ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - August 30 2019

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

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ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Thanks, Sanya. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. So don't go to work drinks tonight and e-scooter home. Don't drink and scooter. Yeah. Don't drink and lime. The last time I got a lime scooter like late-ish at night, because I'm normally an early morning rider,

I got the whole big are you drunk message and you had to like Lime Lime it popped up you had to pass a sobriety test

just a little reminder yeah I think I think I had to click something tap something or write something right highlight every square

of the building yeah I saw Bowdoin Barrett on a Lime Scooter yesterday whizzed past work because the All Blacks must be staying around the corner before they head away for the World Cup. Oh, okay.

And the rest of them were all walking over, but he'd got a lime scooter just from the gym there to the hotel around the corner. Lazy. Unless it was leg day. What number's he? In the rugby team? Or 15 at the moment. But he can play a 10, right? Yeah.

I was just thinking that our 10s have got to be careful before a World Cup, don't they? I know, because I was watching him scooting down the road. I was like, you be bloody careful. It's a World Cup. Yeah. Imagine how much, like, Lime scooters would probably get banned if he'd fallen off and broken his leg. Yeah.

That would have been... Enough. Enough for the old mates to really put a bit of weight behind getting them banned. Yeah. Bloody burdens broken because of those bloody stupid things. Get rid of them. Enough Enough For the old mates To really put a bit of weight Behind getting the band Yeah Bloody burdens broken Because of those Bloody stupid things Get rid of them

And then they don't Win the World Cup And then everyone's Wah Can you imagine it Yeah Um Friday today

Uh Flashback Friday Who It must be my turn this week Is it my turn I think so To pick a banger I think so

Get ready for like Punishing deliberations all morning. And then a beyond average choice. Doubting himself. Wow. Wow. And then we're like, you know, go for it. And then the song starts playing and we were like,

and you just mow me down. Yep. That's pretty much how it goes. It was fun. Great tradition. It was fun for the course, isn't it, on Friday? Yeah. Yeah, great. Listen up. It's pretty much how it goes. It was par for the course, isn't it, on Friday? Yeah. Yeah, great.

Listen up, it's story time. As Vaughan comes in with a fruit platter. Where did you get a fruit platter from? Is that why you're late? Yeah, sorry, guys. I was just picking the best of what remains of some sort. There must have been some sort of event here last night. It worked. That's some dragon fruit. I know, guys. I was just picking the best of what remains of some sort. There must have been some sort of event here last night. We had some dragon fruit.

I know, Megan. Well, I just simply couldn't say no. I was making a coffee and saw the remnants of what must have been a very lovely fruit platter. So I forgot my apple that I always had on the way to work today. So now I've got grapes and apple and... Is it dragon fruit? Dragon fruit. Some melon of some description.

Oh, delicious. Pear, grapes aplenty, so... Help yourself. It's a day old, bud. Is it 12 hours old? Well, it's fruit. It's probably like quite a few days old. Maybe, yeah.

Sitting out in the open air for a little while. All right, story time. Three news headlines. You've got to pick one of the following three. Headline one, Firefighters Rescue Cow. Headline one, firefighters rescue cow. Headline two, basketball citrus. And headline three, dad left starstruck after queen legend Freddie Mercury appears in his pork chop. That's, I mean, that's kind of all spelt out there, isn't it?

But that's quite amazing. Pork chop. Basketball, citrus or cow rescued by police? Oh, wow. It does look like Freddie Mercury. How much? Oh, now I need a giggle. It looks like his face.

Wow. Freddie Mercury, pork chop. Pork, actually, Freddie Mercury, pork chop. If you just opened Freddie Mercury, pork chop was only three down for me. Yeah, well, it's in the news. It's all the rage at the moment. It's better if you look at the picture further away. Yeah, yeah.

Too close up. That one's too close up. There'll be one where he's holding it right. Yeah, that does look like Freddie Mercury in a pork chop. Okay, do you want firefighters rescue cow or basketball citrus? I kind of want the Basketball Citrus. Yeah. All right.

Okay. Well, we go to Louisiana now where a basketball-sized grapefruit has brought two world records to a Louisiana couple. I've forgot. I've got a whole lot of grapefruit for you. Oh, yes. Because I love... Yes.

The last ones you gave us were not as sweet. What's happened? Maybe it's early in the season. Right. Maybe the grapefruit comes. Because last time I gave them to you in December, right, when we moved in. Oh, yeah. So I'm thinking maybe these ones.

Yeah. Right. I'll even get the juicer out if you bring in a whole lot. Because I brought a juicer ages ago, but I don't use it because you've got to clean it. Yeah, they're fast. Can you then bring juice in? I'm in the market for a juicer if anybody's got a good recommendation on the text machine. Oh, you've got to get one that squishes and...

Yeah, I don't want to dedicate too much of the show to my own personal endeavors. I am... That would make a change, wouldn't it? I am after a juicer because of all the citrus. Did Kmart do a cheap one? Yeah, bound to. I'm not a cold press juicer though. Do you want a cold press juicer?

What do those work like? Because they press the fruit and they don't use, like, spinny... Okay, because I had one of those things years and years and years ago, Desperate Housewives season, whatever was coming out. And the promo was going to be so juicy that they sent everybody a juicer. And it was actually

like a legit juicer. It was a handheld one. You put it on the bench and you put your cup under the thing and you could like really slam down some weight to get all the juice out, but slamming down weight on it over years so much, it broke the juicer. It broke, yeah, mine broke too.

I loved my Desperate Housewives juicer. It's a great juicer. It's a phenomenal juicer. I'm still using it. It's becoming a little difficult to use because of the crack. We were just working together then. I was at school.

Nah, piss off. It wasn't crack. You were just working together then. I was at school. Nah, piss off. It wasn't that. You were working with us. I was absolutely not. Oh, no, I think you were working at Flavour. I was absolutely not. With your Nelly Furtado hoop earrings. I was absolutely not.

Little Megs. No. No one is Little Megs. I think you were going to get a fright at how old that is. It wasn't Deseret Housewives season one. It was one of the later seasons. Which was... You were going to get an absolute fright.

Okay, so we were working together when Desperate Housewives started. It was 2004. Yeah, well, we did celebrate... Yeah, I was at high school. No, you weren't. What were you doing hanging around at high school, you pervert? No, okay, I wasn't at high school. I was just out.

Mr. Toyboy was at primary school. It was just out. But it was like... Mr. Toyboy was at primary school. It was like season four or something. Yeah. Was he even born? We don't need to work out. Was he 10? He was.

No, no, no. Yeah, he was. He was. He was 10. Well, anyway, anyway, if you had your desperate housewife's juicer, this world record grapefruit wouldn't fit because it has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest and largest in circumference. Oh, it's not that big.

The grapefruit weighed seven pounds, so 3.6 kgs, measured 73 centimetres around, and it's almost as big as an NBA official size basketball. Wow. So that is the... But I'm looking at the couple, Mary and Doug. Yeah. Have you Googled? Yeah. It doesn't look as big as I imagined it might be. Well, I don't know if you...

It must be hefty. It's hefty, yeah. Well, they got the Guinness Book of World Records in and they've given it the tick. I like to tell Indy this. My daughter loves the Guinness Book of World Records in and they've given it the tick. I like to tell Indy this. My daughter loves eating the Guinness World Records. Really? So I have this video popped up yesterday of a woman eating two and a half

kgs of no it was like 2.8 kgs of mayonnaise in three minutes. Three minutes? She's just literally like eating mayonnaise like enough to make you vomit. And I said to Indie, hey, look at this world record.

And she was just like, people are amazing. Aren't they? And I was like, don't you find that disgusting? And she's like, that woman is the best in the world at that. I was like, that's such a beautiful outlook to have on life. Because I was like, she is going to shit the bed later when all that mayonnaise goes through. Yeah. Fletchforn and Megan, the podcast. Later when all the M&A's go through. Yeah. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. You could be sitting on a fortune with something in your house and you don't even know it. It's not an antique. It is something that I've literally just thrown a bunch out. Okay. But if you have a cassette tape or a CD even, they are going for thousands online. I saw somebody with a cassette Walkman the other day.

Wow. Really? I was like, wow. Wow. Wow. I had a cassette Walkman. It was yellow. Was it one of the ones where it didn't have a rewind yet

to take it out, flip it over, press fast forward? That makes me sound very old, I realise as I said it. But the low end ones, like my one was,

I don't think it was Sony, might have been Panasonic or something. Right. The low end ones, they didn't have a rewind button. They only had

a fast forward button because the motor in them only spun one way. Yeah, right. So you'd either have to listen to the tape all up and then flip it up to get to the other side or if you wanted to rewind and just listen to one song over and over you'd have to take it out and fast forward it on the other side

and then flick it back over to... So cassettes are becoming hot property with hipsters. Why? They weren't great quality were they? No. No. Well, any of my ones weren't. The website Discogs, it is the biggest music database website in the world.

What's it called? You can buy, I've used it to buy, you can buy vinyls. Right. And stuff, yeah. All kinds of music. They've revealed their 100 most expensive cassettes and none of them are under $500. What? Please.

Please be Alondis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill. No, because I'm pretty sure mum spiffed it. I had the single for Brandy and Monica, The Boy Is Mine, but it only had like two songs on it. That's not going to be one of the 500 most valuable. It was a banger.

I'm not doubting it wasn't a banger, but it wasn't like a collector's edition. So I can tell you what the number one highest selling cassette tape. It was a banger. I'm not doubting it wasn't a banger, but it wasn't like a collector's edition. So I can tell you what the number one highest selling cassette tape is. Highest selling or the highest valued? Oh, highest valued. Can you tell us the top 10? Because I'm guaranteed like someone's got a... Oh, you can't.

I've only got a few in there. I've only got... If I... No. I'm sure there'll be a list somewhere, but in this one, it's only got the number one. Are you Googling for the top ten, Fleek? I am, yes, I am Googling. Because I don't want to tell you the number one if you're going to find a lead up,

because, you know, our lists work. You've got to work your way up to it. 100 most expensive cassettes. Oh, I've got the whole list of 100. Great work from Megan here. Oh, I've already got, I already had two of the tapes on the last page. Holy shit, the most expensive cassette is worth $4,117. No, not on my list.

It's not, so it's more than that. Oh, okay. This list was mid... I've now got to go to the top of the hundred again. Well, I'm already at the top ten, so... Oh, there's no date on it. Can you say who the person was? No, this must be recent.

Prince. Oh, yeah, Prince. Oh, no, this was 2018. Sorry. Also, I might be working in New Zealand dollars. Okay, right. Well, Christ. I'll tell you.

Online shopping, the goose just figuring out. Madonna, the Madonna collection is number 10, 1500. Sutcliffe, Eugene, we spit on their graves is number nine. We've got the same list. Have you? Good, 1500. Sutcliffe Ujjend, We Spit On Their Graves is number nine. We've got the same list. Have you? Good, okay. Depeche Mode.

Yep. Depeche Mode, 1500. Various artists, Lonely is an Eyesore. Now that must have been some sort of compilation. Buck 65, Year Zero is worth 1729.

Various artists on D'La Viande, Por Le Disco, $1,800. Untied Diaries, 1979 to 1987 is $2,000. Throbbing Gristle, 24 Hours. Another Untied Diaries in at number two. And number one. Untied Diaries seems to be a collection of cassettes. Remember those little suitcases you used to get

and you'd open them and it would be all full of cassettes? Right. But yeah, the number one, Megan, you? The artist formerly known as Prince, the Versace Experience is in New Zealand dollars, $6,502. I've just scrolled up the list to find kind of the most, I mean, there's a Smashing Pumpkins cassette in there,

but Madonna Like a Prayer, if you've got that, CD or cassette, $650. Wow. That's probably, scrolling, there's a Korn cassette, $600. There's a Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction locked and loaded edition. The whole effing box is worth $768, but I'm pretty sure it's priceless to Dad,

so don't put that online. There's a Blink 182 cassette for $600. Is there which one? Buddha. Do they want my Brandy and Monica cassette? I can't see Brandy and Monica on here, sadly. Rage Against the Machines, Rage Against the Machines on there for 550 bucks. Yeah, and it's not your common stuff.

You think about the huge cassettes that there were literally millions and millions of. Yeah. They're not going to be worth a lot, are they? There's so many of those still around. Number 94 worth $500, Kylie Minogue's Kylie Minogue. We had that in the Smith household. Did you? Yep, believe my brother.

Where is it now? On cassette? Yep. Surely is it now? On cassette. Yep. Surely mum's got it tucked away in a box. My brother was a big fan of people who had been on Neighbours that also went into music. My brother had Kylie Minogue, Danny Minogue and Jason Donovan. Right, okay.

Jason Donovan did a version of Sealed with a Kiss. That was the one my brother really liked. You should message him and see if he's got it tucked away somewhere because he could be sitting on a gold mine. He won't have taken it with him. It'll probably be sitting at Mum and Dad's, in which case we don't tell him and we go and get it next time we're at Mum and Dad's

and sell it us out. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Mayor Tim Shadbolt has been mayor of Invercargill for a very long time now, hasn't he? He has, yeah. He's a character mayor. Yeah. And he's always up for a very long time now, hasn't he? He has, yeah. He's one of, he's a character mare. Yep. And he's always up for a laugh.

I think we've found ourselves in the deep south. Oh, he is, yep. That time he wore his bike shorts and his merrell chains. That's right. I'll never forget that. Never forget that visual image. Yeah. Quite a vision to start the day with.

Yeah. Well, he's in a little bit of trouble, but then he's always in trouble. But he spent $3,000 of ratepayers' money. This is because mayors are paid by rates. You pay your rates when you own property in an area, and it goes towards the upkeep, and part of that is paying the mayoral budget. And he spent $3,000 on some wristbands that said,

I met the mayor. We're talking Lance. I always call them Lance Armstrong wristbands because said, I met the mayor. We're talking Lance, I always call them Lance Armstrong wristbands because he was like the first guy to do these like rubbery, Yeah, charity bands. Charity bands.

Yep. For Livestrong back in the early 2000s. That's right. Before everybody, like if one of these ended up in the ocean. Yeah, that's true. It would last for a while, wouldn't it?

Yeah. So he spent $3,000. So, and he'd give them to people because it says on it, it's true It'd last for a while, wouldn't it? Yeah So he spent $3,000 And he'd give them to people Because it says on it It's got a little silhouette of the mayor And it says next to it I met the mayor

Brilliant Oh my God Yeah So He So that's a great viral marketing That's a great bit of That's a great bit of marketing

Great bit of marketing Does it have his photo on it? No, it's like a Silhouette Yeah, it's like a silhouette Oh yeah, brilliant, okay That's a great bit of marketing. Does it have his photo on it? It's like a silhouette. Oh yeah, brilliant. So somebody found this out. They used the Official Information Act to get details of his

spending. So this is one of the things that popped up. This $3,256 on wristbands. That's the big headline they've gone for. $1,256 on wristbands. Yep. That's the big headline they've gone for. $1,854 at liquor stores. Well, that got swept

under the rug a little bit, but it was part of the spending. Well, you've got to have some booze, don't you? Well, you'd buy it. You'd buy it for gifts, wouldn't you? Yeah, yeah, right.

That would be the vibe, right? Someone does something and you buy them a nice bottle of scotch or a bottle of wine, I'd say. I'd probably just have it in my bottom drawer.

You'd have to drink if you were in any form of public office to have to deal with the public. It'd be the worst job in the world. I don't know why anyone does it. Anytime. We are lucky that these people spend their lives in public office because I wouldn't I'm not doing it. No.

I mean, I'll have a moan about it. I'll have a light moan. I'm not doing it. No. I mean, I'll have a moan about it. I'll have a light moan. I'll have a light moan. I'll have a light moan, but bugger dealing with people. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, a report has come out

looking at the future, a report of what life will be like in 50 years' time. Now, I don't trust these anymore because I remember a TV show from when I was a kid called Beyond 2000. Right. But they got a lot of stuff when I was a kid called Beyond 2000.

Right. But they got a lot of stuff. Yeah, but not until like 2010. Right. They were a little bit late. They either got out where it came out the next year and it was like 1996 or it took them until like 2010. Which I guess 2010 was Beyond 2000. This is true.

Well. Is this bad? Is this bad news? You're going to give us bad news? No, most of it seems pretty exciting. The report tells of tiny computers implanted into our bodies that translate foreign languages in an instant and microchips under the skin that will be used to keep our health in check. So sensors will be able to tell us exactly what our body needs at any time.

Like you're running out of vitamin C, have an orange or probably a pill. Why did I immediately go to Barocca? The marketing is working, Megan. This is where burgers come in. Researchers claim that insects will become so widespread that they will be one of our main food sources of protein. Yeah, I've heard that. Every kitchen will be equipped with small insect farms so we can get our crickets or cicadas. Every kitchen?

That's what they're saying. A spice rack, a refrigerator, and an insect farm beside your herbs. Yeah, the Future and Focus report predicts it will wind down at the end of the day by watching television programs or movies beamed directly to our brains via opticoelectric devices or surf the web simply by plugging ourselves in. No, but how does that work on a social aspect? You know, like if you want to watch a show with someone, do you just... You'd probably sync up.

You'd probably be able to sync it up in a group. I mean, if they're beaming it to your brain, that'd be easy to do. Advances will mean that people will also be able to replace failing organs with new ones at will, produced by 3D printers and transplanted by robot surgeons capable of incredible levels of precision. Wow.

There'll be automated assistance to clean our homes and act as virtual carers. So when we're in the retirement home, we'll be able assistance to clean our homes and act as virtual carers. So when we're in the retirement home, we'll be able to talk to our robot servants and we won't be lonely. Wipe my bum, robot. Oh, gentler. Oh, God.

Careful back there. Radical improvements to healthcare and diet mean people born around 2069 could expect to live forever. Even battling dementia by uploading their memories onto virtual storage. Oh, yeah. That's scary. Yeah. In addition, vertical farms.

It'll see the dawn of the age of Earth scraper, meaning many structures and stories will be built into the ground. So underground, there will be huge cities. Oh, yeah. Because obviously it might be too hot to live. Like Star Wars. Above ground like Star Wars. So we'll be very subterranean.

We'll be boarding reusable rockets for space holidays. I just don't believe half of this. Because, like, that's not that far away. 50 years, right? Yeah. Underwater, underwater highways, London to New York in 30 minutes by rocket, virtual multi-sensory holidays, so you could go to Bali without even leaving your home.

So I could just go to Bali after the show today. Exactly. Yeah. Wow. Okay. But yeah. Well, I'm open to it. I'm open to it.

I'm not saying no to it. I've told you I'd have a microchip under my skin and a heart. Would you stay in a hotel orbiting the moon or other planets? Yeah, 100%. Drone-style Ubers and taxis, how do you feel about those? What? Fine. Like they fly?

Yeah, they fly. Right. Do I fly them? No, I think they fly you. That's good. I'll give it a few years of test piloting first before I jump in. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello, it's Bee Awareness Month.

Who knew? Be aware of bees. In September or August? August. At the end of August. We're getting towards the end of August. Okay, well, you're telling us like on the last... It's late.

Yeah, second to last day. Okay. But today's top six things of things you need to be aware about bees. Okay. Okay? Because they're out there. And they're not doing great if you spray heaps of like insecticides. Yeah.

Et cetera, et cetera. Number six on the list of the top six things you need to be aware about bees for Bee Awareness Month. They don't like wasps either. Really? No time for them at all. You know, we're like, ah, wasps, they're the same. They're like, and they might like look a little bit alike.

But no, they don't like wasps. They agree, wasps are a-holes. Do wasps hurt them? They can. So there's like hornets, wasps, bees, humble bees. There's a whole bunch of bad. That's all. There's a whole bunch of

bad waspy end of the situation. Hornets sounds real. Yeah, hornets are bad. There's a whole bunch of those bad boys. The Japanese have developed a way to get rid of wasps. They're predatory wasps that come in to kill and eat.

Oh, okay. They surround them and buzz and it overheats and the wasps melt. Wow. Pretty rad defense. Yeah. Pretty rad defense. Number five on the list of the top six things you need to be aware of about bees. While they don't like wasps, they do, however, like bumblebees.

Okay. They're like their funny chubby cousins. Yeah. They're like, hey, guys, guys, here comes bumblebees. They're like their funny, chubby cousins. They're like, hey, guys, guys, here comes a bumblebee. And the bumblebees are like, whoa. They're so cute. Number four on the list of the top six things you need to be aware about bees. When we take their honey, we're basically stealing their winter food reserves. But it's okay.

They'll just make some more, I suppose. Slave away. Looking at Caitlin. Because her dad is a professional thief of bee food reserves. No, we need the beekeepers as well as the bees. That's what my brother said because he's also a beekeeper. A honey stealer. No, because, wait, he actually explained this to me the other day,

because I was like, well, what happened before beekeepers? Like, were the bees just, like, roaming around free and happy? Yeah, they swarmed. No, but because of our increased, like, farmers, dairy farmers, people wanting to have the cows eat the grass. Here comes the anti-dairy brigade. No, no, no, no, no. I'm just explaining because of our agriculture,

we need to have the beekeepers to keep up with that and take the, yeah. Right. And also because Varroa would just wipe out all the bees if the beekeepers went there to treat it. That little town, Lemon and Varroa. No, Varroa's the bee mite that's killing the bees. Oh, no. Viroa, Viroa.

Uh-oh. Great element of peace on. Number three on the list of the top six things we need to be aware about bees. They don't want to sting us. It's their final act is when they sting us, they can't pull the barbed sting back out. And when they do, it leaves behind not only the stinger, but a big part of their abdomen and digestive tract, plus muscles and nerves.

And it causes a massive abdominal rupture that's killing the bees. But so why do they sting us then? They're scared. It's just freaked. It's their last line of defense. Imagine if you saw a gigantic human. We get in their face and we stand. A lot of them is just us standing on them.

I'd run away. I wouldn't like chuck half my body in it. Do you remember when you got stung at float? That was hilarious. That was a bumblebee. Right on the wrist. You thought you were going to die. I'd have been grabbing them for years. Be like kids watch this and you just go

and you keep them in your hand and they're like and you let them go and this one And you just go, and you keep them in your hand. And you let them go. And this one just banged into me and wrecked me. He's like, this is for all the bees you've played. All the bumblebees. And then it's sort of

going up the arm because of the wrist. Number two on the list of the top six things you need to be aware of about bees. Jerry Seinfeld does not represent them all. He may have been led astray by the bee movie. Yeah. But they want you to know that Jerry Seinfeld does not represent them all. He may have been led astray by the bee movie.

Yeah. But they want you to know that Jerry Seinfeld is in no way an elected spokesperson for bees. Right. And number one on the list of the top six things you need to be aware about bees, they don't always like being called cute. Expand your vocab. Endearing, adorable, lovable, sweet, lovely, appealing, engaging, delightful. Yeah.

Winsome, charming, enchanting, attractive, pretty. I wouldn't call a bee cute. A bumblebee maybe. A bumblebee's cute. Bees themselves. No, they're not. What about when it's in like a very pollen heavy flower and it's just like losing its mind?

It's like, ah. That's pretty adorbs. That is today's Top 6. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. I don't want it to seem like we're always going on about influencers, but sometimes a few of them give the rest

of them a bad name. It's clickbait, isn't it? There's a travel influencer. Tupaciravia. Tupac Saravia. Sweet job. Oh, that's the dream. If you could get a job travelling the world and everyone's paying for it, I wouldn't say no. Yeah.

So this travel blogger has 280,000 followers, so that's nothing to be scoffing at. I'm imagining she's probably pretty ugly. Yeah, I've yet to see an ugly travel blogger. Yeah. I mean, I have, but they only have like 100 followers. Oh. Less.

I haven't because no one's ugly in my eyes. Oh, bless. Just looking at what she's done. But you're so right. If they weren't that hot, they wouldn't be getting away with this. No. Yeah. Man, there's...

I'm just jealous. There's some apps that they use, though, that you just don't even know exist. So the reason we're talking about this travel blogger is because she's been

called out for doing something and straight up she's like, I don't really see the big deal here. I never lied about it. Okay. What's she done?

A few people noticed that in her photos. So you can imagine there's water, blue sky, you know, that kind of thing. Whereabouts are

these photos taken? One is in Koh Lanta in Thailand. So like Southeast Asia. Porta Santa Margarita. Where's that? I don't know. Maya Bay. Right.

They're all beautiful, sunny days, but the same clouds are in all of these photos. Literally the same cloud formations. Wait, you can get an app that puts clouds in photos? It's called Sky Control. It is a quick photo editing app that has a feature. Oh, it's a quick shot, sorry, is the app and it has a feature called Sky Control which can put clouds into a photo.

Why would you want clouds there? Like they are like wispy. I guess it gives it texture. So I would have thought a photo with a what was the app called again? Quickshot. Quickshot. I would have thought a photo with a lovely blue sky is better than a photo with clouds. Although sometimes clouds can look quite moody

and dark and nice. Looking at some of her photos, she changes the contrast so much that the sky doesn't look blue. So it probably needs that white comparison to make it look like it's not really heavily filtered. And I don't know what filter she's using, but it always makes her just look a little bit grubby. Like, you know, when you go on a really dusty road and you like, if you look at yourself in the mirror and you're like, oh my God.

I think that's her tan. If the dust goes just right, it looks like a tan. Right. But she just looks, but I know it's her tan, but she just looks a little bit grubby. But you look at all these photos, like they've got six or so in comparison. And yeah, every cloud is the same. Vaughn, you are so right. She said she used it to change the composition of the photograph when the sky is burned or overexposed. You are so right.

That's why she did it. But also, like, she's also, like, what's the big deal here? But surely this app gives you different clouds. Like, just change the clouds up. Maybe it doesn't. Because, like, it doesn't matter that there's clouds. And as she says, this is already

an unrealistic portrayal of travelling. I don't see her having diarrhoea once. Especially in Southeast Asia. There's no photos of her like just sweating on a toilet

just being like, what did I do? Where did it come from? Was it the ice in the drink? Did they wash the salad in dirty? Oh my God.

It's coming up both ends now. You're so right, yeah. Miss, miss, housekeeping, can I come in? You absolutely cannot. Not a single crippling diarrhea photo here. That's been all of us in Southeast Asia. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Okay. So she's just said, what, no problem here, move on. I never lied about it. Right. I'm telling you how I did it. What's the big deal? And in the meantime, she's probably ended up with tens of thousands more followers. More followers, yeah.

Good on her. 293,000 now. I don't know what she started with. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Last night, on the way to Megan's Cafe's burger and shakes night, thanks to the diabetes, type 2 diabetes there, Megan, that shake was too much. Are you opening at night now?

Just occasionally. You just did a special one of burgers and shakes. Because now I'm well-tied. I was going to say, shouldn't you have been to quarter to 11 last night? Well-tied. I said, you're a marred woman. You're a marred woman. It was fun at the time, but yeah.

Take it back to in your 20s when you used to be tired in the morning. You'd say, it was fun at the time, but I'm tired now. It was always about like partying or like an unexpected Thursday night blowout. Like you went out for just for dinner, but it ended up turning into like a couple of bottles of wine and like a 3 a.m. rollback. And now you've got a business outside of your work, you're like, yeah it was fun at the time making burgers

and shakes for other people to eat but get on tired now now life changes. You've changed, yeah. So on the way to the cafe Buffet & Co, which had a wonderful jingle written about it I'm surprised they didn't have that playing, they had music playing. Did they not have that playing

actually one of my Google reviews says great cafe terrible jingle no they got that around the wrong way surely surely

wow August India and August were talking about what was going to be on the menu right for a burgers and shakes night

they couldn't get into their head that it was just going to be burgers and shakes and they were asking about what else could have been on the menu. And August asked me if basquete was going to be on the menu. And we all laughed. Because I've never really heard.

I thought she could say spaghetti. I thought she was advanced. Spaghetti. I'm going to take all of that back. Yeah, right. But she, it turns out, can't say spaghetti. So Indy went about trying to teach her to say spaghetti. Sp-sp-getty.

Get it. Say it. Spaghetti. This went on for the year. It went on the whole drive to the point where we worked out she could totally say spaghetti, but she was just doing it for the laughs. Right. It's like her dad.

Which, yeah, she really dragged the joke out. Just an attention seeker. I don't know where she gets it from. She did it loudly. She just kept going. Right. It's like her dad. Which, yeah, she really dragged a joke out. I don't know where she gets it from. She did it loudly. She just kept going. I don't know where she learnt that moralist thing from. But then you don't want to, because some people can't say that in their adult life.

No. Spaghetti. People have those words that they can't say. Like tarantula, right? I was waiting. That's got to be harder, though, because your mum didn't cook your tarantula bolognese all the time. Yeah, it wasn't as if you saw it all the time.

Tarantula bolognese, though. Yeah, how was that going, that black spider? What was it? I don't want to because then I get ridiculed for weeks. Well, we're not moving on until you have it. My way to say it is cuter. Tralanchula. Tar. Yeah.

Ran. Yeah. Challa. I know. Challa. You're saying Challa again. Chula. Chula.

Do it again. Tar. Ran. Chula. Yes. Tralanchula. No. Chula. No. Trinachula. No. Ch- Nah, piss off.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There is a list of five things that can stop your bleeding if you're shaving. Yeah. If you're a shaver of any body part and you get a little nick. I'm so excited about this list because I do this all the time. Get a little nick in your head. Well, and mostly because I'm shaving my head every couple of days. Yeah.

And my face. And you can't see the back. You have to go by feel, Megan. Just go feel. You have to run one hand up to see where the hair's still there and then you follow it with the other one. Do you have any knobbly bits you always nick? Yep.

I've got a little mole on top of my head. Ew. I always nick. Yep. I've got a little mole on top of my head. I always nick it. Got a new razor, and we all know the dangers of a super sharp new razor, and it cut like, it was nothing, but I just must have been holding the razor on a slight angle, and it created like this graze, and then, so for the next like five times I shaved,

I kept knocking the scab off it. Yeah, the ones on your head, if you nick a little bit on your head, they just do not stop bleeding. Well, I always get the ones on my ankle when you go, you start at the ankle. I think it's where it's close to the bone, right? Yeah.

If it's the ankle and the head. It's just like, because you get a new razor, you start down the ankle and you dig in and then you realise you've dug in too much. It's always... And your black sw then you realise you dug in too much. It's always. And your black swan, your whole leg. Pretty much. It's always me when I'm in a rush with a new razor.

I'm like, I'm heading out. I'm like, quick, shave, shave. And it's like, nick, nick, nick. The old razor put you into a false sense of security. Yeah, a little bit of bluntness. But also when you're like, okay, I'm going to go real slow, fast. And you're like, okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You were lucky to escape cut free. Next time go slow. And you're like, fast. And you're like, okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You were lucky to escape cut free. Next time go slow.

And you're like, fast. And you're like, mum, stop doing that. Have you ever done this? I've noticed, I always see it around every now and again. Because you know those, I've got one of those, how many is quattro? Four. Four. You get the four or five now.

I've dug into my face and it's left like four lines. Oh, yeah. Looks like teeny tiny cat whiskers when you get it. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm going out. It looks like I've got whiskers. Yeah. Not cool. Then you've got to do it on the other side because you need whiskers on.

You need matched up whiskers. You don't want to be a lopsided kitty cat. It's so embarrassing. When we've talked about shaving before, someone said, have you ever looked into that Dollar Shave Club? And it's one of those things where I keep looking and I'm like, that's a good idea.

Because I always get to buy them and they just turn up. That's how they send you new razors every week or every couple or every month. But then also I read recently that razors are like one of the big recycling nightmares, right? Yeah.

Because people just chuck them. Yeah. They just, oh, I'm done with that. Or people are of the opinion that it's cheaper to just buy a new handle every time we get the two free razors. I know. They're so expensive. It's ridiculous.

So these are the five things that are probably already in your bathroom. I'm going to start with this one. Someone messaged in. If you're going to talk about it, talk about aluminum styptic pencils. A styptic pencil? I've never heard of this, but it almost seems like it's one of those things when dad was teaching you to shave, or mum, that these should have been in the bathroom. So they

have aluminium and wax on them, and basically you just rub it on small wet shave cuts and it stops it bleeding immediately. I guess it would be the same in a disarray. Yeah. If you nicked your skin anywhere, this would work. Yeah.

Oh, it looks just like a chapstick. Yeah. I've looked on online pharmacies, they're like $5 or $6. Yeah. For a little, oh, that's perfect. And you just rub it on and the aluminium disinfects it, apparently. Okay. So that's an actual thing that was purposely made for them.

Made for it. But another one that's on this list that I found are aftershave. But go like this. Go dab, dab, dab. So what is it? The alcohol in it kind of seal it up. Yeah, the alcohol in it acts as a instringent and helps

constrict blood vessels. Right. So it goes smaller and it stops. Okay. Another thing that's probably already around a deodorant antiseptic. Anti- that's probably already around, a deodorant antiperspirant. A roll-on or a stick? It looks more like a roll-on situation, not a psss. So if you just got a little bit on the ball of your roll-on

and then just dabbed it on, that would stop the bleeding. It constricts blood vessels too and helps form a clot and staunch the bleeding, says a doctor who knows about stuff. Lip balm will also stop it. Stop the bleeding. It constricts blood vessels too and helps form a clot and staunch the bleeding. Right. Says a doctor who knows about stuff. Lip balm will also stop it. Is that because it's kind of waxy?

Yep. Okay. It's good old-fashioned petroleum jelly. Anything that seals the cut will enable it to clot faster and stop bleeding. Okay. Yeah, so get a bit on the finger or on some toilet paper or cotton ball and push it on and apply pressure. And then when you take off, it'll be sweet. Coffee or tea.

What? Yeah. It reduces puffiness and redness around the eyes. It's a vasoconstrictor. Yeah. So it can stop bleeding faster. Yep. So don't just pour like a cup of hot coffee on your head.

It's more like coffee grounds or a cooled teabag. Yep. So don't just pour like a cup of hot coffee on your head. It's more like coffee grounds or a cooled tea bag. Yeah. Remember I've told you before I put cooled tea bags on my eye bags. Under your eyes. Bags on bags on bags. Just like Earl Grey or English Breakfast. English Breakfast I prefer. So you can just like put that

on your head. An ice cube. Again it'll constrict the blood vessels and make it clot. And yeah, the styptic pen that we mentioned before. That's especially for it. And eye drops. I've heard somewhere else. Eye drops, when you put it in your eyes,

like you know the stuff that you put in to take away the redness of your eyes? That stuff apparently works by constricting blood vessels. So if you've got an eye dropper and you just put a little drop on there, that should calm it right down as well. This is exciting. Because I'm going to have a shave today.

It's shave day. It's such a little thing. Yeah. It's shave day. I almost want to cut myself just to use this. Oh, no. No. Have you got a five o'clock shadow on your head or something?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. On my face. So I'll deal with that. I like you with a bit of stubble. Where, yeah. On my face. So I'll deal with that. I like you with a bit of stubble. Where do you stop? Stop flirting.

Where do you stop when you're just like on my... You go down to here? Yeah. Like below the t-shirt line? Yeah, of course. Yeah, me too. Me too. You always go below the t-shirt line. Yeah.

And on the back? I just go down as far as I can reach. Yeah, where do you stop? People always ask that and like washing your face and stuff. Yeah. You just go all over. Just get it all in. It's quite rude because we don't ask you where you shave.

I didn't ask. I didn't ask. You know I'm like all from the eyebrows down. Apart from that little bit on your upper lip. Shut your face. I sure hope this pre-recorded laughing isn't after something inappropriate to laugh at

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Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Oh, morena. Morena. Morena. Prime Minister, a few things to cover quickly this morning.

First of all, lunches in schools. Does that help? Because I didn't even really know that that was on the cards. And then someone's like, there's going to be an announcement today. And then it was announced that this is going to be trialled. Sometimes we like to surprise people. My nice. Well, actually, this has been

back and debated on and off for years, actually, and different parties have had different positions, but actually the ones in government now have always been pretty supportive. So, yeah, what we're going to do is we're going to start with 30 schools, but by 2021 we'll have

120 schools reaching 20,000 children. The schools we go into, once we're in there, we are focusing on the schools where we know kids would benefit the most, but it'll be a lunch for every child so no one gets stigmatised. And we know, research tells us, it'll make a difference to their learning. Your mum used to be our canteen lady at school. Was she involved? Because she used to heat up ateen lady at school. Was she involved?

Because she used to heat up a cracker lasagna topper. She did. I don't know whether a lasagna topper would be the kind of thing we'd be looking for nutrition-wise. So that's a good question. What kind of things will be on the menu? Yeah, really good question. So what we're not doing is saying you have to go through one provider and all the schools have to get some kind of commercially produced lunch. We'll fund schools to do whatever actually suits them.

They might want to bring in, you know, they might want to create jobs out of it. If they've got the kitchen facilities, you might want to do it in their own school. They might want to contract a local bakery. We're leaving that to them, but we'll support them as they work through what works best. Most schools don't have primary schools, which we're only doing primary and intermediate here, and area schools. Most don't have canteens.

So, yeah. So we're not putting my mum out of the job. But will there be guidelines of what they can provide? Oh, yeah, we will. So we are going to produce some support around making sure that it is nutritious. We don't want, you know, a bag of chips and a can of Coke. I don't think anyone would think that was a good idea, except the kids. That's true.

The kids are still very big fans of lollies. Yeah, but ultimately, if you're leaving it to the school and parents in the community, then they really have that say in what they think is going to work for them. We just spoke about Austin, Texas. They've brought in a law which is coming into effect this weekend for unsolicited lewd pictures. $500 fine.

Do you reckon we would do anything like that in New Zealand? Wow. Have you been getting a do anything like that in New Zealand? Wow. Have you been getting a bit of any feedback on that? Apparently 40% of, I reckon this is low, 40% of women have received an unsolicited pic, a naughty picture. I reckon that's a bit low. I think that's a bit low.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, you know, bit low. I think that's a bit low. I think it would be a liar. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you know, I consider myself to live a pretty tame life and someone, while I've been a politician, tweeted a pretty... I don't know. Lou doesn't even

capture just what that photo... Has somebody slid into your DMs with a naughty picture? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was quite a while ago, but the thing that surprised me the most is there was quite a recognisable tattoo. Like, if you're going to do something anonymously,

don't have any identifying body features. Yeah, that's the role. We call that the Fletch proposition, is that you never have any identifying features in the same photo, like a face or a tattoo in the same photo as your genitals. Yeah, yeah. Great luck.

You've got to have deniability. Massive fail there. And finally, what about measles? What are we going to do about this measles situation? So we are vaccinating more than we did last year, but of course the problem we have is that, you know, you've got to vaccinate everyone. We need everyone to play ball here.

And so I just keep sharing the message. The best protection is vaccination and no one should ever rely on other people getting vaccinated. That is not a good strategy. That is why we now have this outbreak globally. Well, when I say globally, we are seeing it in reappearing countries that it wasn't really as present.

So, yeah, and I'd say it's probably some of the way people are approaching vaccinations now. Just get vaccinated. That's as simple as that. No anti-vaxxers in Parliament on either side of the political spectrum? If there are, I haven't heard them. No, I've never heard an anti-vaxx sentiment. You would have heard them coughing and displaying signs of measles by yourself. Or, no, I've never heard, I haven't heard that in our files.

That's good. On this, evidence-based. Good. Very pleased that that's across the bipartisan situation and everybody's on board with that. Awesome. Well, thanks for the chat. Maybe where it ends.

Hopefully. Well, no, wait, the chat. Maybe where it ends. Hopefully. Hopefully. Well, no, wait. What do you mean where it ends? The cross party. Everyone agrees. Oh, yeah. No, no, no.

It'd be better if we could have a bit more of that, but that's... We do sometimes. That's life. That's life. Thanks for the chat. Have a great weekend. Thanks, everyone.

You too. Talk soon. Fleece Warner Megan, the podcast. ZM. Fleece Warner-Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fletch Warner-Megan, it's my pick for Friday Flashback next. Absolute banger, going back to 2004, this was a theme song to a reality

TV show. It made it to number 17 in the charts. Everyone is going to sing along to this. And it's topical this week as well. Okay. The artist in the news. Fletch just asked me for dates for something and i knew i had a screen capture of it so i went i opened up my albums and my phone and it did that weird thing where it was on search by the way if you've never if you only ever like take photos and drag them

straight out of the album go into search it's amazing what your phone can recognize in photos like not only can you go be like location, you can literally type in car and it will find all of the photos on your phone with a car in it. It's creepy. You didn't label it car.

It just knows. It just knows. So look, I've got a category. I've got a category here called animals. Yeah. And it just identifies

all of the animals. And it's got your goats in it. Yeah. You don't make these categories, eh? No, the phone decides for you what they are. This is iPhone.

I'm assuming Samsung does the same thing. Probably started over six months before iPhone. And then there's dogs, and it's got a picture of my dog taking a dump on the lawn. Sport is a little confusing because it's just the family. We're all in life jackets, and they were high-vis. So maybe it thought we were playing sports because of the high-vis. Or it thought you were on the lake doing some jet boating. Maybe there's mountains.

That time we definitely didn't ruin the tarns up Taranaki. I'm getting a photo there. There's food and it's got like pineapples and beaches and swimming. It's all like, swimming's pretty amazing because it identified not only is there water, but people are swimming in the water. It's pretty amazing. Also very creepy. The first category, when I opened up the phone, that caught my eye was the first one says

nightclub. Okay. And I was like, when was I last in da club? Yeah. I honestly don't think I've been to da club since I've had this phone and I've had it over two years. Okay. So I click on nightclub because I'm like, who's been in da club?

Yeah. And so it's all the photos and videos I took the other night of uh my daughters in their school production from a distance looks like you're in the club because it's dark but there's like lights and and then like changing focus and strobing lights etc photos of when you're in the club here they are actually there's some other photos in here it was the girls school disco oh yeah so that's in the club. Here they are. Actually, there's some other photos in here. It was the girls' school disco. So that's obviously the club. The club, yeah. That's the five-year-old's club.

Yeah. And what is that? That's someone singing. But again, that's not in the club. I think that was at a wedding or something. So yeah, I haven't been in the club, which is good because it freaked me out for a minute there that I thought I'd been in the club.

But there's a whole lot of weird categories in there. Oh, mine says concerts. And when I went to, have you been paying attention? It's got you. The concert I went to, you're filming. And I sung. So that's, you know, I sung for everybody. You performed?

Yeah. So that's all. Well, so your phone thinks that you're cooler than you are. Which is nice. Yeah. Which is nice. It's got groups here. Yeah.

It's got me and my family because obviously we have so many photos together. It's recognised all of our faces and grouped us. There's you guys there. And look, there's me

and all the other bald people who have ever been had a photo on my phone. Wow. Literally, literally. Daryl Halligan, the Stig, like all of the bald people

I've ever had a photo with. All right. Friday Flashback. It's my pick for Friday Flashback, and Antonia is all on board with this song. I'm fizzing for it. Let's go. News this week that Lizzie McGuire,

there's going to be a reboot. Now, Anya, you love Lizzie McGuire. Do you know Lizzie McGuire 100% on Rotten Tomatoes? There were 65 episodes from the 12th of January 2001 to 2004. Can you explain to me what happened? What was the general, what was the gist of Lizzie McGuire? She was like 13. Yeah, she was just like a gal about town, slaying it.

There was a Lizzie McGuire movie where she went to Europe. And her best friends were Miranda and Gordo. Yeah, so I always say that I'm Lizzie and Andy was Gordo because he was there the whole time under my nose. And then they kissed when they went on the school trip to Europe. Now, we didn't kiss on a school trip, but we did go to Europe and have a smooch. So basically, a documentary on my life. Were you in Europe at the start of the year thinking about Lizzie McGuire?

Yes, I was. And comparing your look to Lizzie McGuire. So during this news, I was very pumped. God, you're something else, eh? Is Adam Lamberg, who played Gordos, he still handsome? What does he look like now? So who's going to be in, is it just going to be growing up Lizzie McGuire when they do this reboot?

Yes, it's her going through her 30s now. Oh, will that just be depressing? Oh, no, that's Adam Lamberg now. Oh, no. He looks more like Shaggy off Scooby-Doo. Oh, he's getting recast in the remake, isn't he? Oh, no. He's going to get a good talking to from the Disney executives.

I've gone for a Lizzie McGuire art slash Hilary Duff song for our Flashback Friday. Now, this song made it to number 15 in New Zealand on the charts. I do remember the song being everywhere at the time, though. It was featured as the theme song for the MTV reality show, Megan, do you remember? Laguna Beach. Oh. Wow.

I didn't know you'd chosen that. The OG. The OG. The OG, yeah. The Precedededed to the hills, is that right? Yeah, included in the soundtrack for Laguna Beach. Used on various things. Used in the theatrical trailer for A Cinderella Story. I know, how have we not done this before?

Your Friday flashback today is the Duffster. Oh my God. Hilary Duff in Come Clean on CDM. It's seven past eight. Oh, Vaughan's into this. Let's go back. CDM. Back to the beginning.

Back to when the earth, the sun, the stars all aligned Cause I've heard that things feel so perfect Trying to fit a square into a circle was my life I defy Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams Let it wash away my sanity

Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream Let the rain fall down, I'm coming clean I'm coming clean I'm shedding Shedding every color Trying to find a pigment of truth beneath my skin Cause different Of truth beneath my skin Oh, cause different Doesn't feel so different And going at it's better Than always staying in

Here and there Let the rain fall down And wake my dreams Give in Let the rain fall down And wake my dreams Let it wash away My sanity Cause I wanna feel the thunder I wanna scream

Let the rain fall down I'm coming clean I'm coming clean I'm coming clean Let's go back Oh, I'm coming clean I hear it Let the rain fall Let the rain fall, let the rain fall, I'm coming

Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams Let it wash away my sanity Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream Let the rain fall down, I'm coming clean I'm coming clean I'm coming clean Let the rain fall, let the rain fall Let the rain fall, I'm coming clean Let's go back

Back to the beginning Hilary Duff, your Friday flashback, Come Clean. Oh, just adding to my reputation of constantly picking banger after banger after banger. What a song. Why did I say that out loud this morning that Hilary Duff would be a great choice? No, because I heard the Lizzie McGuire news earlier this week and I thought, it's

time for some Duff. Excuse, I see. You literally said this morning. Lock and load some Duff. Because when we said this morning you were like, who's Brian, I'm playing Frank. I was like, oh it's mine, I don't know. Don't choose. I said, what about Hilary Duff because... Yeah, Fletch, you wanted to pick Metamorphosis. No, I didn't.

Wait, was that an album or a song? I literally just googled. No, that was her album. That was her album. Yeah, there was higher. You wanted to pick... What were her other bangers? Fly?

Yeah, Fly. There was Fly as well. That was a banger. Wake Up from Kim Possible. She had many bangers. Many bangers. And I'll tell you what, the nation has spoken. In fact, that should be...

You're welcome. Is it too late to get her for Friday Jams Live? Let's get her on the lineup. She's standing like a bloody sore thumb. Imagine Hilary Duff after the Black Eyed Peas. God, I'd just lose my shit. Where would you put her on the lineup? Oh, I don't know.

I'd put her after Janet Jackson. I'd put her at the closing act. Right. I don't know if Janet Jackson, with all of her number ones, might have something to say about that, but sure. She's like, who's going after me? Hilary Duff. Jesus.

All right. Feedback? Yeah. Hilary Duff's always a banger. Someone said, Fletch with the absolute banger. You've become the golden boy. Thank you. Thank you.

Other people said, I always thought when I was a kid Hilary Duff was a good singer, but now I'm not so sure that I've heard this as an adult. Best Friday flashback. I had to sit in my car once I had arrived at work so I could finish. The boss was waving me to come inside and I pulled them the fingers. The boss can wait. Hilary Duff is playing. Hilary Duff waits for no boss.

Flashback of Champions, it gave me goosebumps, or maybe that's my car seat warmer. But either way, I've got goosebumps. A car seat warmer? Haven't the Hilary Duff crowd gone a bit ooh-la-la? Good to hear from the Hilary Duff 1%ers this morning. This song has taken me back to my teenage years, being very sad because my crush wasn't online on MSN Messenger.

So I said to my friend, he's not online. And she said, yes, he is. And it turned out he'd blocked me on MSN Messenger. Let the rain fall down. Oh, that's so sad. Yeah. I'm coming clean. That cuts me.

We'll turn to news now that the government is going to launch some lunches in schools. Yes. In some of the poorest schools, which is great. Yep, they're going to trial it in a few schools and then roll it out to more schools. We wanted to ask the question this morning, though. What did you have in your school lunch? Because we were reminiscing when this story came out about what we used to have in our school lunch. And I remember we'd always have a ham sammy,

a couple of ham sammies. Ham or luncheon? Well, it was luncheon and then it turned into like, what was it? Turned into shaved ham. Shaved ham? Yeah, champagne.

Why not champagne, just shaved ham? Mum would buy a big pack and save deli bag at the weekend and that would have to last a week for the sandwiches. But it'd start getting

a little slimy by Friday. You know how shaved ham will get a little slimy? Yep, yep. And then you'd put in like lots of, what was that, olivarnio spread.

It wasn't margarine, it wasn't butter. Yeah, yeah, olivarnio. That's flash. Was it that or was it just table spread? It was margarine. A bit of that,

a bit of marge. We just had sunrise table spread. Because you'd want to put a layer of that on so it didn't soggy the sandwich by lunchtime. Here he is.

And then I think we had a couple of garlar apples and then maybe a muesli bar. I don I think we had a couple of gala apples. And then maybe a muesli bar. I don't think we had muesli bars. I'm just trying to, maybe. That was our lunch. We had that muesli bar.

We had those muesli bars that came in such big packets that it was just a silver wrapper. There was no sign writing on the actual wrapper itself. And I was always jealous of kids. There were never roll-ups. We never got bags of chippies. Never got Eddie's thing. Ooh la la.

Maybe a box of sultanas that you could turn into a whistle. Yep. My mum made, like, she would get leftover meat, so we'd have a roast, and then she'd make, like, roast beef and salad with, like, pepper and salt. All I wanted was peanut butter. I just wanted a peanut butter sandwich. Your mum was, like, ooh la la.

And, like, baking. All I wanted was a peanut butter sandwich. Your mum was like, ooh la la. And like baking, all I wanted was a peanut butter sandwich and a roll up. It was always a sandwich in the Smith house. Always a sandwich. Sandwich, yeah. Maybe two sandwiches. Okay. When you hit the growing teenage years where you needed more non-sustenance from cheap white bread.

And just, again, we'd have what was left over from the night before. Unless dad bags that because dad would often bags that for lunch tomorrow. Right. And, yeah, very basic sandwiches. Yeah. Never butter, as you say, always margarine. Yeah. And whatever apple was the cheapest.

And then season. We had Mollenberg, because that was like the big TV advertising of the time. That's bougie bread. Mollenberg, yeah. I think Mum loved Mollenberg. Yeah. All that white bread with the sesame seeds on that was Italian. What was that?

That was everywhere. And the red and white and green bag. Yes, what was that? And it had sesame seeds on the top and a little white. And it wasn't a perfectly square. Yeah, and it kind of bulbed out a little at the top where it overflowed the tin that it was obviously being baked in. Yeah, it was either that or Molenberg.

What was that bread? I can't remember. Do they even still make it? They do. Do they? And they made a garlic bread, didn't they? The same people

made a garlic bread. Oh, I'm unsure. I think. So, I mean, we want to ask the question this morning,

what was in your school lunch? I don't know, Producer Caitlin, you went, before your parents shipped you off to boarding school? Yeah. Did they love you?

What did you get in your lunch? Well, we had the fairly pie warmer, so everyone could bring in like a, so I used to have a toasted sandwich, like a cheese toasted sandwich. It wrapped in tinfoil, and then you'd put it in there in the morning, and then when it was lunchtime you'd go find your initials on the

Oh, that's genius! And then I had a toasted sandwich. Right, what about you, James? What about you? What did you have for lunch? My mum used to run a pretty good lunch, actually. Did she? Yeah, we ran a good one

with the chargrilled chicken patties and sandwiches. Very ooh-la-la. What? Bougie alert! Whoa. Every morning, every day for lunch? No, not every day.

Not every day. That was like the height of the, that was the peak of the week. Yes. And then you sort of went back down to almost a peanut butter like that was like the height of the that was the peak of the week yeah and then you sort of went back down to almost a peanut butter and jam sandwich by the end of the week and that was recession time yeah we know but we ran a good sandwich she ever rock a noodle sandwich i remember some people having noodle sandwiches at school no we used to run a chip sandwich every now and again though right you used to get a couple of lots of bread a couple of bits of bread and some, yeah, normally spring onion.

What about, oh yeah, that's very bougie. What about fussy eater internania? Was it all processed foods and chicken nuggets? Yeah, it was. So I had just a plain bun, no like spread or anything. And then those, I didn't like the bits in yogurts. So it was those like weird tube things. You know how you can get yogurts and it's like no bits or no fruit bits

because kids like Anya. Yeah, I was all about that. And then like a carrot stick and Bob's your uncle. Or like a signature range mixed flavours chippies packets. Always signature range every time. Mixed flavour chips. Not like mixed in the bag. That would be crazy to me.

Oh, you would get like 10 packs. Three would be salt and vinegar. Three would be... The chicken would always just be left there. See you later. Yeah, yeah. Come with you on that one. I want to hear, especially this morning,

from people that might have had, you know, both extremes, both ends of the... You mean bougie and bougie. Yeah, bougie and... Yeah, exactly. How bad was your school lunch or how over the top was it? Yeah.

800 dials at M9696. I want to hear from people that did the lunch swapsies too. I always used to swap with my friend Callum because his dad made the lunches and he was not afraid to get a good layer of ham on and lots of actual butter. And was Callum over? He was over the same thing. Well, he always had money to buy a pie. Right.

So he'd give you the lovely ham sandwich. Yeah, and then he'd take his after school job money and buy a pie. Right. And I'd just inherit the sandwich. I'd eat my own sandwich, eat his sandwich, and then just ask anybody else if they didn't want anything. Stephen G often just liked the sausage of the sausage roll

and not the pastry. Stephen G! So you'd eat Stephen's pastry. I'd eat Stephen's pastry. What was Stephen's last name? G. G. Just G. What, like G-E-E? G-E-E. G-Easy.. Stephen G. So you'd eat Stephen's pastry. What was Stephen's last name? G. G. Just G? What, like G-E-E? G-E-E.

G-Easy. Oh, G. Okay. Stephen G. Okay. G was the last name. I thought it was just G. Okay, right.

Oh, 800,000. Oh, you thought it was just an initial. Stephen G. Whole name. Nine, six. Give us a call or a text. Country Split. Is that brand of bread? Oh, yes.

Talking about school lunches, which are going to come in for some New Zealand primary schools. How bad or how good was your school lunch? And it's got us reminiscing. Some amazing texts and calls coming through. It's a different world from the 90s when we were packing a school lunch. I went and picked up the girls from school earlier the other day and it was lunchtime and I saw kids eating like dumplings

out of like this, like a thermos, but like a lunchbox thermos. So they were like steam warm dumplings for lunch. Yeah, and Amos, like six-year-old was rocking chopsticks like a veteran and eating dumplings. I was just like, changed world. Had mum and dad been out to Brilla Dumpling House, BYO, and like was he eating leftovers? Leftovers, I don't know.

They looked good, though. They had the lines. No, they wouldn't have been. They had the lines where you could see someone who, like, pinched the dumplings closed. Oh, my God. Handmade. Because whenever I see a dumpling, my eye goes into, like,

you imagine, like, some sort of robotic analysis of the dumpling. Like the Terminator. And it zooms in and it's like finger-pressed things, a fork mark on the side, analysis, pork and chive. Yum. Must eat. Must steal from child. So taking some calls, Hayley, what did you have for school lunch?

We used to get egg sandwiches and cold spaghetti sandwiches. Oaks spaghetti sandwiches. Oak spaghetti sandwiches. Oh, your parents didn't love you. As a taxpayer, I'm all for getting lunches into schools, but if I hear oak spaghetti is being used, no child deserves that. Don't they sponsor a league team? Oak? I always see a league team with oak and ah, Ben and Amber's was on that.

Always see a league team with Oak, and I'm like, oh, God, I bet they have to pretend they like Oak. Yeah, sometimes I really didn't want to eat it, so I'd pretend I'd left my food at home so my mum would have to, she'd stop at the bakery and come and give me some food. Oh, boy. But the Oak spaghetti would have soaked right through the bread. That would have been an absolute shambles by the time it came to eating it.

Yeah, I forgot my lunch. Yeah, totally. That sounds like a soggy mess. Hey, thanks for your call, Hayley. Laura, what did you have for your school lunch? Good morning. Morning. Happy Friday, by the way.

Yeah, so we were lucky enough that when we were kids, my mum worked part-time. So she had heaps of time on her hands and she used to do lots and lots of home baking. So we always had something yummy in our box. Yum. We'd also make homemade pizza with leftovers and stuff and we'd have that cold in our lunchbox because cold pizza is the best.

Sade's done that. Sade's made the girls pizzas to take for lunch. I'm like, well, make another one so I can have some lunch when I get home. She's like, you're an adult,

look after yourself. Yeah. And she'd also make us those calzones, which are calzones, which is like a pizza with a lid. Yeah, right.

Hey. Your mum sounds amazing. God, I make my lunch and sandwiches look pretty basic. My God. Laura, thanks for your call. I'm going to hook you up with a P Nation Sports Bra.

It's worth $105 from themarket.com. Holy moly, that's amazing. Thank you so much. She already got mean lunches. You don't know what you're getting in lunch. Someone who rang up and said, all right, smack in the ass on a boiled egg. Wait there, Jess, what did you have in your lunchbox?

Morning, guys. I was really similar to Caitlin, so we had a pie warmer every day that we could use if we wanted to. So we had the toasties and we had like sausage rolls and homemade pizza and stuff that could go in there. And we

also had Friday lunch orders that came from the local fish and chip shop. We did that as well, yes. So you could have like hot chips and a pie or hot chips and a sausage or a piece of fish or like all sorts of options from there. And also my mum and dad used to own their own business so they used to kind of go out once or twice a week

and they would sometimes deliver a happy meal or a Subway. Because we went to a really rural school so it was a real massive treat for us to get that. That Happy Meal would have been some hot currency at a rural school, having been to a rural school. Someone would have turned up with even a cold cheeseburger and been like, what you got going on there, dog? Just a little sniff of that cheeseburger.

Well, thanks he called you. Some text messages. Some real bougie lunches. Somebody got cheesecakes. What? They got a whole dessert situation. Well, that was a mini cheesecake to follow up their savouries. Right.

Wow. Mum used to do pineapple and cheese toothpicks in the 1980s. Oh, that's so true. As a bougie little lunchbox treat. Yeah. Somebody said that they got salami and gherkin sandwiches. Okay. And everyone thought it was really weird

and they'd asked for a bite of the sandwich and then everybody started rolling into school with the German-inspired salami and gherkin. That just needs a bit of cheese. I was going to say, the only thing I'm feeling that that's lacking is some cheese for texture. Maybe some relish as well. Yeah.

Relish. Kids don't really do relish today. It's a bit tangy and young. I think gherkins got the point. Real dividing for texture. Maybe some relish as well. Yeah. Relish. Kids don't really do relish today. It's a bit tangy and yum. And then gherkins is a real dividing for kids. Yeah. We used to get a, mum used to bake at the start of the week, a mega sausage roll is what she called it. Okay.

It was huge and it had to be, it had to last a week. So it was then cut into 10 pieces as five days between two kids. And it pretty much took up all lunch boxes. What is so, every day is just a monster sausage roll. Every day is just this absolute chunk of meat with a little pastry.

No room for fruit or anything at that stage of the game. I'm imagining trying to squish the lid down on a lunch box with this like sausage roll that's poking out of the top. Mum got sick of making our lunches, so she said you're in charge of our own lunches. By the time our three boys had been through three loaves of bread a day, mum decided to take the reins back of making our own lunches

because we were just literally making a loaf of bread worth of sandwiches. Somebody else said cold porridge in a container that didn't always hold the porridge. Oh, no. Oh, for lunch. I like to imagine they'd said it didn't always hold, so to me there's been some spills. Explosions. You go to get your book out for maths and porridge is just everywhere.

Just lahad through your entire bag. All right. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about the sun. Okay. Which we can see from the studio right now, but I don't know what the entire, do you know what the? No, we can see the effects of the sun. We can't actually see the sun.

Okay. People might think we have a different facing studio window, which we don't. Okay, well we can see the effects of the sun. Where are we getting... Never eat soggy Weet-Bix. That's West Facing.

As far as going to run home, that'd be my quickest line. We're Western. Okay, I'm just looking at the rain radar over the country. It's looking pretty... It's looking okay. Okay. Might be cloudy in some spots, but here's to some sun.

After Auckland had, what, a record 29 days of rain in a row? Don't tell everyone about it. Don't tell everyone. It rained a lot. Yeah. So this fact about the sun is that the sun is actually white. Okay. What?

Did you know that? No. But what do you mean? It's like burning. Well, we said it's yellow. White hot. It's burning. But it's yellow.

No, but. Yeah, but okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, if you were to say, if you were a kid and you were colouring in, if you were drawing a picture of the sun, what colour would you use? Yellow. Orange.

A yellowy orange, right? Yeah. The fire, the colour of fire. But it depends, because those ones always went first, so you might have to use a purple or a brown, and if there's no crayons... You wouldn't do a brown, son. Well, no, but I'm just saying if you had to improvise...

If you were out of the light of colour, surely you'd change the entire scene to a night-time scene and put a moon. Colour all black apart from the white circle. I just Googled a image and all of those pictures you'd say are orange because it's burning. It's on fire. No, but it's not like a fire like you're keeping warm. Well, it is keeping us warm, but it's like a nuclear fire.

It'd be more like looking into the eye of Chernobyl, for example, than it would be looking into your mass port log burner. Okay. But it's white. It's the Earth's atmosphere that makes it appear yellow to us. Right, okay. Yeah. But if you see it from the International Space Station and stuff,

it's actually like, here's a photo from the International Space Station. Oh, it's white. Yeah, like a big bright sun. Yeah. A star. Oh, yeah, but that's like, here's a photo from the International Space Station. Oh, it's white. Like a big bright sun. Yeah. A star. Oh, yeah, but they've like, influencer edited that. It's got filters on it. Yeah, that looks like an artist's rendition.

Do you reckon the astronauts... They've added like a sparkle to it or something. Because that's like, you always expect astronauts to be like the best of humanity, eh? But they've done some crazy things, like recently the woman checking in on her ex's bank accounts from the International Space Station, the other one that wore the nappy, so she didn't have to stop while she was stalking her ex. Yeah.

You've got to be a little bit crazy to... Yeah, to want to go up into space and, like, orbit around... Just chill there. ...for, like, four months. But do you reckon when they take a photo, they're like, no, no, no, take it again? Like, do you reckon they... Well, they've got heaps of time.

...are pretty, like like savvy when it comes to like the gram or pretty much i don't know do they do like camera training maybe not be hard not to get a great photo from up there just like a hot photo yeah and how do they like figure out what's the best posting time up there because like or they go into their insights and work out where yeah right yeah but you're right they're literally like spinning around the earth really quickly yeah so i want to be able to post this at night when everyone's on instagram yeah and then you're right, they're literally spinning around the earth really quickly. Yeah, they're like, I want to be able to post this at night

when everyone's on Instagram and then you're like, okay, it's night, oh, now it's day. Night, oh,

day. Do you know what? Me and Sade just recently re-watched what's the one with, was it called Gravity? The Sandra Bullock movie? Oh yeah,

the Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. That is still a very good movie. Oh, that was EGVC. That was horrible to watch. You know how sometimes those movies don't age well? Yep.

Still great. Right. If you've never seen it, do it. If you think it might, if it's a possibility that you think, maybe we'll re-watch that, I would recommend it. It's a movie that's a couple of years old. I don't know how it wouldn't have aged well. No, it's like six years old now, isn't it?

Is it? Yeah, I think it's... Oh, right. No, it's like six years old now, isn't it? Is it? Yeah, I think it's... Oh, right. Well, it's not that old in the scheme of things. It's not like it's from the 90s or something. 2013. Yeah, right. So, yeah, it's six years old.

But it's good. Okay. It was freaky because I was watching something else and I kept looking at hers and I'm like, oh, we should watch that. I was like, can we... Wait, you were watching different movies at the same time? Oh, on an aeroplane.

Oh, right. No, we've got eight TVs in our lounge and it's like a surveillance centre. We all watch different things. No, and then I was like, can I put my headphone splitter in your thing and then we can both watch your screen? Oh, we sync up movies. You do that. One, two, go.

It was too late. But it was too late for that because I was halfway through the movie that I was watching. So I paused that and she's like, you can tell she was somewhat reluctant. Right. Because it meant I leaned it. And she lost her arm space and stuff. And I kept like tapping her and she'd pull her headphone off and I'd be like, this part's so intense. And she'd be like, yeah, okay, well, just shush.

And so I think she regrets it wholly, but a great movie. Okay. Great movie. So today's fact of the day is the sun is actually white. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. The Bachelorette New Zealand ZM Wildcard. So TVNZ2 is bringing The Bachelorette to our TV screens and we need to find a ZM Wildcard.

So all this week we've been meeting, we've got three contestants. We've met Burns, Burnsy. Burnsy. Fordo. Fordo. And today I would like to introduce you to flynn palmer morning flynn good morning do you have a nickname flinigan palmo well all my nicknames are longer than my actual name because my name's only one syllable so it's like yeah flunner flunaboo or my dad calls me so curious. Everyone on my mum's side calls me Boo now, so I kind of can't escape from that.

We're totally calling you Flunaboo. I probably shouldn't have said that. You'll learn. You'll learn. It'll take a while, but you'll learn what you shouldn't say, Boo. So, Flunaboo, why have you not found love?

Do you think? I'm just quite relaxed. I don't really like seek relationships all the time. And I'm not, yeah. Okay. Quite, yeah. So if it happens, it'll happen. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Like I met the last girl I was with through work and stuff like that. Right. Yeah. So are you actually looking for love and to like settle down? Well, not just settle down yet, you could say. I am only 20, but I'm open to the the um yeah open to the concept yeah. Right what do you look for in a partner? Someone like all

the good stuff like um good morals like she has the same sense of humor as me as well which is probably the biggest thing because I'm often I look at the lighter side of things all the time and it's like I'm quite a relaxed person too So someone that's like that as well would be ideal. Cool. And what's your hobbies? What do you want to do in your spare time? So I'm a track and field runner. That specialises in...

I thought you said a chicken runner. Yeah! I was like, you've got me because I just got some chickens. I've got questions. I'm a chicken runner. I could be a chicken runner as well. It kind of goes hand in hand. So what do you do?

Track and field? Is that like, because there's different things, like hurdles and stuff. Do you do hurdles? Yeah, hell no. No, I do 800 metres. It's like my main event. Because it's weird. Like, how do you pack a distance?

Like 100 metres, 800. I'm just going to run 800. It kind of just like happens like i used to do 1500 and then just um went down this is less this is better yeah exactly because i'm too slow to just do 400 so i've kind of got the middle ground between what's still short enough for me to do that i'm still fast enough to do as well right because i don't like anything longer than that at all yeah so you're enough you need someone, like, quite athletic or that can keep up with you? Oh, no, no, not at all, not at all.

Okay, good answer. Obviously someone that's, like, yeah. Stuff it. It would be cool to have someone that, like, enjoys the sport as well or, like, is enthusiastic about it. That doesn't, like, hate me training or anything. Yeah. Okay.

That can stand on the sideline and cheer you on yeah okay that's cool yeah it sounds easy yeah no yeah yeah it's not there's not a criteria that you have to be able to run a certain distance that yeah yeah what kind of guy are you in a relationship are you romantic um i've probably been in enough relationships to say whether or not i'm that romantic or not, but just relaxed, really. I don't really sweat the small stuff at all. Okay. Yeah. Cool. That's good, but then later on down the track

they start to hate that. Because they're like, why don't you care about that? And you're like, well, I'm trying not to worry. Worry some! Yeah, I can imagine my mum would be like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She'd get bored. Well, we've now met our three contestants. We do need to find one ZM wildcard.

So we're opening the voting right now. This is Flynn that you've met this morning. There's also Carl Ford, Michael Burns, and you can get your votes in at ZM Online. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts and music lives here ZM