ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Best Of 2019 Podcast - Fact Of The Day

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

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I'm like, oh! ZM! ZM! ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. The best Fact of the Day podcast. Fact of the Day! Day, day, day, day! Today's Fact of the Day This has been part of my life Okay

Both parts of this have been parts of my life But individual parts of my life I had no idea And today's Fact of the Day is That the Star Wars theme Excuse me It was Fletch But Megan was thinking it

The Star Wars theme song Famously The theme tune The theme tune. The theme tune. Was written in the same key as the 20th Century Fox fanfare so that when it first aired, when it first was in cinemas, it would roll into each other. Huh.

Want to hear? Oh, yes. Yeah, sure. I was just singing it, but yep. Dun-dun-dun-dun. Is it rolling in? It's not rolling in. It's going to go together.

You wait. I mean, I wouldn't say that's rolling in. But it's in the same. Okay, hold on. I'll fast forward it. Hold on. Where does that bit start? Oh, hold on, mate. 28.

28. 28. Here we go. Dun, hold on, mate. 28. 28. 28. Here we go. Dun, dun, dun. If you'd like to see me DJ in real life, I'm going to be doing a... Simpler. Just while we're here Please google the flute Oh yeah

20th century You know there was a New Zealander That did that eh Are you kidding me 20th century fox Flute Recorder It was a recorder

It's because we all did Recorder classes Yeah I'm sure this was a New Zealander That did this Okay Okay this. Okay. Okay. Every time that makes me laugh so much.

This is a saxophone one. Oh. That actually sounded more like a trumpet. The saxophone might be last. Here's another one. This must be the saxophone. Oh, this is a trumpet. The saxophone might be last. Here's another one. This must be the saxophone. Oh, unless it's a trumpet.

That's the saxophone. That's the saxophone. Oh, good. It's so funny. Still good. Still good. I'm crying. Still good. Still good. I'm crying.

Still good. That was the better than fact of the day. Really, it had a little something to it, didn't it? Yeah, didn't it? Yeah. Okay. Good stuff. So today's fact of the day is Star Wars, if you edit out that gap in the middle bit,

the Star Wars theme song is in the same key, so it matches up with the 20th Century Fox intro. Today's fact of the day is about slaters. Okay. Oh, yeah, when you lift up the wood and there's all those little scaly dudes. Yeah. I feel like it was like a couple of years ago we talked about how you hadn't seen slaters for ages. For ages.

Well, because I live in the inner city. Yeah. And I haven't overturned any logs lately. Do you see slaters? Yep. All the time. I love a bit of wood. They're part of the decomposing part of the food chain.

What are they related to? Like centipedes? Termites. No. I don't know. No, they are, I had it here before. Woodloose, woodlouse, woodlice. Imagine a slater that was the size of a car.

Well, technically, a slater the size of a dog would be very, very similar to an armadillo. Oh, yeah. Is that today's fact of the day? No, no, no, no. But I read more about it. And the actual scientific name for the Slater is the armadillo.

Dilly-illy. I was saying this last night when I found this because I just saw this about Slaters. That was fascinating to me. Armadillo day-a-day. I was saying this last night when I found this, because I just saw this about slaters. Yeah. That was fascinating to me. It always happened. Armadillo day a day. Armadillo.

Armadilly day. Armadilly day. Armadilly day. Day, day, day. Armadilly day. Because they believed that they were in some way like an armadillo, like an armad... And like an armadillo, this is today's fact of the day,

I didn't know this, but when an armadillo and a slater roll into a protective... Oh, I thought you were going to say roll into a bar. That was a joke. So an armadillo and a slater roll into a bar.

And they're like, just a little drink for him. I don't have just standard size. I'm an armadillo. I can handle it. The armadillo day, when it rolls into a ball, it sucks onto its own bum. To form a seal. What's that?

To form a seal. Yeah. You start off with these things so like educational. This is educational. What's that? To form a seal. Yeah. You start off with these things so like educational and then they go down like a really like childish. Well, no, I just thought this was so weird. I just thought it would have been all in the spine. I thought it would have been in the arm or like they roll and it just holds it on there. But apparently it's the suction that they put onto their own butt

that holds them together. Like do they have butt cheeks? And a ball. Nah, they don't have a butt. Just one butt. It's almost like the mouth and the butt are the same, so they just form a perfect seal. Like, imagine docking at the International Space

Station. Yeah, right. And then that's how they are. And then to release, they just go... Wow, okay. And is that so that they're safe? Yeah, it's a protective thing. It's a protective thing. They've got other names as well, because I've always just called them Slaters. Yeah, it's a protective thing. It's a protective thing.

They've got other names as well, because I've always just called them slaters. Yeah, right. But they are pill bugs. Wait, do they do that when you pick up a stone or a rock? They run, but if you touch them, they'll be like, oh, where's me bum? Roll it up into a hard ball.

So pill bugs is what they're known as. Okay. And I assumed like most insects, they would have been around the world, but there were none in America. They were introduced from Europe. Huh, okay. So I don't know what like scurried around

in a rotting wood in America, like millipedes and stuff maybe. Okay. So they had other names. Armadillo diidae. Pill bugs. Yeah. Roly polies.

Potato bugs. Oh yeah. I'm not sure why I've never seen one eat a potato. Slaters and doodle bugs doodle bugs okay so yeah that's

fascinating fascinating today's fact I mean school holidays why not get out there find a bit of wood

today outside roll it over see a slater poke it with your finger and it'll suck its own bottom latch onto its own butt. Suck its... Latch onto its own butt and cause like a seal so it can be rolled and held tight in its little ball.

Okay. So today's fact of the day is to get into its protective ball, a Slater will kiss its own butt. And $10 for the first person that sends in a picture of a Slater doing that. Slater. Vaughn will give you $10. I'm not giving him $10. I told him about it. You're giving them $10.

Ah, Megan's got a Hyundai in her purse. No, that's for me. My mum gave that to me. Okay, well, you're not getting any money, but send a picture anyway. If you find one. That's today's fact of the day. Today's fact of the day isn't about Fletcher's inability

to clap in time or sing in tune. It's about Pokemon. Is this because I can't do the friends clap? Yeah. No, too many. It's hard to do without the song but even with the song. No one told you life was gonna be this way.

No! No, no, no. No, there is five claps. There's five claps, remember? That was a fact no, no. One, two, three, four. No, that was five. No, there is five claps. Is there? There's five claps, remember? That was a fact of the day once. We all thought it was four. One, two, three, four, five. Oh, six.

It's automatic that I do six. I don't know. Carry on through to six. Stupid song. Today's fact of the day is about Pokemon. Okay. Detective Pikachu comes out soon. I'm very excited for this movie.

With Ryan Reynolds. Did you see yesterday Ryan Reynolds linked to what he said was the entire Detective Pikachu movie leaked onto YouTube, but it was just like an hour 42 of Pikachu dancing. Yeah. Pretty gold. Always a good time with Ryan Reynolds. Apparently there are enough outtakes that are R-rated for there to be an R-rated. R-rated Detective Pikachu.

Like he did the lines as requested per script and then he did them Ryan Reynolds ad lib with swear words and stuff. I hope they do that. See, I'd be keen to see that. He's so great, eh? So good. So good.

Friend of mine's just in Japan and just spent a couple of days at the Pokemon Museum and Cafe. Now that's my sort of trip to Japan. Should we go and see some things? By things, do you mean two days at the Pokemon cafe?

Yeah. I think we'd lose you in Japan. I wouldn't come back. Yeah. I'd change my name to Vaughn Nintendo. Something stupid like that. So,

today's fact of the day is if you played Pokemon extensively as a child, there is a part of your brain specifically dedicated to recognising Pokemon. So people apparently, I don't know too much about the brain. I know I've got one. And I know it can be its own worst enemy at times.

Because if it thinks something, how do you convince it otherwise? Because it's in charge. So around your brain, there's different parts that when you get one of those helmets on that reads like the electric pulses of the brain. Generally, humans have the same part of the brain recognising for faces, places and things. Right. And throughout all the different human brains, it's relatively the same position. Right.

However, if you played Pokemon extensively as a child and then you're showing Pokemon, there's activity in the part of the brain that's not allocated to faces, places or things. What does that part of the brain do normally? Don't know. Just Pokemon. It's just the Pokemon part of the brain.

So do you have to have played it or could you have just watched Pokemon when you were little? Extensive, extensive, extensive Pokemon exposure. So I guess if you watched all of Pokemon, you would. If you'd played it, again. Would that be the same for other similar childhood games?

Perhaps like, they think it's something more to do with recognising things by pixelated squares. Right. Rather than, because when you see a face, of course, it's curved. It's made up of the tiniest things that your eye can possibly comprehend. Whereas Pokemon, you can recognise a Pokemon even though it's pixelated in. Right. And small.

So to help us remember people's names, we should all just wear pixelated masks. Well, it would be a different part of the brain, yeah. But then there could be some confusion. You'd be like, Steve, this is Pikachu. Or Grant, I can't remember. One of them. This is like the Bulbasaur Susan last week. Oh my God, no one wants to be called Bulbasaur.

Are you kidding me? It's Bulbasaur. He's like one of the original three. He's super important. He just sounds like Bulb. He was the easiest to start with because the first gym you went to was water and, of course, water Pokemon. Weak against plant. Yeah, okay.

You know this, of course. Yeah, I do, Vaughn. Through your extensive playing of Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I like to think he's a part of my brain. It's like calling me a Jigglypuff, though. That's cute, though. Yeah.

Yeah, that's cute. It is cute. You don't want to be a Jigglypuff. You don't want to be a Mankey. No, that's not very true. Well, you're a bit manky at the moment because you've burnt your face with a face mask, manky. You're a bit manky, but you still don't want to be called manky.

So today's fact of the day is if you played Pokemon extensively, and it says as a child, but I like to think, you know, teenager, adult, if at any time you've found yourself dedicated to the life of Pokemon, you've got a special part of your brain for recognising Pokemon. Fact of the day! Pokemon, you've got a special part of your brain for recognising Pokemon. Fact of the day. What are you doing? Don't try to overcompensate because we see that we carry it.

I'm going slower. Okay, you lead then. We should add a clap into this jingle. No, you don't. No, don't change it. Okay, let's just go. You lead it. Okay, it's time for.

No, and that is today's. And that is today's. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. You're going slow. I'm letting you know that. What's happening? No, I'm just going quieter. Day. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day

Oh, you had to go. It was actually sounding beautiful until you did that. It sounds like a recorder. It sounds like kids learning to use a recorder. You look like Post Malone when you do this. Oh, my dog. How many listeners did you just lose? I can hear them.

We're going dogs. My jaw has to be fully extended to do that noise. To do that. Today's Fact of the Day comes from a podcast called 20,000 Hertz. Okay. This is a podcast that tells the stories behind the world's most recognisable and interesting sounds. Oh, that's why you were being silly. Not, well, I guess maybe not on purpose.

That certainly isn't one. Maybe just, maybe just, it just happened. Yeah. But this podcast had a very interesting episode, a little mini episode, about music under the sea was what it was called. Okay. And the noises that various animals make music under the sea was what it was called. Okay. And the noises that various animals make from under the sea. So I didn't know this, but today's fact of the day is crabs, shrimp, and even starfish make noise.

I know. You better have some. Yeah, I do. The problem is I couldn't pause this podcast exactly where I wanted. Oh, for crying out loud. You literally knew this was happening last night. Megan told me off before about the Princess Diana swimming pool and now Princess Diana herself's telling me off

about not being able to sort out the audio. People are messaging and they want to know about the Princess Diana swimming pool, Megan. Can you effing stop? Nobody's messaged and asking that, actually. I've just cheated. No one. You were just stoking the fire.

It's just a pull. So do you want me to find this on the fly? Even just the princess Diana was in there. Do you want me to find this on the fly or should I go to Q where no one can hear what's in my headphones apart from me? On the fly. I'm in a pretty good spot. And then we'll leave the microphones on at the end of this

and hear Fletch Tale worn off. It's just so unprofessional. Do it on the fly. I'm in a pretty good spot. And then we'll leave the microphones on at the end of this and hear Fletch Tale worn off. Yeah. It's just so unprofessional. Do it on the fly. Anything else. And they make a lot of noise. Shrimp. Pretty good.

Crabs. Jellyfish. Boring. Even starfish make sound. Oh, my God. It's everything I dreamed it would be. When you have a lot of shrimp together. Wow, the...

They sound like baking. That's heaps of prawns that are clapping and snapping. The snapping of their claws is a manner of communicating. How nice is this guy's voice, by the way? Could you not be a bit more like this guy? I can't. You literally followed that guy with, how nice is this guy's voice? how nice is this guy's voice?

How nice is this guy's voice? I don't know what else he's got here. Drawing prey toward one another. We should just do a radio show where we just play other people's podcasts. Everyone's got a podcast. Describe some of the sounds of Wales as song. Oh, that's nice. We're all familiar with that noise.

Okay. Oh, you can't go back to the starfish, can you? I can. I can take a shot, Megan. One of them sounded like the predator. Well, that's why. Do you remember we talked to the guy who provided the voice for the predator? He was also the voice of Optimus Prime.

That's right. And he told us how he came up with it was when they gave him a sneak peek of what the predator was going to look like under his mask in the movie. And he said it looks like a crab. So he researched what crabs sound like and then based it off crabs. But that starfish noise, how good is that? That's beautiful. Because if you're a Pokemon watcher, Misty, who ran the water gym, she had star you and star me.

What? Star you and star me. Right up your alley. Yeah. They made noises similar to that. And I was always like, these Pokemon people are loco. They're just animals that don't make noises. They're just inventing noises.

You'll hear invertebrates more than just about anything else. Wait, we're going back to the starfish. And they make a lot of noise. Here we go. This will get through. Shrimp. Crabs. Jellyfish.

It's just them moving. Even starfish make sound. Oh, that's so good. That's really good. Think about that when you're pulling a starfish out of the water next time. Under there, it's going to be going... Screaming.

Put me down. Don't frisbee me. I'm not your plaything. Or a ninja star! Born to be thrown at your brother! People do that, it's horrible! Ninja star! Ninja attack!

They go, pfft! I am so far away from my rock! I have to get back there! So today's fact of the day is... You've won her over after that Princess Di comment. Oh, shit. Well, yet a reminder. I'm backing everybody's back.

Group up, you thing. Today's fact of the day is starfish make noise. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day You know the old rhetorical question How long is a piece of string? Well, I have an answer If the question is How long is a piece of string in a-hmm. Well, I have an answer. If the question is how long is a piece of string

in a tennis racket? Oh, okay. 12 metres. And I didn't know this. Granted, I'd never thought about it. But I didn't know it's one single string in a whole tennis racket.

Yeah, and it goes up, down, up, down and they weave it around. Because have you never been to a sports store and seen... I've never seen a tennis racket being thread before. Is that why it's bad news when you break... One.

Because it has to be completely rethreaded. Takes so long to redo it, right? Right. And it's 12 metres. 12 metres long. That's mind-blowing. One 12 metre long string. For a whole tennis racket.

You think about how many times it goes... Again, I don't know much about tennis, but I know it goes up and down and side to side quite a few times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then down the bottom, it's not as side to side as long, is it? No, but in the middle it's long. And everything about 30 centimetres and it goes there and back.

There's 60 centimetres of gold already. And then some of them are real big. You get big ones, medium ones, small ones. The long ones would be more than 30 centimetres from top to bottom, wouldn't they? That's quite amazing. Yeah, I know. I thought so too, thanks. I was like, that's weird. For a start, I didn't know that it was one piece. That's quite amazing. Yeah, I know. I thought so too, thanks. I was like, that's weird.

For a start, I didn't know that it was one piece. That's crazy to me. Did you just think they went across, tied it off? No, I thought maybe they did all the ups and then tied it off and then all the sideways and then tied it off. Yeah, right. So then if a string broke, like we were just saying, you don't have to replace the ups or the downs.

But again, I've never even given it any thought. It's one of those games that I've like just played every now and again I'm not that great at it but it would be good to learn tennis you don't like it? why not? because I'm just not very good at serving

why is it boring? I'd rather go, like golf at least you could go for a walk yeah true, see some things I see I wouldn't watch tennis on TV I'll watch a tennis if it's like high-end, like finals. I won't watch all the junk.

Basically, this is my experience with all sports. I'll watch it when it gets to a final. And even then, a highlights package would be preferable. Okay, yeah. I just want to be able to

take a shot of sport rather than drink the whole thing. Yeah. And other things I learnt when I was looking into this tennis string fact is that there's still tennis strings made of cow gut. What? Yeah. It's called a natural gut string.

They're the best tennis strings. Oh, yeah. Is that what someone like Raphael Nadal would use? Many of the professional players. So, I mean, quandary, I put to you, you're a vegan, but you're really good at tennis, and you're only just not quite as good as the other person, and you think it's to do with the fact that you're using a fully

synthetic string. Well, a true vegan would use a synthetic string and just... Not a leather handle and not leather shoes. No. Yeah, but does that true vegan want to win the Wimbledon Open? Yeah. What's more important? Veganism or Wimbledon win the Wimbledon Open? Yeah. What's more important? Veganism or Wimbledonism? Wimbledonism.

Wimbledonism. And that big sponsorship deal you could sign if you win a major. But at what cost, you know? One cow. No. Like your, everything you stood for. Half a cow. That was going to be killed anyway for steaks.

Everything you stood for. Yes. I'm just, you know I eat meat. How much are your principles worth? I think you should be asking producer Caitlin, who is currently vegetarian. What would you do, Caitlin? You needed to win.

Wimbled in. Wimbled in. But then you're a vegetarian, not a vegan, right? She's only cheese away from vegan. She's cheese away from vegan. Emily, that was very funny. No's cheese away from vegan. And leather. No, I don't. I try not.

That was good for you. I try not to do leather, but sometimes people give me things that are leather or I've already got things that are leather. And so I'm trying to be sustainable with my fashion choices as well. So I can't chuck them out. It's really hard.

I'm of the belief you're not going to stop. I can see the advantages. Do whatever you want. There'll be some mockery along the way. But you might as well use every bit of the cow. It's no point being like, I'll wear leather but not eat meat because to get that leather, you know what I'm saying? It's a byproduct.

We might as well use everything. Everything. Because then it's not as much of a waste. Or just don't play tennis. True, we were talking about tennis, weren't we? Here's an idea. Patter tennis. Let's make that big again.

Imagine patter tennis Wimbledon. Man, we should play patter tennis as adults. Yeah, patter tennis. Because remember when you were a kid, you were small, so it was like scaled. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's patter tennis? Patter tennis was wooden bats. No, or plastic.

They were little plastic waffle bats. They looked like a waffle press. No, like a... A fly swat. Are you talking about ping pong? A sexy paddle. No, Maori weapons. Patu.

Yes, one of those. What are you saying? Pada. Padded tennis. It was padder or padder? Because you padded it over the... How do you not know what... And it was like a low net.

It was like a low net and a small... Ping pong. No, no, no. It was outside on concrete. That was... Man, that got ferocious. Yeah, it did. Right.

And then you could like... Are you still playing padded tennis? I don't know. But it's made out of plastic. That's not good for the environment. Oh, God. What are we meant to play? Nothing.

We can't play on jungle gyms? Well, they don't have the energy to play much sports, so there's a lot of... Okay. Fine! Stop your vegan thinking. Again, I told you, do whatever you sports, so there's a lot of... Fine! Stop your vegan thinking. Okay, and I told you, do whatever you want, but there'll be some light jabs and joking along the way. Yeah, light, sure.

You're right, you chose to do that, that's fine. You do what you want to do. So today's fact of the day is a tennis racket is strung with one long piece of string and it's 12 metres long. If I could just have my sound up, please. Oh, okay. Oh, no. Not possible. You've got to say these things like,

I don't know, before we go on air. I don't want to. Because we've got a line assigned for the roly-poly, which is on that button. Oh, that's on that one. Okay, but what if I need to... Could you come over to Megan's?

I also don't have Megan's. Sick beat. I don't have... A sick beat. You could play the song in the background for me. Okay, what song is it? Just any Stevie Wonder song. I just called to say I love you.

Oh, okay, okay. I just called. Or Superstition. Where are we going? I found it. I found it. Jams. Always reminds me of the Glenview Tavern in Hamilton.

I used to have a smorgasbord and we used to go there for special events. Okay. And I'd sing this one. And you'd run up and you'd be like, Hey, we're here for my granddad's birthday. Would you possibly be able to wish Alan a happy birthday? And the next song I'd be like,

And this one goes out to Alan who's here with his family celebrating his birthday. Have a good one, Alan. And my granddad would be like, Let me just say my name. Let a good one, Alan. Am I a green? I'd be like, let me just say my name. Let me just say my name. Bloody great.

And be at the oyster bar just getting all the oysters. Oysters. It's my birthday. Oysters. Yeah, oysters. And it'd come out like a little ice thing.

And everyone else, it'd be like. Flashbacks. And once I highlighted the Glenview Taft Yeah Which I believe now is Te Wananga o Aotearoa

Okay right Walking up to the bar To get a fizzy drink And it was me and my sister Yeah And we were young And the bartender said What can I get you lads?

And I was just like He just told you a boy Which is like the worst Insult to like a 10 year old-old girl that's ever happened. Did she cry? Yeah, I think so. I think she ran back to the table crying and I was like, just two sprites for me and my brother, thank you.

Ran back to the table, why is your sister crying? What did you do to her? I was like, I called her a boy. Great times. Granddad's just like... Nothing beats a birthday oyster! So anyway, Stevie Wonder. Today's Smack of the Day is Stevie from Stevie Wonder.

Is it short for Steven? It's short for Steve-land. Steve-land? Steve-land. Like, Steve-land, if he made a country. Yeah. What? He's like, I'm calling it Steve-land. Steve-land If he made a country Yeah What? He's like I'm calling it Steve-land

Steve-land Steve-land Steve-land Hardaway Morris Sounds like an artificial sweetener Steve-land Does sound a little bit like Stevia Yeah

Could be a brand of Stevia Are you just fact checking my fact? Yeah I am Okay Stevie Wonder I'll wait And remember Cocktails are on

Two for one because it's happy hour here at the Glenview Tav. I can't find his wiki. Why Steve-land? Trust in Bourne, Megan. Oh, my God, his name's Steve-land. Steve-land. It's more like Steve-land because there's no E.

I only went Steve because they call him Steve-y wonder. Otherwise, it would have gone Stevland as well, but then it would be Stevvy Wonder. Stevvy Wonder would have two Vs in it too, wouldn't it? Yeah. Stevvy Wonder. And that's the fact of the day. Today's fact of the day is Stevvy Wonder's name isn't Steven,

it's Stevland. Right. Hardaway Judkins. Right. And that is today's What I'm Going to Where? What?

Now I've got to look into what happened to the Glenview Bloody Tavern. It's torture. Torture this brain of mine. I'm going to be thinking about it all day. We've got a car

in the car park with its lights on. It's an old incommodore. Of course it is. HJ7456 I just called And my granny's like, oh, that's me, that's me.

Don't eat all my oysters. God, he got his name called and his number plate called all in one night. Yeah, he's had a great day. He's had a great day. Happy birthday. So that's it.

Yeah, today's fact of the day. Stevie Wonder is Steve-land. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.