ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 24th June 2021

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morn and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCaffey. Buy five McCaffey coffees and get one free on the McCars app. I think you're, um, I think you're preaching some of the wrong vowels there. Oh, okay. Buy five McCaffey coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. Correct. There we go. That'll do. Just flicking through the newspaper, are you? Yeah, what size are you guys?

What do you mean, what size? Eight. There's a $10, and the classifieds are selling sports shoes. Puma, Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Asics, size 8.5. Oh, I could... The 10 US, unisex, $10 each. Who's got that many spare shoes? They're taking it on ad in the classifieds.

They've advertised it twice. Same number. Now, that may have been a clerical error. Yeah. By the people at the Air New Zealand? The New Zealand Herald? The Air New Zealand Herald. The Air New Zealand Herald. The Air New Zealand Herald.

What else was in the classifieds? I hear you asking. It would be my pleasure to tell you. There's a 21-inch Sony Trinitron TV. And this is a tube television. Wow. Good picture and sound. $15.

It would have cost more to advertise that. You would think. It would be at least $15 for a would have cost more to advertise that. You would think. It would be at least $15 for a classified ad. Yeah. Like a big box telly. What do they call those? A CRT telly or whatever. Yeah, tube telly.

Oh, my God. It's 21 inch. Is there a feature in this? Like old people still advertising in the newspaper. What are they selling today? A fridge freezer, but only the freezer works. That's a Calvinator. Wow. A 170 liter the freezer works. That's a Calvinator. Wow. 170 litre. Very clean.

That's the same person. But isn't Calvin... Calvinator. That's the same person selling the TV. What happened to Gentil Annie? Calvinator. Yeah. I've never heard that before. Have you never heard that before? That's a weird whiteware joke.

What a weird whiteware joke. It's a whiteware joke. Have I got a whiteware joke for you? It's a very specific, it's a geographically specific whiteware joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good, eh? Holy moly. Oh my God.

That's good stuff. Wow. You are welcome. If you can work in some sort of Fisher and Paykel into a follow-up pun, I reckon you're onto an answer. You need to work at Harvey Norman or something. Producer Jared's made a good point. He sees cute old people.

I've seen them. They come in to advertise in the paper, and they're so cute and old, and they hand over a check, but we don't do those anymore, but they hand over a wad of money. They're also the people putting in the death notices that come in and do it in person. Yeah, I know. That's also sad.

Yeah. But what else is for sale? Leather jackets, suits, t-shirts, jeans, Speedos, track shorts. Nobody's second-handing a Speedo. Between $2 to $40. I'm guessing the $2

is the Speedos. Yeah. The leather jacket's going to be your $40. Speedos aren't cheap, though, so they might be mid-range price. You don't want to put your dick where another dick's been, do you?

There's not a washing machine that would make that okay for me. A gentle Annie. You can't, though, because Calvin Hayden. ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast.

Scenes in Southampton. New Zealand world champions. Absolute scenes. You love cricket, Megan. You'd be over the moon World Champions. Absolute scenes. You love cricket, Megan. You'd be over the moon about this. Over the moon. No, I'm happy to hear the outcome.

I'm just happy that it wasn't a draw. Did you know there was a possibility it could have been a draw? Yeah. In the finals of the... On the sixth day. Yeah, on the finals of the cricket... But then now they're like, yay, we're both world champions.

Yeah, they would have had to share it and share the prize money. Isn't that the dumbest thing? And they couldn't have done some sort of cool last minute hockey or soccer do the shootouts? Yeah. Who can hit it the furthest? Yeah, what would you do for a cricket? Well, they do that in the 2020s. They do a Super Overs.

Super Overs, yeah. Which is how it went to last time we were in a cricket World Cup final. Yeah, that was a couple of years ago. Horrible. So yeah, good to get a win. Fantastic news to wake up to this morning. Bloody Ripper.

Bloody Ripper makes up for this Level 2 and this COVID debacle. Shenanigans in the capital city. In the capital. We've got Chris Hipkins on the phone this morning at quarter past eight for the latest from the Beehive developments

because I'm sure we'll start getting test results overnight this morning, you'd imagine. Well, there were two test results yesterday afternoon from two close contacts of the people. The family? Yeah. Or whoever they had extended exposure to and they had both

returned negative results at the stage. Fantastic. Alright, so Chris Hipkins on the show, quarter past eight. The top six is coming up. Yes. But before that, space. Space news. Two big stories from space. Which is just out of the atmosphere.

It's big. It's up there. It's a very big place. Space. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. The Hubble Space, guys.

It's a pretty big area if you look up. It's all out there. Yep. It's a lot of it, too. Forever and ever. You know, it's the terroirs. Those are just so insignificant. Well, it's the terrors. Oh, that's so insignificant. Well, it's all a computer simulation, so don't think too hard about it.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Well, the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been out in space since what, the early, it was launched 1990. Wow. And was at the time You know The absolute forefront Of computer technology But we're all familiar

With how computers have changed Since 1990 Yeah Well they don't run on tapes anymore For a start Yeah They were horribly big clunky things Well it's been out there

It's an absolute miracle That it's been out there For as long as it has But it's been in safe mode for a week. Oh, I had to start my computer once in safe mode. When you Google what's wrong with it, and it's like, okay, restart in safe mode, you're like, what? So you restart it in safe mode.

Everything looks different. You don't know what you're doing. The mouse didn't work in safe mode. It was all up and down as it enters, as I recall. Oh, okay. But they've activated the backup computer, which they're not even sure if that's going to work very well. Yeah, right.

And it's dead. And they can't find the source of it. So it might be... Space junk. Yeah. Right. A really nice camera space junk. Because that's what it does.

It was launched into space because it could take better photos of outer space. Yeah, right. From inner space. Ironically, the iPhone, the latest iPhone and Galaxy smartphones probably have better cameras than that. With a good lens on it, yeah. And way more memory. Way more computing technology.

Yeah. But I don't know why they've never, how long ago was 1990? 31 years ago. I don't know why they've never... How long ago was 1990? 31 years ago. I don't know why they've never sent another one up. Well, I guess they send other rovers and other things up that take better photos anyway, right? Or have the ability to do it. I don't know if they do.

This thing was specifically out there to take... Like rovers go to a planet and take a photo. Or like a satellite might take a photo. But this thing was like a specialist piece of equipment that could, you know, balance itself to take long distance, long exposure photos of space. Right. So.

Megan, you famously once called the Hubble telescope the gobble. Well, when you said that the Hubble telescope, I was like oh, you've said that wrong. The gobble. Every time someone says Hubble, I'm like, it's the gobble. Yeah. It's the gobble. It sounds better. What made like, it's the gobble. It's the gobble. It sounds better. What made you believe it was the gobble?

No, I don't know. For all those years. Just that's what I told myself it was. The gobble telescope. It gobbles up space. The gobble, the Hubble, it's RIP. It's gone. Well, in other space news and maybe slightly happier space news,

NASA are working with Procter & Gamble, who own Tide, the laundry brand Tide. Tide Pods. Tide Pods. That everybody was eating. A very American laundry brand. They're going to try some experiments on the International Space Station. There's no washing machines on the ISS.

Yeah, it would be, how do they do their washing? They don't. They wear it until it's dirty and then throw it away. And resupply missions are constantly taking clean clothes. When we talked to the astronaut a few weeks ago, we should have asked him what they do. Yeah. Well, we didn't know.

I assume they had some way of washing them or just different hands. But, like, do they change undies every day? Maybe not every day. Maybe the smell doesn't stick to your undies. It just floats around. Oh, gross. Floats off. And skitties don't stay on your undies, on your knickers.

And if you're changing your pants, little beads of Jenny sweat start floating around the space station. That's grim. Well, they're saying that's not going to work on your longer missions like Mars because you can't have resupply. Yeah, right. So they're working on how to do the laundry. Yeah. Unlimited water,

ingredient safety, and compatibility with life support systems. So, for example, how to reuse urine to wash your clothes. That's a worse plot line. No, reuse it,

not just piss straight into the laundry, into the washing machine and shut the lid. That's a worse plot line. No, reuse it, not just piss straight into the laundry, into the washing machine and shut the lid. That's what you guys are imagining, popping a squat over the gendolani and taking a wee in there. Yeah. Not bad. It's the process of turning urine into water. Reusable water.

This is like when Matt Damon made potatoes out of poos. He didn't make potatoes out of poos. He grew potatoes and poos. You make it sound like he just balled up a bit of poo and he was like, if you concentrate on Matt Damon, you'll believe it's a potato. I'll stay away from space a bit longer. Doesn't sound comfortable.

Yeah, like I have any chance of getting into space in the next any given time. There's been a live update on the story. Oh, yeah. It says person with absolutely no hope of ever going to space, Carl Fletcher has said he'll delay his adventures to space

It's wise, I think it's a wise decision ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast. I remember when Gigi Hadid did a story with Architectural Digest on her house and we were like whoa Was she the one that had the yellow macaroni in the glass? Was that?

Yeah, and the giant pencil. I remember the giant pencil. Her kitchen cupboards were like see-through glass panels filled with macaroni. Coloured pastas. And her toilet was like a teenager had cut out magazine heartthrobs and super glue stick them onto the wall. Mm-hmm.

It was hideous. It was weird. It was weird. That was right at the start of lockdown, eh? Yeah. And that massive pencil that was outside the bathroom door or something, like what was it?

Yeah, it was weird. That was weird. That was silly. Just goes to show if you've got all this money, you don't necessarily have taste that comes with it. Mm-hmm. Well, I think this house from Cara Delevingne is going to make that look normal. She has shared her mansion with Architectural Digest.

It has a ball pit. So she says it's a really good stress reliever. Pink and white balls and pink and white stripes on the wall. It's like a small little room with windows and yeah, it's just filled with balls. So she goes in there for stress relief. That's not the strangest thing. She's worth $28 million. Because I was like, how rich is she?

It says here, this is an Australian website, $37 million. Wow, okay. Yeah, that's puzzling to me. But she is one of like... Puzzling that she's worth that much. Yeah. She's like one of the top models in the world. How much do they get paid?

Well, she would earn, similar to Kendall Jenner, she's the highest paid. Millions. Per gig. I don't know. Because I was just like, from her acting and stuff, I was like, surely not. She'd probably earn more modelling than she would acting, I reckon.

Yeah, wow, okay. She's not an A-lister in the acting world. That's not the strangest thing, though. She has a secret vagina tunnel. Me too. What? Yeah, got a what now? When you're in her living room, there is a panel on the wall

which opens up revealing a giant anatomically correct secret pink tunnel. So it's like a hallway to another room that she's made into a tunnel. Yeah. So she said it's like a creative space. She comes in here to create and feel inspired. So it's kind of like a red velvet on the walls, doesn't it? Or pink. And pink fluff.

Yep. Wow. It kind of like got red velvet on the walls, doesn't it? Or pink. And pink fluff. Yep, wow. And then there looks like a white round shape lampshade hanging in the middle. It's the butthole. Wow, you poor wife. It's not the butthole. That's not the butthole. Oh my God.

No, Han. It's the clitoris. Is that how you say it? Yeah, I think that's how you say it. So what am I looking for? A lampshade. Yeah, if you find your wife's lampshade, it's all on. So it's not a room.

It's a tunnel. So it leads somewhere. When you crawl through this space, you end up coming out a pink laundry, like washing machine front out into a different part of the house. It's wild. You come out rebirthed and cleansed. Wow. Out of this washing machine.

I want secret tunnels. Don't get me wrong. You're rich enough to build a house. You're going to put secret tunnels in. Oh, yeah. Like a panic room, a bunker. Yeah. But not just like something you have to crawl through.

Yeah. How old is she now? She hasn't hit that mid-30s bit where it gets hard to crawl. Her knees are just like, no, no, no, no. Yeah, as she gets older, sure. Her whole house just looks like a boutique, one of those boutique flash hotels that you see. It does.

It does. It's like the QT or, yeah, one of those. Yeah, totally. She's got a royal blue carpet like on the staircase, but intermittently there's like leopards in the carpet crawling up the stairs. It's weird. Yeah.

She's got a see-through piano that she likes to play naked. Cool. And she's got a room that's dedicated to David Bowie. It's a shrine, but it is a bathroom. It's wild. It's definitely worth searching out the pictures. Yeah. Just to have a nosyie. It's a shrine, but it is a bathroom. It's wild. It's definitely worth searching out the pictures. Just to have a nosy run. Cara Delevingne's house.

Who's she done this for? An architecture magazine. Architectural Digest. Her outside looked nice. The outside of the house. The pool area. Is this in England? Or where is it? No, it's LA. And you know that house is worth millions. The pool area. Is this in England? Where is it? No, it's LA. Oh, it's LA. Right, okay.

And you know that house is like worth millions. Or do they pay the celebs to go around their house? Or is it like a pride thing? Is it like, I've done, I've designed this. I don't know. Surely they pay them. Surely. I don't have an answer for you. Because I remember MTV Cribs and they'd go around to all these.

That just felt like bragging. Yeah, that was in a real period where bragging, like you think you're puff daddies. Yeah. That was a real period

of time where bragging about your wealth was the thing to do. Because that wouldn't fly in New Zealand if someone's like, come and ride my house and do the work.

Did they do it? Did they? Like with celebrities and stuff. Because you'd just be like, who do you think you are? Yeah. With your vagina tunnel room and your see-through piano. Yeah.

Yeah, you'd just get absolutely mowed down. Oh, you'd get mowed down. It'd be, yeah, it'd be great. Also, if you're going to make a vagina tunnel, go and buy one of those old Hydra slides from Why We're at a Hot Springs. Make it a decent. Yeah, totally. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. decent Yeah, totally. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast

ZM. Grey hair happens inevitably to everyone. But apparently this is new and it's scientists that have discovered this. It's reversible at least for a little bit. It's temporarily reversible

and not with dying. I have some on my beard, like on the side here. Some greys that come through. I let it go real long. Salt and pepper. I've got some rose. Just here, yeah. There's like a couple.

You've got a multicoloured beard. Yeah, it's a... It's mostly ginger. It's not mostly ginger. It's mostly ginger. There's definitely a touch of ginger there. It's quite heavily ginger on the side. It's not called a predominantly ginger.

Maybe it's just sun-piss piss because it's on your chin. Maybe the sun's like lightening it, you know? It's all the lemons I eat. All the citrus gets into the bed because I just eat a citrus. What's that stuff you buy from the supermarket and put it in your head? Sun in. Sun in. Oh my God.

Not anymore, eh? No. That was like an old thing, eh? Made you hear like straw. But you can't even get sun in anymore, right? Because it just wasn't a just bleached spray. Yeah, a diluted bleach spray. And everyone's hair just went orange because we weren't toning it.

It was like when everyone was using that. What was that? Pimple stuff that Justin Bieber advertised. Proactive. Proactive. Was that it? Proactive? Yeah.

And it stripped the colour out of your towels. Remember that? We had the bleach marks on the stripped the colour out of your towels. Remember that? We had the bleach marks on the towel. We're like, what's going on? Where is this coming from? And it was that face wash. Yeah. What was in it?

What was in it? Don't ask questions. Don't ask questions. Well, if you're starting to turn grey, you've got little strands going on, they reckon it is actually due to stressful moments in your life. Oh, goodness. And a couple of scenarios, a couple of people that they studied,

they went through stressful times, and then one 35-year-old man went on a two-week vacation, and his hair turned dark again. Oh. Another woman temporarily grew gray hair. She was separating a moving house, and once it was over, her hair went dark again. Another woman temporarily grew grey hair. She was separating a moving house and once it was over her hair went dark again.

Now did the same hair because you know when you put a bit of trauma on a nail like a fingernail or something and you watch that little white mark move up when you're trimming your nails and it eventually disappears. Was it like that? Was there like one hair and it had grey and then black at the end?

Like a soil test, you know, where they get like a core test of the soil to see what the soil's like. Yeah. Was it like that? But I always thought when a hair grows out, it's already like, it's already kind of like, it's dead. It's already out. If you picked a grey hair out, would that grow grey again from that spot?

That's the old thing, right? You pluck one out, three come to its general. So the more that you pluck them out, the more it goes grey. But so what, do they actually have any research on this or have they just said that a couple of people... No, this is a study that's been published in like a science-y thing. Right. And a university mitochondrial psychobiologist has worked on it.

So that sounds pretty fancy. But they say it is temporary. Eventually, like, you're going to go grey. But they reckon the strands of hair that will go grey early because of stress are like vulnerable strands. So any kind of stress, they're going to go, ah, and go grey initially. Yeah, right. So you might be able to temporarily go back to dark. But eventually, you know, we're all going to go grey initially. Yeah, right. So you might be able to temporarily go back to dark, but eventually, you know, we're all going to go grey.

Dermatologists suggest 50% of all people will have some grey hair by the age of 50 due to decreased melanin. As a rule, redheads tend to go grey faster than any other segment of the population. Caucasians are the next likely to go grey, while African-Americans are the last group to go grey. Okay.

Genetics B12, stress and or illness also come into play. Even if some people don't go completely grey, they will generally have some level of grey interwoven through their remaining hair. Low levels of vitamin B12 may also cause hair to lose pigment. Right. I just, I don't mind going grey, but I want it to go like, and we're grey. You know, like I want it to all be grey. Oh, yeah.

God, your boy, your husband's going to love it when you look like Helen Mirren. Isn't he? When you go grey. When I'm wearing turtlenecks and grey hair, it's just, it's all on, baby. Grey hair, the eyes are going, you've got a pair of bifocals now. He's like, comes home one day with a mobility scooter for you. You're like, let's just move in a bit quick. He's like, let's get you off to a rhyme in retirement.

ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. From the sophisticated ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. There is a diner opening in Sydney, Australia, and it is calling itself a Karen Diner. Now, the Karen Diner is run by Karens, which is counter to what we believe of the Karens who want to speak to management, not be the management.

Oh, but I would love this. So you go, and it's one of those, and you see these occasionally, and they do look like fun. You go knowing that the staff are going to be not a pleasure to deal with. And abusive. Yeah.

Like if you order something that doesn't fit their, yeah, predetermined thoughts on how that should be served, they will rip you apart about it. I'd love a, like, see, this is the hospital I could do. Yeah. You could be rude to customers and they'd love it. They'd want it. Yeah.

And you're in towers. Yes, you're encouraged to speak to the manager and complain, but the manager will argue with you. So I've got the top six features of this Karen diner. If my witnessing of Karen's in cafes and the stories that Megan told us from when she owned a cafe are anything to go by. The top six features of the Karen diner in Sydney. Number six, extra hot lattes. Because I know my mum always asks for it.

Extra hot. Her coffee to be extra hot. But you can only go a certain temperature before you're burning milk, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And most baristas, you start off with like a temperature gauge and most get used to like putting their hands on the side of the thing and, you know, knowing what temperature you're at.

So I've said to mum, her solution would be to ask for more hot water and less milk in it, right? Because that's going to make it hotter. Well, it doesn't have hot water in it. But that's what I'm saying is then you put in a bit of hot water with the coffee. But then you're like watering it down. But you're milking it down. And the milk is the part that's cooling it. Yeah.

Right? Well, the milk's hot though. So how do you make an extra hot latte then? You just heat the milk more. But then, so they're willing to sacrifice... Yeah, the taste. The taste for the heat. Yeah.

Classic, eh? But then often these people are the ones that leave it sitting for ages and then start drinking it. They're like, I asked for this extra hot. You're like... It went cold. Oh, God. What they want is a...

They want it served in a thermos. Yeah. So you need to run the Karen Diner. I'd love it. Number five on the list of the top six features of the Karen Diner. No sugar on the table. They don't need that temptation. Just tons of equal.

You know they've got a little equal thing in their purse. Their tabs. Mum's got one of those. She'll get it out. Yeah. Pop, pop, pop. Does she do three pops? I don't know how many pops she does.

Mum does two pops. Yeah. Right. And that stuff's like, it's a yuck sweet. Yeah. Pop, pop, pop. Does she do three pops? I don't know how many pops she does. Mum does two pops. Yeah. Right. And that stuff's like, it's a yuck sweet. Yeah. And a bit of that really sweet. Yeah, you only need one or two. Yeah.

Oh, no, you don't. I would think one. Yeah, right. Mum's always chucking to it. Has she ever tried the stevia? Here's the thing about my mum. She wouldn't try it, but she already knows she doesn't like it I don't think that's just your mum

it's different you see yeah number four on the list of the top six features of the Karen Diner in Sydney, bread that's not white bread but also not like a whole grain or a multi grain, it's literally just like a white bread that's coloured slightly brown that bread that's their idea of a white bread that's coloured slightly brown. That bread. That's their idea

of a healthy bread. Yeah. Even though it's exactly white bread. There'll be some oliviano on that too. Oh yes, a thick layer of margarine. It's got olive oil in it. It's healthy. Very thick margarine. Number three on the list of the top six features of the Carantana

in Sydney. Steak cooked well done. It's always well done. This is also just the top six features of the Carantana in Sydney. Steak cooked well done. It's always well done. This is also just the top six gripes I've got with taking my mother out for a meal, by the way. You should get her steak well done. I would not have picked that of her. No, it was because yeah, they grew up on like

leathery home kill. No one ever cooked right, so they had to cook it until it was like chewy as. Number two on the list of the top six features of the Carindana in Sydney, toilets, toilets everywhere. All the toilets. So that they don't need to be told where the toilet is,

they don't need to wait for the toilet, and they don't need to complain about there being a lack of toilets, which is a big problem. For Cairns. For Cairns. And number one on the list of the top six features of the Karendiner in Sydney, a large font on the menu.

A large font, but not a large menu. Because they don't want to have to spread the menu out like the old Sunday paper, but they want to be able to read it because if it's too small, how does anybody read this menu? That is today's top six. Recycling's good for the environment and it's nice to know that you can now recycle your adult fun toys. Right.

When you are upgrading or when it's past its use. Because they've got rechargeable batteries, but a lot of them are inbuilt rechargeable batteries. Right. Now, I've not worn one down. It's like a USB. Yeah. It's like magnetized.

Really? Huh. Okay. They go clunk and stick on the bottom. You do seem to know a lot about the recharging and battery design. Why don't you want to keep that thing fully charged? Yeah, good. Now, in our wardrobe, there's a power socket behind the...

Okay. Because you just don't want to have it recharging. Because beside the bed, you've got your phone charger, your watch charger. Yeah. And maybe your iPad charger or whatever. You just don't want to have your dillies hanging out there having to recharge. Yeah, because you've got a couple of dogs.

You've got dogs, children. Yeah. For some reason, everybody walks through our room even though it's on the end of the house. It's a high traffic zone. You hide them in the wardrobe in shame. No, it's not a shame. No, it's not a shame.

So the dog doesn't grab it and bring it out when you've got visitors. You don't want to be on a local Facebook page. Someone's dog's found this. Yeah. I don't know who Xana's. Yeah, but they recharge. But then I've never worn one to the point, you know, where even rechargeable batteries, like phones, right?

Yeah. You can recharge them and 20 minutes later they're at half power or whatever. So this recycling program, they're not reusing the... No. What? The outside bits. No, no, no. Oh, good. No one not reusing the... What? The outside bits. No, no, no. Oh, good. No one's reusing it. So Adult Toy Megastore, they are telling people they can

bring back their electronic metal and glass AFTs. Right. And then they're going to... And you get a $10 voucher in return for if you purchase it online. But then they're going to... They ask that they're sterilized before you bring it back. They are going to strip them and then they send some of the materials to South Korea

in bulk and they'll be stripped for recycling. Hazardous substances will be ethically and safely disposed of. Yeah, right. Because apparently they say it's quite hard for you to like ethically get rid of an AFT, like chucking it in the bin. Well, you know, the glass ones can probably just go in the recycling. But you know, every now and then you'll see at like a local car park, they'll be having one of those electronics days

where you take down all your old computers or TVs and stuff that you don't know how to get rid of. Because you can't just, you're not supposed to just chuck them in the landfill, go to the dump and chuck them. So they'll do one of those collections. I've wondered if you could take your AFTs to those. Probably not. The metal ones, they say they're going to send them to Germany.

They will be pressed into bales. Oh, the Germans. Of course, they're bulk buying. They're going to be melted and reformed. Into other metal things. Imagine if you bought something and it was like, made from recycled dillies. Well, you could drive a...

A Volkswagen. A Volkswagen or a Mercedes or a Porsche one day. And the gear stick used to be a... Yep, totally. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I am the box. Well, the box is in studio and inside $20,000 cash. And so the only thing that's standing between you and that cash is a four-digit pin number.

We know that there's a seven in there. It spells a four-letter word. What could that word be? What could it be? Well, if you can get through and tell us correctly, that cash is yours. Cassie, good morning. Good morning. All right, so have you had a think about what it could be?

Yeah, I had a whole list of potential words written down. I've kind of gone with the one that I'm thinking. Okay, because people go down this rabbit hole, don't they? You're going to kick yourself. Yeah, mine's not quite as in-depth of everyone else's reasoning, so I just kind of go with the first one that I was thinking. You're going to kick yourself if you put forward a word now and it doesn't win, but then it's like your second choice

is the one that wins, so maybe $20,000, right? Don't tell her that. Yeah, yeah. I just want her to be confident that she's chosen her pack favourite, you know? Yeah. Okay, well. It definitely is my favourite one, yeah.

Okay. What is your four-digit pin? So, 9467. What does that spell? Why have we chosen that one? That's wins. Wins. So, guess it right and you win.

Yeah, good, okay. And the I and the S could be a one and a five. Yeah, okay, okay. Like, they could be switched could be a one and a five. Yeah, okay, okay. Like, they could be switched out if needed, yeah. Okay. Time expired. Oopsie, that's me. Time expired.

Okay, so nine, four, six, seven. No, whoops. I pushed seven twice. Oh, no. But I didn't. I just hovered my thumb. Okay. So that's going to be wrong, but that wasn't your entry.

Okay. Here we go. We'll go again. You've given the listeners a free one there. It's not a five-digit pin. Oh. They already knew that. Oh, God damn it.

Why is it? I'm not even touching it. Sort out your fat fingers. Oh, no. I must have a... Wipe your finger. Is it sweaty? Is it sweaty?

I don't know. Wipe your sweaty finger. Nine, four, six, seven. Okay it sweaty? Is it sweaty? I don't know. Wipe your sweaty finger. Nine, four, six, seven. Okay, I've done it correctly. Nine, four, six, seven. And. Ah! After all that.

After all that. Never mind. Cassie, unfortunately, you miss out on the $20,000. You haven't been able to open the box, but we do have for you, thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow, a double pass to see it in cinemas July 8th and streaming on Disney+, with premiere access July 9th. Conditions apply.

Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. Are we going to witness the death of Instagram? Facebook's kind of like... Remember when we used to always upload albums of photos? Oh yeah, I get the reminders daily. I know, like you'll get reminders of something you posted on Facebook 8, 7, 10 years ago and you're like, why did I post that?

Like, what was the point of that? Because you'd never do that now. I never post anything anymore on that. It's just like meh. And now Instagram's kind of heading the same way. In the UK, 18 to 24 year olds spent 10 and a half minutes looking at it each day. This was last September. And that is down from 15 minutes the previous year. And that's even during a lockdown.

And the same group spent over half an hour watching TikToks and over an hour on YouTube. Yeah, I'd say people now spend more time on TikTok than Instagram. But on YouTube, there's content that lasts for longer. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. And then on TikTok, you just get stuck. In a hole.

In a hole, in a TikTok hole. In a TikTok hole. And before you know it, you've wasted half an hour or an hour. Yeah. But apparently a lot of, because millennials kind of made Instagram what it is, but this article was like, millennials are now reaching middle age. Ouch. Ouch.

And then Gen Zers and stuff are just like, oh, this app's boring. It's just full of influencers and people trying to flog stuff off. Yeah, well, some of us have got mortgages. Just because you don't have a house and probably never will. Triggered. Be angry at me. Did somebody post something last night?

No, no, no, no. I haven't done a paid post for ages, but great news. I am going to do a paid post. Oh, okay. I'm finally broken into the farm fluencing area. Oh, you're going to do a paid post. Oh, okay. I'm finally broken into the farm fluencing area. Oh, you're going to be a farm fluencer? Not only a farm fluencer, farm clothing fluencer. Oh, my God.

Babes, I'm going to be a- What, for a swan dry? Well, yeah. Oh, okay. Part of it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to be- Do you not want to give away the post?

No, no. It's all like they haven't sent it yet, so I don't know exactly what it's going to be, but it's with PGG Wrightson like They haven't sent it yet So I don't know exactly What it's going to be But it's with PGG Wrightson And they're sending me clothes And I'm going to be like I was just bloody out In the farm late And I'm going to be like

Looking And then I was thinking I'll run this one by you I was thinking of like Having like One of those little Yellow books Farmers always have

Where they keep all Their stock numbers and stuff And I'll have the pencil You live in a house With like Some chickens And a couple of thought. You live in a house with like some chickens and a couple of cows. Oh, that's a good idea. I should get the chickens involved. I'll be like holding the chicken.

Yeah. You should do like a fashion shoot holding chickens. I would love that. I would laugh so hard. Just like, yeah, doing a bunch of different... At least it's like authentic because we know you're trying to be a fun partner. It's a tagline. They sent me that.

They said like, oh, what would you like from this catalogue? And I was just like, everything. Yeah. Everything. So many checked shirts. So many like hard wearing pants. How many farmers are like following you on social media though? Like. I just think I'm just a thirst trap.

Is your tagline going to be like, do you want to pretend to look like a farmer? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All the gear, no idea. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes.

All the gear, no idea. I was as warm as hell when I took my 15 steps outside today before I ran back into my heat pump house. Oh, it's so hard on the farm, isn't it? Oh, my God. Brrr. How do they do it? Brrr.

Well, make hay while the sun shines, babes, because Instagram's on there. Well, Instagram's on the shitter, yeah. Great, okay. Well, I better make a couple of bucks while I game. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Yummy, yummy. Right now, yummy, yummy, a segment of the show where we take a look at new food items and trends and things popping up in supermarkets and on store shelves. A couple of these from Australia,

but that doesn't necessarily mean we're not getting them. It normally means we're next in line. It's been a while since we've covered any fruit or veg on this segment. I will warn you. In fact, I don't think we've ever covered fruit or veg in this segment. But also, there's not new fruits. An exciting new carrot hybrid.

Unless it's like fried potatoes or something. Yeah, yeah. Are you right? Potatoes have featured. Yeah, but they've been fried. In an alternative form. Or in chip form. Do you want to do the loaves first?

I can go loaves. Yeah, well, then we'll finish with the sweet treat. Loaves don't sound sexy. Oh, no, these do. These loaves do. This is problematic, then we'll finish with the sweet treat. Loaves don't sound sexy. Oh, no, these do. These loaves do. This is problematic because last time these were on the market, I had a blowout. I remember you talking about these.

I loved it. Yeah. I loved it. So I'll start with the one that's already in the country, had reports of this. People have sent it through saying it's back. That's how prolific my love for this was. However, it's slightly different.

Weird that it ever went away. You'd think this would be just an absolute seller. Scon toast was what it was originally called. Scon toast was the densest bread. It had a sweetness to it. Yeah, like you could drop it on a plate and sometimes it would break the plate like it would thud. If you laid enough out on the ground, you could sleep on them like a mattress. Yes.

Kids would do a high jump into them. Memory gel. Yeah. Memory foam. So this is a slight change. It's crumpet toast. Golden crumpet toast. Oh, my God.

Crumpets are the best. So, yeah, it's a toast that's already got that crumpety vibe in it. I'm guessing. Does it have holes in it? I have no taste in it. Like crumpets? Does it have holes like crumpets vibe in it. I'm guessing I have not tasted it. Like crumpets? Does it have holes like crumpets? No.

Okay. No. It's crumpet bread. So there's two sides of the holy goodness. Right. And then there's the bread. But one side needs to be brown and the crust, and the other side needs to be the holy bread.

Well, you're just describing a crumpet. Yeah, it's crumpet toast. But it's crumpet toast. Yeah, right. It's a hybrid of the two. It's taken on different aspects of it. Okay. So I've had reports of that, and apparently it is delicious.

But I don't know if it's got a golden syrupy vibe already built into the toast. You'd have to add your golden syrup. Oh, my God. Imagine making French toast with that. Yeah, that would be next level. I made French toast with the scone toast last time, and I went into cardiac arrest. Immediately.

You're about to call St. John's. But as you were thumping your chest, you're like, worth it. I was like, work it through. Quittens for quitters. Yeah. The other bread, when you thought bread couldn't get more ridiculous, on this path down bread lane where we went scone toast and then we went crumpet toast.

Tip Top have announced the Golden Bakery cinnamon donut flavoured soft loaf. Now, this is the one that's in Australia at the moment. $5 for one of these loaves. And again, super thick and cinnamon donut flavoured. The bread itself looks on the outside to be coated with cinnamon sugar. Is it Tip Top, did you say? What brand is it?

Yeah, it's Tip Top. Well, then bring it here, Tip Top. What are you doing? Because Tip Top must own the golden, the people that do the crumpets and the donuts and stuff. Bring that here. It's under their umbrella. You know the end of the bag will just be full of cinnamon sugar. I know.

Yes, yes, yes. I know. Nobody wanted the crust before. The end bits of the bread were left behind for dads to finish because they didn't want any waste. So is the cinnamon sugar, is that like coated onto the crust? Yes, it looks like it, yes. That's what it looks like.

It's described as a thick loaf, a thick cut loaf. I just realised how salivatory I sounded. Yeah. I'm just going to dryivatory I sounded. Yeah. I'm just going to dry out my mouth somewhat. The bread is described as a thick cut loaf, which is part donut, part cinnamon toast, and has little bursts of cinnamon clusters throughout. Oh, yum.

The cooked toast is sure to have your home smelling like the local donut shop, and is best served with lashings of butter. Lashings? Wow, okay, that's another cardiac arrest. If you were eating that toast and thinking, not enough calories for me, add more. Yeah, of butter.

Okay, well, hopefully that gets to New Zealand. Now, another item that is sold, this brand of chocolate is sold in New Zealand. This comes to us from Australia, though, this post. Fry's Turkish Delight chocolate jelly. So they look like little round scorched almonds but instead of the almond in the middle it's a delicious Turkish

Delight. Now I love Turkish Delight. It's a divisive favourite. You know in the favourites boxes. It's rose water flavoured right? Not everyone's into like rose water. Yeah, I'll eat them. Some people will like, it tastes like perfume.

Yeah, if you tipped a box of favourites out, they're not your first one you're going to. That'd be some of my last ones. Yeah, right, okay. They'd be behind Cherry Ripe, which I grew up disliking, but have grown accustomed to Cherry Ripe. Right, okay. See, those are the ones I like first in the favourites.

Yeah, me too. Turkish Delight, Cherry Ripe, The Dream. Anyway, well, Turkish Delight, these chocolate jellies, have appeared in Australia. And I'm guessing because they sell them here, surely it's only a matter of time. Surely. Surely.

Surely. But, yeah, okay, there we go. Well, now I'm extra hungry. All right. Mm-mm. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Ooh. Ooh, we need to extra hungry. Great. Mm-mm. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Ooh. Ooh, we need to do one of these.

Australia's done this thing called Australia Talks where 60,000 people, all from different demographics across Australia, fill out a survey. It's quite a long survey. Yeah. Like a census. Kind of, but it's more of just for a TV show.

It feels like, now that I've said it, it feels like we did do this once. It wasn't a census. Remember there was a TV show and it was like 90 minutes long on TV one and it was like, we asked. But it was rubbish questions. 50,000 New Zealanders.

Yeah, boring questions. Do you eat butter or margarine? And then they debated. Butter's actually good for you. And then they were like, no, but margarine doesn't have all the fat. And then they debated, butter's actually good for you. And then they were like, no, but margarine doesn't have all the fat. And it was just like, you could have asked like way juicier questions.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think Australia did ask some juicy questions. Good. There's an article on the biggest changes since they did this in 2019 versus doing it now two years later. Okay. And there were things like the use of Facebook had gone down.

How often do you use Facebook? The change was down 12% on what it was in 2019. So people going off Facebook. But a very interesting statistic that kind of grabbed the headlines out of this is 44% of Australian surveyed said they would never date a bisexual person. 44%. Now, that was out of everybody. So if you broke it down into more specific demographics,

if you went 18 to 24, 84% of people would be cool with dating someone who identified as bisexual. Yeah, I was going to say, younger people definitely wouldn't have a problem with that. If you were over 75, it was three quarters. So it was pretty much exactly the opposite. Three quarters said it would be a deal breaker. Now, if I'm over 75, Here was three quarters, so it was pretty much exactly the opposite. Three quarters said it would be a deal breaker.

Now, if I'm over 75. Here we go. And I find myself single and ready to mingle in a Roman retirement home, and Sally down the hall, I'm like, what's up, Sally? And she's like, not much, Vaughn. And I'm like, Sally, quick question. We're old. We can ask these questions now.

Right. Sexual preference. Yep. And she's like Vaughn, I am bisexual. I would be like, that is great news for you Sally. Yep. And it's great news for me. Yep. Because you've not written me off. And it's great news for Roger

down the hall because he can join in too. Sure, because I'm over 75 so now my preference is all out the window. I reckon game on after 78. Game on. I'll touch Rogers. I'll touch the Roger Todger.

That's Rogers Todger. What do I do? God damn. My grandkids have stopped coming to visit me. Children are like stop going and seeing him. He's always asking weird inappropriate questions. And I'm just in the retirement home. And you probably won't remember the next day anyway. You're damn right.

I'm off to the Unichem pharmacy to get my prescription for my bloody pain, my blood pressure and my painkillers. And I'm chucking a couple of Cialis as well because I'm 75 now. Who gives a god damn? You'll be the one that the nurses are trading off. Can you go and see Warren today? Oh, I saw him yesterday. You go and see him today.

And I'll walk in and I'll be like, you, can you go and see Warren today? Oh, I saw him yesterday. You go and see him today. Now walking in, I'll be like, good day to you. I'll be like, fuck. So do you think it's obviously the older people are more conservative

in their views? And probably don't even know what to, exactly. Don't understand. Ignorance. Ignorance is fear, right?

Yeah. But then the younger people, do you have any more Demos in between that So 18 to 24 It was like 80% Would date a bisexual They

No Those were the two ones They delved into Because it presented The two polar opposites That kind of Equaled out in the middle I suppose it would

Gradually just increase As people got older Yeah Does it break down Female to male No Right That would be

A fascinating one Because it's like Definitely more socially acceptable, isn't it? For females to be bi, whereas guys would definitely be more undercover. Yeah, I agree. Do you reckon? Do you agree? Yeah, totally. Because guys would be like, again, born in the retirement home. Would be like, that's hot. But then I don't know, there's still that stigma attached to bi guys, right?

Yeah. Which is not fair. Yeah, totally. And just because somebody's bisexual, it also doesn't mean they're going to cheat on you. And then there's still that weird stigma attached, right? Because they're bisexual and they're interested in both sets of Jennys. They're still attracted to the person and not the bitch. Exactly.

You're constantly like, what if they decide they want what if they decide they want a vagina this week? Now that's something I can't provide. Well you can't give them that. I can't give them that. So that is why it can be very hard for people. I'm in the Ryman baby, it's no strings. Yeah, right. I love that Ryman right now, I'm just like

why do they keep saying Ryman? Well you're the biggest retirement home provider in the country. Because your advertising works. Yeah. It's in my head and I can't get rid of it.

Yeah. I mean, you don't need to wait until you're in a retirement home. No, I do. It's not something that interests me at this time in my life. I'm not interested in dealing

with the repercussions of anything. I'm in a loving relationship. I assume at this stage, Sade's either left me or passed. Yeah, right. I mean, this is a hopeful thinking thing. I'm outliving her, by the way.

No, not with your meat intake. No, I eat a lot of meat and I drink a lot of whiskey. And so either I'm living to 110 and people will be like, I can't believe you're still alive or I'm out of here at this mid-60s. And then if I get to 80, I'm definitely trying heroin.

It'll be the end of you be wild in retirement homes, eh? It's like, oh, what have I got to lose? Is your grandson still running with that gang? Can they get me heroin? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There has been a study done, and this is out of America, so I'd like to think that maybe New Zealanders aren't like this. But a new survey has found that one in five Americans

who are planning to have a baby together plan it around the astrological star sign that they want their child to be. So if they want a cancer, they're like, right, we better start making a baby now. Yep. Nine months out, they're like, nine months out from the they're like, all right, we better start making a baby now. Nine months out, they're like, nine months out from the star sign, they're like, we need to make a baby now. Good luck.

Planning that. Like 1967, there was 1966 through 1967, and the Chinese zodiac was the year of the horse. Yeah. And it was a fire horse specifically. So elemental fire. Is a fire horse a big star sign? One where they believed the children were going to be naughty.

Very naughty. Oh, okay. And not like the fastidious hard workers that people want their children to be. And there was like record numbers of. Like record numbers of what do you mean like abortions oh because we didn't want whereas our oldest daughter indy is and we didn't know this until it had happened but she was born as a water dragon which is apparently elementally calming like the water right i mean it's all a load of bollocks oh totally totally but then when it happened

yeah his dad whose chinese tie was just so stoked he's got two granddaughters that are under the it's all a load of bollocks. Oh, totally, totally. But then when it happened, Sade's dad, who's Chinese Thai, was just so stoked. He's got two granddaughters that are under the dragon and that's just like, apparently this amazing, wonderful thing to have.

But isn't that wild? Especially like, I mean, you struggled to... Yeah, that's why I say good luck because I think like, wanting it initially

and then, I mean, if you're lucky enough to like, conceive, should you be worried about when it happens? And yeah, I mean, like you're lucky enough to like conceive, should you be worried about when it happens? And yeah, I mean, like you can try,

but when you look into like how it's actually done, it's a miracle we've even got people. Oh, 100%. So this study looked at the type of couples that were planning their Zodiac babies around a certain star sign. Millennials are particularly picky about their future baby star sign, 31%. Gen Z is 25%, followed closely behind. So it is like my generation of people got into this.

When they asked boomers, they said, boomers, when you had your kids, did you plan on only 5% of them? No, they were more like seasonal, right? Well, yeah, and that's the other thing. Because they were dairy farmers, didn't want to have children during calving. So like my brother's born in November, I'm February, my sister's April.

Right. So like, oh yeah, super busy. And is that a thing for, do you think in dairy communities like at school, were there any ever baby, were there any birthdays during? There was the odd like July, August, but I definitely say like growing up,

February was deep. Yeah. Because if you suppose, if your early stages of pregnancy are over carving and then you like summer pregnant, sure, but then you have your baby and then it's kind of old enough that the really testing part's done again

by the time carving runs around. Well, I want to know, this morning on the show, 0800DARLS.M 9696, have you planned a pregnancy for a specific time? I didn't. Because I tried for a very long time. Any time's a good time. Any time, 100%.

But you hear about people that you're like, your parents with carving season, they're like, well, I don't want a baby in summer. Or I don't want to baby in summer. Yeah. Or I don't want to be pregnant during the hottest months. Which I kind of totally get. Yeah, that sucks. Because you were pregnant during summer.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had a swimming pool though. Yeah. But everything swells. Like you don't fit your shoes. Yeah. But you're going to swell in winter as well, aren't you? Yeah.

And that's birth season. So you'd be better to swell in summer than it's chandle season. But also maybe did you plan a pregnancy because you didn't want it to clash with other birthdays that you have or other family members have? True. Yeah, we were planning on doing that, but we were a million in March, and then he arrived in February, so it's kind of like in the cluster. Yes, but he gets to leave. He gets to leave. Yeah, he gets to leave, and that's great because you'll always, like, come out of that Christmas financial situation,

then blow all the money in February. And he'll always be stoked because he'll get, you know. At least you've got March through to December to save up for more presents. We're talking about if you planned a pregnancy around something, timing-wise, timing-wise, apparently one in five people are actively trying to get their yet-to-be-born, yet-to-be-created or conceived child into a specific star sign.

Like trying to get them into a school zone. Yeah. Anonymous, have you timed a pregnancy? I'm trying, but it didn't quite work out. I tried to plan it for the school holidays because I'm a teacher. Oh, that's very specific. I'm going to miss the window now, so I don't know what I'm going to do. Oh, no.

Okay. And then, so then, your baby, your kid would always have a birthday during school holidays, too. Yeah, well, that would be kind of annoying because I've heard that's not a good thing. But, yeah, it's just awkward to have a baby during the middle of the school term. Yeah. Especially when they're going to cough. But again, you can't time it, though, can you?

Even if you try sometimes. I'm on about three months and then I missed it. So now I'll just have to wait. Lucky to be able to have them. Yeah, totally. All right, Anonymous, thank you. I like how you said yeah totally

when you don't actually agree with that oh yeah all these people inconvenience you know I agree like these people are like oh it would be so

inconvenient to have a kid now just for any time it would be inconvenient to have a kid I mean yeah no time's a good time like just don't have one the most popular

text message we've received on the topic of things that when you're trying for a baby what you've tried to avoid tell us next okay we're talking about uh if you've ever planned a pregnancy for a specific time around something one in five uh people trying for a baby want their baby to have a specific star sign. That's nuts.

Like, have you ever read the horoscopes in the paper? They're dumb. But, like, yeah, you're saying one is better than the other. Like, I don't know. Everyone's different. Does it matter? Oh, what's that list of, you know, all the mass murderers they've had? Like, the serial killers?

The star signs. No, but then they are not. Also, isn't that more to do with the season? I don't know. Because Northern Hemisphere, I think like the Pisces, Aquarius. Oh, okay. People like me are probably overrepresented, but because it's winter and they're born and That's why you're not a serial killer down and under.

Exactly. And the water goes the other way. Pisces and Virgo are most commonly serial killers. But then flip it around. What would the reverse of those be? Down under? No, because it's a star sign. It's a...

No, but we're saying it's more... We're saying it's... It should be more affected by the season. Yeah, it's... People murder people in more nicer climates. Yeah. I don't know. Autumn's a big murder season.

Richard, you tried for babies around a certain time? Yeah, so we had... we were like the dairy farmers. We had a specific mating season to get pregnant for our three kids. Mate, did you refer to your wife and this as the mating season? We did, yeah. We also went one further and we got to pick the birth date of our third child because we got an elective cesarean. Oh, right, okay.

We actually got to pick the birth date so we picked the day before our wedding anniversary so I could remember our wedding anniversary. Okay, Richard. Did you keep track of the dates that you and your wife copulated

in your yellow LIC carving book? No, we just tried as often as we could for that certain period, and it only took a couple of weeks. Yeah, nice. Like putting a bull in with a herd after AB season. Yeah.

I don't know what that means, but okay. Thank you for your call, Richard. Some text messages, and the most popular message. The most popular message. And I'm not, like, I would say we've probably had 70-odd text messages in, and I reckon probably 15 of those were about specifically planning the baby so it wouldn't interfere with duck shooting opening morning.

That is wild, eh? So somebody said, my husband made us avoid duck shooting opening weekend when we tried for a baby. Apparently he was very concerned about if it was like a full nine months. Yeah. Or nine months to the start of the ninth month. He wanted to know how many days. Yeah, right.

And then worked backwards. And he's like, well, no, this doesn't work for me because this is duck shooting opening season around here. Let's avoid this area and try again at the end. Wild. And somebody said, somebody else said, when we started planning to have a baby, my wife and I sat down, I said, well, these are the times that don't work for me.

Duck shooting season. And when the roar happens, you know, when you go hunting deer? Oh yeah, they all do. It's called the roar. You know. Yeah. And then you. We had to avoid those.

Other people, just lots of dairy farmers saying, yeah, totally right. You always enjoyed your partner's warmth in winter because that meant

that the baby would come sort of to the end of summer and it meant that it wouldn't interfere with calving but you still got a bit of hanky-panky and got to keep warm

in those cold New Zealand houses in the winter. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I have the box. The box, though.

$20,000 inside. You've just got to give us a four-digit pin that spells a four-letter word. We know there's a seven in there. The clues that we've had, the latest clue was this clue will make you think.

And a lot of the numbers, letters rather, are using numbers. Like, for example, the I is a one. Yeah. So I don't know what that means. But a lot of discussion online. Yeah, people are getting into it deep, aren't they? Very deep. Charlie, good morning.

Morning. All right, so you've pored over all the clues and the guesses that have been wrong? Yeah, I've been listening a lot. Okay, all right. Well, what's your theory, Charlie? I've just been stuck on a name, really. Scar, short for Scarlet. Who is Black Widow?

Who is Black Widow, yeah. Scarlet Johansson. Yeah. Scar. Okay, so you want us to try S-C-A-R. Correct. Okay. It does have the seven in there.

That's 7227. Can I just confirm that with you? 7227. 7227. And I'm going to press the button. This could be it. It's not, unfortunately. It's not.

It's not Scar. Thank you. Never mind. The box. It's not. It's not Scarlet. Thank you. Never mind. The box. Cheeky. With a no. All right, well, your next shot is coming up at midday. And, Charlie, we do have for you a double pass to Marvel Studios' Black Widow.

So you can enjoy that. It's in cinemas very soon, July 8th, and streaming on Disney Plus with Premier Access July 9th. Conditions apply. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, I believe I am the subject of a complaint in a Facebook group. So the building that I live in, the apartment building, we just got a Facebook group for everyone in the building. Okay.

Compulsory attendance? No, it's not compulsory, but there's renovations going on. There's like the foyers getting done. Okay. And so it's kind of for that so that they can be like, today they're ripping up the tiles. It'll be noisy and maybe use a different entrance. Okay, so like PSAs.

So I'm like, oh, join this because I kind of hate Facebook groups. And then people are posting, oh, there's a light festival on downtown. Oh, yeah. Awful. The spam started. The spam started. You wait for that. Hi, guys.

My daughter Jenny's doing some fundraising. And then later someone will be like, here's a food bag code. If you sign up, I'll get a free one. It's like, I'm waiting for that. I'm waiting for that. Yes, and then there's an honesty box downstairs. And then there's the, guys, we're $2 short on the honesty box.

I thought we lived with good people. Yep, I've read some books. I'm leaving them just on the letter boxes if you'd like to read them. Now I've heard a weird noise. I think it might be a dog. Well, anyway, yesterday, and this was delayed. No, this was yesterday, and this was delayed. No, this was on Tuesday this popped up.

Somebody posted a photo, a video of outside their window from Saturday night. And it says under the video, and it's a bad video. You can't really hear it, otherwise I'd play it. It just says, can we shut these guys up? So on Saturday night, there may have been a few drinks at my place. A party And a bit loud Until like one in the morning

Okay I know because I was like What time That's inconsiderate I knew I knew And this like never happens Because I'm always kicking people out

If I have drinks at mine Everyone's gone by like nine Ten It just happened to be a big night Because it was my birthday weekend Yeah And then I was like Oh oh dear, it's late. But like no one complained.

Yeah. So I was like, oh. But then under the post, it's like people start weighing in. This is the Facebook group. They're like, oh, they're like, here's the process to complain to the Auckland Council. Link.

And then someone was like, we did complain, but they couldn't get in. Because of the multi-layered security swipe access. Haha, sucker fools. And like, all these people have seen the post and some people have

commented, but I've just remained quiet on it. You should just join in and be like, I was away for the weekend, but this is not the sort of thing I like to hear happening on it. You should just join in and be like, yeah, what are my songs? Because he doesn't flicks them away from you. I was away for the weekend, but this is not the sort of thing I like to hear happening in the apartment. Because then they're like, he's anti-noise,

but he was also away, so it can't have been him. And then say you're thinking of chucking together a food parcel. I'll just say that's terrible to hear. I'm just remaining absolutely silent and trying to avoid everybody in the apartment. How many people were on the Facebook group?

Many. How many comments has it got? Oh, there's like seven. Wow. Yeah, look, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I know, real bad for me. What time was the video taken?

No, it doesn't say, but they didn't, because I was like, the next day I was like, uh-oh, someone's going to have said something, but they didn't, and I was like, phew day I was like, uh-oh, someone's going to have said something, but they didn't, and I was like, phew, I've got away with this. And then boom. Boom. I believe Chris Hipkins is standing by now. We'll follow up my noise complaint.

We're joined on the phone by Christopher John Hipkins. I just looked up his middle name, and from now on we'll probably call him like CJ. Good morning, Chris. Good morning. Did you ever get called CJ? No, that's a whole new thing.

I'm surprised it's taken someone this long. CJ. All right, CJ, you're the current Minister of Health. What's the situation with the latest COVID-19 threat to the capital? So in Wellington, we're now at alert level two, which means that we've got restrictions in place, stopping big gatherings, encouraging people to use social distancing,

wear masks where they can't socially distance from people. And of course, follow the same guidance we ask of everyone, which is stay home if you're unwell, get a test for COVID-19 if you're showing cold and flu-like symptoms and then stay home until you get that result. We are going to be doing testing of people who are in the locations of interest. We want to make sure that COVID-19 hasn't made its way back into the community through the case that we had coming in over the weekend. That'll take us a few days to get through all of that. That's why we've got these extra restrictions in place in the meantime. Have you had any results overnight from the amount of tests that you had yesterday?

There will have been quite a few tests processed overnight because there were quite a few tests taken yesterday afternoon. I haven't been notified of any new positive results yet. That normally happens quite quickly when a positive result comes off the machine. So that's quite encouraging. We'll be able to release the exact numbers that were processed a bit later on in the morning. Would people be showing up positive if they were positive yet? Is there any latency in it?

Could people be showing positive? Would they still be best to isolate for two weeks and get another test towards the end of that? Depending on the risk, you know, how close they were. So for the close contacts, the people that sat down and had dinner with the person, for example, we asked them to isolate for a full two weeks and get tested. And they'll be tested a couple of times during that period if they were more casual contacts. By now, if you're at Te Papa on Saturday, potentially, when the person was there over the weekend, it's now been, what, four or five days since then. So if they'd picked it up, we'd start to see that coming through in results

in the next two or three days. If we don't see any positive results at all, that would suggest that the risk is getting quite low. Having said that, it's not zero, and that's why we've got these restrictions in place. Yeah. Do we know if this is the Delta strain that this man had yet? Have we heard from Australia yet about that? We haven't had the whole genome sequence result back yet which is what we used to confirm that but the advice that we've

had from Australia is that they're treating it as if it's the Delta variant and as if it's linked to their current cluster that they're dealing with which is all Delta variant so we'll get confirmation of that. We were hoping to get that last night. It didn't come through, so we're hoping to get that sometime this morning. Right. And is there more testing available today? Because I saw a lot of people last night where obviously there were a lot of spots taken up

and lines and waits. Yeah, there's a lot of demand for testing. So yes, we will have more testing sites available today. As of last night, I saw a draft list of where they were going to be, but I don't want to put that out there until they're absolutely being locked in, because I don't want to send people to the wrong place. But within

the next few hours, we'll get that list out so people know where they can go to get tested. Okay, that will be on the Ministry of Health website? It will indeed. And on the Unite Against COVID-19 website, we'll release that to the media as well. And why was it level two yesterday and not a level

three? I mean, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. I completely understand that. If you'd gone to three, people would have thought it was overdoing it, but at two, a lot of people thought it was being undercooked. Why two and not three for Wellington? We're not seeing any extra positive cases at this point, so level two at this point

is still a very precautionary measure. If we start to see extra cases, depending on the nature of those cases, then that's when we might consider additional restrictions if we need to do that. Right, okay, cool. Well, thanks for the update. We'll keep an ear out. Will there be a 1pm presser today? There will indeed be a 1pm presser. We're likely to keep doing those for this period of time while we're dealing with this. Okay, cool. All the best, Chris. Thanks for the update there, CJ. Alright, thanks, guys. Today's fact of the day is about a massive explosion

I was listening to a podcast And the podcast was talking about Remember the Beirut explosion And the ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the Beirut Remember the massive explosion in Lebanon It was in the harbour And that person was getting their wedding video In slow motion in the Beirut. Oh, that's a massive explosion in Lebanon. It was in the harbour. That's right.

And that person was getting their wedding video in slow motion. And it shook. The shockwaves were insane. The video was next level. So the podcast I was listening to was talking about how that happened. And it was because a shipping company went under. And when a shipping company goes under,

the ships become this big, whose problem is this now? Yeah, right. And they just kind of get left sitting there. Now, a ship full of this ammonium nitrate pretty much started to sink because the crew abandoned it. And I don't know if you know this, but to keep a ship afloat at sea is like a lot of work.

Every time it docks, it's got to be cleaned. It's like a constant thing to keep these, the ocean is so corrosive and these things are getting pushed so hard. Yeah. It's a constant job to keep these things afloat.

So the minute the crew abandon ship, which they don't often do because sometimes they'll be like, for example, and there's all these ships at sea,

Filipino workers are like half a world away from home. So if they abandon ship they've got no way of getting home so they just stay on the ship in the hope that they will get their wages and get to go home one day.

It's crazy. It's horrible. So basically what happened on this one, this ship was just abandoned because a crew were like, bugger this, we're not getting paid, and they jumped ship. And they said, if this ship sinks, then this ammonium nitrate is going to be really bad. So they took it all off and stored it in a warehouse,

not at all how you should store it. And that's what caused the explosion. Right. In the end. What's the fact of the day? Well, today's fact of the day is that's not the biggest ammonium nitrate explosion on record. Oh my God. And the other one that happened was the how it happened was pure craziness. In 1921 in Germany, they were making ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

They were making ammonium sulfate fertilizer, but that needed a whole lot of stuff from overseas. And I don't know if you're familiar with Germany's little whoopsie dozies, two whoopsie dozies there in the early half of that century. A whoopsie is an understatement. A whoopsie is an understatement. Whoopsie's an understatement. And the second whoopsie, they didn't learn from the first one, but they needed to be able to produce it with their own resources.

So they started making ammonium nitrate, which is very explosive, as we've all seen from in Beirut. However, the ammonium nitrate was also prone to clumping together. You can't sell fertilizer if it's in a, and this is without a word of a lie, 50,000 tonne solid rock. Oh, okay. Because they'd make it and then it would turn into a rock.

So they'd chip it apart. However, chipping's a little slow. And you know what's quicker than chipping with a pickaxe? Drilling a hole and chucking some dynamite in it. Oh my God. Now, that's what they did. And in 1921 at 7.32 in the morning, an explosion went off that is estimated to be twice the size

of the Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion. Oh, wow. The crater was absolutely massive. It was 90 metres by 125 metres and 20 metres deep. So you think about those Olympic diving boards that are 10 metres tall, twice the depth of that. That's how deep the crater was. So 90 metres is the length of a rugby field if you take out the in-touch.

Is that right? Or about a rugby field. The great idea was this, to drill a hole and dynamite it. So apparently it wasn't the first time they'd been doing it. It wasn't the first time they'd done it to put dynamite in it, but apparently the mix had to be less than 60% nitrate was

safe, so it was always a 50-50 mix with nitrate. But this one was from tests from what was left, because that was the thing, not even the whole thing went up. This was at like 65% nitrate, so it was only just over uh and the explosion it killed 532 people it destroyed an entire town uh the shock wave was not only felt but heard over 300 kilometers away in munich and areas of france wow wow so. Like a big atomic bomb.

It was the equivalent of one to two kilotons of TNT. And kilotons is a thousand tons. Yeah, right. And a ton is a thousand kilograms. So, yeah. Wish that was caught on camera. I know. 1921, though, unfortunately, people weren't rocking around with high-definition phones.

They could record things at a moment notice. And it wasn't a great place for wedding photos either so today's fact of the day is in 1921 there was a fertiliser based explosion that was twice the size of the explosion in Beirut fact of the day

day day day day day day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Blackball. I've seen the signs. I've never been but I've seen the signs. West Coast? Yep. West Coast. Sausages. Isn't there really good blackball sausages? Well, I don't know. Well, maybe.

Maybe. By the looks of it, there'd be a fair bit of Well, I don't know. Well, maybe. Maybe. By the looks of it, there'd be a fair bit of hunting to be done around there. Nothing like a wild, bloody wild pork sausage with a bit of fennel. Yeah. Sure. With some apple. Yeah, yum. Yeah, nice.

Delicious. Chuck that in the crockpot. You'll get yourself a delicious meal. Well, black bull installed as part of the Great Walk, the Paparoa Track, which is our newest trail walk. Is this the one that goes from the top of the country to the bottom? No, that's the Te Araroa track. Oh, and what's this one? Paparoa.

It's a new one. Is it? Yeah, I think it's our latest Great Walk. I'm more than happy to be corrected on that. Okay. But I know that the plan was you could start at either end. And for people finishing at the Black Ball end, there were a toilet and shower block installed

because after you've been on a great walk, you've been without those facilities, so you might want to obey. Then it might encourage people to stay in Black Ball. Vaughan, I've just Googled, and you are correct. It is a great walk. A three-day hiking or two-day mountain biking. 55 kilometres.

You can mountain bike it. That's so cool. Yeah, that's cool. It's very cool. Oh, it looks beautiful. Oh, yes. I don't know if I could mountain bike that. I'm sure my friend Johnny recently did this.

Okay. After Wild Foods, they did the Paparoa. Oh, look at that bit, though. It's all uphill. So I'd walk it the other way. Come down that hill. Yeah, good idea. Come down.

I don't know if you guys know this. It's easier to come down a hill than to go up a hill. Yeah, that looks beautiful though. Unless it's a really steep hill and you start running. And then they've got huts along the way that you can stay in and then obviously the end is in, one of the ends is Blackball. There were, at Blackball, there was a toilet and shower block

facility built for people doing the walk. Now, the problem is, it was supposed to be pay-per-use, but then when it was built, the coin machine was never installed because the council said that would encourage theft because there will be all these coins and someone just come along with a sledgehammer, smash it.

So they're going to do tokens instead. Then they said the token system is going to be too much to install. It's going to cost too much money. So there wasn't a token machine installed, meaning the $100,000 toilet block that has a $25,000 annual cleaning fee was free to use. Now, locals of Blackpool have been absolutely showering up a storm on that free hot water.

And there's soap dispensers. Yes. Everything. Yeah, they're going along there. They're soaping up. They're showering. And it's not costing them a damn penny. Now, having showered in public showers before,

I hope they're wearing their flip-flops. Yeah, you've got to wear your flip-flops. Like you go to the gym or the pool, you've got to wear your flip-flops. Or they'll be on an athlete's foot. Also break out in a black pool. You have to take a towel and your toilet bag. And then you've got to get home after you've had a shower and then you feel a little bit dirty.

Yeah. No words if it's a cubicle shower or sort of a communal one. Oh, I'm sure it'd be cubicle, surely. It could be a bloody all-go, no-holds-barred bloody orgy down in the Blackwall Public showers. You could have added a bit of spice to the area. So they're saying that locals, rather than paying for hot water and showers at home, are going out of their way to go into...

That is wild. Because it's built in the middle of town. McEwen Park in the centre of town. But that's still like, even if you live in town, you've got to drive there. Yeah, and take all your staff in. Shower at home. How much of a tight ass are you? I mean, but in saying that, you could have a half an hour shower.

A long, hot shower. What's the shower pressure like, too? Like, if your shower is rubbish. Yeah, that's true. It might be rubbish down there. Yeah, if you have a good... It might be rubbish back home. Yeah.

Okay. Okay, so now we're doing it then. Can we get on board, actually? Yeah. We want to know off now we're doing it then. Can we get on board, actually? Yeah. We want to know off the back of the Blackpool public. Okay, I'm looking now. Looks like it could be a go, to be honest.

Oh, really? It's a good shower? Looks all right. It's brand new. It's not going to be rubbish, is it? It's going to be good. There's not too many other new builds going down in Blackpool. Salami, by the way, Megan. Good Salami company.

The Blackpool Salami Company. Oh, yes. yes Yeah they make sausages Apparently amazing salami Black bull sausages We want to know How far out of your way You've gone for something Just because it was free

Yeah like driving across town Because you could have A free shower and soap Yeah Like locals are doing What did you Maybe travel a whole lot Of distance for

Or go to an extra effort Just because something was going to be free? Yeah. And then when you think about the fuel, it might not even be worth it. We want to know how far you've gone out of your way for something free because residents of a West Coast town are using the free shower that was put in for trampers and hikers. Apparently it's meant to have the coin meters installed on it. But they thought if it was actual currency, it would encourage theft, and so they were going to put tokens in,

but then the tokens were going to be too expensive, so they just haven't. But now everyone in town's popping down for a free shower. It's getting your money out of your rates, though, isn't it? Yeah, it is. 100%. And plus, if it's a better shower than you've got at home, I'm on board with this.

Yeah. So we want to know how far you've gone out of your way for something free. Yeah. Lots of people are like, there's nothing wrong with this. Absolutely not. I used to go to Pack and Save with my mum for free samples.

And I would go around and around and then sometimes if I was just walking home and I knew that supermarket had free samples, I would go around and around and then sometimes if I was just walking home and I knew that supermarket had free samples, I'd just walk in get free samples and then walk out. I'm on board with that. Yeah. If you're walking past, you need a mid-walk snack.

You need to up your energy levels. Somebody said I was in Switzerland and there was a free shower No sorry I went into Switzerland For a free shower They must have been Standing at the border right

No one's So we don't know Where they were going from But they went into Switzerland Because there was a free shower I got arrested at the border Because I was raising Suspicion of my

Back and forth They thought I was Trafficking something But you're like No I just want a free shower I just need a free shower here Were they like Back backpacking or something? I don't think.

Or maybe they were camping. Yeah, right. On the border. Like in Austria or something. I don't know. Nipping across from Germany or something. I don't know. Well, somebody else said, every time I'm in town,

so I imagine this is Queenstown, I go into the cookie time and I sing karaoke because you get a free cookie when you do a karaoke song. I had no idea. And I know it, but I just sing a song because I want a free cookie. Oh, the Remarkable Fudge Shop with all their free samples. That's another Queenstown foodie. Oh, you walk in.

Yeah. You walk in for the fudge. Oh, 100%. All right. Keep your texts coming in. How far you've gone for something free. Times you've gone to extreme lengths just for something free. Some text messages in.

Yeah. Somebody said my uncle, when he was living in the Netherlands, found a voucher for free petrol in Germany. So he drove to Germany to get free petrol. He must have been close to Germany. He must have been close. But how much free petrol? I don't know.

And how far did he drive? Because there would be a point where it wouldn't be worth it. No. Because I'm a big believer of putting value on your time. No. You know? Okay, Tony Robbins. Well, that felt like you were about to launch into some motivational chat about how you're worth it.

You do rush to do nothing. I know. I love to rush to do nothing. You're in a rush when you're doing something so that more time for nothing. Exactly. More time for relaxing. Yeah. But then you can't relax.

Yes, I have to be doing something. You're famously a terrible relaxer. I am, yeah. But you know, people that are driving over town to save like 50 cents, it's like, well... What's the point? Yeah, you're wasting all that petrol. Yeah.

And you're wasting your time as well. Somebody messaged in saying when they were a student, their flat shower was rubbish. So they'd walk to the end of the road where their halls of residence was that they'd lived in the previous year and they still could get access to and they'd just go in and have themselves a nice hot shower.

Amazing. It must have been bad because aren't halls of residence showers famously like, like luster? And clogged. Hannah, how far did you go for something free? So I've travelled actually from Tauranga to Auckland, so I think it took us like three hours, and that was for the money drop.

Oh! This was last year. What was it, the safety warehouse-y something? Yeah, safety warehouse at a cash drop. And you got fake money. Yes. $300 worth of fake money. What ever happened to that?

I just did a quick Google, but I can't see like a late. It was all at the time. There was a lot of news stories about it, but I haven't heard. There's nothing since. Yeah, they said they might like take them to court or something. They took down all their um advertisement and everything so um from the perspective of the public everyone who went look like it made everyone look like they were silly and this and that but there was like full-on advertisements and like the wording and

everything like the cash drop this and that like it was so yeah it was bad misleading yeah it was bad and then did you use your vouchers that you got, your fake money vouchers for anything? Well, my daughter, she uses them with her little playhouse and stuff. So at least it got kind of used. Yeah, so she's like the richest kid on the block now. Amazing. Hannah, thanks for your call.

Some other text messages people have gone out of their way for freebies. I got a whole stack of cheeseburger vouchers. So I went to the restaurant where they were redeemable, and I asked everybody ordering if they could just please use this voucher to redeem one cheeseburger and then give me the cheeseburger. Because you're only allowed one per visit, right? Yeah. End result, 13 free cheeseburgers in one visit.

That's a lot of nice people. I'd be like, what am I getting out of this? Yeah, no. Yeah. Yuck. I would have asked them for a chip. A tax chip. Or a tax voucher for next time you're there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Oh, right. So you're saying I'll do it for one voucher, I'll redeem it, and then I want another voucher for next time. Yeah. That's a good idea. Because if you've got a wad of free vouchers,

you've stolen those from somewhere. They did say that they got them through completely legal fashion. A night worker didn't care that he gave them all out to one person because apparently his job was to get rid of these cheeseburger vouchers. Well, technically he did do that. He did, but not spread the love as perhaps was thought.