ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - December 11 2019

Episode Date: December 10, 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. Two minutes past six. Good morning. There's a real stink of smoke at work anyway, and we're not exactly close in Auckland to the Mangere fire. No, it's crazy. I walked outside through the city this morning and it's just very hazy. And yeah, the news has just broke. Now, I guess now that it's daytime, getting some photos coming through.

Yeah. But there's a fire. They started at 2am, right? Right. So it's been burning for a little while. Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Right. God, what a bloody end to the year, eh? What a bloody end a little while. Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Right.

God, what a bloody end to the year, eh? What a bloody end to the year. Let alone New Zealand. A bloody start to the year and a bloody terrible end. Hey, good news is the avocados are cheap. I saw this. Like, real cheap in some places. Like, some places had them for 18 cents.

Yeah. Each. Guacamole, guacamole. Lots of it. Yes. With every meal. Guac, guacamole. Lots of it. Yes. Forever with every meal. In the place of tomato sauce, maybe. Yeah.

So the top six before 7 o'clock this morning, the top six things to do with all those cheap avos. All right, also coming up before 7 this morning, a chance for you to go in the drawer to see Camila Cabello live in LA and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker in cinemas December 19. We've still got our big trip to LA to give away and a whole lot of prizes, all up $20,000 worth of prizes. You can get the chance just before 8 o'clock this morning to win.

Special guest on the show today, Simon Brojoz. Yeah. Is in. Yeah. And I believe the Prime Minister will be in on Friday as well, just to wrap up the end of the year. Right. From both political parties. To keep it balanced up the end of the year from both political parties

to keep it balanced ahead of next year's biggie oh yeah it's another general election isn't it next year yeah yeah

towards the end of next year so it's like you'll even vote excuse me I voted last time it's very important did you vote in the general

in the local body election you know I did because you know how I voted for she put a lot of thought into that one you remember yeah with the guy with the cool name you like the guy with the cool name yeah the cool billboard the local body election? You know I did because you know how I voted for. She put a lot of thought into that one, you remember? Yeah.

With the guy with the cool name. You liked the guy with the cool name. Yeah, the cool billboard. Then I looked into him to make sure he wasn't like any of the isms.

Racism. Yeah. All the phobics. All the isms or the phobics. All the isms or the phobics. It's very important.

And he came out all right? He did. Okay, good. All right, you lot. Listen up. It's very important. And he came out all right? He did. Okay, good. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines. Interesting, odd, quirky, unusual news stories.

And Vaughan and Megan must deliberate and pick only one of the three. Headline one, Walmart Santa sweater blows. Headline two, theft of bell end sign. Pathetic. I know one. Walmart had a sweatshirt and it had a snowman on it and it said white Christmas or something and they had lines of a white powder in front of him, believed to have been cocaine. Yeah, it was.

He had lines in front of him. And Walmart didn't really look exactly at the sweater. Can Santa sue for defamation? No, it was a snowman. It was a snowman. But the snowman could. Unless he... Unless he has a hot courtroom.

Frosty first. I hope it wasn't a quick trial. It'd be an absolute puddle by the end of it. Um, two. What was it? A theft of Ballian's sign

pathetic or three. So that's a place called Ballian. It is. It's stolen the sign. Yeah. Or Las Vegas residents worried a

serial gluer on the loose. I think three for me. Yeah, that one. All right, we go now to Las Vegas, and I will let ABC 13 Action News tell you what is going on in Las Vegas. Pigeons in Las Vegas with hats on.

It's not clear how the pigeons got the hats on the heads in the first place. All of it still remains a mystery here, but it's gotten viral on Facebook and Twitter. Some found it funny, but some are wondering if this is a case of animal cruelty. Now, we do know that some of the local rescue groups are

looking for those pigeons. I saw a photo of the pigeon with the helmet on. Little pink hats, like cowboy hats. And they have actually glued them onto the pigeon's head. Oh, that's not okay. I have actually glued them onto the pigeons' heads. Oh, that's not okay. I know.

That's not okay. There is a video online and it is pretty funny. But you know how pigeons move their head around real quick? Like... And so they've got little hats on. They look like real busybodies. It's pretty cute, but it's also horrifically... It's not.

You shouldn't do that. No, you shouldn't. But it's very cute. A guy I know with chickens has just bought helmets for his chickens. And I said. Like mini helmets. Mini helmets. Why?

They strap on under their chin. And I said, is this because they pick on each other? Because they do. There's like a pecking order. And they'll like pick on each other. Or they'll all tug at one chicken. And often they peck at the comb. Yeah.

The red comb and I said is this a protective thing he said no I just thought it looked funny can you get little goggles for them as well

probably the goggles they might find annoying but apparently they just get used to the helmets right is it not a heavy helmet

no no really light oh so it's ok it's not like official road safety helmet material no no no it's not a thick polystyrene it's not like official road safety helmet material. No, no, no. It's not a thick polystyrene.

It's probably more of a walnut or a... Right, okay. Yeah. Not so much worried about their impact just to stop the

blunt force of the... Right, as long as it looks good. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. The Auckland Airport will thank their lucky stars that Fletch wasn't flying yesterday.

Good. Actually, everyone at the airport, be thankful that you weren't there yesterday. What? I saw there were delays. They weren't the only airport. There was Australia, had some... Australia and Wellington, yeah.

There was a massive issue with the check-in for international departures. And everyone was being very patient and accommodating, apparently, but it was causing massive delays. So the global software company, CETA, this runs the passenger processing software, and that was down. So they couldn't check in.

Wow. They had to do it all manually. Surprising that doesn't happen more, eh? Like, when you think about it. The thing about the load do it all manually. Surprising that doesn't happen more, eh? Like when you think about it. The thing about the load that it must take. Like how often do your computers go down at work? Like all the time. And yet like.

Restart. And they send you it when there's no internet or there's a problem with the work email. They email the work email to say work email's down, but you don't get it until work email's back up when you get the email saying problem resolved. But yeah, yeah. It seemed pointless.

Yeah. I get that, yeah. But yeah, some people were messaging. There was someone on the line already queued for an hour, have not moved. No one can check in. Not exactly what you expect

when you've paid for business class. I should be in the lounge drinking champagne. Drinking champagne. Nice flex. Yeah. To the journo at the airport. So people that are, because I saw a few people stress yesterday

because a lot of people heading away this weekend. Yeah. Start their Christmas. It's all sorted. It's been resolved apparently from last night. So you should be fine this weekend, Fletch. But please, if there's any delays, please be patient.

And everyone's in the same boat. I'm always patient. My only problem is when there's one lane open for security. Your only problem. Your only problem with the airport. You've got a multitude of problems. Your only problem with the airport. I don't think now's the time to go into all of those.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. This is bad news for Fletch's household plants, which you said you've got three left. I've got three left and I'm going away for a while, so I'm having a friend look after them. You're going to prison. I'm going away for a while.

Just says, I'm going away for a while. Sounds like what you say when you tell your kids you're off to prison. Overseas. Daddy will be back soon. So he's going to look after my three remaining plants, which are those kind of plants you can't kill. Yeah, right. Well, okay, one of them's got brown.

A whole bunch of plants you've killed. Yeah. And then when I come back next year, I'm actually going to make it my 2020 resolution to like read about the plants and how to look after them. And water. And I'm going to go, honestly, I am going to try next year. Good.

Because I've had so many die this year. This should make you feel bad. Okay. This new research done by Tel Aviv University, they have found that plants feel pain too. And not only that, they actually let out distress sounds. So they're essentially screaming. They scream when their stems are cut or if they're not watered enough. They will let out, they're calling them ultrasonic sounds between 20 and 100 kilohertz.

So that you, obviously the human hair is not, the human ear isn't going to hear that. No, but that's believed to convey their distress. So every time you pick something, they used tomato plants as an example. When the tomato plant's stem was cut, they found it. Because you've got to do, what's that thing called? Where you take off the little things that grow up between the... Thinning.

Yeah. Yeah, you've got to prune it. You've got to prune them. You've got to cut them quite a bit. So they found that the tomato plants let off 25 ultrasonic distress sounds over the course of an hour. Wow. 25 screams.

And they actually let out more. So when you deprive each plant of water fletch, the tomato plants specifically let out 35 screams in an hour. Being like, help me! No. See, sometimes that's not my problem. I water too much. Yeah, right. So what would that be?

Yeah. I have a watering. So the way I'm screwed in there, still screaming. Pretty much. Right, okay. There was also another study that they reckon they feel pain because after having the leaves plucked, even touched, or when bugs bite them, they let out,

some of them release foul-tasting chemicals or like... Well, yeah, that's their defense mechanism against insects, right? Yeah, to encourage, some of them release hormones that encourage wasps to come and eat whatever's biting them. But that's them being like, ow! Amazing. Wow. Just think about that.

All right, we'll take that on board for next year. So if there's like a whole lot of wasps at your window, it's because the plants have called in backup. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Some good news. Avocados are looking to be coming down, down, down in price. Great news.

Yeah. It's a great summer food. So, I mean, they're still cheap at the supermarkets, but you've got to go to the... Oh, go to a fruit and veg. Go to a... Yeah, because that's where you find them real cheap. Roadside, the place in Christchurch, 18 cents, no limit.

Mmm. Jeez, no limit. Fill your boots. You've got to be careful with an avocado. It'll be all good one minute. And then it'll be... Surprise, I'm brown. Hello and soft.

I think I asked you, Megan, maybe because of the cafe, but can you, if you buy heaps of avocados when they're super cheap, can you freeze them? You can. But they're not good for much apart from guac. And even then you can kind of tell if it's been frozen for a while. Oh, really? Because it's a bit watery.

Yuck. Okay, you could... There's a bit watery. Oh, yuck. Okay. You could. There's got to be a way around it. A bit of lemon juice? Yeah. Well, maybe if you... No, we're going brown.

Oh, I don't know. I was going to say maybe if you make the guac first and then freeze it. Oh, no, you don't want to be pre-making your guac. No, you want some fresh... Yeah, and you're fresh. Fresh cilantro in there. Okay. Fresh red onion.

Coriander. I say cilantro because I'm posh. Right. And I learned something, so now I've got to rub it in everybody's face. So the top six things to do with cheap avocados. Number six on the list. Build a house out of them. They stopped you getting into the housing market,

according to your love for them by the baby boomers. Now they are your house. Yeah. Yeah, but your house would start by the baby boomers, now they are your house. Yeah. Yeah, but your house would start out green and rock hard and then more brown and smushed down. And you'd open the front door and there'd be a giant stone in the lounge. Yeah.

Oh, my God. That really tickled you. What would be a giant stone? No, he's thinking the avocado is your house. Oh, no, you dickhead. Like, they're the bricks that you make a house out of. They make it that really typical of Vegas. This isn't James and the Giant Peach.

I'm laughing because you're a numpty. Yeah, you're a nincompoop. I was trying to think of a word I could call you on the radio. We should spend a whole morning where we insult people while only using old- old time sayings. You nincompoop. I'm just looking here. You don't know

your onions? Is that an insult? Dipstick. Oh yeah, dipstick's good. My mum loves dipstick. You bloody dipstick. You cancelled stamp.

That's one of them. Are you? No, that doesn't work. Why not? That works. I don't know. It's because you've never heard it before. You dork.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I can't say that. That's actually quite heavily based on someone's race. Oh, right. Okay. That's why we don't say these anymore. Because my self-esteem just dipped below 50.

Number five on the list of the top six things to do with cheap avocados. Try all those recipes you bookmarked online that needed avocados when avocados were like $19,000 each. Were they $12.50 at some places in May? Yeah, and they were rock hard. There's no time to buy avocados. It's what you get when you buy seasonal. Number four on the list of the top six things to do with cheap avocados.

Don't tell other people they're cheap and give people avocados. And everyone's like, oh, my God. When you give them an avocado. Yes. They love a free avocado. Yeah. Yeah. Alligator pears.

Yeah. Yeah. Or buy a whole box and swap them with mum's gift voucher at Christmas. Or someone's gift voucher. Just be like, do you want to swap these for like a $50 gift voucher? Mums, well, I can only speak for my mum. Not a huge avocado fan. Oh, yeah, you're right.

They don't like them. They don't do avocado. They've got fat in them. High in fat. Very high in fat. Have you not heard? Number three on the list of the top six things to do with cheap avocados. Open a pop-up avocado themed restaurant

that also serves avocado cocktails like an avo wall banger or a Long Island iced avo or an avo flavoured Bacardi Breezer. You'd be sucking pretty hard to get that out of the straw. You'd have to tip it in your gob.

Number two on the list of the top six things to do with cheap avocados. Have you ever heard of an avocado face mask? Yes, I have a couple. Apparently the oil in just an actual mushed up avocado on your face, apparently the oil in it is quite good for the skin. But why not an entire avocado body mask? I'm talking an avocado bath. Oh, yum.

How good would that be? And you could just eat the water. You have avocado in your bits and pieces. You'm talking an avocado bath. Oh, yum. How good would that be? And you could just eat the water. You have avocado in your bits and pieces. You could have some corn chips on your little bath tray and you dip it. You don't want to, like, later on in the day, you go to the bathroom and there's a fine bit of avo. I thought you were going to say you dip a corn chip. Yeah, and you had a pube or the sharp end of the tortilla stabs the penis.

Yeah, right, okay. It's worrying. And number one on the list of the top six things to do with cheap avocados, really plan a summer of love. They are an aphrodisiac after all. Are they? The avocado. Yeah, often believed to be an aphrodisiac because it was a very rich food.

The Aztecs, where it grew naturally in Latin America, it looked like a testicle. And because you know how they always believed if a fruit looked like a certain part of the body, it was good for that part of the body. Right. Like a walnut, good for the brain because it looks like a brain. Yeah, okay. So if you eat the avocado. Yeah, I'm just looking.

If your penis looks like an eggplant. I think you've got worries. It shouldn't be that fat or purple. No, it shouldn't. What are you looking at? I was just looking at the sushi of the day because sometimes I get a bit excited on a Saturday. No, the Fridays.

Smoked salmon and avocado. No, Friday night. You don't want to go back to work on after lunch and you're a bit horned up. From your trip to St. Pierre's. That is today's top six. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

An Australian insurance company has, wants to tell everyone that they are more safe when they are driving with Pavlova cakes and takeaway food than they are with their children in the car. Oh, no doubt. Oh, man. What? No, that's not right. I didn't mean to come in with like, no doubt. But you know when you do have aV or a cake on the front seat,

you do drive your corner more carefully. Yeah, you're right, you do. Don't try to do any sudden braking. But to be fair, the PAV's more fragile than the kids. Well, the PAV doesn't have a seatbelt on. Yeah, and the kids can roll around, but the PAV can't roll around. No. Famously, PAVs don't like to roll around. No.

But then if your PAV slams into the dashboard at 100 k's, you just get a new pav. If your kid smashes in. Yeah. You're correct. It's completely different. Yeah. Absolutely correct.

Yeah. And well, you can't, yeah, you can't seatbelt a pav. Is it just because you always buckle the kids in so they're fine, you just forget about it once they're buckled in? I don't know. The first few times you the kids in so they're fine, you just forget about it once they're buckled in? I don't know. Are they the first few times you drive with kids? You're like... Yeah, I can't imagine taking a baby home from the hospital for the first time.

You'd just be like... Like were you on your phone and driving while you were taking your firstborn home, Indy? No. No, yeah. Do you do that when you drive with your kids? I was drunk, but I wasn't. Or do you just do it when you drive with us? No, I just do that when you drive with your kids? I was drunk, but I wasn't. Or do you just do it when you drive with us? No, I just do it when I drive with things I don't care about,

like you. Yeah, right. I, me. So the trick is to drive a pav with your kids. Drive both of them. Geez, I'll be so fat if everyone makes me drive my kids somewhere I've got a pav as well. Or just a big wobbly cake.

I'll be in there and I'll be having a bit of cake and a bit of pav. But you'll be safe. You'll get there. But really fat. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The world we live in. What now?

Just reading a rather, one of those sorts of stories about a man. About your junk, isn't it? Yep. He was born without testicles. Okay. This guy. This is happening in Siberia. However, his identical twin brother has testicles.

Oh, did he get four? So identical in every way apart from testicles. No, just two. Just two. Just two. Now the man... Okay, I've got so many questions. Well, I'll tell you and then from what I know, I'll try to answer.

Megan said, were they big? Like, did he get all the balls? No word on testicle size. Okay. Right. He is allowing, the brother with the testicles, is allowing one of those testicles to be donated to his brother. Now, I thought, because the headline reads,

man born without testicles given one by brother, I thought this more read along the lines of he was going to donate sperm and then the baby would be born and because they're identical twins, it would be pretty much. Yeah, right. Okay. No, he's actually giving him a testicle in a testicle transplant operation. The tests have been done.

Testicles can go for about six hours once we're removed before being completely reattached. I don't know who they tested that on. So the procedure involves stitching together two arteries and two veins less than two millimetres wide to get blood and oxygen and everything flowing back to the testicle and then the attachment of everything else. And then the production of the testosterone begins locally

and then sperm can be produced within this man's body and he will be able to have child. Forgive my ignorance, but does that mean the man that didn't have any wasn't producing testosterone? You would think so. Agreed. And then if he didn't have them, did he

literally have all the tubing, all the works in place apart from everything apart from. Yeah, weird. The actual ball itself. Could you imagine if you needed a testicle and Philip, your brother,

just gave you one. What would that be like as an adult man having your brother's testicle just hanging there? Well, yeah, this guy's the same age. He's 36. But how is that different

to like if someone needed, you needed a kidney and someone gave it to you? Is it just because you're real close to the balls? You don't need balls. You don't need balls. You don't need balls to live. I'd probably

accept a liver. You'd accept a liver from Philip? But not a ball? He doesn't drink. Oh, you'd have a good liver. Although, yeah. But wait, you would rather be ball-less than accept a ball from your brother? I'd have saline balls. Get some fake in.

But they're not going to do the function. That lost a ball as a child and he in his 20s got a saline balls. Get some fake out. Yeah, but they're not going to do the function. That lost a ball as a child and he's got a saline ball. Yeah, because I just feel the same as... Balanced. Right. He was always walking a little bit to the left. Right. Is that why?

He was weighed down just a little bit. He was just dragging him just to the left. And he couldn't swim straight. Sure. Ridiculous. No. But, you know, I don't know. This also feels like they've done all the –

What? Ask him at Christmas. Who? If he can have a testicle. I don't need a testicle. I'm like, no, just do like a would you – They're not going to use – In this situation, would you –

My brother and I are so – We talked once if we won Lotto. And I said, oh, you know, I'd help you out. And he's like, I don't want your money. Like, that's what sort of people we are. I was like, fine, if you win Lotto, I don't want your stupid money. Fine, we don't want your money. I don't need your help.

How long ago was this? I'm doing fine. And like two years ago. Oh, okay. I don't even, like, what are you trying to, I don't need your help. And that's what it all turned into right and then our wives

are sitting there looking at each other like this and my mum's like this is what it was like this was life this was everyday growing up a nice

kind talk about helping each other out turned into a screaming match Flesh, Vaughan and Megan the podcast ZM so we need to talk about former All Black

Byron Callagher. He proposed and congrats. Doesn't he live in Bali now? Yeah. Or something like that. I think I read something in there. Yeah, didn't he open a resort? Something like that, yeah.

Yeah. So he actually, first of all, he live streamed the proposal. So he starts and he's obviously nervous because the camera was pointing in the wrong direction. And it was live on Facebook. Right. And he decided to propose. He is in an aquarium. So, well, no, it's like one of those restaurants that has an aquarium around it.

So while you're eating, you watch the fish. So is the restaurant in the sea or is there an aquarium literally all the way around it? No, I believe it's an aquarium. Okay. Yeah, and then it has fishies and everything. So you watch them while you're eating. Okay. So he went and suited up in dive gear.

I don't know how you get away from the table for that long. Wait, so did he start the live stream and then quickly, quickly get changed and then dive in? Or did he have someone doing the live stream? So actually, I think the diver did it. Right, okay.

So he was sitting at the table and the diver held up a sign saying, will you marry me outside the aquarium? Right. So like dive suit, holding it up outside the aquarium. Right. So, like, dive suit, holding it up outside the window. It's quite sweet. That's what you want from your proposal?

Someone to go to a bit of effort? Well, no, that completely depends. It depends on the person. Yeah, I know. There were people in the restaurant. That's a lot of people that could see you say no or see you being saying no to.

Yeah. You'd have to be pretty sure if you're going to do a pop-up for pros. Yep. If your partner was into that because some people don't they want it to be

a private occasion. What did we only talk what a month or so ago about that stat and people were like 95% of people were just like no way

I don't want it in public at all. I don't want anyone seeing this. Yeah. yeah well she said yes so she obviously didn't mind the trouble she did mind and she just did it because you know how you hear this is how it's going so i have to say yes and yeah but the trouble with when people do stuff like this over the top and they go to all this effort or they do one of those dancing ones on YouTube. There hasn't been

one of those for ages, eh? So I was, who was I talking to about this? It was at the ZM Christmas party. Yeah. I had an in-depth discussion

with a small group about the, the like early 2010s fad of the dance proposals and the like big elaborate proposals and there was like a year or two years where there was one of those every week.

Yeah, over the top. And then it got to the point where it just reached saturation point and I haven't seen a big one since. And they kind of became a bit cliche. Yeah. But I feel like now you could probably do it. You could probably almost get back to. But the problem when people do that is it sets the bar too high for other people.

No, but it's not everybody's dream proposal. No, I wouldn't like it because it's not very personal and intimate. Yeah, right. It's a bit too public. But would you have liked it if Mr. Toyboy had put on his scuba gear and dived into an aquarium and held up a sign? In front of a restaurant full of people? Yeah.

Again, that's not my cup of tea. I wouldn't like it because it's in front of a restaurant full of people? Yeah. Again, that's not my cup of tea. Right. I wouldn't like it because it's in front of a whole bunch of people. God, you'd have to spend weeks getting your paddy dive certificate as well. That'd be a punish too, wouldn't it? Yeah. Could we take some calls this morning of those over-the-top proposals? Because, I don't know, maybe Kiwis don't do this. But maybe you've heard of some over-the-top proposals.

Yeah. That you can share with us. Or maybe you saw an over-the-top proposals. Yeah. That you can share with us. Or maybe you saw an over-the-top proposal, like in public. You saw one of these go down and you're like, jeez. Because you always in your mind think you're going to be like, oh my God, yes. Smiley, happy hug. But it's more like snot and like it's not something you need everyone to see.

Okay, well, give us a call. 0800-966-SHARE-WITH-US the over-the-top proposals. Maybe you've had one or you've seen one. Former All Black Byron Callagher, there was a marriage proposal underwater at an aquarium

holding up a sign. Streamed live on Facebook too, so he really backed himself as getting a yes. You're very public. Yeah. I was talking this morning about the over-the-top proposals that maybe you've done or you've witnessed, especially in New Zealand because, you know, we're very,

we like it in private, don't we? We're hearing from romantic men actually this morning. Lots of guys calling. Does that surprise you, Megan? I just thought the girls would like to tell the proposal story. Greg, good morning. Hey, how you guys going? Good, Megan.

What did you do for your over-the-top proposal? Well, my now wife was heading back to the US to see her parents. And we were planning on maybe having that longer-term discussion. But I figured I'd get in early. And what better way to get in early than to get my now mother-in-law on side with a relatively elaborate proposal. I told Katie that I was going to be coming into town about two days after I actually arrived. Right. Her friends took her to the movies, and I produced a fake movie trailer to play in amongst the other movie trailers

at the movies that she was going to be at that night. Oh, my God. And so the first one played, and it was a regular movie trailer, and then the second one played, and it was me making a complete Muppet of myself on a giant screen. We basically mopped up this trailer about a movie called The Mother-in-Law, and it basically finished with me asking her to marry her, and then that's when I popped out.

Oh, my God. I think that's amazing. And were there, like, other people in there as well? Were they just like, oh, my God? Granted, it was small-town Midwest America, so there was only a spattering of people, but we did get a little bit of a response. It wasn't a particularly full theatre, but I think it was effective nonetheless. Actually ended up with more of her family in there than anything else.

Oh, wow. Okay. No pressure at all. Good work. That's amazing. And, of course, she said yes. Yeah, 12 years later, four kids, still going strong. Nice.

Wow, brilliant. Thanks, four kids, still going strong. Nice. Wow, brilliant. Thanks for your call, Greg. Aaron, Aaron, you had an over-the-top proposal. Yeah, mate. Hey, so last year I asked the missus to marry me. I organised her to have the day off work without her knowing. Yeah. And then her boss came in, gave her a letter to say what she's going to be doing,

well, what she's going to do for her next step. Then she ended up going to get her nails done. The nail salon got involved. They give her her next letter. Yeah. Then she had to go get her massage done. Then the massage parlour got involved and they gave her her next letter. Then she ended up going up to the Harbour Bridge to do a bungee jump.

Once she jumped off and then got pulled back up, the Harbour Bridge to do a bungee jump. Once she jumped off and then got pulled back up, I was down on one knee and popped the question. Oh, so you did like a treasure hunt? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. And she said yes, of course? Yeah, she said yes. We got married in March this year.

So yeah, it was good. Oh, congrats. Wow. Awesome. Thank you very much. Aaron, thanks for your call. My husband did a treasure hunt for me once on Valentine's Day. Just saying.

It's pretty cute. I did like traipses all around Auckland and get different letters from different places. But where were these letters? Because would you be worried if you set out a treasure hunt, someone would find your letter? Yeah, yeah. They'd find one clue and then they'd leave it to the next clue and then they'd get the goodies at the end. No, they're not like left on the ground or anything. They were at houses or like at shops.

Oh, right. Yeah. Right. And what did you get at the end of it? Well, I went into the last shop and I was like, apparently I have to tell you my name. And I said my name and then they brought out a box and I got like a Deadly Ponies wallet. It was pretty cute. It was pretty cute.

You should teach women your tricks To brainwashing children Doing good things You could run a behaviour technique I knew this would end badly Telling you that story It was only going to end one way ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast A study has been done And according to millennials Sorry. It was only going to end one way, wasn't it? Yeah, true. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

A study has been done, and according to millennials, those born between 81 and 96, the list has revealed their top irritations, the things that they hate the most. People chewing with their mouth open. And what they consider rude. Right. Do you have one off the top of your head?

What's your biggest one? About other people. Sure. Being rude to, oh, being rude to waiters. Oh, talking on the phone loudly in public. I've got heaps. That's on the list. Oh my God, I'm such a millennial.

The top irritations for millennials include littering. Oh, yeah. Playing music too loudly. Yeah. This is a weird one. Using a mobile at the dinner table. Oh, no one does that. Really?

Yeah. Everyone does that. Oh, you mean like going out for dinner. I thought you meant at home. I was like, you know, you don't use. Home or friends. Everyone's on there. No, you don't do it at home.

They are. Looking at your phone while talking to someone. Oh, oh yeah vaughn does that all the time also on the way i can actively do both can you very well thank you also on the list talking too loudly on public transport reading other people's phone messages over their shoulder man spreading uh like on public transport making tea for yourself but but not others, spoiling a TV show and revealing the ending. Oh, yeah. And finally,

talking about politics too much. Right. So those are kind of like the big, is there anything not on that list that kind of... Talking with your, eating with your mouth open. Yeah.

Noise eating still. It's right up there. Yeah, absolutely. It's the worst. But then I don't think that's specific to millennials Everyone hates that right Everybody

Yeah Yeah No that kind of Covers it all That's All the worst parts Of humanity right there Racism's up there

Homophobia You've left out Yeah but there's nothing Nothing in there about that This is not something Because I think that's An agreed upon Yeah yeah

That we can all agree Bad thing right Yeah That doesn't need to Well it probably does need To be pointed out to some people But it shouldn't need I think nothing in there about that. Because I think that's an agreed upon bad thing, right? That doesn't need to be pointed out to some people, but it shouldn't need to be pointed out that that's bad. There's that one that I do, which I don't have a problem with, but you do, as I leave my phone clicks on when I text. Oh, my God, why do you do that? Because I like the wee sound.

I know that I've pushed the button there. Like a boomer. It's a nice, sweet sound. The Fletch Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to... Who left that email ding on? Was that you? Aren't you?

I'm recording. The Fletch Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Spark. Wrap up any mobile this Christmas with a Spark prepaid gift box. You can turn your dinger on now, aren't you? Airbnb is taking steps to crack down. Now, this will affect New Zealanders and people that use Airbnb

and people that have Airbnb properties. No, I'm just real tired. I have just had a coffee. Why are you tired? Because I woke up at like 3.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Why? Because it was real cold. It was cold? Yeah, because I had my fan on. I woke up at like 3.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Why? Because it was real cold.

It was cold? Yeah, because I had my fan on. I should have turned it off. Your new ceiling fan. My new ceiling fan. It made me real cold. Isn't it Alexa controlled? Nah, it's not.

Nah, it's not. I thought it was enabled. You could be like, Alexa, fan down. Nah, it's not. Alexa, turn on my fan. Alexa, how much money is in my bank account? Whatever, you have an electric gate. Alexa, it was there when I got there

and I had to boogie it up so it still worked. Rewire it. Got a little shock. Anyway, I'm tired and I've had a coffee. I'm fine. So not too many fish and chips for dinner. That's not a healthy meal. You should be having a proper sustenance.

Not crab sticks. Well, anyway, Airbnb have banned open invite parties at its accommodation, including New Zealand. Now, this is weird because I don't know of anyone that just has an open invite party that says, hey, there's a party, anyone's welcome. Really? Not on Airbnb. That's what you do when your parents go away. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. So those are the parties open to anyone and advertised on social media, for an example, they use. Now, Airbnb says boutique hotels and professional event venues will be exempt from the new rule. They're also banning large parties in apartment buildings and condos. Oh. So a lot of people will do this.

They might have a weekend in the big city. You might come up, say you're coming up for a concert in Auckland, you find an Airbnb apartment and you just go crazy. Yeah, a little shit. And that's fine. Stag do's, hen's parties.

Yeah, I was going to say hen's parties. That's what I did. That's fine for you, but when people live in these apartment buildings and it's their home, things can be pretty crazy. Yeah. So that's what the new policy is saying.

So if you are planning for a New Year's kind of apartment... Don't. Airbnb party, don't. What's going to happen? But then what's stopping you? It's all right to have 10 friends, isn't it? Like a small gathering of friends.

Yeah, how are you going to... I don't know how you police that. What's the outcome? What do you mean what's it? What would happen? What are the repercussions? If you're going to set rules, you've got to have the punishment really good. You can get fined or something.

I think maybe if you had a booking for a week, maybe they could tip you out after a night. But if you're only in for one night, who's gonna do anything about it? They say bad mark against your account and you just open a new one. But also like if you don't advertise it on social media but someone else

does, you'll be like, oh it was out of my control, what happened? Yeah. And then if you are not putting it on Facebook, but you personally invite like 100 people, does that count? Just do the same at my dad's house when they're away for the weekend and you promise them you're going to behave. Did you guys have those people that did that when you were at school

and the places got absolutely trashed? Other people. Yeah, other people. We had a couple in my parents' place, but it wasn't sort of open. There would have been 40 or so people there. We had a couple in my parents' place, but it wasn't sort of open. There would have been 40 or so people there. We had a really bad one when my parents were overseas. Had a massive party. And we had this inflatable animal.

And everyone was signing it for like the end of the year. I don't know why. And it had a vivid attached to a piece of string to this inflatable animal. And it got caught in the ceiling fan. And it sprayed black vivid ink on all the walls. How? I don't know, Vaughn.

It just did. The gravity just forced the ink out the edge. We got it out though. We got it out and they never to this day they never knew.

There's nothing quite so sobering as suddenly ruining someone's house and everyone has to all hands on deck clean it up. It's fine when it's not your house,

but when your parents are coming back in a week, you've really got to get everyone on the clean. I thought you might have had to do a repaint. No, we didn't. I think we used those magic wall erasers. Have you guys used those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God.

That's the world's best invention. They're going to have definitely given us all cancer at some stage in the future. It takes anything off anything. And you've got to be careful because you end up rubbing through the paint if you use those too much. So that's just exit mould in a pen. It's a sponge and you break off the sponge as you need it. And you soak it in water.

They're amazing. They're the best invention ever. So you know in New Zealand how they're only like little? Yeah. My mother-in-law bought some back from the States that were like A3 size pieces of paper. Shit, old people love seeing something overseas and bringing

it back, eh? Yeah, yeah. Coals or whatever it is. Candy products. Yeah. Because my mum was moaning the other day. She's like,

I wish I could buy this ointment here in New Zealand. What ointment was it? It was like an antiseptic ointment. I'm like, we've got that here.

She's like, no, but this smells nice. I've had it for years. It was like my mum with those pills that helped her sleep on a plane from Thailand. And it turned out it was like 10 microgram valiums or whatever

like really strong. I was like, yeah, no wonder you're sleeping. She's like, I just felt great for days. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM. Producer Caitlin joins us in studio. It is her last week. If you haven't heard, she is going to study nursing next year and do the incredible job,

if she passes, of being a nurse. Thanks. That was really nice. He always wanted to do help people. He's stuck on his way through it, but he got there. I told you I would have had to have an emergency.

She's going to do this really nice thing. That was really emotional for me. I don't know if you know, Megan, I've got a lot of feelings in my robot heart. I've got a lot of feelings. I don't know what I'm going to say to you on the last day, Caitlin. Oh, don't. Just keep your expectations low.

I'm getting emotional now. Oh, okay. I struggle to be emotional, Caitlin. Yeah. Now, we're going to replay one of our favourite moments and then give you today's present. We've got a present every day. Presence. This this moment I believe was Megan here

were you here for this you were away you were sick or something I was getting surgery was that your diarrhoea no I was getting my carpal tunnel done because you've had a couple

of sick days for two bouts of that haven't you I have absolutely not what's your favourite thing to say Megan my butthole's fine it's a running joke

for now it's a running joke if Megan ever has a sick day we say she's at home with diarrhoea yeah and yeah so you were away Megan. My butthole's fine. It's a running joke. For now. It's a running joke. If Megan ever has a sick day, we say she's at home with diarrhea. Yeah. And yeah, so you were away and... How did this even come about? We were learning about bites, weren't we? Somebody drove their car onto a beach at the weekend

and it was a two-wheel drive car, so that immediately sunk and they couldn't get it out and they've left it there and now the tide sinks every time the tide comes in. You know when you stand and the waves go out and you kind of start sinking. Yeah. So anyway, there was that and there was a car, there was a photo of a car just actually in the water. August was looking over my shoulder and she said,

how'd that car get there? And I said, I don't know the story behind this, like how this car got here, mysterious. And she said, I bet there's a good story to be told there. But how do people, like, how close can you get to a beach? Unless you're, you must have to be in a very rural part because there's always like, you can't drive. You can drive on heaps of New Zealand beaches.

Really? And if you're not actually allowed to drive on them, a lot of them have concreted boat ramps. So cars will go down and then turn onto the sand. And if they're keeping momentum going, they'll find it's when they stop or slow down that the weight of the car sinks. And then if you've only got two wheels driving.

Yeah. Can you put your boat into the sea anywhere? If there's a ramp? Yeah, yeah. In the sea? I thought you could only do that in lakes. What? Why?

But like your, could you actually take like your personal boat? Yeah. And put it into the sea? Yeah, yeah. Really? What did you? I thought there was like legalities around that. So if I had a boat.

People do it every weekend, Caitlin. No, no, no. But like, that's like ships and stuff. I'm going to let her go because I'm interested to see where we're headed with this one. I didn't actually think about this before I started asking it. You've got a boat. Yeah, I've got a boat. Just a little boat.

You've only been taking it to lakes. Because you thought you were only allowed to stick to rivers and lakes like you used to. But in the sea, like I know you can see jet boats and stuff in the sea, but then there's just like big boats and ships and stuff. Yeah. Could you take like a little, it's got a motor and you put it in the sea and no one would say anything to it. Famously, famously you can take a boat into the ocean.

That is bizarre. I thought it was just the... I asked that marina every day. But they're not boats. They're like house boats and stuff. No, they're not like little, I'm talking about like marina every day. They're not boats. They're like houseboats and stuff. No, they're not like little... I'm talking about like ones that you have... Removable boats, like 17 footers.

No, like... How do you think the average person goes fishing? Oh, yeah. Okay, that's good. But yeah, that's what boat ramps are for, mate. You back your car in and you take the boat off the trailer and then later on you come back and you get it. Why are there not more people putting their boats

in the sea? Literally thousands. Literally. No, like little boats. Like little dinghy. They do. Tens of thousands of New Zealanders. I wouldn't imagine it would be more rare for someone to only have ever put their boat in a lake. Is this because

I just grew up by lakes? Maybe. Maybe. Every time I go to the sea, I never see boats. You know why? It's because you've never been looking for them. You watch now. Like actual just recreational boats. 100%, yes. Like when you go out, like for example, Auckland,

you go out to like Mission Bay towards St Helier's, they do the little yacht club. I never see boats. No, I've never seen a boat. They go out in their little yachts like every day. Could you take your recreational boat and go to Waiheke? Yes. Really?

But that's just for fairies. And the boat, you... Next time you're pulling in, you look at all the boats that are moored there. Like, I understand that they're moored, but people have moored them there and then they couldn't take them back to the mainland. But I'm talking about boats that you don't, like, you just have two people on the boat. Yeah.

Like little boats. Oh, my God. Update. Megan didn't know any of this either. She was away when that was on air. And Megan's listening and being like, I didn't know that either. I didn't know that you could put boats in the ocean not on a boat ramp. I thought that

was a special area where you put your boat in. And you didn't know that you could just take a boat and go anywhere. Go to Waiheke. No, because that's a big ferry lane. I thought that was regulated. We've been on a boat. To Waiheke. Thank you. I'm here too still. Now

I actually stand by this pre-Kaitlyn, when everyone thought she was a dumb, past-Kaitlyn I mean. Present-Kaitlyn stands by past- Thank you, Megan. I actually thought you had to have a licence. I thought you had to tell someone and be like, yo,

I'm putting my boat in the sea. Yo, yo, yo. Hello, Harbourmaster, yo. I'm putting my boat in the sea. Yo. Yo. Yo. Hello, Harbour Master. Yo. Put my boat in the ocean. Do you have to have a license to drive one? No. No.

That's dangerous. We literally went in a boat. That's really, that's bad. We went in a boat to Waiheke. A little boat. James's dad's boat. Remember that? Yeah, but did we go in the ferry lane?

We went like back roads. There's no lane. There's no, it's the ocean. Except. Back roads. Do you no name. There's no name. It's the ocean. Except. Back roads. Do you know what? Do you know what? We stuck to the back roads.

I'm sick of you guys. Sometimes you're very aggressive in your answer. You are your mentor and you don't even answer our questions. Sometimes you are just a bit aggressive. I thought you needed a license. Maybe that's something that the boating people should look into. I think so too. You have to have a bloody fishing licence.

Why don't you have to have a boat licence? You don't have to have a fishing licence to fish in the ocean. Are you serious? And what if there's a little boat herding around in the ferry lane? There's rules! Oh, see? So? There's not the Wild West out there.

See? You can still. If you follow the rules, there's speed limits in the harbour. But if you follow. You just. You can go anywhere in your boat. You could go to Fiji if you had a death wish. No.

No. If you didn't want to get there, you could go anywhere. Other countries wouldn't put up with this. This is not. This is too. Dilly dally all over the show. We need some rules. Well, we've got two of them now.

Wow. Oh, my God. Two of them. There are rules. Well, you can go up to a beach and put your boat in. There's nothing stopping you. But what if there's people swimming? Well, it's just a courtesy thing.

Why don't we see more people putting their boats in the ocean? I'm actually serious. Why don't people just rock down and chuck their boat in? That's too shallow there. Oh, see? I didn't see. That's why. Don't make that face, Vaughn.

Valid questions on the show this morning. Thank you, Val. Thank you so much. It's valid questions for, like, my seven-year-old if we were going past and she's like, can you just put boats in the ocean? Oh, shut up. She's very advanced.

That's not our fault. You know what? I'm going to take that. Well done. Well done neutralising the conversation. Well, it's good that you can go away from the show, Caitlin, next week with the knowledge about boats. And tides.

Remember I learnt about tides, so thank you. That's right. That time you went out to the beach and you were like, where's all the water going? Last time I came at lunchtime. That sucks. Last time I came at lunchtime, sucks Last time I came at lunchtime There was water here

What happened? I know Every time I go to the beach There's never water So annoying Alright We've got a present for you today This is actually

Oh I just ripped it It's quite expensive It's quite expensive It's a circle There's a lot of thought Gone into this as well Can I open it? Yeah

Are you I'm gonna swear There's a lot of thought gone into this as well. Can I open it? Yeah. Are you? I'm going to swear. Now, what we've got in front of you there, Caitlin, is crocs on the clock, work slip-ons. It's got an enclosed toe and heel. That'll meet workplace standards for any nurse or should. How am I supposed to pick up all the hot doctors? You know this is why I'm doing nursing. I can't.

No, remember, there's lots of hot doctors. Caitlin was talking to a doctor at the weekend and he said, I know some hot doctors. But I'm not wearing these. Do you like how we remembered it had to be fully enclosed with the back on them as well? Yeah, because you said you can't wear

crocs because they're not fully enclosed. Well, we found some. Ba-da. And also they've got an enhanced arch support that adds to the comfort of being on your feet all day. Have we paid now for these Crocs with this mention? Yeah. Very expensive present for us. Blissfully supportive, soft

all day comfort. Thank you. That's very nice of you. Chic and black too. It's better than the holy ones And you can just Wash them off When a patient spews on you Spews on me

Okay That's just great Easy Is that in the Crocs marketing too? You could wear those When you're launching a boat At the boat route too Anywhere famously

So a bride Has hired someone To keep an eye Anywhere, famously. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So a bride has hired someone to keep an eye on her husband, well, her fiance, when he was on his stag do. This was, actually, she calls herself a professional bridesmaid. So she helps out brides with their wedding. She'll be their bridesmaid if they want. And she charges about £5,000 to do this. Right.

But also she has a service where she, and she's done this more than once, where the bride pays her to follow around the fiancé before the wedding, specifically on stag dues. So this particular time the stag was going around London and she was given the itinerary for the stag do. Now, the night ended in a strip club. Right. In London.

And he, the stag, was dragged up on stage and dancing ensued. But also adult fun times ensued. Really? Okay. And after that, that is when the stag was inviting the women who had joined them up on stage to go back to a private room where they would enjoy more fun times. Wow, okay.

Yeah. Did I dance around that okay? Yeah, I think we can draw our own conclusions there. So the professional bridesmaid was sitting there watching this with her own eyes and hearing banter by the other mates about what was going on in the private room. And then reporting back to his wife-to-be.

So she went back and told the bride and the bride was devastated, called the wedding off. But she said she's done this before. She's been flown to Ibiza to keep an eye on another stag do, which sounds terrible. Oh, horrible job. Horrible job.

But you'd have to go undercover and pretend to be drinking as well. Oh, horrible. Horrible job. Just going out partying. But that's like some real private investigator like stakeout kind of behaviour.

It's pretty exciting to be honest, isn't it? If you're doing that, like hiring someone private investigator, like, stakeout kind of behaviour. It's pretty exciting, to be honest, isn't it? If you're doing that, like, hiring someone to watch your partner, then there's no trust there in the first place. Yeah, there really isn't. Should you be getting married? Plus, when I think about, like, your stag do, or your hens night versus stag do, your hens night's probably way worse, to be honest.

Both of yours have been out of control. No, my second one was tame as. First one, not so much. Yeah, true. Yeah. But not enough to, like, if someone was watching me, I wouldn't have it called off. You wouldn't have been called off, no.

I, like, I only pinched a beer button. Didn't, like. Oh, okay. Didn't know that. No, that's inappropriate. That was the first time around. Right, okay. No hands. No hands, no touching know that. No, that's inappropriate. That was the first time around. Right, okay. No hands.

No hands, no touching. But like that's pretty full on. Yeah. I know that it's like your last night of singledom, but like that's not appropriate, right? Have you guys ever done a stank out? No. Have you ever tailed anyone, followed anyone?

No, I don't think I have. But it would be exciting, right? It would be funny. I don't have the patience. I'd get bored and I'd need to do wheeze. Yeah. The minute I'd be like, okay, guys, we're here, I'd be like, I need to go wheeze.

Yeah. Because the minute I sit like playing hide and seek, you find the perfect hiding spot. You're like, I need to go wheeze. Like you see in all those police movies, they like wait down the road outside their house. I'd just be on my phone and then look up, their car would be gone.

I'd be like, oh, shit. Get the Eagle helicopter. I've lost them. They're gone. They're gone. Like, that would literally be me on a stakeout. Yeah. But I reckon there would be people that have done this

when they think their partner's cheating on them. Got their friends to even do it. Got their friends to do it. Or someone that, you know, their partner doesn't know. I'd love to take some calls and see if anybody's actually done a stakeout. Yeah. Have you ever followed anyone? I don't reckon anyone has.

Not in New Zealand. No, 100%. 100% of the cheaters. It'll be. Really? Yeah, I reckon 100%. I reckon. I reckon.

I reckon. I reckon. Okay. But you wouldn't be able to tell your own boyfriend or girlfriend. Because then they recognise you. You'd have to get someone from work that they didn't know or a friend they didn't know. Turn the headlights off and keep a safe following distance.

This would be a great excuse to get walkie-talkies too because, you know, I've always wanted walkie-talkies. Or like your phone. You're talking a multi-car stakeout now. Yeah, actually, you're right. We could just use phones. Yeah. On FaceTime.

But I love walkie-talkies. What if you run out of data? Yeah. If you run out of data. Walkie-talkies don't run out of data. And you'd have to be on the call for so long. It's better just to only have the walkie-talkie when you need to say something. Yeah, and then we can talk in codes and stuff.

Yeah. Well, let's take some calls and see if anyone's done this. Have you ever done a stakeout? Or do you need us to do one? Or tailed someone? Or maybe you've got a friend to do it or you just heard of someone

that's done this when they thought someone was cheating on them. Yeah. Might not even be, I don't know why, what other reason there'd be other than cheating

to stake out someone or follow someone. I don't know. Give us a call. 0800 DALES AT M. You can text 9696. Have you ever done a stakeout? You know you go, so we don't. We're talking. Give us a call. 0800 Dials at M. You can text 9696. Have you ever done a stakeout? Where?

You know you go, sweetheart. We're talking. Hey, sweetheart, you talk first. You're the man. Thank you. Yeah, I will. Thank you. We're talking about if you've ever run a stakeout.

Someone's messaging asking if we're drunk. No, we're actually not. We're just tired. Because we're slurring. I can't get my words out today. Apologies. Somebody sent a probation officer message down on our topic of when you've rocked a stakeout. You've staked somebody out.

A woman got a professional bridesmaid service to stake out her husband-to-be's stag do and, of course, found trouble. Yeah, but if you're not looking for trouble at a stag do you're bound to find it in some form or another yeah but then he did apparently invite the um professional undresses to back to a private hotel room yeah yeah yeah yeah gotta imagine what the report you would have got back about your mum at megan's instead well i got that report yeah i didn't even ask for it i was was sending videos. It was a good time. I'm a... No, that was at Sade's.

That was at Sade's. What was my mum doing at Megan's? That's right. Yeah, that was Sade's. That's right. I'm a probation officer, and I've staked out an offender more than once. Oh, exciting. It's easier when they're on GPS as you just follow the little beep.

Oh, that's cheating. That's cheating. Yeah. Then you know where they're on GPS is you just follow the little beep. Oh, that's cheating. That's cheating. Yeah. Then you know where they're at. But then that's the thing. A lot of people, like, might get an old phone and put it in the boot of a partner's car and then follow, like, the Find My iPhone. Yeah.

Well, that's what somebody messaged in saying that they did that at 3 o'clock in the morning and found their husband at my friend's house. They are together now. Oh, no. Anonymous, you've done a stakeout. Anonymous. This is the trouble with Anonymous. Yeah, Anonymous.

Hello? If you can hear us talking. You did an online stakeout? Hello. Hi. I set up a... I thought my partner at the time was cheating on me. So I set up a profile on a dating site and, you know, sent him a message.

Oh, actually, I think he messaged me first. Oh, wow, okay. I just put out things. Actually, what was funny was I described myself entirely as I currently was. Oh, wow. Okay, well, he's obviously got a type. Clearly. And so then we started messaging him and back and forth, and I actually bought a second

SIM card. Wow. And so he was messaging me, sitting in the same room as me. Oh, my God. We did it this time. So what happened at that moment where you confronted him about it all? Well, I wanted to see how far he would

go, so I just carried on and I'd be like, oh, who are you messaging, babe? He goes, oh, it's just one of the boys. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. I don't know how you kept your cool. I would have just sent a photo of him on the couch across the room. Yeah! And then just, like, filmed his reaction.

Yeah, no, I wasn't that fast. I actually ended up, I was pregnant with his child at the time. Oh, my God. Did he? Yeah, that was pretty crazy. And then, so he arranged to meet me at a cafe just down the road. Thinking you were the other woman? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, so I didn't actually say anything different to what I was. I didn't say, I just continued to be me. Right. But I was this other person, and it was just crazy how he was acting. And then, yeah, he arranged to meet me at the cafe, and so I got someone to come in. By this stage, we'd had the baby.

And then he was going to his sister's place or something. And I was like, oh, yeah, okay. So then I walked down to the cafe across the road. And I was like, well, what are you doing here? He's like, oh, nothing. I was just getting some smokes. I was like, oh, okay. Sweet, I'll see you at home then. He's like, oh, oh, oh, nothing. I was just getting some smokes. I was like, oh, okay, sweet, I'll see you at home then. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then I get this message, oh, don't come in because my crazy ex has been stalking me. I can't believe you kept it going for so long. How did you, what did you say then? When did you end it? About two weeks later, I kept coming up with excuses not to be able to meet him, obviously, because I was like, oh, I can't do it now, or my ex is home or whatever.

And then he was like, and then I said something, and he finally clicked. He went, it's you. I can't believe you've done this to me. How could you do this to me? What? What? Yeah.

Wow. I like how you just put it in the husband with you. It's all? What? What? Yeah. Wow. I like how you just been in the hospital with you. It's all on you. That's incredible. Anonymous, thank you for sharing that. Wow. Some text messages.

A lot of stakeouts. A lot of stakeouts. Someone said I've done the exact same thing too, sitting in the same room, organising to meet up with my partner under an alias. Oh, man. Just break up with them and go be single if that's what you want yeah uh my ex and i had a big fight about his work mate he blew up at me and said he was gonna go stay at a mates of the night yeah i checked the computer history he had searched

cheapest hotel christchurch and booked a room for two people my friend and i dressed up in disguises and stuck out the hotel after waiting across the road for an hour, he turned up with his workmate. Oh. What a way to find out. Is that like a common thing with all these texts? If people are suspicious, it's generally happening? Well, from the people we're hearing from,

but people aren't messaging in saying, I had suspicions and they were completely unfounded. No one's really admitting that. Yeah, right. True. No. My auntie hid in the back seat of their car. saying I had suspicions and they were completely unfounded. No one's really admitting that. Yeah, right. True. No, no. My auntie hid in the back seat of their car.

My uncle came out and rendezvoused with the other woman and she jumped out and caught them in the act. Or was she hiding under the beaded seat covers? I don't know. She might have just been lying like perfectly flat. I wouldn't be able to do that for a whole car, right? I'd be like, whoops. Yeah. Yeah, lots of people, lots of find my eye finding is that seems to be the modern stakeout.

Just following the find my eye find. Well, that's the thing. You could slip that in the glove box or the backseat of the car if you've got a spare phone. And you've basically done that thing in the movies where they click that magnetic thing under the car. Yeah. And deniability. You just be like, whoopsies, that magnetic thing under the car. Yeah. And deniability.

You just be like, whoopsies, left him in there. Exactly. Someone said myself in my BFF, I'd often just stake people out for something to do. Oh, okay.

Like people they know? All right. Tonight we're staking out Janice. We're just going to learn everything we can. We'll see what she's up to, see if she's telling any fibs. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is about the music compilation, Now That's What I Call Music. I remember these. What are we up to? 89? They What I Call Music. I remember these. What are we up to? 89? They just call them Now. Oh, okay. In 2018, they got to Now That's What I Call Music 100.

Oh, really? Okay. So that was last year. So they've probably got up to like 105 by now. As a kid and growing up, there'd always been service stations. Yeah. Great road trip. Yeah, good always been service stations. Yeah. Great road trip.

Yeah, good for the roadie. Yep. If you were going out of radio reception, you could still hear all the hotheads. Well, now that's what I call music. Well, today's fact of the day about it is why it's called that. Okay. Because Now That's What I Call Music was a Virgin Records situation.

The compilation was through Virgin Records. And of course, that's owned by Sir Richard Branson. The deal was negotiated and finalized on his boat, which was moored in Little Venice at the time. However, the name comes from a 1920s advertising poster that Sir Richard Branson had bought for his cousin Simon to hang behind his desk at his Virgin Records office. Bit of nepotism there. Got his cousin to run the Virgin Music office.

Would you get your cousin to run anything? No. Well, it would depend what it was. No, I'm not saying they're inept. I'm just saying they've all got special skills. Okay, you run a, what would Vaughan run? A barbecue company. No, I don't do that myself.

No, but you've got stores all over New Zealand selling barbecues. Would you get your cousin to run a store? No. No. Okay. I've never seen any of them barbecue. Right, okay. No.

So Richard Branson said of his cousin Simon, he was always really grumpy before breakfast, and his favourite breakfast was eggs. So I found this poster from the 1920s that was advertising Danish bacon and eggs for breakfast. And the poster was from the 1920s, a pig with his hand to his ear, listening through a window to a chicken cooking breakfast.

Right. And in the pan, this is a weird, this was Danish in the 1920s, in the pan is bacon and eggs. Yeah. So the chicken is cooking its child and also cooking the flesh of the pig species. But the pig's listening and sniffing and saying, now that's what I call music to the sound of the eggs

and the bacon cooking in a fry pan. Because there is no better sound than bacon sizzling in a pan. Yeah, delicious. Except when you're a pig. You know, pigs eat anything. Or a vegan. Yeah. Even vegans must like the sound and the smell.

It would be horrible. Because that lures the vegetarians back. Yeah. Doesn't everyone say it's the bacon that lures you back? So that was hanging behind his desk. Yeah, right. Because he was a grumpy dude who always had to have breakfast before he was manageable.

I don't know anybody like that, do you? No. You know anyone that becomes sort of a... Hangry? An unimaginable suffer. Asshole. Excuse me, I'm right in front of you. I am right here. We didn't say your name. This is why I have

breakfast even before you get here, Vaughn. And why you must be fed. Surprise, you're not better at looking after houseplants. Treat them like you. They need to be regularly fed. Or they'll carry on like they're about to die. So this poster was hung behind his desk. So when it came time to name this new compilation they had, they decided to go with Now That's What I Call Music.

Wow. So today's fact of the day is the music compilation Now That's What I Call Music gets its name from a 1920s advertising poster for Danish bacon and eggs. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We're joined in studio by the leader of the opposition, Simon Bridges. Guys, good to be with you. Good morning.

Good morning. He just butted us up by telling us this is his kids' favourite radio show. Is it Harry and Jemima? Emlyn, Harry, Jemima. And let's be honest, wife Natalie, they're not listening to ZB, they're not listening to Radio New Zealand, they're listening to you guys, okay? Do you say every show is your favourite show when you come in?

No, well, I've just been on another one. I didn't say it there. Okay. You can check these. I didn't say it. We can check these things. Let's be a little bit of honesty. I didn't say it was my favourite show.

Okay. I mean, we need a little honesty here, but I've got four happy campers at home who can't get enough. You'd be a husking man. I look, to be honest. Because he's broadcasting from your pocket. I'm just too busy doing yoga and like Tai Chi in the morning. Are you?

I know you guys get in the way of my feng shui. Well, you're trying to relax. Are you a yogi? No, not really. Oh, okay. Just saying. I'm not going to invite you. Trying to imagine you doing a downward dog.

I actually, I don't listen. Well, look, I'm not going to be talking down radio because we're on it right now and it's not, but I don't listen to a lot. I don't listen a lot. Get some of my head space, you know. I've got, I've got, I've got people to talk to. I've got stuff to do.

I've got policy, policy, policy. Yeah. Is it a lot of reading? It is a lot of reading. I tell you what though, and different from government. Government, a lot of reading? It is a lot of reading. I tell you what though, different from government. Government, a lot of reading, right? Because you're actually making the decisions and you're doing it

opposition a bit less so because it's much more people, right? You're out there trying to persuade, talk to people, give them a sense of your plan and what you want to do. Right, okay. Where's a world leader you look up to? Like, who's your favourite at the moment? At the moment? Putin.

Kim Jong-un just gets a donut knee. It's funny because that was the face and the body that came into my head, right? I'm sitting there. He's like riding a bear or something, you know, and I just saw him there and I didn't want to say it because I thought that's not going to go down well, but, you know, I said I'd be honest.

So it's Putin. There's not a lot of, I mean, the reality is there's not a lot of safe choices out there right now. I was going to say, it was a loaded question. You know, I say Trump to you and I'm not going to say Trump either way. And suddenly, like, you know, every single one of your listeners hates me. You go around the world. I do, and I've met him.

I do like Boris Johnson. I think he'll win, actually, the election. They've got one literally in the next four or five days. He's a real character. People laugh at him a lot, but actually behind all of that, he's a very, very clever guy. We're just talking about reading. He's written a lot of books.

And I think he knows what he's doing for the UK which is where my wife's from. Right, so what is the plan for next year? Looks pretty simple, it's about you and your family, it's about your hip pocket you talk about the hosk and money, money, money and all these things, I mean we just sit there and we say the economy's

really important because if you've got a good economy you can't do the stuff people want and I reckon there's just three things people want when it comes to New Zealand. They want a really strong health system, good education. They want us to get on with doing some infrastructure so it's easier to get around and to live. And I think people look at it right now and they say, this has been a bit of an experiment.

It hasn't kind of worked so well. There's been good talk, good intentions, but the reality on the ground perhaps is not there. On the other hand, I think people look at us and say, yeah, they might like us, might not like us, but they know we get things done. They know we're competent and we're experienced to get on and do some of those things. Look, I've just been talking about

to you, but it'll be a big year and it'll be hard work. I'm up for that. I like campaigns. They're good fun. And you know, getting out, talking to people on the ground. It's great stuff. Well, we've got a, we know you're a little bit of a singer. I see a microphone.

A little emphasis on the little bit. A little bit of a singer. What were you singing at the National Party? It was a little Elvis. A little Elvis. And people were quite amazed at your voice, Simon. Well, you know, I just wish I'd put a little practice in. I feel like we could have taken that from

B- to B+. Right. Well, we've got a karaoke version of a Christmas song. We also tried to get something with it that we thought would be within your range to be kind. What are you trying to say? Well, Megan was worried you wouldn't handle Snoopy's Christmas.

If we're honest. It's a little fast too, right? Yeah. So we've gone for an absolute Christmas place. Are you guys sort of singing with me or is this Simon all on my own? Well, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not because we don't want to be the next Prime Minister. There is a microphone there

if you'll pick that up. Oh, you think that's better? That's actually the singing microphone. Hi there. Yeah, there we go. You can move around with that one. Oh, you think that's better? That's actually the singing microphone. Hi there. Yeah, there we go. You can move around with that one. Yeah, okay. Oh, you want a little dancing? Yes. You want a bit of that?

It's up to you how you do this. Well, you know. What's the worst that could happen? I feel like you need to stop this about 27 seconds in, okay? I see 154 on the floppy disk. We'll gong you if it gets too bad. It's Feliz Navidad. The words are quite hard to remember.

Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Prospero ano. Feliz Navidad. Oh, Megan, you've loaded the Spanish version. Spanish wine and stuff. Oh, freestyle.

That's not bad. What does that actually mean? I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. There it is. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. I want the song to stop right now. I feel we've done enough of this dumb. There it is. You're clapping, so I feel like that stopped. You wanted to stop, but you wanted to keep going.

You know how it is. We've given you a microphone. Simon Bridges, fantastic. Good sport. I think we did load up the Spanish version there accidentally. It's a Spanish microphone. Yeah. Simon Bridges, fantastic. Good sport. I think we did load up the Spanish version there accidentally. It's a Spanish song. Yeah. All the verse bit is Spanish. Does that mean Merry Christmas?

Yes, Feliz Navidad means Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad. Yeah. Oh, Navidad, right. Yeah. Yeah. Now you're going to have me on about my Spanish pronunciation as well. And I thought Torreo was bad enough.

We just hope you don't get to meet some Spanish leaders. Some Latin American leaders that have seen this club. Simon Bridges, thank you so much. Have a Merry Christmas. Thanks for coming in. Hey, you too, guys. Good to talk to you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

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