ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - April 01 2019

Episode Date: March 31, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Now, Megan. Yes. Vaughan and I have got a little treat for you today. You know this because we've talked about it on Friday and we've teased it over the weekend, but... Oh.

For the ladies. for the ladies, for the ladies, a little bit of coal. Yeah. A little bit of coal to stoke your fire. Oh my God. I'm like. I wanted to get Dylan, but apparently that's not the Sprouse doing the press for this. He's the only, oh, and Chloe Kardashian, he's the only celebrity I've ever commented on

one of his posts on Instagram. Remember I commented? I was like, huh, that's so funny or something. And then I felt like a real dip. But people do that all the time. Yeah. But he's so hot. Okay, so we've organised an interview for you and Caitlin.

Yeah. And producer Anya. Are we going to let her in on this? Well, you've got to let all the girls. Okay, then. And this is our Sweet Life Stories. What? Questions.

What? Mr Mosby, no. Oh, my God. Zach and Cody. What will you do next? All right, so quarter to eight this morning morning as we've organised this for you. Don't say we don't do anything for you. Okay.

I feel like you guys need to be there to like fill in when we can't. We'll step back and watch you all coffee. Go gaga. Fizz a little bit. Thanks.

Alright, quarter to eight this morning. You're welcome. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Story time, three news headlines that are found online for interesting, quirky, unusual news stories. Vornamag and pick one of the following three. Headline one, drunk driver in aisle four.

Headline two, had an Airbnb feature found. I'm going for three. You want that one? Yeah. Okay, we go to Ohio now, and a couple have been arrested after police say they engaged in adult fun times on a popular Ferris wheel in downtown Cincinnati. Oh, me. Oh, my.

Michael and Lauren were both intoxicated when they boarded the Skystar wheel at the banks on Thursday evening and had, I'll quote, sexual intercourse in the open in front of children and adults. Oh. Yes. Okay.

The 150-foot Skywheel, which has 36 enclosed gondolas that hold six people. How was it in front of kids then if it was... Wait a minute. In the same thing. No, I think that the... Because you can see, you know, like you've been on the London Eye. When you go around, you can see down into the other...

Yeah, into the other ones. Into the other, well, they call them gondolas. They make apparently four rotations. And the ride lasts 12 minutes, giving spectacular views of the Ohio River and Cincinnati. And Michael and Lauren on Thursday evening as they just let rip. Wow. Yes. They've been charged with one count of disorderly conduct

while intoxicated and they were held overnight without bond. Yeah. Was it swinging? That's a photo of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Little bit meth-y looking, not like full meth-y looking.

Well, I think he's just drunk. Imagine if you got your mug shot when you were, you know. Yeah, true. With makeup down my face. You've just had sex, so you're a little bit sleepy. Do they let you do like a little touch-up before your mug shot? I'd hope so. Can I just get my makeup back?

Can I? Out of the boot. This is going to be talked about. Can I get the of the boot. This is going to be talked about. Can I get the lippy out? If this is going to linger this photo, I need to look my best. Yeah. Because in America,

they always release the mugshots, right? Is it law? In some... A lot of the states? Yeah, in some states, I believe it is. Whereas here in New Zealand, they don't ever see the light of day,

do they really? Unless it's like a big... Like, can you think of a... Unless the police release it because they're wanting a fugitive or a suspect. Other than that, they never get released, do they? No. It's sad. It's a shame. It's a shame. It's a real shame because it's lols sometimes. Some lols to be had. Yeah, true. We missed the opportunity there. Yeah. We could all be laughing. Homegrown laughs. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. ACC

have revealed that last year the injuries occurred from the use of hot water bottles is the highest since 2014. Hot A's. Our friend Jana. Remember Jana? What happened to Jana? She fell asleep on a hot water bottle.

Burnt herself horrendously. But it didn't explode. No. She just fell asleep on a hot water bottle. What? Burnt herself horrendously. But it didn't explode? No. It just, she just fell asleep on it. She fell asleep with skin on an exposed bottle. And no, it didn't burst, but she fell asleep on it. Was she drunk on it? It was like Tuesday, so probably, but no.

No, apparently not. Really? Yeah. Did she not have a cover? Because I've got a knitted, woolly cover. I don't know if a bit of it slipped out of the cover or what, but it took months to heal. It wouldn't heal properly.

Yeah, my friend's got, it's not quite a scar, but it's like a big tinted, like a birthmark, a big birthmark on her back from falling asleep on a hottie. How do you do that? It's a scar. I don't know, because, I don't know. Because I'll always have it next. I'd always have it,

yeah, next to me. Yeah. But if people are drunk or they just sleep through anything, maybe not. So, it's cost the country

nearly $650,000 last year. 900 claims were made due to hot water bottle related injuries. Most of them were burns. 91 them were burns. 91% were burns, 5% for lacerations and punctures,

and two for soft tissue damage. Huh. But most of them are females. What do you mean? What are these? So someone cut themselves on a hot water bottle? Yeah, lacerations and punctures. How do you do that?

It's a rubbery. Were they only poking their finger down the hole? Because, you that? It's a rubbery. Were they only poking their finger down the hole? Because you know that's a metal seal so maybe that cut their finger. I don't know why you'd be doing that. Because they always say don't fill them with hot water.

Boiling water. And I'm always like the idea of them is to fill them with hot water. Because if you do it with like warm or like almost hot. It doesn't last. It's cold in the middle of the night. The key is every winter you buy a new hot water bottle.

You don't reuse the same. Okay, Mr. Moneybags. They're like $4. Okay, Mr. Moneybags. But this is the problem. People use the same hot water bottle for like five, ten years and the rubber just disintegrates and that's what explodes. Surely not every year you don't need a new one.

Because that seems wasteful. What are you doing with your old hot water bottles? Turning them into foot cushions. Ever seen one blown up with an air compressor? No. They're pretty intense. They go pretty big. And man, when they bang.

Maybe that's what the lacerations are. People blowing them up. What are you searching? A hot water bottle. I don't think this is the conversation HCC wanted us to have. That looks like a peach. A peachy bum. Yeah.

Does it? Yeah. He's not done that before. By the way, these men, this must be some kind of strongman competition. They're actually blowing them up, you know, old school. And some people can't even blow up a water bomb. Like, you know how you see people really struggling with a small balloon? Yeah.

Those guys can smoke it. Yeah, but wow, there's some great videos here. Okay, well, that's something for later. Sort of me out for, well, I was going to say, well, the song's playing or the ad break. So what can we learn from this, Megan? Where do we go to from here? Well, there is a list of safety tips. Go on.

One of them is, like you said, don't use boiling water. Don't overfill. Close the top before using. The last one I had sealed shut. Close the top before using. I'm sorry, but If you can't do that You don't deserve To really be

Try not to pour the Boiling hot water All over yourself That's a pretty big one Always use a cover Yeah Yeah A knitted cover

And then it's like But also that It insulates it a little bit Doesn't it If you have a cover Right And don't lie or sit on it Right

Yeah that's the thing People are not doing that Are they Well they've put it As their tip That's what happened To Jana They must be true don't lie or sit on it. Right. Yeah, that's the thing. People are not doing that, are they? Well, they've put it as their tip. That's what happened to Jana. He must have. True. She rolled on it, fell asleep on it.

I'm sure she's going to be stoked you're talking about this. Actually, it's reminded me I must see how it's going. It was an ongoing issue. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So I am calling it, I think this might be April Fool's gag, Tinder is, they've rolled out a thing called an HVB, a height verification badge. This is so that people, and they've said men,

are less likely to be able to lie about their height. Because girls are often quite specific, like for some reason we don't like people shorter than us. Well, when you had Tinder, because you've got a boyfriend now, obviously, Caitlin. Yeah, I do have a boyfriend. Was the height thing an issue on Tinder? Well, yeah, like I would obviously,

that was always number one on my radar, like they've got to be taller than me. My boyfriend's actually shorter than me. Wow, and how's that working out? Yeah, well, it's going really well. It's fine, isn't it? How much shorter? Not that much. Not that much shorter. Like, pretty much the same height, but like a little bit.

He's got like really nice hair, so it stands up. He does have the best hair in the world. So, I think that was why I didn't have any luck on Tinder, because I wasn't like, I was so strict about my... Oh, so you actually kind of ignored a couple of things on your list. And you found happiness. Interesting.

That's funny. Guys! Isn't that what Vaughn was saying all along? Yeah, but I don't listen to him. Yeah, again, another prime example of why I should be listened to more often. Sorry. So this is something, and like even if you watch Married at First Sight and stuff, they always ask like, what are you looking for in a guy?

Often like one of the first things they say is, he has to be taller than me. Right. This is obviously an issue that has plagued women on Tinder, but I think on Friday... It's something that a guy can't help, though. No. Your height. And if they're perfect otherwise, who cares? Like, crikey, imagine if somebody said that, but it was weight related.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. But, yeah, height completely out of your hands. So on Friday, Tinder announced they're going to be rolling out this height verification badge. I think it's a long play. So they've said...

For April Fool's Day. If not, this is crazy. Okay. So it will require people to input their true accurate height along with a photo of themselves standing next to any commercial building. No, this is bullshit. Absolutely not. Any commercial building.

And then Tinder's algorithm would then verify it. If they're really as tall as they say they are, buy a badge on their profile. Straight playing. So you get a badge with your height. You're playing. Okay. You're playing with me.

So yeah, I mean, it says that lots of guys are very unhappy about this, but I'd say reserve judgment till later on today. There's going to be all these guys standing beside me. Yeah. Well, I guess it'll be a break from the usual car profile photos on Tinder. Yeah, I guess so. Oh, no, actually cars, it would be easier to tell their height. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which isn't a bit of a... Well, no, unless they've lowered their skyline. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, would be easier to tell their height. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is an advantage. Well, no, unless they've lowered their skyline. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, they'll need to include the certification. Sure. All right. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

A recent study has suggested that people are spending more and saving less because they are confronted with so many images on social media. Images of things that they want to buy. Yeah, basically, yeah. Right. Don't they say, how many times, is it six or seven times you have to see it on social media

and then you're like, no, I have to have it. Oh, I could see something once and be like, that's cool. Yeah. My Facebook's more or less just become targeted advertising with the odd weird meme that works its way in there. Yeah. And then somebody's mum's status with them sharing something that's probably fake. If I get hit with enough posts from people that I know on Instagram that have used something,

then yeah, I have to have it. Right. Have to. So what's the problem here? We're not saving. But what do we need to save for? Retirement. Worry about that later.

I think that's the kind of attitude that's not going to help you down the line. Because I know people get real, no wonder they can't afford a house. They're not saving for a house. But then do you think maybe people's priorities have changed and it's just the generation's going to be happy to rent because then they can fill up the house with the stuff they want. Yeah.

The house that they rent. As opposed to not having anything in the house. Yeah, yeah. Or just not having anything. And I kind of like when something breaks in the house, you're like, hey, come and fix your house. Yeah. I don't have to.

I've got no whole water. It's not mine. This is your fault. None of this is mine. And then you can buy things on Instagram. A window fell out. Guess what? Not my fault. There's a window.

And a window has literally fallen out of your house. Come right here and put that window back in that house. Yeah. Oh, it's leaking. Oh, it's not my house. You fix it. I'm just going to move the stuff I like out of the way of the leak. And your rotten ass house is going to start falling down.

Come and fix your house. Yeah, there's that. Yeah, it would be funny if it wasn't true about all of our houses, wouldn't it? Yeah. Yeah, and if it wasn't so hard to find another place to rent. Yeah. But remember, you can also hold over your landlord that from July,

if it's not fully insulated, they could be fined an insane amount of money. So you could be like, fix it. Fix it. And insulate it, by the way, or I'm going to tell them about no insulation. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Cole Sprouse is on the show with us this morning at quarter to eight. It's a treat.

Vaughan and I have organised this for you, Megan, and for producer Caitlin and Anya. So we're big fans. You're big fans. Big fans. I know, my voice is like... Are you ever going to be able to compose yourself? Yeah.

I just got a message from, I won't say who, Todd. He asked if he's in studio. Because, you know, when we have interviews, people that work here and in the building, they come up and watch. I see a bit thirsty here for him, isn't it? Well, I said it's on the phone. It's on the phone, so there's no need for a touch.

I don't think I'd actually be able to do that, to be honest. What, if he was in studio? Nah. Nah. Nah. I don't think the words would come out. Hello. Hello. Hello.

You're cold. You're pretty. You're dilly. You look like dilly. All right, well, he's on the show. If you can compose yourself. Quarter to eight this morning. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six.

Today is International Edible Book Day. Don't know why I looked it up. I can't seem to find a good answer other than some librarians were like, you know what kids like? Eating. We should disguise books as food. That's so weird. Yeah. It's been happening since food. That's so weird. Yeah.

It's been happening since like the year 2000. Right. It's Edible Book Day. Well, happy... You're going to be like since 1820. No, that's the other thing I'm saying. It's a relatively new... Right. It's nothing to do with the fact that it's April Fool's today.

No. No. It just coincides that it's on the same... Oh, it's on some French dude's birthday. Oh, right. Okay. He was a writer and famous gastronome. Oh, like a cook.

Like foodie. Someone that eats gnomes. So it's on his birthday. Jean-Alphime Brillant-Savarin. That's exactly how it's said. Very long name. Just go with John, I think. Okay.

In the future. So the top six books to eat on today. Edible Book Day. Brilliant. Number six. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Asgore Banoffee Pie. It's the same as the previous one. How good is Banoffee Pie?

Oh, okay. Okay. What would you prefer? I just don't like the caramelanoffee pie. Oh, okay. Okay. What would you prefer? Well, I just don't like the caramel toffee aspect. Like, put chocolate in there. You can have a chocolate pie. It's good to have variety. But in chocolate.

But chocolate. You can put some chocolate chips on the top if you want. But, man, banoffee pie. Remember the first time I had a banoffee pie? It was at a girl I was seeing's birthday, and we were at Lone Star. And I was like, what is this? What do you call this?

And they're like, banoffee pie. I was like, it's delicious. Did you have that chicken? What's the chicken? Oh, the Johnny Cash chicken. I had a stack of ribs at the time. Is this one of those religious girls you were trying to convert? 100% yes.

Yeah, it is. It was. Old Smithy loved a challenge back in the day. Loved it. Why did Edmund climb Everest? Hillary, I think we call him,

not Edmund. Because he went right over there, wasn't it? Number five on the list of the top six books to eat this edible book day. The Hunger Games, but not the first Hunger Games book,

the sequel, the mock cream donut, Jay. I'm all about mock cream. Same. I love mock cream. I prefer a real cream. No. See, I'd rather have a donut with mock. Yeah.

Or a Leamington even. It's so much sweeter. Yeah. Each to their own. Yeah, true. I'm in no mood to try to convince you otherwise. Okay. Number four on the list of the top six books to eat on this edible book day are

Eat, Pray, Love, Eat, Eat, Eat, Forget the Pray, and Love's Only Gonna Leave You Hurt, Rely on Food, Eat, Eat, Eat. Number three on the list of the top six books to eat on this edible book day. The Da Vinci Rocky Road. Yum. Had to really push Rocky in there. Yeah. The Da Vinci Code becomes the Da Vinci Rocky Road.

Number two on the list of the top six books to eat this edible book day. Lord of the Onion Ring books to eat this Edible Book Day, Lord of the Onion Rings. What's the original? Lord of the Rings. You know there are Lord of the Fries places. Lord of the Fries, but that's based on Lord of the Flies. Yes, true.

Lord of the Flies is the one where the teenage boys all go to the island and eat each other. No, they kill Piggy. Oh, that's right. I'm thinking of that Japanese movie. Battle Royale. Battle Royale. That is bad. to the island and then eat each other no they kill Piggy oh that's right spoiler alert think of that Japanese movie Battle Royale Battle Royale

that is bad Roof Loan have you ever seen that no it's like a retro movie but it's like it's Fortnite in real life yeah

oh wow with kids okay yeah it's nuts and the number one book on today's top six list of books to eat on this edible book day

the subtle art of not giving a Fajita. Brilliant. Eat a delicious fajita. And don't wait till Taco Tuesday. Mexican Monday. Get involved. That is today's top six.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Now, Fletch, you went out there and went up the monga, your monga at the weekend. I did, yes. Up Taranaki for a look. Yeah, adventures in the bush.

Yeah. Yeah. And there's a black cat to report to. Because I know that Kukako was released into Egmont National Park. Yeah, a lot of predators in Egmont National Park. You know, you've got your standard possums, your ferrets. Yep, you've got your rats. And now you've got a black cat. Well, I thought I was seeing things because we got to this hut

and we were the first ones there. And I was a little bit ahead of my friend Morgan. And there was just a cat, like, on the deck of the hut. That's no place for a cat. And it just kind of turned around and looked at me. And I was like, meh. Well, it didn't mean anything. And it was, like, real cute.

You know, like, feral catseral cats are like Mankey-ass sometimes Well no It's well fed On native birds That's why it's looking flush It's well fed Because all the people That stay in the huts

Just chuck their food out No they shouldn't be doing that That's terrible No you shouldn't be And then I saw it again I was the only one That saw this Oh so it's a bit like

That jaguar you saw Costa Rica Costa Rica Nobody believes me. But I had to tell Doc because, you know, you don't want them eating kiwis. Yeah, that's true. Or kiwi eggs. And they're going to send a trap in for it.

And I was like, I feel like I'm betraying cats. Well, that's well said. No, it's got to go. But anyway, on that walk, you sustained an injury. I wouldn't even call it really that. You've got a plaster on you. That's a mini plaster. I was bleeding on my pillow.

So I went to take a shortcut because there was a bit of rain, some puddles. And so there was like a little, you could nip up the side. But then I overbalanced and a stick went into my neck. That's, it could have hit your jugular. Where's your jugular? In your neck. Oh, okay.

I don't know, but it's always where they say the big cats go for. Isn't that one when you go, oh! I know, it really hurt because I think there was a little bit of stick still in there. Oh my God. No, that's not. This is the jugular. I always thought it was around the windpipe. Oh, my God. Is this the juggler? I always thought it was around the windpipe. Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

Because the cats are always like, to the gazelles. To the juggler. Around the juggler. And the gazelles are like, I love me. I love me. It's too late.

It's a vicious, vicious world out there. But anyway, it was in the throat area. It could have paralysed you. Instant karma. Because, you know, you're meant to stay to the track, aren't you? Yeah, but you took a little shortcut because it was muddy. But sometimes there's these big puddles. Yeah, you always have to scoot around.

So you've got to stick to the neck. Yeah. So a shortcut ended up causing you an injury. It must have been pretty decent, though, if it's still bleeding, for you to put a plaster on it. Well, yeah. It's definitely not a hickey. Oh, no.

No, you can see that. It's only tiny. It's tiny. That would be the world's a hickey. Oh, no. No, you can see that. It's only tiny. It's tiny. That would be the world's smallest hickey, if it were. And, like, for the skin to be perforated? Yeah. Very violent. Yeah.

Definitely not, no. Very violent. But, yeah, I guess instant karma. Yeah. Yeah, instant karma. I want to talk about Shortcuts And when A shortcut Was not a shortcut When a shortcut

Bit you in the butt Or in the neck Yeah Because I remember We were in a car once And somebody said Oh this is a shortcut And pulled down this gravel road

And I said I don't know if it is It looks like In a movie If someone's like That's a shortcut It looked exactly like that Are you not talking about

Those times we had camper vans And we were going to the ferry No that was a different time I said Vaughan We're not going down here that's a shortcut. It looked exactly like that road. Are you not talking about those times we had camper vans and we were going to the ferry? No, that was a different time. I said, Vaughn, we're not going down here. It's a gravel road. I know for a fact that all the roads to the ferries in Picton are tar sealed. What happened there? Because I was like, let's go down this road,

but then I think I had a sleep. Were you driving? No, it was a camper van. So I was like, let's definitely go down this road. And we went down, but I can't remember what happened. But I remember Fletch being very upset about it. Well, it was a camper van. So I was like, let's definitely go down this road. And we went down, but I can't remember what happened. But I remember Fletch being very upset about it. Well, it wasn't a shortcut, that's for sure. I think distance-wise,

it was shorter, but it was a very tough, it was a very gravelly road. It was a very gravelly road. Alright, so 0800 Dials at M, 9696, when did you take a shortcut and it cost you? Fletch took a shortcut while out for a hike

and got stabbed in the neck by an irate tree that said, hey, stick to the path. Don't bring your coldy die back around here, pal. Did you wash your boots? No. Oh. No, I don't think that's a thing, is it? In Egmont National Park, is it?

You could have dragged anything off the streets of New Plymouth. I don't know. It's feral. Excuse me? That's my home region. Yeah, exactly. So we want to know when a shortcut wasn't really a shortcut. Somebody said to quote the fantastic early 2000s movie Road Trip,

which was when they made, remember those movies? Yeah. Had that tall, skinny guy in it with the things. With the what things? Oh, like long arms. Who is it? That apparently a quote in that movie was,

a shortcut's supposed to be hard, otherwise it would just be known as the way. Oh, yeah, okay. Pretty deep there. That's true. Stiffler level philosophy. Carl, where did you take a shortcut and it came back to bite you? So I was in school year 10, and we went on a camping trip out in the Oruwitas.

Oh, lovely. Yeah, so there's a wire bridge out there probably about 15 k's in going across the river. Yeah. So we went across there, and I decided, oh, yeah, you know, and it's a quick way to go back further in is to go down the hill and then up the riverbank. Yep. So we went across there and I decided, oh yeah, you know, it's a quick way to go back further in is to go down the hill and then up the river bank. Yeah.

Little did I know, there's a piece of wire strung at neck height in between the trees and clotheslined myself and took all the skin off my neck. Oh!

Oh! Jesus! What? Yeah. Yeah. Why was there wire at neck height? Was someone growing marijuana down there?

No, no. What I figured it was a support for the bridge, but it didn't really do much because it was just like a piece of number eight wire. So I didn't really think of any other reason why it would be there. So that's all I could come to. If you'd stuck to the path like you meant to, like I was meant to, you'd be fine. You'd be fine.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. All right, Carl, thanks for your call. Some text messages. Somebody said, went walking in Havelock on a hill called Te Mata Peak. I've always wanted to do that. It looks lovely. Myself and my younger cousin were trying to do a

shortcut so we could leave sooner to go home and I was running and I couldn't stop in time and I fell off the side of a cliff. Rolled down about seven metres. Apparently I was running and I couldn't stop in time and I fell off the side of a cliff. Rolled down about seven metres. Apparently I was in free fall for about three metres, chipped a tooth and broke my back in four places. Oh my God.

Free fall for three metres? Yeah. Yeah. With that, do you reckon three metres, if you were an unexpected fall, would feel like a long time or it would go real quick? Oh, it would feel like ages. time or it would go real quick? Oh, it would feel like ages. Yeah, it would.

It's horrible. Somebody else said, at school we used to take a shortcut through the golf course during the 5K run for PE, but a lot of people would get lost and turn up hours later and I'd just kind of turn around as we got there

and just wait for people to start coming out, except I stood on a broken bottle while I was nipping across the car park. That'll do it. Actually, we took a shortcut in cross country, but it was fine. Like it actually worked. Because they made you run around the park where you just cut through. Just cut through the park where there's no eyes.

Do you reckon they just GPS track kids doing cross country these days? They could now. They totally could, eh? Yeah. But back in the day, there was like one PE teacher, and I'd love to see him police a whole park and 12-metre running course, 12K running course. Couldn't do it.

No, they couldn't do that. They were too busy not paying attention to what kids were doing because they're PE teachers. Harwooder to Auckland went the Forgotten Highway. That was a good three-hour addition to the trip when my partner swore it was going to be a shortcut. Oh, no. I feel like it was just the name of that says don't come down here.

Well, it's very, yeah, the roads aren't well kept, but it's beautiful. Right. Like it's real rugged country. Yeah, but it's not a shortcut. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's how it goes. Somebody said we were taking a shortcut and we came to a flock of sheep

that were literally just standing in the road and we were beeping and they wouldn't move. And there was no farmer there or anything. They just decided that was where they lived now. We waited 20 minutes until one of us got out and shushed the sheep so we could get through there. And then we're almost at the junction of the road and a bridge was washed out.

So I had to turn around and go all the way back. It was not a shortcut at all. Oh my God. At all. See, that's the thing. I always think I know better than Google Maps where it's like,

don't go that way because it's 14 minutes longer. I'm like, I don't think it is. Wow. How do you know? Like, what would Google know? Exactly.

Yeah, and then you get down there and you're like, well played, Google. 18 past seven. I did some manual labour at the weekend. Okay. And what is manual labour if you don't tell everyone about it? Exactly, Megan.

It's like go to F45. Did you really go if you didn't tell everybody all about it? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Cole Sprouse is on the phone with us at quarter to eight. It's a treat. Vaughan and I, in fact, we'll just leave you to it. Yeah, I don't want you to, you're not going to look at us, eh? Because I can't have you looking at us like having a laugh.

This is for the girls. Yeah, we'll put a no boys allowed thing on the door. Except for Cole. We'll go over the road and get, what's those things that I like? A brioche. A brioche. Toasted brioche. Oh, they're so good.

You like them cut in half, don't you? Toasted. Toasted, yeah. Some butter on the top. Yeah. I'm going to do one of those while you're doing that. That's the sort of tradies breakfast that I've earned after my weekend of manual labour. Right.

So in the ongoing situation that was two rescue goats called Harold and Helen, who were pretty cool for the first day and ever since have just been a pain in the ass oh don't say that but it's every now and then they'll actually I'm it's a love hate relationship because they jump the fence and I hate them and they but then when I go

to like talk to them they like nuzzle in and like give me like little kisses on the air. And I'm like, okay, you're all right by me. And I have a little chat to them. Yeah. And at the moment they're on like a chain on a wire run that goes across the paddock so they can get around. But obviously don't jump fences because I don't want them to cause an accident on the road.

Yeah. And at the weekend, the neighbor said, oh, we've got this long bit of grass. You can put them in there. And I put them in there on chains and they were just so, every time I went down to see them, they were like, meh.

Like just, meh. This is fantastic. Like you'd given them a field of coke or something. Yeah, yeah. Goat coke. Yeah. It's just grass.

But due to them jumping out, I took it upon myself to up the fencing. Because I don't want to keep them on a chain the whole time. Yeah. It's not how I want to live. Free range goats. Yeah, I want them to be free range. So I've got them some stuff.

I've got them some drums because people are like, goats love to play. They get bored. That's why they try to escape. So I've got them some drums so they can play with that. Not like a boom, boom, psst, boom, psst. They're not starting like a goat stomp. A goat stomp. Meh! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, psst, boom, psst. They're not starting like a goat stomp. A goat stomp. I'd go to Broadway to see that.

Oh my God, goat stomp. Come to Kimia and see. We're starting small, working our way to Broadway. So I put an electric fence around the entire paddock. Right. Now, that just saying gives me flashbacks because so I had to go and buy wire. I had to buy everything.

I didn't have anything to do this. Also, it's a full-on like wire electric fence. It's not a temporary tape situation. It's a full-blown wire situation with a mains electric fence. Not like one of those little units. Oh, Vaughan. This thing's intense. This is Jurassic Park.

Did Shaday know you were doing this? Yeah. Did you have an electrician? No, you don't need one. Oh, see, that sounds like famous last words. Because there's a shed out on the side of the paddock with a PowerPoint in it. I read it. Right.

And the mains units are like, you just plug it in. So there's this earthing rod, right, which sounds like some hippy-dippy thing to do with salt crystals or whatever, but it's not to make sure the thing's earthed. Yeah. And I go, because I need to buy an earthing rod and bang it into the ground, and I go

and I say, I need an earthing rod, and the guy points at this thing that's two and a half metres tall. I'm like, but it said it needed to be banged into the ground. And he's like, yeah, you it said it needed to be banged into the ground. And he's like, yeah, you've got to bang this all the way into the ground. So I had to bang two metres of metal into ground. And it did not, for an earthing rod, it did not want to be in the earth. You had to make it.

You really forced it in. Oh, my gosh. It was so hard. How did you bang it? With a little hammer? No, with a sledgehammer. With the back end of an axe. Can't you get those things that just go?

Oh, I know, but that was really expensive. And that was the other thing about fencing. My dad said, have you got one of those fencing tools? And I remember them so clearly from when I was a kid. It looks like a hammer, but it's also a pliers and at the other end it's got a puller. I don't know what you're talking about. And it's got a wire cutter in it. We're sitting five corn, we don't know what you're

talking about. Did you have to stand on a ladder to whack that rod in? Yeah. Oh no, I had to stand on a fence post. Oh God. So I'm balancing on a fence post. I look like one of those little things that comes out of a cuckoo clock. I'm standing on a fence post, whacking this thing down. God, your dad

must find this hilarious. Oh no, he was really helpful. He was on the phone for all sorts of advice. So then I go and buy the wire that I need and the guy's like, here's the deal, because I stepped it out like I need and the guy's like, here's the deal because I stepped it out like 200 metres around and he's like, here's the deal,

I'll tell you something, 200 metres of this wire is 80 bucks. Yeah. For 90 bucks you get 600 metres. Oh, I'd do that then. Me too.

Yeah. Except what I hadn't thought about was I had to carry around the 600 metres of wire on my shoulder slowly unspooling it and clicking it into the holders around the fence. And I get to the certain point and all of a sudden I just hear,

and it's like the metal twisting and then it goes. You know when you were a kid and you had a slinky and it got, a 600 metre long slinky. What, like your iPhone headphones? You know they're always tangled. I could undo iPhone headphones in a split second after the knots that I did. And you can't twist it and undo it like

a slinky because it's wire and it all looks the same. You should have been. There were so many. This sounds like one of those hilarious shows where the city folk go to the country. Even though you grew up on a farm. Absolutely. And then I said to Dad, it's all unspoiled. He's like, Dad, did you not get a

unroller roller? And I was like, what do you mean there's an unroller? So anyway, last night at like 6.30, the fence is finished. All conceivable holes for goats to escape mud. I flick on the electric

fence unit. It's going. So it worked. And I'm like, wow. Did he touch it? Look at this goat. No. How do you know it's going? That was the other thing I said to the guy. I was like, what's the cheapest way to test that it's going? And he's like, this thing. I was like, that's $130. I said cheap. And he's like, touch it. And I was like, I don't want to.

But I'm not buying that, but I'm not touching it. So I'm just waiting for one of the goats. What's the thing do? Get one of the kids too. It's a laugh. Yeah, it's not going to be a laugh. Oh, okay. It's going to be a cry. If you wee on it, was that a thing?

That's even worse. Yeah, no, I've done that. I've weaned on an electric fence. It gave me a little zappy. You're supposed to grab it as hard as you can and stand on one foot. No. No, that's not a thing. But if you wee on it, it's going to shoot up your...

Urethra. Oh, yeah. Which is very electro-sensitive. Yeah. That would be a great rock band name, eh? Electric urethra. Oh yeah. Which is very electro sensitive. Yeah. That would be a great rock band name eh? Electric urethra. Electric urethra. Electric urethra.

Electric urethra. Electric urethra. Yeah. Would you come and see me in concert? I would. If I was playing in you're playing the synth

and the goats are playing the drums. So anyway I switch it on and I turn around and say to goats, try to get out now. And one just literally walked up to the gate and pushed it hard enough to create a big enough gap. And he walked straight out. I grabbed him by the horn and I looked him in the eye and I said, Harold, I hate you, Harold.

And then he went, meh. And I was like, okay, Harold, you've won me over once again. So back to the drawing board today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome one, welcome all to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast brought to you by Spark. Get four gigs of bonus data on Spark's $49 prepaid value pack. Now on with the podcast.

I have had a diagnosis. I've been to the doctor and I've got carpool karaoke tunnel. Oh, no. Oh, no. Is this why you inexplicably just... Burst into song. Yeah, burst into song. And James bloody Corden would leave.

Yeah. No, because I didn't think much of it, but like for a few months, every time I do my makeup or do my hair or when I'm driving, my hand goes numb. So by the end of doing my makeup. A few months? Yeah.

That's not good. Since, I don't know, end of last year maybe. Right. By the end of doing my makeup, my hand's numb. So by the time I do my mascara, often I can't feel that I'm holding it. Why did it take so long for you to go and see someone about this? Because I just thought that I always slept a bit funny. But then my wrist has started to hurt.

So I went to the doctor and it, yeah, I've got carpal tunnel syndrome. What's the, yeah, is it like a pinched nerve? Yeah, in your wrist, I think. Lots of people get it. What's the cause? What's your cause? What did they put it down to? Because I've heard that at work we use laptops with track pads

and I've heard that can be quite bad. Yeah. Because you're bunched all up the whole time. You don't have your wrist in the right position or something. Yeah, and I'm supposed to have it free-flowing and open and eventually it just pulls up into the nerve. I've heard that office workers can get it quite bad, yeah, from typing too much.

But the thing that really did it for me was painting. When I painted New Cafe. Man, that's hard work. Again, manual labour. I know. You just need appreciation for it when you do these things. Next time I see some people putting up a fence, I'm going to be like, get on, yep.

I did that once. It was bloody tough work. Yeah. Man, it's hard on your hand. I was like, this is like way tougher than it looks. Because in the movies, you wear like overalls and like a cute wee headscarf. And there's music playing in a montage. And, you know, I thought it would be like that and real sweet.

And we'd like sing along. Oh, my God. It wasn't. It was hard work. So what do you have to do then now that you've got carpal tunnel? So I have to wear one of those wrist braces, which I don't have today because I left it. Megan. I know.

But also I have to do hand therapy. What happens in hand therapy? I don't know. I haven't been yet. Do you do it in a group? When I broke my wrist, I went to hand. No, no. You put up a little hand puppet and you're like,

hello, I'm Megan's hand. Everyone's like, hi, Megan's hand. It's been three days since I had numb fingers while putting on mascara. And they all go. Thanks, everybody. Well, I wasn't sure if it was like a gym class where you all go and like copy the instructions. No, no, no. It's just like, yeah, I had it when I broke my wrist.

They just give you exercises and stuff. Yeah, you get some exercises for the gym. Physio-esque. Yeah, right. Yeah, things to do to make it better. You don't have to have the operation? Because my sister-in-law had the operation. It was intense.

I think you do all this other stuff to kind of like see if it subsides. Right. But you know how you always see people wearing hand braces and always like otherwise they look fine yeah you're just like what's wrong with your hand mate i don't know if there was in a car accident and his wrist was really ruined and he had to wear a brace every single day been playing with yourself too much, mate. Every single day. From strangers, from like people in the supermarket. He's like, he's sort of wearing long hoodies,

even in summer, long sleeve shirts to cover it. Because everybody, how comfortable would you have to be with a stranger to be like, been playing with yourself too much, mate? That's so ruthless. It's mad. No way. I couldn't do that. Everybody was saying it to him. And he just got to the point where he'd be like, too much mate. That's so ruthless. It's mad. No way. I couldn't hear that. Everybody was saying it to him.

And he just got to the point where he'd be like, no. No. Are you mad? Stop. Stop. No.

Broke it in a car accident. It's pretty bad. I'd have to wear this for a while longer. Do you think people will say that to a girl? Shall I wear it and find out? Depends where in the country you are.

I would almost assure you. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, the movie is Five Feet Apart, starring Cole Sprouse. He is on hold. We're on hold to the operator. We're about to put through the interview. And Vaughan and I have decided that because you're all such fans, producer Caitlin, producer Intern Anya and Megan, that you guys

can do the interview. Oh my god. This is great news. Okay, are we ready? Yeah. We're leaving. Oh my god, okay. We're leaving. Special guest joining us on the phone right now, Cole Sprouse. Good morning, how are you? Hi.

I'm doing wonderful. How are you guys doing? Oh, very good. Hi, Cole. It's Megan, Caitlin, and Anna here. Hello, Megan, Caitlin, and Anna. That's my name. That's so great. Five Feet Apart is your new movie.

Oh, my God. First of all, we... You ruined me. We were a mess, all three of us. For a week afterwards. Yeah, I've been a bit conflicted on how I should feel intentionally making people cry. But I suppose in any normal context,

that would be a bit taboo. But in this context, okay, I get the word. Did you yourself cry when you watched it for the first time? No, but that's more of a complicated viewing experience considering I filmed it. We did many takes and we had many times where we were all crying on set

and then I had to see it multiple times during the post-production cycle. So, yeah, I personally have a pretty hard time watching myself. I'm kind of an incurable critic. It's hard for me to watch without going, oh, I should have done that. What was the preparation that you needed to do? Obviously, in the film you have cystic fibrosis. That's not a spoiler. Everyone knows that.

So what did you have to do to get yourself ready to play a role with someone with this horrible disease? Thankfully, our director had an extensive network of connections through, or whether it was patients with cystic fibrosis or medical professionals who had worked in that CF wards for years that allowed us to talk about a lot of the details of treatment and mainly the psychological headspace that comes from living with CF. So you, I read that you lost 25 pounds to do the role and I guess you want to like do the sufferers or the people who have this disease justice by showing the physical form but pizza and stuff. That wasn't too much of a challenge. I mean when the goal was sort of accuracy and performance it was easy to get motivated to do that. We were working alongside

a professional nutritionist, so that really helped and we were quite regimented about it. I think probably the most difficult part was the nature of us filming in New Orleans, which is kind of the capital of butter and good food and soul food within the States, which might have been a bit of an imposing task. Cole, how was it working with Hayley Lou Richardson? And even with this, like, I didn't know that he was going to be in the film. And when he came out as that character, we were like, oh my gosh. And then, well, yeah, won't go into the film. But yeah, how was it working with those characters?

It was great. Hayley and I had the same mission statement from the beginning. And she cared just as much about the project as I did. And she's also incredibly talented. And then, of course, Moises I've known for years and years. And when I heard that he was being cast for the project, I was over the moon. And in a sort of method way,

it was very hard to see someone I've known since I was a kid and been friends with sort of without spoiling too much, go through what he went through in the movie. And have you had much feedback from CF sufferers about the film? Yeah, we have. It's been really, really positive, which has been incredibly reassuring.

And I attribute all of that to the medical professionals and the patients who helped us along the way. There's no doubt going to be a kind of trepidation from the community in question before the movie comes out. I think the overwhelming positive response that's come from it has been really nice. I mean, ultimately, they were the audience that we were trying to appeal to and the one that ended up taking to it. We just wanted to touch on your bromance with our friend KJ, because obviously he's from New Zealand.

And actually KJ came into our studio when he was 17 in his school uniform, and I had to write him a late note because he was going to school late. So good. Do you have any dirt? We love both of you, you obviously and i love that you guys are mates but do you have any dirt on him that we can potentially use next time we see him oh man yeah firstly uh you guys should do yourself the service and youtube young kj apple we should actually and do yourself and there there are some videos, and I won't tell you which ones exactly

because you're going to have an absolute fit when you find them. But there are videos where he's like in a little baby talent show doing his thing musically. He also, I don't know if you guys know this, he used to be a busker in the city that he lived in and grew up in. He used to put himself on the street corners and play guitar for money, which is amazing to me. Next time he's in your guys' studio,

make sure that you pester him about that. We will, we will. Oh, well, Coles Rouse, thank you so much for talking to us. We loved Five Feet Apart. It hit us with all the feels, so congrats on an awesome movie. Thank you guys so much. It was a pleasure talking to you. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Megan all the feels. So congrats on an awesome movie. Thank you guys so much. It was a pleasure talking to you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Let me set the scene. Last night I'm sitting at the kitchen table. Yeah. Doing a bit of prep for the show, seeing what we can talk about, finding a fact of the day. Yeah. But mostly as with anything like homework or preparation,

there's a fair bit of Facebook scrolling happening as well. Yeah, yeah. Now I scroll past something I see a friend of mine share. Yeah. As he is a supporter of the St. George Dragons. Okay, yeah. The rugby league team. Yeah, okay.

Now, over the weekend, they beat the Brisbane Broncos. Okay. I didn't know this, but okay, great. He shared this video from an NRL Facebook page. Okay. Not officially NRL related. I was going to say, did an official page share this? No, not an official page.

But lots of people follow it. They do memes and stuff. This is so embarrassing. So I'm scrolling and I see this video that's been shared. It's a man in a Broncos shirt and he looks irate. Yeah. And I pause for a moment. I'm like, man, that looks so much like Fletcher's brother.

So I unmute it. That is Fletcher's brother. And he's having a meltdown about his team, the Dragons. He's a huge Broncos fan. Whenever they play in Auckland, he comes and stays. And he has a tattoo of the Broncos on his calf muscle. We went to Brisbane years ago with work, and we got given a Broncos jumper, and you were like,

and gave it to him. He almost cried over him. He was so stoked. Is that the one that he's wearing in this video? No, no, that's a retro one he's wearing in the video. He's wild and he's swearing. He's passionate. I was like, oh, my gosh, Sade, come here.

Again, I'm still at the kitchen table. Sade comes and I'm like, check it out, it's Fletch's brother. And we're watching it and she's like, oh, my gosh, your Roddy does look a little bit like Fletch. I'm like, no, no. it's actually fletch's brother she's like oh my god has fletch seen this i said i don't know but uh copy and paste i really need to get a couple of teeth for christmas i've said it before fletch and his brother look like at the age 12, some genie came down and he's like,

I've got to pull the different parts of this person apart. I'm going to pull the regional bogan and put it in one person. And the other one's going to moisturise. I do moisturise. Yes. Then they went on their separate paths, and that's the story of you and your brother. Because there's a similarity of look, but...

This video... You could not... Your personalities could not be more different. I know, yeah. This video has had 100,000 views, and it's only going to grow. It's only been up for a day. Yeah, I know.

So embarrassing. I was like, is that Fletcher's brother when I clicked on it? It is because he's the top comment going, oh, that guy's cool. Oh, wait, it's me. Oh, my God. That's something he would do. I was like, oh, no, it is. And I said it to some other mates of mine.

I'm like, look, this is Fletcher's brother. And they're like, oh, can you not? I think you should. That's a bit mean to Fletch. You shouldn't be look, this is Fletch's brother and they're like, can you not? That's a bit mean to Fletch. You shouldn't be saying that that's Fletch's brother. I was like, it is Fletch's brother

and they're like, get out. Get out right out of town. Stop being mean to him. No, I'm not. Stop sharing it. God,

mum's going to roll her eyes at this. No, Bev should be proud. 100,000 people. He's gone viral these days. Because I've changed the algorithm. It's very hard to get views on Facebook posts.

Hey, your brother went viral before you did. Yeah, what have you done? No, I went viral that time I shat myself on the lime scooter, remember? Oh, that's right. Yeah, true, true. Oh, Bev must be so proud. Mum's very proud. She's very proud. She's very proud.

Okay, we've all had a great laugh, have we? We want to know this morning how different you are from your siblings. Like, how could you, like people will maybe even struggle to believe you're related. Yeah. Like there's the black sheep of the family, but we want to know when it's your sibling. Like, you genetically almost identical.

Well, yeah, because you know, you might have a different job than your brother or your sister. Vastly different paths. Yes. Different lifestyles.

I'm different to my brother, right? Because he's like a mega bogan and I'm just like, I hide my bogan. I keep my bogan buried deep down. You're a bouget bogan.

Yes. You are a bouget bogan. I keep my bogan buried deep down. No, but you're still a bogan. You're a bougie bogan. Yes. You are a bougie bogan. I kind of like that. A bougie bogan. A bougie bogan. Yes. Okay, so 0800 dials at M.

Give us a call right now. You can text as well. 9696. How are you way different from your siblings? We're talking about how different you are from your siblings. How are you way different from your siblings? We're talking about how different you are from your siblings. People are asking for the link to

the video, but we can't share it publicly. There are lots of swear words. I know, but we didn't say it. Very, very sweary. I don't want to encourage that going any more viral than it is. We want to talk about when you could not be more different

to your siblings. Someone said, one of my brothers is a doctor and the other one is regularly on home detention. Wow, that's a real spectrum, isn't it? Probably doesn't help every time somebody mentions that his brother's a doctor

and he's spending a lot of time on home detention. Probably doesn't inspire him to change his ways. That would make you feel better, aren't you? Because at a lot of time on home detention probably doesn't inspire him to change his words. That would make you feel better, aren't you? Because at least you're not on home detention and your sister's a doctor. Yeah, no, she's quite a lot smarter and more successful than I am. But that's cool, you know, you've got to have dreams.

I won't have it. Did she talk to Cole Sprouse this morning? That is true. No, she didn't. She might have just saved a life or something. You know, that's, yeah, by the by you talked to Cole Sprouse. That's true. Both contributing to society. But you can't, that's not going to work

for the parents because they're not going to know who Kerwill Spruce is. Bryce, you're still merchant off your parents living at home. She's only got her own house. She's still winning. Some other text messages in. My younger only got her own house. She's still winning. She's still winning. Some other text messages in.

My younger brother is 6'11". Oh, okay. That's nearly 7'. That's a big EMF-er. He's anti-social. He's a gamer. He's got a massive Viking beard. You're picturing this guy now. He's like Techno Giant

from that meme video. And I'm a 5'1 social butterfly. Oh, okay. That's way different. And a female. So you just wildly... How do you have one child that's 5'1 and one child that's 6'11?

Yeah, I'd be doing an ancestry.com DNA test. I'd be doing a slight test. Lots of people messaging in about the political arguments they have with their siblings. That they couldn't be more different on the political spectrum. Yeah, right. It's best not to get into that with family, I think. Nah. If you want to stay family and inheriting stuff.

I'm quiet. He's active. I stay at home. He's never at home. I'm thin. He's fat. I play no musical instrument at all. He plays at least five.

So there's just like every, every way we could be more different. Way different. Olivia, how are you different than your brother? So quite funny. He's like six foot three slash four and I'm five foot three slash four.

But we went to uni at the same time, same uni. And like he was friends with my friends, but they didn't know we related for like eight months to a year. And we're the same friends over everything. Right, just because you're so different height-wise. Yeah, like, if we stood next to each other,

you probably could see that we looked related, but not really. I had to put a poll on my Instagram story once, and, like, 80% said no. So if you went to, what's the age gap, sorry? If you went to uni together, they must be pretty close. Yeah, so two years, because he did a couple of gap years. And then I went into a hall and stuff, and he did papers with my friends from the hall, and they were like, oh, do you know that guy?

You know, it's like, you've got the same last name. And I was like, yeah, we're brother and sister. Wow. Yeah, it's happened about eight times now. It's so funny. I love that you were in a poll, though. Yeah. That's a resounding poll.

Ask your people on Instagram. Hey, thanks you, Call Olivia. Somebody said, my sister is blonde, left-handed, and introvert and is going to uni next year to study some sort of computer science thing. I'm brunette, right-handed, and extrovert, and I work in retail.

Yeah. We really couldn't be more different. Mum always called us chalk and cheese and I don't know what that means. One tastes good and this is mushy. No, it just couldn't be more different. One of my brothers is an extreme Christian

evangelist. Oh, okay. The other is a gay artist. Wow. I'm the farmer in the middle. Wow. That's a real mix. How. I'm the farmer in the middle. Wow, that's a real mix. How do they get along? How does that work at Christmas? My sisters are extreme Christians

who went to the States to attend Christian universities. Well, I'm a rampant homosexual who... What is rampant? We're just charging through a crowd, just being like, I'm here Let's get this done Rampant homosexual coming through

Who spends the weekend just partying And then there's some other words that I'm not going to read But you can imagine Yeah, rampant Rampantly Yeah, right, okay Rampantly Again, how does that work at family Christmas?

Yeah, when you come in together to celebrate, is it the birth of Jesus? That would be all about the birth of Jesus. Yeah, yeah, that's right. You're just looking forward to a grinder. I don't know why that has to just be a Christmas party. Christmas. I don't know.

You're going grinder any time of the month. Don't let anybody tell you that's a holiday only treat. It's an any time treat. It's an anytime treat. It is an anytime treat. Zero calories. Zero. Also zero. Oh, no.

I won't. Yeah. Stop myself there. My sister's working in banks, making lots of money. She has a makeup collection worth at least $15,000. Wow. Can we hang out? That seems like she may have spent $15,000,

but she's never going to be able to recoup $15,000. Candice, how are you and your siblings vastly different? Well, I guess we look completely different, but mostly we are different. I moved to Auckland basically as soon as I could, and my sister stayed on the family farm. She's a sheep and beef farmer who gives mouth-to-mouth to newborn lambs and calves and things like that.

Candice, that was quite a horrible thought. Whereas I don't even like to get my gym shoes dirty. Yeah, you've got to because if the baby lamb comes out and it's got the stuff in its mouth and the mother's panicking maybe her first time, mum, you've got to go, oh, no way. She's breathing in their nose and their mouth and thumping them at the same time. Yeah, you've got to hold the mouth shut otherwise the ears are going to escape. If they don't make it, that's just, it's life. They do.

I passed out when Vaughan's dad birthed a calf. That was pretty crazy. That would be me. Do you get some Jaffa jokes when you go home? We did for about, I did for about two years and then everyone ran out of them. Yeah. I'm all got sick of it. But I think the funniest thing when I went home this last Christmas,

when I realised, you know, I've been away from home for too long, was when I went down and I thought I'd do something special, you know, Christmas Day. And she did as well. So her fiancé went out on the farm and shot some hairs

and they made some stew. But my plan, I made everyone espresso martinis. Well, you've got to have someone to drink with your rabbit stew. I like your one wayinis. Well, you've got to have someone to drink with your rabbits, too. I like your one way better. I don't know if they did. I don't know if they did.

No one got any sleep down there. They weren't quite used to it. Oh, really? Oh, you sound fun, Candice. All right, ask some text messages. Somebody said, my partner's siblings are all social butterflies. My partner is so quiet and won't touch alcohol. Has nothing to do with it.

Right. Yeah, just lots of people. So there you go. Vastly different. You're not alone. So my brother's an NRL meme. And you're not. And I'm not.

I'm something else. All right. That's great. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is that Skrillex, remember Skrillex? Yeah. Glasses, side long hair. Skrillex may be our best chance against mosquitoes.

What? Skrillex may be our best chance against mosquitoes. Here is a song. I just had to make sure the two things weren't playing at once. All right, Dan, you pause one of them. You're like, oh, I think two things are playing here.

So you pause one. This one. Okay. Well, for a long while, scientists have known that sound and how the animals hear it affect reproduction,

survival, all aspects of animal life. Yeah. And in insects specifically. They can't mate when there's certain sounds. And they found through their studies. What was that? It's a song. It's a song of this.

Just buzzes mosquitoes out no end sounded like transformers having sex don't make that face ever again transformer sex face yeah um so with that music playing mosquitoes were unable to forage mosquitoes mosquitoes were unable to forage. Moscatos. Moscatos. They were unable to forage. So like buzz around looking for humans or other animals to bite. They were unable to attack and they were unable to reproduce by engaging in sexual activity. So what do they do?

They're just literally like. Is it the high frequency? It may be something that we can't hear because they said often sound frequencies are beyond our hearing spectrum that affect, especially such tiny things like mosquitoes. There's a lot going on in there, though. I know. Is there more to that song that we can't hear?

Yeah, there is. And mosquitoes are like, I'm out. I can't do anything. And then there's some nice singing. Maybe they're a bit like us. They're just a bit like, I'm out. I can't do anything. And then there's some nice things. Maybe it's just they're a bit like us. They're just a bit like, what the hell is this? Well, they're like, I'm a mosquito. There's no way I can remember 2011.

Mosquito! Murray! Murray! That's the mosquito's name in my head, Murray. So today's fact of the day is Skrillex may be our best and only, perhaps, last chance to stop the mosquitoes. Fact of the day, dayughan and Megan, the podcast. Megan's got a problem and it's because she's a mooch.

A leech. She's a moochie leecher. Leecher Mick. Leecher Finn. I'm not a stealer. Nah, because it's your... That's not the same because it's your family. And I asked.

I thought, we've talked about multiple times that you were merging Netflix off Ali. Yeah, and I felt bad, so I merged off someone else. So you're merging off your parents, but here's the problem. You're paying for that two screens situation. They're paying for that. They're paying for the two screens situation, so they can be watching it and one other person can be watching it,

and you like that to be you. Except your niece, their granddaughter, will often be watching it and one other person can be watching it and you like that to be you. Except your niece, their granddaughter will often be watching Netflix. Fuller House. I saw you post this. Was it in our group chat or did you put this on your story? It was my conversation with my dad.

It was one-sided. Because they were watching, because it tells you if there's two screens taken up, it tells you who's watching what. So they were watching, because it tells you if there's, you know, two screens taken up. It tells you who's watching what. So they were watching the Bourne Legacy. Great movie. Great movie. Do you think you did?

Which one is that one? The third one? Yeah, I think so. Are we getting another Matt Damon Bourne movie? Did we get another one? We did. We got Bourne, didn't we, after the Jeremy Renner. But it was not the other Jeremy Renner.

He had one. No, but Matt Damon's done one since, I think. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, come on. Where he's going to? Nah, Jason Bourne. Yeah, maybe. And then there's going to be the Treadstone TV series.

So they were watching that, and then Chloe was watching Full House, and so it's like, you cannot watch because both your screens. She can't remember the original Full House. Surely without the context of. She just likes the family sitcom. No, you don't need to know. It's just about them when they've grown up. Why don't you just pay for Netflix?

Because, Fletch... Like everyone else. I don't want to. I get... Why? I've got it. I can just add a screen in. It's proving to be a real problem, though,

because on Saturday night, Mum texts me and said, Chloe's on bloody Netflix. What are you guys watching? And I was like No, I'm mid Madeleine McCann mum It's not happening

So then last night She said I wish you'd been Bloody Madeleine McCann So I could have my Netflix back And then last night She said Haha

Still got an hour left On this movie You can wait You're going to have to Leech off someone else So this is a real problem Log into her account And upgrade your monthly to three screens. Do you think she'd even notice?

No, definitely not. And then she's like, oh, it's gone up. Just say, oh, didn't you read the story? They'll put their prices up. Oh, that's genius. So we've run a poll. Are you leeching of someone else's Netflix? Yes, 43%.

Oh, damn. 57% not leeching. Or just lying about it. That too, maybe. Oh, damn. 57% not leeching. Or just lying about it. That too, maybe. Yeah, maybe. But like, if your parents are willing to have Netflix and multiple screens, then you'd be silly not to. I'm reversed on that.

I'm providing Netflix to my parents. They don't watch my... Mama will log on to see if there's any new shows about the royals. Loves a royal drama, even the periodic ones. But I've been trying to get dad to watch the Formula One, which I am loving.

Such a good series. And he's like, oh, we went to the other day, but your mother found some bloody show about some queen that died 400 years ago she felt she needed to watch.

Do you ever log on, just click on their account just to see what they're looking at? No. Oh, I do. It's good times. Because the algorithm changes so much. My parents love a shoot-em-up

and a lot of Matt Damon and a lot of Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage! Yeah. Niche. Mum loves it. Shivers. It's really weird

looking at someone else's Netflix though. And I'm providing for my father-in-law too and that's all out of whack because he's got far more money than I do. Yeah. Why am I providing for him? Silly you. That's on you, babes.

Can't help it when you're big dog. Why did you call yourself big dog? I believe I did call myself big dog. I'm not taking it back either. Fletchvorner Megan, the podcast, ZM. If I was a car that you purchased, you'd probably be looking to trade me in at the moment. Right.

I'm falling a bit. You sold a lemon. You got shingles last week. Yeah, and that was pretty awful actually. You hear about that, but that's actually horrible. That's normally a thing like over 50s get. Yeah, I heard from lots of people that got it at varying ages, but yeah. Well, that's kind of you having it because Megan, you had it.

And I've seen my mum get it. It looks horrible. I want to get the vaccine. I reckon get it. Because next time I go to the doctor, I'm going to just be like shoot me up. I don't know is it sitting there waiting or do you have to give them a little bit of forewarning? I don't know. That you want the vaccine. Well, I'll suddenly inquire.

Because seeing you in that pain was horrible. Well, like the rashy bit, that's horrible, bad enough. But then because it's a nerve related, you'll just get pangs and oh yeah, that was pretty horrible. So I was getting some acupuncture for that. And that was actually pretty good.

Weird that I was getting acupuncture. I even got the cups. Oh, okay. Yeah, right. Sucky cups. Got the sucky cups. Did you get the hackies on the back? Oh.

Nah. What does that mean? I didn't get the. You never got any blood? Maybe he wasn't really given the. Yeah. Maybe it was just like a light one, not a full suction. So I was driving home from that on Friday afternoon and my ear, my right ear went, whoa.

What? You know, if you get a ringing ear after a concert and it's kind of that, oh, noise. Like when someone's doing a one, two, one, two and the feedback. No, no, no. Afterwards, when you get home and you've been somewhere loud and your ears are like. Or like when you get a bit of water in them or something. Yeah. And you go.

Okay. So I'm just literally driving my car and my ear goes. Okay. Now I can't hear out of it properly. Are you kidding? When was this? On Friday. Is it like when your ears don't, one of your ears doesn't pop?

Because it's bad if you fly with a cold. It's not like that. I've had that where it didn't unblock for it. It's literally like someone stuck a finger in my ear. Yeah. And I can kind of hear, but it's drastically reduced. Oh my God. So I was like, oh God, I just want to go home.

So I just went home. But anyway, over the weekend, I went and saw a medical professional or a doctor or something. This cost me a fortune because it was over the weekend. Oh, yeah. And they're like, oh, yeah, they looked at my file and they're like, oh, you've had shingles. This sometimes happens.

You've got shingles, a range of nerve-related things. I'm like, when is this ending? When are we done? When's it done? I feel like I'm just falling to bits. And they were like, well, I can't. This was a funny joke. I can't prescribe you a holiday.

That's what you want to hear when you're at the end of your tether. A joke from a doctor. Why not? Just write on a piece of paper, give mate weeks off. Write sabbatical. That sounds religious. You'll get off with a religious note, surely.

I'll go and get a pass that I co-signed or something. And I was like, I go. And they're like, oh, yeah, so just give it some time and we'll see what happens. And it's a little bit better today. I can hear a bit more out of it, but it's still just got this, when there's dead silence, that's the got this, when there's dead silence,

that's the weirdest part, when there's dead silence, still a very like. What about this morning? Vaughn was like, do you guys hear that ringing? That was a beeping. It was a beeping.

Did you hear that beeping? And we're all quiet. I could still hear it when you guys are quiet. We were like, no, Vaughn, that's in your head. It was like this weird. It's the voice in your head trying to get in touch with you. Vaughn, Vaugh no, Vaughn, that's in your head. It was like this weird voice in your head trying to get in touch with you. Vaughn, Vaughn, Vaughn. Yes.

Call them. Interesting take for a Monday, but I'll... I mean... ZDM's Fletch Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. And music lives here.

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