ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 10th June 2021

Episode Date: June 9, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by five McCafe coffees get one free on the Macca's app. I want to start the podcast by saying thank you to Linley who messaged in because, you know, yesterday I mentioned that I microwave my beeswax wrapper. Yeah, you got the hot wax on your hands. And apparently you shouldn't microwave beeswax wraps. No, no, no, no. Which was covering the soup.

And she said, I thought you might like this beeswax wrap to replace the one you z the soup and she said i thought um you might like this beeswax wrap to replace the one you zapped in the microwave um and it's got cats on it it's very cool so thank you very much lindley she said your show gives me a happy start to the morning every single day where's my beeswax um well you don't you said you use plastic and you're polluting the planet yeah but does she want me to stop or not oh no she's happy for you to keep going i think really yeah lindley wants me to burn plastic. Alright, Linley. TheLunchboxQueen.co.nz

if you want to support Linley. Thank you so much, Linley. Anything to add there? Not a lot to add, nope. We're wanting to get out of here pretty quick. We've got to burn some plastic. Yeah, we've got a big night tonight. We've got an industry event.

So that's always a fun night. You bet. You're staying at mine tonight? I am. It's like we've got a flag night. We're like Joey and Chandler. Get us a duck. And a rooster.

Was that what they had? I think they had a duck, didn't they? Is that what Joey and Chandler had? A couple of lazy boys. And a foosball table. Yes. And then you can catch up with us in 15 years and Vaughan won't have a septum. What?

You're a Chandler. No. Okay. ZM. Hit music. Live ZM. Fleece, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleece and Vaughan. Minus Megan today, who will hopefully be back tomorrow when she's bailed from this situation. For those concerned, we do have the best lawyers money can buy. Oh, absolutely.

That's what happens when you're associated to an international drug cartel. You have a fair bit of cash stashed for these sorts of legal situations. I mean, I would have preferred if the FBI and the authorities have waited till their Christmas holidays for this raid. Right, that would have been more convenient to you, but justice does not wait. Absolutely not.

No, justice is swift, and justice is now. Yeah, our legal team tell us she should be out tomorrow, which is fantastic news. Our legal team's been talking to her legal team. Our legal team personally and professionally distancing themselves from this whole situation.

I wonder if she'll prefer, when she gets back, prefer us saying that she's caught up in this giant international drug bust rather than when she's normally away when we say she's got diarrhea. Explosive diarrhea. Well, here's the thing. I've heard from a remand prison. She has got the most insane case of the shits. Oh, God.

Because she's got such a delicate tum, and the prison food's not sitting well with her, because she's gluten-free usually, doesn't eat bread, and it's bread heavy. Yeah. A lot of taties. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Doesn't eat bread. It's bread-heavy. Yeah. A lot of taties. Oh, yeah. A lot of cards in prison.

She's pooping. Yeah. Okay, well. Explosively. Heck, hopefully she'll be back tomorrow. Coming up on the show, we've got your chance to win with the box in studio. $20,000. You've just got to get inside to win that

cash it's a four digit pin we know uh from the clues and one of the numbers uh is a seven the four digit um code spells a word as well a four letter word so if you think you've got a guess think you've got an idea uh the activators this morning on the show at 7 and 8, and then again at midday, 4 and 5. Next on the show, I have the top paid jobs in New Zealand. Okay. These are the jobs that are making the most moolah, I believe according to like recent... Job ads?

Job ads. Okay. Yeah. Is Radio West Radio on the list? Huh? Is it? I don't know. I've only got 10. Okay, the top 10. Hold on, I've found 20.

Hold on, 50? No. No, alright. 100's here somewhere. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. There has been a study, just analysis I guess done of employment opportunities listings,

aka job listings. Yep. In New Zealand. And what are the top jobs according to salary? Yeah, right. Okay. So, also, it's interesting to know know around the country, the average pay. Okay.

And this is for, I might do that afterwards because it'll give away who's number one. Okay. Okay. So this would be perfect. A good list if you're looking for a new job that pays. Nah. Because you, nah. Unless you're qualified in these areas.

These are all like. I could go to uni. Oh yeah. But then there's study. If you're looking to go back to study. Yeah. I bet all these jobs are going are all like, I could go to uni. Oh yeah. But then there's study. If you're looking to go back to study. Yeah, I bet all these jobs are going to be, like this is a problem when you've got a job like this. We play songs

and we talk. Yeah. We have a bit of a laugh. Yeah. And then every other job seems boring. Yeah, totally. This is a list of jobs that could be pretty boring. Yeah. No offence if you're up early to go to your job and I'm about to read it out.

In fact, you know what? Offense, because you're earning heaps of money. So stick it up your bum. Ten. Legal. Construction law. Legal. Oh, okay.

So that's number ten. That's all these buildings and stuff that's going on. The people looking after the legal what's haves of those. I've got friends that are lawyers and they work long hours. It's a lot of reading. It's horrible. Brutal. $120,000 is the average wage for those that have been advertised.

Number nine, HR and recruitment. That is at a management level and internally. I can work in HR. You'd see some things. Yeah. What? You would see a track list. No HR. You'd see some things. Yeah. What? Well, you would see. Because of your track list.

No, you'd just see some things. Oh, I would love to work in HR to see the things, just not have to deal with it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm drama Jason. Yeah. I love drama as long as it's not to do with me

and I don't have to solve it. Yeah. Number eight is consulting and strategy in the management and change consulting. I don't even know what that is. Sounds like I could bluff my way through that. Yeah, me too. Bit of strat.

Yeah. We need a whip, guys. We need to have a whip. Yeah, lots of- So we're out with the strat. Buzzword meetings. Yeah. And that's what the seventh most highest paid job listing, or eight.

Well, no, it was eight. Eight, okay. Seven is management in the mining resources and energy field. Oh, bags. No, I don't want to go underground. I told you, I don't like caving or mines. But you could do energy. You could just be in charge of managing the wind turbines.

Oh, yeah, okay. With some solar panels, I could do that. Yeah, I could do that. Okay. I'd even give them a clean solar panel. I don't know if you have to. They're more efficient when they're clean. No, but the rain cleans them.

They can get a dust settlement or a greasy top on them. Okay. Number six, real estate and property. That's retail and property development. Everybody's getting into real estate at the moment, aren't they? Everybody knows somebody that you used to go to school with who's just decided to be a real estate agent in their 30s. Lots of money, though.

I mean, it's what, number five on the list? Yeah. No, number six. Number five, accounting. That's financial managers and controllers. That's $124,000. That's on average. They know how to use Excel too.

Do they? Accountants. You don't reckon? No, no. Yeah, they do. They do, right. No wonder they paid so much. Management of engineering is at number four, $125,000.

Strategy and planning accounting is $130,000. ICT, information and communication technology. Okay. Management, $135,000. And number one on the list at $139,000 is information and communication technology architect. So that's like a coder, right? People that do the codes. Oh, wow.

Okay. Do all that sort of stuff. And that do the codes. Oh, wow, okay. Do all that sort of stuff. And then around the country, they're paid differently too. So that was the highest paid job listing on average for IT people? Yes, architects in the information communication technology field in Wellington is where they will be paid the most at $143,000. All those sweet government contracts. Yes, that's what I thought. And government departments, yeah. And then Auckland, the average pay is $143,000. All those sweet government contracts. Yes, that's what I thought. And government departments, yeah.

And then Auckland, the average pay is $138,000. Christchurch, $134,000. Hamilton, $132,000. Right. So I should have studied computers. Computers and Wellington. Yeah. But are you happy?

I can't guarantee that. Oh, if you're doing computers. I can't guarantee that. In any of you're doing computers. I can't guarantee that. In any of these fields, you might chase the big dollars, but at the end of the day, are you happy? Huh?

Think about that. Because can you put a price tag on happiness? Yeah, I probably would. What are you supposed to say no? Yeah, but you're supposed to say no. You're supposed to say no. No. I know there's definitely a price tag to happiness,

but are you supposed to say no. You're supposed to say no. No. I know there's definitely a price to happiness, but you're supposed to say no. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I'm watching a show. Actually, I've got to the point where I've got like five shows on the go. You started what's the- Startup. Startup. You were on that?

Yeah, that was on your recommendation. And a few other people had recommended it. And I like Martin Freeman. And Adam Brody from the OC was always like a bit of a goofy teenager. Yep. But they're both in it. That's a lot. That's an action pack.

You've got Mare of Easttown to start as well. I've got Mare of Easttown, but I promised I'm going to watch that with Sade, but then we've accidentally started a show together before that. We're watching Sweet Tooth on Netflix, and that was filmed here in New Zealand. At the start of the pandemic? Yeah.

Or during? During. Because the start of the pandemic. Yeah. Or during. Because I was reading about this they initially didn't, they weren't meant to film it in New Zealand. They shot the pilot here. Oh really? Pre-COVID pre-pandemic and then it just ended up looking and being an amazing place to shoot the pilot

and they came back. Well yeah it's kind of set at the moment it's set in it's in in middle America. Yeah, right. Like that sort of whole area. But filmed all around through Auckland and the West Coast. The cities are predominantly Auckland. The West Coast makes a lot of appearances

with like old train tracks and stuff. You sent a photo last night of just up the road from my house and it's overgrown. I know. How'd they do that? They CGI'd. But that's all the shows's turned into for me now. I'm like, I know who that is.

Pause. They're like, see, Sade, that's the Norman Club. That was the one I sent you last night. That's the Norman Club. That's that building in Auckland that's all grown up right over the road from a managed isolation facility. And that's the Fonterra building beside it, but they've CGI'd vines growing up the new Fonterra building.

That's above Josh Emmett's restaurant. And she's like, oh, my God, you are an absolute punisher to watch a show with. Unpause. Didn't they film some of it at Rainbow's End? To look like an abandoned... So this gang of kids live in an abandoned theme park and when they're like running out of this thing and it zooms out and shows the theme

park, I was like, pause! I was like, that's Rainbow's End. That's the back of the log flume. Do you actually pause it? Yeah. Oh my God. And it's around the back of the log flume. Do you actually pause it? Yeah. Oh my god. And it's around the back of the log flume and the corkscrew rollercoaster. That's there, but it's kind of overgrown. And then they've CGI'd in like three or four rides in the background.

And then there was a, um, how do I describe where this is? Just off Queen Street in Auckland, there's that car park beside like the basement theatre and Oh, yeah, yeah. Queue theatre where the comedy stuff happens out the back of the classic. Yeah.

There's that car park and there's the overbridge that goes onto like Mayoral Drive, Mayoral Drive. They were under there last night too. Pause. No, that is shut up. Let me explain it to you. She's like, stop pausing this. I hate you.

I hate you. The sooner our divorce papers Get back from the lawyer The absolute god damn better Reason for divorce Keeps pausing the show And telling me where it's filmed And a woman lives in the zoo

In the show I'm making the show sound crazy It's a really It's a really cool show Oh it's got amazing reviews online Yeah It showcases New Zealand Beautifully

Like the parts And she lives in a zoo And she ran at the front of the zoo And I was like Pause I was like the front of the zoo and I was like pause I was like because the kids were still awake I was like

it's Auckland Zoo and it's out front of Auckland Zoo like the actual entrance to Auckland Zoo and they've made it look all like and there's a couple of then it's lucky

you're not a builder because you'd be like I built that that's what my dad did I built that I built that yeah I remember that but oh god

that place gave us a headache that's what my old man used to say he'd be like. But, oh, God, that place gave us a headache. That's what my old man used to say. He'd be like, oh, yeah, I remember building in the windows in that place. That place gave us a headache. But, yeah, I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. What else I can spot? Has Sade dropped off watching it with you? No, she finds it.

She said, you can watch this without me if you'd like. I can watch it on my own time. Oh, okay. So, yeah. I said, but you wouldn't be getting all these great tidbits. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Yummy, yummy. Well, yummy, yummy. This segment of the show where we take a look at new food items, trends. And this is a new flavor of, you'd call it a biscuit, an Oreo. I actually saw these at the supermarket. I'm taking a biscuit, an Oreo. I actually saw these at the supermarket. I'm taking a leave with an Oreo.

I don't love them. I'm the same because they remind me of a Cameo cream. No, I'd rather have a Cameo cream. No, I'd rather have an Oreo because the biscuit

on an Oreo is better than a Cameo cream. Agree to disagree. The Oreo, for me, the icing's not enough, but they do have double Oreos. Or you just make your own.

You take the lid off, scrape off the icing. What do you do with the spare biscuits? You could crush that and use it as the base of a cheesecake. Yeah, or put it in an ice cream. Like an Oreo cheesecake. Yeah. So this is a new flavor of Oreo birthday cake. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Whenever it's flavored birthday cake, it always says yuck. It just has sprinkles. Ituck, yuck, yuck. Whenever it's flavoured birthday cake, it always says yuck. It just has sprinkles. It always says yuck. It's icing with sprinkles and a little bit of something else that tastes yuck.

Well, you basically described that. It's a sweet birthday cake flavoured cream and colourful sprinkles. Yep, yuck. Not your favourite? There was these ice creams

that I really liked and I cannot remember the name of them and then they brought out the birthday cake flavour and I was like, I'll try you and I ate one that I really liked, and I cannot remember the name of them. And then they brought out the birthday cake flavor. And I was like, I'll try you. And I ate one, and I was like, well, you were yuck compared to the original. But then they ditched the original and stayed with the birthday cake.

This is an ice block. Yeah. An ice cream. No, no, no. You're right. It was in the shape of an ice block, but it was ice cream. Are you making it up? No, it's a streets.

I want to say paddle pop, but it's not a paddle pop. Oh, okay. No, I don't... But there was one, and it was yum, and then they made it into a birthday cake one, and it was yuck. They lost you. And the kids get it every time because...

Or the colours. They love the colours. They don't even really care what it tastes like because it's just yum ice cream, but the colours, they're just like, yeah, I want that because of the colours. Well, see, I'd rather see Oreos bring in the double. I think you can get some of them in the parallel imported American stores.

Right. The double icing Oreos. Right. Yeah. Jared's just messaged me Cookie Crumble. That's what it was. Cookie Crumble was a good ice cream. Oh, yeah, right.

And then they made Cookie Crumble birthday cake. And now I can't find the original Cookie Crumble and birthday cakes junk. All right. Well, Oreo birthday cake flavor. They're in stores. Yummy, yummy. Yummy, yummy. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

This is an article on the New Zealand Herald about tourism in New Zealand and what you can do in different places. And Brett Atkinson wrote an article about nipping around Mount Maunganui on an electric scooter, eating up all the best eats. And this is one thing I know from when I was a kid, the Mount was some bakeries, a pizza place, Eagle Boys pizza actually. Eagle Boys pizza, wow. Yeah, down at the end of like the main street just before it broke,

before Blake Park, there was an Eagle Boys. Mmm. Mmm. But it was pretty basic. But now, like going back there, there's so many great eateries. Yeah. So many good eateries. I always get sucked into Cafe 88 because of the slices.

Yep. I get sucked. Where should we go? And I'm like, could try something new or could just go for a huge ginger slice. Yeah. Didn't they have a good lamington as well? They got a good everything. Good everything.

Good everything. There's great coffee and everything. But this guy, Brett, did a tour around Mount Maunganui on a lime scooter, trying all the different places that have been recommended. He opened it up to people to suggest where to go. And it is the perfect place. And I think this should be integrated into like electric scooters because sometimes you're just in an area.

And I think it would be a great way if you were in a city that you weren't familiar with. Christchurch is another phenomenal example of a great city that really lends itself to the electric scooter tourism. Yeah, I love an e-scooter route. Because it's flat. It's a central city, yeah. It's pretty much grid. Yep.

So you were saying, open up these apps, whether it's Lime or Uber. Uber One. You should click on the app and say you want a bakery, there's a pie symbol or a muffin. Yeah. And you click on that or a coffee and then it shows

you all the good spots. And the more people that go there using Lime's, the bigger the logo gets. Oh you're like this is popular i know because the logos got bigger so that tells me that either it's really good or it really drew a lot of people in well they could just have five stars out of five stars that's another great way of doing that i think that's i mean that's a tried and tested way of doing it. I don't know why I tried to reinvent the wheel at 20 to 7 on a Thursday. On the fly, reinventing a well-proved rating system. It's a great idea, though. Yeah.

So because that is, sometimes you might be like, well, I've got a couple of hours and I could eat. Or, I was thinking in Christchurch also, the botanical gardens are right there. Yeah. So there's so many things that you could just scoot and see. It should be built into the app. Yeah, right.

And I've noticed lately the purple ones, Beam. Yeah, they're not everywhere though. Those are in Auckland. No, and they were in Wellington when we were down there. They've got a phone holder up on there. Yeah, they do. And you can tighten and hold your phone in. Now that's a game changer as well because you can leave the app open with the map on.

And then go around and find your ginger slices. Yes. Yes. Yes. What I'm interested in. And there might be like categories. Food, drink, things to see. I'm surprised the wineries haven't got e-scooters.

You know, they'll let you go on a bike. You know, we're like, are you talking Martinborough? Yeah. Because I've been around Martinborough I haven't done too many I know Hawke's Bay's got an area That's great for it as well And Blenheim

Around there Or your Marlborough's And your Martinborough's But yeah Martinborough would Absolutely fang electric scooters There'd be too many people In hospital

In the ditch In the ditch Or take a wrong turn Like we did When we were in Martinborough On a four person bike And we were on the main road Yeah Cars flying around us You were just pedalling Or take a wrong turn like we did when we were in Mountainborough on a four-person bike and we were on the main road.

Yeah. Cars flying around us. We're just pedaling as fast as we can to try to not be a huge hindrance to other road users. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the triangular ZM think tank, this is the top six. The world's most livable cities. Number 10, Brisbane, Australia.

Number two, Melbourne, Australia. Number eight, Geneva, Switzerland. Number seven, Zurich, Switzerland. Number six, Perth, Australia. Number five, Tokyo, Japan. Number four, Wellington, New Zealand. On 93.7%. Oh, okay, good.

Adelaide, Australia on 94%. Osaka, Japan at number two on 94.7%. Oh, okay, good. Adelaide, Australia on 94%. Osaka, Japan at number two on 94.2%. And Auckland, New Zealand, 96%, baby! 1.8 ahead. So does it say what they, like, use to calculate this? There's a whole lot of different, like, world's most livable cities. This is the Economist Intelligent Unit's annual ranking of livable cities. Okay.

Because normally Auckland isn't number one, but you'd assume it would be because of the pandemic. We've had a pretty relatively free life here in New Zealand. Vienna is usually number one. Okay. It's not even in the top 10. No. Apparently slammed by COVID.

Vienna has been. Yeah. That'll teach them. So the categories that are assessed on a stability, healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Somehow Auckland's number one. So I've got the top six things Auckland's got, baby, that makes it so livable.

Okay. You're going to want to move there immediately. Number six on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so livable, constant water problems. Okay. You're going to want to move there immediately. Number six on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so livable. Constant water problems. Okay. Hey, remember summer? It happened at the start of the year. Remember summer?

Yeah, yeah. There's another one coming at the end of the year. Oh, no. The dry season, they call it. Yeah, no sprinklers. Don't worry about water until then. No. No planning ahead.

Number five on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so livable. Road cones. Oh, there's a lot. We've got lots of road cones. They tell you what roads open and what roads shut and which way to go. And you can't drive in the shoulder. Watch out. Whatever's behind this road cone can't be driven in like the ordinary road.

Road cones. How much do road cones cost? I know you'd get a bulk. I remember my teenage years where we'd, a couple on the way home, one time we got told off for it and someone told us they cost, like the big ones were like $150 each.

But I think that was bullshit. That was if you were buying one road cone. One, yeah, but if you got a bulk deal. Man, because you'd see like kilometres of them. Yeah. So much money. My favourite ones are the ones with a good weight in the base. Oh, yeah, so they don't tip over in the wind.

No wind's going to knock them over, and Auckland's got plenty of them. Number four on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so lovable, houses. Boy, oh boy, it's got houses. So many. There's certainly not a short supply of houses. How much does that cost? Well, you're worried about how much they cost for. Don't get caught up on that.

Yeah. Don't. What are you? Why don't you bring up how much they cost? We've got them. Houses. Number three on the list of the top six things that make Auckland so livable. $2 shops.

Want a toilet plunger that'll break after one use for $3? We've got thousands of shops that'll sell it to you. Want some net curtains for the toilet window for $4? Nobody's doing net curtains anymore, are they? Well, they are at the $2 shop. Okay. But it's not the $2 shop. They're all called the 123 Plus Store or the 54321 Value Store.

Yeah. Or the 774422-4-4-2-2-8 store of stuff. Number two on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so livable. Traffic.

We got traffic. All the traffic. There's an old saying, you're not sitting in traffic, you are the traffic. Oh yeah, that's deep. Yeah, that's real deep. That's really deep.

You're getting angry at the traffic. And be angry at yourself. Be angry at yourself, exactly. And number one on the list of the top six things Auckland has that makes it so livable, beaches. Got so many beaches. Auckland is what is known as an isthmus.

An isthmus. An isthmus. Beaches surrounded by beaches. Oh, watch out. Here comes some heavy rain. Now, all the beaches are contaminated with poos. Oh, well, you win some, you lose some. That is today's top six.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Oh, what's in the box? What is in the box? $20,000. $20,000. We know now because the box told us. So all thanks to Marvel Studios, Black Widow, and cinemas July 8 and streaming on Disney Plus

with Premier Access July 9. Conditions apply. $20,000. What we know so far, it's a four-digit pin. Yes, and there is a seven in there somewhere. And seven corresponds to P, Q, R, or S. All right, Bobby joins us. Good morning, Bobby.

Morning, guys. All right, so. Was that a snigger or a cough to clear your throat, Bobby? Oh, sorry. Bit of both. No, I thought it was a snigger. I've got them now. I've got them now.

I know. I know. I know the code. All right, Bobby. What word do you want us to try? So the word I'm going to go for is safe. Safe. Okay, because it's like a safe, right?

Is that why, Bobby? Are you playing it safe? It's kind of like a safe, yeah. Okay, all right. Well, let's put that into the box. So what does that translate into? Seven. Two, three, three. Seven, two, three, three. Okay, here we. Well, let's put that into the box. So what does that translate into? 7-2-3-3. 7-2-3-3.

Okay, here we go. Okay. Oh, dramatic music just in time for me to press this button. No, it didn't work. It didn't work. There's always next time. Bobby, no. There you go, Bobby.

Unfortunately, not this time. All right. $20,000. Different sort of snigger at the end there. Yeah. Yeah, I'll get it. All right. Oh, shucks.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, previously, the fact that you wouldn't die of a disease has been enough. I mean, when the polio vaccine became available, people were all like, I knew a kid with polio. That poor kid was in so much pain. The more we can all do to play our part to rid the world of polio, if it's an injection, get it in me.

Yeah, totally. And they took it and, you know, then they were like, well, the children won't get polio. I've played my part and that was enough. And I would have thought enough with the vaccine. Well, after two jabs, it's 95% effective. It's fantastic odds. Far better than just winging it and hoping for the best.

And to see in places like the UK and states in America where so many people have got it, that like the death rate is just plummeted. Yeah, or literally non-existent now. It's amazing. The absolutely best you can. And it's not for the kids with polio this time around. It's for old people or those who have immunodeficiencies or I don't mean to say deficiencies.

I just don't know a better word for it. Or old people that are just more likely to die. But even seeing like people in their 30s and 40s with long COVID. Oh, yeah. it's pretty scary. Yeah, best to avoid that. So 100% I'm getting in there. We're getting, what, a million jabs in July.

Me and you. Half a million. I think that's too many. I think we'd die by the end of that. Just so we don't know if I've got enough spots on my body to get half a million jabs. It'll be like a death by a thousand jabs. So New Zealand, the rollout continues in July. It's going's gonna ramp up i don't know what our current stats are are we about

i i don't know i can i can have a google i think we're about half a million one shot and two shots 250 is that right i thought we were doing all right and then like we're the bottom of the oecd yeah we also haven't had the urgency as much because we haven't had COVID. All the OECD countries that had a higher percentage of people vaccinated, fully vaccinated, had also had the ravages

of COVID tests. So Google's telling me we've had 775,000 doses given, 277,000 fully vaccinated. That's 5.6% of the population. There's another 250,000 out there that 277,000 fully vaccinated. That's 5.6% of the population. There's another 250,000 out there that have had the first of two then. But around the country,

and this is what we wanted to touch on, around the world rather, there is some hesitancy for various reasons, whether people are anti-vaxxers or they just want to wait and see or whatever. And a lot of places are coming up with ways to entice people

to get the COVID jab so that life can get back to normal. Washington State is allowing people to, weed shops to offer joints for jabs. That was one of the latest ones in the news yesterday. So there'll be a lot of temporary allowance. You've got to be like a state-licensed official cannabis store where you sell legal weed. Not just your local drug dealer

with the shoes over the power lines outside his house. You pop the money through the letterbox and he puts his arm out and sticks you with a needle. Yeah. No, not like that. So apparently that's until July 12th. So for the next month, they're offering that. Australia and actually other states in America have offered beer and other incentives.

There's Texas, I think, on July 4th. If you can prove that you're fully vaccinated, it's free beer on the state of Texas just to get the numbers up. And Australia are talking about beer as well and other incentives. Well, Australia has been given the tick to incentivise people to get the vaccine by offering rewards under the cash prizes and complimentary an alternative medicines umbrella. I don't know what that means. That sounds, what, you go in, you get your vaccine, you're like, and I'll have a vitamin B12 shot while I'm here in a tube of Barocca, thanks.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But somebody's saying it's madness. People should just be getting it done for the benefit of society. But California, they've been doing the lottery.

Yeah. A few US states, Ohio did a million dollar lottery. If you got the jab, you got a... And that's your ticket. Yeah. And free food and drink

if you could prove that you were fully vaccinated. Tickets to events where you could only go to these events if you were fully vaccinated. Right. Because they still don't obviously want people congregating. Yeah. In other areas. So, yeah, there's incentives out there.

New Zealand has yet no incentives other than being able to travel again, I guess. Yeah, totally. When enough people are vaccinated. Had a bad date? Want the money back? This is our money back guarantee. Well, not actually. We have to feed it into the date refund of $6,000 to see if it warrants a full refund. Leonie joins us for Refund Your Date.

Good morning. Good Date. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. When did this date happen? Give us a day, a year, a month, a week. It was at the end of last year, sort of. Okay. Okay, end of 2020.

It was a hell of a year. You're out there on the dating scene. You want some light at the end of the tunnel. It has been a pretty dark year. What happened? Yes. So I was talking to this guy for a while on Tinder and he was really cute. He had all the

tattoos and piercings and he was like a really gorgeous man. Okay. Out of ten? Like a nine maybe. Because when you initially said cute and I was picturing like a cute, you're more of a rough cute.

You're more of a rough and tumble piercing tattoos cute. Yes, yes, I do like the bad boy. Bad boy cute. Okay, but he's a nine out of ten. Okay, and so you're chatting to this guy, then what? We finally decided to meet up. He was really into fishing, like, that's what he said. And then we ended up meeting up and said, okay, well, let's go for a fish.

Oh, okay. Was he one of these guys who has a picture of him on his Tinder holding a giant fish? No, he didn't, actually. That probably would have been the first red flag. Okay. So yeah, we ended up meeting up and he was like, oh, I don't have any rods. And I was like, oh, okay, that's

fine. We can go buy some. So we went to the warehouse. Wait, so fishing's his passion, but he doesn't have the main tool of fishing? Yes. Okay. He's unbelievable. So we went to the warehouse and then he was like, oh, um, but I don't actually have any money

because like his card had declined. And I was like, what the F? Yeah. Like, okay. Um, no, that's fine. I was like, yeah, no, it's fine. I'll get them and you can just, you can just pay me back later.

Okay. We got a ride and debated everything. And then on the way there, he was like, you know, he was really cool. And we were just having like a really good chat. And I was so excited. And then he was like, oh, I just, I need to put some gas in my car. And I was like, are you joking? And we know he doesn't have any money at this stage.

So I was like, look, I really want to go fishing, so I'll put some gas in your car. Also, he's a nine. I'd put gas in a nine's car. Yes. But, yeah, so I was like, yeah, no, okay, that's fine. I'll put it in. You can just pay me back later.

Okay. And we ended up getting to the beach, and he was standing there really, really clueless, and I was like, are you all right? And he's like, do you know how to put the line on the thingy? And I was like, are you serious? Do you even know how to go fishing? And he's like, yeah. I ended up having to do everything myself,

like thread it and I had to put the hooks on and the sinkers and everything, and I had to throw it out. And I was like, oh, this is ridiculous. And I ended up just being like, I just really want to go home. I'm over it. So he was lying about fishing

just to go on a date with you? Yeah, well, yeah. Like it was on his profile that he was really about fishing just to go on a date with you? Yeah, well, yeah. Like, it was on his profile that he was really into fishing and hunting and everything like that. But, like, he wouldn't even touch the bait. It was unbelievable. So, okay, so you spent money on the fishing rods. How much did you spend on petrol? Like, did you have to drive to a beach?

Yes, because I live in Hamilton. So the closest sort of would be was Raglan. Oh, no. So I went would be was Raglan. Oh, no. So I went to go to Raglan. Okay. And then did you leave him in Raglan or did you have to have an uncomfortable drive home? It was a very uncomfortable drive home because it was his car. Oh, yeah.

Okay. And he never paid you back? No. Leonie, how much would you like us to feed into the date refunder? How much did you end up losing? $160. $160. Let's feed that into the date refunder, $6,000.

Your date refund request has been accepted. Yay! Awesome. Thank you so much. Oh, the date refunder has spat something else out afterwards. It says, only if she's learned her lesson. I definitely have. I will never be using Tinder again.

Or just go for the guys with the fish photo. I don't know if that's the lesson it was meaning. Hey, congratulations, Leonie. $160 is yours. Thank you so much. If you've got a date that you would like to get a refund for, you can just drop us a line on social or you can just enter at zmonline.com

This is a this has been doing the rounds online a hack to make your vacuuming also a sort of deodorizing of your house. Right. You can buy these little sheet things that you put in the dryer with your clothes when you're using the dryer. How do you describe them?

I don't use these. Nah, neither. But I've seen them in the shops. I'm like, what's that? And you chuck them in. It's more static, isn't it? It removes the static, but it also spreads like a smell through your clothes. You know that smell of the washing liquid that you've used

and then this is an additional fragrance. It looks like a kind of a... It's a drier sheet. Yeah, it looks like it's kind of a bit foamy. Yeah. It's kind of see-through-ish. It's very thin. So people have been putting these inside their vacuum cleaners.

Well, this guy online is like, put this inside your vacuum cleaner. It acts as an additional filter and it will also make the air getting puffed out of your vacuum cleaner smell nice and fragrant, not like a musty old dustbin. Which to me sounds like a great idea. Well, it's

got to the point where Dyson has made an official statement saying don't put that into a Dyson. Because they're putting saying don't put that into a Dyson. Because they're putting it in the videos that I've seen online. They're putting it into the Dyson stick vacuum. Yeah, the V10 or whatever it is. And it wouldn't matter.

It could be in any vacuum cleaner, really, with a cylinder. Yeah, yeah. With a cylinder. With the tornado power. Yeah. It'll spin around in there because it's already in there. So it's been through the filtery bits where it grabs the fine particles. Yeah. Is that right? No, I think that's later. No, that's later on the way out

isn't it? So it doesn't get sucked into that part and it kind of whizzes around and the air that comes out the back will smell nicer. Are they saying why you shouldn't do it? Well we love, they say, trying the idea of finding ways to reduce bad odours in your home. So that's like a nice try, punk.

And here comes the telling off. But we would never recommend intentionally including large foreign objects in the bin of a vacuum as it could reduce the functionality of the primary cyclone and cause loss of suction power. Because that's... Stop showing up. You're filling up your vacuum cleaner with a sheet. Yeah.

Really? And like they say, it's got to suck through, doesn't it? That is correct. It does also say we don't recommend the owners expose their machines to any liquid, including water or essential oils. So people must be putting essential oils in the filter. Like making the filter. No, no, no, no, no. Just pouring it on the, because you clean out the filter, don't you?

You can put it under the tap. We've got Robbie the RoboVac. He does the hard graft around the home but we've still got the Dyson stick vac for like car vacuuming and

stuff and we've got the old Dyson that's the garage vacuum now it doesn't get a lot of use but it does stuff like it

vacuums up wood chips and that in the garage and usually I use the old vacuum to clean out my Traeger BBQ

it burns pellets and it leaves like a dust a really fine dust. But I couldn't be able to go into the garage to get it, so I just used the Dyson stick vacuum. Wow. Whoopsie-daisy.

I thought I'd ruined that. What did you do? Was it still hot? Well, no, no, no. It wasn't hot. It was dust, but there was like a little bit of grease in the dust and it just stuck all around the thing and it clogged the filter. So I took the Dyson absolutely to pieces and washed all the individual parts

and then put it in the hot water cupboard to dry and Sade's like, what have you done there? I said, you know, you've just got to maintain your equipment. Oh, so you didn't tell her that you ruined it? No, no, no. Because I didn't know when it was in there drying if it was going to work well when it got out. Oh, okay. And did it? But, lucky for me it's working better than ever. Oh, great. So I'm going to chuck

one of these dryer sheets in it. Well, no, don't. Because I am just an absolute rebel when it comes to vacuum usage. Well, they're saying what? Don't do it. Yeah, they're saying don't do it. But they would say that. They would say that. Until they come out with the Dyson vacuum sheet.

And you have to buy the official Dyson vacuum sheet to go in your official Dyson vacuum. I kind of like the smell of the vacuum, though. I love it. It's a weird smell, eh? But I like it. Yeah, I used to crawl around after the vacuum when I was a kid. And my nana and nans were better because they had those old talus, like really

old vacuums and I feel like there was like years of skin particles and dust and bits and pieces in those. The smell of those was particularly delightful. Yeah. Is this why you have so many allergies? Uh, probably why I don't have any allergies. Oh, because you're superhuman. I've been huffing dust since I was a kid. Uh, 729. Uh, because you're superhuman. I've been huffing dust since I was a kid.

729, next on the show with Megan away, Vaughan Smith's spicy hot gossip. Yeah, we're going to talk about a family that makes a lot of money. Everybody in this family makes a lot of money, but the ranking of who's making the most money in that family. I don't know what family this could be. I have no idea what family it could be.

ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We want to talk about now, if at your job or when you used to have a job, if there were any like random tests you had to partake in. I did not know this having never worked at a supermarket, but I was enjoying my favourite brand of apple before, the Pacific Rose. That's my favourite apple too. Absolute cracker apple. It's a good apple.

It's sweet. Yep. Sometimes the middle can be a bit brown. You can't eat these apples in the dark. I eat, you know, I was actually eating one in the dark driving this morning and I went tangy.

There was this weird like earthy taste and the core had just started to rot slightly but the apple itself was still crisp. I was willing to forgive it. I still ate everything. Right. Yeah, you can't. I've been caught out eating one of those in the dark.

And I was on my second apple of the day because I thought if one's enough to keep a doctor away, maybe two's enough to keep a psychiatrist away. Or a dentist. Yeah. Any kind of medical professional. Any sort of medical professional stay the hell away. Yeah. And Jared said to me, 4-1-2-2. And I said, what are you talking about?

And he said, that is the PLU code, if I'm correct, and saying that is your usual rose apple. That's the PLU code. And apparently some of these PLU codes are still buried deep in his mind from when there was the pop quiz at his time at Pack and Save for PLU codes. Producer Jared joins us now. Good morning. Carrots. They had a button. They weren't a PLU codes. Producer Jared joins us now. Good morning. Carrots.

They had a button. They weren't a PLU code. Oh, right. Okay, what about mushrooms? That's the thing about the introduction of the self-serve is that it's all a lot now, right? Yeah, there's a lot of buttons now. What's another one that you can remember that wasn't a button, that was a code?

I think 6133 was pick and and mix. Oh yum. Yeah. Yeah, and we had a sheet of all the codes and then once really did it really Jiggle your chain Did it really jangle your bits when someone got a pick a mix and didn't write the PLU on the bag Oh, yeah, I'd be like, hey, there when someone got a pick and mix and didn't write the PLU on the bag? Oh, yeah. I'd be like, hey, there's a pen at pick and mix. Where you get the bag.

Yeah. And you write the number on before you fill the bag because once you've got stuff in the bag, it's almost impossible to write on that bag. Did you ever see anybody write the wrong number on and you knew it was right? No, never. Okay, yeah. You did that.

To defraud your employers. So tell us about these tests that you would have to do as a pack and save checkout check. So behind customer service, there'd be the stack of paper once a week and you'd walk in and your supervisor would be like, it's your turn. Once a week? Once a week, yep. And we'd have

to go in, there'd be like a bunch of different fruits and vegetables. Yep. And we'd have to like, it couldn't just be apple. It had to be Royal Gala apple. Right, like specifics. What's a Royal Gala? Iron button. 4173. Top of my head.

You're googling that now, aren't you? The universal, right? All PLU codes, you could be working in a pack and save and then go to a countdown. Same. I think it's under the food stuff's umbrella. What did you say it was? Oh right. 4173? Yep, he's right Royal Gala, 4173

Thanks guys. Well done sir Team member of the week Let's put his photo in that little holder thing. Yes Yes Yeah, if we got less than 7 right we had to redo it the next day. Out of 10?

Out of 10, yeah. Holy moly. Really? I'm imagining it was the most common fruit and veg, the ones that people bought all the time, not like shallots. Kinda. So there'd be five easy ones,

three medium ones, and then two that were like new vegetables. Okay, root ginger. I couldn't even tell you. You're coming back tomorrow, mate. We'll see you tomorrow. Just kind of poor attitude to the checkout that hasn't got you 10 out of 10 in a while, pick stock. Ginger gold.

That wouldn't be it. That would be... It's under fruit. Oh, no, ginger has a button. Oh, yeah, here we go. Ginger root. Oh, it's got a button. Four, six, one, two.

But then what happens if the test has a button? Do you just say there's a button? Or do they only test you on the numbers? I think they only test you on the PLUs. Did you have the, because my friend, I suppose they could do this by the computers to see what your scan per minute was. Yeah, so like you'd have a couple monthly, I can't remember what it was called,

but it was like a peer review kind of, and your supervisor would analyze your performance and be like, all right, so last month your scan rate was 14. That's terrible. So if you don't raise that, you're in big trouble next month. 14 a minute? Yeah, so that's real slow. No, 14 a minute is so slow.

$5, like, whatever? This is why I couldn't work under people. We all used to get pretty competitive with it, though. Yeah, right. So we wanted to know this morning on the back of this and Jared having to take a test at the supermarket, the memory test with the PLU codes. Have you had to take a test at your workplace?

Do you have to do something every like six months or every month or what do they test you on? Two mates of mine every year have to get their forklift license renewed. And they said it's just a fun day of driving forklifts. But it's a test, like around the cones and stuff. It's a driving test, but also like a theory you've got to answer the questions on. Yeah, right.

And one of them always argues with the instructor because he did the maths on how high you could lift something that weighed so much. Yeah. And he said you actually couldn't lift it that high. And he showed him the maths working and this forklift dude, he did not want to hear it. All right. So 0800DARLS.M. Give give us a call you can text as well 9696 what tests have you had to do for a job like a semi-regular test the revelation that producer jared had to have a weekly yeah weekly um or bi-monthly test on the PLU codes at the checkout. We want to know what test you've had to do at your workplace. Let's start with Amber.

Amber, what was your test for? So I used to work in like a bar setting. So we used to get pictures given to us and we had to guess the age of the patrons so that we could determine if people were underage in the bar. Oh, but this is like when they do those police things and they get like a really tall, like, 15-year-old who's got a moustache. And it's hard to tell. What?

Wow. What would you... As someone it's crazy how people look much older than they really are. As someone that's done it a lot, then what feature would you look at for the true age? Is it like the sparkle in their eyes? Because once they're in their mid-20s, the sparkle's faded and they've come to the realisation that life's not going to be the fun ride it's been so far.

Yeah, I always found girls to be the hardest to kind of determine because I feel like they can just make themselves look older with makeup and stuff. But I feel like guys, you can kind of determine by facial hair a little bit and that sort of stuff. Yeah, right. It was always pretty tricky. It was a hit or miss with anyone really. I'll show you a picture of my

friend Jared at high school. He was prematurely balding a little bit and he bald all of our booze. Right. Yeah, he was. Sideburns and a wispy mustache? Yeah, sideburn. No mustache, but just the confidence as well.

Yeah, you've got to have confidence. Oh, we got a few bottles of Mad Jacks out of that. I'll tell you what, Amber. Thanks, you called some texts. Back when the drinking age was actually 20, but they just didn't care if you were 15. Yeah. Some texts in. Yeah, someone said,

Producer Jared's really showing his age. PLU tests are so old school. It's all pictures on the screen now, baby. So it's like the self-serve checkout. Yeah. So yeah, we want to know what you have to do at your work. Regular testing. All right, we're talking about the tests that you have to do at work.

The tests that keep you on your toes. The tests that you know your stuff. Did you know nurses are regularly tested on their hand washing technique? Somebody messaged in saying, and it's not just like a, I, have a look over your shoulder. It's like a proper testing. Oh really?

On the hand washing technique. Someone else says, I work at a doggy daycare. We get tested on dog leads. So I don't know what that means. Like how to lead a dog. How long should an Alsatian's dog lead be? Or how to like, if a dog boosts it, you know when a dog's running

and you're holding the lead and you're like, when it gets to the end of this lead, it's going to like, itself. How do I cushion the blow to the throat? I don't know how that test would go. Rochelle, what was your test for?

I used to work on a quite luxury cruise ship. And every two weeks, I was a housekeeper. And every two weeks before the new passengers got on, we got given their photos, names, and room numbers. And we had to memorize all of those so we could read them by name when they arrived. And if we got it wrong, we got extra cleaning duties. I've left the kitchens and the

hallway. Oh my god, no. That would be my worst nightmare, because I'm good with faces, but names, I don't back myself. I'd give everyone a little nickname. Yeah, like Big Nose Woman. No, no, one that you can say to her face. Oh, yeah, you're right. Okay. Like,

I was going to say Sweet Cheeks, but that seems... But then she's an old bird, assuming on a cruise they're mostly, you know, plus 60s and they love being called sweet cheeks. Sort of derogatory comments. They're all for the attention. But this, I'm imagining, was like, was this more of a boutique, smaller cruise boat?

No, it was pretty big. It sailed mostly kind of over 50s and above in Europe. But how many people would you have to remember? So we each had 10 rooms. So probably two people on average in a room and every two weeks. That's still very stressful. I don't know how you did that, Rochelle. Thanks for your call.

Hannah, you worked at Burgerfield. You had a test. So they'd be like, which burger had an egg in it or which burger had beetroot? A bastard. Oh my God. A bastard burger's burger had an egg in it or which burger had beetroot? A bastard. Oh, my God. A bastard burger's got the beetroot in it. Yeah, right.

Yeah, yeah. The better question, which one's got peanut sauce in it? Vaughan hasn't worked there. He just frequents there. I, yeah. Look. The teriyaki satay. Teriyaki satay.

Was there... The tofu burger. So how often would this... I was thinking that Ford one had a peanut sauce on it, didn't it? No, that's bacon and avocado. Well, I am not getting my job. Thanks, you call Hannah. Someone else messaged in saying regularly tested on CPR

and if we could correctly immunise people. That was from a nurse, I assume. They didn't say what they do for a job, but yeah, right. Unless they're getting immunised against COVID and they're just training anybody up. Like they did overseas. I don't know if that's happening here in New Zealand. Someone said,

husband has to do the beep test every six months as part of the New Zealand Defence Force. No, no, no. That's like high school horror revisited. Yeah. That's a nightmare. How do you train for the beep test? It's just by doing the beep test, right?

By doing shuttles. Yeah, lots of shuttles. Level five. Beep. And there was always a kid that dropped out early at level four. And why are you looking at me like that for? Level four was your top score. It's all right, mate.

Don't worry about it. It's a long time ago. No, I don't know. I can't remember what level I did. But they dropped out early, and then they became this sort of Nazi of if you touched the line or not. Remember that? Oh, no.

You touched the line. No, they didn't get there by the time it beeped. You're only two of those. They're two behind. They're out. It's like, just because you. Yeah, shut up. Shut up.

Shut up. And sure, sometimes that kid was me during the fat years and the particularly lazy last few years of high school. But, you know, shut up. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Oh, what's in the box? Well, we know what's in the box. $20,000 is in the box.

Now, Vaughan, you're on the portable microphone. I am. I'm on box mic. You're on box mic right next to the box. The clues so far, it's a four-letter word. We know that the puzzle that we completed makes out a seven. Yeah. So that would mean if it's a word and seven on the keypad, it's got to have a P, a Q, an R, or an S in it.

Or maybe multiple sevens. Now, we're giving you the chance to guess the box at 7, 8, 12, 4 and 5 every day. All thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow and cinemas July 8th streaming on Disney Plus with premiere access July 9th. Conditions apply. And even if you don't get the code, you get tickets to go and see. Yes. Black Widow. All right.

So you can't lose. All right. Joining us is Lisa. Good morning, Lisa. Good morning. All right. $20,000. Cash could Good morning, Lisa. Good morning. All right, $20,000. Cash could be yours, Lisa.

Fabulous. I love it. Have you thought about that just then? Oh, a new kitchen, I think, is what I'm after. Oh, yeah. What would you? Soft-close drawers. Oh, yeah, they've got those drawers here at work.

You can slam them and they don't slam. Soft-close drawers. That's next-level technology. Your life will never be the same. Really? Because after you've used soft-close drawers, you go back to standard drawers and you're like, slam! And you almost put them through the back of the cabinet tree.

How do you make a point in an argument if you can't slam a drawer? Have you ever tried to have an argument and slam one of those air-controlled doors? You'd be like, ah! Can't say I have. I'm angry at you. I'm so angry. But this door is closing slowly.

All right, Lisa, we need a four-digit pen that also spells word. Okay. Eight, four, six, seven. Now, what does that spell? Thor. Thor. Okay, so does that spell? Thor. Thor. Okay, so he's in the MCU. He is also a fellow Marvel character like Black Widow.

And on Disney+, where you're going to be able to watch Black Widow with Premier Access, Loki started this week. And Loki is, of course, Thor's brother. I was going to say, has anybody tried Loki? But there's no seven in that. No, no, there's no seven if you were to say, has anybody tried Loki, but there's no seven in that. No, no, there's no seven if you were to spell it out. All right. So what were those numbers again?

Eight. Yep. Four. Yep. Six. Seven. All right. For $20,000.

No. Bad luck. No, unfortunately, Lisa. That's another word scratched off as well. Bad luck. No, unfortunately, Lisa. That's another word scratched off as well. It is. All the incorrect guesses are at ZM Online, but we have a double pass for you to Marvel Studios' Black Widow. Congratulations, Lisa.

And your next shot is coming up with Georgia at midday. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, Drax Project and Mitch James are hitting the road. Auckland, Auckland, Wellington, Wellington. I'm not just saying those places twice to reiterate it. They're doing that many gigs in each place. Dunedin, Christchurch and Hamilton. Sian from Drax Project.

Mitch James, join us in studio. Hello. G'day, fellas. Good to see you. Good to see you too, mate. Now, Mitch James. Yes. We spoke to you, God, it only feels like what?

Must have been three weeks ago. Three breaths ago. Yeah. And you were supposed to be leaving to LA, God, it only feels like what? Must have been three weeks ago. Three breaths ago. Yeah. And you were supposed to be leaving to LA like on the next jet plane. What happened? So I literally got to LA three hours later. My manager calls me and he's like, you have to turn around. We've got a tour.

We can't change the dates. You literally have to come back like before next week to get back in time. So then 14 days and very, very, very, very, very long days in quarantine. You know, I was actually averaging 8,000 to 9,000 steps a day in my hotel room just pacing. Wow. So, yeah, because when we talked to you, we were like it was weird that you didn't mention the tour.

And then you had no idea. I literally had no idea. Because I think we announced it the next day we were like he didn't even say anything yeah rude

that under wraps surprise to everybody so how was your two weeks in quarantine it was bad yeah where did you get

quarantined I was in the ridges in Auckland so they had nice food and stuff but yeah lots of things went on behind the scenes which weren't very nice, so it was a long 14 days.

Wow. You guys haven't done any quarantining? Not yet, no. Don't. We've been scared. Honestly, we haven't left New Zealand just so we're scared. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Lots of New Zealanders are on board with that.

And, I mean, the bonus of you guys not leaving, apart from Mitch leaving, come back, do it your way. scared yeah yeah yeah totally lots of new zealanders are on board with that and i mean the the the bonus of you guys not leaving apart from mitch leaving come back to your week we get a tour yes a week a week tomorrow we kick off so all the dates are at zenim online now let's talk about your facebook um strax project because uh you're not in control of it at the moment yeah yeah funny story hey has anyone said look at me i'm the captain now that would be it's um it's actually ridiculous so we didn't have two-factor authentication yeah well i'm having a security meeting with the business uh after we get it back um yeah one of our admins got hacked and then um it's crazy bro like they they deactivated

their person's account yeah and so when i went into our drax facebook page after their personal page got hacked i was like okay so i'll make sure they're not an admin in case they do something weird with drax yeah and then but because the account was deactivated they don't appear as an admin which is a real flaw of facebook um oh wow okay and then so i was like oh it must, they must have deactivated it next minute. Next minute. Because this is a change on Facebook now.

If you're an admin of a page, when you log in, it can take you straight to being on that page, not your personal page. I got several emails just like, you are no longer in full control over Drax Project. And I'm just like, huh? What? And so now they're just like, huh? What?

And so now they're posting like movie clips? Oh, yeah, just movie. Yeah, I don't know what they're up to. But we'll get it back soon. It's quite, I mean, honestly, it's hilarious, but it's kind of annoying. It's a great content. Yeah.

Because it's great scenes. There's a scene from Starship Troopers, a classic 97 sci-fi film. And people are actually commenting on it like, yeah, that was a great film, guys. It's so many bots and spams but bro we're like

200,000 followers now on Facebook and some of the views have like millions of views so I don't know what the hell's gonna go on with our algorithm after we get it back

so it might be a win is it um was it Paris Goebbels that her page got hacked yeah because she's been posting like movie clips

for months oh really yeah months wait she still hasn't got it back no no you're kidding well her and I are cheap for the latest Got hacked? Yeah. Because she's been posting, like, movie clips for months. Oh, really? Yeah, months. Wait, she still hasn't got it back? No. No, you're kidding. Well, hold on. I'll cheat for the latest, but she hadn't.

Like, a month ago we were looking, eh? And we were like, this is definitely not her. Like, we're in direct, like, our labels are in direct contact with Facebook and they haven't done anything. Honestly. One hour ago, Paris Goebbels posted a link to the Blindside movie. Oh, my God. This is not good news, guys.

This is not good news. And that's been for months. Oh, my gosh. But you guys are mostly doing movie clips. It's an inspirational title, that one. She's doing, like, how to do glassblowing. Glassblowing, they're making a leaf in a glassblowing course. That's pretty sweet.

People are like, that's amazing, Paris. Is this you? Wait, really? Yeah, yeah, people. Have you seen those guys? Paris is like, I've got a dance to choreograph, but I might go to a glass blowing class. That's not, man, a month, really.

Those videos of those guys that build a spa pool in the woods, those are great as well. Honestly, it sucks. Facebook's sucks. People will be like, weird they're not promoting their tour, but they are promoting a movie from 2001. Honestly, it's not very good timing.

We've got all these Facebook events we're trying to like advertise and stuff. We're making some funny content on Instagram about it and we'll keep doing it.

Hopefully not for a month though. No, Paris Goebbels has been going for like six months. Wait, what? Yeah.

Yeah. What? We're just saying we haven't checked it for a month. It's been going easily since before Christmas. She lost control before Christmas. Oh oh man this is why we all need two-factor authentication i feel very secure now on everything else yeah like no one's getting in

that's not a challenge yeah but and mitch james you have two factor authentication turned on i don't have facebook oh oh yeah What about your artist account, though? Hands off. Okay, okay. Whoever's got access, make sure they have two fat clickers. Yeah. Well, seeing as Drax Project can't tell you on their Facebook page, a week tomorrow, the first

concert kicking off with Drax Project and Mitch James. Auckland at the Power Station. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster for that. The Town Hall gig is sold out. Then Wellington Shed 6, the new show on sale at Ticketmaster. Then that's the 25th of June.

Saturday the 26th, the Wellington show, the next one sold out. Dunedin Town Hall on the 2nd of July. Christchurch Town Hall on the 3rd of July and Claude Lynn's Arena

in Hamilton on July 24. All the ticket links and details are at ZM Online. That hasn't been hacked. I've just checked your Facebook account, Mitch. You haven't been hacked, but you also haven't posted for nearly a year. That makes a lot of sense. So you may as well invest in both worlds.

No one's promoting this tour. Topper up your account to get Drags Project's account back. Take my account. I don't use it. Hey, thanks for coming in, guys. Good luck getting your Facebook back. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

I've got a song on the background. Oh, you've got a song? Yeah. Okay. Oh, my God. Is it coming through one speaker? No, it's coming through both. It's how it's balanced.

See, it's coming in the other ear now. That's what they do. The banjo's on one side, the guitar's on the other. This is a Kiwi classic. Do you reckon we could get this in the charts? No, because you've ruined that. The charts don't work like that anymore. Please don't.

Are you saying please don't? Executive Internania would love've ruined that. The charts don't work like that anymore. Please don't. Are you saying please don't? Executive Internania would love to organise that. I've got a farm quam. We've got so many rural listeners out there. Also, you don't live on a farm. You live on a farmlet. A farmlet. A farmlet quamlet.

A farmlet quamlet. Because it's a small quam on a small farm. It's a farmlet quamlet. Because it's a small quam on a small farm. It's a farmlet quamlet. My cow, Hermione, who is a miniature Highland cattle.

These are the fluffy ones on your Instagram. Orange fluffy. Big horns. She has developed an unhealthy obsession with our

kune kune pigs. Particularly the fellow ginger. What was that one called? There's Herman and there's Hamlet. Herman.

Okay. It's the ginger one. She's developed an unhealthy obsession with them so much so that they haven't been in the same paddock

for ages but recently I let the cows back in to the paddock where the pigs are with the goats. Right. It was a whole situation.

The sheep were in there too with the chickens. It was a real old McDonald's farm in that paddock. And then I noticed she was getting a little bit rough with them. She would corner them. Yeah.

She would corner the pigs. Yeah. And lick them ferociously. Like, are they salty? So somebody did tell me once that a pig has a salty flavour to it, which makes sense. We've all had bacon. There's a sort of a natural saltiness to it.

I don't. Where's the salt coming from? They're not by the sea. Is it sweat? I don't know. Because they also like mud baths to keep themselves cool. So I don't know, do they even sweat or does it all come out their snout? Anyway, I've Googled why is my cow obsessed with my pig?

Yeah. And there's no reply? I didn't get any reply. So I managed to separate them into different paddocks. And since Hermione just stands at the fence roaring, like bellowing, not just like moo, it's like. Because she misses the pig. Foaming at the mouth.

So I've had to put the pigs in with the chickens in the chicken coop. Yeah. Where the pigs are absolutely in heaven because they're getting, I'm going to start my country calendar theme song again, where the pigs are getting like a sawdust bed. They get a sawdust bed anyway, but the goats always like kick them out. They've got a sawdust bed in there. They're having a great time feeding them the scraps,

giving them lots of treats to keep them out of Hermione's sight. But like yesterday, all day, and she's on heat, I think, which is this short period of the bovine menstrual cycle where she could be impregnated. Right. Which might take care of the problem or might make it a whole lot worse. Yeah. Is it because when you got the pigs, Hermione and Himmler or whatever. Himmler.

Is that? Yeah, you know me. You know me. I'm always naming my cows after Nazi generals. Yeah, we've got Herman. We've got Goebbels. We've got Hitler himself, the goose. All my farm animals.

It's just a World War II setting. Yeah. When you got them and they were baby coony coony pigs and they looked ginger. Yeah. Was it because the cows thought they were theirs? Is there an attachment issue? That was my initial thought. And so I separated them because when they were piglets,

she was like quite rough with them, would like bunt them and stuff. Like I guess a cow would their calf, kind of shunt them in the right direction. But they're like, wah. The pigs are getting knocked over. Yeah. And then I thought it was like the pig, they love licking the pig. I'm all licking my pig. Because it's salty. Because it's salty.

Because it's salty. So I got them a salt block. They weren't interested in the salt block. Oh, okay. So I don't know why. And Humphrey, who is a weather, meaning he doesn't have testicles. He doesn't have the means to impregnate Hermione. And they might be related as well.

You don't want that. No. He just kind of stands there like, Oh, man, she's just obsessed with these pigs And every now and then he'll be like Boo Just so he feels like he's part of it But she's like going crazy

So this is your farmlet, quamlet This is my farmlet, quamlet My cow is obsessed with my pigs Right And now that I've separated them She's just not Why don't you put them in a thing next to them? Because if she can see them, she goes even crazier

because she's like, I want to lick them, I want to lick them. Lay me at them. She foams at the mouth and stuff. This is bizarre. This is bizarre. I don't know how to answer this. Have you talked to your vet? No.

No, because that's money. I just brought my quamlet to the place with free yet wildly varying advice. Yeah, right. Is anybody texting in? Somebody said she thinks it's her baby, which is what I thought too. Yeah, see, that's what my money's on. Yeah. But like how stupid is this cow? It doesn't look like a cow.

Dumb. Yeah, they're dumb. Cows are not as dumb as sheep. Yeah. You've not met a dumb creature until you've met a sheep. Right, okay. Those things are dumb. Goats, incredibly smart.

Yeah, right. Too smart. Pigs, also smart. Okay, well, good luck with that. Yeah. I'm being called an idiot because I called the, it's a steer, a bull with no testicles. It's a steer, not a weather. A weather is a goat.

A goat and a sheep with no balls. Okay, well, good luck with that. It's just that no balls. There's no balls on the fence. Yeah, right. Have you, out of interest, have you like licked your finger and then touched your pig and then to see if it's salty?

But I would have to lick the finger again afterwards and that's how you get leptospirosis. I'd risk it just to see if it's salty. Okay, I'm going to go home and lick a pig. Great, okay. If I'm not here tomorrow. That's why. I'm dead from licking a pig

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast Fact of the day Day, day, day, day Today's fact of the day is about the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton. Okay. It's a great episode of Drunk History, if you haven't seen it.

Oh, I haven't seen that one. Bill Hader plays Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live. Brilliant. Plays John Pemberton, and it's a brilliant episode of Drunk History, which is just a great series worth a watch. John Pemberton, who invented Coca-Cola, he never really saw its success happen. He sold the formula shortly before his death. He died at the age of 57, which is young.

But I'm here to tell you about his other invention that he thought was going to be more popular and invented before Coca-Cola. It was called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Okay. It was an alcoholic beverage. Yeah. That also contained cocaine and caffeine. Because original Coke also did, didn't it? Yeah, yeah.

Trace amounts of cocaine. So he was an absolute fiend. Well, it was the Coca, the Coca flavor that he initially wanted, and also the kick people got from it. It was a bit of a wake-up juice. The kola nut, the flavor, and the wine that was used, the original mix-up had an ingredient called cocaethylene, which is cocaine mixed with alcohol.

He said it was quite popular. Was it? It sounds like something you try to steer clear of on a Balinese island or a Thai island. It sounds like the sort of thing that that guy who you haven't seen from school who's been like travelling around Southeast Asia for ages comes home and you just happen to run into him in your hometown around like Christmas time when he runs home to see their family.

He's like, do you guys want to try something? You're like, absolutely not, Daryl. I don't know. He's not going by Daryl anymore. Dazza. No, he's going by like Dexel, Dexelese or some weird thing that he picked up on. Moonbeam. Yeah, Dexel, Moonbeam.

Yep. He picked that up on a Balinese yoga retreat. Yeah. Where he didn't talk for like eight years or something. But he's like, hey, you guys want to try something? And next thing you know, it's like New Year's Day. And you're like, whoa, what happened? Is it still Christmas Eve?

What's happened? Where am I? So this drink obviously didn't take off and was never as big as Coca-Cola. It took off. Right. It took off. And it had, you know, multiple effects. For example, a former US president, when he had painful throat cancer,

drank Pemberton's French wine, coca and it numbed the pain. Really? And gave him the energy that he felt sapped of to run the country. Being diagnosed. No, this was after he'd been president. This was in his later years. Okay. Ulysses S. Grant.

And multiple people said it was great for pain relief. It was a most wonderful invigorator of the sexual organs. I read one review of Pemberton's French wine coca. So yeah, very, very popular. But when studies and stuff were done into it, it also showed that it had a lot of cocaine in it. And it was used as a cure for morphine addiction, but actually just got you more addicted to Pembidens French wine coca.

Like a good time at all. Yeah, and then once they removed the cocaine from it because of the social stigma surrounding rampant use of cocaine in the late 1800s, nobody wanted it anymore. Yeah, right. But then coke, the same thing happened, but then people did keep wanting it. Yes. Yeah, right. But then Coke, the same thing happened, but then people did keep wanting it. Yes. Yeah, right. Yeah, they keep going. So today's fact of the day

is the guy that invented Coke also invented a drink that was cocaine, caffeine, and French wine in a delicious mixture called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, with Megan away today,

I'm going to direct this female-based question to us, mostly female-based question about makeup. Well, no, I feel I can also comment. How? Well, when you do TV stuff, they slather you with makeup because I've got this big ball, disco ball head. And do they use a matte powder? Yeah, they matte. Well, every week it's different. I think everybody's got a different approach to it. Yeah, right. I get a full de-matting, de-shining. Right.

Because I've found this article online. This is a makeup stain remover. And if I'm wearing a light-coloured T-shirt when I take it off, I get the stains all around the collars, and then that T-shirt's buggered. So apparently this is mostly for foundation. And do you know the worst is when you go up to someone you haven't seen in ages, and you give them a hug,

and then you come away, and you're like, what's that on my shoulder? No, I have seen you hug. You cannot describe what you do as giving someone a hug. They hug you and you put limp arms to the side of them. Well, that's why I have a gap.

I don't want anything on my shoulders. God, why do women have to be so short? So then I end up with corn flour. Like the rest of us. Corn flour or whatever it is you've got on your face. On my foundation and powdery stuff. It up with corn flour. You're all like the rest of us. Corn flour or whatever it is you've got on your face, on my foundation and powdery stuff. It's not corn flour.

It's a mix of icing sugar and cocoa powder. Okay, well, whatever it is you use. And you've got to find your right ratio. Yeah, right, and sieve it. Yes. Oh, you don't want lumps? You fool. We're not baking biscuits here or a cake.

Okay, so here, now have you guys heard about this shaving cream? No, I haven't. But I'm thinking this is a great hack for when you go to a store, there's a shirt, but it's only in your size, but it's got a makeup stain on it. Wait, does this happen? Oh, this happens all the time. Because you think about it, people are trying on clothes

and they've got makeup on. And then if you saw that you stained a T-shirt, I'd just walk out. I'd put it all the time. Because you think about it, people are trying on clothes and they've got makeup on. And then if you saw that you stained a T-shirt, I'd just walk out. I'd put it in the back. And so sometimes it's reduced because they don't think that it can come out. And then you're like, shaving cream. Shaving cream.

This was in the New York Magazine. They talked to a range of makeup artists. So these are people that are doing this every day and obviously deal with this problem of makeup stains, especially foundation caused cause stains. And apparently you get a little bit of shaving cream and you squirt it on the stain and then massage it in with your finger

or like a toothbrush for five minutes, a little bit of cold water, and then apparently, done. I mean, I can't back this up. I haven't seen it in action, but there are videos of... Isn't that... Now, shaving cream?

Like, so you... I'd imagine that it comes out... It grows white stuff. Yeah, but is it because it's white, so it's not going to add any colour problems to it? Maybe. And it's got, like, oxygen bubbles? Because you know how they always say, like,

pounding something with bubbles... Yeah, I guess so. ...removes a stain. So, yeah. And maybe it also... because what is foundation? Is it oil-based? Some of it. Well, you can get different types.

Right. Mine's got palm oil. Is that okay? That's a beautiful orangutan shade, though, so I don't know if we're talking about that. Yeah, I don't know, actually, wasn't it? But so they reckon 10 minutes and then wash it with cold water and apparently you're good as new.

But does this work on other stains or is this strictly foundation? What about mascara? This might work on other stains. What about mascara? I don't know. We'll have to put it to a test. Yeah, and I mean, I guess it would depend on the fabric, but there are YouTube videos and stuff as well

and they've talked to all the major makeup artists and they reckon this is the way to go. So just a can of shaving cream. They talked to Shan XO? It doesn't say Vaughn. I won't even pay attention to this until Shan XO's coming to.

Why don't you just message her and ask her? She's blocked me. No, she hasn't blocked me. Why would she block me? Where are you going? I just think she should block you just because.

It's probably after I did those abhorrent wingtips on her face that time. That's right. She was like, I want nothing to do with this man. Look at you. Jared's just convinced me that this evening's festivities, which call for a tie, I should wear a bolo tie. What's a bolo tie? A bolo tie is two threads that go through a central tightening unit

and you slide it up like a cowboy. Oh, no. Like Colonel Sanders. God, why are you trying to be – Like a little nazx. You've got that big farmer hat. I'm going to wear it so that's – We've got an industry event tonight,

so we're all getting suited and tied up. Boots. Boots, yeah. Boots. Tan pants. Tan pants. Tan pants. Tan pants. Do you have tan pants?

Yeah, you've seen them. They're like a brown pair of... They're like chinos. Chinos. That's what they're called. Oh, no. You've got to wear a suit and tie. Chinos are very dressy.

No, they're not. I'm not finished yet. White shirt. Bolo tie. I just... Now that face just tells me I'm doing it just to annoy you. Right. These awards held you RM Williams

that's what I was thinking are you trying to be a Christchurch South Canterbury farmer yes at the young farmer of the year awards yeah I'm getting

all doled up the Hilux has had a wash I took it down to the bloody Rangiora car wash had a vacuum paid two bucks for the big vacuum cleaner

because I'm not going to ruin the vacuum cleaner at home. Okay, good, good. Hoovering out all that junk that's been there for ages. Okay, well, good luck tonight. Put a bit of spit and polish on the tyres. I hope you take out the fastest fencer award. Well, yeah, I've got a bloody good post rammer on the back of the Isuzu.

Yep, good, okay. Drop a post in. Quick smart. It's the straining that takes me a while. I've never been a great strainer. I'm running out of fencing stuff. Yeah, I don't know. Let's just move on.

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