ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - April 10 2019

Episode Date: April 9, 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. Have you got a job interview, Anya, after this? Oh, for the love of Pete. Yay. Honestly. We can't possibly just say that you look nice today. It's a waste. Have you got a job interview after this or something?

I'm trying to throw Lippy into the rotation, if you must know. Yeah, well... And is that a new jacket? No, but it's just... And is it... It looks like a new jacket. Or is it a new top? It's gone for a wash, guys.

Have you washed that? Big treat. Oh, bougie. Look at you. Bougie when you're washing. Just weird because you don't normally do that. So it's not a job interview. Okay.

You look really nice. You look nice. Thanks, Fletch and Megan, for... You look... Yes, lovely. You look... Well, that didn't feel genuine. I was about to say lovely, but I was like,

I don't feel that's an appropriate work colleague. You look nice. You look nice. You look nice. Oh, creepy. See? Anytime. Anything I say. Throw in straight back in my beautiful face.

Oh, well. Not the only one looking nice today, though. No, I was talking about Vaughn. I have had my annual shop. In fact, we need to talk about this later in the show because Vaughn went a little bit crazy yesterday with his annual shop. It's zero.

It's like all or nothing with you. You've gone from zero to a hundred. Well, thank you. Out of a hundred. I helped Vaughn a little bit yesterday. Yeah, we were shopping after the show. Only because he wanted to use my discount somewhere. Oh, that was a good discount.

It was a good discount. You guys should take him shopping for the discount. I mean, he loved it. You could see the look on his face. He loved sitting there waiting. You know how Fletch loves waiting. And waiting for you would not be as long as waiting for me. No, it was really quick.

It was really quick. It was actually painless. But yeah, I mean, I would probably wait for you. So you... I'd take my time. Just take his details. Yeah, you probably would. All right.

All right, you lot. Listen up. It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines. Interesting, quirky, odd, unusual news stories that I've found online. And I want to make you decide

on one of the following three headlines. Headline one, thieves withdraw whole cash machine. Is it in Ireland with a digger? Yes. I saw that. Someone I know in Ireland shared it and they were like,ger? Yes. I saw that. Someone I know in Ireland shared it, and they were like, that's one way to get it. Because, yeah, they just stole a digger

and then dug out the entire ATM machine. But then you still want to get it open. And, you know, it's not a fast getaway in a digger, is it? No. Idiots. They should have also stolen a truck. Yeah. Headline two, Wendy's peaceful protest.

And headline three, yoga reinstated to Russian prisons after finding it won't turn you gay. That's Russian prisons banned yoga. Because they thought it turned people gay? Because they thought it was turning the prisoners gay, but then they banned yoga and they were still bumming. So I think that's a technical term.

And so they were like, oh, it wasn't the yoga. You guys can go back to doing yoga if you want. But why is that a problem? You'd rather them be doing that than like... Stabbing. Yeah. Yeah. Fair call.

Make love, not stabbies. Believe that's a sign on the planet. Or make love and call it stabbies. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Anyway. Not a very romantic way of describing it, Megan. No.

Stabbing it. So Wendy's Peaceful Protest. Yeah, I think we've solved everything apart from number two, sir. Okay, Wendy's Peaceful Protest. Just loading. The Manchester Evening News. I hope this is about a Wendy and not Wendy's the restaurant. It's not.

It's about a Wendy and not Wendy's the restaurant. It's about a Wendy. Wendy Snell. She lives next to a Travis Perkins, which by the looks of it is like a placemakers or an ITM or a little... It's called Travis Perkins. Yeah. I'm going to go to Travis Perkins.

Travis Perkins Builders, Merchants, Building Supplies and Material. Travis Perkins. It's not like a huge Bunnings or Mitre 10, but more of like, I think it's more on a low scale. But they're everywhere. Its revenue last year was 6.7 billion Great British Pounds. Oh, jeez. Well, maybe they do have mega, mega stores.

This one here just looks like a small one, and it's right next to Wendy's house. It's got a little, imagine one of those, because, you know, this is in Manchester where Coronation Street's filmed. Yeah. It's got one of those brick houses, and right next to it on the wall of her house

is one of these big timber builder yards. Well, she's upset. Oh, what a terrible, like, I love a trip to the lumberyard. Oh, I know. But I don't want it next door to me, you know? Well, they've put up their mega trade opening sign right outside her house. And she's not happy. That's not very nice.

Like, you walk out of her front door and that's a big sign. Travis Perkins now open mega trade opening. Right. Well, she's not happy. That would annoy me too. She's not happy. And she's doing a peaceful protest. What's her peaceful protest?

She's hung a banner of her own outside her house. Oh, take that. Yeah. Travis Perkins depressed my cat. Oh, and there's a picture of the cat. And there's a sad cat. Yeah. So she's saying that her cat's depressed and so is she because of the signage.

The sign alone has made her depressed, not the constant banging, soaring, talking, trucks. The sign alone is what she's saying is the final straw, and she's claiming that her cat, Wilf, is depressed as a result of the Travis Perkins yard opening next door to her house. It's probably depressed at a stupid name, too. It's a weird name.

Well, it's short for Wilfred, isn't it? Is it Wolf? Wilf. Wilf. It's in W-I-L-F. Wilf. Right. Yeah.

So apparently she's complained to the council several times about the permanent signs, and... To be fair, though, she's got a lot to complain about. Like, it would be noisy, there'd be trucks and stuff, but she just doesn't want that sign there. Well, she was, and then all the residents opposed that opening there, but obviously it's gone in here. Okay, well, if she was there first, she's got right.

But it's like people who move next to Speedway or Eden Park, and then they're like, gosh, it's noisy, I don't like it. That's what I mean. She's not complaining about any of that. She just doesn't want that sign there. There's Wealthy out on the road in front of his sign. Looking bloody miserable. You're right, mate.

Chin up. Here's some sloppy jelly, mate. Because the building sites move next door. Yeah. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. It was going around the internet, a McDonald's April Fool's Day prank. It was the McPickle. Now, someone said this started in Australia,

but they shared it to like all their local pages. Right. Oh, was it an Australian? I think it started in Australia. That's what I read. Right. Because I thought initially it was a New Zealand idea. Oh, I thought it was overseas.

The McPickle. Yeah. Oh, it's, no, McPickle. It's just called McPickle. McPickle. That makes the trick there. The McPickle is a much better name. It sounds better. Like it's the tickler. Yeah. Oh, it's... No, McPickle. It's just called McPickle. McPickle. That makes the trick there. The McPickler is much better, mate. It sounds better, like it's the tickler.

Oh, yeah, right. So in Tasmania, a guy has taken it upon himself because that was the thing. McPickle was put out there and everyone was actually quite keen to give it a try. Well, because I love the gherkins. I love the pickles on like cheeseburgers and stuff, but you only ever get one?

One or two. You get one or two away. Or like on a double, a quarter pounder, I think you get two. You ask for extra. You can. Because August is a massive cheeseburger with lots of pickles fan. Really? Yeah, yeah.

Oh my God. She's just like. More pickles. Spirit animals. And then Indy will be like, oh, they've put pickles on mine and pull it out. And August will just go. And Indy will flick the pickle in. That's so good that they're tangy bit.

Yeah, they're tangy. But I always used to, I hated them. Like growing up, I'd always pick them out. Oh, no. Don't you still? No, I'll have them now. Sometimes. Because there's just a bit of a tang and I'm like, you know what?

I think I've like matured. Good on you. He's advanced in culinary. Yeah. His culinary taste. Good on you. My taste buds. But I couldn't do a whole, the Mc advanced in culinary. Yeah. His culinary talents. My taste buds. But I couldn't do a whole pickle.

Yeah. Have you ever eaten just like a pickle? Yeah. Remember I bought five kgs of gherkins from Gilmore's. Legit. I love them. I just like if I'm feeling piquish. Weren't they meant to go to the cafe, Megan?

Well, I mean, yeah. Some of them did. Most of them ended up there in the bathroom. Yeah, right. But what about pickled onions? I had to stop eating pickled onions because they just melt your mouth. Like your mouth's just shredded. A lot of vinegar.

Yummy. So a guy's made his own. In Tasmania, he, like many people, thought it looked really nice. So he made his own. You know, at some McDonald's restaurants, you can pick what you want. So you can make your own burger. So he took out a few things. He took out the onion and the Big Mac sauce

and he added three extra lots of gherkin. They obviously knew what they were doing because, well, they knew what he was doing. I would have thought three times the gherkin would have been like eight slices. Yeah. But he's got two full layers of gherkins on his Big Mac. And he just put up a picture and said the McPickle is real.

And so many people, again, were like, this actually looks really good. It needs to happen. Yeah. I would have it. That might be a bit too much pickle for me. I can't believe you took off the Big Mac sauce. Yeah, I know. When you just leave that on.

That's banana. That's what makes it the Big Mac. Yeah. And then you add you just leave that on. That's banana. That's what makes it the Big Mac. Yeah. And then you add it to the extra pickle. But yeah, if you did think it looked pretty good,

you can do it. You can do it. You can make it yourself. I'm keen. I'm keen to give it a go. Go on. I would just like, imagine walking

into a McDonald's and you're there and you're like, dun, dun, dun, dun. Like there's some music and you're like, blow your fingers. It's like you're hacking into something but you're just making the McP're there and you're like, dun, dun, dun, dun, like there's some music and you're like, blow your fingers. It's like you're hacking into something,

but you're just making the McPickler and you're like, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. When you were naming your gorgeous little girls, did you ever go to a site called Nameberry? Oh, no, they came with names from the rescue Oh, you're talking about my kids I thought you were talking about the goats

The name picking process We just started writing down When we found out Shadows Freedom We just started writing down names we liked I'm pretty sure I've still got the note on my phone Because I really like the name And I'm going to give I really like the name and I'm going to give, I really like the name Dakota.

Right. But after we had Indiana, which is another American state. Yeah. You can't go for another American state. Yeah. Yeah. It was, I wanted two place names, but we went for a place and a time. So August is the time and India is the place.

India is the place. But yeah, I don't know. It's a massive thing. You think about it nonstop. Yeah. Yeah. And then you go to the doctors and there's someone in the waiting room called Chardonnay.

Real story. True story. True story. You're definitely younger than that Taika Waititi movie too, so I feel like you're named after that movie. Well, I didn't even know that Nameberry was a thing, but Nameberry, you can go there and you type in names

or you get a list of names and then you can also see how often it's been looked at by other people so you can kind of predict the future in that if you name your kid a certain name there's not going to be like 50 million of them in their class, do you know what I mean? So you're not going to end up with four Sarahs or

four Jameses because it will tell you how popular they are at the time. And they've released a list of names of their most looked at baby names for girls and boys. And they are very different. Like, I don't

know any children with most of these names. They're popular for 2019 so far. My name is only 850th in 2019. They're popular for 2019 so far. Yeah. My name is only 850th in 2019. No, but that makes you unique. That means... There was a Vaughn

yesterday when I picked the girls up from school on the playground we used to go in the pre-edit. Little kid Vaughn. Vaughny! And I was like, mother.

One of the few people in my life that calls me Vaughny. Oh, cute. Okay. So the top 10 should I do boys first? What's Vaughn at fory. Oh, cute. Okay. So the top 10, shall I do boys first? What's Vaughn at for this year?

Well, I've only got the top 10 of girls and boys. Are you searching everybody? I can do Vaughn. I'll have a look for Vaughn. Your popularity, Vaughn, is 1,324. Oh, damn it.

Mine will be popular at the moment because of Meghan Markle. Put in with an H. Yours is spelt differently. Meghan spelt the way that you do M-E-G-A-N. It mine will be popular at the moment because of Meghan Markle. Meghan Markle. Put in with an H. Yours is spelt differently. Yeah. Meghan spelt the way that you do M-E-G-A-N. It'll still be popular because people will be.

427. I'm the most popular. In fact, your most popular year in Scotland, 2017, 76. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow, okay. Scotland. Dropped off, though.

God, in 1952, no one was named Meghan. But 2000 and since the 1980s, so many Megans. That was when my dad was born. Oh, no, he wouldn't be naming me. In fact, yours was in, you were top 10 from pretty much a mid-80s right through until 2000. Megan was one of the most popular names in the United States. You think there's lots of Megans. It's actually quite a cool website.

And I think you can also go for, it'll give you nicknames of your names as well. I never had any other Megans in my class. I wasn't one of the names that there was lots of. Right. Like Sarah's? Yeah. There was always a ton of Sarah's.

A million Sarah's and Chris's and James's. So, boys, the top 10. Felix. I think we've had Felix before. Felix, number nine is Henry, eight is Finn, seven is Jack, and then the top six is kind of where it starts to change a little bit.

Silas is number six. Is that... Silas? Yeah. Is that a bad guy? Where's Silas from? Lost? Was there a Silas in Lost?

I can't remember. How's it spelled? S-I-L-A-S. Silas. Okay. Number five, Asher. Theodore is number four. Theodore?

The top three, yeah. Like Theo. Theo. Theo's cool. That's cute. I like that. Top three of popular boys' names for 2019 so far. Three is Atticus.

Two is Jasper. Atticus Finch. Why does that name ring a bell? That's from a book. Right. Vaughan's having a half memory. Atticus Finch. Yeah, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Atticus Finch is a restaurant in Rotorua. So I'm sure that's also named after How to Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch is a lawyer. But then the worrying thing about that, like a couple of years ago, the person came out and said, oh, yeah, the follow-up, Addie Svinsh was a really terrible person after everybody thought he was really great. Oh, dear.

Always got to do your research. Number two is Jasper. That's cute. That's a really cute name. After Jasper Carrot. People love Carrot's commercial breakdown. Or the goat. The ghost.

Not the goat. That's Casper, not Jasper. Oh, yeah, true. You're thinking of the... No, that was his brother, Jasper. South East Asian rip-off merchandise. Jasper the friendly ghost. Jasper the friendly ghost.

Just enough to get around the trademark. Just enough. And number one is Milo. And they're attributing that to Milo, who is in This Is Us. Milo, I don't know how to say his last name. Milo Ventimiglia. Yeah. But then also that real piece of shit,

that Milo Yannapilopoulos. Oh, that's right, that right wing. Like lunatic, nutbag, no good. Not him, probably. Bad person. He's hopefully not him. And top ten for girls. Silas.

Friend Johnny's messaged me. Silas was the bad guy on Hero. Zachary Quinto was Silas. That's right. I knew he was a bad guy. Too far down the line for that to be a name reference. He was also a leading member of the early Christian

community. He went with Paul the Apostle on his missions. He's like, Paul, can I come? Paul's like, sigh. You're not going to talk the whole time, are you, Silas? So for girls, I think... A bit of apostolising to do. Until we get to six again, it's pretty standard. 10, Charlotte.

9, Amelia. 8, Ada. 7, Amara. Silas is off the Vampire Diaries. He's one of the characters off the Vampire Diaries. Thank you for your text. Number six, Cora with a C. Okay.

Number five, Maeve. And Maeve was in Sex Education. Remember? She looks like Margot Robbie. Yes. If you've watched that Netflix show. God, I love that show. I finished it.

If you haven't watched it. Great show, right? It just ended. It needs another season. Oh, 100%. It's happened. God, she's great in that movie. The girl that looks a lot like Margot Robbie is a character named Maeve.

So maybe that's where that comes from. Four, Aurora. Three, Olivia. Aurora is a character named Maeve. So maybe that's where that comes from. Four, Aurora. Three, Olivia. Aurora is a little mermaid. A little mermaid. No. Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty, that's right.

Number two is Isla. And the number one most popular girl's name so far for 2019 is Posey. Posey? Never been number one before. And in fact, I've said it hasn't even been a blip on the radar before. Come out of nowhere. Posey. It's got to be inspiring people from somewhere.

Yeah. But that's a good thing about this naming website. What's it called again? Nameberry. Nameberry. Actually gives you like other famous people with this name. Oh, yeah. So you can check that there's no dicks.

Yeah, cultural references. Yeah, pretty much. Well, yeah, you don't want to call your kid Adolf, do you? No. Run it through the filter first. Like, oh my God, that's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you don't want a kid you call your kid Adolf, do you? No. Run it through the filter first. Like, oh my god, that's right. Yeah, oh, well, we can't go with Adolf, we better go with Pol Pot.

Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. A Sydney primary school has banned students from handing out birthday invitations. I already know why. Because it happened to me. Because the other kids feel left out.

Yes. So they're still allowed to do it, but they're not allowed to do it at school. So what the schools ask parents to email are the kids' parents or kids' invitation. That's fair enough. Because they don't want children getting upset and then, you know,

they start discussing the party at school as well and then kids feel left out. Yeah. I think that's fair enough because, yeah, Kate didn't invite me to her party when I was at school and everyone was talking about it. That wasn't very fair. So it's undercut, Kate? No, that was a different Kate. Kate, they got hit by the car. It's a different Kate.

A few Kates. Cartwheel Kate. Kate was a popular name. Yeah, very popular. But that's the same as when we're at work now. Like if you're having a party, you invite people quietly on Facebook and then you only talk about it in the studio. You don't talk about it. What, are you guys having a party? Because often you're looking at each other and stuff

and I haven't heard about a party. Well, you don't come to parties, Vaughn. That's always nice to be invited. I know. But then you see haven't heard about a party. Well, you don't come to parties, Vaughn. It's always nice to be invited. I know. But then you see that everyone's had a party. I actually heard somebody at work say, you just invite him, he doesn't come, but you just invite him anyway.

I was like, I like that. I like that that's my reputation now. Invite him because he'll pack a shitty if he's not invited, but he's definitely not coming. Yeah. Or he'll just send you a text on the day and be like, oh, I'm around time. But then it's like when you guys had your girls only BYO. Yeah. Or we'd just send you a text on the day and be like, oh, I'm out of time.

But then it's like when you guys had your girls only BYO. Yeah. That was rich. No, see, that's, we had, are you talking about the one that got cancelled because you guys picked up a fuss? Yeah, see, we made the mistake of telling you about it. We should have just done it quietly on the slide. It hurts, though, doesn't it?

Not mentioned it. Yeah. And I mean, we're grown men and we should be able to deal with this. Whereas, you know, you can understand primary school age kids. Yeah, it cuts deep. It does, yeah. Again, I'd reiterate, I wouldn't have gone to the BYO, but again,

that's why I'm always a safe invite. Yeah. But have you seen that they're saying you shouldn't have, what do you call them when you leave a birthday party and you get like a little bag? Goody bags. Like a tote bag. Goody bag.

Goody bag. They're saying you shouldn't have goody bags anymore. I don't know. Is it because? No, that's a very, is it because it's putting some mums in like horrendous debt because it gets pretty competitive, the old kids' birthday party.

Yeah, and are goody bags like, are you getting presents in there? Well, it depends how nuts you go. It used to just be like a piece of cake because you ate too much when you were there. Yeah, it was always like lollies, whenever we've made them lollies, and a whistle for the annoying kids so they can go home and annoy their parents. Yeah, just a balloon. Right.

Kids, like, never know when to put a balloon down. Like, it's literally more spit than it is rubber, but they're still, like, carrying around a mouth sucking on the road. Yeah, just stuff like that. Mouth sucking on the road. Yeah. Just stuff like that. From the ZM think tank. This is the top

six. You had a good morning. Today's top six dealing with the fact that there is a massive shortfall of fruit pickers

and the average fruit picker earns $23.50 an hour. While you're out there picking the fruit, this is the kiwi fruit harvest coming up in the Bay of Plenty. Okay. And also apple picking. Now, this is for the harder graft of the picking.

It's not the sorting in the pack house. It's the actual, we're in the front pack. Pack, pack, pack, pack, pack, pack, pack, pack, pack, pack. Pop it in the bag. Normally, a lot of backpackers will come and travel. Oh, yeah, yeah. And do this, won't they? Well, apparently they come in kind of last minute.

Right. And make some cash to keep them going around New Zealand. But there's still going to be a shortfall. Huh. Yeah, so even with that. So they're saying retirees, the jobless, and any visitors, get out there and get a front pack on and help with the kiwifruit picking and you can make a bit of moolah as well.

Okay. But, you know, other people say, well, what about the unemployed? But then, I don't know, you live in Auckland, you're not driving three and a half hours to Ketakati to pick kiwifruit and drive home, are you? It just seems like seven hours of transit's not the best way to spend your job. Move there! Yeah, but then when the seasonal work's done,

what about that? Kind of can see that. But the top six things I've done for less than $24 an hour. Okay. And I've done a lot. Number six, I've literally picked fruit for less than $24 an hour. What kind of fruit? Kiwi fruit.

We had a kiwi fruit place around the road from us growing up. I was always like after the first frost or something. Right. That's where you'd go around and you'd pick the kiwi fruit. And I think we were doing it for like $5 an hour. And even with inflation, I looked it up, that's $10 an hour. And you see that kids were really good at it because we were a little bit shorter.

We could get under the vines. Is that illegal though? That pay rate? Even for kids? Or was it a cashie? Was it a cashie under the table? Probably a cashie to be totally honest. I can't remember filling out any forms, but I remember getting money.

Right, okay. And as a kid. Yeah. I would have been like an early teen. Okay. Because you had to have the massive thing. You had to fill your bag up. Yeah, right.

And you were done. As a team, you worked on filling a bin. What if someone in your team was rubbish? Were you carrying them? Yeah, we're carrying them. You're carrying them a little bit. Rubbish. But no, it is pretty hard work.

But when you're short, you can just scoot under the vines grabbing all the goodies. Number five on the list of the top six things I've done for less than $24 an hour. And also less than 24 hours. I've worked at a petrol station. That's right. Famously, for $5 an hour and also less than 24 hours. I've worked at a petrol station. That's right. Where famously for $5 an hour before tax, perks included rubbery pies and being called stupid all the time. It was pretty great.

Did you deserve it? To be fair, I put marine diesel in my fair share of Pajeros. And I had to clean a toilet. So really like they were getting a lot of bang for their under five bucks. Yeah, they were. Number four on the list of the top six things I've done for less than $24 an hour. I worked on a horse stud. My grandparents owned one,

and we thought $20 cash at the end of the holidays was pretty legit, but we'd worked a lot of hours on our holidays there. Yeah, we would mow lawns. I haven't touched a horse's penis once, but I did that for free. I think I've told the story enough. Did you get asked to do that? Yeah, it was like frantically they were panicking. You had to guide it in, didn't you?

Yeah, put it in. It was all going to go on the ground and it was worth a lot of money. I feel like you shouldn't ask a kid to do that. Oh, it was all hands on. Dick. Dick. That's just how New Zealanders say dick.

It's our accent. Number three on the list of the top six things I've done for less than $24 an hour, I've milked cows. Yeah. I do that all in the uni holidays. Spend all summer milking cows. Getting shit on. There's flies everywhere. A big tail just goes crack in the face.

One stood on my hand once, and I was so, like, tired and frustrated and angry, I kind of let it stand on my hand for a little while. And I was like, you're standing on my hand once and I was so like tired and frustrated and angry I kind of let it stand on my hand for a little while and I was like you're standing on my hand cow you're going to need to get off and look

now one of my knuckles this one see how it's caved in on the side? Okay that probably should have been seen until a while ago. It should have been looked at at the time yeah

but nah she's right mate bloody cold morning takes a while to get going but yeah she'll be right. Number two on the list of the top six things

I've done for less than $24 an hour. Radio. Oh, yeah. We all have, mate. We all have. It was $24 a day there at some stages, I feel. Yeah. And the days you got paid in meat packs.

Yeah. Well, that was hard to put a financial value exactly on that. Yeah. You just eat the sausage sizzles because, you know. Oh, 100%. Take some home for dinner. Yeah. You come back and you'd be like,

oh, you know, all that drink we had to give away is gone. Well, that was quick. Yeah, yeah, no, it was really popular. And then they come round to your flat and it's just like stacked up in the laundry and you're like, I don't know how they got there. I certainly haven't been selling them for a dollar each to subsidise my piss-poor wages, though. Do you want a sausage?

Sausage. It's funny because it's true. a dollar each to subsidise my piss poor wages though. Do you want a sausage? That's how you get the chilled sausages and you go past your house, empty half of them in your fridge, then carry on to the sausage sizzle. Because you don't want to leave it to the end of the day because they've defrosted a bit, but too much. And they don't refrigerate well again because they're horrendous pre-cooked sausages.

So those are all great tips for up and coming broadcasters. And the number one thing I have done for less than $24 an hour, sex. I've never been paid for sex. And I'm pretty sure by now I would have nearly done an hour of sex

in my whole life. If not, I must be getting close. Right. This is with somebody else. Yeah, right. Okay. By myself. Yeah, okay. Like, by myself.

Yeah, okay. Your hours are up. Every couple of days. That is today's top six. It's really sweet. It's really sweet. This chicken. So, its name is Granite Heart. Don't ask.

Chicken. It's a chicken and its name is Granite Heart. It's a pet chicken. Pet chicken. So its name is Granite Heart. Don't ask. Chicken. It's a chicken and its name is Granite Heart. It's a pet chicken. Pet chicken. And its name is Granite Heart. Granite Heart. I think heart might be the middle name. Now, Granite already had a rough start to life

because Granite was born with one functioning leg, has never been able to walk on her own. And then, to make matters worse, a year ago, Granite Hart was attacked by a weasel. Now, obviously, Granite survived the attack, but it... But it didn't get away weasely. I'll give you that. It was a Stodal battle for their life.

I'm just trying to think of one for ferret now. Is that all fairly similar? It's very similar, aren't they? Yeah. So, yeah, the, what was it? Not a stoat. I don't mean to be rude, and maybe this is my real, real showing, but if a chicken's born with one leg, isn't that the end of the chicken? One functioning leg?

Nuggets. Turn it into nuggets. No, why? Granite heart is just very sweet. It almost seems cruel at that stage to keep a chicken alive. They need both to function. You haven't heard the rest of it. You haven't heard the rest of the story.

I'll show you a picture in a second. So yeah, granite heart was attacked by a weasel. Awful. It's someone's pet. And the other leg suffered an injury. Do you remember the weasel was attacking her? It was like, what's up with your leg? He's like, I've never been up to this.

He's like, oh. It's creepy. It's all. Because I've seen a picture of Granite Heart. Now the leg's like. Our guy. And this is zero. I feel irresponsible that they let this go on.

Yeah. So her owner was like, do you know what? It's been through a lot in its short life I'm going to make sure That she lives her best life And she went to Walking Pets It's a company in Boston Who helps pets walk again And so Granite Hut Has been built a custom made

Wheelchair And at this point I'm showing Vaughn a picture of the chicken's new wheelchair. He's got the little wheels. That is the coolest, cutest thing I've seen in ages. Are you kidding me? That's disgusting. What do you mean it's disgusting? Can we check the date on this story?

This isn't left over from like nine days ago on April 1st, is it? Oh, don't say that. No, it's new. Look, I can understand like a dog has an accident and it can't use its back legs, so they make it a wheelchair and then the dog can live a happier, more mobile life. Why is a dog better than a chicken? Because it's a dog. You don't eat dog nuggets, do you?

Like, they're just, it's a great above. It's a great above in the animal kingdom. Preach! This isn't very nice. It is pretty cute, though. A chicken's a pet. But no, I kind of... And Ida wants to give it a good quality of life. I kind of agree with Warn. If it was your cat or your dog and they'd been the family pet for 10 years and they lost their legs, yeah, you'd get it a wheelchair.

But it's a chicken. But granted, it's the family pet. To them, it doesn't make a difference. It's just still part of the family. Run, Granite. It is pretty cute. I've got to admit. No, it's not.

You've got... Do you have to pick the wheelchair up when it gets to a step? It's still a living thing. Maybe. It wouldn't be able to go in the wheels if it was smaller. It wouldn't be able to run on the grass. No, Granite just lets you know when he's stuck and just taps on the step and you give her a little lift up.

I think there's nothing wrong with that. And lots of people love their pets that might need a little extra help in life. Yeah. So I'd love to hear from people this morning who have maybe an asthmatic cat. Is that why your mum's cats have inhalers? They're asthmatic? Yeah. I don't know which one.

No, I think the one that needed asthma, that passed away. Oh. R.I.P. Like a few years ago. But yeah, she used to have to give that the asthma inhaler every morning. Preemptive. And it was real funny because you'd have to put the bib on it so it didn't scratch her.

And then I think she also needed to give it like pills. A bib. A bib. So you put a bib if you're ever feeding a cat a pill and you don't, because they hate it, you put like a towel or something around them. A bib. So they don't scratch you. And then you hold them so they can't get their legs out and attack you.

And then you force the pill down. Yeah. Grab their throat and just go. Oh, we had a thing to do that. Like a. Oh, yeah. You held the pill and then you grabbed the cat and you put your fingers in it up and plonk. And then you just pop a little pill in.

It wasn't wrapping the towel. But you're right. Because cats, when they get on their back and they like. Oh, yeah. They hate it. Grab on with their front legs and scratch their back. Yeah. But she, yeah, asthma inhaler.

And it was just like a normal asthma inhaler you see for a person. Yeah. If anything like that happened to Leo, I would do it 100%. He would get a wheelchair if he needed one. Somebody, just if we can go back to the earlier stoat and weasel puns about when it attacked. Somebody said, it wasn't ferret, didn't stand a chance. That's pretty good. That's good. Somebody else said, I betret didn't stand a chance. That's pretty good.

That's good. That's good. Somebody else said I bet that chicken feared for its life. I don't get that one. I bet that chicken feared ferret's life. Ferreted its life. There's ferret in there. No, you didn't say ferreted.

So you say feared for its, but that turned for its into ferrets. Okay. Not as good as the ferret. No. It wasn't ferret didn't stand a chance. 0800... Not as good as the ferret. No. It wasn't a ferret. It didn't stand a chance. 08009-696. Do you have a special needs pet?

It requires a little extra assistance in life. Maybe it's got a little walker, or maybe you need to give it something every day. We're talking about your special needs pets because there is a chicken who's had a wheelchair made for its... A chicken. Paralyzed back legs. Yeah, it's cute. And this chicken deserves to have the best life.

So the owner has gone the extra mile to make sure that it can get around okay. And yeah, we'd love to hear about your pet sick. Somebody's sent me a video of a goat and a walker. Now I'm all for this. Jo's caught up because you know that people know that you're so in love with your new goat spawn. Jo, you've got a special needs goat. My parents do. Okay.

He's asthma-ic and he has to have antihistamines as well as an inhaler. So does he need to know if there's athletic stay at school? Shut up! This goat sounds like me. I have to have antihistamines in my inhalers. If it's the vegan version of a goat, put it down. Save us all. They have to give the goat an aspirin inhaler every day.

Yep. And he does tricks. He's an awesome goat. He does tricks, like walks along planks and everything else and through the tunnels. Oh, you're giving horn ideas now. He needs a tunnel. I know.

I've wanted a plank between two elevated points because goats, of course, love a little bit of four-wheel driving. But given how much you love your goats, what if Harold or Helen had asthma? Would you? I'd give them a paper bag, tell them to calm down. Isn't that what you do when you don't have an inhaler? Rub their back.

You're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, just relax. Hey, Joe, thanks for your call. Rachel, you've got a special needs pet. My special needs pet is Tinkerbell the wobble dog. What kind of dog is wobble dog? She is a rescue dog. So she's a mutt. Okay.

Okay. And so what do you need to do for Tinkerbell every day? So Tink's, when she was rescued, she was being given away for free on Facebook because she had no, you know, she was paralysed. And then sort of we've rehabbed her and she's had hydrotherapy and she's had acupuncture and she's had physio and she's had all sorts of things. And she actually gets around okay now, but she wobbles a lot and she needs a wheelchair if we're doing long walks.

And she has a walk in pet's wheelchair. That's because you didn't give up on Tinkerbell. Well, I mean yeah, she's pretty special that little dog, yeah. How much is a little doggy wheelchair though? Expensive.

I bet. That's what I'm saying. You've talked acupuncture, you've talked hydrotherapy. Like, how much are we saying this rescue dogs cost you a small fortune by the sounds of things? Yeah, she does. So she actually,

she has a walk-in pets wheelchair and we were really lucky that the rescue that picked Tinkerbell up when they saw her being given away for free, Hurrah Rescue, we did a give a little to provide her wheelchair for

her, so the community gave her her wheelchair. Wow. That's so special. I know, Megan, you've got both ends of the spectrum here. Megan's nearly crying and Vaughan's rolling his eyes like, how did you spend that much money? Do you want to see her, Megan? Because she's got an Instagram and a Facebook.

Oh, you have to tell us Instagram. Once your pet's had a give a little, it's got to have an Instagram and a Facebook. So what's its Instagram? Just so people can look at this wobbles. So she's Tinkerbell the wobble dog. Yep. And it's Tinkerbell, like, B-E-L-L-E.

Excellent. Rachel, thanks for your call. Some text messages about animals with certain disabilities. Somebody said they banned the import of the drug that my dog was taking to stop her brain tumour. So we're giving her low doses of human chemotherapy.

Is that what you're doing? I don't know. You can't just buy human chemotherapy drugs in low doses, can you? I don't know. They probably got it from the vet. This one's take the dog to Mexico maybe. Don't they have some

yeah, maybe. Thailand or something. My baby girl Griffin has no eyes. She had glaucoma and had to have them removed. But she's the best. She needs a seeing eye dog. Her brother, also a griffin. Wait,

a dog needs a seeing eye dog? Yep. Her brother's useless at this role. I saved her from walking off the retaining wall yesterday. So she just still walks around like it ain't no thing.

Yeah, but no eyes. Oh my God. And you would say the most dominant feature of the griffin is the eyes because they're always budgely. Shut up. Bulgier.

What am I trying to say? Did you see? I got so many messages last night because I put Leo on my Insta story. Yeah, you look terrified. No, you always say he's got googly eyes. He doesn't. My mum has a chicken who wears a camouflage jacket so the rooster can't see it to pick on it.

Apparently this rooster has run away. What is a camouflage? Is it like a hay jacket? No. You know how people go, like you see snipers in the military and they cover them in that fake grass. That's what I like to imagine the chicken.

And the rooster's like, and the chicken's like, oh shit, stay still. Stay still. He can only see you if he's moving I think you're thinking of a T-Rex That's what happened to dinosaurs They turned into birds He's a bloody T-Rex

We need a photo of a chicken In the camouflage Please send us that Yes, please Oh my god That would be great My cat had to go on antidepressants. Okay.

We hear that a lot. Yeah, anti-anxiety. Our kitten has diabetes. He has to have two insulin injections every day and he's only got one eye. Oh. I couldn't inject my cat, my dog. Someone said their cat's got a back wheel.

It's like a space saver. Like a little orange space saver. You're like, oh, that cat's not driving on the motorway. You can't go on the motorway. Not above 70 kilometres and please only use it to get to the closest place you can get a tyre replaced. There's a new documentary series on Netflix that's getting some headlines. It's called Our World. It's a David Attenborough narrated thing.

But he does no piece to cameras that I've seen. Like, you know where he's usually like having a chat and like poking a monkey or something. Well, because he's old. So is he just doing the narration from the studio now? He can't be travelling all around. I just don't think he wants to. But then also travel insurance must be through the roof

for some old mate going to the middle of nowhere. Jungle. Yeah. So I started watching this because it's in 4K, but I'm on rural broadband. So I was getting it at about 2K, I reckon. Two and a half. And some pixelated stutter. And a bit of...

And then it catches up. So I started watching that and Sade, my wife, she's an animal lover. Just before when I was saying all that stuff about animals, she wouldn't let me do any of that. She'd care for something to leave me at the time.

You'd have a chicken in a wheelchair is what you're saying. Basically. So she's a big animal lover so we were watching it and the first episode kind of just covers

a bit of everything. Yeah. What they're going to talk about and how the world's going down the toilet and I'll tell you who's to blame. Us.

Us. It's all on us, baby. And so she's like, I'm not watching this. It's too much. I'm going to bed. You know I don't like these shows. Yeah. And then I was watching and I thought,

now this is, I feel like this is, it's not like the nature documentaries of old. Too many prey were getting away. Oh, yeah. You know, they were outsmarting the predators. That's what I don't like about those shows is like it haunts me that, remembersmarting the predators. That's what I don't like about those shows is, like, it haunts me. Remember that one where the seal on the little bit of ice?

Oh, yeah, and the killer whales just go for it. Killer whales are ruthless. For ages it was trying to get away, and then eventually it just was tired and it just slid down. That haunts me. But that's the world. That's life. I don't want's the world. That's life. I don't want to see it.

What were those animals that got away from the snakes that time? That was exciting. Was it the lizard? The lizard. Oh, that's a type of iguana. The dog narrated it. Those were cool. That was cool because he was overcoming odds. That was rad. But sometimes I think

this is just, it's pandering to people who don't want to see it, like Megan and my wife who don't want to see it. I know the scene you're talking about because there's actually been a bit of outcry over this latest Netflix. What? So in episode two, it kind of talks about the ocean.

And I was like, this is all like a penguin got caught. By the way, I don't need to see any more penguins in nature documentaries. I feel like they're easy fodder. Because they're always in the same spot and they don't move. Yeah, we know they give each other pebbles, they can find each other in a crowd, blah, blah, blah. They love each other.

Mate for life. Boring. I say we ban penguins from nature documentaries. We know as much as we need to know about penguins. Okay. Especially the ones in Antarctica. Boring. And so I was getting to the end of the show and I was like,

you know this, I feel like we've seen a censored version of the ocean. Yeah. The prey getting away a bit too much. Yeah. Then they start talking about the melting sea ice and how it's affecting walruses. And I'm like, you've kind of got me interested because walruses with the big tusks.

Tough crowd. Yeah, I'm a hard man to please with a nature documentary now. I've been spoiled. And I thought, they interest me because the tusks seem unnecessarily long, so I'll watch this. And they're like, with the sea ice gone, there's nowhere for the walruses to rest and they get tired and they've got to take on their fat reserves. So they go on to actual stone islands.

Yeah. Then they're like, obviously there's all of these walruses so there's no room for them all so the walruses that arrive first have to get out of the way for more walruses so these walruses

are like climbing up the hill. And I'm like, okay, this is interesting. I didn't think they'd be able to climb given the size and everything. They all get up there,

piece of cake. Then, they're like, but given that walruses have always had sea ice to rest on, they don't know how to get down off things. And the first one shows this walrus just walking to the edge of a cliff and falling off. And I was like, oh, shit. And then they slow mode it.

The music disappears and a walrus falls like hundreds of meters. Boom, boom, rolling. And I was just like, this got real because I was in penguin land. I felt like I was being not given. It's horrific. Oh, my God. I can't even. And then just walrus after walrus.

All the ones that climbed up have no idea how to climb down. They just throw themselves off the top of the – Do they make it? Megan, they don't make it. They don't. It's a horrific climb. And that's what people are upset about. And the crew that worked on it, I read this thing,

and some of them said they were on the ship bawling. The rule is you don't interfere with nature when you're filming nature. And they said there's the occasional thing where you're like, I can just see if they could just, buddy, go over there, they'll survive. But we can't interfere. But these walruses, oh my God.

And I was just like, I'm so glad Charlotte went to bed because she would not have forgiven me for making her watch it. What episode is that? Episode two. And it kind of sneaks up on you too. I shan't be watching.

And then the weirdest part is there's this almost comedic timing, which sounds horrendous to say, because this polar bear comes out of the ocean. You've learned about how polar bears are kind of suffering with the ice melt as well because they've got nowhere to rest. This polar bear comes out of the ocean and there's all these dead walruses and he's like, what the hell's happened here? Waste not, want not.

And get into them. I will warn you, if you're watching it, even I'm pretty good at nature documentaries, it was a bit of a hard watch. And especially because those kind of documentaries are popular with people that like to get wasted and watch nature. I don't know how that would go down.

You need a cuddle, I would say. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. That would go down. You need a cuddle, I would say. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Just before we get to your important security update, Vaughan, James produces eating rice bubbles for breakfast. Do you guys see this? I knew he was having cereal. Are you eating rice bubbles?

I can smell those when you came in. It's been an addition to the flat probably for the last two weeks and it has been a big hit. What are you, 10? I hate rice bubbles. What we've been doing Love rice-ies. We're still a couple of weeks

too early for oats so we're not into oats yet but we've gone for the muesli rice bubble combo. So you're mixing two different cereals there. Half and then half rice bubbles and it's pretty good.

Are they still crackling? Yeah. Oh, I can hear it crackling. Why does it crackle? Snap, crackle, pop. When I was a kid, I just believed it was the snap, crackle, pop. I was doing something. I never really questioned it too much.

But what causes that now that I'm an adult? I don't know. Some kind of the dry and the moisture, the wet. The expansion of a dry bubble. Yeah, the bubbles in the rice is popping when they get wet or something. Because it's puffed rice, right? Yeah. Yeah.

So you're saying that the moisture is causing it to decay and then the bubble pop. Yeah. I don't believe you. Why do rice bubbles pop? Oh, my God. One of the most Googled questions. During the cooking process, each piece of rice expands,

creating a tiny network of air-filled pockets and tunnels inside the kernel. So far, it's looking like you're measuring up here. Add milk and the cereal starts to absorb the liquid. This puts pressure on the inside pockets, causing the walls to shatter in a snap, crackle, pop. You guys were right. Excuse me? Thank you.

You guys were dead right. We are very smart people, Megan. Very clever. Vaughn, you've got a security update for us. So apparently in the latest iOS software update, this is for Apple users of iPhones, you can now send a message on a stranger's phone. Right.

Like if you walked up to your workmate's desk and the desk was unattended and their phone was there but locked and you don't have their face to open it nor their four-digit pin to unlock it but you want to send a funny message, somebody has discovered that all you need to do is talk to Siri. Can you send me a message? I'll see if I can get it done. Okay. I've put my sound on.

By the way, don't be insulted. I don't think I've changed your name in my phone. I was about to say, what's my name in there? I've had three. It's all right. I think it's still on there originally. Stop getting married, Megan. Yes, Oz.

Hey, Siri. Send a message. Okay, shut up. Send a message to Megan Sellers. What do you want to say? Send a message. Okay, shut up. Send a message to Megan Sellers. Hi, Megan. Your message to Megan Sellers says, am I high, Megan? Ready to send it? Send.

Okay, it's sent. I'm waiting. Did that work? Well, it sent. You haven't changed your number, right? You did that from a lot. Oh, I's sent. I'm waiting. Did that work? Well, it sent. You haven't changed your number, right? You did that from a locked screen. So the reason it sounded off mic was I didn't want it to see my face because I've got facial unlock.

So that it never saw my face and that was from lock. My phone's been locked for 20 minutes. Got it. Now that's not because it recognises my voice that would work on anyone. I was going to say

does that work on like I could do that to your phone and I wouldn't even need to unlock it. By the way sorry to everybody who just had their

Siri open up and tried to send a message to me. I just realised anybody listening in the car with their phone there would have been

like a whole ordeal. Hey Siri. Sorry. Good times. Hey, Siri, malfunction. No, that doesn't mean anything. So that can happen. Okay, yeah.

They'll patch that. They'll do that pretty quickly, you'd imagine. 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 yesterday afternoon at about 2 30 no a little bit before that it doesn't matter yeah it does because people would have like seen it or not right uh But there was this like insanely long and intense vapour trail that went over.

I was outside at the time. Do we actually know? Yes. Okay. But there was so much confusion as to what the heck it could be. Because normally you don't get those over the country because the big planes that are flying out overseas kind of head off the coast. So you don't see, and we don't have planes

going anywhere else over us. Yeah. You know, apart from the little jets. But this was very unusual. Oh, this was a massive jet. This wasn't a domestic travel jet. But when we went and got Indy from school, she said it was a rocket. She said that all the kids went outside and looked up

and she said they could see flames coming off it. And one kid was like, I can see flames. And all the other kids were like, oh, I can see flames too. I don't want to miss out on seeing flames. I'll just say I saw flames. So there was like all this confusion about what it could possibly have been. And it turns out that it was a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 aircraft. So a huge, huge, like massive thing.

It's as long as it is wide. It's absolutely huge. Apparently it was transporting Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopters back from the Solomon Islands. So it's so big it can fit helicopters on it. It looks like something off the Avengers. Like it's massive and it's got four engines and it's huge and it's grey. Anyway, it was so high and just the right, it was like 9.7 kilometres high

so it was right up there but it was just at the right height where we could see it but it was also the atmospheric conditions led to a massive vapour trail. Right. But it was insane. We were outside when it went over and I was videoing my goats because I do but in August I had a day off kindy

so her and I were out there when we saw it I'm flying over this is what happened. Who's that? I think maybe one of the elves taking Santa's sleigh for a drive. Do you reckon? And that line must go right to the North Pole. Probably a good thing you've been a good girl today. With them flying over, doing checks.

I love the elves. Do you? You lied to your kid. 100%. To ensure good behaviour. Do you know what? What? Pretty good behaviour for the rest of the afternoon too.

I feel like her tone changed too. She was like, I love the owls. You're like, they're listening. What's going on down there? I personally, I love the owls. And all their good work they do Taking the sleigh out for a little bit of a spin

Yeah taking the sleigh out because I told her you know it probably hasn't been used for Christmas you've got to make sure it's still working Yeah

It's all in working order Get a warrant of fitness Yeah Could you use that every time there's a vapour trail? 100% Very very well That's a good idea

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast ZM Now though Every time there's a vapor trail? 100%. Very, very well. That's a good idea. Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Now, though, Vaughn, you went shopping yesterday. Your yearly shop. Yeah. Where you like to go out and buy all your jeans and clothes and then not buy anything for another year.

I'm done. Yeah. And I'm quick too, eh? Oh, yeah. I took Fletch to use his discount at a store where I got jeans and I was quick. I walked in. Great jeans. I was like, I to use his discount at a store where I got jeans. And I was quick. I walked in. Great jeans.

I was like, I need a 32 and a 34 in that, which was really good because I still fit the 32. And I was like, good on you. Thank you. And the 34 was too big. I was like, oh, my God, it's official. So I was pretty stoked on that. And then I was like, all right, so 32, give me that cut, that cut. She got me that cut. I was like, great. This is the, give me that cut, that cut. She got me that cut.

I was like, great, this is the one. I'm going to take one in blue and one in black. Done, let's get out of here. You rushed it. You've got to really enjoy yourself. No, he chewed them all. I walked around, I showed Fletch my bum. I was like, what do you reckon of this?

And he was like, I like. Okay. I did not say it like that. He had sunglasses on and he leaned back and he was like, I like. His hand in his pocket. Yeah. I like. They're very good pocket. Yeah. I like. They're very good though.

They look great. They do look great. That's where I left Vaughn. He used me for my Huffer discount and I walked away. So knowing that Vaughn was doing the shopping spree yesterday, you sent me a message saying you're going to be very upset with me. I was like, Megan, you might be very upset with me. I was like.

Because from there, from Huffer, I went to my stable shopping, said the AS colours and I just got all my usuals. Got a new beanie. You walked in today wearing a shirt over a t-shirt. Well, Sade said I had to wear the shirt and then Megan said,

because we filmed that well-being thing and they dressed me and Megan's like, you look really nice in that shirt. You should get a shirt. So I pretty much just got that shirt, I think.

Right, okay. And then, so I'm done and I'm like, I'm looking down at my feet and I'm like, I do need new-esque boots. Like the ones I've had have resold twice. Like I've had them for years. And winter is coming.

Winter is coming. Yep, on Monday. So famously said. And so I was like, today's the day. I'm going. I can't. I honestly can't believe you did day. I'm going. I can't. I honestly can't believe you did this. I'm going into the Timberland store.

I said it to myself out loud. I was like, Timberland store. So I got on a Lime scooter. Yeah. I had shopping on my Lime scooter. So I would have looked real cool. I love when I see people with shopping on their Lime scooter. It's hard because it's a bit of a different weight than you used to.

So yeah. And I went to the Timberland store and I walked in and the girl was working there and we started talking. And I was like, I like the brown boots. And she's like, but you're wearing brown boots. I was like, oh, okay. She's like, you've really got brown boots. You mean, do you mean camel? And then what?

Oh, you're talking about the brown brown. The brown brown boots. And then I was like, oh, okay, maybe I'll try the black on. And she's like, you've probably got black boots as well. I was like, I do have black. I love the black Timberlands. It doesn't surprise me you went to Timberland because you've always liked those black Timberlands. Yeah, I have for ages, right?

And so I was like, oh, I've kind of had my eye on the black. She's like, do you have black boots? And she's right, I do have black boots. Yeah, but you can never have too many black boots. You're right, you're right. And she's like, have you ever tried on the wheat? The tan. Oh, they're called wheat. The tan. You're right. You're right. And she's like, have you ever tried on the wheat? The tan. They called wheat.

The tan. The wheat is what they called them. The famous camel. Nelly and other early 2000s rappers boots. And I was like, I haven't because I don't think I'm that kind of boot guy. And she's like, you look very comfortable in your boots. I was like, I do love boots. Boots are my favourite.

I like when it gets cold again because you can start wearing boots. Yeah. And she's like, you know very comfortable in your boots. I was like, I do love boots. Boots are my favourite. I like when it gets cold again because you can start wearing boots. Yeah. And she's like, you know what? I thought the same. Put them on. Because the boot doesn't make the man. The man makes the boot. I always say, you wear the boots.

Don't let the boots wear you. Are they not selling enough of these colour? No, this is their most popular seller. It's still their biggest seller. So I was like, okay. So I put them on and I stood up very comfortable and walked around and I was like, God damn it.

I like them a lot. You used to rat on people. No, I did. This is why it's most surprising is because anytime anyone wore those boots, Vaughn would give it to them not to their face behind their back

yeah yeah a lot of puff daddy's hair like yeah literally g'day Nellie yeah Nellie oh Nellie it is getting hot in here

you're still wearing big boots so we've put we've taken a photo of Vaughn's new outfit and a video so you can see it on our Instagram

FVMZN but some people from the office have even come in just now, Warren. Danny. Oh, damn, boy. You look good. Are you an actual, is that a legit? I think it's, this is legit.

He looks great. And I love that he's still kind of stayed true to his Morrinsville roots with the boots. But I would recommend getting a suede spray on that ASAP. Yeah, yeah, no, no, I do, I do. Does she upsell you? Yeah, no, I already had some. Oh, okay, right. I already had some from last week. So, Danny's coming hot, and this is the issue I've got,

Danny, is that I'm torn between giving him the compliment because he looks good, but also every time anyone else tries anything, we get absolutely ridiculed by Vaughn, so I'm kind of wanting to do that. You can do that if you like. I kind of want to ridicule you just because that's what we get.

The birds are a bold choice, though. No, no, it's a bold, bold, but I put them on and she was right. I can't believe you did that. And I just had the right words in my ear. I mean, she was a salesperson, so obviously she does well out of selling. Producer James, you've been very quiet. What do you think of? No, I'm a big fan.

I like them a lot. Is everyone in favour? Yeah. Aye. I've actually sent an email to the office. At 10.01 we're doing a fashion show and we're not afraid to rip into you, Vaughan. Okay.

But just remember, these things do keep and I will... That's what... Yeah. There's ferment. It's like a good kombucha. I will let it ferment. Could we take some calls on those moments when you've made a bold fashion choice?

When you were like, I don't know how this is going to go. When the assistant talked you into something that maybe wasn't actually you. Because that's what I was really worried about. I was in the zone and I got home. Because after I bought them was when I messaged you, Megan, and I was like, I think, Megan, you're not going to be happy with me. I can't believe you didn't send a message being like, should I or shouldn't I?

I went, and then even today you were like, who put your outfit together? I was like, well, oh, just me. I'm so proud. I'm so proud. But I got home and I said to Sade, I was like, I'm going to go put on what I bought. I'm going to come out.

I need you to be honest with me. And she would be honest. So I walked out and she's like, that looks great. Oh, my God, it looks really good. If I spent that much money on boots, you'd kill me. And I was like, she's like, that looks great. Oh my god, it looks really good. If I spent that much money on boots, you'd kill me! And I was like, it's over. It's done. Like, the compliment was nice and it just followed up straight

afterwards with the... Well, you've made a bold choice and it's worked for you. It has. But let's take some calls on those times when you've made a bold fashion choice and maybe it hasn't gone down with your group of friends and you were mocked. Or maybe it did. It was something a lot different for you. I'm just sad I haven't kept a diary.

I know. Everybody's been so nice, I can't do it anymore. Yeah. Oh, but in saying that, someone just walked past the window in a purple jacket. That's not. Oh, 800-DARLS-ATM-9696. You're right, Grimace. When did you make your bold fashion choice and how did it go for you?

Talking about your bold fashion choices, Vaughn has, what's the official colour? Camel. Timberlands. Wheat. Wheat. Or tan. Wheat. Camel.

Yeah. And after years of ridiculing people, and one of their most popular sailing boats, isn't it? Well, you'd say the. Especially at the moment. Yeah. Somebody just messaged in saying they've always liked the wheat Timberland but thought they were too pimp for me

but now you've given me the confidence to walk into that Timberland. Nothing's too pimp for you. As an average white man you're just giving other people hope. I'm giving average

middle class white guys the strength they need in this current climate. Sure. We've put Vaughn's because Vaughn's actually it's not just a shoe it's a whole new outfit.

You've done your annual shop. Yeah. But his shoes specifically, there's a poll on it, Instagram. Current update. This is going to fuel the ego. It pains me a little bit, because you're sitting on 87% yay to 13 nay. 87% yay. It's a white horse, really.

13% haters. Yeah. But maybe people don't like the colour. See, I couldn't go that bold. I'd go black. I don't think you could do the white. It limits what you can match them with, though, doesn't it? Or they kind of go with everything, don't they?

I think they're so bold they'd become the leader of that. They're not going to go with your pink jeans, I'll tell you that right now. Oh, well, we'll see about that tomorrow. We want to know from you when you made a bold fashion choice. And maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. All right, let's take some calls. Regan, you made a bold fashion choice. I did, I did.

I peeled out some silver latex pants with a white halter and white platform shoes for a wedding. And they were true. I thought he was going to say like a Spice Girls dress-up party. Yes, that's exactly what it was, but I was actually at my boyfriend's grandmother's wedding. Wow. Yeah, but if it's like she's grandmother,

so what was she, like 60s, 70s? Yeah, I guess probably 60s, late 60s maybe, and she had found renewed love later in life. Did she have any comments about your attire? She didn't really acknowledge me too much. I'm not sure that it went down too well with her. Yeah. I just Googled silver latex pants,

famously worn, Kim Kardashian wore a pair of... Remember I had sequin, black sequin pants. I loved those pants. I still have my silver latex pants and do directly wear them in my workplace every now and then. Do it. What year was this? What year was this wedding?

So I was trying to think about that. It would have been in the 2000s, definitely. So yeah, I'd say maybe 2000. The closer you get to the actual 2000, the more acceptable that would have been. Thanks for your call, Regan. Iris, you made a bold fashion choice. Yes, hi, guys.

Hi. So I had this jacket, and it's like chrome. You know the colour, like silver chrome, but let off like other rainbow colours? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you guys are clearly amazing. Like a prism of reflective.

Right, and where did you wear this to? I wore this to course. Okay. How did it go down? What were you studying at the time? So I'm on my level two at the moment. Of what? So what happened, okay,

so it was at Glassons, if you guys all know that store. Yeah, familiar. And I agree with you, I only wear black, like grey, white, plain colours. This is not me to go all out. Yeah. What the heck?

I so need to wear this jacket, and it got bought for me, so. Why not? Yeah. Everybody's reaction was, Iris? Is that really you? It's just, we can't see whose face it is off the harsh reflections coming off the jacket. That comment's not really discouraging, though, because you'd be like, yes, it is.

It's the new me. It's like Iris after they take her glasses off on a TV movie and, like, do her hair. Thanks, Iris. Taylor, what was your bold fashion choice? Hey, everyone. So it was musty day at high school. And, you know, on musty day, I feel like you have to go all out.

Yeah. It's like the one opportunity. Everybody's judging. Express who you are on that one day I feel like you have to go all out. It's like the one opportunity. To express who you are on that one day. Yeah, exactly. And so I was like, alright, I'm going to come in bold. I'm going to make a statement. And so I brought these bright purple

creeper shoes, like velvet creeper shoes. Wow. Hey, Grimace, did someone say that? And then, oh, it was not good. I walked in and my friends were like, oh, like that? Bold? I wanted creepers.

I wanted some red ones. Oh, wow. I'm just going to picture. Purple velvet creepers. Not as bad as I was expecting. They are something, though. They really are. They are something else.

Thanks, you're call, Taylor. Taryn, you made a bold fashion choice. Hi, yeah. In 2010, I got married. Picked the wrong groom, but I picked the right dress. We've all been there. We've all been there. So good.

Okay. It was a bright orange, like almost like a kind of like a ball dress. Right. It was really bright. But in my bridesmaids, it proved hard to come up with bridesmaids colours, but they all wore cream. So my auntie kind of went, well, the heck's going on here? Bridesmaids walking up in cream.

This isn't going to look right. And then she saw me and went, oh, of course. They were more bridal than you. Oh, my God. Wow. It's not that the dress didn't get wasted. I got to wear it again for a masquerade ball. So that was fun.

It was like the wedding was sponsored by Jetstar. Yeah, pretty much. Okay. Thanks, Taryn. You can't even blame 2010 on that because I got married in 2010 and orange wasn't even on the radar. No. My hairdresser talked me into bright pink hair.

She was all like, yes, girl, your toes can rock this. And I was like, yeah, I can. Of course I can. And I walked outside and the first person that stared at me, I was like, what have I done? And I feel like that happens all the time at the hairdresser. They're like, yeah, you can do this. You can do this.

Just because what, do they need to tick some books of like doing so many hair colours a month or something? They get bored or something. They want to change it up. Yeah. Somebody else said, I got super carried away when the Ed Hardy store opened in Auckland. That was never a good idea.

Nah, even at the time we were like, what is going on here? We all had a friend who loved a bit of Ed Hardy. Yeah, yeah. And generally they were already too old to be wearing it. And they bought a pair of bedazzled boots like you wouldn't believe.

Wow. Spent a fortune on them. I've got so much grief from my friends that I never wore them again. A few years later we got broken into and they got stolen.

So I guess somebody out there liked my Ed Hardy bedazzled boots but I didn't meet them when I was wearing them. Somebody else said I had an electric yellow lime coloured beanie that I loved about eight years ago. Wore it all the time.

No one said anything. Then when I stopped wearing it, somebody said, thank God he's got rid of that beanie. And I was like, what do you mean? And everyone was like, oh yeah, we just let you wear it because it was so funny. We like laughing at you. And when their friend was wearing the lime green beanie, it didn't matter what they were wearing because he was always wearing the worst item of clothing.

Which is good to have around. It is. Like you try something new. Someone's like, what are you wearing? You're like, well, at least it's not a lime green beanie. And everyone's like, yeah, that's right. Let him keep wearing it. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is that 470 million years ago, the summit of Mount Everest was actually the sea floor. Where was Mount Everest? The highest it didn't exist. The highest point of what it's made of actually the sea floor. Where was Mount Everest? The highest it didn't exist. The highest, the point of what it's made of was the sea floor. How long ago? 470 million years ago. And then I'm guessing at some stage it was thrust up there.

Yeah. So the tectonic plates just pushed together instead of going up. So there's different types. They can go like, they can both be pushed down. Yep. And that causes like massive they can both be pushed down. Yep. And that causes like massive trenches and stuff like the Mariana. Did that happen at once? No, no, no.

Mount Everest or over time? No, no, no. Over time. Over time. Imagine if the earth sneezed and it was like, ah, mountain range. I know, but that's what I was going to say. Imagine if we saw that in our lifetime. I mean, I wouldn't want to be living anywhere near where that would happen.

You'd feel it no matter where on earth you were. Yeah. Just imagine if the earth sneezed. And then it goes achoo and it blows a mountain. But it's one of those sneezes where you fart at the same time and that caused a Mariana Trench. Achoo. Oh, got it.

We've got a mountain range, but we've also got a huge trench. You should have been a geography teacher. This is a way to get through to the kids. But it's not how it happened. But it's not how it happened. I know, but you just make stuff up. No, I don't think that's part of being a teacher. You're not supposed to.

Oh, you're not. You can. You can. You can. You can't be a teacher with a lie. You can. And then you tell them the boring truth. So Mount Everest, the summit of it, the summit pyramid, you know, the famous, yep, right

at the toppy bit. The peak. It is made of grey limestone. Yeah, the summit of it, the summit pyramid, you know, the famous, right at the toppy bit. It is made of grey limestone. Yeah, the peak of it, the top of it. Otherwise known as the toppy bit. If you wrote toppy bit in an exam, they'd know what you're talking about. The peak, the summit, the toppy bit. It's made of grey limestone.

And limestone, of course, famously under the sea. And even they say they obviously can't get to the top of Everest because you're literally dying when you enter that top part of Everest. They can't sit up there with little tools and be like, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape. But a little bit further down, they found fossils and stuff. Starfish. Starfish.

Of, well, the equivalent of the time. Like shells. Starfish. Pippies. Do you reckon this one's good? It's been frozen. Yeah, it's been very frozen. I don't know.

I don't think we should eat it. Isn't there an algae bloom this summer? What, up Everest? Yep. And then you turn around and there's one of those muscle dispensaries up Everest that they've got at every supermarket. You're like, who's buying all those? Said it before, I'll say it again.

There's too many in there. They're going to go bad before they all get eaten. So, yeah, the limestone at the top, they just said it would have been on the sea floor, but then, like we said about the earth sneezing, and it went up. So, yeah, pretty insane to think about. The highest point on earth was once the seabed. And there's a pippi up there. Think about that next time.

Pippis, all sorts of things. Kenna. It's all up there. A fish. Yep. I was like, what else is in the ocean? A fish. Octopuses.

Yeah. A crab. Yeah, but they're all there. Somewhere in that limestone. A fish. Octopuses. Yeah. A crab. Yeah, but they're all there. Somewhere in that limestone. A whale. Yep. And you know, if we keep global warming, one day we might be able to find out.

Yes. So it's not all bad. So today's fact of the day is 470 million years ago, the summit of Mount Everest was actually the sea floor. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. There is a new manufacturer of pineapple lumps has been taken to Australia. So apparently, I'm not going to tell you

what the specifics of the complaints because I don't want to sway in your mind. Yeah, okay. So we've got a bag and it says on the back that they're made in Australia. So these are definitely the new pineapple lumps. But it also says the original pineapple lumps.

Slightly misleading, you'd say? So there are very specific complaints about parts of the chocolate. Now joining us in studio, producer James, who's just had rice bubbles for breakfast. So you'd say you're a foodie, James. A massive fan of pineapple onion. I love pineapple onion.

And food influencer Henny's Norms on Instagram. Thank you so much for the shout out, producer Anya. Also, what happened to your bath influencing? Because you have been on that. Yeah, well, no one sent me anything and then I posted about food and then Nando's were like, girl, you want some chicken?

And I was like, this is a more lucrative market for me. Well, you're a flip-flop influencer. Yeah. You just go wherever the free stuff is, wherever the dollars are.

Who goes to those bath bombs that you like? Yeah, you need to get on board with them and do some bath influencing. Oh, I'm happy to go back to it if Lush want to send me some. It's a hard world,

the influencer world though, isn't it? It is. It's not easy. You're scraping by there with your bath bombs and your free peri-peri nandos. Don't open it with your mouth.

It said tear here but I couldn't tear it so there's the first problem. The tear here on the bag didn't have a little slash. I want to taste it. I'm going to be yuck.

What's that taste? It's more than scoobies. Let's pass this round and let's attack a couple each because you've got to have more than one. Think of the specifics that if you don't like it, think's got that taste. It's more than Scoobies. Let's pass this round and let's attack a couple each because you've got to have more than one. Think of the specifics that, if you don't like it, think of specifics that... Now, they visually still look the same.

Do they? Like, same size. One of the complaints was the colour, right? Was it the colour or was it darker than the original? Yeah, you know what? I think Jane... Oh, I didn't know that you said that. I don't know.

Vaughan's hogging the bag. I thought you were conducting this focus group. I didn't know you were taking that. I don't know. Vaughan's hog in the bag. I thought you were conducting this focus group. I didn't know you were taking part. Yeah, so is that one of the complaints, Megan, that the chocolate looks darker? It does say the chocolate was darker. I think it was the taste. Oh, oh, oh.

I didn't want to. This is really weird. You know what? What? No, the chocolate does taste darker. It does taste different. The chocolate does taste different It does taste different The chocolate does taste different

I wish we had like an old It tastes like it's more waxier Is that a thing? Is that Is that palm oil chocolate?

That's vegetable oil chocolate eh? That's not butter chocolate No I thought Cabernet they weren't doing that anymore Not in New Zealand they were

Excuse me that doesn't say it's not listed specifically on there. They never do call it palm oil, it's got a bad rat. Well, look, it doesn't taste like buttery chocolate. Yeah, the chocolate is definitely different, isn't it? But in saying that, the inside still tastes like,

I'd still happily eat a whole bag. So some of the complaints are that the inside does taste like sugary foam rather than they say it's not as chewy. I would say it's similar chewiness. Yeah. It's not as pineapple-y as it used to be. The chocolate tastes darker. It's got, like, heaps of one-star reviews now on their Facebook page.

Hmm. People went into that with a bias, though, didn't they? Yeah. See, that's the thing. Barker. It's got like heaps of one-star reviews now on their Facebook page. People went into that with a bias though, didn't they? Yeah, see that's the thing. You see, I'd happily eat a whole bag. I'd happily eat a whole bag. I don't think they're that much different. Yeah, do you know what? I can't actually taste a difference. I haven't had a pineapple on for ages, but I think you need that direct comparison.

The old one and the new one. I think the chocolate is different though. With a palate cleanser. Yeah, straight away the chocolate's different. But yeah, people are saying they're weak. They're not as I think the chocolate is different though. With a palate cleanser. Yeah, sure. Straight away the chocolate's different, but yeah, people are saying they're weak. They're not as strong as the pineapple used to be, but I think it is. Just the chocolate.

You'd still chuck your trackies on on a Friday night. One hundred. Smash a whole bag. I'm having another one. James, what do you think? Yeah, I think I've just got it in my mind that the chocolate's different. I don't know if I can taste advent calendar chocolate.

No, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's if I can taste advent calendar chocolate. No, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not as bad as advent calendar chocolate. Somebody said they use more emulsifiers in Australian made chocolate due to higher temperatures so they don't melt on shelves. It does have emulsifiers listed in there.

More emulsifiers than you. So that'll be why the chocolate just has that maybe a different texture. Maybe they don't feel as, they've got as much sort of, what do you call it like sustenance to it than the old ones.

They're quite light. Normally you can get a few more chews out of original. Yeah, I don't know. I think the size is the same too. Put them in the freezer

if you want a chewy pineapple. That's always a classic isn't it? Alright, well I mean so what's our verdict? They're still nice. We'll still probably

smash a bag? We do like to complain about. I think I'd probably still go Jet Planes. Oh, okay. I'd go Jet Planes over a pineapple lump. Why, is that controversial, is it? Yeah, they're not even in the same league. What do you have?

Do I have to have a. A chocolate coated, like a Malteser. Or a chocolate fish. I'd go Malteser over a pineapple lump. Or a chocolate fish, sure. I'd go a chocolate fish over it. No, you'd have a pineapple lump over a chocolate fish. No, I'd have a chocolate fish over a pineapple lump.

What, am I being silly now? Yeah. All right. Well, they need to make them bigger. Make a pineapple lump. No, you just ate the whole pack. Okay, here we go. Make a pineapple lump in a pineapple shape.

Oh, yeah. Like a chocolate fish. Yeah, good, good, yep. And then you could call it a chocolate pineapple. Okay. Okay, you're welcome. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. An Australian woman, she was arrested a little while ago,

but this is going to court. She's going to be sentenced in June. Well, she's been found guilty. She's going to be sentenced in June, but Australia has released the details of this case now. This is a story about catfishing. And she was arrested in 2016. So it was three years ago that she was arrested for this.

Subsequently gone to trial and been found guilty and sentenced soon. So kind of at the height of catfishing, she was catfishing. Before the TV show was watched by everybody and the movie was amazingly watched by everybody. She was accused of pretending to be Lincoln Lewis. Do you remember Lincoln Lewis? His dad was rugby league legend Wally Lewis. He was on Home and Away.

He was on Home and Away. That's right. For many years he was on Home and Away. Went to a miracle. I don't know how his acting thing went. I think he was in a Hallenstein's commercial last year. Lincoln Lewis. I think he was in a few movies.

I don't know what he's been in lately. Tomorrow when the war began. He's 31 now. Is he? He's 31 now, yeah. So she was impersonating him multiple times. She ran a four year scam, numerous victims and unfortunately

and I mean, I don't know if this is part of what she's been found guilty of and be sentenced for but one young woman who was tricked, fooled, and told people that she was in a relationship with Lincoln Lewis, and then it came out that this woman had catfished her to embarrass her and try to get money out of her. She took her own life. Oh my God. At the embarrassment and public ridicule she got from it. So she's going to be sentenced. She said she wants to clear her name.

The girl that did it, but you know, people are just like Nah, you're a piece of work, mate. Yeah. She said, oh, I was out of a broken relationship. I'd just come out of a relationship that had broken down and it was quite nasty and so I just wanted to find comfort. Well, you wanted to

trick other people and ridicule other people. You dragged everybody else into your despair. Yeah, weird. Yeah. So she also changed it to impersonate a few other people as well, but Lincoln Lewis being the most well-known. She was also a struggling British actor at one stage. He found out about it.

Obviously not too stoked about it at all. So, yeah. She was using actual like celebrities. Yeah. Wow at all. So, yeah. She was using actual celebrities? Yeah. Wow, okay. Yeah, yeah, she was. So, and obviously not, well, I don't know if she wasn't thinking about the outcomes for people involved or just didn't care about them.

100% not thinking about the emotions of the other person. Exactly. Just, I never really know, you never really get exactly what they're getting out of it, even on that catfish show. Oh, that catfish movie that started the TV show is... It's amazing. What a watch that is. Yeah.

And that kind of explains why the term catfish is called catfish. Yeah. If you haven't seen that movie... That's a good little end to the movie, isn't it? It is, without any spoilers. All right. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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