ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 8th June 2021

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fletch Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app, buy five McCafe coffees, get one free. Sweet Tooth. You're just reading a little bit of what were you reading about Sweet Tooth? I can see that on your shoulder on the screen there. Just a friend on Facebook post about it. Just because I guess it's filmed in New Zealand. This is number one on Netflix in New Zealand at the moment. Right. I haven't seen it. I've watched one episode. But wait, the boy in it, the main boy, is half deer. Well, not half, but he's a hybrid. He's got antlers and deer ears, and he can hear like a deer. Yeah, I don't imagine it's going to be your cup of tea.

It's based on a DC comic. I've watched one episode. I really liked it. There's parts where it's so obviously New Zealand because there's like toy, toy bushes and sand dunes. Yeah, yeah. And he's running, and you're like, hey, hey, hey. yeah. And he's running and you're like, hey, hey, hey. And then some pine trees and you're like, hey, hey, hey.

Remember when they planted pines everywhere? Yuck, they yuck. But, you know, someone's going to make some money off them. So IMDB, 8.3 out of 10. Rotten tomatoes, 97%. That's pretty good. Yeah. It's quite like cute and there's sort of like a fantasy element to it.

There's a virus, right, which is a little timely, I guess. But it wipes out half of humanity. And that's the cool – it hasn't been explained yet. I'm imagining it's going to it. There's a virus, right? Which is a little timely, I guess. But it wipes out half of humanity. And that's the cool, it hasn't been explained yet, I'm imagining it's going to be, but when they get the virus, their little finger twitches. And that's like the main sign that it's not just like a flu, it's like a twitching little finger. Right. And you know when that's like, they're not going to be on the show much longer. Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan, Susan? The executive producers. Susan Jr. No, Susan Downey. Susan Junior no Susan Downey there was no senior Susan

Susan Downey Junior Susan Downey Junior yeah that's her name wow okay exciting yeah

am I going to like to watch the mirror no you're not probably going to like it so I'm not even

going to lie to you and pretend you were okay but I'm I meant to start the mirror of Easttown

that everyone oh my god that's amazing raves about I think that was actually a perfect little crime series. The perfect series. A perfect series, yeah.

And Kate Winslet, everyone loves her. Yeah. She did an interview with the New York Times saying that it's like when she was in Titanic now. She walks down the street. And people are back on board. People are like, hey, Kate Winslet, hi. Oh, hi, Kate Winslet. Hi. Oh, hi. Kate Winslet, hi.

And she's on buses. And even though like 27 years later or whatever it is, she's got more wrinkles, she said. Right. On the billboards. Well, we've all got more wrinkles than we did 27 years ago. The thing about this series, she owns it. Good. Because it's quite a thing for, say, a woman of her age to be like so flawed as a character.

Yeah, sure. And no makeup and stuff. It's just great. It's gritty. It's great. She's just embracing it. Awesome drama. Yeah, sure. And no makeup and stuff. It's just great. It's gritty. She's just embracing it. Awesome drama. Okay.

Well, I'll start that one and finish this story about this little half-deer, half-boy. Bloody stupid with antlers. You must be able to see the antlers. No, he's got hair. He's got lots of hair. So they cover up the brace. Yeah, whatever's holding the antlers on. Stupid.

Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Sans Megan. Who's away for a couple of days. Minus brackets. Minus Megan. Minus Megan. I was trying to make it mathematical. Fletch plus Vaughan equals Megan. Close brackets. equals today. Today, yeah.

There you go. That's great. That's a little bit of a maths warm-up for Brian this morning. Who's going to do the latest or the celebrity news today? It's the return of... Shh. Vaughan Smith's hot gossip. Vaughan Smith's hot gossipossip. Von Smith's Hot Gossip.

How about that? Do you need a new intro? Would you like an intro for that? Yes. Okay. Jared, you press record, mate, because this is a one shot. Hold on. He's going to do this, and then I need you to put some like

saucy sounding 90s music in the background. Okay, ready? Okay. Shh. It's Vaughn Smith's hot gossip. That's it. That goes at the start. I think you can do another take.

You want me to do another take? I think you can do another. I think it's your morning voice. That was what I was going for. I wanted that like raw spittish. Okay, one more, one more. Shh. Hey.

Shh. It's time for Va one more. Shh. Hey. Shh. It's time for Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip. Yeah, do we like that timing? We like one of those two. One of those two. One of those two. Okay, so that's coming up. Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip.

Hot Gossip, yeah. It's where we see what the celebs have been up to. Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah, right. Woo! Yeah! Coming up on the show this morning, the box is in studio.

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Vegans are three centimetres shorter than non-vegans. This is children that grow up on a vegan line. Yeah, in a vegan household. That's quite amazing, isn't it? Yeah, on average three centimetres shorter. So I've got the top six ways to get back that three centimetres. Alright, next

on the show though, a little problem for Qantas, the airline. Oh no. Let me talk about this next Fletch Warner Megan the podcast ZM uh well a story out of Australia uh Qantas mechanics uh at a storage facility uh just a couple of hours outside of Los Angeles in the desert you know where they're storing all the planes yeah but I thought this was what I thought was weird Australia famously has its own desert. Well, yeah, there's actually

a lot of planes in Alice Springs stored in the desert. Yeah, so why Aquantis got so many in LA? Why don't they have, um, why don't they just have them in the Alice Springs depot and have them closer to home? I don't know if it's their Alice Springs depot. It's a depot. Right. It might be cheaper. And a lot

of them were flying in America, through America anyway. Right over, might have been in the area. Might have been just easier to get them there. But apparently a problem there for Qantas Mechanics is that many of the aircraft that they're storing there are crawling with scorpions and rattlesnakes. Specifically the Qantas planes?

Or are they in all the planes? Well, this is a story from Qantas Mechanics. But yeah, apparently this is a problem for all of the planes in storage. The snakes and the scorpions love the wheel wells. Is that like cooler? Yeah, I think in the harsh desert. And they can kind of curl around and be protected. Right.

Apparently the warm rubber tyres. Yeah, okay, I can see that. Snakes love to curl around a warm rubber tyre. Well, they need the warmth, don't they, to aid in their digestion. Like a warm tyre to them is like a quick-heazers to your mum. Always have one in your purse. And the brakes, maybe they're a disc. I don't know how play wheels work.

Yeah, apparently that's nice and warm for them as well. So they've come up. I don't know. It doesn't say if there's a gap between the wheel well and getting into the plane. It doesn't sound like it. That would be. Because this is my concern is that you'll be on a plane that's come out of storage. Yeah.

And there'll be a rattlesnake. And you get to mutter those famous words from that Samuel L. Jackson movie. Say what again? No, the other Samuel L. Jackson movie. I'm Nick Fury. This is the Avengers Initiative. Wait, no, the other Samuel L. Jackson movie. The one that you can't say on air.

Yeah. Yeah. So they have designed a tool to help them with this when they start to inspect the planes and get them ready to fly again. A broomstick, which they're calling a wheel whacker. And they, apparently now they go up to a plane and they whack it around the wheel well

and stomp their feet and get rid of the snakes and the rattlesnakes. Would that make them fall out or did you just hear them react? I think yeah. And then apparently they crawl away. Mmm. And they need a flamethrower. Just to stick in there. And then apparently they crawl away. There. And they need a flamethrower just to stick in there and give it

a quick flame around. Yeah. Do they cover the engines and stuff? They must do it. They put covers on them. I've seen the, I don't know if it's the specific Mojave Desert yard that you refer to in this story, but I have seen those ones where they store planes in the desert. Yeah, and they put a cover over

because the engine would get full of sand. Yeah. And then it just like, it's a little bit corrosive. It doesn't rust. It's not as harsh as it conditions as like seawater or salt. Yeah, right. But they cover it because otherwise the dust and stuff just builds up in spots. It would be nice if they

give them a few flights before I fly on them. Yeah, just a bit of a blowout. Park them on the thing and just rev them. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. My intent is they should an apology, an apology that people are saying, you didn't need to apologise to that. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey. A person who was employed, is employed, at the moment employment status unknown. But there was a Facebook page set up called Liberate the Lanes and this was angry drivers who wanted to reclaim, you know how cyclists cycled across the Harbour Bridge and it caused some light Sunday traffic? This Liberate the Lane was people who were going to start driving

in the bike lanes again. Right, okay. the lane was people who were going to start driving in the bike lanes again. Right. Okay. To reclaim that lane. And somebody said, these are some of the comments. Someone said, does Mitre 10 sell tax? Asking for a friend. And this person said, we do, and I get a discount.

And so that immediately drags Mitre 10 into it. And they've absolutely got no better one. So this is like an employee not speaking for Mitre 10. No, no, no, no, God no. It's not on the Mitre 10 official account, but somebody's maybe clicked on the profile and seen that this person works there. Yeah, right.

And then they get dragged into it, and I'd imagine this is a brand sort of worst nightmare. Yeah. And so they say it's come to our attention that an employee said some other things. I believe it was the same person. Bring the truck around here when you're done and I'll wash any blood or evidence away from you.

Wow. Wow. Yeah. There's a few things. People get very, very angry about bikes, about cyclists. Yeah. They get sort of, hmm, the anger to reason to be angry, well out of whack.

Like, I don't know why people get so angry about it. You know what I mean? Yeah. They don't get angry about other things. They just tend to get angry about cyclists. Very angry. Because they get delayed by a couple of seconds in their car. But only minimally.

Yeah. Yeah. And they can't understand people wanting to use that as a main form of transport. So it angers them because they don't understand it. Is it that classic don't understand so I'll just react with anger? Maybe, yeah. Yeah, but anyway. You just feel like giving them a hug and be like, maybe their dad's never

taught them to ride a bike. Maybe it's all rooted in daddy issues. Maybe they were never the fastest kid at a bike. When I think about cross country sometimes I get angry because I never did well on cross country. Because you were rubbish at running.

Yeah. And there was rabbit holes that you could stand in. It was an undulating surface. It wasn't flat. It wasn't smooth. It wasn't kind on the ankles. Sure, if you weighed next to nothing and you were barely touching the ground on each step, but I'm a big thudder.

And that's maybe why I see I can feel my anger rising. Well, maybe let's not link our businesses when we're trolling people on Facebook. Yeah, just for continued employment. Because you feel

for Mitre 10, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. Yeah. But they do sell tax, which is interesting. I know that now. And you know what?

I bet if you walked into a Mitre 10, you could be in the gardening section and say, whereabouts are the tax? And the person will tell you exactly what number aisle. They always know.

I reckon there's a pop quiz for employees every week. Yeah. And there must be some sort of prize if you get it right. Maybe it's one of those three packs of peanut slabs that they always have at the checkout. You partial to those. God damn it, I love having one of those in the car. You partial to those, you old smithy.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the majestic ZM Think Tank, this is the Top 6. Hello there, and a good morning. Today's Top 6 is about the fact that a new study has shown that if you raise your kids on a vegan diet, they're going to be three centimetres shorter and have weaker bones than their meat-eating peers.

Interesting. Yeah, this study was done by Mince. Big Mince money. Some are saying that maybe it's a little imbalanced because it's just Mince. It's Big Mince industry came in. Yeah, of course Mince would say this. Lopsided study.

Yeah, no, this was the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health And the Children's Memorial Health Institute In Warsaw Poland Oh okay The dangers of Vegan diets for infants You're judging by

Your Instagram story At the weekend Your kids are going to be Eight foot tall With all the meat That was on your barbecue They'll be big beasts No they're actually

Shockers when it comes To eating meat Anything Anything chewy They they're like, I don't like fish. Oh, actually, you know what? They're really into fried chicken. Who isn't?

But that's an entry-level meat. That's a gateway meat. Yeah. So fried chicken. Yep. Then you're into your medium-rare steaks. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm.

So they studied children who are vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores. Growth, body composition, cardiovascular risk, and micronutrient status data was compiled. And it showed that children raised on a vegan diet were going to be three centimetres shorter. They also found that they had less bone mineral content and were three times more likely to be deficient in vitamin B12 than omnivores. Okay. They had lower levels of the unhealthy form of cholesterol and lower levels of body fat, though.

So, shorter but skinnier. True. Bones break a little bit easier. Yeah, right. shorter but skinnier. True. Bones break a little bit easier. Yeah, right. You're skinnier. That's so interesting, isn't it? Yeah, it is.

So, the three centimetres that they've got to make up for, I've got the top six ways for vegans to get those three centimetres back. Number six on the list, the top six ways

to get those three centimetres back, sketchy shape-ups. Those things are massive. They've got to be at least an inch and a half, that heel. What if Megan was here, we'd give her to be at least an inch and a half, that heel. What if Megan was here, we'd give her, remember when she had her imitation? Yeah, sketchy.

She didn't have the real deal. I'm sorry we're walking. Your mum and a pair of sketches? Oh, I don't know. My mum's in a pair of sketches, and I tell you, she'd go, Dad has a pair of sketches. Really? Boomers, I think Boomers are all on sketches now. I actually don't know if mum's got,

I don't know if they've even got a sketches store in New Plymouth. No, I think you can. I'm sure she'll message if she's got sketches. I think you can get them from. Oh, places. Places, okay, yeah, right. Boomers buy shoes. Okay, boomers shoes.

Boomers shoes.co.nz. Something like that, right. Yeah. I'm unsure. Comfort, where comfort is key. Yeah, that's the slogan of boomershoes.co.nz. The top six ways for vegans to get three centimetres back in height. Number five, spinach or mushrooms.

I don't know how, that's just what they always say, right? Yum. Spinach or mushrooms. Number four on the list of the top six ways for vegans to get those three centimetres back, beyond meat, slippers. Because it's not meat. So you could technically wear it as footwear. Yeah, right.

Okay. Is that going to give you three centimetres? It'd be... Yeah. Lots of layers. It'll get shorter over the day but you'll get there. Number three on the list

of the top six ways for vegans to get those three centimetres back. Tie your hair in a top knot. That always makes people look taller. Yeah. You let the hair do the hard work. A bald man, I can't. You can't do that. And maybe it was the meat that made me bald. Maybe. I'm just trying to think if I've ever met a bald vegan. No. Would you

like me to Google bald vegan? Bald vegans. There will be. There'll be like a famous bald vegan. Will there be? Who's the spokesperson for bald vegans? Oh, Expert Slams reports that vegan diet can make men bald. From 2017. And Expert slammed it. It's not the case. No, I can't find a bald vegan. Number two on the list of the top six. They said they don't exist.

It turns out they don't exist. Number two on the top six ways for vegans to get those three centimetres back. A stack of 50-cent pieces. Oh, yeah, okay. Because if you stand on that... Get a few centimetres? Yeah, get a few centimetres. And number one on the list of the top six ways for vegans

to get those three centimetres back, tofu. Apparently, yeah. If it's not giving you three centimetres of height, you just haven't marinated it right. Right. That's what I'm told. And collagen's not vegan. No, it's

ground up bones, isn't it? It's ground up fish bits. Fish fingers. So if you want your hair to be luscious and long and thicker and your nails to grow strong, fish fingers. Lots of fish fingers. Any complaints? That's today's top six.

No, it's all ingested. The vegans and I Have got a deal What's your deal They save me Their meat And I I eat it

Yeah I eat it Okay great Yay Teamwork Alright ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast ZM

Shh It's time for Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip Oh and it's Out of the oven It's time for Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip. Oh, and it's out of the oven. It's piping hot. Hot Gossip. That was a good intro, Producer Jared.

You've done well there. Yeah. That was fantastic. Well, Megan's away a few days, so Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip. Vaughan Smith's Hot Gossip is hotter than ever. And Chrissy Teigen has been outed with another cyberbullying accusation. You may remember a little, what, like a month ago? Yeah.

Everybody's favorite sassy tour de queen got outed as sending some pretty horrid messages to Courtney Stodden back in the day. She was that 16-year-old girl that was dating that 50-year-old guy that was on Lost for a while situation. Really? Yeah, it was ages ago that it was all happening. And people were like, where are her parents? What's going on? And Chrissy had said some stuff to her. Well, now it turns out she'd also made some nasty comments about Lindsay Lohan and Farrah Abraham, who was on one of the original series of Teen Mom

who then got into adult movies. Okay. And I'm not. Do we know what she said? In the adult movies? No. There was a lot of moaning. Right, okay.

Oh, you mean what? Yeah. She, in 2013, tweeted at her, In other news, you're a H, a W-H-O-R-E. I mean, this is hot gossip, but I won't say. No, you absolutely not. I won't say... No, you absolutely not. I won't. And everyone hates you.

Whoops. Not other news. Sorry. That is full on. Yeah. Yeah. She said some horrible stuff. And so she's actually pulled out of...

She wasn't let go of. She pulled out of an upcoming project, a series called Never Have I Ever by Mindy Kaling, where she was set to do voiceover work. Okay. So she's pulled out of that. Join us next hour, because if you thought that was hot gossip, that was under the entree of what can be described as a piping hot mains. Okay.

Right. And once again, this hot gossip is all thanks to Disney's Cruella, the original hot gossiper herself, Emma Stone playing Cruella in that Disney flick. It's in cinemas now and on Disney Plus with Premier Access. Conditions apply. Thank you very much, Vaughan Smith, Hot Gossip. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

There has been an invention by a couple of university students at the Bristol University in the UK. Now, they were, I guess, maybe, I guess, inspired or had to deal with the fact that when they went to festivals or any kind of event, they would queue for the toilet. Right, gotcha. Longer than men. And if I go to the producer's studio with Megan Away, executive

intern Anya, Carl Wayne on the social media desk. You'll go to the nearest ovaries for opinion. I will. I'll go to the females here for an opinion. Queuing at any event, females, you always, bars as well, you always see the lines at the mall, the airport, whatever, because

there are no urinals. Men have urinals. They can be in and out for wheeze quickly, whereas females, no. No. I also like to just sit there for a minute, ponder, take a breath. Do a short meditation in the head space. Really? Nah. Well, if you've queued up for like 25 minutes at a festival,

you might as well have a minute to yourself. Crikey. But, you know, they're always so long. Now, will you hover over the seat if you're using a port-a-loo at a festival? Any public toilet. Any public toilet. So that is what this study found, that 80% of women end up squatting over the toilet seat to avoid bacteria once they do find a port-a-loo or a toilet at an event. According to the research from these developers here at the university,

women queue up to 34 times longer than men because there are 10 male urinals for every woman's public toilet. Oh, my God. But that's a space thing? It is a space thing. Like, you know at festivals and events, they've got the urinals now. Yeah, they've got wall urinals, so it's a lot quicker.

But so these researchers have actually invented a female urinal. How would you describe this? It's like a circular space. It's got three entrances divided into three wedges. And then each of those is a divider with a squat urinal on either side for the female so that nobody can see you. But you've got to squat over it. You're going to get wet undies.

You're going to have to perfect your teeth. There needs to be a bar to hang on to so you can, like, dip it low, pick it up slow. Otherwise, you're going to wee straight into your pants. Correct me if I'm wrong. I've got two daughters who I've been out in, like, nature with, and they're like, I need a whee. And so I stand on their feet and hold their hands and they lower themselves right down and backwards.

And even then there might be a little bit of spray towards the pants. Yeah. I mean, if you are wearing a skirt or a dress, you might be all right. Yeah, just hoist that right up. But then you also might get a bit of wheeze on the thigh and then that might roll sometimes you can't control the direction so looking at this I mean Darwin's face doesn't agree with you there she's she's said you've got an oscillating sprinkler situation she's got a definitive garden hose Like she can direct it where or everywhere. Sorry, you can do it every time?

I never said that. Well, you know, sometimes it just goes wayward. I'll say it. It goes wayward. Okay, so it's not perfect. But is it a step in the right direction? And where does the wheeze go? Well, it's just like a

I guess it's like a mini toilet. Like a bidet almost. But it's like a banana curved shape. Do you back onto it? Yeah, you just squat over it. And it's kind of like a banana boat. It's not going to work for everybody. Different heights, different thighs. You were looking at the design.

What do you think? Yeah, it seems weird. It kind of looks like you're peeing on a sieve. Like it's, you'd have to really sit on there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no one's sitting on anything, are they, at a festival? It's always a hover. Especially not like a banana-shaped device.

I don't want to share that. What if they had those seat covers? Yeah, maybe. Or you could get the toilet paper and put it on the sides. I've got it. What? So you need to back onto it, but then there's something that you pull up in front.

So you back onto it. What? So you need to back onto it, but then there's something that you pull up in front. So you back onto it. You're mostly spraying everywhere. And then there's this thing that hangs down, and then you just pull it up. So it gives you something to hold onto. But you're not spraying forwards. What I'm saying is the spray back is taken care of, and this also guards the pants, which are down,

on the other side of this new shield that you've pulled up. And there might be some forward spray. You're garden sprinkler you're going everywhere i'm thinking about you caroen second care are very directional you're wow i mean it's a word it's got to be a step in the right direction though right it is anything for shorter times let's be honest if you're drunk um you're gonna give this a go right I would be in the male urinal. If I'm that drunk, need to go that bad, you know, you've got to do these things. The big day out will always be, to me,

not only a place, you know, the whole day was hot, you'd get a little bit sunburned, you'd be dehydrated at the end of the day. I was always just seeing the most fascinating use of public toilets by females that didn't want to stand in the line. We'd come into the men's and just somehow I saw a woman, very flexible, stand right in front of the urinal,

turn around to face away from the urinal, and just very flexible, straight down, almost folded herself in half and just urinated straight backwards onto the urinal. And people were just like... She was like, I'm not standing in that line next door. We're like, no, good on you. Good on you, yeah. It was the whole situation.

Well, there we go. Well, maybe we'll see these at festivals sometime soon, but maybe pack your little Purell and some wipes. Yeah. Good call. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Drink on, ZM. You okay? Is that an ear, like a them. You okay?

Is that an ear, like a throat bubble or something? I get emotional listening to Drake too. Also. Champagne Pappy. It's five minutes away from seven. Just saying, Champagne Pappy. I wonder if anyone's ever heard their nickname said with such a, the tone that they never expected to hear.

This white guy going, champagne pappy. But they're like, I don't want to be called champagne pappy anymore. Probably not. Champagne pappy. Right. Auckland, not great news if you enjoy a pint of beer. There's been a study,

you're the most expensive city in New Zealand to buy a pint in, and at just averaging just over $11, you're also the 12th most expensive city in the world. Wow. To buy a pint. And that's just not like, that's even if, because I don't drink beer, but even your ciders and your spirits will be up there.

Just a pint. At a bar. Yeah. This was primarily done for beer drinkers, this study. I don't want to say I've got the statistics on those. I could make some up. The 7th most expensive place in the world to buy a gin and tonic. Oh, it would be up there

though. Yeah, if you want just water out of a tap. Eighteenth most expensive tap water. You can make these things up. No one ever checks them. No one checks. No one just takes it for gospel. No, they don't. But yeah, the twelfth most expensive city in the world. Just to get a beer. And so on average they just went around all the

bars and ordered a beer? I guess so. Is that how this works? That's exactly how I imagine it went. What a great idea. I'm going to go get a beer at every pub and I'm going to average out the price of them. So who's above us?

Dubai's the big dog. Right. But also alcohol's quite... Yeah. Have they just started letting people buy it now? I feel like that's a thing, right? You have to have a license for your home in Dubai if you wanted to buy alcohol to drink at home.

Otherwise, you had to drink at like a hotel or something. Yes, yeah. Which was only okay for foreign people. There's a whole lot. It's a whole lot. And you don't pay tax, but you certainly make up for it in other areas, like expensive beers and wines and all the different spirits around the world. So, yeah, it's – I enjoy a pint.

Who else is above? Do you have the full list? Sydney's in there. Just your usual suspects, your expensive cities to live in. London's not. Yeah, right. Probably because they wouldn't dare put up the price of a pint in London or that absolutely have riots on their hand.

There'd be riots, yeah. They like them warm and they like them cheap, their pints. But, I mean, there's places now where there's a place I go to just down the road from us. It's called the Beer Spot and it's got 40 beers on tap. Yeah, right. Which is quite cool because you can try all the different sorts. Rather than when I grew up in the Waikato, you just had Waikato on the tap. Oh, yeah.

That was all. You just had Waikato. And for ages I thought I don't really like beer, but I just didn't like Waikato. Right. Okay. And I feel like now that I've said that, I'm going to be lynched next time I go home. Yeah, you're not welcome. At least just-

They'll throw the big tall bottles at me as I come into town. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I feel like one expat, one New Zealander who's currently living overseas, one expat is dragging us all into something that I don't want any part of.

Okay. Thomas on Friday tweeted, so I bought my boyfriend a Pepsi Max and a glass of milk in bed before watching a horror as he mixed the two to form a brown cow which is apparently a common drink in New Zealand. Now, it's not because I've never heard of it

and I've never had one and I've lived here my whole life. Never heard of it. Producers, ever had a brown cow? Nope. Nope. It's a resounding no from everybody. Even Jared hasn't A brown cow cocktail I feel like South Africans Would do this

This way more feels Like a South African drink Nah I don't think so Nah Because you guys drink Don't you mix Coke and red wine I personally don't

But I've heard of people Doing this too right A lot of Kiwis Do that too though See I'd Okay I'd rather mix red wine And a Coke

Or a Pepsi Max than I would this brown cow is Pepsi Max and milk. The brown cow cocktail is a mix of Kahlua and milk.

Yeah. Adorable. And a spider is vanilla ice cream and a cola. Yeah, I guess there's no actually there's no

different than what was that first one? The Kahlua and milk. It's probably... Kahlua is a coffee liqueur. But what's a black Russian? A black Russian is cola and Kahlua. Yeah, but you're getting that coffee.

But you can have a white Russian, which is milk and vodka. This isn't a New Zealand thing. So now the internet and Twitter and TikTok think we do this for breakfast. And here's the other thing. What are the ratios? Is it 50-50 or is it like a coffee where you have predominantly the cola with a splash of milk or is it a milk-based drink used with cola to flavour it?

Well, next door in our B studio, we actually have a Pepsi Max fridge with a whole load of... Morning, Georgia. There's your fridge. Pepsi Max fridge. That people put not Pepsi Max and some people will put their lunch in there. Oh, they got told off about that. And they said, don't put your lunch in the Pepsi Max fridge. It was Georgia, I can tell because she just did that thing where she looks at you

and then her eyes dart around the room. She put a quinoa salad in there. Yuck. Get it out of there, Georgia. No, Georgia put that smelly fish in there and then her eyes dart around the room. She put a quinoa salad in there. Yuck. Yuck. Get it out of there, Georgia. No, Georgia put that smelly fish in there and then she microwaved the smelly fish. She's a smelly fish microwaver. That's what Georgia Bird is. So we've managed to do this and we are now going to try this

drink that apparently we do here in New Zealand. So I'm going to go for two different ratios. Somebody, by the way, has already messaged in saying this is 100% a South African drink. Told ya. Told ya! If anyone was gonna do it, it's all Mr. South Africa out there. So I'm gonna do two versions. I'm gonna do a real

Pepsi. I bought you another glass so you can do two versions if you want. I'm doing a Pepsi Max heavy one with a splash of milk. And then I'm gonna do one that's... That's really no different. Boop! Oh, it's bubbling! I don't like that. For a start, I can tell you already, I don't no different. Oh, it's bubbling. I don't like that.

For a start, I can tell you already I don't like that. Oh, my God. Okay, so it bubbled up and I had to quickly sip it so it didn't bubble over. That's actually really yum. I didn't want to like it. I didn't want to like it because I'm like, yuck, this shouldn't be going together. But it's like a spider. That's so yum. Oh, no. It is so yum. Oh, no!

It is so yum. What one was that? Was that mostly Pepsi Max? It was about half milk, half Pepsi Max, but it's because I poured it in so quick, it's half of its head bubbles. See, that looks like it would be yuck, because that's more...

That's the better one. Is it? The Pepsi Max heavy one with a little bit... I'm not a huge milk fan. But the Pepsi... Don't just get poor Oh yeah there you go Now pour the rest in there Ah see what you've got there

You know Look at the Yours is exactly the same colour Oh it's so yum You like that I didn't want to like this Oh that's curdling This is what I was worried about

This is what I was worried about Ah see I couldn't see the curdling This is what I was worried about Now it's I couldn't see the curdling. This is what I was worried about. Now it's in my tummy. You know that's what your stomach would always be like, right? Just curdling. I know, but I don't want to see it. I didn't want to.

Oh, no fizzy drink for me today. I've broken my streak. That's really good. That's actually delicious. Damn it. I don't know. But it's not a thing. It's not a New Zealand thing

No Somebody messaged in When they worked at a bar in Invercargill It was a very common drink There was milk, raspberry cordial and gin And they called it the fond Wait, milk Yeah, milk

Yeah That raspberry cordial That they have in like that container at the bar Yeah, yeah, yeah And gin. And they called it a Fonterra Terra. Fonterra Terra. Okay, that would actually be quite yum.

They said it made me feel sick every time I made it. But it wouldn't curdle. Oh, my God, the curdling continues. This looks like miso soup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does look like miso soup. Okay. It's separated, but it's still in the same glass.

I want to leave that to see how badly the separation goes. But the one that was predominantly milk With a splash of Pepsi Max Has not yet curdled What's in yours? What's that? It's just froth I thought it was coming alive

That's actually not all bad though It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be It might be quite a good hangover drink actually No, absolutely not. Oh, no, because of the curdling? That's straight vomit if you're drunk by hangingover. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. My daughter, August, who turns seven a week today.

Oh, yeah, that's right, because I was worried that she was going to be crashing my birthday. Yeah, when she was born. That was your major concern about my second-born child was she better not be born on my birthday. She better not be stealing my birthday. Yeah, when she was born. That was your major concern about my second born child was she better not be born on my birthday. She better not be stealing my birthday thunder. Yeah, she'll be getting right up on your birthday. So she lost one of her front teeth,

one of the two middle ones, a month ago. And the other one's been wiggly. But this one's, for some reason, she's been real freaked out about it coming out. It was getting to the point where she'd talk and it would be waggling in her mouth.

Like, that's how loose it was. Oh, pull it out. Yeah, I know. We tried to pull it out in her sleep, but she has made the conscious decision to sleep with her mouth tightly pursed. So you can't get it. Or sleep face down on a pillow so you can't get to the tooth without rolling her over. But last night, I was at Have You Been Paying Attention and Sade messaged me saying, well, the problem is solved, the tooth

is out. I said, well that's great news that she finally let you pull it because she also did that thing where she'd be like, I'm ready to have my tooth pulled. And we'd be like, okay, come and sit on the couch and then it'd be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You know when you're a kid, you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, give me a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, give me a minute. So last night and apparently there's

I don't believe there's video of it but there's photo booth, the photo booth on the computer in our lounge area. They were doing something. This looks like August was twerking, which is her favorite dance move, which is discouraging to see you're not even seven-year-old twerking. Yep. And there was an altercation. Here you can see the twerk happening.

Indy dancing. August hitting Indy, like bumping into her. Indy shoving August with her butt. This is August taking a swing at Indy. That's where the photo booth action ends. But I'm told just after August took a swing at Indy, Indy dodged it and elbowed her in the face and knocked the tooth straight out.

Problem solved. Brilliant. So do they have like full-on fights? Yeah, not when I'm there because I can see it coming. And I'll be like, you're dead. Stomach! Hey! Hey!

Hands to yourself! That just sounds a lot serious to me. What? That voice. That put the fear of God on you. Hey! Nah, because I can see you've got like a little wry smile. And then Sade's like, stop yelling.

I'm like, you're yelling at me for yelling. And then everybody's yelling. And then there's more fights as a result of not even a proper fight. But yeah, so the elbow and the face sorted it out. Tooth out. Tooth extracted. It's pretty wild. When I think about it, I remember having a wiggly tooth,

and you'd just always play with it. You'd be like. And then it'd just get more and more wiggly, and you'd be like. Yeah, it's a freaky thing. And then they grow a bit. It's just bizarre, isn't it? And then the next one's, yeah, follow through. But they... I can also remember wiggling it but pulling it with two

different things. Yeah. The wiggling would be like... But then pulling it would be a terrifying situation. So, Tooth Fairy? Tooth Fairy, yeah. Tooth Fairy. I checked this morning just before I left to come to work. The Tooth Fairy had been. Oh, okay.

What was the payout this time? The payout was a handful, by the looks of it, of just leftovers, what the Tooth Fairy could find. Maybe in the Tooth Fairy's car. Oh, really? What, like a couple of coins? Yeah. A cigarette butt?

Yep. A token for the local laundromat. A six cents off a litre receipt. A fuel docker. Oh, that's great. And a lolly. And a lolly. Okay.

Which is ironic that they reward you for healthy teeth, but they'll give you something that will rot them. Yeah. There's been a study, and it's not just any study. It is the largest study ever conducted on narcissism and looking at the different levels of hypersensitivity in humans according to their age. Okay. So this was part of the Michigan State University study. William Chopik is a social personality psychologist and a co-author of the study and it looked at people aged between 13 and 77

they were interviewed about their work personality family lives and psychologists and psychiatrists analyzed them ranked on a scale of one to five five being the most narcissistic traits like defensiveness authoritativeness and stubbornness yeah and one having the least. And it was found that narcissism-wise, narcissistic personality, declines sharply after 40 on everybody. On every generation that goes past 40, it seems to be an age at after 40 it declines sharply. Prior to that, you're a little perhaps self-involved. Yeah.

They think Xennials, like the lowest end, are the most narcissistic, even compared to baby boomers when they were that age. Oh, okay. So this is what happens when you spend hours watching yourself on a small screen doing the same TikTok dance over and over and over and then uploading it. Yeah. It's leading to narcissistic tendencies.

They drop away at 40. But sensitivity-wise, baby boomers, far more sensitive than millennials. Really? Who they're often calling snowflakes or sensitive little babies. But no, actually, when they dived into it on a psychologist and psychiatric level, they actually found that baby boomers are the sensitive ones. Aw.

They didn't take well to the name, did they, at the start? No. The baby boomer. Baby boomers was when they dropped the baby and just started getting called boomers. Yeah. That didn't work well for them. They don't like change.

They find change to be a trigger point for their sensitivity. When something's been done a certain way and someone's like, well, let's not do it that way anymore because that was maybe resulting in some people feeling alienated or hurt. They're like, well, I've always done it that way. Why are you changing what we've always done? And they said that was a real trigger point for Baby Boomers

and it showed that they were sensitive little souls. Poor little fellas. So yeah, it was the biggest study of its kind that's ever been done. He said other studies that have looked into it have not had this many people involved. Yeah, right.

And they also said that he also was aware that different studies in the future may have different outcomes because it's the way studies are also conducted can show a different outcome with personality. Not like scientific studies should all line up and be the same, but they said different personalities, leading personality-driven studies can lead to different results. Well, so they might not admit it to you,

but they're feeling it, they're sensitive. And their defense has come out swinging, I guess. Yeah. And calling other people sensitive. I'm not sensitive, you're sensitive. But deep down, they just need a little cuddle. But they don't like to be touched. So it's, you know, it's a whole...

Good luck. It's a minefield. Yeah, yeah, good luck dealing with them. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. My father-in-law has moved closer to us. Yay. I know you're excited about this. Well, actually the closest person to us is you.

Yeah. And you've got no obligation to assist him at all, but you'll 100% be. If he's like, I need help setting something up, I'm going to be like, you know who lives just around the corner? And don't you dare. Fletch, I'll give him a call. In fact, here's his number.

Why don't you call him? He'll be walking past. He'll probably be on the way home from the gym. I'll block him. Give him a call. But it's been for the last week. He has been, he merges. He merges off a streaming service we have.

Okay. He merges. What's that? Yeah, he's got plenty of his own money. Plenty. Yeah. Let me reiterate. Plenty. Lots of reiterate. Plenty.

Lots of zeros. The zeros. He could afford all the streaming services. The zeros are on the right side of the first number too. Yeah, right. There's no decimal point. Zero, zero. But he's been using your login.

Yes. For ages. And he's moving and he's got a new TV and he's sold this last TV. But rather than work out how to log off my account on that TV, he was like, you need to go into your Netflix and reset every device. You need to wipe every device. Oh, remove the device. Yeah.

So I can start mooching afresh. He should have just reset the TV in the settings. Oh, heaven forbid one should have to google how to reset their television heaven forbid one should be in netflix or whatever and go into the settings and be like log out of uh and forget password yeah so you're happy to help you're happy to help him at any moment happy to drop everything and uh so i went in to remove all devices to reset the account because this TV's been given away or sold and some larrikin that bought a secondhand TV is going to be mooching off Smith.

I'm a pig with many teats and everybody, every little piglet's lining up to suckle off the teat. How many, I forget, but it depends on how much you pay, but you get X amount of devices, right? Yeah, I think we're on five devices. Okay. Four devices. Which you think's lots, but then when you've got your phone

and then you've got iPad, TV, kids watching something on a computer, it disappears. So I go on to delete it and it's got this list of all the devices and most of them make sense apart from one in the Hawke's Bay. What? Someone in Hawke's Bay has been mooching and I cannot think who or when. Like I haven't been to Hawke's Bay.

I say that Hawke's Bay. I don't think that people in Hawke's Bay get angry about that. I've been in a working capacity, but I haven't. We went, like, what, two years ago? Yeah, we did that walk, right? And we stayed. That's the last time we stayed. But did you log in to Netflix or whatever you were using at that hotel?

Not that I can think of. No. But did it say when they were last using it? Like, right up until when I I severed their merchiness. How did they get your password? I don't know. But it was Hawke's Bay. Yeah.

It was a device. It was like an Android device. Okay. Which, what is that, like a tablet or something? Well, you don't have any Android devices, do you? No. I had one ages ago, but I'm pretty sure it was never logged onto any streaming services. Did you sell like an old?

No. How did it like an old? No. How did it? I don't know. Oh, my God. Is it not killing you? Do you not want to know who this person is? But they're no longer merchant. Did you cut them off?

I deleted, I cleared all the devices. Well, who was doing it? I don't know. But someone in Hawke's Bay. Oh, God, I need to know. Was straight merchant. Because you don't know anyone in the Hawke's Bay Oh god I need to know Was straight merchant Because you don't know anyone in the Hawke's Bay I know people but not like

No one's ever been like hey man Log in Why are you logging No never So I don't know how they got it And when we were there I never logged on to anything Yeah To watch anything

Have you changed your passwords No That sounds like a lot of work But then I mean I'll check onto anything to watch anything. Have you changed your passwords? No. That sounds like a lot of work. I mean, I'll check the devices and if it pops up again, then I'll obviously have to change my password.

Well, because they must have your password. Yeah. Because how else would they have got on if you hadn't logged on? I don't know. That is so bizarre.

Yeah, it was really weird seeing Hawke's Bay there. Hold on, I can go back on here. Have they logged on since you took them off? Payment for billing, change billing day, activated device, recent device streaming activity. That's the one I want, right? Yeah.

Have they logged back in? Yeah, last night at 4 o'clock. Look. They've got your password. Hawke's Bay. Oh, my God. See, Hawke's Bay. But that's on a Panasonic TV.

Yeah, that's on a Panasonic. On a smart TV. Have you sold a TV? No, this has got to be wrong. And it says, look, now I'm also supplying someone in the Taranaki and someone in Otago on an iPhone 11. Okay, you need to change your password. Southland on the 15th of May.

Oh, no, that would have... Were we... Recently... Yeah, no, no, no, that was us. We were there. We were there. We were there. We were there.

We were there. Okay, you need to change your password. You need to change your password because I've literally logged on last night. I'm going to give you a punch in the mouth if it's down there with a Panasonic 2018. No, see, this is his old TV. So he's obviously given it to somebody who's – whoever bought it is from Hawke's Bay. But that's not the only device because he has an Android it is from Hawke's Bay but that's not the only device because there's an

Android device with a Hawke's Bay unless it's like is it all oh look change your password is the what is it

an IP address yeah change your password yeah look people are using your password all over the country it's not ideal good

and I'm going to log on it's like sorry you can't watch it too many devices in use so I'm going to log on. It's like, sorry, you can't watch it. Too many devices in use. I'm going to log on. Bloody someone in Hawke's Bay is using it. Someone down south's having a gander. Otago. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. ZM Open. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Community Notices. Hello and welcome to Community Notices. This is a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand according to local Facebook pages. Let's jump straight into the Te Ao Mutu buy, sell and trade page.

Gonzo has a desk for sale. Desk. Okay. Can do desk type tasks. This is not a boat. Obviously. It has a picture of the desk that doesn't even look anything like a boat. Obviously. And it has a picture of the desk that doesn't even look anything like a boat. I can't, I'm not quite sure what the boat reference is in regard to, but $20 for a desk.

Oh, that's a good, good price. Not bad. It looks like an old hardwood desk too. Give that thing a sand down, maybe a re-varnish or a paint if it's not to your color likings. The drawer has four dividers in it, which I kind of, it's not a cutlery drawer. And the dividers. But it's not a boat. It's certainly not a boat.

Okay. It may float, but it will not be good for other boat type tasks. Now, Friday was International Diner Day. Okay. I don't know if you knew that, but Delectables Bakery, I'm not sure where Delectables Bakery is from, because we were just sent a screen cap of Delectables Bakery's post on the local Facebook page. Come and get yourself a donut.

Hashtag International Donut Day. Hashtag Get In My Belly. Hashtag Only At Delectables Bakery. Hashtag Come And Eat A Dick. And it was kind of hidden at the end there. Delectables Bakery, I can describe some of the donuts there. You've got your classic pink icing with hundreds and thousands. You've got a chocolate sprinkle.

You've got a white icing with like a chocolate drizzle back and forth. And then an array of penis-shaped donuts. Oh, yeah, right. I don't know what's going on. This one's particularly interesting. The shape of the genitals. Yeah, wow. The balls are covered in chocolate sprinkles.

That's something. And then that bit up there, and then there's even a pink bit on the end. The whole very, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. It's got me a little lost for words. Happy Donut Day. Others from the Hornby Neighbourhood Watch page. Leanne writes, so my drunken husband has lost his dentures somewhere between Vanguard driving around

Denise Crescent overnight. If anyone comes across these by chance, please PM. They're only reasonably new. Oh, they'd be so expensive to replace. We don't know if they've been found there. How do you look? Are you drunk?

Yeah. Is it just like, did he vomit somewhere? Just slopped out of, maybe just slopped out of his mouth. Oh, yuck. This one's a real puzzling situation. Janina found a set of keys at Pine Beach.

May have been washed up. Could have been there for a while. And the keys, there's an array of keys on there. There's a couple of house keys. Definitely like an old car key. I'm thinking like an old Toyota Cressida. Something from the late 80s, early 90s.

And what looks to be like a safe key and said, let me know. Rebecca jumps in saying, hi, it's Rebecca. Yes, these are my husband's keys. Where can I go and pick them up from? Ronnie replies, I'm not married to you, so don't say that. What?

I know, confusing. Rebecca writes, they are also my husband's keys. I've never met him, but I'm sure they're his keys. Now, this is a very confusing time for me at Pines Beach. And then Casey says, she didn't say they were her keys. They said they were her husband's keys. General confusion. Rebecca again pipes in saying,

I'm confused, but these are definitely my husband's keys. And that's when somebody else says, they're also my husband's keys. And then a general discussion begins about whether or not they have the same husband. They need to go around and put the key in the lock, and if it fits, give them the keys. I wouldn't be handing over those keys willy-nilly.

No, I wouldn't just hand out keys. No. Because they might recognise the keys as somebody else's keys. Always blows my mind that when you're flatting, they never change the locks when you get a new person in. And you can always cut the keys. It's expensive, though. Well, yeah, but you think about how many people could have a copy of your key.

Oh, yeah, if it's like a flat. Yeah. Especially in Dunedin, where the flat literally gets changed every year. Yeah, totally. You could totally have a whole lot of keys. And from their Marlborough Cool Cat Chat comes a post saying, Dude, you can't park there. And it's a car, nose down in a little riverbed.

People are really liking that, saying, ha, ha, no, I don't think he's parked there. I think he's had a crash. And someone said they saw that car taking a shortcut across the park and it looked like they had absolutely no idea they were about to come across the ditch. That's good stuff. Those are today's community notices.

If you see anything on your local Facebook page, screencap it and send it to ours. FVM ZM. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Oh, what's in the box? Well, behind you, Vaughan, where Megan normally sits, she's away today,

is the giant box which appeared last week. It talks to us. Yeah. And we initially gave away $5,000. Yes. That was the first thing in the box after a series of clues was solved. But we're back to square one. We don't know what's in there.

We had a clue last week with Branklin. Numbers and codes are very much preferred, but what I really love is a four-letter word. So since then, we've been trying four-letter words. Mm-hmm. All sorts of four-letter words. But as yet, we have had no luck. Now, the box is tied.

Good morning, humans. To celebrate the Queen's birthday, I'm giving you the presents. In my briefcase, find something new, something borrowed, and something new, something borrowed and something that's a clue. So the briefcase is on top of the box and unlock.

Okay. I'll bring this over here and open this. Okay. There's a a post with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. It says July 9 Marvel Studios There you go See if you can decipher

And we'll close off that No I think you nailed that Hasn't been trimmed properly There's a bit of excess white On the side here Maybe that's the clue Guillotine

A4 Guillotine No but it's not A4 It's been trimmed It's been trimmed Legal paper size You know when you go To print something on your printer And it's like Do you want US legal not A4 it's been trimmed it's been trimmed legal paper size you know when you go to print something

on your printer and it's like do you want US legal or A4 and there's like two mils in it who even knows what that is

but you've got an envelope it says let's play box paper scissors XO the box okay open that see what's in get a clue here let's get a clue

it's a jigsaw a jigsaw. A jigsaw of sorts. I don't know if that's going to affect anybody's guess. That needs to be put together. You've got to put that together. What, now? Oh, look, I don't know

what's going on. Nobody knows what's bloody going on. The mystery box! Oh, maybe there's something on the back? I don't know. Okay. Well, should we take some guesses? Let's take some guesses. We'll do that. Based on a pile of jigsaw. Good morning, Holly.

How are you? How are you? Hi, good, thanks. All right, good. Turn your radio down. We need a four-digit letter, a four-digit pen, which is also a four-letter word. Let's go cash. Cash.

Oh, okay. You tell me the numbers. 2274. 2274. Cash. Oh, okay. You tell me the numbers. 2274. 2274. No. No. Oh, bad luck. Okay.

It's not cash. All right, thanks, Holly. Kelly, good morning. Good morning, guys. All right, so we need a four-digit pin, which is also a four-letter word. I'm going for open. Six, seven, three, six.

Six, seven, three, six. No. Never mind. No, it's not that. Thanks, Kelly. Hayley, we need a four-digit pin from you. Hi. Nine, six, seven, three.

Nine, six, seven,3. 9673. What does that spell? What does that spell? Word. Word. 9673. God, if that's that, I'm just going to be, like, amazed. Oh, nine.

I don't know. I think I've entered too many wrong too many times. Just resetting. No, I'm not., I think I've entered too many wrong too many times. Just resetting. No I'm not. Here I am. No I'm not. Yes I am, no I'm not. Oh it's broken, is it broken?

It's not letting me enter anymore, it's just flashing. Hold on, give it a... It's flashing again. Well what does that mean? You've put too many wrong pins in. Maybe I put too many wrong pins in. It's not like your iPhone, is it? It'll just delete everything. What if the box explodes? It'll be locked for...

It'll be locked 23 million minutes. Oh, we might have to give it a... Oh, here we go. Here we go. It's blinked it twice. Okay, so what were those numbers again? 9673. 9673.

No. No. No. Not A. There's always next time. Midday with Georgia is your next shot. And we'll try to piece this puzzle together. Maybe that'll give us another clue. There's a corner piece.

I hate puzzles so much. You don't have the patience for puzzles. You don't have the patience for puzzles. I don't have the patience for puzzles. You can't sit down and do a puzzle. No. Okay. Let's see what this puzzle is. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast.

ZM. Stepping up to the podium for the 10th year in a row. Your gold medalist. Where's my medal? It's the segment of the show where we reward those small achievements in life. The things that you do that

people don't care about and give you much credit for. Yeah. I did the dishes yesterday. Is that what you won credit for? And I sorted the washing into four piles. Okay. Towels. Yep. Undies and socks. Because you know that's my washing technique. Undies and socks going together

because they can go on a bit of a hotter wash. Get rid of the acidic gooch problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're in there with the socks. And then you've got your t-shirt pile and then your heavier stuff pile. Your heavier stuff piles, your sweatshirts, your jeans. It's a heavier wash.

So I sorted those piles out. No one said anything by the time everybody else got out of bed. So it was pretty nice of me to get those piles going. Yeah, right. Get that pile thing happening. Joining us first, Kirsty. Good morning. How are you?

How are we? Good, thanks. How are you guys? Good, good. Now, so what do you deserve a medal for? I didn't buy a single thing in the long weekend sales. Wow. Okay.

And that would be big for you because you're a bit of a shopaholic? Yes, I am. Yep, yep. Online shopping and store shopping and shopping, shopping. Yep. Now, is this despite getting emails saying we're having a sale? Quick, quick here. Yep.

So I just put all my emails into spam. Wow. I recently unsubscribed from a whole lot of emails that I just kind of like would manually delete every day. I know, all the time. I was like, I'm just going to unsubscribe from these and save this manual deleting thing. Maybe unsubscribe.

Have you thought about that? Oh, no. No, she wants it. But, you know, you've got to be careful because if you unsubscribe from spam, they know that you're active. Did you know that little life hack? That's a life hack.

What? But if you unsubscribe, I thought gentlemen's rules, they wouldn't contact you again. There's no gentlemen's rules in spamming. So they would pass your details under something else saying this is an active address. They know that it's active. That's what I read somewhere once and I was like, that's so smart. What were you tempted to buy over the weekend, Kirsty?

It's like Briscoe stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but they always have fails. I was going to say, I don't think you should panic. Yeah, another sale will be imminent. All right, Kirsty, wait there. Jess, why do you deserve a medal? I hand-washed all my plastic containers

instead of putting them through the dishwasher. Wow. That is madness. Why? Why? Well, because sometimes I do it at work and people pinch them if I don't hand wash them and put them away myself. Oh, you're right.

Okay. So you do it all by hand. And do you get a bit of clean when you do it all by hand? Because if you're chucking your systemers, your Tupperwares in there, a lot of the time the water will just sit on them and then you'll end up with stains and stuff after a dishwash. It gets a much better clean, actually, and I'll probably just do it moving forward.

So you're saying that now, but there's going to be times where it just gets chucked in. No, just chuck it in the dishwasher. All right, I'll wait there, Jess. Caitlin, why do you deserve a medal? I finally, after how many months, took down my Christmas tree yesterday. Caitlin, it's nearly at that point where...

You might as well have left it up. We're almost closer to next Christmas than we are further away from last Christmas. True. Wow. And what? So it's obviously like a fake tree. It is. And it sounded like, so it's obviously like a fake tree. It is.

Had it started looking, because after a little while, like a gust might come through the house and the tinsel like flops down. Was it starting to look like a bit higgledy-piggledy? No, because I don't have tinsel on my Christmas tree. So it's just a tree. It's an eight-foot like full-on decorated Christmas tree. So baubles on there? No baubles that come asunder and fall on?

No, none. Come asunder. So your Christmas tree had survived six months in mint condition? Yeah. Unreal. Now, what date are you planning on putting it back up again? That's a very good question. Probably next week.

Do you love Christmas or was it pure laziness of attacking this eight-foot behemoth? It was a bit of both. Okay, wow. Well, you deserve a medal. Caitlin, do you live with people where people like take that down

or did friends come and visit and they were like, take that down? Yeah, pretty much. I live with my partner and my friends were like, it's a bit beyond that point now, bro. Like, take it down. What about the partner?

What did they make of this entire Christmas? He just kept, like, dropping hints. Like, come on. But he's obviously lazy like you, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Caitlin, wait there. It's time for our middle. Being a partner, he probably thought he would have been told

he'd done it wrong. Yeah, right. You've got to fold up the branches probably, don't you? All right. Well. That's gold. I think we can agree. What's silver for you?

That one? Okay. Okay. Yep. Okay. Good. Good. Good.

Bronze today. And where's my medal? For services to not buying anything despite having an email inbox full of the specials happening over a long weekend. Kirsty, congratulations. Thank you. Yes, well done. Very well done resisting the temptation that is leisurely shopping.

It's hard. It's hard to do. Silver medal today for services to her own plastic wear because she washed it by hand. She admitted herself. The effort put in was well received by the Tupperware. It's looking cleaner and brighter and non-water stained and it doesn't have that pastoral stain to it either

because she didn't leave it forever. Hand washing her own goods today earns her a silver medal. Congratulations, Jess. Thank you. Well done. Well done. And that can only mean today the gold medal for services to keeping the festive spirit alive.

Even though, like, we literally must almost be between Christmases. It would almost feel like it would be the perfect middle between. Yeah, and you always put your Christmas. No, well, it would be. Days since Christmas? It would be the 25th of June, right? Would around about be the middle of the opposite of Christmas because the end of June is the middle of the year.

Okay, so it's 165 days away. So there's 365 days in the year. So that means 200 days. 200 days to go. 200 days to go. Yep. Okay, so if we waited another 20 days, we would have been in the year. So that means 200 days since. 200 days to go. 200 days to go. Yep. Okay, so if we waited another 20 days, we would have been in the middle. But you may as well leave it up for mid-Christmas, though.

You should have left it up for mid-Christmas celebration. It had a mid-Christmas feel to it. Yeah. And then you always put it up a month before. So there's 170 days. You should have just left it up. You should have just left it up. But anyway, put it away.

What an effort. Today's gold medal winner. Congratulations, Caitlin. Thank you. ZM's Fletch medal winner. Congratulations, Caitlin. Thank you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I had the weekend, had some friends over, and decided to do a long cook, a long stewing of beef cheeks. I saw this on your Instagram story.

A lot of them, it was very meat heavy. Very meat heavy. This night. We got to, like, just before they were arriving and Shade was like, I haven't organised any salads. I was like, what more do we need? We have meat and we have potatoes. I feel like you'd go on that show on TV

where they go in your fridge and pantry and they'd be like, there's not enough fruit in salads here. There's always plenty of it in the veggie bits, but it's like, maybe a bit limp. Maybe it's been there a little bit. Yeah. Well, like I hear, we're about to feed that to the pigs. Shocking at that. But no, we just kind of forgot.

But I put up, as you saw, photos of this sort of this beef cheek stew situation. Beef cheek needs to be cooked for a long time. Okay. It's one of those bits of meat that if you just cooked it too quick, it would just be super chewy and near impossible to eat. You cook it slow and the fat cooks through it. It's beautiful, beautiful. Like a pulled pork.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just rips apart at the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you cook it long enough, yeah, it pulls apart. But I put up a photo and lots of people were like, can you not have that recipe? I was like, there is no recipe. And Sade, my wife, was like, you always do this. You put it up and people want the recipe and then you annoy them and you're like, there is no recipe.

Because I don't cook with a recipe. I just put in stuff I like. And this is her issue with you is that you do this all the time. You just start cooking. Yeah. I don't know where I'm going with it. Yeah, right. I know the broad technique that I want to take on it.

Like I know it's going to be in a Dutch oven pot and it's going to be there all day and it needs to have lots of liquid. So it cooks slow. But I don't know before I start pouring in the liquid. I don't know what the liquid's going to be. You always use a recipe the very first time. One or two times and then you just remember, right? Oh, no, this isn't like even a recipe that I've used.

I'm just like, I just know it needs to be cooked all day. Yeah. And I know it needs to stay wet. And it needs some kind of flavoring. In this kind of situation. You can barbecue them but you've got to keep the heat but I was just like, yeah,

so I was just like, well, I'll just put in what I like the taste of. Okay. And so you always chuck in like a Guinness beer, like a darker beer.

Right. That's really good to cook beef in all day and then people were like, oh, what's the recipe? I was like, oh,

there's no recipe. You just chuck in what you like. Like salt and pepper? Yeah. Yeah. You like salt and pepper? Yeah, I like that. You can salt and pepper the cheeks before you put them in there if you recipe. You just chuck in what you like. Like salt and pepper? Yeah. Yeah. You like salt and pepper? Yeah, I like that. You can salt and pepper the cheeks

before you put them in there if you want. Okay. And then like garlic cloves. Like I don't even bother peeling them. Just smash that bottom thing on and chuck them in. Okay. If it's cooking for ages, that stuff just dissolves.

It'll leach out. Yeah, it'll get out of there. Don't panic about it. Right. And this bit, do you make things and then they don't taste nice? Very rarely. That's what annoys me.

That's what annoys my mum too because it's something I ate for my dad. Right. You're just like, what do I like the taste of? We'll put a whole lot of all the things I like the taste of together and cook it for ages and it'll be yum. But then are you overpowering what you're cooking? Not for me. With too much?

Not for me. It's fine for me. Right, okay. When you cook it for ages, it's not too overpowering what you're cooking? Not for me. With too much? Not for me. It's fine for me. Right, okay. When you cook it for ages, it's not too overpowering. Yeah, right. But yeah, it annoys people. And I don't know why it annoys people. Even people that were replying, can I have this recipe?

They're like, there isn't a recipe. Just put in stuff you like. They're like, but what did you put in? I was like, I can't even remember now. I know it was a lot of liquid. You'd be the worst TV chef ever. I know, really bad. And they're just watching you and you're just chucking stuff in.

They're like, how much of that? I don't know. I don't know. And that's brown sugar. People are like, how much brown sugar? I was like, um, half a packet. I don't know. I just kind of opened the packet in sugar for a bit.

And then I don't know how much came out. It could have been a teaspoon. It could have been a cup. I couldn't tell you. But it wasn't too sweet. So it worked out in the end. But is it different every time you make it? Oh, see, that's... Nah, you've got to have a.

Nah. That's, nah, I couldn't deal with that. I just, yeah, I know. See, that's the thing. It drives people, it shadows. Like, well, how are you going to remember to make it like that last one? Because everybody loved it. It was amazing.

I was like, I don't know. I'll just take a shot in the dark and hope for the best. And you might forget. And you get a little taste halfway through and you're like, what does that need more of? This is how recipes get invented, right? But people write it down. But people write it down.

You need to write it down so when you get one you love exactly, you can have it the same. But then I was thinking my cookbook would just be like stews, some meat, and what else do you like? That's literally what I would say. What else do you like? Grab whatever you like, put it in, and cook it. Yeah, if you want it to be sweet, some sweet stuff.

If you're more like hot, maybe a chili or eight. I don't know. You find your balance. The worst cooking book in the world. And then just cook for ages. How long? I don't know. Keep an eye on it.

Until it's done. Yeah. How will I know when it's done? Poke it. Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is those little hats that people wear to the races are named after the penis. Okay, great. Let me take you on a wonderful word journey this morning, ladies and gentlemen, from fascinator right back to ancient Rome where the fascinus is the name of the divine phallus. Okay.

The magical penis. Thank you. It is, there was often amulets or like brooches made of, in the shape of the penis. Yeah. And they were said to have magical properties. Okay. Divine properties. And that's why it's called the divine phallus.

Yeah. And that was the fascinus. Now, later on, the English word fascinate is derived from the Latin fascinum, which means the power of the fascinus, the power of the penis,

is magical and it can enchant or bewitch. Would you agree? C'est la vie. Would you agree? It's magical. It is bewitching. It's enchanting to look upon the magical, the divine phallus.

Right. And so then that became known as fascinate was to practice magic. Right. You'd practice magic. Right. You'd be fascinated. Okay. And it was often associated to witchcraft. To enchant to be witch was to fascinate. How did we get to wearing these at Cup and Show Week?

Then it became you were fascinated with something and was more something was a little bit wondrous and magical. Yeah. That's fascinating. And then these tiny little hats are fascinators because it's fascinating that they wear the little hat. It's a fascinating headpiece.

Yeah. That's a fascinating headpiece. Where did you get that from? What was the influence of the fascinating headpiece? And so they became known as fascinators. So that... It's a big jump though.

It's not a big jump. It's all logical. That seemed's a big jump, though. It's not a big jump. It's all logical. That seemed like a big jump to me. If you go straight from Divine Phallus to the fascinator at the Christchurch Cup and Show Week, that's a big jump. But every big jump is made up of tiny steps in between. And I showed you the steps. I led you.

I held your hand. I led you along this path. It still feels like a big leap. That took us from divine phallus in ancient Roman times to a small, often stupid piece of headwear. Absolutely. That people wear to watch horses get the bejesus whipped out of them and run around an oblong track. We went that one year and didn't even see a horse, did we? No. Saw more people doing piddles in the garden than I saw horses.

Yep. That's what happened. So today's fact of the day is the word fascinate has its origins in the divine phallus of ancient Rome. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.

So near my place over the road is a gigantic electronic billboard. So, you know, every like five seconds, ten seconds, it's a new ad. Oh, yeah. God, they are absolutely going through the Rarotonga ads at the moment. Every time I look out the window, it's a beautiful blue, clear water. What a tease. What a tease. White sand.

What a big tease. I'm like, I must go. But it was an ad yesterday that caught my attention, not of the beautiful Rarotonga, but it was very simple. It just said, in block letters, would you like to be paid for a clinical trial? Question mark. Blah, blah. It was very fleeting. No, see. Would you like to be paid for a clinical trial? Question mark. Blah, blah. It was very

fleeting. Would you like to be paid for a trial? I need to know what it is. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was something like that and then it was like, obviously, a phone number or a website. And the gist was if you wanted to do a trial, and I'm guessing a clinical trial,

is that medicine? Would that be a new drug? I don't know. Is that what a clinical trial is? Or is that just like, could it be something that's not medicinal, not medical? Or that would be a medical trial? It could be if it was being conducted by a clinic that specialised in trials. They were a clinic of trials rather than a clinical trial.

There were no details. And I couldn't see the website. It flashed away. See, that's dangerous because once I've got you on the phone, you call the number,'t see the website. It flashed away. That's dangerous because once they've got you on the phone, you call the number go to the website? Is that what you do? I'm assuming, yeah. They've got you. They've got you and then before you know it, because I had a friend in Dunedin, when he was a student

there, he did like a handful of new drug trials and you had to stay in this like apartment or hotel over the weekend. And be monitored. So that they can monitor you. Yeah. But you had to stay in this like apartment or hotel over the weekend. And be monitored. So that they can monitor you. Yeah. But you were basically signing away to try this

medicine, these new drugs. And that was it. They gave you money and then like good luck with your future. Not for me. No, no, not for me either. Not for me. I'd try all like if they were like we're thinking of bringing some new chocolate to the market. Oh, absolutely. We need someone to eat way too much of it. I'd sign up for that in a second. I'm try all like if they were like we're thinking of bringing some new chocolate to the market. Oh absolutely. We need someone to eat way too much of it. I'd

sign up for that in a second. I'm willing to try. And then you could be like after three quarters of a block I was starting to feel a little sick. Yeah and they're like okay we've altered the recipe here's another block. Yeah and you're just like and there must be some way to scam this. But I was wondering could we take some calls this morning on 0800 DARS

at M. Have you ever done a trial for anything? It doesn't have to be like a drug trial, anything. You've been on a trial and you had to try, I don't know if it was new food, maybe it was like a new product, or was it like a drug trial? And maybe you did this when you were at uni or on your OE in London, and you were like, yeah, I want £1,000. I'll sign up for this drug that could give me liver failure in 10 years or not.

I don't know. I don't know. I'm still on the block of chocolate buzz. I'm not signing up for something that's going to make my liver fail. I mean, it could fail due to horrendous morbid obesity that I've got from being on all these chocolate trials, but it's...

So yeah, I mean, I don't know what the billboard I saw, I don't know what those trials were for, but, yeah, 0800-DARLS-ATM. Love to take your calls this morning and see, like, how popular this is and if you jumped at the chance once. Good trial, bad trial as well. So we want to know if you've ever participated

in a trial for anything, whether it was a new drug trial, a new product or anything like that. You can text in 9696. I text, I had major sinus issues, and after surgery, the several drugs that were available did nothing. Okay. I was offered to be part of a trial for a new drug that might help.

In exchange, I got the drug for free, and just had to spend three months journaling all my symptoms, and give it to them, but I got the drug for free. Would you roll the dice on that? Because you're getting the drug for free. Would you roll the dice on that? Because you're getting the drug for free. But then what if it does nothing? You're just taking a free drug for... Yeah, but then what if it does something bad?

Yeah, exactly. It could get a whole lot worse. Yeah. And then they didn't end their text with if it helped or not. They just said they had to journal all their symptoms. Well, they're alive. They're alive. They're alive. They're alive.

They might not have any sinuses left, though. Lots of calls and texts coming through. We'll get to those next. Oh, 800 dials at M. So I saw a billboard yesterday. It's like, sign up here for a trial, like a clinical trial. I'm like, what does this mean? Pharmaceutical places have got cash.

Yeah. I can run afford to buy them big billboards. So asking this morning, like, has anybody ever done one of these trials? What have you trialed? A new product or a drug? So many people. And you know what? The common, it's student days.

Students need cash. It's easy money. But then someone replied to us on Instagram. We put this in the stories asking if anyone's been a part of it. And someone said, I've been a part of maybe four hospital trials in my time. Only one was paid. Oh. Who's doing it for free?

But then that's maybe people who have got an ailment... Yeah. ...or symptoms, and they were just like, oh, look, I'll take a shot. Oh, give it a go. Yeah, we talked about the person before who had sinus infections and then went on the trial. They said they were just super desperate for a solution.

Yeah, right. Brendan, you've done a few trials in your time? Yeah, I've done a few of them during my student days in Christchurch. So how much money would you make for a trial? It depends on the state and the stage that the testing's in and a couple of things. So it does vary about between, I think it was like, my highest one was about $7,000 and my lowest was about $2,000,

but then you pay tax off, so you end up with like $5,000 and like $1,500. Wait, so you got $7,000, what, for taking some new drugs over the weekend? No, it was a full week-long trial. So I was in there, I think I went in on Sunday night or Monday night and left Saturday morning. Yeah. And then you had to go in every morning for just tests. Right.

Blood tests and things like that. And then it would repeat. So it wasn't just a week. It was about three months worth. Oh, wow. But it gets spaced out over time. But if you're a student, that's good money. Yeah.

You're not doing anything anyway, are you? I'll just bunk some classes and get paid. But tell me, when you stop being a student, what about the side effects? Have you got any lasting ones? Well, in New Zealand, I don't think they get to that stage. So in New Zealand, I'm pretty sure it's right before it goes, like, released.

Right. Yeah, I did a paracetamol type one right before it's going to be released as like a final test. Right, so they've already tested it on like some rabbits or something. Yeah, I don't think they do the real intensive ones in New Zealand. I think it's more just a general public testing in New Zealand.

You know, just those third world countries, so if people do... Jeez. That's so crazy, isn't it? No way. Wow, fascinating. Brendan, thank you for your call. Lulu, you've been part of a clinical trial.

Yeah, I did one and you had to put like a machine up your nose every day for like, it was 10 hours a day for five days and it pushed air up your nose. What, why? Why, what was it? It was for like a cold, it made your nose all moist. But you had to shove it up there for 10 hours a day. Yeah.

I'd rather have a cold and just blow my nose. $500, it was me. What? I got $500, it was me. $500? It was me. But how far did it go up your nose? Yeah, it was like a little nose

plug. It was a big machine. Right. And what's the idea? But then if it was successful, I obviously wouldn't have to have it in 10 hours a day. Nah, I don't think so. I think it was maybe because the cold runs out. You run out of your cold. I don't know.

Who knows? I mean, you were getting paid $500. More and more error. Lily, thanks for your call. Michelle, you were part of a trial. What were you testing? So I have a friend who is a rep for a, let's say, adult fun toy company. Oh, yes.

Okay. Okay, go on. And basically I am able to trial adult fun toys at a hugely discounted price. Okay. Is part of this discount an obligation to provide feedback on said adult fun toy? Yeah. Well, okay. What do you give them a mark out of 10? Well, it depends on the toy.

How many have you tried? Three, four, three. Which one's the best one of the ones you've tried? Probably the one that buzzes the most. Okay, three. Which one's the best one? Of the ones you've tried? Probably the one that buzzes the most. Okay, right. Okay, so I'm just going to Google one that buzzes the most? Is that what I'm after?

You'll be set. Okay. You don't have a name? I mean, we can talk about this later. I was just thinking, and there'll be people listening, being like, well, she's done the trial. Let's get some results. Let's get the name. I'm looking to buy a new one, and she's tried four of them because that's the thing.

It's not like a golf club at the golf warehouse. You don't get to try it before you buy it, you know? Exactly right. When have you been to the golf warehouse to try a club? I was just thinking of things you get to try before you can buy. Yeah, right, okay. And golf clubs is the first thing that comes into my head. Okay.

I mean, no one's beating the Satisfyer, right? Is that? I mean, do you know, I've never trialled that. You haven't trialled the Satisfyer Pro Tourney? That's what everybody's raving about. Girlfriend? They don't sell that one. This particular brand doesn't sell it.

They must have a competitor to the Satisfyer Pro. Okay. Surely. Michelle, thank you for that. Some other text messages in. People that have been part of trials. Somebody just messaged in saying they trailed the Big Bertha. That's a golf club.

So that's just reiterating that you can go to the golf warehouse and try the clubs before you buy them, but you can't do that with adult fun toys. Great. Some other things people took part, paid recently did a drug trial testing human breast milk quality after taking a yeast based capsule.

Oh yeah. Somebody else said, when I was a student I got given a drug and then purposely infected with dysentery. I was a big killer back in World War I. I was with 10 people who all got various levels of the drug and they wanted to see if it made the symptoms less.

It was like the worst game of roulette ever and we got 700 bucks for it. I hope there was multiple toilets on offer. Everybody should have had their own toilet. Yeah, you'd think, you'd hope so. Yeah. And someone said, I've been part of a cannabis trial. I think I'm going to get a large fine but no time in prison.

That's a different sort of trial. That's a legal trial. That's a legal trial. That's a courtroom trial. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton to listen to?

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