ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch Vaughan & Megan Podcast - March 5th 2020

Episode Date: March 5, 2020

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ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fletch Warner Megan. The podcast. Thanks, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch Warner Megan. Good morning. Oh, you. Megan's didn't get enough before. I've just been playing a little bit of Frozen 2 soundtrack before this morning to try to boost morale, get spirits. Boost morale. Get spirits up there for a Thursday. It's not the singing. It's not the actual soundtrack there for a Thursday. It's not the singing. It's not the actual soundtrack that annoys me.

It's your rendition. It goes along with it. You're into the unknown. Yeah. It's not great. Not doing good things for morale, to be honest. That was pre-six, too. That's something.

Yeah, thank you very much. You wouldn't get people to hit that high notes this early in the morning. Who was it that we were going to interview once and they were like, don't ask them to sing because they can't hit their notes when we talk to them. Yeah, people don't like coming in in the morning and singing. Sort of warm up. And they come in and they're like, yeah, g'day. Later in the day is when my voice starts sounding magical. Coming up on the show, the top six.

Yep. We locked that in. Yeah, Tyra Banks, who's slowly losing her mind, and we're all watching it. She wants a model land. This is like, what? What are you doing? What are you doing in that voice?

She's slowly losing her mind. Oh, she is a bit cool. She is. She's weird AF. She's losing her mind. Oh, she is a bit cool. Ah, she is. She's weird AF. She's losing her mind. That's what it was. When you know her personally. The voice was a slight take.

You know, the wedding singer when John Lovitz is watching Adam Sandler's character have a breakdown, he's like, he's losing his mind. That was where

that was why that voice happened. But she wants to open model land where for a day, everyone can feel like a top model. So it's like Disneyland but for models or for people that want to feel like a model. Yeah.

Okay. Will there be rides? Mm-hmm. You don't know, do you? No. But mostly for photographs and stuff. Oh, right. The top six is going to be the top six features

of Tyra Banks' model land. All right, coming up on the show as well, your chance to win cash and a lot of it. $70,000 to current jackpot for ZM's secret sound, Thanks to Save My Bacon. Chances at seven and eight this morning. Story time's next. ZM.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. All right, you lot. Listen up. It's Storytime. All right. Storytime. Three news headlines for weird, unusual news stories that I've found.

Vaughan and Megan, deliberate. Pick one of the following three headlines. Headline one, burglars stopped to feed llama during farm raid. Headline two, burglars stopped to feed llama during farm raid. Mm-hmm. Headline two, high stakes. And headline three, man's three-hour fishing trip.

That's standard, isn't it? You'd have to like... Short fishing trip. Yeah. Is it short? As someone who gets violently seasick, that would be unbearably long time for fishing.

Oh, I couldn't fish for three hours. If I didn't have anything after 20 minutes, I'd give up. Take the boat and I'm done. It teaches you patience. You just enjoy the nature around you. Yeah, and you've got to put the thing on the hook, the bait. Oh, get someone else to do that. That's why Vaughan always does that if we've ever gone fishing.

Because I don't like my fingers smelling like fish. It's all slimy. I'm a huge fan. It's yuck. Put the bait on, take the fish off. Oh, I can't take the fish off because they're like... We did have that. Great luck fishing that time in Palanui off the rocks.

Do you remember that? No. At Hilary's house. Oh, yeah. It was the same weekend that we were playing Cranium and you made a wonderful cell phone and our friend Simon could not

work out what you'd made out of play. I was so ropeable. I was so shitty. He went to bed. He packed us up and went to bed. Oh my god. It was like he had an antenna, Megan. He had the little pull-out antenna. It was like a Nokia. It was like an old school Nokia.

Why didn't you just go ba-da-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo? No, no. No noises. No noises. Come on, Megan. Have you played Cranium? You're not allowed

to make noises. Sculptorades or whatever it's called. Sculptorades. Yeah. Fishing trip then. Do we want fishing trip? Three hours.

Yeah. Go on. All right. We'll go now to Melbourne, Australia, where a man went fishing for three hours. And I guess, yeah, if you were fishing for three hours, that wouldn't be unusual.

But if you were fishing through the door of a designer boutique store, that would be a long time to stand there fishing for a $700 Versace necklace. Huh? What? Huh? What's going on here? Oh, so there was a competition? necklace. Huh? What? Huh? What's going on here? Oh, so there was a competition?

No. What? This is 2am on Little Collins Street in Melbourne where the man made a hole in the door of the boutique store somehow. Police are unsure how he made a... I've been there. What time of the day is this?

Because that's... 2am. Oh, 2am. So it's street lighting. He uses a fishing rod to go through the hole and spends three hours trying to hook a necklace that's on a mannequin. And then he's seen walking away with the necklace

and the fishing rod. Oh, he got it. He got it. But it took him three hours. And in that time, like no one..., apparently it's valued at approximately $700. And yeah, they don't know who this guy is, although he looks to be 40 to 50 years old, they say, about 180 centimetres.

Clear as day on CCTV, so someone's got to know this man. Wow. But yeah, they're Victorian police urging anyone that knows this man to come forward. Yeah. That's like right in the city. Yeah, I know. People would have definitely driven past. I don't know at 2am how you could

get away with that. Yeah, it's bizarre. Wow. Okay. Yeah, because surely there were people going past. Yeah, okay. Weird. Still, right. And the latest is they still haven't got him.

No. Successful fishing trip. This is a good shot of him on CCTV. I know. Okay. Interesting. Next, someone's accidentally flashed their junk on a live stream. Okay.

Tell you what happened next. Have you got this bookmarked? I actually just found the unscented. Good lord. Okay. Someone's accidentally put their genitalia on Instagram Live. The Instagram Live part

wasn't the accidental bit because I was just looking at, so you want to go put up a picture and then you have to scroll right to the left. But you might not notice that you'd done it. I don't know. But this was intentional going on Instagram Live. But then Bear Grylls wanted to go for a swim.

Right. And he didn't put the camera in the right area, maybe. Right. Because he is known for, when there's no one around, he's known for swimming naked. He's a fan of swimming naked. Right. When you're on Instagram Live, there's always people around.

Yeah, but I guess he wanted it to be when he was in the water rather than when he was diving into the water. Right. So it was the diving in that... So he put the phone down. I don't know if the phone fell over, but he literally dived over the phone. Okay.

So you can see his penis. But it was also... I don't think he realised. Right. Because it was there for hours. Okay. But it was also, I don't think he realized. Right. Um, because it was there for hours. Okay. Um, but he's also not, he's not embarrassed by nudity. Yeah, right.

He's opposed to his wife nude. Did he? Um, yeah, they were going for a swim. Again. Um, but he has taken it down and he would like it noted that it was a cold day. Oh, that's... Yeah, okay. But I don't think... No, I'm not going to say that.

Have you got a screen cat? I did. I got rid of it. I showed Fletch. What did you think? No comment? I don't know. Just... I don't know. He's 1 metre 82, so what's that? 6 foot. He's 6 foot. Yeah. I don't know. He's 1 meter 82.

So what's that? Six foot. He's six foot. Yeah. Yeah. Bear Grylls. Yeah. So?

Well, no, I don't want to comment on someone's. Oh, for Christ's sake. Do I have to Google everything myself? Tell you what, good luck. Bear Grylls penis. Where did you find it? Go into your history. Go into your history. It'll be there. He really wants to see Bear Grylls penis. Where did you find it? Go into your history. Go into your history. He really wants to see Bear Grylls' penis, Megan.

You're just going to have to go into your history, load it up in Showborn so I can give a critique. Because it's not okay for me to critique it. Why not? Because. Me too. It's not okay. I don't know if it's okay For you to critique it either

I'm not asking for like a nasty critique But I'm just Who's got it? I sent you the link Oh you sent me the link Okay so now Everyone's computer's been infected with I know

Do you see the That website name? Yes Do you see the name of the website? Yes Yeah Okay that's fine I thought he would've had more pubes

Okay great Like a bushman Like natural bushman Yeah right Yeah yeah yeah That's fine. I thought he would have had more pubes. Okay, great. Like natural Bushman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how he's all like out there. He's a maintainer. Good on him. Yeah. So, you know, I'm just seeing the comments going through here.

Somebody posted the Indian flag, the flag of India. Right. A whole bunch. Is that any relevant? I don't know. I don whole bunch. Is that any relevant? I don't know. I don't know. The code.

I don't think at the time, if the Indian flag's on there at the time of the pain, I think they probably would have needed time, you know. So we need to see what flags, a few down, it'll be like, come to Brazil. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. YOKU College just south of Auckland but you would say within the realms of Auckland are celebrating their students this year in a slightly different way

not the rugby player, I mean it's not rugby season yet maybe they're the player of the week or like representative sports person of the week. It could be into sports, like just somebody that exemplified sportsmanship. They may do that later in the piece. But at the moment, they are doing mullet of the week.

Every week they award a different student with mullet of the week. How many have mullets? All of them. There's been no repeats so far. And each mullet, beautiful for a different reason. Wow. Looking back on February 12th, for example, so just under a month ago,

Mullet of the Week went to Brooke, who was deputy head boy, and a long time wearer of a mullet. I'll give you guys a bit of a Week went to Brooke, who was deputy head boy. Okay. And a long time wearer of a mullet. I'll give you guys a bit of a look at the exact. Look at that mullet. Wow. That's a great mullet.

That's a great mullet. That's Champagne old mate who does up hot rods in West Auckland mullet. Those ones. Yeah, that is. That's Joe Dirt mullet. Yeah. Joe Dirt. Wow. If you couldn't see the bit coming down on the back,

you would assume he had a trimmed all over, not shaved all over, but, you know, well-kept all over hairdo. But then at the back, there's a waterfall of blonde locks flowing down over the rocks that are his shoulders. Mold of the Week on February 19th, so the next week went to Hunter who's only in year 10 right which is the old

equivalent of fourth form right so what 15 yeah 14, 15 he's rocking a more traditional shaved sides

mullet Fletch you'll remember this sort of mullet tree from your days in New Plymouth yep that's a real

I would say that's a regional mullet yeah that's I reckon I had something quite similar mine, I would say that's a regional mullet. Yeah, I reckon I had something quite similar. Mine was more rat's tail, though, than a mullet. Yeah, yours went... It was classy, though, for the day. Yours was about rat's tail because it wasn't across the whole back of the head, was it?

It was more centralised. But I'll tell you what, whoever's writing the descriptions is also pretty on fire. The long tail on the mullet adds balance to his swerving runs as an outstanding first five for the under 60kg rugby team. And the bare sides reduce wind resistance, adding to his speed. It's good that a school's embracing this, not making, shave your hair. Yeah, because whenever you're hearing about hair and schools,

it's always someone's being sent home and not allowed back until they've tidied up their act. And there's no encouraging individuality or mullets in this case. Oosh, look at this mullet. Now, that's a good mullet again because you've got a real short one on top there. That's Jack. He's a year 10, and he's apparently had a mullet for over two years. Two years?

Yeah. Is it? He likes to spend time in the river showing off his freshwater river mullet. So it obviously looks, it's dry in this photo but it obviously gleams and shines. Is it like a cool again or something? Would you let Mr. Toyboy

have a mullet? No. He wouldn't want a mullet. Because he's got very curly hair when he gets a bit longer, doesn't he? I want him to grow it out so he has a little fro, but he doesn't want to do that either. He'd have like one of those 80s wedding singer mullets. Like it would curl right up. Probably would, yeah.

Megan wants him to though so that he looks like the weekend. Yeah. Something to celebrate. Good on you. Crazy scenes coming out of Australia, much like here at The Weeknd, of toilet paper shopping. Everyone panicking and buying tons of toilet paper.

And there are a lot of suburbs in Sydney where there is no toilet paper left on the shelves. The shelves are empty. In Sydney too. Sydney's gone absolutely crazy. Sydney's gone crazy. And then now the world media are picking up that Australians have got this weird obsession

with stockpiling toilet paper and nothing else. Just wiping their bum apparently has become the most important thing. I went to Gilmore's yesterday because I was in the hood. This is the place where it's like a supermarket for businesses. Yeah, you buy

bulk things. There's different ones around the country, right? Different name for it in Wellington than that. They had a note up saying due to, we've noted an increase in purchases of, and it listed the things. It was limited to like six units per person. Right.

So it was like the big bulk buy survival rice pasta and toilet paper was on there. But they still had lots of toilet paper. Heaps of TP. Heaps of TP. Heaps of TP, because my supermarket yesterday had heaps of toilet paper, and I was like, oh, well, what's all the fuss about? A toilet paper. Supermarket's like, yes, yes.

Oh, well, as you said yesterday, they had a, what, 40% increase in sales over the weekend alone. And they can get more stock, right? There's no skin off their nose. Yeah. And they're just like, yes, panic buy. Yes. Oh, yeah.

If you were in a supermarket at the moment, you would just be like, it's a little bit of extra admin and a bit chaotic while it's all going down, but there's still money through the door, isn't it? Yeah. And one of the big messages as the cases of corona increase is that we need to be washing our hands,

along with the don't be racist message that we also got yesterday which obviously should go without saying it's just a lie um although you that probably does need to be said because a family uh was harassed online did you read about that the family that came out and said yeah we've come back traveling um and you know they're self quarantined they were wearing it on they they were getting messages on Facebook. Who from? Who do you think? The general public. What were the general public saying? Oh, not nice things.

What did they want them to do? They were doing everything that they'd been told to do, right? Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, let's be nice to each other, first and foremost. But one of the other big messages we're getting is to wash our hands for 20 seconds. You're supposed to sing, is it happy birthday twice? Yeah.

Happy birthday to you. Sing anything that helps you remember to wash your hands twice and get all the bits, like the inside, in between the inside fingers, apparently that's. And like I always think maybe stuff gets in my ring, like. Well, yeah, you should wash that while you're in the shower. Oh, my rings. Always give your ring a soapy wash.

You can just take that off and wash your hands. No, but it has germs in the rings. I've got to wash the rings too. Another thing that they say is don't touch your face. And this is the one I've got. This is how I'm getting coronavirus. I can't stop touching my face. I'm a face toucher.

Isn't this the number one way that we get germs? Yes. Like colds and things. Like we touch our eyes and we touch our nose and we touch our mouth and face. There has been a study done in this to prove the point of how hard it is not to touch your face, even when this could bring you great sickness and even death. A study was done with medical students, and they were filmed during a lecture. Now, medical students, you'd think, would know.

Not so much. I mean, I'm sure washing your hands is day one, right, of med school. Because they do that special thing where they're like, soap, soap, soap, soap. Down to the elbows. You know, you've seen Grey's Anatomy. They touched their faces 23 times an hour on average during this lecture.

They were filmed during this big study. Especially when you're not doing anything, if you're just listening. Yeah. There's a lot of face touching happening. Half of those touches were to a mucus membrane. Nose, mouth, eyes, ears. Yeah.

Well, that's what you touch. Your mouth. Yeah. Well, that's why we're not meant to touch that. Kristen Bell. Do you know Kristen Bell? Fletch doesn't know her. Actress.

She was Veronica Mars. Oh, yeah. Anna on Frozen. Married to Dax Shepard. So she shared this on Instagram. Her mum sent her this. Your average hand under black light. No.

Before washing is one of them and it's white. Like there's a lot of stuff happening on your hand there. Yeah. And then what it looks like after a rinse and shake. Now I'm guilty of a rinse and shake after a wee. Because you don't soak. What do you think a rinse and shake is going to do? It gets the wee's off doesn't it? It gets any wee's residue off. But what about the germs

on your hands? I had not considered. Then there's a photo of six seconds with soap. Oh, six seconds, no soap. So that's just a watery nail. That's barely even better than a rinse and shake. Yeah. Then there's six seconds with soap.

Markable improvement. Yeah. 15 seconds with soap. Better yet. But 30 seconds with soap. Oh, look at that hand. It's clean under the UV light. Is that true, though?

That could be fake news. I don't believe anything on the internet. That just tells me that my hands are just always dirty. Yeah, and you're using them to touch your face. Oh. Yes. Well, what else are you going to touch your face with? And also, Vaughn's done a shaken wheeze and come in here and touched everything. Oh, yuck.

I do a rinse and shake. Well, now after seeing that, you're going to do a full... I'm going to do a full 30 seconds of soap. 30? Full 30. Okay. Because you need to take longer in the toilet. Yeah, if a song's ending and you're like,

I'm doing it for all of our hygiene. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the ZM Think Tank This is the top six Yas Model land This is the brainchild of Tyra Banks Apparently

She said it's not open yet But she's promising all sorts of goodies Okay Where anyone can go And feel like a model for the day. She said arriving at it will be like arriving in the foyer of a very nice Las Vegas hotel. Oh, okay. Will there be paparazzi?

Oh, no, they'll be there afterwards maybe when you're all done up. When you're leaving. So tickets start at $94 New Zealand dollars. The top tier experience including fantasy photo, is $1,500 US dollars. Whoa. You're getting some new Facebook profiles or some Tinder profiles with that, right? You leave with a fully personalized digital lookbook of photos that you can post online. You joke, but in the age of influence, it's $1,500 for your own look book yeah like people will definitely

do that if you're running that through the box you could just put that down as headshots you probably could yeah it's a tax deductible expense tax deductible business expense yeah it looks like we're off to model land vaughn we're going baby we're going uh so yeah there's going to be uh all sorts of bits and pieces this There's going to be makeup stations. But what are you paying for? Like 94 bucks? Is there rides? No rides.

You just walk around. At least have the... Have different places to have your photo taken. What's that one that goes up and down? The Sizzler. You don't have the Sizzler. You get off and you'll be like... And then they'll take your photo.

Well, at least a little Ferris wheel or something. I want something. You just go there to get lots of photos. Yeah, basically. So the top six features of Model Land is today's top six. Number six. This is just my list, by the way. Okay.

If I open my own Model Land. My own Model Land. Yeah, I don't know if people will be tuning up for Vaughan Smith's model land. Babesville. It sounds like a trap. It sounds like a casting couch. If you called it Vaughan Smith's Babesville, it does. Sir!

Sir! Just come this way. No. The top six features of Babesville. Of model land. Number six, lighting. Everywhere you turn, and regardless of where you are in the park

or what time of the day it is in the park, it's sunset lighting. Oh, yeah, that golden hour. The golden hour, baby. Golden hour. Everyone loves the golden hour. When you find yourself just randomly taking a photo and it's golden hour,

what a great feeling. Your skin looks so great, doesn't it? Oh, it does. How does it do that? Thanks, Sum, for both damaging my skin but making it look nice and that small window towards the end of the day. Number five on the list of the top six features

of Model Land, flower walls. You know how much people love having their photo in front of flower walls? They do love that. Why? Because it's pretty. Is there something about, like,. Why? Because it's pretty. It's great. Is there something about like the green?

It's just pretty. Right. So it's pretty. Yeah. So there's going to be green flowers. There's flowers behind me. Everywhere. Okay.

Everywhere. All different sorts of flowers. Nice. Number four on the list of the top six features of Model Land is one of those spinny 360 photo video stills. Oh, like they do on a red carpet. You know where you strike a pose and then the thing zooms around you and you get a little features of Model Land is one of those spinny 360 photo video stills. Oh, like they do on a red carpet. You know where you strike a pose and then the thing zooms around you. And you get a little video of you looking like a 3D printout model situation.

And everyone's like, yes. And you look good. And you're like, oh, yeah, thanks. But because you're you, you can spot the one thing about your body you're not happy with. No one else notices that, by the way. Yeah. No one else does. That's just you.

Number three on the list of the top six features of model land, green screens, so you can be anywhere, but it's easy peasy. Yeah. Like, you could be at that swing in Bali. Yeah. Either the Ghillie Tee one in the water or that high up one that looks a bit like a nest. Yeah. You can be anywhere.

Eiffel Tower? Yeah, piece of cake. Is there queues for... No, because there's so many green screens. Okay, good. Yeah, no queues like those photographic spots.

You could be on the Hanging Rock in Norway. Piece of cake. And it's not dangerous. I could do that for you. Number two on the list of the top six features of Model Land

are people who are paid to walk around delivering millennial specific compliments. Oh, okay. Yas, bitch. Just they walk past, they just look at you and they're like, Yas, bitch. Or like fierce energy. Yeah.

Thank you. Like, yeah, and you're like, and it boosts you up. Yeah, good. Yeah, but if you like take your mum or they might be really confused. Or someone walks past and they're like, oh. Yeah, but if you take your mum, they might be really confused. Yeah. Or someone walks past and they're like, oh my God, that a bad bitch. And you're like, yes. And your mum's like, excuse me, what did you just say?

So very specific. And number one on the list of the top six features of model land, no food trucks. Because you can't eat. Well, I couldn't stop myself if they're there. For one day. That's today's top six. Flesh, fauna, Megan.

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Soundkeeper Gary is in. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning. $70,000? Yeah. That's a lot of toilet paper you can stockpile. It is.

You wouldn't use this toilet paper, though. You wouldn't use money as toilet paper, though. You wouldn't get a good wipe. No. It's very plastic. I think a leaf is fine. A leaf. You wouldn't use it as toilet paper, though. You wouldn't use money as toilet paper, though. You wouldn't get a good wipe. No, I'm quite... It's very plastic. I think a leaf is fine. A leaf. Like a big, broad dock leaf.

Yeah. Bushman's friend. That's why I don't understand the stockpiling of toilet paper. Like, stockpile food. Yeah. You can always improvise for the toilet situation, you know? Yeah. Anyway.

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That money is all yours if you can tell us what that sound is. So I think it's a Dettol spray and wipe bottle. So when you spray, it was next to the Marcona can in the video. And looking at the clues, I think it kind of fits in. Okay. Who keeps their spray and wipe next to their instant coffee? It was in the producer's booth. The station gets messy at times.

A can of Macana. You know that green bottle of spray and wipe we had? Are you keeping a cleaner next to our coffee? Unbelievable. Okay. Can you play it again?

Spray and wipe. So you think it again? Spray. So you think it's the actual spraying of it? Yes, it's spraying of it, but it's tilted, so you know that funny sound that it makes when, you know, the little handle part of it. Hmm. Maria? Yes? That is not what the secret sound is. Maria Yes That is not what the secret sound is

Maria Alright hey We've got another chance coming up at 8 o'clock $70,000 The jackpot My one vice is Coke zero, coke no sugar Coke whatever.

And turns out it's not very good for you, apparently. All right. Go to the next. ZM. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Full strength drinks as opposed to artificial sweetened drinks. Well, full strength is like full sugar.

That's what I call full sugary drinks. Right. It turns out if you order artificially sweetened drinks with food, it's not very good for, and it might be actually the opposite of what your intention is. So people probably order artificial drinks because they're like, I don't want all that sugar. It's better for me maybe.

Yeah. It might actually trick your body. So if you eat it with carbohydrates such as fries. Yes. Which. That's me. I'll get a combo and then I'll go diet. You go with no sugar.

Because you're allowed a large combo if you go diet. Exactly. So researchers found that when you drink it with carbs, the body's metabolism is impaired. And also over time, apparently the brain's ability to kind of perceive sweetness changes. So it can damage how your body actually copes with real sugar. So your body's thinking this is real sugar because it's sweet. Yeah.

But then when you actually eat real sugar, there's, I guess, more calories in real sugar, which is shit for me. Surely it's still better than eating tons of sugar, which then... It does say if you drink the artificially sweetened drinks on their own, it had no negative effect. But then there's always carbs coming up. You know what I mean?

Always. But also, that means you can't drink it with a meal. You just got to have it in between. Finally, I opened the SodaStream yesterday. Oh, really? You know how I had a SodaStream for ages. Did you get that years ago? Yep.

I forgot I had it. And then I arrived home and my lovely wife demanded an alcoholic beverage. Oh, yeah. Okay. By the way, this wasn't straight after work. It wasn't like 10 a.m. I got home at 10 a.m. She's like, I need a drink.

I'm like, I'm with you, baby. Let's get day drunk. It wasn't one of those days. Yeah. That's today's trick. But no, later in the day, I got home and I'd forgotten to pick something up. So I said, I can sort this. So I remembered the SodaStream.

So I made some bubbly water. Yeah. And then the kids drink bubbly water. And then we talked about how great soda water is. Bubbly water. So good. And then is that, that's an alternative? Because that's enough to sort of trick your brain a little bit.

Yeah. Or squeeze some lemon in. Yeah. Love soda water. Yeah. I put some whiskey in. That's a nice little. Whiskey and soda water. So soda and jam and fizzy. Yeah. Love soda water. Yeah. I put some whiskey in. That's a nice little... Whiskey and soda water.

So, soda... Yeah. Yuck. Okay. What is it called when you have whiskey with water? It's like daddy's soda drink. No. What is it called when you put water with your whiskey?

You like it. Diluted. Watered down. Watered down. You don't want to get too shit-faced because you've still got some stuff to do. I think that's what You call it Right

That's the official That's the official Term for it But could you trick Does that trick Your brain sufficiently It does for me Because it's the bubbles

It's a bit of the texture Makes you think Oh yeah I'm having A fizzy drink here But then next week They'll tell us That bubbly water's Not good for you

But wasn't that also No it is bad for us Is it The dentists don't like us Using bubbly water Because soda water, because it messes with your teeth. Great.

Because we were, you know how everyone goes through a bit of a paleo buzz? Yeah. Some friends of ours were doing a paleo buzz and they were like, oh, no, we're just having soda water or something. I was like, what? I don't think cavemen were rocking around with soda strings. Yeah, there's a good point, actually. I was like, what? I don't think cavemen were rocking around with soda strings. Yeah, there's a good point actually. Why did they tell you?

You're the worst person ever doing any kind of diet. Just don't tell Vaughn. Yeah, it was like somebody yesterday also that I crossed paths with made a little bribing. Not a story for now. Oh no, I think this needs to be a story for now. They got bribed with coffees. And the same person that got them coffees from the local cafe got them some biscuits and a bottle of wine.

And they said, oh, no, thanks to the biscuits, we're paleo. But then they took the wine. I'm like, you can't. Can't do that, can you? The wine's made from grapes, and grapes are from cavemen days. So is that okay? I think that's okay. On paleo, it's okay to drink wine.

Yeah. Okay. But then they also didn't have a corking and sealing and screw top caps back then. So how seriously are they doing this? Yeah, I know. You can't half-ass. You've got to be fully committed to the cause or not at all. You do.

All right. 14 past seven. Next up, an update on whether Mountie, who works for us, with us, has got car insurance yet. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

ZM. Well, well, well. It was a few weeks ago that we found out driving around without insurance is one of our very own. And we tried our best.

You guys all phoned in with insurance horror stories of when there'd been accidents and people hadn't had insurance, up to and including, how much was that truck crash? Oh, six figures. Over half a million dollars. Yeah.

Yeah, over half a million dollars. Paying that off $20 a week forever. She's been adequately scared into getting at least third party. At least. Wow. At the social media desk Mountie joins us. Good morning. Good morning. Don't look at me like that.

No, it's just you. I was so proud of the developments that you've made this morning. I am proud. And you announced where you're at with us. Maybe expecting a better response. Yeah, I was very disappointed. We'll just save our response for when we talk about this on air this morning.

So, Mountie, where are you at after hearing all those horror stories about car insurance? Well, I would have thought you'd be pleased to know that I now have roadside assistance. Is that not better than having nothing? No, it's not. If you get a flat tyre or your battery goes flat, that's not to pay the bill if you crash into a Porsche. Well, that's the thing. Our battery died.

It was leaking and the car wouldn't turn on. You know how you've never had it before and you were like, oh, I'm not going to get it because nothing ever happens to me and then something happened to you and you didn't have it? That's kind of the scenario we're talking about with insurance. I see where you're going. And see, like a roadside, this is okay because your battery wasn't working, you got roadside assistance, they come and help you then.

But if you have a crash and then you ring up an insurance company, you're like, hello, I'd like to take out some insurance. That's not how insurance works. That's suspicious, though. Yes, very. Flags will be raised. If you get insurance, don't you get three, like, free roadside assist call-outs? You get free.

Most of them, there's some sort of free roadside assist or rescue. Yeah, so the weekend after we talked about this, I was like, okay, I'm going to go and talk to someone face-to-face and they can talk some sense into me. Yeah. AA was closed, you guys.

Well, go online. It's all online. It sounds like admin. No one goes into a store to get insurance anymore. You call them. But I wanted, like, that face-to-face communication.

No, you do it all online. You get a free quote. You do it on a few websites. There's probably even one that does all of them and then just pick one. That compares them. Yeah, that compares them and then just pick one. How much did you spend on a year's roadside assistance?

Under $100? Mm-mm. Oh. Oh, my God. Because how much is a year's third party? By the rule. $300? No, not even that.

People were messaging and saying if it's just third party and you don't drive all that much, it's not even that much. So I compared this to like, oh, it's like buying a lotto ticket and like it might not happen. You're spending money on the hope. Oh, my God.

No, it's nothing like lotto. I spent spending money on the hope. Oh my God, no. It's nothing like Lotto. I spent $70 on Lotto tickets and surprised. Oh my God, wait. I wasn't the $25 million winner. In the last few weeks, you have spent $100 and something on roadside assistance and $70 on Lotto tickets. Yeah, and the battery that died.

Oh my God, that's insurance. But you still don't have third party. Not having insurance is like reverse lotto. It's reverse lotto. Yeah. Like if someone crashes into you, you're going to be paying them for the rest of your life to make up $500,000.

It's reverse nightmare lotto. Oh, babes. Oh, Mountie, no. Someone reach out to me. I thought I was going to be getting... You don't get to be an insurance influencer. That's not a thing. I know, that's so practical.

Hey, guys, AA Insurance. How do you even pose in a photo for that? Yeah, well, what's the point of even talking about this if no one's going to slide into the DMs, to be honest? You need to sit down with your two dads and we'll go on some online insurance websites and we'll get a quote for you. Because this is giving

me an aneurysm. This is not good. They're not just saying that to you. You know they will. They'll sit down with you and do it. Okay. I won't. Let's do it after the planning meeting. We're not staying any longer than we need to. We'll do it during the planning meeting. I don't know what happens in those things anyway.

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ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Joining us on the phone after 8 o'clock today is Lauren and Cameron from Love is Blind on Netflix. Fourth most popular thing on Netflix because you know how they do the top ten now on Netflix? And only fourth right now because it's been out for a while. So we've been smashed it. You've been today. You're loving this. What else is up there? The TV shows. The Trials of Gabriel

Fernandez. I saw the trailer for this. I've heard it's dark. I've heard it's a dark watch. I'm not okay with this. Yeah, that's number three. Yeah, I've been watching that dark. I've heard it's dark. I've heard it's a dark watch. I'm not okay with this. Yeah, that's number three. Yeah, I've been watching that. That's pretty good. Is that good?

It's like Carrie. Remember Carrie? I just finished A Stranger. Oh, my God. Oh, that's the British. That's so good. I finished that months ago. I know, but it's so good.

Yeah. Okay. Should we just go home and watch Netflix? Yes. Great idea. There is a piece of New Zealand history for sale on Trade Me Right now, and I think, look at this. Is this your investment strategy? Yes.

So when you're 80 and it comes time to retire, because we're going to have to work till we're 80 by then. Correct. Yeah, we definitely will. You're going to cash this in and live're 80 by then. Correct. You're going to cash this in and live on it. Is that what you're saying? That's how investments work. Yeah, right. That's how investments

work. If you're a child of the 80s or 90s, before it all went, PC madness! And, oh, my kids hurt themselves. I broke my arm when I was a kid. I wish every kid broke their arm. That's what old people sound like when they talk about playgrounds

not being as dangerous as they used to be. There is a piece of memorabilia for sale online. You can buy the Officer Big Mac piece of the 1980s, early 1990s McDonald's playground. Wow. Now, this was the police officer of the McDonald's, the retro McDonald's Playground. Wow. Now, this was the police officer of the McDonald's, the retro McDonald's character line-up. Yeah.

He was always after the Hamburglar, wasn't he? He was always trying to catch the Hamburglar, but the Hamburglar. Couldn't get him, could he? Now, I don't know where this has been stored. Remember this fella? I remember that. You could climb up inside it. You'd climb up through his body into his Big Mac head.

Yeah. And then from there you could also climb up again and peek out the top of his hat. Now that's for sale. And that's all.

And that's all. Now that's for sale. Now it might not seem that much by itself but these things do pop up every now and then

so this could be the start of the collection or my friend Calvin I'm trying to convince him to buy it his wife Nikki against the idea. Or my friend Calvin, I'm trying to convince him to buy it. His wife Nikki, against the idea. But doesn't he already have a couple of big Macs? He's got a couple of McDonald's playground.

Yes. Retro. I know for a fact he's got the Hamburglar swing, where the Hamburglar stood with his arms out and the swings were underneath each of his arms. Is that in his backyard? It was on his driveway, I think. As like a come hither. He wanted you to have friends.

It's like a come hither. Right. It's like a welcome, welcome. Or a don't come down this driveway. Yeah. Maybe one of those. Okay. I mean, the piece a la resistance of your 1980s McDonald's playground

would be the shaky grimace. Yeah, that gave a lot of head trauma to a lot of kids. A lot of, yeah. A lot of it. You can see why that was banned. Yeah. Because the bars went out a little bit. If you were on your knees, you could get your head through the gap and then you'd stand up and your neck would become lodged

and then some other kid would jump in and start violently shaking it. And your grey matter would just turn to pudding. And then the only cure for it was a soft serve. You're right, though. It is PC Mandacy's playgrounds, these unsafe playgrounds that are no longer around. Those other things, and I'm not sure what they were. I know one of them was supposed to look like a hamburger.

Yeah, but the other ones, I don't know what they were supposed to. Maybe they were supposed to look like French fries. Do you remember those things in the playground and they kind of had hair and it looked a bit like dreadlocks? Yeah. And you used to sit on them in and they kind of had hair and it looked a bit like dreadlocks? Yeah. And you used to sit on them in spring and you'd go back and forward and then it would just go all the way back and then launch you all the way forward. You'd come loose and you'd smash your front teeth out on them. They were a hell of a good time too.

Are they for sale too? I haven't seen any of those for sale lately. How much do they want for the Big Mac old playground piece? At the moment, it's at $1,130 on Trade Me. Oh, okay. Many people are with it on the watch list. This is in Dunedin, however. So you'd have to ship it up here.

Shipping's going to be at least $25. How much do you expect to get if you bought this? How much do you expect people are going to pay for it in the future? I don't know because it needs at least, I'd say, a water blast and then it might need a repaint. Right. So you might want to have a bit of an artistic flair to get that sweet fade from the dark top of the toasted bun

to the side where it was lightened somewhat. You wouldn't go one blanket brown. Okay. Would you? You'd want to fade it. Have you asked your wife if you could have this in the backyard? I daren't. This would be great.

I've been told. Imagine if this is how you got up to your tree house. Oh, my God. Can you just buy it and just put it in your backyard and then film her? For what? Leaving me? For my entertainment. I've been told twice in the last week I'm on thin ice,

two separate occasions. What were your thin ice occasions? I can't even remember. Just classic porn things. You're on thin ice. You're on thin ice. Oh, one of them was, this was a pretty triumphant moment for me. Yeah.

There was a plan between my two daughters to tickle attack me. Oh, yeah. Well, anyway, they never stood a chance. But then Sade tried to help them out and at one stage I literally had all three women of my life pinned on the ground and I was tickling them all. Okay, right. And that's what put you in trouble. Sade was getting the left

hand, Indy was getting the right hand and August was getting the foot. It was like a game of Twister and I was tickling them all and they were all screaming to stop. But I said, you started this war, I'll end it. And I tickled them until they were like on the verge of passing out

from not breathing. Yeah. And then after that was when one of the times she told me I was on thin ice. But she started it. Well, no, she came to the defense

of her daughters who technically started it. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. But that was one. I can't remember what I'd done the other time.

Definitely two incidences last week. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Well, That was one. I can't remember what I'd done the other time. It's definitely two incidences last week. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, strap yourselves in. There's been an invention. It's hit the market now, and it is a manscaping device. Could it be a womanscaping device? It could be a womanscaping.

I don't see why it couldn't be a woman scaping device. And invented ironically by Tyler Ball, it is to trim the hair that grows down there. On the walls. And the lot. And it's called Balls. The shave is called Balls.

Okay. In 30 days, he's made half a million dollars in sales. Half a million pounds in sales. Where? A million New Zealanders. It's available in 150 countries worldwide. I'm guessing he just ships it from wherever.

And a business professional has said he's likely to be earning nine million pounds this year alone. Wow. Yeah. And he's just a young guy, isn't he? Yeah, a young guy. His dad told him he wasn't allowed to leave school until he had £100,000 in the bank.

He's like, done. Done. I'm leaving school, Dad. Done. So, how he came up with it was quite... He got the idea after spotting his little brother about to manscape. So, if he's 17, his little brother's to manscape. So if he's 17, his little brother's

15, 16, he's getting out a pair of scissors to give himself a manscape class. Scissors? Scissors. Okay. That could take it down to a ceiling that would make it easier to shake. Yeah. Well that's the thing, you don't go in with a lawnmower in a big field of tall grass, do you? You've got to

weed whack it down and then mow it. You come back with a mower. Yeah, that's right. Otherwise, you just clog up your mower. Yes. So he was 17 and he's like, huh, interesting. Looked into it and found that, like I have experienced, I'm sure you've experienced, Fletcher, a man that likes to keep things tidy downstairs.

I'm so serious. You run an asphalt. Sure. You run an asphalt down likes to keep things tidy downstairs you run an asphalt you run an asphalt down there or a trim service what's an asphalt I'm running an asphalt situation

I don't get the metaphor what's an asphalt well it's a smooth driveway isn't it it's a smooth driveway it's a fresh piece of roading once you've got

all the loose gravel off you can put the lines on and it's good to go but a few cat eyes. Yeah. And a rope. A rumble line.

Let's them know if they're going too far to one side. Or an astroturf situation. Yep. Maybe that's what you're running. But if you've groomed and you've used a traditional head shaver, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying, yowch. There can be incidents. It's a nick.

Because I googled this balls trimmer. It's literally called Balls as a brand. It's because his last name is Ball. What's different about it? I don't know, but it must have some kind of technology where the blade doesn't cut. It doesn't nick. It's protected somehow.

So it still cuts the hair, but it doesn doesn't uh yeah and it has a guarantee if you nick yourself you can send it back yeah because their instagram has a photo of a balloon and the shaver is against the balloon wow and it's selling and it's and so far the reviews are really really good with it oh wow how he developed this technology yeah Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, the rest of us just nick it every few weeks. And they're like, ah, never again, never again. Yeah, that's just part of the process, isn't it? You've just got to accept the odd nick every now and again.

Ah! Oh, God, it won't stop bleeding. And then you get in the shower and the warm water, it only makes things worse, doesn't it? Then you've got to tell your partner, you've got to walk out and be like, I've had a little whoopsie. I've had a little whoopsie daisy.

But given that Balls is now on the market and promises a incident-free landscaping situation, I was wondering this morning if we might open the phone lines to have stories, yarns, tales of it, of incidences. When you've been

scaping? Yes. Megan, have you ever had a scaping incident? You know I have, because you asked me before we went on air and I said, yeah, but I don't want to tell the nation about it. Oh, what happened, Megan? No.

No. No, I just, because I get laser. But before you get laser, you have to. You have to shave. Yeah. Sure. So, you know how like sometimes girls will know this when you shave your leg and you put the razor in at the ankle and then you pull it up?

Ah! Yeah. Oh, what? No. Yeah. Megan! I know. You scalped it.

Mountie can't even do it. Oh, this was also what I learned before when talking about this. Mountie gets hot ears when she gets flustered. Because she was flapping at her ears. Now I have headphones on because I have to talk to you and there's so much hotter. How unusual getting hot ears when something freaks you out. Oh my God, was that?

Painful, yes. Did it bleed? Yes. How long ago was this? Yes to all of it. How long ago was this? I don't know, like three or four years ago. Right. Freaks you out. Oh my God, was that... Painful, yes. Did it bleed? Yes. How long ago was this? Yes to all of it. How long ago was this? I don't know, like three or four years ago. Right.

Yeah. All right, so you want to hear of these horrors he's worn? Yeah. Why? To make Mountie's ears go hotter. All right, 0800Diles.com, give us a call. You can text it as well 9696 When did you have an incident while

Landscaping The garden The downstairs So we're talking about this guy Who has launched a shaver That won't nick your downstairs bits When you're scaping And it does, you get your money back

It'll get it super short. And then from there, if you want it completely smooth, I guess you can just get out of the razor and it won't get clogged up. So talking about those times that you have had

a manscaping or a ladyscaping incident. Are you going to read that text? Yes. I'm going to deal with it very gingerly. God, if I was reading it how Fletch won it, I think we'd be off here by now.

I just want to know that I didn't want this read out. I was using an epilator. Now, do you remember the epilator? This was heavily infomercial. Well, they're kind of like a spring device, and they'd pull the hair up. They'd tug out the hair. Very painful.

Yow. Wildly painful, but kind of like waxing without the wax. Squeezering? It was pulling out the hair at the root. I was using an epilator on my downstairs operation. When it, shall we say... What? How are you going to put it? Sucked up.

The flippity-floppities, and it got stuck. It took a good five minutes to get them out. There was blood, and it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced, and I've given birth. Needless to say, I've never used one down there again, and please take this as a warning. To never venture too far south with the old epilator. Oh my god. Thank you Katie your brave

sacrifice. Don't say her name! Oh look that's a common name. There's lots of Katie's out there walking a little bit bow-legged. We're talking about we're talking about incidences while escaping. While taking care of your bits and pieces because a young man has invented a We're talking about incidences while escaping,

while taking care of your bits and pieces. Because a young man has invented a razor. He said, we'll never nick a sensitive area ever again. And we've had some absolute horror stories this morning. It's no wonder this is selling. Because I don't think anyone's had a great experience, have they? No, Jacinta. Yeah, Always one.

Joins us. What was your incident? So I thought I would be really thorough when I was escaping downstairs and kind of reached behind with one hand and went in with the razor with the other hand. And I took off half of my pinky fingernail. Oh! Okay. Wow.

Oh, so this was a... I was kind of pulling the skin taut. Yeah, taut. Taut. You've got to have it taut. You do. I do. Yeah.

And when you, like, razor off your nail, it goes down to the skin sometimes, eh? Jacinda, thanks for sharing. Anonymous. Good morning, Anonymous. Good morning, Anonymous. Good morning. How are you all? Good.

Now, what happened? Okay, I used, in the early 2000s, there was this natural product that came out and it was like a cream sort of base stuff. And I wanted to give it a go down there. Oh, so what was it? What was it? A hair removal cream. Yes, yes, yes.

And I kind of read the instructions and stuff, but I don't think I trimmed down there enough that when I applied the product and then the strip and then went to rip, it got some hairs and then the rest of them like were left with the product all over them and then they kind of turned into little dreads and it was a little bit difficult. Do you know how hard that really is to actually get rid of?

Like I had to get the scissors after all of that and cut my little dreads off. It's like a Rastafarian movie. It was absolutely horror. I was freaking out. I was really freaking out. I was like, you know how you get really hot inside you and you're like, oh my God, what just happened? Like, luckily, the product what just happened? Wow.

Luckily, the product itself wasn't too hard to wash off, but the fact that it went instant dreaded, it really freaked me out. So, I do not apply natural products down here, nor do I

do that myself. So, yeah, that laser treatment sounds really good right now. A way easier anonymous sexy caller. Another anonymous caller. Good morning. What happened? Good morning. So I, too, get laser and I usually wax down there.

But having to shave every time, I unfortunately have a mole downstairs. Oh no. And so it's just navigating around that and every single time there's blood because...

Oh, the moles. Yeah, because I get that when I shave my head. Yeah. I've got a mole and if I'm like not paying attention, they just bleed forever,

don't they? Yeah. Anonymous, thanks for sharing. A couple of quick texts. I would say never do this inebriated. There's a few text messages about inebriated. For example, somebody said,

it looked like it was all on. So I'm imagining that with a potential partner. They got a late call up. And so I decided to do some drunk manscaping. Yep. I nicked a vein. A vein?

On the tackle. Yeah, I passed out in the shower, drunk, woke up, surrounded by blood. Oh, my God. So that's, I wouldn't do that. That's a horror movie. It's like waking up and you're like, yeah. I wouldn't do that at all. Somebody else messaged.

Now, this one, this got Mountie's ears really hot. If you've just joined us, we've also learnt this morning that Mountie on the social media desk, her ears get hot. When she gets flustered. When she gets flustered. Yeah. She just waves her ears, only her ears. I was leaning down

Landscaping in the shower Happy with my work Yep That all went well I went to return the razor To the soap dish That was attached To the shower wall

As I reached across I ran it across my nipple And sliced my nipple open I nearly passed out From the smell of hot blood Oh Mountie had to leave I'm going down She had to leave had to leave. I'm going down.

She had to leave the room. No, no, I'm going down. She's cleaning the ears. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. What's that sound? ZM's. $100,000 secret sound. With Steve Ibegan.

Soundkeeper Gary's in. Hey, guys. I'm running multiple secret sounds now. Just so you know, I've put a mini secret sound up on the ZM Facebook page for $500. Greedy. A baby secret sound. A little baby one. A little bubble one.

A little baby one. So your chance to what? Win some extra cash? Yeah, just on the side if you just want to hone your craft, hone your skills. People have been asking, is that a clue as well? What? The mini secret sound. The mini secret sound. Maybe. if you just want to hone your craft, hone your skills. People have been asking, is that a clue as well? What, the... The mini secret sound. The mini secret sound.

Maybe. Maybe. Oh, don't say that, and then later you'll just be like, no, it's not. Siobhan, good morning. Good morning. All right, so you've got through. That's the hardest bit.

That's the hardest bit. Because if you can tell us what this sound is, you get $70,000. Oh, my God. That's just unreal. Okay, so do I say my guess now? You may. You may.

Okay. Proceed. I've had several guesses and changed my mind. Okay. And I've come to the conclusion it's a snap band. Like that you snap on your wrist. Right. Do we have those for Friday Jemay's Live, I believe?

Yes, you do. That's right, we have Friday Jem's Live. Were they in the video? Yes, I saw it on the table, like, when you went into the office. Okay. That video, by the way, has the secret sound in it. It's on our Facebook page, ZM Online as well. Mm-hmm.

People have been pouring over this video. A snap band. So it's when it... So when it, like, when you snap it and it goes onto your wrist and kind of locks up, you know? Okay. And I guess if you whack yourself, you kind of get a fright. Yeah.

And on one of your videos that you've done it to, I think it was Sarah, and she kind of gasped because you got it on her wrist. Yeah, right. That's right, we did a slow-mo version with Mountie. Yeah. Okay, right. Well. I've got news.

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Responsible Kiwis. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. I bet I can guess your mum's name is coming up, but it's one of the biggest shows on Netflix at the moment. I've met the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. I've never seen her before.

Here, you will choose someone to marry without ever seeing her. If you're ready to find the love of your life, the pods are now open. The show is called Love is Blind. It's on Netflix at the moment, and I'm absolutely addicted. So basically, strangers, it's like married at first sight, but they don't actually see each other. They're in the pods, aren't they?

They call them the pods. It's just rooms where they can't see each other and they talk and they get a relationship going before they meet. Currently the third most popular show on Netflix in New Zealand, but that's probably only because it's finished now. Yeah. So spoiler alert, if you are still watching. We're going to give away one of the couples. So, yeah, if you haven't seen the end of it, this is your warning.

Because on the phone with us right now from Love is Blind is Lauren and Cameron. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, guys. You guys are together. We're very together. We were worried this might be a spoiler for the show, but as Megan said, from like episode one,

it really felt like you guys were going to be together. Right. Yeah, I mean, we pretty much clicked pretty fast. Can you guys... Yeah, and though, you know, we had to work through things, we always made it through. Can you explain to us what it's like being in the pods? So you're in these little rooms.

You can't see each other. Because is it true that the producers didn't expect so many of the couples to get engaged? Yeah, actually, quite a few more couples, you know, got engaged. Right. Yeah. I mean, the pods, they were just really kind of like a meditation chamber, you might think, because you're just focused in on what that person is saying. You don't have any distractions, no social media. You can't see what they look like. It doesn't distract you. So you're just focused on the conversation and the content of that conversation.

Right. Yeah. Okay. It's very different to real life. Very conversation. Right. Yeah, okay. It's very different to real life. Very different, yeah. Well, yeah, there's usually way more distractions in dating now. Kind of like meeting somebody in prison

and just being able to talk through the cell wall. Yeah, I'm not crazy enough. Kind of like chat rooms. Remember chat rooms back in the day? Oh, yes. That's so true. It makes me so sad there's a generation growing up without chat rooms. Remember chat rooms back in the day? Oh, yes. That's so true. It makes me so sad there's a generation growing up without chat rooms. Yeah.

Did your families know or expect you guys to come back from this engaged? Not at all. Absolutely not. Yeah, even myself, I didn't expect to come back engaged, to be honest with you. I went into the experience, excuse me, like open-minded, but I never really thought that I would actually fall in love and happily ever after. Yeah, I thought it was going to be an adventure, and I kept an open mind to the idea of it, but I really didn't expect it.

Yeah. Can you just, just actual wedding day I was watching and I honestly thought you were gonna say no Lauren like what was going through your head at the time man well at the time I was really just nervous I mean marriage is such a big commitment and it's something that I take seriously we're not talking about a tv marriage we're talking about a legal on paper together forever marriage you know We're talking about a legal, on paper, together forever marriage. You know, we're talking about combining families. So it's something

that I really wanted to think about and I thought about till the last minute actually, you know, until I got to the altar. Yeah. So this was,

this is another one that blew our mind about this. This was filmed in 2018. That's right, isn't it? Yes. Oh my God. That's right,

we've been married for a year and a half. Yeah. So what, when the show was actually released on Netflix worldwide, did producers ask you to keep a low profile or, you know, were you allowed to just carry on life as usual? Well, we weren't really known at the time, so we could go out. We did once it came out.

Oh, once it came out. Yeah, well, once it came out, yeah, we tried to keep a low profile. We got spotted at the supermarket. We did get spotted, yeah. And they're like, oh, my God, spoiler. We're like, no. Bye. Gotta run.

Your real life is spoiling my TV show. Oh, my God. No, don't be... Don't be happy in public. I've not finished the series yet. No, after that, we kind of laid back on being out in public. It was only three weeks, so we were able to manage. Yeah.

Right. And did you get a honeymoon? Like, have you had a honeymoon? We did. I mean, we had a bit of one on the show, as you saw, but then Lauren and I went to Cancun later. Yeah, we got some beach time in, had some frozen drinks, you know. A lot of love, a lot of love. And what's it been like?

What's life been like outside of the experiment since? You know, like any married couple, we've just been continuing to grow together, you know know go out on more dates i mean on the show the time was limited so we didn't get to and really enjoy each other to the fullest extent of you know having these dates right um we learned a lot of about each other over that time of the show but um we've just gotten to face ourselves more yeah why did what's what's one annoying habit that you have each found out about each other since the show? My annoying habit for Cameron is that he leaves dirty dishes on the sink, and that kills me. Right. And for me, Lauren, she just doesn't know how to do the dishwasher, like load it properly.

Yes! Yes! I can't say. Cameron, you've opened a can of worms here. At least I load them, though. do the dishwasher, like load it properly. Yes! Cameron, you've opened a can of worms here. At least I load them, though. Cameron, should forks or knives go face up or face down? Face up. Thank you.

Thank you. Yes. He gets it. He gets it. I agree. I do agree. Now, do you also like to pre-wash the plates a little bit? So rinse the plates before you load them?

Yes. You have to. Cameron doesn't do this. I do do that. Oh, nice. Guys, guys, we're going to ruin it. Don't stop something. After the reality show, they've kept it going until it was released, and now we're about to cause a divorce.

I know. All over some dishes. What have we done? They've they've kept it going until it was released and now we're about to cause a divorce Do you guys keep in touch? Do you keep in touch with any of the other couples since the experiment? Yeah, we well we keep in touch with some of the cats like Mark and Damien so Yeah, that's Yeah, we to Diamond from time to time. Yeah, we kind of talked to all of them, but those are the ones that we talked to the most, yeah. So, and what's the plans for you guys for the future?

Well, we're just really continuing to, like, grow our relationship. You know, it's kind of like we got married and then we started dating after, so we did it kind of backwards. So, you know, every day is an adventure. We're continuing to blend our families. We have a new little fur baby you know so that's our practice baby before we have real babies and you know we're trying to yeah we're trying to continue you know sharing our development as a couple so we're probably going to start a youtube and everything so you know keep an eye keep it going well you guys were so amazing to watch on the show I'm so happy

you're still together it gives me great joy weirdly because I don't know you but all the best for the future we appreciate it thank you so much Flesh, Vaughn and Megan the podcast ZM

hey you on the phone I bet I can't guess your mum's name. This is a little segment of the show that started well. Oh, didn't it? Two in a row. And now it's been two losses in a row. So we're running at a 50-50. We asked somebody on the phone, well, you, Vaughan,

asked somebody five questions about their mum. And then you've got 15 seconds to guess their mum's name. If you can do that, they win $100 cash. And if you can do that, it progresses through to one guess for their dad's name. For their dad's name, which is another $100. That's never been done. We've saved money the last couple of weeks because you've been unsuccessful. I have been unsuccessful.

Right. Playing this morning, Alice. Good morning. Hi, guys. Hiya, unsuccessful. Right. Playing this morning, Alice. Good morning. Hi, guys. Hiya, Alice. Hello. He's just thinking, what could your mum's name be? Her mum's name might be Alice.

You know, some people do that weird thing where they just name their kids. It should be like Alice Jr. Or Alice II. Are you Alice II? No. Well, that's one name off the list there. Okay, let's ask some questions about your mum. How does your mum drink her coffee, Alice?

With milk and Splendour, I guess. Splendour. What's it called? Equal? Yeah. Does she call them her tabs? No. Pop a couple of tabs in there. Yeah, my mum opens up her purse and handbag

and gets out the little container. Yeah. Pops a couple in to the cappuccino. Yes, loves a little bit of the boomer-cannio. Aren't they scared of drinking something unsweetened, but also scared of sugar, but apparently not scared of brain lesions. Right, so she drinks it.

How every mum drinks it. That's not really narrowing things down, is it? No, it's not. Is your mum one of those mums that's got lots of stuff in her purse? Like, if you were to hurt yourself, would she be like, I've got a plaster in my purse? No, no. Oh, I was going to say, isn't that every mum?

She's not a utility mum. No, definitely not. Okay. And does that relate to what her name could be, does it? Definitely. Good luck. What's mum's must-watch TV show?

Sherwin Street or Coro. She loves her streets. Streets in common there. Okay, good. Does mum buy lotto tickets? Oh, I would say yes. I think she does. Okay.

You're just like chucking the questions out willy-nilly here. Yeah, what's that? Four questions. Yeah. Yeah, one more question. Use it wisely. What are your siblings' names? Alice?

Yep, so my older brother is called Chad. Then Chad. Okay. Then there's me. Then my sister Victoria. Right. My sister Kimberly. My sister Michaela.

And then another brother named Grayson. Wait, so there's six of you? Yeah, a boy at each end, four girls in the middle. See, I would have asked what her brothers and sisters are called. The mums. Because then that's going to give you more of a spread. A bit of a feel of it. I've just been told six people's names.

Yeah, right. Those are just names that she likes. None were like outlandish. And they were all over the show, weren't they? Like there was a class called Victoria, but then also a Chad. Chad's very American, whereas Victoria's very British. But if you ask mum's siblings' names, then you get an idea of what the namer of her was into.

Yeah, you've really missed a trick there, Smith. Yeah, but I find mums may have been born in like the 60s, and so there might have been like some sensibility, and then Nana and Grandad got into LSD. There's a couple of like rhythms at the end. No wonder you were losing with these kind of questions.

I think Megan and I might need to have a go at this. No, I don't want to go. I don't want to go. You should, it's fun. Okay, well, you've asked five questions, Vaughn. Yeah, I know.

I'm just thinking I need one more. I'm going to actually pop that one on the end. Okay. Now, you've got 15 seconds, Vaughn, to guess her mum's

name. I just rattle through some names, alright? Okay, 15. Now, Alice, if you hear your mum's name, you yell out, that's my mum. Okay. Okay. Here we go. It doesn't have to be in that voice. You just yell out, that's my mum. 15 seconds, starting now. Sandra, Heather,

Margaret, Susan, Maria, Jane, Michelle, Linda, Joe, Jen, Lisa, Paula, Eve, Tanya, Amanda, Sharon, Tracy, Denise, Donna, Julie, Leanne, Elizabeth. That's my mum. Oh! Wait, which one? Leanne. Leanne. Yes!

Hey, Alice, $100 cash. He guessed your mum's name. Yes. Yay, thank you. Well done. Leanne. But now I have to guess dad's name. Could this be the first time where I guess not only mum's name,

but dad's name? The bonus round. While you're on the phone, I'll have a go at guessing your dad's name. Okay, no questions. One guess at the dad's name. I've got a name in my head that I would ask. Would you like? No, no, no.

Would you like to? No, you do it. No, you do it. I'll tell you what it was afterwards. For some reason, I just feel like it could be. Oh, we're having a dinner. You better invite Leanne and... Okay, Vaughn.

And now I'm trying to imagine they get their bills. They get the landline bill because mum and dad still have a landline. Yep. And it says... Someone and Leanne something. Well, Vaughn, what is Alice's dad's name? I'm ready. What do you think?

Bruce. Oh, close. No. What's close to Bruce? Brent. Oh! Leanne and Bruce. I really felt like I had a breath. You were so close.

I had the wrong breath. So close. So close. Well, congratulations, Alice. $100 is all yours. Thank you. Bet I can guess your mum's name. Yes.

Now you're in a majority of winning, too. Yes. Fantastic news. And back next week, because you're on a hike. Oh, that's put a pep in your step, hasn't it? That's been a just. He's back, baby. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Today's fact that I was reading a little bit about quarantine. Oh, okay. Quarantining is a bit of self-isolation stuff. Just had our third confirmed coronavirus case in New Zealand too this morning. Just in the last half an hour, that's been confirmed. Yeah. By the Ministry of Virus? Not the. Yeah. By the Ministry of...

Not the... Virus? Somebody... The Ministry of Viruses. Ministry of Virus. Sounds like a really bad dance album. Remember those dance compilations? Ministry of Dance.

Ministry of Sound. Yeah. Ministry of Sound. Yeah. Ministry of Viruses. Yeah. Ministry of Health. That'll be it.

Ministry of Health. That'll be it. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys. Yeah, we all knew... And it wasn't the husband of that woman Ministry of Health. That'll be it. Minister of Health. That'll be it. Yeah. Those guys. Yeah, we all knew And it wasn't the husband of that woman

that was confirmed. Yesterday. No. The woman got confirmed and her husband was isolated. Still waiting on those results. Waiting on those.

Results, yeah. So today's Fact of the Day is about a man called John Martin Poyer. He was the governor of American Samoa. Okay. Which is close and in was the governor of American Samoa. Okay. Which is close and in a way related to Western Samoa.

Yeah. Which maybe we're more familiar with. Yeah. As New Zealand's ties to Samoa. Well, in 1918, the flu pandemic broke out. And he, John Martin Poyer, said, no one comes in, no one comes out. We're isolating ourselves as an island

until this is sorted. Not a single person died in American Samoa in the massive 1980 flu that wiped out people all around the world. 5% of the world's population. Yeah, right.

20% of people in neighbouring Western Samoa died of the flu. And they were right, they're next door. Yeah, right. And because they isolated themselves. And they use that as an example.

Right. Of how if an island isolates itself or if an area isolates itself in these situations. It will just die. Well, no, it won't. It'll just go away. It'll go away if they can isolate themselves for long enough.

Right. If they're reserved to. Whereas Western Samoa, we took the flu pandemic in there. Yeah, right. And 20%, so way higher than worldly averages died in their non-quarantine Samoa. So you're saying we should just shut

down the country? I don't want to panic anymore. But we should, right, okay. Close the borders, isolate ourselves. He was touted as a little bit of a hero because he pretty much saved everybody's life that lived on the island compared to the neighbours. So today's fact of the day is a man called John Poyer

self-isolated an entire island and turned out to save a lot of lives. Fact of the day! Day, day, day. Who was wrong there? I'm not me. There was one more day.

I'm blaming Megan for that one. There was one more day. No. Oh, someone will text him. We're not the only ones who know that song. Definitely wasn't me. There was one more day. Did I go with you or did I go with him? No, you went with Fletch.

Oh, I think we made the mistake. Oh, did we? Oh, goodness. I apologise. Jeez. Sincerely. Sincerely. Sincerely.

Yeah, well, he can't talk, so yeah. It must have been me. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Joined in studio right now by Bree Thomasel. Hello, guys. From Bree and Clint. Hello. Good morning. I was going to Bree Thomasel. Hello guys. Good morning. I was going to say mention that. People probably don't know.

How are you guys? Good. Yes, you're well? Good, you're well. I'm loving, can I guess your mum's name by the way? Very, very. He's in a good mood now because these last couple weeks he's lost. Right. Have you thought about a career

in, you know, reading people's cards and stuff? Oh, like bullshittery. I mean, we do enough of that here in the morning. I've started it now. I've started it. You've triggered him. You've poked the beer. Now, your Kelly comedy set, this is tonight.

Yes, it is, unfortunately. I found out on Monday that Clinton Roberts, promoter extraordinaire, has thrown me into it. Definitely not consented, by the way. Okay. But, yes, it is tonight. It is at a funeral home.

Dark. Dark. Might be the first laughs that have been there. People are dying to come. And if you... Oh, come on. I see what you did there. That's the best gear I've got.

Yeah. I get it because it's a funeral home. Did you just get that? But I was thinking it wouldn't be the first time. If you're getting buried at a funeral home, you probably, there'll be some funny stories, right? Like, I think about other funerals I've been to, there's always been a laugh because you're remembering the good times.

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I mean, I'd like to go to a funny wake. I haven't been to many funny wakes lately, though. No. I'll invite you next time. Okay. I actually, I wanted to ask you guys, because I'm not a stand-up comedian, obviously.

I do radio. And I've done stand-up about twice because it was meant to be just something I wanted to do subtly. But then Clint has so lovely created this whole event for me. I had a story that I was thinking about telling and I wanted to run it by you guys because I heard you guys were talking about scaping. Manscaping.

Manscaping incidents. This isn't manscaping because obviously it's my bits, but I had an incident a couple of weeks ago and I was thinking about telling it tonight at the comedy. Well, just from the stories we took on air and the responses, Mountie's ears go very hot when she hears. Yeah, somebody messaged us and they were driving and almost fainted. So I don't know if this could be good content.

But, I mean, heck, you've got to give these things a go, don't you? Yeah, because you guys have been getting laser hair removal, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah, because I've been going to the same place. Yep. So they've seen everybody's hair removal. I't you? Yeah. Yeah, because I've been going to the same place. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure... I've seen everybody's hair removal. I think I've seen all of our bits, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The same lady. I'm going to ask them next time, who's got the nicest one? And they have to be totally honest. You can't say that. No, you can say that. You can ask that. They're just going to tell whoever's there at the time that this is the nicest.

I'm sort of therapist, patient, confidential. Yeah. Are you bald, Vaughn, from the beard down? Like are you just like a sexual slippery? No, I've got a hairy chest. Oh, you do? I'm just getting the back and the butt lasered. The crack.

Yeah. And the cheek. Yeah, I'm getting my crack done too. And obviously, Vaughn, you would know you have to prep for that. So you have to like shave the areas. And I accidentally, so I was in the shower and I've put my leg up on the side of the shower to kind of get the laser.

The razor. Yeah. And there was definitely blood. And it was, you know, it was quite painful. And the next day I had to go in and get the laser hair removal. And the lady goes to me, Oh, did you cut yourself, love? And I was so embarrassed. I was so embarrassed.

And I said, oh, yeah, I'm really embarrassed. She goes, look on the bright side, at least you missed the hole. That's a good point. Yeah, that's silver lining. Do you think how many people They deal with though They've definitely seen it before Oh yeah

They've seen everything They would have seen it all Oh my laser hair removal Lady has told me some stories They've got some good stories She told me one time She was giving a Brazilian She was waxing

And the lady It was that time of the month Okay Right And Oh yeah right The wax has been caught. Oh, my God. Yeah, I can imagine where this is going.

Yeah. Yes, okay. Fill the rest of that in yourself. Too far? Okay, I'll pull it back tonight. Yeah, yeah. I'm so glad I tested it on national radio. Yeah, well, Megan's going to eat it.

Megan knows what happened. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So does Fletch all the way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, how, Megan's going to hit her. Megan knows what happened. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So does Fletch all the way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, how do you know? I just, I could just, I've just, yeah.

He's doing the maths. I'm doing the maths. Yeah. Why is everyone called awkward? Oh, no, I've said too much. So people can come along tonight. So embarrassing. 7.30 tonight.

Fletch, yeah, 7.30 tonight. How long is your sit? It's probably going to be a good solid four minutes. Oh, okay. No, I'm hoping to do at least ten. But we've got some other amazing comedians who have come on board. I don't know why they want to attach themselves to this event. Eli Matheson and also Laura Daniel and Joseph Moore from Two Hearts.

Right, okay. They're performing their hit single, Sl from Two Hearts. Right, okay. They're performing their hit single, Slutty Ghost. Right, okay. Which is going to be very fitting for the funeral home. Yeah. So that'll be good. Right, okay. And how do people get tickets?

Or they can just turn up? They can literally just turn up. It's free because obviously we don't want to charge people for the disaster that is going to be my comedy. What about the other comedians? Well, you know, the comedians are used to not getting paid, aren't they? That's true. Funeral homes, however, not used to not being paid.

They make lots of money. I wonder how much we're paying for the venue. I'm not sure. Have they ever had a comedy show at their funeral home? Apparently this has never been done before, ever. Right, okay. Well, Davis Funeral Home, Mount Eden,

7.30 tonight for Brie's killer comedy set. All the best, Brie. Don't bomb. Good luck. Thank you so much, guys. Don't bomb. That, of course, guarantees she won't. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan,

the podcast, ZM. Even in the midst of coronavirus, we shouldn't panic and romance must continue. We shouldn't panic and romance must continue. See, just on Corona News, Weird Al Yankovic. Yes. Best known for his parody songs. Yes. He has told everybody that he won't be doing a parody

of My Corona. My Corona. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. He said apparently it's happened enough that he's felt the need to tweet directly to everybody. He won't be

doing a My Corona parody. Well, on Tinder, they want the romance to continue and they've got a little pop-up that comes up now, apparently. Right. The pop-up says your well-being is our number one priority. Tinder is a great place to meet new people while we want you to continue to have fun.

Protecting yourself from coronavirus is more important. Here are some tips to keep in mind. So these are Tinder tips. Okay. For coronavirus when you're out dating. Number one, wash your hands frequently. Number two, carry hand sanitizer.

Number three, avoid touching your face and maintain social distance in public gatherings. But also a lot of people are saying we should not be kissing. Random. Yeah, like stop kissing random people because saying we should not be kissing. Random. Yeah, like stop kissing random people because that's also going to spread the virus. I mean, they say wash your hands, but they haven't got anything in there about, yeah, kissing a stranger that you don't really know.

But then they're also not going to want to be advising people using their dating apps to stop kissing people and meeting each other, are they? Yeah. And yeah, you can still get it from someone and they might not be displaying symptoms. Is that right? So like watching for someone who's coughing and not kissing them

is not enough, I don't think. But hey. Good luck. Good luck with that. Good luck out there. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZDM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio Good luck out there.