ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch Vaughan & Megan Podcast - March 12th 2020

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista-made coffee for only $4. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. We're all a little tired this morning after a late night last night. We all went out together, that's cute. Book of Mormon. It was the official opening night, wasn't it, last night? Yeah.

We had a couple of warm-up shows. So good. So good. So good. That was my second time seeing it in like two months. And it's a musical. Second time seeing it in three days. Yeah, so funny. Oh, my God.

I can't believe you've been to a musical, let alone twice. I know, right? That speaks volumes of how good that musical is. Yeah, and you loved it. The Smiths were sitting next to me. They bloody loved it. Did you find that the second time around

you noticed a lot more? So many more jokes. And yeah. A lot happens. Yeah. Vaughn's just amazed that a musical can be that offensive

and still be on. And just be that popular. Run on Broadway for that long. Yeah. And also, I've never really heard of any protests about it.

You'd think that the Mormon church heard of any protests about it. You'd think that the Mormon church... If that was about Catholics, can you imagine it? There'd be protests and all sorts of things. So good. If you get the chance to see it while it's on, do it. Because, yeah, hilarious. And I'm not like a musicals person. I wouldn't take your kids, though.

There were some people there who took their kids last night. Oh, yeah. You know. You'd have a lot to explain. There were some people there who took their kids last night. You know, you'd have a lot to explain. My friend came back from the toilet and was like, um,

I just heard a six year old ask his mum what a scrotum is. That won't be the last question, I'm sure. That also wouldn't be the least offensive thing

the parent could have been asked about too. Yeah. Alright, Secret Sound, $100,000. That is our current jackpot. We've maxed out

and your chance to win that $100,000 this morning, seven if it's not one there, continues eight o'clock, your next chance. Harry Styles is on the show today. Yeah, that's mad. After Megan and I spoke to Harry Styles yesterday. That was,

he came on the phone and my blood ran cold. God. Got like a... I've never seen you so, I mean, you were quite nervous before Lizzo. And that was in person. This was just on the phone. I don't know if I could handle him in person,

to be honest. All right, Harry Sales, who is coming to the country for a show in November, is on the show with us after eight this morning. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Listen up, it's story time. Alright, story time. Three news headlines. Vaughan and

Megan, you've got to pick one of the following three stories. Headline one, bears versus monkeys. Headline two, not a drive-through liquor store. And headline three, man brings gun to a paintball fight. Ooh. Probably shouldn't do that. No.

Accidentally? No, Megan, no. Okay. Bears versus monkeys? You want that one? Yeah. Sounds very interesting. All right, we go.

What kind of bears? What kind of monkeys? Well, we go now to India and human bears. Vaughan, to answer your question, human bears. What, like old hairy gay dudes? That's what I thought you meant. No. Or humans dressed up as bears.

Humans dressed up as bears. Because on the border with Tibet, Indian border guards have had to take drastic measures to clamp down on what they are calling troops of vicious rampaging monkeys. And I believe it

may be pronounced macaws. How do you spell it? M-A-C-A-Q-U-E-S. Macax. Macax. Dozen of them. Oh, yeah, they're real cute. Yeah, so what's happened is they're being displaced from their natural habitats by, you know, development and buildings and stuff.

Yeah, the urban sprawl. And it's becoming a national problem. So border guards have dressed up in bear costumes and have been seen in a hilarious video for two minutes running around trying to scare them back into the forest. Aww. Have you got a video? Yes, there is a video.

I mean, it's obviously lost on radio, but yeah, you can just see a couple of the border guards walking around in their bear suits. They just look like bigger monkeys though. Yeah. They're not a very convincing bear suit. They don't look like

the Shrewsbury bear, the Griffin's bear. Do you think that's what they need to get out? The Griffin's? Yeah. The cookie bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The cookie monster. Cookie bear. Oh my God, that's pretty cute. Oh, look at them, the monkeys running off. They're like, what are those?

Oh my God. Good God. Yeah. Why are those humans so hairy? It's the Sasquatch we've all been hearing about. It's nine past six. Coronavirus has had an unusual, means an unusual resurgence of something that will affect Megan.

Oh, God. Really? Yeah. I'm already the weak one on the show. Yeah, you're first to go with your asthma. Yeah, I've had a good run. That's a good way to look at it. Yeah. We've been moving away as a species from using single-use takeaway coffee cups.

Yeah. Keep cups. Yep. Reusable cups. People have been all about them. Well, you'll know, Megan. Yes. Having a vested interest in a cafe.

Yeah. Is that those cups aren't always clean when passed back to the barista. Everyone always apologises because you leave them in your car. Yeah. I would too. Yeah, I never thought about it, but you say quite a few people would give them to you and you clean them. Yeah.

But you don't have an issue with that. No, because everyone's like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. One of them has left a bit of milky bit in the bottle. I could understand a black coffee would be fine. Yeah, but we just cleaned it out for them. Well, places are stopping that in the coronavirus landscape. Yeah, right. Because if somebody passes you back a dirty cup,

it could have their coronavirus all over it. Yeah, their goobies all over it. Yeah. But you're not going to touch, like, you don't put your hands near the mouth part. You're going to clean it. You just grab it. They might have just touched it with their hands.

Oh, right. They might have been like, anyway, here's my keep cup. Right. And then straight onto your hands. But then you're washing it. And then you pick a biscuit out of the display cabinet for somebody else with your fingers because the tongs were a bit far away. And then you're like, lick your fingers. woozy daisy, you've got coronavirus.

But then you're like touching, you're touching so many things that other people have touched. I would have thought that keep cups are the least of your worries. Mouth, hands. Yeah, well, a lot of cafes are saying don't bring your keep cup in. I didn't even think about that. So have you thought about this for your cafe? No. But then that's hard because it's like handy for people

and you're saving the environment. But then on the other hand. There's now a ever-present health issue. Yeah. The World Health Organization have now officially declared the World Health Organization. Who? Yeah.

Damn it. Damn it. It's a classic. It's a classic. Vaughn, I'm reading out the latest status of the world health, okay? And it's now a, it's a pandemic. It's official. They've called it a pandemic.

What does that mean? The P word. I think it just means that we panic more. Yeah, it just means it's spread globally. Yeah, right. To multiple countries. They say pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It's a word that if misused can cause unreasonable fear.

And yeah. Because the number I read in Good News, the number of new cases in China and South Korea had slowed right down. Yeah, but that's because they've locked everybody away. Yeah. Apparently, you know, China's Yeah. Apparently, you know China's video surveillance and you know how basically everybody's lost a lot of social freedoms. Yeah.

Apparently, that's also been why it's easy for them to just handbrake everybody because you can't go anywhere without being on camera. No. Wow. Like if they told you not to leave your province and then your face pops up on a camera in another province, you're in big trouble. You're in big trouble, yeah. You're in big trouble. We all in another province, you're in big trouble. You're in big trouble, yeah.

You're in big trouble. We all know what happens when you're in big trouble with the Chinese government. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Black out, boo, me. This is why. Fat. This is why. Fat.

This is why. This is why. This is why. Fat. This is from the UK. This is a product that's being, this is why. Fat. This is from the UK. This is a product that's being launched by Mars Wrigley. It's one that I'm very fond of that we've spoken about recently. Mars Wrigley?

Yeah. That's the company, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know. Wrigley had stepped up to have co-naming. Right, so I'd always just thought Mars was the parent company. I don't know. And now Wrigley's like, move over, Mars.

So it's not a new flavour or anything. It's something we already have, but it's just supersized. So in the UK, they're launching giant Skittles. Oh no. Not interested. Three times the size of normal Skittles.

And it looks like they're all the same flavours. Yeah. But they are softer on the inside. Because you know how they're quite, when they're little, they're quite chewy. Yeah. So it's the same. Okay.

Yeah. So three times the size and softer on the inside. Can you still get like giant lollies here, like giant Jaffas? You remember those? You can still get giant Jaffas. Yeah, you remember giant wine gums? Yes. They still do those.

They were like that big. They were great. They were like the size of an old bitty. Yeah. I remember at the tuck shop though, they were always real expensive. They were the expensive ones because they were giant. Those and the Jaffas. Yeah.

You can get like, there's four different pack sizes too. So you get like a little pack, but wouldn't there only be like four in a little pack? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You can get, like, there's four different pack sizes too. So you get, like, a little pack. But wouldn't there only be, like, four in a little pack? No, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know if we're going to get them here. Maybe. But giant Skittles are going to be a thing in the UK.

Well, you guys are not excited. Nah, because I'm not. Three times the size. I'll say about a teaspoon of sugar each one. Yeah. Okay. Okay. This is wild. This is wild. This is wild. This is wild. teaspoon of sugar each one yeah okay there is a new hair product

on the market that we need to discuss I mean you guys can just appreciate maybe you could use it in your bed but I don't know

it's baldest there is a new hair straightener and it's by Dyson Appreciate. Maybe you could use it in your bed, but I don't know. It's baldest. There is a new hair straightener and it's by Dyson. Oh, Dyson. I've stepped into that arena now, haven't I? You know I love my Dyson. I'm a Dyson influencer. Remember when I was a Dyson influencer? Yeah, yeah.

That's expired now. That contract was for a year, so I'm just unemployed now. I'm an unemployed influencer. They asked me. Yeah. They asked me. And what did you say? They wanted too much. So you were like, I don just unemployed now. I'm an unemployed influencer. They asked me. Yeah, they asked me. And what did you say? They wanted too much. So you were like, I don't need that.

They wanted like five posts for one of those bladeless fans. I was like, look, I'd love a bladeless fan, but I'm not putting five posts up. That's pretty much a lie. Ludicrous. Yeah. Ludicrous. Yeah, well, I don't even have one of these

and we're giving it a plug, but it's pretty game changing. Right. It's always the appeal of Dice and, but it's pretty game-changing. Right. It's always the appeal of Dice and stuff. There's always something special about a release. Yeah, they don't seem to release something until they've done a really good job of it. Yeah.

I'll give them that. But just five posts? Too much. It's so hard being an influencer. Too much. This is expensive for start-off. So in Australia, it's $699. So it's over $700 in New Zealand, you'd have to say.

But it doesn't have a cord. So they've made a cordless hair straightener. Yeah, it's got a little stand that you can charge, but it has a battery life of 30 minutes. It's got three heat settings as well. Is that enough time? Because I find with my Dyson vacuum cleaner, if I'm doing the entire apartment, I've got to be pretty quick.

Otherwise, I've got to chuck it back on the charger. 30 minutes would be enough for me to straighten my hair. Do you run your Dyson vacuum on the high setting? Of course. What do you mean? dyson vacuum on a on the high setting of course what of course what do you mean it does a fantastic job on moderate no i'm not giving them any booze i'm not giving them any plugs why would i want to vacuum my apartment on half suck because i don't know because you don't want your carpet to lift off the full suck is excessive full start full start he doesn't do anything less than excessive. You go full suck all the time?

Why would you want to? Because it's going to be over too quickly. Why would you half suck? No, you half suck, it lasts longer. Why would you half clean your floor? And why is there even a setting for half speed? Because of lino and hard floors. You're mad.

What have you got a full suck for? I don't want to half suck up the dirt, do I? Give it a half suck. You're mad. But does that make the battery last longer? Way longer. Way longer. And I think you'll find most of the time it's an adequate amount of suck.

I don't know. I shouldn't have to tell you. But also, what are you? You've got the V10A. I've got the V11. Maybe it's a bit of a trip. Oh, okay. I've got Fletch's old wheelie hand-me-down Dyson from about 10 years ago.

You're welcome. How long does this battery last? It plugs into the wall. Oh, yuck. I know. I thought he was going to hose. I'm sorry. This is a chat for the cordless, hun.

Oh, okay. We'll talk to you when we want to know what it's like getting to an area of the house you can't reach because you plugged in way back there. How much is a normal, like a good cordless hair straightener? Like a GHD or a Plaid 9, you're looking like 360 odd for one of those. Okay, so it's double. Yeah. How often are you straightening your hair

where there's no charger? Where there's no form of power? Well, I mean, it's just the fact that I would. Right. Given the chance. Because, like, you could charge it and you could put it in your bag. If you had a big enough bag.

Oh, yeah. And you can take it to work. Okay. Or you could take it... But do you need to be straightening your hair or, like, endlessly? You might need a zhuzh partway through the day. Right. Or you can take it... But do you need to be straightening your hair or like endlessly? You might need a zhuzh partway through the day. Right. Or if you're going from work and then you're going

out somewhere, straight from work, you could give it a zhuzh. Just while we're on Dyson, I know this is completely non-spoil but what's it like when you go to a... Have you guys been to a mall or somewhere and like a public toilet and they've got like a Mitsubishi hand dryer? Are the ones in our toilets, aren't they?

No, they're Dyson. Are they? Well, the ones in the guys' ones are. Oh, they're probably not in the women's. They've given the guys a better hand dryer. We've got 70% less hair dryer. We've got 70% less air flow. In the women's toilets.

It's like... Just wait longer to dry your hands. I'm already one, love. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. Good morning. Today's top six is the top six alternative face masks for dentists. They're saying that they don't have the

dominance over the supply like they used to pre-corona. Is this a worry for all medical fields? All things involving face masks. And I mean, it's been said so many times, why do people keep doing and buying these masks?

They're not going to stop you getting coronavirus. They might stop you spreading sickness if you are sick. Like a cough? Yeah. And you want to go out in public, wear a mask. But don't walk around wearing a mask thinking you're not going to catch corona because it's just stupid.

Cameron Walker was doing some masks, hey. How are they going? They were sold out before corona. They were sold out before corona? Yeah. They were probably for Coachella, for dusk. For the dusk. For the dusk.

That would have been great for Coachella. What other New Zealand fashion houses have made masks? I don't know of any others. Right. But there may well be. Okay. Just wondering if anybody else has stepped up. Could be a gap in the market.

Yeah. Pagani, have they done one for mums? No. Augustine? No. Not that I've in the market. Pagani, have they done one for mums? No. Augustine? No. Not that I've seen. Okay. I'm out.

Posty Plus. Posty Plus. We're obviously naming all of New Zealand's most well-known high-end fashion houses. Maybe it's time for Hoos of Hutton to make a face mask. Well, given that they can't get them, I've got the top six alternatives for face masks for dentists. Number six, rugby socks. So you put the rugby sock over the mouth, sideways,

and you tie it up on the back of your head. Okay, and then just give it a wash. Because a standard sock wouldn't be long enough to get a good knot on the back. And you might be thinking, Vaughan, what about stockings? Not thick enough. Right. Oh, no. Not thick enough. Yeah, for a stocking. So apparently they have to, Vaughan, what about stockings? Not thick enough. Right. Oh, no. Not thick enough for a stocking.

So apparently they have to, between each patient, the rules are new mask. Yeah. Which is why they need so many. Because they're up over the mouth, so you mentioned of a patient like, they're like,

and a bit of tooth falls into the patient's mouth and they go, and then the tooth comes out and there's some tooth falls into the patient's mouth, and they go, and then the tooth comes out, and there's some spittle on the mask, and then that drops in the mouth of the next patient. That's obviously a no-no. They use 20,000 masks a day. The New Zealand dentist.

New Zealand dentist. That seems wasteful, didn't it? And so that's why they're saying stop buying them, because we might run out. Holy moly. I didn't expect it to be that many. Number five on the list of the top six alternatives for face masks for dentists. Sanitary pads.

But those really big, thick ones. And they got, like, tape? Yeah. They go sideways. Unless you're a dentist with a beard. Or, yeah, moustache. It might not sit. Don't know how a pad would stick to that. Over the patient and the sanitary pad falls off your face and goes in their mouth.

Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six alternatives for face masks for dentists are reusable shopping bags with eye holes cut in them. Okay. See how everyone's got 5,000 of those now. Yeah, yeah. Pop a little hole in there. You look like a kid playing ghosts. Yeah.

Yeah, and then maybe tie it back with the handles. Yep, cool. Get yourself a mask. And you can pick up some mints and that on the way home. Well, no, you should cut holes in it. In the top. Oh, okay. Yeah, not big holes that would affect the integrity too badly.

Right, okay. But you want to check that it hasn't got any chicken juice in it before you stick your face in it for the next patient. Number three on the list of the top six alternatives for face masks are a string of tea bags. You know when you buy...

Yeah, and you have to tear them off yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something satisfying about tearing off tea bags. Oh, if you get it right. It's heartbreaking if you... Same with my sachets of porridge. Oh, yeah. If you pull them apart wrong, it rips into the next. Oh, if you get it right. It's heartbreaking if you... Same with my sachets of porridge.

Oh, yeah. If you pull them apart wrong, it rips into the next. Oh, yeah. And so you put it back in the box and make that the kids' problem when they get up for breakfast. Number two on the list of the top six alternatives for face masks, a large leaf. Oh, yeah.

Maybe a fiddle leaf. Yep. Fiddle leaf, fig leaf. How are you putting that around your head? Sellotape. Oh, you're perfect. Put it over the mouth and then just sellota leaf. Yep. Fiddle leaf, fig leaf. How are you putting that around your head? Sellotape. Oh, you're perfect. Put it over the mouth and then just sellotape. Yeah.

They are nature's filter. Trees, sky. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six alternatives for face masks, glad wrap. Okay. Yep. Just wind it around your head. Yeah.

Keep the bugs out. A little bit dangerous. Keep the carbon dioxide in. Yeah. It better be a. A little bit dangerous. Keep the carbon dioxide in. Yeah. It better be a quick dental inspection because you've got to pass out soon. That is today's Top Socks. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Pretty good day.

I got to work and there was mail on the desk. Yep. And I was like, what have we got here? And I once again had bought something and totally forgotten I'd purchased it. And great day for Dad. Great day for Dad mail today because my Szechuan peppers arrived. Remember when we were talking about the return of the Szechuan sauce? Szechuan sauce at McDonald's.

And I found a copycat recipe online. Yep. And then you ordered this. I ordered the Szechuan pepper because it's the husk, not the peppercorn, that makes it. Right. So you're going to make your own. So I'm going to make a copycat McDonald's Szechuan pepper because it's the husk, not the peppercorn, that makes it. Right, so you're going to make your own. So I'm going to make a copycat McDonald's Szechuan sauce. I don't know if people are going to be paying hundreds of dollars on Trade Me for this. They might.

Maybe. When you make it, we should do a blind taste test to see if we can tell. Or which one's better. Yeah, okay. I'll do that. So that's happening. But in the meantime, I've also purchased a Szechuan pepper tree. Right, okay. Which apparently grows well in New Zealand, so. You know me. You that's happening. But in the meantime, I've also purchased a szechuan pepper tree. Right, okay.

Which apparently grows well in New Zealand, so. You know me. You're all in. All in. What happened to your avocado dream? They take a while to grow, these trees. Oh, okay. Who knew?

You're going to be hitting avocados and szechuan peppers all the time. Oh, my God. Imagine a taco. A hard shell taco. Soft. Oh, my God. Let's not start this again. It's got homegrown avocado and a szechuan pepper sauce on it.

I don't think szechuan pepper sauce would go with avocado, would it? Yes. Yeah, it totally would. That's not what we wanted to talk about in the mailbag because you have purchased an absolute dad thing. Yes. This is my new barbecue thermometer. My new meat thermometer.

Because I've got one, but you have to stay within range. What do you mean within range? So you stick the probes in the meat. You put one in the meat and one in the grill, just in the barbecue area and the smoker's area. Oh yeah. And you leave it there and it tells you how hot the barbecue is.

So if it's too hot, you can let some hot air out. Yep. But you don't want to open both vents because that could mean more oxygen on the coals and it could end up getting hotter. There's a whole thing to it. Oh, it sounds so finicky and hard. It's way easier just to turn on the oven. Why don't you just like, yeah, sausages and chicken nibbles on the barbecue?

Because it's a craft. So I wanted one that I could, so this one you put the meat in. This has got four probes. So you can cook three different things and have one in there monitoring the air inside. You plug it in, you put this there, and then, and it connected to your Wi-Fi. Then there's an app, so I could be anywhere and look at the app. So I could be here? Yep, because it's over Wi-Fi.

It's over the internet. I could be on my lawnmower, mowing the lawns, the road frontage, and I could pull out my phone and look at the app and be like, oh, I better pop back and chuck a few more coals on. We're losing a little bit of temperature now. How effing sweet. Oh, temperature now. How effing sweet. Oh my god. Listen to yourself. How friggin' sweet is that?

I could be doing anything. You're such an old lad. I could be like a little do-do. You're such a dad. I could be around the other side of the house. Will it beep you? Will it be like oh, your meat's getting too hot? The air's too hot. You'd set an alarm so it gets to a certain point and it sends you a little notification. Just seeing that digital display there,

has anybody else, and maybe I'm just alone in this, been watching all the corona news, and does anyone else want to get that thermometer thing pointed on their face and get the temperature? Yeah. The laser temperature. They just pointed at your head. You would have one.

Oh, yeah, the cafe. We've got a laser pointer. No, but it's got to put the temperature on your forehead. How do they do that? Oh, wait a minute. What? It projects the temperature on your forehead. It's like a sci-fi movie.

I haven't seen that. It's like... I want someone... That's giving you brain cancer. No, I think it's just a LED projection, isn't it? I don't know. It's 5G. It's 5G, is it?

Yeah, right. It's 5G. It's satellites. Right, okay. No, that's all. I don't know, but I justG. It's 5G, is it? Yeah, right. It's 5G. It's satellites. Right, okay. Blah, blah, blah. No, that's all. I don't know, but I just see it. Temperature on everything.

I know, I see it in the news and it's always like a stock image and I'm like, I want the thermometer on my head with the number. How close do they have to get? They just stand in front of you like a foot or so. Oh, but I couldn't do it to you over the other side of the room. Like, it's not like a sniper's scope. I don't know if I don't know. I've only ever seen the photos online. I'm going to search online for one.

Shall I get us one? I mean, do they still do dreams come true? Yeah, I mean, that could definitely be the one they do just after the ads or something. And this dickhead wanted the thermometer thing on his head. I mean, he could have asked for literally anything. He could have met Lana Cockcroft.

Flesh Warner Megan, the podcast, ZM. Coming up on the show just after 8 o'clock, Harry Styles. Because he's coming to the country. He's got an awesome new album. He's a great human being. And Megan, you weren't here for the interview, Vaughan. No, I wasn't. We did this after the show yesterday, but I've never seen Megan so flustered.

I didn't. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. It's a lot to speak to, Harry. That's after 8 o'clock. Also coming up on the show, Polly Moly. We've asked you a bunch of wedding-related questions.

Yeah, we have. We've asked things like how much should wedding gifts cost? Is eloping okay? Did you invite somebody to your wedding that you wouldn't invite again if you got married now? How many of those at your wedding? Heaps. Half? Wow.

Isn't that crazy how much money you spend on people that you don't even see or talk to now? It's a real snapshot of your life at the time, isn't it? Yeah. All thanks to Save My Bacon, making borrowing better for financially responsible Kiwis. Soundkeeper Gary, good morning. Good morning, guys. All right, $100,000 is the jackpot.

Have you noticed it's just gone a little bit more crazier? The intensity levels? Yeah. High. I was offered a 50-50 split via private message, and he also offered to get the lawyers in to write up a legal document if I was to accept. Lawyers?

That's a legal paper trail of embezzlement. I did say I don't think it would hold up, but that's the level it's getting to now. We're bringing in the lawyers. Did that person tell you their guess? No, he didn't. No, we didn't get that far. Right, because it sounds very confident. Yeah.

People are always confident, aren't they? Pia, good morning. Hi there. How confident are you with your guess? I don't know. Semi-confident? Yeah. I've been listening for a while.

Okay. And I meet me and my mum. We think we know what it is. Okay, so this is the big question. If you win, do you have to go halves with your mum? Yes, definitely. Okay, that's not bad. $50,000 each.

That's a lot of money. Better than going half with Gary because one day you might inherit that off your mum. Yeah. You might inherit

it off Gary. I love that that's your thinking. That's your first, I can inherit that. All right, this is the secret sound. And see, a one pair, $100,000 is all yours

if you can tell us what that is. Well, I think it's a screwdriver stabbing through a cardboard box and then cutting through it. So that first sound is it stabbing through and then the second sound, cutting through it. Okay, that works. So the first one, it's stabbing through and then the second sound cutting through it. Okay, that works. So the first one,

it's stabbing through. Yeah. And then it's kind of cutting it. That does sound like, you know when you don't have anything sharp to open a box and you just punch it with your keys or something? Yeah.

That's weird. Have you ever dragged a pen down the box and it's taken the little nibby thing out and then ink goes everywhere? Yeah, done that like five times. And we have to be specific here, Pia. So you're saying screwdriver, right? Like Megan just said keys, but you're not saying keys,

you're saying screwdriver. Yeah, definitely a screwdriver. Okay. So, yeah, stabbing through the cardboard box and cutting through it. Okay, $100,000. Wow. Okay. Pia? So, yeah, stabbing through the cardboard box and cutting through it. Okay, $100,000. Wow.

Okay. Pia. Pia. Pia, that is not the secret sound. Oh, you hear me? No. Sorry, Pia. Oh, no, Pia. Sorry. Oh, Taya. Oh, Taya. Sorry.

Oh, no worries. All right, back to the drawing board. Eight o'clock is your next shot. All thanks to Save My Bacon, $100,000 cash. Next on the show, we want to talk about when you found out you were related to somebody. Yeah, a couple of best friends have had some shocking news. The fact that they looked almost identical probably should have been the giveaway.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Coming up on the show before 8 o'clock, before we talk to Harry Styles, we're going to go to Italy. We're going to cross to Italy, which is currently closed, the whole country. Closed for business. Closed. It's on lockdown.

We're going to talk to a UK journalist, Thea Havlin. She is in lockdown in Italy. She's going to talk to us on the phone. And I believe she's in lockdown with her in-laws. Imagine that. That'd go. I mean, it depends on your in-laws, doesn't it? Yeah.

So we're going to chat to her. We want to talk about now though, if you've ever found out you're related to somebody, some girls who were best friends for 17 years have found out they're actually sisters.

I reckon that would happen. That would happen quite a lot. See, I don't. I thought it would only happen on like soap operas. You know, like, what was that famous Shortland Street one?

They were brother and sister. Oh, I didn't know and sister They didn't know But they didn't know Not already And it was too late Because they'd They'd done things Everyone watching

Shortland Street was like Oh are we ready for this As a nation Will we be ready To be confronted with this As we had our Our chicken schnitzel Yeah

Do you think it would Happen a lot though Like because One of the parents Had a child. Yeah. And then, or something like that. And they were around a lot and you just thought they were a friend.

And they never got around to telling you that they're actually your sibling. I reckon it probably does. Yeah, right. So these two girls, the mum of, so one got given up for adoption. Right. And one of them had a different father. Yeah. To the other.

And the mother died before she ever told the daughter who her actual father was. She knew the guy that was raising her, that was her dad. Yeah. Wasn't her biological father. So how'd they find out? Well, they were at a party. Yeah. And in 2004, and they met and they were like, they were at a party Yeah And in 2004

And they met And they were like Became really good friends Yeah And then the actual father Of both of them Right Came in and said

Surprise Surprise Right I had her with your mother When I was younger Right But then we broke up And she had the new father.

But they had different dads. No, different dads as in raised by different men. Right. Okay. But the same biological. Yeah. Right. Okay.

Huh. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. Were they upset? I don't think so. Their mum had passed. Yeah, right.

I don't think so. If you're that good a friend and then you find out they're actually your sister, I thought that'd be pretty cool, wouldn't it? Yeah. So you want to see if this has happened here in New Zealand? It doesn't need to be that close. It doesn't need to be siblings, but maybe, yeah, you found out that...

I mean, that would be pretty outstanding, wouldn't it? If you met someone and you were hanging out and you were buddies and then... You find out you're related. Even half siblings. Or even just second cousins or something. Yeah.

That's because that's where it starts getting second cousins aren't like cousins you're close with. Yeah. But you don't know your second cousins do you? I haven't met

all my second cousins. Yeah. So do you think people would have found out with those DNA websites? Like in the last few years? Do you reckon that would be, like imagine you're friends with someone and then all of a sudden you find out you're related somehow.

That would be weird. Yeah. Imagine if we were all related. Ew. What? Why would that be ew? To be fair, I was looking at Megan when I said that. We haven't hooked up with each other, so I don't know.

We don't need to worry about it being awkward at family events. All right. Well, I mean, I don't know how, yeah, how common is this? Has this ever happened to you? 0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696. Yeah, did you find out someone was related to you? We're talking about if you've ever found out somebody was related to you. Some friends found out they were actually sisters.

Yeah. Which, I mean, that's the better one, isn't it? Because you don't want to be dating someone and find out that you're related. Although, Victoria, that nearly happened to you. Yeah, so I went on a Tinder date with this guy, and nothing really went further from that one date, but six months later I went to a family reunion and found out he was my cousin. Like, first cousin?

Third cousin. Oh, okay, right. So if you had accidentally done something... Not illegal. Still embarrassing, but yeah, not illegal. Still frowned upon. Yeah. Well, you wouldn't have to drag him along to family events

because he's going to be there anyway. Yeah. Probably actually carpool. What was that look when you saw him? How did that go down? Pure shock. Yeah. And then, like, I tried to hide the rest of the family reunion.

Yeah. Just under the table. I imagine under the table. Not quite. Like, just there's a huge family. So, like, I was at one end of the room and he was at the other end. It was good. There was enough people to cover me but I was like, oh my

God. Brilliant. Hiya. Thanks for your call, Victoria. Alicia, when did you find out you were related to someone? So I lived in London for like two and a half years

and we moved into a new flat and found a couple of guys off. There was like seven rooms or something. So it was a big flat. We found two guys off the Kiwis in London page. And so they moved in. And then a couple of months, probably like two months later, we were all at the World Cup. And her cousin came as well with her partner.

And she was looking for a new room. And we clicked really well. She wanted to look for like a new flat. And she was like, you guys are so cool. So she ended up moving in with us. And then, yeah, we became like best friends. We had some pretty crazy times in London, as you can imagine. Yeah. best friends we had some pretty crazy times in London as you can imagine yeah and then two years

later um she's from Christchurch and all my family's from Christchurch but I'm from Auckland yeah so popped up to go and visit her down there and then the day that I was leaving we just went and had um lunch with one of my aunties and anyway we're talking about the family and it got on and then we're talking about my auntie and uncle I'm Audrey and Ben and my friend was like do you mean Audrey and is that live up on the hill? How do you get that random so that how do you know them and she goes well their daughter Kim is married I'm not I'm just trying to She was like, how do you know them? And she goes, well, their daughter Kim is married to my uncle. I'm just trying to draw this family tree. I'm getting a lot of data.

They end up being your what? Your cousins? So she's my cousin, yeah. And then obviously her cousin that was originally living in the flat is also my cousin because it's her cousin. Now who lives up on the hill? Who lives up on the hill? Dez and Bev. Peep up.

Dez and Bev up on the hill. Deez and Bev. Peep up. Deez and Bev up on the hill. Audrey and Bev. Audrey and Bev? What, lesbian aunties? Audrey and Deez. Oh, boring. I wanted lesbians on the hill. Where did Bev go?

Bev's who? She had lunch with. No, Deez lives on the hill with Audrey. God, you don't even know your own family now, Alicia. Are there lesbian aunties or not? Guys, it's Christchurch. I'm pretty sure everyone's really been in Christchurch. Yeah.

So that's a yes to the lesbian aunties. Yeah, they live in Lyttelton. Not really. Famously. Thanks for your call, Alicia. Ben, just quickly, you found out your best mate was your what? Second cousin, third cousin. Right.

Now, does he know the lesbians on the hill? Bevan Audrey. His dad lives on the hill, but I'm not sure if he knows. His dad's a lesbian. This is a very confusing time for everybody. But his dad lives on the hill. I'm so confused. Okay, that's good.

Thanks for your call, Ben. We've run out of time there. Some of my brother and I, this is a text message, some of my brother and I played online games with for many years, turned out to be our half-brother.

What? What? You just stumbled upon the online game. Yeah, I know. That's nuts. A friend of mine was friends with a girl at college.

They had the same first name and now it wasn't a common first name. Bev? Was it Bev? This is Bev and Audrey. That turned out to be one name all along. Bev and Audrey. Baudry. Bev and Audrey.

It's French. So they had the same first name, and it wasn't common, and it turned out that they ended up being half-sisters with the same dad. Wow. But they with the same dad. Wow. But they had the same name. They were just born a little bit apart because dad had been playing at home and playing away, if you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, right. And both games became pregnant. Yeah. And so her mum really liked the name that the guy's wife called his daughter. So it was a little bit of a competition, but they never, they fell out and they didn't communicate afterwards.

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Yesterday, I touched on the abortion bill that's in Parliament at the moment. They were regarding the safety zones. So there was 150 metre safety zones where people couldn't be abused outside abortion clinics for going. Those have been gotten rid of. They're not going to have them anymore. So it means that people will potentially be abused. So someone can be at the foot of a clinic, like at the steps right outside.

Yeah. And people were allowed to protest right in front of them and say whatever they want to them. Now there are also, I've got to ask somebody, how is this possible? Yeah. There's rules of protest, you're want to them. Now, there are also, I got asked somebody, how is this possible? Yeah. There's rules of protest, you're allowed to protest. However, this is not something that's anybody else's business

because that's somebody's body and somebody's choice. And I also, you heard from people, I heard from a lot of people, somebody asked, what are the rules to protest? And that's a very good question. Because if you are not allowed to be targeted specifically and personally, like you, there are rules to it. So for these people that are going to be there

protesting, other people should be there monitoring the protest, videoing them because they can be arrested if they overstep that mark. And I'm all for people protesting and standing up for what they believe in. That's cool, but there's a difference between, you know, protesting in the street and then doing it in someone's face aggressively at an abortion clinic. So I had lots of DMs and obviously I don't want to go into too many details because they're quite personal.

But from women who have had experiences with having an abortion. And a lot of them, a reoccurring theme in all these messages is that they had no support. They either felt like they couldn't tell someone or they told people and they got no support from friends or family. So I guess I would just like to say that if you think you don't know someone who has had an abortion you probably do and it's a scary thing or they all said they didn't take it lightly and it was a serious decision obviously but you probably know someone and the fact that you don't know that that happened to them maybe you need to need to reevaluate how you support your friend or your family member.

I've heard from people, somebody said there's lots of reasons for it as well. It's not just because you've made a mistake in a moment of weakness and ended up pregnant. Somebody said they were abused by people protesting. They were on their way to the abortion clinic because they'd fallen pregnant when their husband was undergoing cancer treatment

and the doctor said, this is this life, this thing inside you at the moment is never going to have a quality of life. Chances are it's going to die in utero and a 100% chance that it's not going to be at all healthy.

And they said they were abused by people calling them a murderer and stuff outside of an abortion clinic. They had no idea of my personal circumstances. Yeah, and they shouldn't have to stand there and explain their personal circumstances either. Yeah. Just think about it. It's worth thinking about.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. think about it. It's worth thinking about. PoliMoli today, the wedding edition of PoliMoli. We ask a whole lot of questions in PoliMoli. Get a general response. Yeah, you can answer. And then we can have those things like, 30% of people say. Yeah, we did the... We ask these on our Instagram, FEMZM. Yeah.

So wedding additions and wedding addition questions. Is it selfish to elope? Now, I don't think it's selfish for you to want to have a wedding in Rarotonga or Fiji or Vegas or wherever you want. But it's when people get shitty that people can't turn up because it's expensive to go to these places. Yeah. That's what I don't like and I think that's selfish.

Yeah. Right, okay. So you don't think it's selfish to elope? 90% of people said it is not at all selfish to elope and 10% of people said yes, it is selfish to elope. Oh, that's good. Somebody also sent the comment that we just eloped, just the two of us in Fiji,

and my mother-in-law didn't talk to me for two and a half years. That might be a good thing. Because you stole her boy. Yeah. Or her girl. Yeah. Actually, think about that. I always just assumed it's like the dominant mother-in-law of the male.

Yeah. That's the problem. Another question. Should the groom ask the bride's dad for permission? That entirely depends on the people. Yeah. If you're quite traditional or... When I asked, it wasn't stopping me, but I just knew...

It's just a thing to do. Yeah, traditional people. I didn't think my father-in-law owned my now wife, and he had to sign a sale and purchase agreement. But I had it checked over by a lawyer. But I just thought it was the nice thing to do that gave me a heads up. Was that something that your wife had said? Nah, she'd never really talked about it.

They just knew traditional people, like traditional things. Well, 58% of people said definitely. And 42% of people said no, you shouldn't have to ask the bride's dad permission. One very strongly worded comment. Literally, no way. Literally goes back to men owning woman like some creepy ass business transaction. No, I do get that though. Yeah.

When you think about it. There's lots of things about weddings that when you think about it, you're like, why the hell do you do that? Yeah. Yeah. Not a permission, but a blessing from parents is nice because it's in the milestones as your parents. Yeah. As a parent, is that one day you'll be asked.

I don't know if the future husbands of my daughters are listening. Or wives. Yeah. I don't care. But yeah, you'll be asking. You'll be asking. We also asked How much should you spend on a wedding gift?

Before I tell you what the average amount was We ranged by the way from nothing to about $150, $200 Yep Per person $100, $100? Somebody said nothing Wedding gifts are selfish And if we had that person's details, we'd be giving you

their name because they don't sound like the sort of person you'd invite to a wedding. I don't think you can expect a certain amount though because everyone's position at any one given time is different. They might have travelled to get to your wedding. They might have come from overseas. Then nothing.

That's the present, right? The average answer was $100 plus. Right. Okay. On a wedding gift. On a wedding gift per person. We also asked, are there people who attended your wedding that you don't speak to anymore? This one is for the married people. 62%

of people said yes. 38% said no. Isn't that crazy? Because, I mean, you're always going through the guest list. Like, where can we trim? You know, who do we invite? Who do we not? Yeah. Well, you two were some of very few, and Ross Boss, actually.

I can't actually think of anyone else that was at both of my weddings. So, completely recycled by the time I'd had a second. Telling us that we're good friends. That's what I'm getting from this. Yeah, best friends. Best friends. I mean, you've just hung around. Yep, yep're good friends. That's what I'm getting from this. Yeah, best friends. Best friends. I mean, you've just hung around. Yep, yep, best friends.

Best friends. A bad smell, you'll just linger. Should the couple pay for the bridesmaid's dresses? I know this is always a... Yes. Yes, it's you. I think yes. 74% of...

You're forcing them to wear that. Yeah. And it's normally yuck, isn't it? Unless you're one of those people that are like, here's a rough colour hue, you pick what you like. Yeah. And it's normally yuck, isn't it? Unless you're one of those people that are like, here's a rough colour hue, you pick what you like. Yeah.

And then they can pay for it. Here's a gross lavender colour, you're wearing it. Yeah. Well, you should have to pay.

It's a theme. 74% of people said, of course, the couple should pay for the bridesmaid's dresses, while 26% said, no, they shouldn't. And one of the

comments depends on if the dresses are ugly or not. Yeah. And do you expect the parents to pay for the wedding? 85% said nope. 15% said yes. Yeah right. That's quite an old

tradition right? Isn't it the females parents pay for the wedding? Is that right? Yeah like really traditionally. Traditionally, because they were trying to get rid of them. Traditionally it does. Someone said this should be means tested. Like superannuation.

So there you go. Holy moly, the wedding edition. We're joined on the phone right now by Thea Havlin, who is a UK journalist based in Italy, and she is in lockdown with her partner's family. Good morning, Thea. Buongiorno from Italy. Hi.

Buongiorno. Now, do you get on well with your partner's parents because you're having to be locked up with them? Yeah, luckily it's all fine. Luckily it's all good. Cozy but comfortable. Right, because there would be some people where lockdown with the in-laws would not be a good thing.

Well, luckily, the cooking's very good, you know, so it's all fine. See, mother-in-law would be fine with father-in-law. Hey. Yeah. I think I'd rather take my chances. So you're, now whereabouts are you right now? You're near Venice?

Yes, no, exactly. Usually I'm based in Venice, but I'm currently in Vicenza, which is just outside, basically. Right. Because initially it was only going to be Venice that was locked down. That was what we'd heard kind of over the weekend. And I was visiting for the weekend. And they sort of said, oh, Venice is going to be locked down.

And so I thought, oh, okay, I'll stay in the amber zone as opposed to the red zone. And then we got the news on Monday that, yeah, the whole of Italy basically had kind of turned orange and everyone was under lockdown. So you can't leave Italy now without a very good excuse. Is that right? Basically, yes.

Yeah. What does lockdown mean? You can't leave your house at all? No, you can. I mean, this was a lot of confusion over the weekend because essentially someone leaked the plans to the media of what the government was planning to do. So, you know, people were kind of trying to escape Milan and Venice

and all these other places that were going into lockdown. But it basically means you just, they don't want people to move around, basically. So they want you to stay in your town, your village, your city, and kind of not really travel around that much to spread the disease, basically. Can you still go to the supermarkets? You can still go to the shops. Oh, okay, right.

Yeah, you can go to the shops, it's fine. Okay. But it's just slightly different. You know, I mean, in Italy, for example, the bar, you know, usually you go up to the bar and you take your coffee like a shot, you know, and then you're out of there. And now they've just had to slow down. So you go in, you've got to stay a meter apart from everyone. So they put out special new chairs and tables, which for Italians is, you know, slightly difficult. Yeah. So it's just a lot of slowing down

and, you know, a lot of places that are just closed because the main advice is to stay shut and to stay home. And yesterday the news said mortgage repayments are suspended in Italy. Yeah, I'm not the expert on that, but because so many businesses are having to kind of close down and the schools are all shut, the universities are all shut, so, you know, businesses are having to kind of close down and the schools are all shut the universities are all shut so you know parents

are having to stay home to look after kids and that kind of thing for the whole month. Essentially it's a really surreal situation because it kind of feels like everyone's on pause and everything's sort of on shutdown. You know and it's only the beginning now. It's already very strange so I have no idea what it's going to

be like by the end of a month of this. What's the feeling like with everyone, with your in-laws, with everyone in the town you're in? I mean, for the moment, it's just quiet. It's just, it's very surreal. I don't think it's really sunk in how long it's going to be like this. Luckily, where we are, there haven't really been any kind of panic buying because in Milan, initially,

that was a big problem of people kind of emptying out the supermarkets and waiting in line outside to buy things. But here, everyone's been quite calm. You know, it's everyone essentially understanding that the reasons, the kind of precautions are in place are because they want people to just sort of stay put. Wow.

It's just crazy. Are people panic buying toilet paper? Because that's what they're doing in New Zealand. In Milan, yeah, exactly. I've heard in the UK it's the same. No, in Milan apparently, yeah, but no, we're quite lucky for the moment here. It's been okay. It's been okay. yeah. But no, we're quite lucky for the moment here. It's been okay.

It's been okay. Wow. But yeah, very strange. Thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us. Good luck and enjoy the mother-in-law's cooking for you. Vaughan Smith has requested something. We found out. I didn't think this was a big deal.

We were telling a story and I just said I tried this and everyone was like bloody lol who do you think you are the queen of England rah rah rah and I just sat there and took a good

five minutes of one way roasting so we're gonna re-roast Vaughn later but first after Secret Sound Harry Styles

joins us on the phone now Megan and I we announced this concert yesterday. He's coming in November. And after the show yesterday, we had to wait around for Harry Styles to call through. And we had five minutes with Harry Styles. Five minutes. That's stressful.

Vaughan, you had something you couldn't study. Charity. You were doing your charity. Well, he says he was doing charity. So Megan and I, we took on the important interview role. Someone's got to do it. And I've never seen Megan so nervous and giddy like a schoolgirl. I know that you're about to play it and I feel a bit churny in the tum.

Now, it was delayed an hour. So we were waiting an hour for Harry Styles. And do you remember, Megan, when you said to me just before the interview don't forget to press record? Yeah. I was just looking out for you. It's a big interview. Well, I had been recording for an entire hour. And I now

present to you, before the Harry Styles interview, Megan waiting for Harry Styles to come on the phone. No. Don't laugh at me if my voice shakes. Megan, waiting for Harry Styles to come on the phone. No. No. Don't laugh at me if my voice shakes. I'm going to tell Harry Styles that he made your mouth dry.

Why would you do that? Throw me under the bus at the start. I just had water. You literally just had water two seconds ago. Oh, my God. I can't hear him talk. Take off seconds ago. Oh my God. I can't hear him talk. Take off that lace. Jump, Harry.

I'm coming for you. Oh, Jesus. All right. Calm down. Aunty's bloody thirsty. What if he says anything like complimentary, I'm going to die. Like if he's like. What's he going to say to you?

If he laughs at something I say, I'm going to be like. Dead puddle. I'm a puddle. If he says my name, I'm going to be like, bleh. Dead puddle. I'm a puddle. If he says my name, I'm going to die. Honestly, Fletch, my mouth is so dry. This is worse than Lizzo. My hands are shaking. Is he drinking whiskey?

I like whiskey. Do you know this morning I was so nervous. I was like, I hope he cancels. Because I was like, I just can't talk to him. I've completely forgotten what we're going to talk to him about. Coming to New Zealand. Does he like New Zealand? Oh, God.

You know how sometimes people say like, Megan, babe. I'd be like. Yep. There we go. So that is a grown woman getting ready to interview Harry Styles. That was a private moment between two friends before a scary thing. He's on the show with us next. What's that sound?

Set him. $100,000 secret sound. With Steve, I begin. Well, before we can get to Harry Styles, Soundkeeper Gary. Hey, guys. Who some people have said is better than Harry Styles because he could give you, Soundkeeper Gary. Hey, guys. Who some people have said is better than Harry Styles because he could give you $100,000. That's right.

If I could make the comp about me for a second, I'm really looking forward to giving away $100,000. That excites me. This is crazy amounts of money. This is double what we've given away before. Our biggest prize. All right. Well, the pressure is on. Megan, good morning. Good morning, how are you?

Good, good. Alright, are you more excited about possibly winning $100,000 or Harry Styles? Sorry, but I have to say about winning the money, to be honest. Yeah, I totally get that. Alright, Megan, this is the secret sound.

For $100,000, what is it? I think it's when you change from sound to, like, vibrate mode on an iPhone. So we switch your flick on the side of the phone. Okay. Doesn't sound very vibratey. The secret sound doesn't sound vibratey, though, does it? No, but it's recording. Yeah, that's true.

And you see, it could be up close. Vaughan's just going to try this. Yeah, it's very hard to hear that, wasn't it? Try one more time. Are you switching to vibrate mode? Yeah. It's silent. No, switching to vibrate mode? Yeah. Or silent? No, that was vibrate.

Does it vibrate? It gave a little bit of a... Oh. No, mine doesn't vibrate. When you switch to vibrate, you might have turned off vibrate. I might. I think I turned off vibrate.

You turned no vibrate on silent. Hmm. Okay. Megan? Yes? Megan, that's not what the secret sound is. Oh, Megan. Oh, that's so good. what the secret sound is. Oh, Megan.

No, that's not good. Back to the drawing board. Okay, well, let me ask you now. Are you more excited about that $100,000 or Harry Styles next? Still the $100,000. Still the $100,000. Megan, what do you... We'll chuck in Harry as a bonus.

Oh, I can't win the $100,000, so Harry it is. All right. We'll give you another shot at the secret sound at 11, 1, 4, and 5 today. It's all thanks to Save My Bacon making borrowing better for financially responsible Kiwis. Harry Styles next. You've already talked to him. I know, but I don't want to hear me talking to him now. Flesh, fauna, Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Harry Styles is coming to New Zealand. He is here on the 23rd of November. Live Nation pre-sales Thursday the 19th of March and general tickets are on here on the 23rd of November. Live Nation pre-sales Thursday the 19th of March and general tickets are on sale Friday the 20th of March. And Harry Styles joins us on the phone. Harry Styles, good morning. Good morning, how are you? Very good.

Hello. Hello. Hi. I think there's a bit of a delay. Right. Hello. You've been to New Zealand before though. What are your memories of coming here? Hello? My memories of coming... Hello?

Oh, sorry, carry on. There's a delay. You go. Have you got me? Have you got me? We have, yep. Have you got me? Okay, you're making this very hard for Megan.

She's already a puddle. Oh, sorry. No, I'm very excited to be coming back. and she's already a puddle. Oh, sorry. No, I'm very excited to be coming back. I've always had an amazing time down there and the show has always been a lot of fun. So I'm very excited to be coming back and I think it's going to be a good time. Can we discuss your new music video for Falling?

You're underwater. Yes, I can. First of all, is the piano real? Because how does that cope with being drowned? I mean, it was, it was, I mean, it is a real piano. It was obviously rigged up to have water in it. But I won't reveal, you know, too much, you know. It's...

Magic. It was in water. It wasn't great for the piano. Because I... You know. I tried once underwater to take a photo of myself with a sea turtle, and I got the photos back, and they all looked horrible, but you still maintain composure underwater,

and you didn't float to the top. Were you, like, weighed down? Well, yeah, I had some weights on my ankles and I was kind of like holding myself down under the piano. So it was definitely an interesting shoot. It wasn't as straightforward as some of the other ones,

but I ended up wet again somehow. So that was, you know, that's a theme. Yeah. Well, it's my favourite song but we also, we, all three of us share favourite songs. Cherry, Falling and Fine Lines. Are they your favourite

songs on the album? Okay. They're definitely three of my favourites, yeah. Good choices. Thanks. Yeah, those three I'd say, those three are probably the three that mean the most to me. So, yeah, so thank you for choosing us.

I'm glad you like them. And, yeah, I'd say they're probably just the most personal, I'd say, on the album. So, you know, that always means a lot. Because you, I mean, you say in Falling that you write a lot of songs about someone. Do you ever tell them that the songs are about them or do they ever ask? I don't know if people really ask. I'd say, and I don't know, do I tell people?

No, I don't really. I wouldn't say I do I tell people? No, I don't really. I wouldn't say I like to tell people, hey this one's about you and this one's about you. No. I don't know, I guess if it's personal, I guess to the person it's usually pretty obvious, I guess.

You've never been hit up being like, what does this line mean? Excuse me. That has happened, to be fair. Yeah. Yes, it has happened. But, yeah, I think it's, yeah. Yeah. Somebody has asked me.

No further details, Your Honour. Not quite sure I have to answer that. Do you, when you go out in public, have you ever worn a disguise, like a really disguise-y disguise? I have not, no. I haven't gone full disguise. I think the embarrassment of being caught in a disguise

probably eradicates how worse wearing a disguise could ever be. I think you need like a full a full-on, like... I did once dress up... Yeah? I did once dress up as Winnie the Pooh for a friend, my friend's daughter's birthday party. And I walked around London for a little bit dressed as Winnie the Pooh. That was fun.

And nobody bothered you, or just, like, tiny kids? No, there was a couple of tiny kids who, kids who wanted a picture with Winnie the Pooh, but that was it. Wow. Love it. Hey, well, Harry, we're loving the new album and looking forward to seeing you in New Zealand at the end of the year. Thanks so much for taking the time out to talk to us this morning.

We'll see you soon. No, I look forward to seeing you guys then. Thanks so much for having me. He looks forward to seeing me. Jeez, I look forward to seeing you guys then. Thanks so much for having me. He looks forward to seeing me. Jeez, look at this mess. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Megan, you've composed yourself? Not really.

It was before the show this morning, Mountie at the social media desk, you were telling us about your friend who's working at, we can say in New Zealand, working at the social media desk. You were telling us about your friend who's working at another, we can say New Zealand, working at the call centre. And at the moment, and it's not just people that work at Air New Zealand, all the airlines, all the travel places

everywhere, just people at the moment are panicking about their travel plans, rightly so. They're worried they might not be able to go on holiday. They need to cancel stuff and change things. And they're getting absolutely like just be able to go on holiday. They need to cancel stuff and change things. And they're getting absolutely like just snowed under, aren't they? Yeah, she's getting a lot of disgruntled travellers.

Like it's her fault. Like it's her fault. Yeah, exactly. So that's our first piece of warning. Yeah. Of course, yeah, it's stressful, but don't take it out on the people on the phone. Everybody's dealing with it.

That's not their fault. They don't know the rules. They're just trying to sort your problem. So it was when Mountie was saying that her friend was under the pump. Get ready for this. That I said, yeah, I tried to ring the Air New Zealand call centre at the weekend, and it said the wait was going to be a long, like a long time. And I was like, damn it, well.

And then people were like, well, what did you call the Air New Zealand call centre for? I said, well, I was in Wellington, lads, lads, lads. Yeah. And we got stuck in really bad traffic on the way to the airport. Yeah. And I'd checked in online, but I had a bag to drop. Yeah.

And so I thought I'd do the courteous thing and try to ring Air New Zealand to say, hey, I'm running a couple of minutes late. Is there any way I'm going to be able to like take my bag to the plane or like can you keep the bag check open for another couple of minutes? Because literally it was quarter past 11 cut off and when I tried on the machine it was 11.17. Yeah, right. So who were you trying to get in touch with?

The Air New Zealand people at the Wellington Airport. To be like, I'm coming, baby. I'm coming home. Did you just think that they were going to hold the plane for you until you got there? I don't think the plane would have needed holding. It was just keeping that belt running for a couple more minutes. It's Vaughan Smith here from Have You Been Paying Attention on TVNZ2. Yeah, I'm on TV now. I'm on TV. I'm on TV. Hello, Vaughan Smith here from Have You Been Paying Attention on TVNZ2. Yeah, I'm on TV now.

I'm on TV. What's it like, man? Hello, Vaughan Smith here, Koru Club member. Entitled Jade-level Koru Club member. Also with a TV show. Yeah. Can you hold the bag check for two minutes? No.

What do you expect these people to do? They're in a call centre and in a big building. Well, no, put me through. I wanted them to put me through. I couldn't find a direct number to get in touch with the Wellington desk. You wanted to be put through to the person in charge of the baggage belt. So unreasonable. It is completely unreasonable.

Well, at least I rang. There was an American woman yelling at them for something when I got there. I was very polite when I dealt with them at the desk. Then the bout didn't stay open. What part of you was thinking, oh, this is a great idea.

I'll just call them and I'll just say, I'm late. That's what you do when you're late. You call ahead. Sweetheart, we've given you

too many allowances in your time that you think that everyone will just wait for you. Because that's what I always say to Sade. Sade hates

being late. As much as you guys hate when I'm just like, just relax, who cares? If you're important, they wait. She hates it. Like if she's like, we told, they said turn up anytime from 5.30. We've got to be there at 5.30. I'm like, no, anytime from 5.30 means at least an hour's window.

Yeah, 6.30. Oh, no way! And so when I told her that I missed the plane, she's like, ah, if you're important enough, they'll wait, eh? Did you tell her that you tried to ring the airport to get them to hold the bag drop? Because you thought you were important enough. That they would wait. Yeah. Turns out they didn't.

No, she just shook her head. Oh, my God. At least I tried. I thought it was the polite thing to do, right? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you've just joined the show, I'm being ripped endlessly for trying to call ahead to Welland Airport to say hold the plane. I didn't say hold the plane.

I'm running a little bit late. That wasn't the problem. I was going to be able to check it online. Do you know who this is? It's Vaughan Smith, TV show. Shut up. It was the baggage check that I needed them to hold for two minutes. But they didn't.

Somebody messaged in saying, I've done this, and they were very cool about it. Maybe at a regional airport. Was it just Cinderard Noon? Because I imagine they'd probably wait for her. That's about it. We went to school together. Put us in a park.

She doesn't want to be in how held above her peers, her schoolmates. Everybody should have to have a plane wait two minutes for them. All right, it's time for... Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. We just knew that we were all going to do that. Yeah. And it's sales-tired mode because we went to Book of Mormon last night.

We're all sales. Such a great show. We should talk about that more because that was, I don't think. I had a great night. Should we give a rave review? Should we do a review? Because we've never done a theatre review before on the show. A theatre review?

The theatre? When are we going gonna do that right now five to nine five to nine the people can't wait our review five will be so good okay we could do it this is a real quick fact of the day we could do it now let's do it no no no just do fact of the day hook them in. Can they hear you? What you're saying? Or is it just like, I can hear you,

but they can't. What did you say? I said hook them in. Keep listening for the rave theatre reviews. Might not be rave. You can't give it all away. Oh, okay.

Sorry. Okay, well, we've got a maybe rave theatre review. Okay. Today's Fact of the Day is we've all been saying Mount Everest wrong. Everest. review. Okay. Today's fact of the day is we've all been saying Mount Everest wrong.

Everest. Everest. Everest. I've always said Mount Everest. Oh, yeah, it is. Everest. We've all been saying it wrong. It's named after George Everest, the surveyor that spotted it.

I mean, it had a name. Did he put one of those trigs on top of it? No, you dumb, dumb dilly brain. He couldn't have put a trig on it. The first one up there was here in Italy. He would have had to have dragged the trig up. You silly Wally. How good is a trig?

Do people know about trigs? I have no idea what a trig is. Those black and white things in there, a triangle thing in there, always on the top of hills. No, I still don't know what you're talking about. Oh, for Christ's sake. Where would you have seen one? Probably never.

I don't climb up hills. No, you can drive. One of the ways I drive to work what you're talking about. Oh, for Christ's sake. Where would you have seen one? Probably never. I don't climb up hills. No, you would have. You can drive. One of the ways I drive to work, you drive past one. Do I need to know what a trig is? What would I search on Google? Because it's bringing up those maths trigonometries. Trig on a hill.

Images. Is that why they're called a trig? That you have to use that trigonometry? I don't know. See, there's one. There's one at the top of Mount Mahonganui. Yeah, right, right, right, right. I've climbed that.

Yeah. So that thing up top, that's a trig. But he couldn't have put a trig up there because no one had been up there before. You know, but when you put a trig up, you can't say you're the first person up there because you put a trig up there. You put a trig up there? I don't know. I don't know.

Generally, people who have gone up there for the first time probably aren't dragging that amount of wood. Up there. Okay. So Sir George Everest discovered this. He was a surveyor. He was like, that's pretty high. Worked out that it was the highest and it turned out it was the highest in the world. Did he use trigonometry? Probably. I would say so.

He was the great trigonometric survey of India. Holy shit. So that's why they're called Trigs. They were the mark. Because they were using trigonometry to figure out how tall they were. You remember Son Contes? Careful, careful. I almost said a very bad word.

A very bad word. You just talked your way through that. I got excited about masks. La, la, la. So weird. They'd be like, that's the angle. That's how far away we are. That means that's how tall that is.

Yeah. I've never used it since school. Never. I couldn't tell you anything about it. I don't know which one that is. I know one of them thought about a rebrand after the whole Bill Cosby thing. That was Coles. He wanted to.

And he was like, no, think the lettuce, not the man. And so anyway, they were using that to work out how high it is. And he was like, that's high. Yep. Worked it out. So they named it after him, even though, as I said, it already had a name. But that's classic English for you. Yeah.

Rock and roll in the world being like, you got a name for that, do you? How do you say it? Too hard. Too hard. Name it after me George Yeah So it could have been

Called Mount George We'll call this Mount Egmont Yeah Done We've got a name We've got a name for that No you don't

It's hard to say Terraniecki See I couldn't do it once So I'm not going to try Ever again So How are we saying it wrong Well his name How Well, his name,

how he said his name, he was Welsh. Everest. Everest. That's how he said his name. Everest. George Everest. Everest.

It wasn't Everest. It was George Everest. Oh, I don't like that. Because we've done it another way for so long, so why should we go back to how people were saying it? You don't like it, yeah.

Oh my God, it's just a boomer. Yeah, you were. You're from Taranaki so you can say it how you like because that's how it goes. Is that what you want to do here?

Okay, well, I'm going to say Everest from now on. Everest, yeah. Mount Everest. And if anyone corrects you, you can say. I can hit them with that.

Well, actually, if you wanted to be like totally correct, you could go back to what the people of the Nepalese called it and stuff before that. What's that?

You haven't got it, have you? I don't know. Now I feel like we need to fill in this gap. Yeah, yeah. What did the Nepalese people call Mount Everest? They probably still do.

It's a new segment of the show. Vaughan sings Google searches. Okay, so there's a Nepalese name for it. That is Sagamatha Yeah Sagamatha Sagamatha I don't think it's Sagamatha

Saggy Martha Because it looked like Martha's boob upside down Very saggy The Tibetans called it Chomo Langma Okay Chomo Langma

And the Chinese name for it was Zumulangma. Right. So it had a few names there. And then old Everest came in. He's like, look, I can't keep up with all of these different names. So he called it Mount Everest, but now we call it Mount Everest. So no one's right.

It's all very confusing. Global warming will take care of us all. And that is today's fact of the day. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Oh my gosh. Why? Somebody said that they've had word that all the trigs are being removed from the tallest points of mountains around New Zealand. It's the old system. It's not used anymore.

I guess you just take up your GPS thingy, don't you? And it tells you how high you are. Yeah. I guess so. Goodness. Somebody said the power's out to all of Wellington. Somebody said... This is another text message coming in. The whole country's, the lower North Island's lost its power.

Do you know if the bag drop will still be open? This is great. My plane will be delayed. I'll be out of here. Give them a call. Two minutes late. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. We wanted to know if coronavirus was putting you off going on dates. There's people online who are getting sort of custom checks when they go on dates or on dating apps, like where have you travelled recently, how are you feeling, and then getting ditched because maybe they've been to Italy recently. Yeah. So we put the question out on our Instagram,

is the fear of coronavirus putting you off going on dates? This is a surprising result. I thought a few more- It's a landslide. Yeah. 93% of people said no. I would have thought it would have been more like 50-50 because I think a lot of people-

Maybe not in New Zealand because we've got five confirmed cases. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. But someone, Nicole, said on Twitter, I was talking to a man on Tinder, I told him I was travelling and he said,

with this coronavirus, then he unmatched me. Yeah, right. That's Nicole Byer, right? Nicole Byer, yeah. She does your cooking show. You nailed it. Your baking show.

Isn't that Nicole Byer? Yeah. Yeah, that's Nicole Byer. She's great. Yeah. You nailed it. Your baking show. Isn't that Nicole Byer? Yeah. Yeah, that's Nicole Byer. She's great. You love Nicole Byer. Yeah, I love that show. It's because they always have amazing cakes and then they get nowhere close to recreating them.

You nailed it. It's great. Yeah, you've described every single episode. I don't know why you keep watching it. It's the same thing every time. It is the same thing every time, but it's just so great because they're so useless at it. Why are they trying to ice a hot cake? I mean, I don't even why you keep watching it. It's the same thing every time. It is the same thing every time, but it's just so great because they're so useless at it. Why are they trying to ice a hot cake?

I mean, I don't eat ice cakes. Eddie, yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, 4 and 4 Frother with McCafe. All right, all thanks to McCafe giving you the chance to win a month's free coffee. Emily, good morning. Morning, guys.

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Whoa. You didn't go down as well as I was hoping. We were trying to keep a highbrow. We're going to talk about the theatre. We had some yogurt fans in the house We went to Book of Mormon last night We need to talk about this next ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan

The podcast We're going to now talk a little theatre Is that not Why is my sound not working? I don't know I've got it There it is Oh that's right

It's just doorbells right at the start before the music kicks in. I knew I shouldn't have gone back that far. Instrumental karaoke version of Hello from the Book of Mormon. So last night. Playing in the background. This is my second time seeing this. Me too. Just as good the second time.

When I put up saying we were going, somebody messaged, it's their favourite musical. They've seen it 18 times and they're going to see it. What? That was before it even got to New Zealand and they're going to go see it more now that it's here. That's crazy. Been running. I remember hearing in like 2011,

Friends went to it when it was on Broadway. Yeah. Because that's when it opened and we're like, I don't know if you're planning on coming to New York, but you should come and see this. And I was like, what? How good is it? And they were like, just the most amazing thing ever.

Yeah. And so I've been hearing about it for years. Last night, finally got to see the Book of Mormon and it lived up to expectations. For people that don't know, it's written by the South Park creators. Matt Stone, Trey Parker, yeah. And the guy that does the music also did all the music for Frozen

1 and 2, songs for Coco and played a massive part in writing all the songs for this. My friend's in this and before I saw it, he said, I say some things. Your friend has some of the most offensive lines. And I was like, he's like, you probably won't look at me the same. And I was like, well, how bad is it? And then, yeah, we did the show and I was like, wow. Oh, wow.

It is bad, but I don't know. I love it. It just gradually gets there. So you don't really, if you got dropped in the deep end of it, you would be, yeah, you would be. That's not how it works. Oh, that's a bit weird. So I can't speak highly enough of it.

If you get the chance to go and see the Book of Mormon. So just the singers are incredible. The dancing's incredible. The transitions are incredible. It's just such a well-polished. Costumes. There's a Kiwi in one of the lead roles too. Yes.

Yeah, that's good to see. Yeah, amazing. The only bad part of the evening was when a bit of my ice cream broke off and I got a chocolate stain on my teeth. Hey, that's not a bad night, though. That's the only thing. Considering. It was a great night.

I had dumplings. I had bao buns. I had karaji chicken. And that was before we even got there. Karaji. Karaji. How do you say it? Karagi.

Isn't it karage? Karage. Karage. Karage. Karage. Oh, yeah. Everyone's quick to mock, but no one's got the correct pronunciation. If you get the chance to see it, though, Book of Mormon,

it's on at the moment. Grab tickets because, yeah, it is incredible. And I'm not really a theatre person. How many theatre shows have you been to? Well, that was – Priscilla, Book of Mormon. Priscilla and that's it, and Book of Mormon twice now. Wow.

But even the second time for Book of Mormon, there were jokes I'd missed the first time. Yeah, me too. And it's just as good. I feel it would be one of our shows. I can see, I mean, I wouldn't go 18 times. I don't know. I don't know, maybe.

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