ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - April 30 2018

Episode Date: April 29, 2018

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This is the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by Spark. Capture life like never before with the Samsung Galaxy S9. I told you you should have done it, Megan. No, I tell you, that was great. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. I love the phrase mid-coitus. It's got to be in a kid's book. If an adult needs to see a

cartoon diagram of how it works, it might be a little bit late. And Kmart too. It won't be expensive, that book. A couple of dollars. Kmart got me at the weekend. Went in for one thing. Oh, of course you did. Came out with three. Bloody... Oh, that's actually good. That's not too bad. Yeah, not too bad. I know.

There's a bit of restraint there. A bit of restraint. Rotorua, the photos that were coming out of there last night. Good Lord. Wow. And do you know the photo that got me the Karangahaki Gorge? I have just seen a couple more videos pop up of people who were driving through it when the water was nearly at road level. Because you know you drive through there and the water's like, how far down would that

be? 50 metres? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 10 metres at parts. It's down the way. It's a big drop. But the thing about that is it's a very wide base to that as well. There would have been some liturage humming through there.

There was water up to the road. That was crazy. It surprised me that it didn't shut, given that it could have washed out the road. And I wonder if there will be parts of it that will have been washed out or, you know, as the water recedes, it will go with it. Was there a warning for that? Or has it just been like, oh, whoopsie, surprise, there's some rain?

I feel like you get big warnings and then not a lot happens and then you don't get a big warning. Little to no warning and you almost get washed away. Yeah. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, three news headlines for three interesting, unusual, weird, funny news stories that I've found online. You're only allowed to pick one headline, Vaughan and Megan.

The following headlines. Headline one, dog walker takes home what she thinks is a potato. Headline two, winning wildlife photo disqualified. And headline three, getaway vehicle not thought through. There we go. I want two or three. What's that? Winning wildlife photo or the getaway car.

I want number two because I think I know what number one was. Was it an old grenade that she found? Yes, it was. Oh, look at that. Lovely Tito for dinner. But it was a grenade? Yeah.

But like an old World War II grenade. Yeah. Which won't soften up after 10 minutes of boiling, I'll tell you that much. Imagine if your dog just wanders over and you're like, what's that? Oh, it's a grenade, just as the pin falls out.

Do you leave the dog? He's taking home a manky potato you just find. Yeah, I know. I was looking up a rogue potato. God, it could have been there forever. So a story too? Wildlife story. A wildlife photo disqualified.

Yeah. Okay. All right. The winner of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year photo contest has been stripped of his award. Now, the award was won by a Brazilian photographer. He won the Animals in Their environment category for the 2017 contest. I'm going to show you the photo.

A lovely starry night. I think those are like glowworms on a rock and an anteater. Oh, wow. That's an anteater. Like a fluorescent, luminescent ants or something. Like luminescent ants or luminescent like glowworms or something on the rock. And then the beautiful starry sky in the background. Yeah.

Wow. Why do you think he's been stripped of that award? The ants are fake. The lights. No. The stars are fake. No. The anteaters are taxidermy. Correct.

Yes. You got there. So it turns out the category, animals and their environment. Well, it's an animal. How did they get busted? It probably used to and their environment. Well, it's an animal. How did it get busted? It probably used to be its environment. So after the award was announced, somebody apparently noticed something strange.

The anteater in the photo looked remarkably similar to a stuffed anteater found at one of the entrances of the same national park. Oh, wow. Seriously, I'm just going to borrow this for a photo. The National History Museum, they en Museum, they own the competition. They run the competition. They enlisted the help of five expert scientists to investigate.

The team comprised of two mammal experts and a taxidermy specialist, as well as two external experts. One in South American mammals and one specifically in anteaters. So they all reached the same conclusion that there are elements in overall posture, morphology, the position of the raised tufts and fur and the patterning that were too similar to depict two different animals. So it's stuffed and you're not winning anymore. That's so cheeky.

Because you have to have an animal, right, in the picture. Well, it's animals in their environments. It's going to be so hard to take a picture of a moving one. Yeah. Or you could be waiting forever. The photographer, he said he can provide a witness who claims he saw the live anteater. But unfortunately, he doesn't have another image because it was a long exposure of 30 seconds and the animal's gone now, so.

I didn't give it my business card. I didn't have any on me. I dropped them. Yeah, yeah. Hmm. So it was a termite mound. So do termites glow? I don't know.

Well, with that, I'm not too sure. Anyway, it's a beautiful photo, whether it's fake or not. But it has not won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. I don't know. I'm not too sure. Anyway, it's a beautiful photo, whether it's fake or not. But it has not won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Also, if it was long exposure, how would you keep the... Exactly. The headlight beetle, or the pyroporus nicophanus beetle, lays its larvae in the size of termite mounds. And when they hatch, they glow green with light.

And they eat the termites. So that's what was going on. It's like luring them to their death. Yeah, yeah. So the termites are like, what's that? So they go to have a look at the light and then the larvae eat them and then eventually they turn into the beetle. And that's why the anteaters are there.

They're eating the termites and maybe the larvae as well. Well, also because he put it there because it's taxidermy. Fake hairs. Whipsy. Oh, and that photo that you were talking about is like the go-to photo for articles about bioluminescent termite mounds. Oh. When you think about it, though, a long exposure of 30 seconds,

the antenna must have stayed perfectly still for 30 seconds. Yeah. Oh, darn. F.M. Man has been banned for driving for 18 months after he was caught on the M1 doing something. Guesses. This is in the UK.

Yeah. It wasn't anything dirty before. Watching a show on his iPad or phone or laptop. I think this might be one of the first cases that I've read about of this happening. He was driving a Tesla. Okay. And he decided to put it on autopilot. They don't call it autopilot though, do they? They call it

self-driving automated automation. Yeah. So he had put it into, I guess autopilot, we'll just call it that. Jumped into the passenger seat. And he was filmed. There's a video. It's quite amusing

just because I'm not on the motorway with him. And he was leaning back with his arms behind his head. While the car was driving. That's ultimate trust in your vehicle. While the car was driving. I know that people have Teslas in New Zealand because I've seen them. But do they have this auto drive autopilot thing? They do, but it's legal to use.

Oh, because I was going to say that New Zealand roads are so windy and all over the place. Like at least in the UK and Europe, you've just got these big flat freeways that go on forever. Yeah. We've got a couple of those, but the traffic's always pretty heavy. Yeah. So yeah, you're not allowed to use it. And I think overseas you are allowed to use it, but you have to be behind the wheel. So that if something goes wrong, you can be like, break.

Yeah. You can override it. Human intervention. Human intervention is essential. So this man was filmed 40 miles an hour. Is that like 60? About 60, 70. Yeah.

60, 70. And yeah, he was filmed some, like multiple people going past him just watch. Oh, actually he's got his feet on the dashboard too. That's a comfortable way to sit.

But if you're going to crash, then you, you know, you run a real risk of being paralyzed with your legs up on the dashboard. That's what my mum always said. Oh, no, and your airbags go off, don't they? Oh, the airbags break your legs. It'll flick your legs back over your head.

So, yeah, he's not allowed to drive for 18 months. He's been done for dangerous driving. But the car did so well. Well done. Well, he didn't crash it, did he? No, but it is a straight line. It's on the motorway. Elon Musk should

pay the appeal of the court stuff. Just because he's obviously done some great advertising for Tesla. Yeah.

He could just climb across into the passenger seat and have a relax. Imagine if he climbed into the, oh,

do they have back seats? Was it a back seat one? Yeah. Imagine climbing into the back seat and having a snooze. I'll be more impressed if he gets in the boot

and shuts it. It's just really running the risk. Well, I'd like climbing into the back seat and having a snooze. I'll be more impressed if he gets in the boot and shuts it. It's just really running the risk. Well, I'd like fold down the back seat, go through there, and then pull it shut. That would be the scariest thing to pull up alongside on the motorway. But with these ghost cars, the only explanation is ghost car. FEM. ZM. The Barbecue Price Index is something I didn't even know Existed until yesterday

I'm very excited about it Set the BBQ pitmasters Facebook page Alight Everyone was talking about it How do you say it was lit? Oh the BBQ was lit No that's

Okay The BBQ fan page Yeah yeah It was lit It was lit It was lit It's a little charcoal star That got the chimney going

And it was lit This is like the Big Mac index Where they compare the price of a Big Mac, how much it costs you in every different country around the world to buy, but for meat. Correct. Correct. That you barbecue. But specifically barbecue meat, like pork, beef, chicken, lamb.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. And what it costs around the world and the most expensive places to get it. We're the fifth most expensive country for chicken and pork. Really? Yeah.

But we have so much here. This always blows my mind. Looking at the places that have the most expensive stuff, it tends to be the countries that would struggle to get it because maybe there's not as much farming. Right.

Like Hong Kong and Singapore, for example, primarily big metropolitan city countries. Yeah. Or places where there's not as much factory farming. Right. Like the countries where it's cheap probably don't have a problem with pigs not seeing the blue sky, for example,

and they're tired in their life. And that's the reason it's cheap. Knowing what it's like to flap their wings and not hit another chicken. Oh god that's sad. That's why we maybe pay a little bit more. Which I'm fine with. Me too. I'll always get the what is it? The

free range eggs. The not cage. The not cage. Yeah. Because the other day, cage free barn. I was like, what's that? So I looked it up and it's the chickens don't get to go outside though. Oh, don't they? Nah, they get to live in a barn.

But I imagine this in my head, this really cute barn. It's on a farm. Okay. Like a red, painted red barn. Yeah, I don't think it's quite like that. I think a barn technically is just they have scratching room. And a fox sneaks around outside with a mask on, so the barn's actually like the safest place for the chickens to be.

Yeah, exactly. Doesn't a barn just constitute like having room for them to scratch their feet? Oh, really? Okay, well, I'm doing cage-free. That's all right. I'm doing, oh, no, free range. Free range. Now, that in my mind is Sound of Music Hills.

And they're just like scratching around. Smelling a flower. Yeah, there's like one of them. Oh my God, it's a happy place. And then they lay an egg and the farmer has to literally spend 10 minutes finding it. Because it's in the middle of nowhere. It's rummaging around. It's in the grass.

It's like an Easter egg hunt. I ate that egg and I felt really good. Yeah. Yeah. So why are they like $8 for $12? There you go. Yeah's in the ground. It's like an Easter egg hunt. I ate that egg and I feel really good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So why are they like $8 for $12? There you go. Yeah.

There you go. So we join, with pork, we join Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan in the top five. But Switzerland's significantly more expensive. So for a chop, for a KG of chops, we're paying $9, whereas Switzerland's paying $20. Did he say chips? Chop. Chops.

I was going to say this is not the chip index. This is not the chip index. It's chops. For a pork sausage, they're paying twice what we pay as well. So Switzerland actually tops the list for everything. Oh, that place is so expensive. I was only there for three days. End of last year, and even BK was ridiculously. But then there's meat in that, so that's probably why that was so expensive. I was only there for three days, end of last year, and even BK was ridiculous.

But then there's meat in that, so that's probably why that was so expensive. Yeah, that would have been. Why? Because that would have been beef. Yeah, that was beef. And I got a combo, which was literally, I think, just, I forget what burger, but it was 26 New Zealand dollars.

Like, Switzerland is out of control expensive. Switzerland for months. Yeah. Months. For months. A KG of months. A KG of m expensive. Switzerland for months. Yeah. Months. For months. A kg of mints. Mints.

Mints. Mints. Minch. Months. We should say minch. Minch. A kg of minch is 20 US dollars. How expensive is minch?

How much? 20 US dollars for a kg of minch. Minch. Whereas ours would probably be more like five. No, that would be about the same. Eight or ten dollars of kg on, that's 500 grams. The New Zealand dollars. Yeah.

We'd probably be paying five US dollars for a kg of minch. Munch. Munch. Munch. This is just the most Kiwi chat ever on radio. We're talking about the price of mints. But do other people do mints? I feel like that mints is such a New Zealand thing.

Mints. No, but I guess like mints, like it ends up in patties and that sort of stuff. But no, they don't just like chuck the tube of mints straight in a pan and cook it and be like, Cods, dinner's ready. Cods are having nachos tonight with mints. Cods like mints. Oh, I love them, but I don't want to call it mints. I want to call it mints.

Our accent makes it hard to understand. Mintsay. Oh, we should mintsay. Mintsay. We should put a thing over the E. We should work for the mate department. What is it called? The butchery.

What mate department? You know, where you get celebrities to endorse. Oh, the red meat department. Red meat. Yeah, but you guys are all right.

You guys don't get too carried away on your red meats. You two. No, more of a fush and chukka. Fush and chukka. No munch.

Uh, what? Munch. Mince. Mince. Munch. He doesn't jump into munch. No, you don't need...

No. Okay, that's fine. There's that classic problem that hotels face where people swipe pillows and all sorts of free stuff. I'd never do that. Stealing a pillow from a hotel. Disgusting. Oh, yeah, I suppose a lot of people have slept on that.

Yeah. Or like towels or whatever you can grab. Well, you're not... No, you're not meant to. Now he's shaking his head. Also, I don't know where you were staying, but most of the towels I use in hotels, they feel like they've been washed a thousand times.

Oh, yeah, no. It's just if you come across a particularly good... I'm more about the size. Right. Like a good, long... Yeah, if it's a big one. Oh, no, I don't steal the bar. I just steal the hand.

I don't steal towels at all. No, no, no. At all. Well, now it's a problem for airlines. Multiple airlines have reported that their bedding has gone missing. Bedding? Yeah. So, like, this includes, like, pillows, blankets that they give you.

Right. And, like, higher end,, like first class and everything. They get mattress, like things they lie on. What do you call those? Like little mattress protectors. Oh, yeah. Like toppers. Like little pad thing that they lie on.

They steal those. I don't know why you'd steal that. Those aren't much. Yeah, and it would be fitted to just a seat, right? Rather than, it wouldn't fit your bed. But what are you going to do with that? It's like stealing a mini duvet. When you get home and you'll be like,

oh, it's a bit cold, mate. I'm hanging out the side. I've taken a blanket off a plane before for my dog. Why? For your dog. Great size for the dog. Fold it in half, lay it on the ground. The dog's got a little blanket.

You can get them for like $2 from Kmart. Yeah, but then you have to go to Kmart. No one ever goes to Kmart and only spends $2, Megan. Like Fletch at the weekend. Got drawn in with one thing, left with three. That's 300% more than he went for. Yeah. So they start with an inventory of like over a million pieces,

they've said, and now they have to, like it's just shrunk right from the start. My thing is... Wow. They had started with a... Is this one of the big airlines? A million dollars. This is all the big airlines in the state.

Actually, British Airlines as well, American Airlines, United Airlines, across the board, they're all reporting it's a massive problem. So they're saying to their staff, can you please make sure

people don't walk out with the bedding? But then if you were trying to swipe it, like, how are you stuffing that into your carry-on? Those pillows and... The pillow you'll be able to get in, the blanket maybe, but again, the mattress topper.

Is it a fuzzy area, though? Because you know when you go economy long haul, like if you went to LA or something, and they give you your little blanket and your little crappy pillow? Yeah. Are you allowed to take that home? No. Like, where's the line?

Is it a blurry line? But those pillows feel to me like one-use pillows. No, it's not a blurry line. You're not a... No, I'm with Fletcher. It feels blurry. I understand the blanket because they wash those, right? They wash them and put them back in the plastic.

Do they? What do they do with the pillows? But yeah, the pillows do feel like one-use. I feel that they... Single-use. But they're also rubbish. Yeah. No, but those blankets are pretty scratchy.

You know they're not brand new. Hmm. It's not a grey area. You know they're not brand new. Hmm. It's not a grey area. You're not supposed to take them. I'm not stealing an airline blanket because they're manky. But then if, like, let's go to an imaginary land of the regular business traveller. Hmm. You'd be able to take, you'd pay a fortune, you'd be able to take a blanket, wouldn't you?

No. Because, like, they've said... Okay, okay, let's go to the even more imaginary land. First class. You take a blanket. You take. If you can afford it. Other blankets get, they're obviously,

much like the seating, the leg room and everything about it, the blankets get better every step up. You go? Yeah, well in first class, they get their bedding and their duvets. They get little duvets from Saks Fifth Avenue. And they said they're $70 each.

And people are swiping those too. The thing is, if you were paying, because what, $15,000 first class? You're like, I get the UK and back duvet. Or $20,000 probably one way. Like, what are you, you're going to steal a duvet if you're paying $15,000. Oh yeah, I'm taking the duvet. I'd take a little bit of the cockpit as well.

Just a bit of the door. I'd take the captain's uniform. I'd walk up and be like, hat, chuck us your hat, chuck us your jacket. I need the hat. I need the hat. No, chuck us the hat, chuck us the jacket.

Chuck us, yeah. I'll take the pants too because it's kind of weird if I have the jacket without the pants. You can keep the undies. Shoes though, I'm going to need,

what size shoe are you? 10. No, I don't want them. They'll be too tight. You can keep the shoes. Yeah. Keep them. They'd probably let you, your can keep the shoes. Yeah. Keep them. They'd probably let you.

You're first class. They'd probably actually let you get away with anything. If you had the balls to ask, the kids would probably be like, yes, sir. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Last night, Dancing with the Stars. Season two. New Zealand. Season.

Season two. Three, four, no, two. Three. Wasn't it one years ago? Three, yes, three. Oh, yeah, there was. TVNZ did one, right? Or did TVNZ do two?

I can't remember. With Jason. Yeah, and Channel 3's done one, and this is Channel 3's second. Okay. No one's calling it Channel 3 anymore, but okay. I can't call it what? Plus sign, H, R, double, three. Yeah, true. Cool kids cool kids Swedish Nordic language.

Well, it's like TVNZ one and two. I just call it one and two. Okay, should I just call it three? Okay, yeah. I think that's what it's called. So News Hub had a show last night where they did dancing, which I thought was most unusual. Just show me what's happening in the world in the weather, please. No, last night was the first episode of Dancing with the Stars,

and I only caught the last 20 minutes of it. Well, they didn't all dance. They halved it. No, there's some coming back tonight. So here's the top six things I thought while watching the last 20 minutes of Dancing with the Stars. Number six. Oh, heck, it's ten past eight.

I've really lost track of time while cleaning my garage. Hey, Caitlin, I just mentioned cleaning my garage on the show, and you said I couldn't do it, and I did. Boy, you should see my garage, guys. Actually, you encouraged this, Megan. You called me a pack rat. Oh, good. I thought that was a real clean out.

Your garage is at a real stage. Tripped to the dump yesterday with Ross Boss. That was a bit of bonding. Because he moved, so he had a whole lot of stuff for the dump. He didn't have a tow bar. I provided the car. He hired the trailer. Yeah, and you just wanted half-price dump fees.

You were such a tight ass. But then he paid anyway. Oh, right. Okay. It was great. It was a great trip to the dump. Cleaned up the garage. Anyway, Dancing With The Stars, number five.

How was that a number? No, it was number six because it was a thought I had when I walked in. I was like, oh, heck, what time is it? And so like, oh, ten past that. I really lost track of time cleaning the garage. I thought these were going to be about dancing with the sun. It was because it made me think about the time. Right. Number five on the list of the top six things.

Oh, are those the judges? Who is that? What are they doing? You're not alone. Are they real or are they CGI? They look very realistic. Congratulations, Weta Workshop. You did not alone. Are they real or are they CGI? They looked very realistic. Congratulations, Weta Workshop. You did really fantastic.

Who were they? Dancing professionals. Because Hayley Holt, rumour has it, Hayley Holt was lined up to do it, but then was like, I'm going to do breakfast. So I don't know. I don't know any of them. Right.

Because Candy Lane did it years ago. Yeah, and a couple of them have been on Dancing With The Stars. They're professional dancers. Oh, right. So they've got, they've stepped up. They know what they're talking about. Yeah. They know what they're doing.

Well, they looked like dancers. You know how dancers always look very preened? Preened, yes. Like poised. Preened. No, you know how a bird preens its feathers? Oh, okay. Look very preened, like very like well done.

Well, yeah, they'd had a shower and had their makeup done. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Not a hair out of place. No. Number four on the list of the top six things. That's why I thought they looked fake is because they looked too good. Right.

Compliments. Number six. Sorry, number four. We're down to number six. Did I tell you about number six? Kaelin, I cleaned my garage. Oh, you could eat out of it. Number four on the list of the top six things.

I'm not impressed. I thought I watched the last 20 minutes of Dancing with the Stars last night. Oh, phew. I haven't missed the real train wreck dances. That's good. Marama Fox looks absolutely foxed. I thought she did great. She did great, but at the end of it, she was like,

this is a glass of water. I don't think she deserved to be on the bottom of the table. No, I thought she did really great. Yeah. And you obviously liked it because she was dancing with a man considerably younger than herself. Yeah, get it, girl. She was dancing with someone.

She had four sons that were older than the guy she was dancing with. Imagine that. She's like, I feel like a cougar. Yeah. Sweet. That's good, though. Number three on the list of the top six things I thought while watching the last 20 minutes of Dancing with the Stars last night.

Oh, here's Siobhan Rokiri doing the cha-cha, and I feel like if she does too much cha-cha, we might see the ta-tas. They were. I don't know how she got through that. Without losing a buzz. He, like, flicked her back, and I I was like, oh no, she's good. That must have been taped.

Magic tape. She was wearing a cat suit. And the danger with a cat suit is that it can go down, out, or up, out. Is it?

There's lots of, when I wear my cat suit, I have to be very careful of accidental nip slip. Accidental nip slip. Very careful indeed. Number two, on the list of the top six things

I thought while watching the last 20 minutes of Dancing with the Stars last night Sam Hayes nearly kissed that man After he literally ran his chin From her navel To her chin He lifted her

Right at the end, Fletch Right And he lifted her And they turned around And his chin was on her navel Right And then she slid down him And the chin went

Up the tummy Between the boobs Up her neck And then just slid down him. And the chin went up the tummy, between the boobs, up her neck, and then just stopped at the chin. And they were like, they looked like they were going to, they looked like they'd forgotten they were on TV and they were about to have a kiss. See, I told you. I told you Andrew's never doing that show. Not that I'd ever be asked, but, you know, it's never happening.

Oh, that's what Sade said. Don't think you're doing Dancing with the Stars. I said, well, no, no, that media company wouldn't ask me to do Dancing with the Stars. They won't even let me back on seven days. And the number one on today's list, the top six things I thought watching the last 20 minutes of Dancing with the Stars last night. When it ended?

Yeah. Susie Cato really should have come out and sung See Ya, See Ya Later. Oh, that would have been great. That would have been the perfect end to it. She dances tonight. Did you see on her Instagram, because I started following her, she's doing all this backstage stuff. On her Instagram, she introduced her partner and she was like,

we're just backstage. This is my partner, Matt. And I was like, okay. She's like, vote for us. I was like, okay, Susie, I will. You find yourself subconsciously sitting on the ground with your arms and your legs folded. Yes, Mrs. Kato.

That's today's top six. FVM, the podcast. Somebody over the weekend actually mentioned to me that as a show, we seem to have a weird fascination with the world's oldest person. Like every time they die, we do give a report on the world's oldest person dying and every time they die, we do give a report on the world's oldest person dying and we're on to the next one.

And the world's oldest person died like last week. And so this new world's oldest person, I mean, they know their days are numbered. Because I always like to know where they're from, like what kind of diet, like what was their secret? Yeah. I don't know why,

because I don't want to live that long. No, that's maybe if they're like, oh, the secret is plain rice. Avoid plain rice because nobody wants to live forever. But they're always different. Like one of them was eating lollies the other week. Yeah. I love lollies.

Can't win. I know, yeah. Well, our fascination now, or my fascination, turns to the death of another world's oldest. Okay. The world's oldest known spider has died. Have a little guess. How old do you think this spider was?

It was, I'll tell you. Don't Google. You're going straight to. That's cheating. I know. I'm just Googling lifespan of spiders. Yeah, that's cheating. That's going to tell you because it's in the news.

Don't spiders live for like a year or something? Okay, the southern black widow, one to three years. I stopped. I freaked out just by you saying that. A brown recl black widow, one to three years. A brown recluse spider, one to two years. The biggest one here is a goliath bird eater. They can live 15 to 25 years.

What about a... A what? A trillantula. A trillantula? A what? A trill... A trillantula. A trillantula. A trillantula. No.

Keep going. Keep going. You know what I mean. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. No, I've got no idea, Bourne. Carry on. Trill... No.

Trillantula Cooper, the fashion designer for Spiders. Trillantula. No. Is that not it? Tarantula. Tur... Tur... Tur... Tarantula. Tarantula. No. Is that not it? Tarantula. Tur, tur, tur. Tur.

Tarantula. Tarantula. Tarantula. Yeah, tarantula. No, leave me. She's got a broadcasting degree. Can we take that away? Can we?

I think that's actually a. Trillet. Trillet. No, you stop putting the tr at the start. It's all spread into a tarantula. Anyway, I'm getting sweaty. Trillet Trillate No you stop putting the tr At the start It's not straight into a tarantula Anyway I'm getting sweaty Trillate

No This is great So a tarantula A Mexican tarantula Is 28 years old Okay So they live old Yeah that's

Bloody old isn't it So is it older than that Yep The one that died Was a Australian Trapdoor spider So not a...

Tralantula. Tarantula. It died at the age of 43 years old. What is it called? Which is insane when you compare it to the life, expected lifespans of those ones there. This one's been involved in studies and at... Oh, yeah, nasty looking like.

And tarantulas, or as Megan calls them... Trilantula. No, it's actually getting worse because you've got a chest sound on the start. Trilantula. You started with a trillantula. Trilantula. Trilantula.

My way sounds more exotic. It does. My way of saying this thing, all incorrect, sounds way better. That's actually what I think white people have been saying about mispronouncing Māori place names for years as well. No, I don't endorse that. Actually, Wittamoo, it sounds so much more exotic when I pronounce it. Wittamoo.

Warramay. So it was 43 years old and it died. Wow. And they were like, this is, you know, unprecedented in the spider world. Did it have grey fur? Pubes. No. Did it have grey pubes?

I don't know if spiders have the signs of ageing that we've become accustomed to. Do they have pubes? Do spiders have pubes? Well, I guess so. Pubis? Because they have hair around the areas, so that could be. No, there's more than just the area to do with the pube. It's like it's a different hair.

You'd say the whole thing's kind of fancy pube-like already. Yeah, so does it change? I don't believe it would change in the reproductive zone of the trapdoor. Whereabouts when they have little baby spiders? It must be covered in some kind of pubic fuzz. It comes out the back, right? I've never seen a spider give birth, but I assume they come out the back. Okay, I've got these questions.

Carry on. It's great to have them and you can Google them. But is there a picture of the old spider? On your own time. You can Google if spiders have pubes in your own time. And where their babies come from. Right now we're busy. In your own time.

So the spider was named Barbara after the spider specialist Barbara who discovered the spider in 1974. And has passed away. The spider's passed away. I assume Barb has as well because they talk about Barb post-tense.

Did Barb see the spider being born? Yeah, she did. She got it as a baby. So they know exactly how old the spider is. 1974. Wow, that's crazy. Yep, till now. And they say that's a year 43 years old,

the spider lived to. And it made me think, because people who have old cats love telling you how old their cat is. And I'm like, yeah, I know I guessed your cat was old because it's a dribbly, manky mess and it's taking a shit in the corner.

That's not the act of a young cat. I want to know the oldest pets you've had. Maybe even, like, the grandparents never really could nail down when an animal was born, but they always took a shot. My grandparents are like, that dog's 17 years old. I'm like, nah, there's no way that dog's 17 years old. I feel like cat people know exactly how old the cat is. Yeah, well, they probably got the cat as a kitten so they could estimate it.

And then they had like little anniversaries and birthdays for it or something. Sure. My cat's 40. I think growing up, our cats made it to maybe like 15, 16, the oldest ones. That's a good, that's a good, yeah, good innings. I've never seen a happy cat when someone's like, my cat's 18. The cat's never saying to me, happy to be alive. The meows are almost saying, kill me.

I mean, humanely, get it done right. But I'm not happy. I'm not in a good spot. Same luck Gran gives you in the home. As she goes. You all right, Gran? No. Just another day in it.

Another day down here So yeah 0800 dials at M Text 9696 Let's talk about Your oldest pet We're talking about When your pets

Have lived to an Extraordinary age Whilst It was a It was a pet I guess Involved in the study Of arachnids

A 43 year old Trapdoor spider In Australia Has passed away. Call her by her name. Barbara. Barbara. Named after barbs that discovered her.

Pretty bold move to name a spider after yourself, I'd say. Real, you know, egotistical. So how old did your pets get or how old are they? Wow. There are some texts and calls coming through. We had a chihuahua Crossed with a terrier Who lived to be 21 years old

Pretty much turned Into a zombie At that age Zombie chihuahua They do end up Looking like Cats and dogs They end up looking

Like zombie versions Don't they And then they waddle Somebody said Our Labrador Lived to a ripe old age Don't know the exact age But it was definitely

Over 15 Which is for a dog Of that size Quite a significant age They said for the last Somebody said our Labrador lived to a ripe old age. Don't know the exact age, but it was definitely over 15, which is for a dog of that size, quite a significant age. They said for the last three years, I'm not laughing. I am a little bit laughing. At least once a month, mum would come in and be like, oh, I think it's happened. I think it's died.

We'd go out and pet it and it'd be like. And like awake with a start. False alarm. False alarm. It's a very deep old dog sleep. Sophie, how old did your cat live to? My cat lived to 22. 22? Oh wow. That is insane. And did it just

pack it up one day and give it? No, he was really blind and our neighbour was driving down the driveway and tooted at the cat and the cat didn't get out of the way. Oh, so he saw it enough to toot but not to slow down. He should have signed it. Yeah. The cat was like just...

Cat sign language would be fairly limited because of the lack of dexterity. It'd probably be tail related. You'd probably have to put your arm behind and give your fake tala a specific sort of wiggle. I just Googled, Sophie, the oldest cat, according to Guinness Book of World Records, how old do you think the oldest cat would be? Probably closer to 30, like 28 or something. 38. Creampuff.

Creampuff lived from 67 to 2005. You just say to Creampuff, Creampuff, would you please die? We want a new pet. We've been planning to replace you for the last 18 years. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. I can't justify getting a new pet if you're still alive.

Thanks, Ovi. Luke, how old was your girlfriend's horse? He was 33 when he got put down. 30? How old do horses normally live? Oh, that's getting pretty old for a horse. I mean, generally between the sort of mid-20s. Yeah.

Late 20s. 25 to 30. They don't generally go past 30, apparently. 33. He was 33. He got put down due to arthritis. So he was still good in the head, but just couldn't quite stand up easily. Did he go grey?

He was a white horse, so yeah, he was already grey. He was already grey, yeah. Damn it. Already a silver fox. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then we've got another horse at the moment who's a thoroughbred who's just turned 30. Wow.

You must be looking after them well or something. Yeah, I think the missus is pretty good looking. It's a red wine every night, isn't it? Yes. That's the secret. Before bed. Red wine and a pipe and a nice reading chair for a horse. Thanks for your call, Logan.

Sweet as. Logan, you can beat the cat call from before. How long did your grandparents' cat live for? 24. So, wow. So Sophie's cat was 22. 24. Yeah.

That's insane. It just kind of like resigned itself to like the corner of the house. Yeah, I think it was kind of retired. Yeah. Yeah. I never realised the age of it until I got older and then my dad said that they got it when he was a teenager. Wow.

Yeah. That's crazy. There was never a chance when it got sick that they could have put it down. Was it still all right? It seems still all right, apart from a bit dribbly. They get dribbly young.

That cat would have dribbled a few litres in its time. Poor cat. Thanks you, Cor Logan. Some text messages. My nana's cats and dogs all live to 20 plus years. It blew my mind when some people's cats died at 10. It turns out she's been feeding them prime steak, mints and lamb chops every day for their life though,

so that may explain it. Like actual meat for longevity. Yeah, they've been living it up. Phone scammers are, I don't know why, but it's really kicked off in the last few weeks for me and I've talked to a few other people and since mentioning it last week, a lot of people have been saying

they've been getting them as well. These are when you get a call from an unknown overseas number. Even you got one from a New Zealand people have been saying they've been getting them as well. These are when you get a call from an unknown overseas number. Even you got one from a New Zealand number. I got one from a Wellington based number. And the idea is, well, the latest news story is that a lot of people are getting stung with

expensive phone bills because they see this numbers called them and they really need to find out who called them. So they ring back and that number could be a $50 a minute number, even though you might not realise it. Like, it's not an 0900 number necessarily. Yeah, I don't know how that works.

Well, they're professional scammers. They've sorted it out. Clever. So don't ring back an overseas number. If you don't know the number, don't ring it back. It looks like you've missed the call, but they might only ring once with the purpose of you actually calling them back.

The people I get ring and ring and ring until you answer. So I don't know what they are. They were always telling me about a wonderful business opportunity and how I expressed a lot of interest in an additional income revenue. How are they getting our numbers? Because it must be Facebook, right?

It's got to be an app or a register. Someone's had a breach of their database. You know when you sign up for anything and there's terms and conditions and you're like, accept. No one reads that. Yeah, but you've got your phone number and your details and all that stuff. So it easily would have got to them.

Well, you got another call yesterday. Oh, I got a call. No, it was Saturday. Saturday, yeah. Not that it really matters. It was some day recently. No, no, I'm a stickler for what day it happened and it was Saturday. Saturday, yeah. Not that it really matters. It was some day recently. No, no, I'm a stickler for what day it happened, and it was Saturday.

And I've taken to answering them because... No, police have said you shouldn't do that. We told you. Don't answer them. No, but I'm no fool. I'm not giving them any details. Right. I don't even say when they say,

there's Vag hand there, because they can never say my name right. I'm like, who is this? That's how I start now. Who is this? Sir, I've got a wonderful opportunity for you. And I said, stop right there. I've had an absolute guts full of you people calling me.

I got my real old mate attitude because you know how old mates fire up real quick. Yeah. Real quick. Like I've heard something on Talkback and it's angered me and here I am on the phone. So I got fired up and I was like, stop calling me. I know this is just a big scam. You're just scammers trying to, you know, con people out of their credit card details or bank

account details. I know you're up to no good. No one with a great business opportunity is cold calling a number in a different country. And then I stopped. And there's a bit of silence. Apart from the very noisy background. Now I don't know if the noisy background's a sound effect on their end. Yeah, apparently the police are saying they do use a sound effect.

Yeah, to make it seem like they're in an office. Because it sounds what you'd imagine a stock market floor sounds like. Like a Wall Street thing. So there's that. And they're like, this is the first time I've had this. Sir, I will not stand by and have you accuse me of being a scammer and i said what do you want me to call you then a con artist sir you have no proof so i'm standing on my lawn having a screaming match on the phone with this person who has just given it back and they said you've got absolutely

no proof you cannot call us scammers we're a reputable business you can't call us scammers i'm like reputable business. You can't call us scammers. I'm like, reputable business? What country are you in? What detail is that? I've just found some office ambience. It's way noisier than this. That's someone at a keyboard.

It's just, it's a hard time. Can I just stop you there? I've got a great deal for you. In my outside office. You have expressed interest. And so I said, what country are you in? And they said, what's that got to do with it? Probably expecting me to be racist about it.

And I say, what country are you in? Because the calling code that you called from is for a specific country. Tell me what country you're in. They couldn't do it. Really? They wouldn't do it. Really? They wouldn't tell me. It was an English number.

Right. The calling code at the start was English. They would not say what country they were in because obviously they've just got a computer that just shoots through wherever and makes it seem like it's coming from anywhere. Yeah, right. And I was like, you can tell me what country and this phone call can continue. And then they just said, why should I tell you? You've accused us of being a scammer. I said, well, if you've

got, if you're not a scammer, so anyway, we screamed at each other for a probably, it felt really good. You know how just some, like people do boxing. And they say it feels really good just to get it all out in your release, all your frustrations. I didn't even know I was frustrated but this just really pulled the pain. And I felt,

afterwards I felt almost in a state of zen. Right, okay. I felt really good. I got anything that weighed me down even though I didn't know it. So you're saying maybe it's a good way of getting something off your chest, expressing yourself. Answer them. Answer them.

Don't let them talk you into anything. Although the police have said don't answer them. You can listen to the police or you can listen to Vought. Next time they call, I'm going to hear them out. Okay. I'm going to hear this business opportunity that they've got. Have you checked your phone bill? Oh, it's just work past recidivism.

It's research for the show. We just talked about it for a few minutes, guys. Yeah, right. Okay. That's a tax-deductible expense. Now, like I said, guys, and I'd love a slow clap, round of applause. I'm reading a book. And as you know, I don't normally do that because I can't sit still.

I need to be moving, doing something. It's erratic the way you're speaking, even having to think about sitting still. It's surprising. But reading a book, your mind's real busy. So does that count? I can sit there and watch like a binge TV show or a movie. But reading's different because I'm sitting there and then I can like, my mind wanders. Like you say, your mind wanders.

How many times are you like, oh God, where is I up to? Because you're reading, but you're just looking at the words and you have to go back and find out the last that you could actually remember. I'm reading a book at the moment. It's about the Golden Stank Killer. Now this is in the news at the moment. So I heard about this book and then literally the next day, they

caught this guy. The news broke that they'd caught this guy. This is just last week. And we all got obsessed about the Serial podcast, didn't we? Yeah. I feel like this is kind of

the same buzz. It's kind of, it's kind of picking up at the moment because at the same- Is there a podcast about it? Now, producer Caitlin- My Favourite Murder

had an episode about it, eh? Yeah. I've only listened to one episode. It was the first one. It was like two hours long. And they touched on this murder. And I was like, holy.

I literally listened to it the day before he got caught. So he murdered 12 people. He started burglarizing. You say burglarizing, eh? You do. So he is connected to 100 burglaries, 50 rapes, 12 murders. And they. God.

So this was between 1976 and 86. And since then, nothing. And so they, I mean, with that much time passed and the amount of intensity there was in that 10 years of committing these crimes, you would imagine that a lot of people would have

written it off to the death. They died. Yeah, well that's what they said. Like. Yeah, well, that's what they said. Like, this guy... Well, that's the thing, the bit that I'm up to in the book, they just started getting, like, DNA technology, like, around 2000, and they went to the press. Because back in the day, like, police, they didn't really share a lot of information to connect the crimes, and they didn't have a way of doing that,

apart from the crimes might have been the same kind of motive. When they went public, they said, oh, well, this guy's probably dead or in prison or something. He rang one of his victims and said, do you remember that time we played? After the police were in public? Yeah, in like 2000. So they were like, okay, he's still out there.

We've got to work to try and get this guy. And then they tested a lot of this evidence. But until like literally last week, they had no idea who this guy was. But then apparently the way that they found him is by going on one of these ancestry websites. And we've done this. We've spat in a tube.

Yeah. And got our profiles back. They found a distant relative that matched the DNA that they had from these crimes. And then apparently somehow sourced some DNA from him, whether or not they went into his trash, found one of his coffee cups or whatever, tested it. And that's when they nabbed him last week.

Wow. It's like such a fascinating read. And do you know, they've only just started shooting the HBO show. They're making an HBO show. They are making an HBO show about it. Literally, they started filming a couple of weeks ago. Oh, that would really ruin your shooting schedule, wouldn't it? Yeah, I know.

And a bonus ep. How old is he? He's old. I saw him in the news. Yeah, he's in his 70s now, eh? 72. He's 72. That's kind of sad because he's lived his whole life free.

Yeah, exactly. If he goes to prison now, he's just got the quiet years anyway. But yeah, there's a lot of... Because I posted that I was reading this book and people were like, you've got to listen to this podcast, this podcast. Case file podcast and a five part podcast on the Golden State Killer.

Well, if Fletch is reading a book, you can't have much more of an endorsement than that. It's going to make a great TV show. Wow. But yeah, do you reckon that's like crossing the line, like police going into like genealogy websites? I don't think so, because if you're not a killer, if you've got nothing to hide,

then what do you care? People have got a problem with it. People aren't happy. I don't care. But the argument for that is that if it becomes, I mean, I don't have a problem with it to catch a specific person.

Oh yeah, like people are like, he's scum of the year. But have you heard about what China's doing now with social credits? Oh, it's like Black Mirror. China's enacted social credits. Say if you jaywalk, litter, smoke in an area that isn't smoking,

the security camera, the CCTV catches you, identifies your face, you're not allowed to buy train tickets, plane tickets. You get blacklisted. Like if a landlord, you want to rent a place and you go in, they're like, oh, no, sorry, you don't have the social credits to not live in this place. You've got to go live in the slums. It's literally that episode of Black Mirror.

Yeah. Where everyone starts acting for social channels. But I'd be great at that because you know I'm such a goody good. Fletch, however, you always jaywalk. So you'd be terrible at that. Imagine that. You're just going to go on a lovely trip away from awful China and then you can't because you jaywalked one time.

Wow. Okay. That is Black Mirror. Yeah. So it's kind of that argument of where does it stop? If everyone's got the DNA. Okay, just find the murderer. Yeah, just find murderers.

We can all agree and promise that this technology will only be used to find murderers. French, Vaughan and Meekins Food Fights. The Kiwi Treat Edition. Well, it's back in 2018 Food Fight. We found the winner of Kiwi's favourite fast food last year with the cheeseburger beating out nuggies and everything else. Now, I think this year we've got more entrants than we had last year. Yeah, more rounds.

It got quite heated in some meetings we had about what was going to make the final cut. And, you know, chances are we have missed somebody's favourite. Yeah, so we're going to do a couple of rounds. In fact, we're going to do four a day for the first week or so. We've got that many Kiwi treats to vote on, and it's super easy to vote. We are going to line up our treats, our fights,

on Instagram, FVMZM, and it's just an Instagram poll. Yeah, it's one of the 50-50 options. You just scroll through our Instagram story, FVMZM. If you're not following us on Instagram, you just click on the story and which one of the two you prefer out of those. Now, we've gone not just lollies and drinks. We've gone savouries. It's everything.

Yeah. Everything that we thought was... Yummy. Yummy and like kiwi. Yeah. No, is everything... Because I was just... Some things aren't made here or originally Kiwi.

Would that be fair to say? Some of them have developed a stronghold in our heart, though. Yeah, that would be a good way of putting it. Yeah. Because we don't want to, oh, that's not Kiwi. No. Yeah, like you say. They've moved in and they've made a special place right here in our heart.

Right here. They've clogged up a bit of the arteries. Most of them are artery cloggers. And some of them started here and maybe moved overseas. If you get my drift, pineapple lumps. But we've got two already on Instagram and

we're going to tell you what they are now for our first round. So the first round is cheese rolls up against the chippy sandwich. So that's crisp. This could be any chip, right? This could be any chip that you like in a plain white bread sandwich.

Correct. It's got to be plain white bread. Yeah. Marge, butter, whatever you like. And chippy. Yeah. And then another piece of bread.

Yep. Versus the South Island institution that is the cheese roll. Mm-hmm. So you two don't get it, but I'm from the South Island. Yeah, the producers are South Islanders.

James, are you a fan of the cheese roll? I am a fan of the cheese roll. Oh, you hesitated. But the thing is, what it's up against is I'm a little bit more of a fan of. I think I'd put it up against that. How good is putting the chips on the chippy sandwich? I'm putting a few too many chips on the chippy sandwich. You've got to have a few too many chips. And then when you get the flat-handed the chips on the chippy sandwich? I'm putting a few too many chips on the chippy sandwich. You've got to have a few too many chips.

And then when you get the flat-handed push down on the sandwich and everything crunches into place. I feel like it's got to be a bit of white bread too. It can't be multigrain. Oh, no, no, no. We've established it's always got to be fresh white bread. Oh, yeah, exactly. Producer Caitlin, South Islander.

I did potato chippies and sandwich too. I did cheese rolls. Because you can choose what chips they eat. Like which chips? You could have chicken. South Islander? I did potato chippies and sandwich too. I did cheese rolls. Because it's definitely got to be like, because you can choose what chips, right? Like which chips? Any chips. You could have chicken or... Cheese rolls.

No, yeah, why would you? Straight out of the oven. Okay, so early voting in for chippy sandwich versus the cheese roll. 62% chippy sandwich, 38% cheese roll. On to the South Islanders. Where's the cheese roll fans? That's the thing. I Roll. Come on to the South Islanders. Where's the Cheese Roll fans? That's the thing. I think North Islanders outnumber South Islanders,

and Southlanders especially. It's a Chippy Sandwich. You guys will be hung next time you go to South Island. Yeah, I'll tread lightly next time you go home if you voted for a Chippy Sandwich. And in the other round that's currently online, FBMZM on Instagram, you can vote for it. It's Minties versus Pineapple Lumps.

No contest here for me. Pineapple Lumps all the way. Who are you? You are backing the losers today because Pineapple Lumps are thrashing Minties. 82% Pineapple Lumps, 18% Minties as it currently stands.

Yeah, parents, dads and Megan are the only ones that like minties. I like that they're chewy. You know? No, they... Minty is like classic road trip lolly. No, I lost a filling

to a minty and I've never been able to forgive them. And that was in the 2000s. And even when it's warm, they're still hard. Whereas a pineapple lamp, if it's warm, it's soft.

If you want it cold, freeze it and it won't be an absolute crunchy treat it turns out to be. Alright, well you can vote on our Instagram, FVMZM. We'll have another couple of rounds going up soon as well.

Lately, I've been nesting, guys. I think it's because I'm in the third trimester, and I'm just looking to nest. Well, you cleaned out your garage yesterday. I'm organizing. You know, I just will, apart from Friday night, I didn't play Fortnite at all over the weekend. Are you proud of me? What?

I know. What's wrong? Are you dying? Fizzling out. Yeah, I'm trying to get, no, no, I still love it. I'm just trying to get it all sorted before Bubz arrives. Did you play God of War? No, I didn't, Megan, because I'm worried.

I thought that was the technicality. That's going to be like heroin. You know, you don't even start. It's such a worrying addiction. But on Friday, when I got home, the girls weren't there. Sade was out, and I was like, it's time to just mow the lawns, get this place spick and span. It's been a little while.

So I was set up mowing the lawns, and one of the parts about mowing the lawns, and if you're like me and you've got a trampoline at your house, you'll know that thing's just a monstrosity that kills grass underneath you've got to move it around you've got to right pick it up

move it so you can mow underneath it so I always tie it down as well so I unded the rope and I lifted the trampoline up onto its side and it looks a bit

like a satellite dish that someone once stopped and asked me what the satellite dish was for and the trampoline. They weren't looking very well. So when I flicked it up, a couple of the springs, I remember I was saying how it made me feel

really bad. I felt really like fat because I was jumping on them and the little D things that hold the springs to the mat, they're rusty. And when I jumped on it, three of them pinged off. Yeah. So I went inside and ate some ice cream to make myself feel better. Yeah, console myself. And when I flicked it up the other day, like six of them popped off.

And, you know, I was standing there and I was like, that's the final straw trampoline. You're out. So I stood there for a minute and I thought, I'm going to pull it apart. I can get rid of it. Yeah. How upset are the kids going to be?

Because I remember when we'd left home We went I went back once And my parents Had got rid of the trampoline I was like What are you doing What like

As an 18, 19 year old Where's the trampoline Literally never lives there anymore They're like You never ever use it Like it hasn't been used For years I'm like

It's good to have the options Like when would you Have last used it 14, 13 We hid under it What time is it My parents We hid under it

At a party once and smoked. It's pretty badass. Anyway, probably the last time. It's hilarious that you're still scared of your parents. Laid on all of us. Their house, their rules. I think laid on it with a girlfriend at some stage. Oh, and looked at the stars.

Yeah. Talked about your feelings. Probably. Got cold and went inside, though. But no, not a lot of use, but I still remember thinking, oh, it's like they've just discarded our childhood. Million injuries. Yeah.

Just chucked it out. Million injury got there and they just threw it away with no regard for it. How were your girls when they came home? So I pulled it all to bits. Dismantling a tramp's harder than putting one together. So I pulled it all to bits, got rid of a lot of it, put all the pipes and stuff in the boot of the car. So when they got home, there was just no sign,

apart from the dead lawn, that it ever existed. And I was like, brace myself, because they'll be upset. They walked in, they were like, hey, Dad. I was like, hi. And they were like, do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Where's the tramp gone? It took them a little while. Where's the tramp gone?

I said, oh, you know how the springs and stuff were rusty and the pad had come open and the birds had pulled all the foam out of it? I just decided we'd get rid of it. And they were like, and I was waiting for it. Oh, okay, that's fair enough. I was like, what? You're more balanced as a six and a three-year-old

about me throwing away the trampoline than I was as an 18-year-old when my parents got rid of something I hadn't used for years. But to be fair, your tramp had been around for a long time. Yeah, maybe it had worked its way into a little nostalgic part of the heart. But they were actually pretty cool with it because I was expecting a meltdown

of monumental proportions. But I was wondering if anybody listening has been scarred by their parents throwing away something from their childhood. My parents threw away all my soft toys. But why do you don't need them?

Barkley! No, the really special ones you pass on to your kids, right? Because my parents have still got my soft toys at their house and now the kids play with them. Do they actually like them though? Yeah, Big Ted's pretty legendary. Big Ted. There was like an unspoken babysitting,

like long-term babysitting term because I moved out and I didn't have anywhere to put them. So like they didn't have the rights to throw out. You had an unofficial agreement. Yeah. Sort of a lending of sorts. Actually, I think my buddy's gone too. A high court injunction to stop them throwing them out at the time. I had an adult tantrum.

How did that go? Yeah. Well, it didn't bring them back. They were gone. They were at the dump. I had an adult tantrum. How did that go? Yeah. Well, it didn't bring them back, but it made me feel better. Made you feel a bit better. If you were out, like, say they put them in an op shop and you were out and you saw a kid with Barkley, would you be like, would you step, step, step to them? One hundy. His fur has, like, matted.

And I can't be sure what that is. Me and that dog go way back. So, 0800DALZM-9696. When did you have a tantee when your parents threw something out from your childhood? We're talking about if you ever had something thrown out from your childhood and there was a little tantrum

as when I threw out the trampoline, which was rusted and stuff, the kids understood very well. Far better than I did. As an 18-year-old, when I came home and a trampoline I hadn't used for years was gone. But as you say, maybe it was because of the nostalgia and it had been around for pretty much our entire childhood.

So when did mum or dad just chuck something out from your childhood and it upset you? Wow. We've really had instances. We've got some funny ones. We've actually got some real heartbreaking. Do you want to start with a heartbreaker? Okay.

Yeah. When my dad, oh, sorry, a heartbreaker? Yeah. My mum got rid of my doll's house that my dad handmade me and we painted together. It was the last thing I had a memory of us doing together before he went away. No word of where he went when he came back, but

mum gave it away. This one will hit you as well. Mum started shawshanking my Lego out to friends' kids. When I told them about, when I had kids, I told them about my amazing Lego collection. Mum said she couldn't remember what happened to it. That's a classic.

But I found out she'd been giving it away a little bit by a little, just like Andy Dufresne, getting those bits of that wall that he was chipping away at out into the yard, tripping in the bottomless pockets. Let's take some calls. Callum, what did your parents throw out from your childhood? I've had a batch where there's, like, old, real riggity bunks,

but I'm 23 and my mum just recently threw them out, and I'd say I spat the dummy. So what are the obviously good memories of summer and long weekends at the Batch You know like I even learnt how to

do my first real tagging on it you know try to write your name but I tried to write wolf wrote it the wrong way

couldn't spell that so that was great But you said yourself they're like rickety Yeah well they squeaked and

they were horrible to sleep on but you can't it's a Batch You're not supposed to have a good night's sleep at the batch. No, he isn't.

And you could have four of your friends stay there, 23-year-olds, four of us bunking, and now there's just two single beds. Oh, no. I don't think so. You're going to need some extra squabs. That tagging, were you on the bottom bunk tagging on the bottom of the top bunk?

Yeah, well, my sister told me off for moving, you know? Oh, yeah, you'd move and squeak, squeak the whole thing and be like, whoa. Such a Kiwi thing. I swear, other places in the world have nice bunks. Yeah,

well, if you could get my mum on the blower and have a word to her, I'd be much more excited. It's a bit out the gate. It is. It's still upset,

Callum, still upset. I can feel that. Natalie, what did mum give away after you moved out that you were upset about? So,

when I was 10, I was given a cat for my birthday. Yep. And my parents broke up and were selling the house. And, sorry, and my, I had to move, I was already moved out of home. And I came back to visit my parents. And I was like, where's my cat? And they're like, and my dad's like, oh, we gave it to the SCCA.

Oh, right. You what? They didn't even, oh. we gave it to the SCCA. Oh, right! They didn't even... At least ask! Like, didn't tell me nothing. Like, just gave her away like she was nothing. Like, didn't even give you the option

of taking it yourself? No, I'm still really upset. What was your cat's name? Susie. Oh, Susie. Right name for a cat. Susie's gone to a loving, caring home. Either that or they couldn't find an owner.

Fletch. They looked after it themselves. And Susie became the local SPCA cat. Thanks, Natalie. Some text messages. My dad took all my Goosebumps books to the school gala for sale. Hit the roof when I found out I had to go to that gala

and buy them all back. But what are you, you're not reading them? No, but that doesn't mean you don't want them. Pass them on one day. Mum gave away my Transformers. Optimus Prime,

I miss you the most. Cry face, cry face. By the way, I'm over 30. Somebody else said, my dad got rid of the trampoline. My sister came home Tent at the time Collapsed on the dead patch of grass

And bawled for 15 minutes He ended up promising her a new bike To make the tantrum stop She set up the tent on the lawn In commemoration What? Like slept, I don't know Slept where the trampoline had been

I don't know Somebody else said I came home When my parents were moving house I came to give them a hand I slept with a trampolined bane. I don't know. Somebody else said, I came home when my parents were moving house. I came to give them a hand and I opened the recycling bin to put something in and saw all my Barbies in there. I was like, hold the phone. There's about to be an adult tantrum. You can probably make some money off those Barbies. Yeah, those Barbies are so speedy.

Online. Somebody said, my parents sold our trampoline because we were moving house. I came home. I'm like, where's the trampoline? They were like, oh, we've given it away. Just fell to my knees. I can remember it clearly to this day. I'm 27 and I haven't forgiven my parents for it yet.

So there you go. Tread lightly. Always ask. All right. Shawn Mendes, In My Blood. Just like the new flu vaccine's in my blood. Yeah, mine's in mine blood too. So just during that song, the lovely Linda came in.

She comes in every year for the flu shot. It was meant to be an entertaining bit on air, but Megan's like, I can't do it, I'm sick. I haven't been well. You've given her lolly. You're not eating that lolly, are you? No. Megan a lolly.

She gave Megan a lolly even though Megan didn't get a jab. You don't eat a lolly. I'm saving my valeta when we're not going to talk for a job. I was like, no bugger it. You said the fact of the day. Because this looks like a chewy lolly. This is a toffee. It's a toffee chewy.

I was like, we're doing fact of the day. Vaughn was on for a bit, and I go, ha, ha, ha. It'll be fine. Linda has stepped up her lollygag. It's chocolate clear. These are my favourite. When I was a kid, they used to come in a log form. Speaking of my favourite treats,

go and vote on your favourite Kiwi treats at the FEMZM Instagram. Yeah, we've got another couple of rounds to talk about. So we're finding New Zealand's favourite Kiwi treat, but right now it's time for... Fact of the Day! Day, day, day, day! Today's fact of the day is about official languages. Okay. Because I don't know if you know this, but English is the official language of the sky.

Yeah, I did know that. All pilots have to speak English. Yep. No, I didn't know that. That came in 2001. I don't know what else would have happened in 2001 that could have shaped aviation history. They had like Spanish pilots coming in to land at English airports

and they were like, you can't land there. There's a plane there. And they're like, si, senor. Si. Si. Si. And they're like, oh, my God, he sounds hot. I want to get home.

Just let him land. Just let him land. Okay, fatty English guy, you got to do another loop because hot Spaniards are coming in. Hot, hot, hot. So, yeah, from the compliance day was 2008 that they had to all be able to speak the terminology at the very least to understand English instruction and give instruction in English.

Right. But before that, there was a whole bevy of languages up there in the sky, but the official language of the sky is English. The official language of the sea is pirate. It's a language called seaspeak, but that's based off English. What is C-speak? C-speak is basically speaking in the shortest amount of words possible, but getting across your instructions.

So C-speak defines the rules on how to talk on a ship's radio. The number of words is limited to ensure that the messages and conversations are short and clear. Eight words called message markers precede each sentence. These words are advice, answer, information, instruction, intention, question, request, and warning. Sounds quite intense. I just thought it was all fun and shanties and like watching Captain Phillips.

Right. That'll never happen to us out here, lads. And then you hear, it's happening, I'm the captain now. So English is the official language of the air. It's the official language of the sea. But the official language of space is Runglish. Russian English. Russian English, correct.

If you are going to the International Space Station and you are an English speaker, you've got to learn Russian. And if you're Russian, you've got to learn English. So you can communicate with everyone else up there. Bloody spaceship. So there's this weird thing that happens when they're up there by themselves. And people are trying to speak Russian and people are trying to speak English. The languages have kind of merged into this weird language that when you've been on the International Space Station

for long enough, you can understand it, but to us it would just sound like a garbled form of English with some Russian thrown in, and they've called it Runglish. Oh, wow. Yeah, when people first get there, if the crew's been there for a while, they get very confused. Right. But eventually they end up picking up Runglish.

So today's fact of the day is the official language of the air is English, sea, ills are English, but space, runglish. Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Food Fights. The Kiwi Treats Edition. Well, last year we had our food fight to find New Zealand's favourite fast food item, the Big Mac, beat out Nuggies, beat out Wicked Wings, the Whopper, everything I loved, and Chainsburger won this time.

The Kiwi Treats Edition. The treats that, as New Zealanders, we've grown up with and that we love. You'll be happy to know the blue Powerade's in there. That's a hungover go-to. Oh, that's a standard. That's a blue Powerade. The blue Powerade's in there. Coming up in the later round.

It's coming up in the later round. So we're pitting on our Instagram, FVMZM, Kiwi Treats against each other. Now, at the moment, there are four rounds that you can vote for. Eight different Kiwi favourite treats. Now, we announced about an hour ago cheese rolls versus potato chip sammies and minties

versus pineapple lumps. I can give you an update on that. Currently, percentage-wise, the chippy sandwich, 62%, bidding out the Southland Classic

cheese rolls. Do you think that it's... I had no idea what cheese rolls were. Without... Before you travelled to the Southland? Yeah. Before you travelled to Southland? Yeah, before I travelled to Southland and you'd see them in cafes and then you'd meet people from Southland and they'd be like,

these are a thing, and you'd be like, oh yeah, these are a thing. We roll up white bread with cheese and onion and whatever. No, you don't know the recipe because every family has a secret recipe. Well, chippy sandwich decimating the cheese roll. I wouldn't say decimating, but speaking of decimating, Pineapple Lump's currently absolutely trouncing Minties. 83% to the Pineapple Lump

and 17% to the Mintie. I like Minties because it's a road trip lolly. You always have them in the car. No, but if you had to choose one to eat. No, but I'm not a big chocolate person, so maybe that's why. Okay. No, but if you had to choose one to eat... No, but I'm not a big chocolate person, so maybe that's why. Okay. Well, then the next rounds

are going to be interesting because we've got our first frozen delights up next. Round three, you can vote on this at our Instagram page, FVMZM.

Chocbar versus Juicy's. Now, Chocbar's the ice cream which is like, has the Chocbar in the middle. Yeah, and then... Chocolate, ice cream, chocolate. White ice cream. And then a chocolate shell, but I believe the chocolate shell in the middle. Yeah, and then white ice cream. And then a chocolate shell, but I believe the chocolate

shell got coconut. Yeah, it's got some coconut fritted in it. Now that is up against juices. Nothing said. I found myself some loose change in my pocket and it's a pretty hot Kiwi summer day like sucking on a juicy. And when

you didn't have scissors to cut them open properly, you had to rip open the end with your teeth and then suck all the flavour out of it and be left with some ice on the bottom. They were all you because they were. They were great on a hot day, but they were also super cheap at the tuck shop. I remember they were super cheap. And there was two sizes. There was the smaller juicy, and then if you were a rich kid,

you'd eat the bigger juicy. And then there were mousses. But we're not having... Mooseys aren't part of Food Fight Kiwi Treats. We didn't think they were made... Producer Anya was livid about this. We've had many arguments in meetings about what food should be a part of this. We should have filmed our meetings because it got pretty heated.

Mooseys were like, what were they? Like a chocolate milk version of the Juicy. They were a dream come true. There's strawberry, chocolate, and then sometimes the blue one. What was the blue one? Bubble gum? Oh, I think so. I think it's horrible.

No, but chocolate reigned supreme. It was exquisite and a big part of everybody's childhood. Well, it's not in there. So Juicy's up against, Juicy's up against Choc Bars. Currently, Juicy's at the wrong end of that battle. 75%, 25% in the Juicy battle from votes cast already. And the final round for today, round four for this day one of the Food Fight Kiwi Treats edition.

This one, I think, could be the closest one of the day. Okay. the Food Fight Kiwi Treats Edition. This one, I think, could be the closest one of the day. Okay. Lolly cake. The famous lolly cake that you made into a log and then cut into the cake. Malt biscuits, Eskimo lollies,

and marshmallows. Sweetened condensed milk. Yeah, and then mix them all together. And then roll it in some coconut. Up against the cream donut. Now, what the Kiwis call a cream donut, long bun, cream and jam and a squirt of jam donut. Now, what the Kiwis call a cream donut, long bun, cream,

and jam, and a squirt of jam, and then a sprinkling of icing sugar on top. Does it have to be a long one? Could it not just be like a donut, a cream donut? Could be a cream one. Now, is the cream fake or real? Mock cream. It's however you like it. In your mind, it's however you like it. It should be mock,

though. Let's say it should be mock. It's sweeter. Why would you not choose mock cream? Yeah, it's however you like it. It should be mock, though. It should totally be mock cream. Let's say it should be mock. Wow. It's sweeter. Why would you not choose mock cream? Yeah, it's sweeter. Delicious. How's that polling? That's very, very close. At the moment, lolly cake, 53%.

Cream donut, 47%. Now, I know the tradies may be just getting into work and not yet voting, because I know tradies bloody love a cream donut, don't they? Yeah, but they also love lolly cake, Vaughn. When I was at school, you could order like a pie and a cream bun. That was a combo. Couldn't get more Kiwi than that. That is a great combo.

And they weren't always so fat-age, did they? Main and dessert. Did they have salads at the school? No. No, no. Because lettuce went limp real quick. That had sat in the canteen fridge for a week without even changing its appearance. So you can vote for all these at FEMZM on Instagram.

We're going to have lots more rounds and work our way to having the grand champion of the Kiwi Treats edition of Food Fight.