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ZM's Fletchvorn and Megan.
Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletchvorn and Megan.
The look on Megan's face when you mention the shopping tax, Anya.
I know.
Devote.
Absolutely devote.
How many things does it have to pass?
Three.
Okay, so there's one.
So maybe, like, the second one, someone will be a big shopper and they'll be like, no.
Do I need to, like, give them some websites?
Be like, just try this before you vote.
Well, I believe the Prime Minister may be coming in on Friday.
Okay.
So, I mean, you could just... I'll start with the top. You could ask for the Christmas present.
You could ask for...
I would like the country to forego quite a bit of tax dollars for my Christmas present.
Okay, Megan, we'll do it for you.
We'll do it just for you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Seems fair.
So, I did Christmas shopping yesterday.
This is how it worked.
Walked in, bought three things, went home.
Like that.
Oh, you actually went into stores.
I went old school, baby.
Did you get a car park?
I went old school.
Yeah, I go to a mall and not many people go there.
See, the thing is, it's a great mall because it's new and not many people go there.
So it's great.
Well, that doesn't sound like it's good for the mall, though.
But then I wonder how long it's going to last because not many people go there.
Maybe that's how they could market it.
But then I want it to stay open because I like that no one goes there.
But to stay open, it's going to need to have more people. And that's what will make me not like it. But then I want it to stay open because I like that no one goes there but to stay open
it's going to need
to have more people
and that's what will
make me not like it.
Yeah, right.
It's catcher in the rye.
We're quieter than the rest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so good.
Yeah.
And they don't ask
so many questions
when you're an adult
and you want to hire
one of those things
that kids run around malls.
Well, they look so cold.
That's so much fun.
You just park it
outside the store
and go and get stuff
coming out.
It's like a car
inside a mall.
Is it $2?
How much does it cost?
I think it's $5 for every 10 minutes.
What?
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah, it's pretty spending.
You've got to know where you're going.
You don't just want to be cruising.
Does it go fast?
Pretty quick.
Way too quick for a mall where kids are, you know, able to drive it.
You think old people would just get like a shunt in the back of the ankles
and they'd be down.
I was going to say,
I wish we had something like that,
but we do.
They're called lime scooters.
Yes.
You get one to work.
Yes, I did.
Oh, you didn't leave yours out there, did you?
No, at the main door.
Because somebody got up their lime scooter
and forgot to lock it.
You know how the light stays on
if you don't lock it?
That's an expensive mistake.
Oopsies.
How long can you leave a lime scooter,
like not being ridden but unlocked,
before it sends you a little reminder saying,
hey, you've not moved?
Not sure.
Not sure.
Otherwise, I guess you could just take one if you see it open.
Okay.
But then if someone locks it while you're riding it,
good luck with that, stopping at 30 k's in a hurry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, you lot, listen up.
It's story time.
Story time.
Three news headlines
for three news stories
that are found.
Interesting, odd,
unusual news stories.
Forna Megan, as always,
picked one of the following
three headlines.
Headline one,
warning over hoax
internet fad.
Headline two,
man in trouble
for disciplining his car.
And headline three, breatharian claims he can go foodless for months.
Breatharians are the people that breathe instead of eat.
And also there's a bit of solar power involved, I think.
Yeah, they charge themselves in the sun.
They're like a plant.
Yeah.
But then this guy in this story says he doesn't eat,
and then there's a photo of him.
I'm like, his skin looks like it's locked.
Like, his skin looks like it's betraying him.
Because it doesn't look like...
What do you mean his skin's betraying you?
Well, it just looks a bit...
He looks like he's had a lot of lollies.
There's a few pimples and stuff.
I'm like, well, if you were not eating food...
Oh, you're right.
You're saying... Your face would be a bit like, well, if you were not eating food. You're right. You're saying.
Your face would be a bit more skinnier and it'd be nicer skin.
But then, Matt, I don't know.
Unless it's the skin crying out for help.
I need food.
Maybe, maybe.
Yeah.
I'm just like, I'm calling BS on this.
That's not healthy.
That's not a thing.
Although he does say he only eats mints.
He'll have a minty run out again.
Oh, mint. What's that? I thought you said mints. I was like, that's definitely a thing. Although he does say he only eats mints. He'll have a minty renown again. Oh, mint.
What's that?
I thought you said mints.
I was like, that's definitely a food.
He's basically doing the 40-hour famine.
Right.
But instead of barley sugars, it's mints.
Well, yeah, you're right.
That is lollies.
Maybe that's why his skin's terrible.
How many mints?
Is he just chowing down on pocket foods?
No, he just says renown again when his breath gets bad.
Oh.
Oh.
You nasty. Why is he not brushing bad. Oh. Oh. You nasty.
Why is he not brushing his teeth either?
Oh, you nasty.
I don't know.
You nasty girl.
Well, we've kind of delved into that, haven't we, accidentally?
So.
We gave that away.
Someone's punishing their car.
And I've forgotten number one.
Warning over hoax internet fad.
I'd have either of those.
Yeah, I'm kind of leaning towards a man disciplining his car.
But then I really want to know what the fad is,
because I don't want to fall for it.
I'm probably going to have to pre-warn mum.
Yeah, one.
One.
It's not a red bow and a Land Rover, is it?
Pick your colour, share the photo, like the page.
No. Okay. Well, comment it? Pick your colour, share the photo, like the page. No.
Okay.
Well, comment and you'll, yeah, exactly,
win one of these $10,000 Qantas travel cards.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Watch out too because those really pick up before Christmas.
They do, they do.
All right, well, we go now to a YouTube channel which is run by a doctor
and he has posted a video warning of an internet trend.
And this internet trend is obviously a colon cleanse that doesn't work.
So before I go into this fad, this is a hoax.
And this is why this doctor has posted a video on his YouTube channel.
Are you sure it's a hoax?
Have you tried it?
Can you speak for everybody?
Well, Vaughn, it's called the soy
sauce colon cleanse.
Soy sauce? Yes.
The soy sauce
colon cleanse. Now,
unfortunately, a woman participated
in the soy colon
cleanse, soy sauce colon cleanse,
and she now has brain damage.
Permanent...
She's been left brain dead.
How?
Too much salt.
Sodium in the system.
The woman had been quite unwell for a time after starting the soy sauce colon cleanse,
losing 11 kgs in three weeks.
I thought you said it didn't work.
Well, maybe initially, but now she's brain dead.
That sounds great.
And it just basically involves people drinking a litre of soy sauce in two hours.
Drinking a litre of soy sauce?
Yeah.
I thought you said colon cleanse.
Well, that's the idea.
It cleanses you straight through.
I thought you'd do a handstand and someone would shove a bottle of soy sauce up your ass and squeeze it.
And then it would go in like that and then you'd turn upside down.
Leave it in for a bit, turn upside down, fill it.
Yeah.
Drinking.
How would you even?
I know.
How would that?
I know.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so just, it's not real.
It's a no from me.
Yeah, exactly.
Don't you, if you like scald seawater, doesn't that make you?
Vom?
Yeah.
Yeah, because there's a lot of salt in it, isn't it?
Yeah. But not the case of soy sauce? Well because there's a lot of salt in it, doesn't it? Yeah. But not the case
of soy sauce? Well, there's
a lot of salt in that. Yeah. I mean,
it's great on dumplings. Had dumplings
last night, soy sauce. Oh, wonderful.
I mean, wonderful sauce, wonderful complement.
A condiment. Yeah. A complement.
It's a condiment. There is a
lot of salt in that. That's why they always
say be careful. Yeah, yeah, be careful.
Tread lightly. And maybe use this.
You can get salt-free ones as well.
You're like,
oh, hey,
take it easy on that soy sauce.
Yeah, we'll have the dessert menu.
So a salt dose
of three grams per kg
can kill someone.
Three grams per kg
of body weight.
So just a lot of salt
can just kill you.
Yeah, like a slug.
You turn and sit out
and foam everywhere too.
And you're dying.
Oh, no. Good God, that's intense. Yeah, like a slug. You turn and sit out in foam everywhere too. And you dime it. Oh, no.
Good God, that's intense.
Yeah.
You would say Mexican food up there with your most favourite worldly cuisines.
Oh, for me it is, yeah.
It's a show favourite.
Pachitas.
Yeah.
Yeah, love them.
Churros.
Yeah.
Enchiladas.
Baritos.
Baritos. Chimichanga. Ah,chiladas. Yes. Baritos. Baritos.
Chimichanga.
Ah, chimichanga.
Easy, easy, easy.
Well, we're not alone.
Guacamole.
New Zealand's big.
Guacamole.
I just said it again.
You're smashed to even caramaca guacamole.
Nacho chops.
Yum.
Yummy.
All of it.
So, you know, there's lots of Mexican in the market as well.
Lots of Mexican restaurants.
Yeah, there are.
Well, from your takeaways to your dine-in.
Yeah.
God, we love it, don't we?
We do.
Well, we love it so much.
Sizzling Vegeta platter.
It's another one.
Oh, yeah, I love a sizzling. Sorry, carry on.
Sizzling.
It has been decided by restaurant brands that Taco Bell is coming to Australasia.
This is New Zealand and Australia.
This seems like this happens every six months, this rumor.
It's on.
And nothing happens.
No, they've talked to the stock exchange.
Okay, right.
The stock exchange was like, ding, ding.
That's all I really know about the stock exchange.
I don't even know what the bell does.
In America, it's like a big deal if you get to ring the bell.
Yeah.
Who gets to ring the bell here? Can I ring the bell? I don't think it's like a big deal if you get to ring the bell. Yeah. Who gets to ring the bell here?
Can I ring the bell?
I don't think we've got a bell.
Yeah.
Do we not have a bell
to open our stock exchange?
I think they're just like,
oh, okay, it's 7 o'clock.
Just start.
Ding, ding.
Oh, no.
We need the bell.
Yeah, I don't know.
Do they ding it every day
when trading starts?
Yeah.
It's the indication
that trading begins.
And then when people are doing
like big movie promos
and stuff,
they ding, ding.
And then everyone starts yelling and waving papers in the air.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Buy it, sell it, et cetera.
That's a game.
They accept my knowledge of the stock exchange.
So there's been an agreement reached.
Taco Bell restaurant Asia will bring Taco Bell to New Zealand and Australia.
60 stores are going to open between,
and Be Built starts in January until 2024.
So they've got five years.
60 in New Zealand?
No, over Australia and New Zealand.
Five years to open 60 stores.
Will they be in standalone stores?
Because a lot of times overseas you'll see like a KFC
or you'll see them with other things.
Oh, really?
Well, yeah, it's owned by restaurant brands. They might just have a KFC and a Taco or you'll see them with other things. Oh, really? Well, yeah, it's owned by restaurant brands.
They might just have a KFC and a Taco Bell in one.
Yeah.
So there's 36 Taco Bell stores that restaurant brands owns.
This is in, ran in Hawaii and Guam.
Okay.
Which I'm never quite sure how to get my mouth around.
Guam.
Guam.
Those generated nearly $20 million last year.
So you can see why they're thinking of giving them a go down here.
I'll go out and say it.
The few times I've had it in America, it's meh.
That's meh.
Yeah, I'm the same.
It's meh.
Ah, yeah.
It's real low-end Mexican.
Yeah, it's real cheap.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wasn't a fan.
It was like someone scooped mints into a taco. Is it? Yeah, your taco real cheap. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't a fan. It was like someone scooped mints into a taco.
Yeah, your taco is already dry.
It's like when mum overdoes the old El Paso at home.
Yeah.
Like she leaves the, or she buys it and she opens it
and then she changes their mind and she goes back to it two days later
and the tortilla's gone a bit.
And then she puts them in the oven to crisp them up
and then they go too far. They get like
super crackly. I'm willing to give it another
go though. Do they do a soft
taco? Yeah. I won't eat
hard tacos anymore. They do hard though as well.
I'm past that. I like hard.
I don't work hard to eat that.
You don't work hard. I don't get up
at three o'clock in the morning to eat hard tacos.
No, but it's like a chippy.
It's like a chippy is wrapped around your food.
No, I'm with Morn.
There's no need for a hard taco.
The trick to a soft taco is you get a pan
and you give it a light
hot. Give it a hot hot on
each side just before you serve them.
Of course, they say you can microwave it for a minute, but come on.
What are you, a monster? Yeah.
Are you a 1980s monster?
Well, exciting news.
If you're into your... Oh, yeah, I mean,
we've done a great job selling it.
We basically said it's shit.
But you know what?
You'll eat it anyway.
It is the 2018 Pornhub Year in Review.
This is the time of year.
It's a weird noise to associate with a porn website.
Oh, I'm sorry.
So they've released all their stats from this year.
It's what people forget when they go to Pornhub,
is that all the time your data's been collected.
Yeah.
I love this time of year.
They don't put a name to it.
Love this time of year.
All these lists come out and it's like, you know,
what we're all into and what we've watched and listened to.
And you're just like, oh wow, okay.
So I'll get to the specific searches
in a second, but in 2018
there was 33.5
billion visits to Pornhub.
That's every
person in the world going
nearly five times. Yeah.
Or half the people in the world going quite a lot.
Quite a lot.
92 million daily average visits.
That's the population of Canada, Poland and Australia every single day.
Put together, so everybody in this country is going every day.
Do you still believe, listening to these stats,
that Mr Toyboy doesn't look at porn?
You keep...
I thought you said that he did.
That you were okay with him doing it.
No, I don't know that he does, but he's never said that he doesn't.
That's a good stuff. Live that way. I don't know that he does, but he's never said that he doesn't. That's a good one. That's a good one.
Plus, that's good stuff.
Live that way.
No, I don't care.
It's his life.
Like, unless I was there.
And then it starts to affect your...
Unless I was there, I'd be like, hello.
Let's get down to business.
And he's like, no can do, senorita.
Why is he calling me senorita?
No can do, senorita.
No, no.
No can do, senorita.
Oh, yeah, I'm done.
Night.
So as for what people were searching, there is a top 10 list.
Yeah.
I'll quickly.
Are you going to do all 10?
Why?
Are they bad?
Well, I'm just going to.
You didn't know what that word was that time when you said fleshlight.
Oh, no, I know what that is now. When Lindsay Lohan brought out a fleshlight, you didn't know what that word was that time when you said... Fleshlight.
Oh, no, I know what that is now.
When Lindsay Lohan brought out a fleshlight, you thought it was a torch,
and that was live on air and very embarrassing for all of us.
Very much so.
I've learnt a few things.
No, there's none that... I don't think there's anything dodgy on here.
Okay.
But I'll roll through them pretty quickly.
Ten, threesome, nine.
What do you mean?
There's nothing dodgy on here.
Ten, threesome. Oh, sorry. Was I supposed There's nothing dodgy on here. 10. Threesome.
Oh, sorry.
Was I supposed to?
Okay, well, let's just move on.
We'll just say menage a trois.
Oh, you're sorry.
It's French itself.
Ménage a trois.
9.
Bowsette.
I don't know what that is.
What is that?
Number 9 is Bowsette.
Have I fleshlighted it?
No.
This is really weird.
So the new Super Mario game came out.
You're familiar with the Mario and Luigi situation.
Why is this on Pornhub?
This is why it's weird.
It was a bit of an internet thing.
It was quite heavy in the main circle.
But I didn't know it had got through.
But then there's the old rule.
Is it a character in a video game?
So Toad, the little one that looks like a mushroom,
could get a crown and he would look like the princess.
So then everybody's like, well, is this going to happen to every other character?
And Bowser's like this big turtley dinosaur looking thing.
And everyone's like, well, if he puts a crown on him,
he becomes like a sexy female version.
So it's weird that this is something that people are searching on Pornhub.
A sexy turtle with a crown.
Sex, sexy, Mario villain.
Why humanity?
You really let us down.
It's really weird.
I mean, sure, maybe you were home alone and the curiosity got the better of you,
but that's weird.
Yeah.
Number eight is Tinder.
Seven, tattoos.
Six, outdoor.
Five, so this is in the top five most searched
for Pornhub 2018.
Five is trans.
I reckon that was probably searched
by those outspoken people against.
Yeah, so it's 100.
Yeah, very vocal.
Number four, romantic.
I don't know what you're hoping to find there.
How romantic does it get?
It's like, sorry, your search returns zero results.
Number three, 4K.
Is that just like
high definition?
People aren't searching for anything other than
an extremely high definition.
I don't care what it is, as long as it's crystal clear.
As long as it looks great on my 75 inch
tally. The thing is, you've gone to Noel Leemings
and bought that really nice TV.
You may as well make the use of all four of the Ks.
Two is confusing.
Fortnite.
But that's the old rule with Bowsette as well.
There's a porn version of everything.
Cuddle team leader.
A bit more than cuddling team leader leader if you know what I'm saying.
And number one
is a person.
She topped the list
of the most searched
things on Pornhub
for 2018.
Stormy Daniels.
Oh, right.
President Trump
paid her off.
Yeah.
But then the main thing
was everyone said
she was a porn star.
So if you
that's where you'd go to see what her body of work. Yeah. Well, yeah, but then the main thing was everyone said she was a porn star. So that's where you'd go to see her body of work.
Yeah.
I can understand that a lot more than Fortnite or Bowsette.
Yeah, yeah.
Still very confused about the Bowsette.
There are some confused young teenage boys.
It's, well, it's happened.
The government has passed the medicinal cannabis bill.
By the way, I've got to learn how to spell cannabis.
C-A-N-N-A-B-I-S.
I say cannabis.
So I always chuck an I in there and it's like, nah.
Think like, can I have a bit?
Can I have a bit?
So what does this mean?
That if we're sick and your doctor prescribes it?
So there's going to be a regulated scheme within the year
and I believe if you're smoking marijuana
because you're close to death or whatever,
it's giving you some pain relief in your final days.
Yeah.
There will be legal ways around being prosecuted for that.
And in California, it just seems quite loose.
Is it going to be like that?
Like people are just like,
oh yeah, my doctor.
Constant headaches or something.
Yeah, and they just kind of
tell their doctor anything
and the doctor's like,
yeah, sweet, here you go.
But to me,
you know people who go to the doctor
and know exactly what to say
to get like prescription
chemical medication.
Yeah, true.
And the doctor's just like,
yeah, no, not all doctors.
I'm not saying some of them
are pretty hard to get stuff out of,
but that's good.
But some doctors are like,
yeah, I know what you're after.
We know people who do this.
And so cannabis,
if doctors are just like,
yeah, sure, you might need a bit of cannabis.
It's not as bad as like
highly addictive painkillers and stuff, is it?
Or buying it illegally from, you know, some dodgy fella.
Yeah, imagine going into Unikem and being like, I'm here to fill out my prescription
for weed.
Hey, man, what a footer bag.
They're like, we don't actually do it that way here, Mr. Smith.
You'll be given it.
But I go, that's cool.
That's cool.
That's cool.
I got a little carried away there.
A little carried away.
But I am an ARC.
If you're thinking I'm going to the police, I'm not an ARC. So I don't really know too much more about what it means
other than people who need it are going to be able to get it
and not be criminals.
And your gran will be like, can you go down and pick up my baggie?
Oh, no, you'll be going to see gran a bit more, won't you?
If anything good comes out of this, it's a gran.
She's like, hello, dear.
Are you going to come and visit me this week?
Sorry, gran, busy.
I've got the good sticky icky.
And Keith next door's just got a beautiful new bong that needs breaking in.
You're like, oh, shit, Nana, okay.
The Top Six with Vaughan Smith.
Well, the fun police are out.
And their name is Thieth Auckland Council.
Ah, no, the council cracked down on a pair selling Christmas trees.
Now, apparently it was more due to the fact that there was a lot of signage up.
It could have been distracting.
So the signage was at a big roundabout
or a big intersection?
Yeah, a big busy intersection.
And they didn't have a permit to sell the trees.
These three, sorry, for the last three years,
this family's been selling Christmas trees
on the same spot without a problem.
What's the big deal?
You know, it annoys me, the council.
They're like, oh, you've got signs up.
It's distracting at the intersection.
But when it's local council election times...
Oh, those boardings are so yuck.
They've got the huge, big signs.
They have laws like you have to make the writing a certain size
so that people don't struggle to drive past when you...
Right.
Yeah.
You know how to use Comic Sans.
Is that a law?
Or papyrus.
Or papyrus.
It should be a law.
I'm going to use it for Avatar.
Yeah. Is that a law That needs to be a law Or papyrus After James Cameron Used it for Avatar Yeah Sophie 18
And Elijah 19
Were told
That
By the Auckland Council
That there had been
A complaint about the stall
And the signage
Was a distraction
To road users
And they didn't have a permit
Who was the complaint from
They had to act on it
Was that from
I believe it was from Scrooge
Or
The Grinch
Or like
The opposition
Oh
You're talking about Laura.
You're saying this is Christmas tree wars.
Sort of a turf war.
Okay. Or some racist old
white lady. But there's got to be a lot of
money in Christmas trees at this time of year.
But then like people do it
for a living, don't they? They're just kids. Let them go.
Who cares? Let them sell.
Today's top six. The top six other things
Auckland Council could do to ruin Christmas.
Okay.
Number six, tell you what your presents are just as you're about to start unwrapping them.
I mean, you've waited that long.
Nothing's worse.
Everyone's family has got that member that's like, I know what that is.
It's a blah, blah, blah.
It's like, yes, I know it's a box of favourites.
I don't know why mum wraps them, but please let me unwrap my present.
There's some people that when you're unwrapping, they're like, so I hope you like the T-shirt. I don't know why mum wraps them but please let me unwrap my present. There's some people that when you're unwrapping they're like
so I hope you like the t-shirt. I don't know what size
and you're like um. I've not even got it out yet.
I'm still unwrapping it.
My nana always used to buy us
clothes and did a pretty great job too but she'd
be like go and try it on.
She'd make you go and try it on and do a little runway walk.
Fashion show. Oh that's cute.
How much room in the pants? Are you happy with the fit?
You're like yeah., thanks, Nana.
Everyone was a bit tight.
She'd say, you look great.
It's like, Nana, you can see my teenage boy titties.
Yeah, stop saying things like that.
You look wonderful.
Number four on the list of the, sorry, number five on the list of the top six
other things Auckland Council could do to ruin Christmas.
Not have any extra batteries on Christmas morning,
so all those toys that don't include batteries
cannot be used.
Yeah, that's a classic.
That is a heartbreaker.
Looking back, too,
like you'd get toys for Christmas
and then there'd be no batteries.
But looking back,
that was just a ploy from the parents.
Oh, honey.
Because you didn't use the annoying toy
because they got sick of it.
Because generally batteries are associated with a toy
that makes a lot of noise.
Yeah.
So yeah, they were going to have a summer of it.
They might as well get a day of peace.
Number four on the list of the top six other things Auckland Council could do to ruin Christmas is forget the gravy.
So the Christmas meats have to be eaten in the dry condition that they cook them to.
I mean, A, why would you cook meat that long?
It doesn't need to be cooked that long.
B, who forgets the gravy?
Why would you do this?
Christmas lunch should be both succulent and delicious.
Very true. And floating in gravy.
Yeah. Don't make that mistake this Christmas.
Number three on the list of the top
six other ways Auckland Council could ruin Christmas
are turn off the Wi-Fi so you have
to talk to everyone present. Oh my
God, I just got a text and I'm out of data.
Please mum, please mum or Auckland
Council, turn the Wi-Fi back on.
I've got a couple of very grammable pics of my presents
that I need to get up there ASAP for some December 25th lakes.
Number two on the top six ways Auckland Council could ruin Christmas.
They might want to talk politics at the dinner table.
Oh, God.
Now they've got everyone started.
Someone just said those people.
Those people.
Oh, God, no.
Someone's just said Trump's got a point on that one.
It's time to leave the table.
And the number one way in today's top six that the Auckland Council could ruin Christmas,
they'll sit down kids and tell them that Santa isn't really coming to their house this year after all.
They would.
Even though they've been really good.
Why would they do this?
Of course Santa's coming.
He's better be. I've been really good. Why would they do this? Of course Santa's coming. He's better be.
I've been extra good this year.
Really, really.
Like I put my rubbish in the bin.
Yeah.
Go to bed on time.
Eat all my vegetables.
Yeah.
I've been a very, very, very, very good boy.
And that is today's top six.
ZDM's Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan.
Thanks, Sanyu.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show.
Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleach, Vaughan and Megan.
Four minutes past seven.
It's been for our little country down here in the South Pacific a fairly distressing week.
There's been a major event that's happened in New Zealand
that's been quite hard to process for a lot of people.
Yeah.
I'd say on a scale of which I can't remember.
Yeah, I don't think I've seen something like this.
No.
I guess with the whole social media aspect to it all.
Yeah.
Yeah, it just seems the whole country's mourning.
The whole thing, a week ago it was a search for a missing British backpacker
and now we're dealing with the fact that she was murdered here in New Zealand.
Coming up on the show, we're going to talk to Sarah Chatwin,
who's a psychologist on how to process it all, I guess.
How to take it all on board.
And I'd just like to take a little moment
to say something in regards to Grace.
We haven't spoken a lot about it,
basically because we couldn't find the words.
But this isn't about us.
This is to address the taking of Grace Mullane's life.
We wanted to give the family space and be respectful, but the silence
has kind of made me even more uncomfortable.
What do you say? She was
murdered in our backyard. We may
very well know someone
who knows the guy accused, and we're all feeling
devastated, ashamed, and
deeply saddened by the loss of someone
who was here to explore our beautiful country.
What happened? Why did it happen?
We can all speculate, but none of this is of any help or any comfort to Grace's family.
To everyone who is posting online, be mindful, be thoughtful, and be caring.
This is someone's daughter, sister, and friend, and she is the victim.
If it's not love you're expressing, ask yourself,
is it helpful or necessary to be
putting it online? Would you appreciate the comment if it was your loved one? Let's show
some compassion, love for the ones around us, be they strangers or close to you. And on behalf of
everyone on the show, our deepest sympathy go to Grace's family and loved ones. I can't imagine
the pain you must be feeling and I only hope that you feel the outpouring of love from New Zealand
and just how truly sorry we are that this happened to your grace in our country.
Very well, Pop.
I want to talk about typos now because an American newspaper,
this happened in the Post Journal of Jamestown in New York.
This is great.
They ran a feature on Julia Roberts and it was a nice feature.
It was about her career 30 years after her first film role.
Yeah.
Beautiful picture of Julia and the headline read,
Julia Roberts finds life and her holes get better with age.
Yeah.
Now the typo, obviously holes should be rolls.
But then rolls are is, I don't know, it's too far away from HT.
Like if it said her tolls were getting better or foals,
those are the letters around it.
It's spelled hole, isn't it?
H-O-L-E.
Yeah, like roll.
Yeah.
But the H is a good jump from the R.
Different finger if you're using the Mavis Beacon typing.
Way of typing.
But people have said it's probably their biggest international readership ever
because it obviously went viral.
But they had to print a retraction a day later.
So it said, a headline on Saturday's Post Journal should have read,
Julia Roberts finds life and her roles get better with age.
That's all it said.
She's not a big social media
like she's too old to be rocking.
She has an Instagram and she
doesn't take anything from
trolls either. Right.
So has she commented on this?
I don't think so, but she may
give her a chance. She may not have been aware
just yet. I think she's one of those celebrities that just doesn't
do any social media because she's like I've got no time for it. To just yet. I think she's one of those celebrities that just doesn't do any social media
because she's like, I've got no time for it.
To be fair, I think her Instagram is reasonably new
and she's getting a mindset now.
I was going to say, I'll start a Julia Roberts Instagram otherwise.
Because she's an absolute saint.
Yeah, and I was trying to get that blue tick.
Yeah.
Oh, she's only just started.
Oh, now this is unfair.
What?
She's only posted, oh, she's got 87 posts.
She's got 3.8 million followers. That post-to-followers this is unfair. What? She's only posted, oh, she's got 87 posts. She's got 3.8 million followers.
That post-to-followers ratio is fantastic.
We've been on Instagram for how many years?
And we've got nothing like that.
Years and years.
Unbelievable.
Oh, she's following Alan too.
Everybody's following Alan.
So we want to talk about typos,
because obviously that's just one letter switch,
but change the headline dramatically.
Well and maybe in your line of
work a little typo
has been quite embarrassing for you.
Or costly.
Because you know if you're getting a banner printed
because when your dad puts up signs
because your dad's a sign erector
He usually gets it sent to them so he's not
thank God because dad's a terrible speller.
He still says
have a great day,
G-R-A-T-E.
Oh no.
Like grate the cheese.
Oh right,
like a storm grate.
Yeah.
So I don't think
he'd be the best one
to write the sign.
But then is it
the sign writer's job
to spell check?
Unless they're making
the sign from scratch
like designing it.
He wouldn't know.
He'd just put it up.
Yeah.
That's the thing,
he's the last link
in the chain though. Yeah. But do you thing. He's the last link in the chain, though.
Yeah.
But do you know, I honestly think autocorrect is making me a terrible speller.
I know.
Because if I don't see the red squiggly line, I just assume it's okay.
Not all apps.
And then on your phone, you're like, I'm just going to bowl on into this word and it'll fix me.
Exactly.
And then if your phone's got no suggestions, you go to Google and type in your awful attempt.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So when did a typo get you in trouble?
All right, 0800DARLS.M.
You can text as well, 9696.
And maybe, yeah, I don't know,
you sent something away for work and it had a typo,
you put up a poster.
Or even a post on social media.
Oh, yeah, well, we've all done that.
Yeah.
And then people correct your spelling.
Vaughn, in particular.
I do correct it.
I know.
What did I do the other day?
Did I do the wrong V?
You said here.
You said H-E-A-R instead of H-E-R-E.
And I took great pride in correcting you.
My brain's not working at all lately.
My brain shut down for Christmas two weeks ago.
It's got this little sign in the window.
That's what happens to people when you correct them.
Yeah.
They've shut down for Christmas.
Yeah, they've shut down for Christmas.
For midwinter Christmas.
Yeah, pretty much.
All right, give us a text or a call.
We're talking about when little typos have let you down.
Julia Roberts' rolls are getting better with age,
not holes as printed
brilliant
yeah
I'm waiting for her
response
as yet no response
no response
she's got a lovely
laugh
as I recall
she's in a new
TV show
she's in a TV show
yes
which is about
because you know
it's weird that
big actors like that
do it
she was Erin
god damn
Brockovich
you just don't expect her, but now TV's...
She adopted that kid that was really good at football.
I feel like TV's making a real resurgent with, like, massive stars.
No, that's Sandra Bullock.
Oh, it is.
You're getting...
Sandra and...
White woman in their 50s confused.
I am.
How dare you?
That's right.
How dare I?
How dare you?
What is Julia Roberts' TV show?
Because people will be like, oh, Homecoming?
Yeah, Homecoming.
And is it on?
It's on one of the streaming services.
It's not Netflix, eh?
Like Hulu or one of those Amazon-y.
Oh, yeah, they got a bit of...
One of those.
But apparently it's really good.
Oh, it's a psychological thriller.
Oh, I'm into that.
Based on a podcast.
Really?
And they deal with rehousing war vets, I believe.
Oh, okay.
Is that the premise of that show?
But apparently it's rated really well.
You're telling the story, mate.
But weird to see her in a TV show.
Yeah, she's a casework at the Homecoming Transitional Support Centre.
But is it also a little bit sci-fi, I feel?
It looks, yes, it looks like it.
Yeah, it looks really good.
I'm intrigued.
Anyway, well, she's been the victim of a typo.
We want to know when you've made a typo in the second.
Maybe it's cost you.
Maybe it's embarrassed you.
Some text messages in.
Someone said, I work for the council.
I'm in charge of consents for our buildings.
So, I mean, don't, don't, don't.
Just hold back.
I can feel people being like, you're a bitch.
I was unable to complete the routing of building consents.
Oh, I can see where this is going.
Due to a computer system error.
I can see where this is going.
It was playing up.
So I was very angry.
And then I had to go into a conference call.
So I walk into the office where the conference call was happening
just after my computer had been fixed.
And the boss in front of everybody says,
Rachel, how's it going?
And I said, great, I'm able to root again.
When I meant to say route.
But I'm the same because it's Route 66, isn't it?
I always say route.
Yeah.
I always say, but then it's router if you're going to route.
The Wi-Fi router.
So then she said, no, route, route, route.
I don't know what the word is, but you know what I mean.
Eleanor, when did the typo get you in trouble?
So a couple of years ago,
I was one of the little kids that walked out on the stadium
when David Beckham came to New Zealand.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. And then Dad recently shared the photo onto Facebook again.
Yeah.
And with a comment that was meant to say,
she screamed, I know it, but accidentally autocorrected to,
she creamed, I know it.
Eileen and Fred are like, Dad.
Double, double, Dad.
Dad. Dad. Dad. Double, double dad. Dad.
Dad.
Dad.
Did you say dad?
Dad.
Delete that.
Or edit it.
Quick dad.
Because dads don't know how to edit so much.
No.
My dad, my dad, speaking for my dad, he wouldn't know how to edit.
I'd just be like, delete dad, delete.
Oh, dad.
Thanks for your calls and more text messages.
Some other text messages
And I had to
Send out a
Press release
To over 30,000 people
On a public consultation
Except it said
Pubic consultation
That's a good one
That's a good one
Well you know what
30,000 people
Might have had to
Think about that
And get that situation
In order
After that
I work in a large corporate
And I was sending
A sternly worded email
to an entire floor
of employees
and I promptly signed off
passively, aggressively
kind regards
except it said
kind retards.
Oh no.
That's not good.
I was mortified.
No.
No word on how
they dealt with that.
I love when there's
a work email
that gets recalled.
I'm like,
quick, try to read it.
It must be good.
Shelly would like to recall her message. I'm like, quick, try to read it. It must be good. Shelly would like to recall her message.
I'm like, not today, Shelly.
Absolutely not today.
No, not before I read this.
It's time to find what Shelly did in this email that has prompted a recall.
Somebody said, I'm involved in country music.
And on more than one occasion, people in the country music scene have forgotten a crucial vowel in the word country music.
Missed it out altogether.
Somebody else said, I sent an email to the guys at work in the warehouse asking them for a palette count.
Okay.
Again, much like country music, there's a very essential vowel miss there.
Lots of spelling mistakes made.
FVM, the podcast. Essential. Yeah. Essential vowel mistakes. Lots of spelling mistakes made.
So we've got Alexa in our house, an Amazon Echo, but it's a little one.
Is that a dot?
I don't know.
So these are, you put them in your house and you connect them to like your stereo.
Yeah.
You can connect them to heaps of things. So we got it.
It connects to our TV.
Right.
So we can be, this is great.
Dinner time. Nothing. Girls, dinner time to our TV. Right. So we can be, this is great. Dinner time.
Nothing.
Girls, dinner time.
Go wash your hands.
Alexa, turn off the television.
Boom, TV off.
Imagine if your mum had that sort of power back in the day.
Your mum would storm in and be like,
where's that bloody remote?
Oh no, because mums like to turn it off at the TV.
Because I went home at the weekend, mum,
I was like, why isn't the TV working? I was on the couch. They turn it off at the TV. They turn it off at the TV. Because I went home at the weekend. Mum, I was like, why isn't the TV working?
I was on the couch.
They turned it off at the TV.
They turned it off at the wall.
I was like, Mum, it costs like a cent a week.
It all adds up.
It all adds up.
Very well for you to say you're not close to retirement.
We're going to retire soon.
That's what she said.
That's a classic.
So, Alexa, TV off.
TV goes off.
But then you can be like, Alexa, connect to speaker.
And if you've got like, I've got a UE Boom and it's connected through some program.
This took me a long time to work out, by the way.
I've reached that age now where I'm like, okay, technology, you and I need to sit down.
You're just like, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Everything's just, now I'm like, all right, how do I do this?
Better have a Google.
Got it connected to that so I can be like, Alexa, connect a speaker and play Taylor Swift on Spotify
and it will start playing.
Oh, okay.
Taylor Swift on Spotify.
Does it understand you though?
Yeah, it does.
I play Taylor Swift on Spotify.
Every now and then you'll be talking
and it thinks you've said,
because one of the girls has got a friend called Alexis
and she'll be talking about Alexis
and then it'll be like,
Ma, what did you say?
Like Siri.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yep, mine just turned on when you said that.
So I said, hey, Alexa,
did you play a random song on Spotify on the speaker?
Okay.
And then I started talking to Sade and forgot about it.
I was on dinner.
So I'm cooking dinner, mucking around.
And then I hear this weird noise.
Now, this is like what feels like at least five to ten minutes later.
And it's a humming. And I'm
thinking, is that a bee swarm?
Right.
And I listen and it's like
it doesn't sound like a bee swarm. Is it a swarm
of locusts? Is a
locust plague coming? And then
I heard
and I
see a monkey outside.
What?
Then the water was running.
I was like, who's left the tap going?
And I thought I was going crazy.
Yeah.
And then I, like, was searching for this noise,
and I'm, like, walking around.
I'm like, that's quite over here, so I've got to be able to flout her over here.
See what the monkey could be outside.
The monkey only went once.
Oh, right.
So I thought I was just losing my mind on that.
But there's like water and there's a...
I don't know what that was.
It was meant to be a bird.
Right.
Can anyone else hear that?
And the family's in the lounge.
Shudder's like, I can hear something.
I was like, am i going crazy
is this like the end of it but is this the science because they reckon when you have a stroke your
brain just goes crazy like you start smelling things that's not happening and then it can happen
you just moved to the country too yeah and that's why i'm thinking it's outside like the swarm of
bees will be in one of the fruit trees or something yeah and it goes on for a while and it goes keeps
going quiet and it comes intermittently and then i click I click that I've said, hey, Alexa, play a random song.
So I say, Alexa, what are you playing?
And Alexa's like, I'm currently playing
Random Sounds of the Rainforest from Spotify.
I was like, stop it now then.
And she's like, okay.
And I stop.
And I was like, that freaked me out because she didn't say
confirm when it first turned on.
It didn't say playing now, random sounds of the drain.
It just said randomly playing something.
You've got to be more specific next time.
Well, I know from now on, it'll just be straight up,
hey, Alexa, play Katy Perry's hottest hits
from the year 2009 through 2012.
I shan't be mucking around with vagueness anymore.
I should be telling Alexa exactly what I'm in the mood for.
There is a feeling of grief around New Zealand this week.
There's obviously Grace Mullane.
And to help us deal with the grief in a busy time of year
and any feelings that people might just have come up with regards to events,
we have psychologists joining us in studio.
Sarah Chatwin, good morning.
Good morning. How are you guys? Very studio. Sarah Chatwin, good morning. Good morning.
How are you guys?
Very good.
A bit sombre.
Yeah.
It's been a sombre week for the country.
Is there a term for this sort of like mass grief?
You just said before that you were kind of when you heard the news
and you were ashamed.
Was it a shame?
Was that the word you used?
Well, yeah, I think with this particular case,
and I'm with Megan,
I don't want to go on too much
other than to say to the Mullane family
how sorry I am as a health professional,
as a mother,
about what happened to their dear daughter
and also to all those people
who have experienced these horrific things
in our beautiful country,
that really is a beautiful country. yeah I guess for me with Grace's dad flying in and being on TV and making the plea it
was very visual and we all became part of it and I think if people are wondering why we've picked
up on Grace Mullane I think it's because there was that degree of media response and her dad
coming and doing the interview and all the rest of it that brought
into sharp focus you know women and fear around going out alone and traveling alone and all of
those you know a lot of issues came into play and yeah I felt really ashamed to be a Kiwi I just
thought she has traveled around South America and done all of those things. And then she spends a few days here,
never to return to her home because she's dead.
I've just felt gutted for the family,
for us as a nation,
but more so obviously for her and her family.
Why is the feeling like shame for the average New Zealander?
I've heard a lot of people saying it this week,
but you've done nothing wrong.
But I'm a New Zealander, I'm a Kiwi.
And no, I would never do anything like that,
nor would that even enter into my mind.
I mean, I can get angry at people as we all can,
and we can dislike things and dislike people,
and we can have opinions about things and freedom of speech.
But crossing that line and actually doing those kind of things to people, I mean, I'm an advocate for, you know,
I'm completely in that whole push against child abuse.
I loathe that we kill our babies,
that we kill our children,
that men beat women up in this country,
that we have these huge levels of domestic violence,
child abuse, teen suicide.
This is all really ugly stuff.
And I guess something like this kind of event
brings into sharp focus what we really need to work on. But I think, you know, this is just,
I guess, and also we're a small country and we consider ourselves a friendly, you know, clean,
green, we've got this great prime minister. Do you know what? I was ambivalent about politics
until Jacinda Ardern came on the scene. What she has done for
politics, and I also was
absolutely
so pleased that she came out and made a
statement. I know people have said, well, why is the Prime
Minister saying that? Why
not? But then there's no pleasing the people
that said, if she hadn't said something.
If she hadn't said something, the people
who said, why did she say something, would say, why
hadn't she said something? She's definitely a People's Prime Minister,
and I always love a Prime Minister who doesn't just kiss babies,
but actually has one.
I've got to be honest with you.
Yeah, the one's not just handing them back to the parents and being like...
This is mine, and I did it.
Someone give me some hands.
But, yeah, I think we are just feeling...
The shame is just part of that.
I guess if you're quite a nice person, you know, you think,
oh my gosh, this person came to our country with nothing but joy
about being here and wanting to explore and experience New Zealand
and look what they got.
I think that's part of the shame that we presented them with that.
But then is guilt quite a heavy burden for people who actually,
there are some people who,
you know, take the burden of guilt and there's nothing that people could have done outside of
the circumstance. Do you know what I mean? And the people that will burden themselves with the
guilt the most and probably at the moment have had quite a hard week processing it all. How do they
move on? Or I mean, not to say that we should forget, but how do they cope with it?
Well, to a certain extent, we weren't, I mean, I wasn't in the CBD at that time. So, you
know, absolutely, I personally couldn't have done anything, nor could you guys. You weren't
there. We weren't there. But I think it speaks to bigger issues, you know, issues of what
are we teaching our children? What are we teaching our sons particularly? How are they growing up
with these ideas that this is actually something that is an option? Because I mean, I have three
sons. I don't believe that those kinds of behaviours would ever be an option for any of
them. I certainly hope not. And then I have a little daughter and I'm thinking, and it just,
I think a situation like this draws on
all of those emotions and just pulls you in and then as you mentioned social media you know there's
a bit of hype and people jump on board and everybody has an opinion so I think that has made
this perhaps bigger than you know murders that have gone before I mean I remember some murders
in our country having you know dealt with a bit of fallout in terms of seeing people who have experienced this kind of stuff. And, you know,
I remember a young girl, I think in the South Island, who was brutalised by, who was raped and
murdered by somebody who was on parole. And I will never forget the fact that that 15-year-old was
taken away from her mum and her dad. And, you know, subsequently, a few years down the track,
her father passed away too,
and her mother said that it was because he had a broken heart.
And I mean, these things, they don't happen too often in our country,
I guess, comparatively, but they still cut deep, you know?
Right.
And I believe at the core of it, we're actually a really nice nation.
We've got a few things we need to sort out.
Those statistics that came out recently about mental health
and all of, we need to sort that stuff out.
And it needs to be more than just people sitting around a table
or people speaking on the radio like us.
It needs to be actions that follow all of the rhetoric
and all of the words.
There's a lot of chat this week about how people are, you know,
always have the talk with their daughters about being safe
and, you know, not going with strangers and everything.
But then a lot of people saying that the sons need to be having a chat.
And in no way are we saying every male.
No, no, no.
Because that's the other thing I find.
It's danger.
I know.
This week people like Clint from The Afternoon Show,
he spoke out about how this is a bit of a male responsibility.
We've got to step up if we see this sort of thing happening.
Males carrying on with disrespect to anybody.
And people seem to take it as an attack.
I wasn't personally offended by that.
No, but he worried about it.
People saying this isn't all males, and he never said it was all males.
So what's the whole stigma there,
and how do you chat to young men coming up through society?
I guess without them putting their defences up is, yeah.
Well, there's a balance, isn't there?
And there's a fine line because you can say too much
and you can give too much advice
and you can marginalise people by, you know,
allowing them or making them feel
that you're picking on them when you're really not.
I just touched on it before when I said, you know,
education around personal safety,
around interactions with people, around what is okay and what is not okay needs to start really
young.
Right.
And I think parents today in this day and age are doing it.
And many did a great job all through the ages.
But I think that at some point parenting has changed and a lot of parents perhaps abdicate
responsibility and they're not, some parents are trying to be their children's best friend.
Children don't actually need a parent to be a best friend.
They can have a best friend in the peer group.
They need a parent to parent.
They need a parent to guide.
They need a parent to listen and be there.
I think sometimes parents today are very rushed in their jobs,
with their social niche,
their relationships, they've got to put their energy in a lot of directions.
Yeah, sure.
And often children, you know, come out second best and they're not learning. I mean, I'm, you know,
I wonder about people like the perpetrator of the crime. And I mean, we can't do too much wondering
about him at the moment. But, you know, what were the messages that he was getting in his home?
What was happening at school?
Was he a bully? Was he bullied?
I mean, as a psychologist, that interests me.
At this point, I'm still a bit numb by it.
And I guess, you know, we have to start the education of people
very much sooner than we're doing.
I've got a six-year-old and
I've been really amazed with the classroom chat they've had about all range of things and there
has been the whole you know permission and consent with even just hugging and things like that there's
been a chat all about that so I've been quite impressed that it's starting at that age. Look it is because I think
that now we have an awareness that these really positive messages and putting these really
positive parameters and boundaries have to start young. That's neat. Yes, and I have seen and heard
about examples of that too. It's great. It's not all over the place. It needs to be. And I think
there's a lot of, you know, there's not general consensus about which way to go because you have
people like me saying one thing and other people saying another thing and teachers you know coming at it from a different angle so we do need to get
some good heads together and and maybe create some rules and regulations or some advice that you know
is generated out to to all of us and I've also heard the conversation and maybe you're going to
touch on this about women saying but we shouldn't have to be safe. Yeah. And yeah, I agree, but this isn't going to stop tomorrow
or the next day or the next week.
I hope it is, but let's be real, it's not.
Tomorrow there's going to be somebody else.
I mean, there was somebody just up the road from here,
stabbed, a woman stabbed by a man the other day.
There is still going to be domestic abuse
and violence and murders until there is not.
So until that time, we do have to be safe, all of us,
because I have also talked to young men who say,
well, sometimes I actually don't feel that safe going out.
One king hit to my head and I'm dead.
I'm on the pavement with a head injury.
So, I mean, it's all of us.
It's like a defensive driving course, you know?
Like, you don't plan to have a crash and you want to protect yourself against other drivers as well. Just be,
just to be safe. Do you know what I loved doing? Remember, was it about 15, 20 or 10 years ago,
maybe more, 15, where those self-defense courses were all the, you know, they were the big hit.
And girls and women particularly were targeted to go to
these. And I just loved it. I did a few classes. I think I did a five or 10, you know, I think at
work. And, you know, you were told to, okay, do this move and that move and grab the hair and put
it in your pocket for evidence and, you know, grab the genitals and twist them off if you can.
And all the rest, it was just, and you kind of, after doing those kind of things, I'm being a little facetious about the genital twist, but you did feel more empowered. And I do
remember walking down the street thinking, yeah, I know a few moves and I've equipped myself with a
few physical tricks, if you like, and techniques to stave off somebody who wants to come at me.
And I mean, it is sad that you have to think that way, but until it stops and until people hear the message
and until punishments are such
that people do not choose murder or violence as an option,
we do all need to be safe.
Well, tonight around the country,
a lot of vigils are happening.
I'll just run through the list.
Auckland Federal Street,
Wellington Civic Square,
Christchurch Cathedral Square, the Lower Octagon in Auckland Federal Street, Wellington Civic Square, Christchurch Cathedral Square,
the Lower Octagon in Dunedin,
1903 Square in Nelson Hamilton Memorial Park
and some peace walks coming up in Auckland
on Saturday at midday in the CBD
and also a sunset vigil,
Mount Maunganui on Saturday at eight o'clock,
which I guess is a nice way for people.
That is so cool.
And I mean, I don't want to remember Grace
as the person that was murdered.
I want to remember her as the promoter of peace
and all of these beautiful things that people,
I mean, I just think you see both sides of humanity, don't you?
The ugly side and the awesome side.
Brilliant. Thanks so much for coming in.
My pleasure.
Ho, ho!
Let's do Film Fight!
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
Well, over the last week and a half,
we've been taking your votes, New Zealand,
for New Zealand's favourite Christmas film movie.
And it came down yesterday to two movies in our final,
Home Alone, the classic, which was 80...
Did we work out?
No, 93.
93.
93.
What?
It's a... It can't be that old.
91.
91.
91.
No, it is.
It's old.
Yeah, 91.
Come on.
Come on.
Because the dad's dead now, eh?
I think he did die, yeah.
Oh.
In real life?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
And the guy that wrote it.
Okay.
Oh.
Okay, stop, please.
Stop, please. It. Okay, stop please. Stop please.
It was up against Love Actually.
That's just my fave
and it was super tight.
Well, Megan,
the final vote came down percentage-wise
to 54%
46.
And the winner,
Love Actually.
Yay!
Yay!
I know you're happy.
I had my doubts, honestly.
Because at one point
Home Alone was ahead, right?
Just a bit.
Yeah.
For a moment.
Yeah, it was the early stages.
Yeah.
Well, to celebrate the fact
that this is New Zealand's
favourite Christmas movie,
we have organised an interview with somebody from Love Actually.
Now, bear in mind...
It's a huge cast.
We did reach out yesterday and, you know, it's very hard to get a hold...
I'll just say now, it's very hard to get a hold of Liam Mason.
It's very hard to get a hold of Hugh Grant.
Very hard.
Very hard to get a hold of a lot of these big celebrities.
But we've found someone.
Don't belittle it. They market this as a cast of a lot of these big celebrities, but we've found someone. Don't belittle it.
They market this as a cast of many headliners.
What do you call it?
They're a crucial piece of the Love Actually storyline.
Many leading roles in this.
They are joining us on the phone in about 10 minutes time.
It has taken out the votes in our festive film fight.
Love Actually, 54% of the vote to Home Alone,
46%. So it is New Zealand's favourite
Christmas movie,
Love Actually. And we have managed
to track down from Love Actually
Olivia Olsen, who you will know
as Joanna. Good morning.
Hi guys, good morning. Oh, it's
officially nearly Christmas if we're talking
to you.
So true, Merry Christmas. She only comes talking to you. That's so true. Merry Christmas.
She only comes out at Christmas.
She's a fully functioning 365-day-a-year human.
So how many times do you reckon you've actually watched this movie?
Oh, at least 25 at this point.
What can you remember about being cast in the movie?
Like, was it just a casting call?
They wanted a young American girl that could sing?
Yeah.
Funnily enough, Love Actually was the first acting role I ever auditioned for.
And I went, I sang Fallen by Alicia Keys.
Oh, wow.
And you could kind of hear on the other side of the casting room
You could faintly hear
The other girls singing
And the three girls who went before me
All sang Fallen by Alicia Keys
I was kind of mortified
Going into that room
And then so what did you prepare for us
And I was like
Fallen by Alicia Keys.
Well, you obviously did it better.
Well, I didn't realize that at the time because it took two months to actually get a call back.
And do you remember the filming?
Do you even remember being starstruck by the cast?
Because it's a well-known cast.
My mom was starstruck by, you know, the cast? Because it's a well-known cast. My mom was starstruck.
I was nine, so I had no clue of who was who.
If it was, like, you know, NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys,
I would have known who it was at nine.
But my mom was like, oh, my goodness, that's Hugh Grant.
Go over there, introduce yourself, introduce me.
And what was Hugh Grant like then, you know, as someone new to the industry?
He was so sweet.
I did not get the courage to go introduce myself,
but about 10 minutes after my mom was nudging me,
he actually, he probably saw us, like, staring at the cusp. It's that my mom started fangirling
because he came up and introduced himself to us
and said, oh, you have a lovely voice.
I just heard the song.
You're going to go far, kid.
Absolutely great.
And, you know, everybody on the cusp was so, so sweet.
And you, as, like, a young actor, got one of the pivotal scenes. Like, you know, everybody on the cast was so, so sweet. And you as, like, a young actor got one of the pivotal scenes.
Like, you singing at the end is, like, one of the most amazing parts of the movie.
Oh.
No, the chase through the airport.
I mean, you're involved in two of the most crucial.
To me, it's the chase through the airport.
And the kiss at the end.
Oh, yeah.
So the funny thing with the chase at the airport is that was actually going to be so completely different and they took out this whole
storyline in the film that
Sam was this
incredible acrobat
and so that chase through the airport
was filmed
like him doing these wild
crazy tricks. You know
when he just hops over
the, I don't know what you guys call it over
there, but like the TSA agent.
The security.
Yeah.
Yeah, security.
That was originally supposed to be like a front flip
and he was doing back handsprings
and like whipping around on poles
and it was like really like this action sequence
and I'm kind of glad it got cut
because I saw some of the deleted scenes
of that and it was just
so unbelievable.
It's so ridiculous.
That's so funny.
I hadn't even thought of a parkour
sub-storyline in my backstory.
Yeah, it was like a total
parkour map
at the airport and we filmed a lotour map at the New Zealand Airport.
And we filmed a lot of it in the real airport too.
Oh, wow.
It was silly.
He had like a 25-year-old woman as his front double doing all the tricks.
Oh, wow.
Things we didn't know.
We never knew.
We're learning.
Well, Olivia, thank you so much for talking to us.
It is New Zealand's favourite Christmas movie.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, you guys.
Thanks for having me.
FEM.
ZM.
It's the time of year where we get everything in review.
This one is Netflix.
2018 year in review.
The biggest shows.
The biggest shows.
The most binged shows in the world.
Now, this isn't New Zealand.
We don't have a New Zealand specific list yet, do we?
No.
Okay.
But this is shows we fell in binge with this year.
I see what they did there.
I see what's happening there.
I see what's happening.
There's a top ten list, so I'll start at ten.
Okay.
As you do with lists.
Orange is the New Black, season six.
I watched all of them but that one.
Got like four episodes in.
I watched the first couple and then I was like,
same thing, isn't it?
I watched all seasons, yeah, right up to five.
But that one, I don't know.
I stopped watching when they were lesbians.
I'm quite conservative in my views and I was worried that I would become a lesbian
if I was exposed to them.
That's definitely factual.
The filth that makes television.
Number nine, Insatiable. So that was a movie, rightatiable so that was a movie right no there's a tv show
that's right that's right that was the one with the girl accident she had the mouth wide yeah
you talked about it yeah and there was she was hot because she wasn't you watched the whole show
actually i watched the whole thing it was actually a very bad message that's right and there was a
lot of yeah controversy over it uh number eight, Anne with an E, season two.
I don't, do you know that one? You've never heard of that?
Anne with, so it's a reimagining of a
classic book and film. It's a coming of age
story about a young orphan who is seeking
love acceptance in her place in the world.
Oh, is it a remake of Anne? Like Annie?
Oh, based on Anne of Green Gables.
Oh. That's a really old book.
Okay. Seven, The Haunting
of Hill House. Oh yeah. Still haven't done it. It's quite scary. Like. Okay. Seven, The Haunting of Hill House. Oh, yeah.
Still haven't done it.
It's quite scary.
Like, I don't normally get scared by scary movies.
But is it thriller scary?
Yeah, thriller scary. I know everyone's seen it, but I'm still in my brave day.
Ghosty scary.
Suspense.
And now everything I watch, the old dad, the nowadays dad,
he's in so many things.
Like little bit roles. The nowadays dad. He's in so many things. Like little bit roles.
The nowadays dad.
Is he?
Yeah.
The dad when he's older.
You know, not the flashback dad.
Not the flashback dad.
New dad.
New dad.
Current age dad.
Yeah, current age dad.
He's in heaps of things.
Heaps of things.
I keep seeing him.
I'm like, where are his dad?
Oh, this sounds like a good IMDB hole to dig into.
Oh, yeah.
You always get into those.
Get down there so deep.
Number six of the shows we fell in binge with on Netflix this year is Fastest Car.
Is that actually something to do with cars or is it a...
I think it's...
Was the theme song.
You got a fast car.
It's a...
I got a dick in.
I think.
I haven't watched it, but I think basically boy racers race their car against supercars.
What's it called?
Top Gear.
Fastest Car.
Fastest Car, yeah.
Fastest car tries to find out if a tricked out sleeper car
can keep up with exotic supercars that are known for their speed.
The sleeper cars are built and modified by true gearheads
before they're put to the test against the supercars.
Really?
Yeah.
Closet petrol.
Closet Bogan Nelson coming out of Megan there.
Okay, the promo shot for it is like some rusty old pickup
racing like a Ferrari.
Yeah, see, I will watch that.
It looks pretty good.
Okay, I'm in.
I'm in for at least an episode.
We're getting into the top five.
Top five is Bodyguard.
Oh, that was good.
That's pretty good considering it's only been on Netflix since the end of October.
Yeah.
To be this high on the list.
It's a good show.
Have you finished it?
Yeah.
I haven't started it yet.
It's on my list.
It's Robb Stark.
Yeah, it is Robb Stark from Game of Thrones.
Yeah.
For Last Chance U, Indy.
That's about college football, isn't it?
A drama.
Like Friday Night Lights.
Top three.
Three.
13 Reasons Why Season 2.
I liked it.
You?
I didn't watch it.
Oh.
It was good.
I thought it was good.
Okay.
Then we watched the first episode and then we were like, eh. Number two is Making a Murderer Part 2. Still haven't watch it. Oh, it was good. I thought it was good. Number two. Then we watched the first episode and then we were like, eh.
Number two is Making a Murderer, part two.
Still haven't done it.
Oh, that's good.
Better than the first part.
Yeah.
Better than part one.
I was a bit like, ah.
I know.
And I told you, didn't I?
You were a humming and you were a harring.
I came in and I was like, Megan, I've watched a couple more episodes.
We need to talk about this.
The lawyer, Kathleen Zellner.
Kathleen Zellner.
Oh, my God.
I want her to be my auntie.
She is an absolute kicker.
Not your momma because she'd be too hard.
Oh, no.
She'd tell me off.
I don't want her telling me off.
She's a shit kicker.
She's so good.
And number one is a TV show called On My Block.
Is that like our block?
On My Block.
No, it's not the block.
No one's watching that anymore.
Like you watch,
you invest in a season in the block
and in the end,
the poor couple that gave up their jobs
to move up from bloody Christchurch
to build a house in Auckland
get two dollars.
And you're like,
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Nah, not again.
But I think they are doing another one, aren't they?
On My Block follows a quartet
of bright street savvy-savvy
friends who are navigating their way through
high school, including all of the triumph, pain, and
newness they experience along the way. Teen
drama. Teeny
dramery
situation. And also, can we just make
mention of the most re-watched Netflix movie
of 2018, The Kissing Booth.
Have you seen that? It was
terrible. was terrible.
Absolutely terrible.
So, but you mean the most rewatches and people watch it once and then again and then again.
Wow.
Why?
I think, doesn't it have Noah Centineo in it?
Yes.
And actually, he's popped up. He had a bit of scandal.
He's popped up in Toodle.
Now, did we see his Doodle recently?
Yes, we did.
Yeah.
So, maybe that required a rewatch of that movie.
Without going into it too much, Jeff,
he also made the list of searches on that other website.
He was the only male on Celebrity Searches for another website.
Been quite a year for him.
Yes.
He certainly has sprung up.
He's blossomed.
This year.
Okay.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day
Today's fact of the day is
You're welcome
Before, that was a nice tail off
Thank you
Before the introduction of disposable diapers
The average toilet training age was two years old
when your child was toilet trained for daytime dryness.
Because they didn't want to have to reuse nappies?
100%.
When it was cloth diapers and you had to wash them by hand
in the early 1900s, you got that kid toilet trained.
But when it's disposable nappies And you're a little bit lazier
Now in the early 2000s
The average age for potty training
Was three years old
Right
Because I didn't know that
I was looking at Fletch
He didn't know that either
I don't know that
When a kid gets out of nappies
Don't push them
They'll be ready when they're ready
Is that what you say is it? Don't push. They'll be ready when they're ready. Is that what you say, is it?
Don't push them. They'll be ready when they're ready.
Does anybody now use cloth diapers?
It's making a resurgence.
Because of the environment. I have a couple of friends
that use them.
A friend of ours had
kids after us. I'm only
using cloth diapers. I'll only be using cloth diapers
because of the environment.
The impact of the space.
And they're not wrong.
It's pretty bad.
Yeah.
Especially when
the early stages
of being a baby
and you put one on fresh
and they'll just
poo all through it
and you put another one on
and they'll miraculously
still have some more poo in them.
Can you imagine
their gentle Annie?
Anything but.
So,
they were like,
only cloth diapers.
That lasted two weeks.
Hard on the disposals.
And don't you know
I love reminding them.
I bet you do.
I would too.
All high and mighty.
Hey, remember that time you were smug?
Yeah.
Quite happy to say that I'm not even, right now I don't have a kid
and I'm not even using cloth nappies.
Because they say disposable nappies don't burn,
but if you put enough methylated spirits on the baby, they'll burn.
Anything will burn.
Because they say it ends up in landfill.
Not if you burn them.
Well, as we learned
in season two
of Making a Murderer,
not always, eh?
Not always, Bourne.
They burn nappies.
No.
Something more gruesome.
Oh, right.
Okay, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
So, yeah,
it's upwards of three now,
the average age
of toilet training now
that you can just easily just whoop off the disposable chuck of the bin
and get another one without having to actually scrub off everything you can imagine.
Can you just tape a potty to their bum when they walk around home
and just be like, just sit down when you need to go?
Then it's just always prepared.
That's in the book.
That's in the book.
I Want My potty.
Is it?
Yeah, the little princess.
She at some stage has the potty tied to her bottom for easy and convenience.
And that's great thinking, but always remember it's on there
because if you wee while you're standing up,
it'll just shoot in, shoot out, straight down your leg.
So today's fact of the day is before disposable nappies,
the average age of a child toilet trained was two years old
and now that disposable nappies are so accessible it's closer to three
fact of the day day day day day
a list has been released released of famous billionaires
and how much money they earn.
And it's been broken down into some really sad,
well, for us,
because we're never going to earn this much money in our lifetime,
let alone in a second or month
that it takes for these billionaires to earn it.
I hope you're only speaking for people in the studio.
There might be some prolific wealthy people listening.
Yeah, there might be a billionaire that's listening.
Yeah.
And he's like, well, I was going to listen to the show,
but now you've alienated me.
You've alienated me by saying I'll never make as much money,
so I'm out.
Also, I like how Meg and your tone changed there,
like you're ready for a third husband.
How you doing?
No, should have done it before the current husband.
Yes.
Yeah. So, okay, who do you want? There. Should have done it before the current husband. Yes. Yeah.
So, okay.
Who do you want?
There's Jeff Bezos.
All of them.
He's Amazon.
He's top of the list.
Should we start at the bottom?
Start at the bottom.
The bottom billionaires.
Richard Branson.
Okay.
We all know him.
Started virgin.
Virgin everything.
Gyms and planes and trains.
Loves a linen shirt.
Loves an open linen shirt.
Owns, is it Necker Island in the Caribbean?
Yeah, it's shaped like a heart, isn't it?
His net worth, 4.3 billion pounds.
So, I think at the moment, one pound is $1.82.
Why don't I just Google this 4.3 pounds,
and then I'm going to add billion to whatever the answer is.
Why am I a billionaire with this sort of maths knowledge?
So, he's worth $4.3 billion. It takes him 25 minutes to earn the average UK yearly wage.
Oh, wow.
So $7.8 billion New Zealand dollars.
Yeah.
And second, he earns 21 pounds.
So $35 New Zealand dollars, roughly.
He could do...
35.
If he really concentrated, he could do a 100-pound yawn.
Chuck a stretch in there, you got yourself a 200-pound.
He earns 1,240 pounds a minute per hour, 74,000 pounds.
Wow.
Weekly, 12.5 million.
Wow.
It just goes on.
James Dyson, who, obviously Dyson.
Yes. The vacuum cleanser, fans who, obviously Dyson. Yes.
The vacuum cleanser, fans, the hand dryers.
Yeah.
You're a massive fan of these vacuums, aren't you? You know I love the vacuum.
Huge, huge fan of the vacuums.
Huge fan.
Hashtag spawn.
But you're a massive fan of the cyclonic power.
But the thing, they're like Apple.
Like, they just make good stuff.
Like, you know when you go to a bathroom or the mall
and someone's installed like a Mitsubishi hand dryer and it's
trying to be a Dyson? It's like, don't even bother.
What are you doing here?
I'll wipe my hands on my pants again.
He has a net worth of
$8.6 billion per
second, £77 million.
You could be on online shopping
and you'd be like, oh, should I have that dress or that dress?
I've waited long enough to get by.
I'll buy the company. I knew he'd be rich, but I didn't know he'd be that rich.
Yeah, no, he is.
Annual income, yeah, of 2.2 billion.
And, I mean, I'm guessing if he sold Dyson to someone,
he'd be able to cash out and get quite a bit.
Oh, no, no, no.
Still there.
Bill Gates is third on this list.
He has a net worth of 75 billion pounds.
So, again, nearly double all these figures for New Zealand dollars.
It takes him four minutes to earn the average UK wage.
For a year.
So in four minutes, he has earned what the average person in the UK earns.
What is that, 50,000 pounds or something?
I'm unsure.
Per second, 105 pounds.
Per minute, 6,278,000 pounds.
Just you would never, ever, just consider that for a moment,
have to look at the price tag of anything.
I know.
And be like, can I get a coffee today?
Oh, no.
Better not.
I better watch it.
All those coffees add up.
Hey, but he might be rich.
Guys, he might be rich, but he still has to watch his calories.
That's true.
He might not have to
worry about the price
of a coffee but is he
going to get that
slice with it?
Mark Zuckerberg has a
net worth of 49 billion
pounds so nearly a
hundred million a
billion New Zealand
dollars.
Income per second
392 pounds.
Wow.
Like seven what about
750,000 New Zealand dollars a minute.
What would you do if you got him in Secret Santa though?
What are you going to get him?
Oh yeah, exactly.
USB stick.
Like a decorative one.
Because I don't know, he's on computers all the time.
He might need to put some photos on there or something.
So top of the list, Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon, the head of Amazon,
has a net worth of £124 billion.
Good lord.
So nearly 200 and something billion New Zealand dollars.
There are things I could do with that money.
The time it takes him to earn the average UK wage?
28 seconds.
28 seconds.
28 seconds he earns what the average person in the UK worker earns in a year.
And that's just like, that's not counting the day as an eight-hour workday, right?
That's just taking the year and...
Yep.
Right.
And the average.
So even when he's sleeping, he's earning that.
In a second, a thousand pounds.
Boom.
Right.
Two, three, four, five.
Like, it's crazy, right?
I'd be like, I might go have a 200,000 pound nap.
Yeah, exactly.
Wow.
Just have a nap and earn a whole lot of money while I'm doing it.
I know.
Isn't that crazy?
But are they happy, Fletch?
Yeah, let's be realistic.
He has to work a lot.
Richard Branson's got a private island in the Caribbean.
He looks the most happiest.
Yeah, he does look happy.
It's that open linen shirt and his bare feet.
What are we today?
The 12th of
December.
Two weeks.
13.
I think it's
13.
I'll go to
christmasclock.com.
12 days,
15 hours.
Right,
okay.
So we're
less than two
weeks away
from Christmas
and I thought
what better
time?
Here's a
Christmas present
for Fletch. Um, no. Um, what better time? Here's a Christmas present for Fletch.
What about me?
What about Megan?
What about Megan?
Okay, I'll get you your tomorrow.
Why now?
Why are you getting me this?
Because it's Christmas.
Don't thank him yet.
I don't know what it is, but I just think don't thank him yet.
I'm hesitant to say thank you just yet.
That's why I'm asking why. Why me and not Megan? Well, she's next don't thank him yet. I'm hesitant to say thank you just yet.
That's why I'm asking why.
Why me and not Megan?
Well, she's next.
This is a prank.
I'm dragging it out.
It's not a prank.
It's a gift. It's a heart attack.
We always say we don't give each other presents.
Yeah, that's why we're a little sus about this.
Guys, I can't help my generosity.
Sometimes it just bursts out of me.
Okay, so instantly I know you got this for free.
Instantly I know you got this for free. Instantly I know you got this for free.
100%.
It's time for that.
If you press play in the log for next,
it's a Christmas edition of... Get started. Get started. Don't get fleshed outed. What? Don't get fleshed outed in here.
Don't get fleshed outed.
What?
Don't get fleshed outed in here.
Yeah.
Giant water bottles that people use at the gym that look like water cooler bottles.
Because you need that much water every day.
Because you're going into the desert, I assume.
Because you're supposed to drink
a few litres at least.
There's a fountain at the
gym you should have a 750
ml to 1 litre bottle tops.
This is a 2.2 litre
water bottle, Megan. Yeah, that's a big dog for the big dog.
It looks like a water cooler tanker.
But what about people who are training
hard and need to get through 4 litres a day?
They're like, okay, I need two of these.
No.
You just take a break from the squats and the iron being pumped and go and refill your
bottle at the Cooler Fountain.
I'm purely playing devil's advocate.
I don't have one.
I'm guessing that you ordered online from this particular protein supplement place.
Sprint fit, baby.
And they said you are.
They listen to the show because they? They've written messages
They always say
Give us a shout out
This is your shout out
And so they gave you
A free water bottle
A giant
I ordered enough
To qualify me
For a free gift
And down the bonnet
Because every time
I do this
I'm like
I'll take another protein shaker
And my wife's like
No more protein shakers
And she's got a point
There's like eight
Yeah
And so they said
free gift
you qualify
you can have one of these
giant drink bottles
I was like
lols
I'll take it
because I know
who's going to love it
oh my god
the thing is
it's so big
that if you were drinking
out of this
it would spill
it would go all over you
tap it
that's how big it is
yeah like
have a listen to this
you can put some rocks in that
it could be a good thing to get the like...
Hello.
Get the kettle moving.
Giant water bottle.
This is how big it is.
Listen to how echoey it is.
You don't need this much water in a day.
Can I try something?
Is anybody in there?
Sawadeeka.
That's the people that were trapped in the Thailand cave.
Sawadeeka this, that's... Sawadee ka. That's the people that were trapped in the Thailand cave. Sawadee ka.
That's time.
Sawadee ka.
Sawadee ta.
Would you like to be rescued?
I'm really exhausting my time.
Would you like to be rescued?
Kap kun krap.
That's thank you.
Only if you're a boy.
Yeah, it's kap kun ka if you're a girl.
Brilliant.
Kap kun krap. Oh, it's cup, corn, car. If you're a girl. Brilliant. Cup, corn, crap.
Oh.
It's boys in there.
It's not girls.
And the point you're making is it's as big as an underground cave,
this water bottle.
You see people with bigger ones than this, and this is 2.2 litres.
If you fill those up with –
You don't need it.
If you had two of those and filled them up with water,
the handle on them would also be like you could go for a walk
and get a bit of weight.
Why does it offend you so much if they want to carry lots of water?
Just get a reasonable-sized drink bottle and refill it.
If your drink bottle's too big for the cup holder.
Yeah, it's too big.
It's too big.
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