloody Leighton Smith.

Are you kidding me? That old codger. What's he done lately apart from stir up the old boomers? I don't know. That's what maybe the podcast needs. Stir up the boomers. So your podcast is about The Bachelorette. Yep.

And you delve into each episode. You have an episode. Yeah, we just have a couple of wines, have a big old goss about the episodes. Your podcast is about The Bachelorette. Yep. And you delve into each episode. You have an episode. Yeah, we just have a couple of wines, have a big old goss about the episodes. Sometimes you record this at like 10 o'clock in the morning. Yep, we do. But, you know, committed to the job. Right, okay.

And, yeah, get the exited contestants in, get The Bachelorettes in, and have a big old chat about it. And you're beating us. Yeah, look, I'm sorry about that. What number are we? Number three. Hey, it's really good, guys.

It's really good, sweetheart. You'll get there one day. I'm okay with her giving us shit because you gave her so much crap about it the other day. Thank you. Being like, we're new number 30 or something or she's knuckled down. Yep.

I've put my head down, bum up. And you've got it down. No, but this isn't where you were number 30. You were number 30 on iTunes. You've just found stats that please you. Don't we all? Yeah, that's what we do all the time. Ah, right.

Yeah. Look, hey, guys, you know, you might too become an advanced broadcaster one day if you work really hard. Look at Bleacher's face. You know? Well, you know I don't like losing. I'm very competitive. I'm happy to sit down with you after the show, maybe run through a few pointers.

Let's talk longevity. What are you going to do with this podcast when the show ends and you've got no reality content? There'll be absolutely no reality content. Nowhere. I don't know where you're going to find any. I don't know. Well, no, because your podcast is specific to The Bachelorette.

Quality over quantity. No, but it's called Can I Steal You for a Second? That chat could be about anything. Yeah, it could be second long podcast. Look, we've got some potential options. Well, I'm not happy. Personally, I'm not happy. Can I Steal You for a Second?

It's available on iHeartRadio and iTunes. Women supporting women. Thank you, Queen. I'm just going to the podcast charts in iTunes just so I can tear you down. Oh, man. Am I still betting Dolly Parton? Your win over Dolly Parton was momentary. Okay, none of us are in the top ten, so we're not talking about the top ten.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Oh, We've always said this. Tuesdays are much harder and painful than a Monday. But then everyone always says like Mondays are the worst. There's songs written about Mondays. Yeah, no, you're right. What songs are written about Tuesdays? None.

Any? I don't know. Songs about Tuesdays. It's like, forget about Monday. Tuesday's gone Any? I don't know. Songs about Tuesdays. It's like, forget about Monday, Tuesday's actually the worst. By Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ruby Tuesday

by the Rolling Stones. Nothing. Nothing about the pain of a Tuesday. See You Next Tuesday by Kesha. 2010. I think that might be

about something else. Cold Shower Tuesdays by Bowling for Soup in 2002. Bowling for Soup. But none of those kind of have anything to do with the fact that Tuesdays are negative. Um, no. No. Doesn't look like it.

So, Mondays you're still refreshed from the weekend. Yep. Tuesdays, that's when you realise just how much work you've got to do that week. Yeah. And you've had a word. I don't know why I said yeah.

I was just agreeing with that as a point, not that I have today realised how much work I have. Monday, you're still in weekend mode, and it's kind of like a mini Christmas break. Monday, you've got resolutions. You're like, this week, I'm going to go to the gym. Yeah. And that's when everyone goes to the gym on a Monday.

Oh, the Mondays at the gym are packed. Yeah. All the classes, the lines are huge. And then slowly it trails off. It starts Tuesday. Despite the fact that you do go back to work on a Monday, you've got like a different mindset and motivation, which after one day at work is gone. Yeah.

And Tuesday is actually the worst day. Right. Well, so they've backed it up with, what, studies, I guess. Yeah, right. Surveys. I mean, science hasn't gone into this just yet, but surveys have said. What's that sound? Sound.

$100,000 secret sound. With Save My Bacon. Thanks to Save My Bacon, a brighter way to borrow. Soundkeeper Gary, good morning. Good morning, guys. With the Aviator Sundays on, the cowboy hat. You've added to your costume today. And you've gone for an in-ear headphone because you want to wear your cowboy hat. As much as possible.

Can you also say I got a pimple last night from a sweaty cowboy hat? Oh, yeah. Is that from a sweaty cowboy hat? Oh, yeah. Is that from a sweaty cowboy hat or a poor diet? No. Oh, my God. No, you can't. I'm just saying, like, what are you? You don't need me to be ashamed.

I don't know what he eats. I don't know what you're eating. It could be healthy. I'm just saying that sometimes people blame. Like when you blame makeup giving you a size. Yeah, but you were just putting your eye in really dirty places. You were rubbing your eye against filthy things. I was not doing that.

You were. I'm just saying that's very early for a pimple to come on, Gary. I'm just calling BS. We call Fletch. He's been wearing his hat a lot lately. Right, okay. All right, well, no offence, Gary. No offence intended there.

It's far too late. I'll just say I bought this on Facebook. Alright, well no offence Gary. No offence intended there. It was far too late. I'll just say I bought this on Facebook Marketplace so I'm reusing. Oh! There is definitely the hat. I thought those marks

were marks you made. No. Gary, that's like buying second hand undies. It smells so bad. Smell the smoke. I don't know if I want to. It has miscellaneous stains.

Oh shit, someone loved bloody Marlborough cigarettes. They were on that hand, didn't they? That smells a lot like ciggies. All right. Well, $100,000 secret sound. The jackpot is at $50,000.

Vinny, good morning. There you go. Good, mate. Good. Now, you've had to listen to the sound yesterday. People have been pouring over the sound. Let's have a listen. All right, Vinny, for $50,000 cash,

what is the ZM Secret sound? Is it like chopping and like, sort of like peeling open a garlic? Like you pop it, then you're doing the actions there, Vaughn? Yeah. I'm thinking chop. Yep. And then pop peel.

But that... And that's very quick. What gets me with the secret sound is that whatever that is. Back around the last minute. Like scraping along the chopping board like a nice one. Oh, yep, okay. Oh, yeah. Well, in his manky secondhand hat,

soundkeeper Gary. Vinny, chopping and peeling garlic is not the secret sound. All right, Vinny. Great guess, though. I mean, I don't know if it is. Because I don't know the secret sound. Sounds good to me.

You know, you backed it up with reasoning. So, you know, good guess. Yeah. I wouldn't have garlic. It's not part of my bad diet. Ouch. Brilliant. I didn't say.

I just said you could have had a bad diet, and that's the reason for the pinball, Gary. I think you said poor diet. Ouch. Brilliant. I didn't say, I just said you could have had a bad diet and that's the reason for the pimple, Gary. I think you said poor diet. Poor diet seems worse than bad diet to me. Like bad diet, you're like, yeah, you had a bad weekend, but poor indicates longer term and like really bad decisions. I'm just saying there's a pimple, that means something, okay? That's from the Marlborough hat.

Soundgiver Gary, thank you so much. Another chance coming up at 8 o'clock. We've got chances as well throughout the day. So 11, 1, 4 and 5. He's leaving before the break's even finished. He's so upset. Look at him. You've really upset Gary.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. New measures. Extra screening measures for passengers landing at Auckland, New Zealand's busiest airport in Auckland International. The A gates that you normally breeze through, you know, you just put your passport in, take your sunglasses off, try to look like your passport photo, and then the doors open and you're through. You're back into the country. Like the old days with those big lines.

You can hear his tone. No, but yesterday there were people who were manually entered and they said that it was quite a swift process. They expected a longer wait. Just had a message from my friend who went through this morning after landing from a flight because I said we're talking about this, what's happening. He reckons about 30 minutes. Wait.

Yeah, to get through passport control. Right. But my only worry was they got rid of all those desks to put in the new, like half the desks are gone so that they can have the electronic gates. So are they going to set up some trestle tables? It's not a very good look though, is it, when So are they going to set up some trestle tables? It's not a very good look, though, is it, when you come into the country and there's trestle tables? Yeah, but there's still heaps of those desks.

As someone with kids, because the kids' faces can't be on the machine, doesn't do the kids' faces. Oh, my God, you're kidding me. Why take them? The kids? Yeah. Ah, it's something about family. Oh, right.

I was hungover once and it was like no, go to the desk I got told to go to the desk once I was like, have I got fat? Ouch, rude electronic e-gate but yeah, so just there saying that you might want to take some more time

at the airport or just if you're picking people up, know that there may be some I guess more delays than usual. And be patient, please. Well, no, I mean, it is good because we don't want coronavirus here, do we? We don't want, you know, what's happening in China to be... No, we don't.

...here because it doesn't look very pretty. Super contagious. Yeah, it is. So one other thing I wanted to touch on regarding this, I saw some people that I know sharing statuses saying that this virus was not an excuse to be racist. And they'd seen memes and things. And I, maybe living in a total bubble, I hadn't seen anything.

I'd seen a couple of news stories this week about people of Asian descent who would cough in public. And then people would just say, go back to your own country. And they're like, well, actually, I live here. Yeah, yeah. I was born here as well. I'm just coughing. Like, yeah. Asian immigrants were some of the earliest immigrants to New Zealand.

Yeah. Like, came in the mid-1800s. Probably before your families did. Who came over from England in the 80s and 90s. Yeah. So I hadn't seen it. And I thought, where is it that I'm not seeing it? Maybe living in a bubble, not seeing it.

But now I have. Somebody sent this to our Facebook page, and I've seen it online a couple of places. Police are also investigating this. A racist email went round through a group called Protect Rolleston. Now, Rolleston's in Canterbury, but I'm not sure how they got everybody's email addresses

in this situation. But police are investigating it because it said the email said let your kids stay at home as you Asians are virus spreaders. Our Kiwi kids don't want to be in the same class with your disgusting virus spreaders. Oh, wow.

Stay, keep your kids at home, virus spreaders. Oh, come on. Now, this got sent to around Protect Rolleston, and many people of Chinese descent or heritage received it. And they said, yeah, like, you know, we've been here for 20, one woman in one case said, I came here 25 years ago. That's shameful. Yeah.

That's actually awful. So when. New Zealanders would do, would spread that kind of hatred. That's awful. So when somebody next says that racism is still in New Zealand and you, maybe like me, well, I believe I'm not ignorant to that, but I hadn't seen it in this context.

Yeah. Now I have. Just because you're not seeing it doesn't mean it's not there because that's happening and that's out there as a news story now and apparently, yeah, a lot of that is going around at the moment. Phase two of Treehouse Building is happening this weekend. Dad's coming up. Mum and Dad have got quite a social calendar for February.

Do they? Yeah, coming up for Indy's birthday on Waitangi Day. Yeah. Then they're having a couple of nights in Auckland City with their bloody baby boomer pals. Are they going to Queen? They're going to Queen. But what do you mean?

Are they staying at yours or are they getting... No, they're staying in a hotel. Which is quite mind-blowing for them. Yeah, because that's money. They could just... And free a commie. They could stay at our house and eat cornflakes. What's going on with these boomers?

But then they're going to Waiheke for the day. I know. And then they're coming back to our place. But then they're going to Waiheke for the day. Oh. I know. And then they're coming back to our place. And then they're going to South Island for a jaunt. Really? It's a very busy February. Wow. So phase two, somewhere in there,

we're going to squeeze in some building hours on phase two of the tree hut. Right. Because we've got the base, we've got it up. We've just got to put the hut on the top now. Right. And so Dad said, one thing I want you to have sorted is windows. So when I get there, you've got the windows.

Yep. And so we can frame them up. Okay. That's going to, if we have to go out and get windows, that's going to be a few hours. Yep. If you've got the windows, that's going to save us time. What kind of windows does a tree hut have? Like flash?

That's the thing I didn't know. So I went in completely... But you don't need to have windows. You just have a gap in the future. You just have a hole. Holy no. God, what if it rains? What kind of bougie tree hut is going to be like...

Well, you know, it shouldn't be up a tree if it's raining. It's going to be like... Are you going to have a couch up there? Let's face it. The kids are going to get bored with it pretty quick, and it's going to become Dad's whiskey den. Right. Where he climbs up with a...

The truth comes out. He climbs up with a bottle of whiskey, and he falls out after a while. I'm going to become Dad's whiskey den. Right. Where he climbs up with a bottle of whiskey and he falls out after it. Because it's a long way up. I was thinking of buying an old crash pad. You know, at high school you had the high jump mats? Yeah. So I could just be like...

Or get one of those stunt earbags. Yes! This will be your demise. Like, just before I finish the bottle, I flick on the air compressor and it fills it up, so then when I walk onto the porch and flop off. You've got to find an old, like, McDonald's slide or something. That'd be hot.

That would be the best way to get down from that tree, huh? Who was the McDonald's character that held the slide? The Hamburglar. Oh, no, he was the swings, eh? No, wasn't it Ronald? Was Ronald the slide? No, Ronald was the swings. He had his arm out like this. Was the Hamburglar was the slide? Yeah. No, Ronald was the swings. He had his arm out like this. So it was the Hamburglar was the slide? No.

Maybe it was the Hamburglar. I think it was the Hamburglar you went up and then you slid down. What was Mayor McCheese? McCheese. They were the, weren't they? Mayor McCheese was the round, the merry-go-round, wasn't it? The merry-go-round. Thing.

Because the Big Mac, the cop, he was the thing you climbed up inside. And you're like, we're in the Big Mac. In this picture, the Hamburglar was the swings. He had his arms out. He had his arms out. Because I know Grimace was that big thing. Grimace was that big thing you climbed in and stuck your head in. Yeah.

Yeah, which I ban now because kids get brain injuries. Yeah. I haven't managed to find a picture of the slide. You've got to find one somewhere. Some slide parts. An old long slide. Because that's the way you've got to get down. Imagine that. Down the slide. Oh, so much fun. Yeah, okay. Okay, so that could be

phase three. Okay. So part of phase two, I was charged with finding windows. So I went to a wrecker's and they were like, oh, you're going to... And I was like, I'm not really sure on what they're doing. Some of it was quite expensive and he's like, go and check at the dump. How much is a window? Well, like, a really average-looking window was like $300.

Secondhand? I know, and I want windows on all sides. I want four windows. So that's $1,200 on windows. You don't need windows on the backside. No, the backside's the best view. It's the view down into the, like, the manookery bit down the back. You No, the back side's the best view. It's the view down into the like, the manookery bit down the back.

You know that bit next door? That doesn't sound like an amazing view. It's a great view. And it's the sunset. Right. It's the sunset side so you get the nice

orange light coming in. Well, maybe don't have windows. That's how I know it's starting to fall onto the crash mat. Or go down Mayor McCheese. Oh, that's all right. That's cool.

And that's where we find Vaughan at the bottom of Mayor McCheese with a broken neck one morning and a bottle of whiskey. Oh, he went out happy. Slipped sliding down McCheese in his own vomit. Oh, my God. Even your children would be like, yeah, he went out happy. Absolutely ripped on half a bottle of a nice Japanese whiskey. So I went to the dump and the kids came and the kids have never come to the dump shop with me.

This is a shop at the dump. I didn't even know this existed. There's something fascinating about what people throw away. Once you've backed up your trailer and you've just taken things that people have thrown away, are you allowed to do that? Yeah. Okay. Well, no, no to do that? Yeah. Okay.

Well, no, no, no. You don't take it. Right. You've got to pay for it. Because they like clean them up and stuff. And they might like fix it a little bit. You mean at the shop? Yeah, at the shop.

But what about if you just get it out of the hole? Oh, you're not allowed to go in the hole. Well, you're not supposed to go in the hole. Yeah, but if no one saw, you're just still- You're probably going in the hole. Okay, okay. But it's yucky in there. Okay. So there's the dump shop and there's just all the stuff. Okay, okay. But it's yucky in there. Okay.

So there's the dump shop and there's just all the stuff. And I actually, oh, that's right, I don't have my phone. You took a photo. There was this massive pile of, at the dump shop, of adult nappies. That obviously hadn't been used. Oh, okay. But it was massive and they were $10 a bag. Yeah.

Which I'm guessing is a good price because it's a dump shop. And the girls look at it and they're like, what are these? Adult nappies. Why do adults need nappies? And then I had to explain to them that you can get to a certain age and you can lose a little bit of control in that area. They thought that was pretty funny and then started asking when that was going to happen to their grandparents. And I said, hopefully never. And then we walked around and I found something.

And I'm not going to say what it is because actually after work on the way home, I'm going to call it and see if it's still there. And if it is, I'm going to get it. But you don't need this thing. You've already got one, but the second could be good. Or I like give it a little bit of a clean and then I give it to somebody who I know is also interested in this thing

and then they're like, how generous? And I'm like, you're welcome. You asked Megan if she wanted this thing. Yeah, yeah. And then told her it was from the dump. You should have just not said about the dump. Yeah, because now Megan doesn't want it because it's been at the dump.

That's fine. It's one of those things that is a pain to take somewhere. So if you go somewhere regularly, like I was thinking at my parents, I might give it to them so that there's one there that I don't need to take. Right. That's a good idea. When you go there. But great, great, always a great time at the dump.

And I found a door for the treehouse. A door on your treehouse. No, you just need an opening. This is bougie AF. It's going to have a door on your treehouse. No, you just need an opening. This is bougie AF. It's going to be, yeah. You're going to have a door and four windows. There's going to be no sides. How do you climb up and then open the door?

No, that's the trap door. So you climb up the ladder and you go through the trap door. Yeah. And then you put the trap door down and that becomes part of the floor. But then if you put a door in, where will the slide opening for Mammoth Cheese be? No, no, no, so the door will lead onto the porch at the front and the Mammoth Cheese slide will be off the porch. Are you having a porch?

Oh, yeah, baby. It's going to be... A porch! That's what I'm telling you. Good Lord! God, you've changed, though. And then I'm going to Airbnb it. I'm 1% smithy over here.

Yeah! Far out. We're not building a dunker of a tree. I never got a treehouse when I was a kid. Oh, so you're making up. We had not building a dunker of a tree. I never got a tree house when I was a kid. Oh, so you're making up. We had to hammer pieces of wood

into a tree to be like a ladder to climb up into the tree. Don't bring your sob story to make this. So, we're doing a good tree hut.

Can I? And my dad is also the granddad that feels he's got to make up for never having given me a tree hut. And he's a perfectionist, so. Will you rent out

your tree hut? Yeah. Oh, I live there. Sounds nice. Okay, some of these slides on Trade Me are not up to, they're not long enough. Nah, that's the thing. We'll need to work out the drop

and then get a slide, get a slide to fit the drop. Do they bolt those ones down in playgrounds? Yes. Oh. You'd have to put a, I've seen them, they come with like a,

a lot of them have support poles and you've got to conquer it so very hard to uplift it like two o'clock in the morning oh you were suggesting we steal a slide right I thought you were worried about my safety

when I'm drunkenly slip sliding down my cheese no I just want one of those really cool covered slides yes that has a twirl in it yeah yeah yeah like at the

Margaret Mayhe playground yes yeah see I wouldn't need that whole slide, but I could take the top section and connect it to the bottom section and have the right height. Your tree hut is nearly as tall as that.

Is it? No, it's going to be dangerous to fall out. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So I saw an article yesterday, and this goes, because I know that you and I, we see, we're eye to eye with dishwasher stacking etiquette.

You have a very specific etiquette which you go on and on about. If anyone breaks the etiquette, you get very upset about it. Like quite often, if friends are over and they stack my dishwasher, they'll leave and I'll go to put something in and I'll be like, oh, the plates don't go there. And then I'll put the

plates where I put the plates and then the cutlery the right way round. And I mean, I appreciate they're trying. And I'll go to put something in and I'll be like, oh, the plates don't go there. And then I'll put the plates where I put the plates. Yep. And then the cutlery the right way around. Yep. And, I mean, I appreciate they do that, but it's wrong. I'm teaching the kids to stack the dishwasher at the moment. And one of them had the sheer audacity to tell me that's not where mum puts them. And I said, your mum sucks at stacking a dishwasher.

Like, she gets it from her mother. They're both terrible at stacking dishwashers. Like, Sade's mum, her partner Pete, he restacks the dishwasher. Because he knows. He gets it. I restack the dishwasher. I want to stop this cycle with my daughters. I need to cut this connection, the XY gene, XX gene.

Which is a female? XX. The XX genes carrying, obviously, in this family, I need to separate it. Right, okay. I don't want my daughters being terrible dishwasher stackers. Do you know what I've been told off for recently a few times? Is that we've got dish drawers. Oh, God, I hate dish drawers. Oh, God, I hate dish drawers.

I hate dish drawers. Did you end up getting dish drawers? No, we've got a lovely new Samsung dishwasher hashtag spawn. Okay, yeah. Hashtag collab. I'll be honest with you guys, they help us up. Oh, my God. But it is mint and it's got

one of those drawers on the top for cutlery only. Like my one. Oh, changer. You can't do it wrong. I know, you can't do it wrong because the cutlery all gets cleaned. It's good stuff. People that put the fork end and the spoon end down in the cutlery drawer,

they lie down in this one, don't they? They lie down and they have every surface squirted and wishwashed. I rent a place, so I don't have the choice of what dishwasher goes in there. But yeah, you guys might remember when you... Oh, stop having your bloody avocado, mate. You can have a house too. No, no. I put things like containers and stuff,

I put it in the dishwasher anywhere. Just like chuck it in. Because I'm like, when it's full, I'll fix it up. Or when I need to put more stuff in there, I'll fix it up. That's double handling. Just chuck a container in there at the moment. What is some sort of storage unit? Yeah.

Yeah, monster. When I get more stuff in there, I'll arrange it better. So this article. Oh, God. How does he do it? This article that came out from an Australian consumer group has a whole lot of tips for dishwashing, yada, yada, yada. The one I wanted to point out and talk about is that they say one of their big hacks

is don't rinse your dishes before you put them into the dishwasher. I don't see, I've seen this before, but this is nonsense. They're saying while it's common practice to rinse your dishes before you put them into the dishwasher, apparently it's completely unnecessary according to experts and it doesn't make any difference to how clean the dishes come out. That is absolutely not true.

These people have obviously never had a partner that fed the cat Jimbo's and then chucked the spoon into the dishwasher with a little bit of Jimbo's still on it because the heat will cook the Jimbo's onto the spoon. Or egg on a plate. You've got to rinse. Oh my monsters. Absolute monsters. This is nonsense propaganda from the dishwasher tablet people.

Yeah, it is. Because you have to put it on again and you have to use another tablet. But I don't rinse and I don't have a problem with dirty plates and stuff. Yeah, because Mr. Toyboy rinses. He's obviously going in after you've done that. Yeah, cleaning up your sloppy mess. Sorting the place out. Ouch.

He's the deal with your sloppy mess. Okay, he said it once. You don't need to repeat it. I was using mine in a different context. I don't know if you put that in there. Oh my God. But you rinse your dishes. Yeah, don't be stupid.

This is absolute nonsense. It's got to be something on the dishes for the enzymes to stick to. I'm saving water. Huh? I'm saving water. Not rinsing. No, because you have to put the bloody dishwasher on for a second thing because you've not done it properly.

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Very minor. I mean, you had to move out for a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Live in a caravan and stuff and four people in one room. There were some minor renovations. The floor was missing one day. That was minor, minor. The floor was missing one day. That was... Yeah. Minor. Minor. A couple of minor things.

But one of the things in this like rejig of space is that we're now going to have a computer area, like a desk. Yeah. How would you... It's like inset into the... An enclave. An enclave.

Is that what an enclave is? It's like a little inset. But it's inset. Yeah. It's in the wall. It looks nice. There's going to be a desk acrosset. But it's inset. Yeah. It's in the wall. And there's going to be a desk across there. The desk has been made

by an old German man. Now, you know those Germans are pretty precise. He's made an old... Why is an old German man making the desk? I don't know. What kind of desk is it?

It's just a wooden desk. Okay, right. It's just an old boy in the area, I think. It came highly recommended. Okay. I just thought I like the visual of an old German man.

Like I'm imagining Geppetto from Pinocchio. Me too. Tap, tap, tap. The desk is almost finished. Pinocchio. Right. Pinocchio is just like, no, it looks great. Whoop.

I told another lie. So, beside the point, there's going to be some shelves above it. Now, I don't even know how this came up, but yesterday the title of the conversation came up on the shelving. Okay. And I said, I'm really looking forward to having a space where I can display my Funko Pops. You know those little characters that I've got? The little, like, you buy your favourite, like, movie stars

or TV show stars or, like, comic book characters. How many inches is that? Like, 15 centimetres high. Always at an inch. Always at an inch, yeah. It's, like, six foot long. And I'm looking I'm really looking forward

to having a place a place to display them as well as a couple of my favourite Lego pieces Good luck I've got the Millennium Falcon I've got a Y-Wing

from Star Wars I've got a couple of other cool Lego bits and my pop vinyl and just some books that I like Your shelf Yeah my shelf

because that's the thing it's into so there's Sade's side and there's my side. Yeah. And the look on her face was just like I had ruined her year. And she said, oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no. She stopped saying sweetheart. Oh, no, no, no.

No, no, no. Hon. Hon. Babes. Babes. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. Hon. Hon. Babes. Babes. Babes. Babes. Babes.

Babes. Babes. Babes. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. I mean, this has been a huge misunderstanding of what we're putting on those shelves.

Oh, yeah, because if you look at the rest of the renovations in the house, it's all very, very nice and immaculate. Yeah, but that's because she's got to do everything else. Yeah, but she's not going to have you. This is my show. You can't come in. I'm on her side. You can't come in with a Lego set and some stupid... Pop vinyls. Pop vinyls to ruin the aesthetic of your

house. Does the enclave have a door? No, there's no door on the enclave. No, absolutely not. They've got rubbish on display in what is otherwise a minimalistic, chic house. These are my shelves. And my house. It looks like someone

hasn't put their toys away. They have. They put them up on the shelves. Yeah, a growing man. Did you step your foot? I was like, what? I was like... I mean, but there is also

the valid argument that half of this is your house and that you live in this house so you should be allowed to put whatever you want in this house. That's a very valid point. Yeah, but if you went round to Vaughan's house and it was split into Vaughan's area and Sade's area,

which one would you want to? Yeah, she'd win the block every time. Which area would be more fun? That's what somebody said. Oh, it looks great. It'd win a thing on the block. I'm like, we're not living in the block. Yeah.

We're not Jenny from the block. We're not Mark Richardson from the block. We're not living in the block. Yeah. We're not Jenny from the block. We're not Mark Richardson from the block. We're not living in the block. Yeah. We're living in our house where I display my things that I like.

Where are your... Because that's the thing, there's nothing in that house. Nothing in that even in the house that says this is Vaughn's house. But the whole thing looks like Sade's house.

It's just getting ready for when she leaves you. And that is exactly how she wants it. She wants it. For the new person. Why do I have to leave the house leaves you. And then it's exactly how she wants it. She wants it. For the new person. Why do I have to leave the house? I suppose I am.

Yeah. You shouldn't say that the day after he had a dream about her leaving him. I know. You've had a bad dream that he's going to tell us about this.

Yes. But I am also, I could move into the tree house. Yes. That would be good um anyway that's beside the point i i want to know this morning because i i wonder if i'm alone and the what you're not allowed to display in your own house what's put on the ban list you know what's arriving today what don't tell sharday but okay, so it was our nephew George's birthday at the weekend and he's into Pokemon. Yeah.

So I, me and George, like that. Yeah. When it comes to Pokemon. Yeah. So we went and we bought little pop vinyls of Pikachu and, because he likes Pikachu, and Squirtle, because Squirtle's my favourite Pokemon. Yeah.

And I was like, I can talk to him about Squirtle being an awesome Pokemon. And I said to Sade, I really want the three starter Pokemon, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander and Pikachu, starter Pokemon from Pokemon Yellow. Yeah. For my display. Yeah.

And she said, what display? And this is actually what kicked us off. What display? Do you know what I did? What? I ordered them. They arrived today. They're going on display.

Oh, my God. Where are all your pop vinyls and Star Wars stuff currently? So the Star Wars Lego's in a cupboard in a way because people always want to play with it and it's not for playing with. You need to have this in your tree hut, mate. A tree hut display. There you go.

You need to have it in your, because it's not going to fly. We'll see. So I want to know this morning what you're not allowed to display in your tree hut, mate. A tree hut display. There you go. You need to have it in your, because it's not going to fly. We'll see. So I want to know this morning what you're not allowed to display in your own house. What maybe your partner has put a...

Oh, yep. A cease and desist on. Be lots of collectibles. And maybe it's because it doesn't aesthetically fit or it's just really ugly. What has been banned from your house

by your partner? Vaughan's not allowed a lego display uh or uh figurines yeah which okay that's kind of fair it's the cool ones in your mind um alex what's been banned from your house hi um so i'm a really really big fan of a k-pop band called bts That's getting really big at the moment. And when we brought our first house recently, I was really adamant that I wanted to put all of my BTS stuff and k-pop stuff all over our bedroom wall. Yeah right, are you 14?

That's what my husband says. He says that it's like a teenage girl. But my argument is, I put the work in, I put the money in, and it's my house. And so I want to put all of the things that I want to put all over the wall. Right. And so did you end up putting them on the wall? I haven't yet, but I'm slowly sneaking stuff in so that eventually it'll be up and he just never saw it happening.

Right, so you think that could be the key for you, Vaughn, is to just do one a day, one a week? I'm sneaking them in. I'm living with a hawk. Yeah, hey, thanks you call, Alex. Kerry, what aren't you allowed to display around your house? It's not me. It's my husband.

So we moved in with each other and I'm OCD. Everything has to match and go and it's all got its own space. And I came home and he had a rotary car part. So it's a decent sized part out of a car on my dining room table at first. What is a display piece? Yeah. Well, it's not meant to be, but he was pretty proud of it

and it was from his youth and he wasn't quite ready to let it go. My brother used to display like the road, is it that triangle shaped thing? Yeah, it's that big and it's heavy.

You can't put it anywhere. So we played hide and go seek for a few months and then I kind of gave up and we've got our own little place where nobody can see it. Wow, brilliant. Under the house. Yeah, big time. We'll put it in the shelf

over here where nobody sees. Brilliant. I'm with you on that one. Kerry, thanks. Aaron, what's banned? What aren't you allowed to display at your house? I'm not allowed to display my Vodafone Warriors fan merchandise. Fan merchandise? Wow.

How much have you got? Oh, not a heap. I've got two signed jerseys, a couple of hats, a couple of posters, which I thought would look good in the lounge room with the big TV. Yes, when you watch the Warriors. Yeah, exactly. Right. And how did that go down, Aaron?

Yeah, no good. Yeah. So what's displayed? Nothing, nothing. Everything's displayed in drawers and cupboards. I have been allowed garage space. Oh, okay. Oh, isn't she kind?

Very, yeah. Very fair. Oh, they're so giving. And they allow you in the garage. Vaughan feels for you, Aaron. But then somebody messaged in, Aaron, saying that their wife said they could have all their Lego area set up in the garage. And so he went up and set it in the garage. Now he spends more time in the garage

and she complains that he spends too much time in the garage. And he said, well, let me have the Lego inside and I'll spend more time inside. Now they're at some sort of standoff. Maybe you can have it on the back porch. Yeah, well, I might just get it framed and put it in the lounge room anyway. Yeah, see how that works for you. Thanks, Aaron.

Other text messages. When I was pregnant with our daughter, my husband was on a work trip to Perth and he bought a stuffed crocodile head for her nursery. He was very upset when I told him that wasn't going in the nursery because it was quite scary and didn't go with the whole theme of the nursery. Lots of, lots. Lego seems to be one of the most popular things that people aren't allowed to display. It's very hard to dust too.

You know, I feel like it would catch a lot of dust. Lego? Yeah. You like the little pieces? Yeah. Well, somebody's got those Lego architecture pieces. Well, you build like famous buildings from around the world on Lego. Those are quite cool.

Are they? Yeah. But they're not like this by then. Okay. Have you not seen them? The Lego architecture? Why would I want a Lego Sydney Opera House? What's that thing in Paris? Eiffel Tower. Yeah, Why would I want a Lego... Sydney Opera House. What's that thing in Paris?

Eiffel Tower. Yeah, why would I want one of those? Or an opera house? Because it's an amazing piece of modern architecture. Yeah, but I could have a really nice photo of it instead. Okay, photo guy, right. 2D. He's a 2D thinker.

Thanks to Save My Bacon, a brighter way to borrow our current jackpot, $50,000. Soundkeeper Gary. Good morning. Megan, you'll like this. I did some calculations on how many e-bikes you can buy with 50 grand. How many? 41. 41?

That's a good one, Si. You're good quality. You've probably gone high end on your e-bike there. Yeah. Good. You've got the money too. You deserve it. Soundkeeper Gary famous for his e-bike. Are you still e-biking to work?

Yeah, and I finally paid it off too. So every day I drive to work or ride to work, it's free. It's free now. It feels good. Come and join the movement, guys. Yeah, I mean like... I've got a bike. I'd have to leave at 3am to get to work.

All I'm hearing over there is excuses. All right, so the secret sound, $50,000, the current jackpot. Emily, good morning. Hi, good morning. All right, so no pressure, but you've got through. And there is $50,000 on the line. If you can tell us this sound. Okay.

No pressure. Okay, I think it's a bag of chips getting popped and then the chips getting crushed. Oh, okay. Did you say this, Vaughn? Gary asked me off the record last evening if I had had any thoughts on it. And that's my thought.

Why do you ask him, Gary? Megan and I are right here. Follow-up conversation. I've got thoughts, Gary. I know, just Vaughn's got a weird head. I just wanted to know what's in it. He's got a weird head. You're not wrong.

There's a lot happening. He does have a giant head. That's what I thought too. And I haven't been told whether I'm right or wrong. Because there's a pop and then there's a sound that's crunchy, isn't it? It could be chips. Emily, do you have a specific type of chips in mind? Like a green?

Bluebird. Bluebird. Okay, so that's your brand, but what kind are we talking like? Salt and vinegar. It's got to be salt and vinegar. So salt and vinegar, bluebird, what do they call those? Just a ripple cut.

Ripple cut. No, it's a kind, isn't it? Ripple cut, okay. No, that's eater ripples. Eater ripples. Not bluebird. What's the bluebird one called?

Bluebird chips. Just bluebird chips. But yeah. Well, it matters because there's 50,000. They're ripples, but I think ripple cut is just the...

No, that's a style of cutting. No, bluebird, it just is the bluebird and then the flavour. It's just chips. Oh. Just bluebird chips. Okay, well, let's not refer to them as ripples because that's... I wasn't. I was saying they were ripple cut.

They are ripple cut, yes, but I think you'll find you're not allowed to use that because Eater's got it. They can't do that. Wiggly cut. Wiggly cut, yeah. Soundiggly cut. Wiggly cut. Yeah. Soundkeeper Gary.

Sorry, Emily. $50,000 on the line. We have to be thorough. We really do. Yeah. That's all right. Emily, that is not the secret sound. Okay.

Oh, Emily. All right. We'll give you another chance to have a guess this morning at 11, then at 1, 4 4 and 5 this afternoon. You can hear the sound, all the clues as the game progresses at ZM Online. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast, ZM.

So I finally had one of those bad dreams where like your partner leaves you or cheats on you. And I woke up really, like, because Sade has these and you can kind of tell. And my friends that I've talked to,

female friends, when they have them, they wake up and they're angry. Right? Have you ever had one? Yeah, where they cheat on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then why are you,

it's a dream. Why are you? I know, but the feeling lingers. I know. I've never really understood that because I'm like, come on, it's a dream. Don't be silly. Don't be silly.

Don't be angry. You're being angry about nothing. But I woke up with the most intense sadness. Aww. I woke up really. I know it was a crazy dream. Yeah. Sade left me.

Yeah. It wasn't, she didn't cheat on me. She just straight up left. Okay. For another dude. Tell us about the dream. How did it start? If she left you for another dude

then like it's kind of the writings on the wall isn't it? That she had cheated on me. I mean I hate to make your bad dream worse but Tell us. It was assumed. Okay. Okay so we were, I was out, I think I was going home

from work or I was going home from somewhere and I said what's up and she said I'm at the mall. Yeah. And I was like well I'm going home from work or I was going home from somewhere and I said, what's up? And she said, I'm at the mall. Yeah. And I was like, well, I'm going past, I'll stop in. Which for a start I should have realised that's a dream because I wouldn't do that. No, you wouldn't.

So I stopped in and she was pretty keen to not have me there. She was like, oh, I'm just going to keep shopping. You should go home. That might be because she wants to buy things and you'd say, don't buy this. Probably going into Daycuber. Yeah. She loved Daycuber. Which is not a fruit and veg shop.

No. Clothing. And then, yeah, I just kind of was like, oh, no, I'll hang out. I'll hang out. And I was like, where are you going in such a hurry? And then it turns out that she was going to meet this golfer. A golfer? A golfer.

A golfer from Christchurch. That's all I knew. I love that you had to name the place too. That it was from. A golfer from Christchurch. Like a pro golfer. No, I don't know anything more. I didn't get a name.

Yeah. And I didn't get any level of golf. But when he went, must have been though, because when she left me, he sent a helicopter. How did this happen in the train? I was so angry. I was like, how did this happen? And why didn't you talk to me?

Did the helicopter land in your back garden? No, it landed on this weird helicopter pad. It wasn't at our house. Yeah, right. I don't know where it was. It wasn't at the mall. You know how trains just jump around, but you don't question them when you're in right. I don't know where it was. It wasn't at the mall. You know how dreams just jump around

but you don't question them when you're in them? I'm like, well, this is normal. Did you watch her get into it and leave? Yeah. Me and the kids.

And what were the kids saying? Well, they're like, we'll see you soon. And I was yelling out, you'll never see these kids again. Like, it was really, I was very upset. Yeah, right.

And yeah, I woke up. Did you see what the golfer looked like when the helicopter landed? No, he wasn't in the helicopter. He sent the helicopter. Right, okay. But I was like, I woke up and I got it. Now I get when you wake up, it's really hard to shake it because you've experienced extreme, like so, I was so sad.

Yeah. And I woke up. Were you like crying? When I woke up? No, no, no, no. I wasn't sad. Yeah. And I woke up. Were you like crying? When I woke up. No, no, no, no. I wasn't crying or anything. But yeah, it's been such a lucid feeling of sadness. Yeah.

And now I can kind of understand why when she has a dream that I've cheated on her, she wakes up and the anger lingers. Yeah. She's not angry at me. She's just angry. Yeah. She wakes up and the anger lingers. Yeah. She's not angry at me. She's just angry. Yeah. And if she has to identify why, it's my fault in the dream. It's the same thing if you have like a sexy dream about someone

and then you see them at work and you're like, oh my God. Hold on, this has happened. She literally said, I had a sexy dream and then you see them at work. Like not see them somewhere else. When we worked at a different place, remember I told you I had a sexy dream and then you see them at work. Like not see them somewhere else. When we worked at a different place, remember I told you I had a sexy dream about someone who I'm not attracted to at all? Oh yeah, that was weird. And then I had to see that person and it was weird. It was weird because those feelings in your dream linger.

I haven't had a sexy dream for ages. Oh, babe. My dreams are always just like weird. Like I'm somewhere in... Have you ever had... What about your sexy dream situation? What kind of dreams do you have? What do you mean sexy dream?

Like sexy dreams about people. I've had a sexy dream. When did you last have a sexy dream? I can't remember. I'm just having some sort of sexy dream drought. I haven't had a sexy dream for ages. I don't know, like a month ago maybe I had a sexy dream. About who? Am I losing

my sex drive? Why have I not had sexy dreams? I don't know. About who? Do we know them? No, you don't know them. Do you know them? Um, yes. Okay. Yeah. How would you, like, are they a friend or are they like someone that there's been sexy times with before?

Sexy times before. Oh, okay. Right. That is the idea. Really? We're not delving into my dreams. The last dream I can remember was yesterday I told you I had a dream I was swimming with dolphins. Oh, that's right.

Remember that? Yeah. And I was on a boat. I don't know why I was on a boat. Probably to swim with the dolphins. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that would get you into their habitat. No, but I wasn't meant to be on the boat. Oh. Yeah. It was like a secret mission. And that's where the dolphins were. I don't know. But when I went underwater, there were those fish.

The dolphins had gone and there were those fish with the big saw heads. I was like, oh, they're not dolphins. Where did the dolphins go? Like a marlin. Like a pointy saw head. I don't know. Or the actual ones that look like a hedge trimmer. Like a hedge trimmer.

Those ones. Very weird. Side note, I've just pga.org.nz. I've got all the Canterbury pro golfers. Give it here. I've got a list of them all. Sir Bob Charles is one of them. I'll beat the shit out of every single one of them for taking my woman.

Sir Bob Charles is here. I remember in my dream too, I sculled a bottle of Jameson's. Like that's how for taking my woman. Bob Charles is here. I remember in my dream to a skulled bottle of Jamesons. Like, that's how... Oh, my God. Like, the whole thing. Can you imagine that? I'd be dead. Give it here.

No, there's literally, like, hundreds of... I don't care. They're probably all happily married. They better be. Don't read out their names, please. No, I'm not going to. Okay, yeah. Some of them look quite attractive, though.

What? Really? Give it here. No, I don't find any of these. No, they're all real old mates. This guy wasn't old. He was a young sexy time. Well, how did he afford a helicopter?

He must have been good at golf. He's a pro golfer. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. A couple of influencers in Australia are getting it because they have done an announcement saying they're pregnant. And then it turns out, and I think this came from a food critic and writer, posted a screenshot from an industry newsletter in which the couple had,

and this was from their management, so it wasn't directly from them, but it got sent around that this couple were asking for baby stuff. So they were saying if you have any baby related brands or products and are interested in gifting them to Chloe and Mitch, then, well, they'll promote it on Instagram. They went on to say that, I think they've got a lot of followers though, 561,000 and 211,000 followers on Instagram. They went on to say that, I think they've got a lot of followers though, 561,211 followers on Instagram. Right. Respectably. Yeah, so, I mean,

it's interesting because then this food critic for The Australian sent a screenshot of this email and then said, yuck, call me old, but yuck. This would happen a lot. In New Zealand, this would happen.

Like people are represented by management and agents and they would send out proposals. Question though. Because that's how agents make their money. Yeah. They take a commission on it and that's how these people make their money and then the brand can choose whether or not to be involved. I feel like the influencers are getting a rough deal,

because how is it different to, say, Beyonce asking designers to dress her for an award show? She's got an influence. She's asking for a product for free. They can say no. They're going to get something out of it if they say yes. Yeah, but it's fun bashing influencers, because they don't have proper jobs. True. know they're going to get something out of it if they say yes. Yeah, but it's fun bashing influencers. Because they

don't have proper jobs. True. And it might be the fact that it was related to like a baby, but then you're not going to see the baby because it's while they're pregnant and I don't know. Yeah, right. There's lots of baby products in the lead up too. The baby actually having a face.

So you know my stand, as soon as someone announces their engagement on Facebook, I hide them. Or when they post their baby scan, hide. Because it's just an incessant feed of nonsense from there on in. It's an interesting, and it comes up a lot for different reasons, influencers asking for different things. So we put a poll up.

Is it entitled for influencers to ask for free stuff in exchange for posts? 60% of people said yes. It is. 40% said no. That's closer than I thought it would be. But then all of those 60... Because it's fun to bash influencers.

Yeah. But then all of those 60% of people that said no, if they were offered some free baby stuff or some free holidays. For a post. Or, yeah, some free Bondi Sands, they'd probably do it. Yeah. Exactly. And that 60% was also all those people that share those

made-up competitions on Facebook, like win a first-class ticket around the world by sharing this post. Yeah. It's time for... Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Today's Fact of the Day is about the half-time show at the Super Bowl. Oh, fitting.

Because, you know, yesterday's was massive. It's always massive. Yeah. Go on. You haven't watched it yet. I haven't watched it yet. You're a massive Shakira fan. A huge Shakira fan.

It was amazing. I know. Everyone said that she was part Sheevan, now it's Sean Jello. Yeah. And I didn't doubt that for a second. Because you're a huge... And I've heard she opened with She-Wolf. Yeah.

And, you know, that's... I thought of you. That's a jam. That's such a great song. That've heard she opened with She-Wolf. Yeah. And you know that's... I thought of you. That's such a great song. That was your wedding song, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah, she came down the aisle. There's a She-Wolf in your closet. Oh!

That's my favourite part. I do. Who else could get away with a wolf howl in a song? Yeah, no one. Shakira, Shakira. Ah, well, this is about the first ever halftime show. In 1967, it was the first ever Super Bowl. The Green Bay Packers

were playing the Kansas City Chiefs. Who played yesterday? The Kansas City Chiefs. Yep. And the first ever halftime show was two men in jetpacks. 60,000 people were there at the Los Angeles Coliseum

and 50 million people were watching at home Los Angeles Coliseum and 50 million people were watching at home now it was in that first Super Bowl that they didn't quite have any idea how important the halftime show would be they knew that they needed to fill the time because it was a massive broadcast but they didn't know how intense it was going to be

so they looked around and two guys who had jetpacks were like, I'll do it. Okay. We'll do a jetpack performance. So Bell Aerosystems

and their jetpack men went in and did the show. Now the two men that participated, William P. Suter, who went on to be the jetpack guy in James Bond movies. Pretty much any time you saw a jetpack in a movie or a TV show after that,

up until like the 80s, he was the guy. He was the go-to guy. But I thought jetpacks, like we're still not there with jetpacks. Not 100%. No. No, they had to be like fully. But then also the ones lately have been air powered. These were actual like little jets.

Oh, right. Okay. To get them up there. And another guy called Peter who became Birdman after the 63 Paris Air Show where he also used jetpacks. And for a long time after that, jetpacks were the main go-to for the Super Bowl halftime show. And that's how they realised it was so massive because after the Super Bowl was over, often people talk about what happened at the halftime lasted longer than the actual results.

But you think about the massive Super Bowl, like the big one that pops to mind was the Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake nipple exposure. Nipple gate, yeah. Yeah, in the early 2000s. And many a legendary performance since Yeah right So today's fact of the day

Is the first ever Superbowl halftime show With two dudes in jetpacks Flying around a stadium Fact of the day Day day day day ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I want to talk about receiving pocket money now,

but in your adulthood, that to me counts as anything over, what are we saying, 18 or 21? Yeah, I'd say 18. Okay. Do you have to have moved out of home? Doesn't matter? Either way? That doesn't matter.

That's even worse if you're living at home and still getting pocket money. Yeah. Because you're getting free. But I know you hear of people, I had friends as well, that they'd move out of home, go to uni and get the parents' credit card only for emergencies. Yeah, it wasn't always for emergencies. Look-a-land, that's an emergency.

If you can stop your kids getting into debt and being stuck with debt, and that'll kind of like hamstring them for their 20s to get savings and everything happening. I can see that if you can afford that, it's a good thing to do. Yeah, but it's just a handout, isn't it? It's not going to teach them anything if they don't have to earn their money. But if they're still doing it into their 30s and stuff, then yes. You've obviously not effectively slowly phased that out and they're still getting it.

But yeah, a study by, this was a 2019 study in the UK, Money Supermarket, showed that 58% of 25 to 35 year olds had taken what were called loans from their parents. The bank of mum and dad. The bank of mum and dad. There was no expectation of that being paid back. There was no interest accruing. Not like a standard loan you would take. You wouldn't take it out.

And a 2017 survey said 42% of parents still give pocket money to their children past the age of 18. Wow. Internanya, Executive Internanya, do you still get pocket money? I wish. You're back at mum and dad's. Yeah. I would like if I got a little cash injection once a week, though.

I wouldn't say no. But you get rent free, right? No, I pay rent. How much? 140. A week? Yeah. For the two of you?

No, each. Each? That's like food and everything, yeah. Oh, so that's everything. That's quite a lot. No, he's a money man. He's an accountant. He's not letting it slip.

I'll be like, ma'am, half price. Ma'am, do you get like pudding and that 140? Like, is it always ice cream? Yeah. And I do get a say in the ice cream too. That's a money card. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's a hot play.

What about a loan? Have you had a loan from the bank of mum and dad? No, I've never actually borrowed money from mum and dad. Huh. And I wear flexes because I earn heaps of money, guys. I'm making it rain. Because you're cashed up. Georgia?

Look, does it have to be from mum and dad that I get pocket money? Who do you get pocket money from? Sometimes Hayne will just give me a little cheeky... The boyfriend? Yeah. But that's only because, look, we're going out for dinner sometimes, and if he's not there, I'm like, just a little extra. You know?

Something. And he'll give you a bit of pocket money. What if he's not coming to dinner, and you're like, I need a little... I'm just like... Chingo. Just a little, if I want one extra, like, drink or, you know, dessert or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah?

That's fine. That's fine. But it's not a regular... Because he's the money man, isn't he? He's in charge of the budgets. He is good at budgets, whereas I'm absolutely not. Right. So he'll give you a little allowance.

Oh, yeah, just a cheeky one on a Friday sometimes. Do any of you have friends that have parents that give them a weekly allowance still? Not now. Maybe like a year after uni there were some that were still dragging, and I was like, come on now, come on. Actually, I do still have a friend who her mum still pays for her phone and her car. Oh, that's a weekly allowance, basically, isn't it? What aspect of the car?

Like petrol. So I should go and fill it up. What? She gets free fuel and phone? Mm-hmm. Oh, that's ridiculous. Is she paying insurance on that car or is mum covering it? I highly doubt it.

Mum would have that covered wouldn't she? That is crazy. Oh, I think we've got to take some calls then on this. On pocket money. He's still getting pocket money.

Who gets, do you know anyone that still gets a weekly allowance from their parents? And maybe they've left home, they're done,

even done studying and still getting an allowance or even a credit card or any kind of pocket money. The older, the better. Oh, the older, the better. Do you reckon we can crack anyone? Post 25?

Oh, I was going to shoot high. I was going to say 40s. No, definitely not. Anybody in their 40s still getting a little pocket money. I mean, there'd be people in their 40s still at home, maybe suckling on the teeth of mum and dad. Yeah. Do you know anyone still getting a weekly allowance or pocket money?

And so talking about those people that still get pocket money or a weekly allowance, I wouldn't be complaining if I was on the receiving end of a free weekly tax-free payment. Neither. I mean, as long as it's not putting your parents out. I know, because I'd feel, would you feel bad about that? Yeah. You've got a job. Yeah.

I've got to the other end. I like now when you go out for dinner sneaking away and paying for it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then your mum gives you a lecture on how you shouldn't have paid for all that. And you're like, too bad. Too bad I paid. And then you're like, you're 20 bucks short on gas to get home now. Because I paid for that all day.

Because I paid for my parents, yeah. So 0800 DALS at M, you can text as well 9696. My dad gets a weekly allowance and he's in his 60s. What? Yeah. It's just a must. Oh, that's got to be a trust or something from his parents.

That is ridiculous. And he's in his 60s. I know two girls, both over 35, both get allowances from their parents. One rents her parents' investment property for an absolute steal, a massive house for like $100 a week. And they needed to put it up because they just wanted it to be able to cover rates and she complained.

Wow. So many people getting adult pocket money. Laura, are you getting adult pocket money? Yeah, kind of. Okay, so what's the situation? So my husband and I and our three kids live with his mum and dad. Right. So we try to pay rent, but we don't normally,

and they pay for power and internet and stuff. Wow, so you're basically getting free accommodation. Yeah, basically. Yeah, I wouldn't be complaining. Have you ever done the sums on how much they are saving you? Oh my God, I wouldn't even want to guess, like, so much money. All right, Laura, thanks for your call. Kate, you're getting an allowance? So our dad gives us $5,000 a year at Christmas

just to spend on ourselves. I've just turned 46 and my sister is 42. Oh, my God. So, wait, that's not a Christmas present. That's a yearly allowance. Well, kind of. We get it at Christmas, but we normally get a present as well. Oh, so that's a yearly allowance.

So that's at the end of his financial year. Kind of, yeah. Wow. I mean, I would not be complaining at all. No, I definitely don't complain. Yeah, so you get that every Christmas? Pretty much, yep. Wow.

Wow. And then you're in your 40s. Do you think it'll ever end? Hopefully not while I'm living. Amazing, Kate. Thanks for your call. Simone, you're still getting some pocket money? Yes, I am.

Now, how much and how old are you, if you don't mind me asking? Okay, I'm in my 40s. Yep. I am married with kids. Yep. I'm not living at home. I have my own home and it's

quite a few hundred a week. How much a week? How many hundreds? How much a week? 13 times 100 maybe. You get $1300 a week? Yeah,

roundabout. From mum and dad? They put it into your account? Yes. That's like, it's a salary. You kind of felt guilty telling us. Do you ever feel guilty receiving it?

I feel grateful receiving it, if I'm honest. Like I said, I have three kids and that pays for their education. I'm able to now, with that money, put them into private education. And also within that money, I also get to put money into their savings accounts for their future. So it's not like, you know, it's just money in and it's wasted and I think maybe it's not classist pocket money, but it's I guess the grandparent doing something

for their children to see them use it now rather than waiting for them to pass to use it. I wouldn't be complaining if I was getting $1,300 a week. Hey, thanks for your call, Simone. Some other text messages. I kind of get adult pocket money.

I'm 35 and my parents just gave me a lump sum of $30,000, which works out to be $570 a week for how long? Wow. Do they have another lump sum planned? Oh, my God. I'm so jealous. My husband is a baby. He's nearly 40.

His mum pays the internet for Sky, his phone, his cell phone contract. He gets a fortnightly deposit. They're trying to give him a house up north, but on the stubborn wife, he keeps saying, no, I'm not moving up there. For a free house. I can't even get 20 bucks off my mum. Wow.

Yeah. Well, we said, would it even be likely over 40? Turns out it was. Very likely.