ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - December 02 2019

Episode Date: December 1, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Imagine finding out your suburb was an agmo. Hot or not? Yeah, your suburb's like, I think I'm a five. Oh no, I think I'm an eight. Yeah, but you're a five. Amp old. Yeah, or mow your lawns, mate. That's your problem. You've got a scruffy berm.

I always hate it when mine's the scruffy berm and everyone else's mowed theirs. I'm like, guys, can you just nip over and do mine? Mow your lawn, yeah. Still a little bit of extra. The guy beside me always does a perfect line between the fences. Yeah, that's a great...

I shan't be doing any of yours. Great passive aggressive move there. Love it. Like if that was me, I'd just do your little bit of lawn. No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't. If anybody wouldn't, you wouldn't. Yeah.

It's you, that's why. I couldn't deal with seeing my perfect lawn and then ending with your grubby yuck. Dandelions. Yeah, lawn, yuck. I need to clean it, mow it all. Yeah. And then I'll be like, oh, God, now look at the front lawn. I'm going to have to do that too.

I do mow it, but God, it grows quick. Yeah. You turn your back and then there's dandelions again. I'm like, good Lord. It's when the dandelions stop growing. And they make grass that grows real slow. Yeah. It's when the dandelions stop growing growing that. There's real trouble making.

Why? Global warming. Oh, right. Bees and stuff. Bees. Yeah. They like a bit of a dandelion. Yeah.

Big fan of a dandelion, the bee. I'm done. We have a big concert announcement at 8 o'clock this morning. This is exciting. This is exciting. Not only that, someone from that line-up is joining us on the phone. Someone that I didn't even think

we'd ever get the chance to talk to again. No. In fact, Vaughan, you had a picture of this person on your flat wall for many, many years. Did I?

Don't say, when you realise, don't say the name. It was mounted, it was above the door into the hallway in the lounge, wasn't it? Am I remembering you flat correctly? Yes. It was like really up high.

Yep. No, it wasn't above the door. It was beside the door. It was covering the mark. That's right. It was covering the mark. Yeah. Yes.

But then we just left it there. I don't know if you should tell this person that it was covering a mark. I'll tell them. Clue. Hymn. It's a hymn. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

Story time, three news headlines. And Vaughan and Megan, you must pick one of the following three headlines. The other two headlines deleted. We don't find out about those stories. It's just how this game works. Storytime headline one, man offended after comment over sweater. Headline two, 91-year-old makes standover refund refusal. And headline three, Arizona teen home early for Christmas.

Those are your headlines. Why is Arizona teen home early for Christmas? Yeah, what headlines. Why is the Arizona teen home early for Christmas? Yeah, what's the story there? What was one again? Man offended after comment over sweater. Oh. But what did he do when he was,

is it what he did when he was offended? Or is it more about the sweater? Nah, it's more about the sweater. Okay. What do you want? I kind of want the Arizona guy. Yeah, okay. The teen home early for Christmas?

The Arizona teen home early for Christmas. All right, well, we go to Arizona now. An Arizona teen. Slightly misleading headline, because the teen was just going back to their house, but they were trying to sneak in because they'd gone out. I'm assuming drinking for the night. Okay.

The teen tried to sneak home. Whether or not she didn't have a key or she'd lost her key, either way, she didn't want to alert her parents to the fact that she was home, so she decided to shimmy down the chimney. Get out of town. Hence the headline that the teen was returning home early for Christmas, and that is when she got stuck in the chimney. Why is that a good option?

Surely there was a window cracked or something. I just can't imagine chimneys ever being quieter than any other way in. Yeah. She told reporters that she started panicking. She started screaming. She was like, call 911. Apparently, she found it hard to breathe. She then told the news outlet, I never thought it was blocked at the bottom.

So I went down and started freaking out. Because for those that don't know, chimneys don't just go straight down. There's like a little... What does she have, an open fire? I didn't know that they were blocked at the bottom. It doesn't say, it just says smokestack. But the old brick ones would go up and then around, wouldn't they? Yeah, they'd go up in the back and then around and it would create a drag.

Well, how does Santa do it? Imagine. Somewhat of a contortionist. He's got a lot of, like, experience. He's been doing this for years. Well, anyway, it was when the teen's parents arrived home from the movies that they heard the screaming. They described the parents as really mad.

Because how do you get back? I just can't imagine. Do they have to go down arms up? I'd assume so. But anyway, they rang the fire department and they came and extracted her from the smokestack.

Did they have to destroy? Any word on the state of the chimney? Doesn't say. Doesn't say how. Yeah. She was covered in soot when she was finally freed, but refused medical attention. Oh, right.

Yeah. She smiled after she was rescued, but then declined further Fox 10 news interviews. Leave me. Leave me alone. I've made a silly mistake. I was drunk. I went down the chimney.

Didn't work, did it? Mate, you all know that. On with your day. I was drunk. I went down the chimney. Didn't work, did it? You all know that. On with your day. See you later. There's something that people were doing which is not actually very charitable. You think that you're helping out, but you should probably rein it in

a little bit. I'm pretty good at this. I mean, not doing this. You're pretty good, not doing this. You're pretty good at not doing this. Yeah, what you're about to say, I don't do. Right. I do. Because of this reason?

Well, I know that. Yeah, you say why and then, because this is a really cute and fabulous thing, we still don't know what we're talking about. Well, if you are donating to an op shop, you believe that you're doing a good thing, right? But people are just donating their rubbish. Junk.

Their junk. It's the dumping, the fly tipping. It's hard because you're like, oh, someone else's trash is someone else's... What's the saying? One man's trash is another man's treasure. Trash and treasure. Yeah. You know?

But it turns out it's just trash for everybody. So basically people are going to op shops when they're closed and just outside their store dumping bags of clothes, crappy, broken furniture. Mattresses. Yeah, just stuff that no one would even buy, let alone probably take if it was free, some of it. And now they're saying you could be fined $400 for doing that,

for dumping your crap at an op shop. Because it depends on where in the country you are because each council will have their own different fines and rules. Yeah. Yeah. But that's like, it's the equivalent of just dumping it at a rest area or a park or just dumping it on somebody else's property.

Driving it up some rural road and down a bank. I saw one when I saw some friends and beside their house is a new subdivision. Yeah. So, you know, like a busy suburban street. Yeah. And people would dump like an old fridge and an old mattress. I was like, how did they get in here and unload like a noisy ass fridge

and drive away without anybody noticing? Like two o'clock in the morning? Yeah, but even then. Or did it in high-vis vests? Because you can get away with anything in a high-vis vest. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I don't know.

If you looked out the window, you're like, aye, a high-vis vest. Are they chucking a fridge off the trailer? Must be official council business. I would think that, though, because I'm like, well, they're in official high-vis. Let them go. Like, where do you get high-vis from?

If you're just Joe Public? Can't you just get it from the warehouse? Anywhere, mate. Anywhere. I don't know about that. I think there's official channels. Certainly isn't.

Really? Okay. Yeah. Because it's costing the op shops a fortune to get rid of all the stuff. And so you're kind of defeating the purpose

of the charity. You're costing them money. The Salvation Army's national store manager said that he was grateful and he's like, I appreciate our opening hours do not

suit everyone. People know when they're open. They're putting it there because they know they shouldn't be putting it there. And if they took it

there during opening hours, they'd be like, no, take all the stuff back. But it's the same people try to chuck it all in the charity bins, don't they?

Yeah. And they just end up becoming giant rubbish. Oh, you'd hate to open those. Go through those. Oh, yeah. I mean, there'd be some gems in there. I didn't even think about opening the back of those. Because I always put legit stuff in there. Do you tie your shoes together?

No, because mine don't like, a lot of mine don't have laces. But they'd have straps. No. Not necessarily. What kind of shoe? You could put a rubber band around them. Yeah. Like heels.

Like a sandal. Like if they're heels. Oh, yeah, okay. You force one heel inside the other heel and then put some tape around it. I don't want to ruin the shoe. Okay. A rubber band there. Also, I love that you're not donating your shoes to charity.

You've literally got a pile of them in your wardrobe. No one wants your stanky old shoes. But my old pile, I've got multiple piles. What are you going to give someone else athlete's foot? Excuse me? It's disgusting.

Open up the back of the bin and Megan's shoes, somebody's dead in here. Somebody's crawled in here and died. Megan, we have been on a plane with you. That was years ago. That was one time. It was just that one pair of shoe that did not breathe well.

A lot of pots of Gran's Remedy since. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, it was only a matter of time before the Marie Kondo backlash started. This is the philosophy of if it doesn't spark joy, it's got to go. And everything's so minimalist, isn't it? She's from Japan. Yes. And there was a Netflix show.

Megan, I never watched it, but you were all about it. Yeah. I like that idea, though. Yeah, I mean, that's how she lives her life. And I wouldn't fold my T-shirts like that and line them all up in my drawer. But it was like, you know. I'd love to, but. You can take elements of what she was saying.

Yeah, right. Take what you wanted out of it. Yeah. Well, she has finally started wearing some backlash because of the unrealistic expectation of keeping your house in such order. And people who have jobs, busy mums seem to be, of the photos I've seen, busy mums who... This is my wife to a T.

She wants the house to be tidy and have nothing out. Yeah. Nothing on the bench. But you've also got kids. Right. And me. Yeah. And I love leaving stuff on the bench because when you need it...

Where is it? It's on the bench. It's on the bench. Makes sense. It's in that drawer. Yeah. She likes the drawer Because when you need it Where is it? It's on the bench It's on the bench Makes sense It's in that drawer She likes the drawer better Because you can shut the drawer And hide the mess

There's also the reason why Shardo doesn't like people Coming around unannounced Or if I'm like Oh Sansa's coming around When? I'm like well soon Jesus

And it's just like I'm trying to I'm like who cares That stresses me out too I don't If I went to your house, and I have been last minute on occasions. It freaks her out, eh? It freaks her out.

And I'm like, I don't care. No, these are our friends. These are our people. I don't care at all. I would never judge that. It's not like there's a shit on the floor. They're not judging. If there's shit on the floor, it's always on the tile,

so it's an easy claim. Yeah, I wouldn't judge that. Fletchers here. Oh, wipe the shit up. Okay. Done. But that's, on the tile, so it's an easy claim. Yeah, I wouldn't judge that. Fletchers here? Oh, wipe the shit up. Okay. Done. But that's, yeah, I don't know. My mum was the same growing up.

Like, if people came around, she'd freak out and have to do, like, a real quick vacuum. I was just like, these, I personally don't walk into someone's house and ever think, this place is a mess. Yeah. Because if they've got kids, I understand what it's like to have kids.

Yeah, totally. It's a wildly unrealistic way to expect to live all the time. So I guess Marie Kondo wanting to cash in on this whole Netflix buzz started selling merchandise

a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. And it's all stuff like rubbishy junk that you don't actually need. Yeah. Because that's the thing, everything in your house

you should need and it should spark joy but it's stuff like rose quartz crystals and a dangly thing. But that could spark joy. Yeah, but people are saying you told us to get rid

of all of our unnecessary stuff and now you're trying to sell us something. She told them to get rid of stuff that doesn't spark joy. Unnecessary stuff. You might have a crystal and stuff.

And it sparks joy. She should have gone into the organiser market, like, you know, with like coat hangers. Yes. And, you know, she should have. Segmented wardrobe bits. Yeah.

Although that market's probably quite flooded. Because have you ever been to one of those like Japan mart stores? Yeah. And like they've got like everything for organisation. Everything. Oh, I'm down for that. Yeah. I like that. organisation. Everything. Oh, I'm down for that. Yeah. I like that.

But what people... So people are posting photos of their rooms with no change to them. Like they literally walked in. Like really messy. Yeah. And some of them are super messy. Like so messy that if your mum saw it, she'd lose her mind. It's a floor-drobe.

You don't need the wardrobe because it's, as you say, it's easy. A wardrobe, a bed-robe. She's got an interest in something and she's made a TV show to say how you could clean up your house and your life and everyone has just eventually turned on her. Yeah.

Die hero or live long enough to become the villain. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Beer is joining the list of red wine, coffee, dark chocolate and heroin. Bad for you one week, good for you the next. I think heroin's always bad for you. Says you. You've brought into big farmers' attitude to heroin.

So apparently it's the probiotic yeast in beer, so you would have to get a yeasty beer? Yeah, okay. Aren't they all yeasty beers? Fan of. Nah, there's not all. Well, I mean, yes, but some more yeasty than others. Right.

So they said it's the beers that have got the probiotic microbes, bacteria, and yeast. So they found examples. Belgian beers are big. Hoegaarden. Oh, yeah. Okay. You've seen that one. The other ones I've never heard of, so I probably won't bother mentioning them.

So they're fermented twice. Right. They do it in the brewery, and then when it's bottled, it ferments again, which sounds like a recipe for a bomb. Exploding glass bottles everywhere. But apparently it's the drier taste and it's also that that gives you the microbes that would be good for your gut

and also help you sleep better. Right. So that's what they're saying. So these beers could help you, your gut health. Because, you know, if you think about the bacteria in your gut, like a parking lot. Yeah. This is how my brother described it to me once.

And he's a pharmacist. Okay. So wait, so my gut is a parking lot. Like a parking building. Which one? Like a Westfields? Or just a small... Let's go Sky City Underground Car Park.

Underneath the casino. Okay, right. So if the car park's full, it's always got to be full. But what do you want parking in there? Cars without warrant of fitnesses and registrations and bad emissions? Or hybrids? Oh, right.

Okay. So it's a healthier environment. It's going to be full of something. It's the bad stuff wins. Yeah, but I don't care who's parking in my lot as long as they're using my casino. Okay. Okay, but the people who drive the hybrids, they spend more money. Okay.

And they eat at restaurants. Right. Well, he didn't use the – we bought in this whole gambling situation, but he said it's always full. So you better have the probiotics and the bad stuff. Right. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yeah.

So they're saying these beers have probiotic bacteria, which take the place of the bad bacteria. Right. Because there's never a problem with it always being full. My guts. Yeah. You know, that's a constant thing, constantly eating.

But you were saying just top it up with a bit of beer, probiotics. I'm not saying that. Right. Well, it sounds like you are. I wasn't talking about the gut being full

as much as the space in your gut for bacteria. Right. Yeah. But is that like... You know, you do your kombuchas and your... Yeah, I love my probiotics.

I'll do a probiotic supplement every day. A little... Is that it? Yeah, love it. What's that other stuff? Yeah, love it. What's that other stuff? What other stuff?

I don't know. The cabbage. Sauerkraut. Yes, sauerkraut. Kimchi. Kimchi, yeah. That's good in a salad. You're supposed to work your way up to that, though. No, you crank a whole lot, you shit yourself.

You do a hard reset. It's like if you just get used to it, it's like you're installing some new software, but if you just eat lots of it, it's like a hard reset. It's like, if you just get used to it, it's like, you know, you're installing some new software, but if you just eat lots of it, it's like a complete reboot. Or as your brother would say, evacuate the car park. Flush in the car park.

Yeah. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Air New Zealand is bringing some Les Mills workouts to their long-haul flights to help you not die of deep vein thrombosis.

Well, yeah, it's a serious thing. As mentioned previously, I've had that, of how you've got to get up and stretch your legs. I would have thought compression socks would have been enough, but no. Now there's some in-flight exercises, some of which you can take part of in your seat. This is a series of stretches, exercises, and meditation techniques that you can access on the in-flight entertainment system. So you'll be able to spot these people

because on their carry-on bag, they'll have a little sticker that says Les Mills because that's what you do when you go to Les Mills. You put a sticker on your car. So that's when you put a sticker on your luggage. You have to put a sticker on your car to get the car park. It's a good plan from them. Yeah.

They'll also be wearing a full face of makeup to the gym. That's because we go in our breaks from work. Don't pretend you go to Les Mills, Megan. You're a pro anytime fitness like me. I used to go to Les Mills. I'm a Les Millser. I won't hear a bad word about it. So, I mean, there's some other things that happen at Les Mills.

Don't call me povo for anytime fitness. No, it's nice. It's purple. It is nice. It's purple. But don't try to pass yourself off as like that. Really nice biotablet of the wipes. I know.

Look, it's great. I love it. But, I mean, there's got a good... Look, it's great. I love it, but... I mean, there's a certain air of arrogance about these Les Mills types. Isn't there? There is not. Oh, my God, there is so. Is that bitch over there not wearing Lululemon?

She's a 2XU-er, is she? Whore. That's expensive, 2XU. Is that? I don't know. You probably should have gone for a real budget What's a real budget? It came out twice.

Is she wearing a cotton on body? Sure is. Yuck. She's so cool. So the top six this is the top six in-flight Liz Mills

classes that didn't make the cut. Okay. Right. They couldn't all make it. Number six drinks trolley box jumps. Okay. That's where couldn't all make it. Number six. Drinks trolley box jumps.

Okay. That's where you, from a standing position, have to jump on top of the drinks trolley. People that do that are insane, eh? I see people do the box jumps. I'm just like, yeah. It's so high. Well, apparently it was almost on board, but a couple of rugby league players actually did this once. Right. When they had their famous

Trans-Tasman sleeping pill energy drink cocktail pre-flight and decided to do some box jumps on the drinks trolley. Number five on the list of the top six in-flight Les Mills classes that didn't quite make the cut. Spin class on take-off.

You'll be providing additional power for take-off, so you better pedal or we're all ditching into the Manukau Harbour. Right. Number four on the list of the top six in-flight Les Mills classes that didn't make the cut for Air New Zealand are grit

to work off that extra pudding that you quietly ask the flight attendant for. Right. Okay. Can I get another one of those cappity ice grips? Just on the down low. And then, what, you've got to go down the galley and do some burpees. Yeah, you've got to do Okay. Can I get another one of those cappity ice grips? Just on the down low. Just on the down low. And then,

what, you've got to go down the galley and do some burpees. Yeah, you've got to do grit. Yeah. Is that what happens in grit? Yeah, a lot of burpees in grit.

Right. I just literally Google Les Mills classes and then write it down. Yeah, it's a good class. It's a good class. Yeah.

Yeah, it's good. It was grit. Half an hour, it's very intense. Grit or CX. Oh, yeah,

CX is like AB is core stuff. That's also good. I'll do that. What does the X stand for? Don't know. It's just a cool name, isn't it? Oh, cool.

Why? Is that why they're doing it? Because it's cool. Sure. Okay, man. Number three. I'm actually going along today if you want to go. 12.30 is the class.

Core extreme. Yeah, it's just core, lots of abs. It's all abs. CX. Core stuff. Do you come along if you want? No. Okay.

Number three on the list of the top six in-flight Les Mills classes are yoga on the aisle. Right. So not a problem at all for people who wanted to go to the toilet. Maybe the reason why it didn't make the cut for the final exercise is there's just people all over the floor. Yeah. Lying down, downward dogging. Yep. And we all know you're not allowed to do that on a plane.

No. Really frowned upon. Number two on the list of the top six in-flight Les Mills classes that didn't make the cut for Air New Zealand, toilet cue bar. Bar class? Okay. Toilet cue bar class at Les Mills.

R-R-E. Yes. No, I love a bar class. I remember you. Well, you've been to two, Megan. Calm down. Excuse me. I went to like 50,000 when I was getting ready for my wedding.

No, you didn't. You went 10,000. Maybe 10,000. I had an unlimited. Oh, God, I hate you two. You've even gone to 50,000. I went like four times a week. You actually coincided. You went to bar class on the same day

that Anya used her stand-up paddleboard. I went four times a week, you bitch. Twice. Okay. But what do you do? You get a leg up. Yeah, that's what you do. So that was where the problem was because you'd get a leg up on the seat

of the person who thought they were getting extra leg room by sitting in the toilet row. But now they're getting the smell of the toilets that they didn't predict to be so bad and the legs up on their seats. Right. And number one on the list of the top six in-flight Lees-Mills classes

that didn't make it on board for Air New Zealand, it was called Turbulent Strength. It's where you take your seatbelt off and just have to hold on. Right, okay. For all of the turbulence. Against gravity and forces of nature. All that jazz. But you just hold on. I can see why they didn't make the cut.

Those that didn't make the cut. No, no, no. It's just like little ankle stretches and rolling legs and stuff. Maybe a roll of the neck. What else, Fletch? You twist your legs. Clockwise, anti-clockwise. Get up and go for a walk. Get up and walk to the back of the plane. Yeah, be that person. Hey, I'm sorry, I've just got to get up again.

Yeah, I love when you see someone actually doing squats, like lunges down the aisle. Lunges down the aisle. Team that up with some compression socks. They've got themselves a hot mess. Hey, I'm all about the compression socks now. Are you? Yeah, after talking to Joel Little. Right. He got me onto the compression socks now. Are you? Yeah, after talking to Joel Little. Right.

He got me onto the compression socks. I don't think you two business class travelling daddies need to worry about deep fiends Rimbos is up there in your full recline. Eh? Madness. Sheesh. That is today's top six. So in Japan, it's a Japanese department store actually specifically.

They started something to their defence. It was voluntary. So it has been shared a few times and they would like to let everyone know it was voluntary. And the idea initially came from some staff themselves. Right. So they weren't forced to wear these badges. Now the badge, I'll describe it to you. It's like a little pink and red monster.

So it's a pink monster wearing red pants. Wait, so they wear this with their name badge? Yeah. Right, okay. You just connect it to your name badge. Okay. It's got a little like hospital kind of cross for a nose. Yeah.

So it doesn't say anything. It's just this pink and red monster that you'd put under your name badge. Now you wear this monster when you've got your period. I think you're about to say if you were sick. No. Because you had the little hospital cross. The monster's called Miss Period. And it was brought in in October.

And now I think it's gone. That still lasted a couple of months. Yeah. So you would say. It's large too. Hey boss. Oh my God, that's huge. That would be like an inch and a half by an inch and a half.

Bigger than a post-it note. Yeah. Yeah. So boss and mama period, can I grab the badge? Or does everyone have their own individual badge? I think everyone would just have one. You clip it on when you... So what was the thinking behind it?

What was the purpose? So the intention, they say, wasn't to let customers know. But customers ended up finding out obviously. But it was to tell, like, let other staff know, hey, watch out for me. If you see me walking around with the badge on,

maybe help me with some boxes. Maybe I could get longer breaks. Oh my God, what were they thinking? Yeah, it was to kind of, I guess the intention is to help out other staff if they've got their period. Right, so it was the idea about it was initially they wanted to help,

but yeah, okay, well. And then I can just imagine like if you had, I mean, if I wore the period monster badge in studio, every time I had a gripe with anything. Fletcher and I, we wouldn't say anything, but we'd look at each other and go, Yes, you would. Yes, you would. Yes, you would.

Oh, when the mics are off. You're not dealing with a rookie here. I know when. Yeah. And if there was the indication. And also you'd look at each other, not like discreetly. You'd just be like, oh my God. You don't need the badges because you all tell us anyway.

Yeah. Every time. We do like to tell you. Caitlin gives us a week's lead in, and then she tells us about it during the week, and then she tails off for a week. There's only about a week of the month where we're not hearing about it. Like, to be honest, actually, Caitlin, a badge might be better,

because then you wouldn't have to. We just like to torture you guys. No, you need to know. Yeah. You absolutely need to know that I'm going through hell. Yeah. So you're welcome. I mean, if I was going through hell. Yeah. So you're welcome. I mean, if I was going through hell, I'd also tell you.

But that's the other thing. Like, we're fighting hard for equal rights here. And so, like, putting on a badge and being like, help me out at this time of the month doesn't sit well with me either. You know? Yeah. Because most of the time you would 100% not be able to tell. You wouldn't be able to tell.

I'm just a grumpy shit all the time. No, not with you. Yeah, yeah. No, not with you. But yeah, Caitlin tells us all the time. So it just feels like it never ends. Well, it doesn't. It happens once a month for the rest of your life.

As a girl as well, it literally feels like it never ends. I remember when they told us at school that it was every month and I was just like that's not fair. That doesn't seem fair. When I first met mine, I didn't know that it happened every month either.

It was devastating. Wildly upsetting. Very upsetting. So yeah, I will tell you every month, Vaughn. I will not stop. Even when I leave, I'll probably message you. She'll give you a script. I'll send you a little. Just message the old Facebook group.

Yeah. Just so you know, guys. You know how it's going because I know you like to know if it's heavy. I don't. I don't. Caitlin. I know. You know.

Call it the PR report. Oh, your period report. Yeah. Yeah. Period breakdown. Okay. Next on the show. The PR report. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn period report. Period breakdown. Okay. Next on the show. The period report.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Did you do any Black Friday shopping? I did. Did you guys do any Black Friday shopping? I did. I actually didn't. Didn't you? Nah. Why? I don't know. I just did it. I didn't need anything. You didn't need anything. Christmas!

Nah, I got all that. Because you know my family they're just vouchers. I don't care. They just did it. I didn't need anything. You didn't need anything. Christmas. No, I got all that. Because, you know, my family, they're just vouchers. They don't care. They're a voucher people, Megan. We're a voucher people. We're a lower class people. They are. No, you're not a lower class.

You're a less thought, more practical family. Exactly. That's exactly what we are. You run your family like a business. Hello. A stiff handshake. Take deductible. A stiff handshake, an eight-hour day together, and then that's it.

That's it, yeah. Merry Christmas. Then back to free time. Yeah, pretty much. Goodbye, mother. Goodbye, father. You'll sincerely fledge. Exactly how it goes.

In person, it's a weird thing to see. Yeah. But it happens. But I did, proving myself to be even a harder person to buy for because I just buy. It's weird. My mum's rule was you're not allowed to buy anything for yourself in the month before your birthday or the month before Christmas

because that could have been something that somebody had knew. That's what we do in our household. Yeah. Well, I'm thinking this one I might just wrap up and put my name on it. That's sad when you get to that point of adulthood. Because that's what my parents do. They buy something and then... Or they buy something for their dad.

Mum will buy something for dad like a month out and be like, oh, here you go. I'll give it back. I'll wrap it up and put it under the Christmas tree. That's real sad. I think I'll just wrap it up and put it under the Christmas tree. And then on the morning, I'll open it.

I'll be like, kids, how did you know? Because I bought myself that weather station that I wanted. Oh my god. You're officially a dad now. You're like daddy daddy. I'm going to be able to know atmospheric pressure conditions. Like, I don't want you to walk into the lounge and tap the barometer.

You'll get a readout. I don't know how many hectopascals. Hectopascals. I don't know what it hectopascals. Hector, hex, hex, what? Hectopascals. I don't know what it means or what it indicates, but that's what the weather station will work out. Group chat just got a lot more statistics, didn't it? So the money I saved with the Black Friday sale, it allowed me to purchase the rain gauge and the wind meter

for the price that the standard standalone thing was going to be. Wow. So, stand by for how many mils there's been. Can we do a separate group chat where it's like called Vaughan's Weather Station? No one will want to be in it. I know, I was going to be like, and then we can opt into it. Could it just be me and my dad? Because you literally will message a group chat and you'll be like,

oh my God, I can't believe the temperature. And we had four mils of rain overnight. Yeah. And 26k winds. And then you're like, why didn't you read the group chat, Megan?

It's because it's filled with weather chat. It's filled with very interesting information. You're the closest to me geographically. You could benefit largely from this weather chat.

Because no rain's coming. No, because Warren can be like, get your sheets in. Get the sheets in, here comes the rain. The pressure's dropping. The hectopascals are through the roof or floor. Or the grey clouds might give it away. They're a fair indicator. They're a fair indicator as well.

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And on your Spark mobile, you could access your weather station app and let them know what sort of weather they can expect and the lead up to Christmas when they're on their way home. God, I don't care if my brother got me all the way back from London, thanks to Spark and ZM, and then he got me a weather station, I'd be pissed. I'd get back on the flight back. No, he's not getting you a weather station. He's telling you what his weather station is. He's just giving you

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This is something that we actually spoke about ahead of Black Friday last week. So we warned you. We warned you. You were warned. We mentioned that in some places had been accused of hiking their prices so that when it comes to Black Friday sales time and they discount them to normal price, it makes it look like there's a big discount, but actually you're just paying normal price.

Well, you see the big red discount, don't you? Well, the price crossed out and you're like, buy, buy. Yeah, I'm saving 70%, but originally, yeah, it was that price. I saw a video of a guy walking around a store and the big flaps, you know, the big flap prices? Yep. It doesn't say save anything, but it's like now and then a price. And he was just flicking them all up and they were the same price as they'd been underneath.

Cheeky. And he's like, look, look, look, look, all the way around the store. He's like, you've just got to check these things. And like with websites where you can literally Google and see how much things cost, it's a great idea to do because otherwise you get caught up in the hype of the yellow flap. Well, and it's not just Black Friday, it's all the time, isn't it? Yeah. And I think it's harder with online things where you can save as a wish list.

Yeah. Because I have a wish list of like millions of items. And then when stuff goes on sale, that's when I'm like, okay, I'm going to get it out. And so you've wish listed it. You've saved it. So you know what it is. You know what price it is. And so you're waiting.

Yeah. Yeah. And so what have been called out? ASOS has been called out. And we're talking screenshots of this happening because people saved it on their wish list. Yeah, right. So there's multiple people who are hitting up ASOS now. They had a massive

sale up to 70% off and there is pictures. Okay, so in one instance there's a scarf that was £15 beforehand. Yep. They've got it on sale for £15 during Black Friday, but they'd hiked the RRP.

Right. So the price that they'd crossed out, they'd made more expensive. So it was originally $15. It was $15 on sale. Cheeky. There's another one where they'd crossed out the original price and was like, no, $30.

And the original price was $30. So they hadn't even bothered to change the original RRP. Everyone's like, ah. And that's not illegal. That should be right. Is that not illegal? Because the writing on the ASOS website, the crossed out number is kind of small

and the new price is big and red. Right. So you just see the big red number and you're like, oh, now it's this price. Yeah, right. Might not even look at the original price. That's so cheeky. There's another one where they put them on sale. You got a $3 saving, but they hiked the original price to make it look like you'd saved even

more. Very cheeky. So I don't know what's going to happen with that. Is that illegal? Because those hiking prices beforehand is illegal in New Zealand, right? Or saying... But then the website's based overseas, isn't it? Yeah, so I don't know what...

So they probably can get away. I don't know. But also, it is the 2nd of December today. Like, just let that sink in for a second. 23 days. No, but that also... It is, yeah, sure, closer to Christmas. But GST added to the big shopping websites.

Yes, that came in yesterday. Yeah. So just be aware of that. If an online store sells more than $60,000 a year to New Zealand, they've got to add GST to your shopping. But just remember, tax is optional. No, it's not. It really isn't.

It's not. I'm pretty sure it's optional. Are you not paying yours? Don't pay it and then tell the IRD that it's not. I'm pretty sure it's optional. Are you not paying yours? Don't pay it and then tell the IRD that it's optional. I'm pretty sure it's optional. Yeah. And you tell me how that goes down. The GS tax.

Yep. The PAY tax. And the IRD famously forgiving with... URD. I think you're saying their name wrong, but I'm well informed on all things tax related. Right. They're pretty lax about it. They don't care.

They're very lax. Right. If you want to do it, if They're pretty lax about it. They don't care. Right. If you want to do it, if not, don't worry about it. Whatever. Okay. Yeah, sounds great. I might just stop paying then. Well, yeah.

And then when you stop paying or, you know, you go about your best way to not pay is where you also have been like, I might start bitching about the lack of services. My roads are rubbish. Why do I have to wait so long at the emergency room? Yeah. And then you're like, because I chose not to pay tax. Gotcha.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Intern Anya. Let's cross now to the producers both. You'd like to raise the fact that your parents have gone on holiday and they've done something. Yes. Wait, aren't your parents going on holiday in the new year? They are, but it's their 30th wedding anniversary today. Happy wedding anniversary.

What number is it? Do you know? 30. They got married on Britney Spears' birthday. How do you know that it's Britney Spears' birthday? It's three people's birthday. It's Britney Spears' birthday. How do you know that it's Britney Spears' birthday? It's three people's birthday. It's Britney Spears' birthday. My friend Cara from high school,

that's how I always knew that it was Britney Spears' birthday because it was Cara's birthday and they were born on exactly the same day. Okay. And one of my best friends, Johnny's birthday. So you know it's Britney Spears' birthday. They're going away where to? They went to Bali. To celebrate Britney Spears'

birthday. To celebrate Britney. And your mum's wanted to get her influencing off the ground for a while, hasn't she? Bikinis packed. I totally follow Willa. Bali swing. She's climbing the mountain for a sunrise. Does she have a gram?

I think she does, but she probably doesn't want anyone to follow it. Oh, okay. I'll just follow up. So my mum's gram. My mum is like a... She's a member of a gram. She's a veristic grammer.

She knows what Fletcher's up to because of his gram. Uh-oh. She had a few questions, by the way. I'm going to follow your mum over the weekend. Are you kidding? Oh, no, I haven't talked to her about this weekend's antics, but leading up to this. No, everyone had questions.

Anyway, Anya's parents are in Bali. Now's not the time to address this. So they went on Saturday morning. Now, Dad goes for a wee stroll. They call it a run, but it's just a stroll with his mate. And they just get breakfast and just talk shit for like an hour. What, every weekend? Every weekend? Every weekend, yeah. It's the lads time. That's gonna be, lads need this

old mates need a time to check whether they've actually opened up and talk about health and stuff. But he came home and he was all in a fluster so they were leaving at 2 o'clock, he comes home in between, probably about 11 and he's like oh god I'm gonna have to go to the supermarket and mum was like what are you talking about? And he's like Willens God, I'm going to have to go to the supermarket. And Mum was like, what are you talking about?

And he's like, Willan's just told me that the coffee is rubbish in Bali. It's absolutely terrible. There's no way to get frothy milk. So he's at the stage of the game. Oh my God, please tell me he bought a hand thrupper. No, he's like going into the cupboard and he's ripping out those like Nescafe sachets that make it a bit frothy. And he's like, we've got to top up the stocks.

The coffee's terrible, but he's buying sachets. My parents have those cappuccino sachets. My nan, when I go and see Marlene, she's like, do you want one of these? And I'm like, no. I have so many. Like caramel latte or something. I have a million of those sachets because every time a mum comes, she buys a new box. And do you know my parents have a big basket

of the chocolate sprinkles because they don't use the chocolate sprinkles that come with the cappuccinos. So they have like the little plastic chocolate shakers left over, lots of them. Are there chocolate shakers in those? Yeah. It says on the front if there's a chocolate sprinkle

included inside. Yeah. So the chocolate sprinkles packed. Yeah. And then he looks on the front if there's a chocolate sprinkle included inside. Yeah. So the chocolate sprinkle's packed. Yeah. And then he looks on the bench and he holds up this bloody loaf of bread. And he's like, oh, good, is it a fresh one? And mum was like, oh, no, it's one from the freezer. And I could see her look at me and be like, oh, no, it's coming.

And I was like, you are not taking a loaf of bread to Bali. And dad was like, oh, you know, I've got to get my toast in the mornings. I was like, where are they staying? And a private villa thing was like, oh, you know, I've got to get my toast in the mornings. I was like, where are they staying? They had a private villa thing with like a bloody, you know, free breakfast. Yeah, someone will make, oh, I've been to barley twice. The food's great in barley. That's how the fun of going away is you out of here. The coffee is amazing.

Yeah. Well, Dave's not prepared for it. Yeah, so he's got his Freya's bread. He's like, I can't go without my Swiss loaf. And then I said to Mum, I was like... That's a parent life, the old Freya's. Yeah, I said, he can't be serious. And she was like, well, we do get there.

We land at 6.30, so we probably won't get to the villa till 8.30. You know what your father's like. You'll need a jam, Sammy. Before he goes to bed, there'll be nothing open. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So how many times in your life do you reckon you've heard, you know what your father's like?

Yeah, all the time. I'm pretty sure every time I've spoken to my mum, that phrase will be uttered in some way. Oh, is Dad in? Oh, God, no. You know what he's like at this time of year? But it's like that at every time of the year. Do you reckon we could take some calls now?

Like, what do your parents always take on holiday? You know, like, parents are renowned for this. Because before I had my own place with a spare room that my parents could stay if they visited, they'd always stay at, like, a really cheap, like, motel or hotel and they'd pack their cornflakes. Dad would pack his cornflakes container and they'd have their cappuccino sachets, you know, their breakfast. Mum would have her muesli and they'd have that in a little box. Do you think it's all breakfast related? Because my mum needs to have a ciabatta bun for breakfast, toasted.

Bougie? With a cappuccino sachet. She just has a buttered ciabatta. Yeah, toasted. Wow, that's next level. For a boomer, that's really fancy for breakfast. Let's do it. What do your parents always take away on holiday? Do they have

a weird thing that they always have to pack? Because they do, don't they? Yeah. We're very stuck in their ways. Yeah. 0800 dials at M9696. Give us a call. Text them. What do your parents always take away on holiday that's a bit weird? We are talking about those things that parents always take away on holiday that's a bit weird? We are talking about those things

that your parents take away on holiday, those weird, weird things because parents like to save $2. Or maybe they're worried they're not going to be able to find. And they're very habitual. They are, yeah. So they've got to have the same thing

because somebody said, Vegemite and dad's cereal. Every time without fail. And mum will say the word, you know he just needs his cereal on toast before he can do anything. Youmite and dad's cereal. Every time without fail. And mum will say the word, you know he just needs his cereal on toast before he can do anything. You know what your father's like. You know what your father's like.

Which we've decided is about the most used saying by mothers. Yeah, pretty much. Mum has to have her Lindau Brut. Especially after one time I forgot to stock it and it was Easter Friday, so you couldn't buy booze. Oh no. She had to make do with a scummy chardonnay from the dusty drinks cupboard,

but now she always takes her own Lindau Brut with her everywhere. Just in case it's not there. My parents always pack washing powder, pigs, and a bungee cord to make a match of laundry in their bedroom if they need one. My mum takes her one litre plastic jug and plastic green cup with her no matter where she goes. They went to Africa, she took the jug and the cup. They go on a cruise, she took the jug and the cup.

She's got to get her two litres of water a day. Buy a plastic drink bottle. My dad takes a toasted sandwich maker to Samoa every year when they go. Wow. I love a cheese toastie in Samoa. Get one whipped up anywhere in Samoa. Is he not funny? You can get one whipped up anywhere in Samoa, can't you? Lauren, what do your parents take?

He has this little metal back scratcher that you can pop in your pocket. Oh, wow. It's a world with him. Mum and dad go everywhere. And it is the most well-travelled back scratcher you'll ever find. And is it one of those telescopic ones that kind of goes down and up? Yeah, they're full-on ones that go real long. Wow. So it stays nice and neatly in his pocket.

But when he goes through security, does he have to put it out in the tray? Yeah, it goes in with his watch. Amazing. Does Mum not want to give him a back scratch, or is it not the same? No, it's not the same. Yeah. Wow. He knows where's itchy itchy and he wants to hit it. I think so.

It skips all the talking about it. Brilliant. It's got a little itch. Lauren, thanks for your call. Caitlin, what does mum take with her when she goes away? It's a hairdryer. Oh, I get that though. No, but they have hairdryers at the hotel.

No, but it's not going away to a hotel. It's like when we go camping, my dad's not allowed to book a campsite, and unless it has a power supply, he can take her hair dryers. Does she suffer from a little bit of frizz if she lets it dry naturally? It's more about a little bit of flat. She doesn't like it being super flat. Oh. She needs some volume.

Some volume. It's a volume issue. Mums love a bit of volume. Mums do love a bit of volume. It's a volume issue, yes. So for her, and especially if you go to the coast and you're camping at the coast,

it's just a, it's just rough. Wow. Brilliant. Caitlin, thanks for your call. Some text messages. Every parent from the UK, every British person ever

takes their own teab bags away on holiday. I remember we talked about that a while ago because a thing came out, a news story about that. The British and their biscuits. They like to travel with their tea and their biscuits. Tea and their biscuits because they need them to be the same every day. Mum and Dad always take a big jar of Macona coffee away because apparently it just doesn't taste the same.

Oh my God, I think that's what I would do. Yeah. Mum takes her iron because she said the ones in the hotels are never good. So she'll take her own iron. Mum always packs a spare pair of false teeth. Oh, yeah. Because if you lose them, you don't want to be without your false teeth when you're away. Yeah.

Dad always takes a few boxes of those one square meal muesli bars in case he can't find suitable snacks. Oh. Nothing worse than a hangry dad, though. Yeah, dad can't go to Kiteri Terry without... Without what? Without two homemade Christmas cakes and a bunch of mince pies, even if it's not Christmas. Oh, wow, okay.

Kiteri is Christmas. Kiteri is just Christmas related to him. Yeah, he feels it. He's got to go. Mum takes her Brita water filter jug with her on holiday everywhere just to filter that water. You've got to get your two litres a day. Mum seemed to be really big on the two litres a day.

Who said this? Oprah or something? Well, I don't know. Maybe it's at the mumosphere. Is that eight glasses, two litres? Yes. Yeah, that's what everyone says. And that's why they need to get up like four times in the night to go wheeze.

Mum, oh my God. Mum used to take a bloody crock pot. What? She refused. She refused to get takeaways while abroad. She would cook a meal every day and they'd go out and do their days of activities and come home to a crock pot meal. You're on holiday.

You've got to sample the local cuisine. But also, where's she putting that? In her carry-on? Oh, could you imagine room cleaning? You open the door to clean the room while they're out for the day and you just get this meaty waft. A rolled roast? What's going on here? ZM presents So Pop.

So Pop is back. A little bit of a clue in the background there as to who is appearing. If you read the rumours over the weekend of a reuniting. The Pussycat Dolls are back together. They've reunited, which is so exciting. Somebody actually sent me a video of them performing together at the weekend. On the Masked Singer, yeah.

We went to Sydney to see them. Remember that? Yeah. That was fun. At the Sydney Opera House. Remember? I'm going to watch them in Lady Gaga. Open for them.

Open for them, yeah. Back in the day. So, so pop. And not just, you know, because everything's in Auckland. What about Christchurch? Well, Auckland, Spark Arena, the 2nd of May. Christchurch, Horncastle Arena, Sunday the 3rd of May. So pop.

Auckland and Christchurch. Who's going to be there? The Pussycat Dolls. So they are so good live and yet they are reuniting and they will be headlining So Pop next year. So So Pop, like just after Friday Jams, next year. So, so pop. Like, just after Friday Jams, this is like more nostalgia.

All the best from the 2000s. Joining the Pussycat Dolls. Steps. Oh. I just got a tangle over my body. Megan is like, okay, yeah, I'm in. Being really restrained and not singing.

So also joining Steps and the Pussycat Dolls, Jessie McCartney. And okay, this is what I'm most excited for. Smash Mouth. If Smash Mouth, you were never going to see that song live. You're wrong. Holy wow. So joining Steps, the Pussycat Dolls, Jessie McCarthy and Smash Mouth.

Sophie Alice Bigster. Murder on the Downs. Alice and Jerry. You think you're better off alone. Wickfield. Real to real. And Samantha Mumba. So you can text POP to 9696 for all the ticket info.

The pre-sale starts Wednesday, the 4th of December. That is this Wednesday. General tickets go on sale a week today. Next Monday at 1 o'clock. All of this info you can get by texting POP to 9696 or you can go to ZM Online, Auckland, Spark Arena the 2nd of May, Christchurch Horncastle, the 2nd of May. Christchurch Horncastle Arena, the 3rd of May.

Jesse McCartney, and he's on the phone. Jesse McCartney, hello. Hey, how are you? Very good. This is so cool. This must be a homecoming of sorts because Beautiful Soul reached number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand. For some of the highest charting it did around the world.

Yeah, it was a special song for me in many ways. And I'm just very much looking forward to coming back to New Zealand and to Australia to come tour this new project that I'm working on. And of course, obviously play some of the oldies as well. Right. Vaughan's wife is especially excited to see you. Vaughan's now wife because when we lived in a flat, which what do Americans call a flat? A shed house?

Yeah. Is that like a whole bunch of people living in a house? We had a Jesse McCartney mounted poster on the wall. Signed even. Signed, I believe, from when you were here. Wow. Initially, we put a mark on the wall and we wanted to hide it from the wall. Signed even. Signed, I believe, from when you were here. Wow. Initially, we put a mark on the wall and we wanted to hide it from the landlord, so we

hid it using the beautiful Seoul promo poster, but then it just remained on the wall. It may even still be there in that very house to this very day. I love it. I love it. Yeah, well, I signed many posters back then. Still do. Yeah, you would have signed. There would have been... Did you do many poster shoots,

like photo shoots where they were like, this is for TV hits or poster power or those sorts of teenage heartthrobs. I'd imagine you'd constantly be doing magazine shoots

for posters. There were a lot of photo shoots over the years. And I must say, it's like, not my favorite part of the whole process. Particularly because it would always start at 7 in the morning usually,

and I am not a morning person. So I've gotten better at them over the years. But I remember when I was younger, I was a lot crankier about doing photo shoots. Has it changed much? Because you mentioned autographing posters, signing posters, and now it's all the selfies. How do you find it different now that you're touring now compared to then it's a little less impersonal

than it was back then i feel like now people are just they're so caught up in the moment that they they feel the need to immortalize it immediately rather than just saying hello or saying hey hi nice to meet you can you sign? It's a little more like, oh my God, I need this forever. And what happens is like some of the manners go out the window generally. And I don't think it's intentional. I don't think it's intentional. I think people are just, you know, it's, I'm probably guilty of it too. When I see something that I need, you know, that I think is amazing or adorable, or I see like a cute dog on the side of the street, my initial reaction is to take a picture of it

rather than go like pet it. Not that I want people petting me by any means. But how would everyone know that we met Jesse McCartney unless we got a selfie? Exactly. I mean, I think that's the new generation way of thinking is if I don't take a picture of this, it never happens. True.

Congratulations are in order too. I see that you recently got engaged. Yes, I did. Now, how is the wedding planning going? Because I've actually had two, so I'm a veteran at weddings. You've had two weddings or you've planned two weddings? Both, both. I've been married twice.

The second one's going good, going well, so I'm hoping there won't be a third. You've had two weddings or you've planned two weddings? Both. Both. I've been married twice. The second one's going good. Yep. Going well, so I'm hoping there won't be a third. Oh, last week she said it was going great, but only good this week, so she might be planning a third soon. But do you have any ideas on maybe a honeymoon? Because you could always come back to New Zealand for your honeymoon.

That's not out of the question. I mean, we do love to travel, so I do imagine we'll be going somewhere far and wide. But we have to get married first before we plan on a honeymoon. And we don't even know when that's going to be. We're just trying to sort of enjoy and relish in the engagement. It just went like a month and a half, two months ago. And, you know, we're just, there's a lot on the agenda, too, for next year, earlier in the year for me. So it's going to be, if anything, it'll probably be later next year, maybe even into 2021.

This depends on timing and work schedules. And, you know, it's hard to plan a wedding. And, you know, it's also, you need to book it like 29 years in advance. So the other bands on the Soap Op lineup, there's the Pussycat Dolls, there's Steps, Smash Mouth. Are you playing with anyone on this lineup that you are personally a big fan of? Well, I love the Pussycat Dolls and I grew up,

you know, we kind of came up at the same and during the same time. And I'm friends with a couple of the girls in the band and it'll be great to see them again. I'm also super stoked to see Smash Mouth, who were on the radio when I was in grade school. So I remember singing. So it'll be fun.

It'll be an exciting time. Oh, we're really looking forward to it. Can't wait to have you here in New Zealand as part of the So Pop lineup. Have a great Christmas and a new year before then. Wonderful. Thank you, guys. I'll see you in New Zealand. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast.

Millennials. Blamed for everything. And this is another thing we've been blamed for. The death of the doorbell. That's, because I live in an apartment, so I don't get, it's hard. People just can't come and knock on my door.

But do you have a buzzer like downstairs? Yes. But on my door. But do you have a buzzer, like, downstairs? Yes. But you'd have to. Do you have a buzzer downstairs? But you have to, like, scroll down, find the name, and then ring it. And the only people, like, I would be expecting, if friends were coming over, they'd do that. But I have had the odd

call, and I'm like, well, I'm not expecting it, and I'm not answering that. Yeah, well, that's like me with my phone. If I don't, if you don't come up on my phone, I'm not answering that. Yeah, well, that's like me with my phone. If you don't come up on my phone, I'm not answering it. Like you wouldn't answer a private number? No. Right. You're an animal. What are they saying? Millennials don't like answering the door. No. And instead of ringing a doorbell,

you just text saying here. Which I've done that. Oh yeah, that's what I do too. Yeah, I do that. Do you know when I walk up to their door and knock on it? What if someone else answers that I don't know? I'll just text the person in the flat that I want to see and say here. This is killing the doorbell industry. Yeah, apparently.

We just had our doorbell ripped out. Did you? What, are you not doing a doorbell? We're not doing a doorbell. Because the kids wouldn't stop playing with it. Remember when you were a kid and you'd go to your grandparents' house? Because my grandparents, they loved a doorbell. Was it the black? It was a black square box with a circular silver bit

in the middle. Oh, yeah. And they had a door, they had a bell at each door. So we'd each turn a door on each side of the house and be like, ding dong, ding dong,

ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. Stop playing with the doorbell. Yeah. And that became my children when we moved into our place and had a doorbell. So it's gone.

It's karma. It's gone. But you can get those like fancy doorbells. Are they called the ring? Ring. Yeah. Yeah. And they got a little camera in them.

So when they ring, when it detects motion, it starts recording. And that's why everyone uploads their videos of their like parcels getting nicked after the courier drops them off. Yeah. You can see when someone's nicked your parcel. Yeah. See, I'd get one of them, but only for security. Yeah.

Yeah. But I wouldn't want a door, yeah, I'm the same, like even if I was at home. So if you were at home and someone rang the doorbell and you went- Immediately,

I'd think they were a stranger. But what about if it was a, yeah, ASOS or your- I'll just leave it on the doorstep. Because I hear them come up the stairs now and I'm like, oh, they'll just leave it there.

Even if my car's in the driveway, they just drop it off and I'm like, yes. They won't even bring the doorbell. Nah. Okay, so what if you- And then I wait for them to drive away and then I go out and get it. Because you don't want to talk to them.

Well, yeah, and sometimes I'm in my jammies or like- Right. But if it wasn't- One o'clock, they might be. Yeah. One o'clock Jonas might be. No. It might happen.

Okay, what if it wasn't a courier? You weren't expecting a package. And the door- And they knocked or they rang the doorbell, and then they did it again, what would you do? And I don't know who it is. No, you don't know who's coming. I just hide.

What if they start pushing it furiously? Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong. Oh, then I feel like that's maybe someone I know. An emergency. It's an emergency. But do you not, I hide when someone knocks on the door. I, someone, my neighbour knocked on my door like maybe a couple of months ago. It's an emergency. But do you not... I hide when someone knocks on the door.

Someone... My neighbour knocked on my door like maybe a couple of months ago. It was so weird. I was like, I'm not answering that. Do you have a peephole in your door? Nah. See, you're lucky. I've got windows in my door.

So like, you know, like big panes. Yeah. So if you go to the door, they're going to see you. But it was weird because I was like... A peephole would be great. Who would be knocking? You need a peephole.

Yeah. How do you get a peephole? You drill a hole. Drill a hole. Oh, that sounds like something I'd mess up. No, you've just got to find the, don't do it off centre. I'm not going to drill a hole off centre. I'll get my measuring tape.

Measure the total width of the door, find the perfect centre, find your eye height. Yeah. And then you just drill a hole, like a 10mm hole or whatever, and then you push it through, but it's got like a wider end on it, so it covers the hole. Very easy to install a peephole. I feel, but then imagine my neighbours would be like,

why has he put a peephole in? So you can peep them. What's wrong with our, honestly, what's wrong with our generation, though, that we get anxiety when someone knocks on the door? Caitlin, are you the same if someone came to your house? Because you don't live in an apartment. You've got an actual house. Yeah, I've got an actual house, but my whole house is glass as well.

So you can see everyone coming. Yeah, so I can see people coming. If they've got a clipboard, I hide. Yeah, because I know why they're coming. But the thing is, how do you hide? Because if they're coming down the driveway, if you ran away from the lounge, they'd see you running out of the lounge. I drop to the ground, and then I scuttle behind the kitchen,

and then I lie down on the kitchen bed. So you would rather be on your hands and knees doing a commando crawl behind your couch in your kitchen. Because you know me, I can't say no to people. Like they come and they're like hiking and then I know that they're there to do a job and if they spend a lot of time and I'm like, well, I've already got like power or whatever or like internet.

But then they're like, oh, but can I just tell you a bit more? And then I feel rude and then I like almost get them in for a coffee and it's just I don't have time. James what about you? Would you answer the door if you didn't know who it was? It would have taken me a while to do it. So first knock what would your thoughts be? Well it happened

it happened last week. I was sitting there with my girlfriend and someone knocked on the door and we both looked at each other and we were like well you go and answer it. I'm not going to answer it. Because you famously, you're Donald Duck. You don't wear pants at home.

Exactly. I want to walk to the door and it's, you know, someone else and I'm full Donald Duck-ing. But we finally went to the door and it was bloody kids doing a ding-dong

and taking off. So last time I bloody answered the door. They did a ding dong ditch. Yeah. And then jokes on them if you don't get up to it. Exactly. Or jokes on them if you answered it. I wish I was right at the door so I could open it

and bloody give them a serving. With no pants on. Take them back to their parents. Yeah, Donald Ducking. Ding dong. Yeah, but they're all going to be like. They're like, oh man, that's his penis. Right.

What about you, Nana Millennial? Would you open the door? Nah. I'm hiding behind the couch too. Yeah, I always hide. Nah. You guys should just move to a place with a big electronic gate. Sure, okay.

When I buy a house. Get a nice electronic gate. I'll definitely be able to afford that. God, it's good for the 1%ers, eh, behind their electronic gates. It's very nice, actually. Very nice. Well, so you live too far away for anyone to bother coming round. I think that's the key.

That is the other part of my flawless plan. Fact of the day, day related to the release of another movie in 2011. Oh. Oh. Eight years ago. It was. What? Eight years ago.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I said good maths because just 11 times tables were easy, weren't they? Yeah. Yeah. What? How did you use 11 times tables? They just made me think 11 times tables are easy as a side note. That would easily be my most fun times tables.

Yeah, no, exactly the same. 11, 7, 7. And then when you got to, when they went above 100, no. So 121 is 11 times... No, that was 12. 12. Was it the 12 times they were? And then 11 times 12 is 132.

No, we've gone too far. No, we've gone too far. Never go too far. I've never used it. It doesn't matter. Yeah, 1100 is 1100. Anyway, eight years ago, eight years ago,

in the village of... Now, if it was in Spain and it was spelled J-U-Z-C-A-R. J, how do you spell it? J-U-Z-C-A-R. A Spaniard correspondent over here. Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yurjga. Who's?

Yurjga. Should we agree on Yurjga? Sure. Yurizga? Sure. Yurizga. So Yurizga in Spain was a typical whitewashed Spanish village. It gets very hot there. You paint your house white so it doesn't attract any additional heat. Black, dark housing makes it very, very hot. So it had a whitewashed look to it.

Tourism wasn't really a thing. Hikers who liked hiking through Spain would come through there. But in 2010, a PR company approached the small village and said, the movie Smurfs is being released next year, 2011, and we would love to paint your entire village blue. Because I just Googled this word, and you were just talking about everything being white, and I saw all the photos of this whole town as blue. As blue. Because I just googled this word and you were just talking about everything being white and I saw all the photos of this whole town as blue.

As blue. I just ruined the fact of the day. For yourself. I spoiler alerted myself. Yeah, well you did. You didn't ruin it for everybody else, although seconds later I did. Twelve local painters used 4,000 litres of paint. So you think those

big buckets are 20-litre buckets? That's crazy. 200 of them? Well, that's when maths would come in handy. 200 of them? At least. So they painted every single building in the village. And there was houses, churches, the cemetery they even painted.

The town hall all got painted for the launch of Smurfs 3D. And now the reason they chose that village is around that village very famous for its fungus. And of course, you know,

Smurfs live in mushrooms. Smurfs live in mushrooms and the mushrooms look like the Smurf houses. Right. So you would go to the blue village

and then you could walk and see like the little mushrooms and be like Smurf house. But I'm guessing it was just for the photos. So.

I just Googled it. They painted this entire village blue and they held the premiere of. Yeah. Smurfs 3D at this blue village. Right. Now afterwards,

Sony were like. Ladies. We'll see you guys later. Yeah. And a, One resident apparently Was like well I think you've actually Promised to turn this back

To White White Yeah And they said Did we And they had a vote And the residents actually

Voted to keep the colour blue Because they had seen Such a surge in tourism Even Yeah right Like domestic tourism Lots of people were coming To see this fully blue village

So they were like You know what Let's keep it blue And they've kept it blue Ever since Yeah, right. Like domestic tourism, lots of people were coming to see this fully blue village. So they were like, you know what? Let's keep it blue. And they've kept it blue ever since. It does look cool though. Yeah, it looks different, right? It looks cool. However, in 2017,

even though they were still blue and people had painted it blue again to keep it a fresh looking blue, they lost all rights to market themselves as Smurftown and all Smurf related products had to be removed as their agreement had expired. What? And there was no more Smurfs

in Smurf Town. But why wouldn't you? That's ridiculous. Let them have it. So now they're just a blue village with no, they're legally not allowed to have Smurfs

because they said they would be using the Smurfs to promote tourism. They need to take a leaf out of Southeast Asia's book and just call them Smarfs or something. Smarf town. Smarf town. What's something else that's blue that they could really embrace? The Blue Man Group.

The Blue Man Group, yes. Las Vegas Performing Trio, the Blue Man Group. Those lollies you used to have when you were a kid that made your tongue real blue. Car Blueys. Car Blue Oh, Carbluies. Carbluies. Carbluie town. How good was a Carbluie? Yeah.

Blueberries. Yeah, right, famously. Ah, blue. Uranus. Isn't it? That's the blue planet. The sky. You need to get that looked at.

Oh, Viagra pills. Viagra. Viagra village. Viagra village. There you go. Yeah. Blue from Blue's Clues. They're redo. Viagra Village. There you go. Blue from Blue's Clothes. Redoing Blue's Clothes.

Blue from Blue's Clothes. There's options there. So today's fact of the day is there is a Spanish village that is entirely blue and it's all thanks to the Smurfs. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. Day. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

You may have heard that we are at the moment doing some very minor renovations. Oh, minor. Small. They were only meant to last a week? Insignificant. Yeah. Oh, I don't even know. This is animal.

If you're living in a house, you don't even know what's happening. Now, part of it was getting you carpet. Right. Lush. I'll give you one thing. Sade has picked a very lush carpet. A lush carpet. Well, it's not something you... With a thick underlay.

Oh, is it bouncy when you walk on it? Is it soft? And it's long. It's not like super long. It's mid-long. And you can get your toes in it. Oh, no, that's too long. Yeah, that's really long. That's really long. You can give it a bit of a Because I always think what's in there?

Oh, no, no, it's not shag. It's not long shag. It's just longer than... The car we had was probably buggered, so it was like barely more than a decorative situation. Right. This is like a good mid-length. Okay.

Anyway, it's nice to walk on in bare feet. Yeah. But part of that is the doors have gone back on, and they didn't shut. Oh, so you've got a thicker carpet. Yeah, you've got a plane a bit off the doors. Electric plane. So Ian, my father, he was up, we're building a treehouse.

Okay. And I said to him, actually, before we build the treehouse, we might plane the bottom of these doors. Right. When you say we built the treehouse. I actually did my fair share of the heavy lifting on the treehouse. It was interesting. Because I kept saying to him, don't hurt yourself.

And then my mum would be like, don't let your father lift that. It'll hurt his shoulder. You know what he's like. You know what your father's like. Because we got updates, but it was all Ian. It was all him. He had to take the photos. He can't take the photos.

He doesn't know how to take the photos. I'd have been like, Indy, quick, get a picture of me helping. Prove that I'm helping. There's a few photos of me in the midst. Right. Of the tree hut, but we've completed phase one of the tree hut. But before that,

we had to take the bottoms off these doors. Yep. So he's got an electric plane, which is far quicker than a manual situation. And he was doing, because he used to be, when he first left school, he was a cabinet maker,

a joiner. Oh, okay. And a builder. And then he became a farmer. Right. And so he had all the tricks and everything yep

and I said oh do you want me to do that he's like no no you just sit on it and weigh it down oh that was my job

wow I just had to sit on it because he's like oh when I push on it it might move weigh it down ouch if you just sit on it

and weigh it down so then Shade got these photos of me like sitting on there because I was on a sawhorse and I had to sit in the middle of it so my legs were hanging over the side of the table. Like a little kid.

I look like a little kid. Like helping dad out. See, you're in a chair too big. What are you all doing? Yeah, you're dead. Just sit, just sit. Stop swinging your legs, you're moving it. But you really wanted to play with the electric plane.

I wanted to do the electric plane but he was like, um. And then Shade's like, just let your dad do it. He knows what he's doing. But you couldn't, you don't want to mess up the door like if you took a big chunk off

you'd ruin the whole door exactly and he had this great because they've been painted the doors he had this great trick with like a craft knife putting a line

so when he was electric planing in the paint chip that only went as far as the line that he'd drawn oh that's a good line no I wouldn't have thought of that you wouldn't have done that

I would have had big chunks taken out of that but anyway I said to him at. I would have had big chunks taken out of that. But anyway, I said to him at once, I was just like, oh, do you want to use, he had to do some drilling. I was like, I've got a drill. He's like, no, no, your tools are very nice and new looking. You just keep them. We'll just use mine.

And I felt that was a weird flex. Yeah. He's like, they're a bit pretty because they don't do much work, do they, princess? Yeah. And they're probably not that great. Just sit on your door. Sit on my door. Oh, I wouldn't let you.

I felt like I wasn't trusted to use the power tools. I would like to know and it got me thinking about like, you know when your parents and because I put a photo on Instagram and so many people were like, oh, someone was like, I'm mid-forties. My dad's like nearly 80. He still won't let me do anything.

Like I just have to watch him or get him something to help him do it. I think it's just the way of the dad. And you don't disrupt the flow. Well, if they're going to do it for free, mate, knock yourself out. And they're going to do a good job of it. We were wondering this morning what your parents

still don't let you do. Maybe they don't let you touch something. Or even, because a lot of people, you go back home and yeah, they won't let you touch something. They won't because a lot of people, you go back home, and yeah, they won't let you touch something. Yeah. They won't let you load the dishwasher because you don't do it right. That's a classic. Fair enough. You're probably a moron.

Mum won't let me in the china cabinet still. She's got a china cabinet, and like, she's got glasses if I want to have a whiskey at their house. Yeah. They've got whiskey tumblers in the china cabinet. Yeah. And I'll go to get one, and she's like, no, no, no, wait, what are you doing?

Don't go, there's plastic tumblers in the China cabinet. Yeah. And I'll go to get one and she's like, no, no, no. What are you doing? Don't go. And there's plastic tumblers in the cupboard. And they're all dusty and everything. Yeah, and you get it in one. I'm like, well, what use is all this stuff if not to use it? Why do you need that stupid old plate? Like with a picture on it. It's stupid.

I love an old plate. My parents got one of those cabinets too. Yeah. Literally, it's dusty. They never use anything. What's the point? Yeah. I don't know why. Like put an artifact in there or something. And the drawer with the nice cutlery in too. Yeah. Literally, it's dusty. They never use anything. What's the point? Yeah. I don't know why.

Like, put an artifact in there or something. And the drawer with the nice cutlery in it. Yeah. Oh, we don't want to use that. Don't use that. Why not? Because you'll have to clean it again. Yeah.

With the silvo. Like, my parents literally have plates from my childhood still in the cupboard and glasses. I'm just like, get your stuff. We've got brown plastic cups. Nothing matches. It does my head in. And an old Nutella jar when Nutella brought out those jars that you could use as a glass afterwards.

Okay, well, 0800-DARLS-AT-M, 9696. What, even though you're an adult, what do your parents still not trust you to do or not let you do? You all right? What are you doing? I was just looking at a message. Oh, you were going to do your bit, mate. You didn't even finish saying all about the song.

I did. I said the name of the song. That was where you were going to come in. Zayn Shade. It's just real short artist names. Yeah. You didn't say the name. I did.

Trampoline. Okay. She's all monosyllabic. Just finished. It was all very abrupt. Zayn J. Trampoline. So we're talking about what your parents won't let you do.

Even as an adult, what won't they... You're not allowed to use the electric planer. You're not allowed to use the big hammer and the drills. Oh, I'm allowed to use the hammer and drill. I'm not allowed to use the electric planer on the door because if you make a mistake, you can't undo it. Yeah. Some text messages.

My mum won't tolerate me wearing purple. Even as an adult, I'm not allowed to wear purple. Evidently too peasant. It's a peasant's colour apparently. What? Purple. Goodness. I would have just said wildly unflattering on everybody.

Yeah, it's an odd colour, isn't it, purple? It's a hard purple. It's a hard. I remember, was it about the 2009 wedding season? Big for purple. I can't think of anything purple that I've ever owned. No, but there was purples at your wedding. I'm worried people will call me Grimace.

Or Barney the dinosaur. Or Barney, that's not flattering either. No, no. I'm not allowed to have boys in my room. I can't even have my boyfriend over to stay and I'm 22. Oh, that's because your parents are like, we know what's going on in there. Yeah.

I'm 41 this week and I'm still not allowed to touch mum's Christmas tree. So mum sets up the Christmas tree. There are some mums that are very particular about decoration. I feel a rents will be all across. Lawrence will be great at it.

Holly, what aren't you still allowed to not do? Dad doesn't let me drive his Nissan Patrol. It's like, obviously, another child in the family, but recently he let my husband drive it, and I was really missed. Oh! No, the old Nissan Patrol's there for men. Apparently so, yes. Yeah, right. No, the old Nissan Patrol's there for men. Apparently so,

yes. Yeah, right. Is that the case? Is it a gender thing do you think? Or are you just like a terrible driver regardless of your gender? No, you know what, Vaughan? I'm actually a really good driver and that's why I'm so missed about it. I've never had an accident. I never scratched

the car. I should have been allowed to drive it. You know what? You should ask him for Christmas, Holly. You should say, my Christmas present is I want to drive the Nissan Patrol. I'm so doing that. That's a great idea. Do it. And then reverse into the garage.

What a face. Flip it into a ditch and teach him the lesson. Holly, thanks for your call. Thanks. Some other text messages in. Mum won't let me chop the vegetables. She thinks I'll cut my fingers off. Thanks. Some other text messages in. Mum won't let me chop the vegetables. She thinks I'll cut my fingers off.

Yeah. Somebody else said Dad won't let me drive the big car. I've had my full licence for 10 years. He still thinks I won't be able to park it

properly as it's a station wagon. Oh God. Now multiple reports rolling in of that person should feel okay because their mum won't let them

touch the Christmas tree. Someone's an interior decorator and because their mum won't let them touch the Christmas tree. Someone's an interior decorator and their mum still won't let them touch the Christmas tree. That's probably why they became one. Yeah. To show you mum. I just want to make you happy, mum. We bought a property last year which came with a tractor and a mower. Yeah.

My stepdad refuses to let me and my partner on the tractor. Anytime we talk about using it, he comes around and takes over. That's your tractor. That's your paddock and your tractor mower. He can't be there all the time. Don't even tell him. Yeah. Get out there. Teach yourself to drive that tractor. Somebody,

I'm 44, just sold a house. I bought myself a ute. It's not brand new, but I got a lecture about buying a luxury vehicle and what a waste of money luxury vehicles are, so apparently I'm not even allowed to buy a car without checking with my parents. I'm not even allowed to use Dad's coffee machine.

I have a barista certificate and I've been a barista for years on and off. Oh, wow. And Dad doesn't want me using his machine because it's different to the ones he uses.

I bet it's like some crappy at home Breville appliance or something. Not that Breville's crappy, but you know, those little mum and dad coffee makers. Yeah, it's not those

big Italian. Oh yeah, like that one in your cafe, that's like ooh la la. Yeah, that's a monster. It's all digital. I'm 25 and I'm not allowed to push the supermarket trolley by myself. Mum has to have a hand on to guide it in case I lose concentration. I'm 34 and if mum sees me ironing, she'll be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All wrong, all wrong.

I would never iron in front of my mum. It would be all wrong. Let them do it. Yeah. Let them. Do it wrong in front of your mum so she takes over. Yeah.