ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - February 05 2019

Episode Date: February 4, 2019

Blue, Aqua and Lou Bega are in studio ahead of SO POP tonight, Vaughan commented on Megan's Insta and your lazy boss.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's on! ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thank you, Anya. Happy Year of the Pig! Yeah! Is that a good one? Yeah, because it means lots of streaky bacon. Which is my favourite bacon of choice. What does the Year of the Pig mean?

So if you're 12, 24, 36 or 48 this year, that means you're also year of the pig. Right. If you haven't had your birthday yet. I think I'm a rat. I'm year of the rat. Or one of those. No, I'm the rat. What am I?

Yeah, because Sade and Megan are rat. Oh, maybe I'm goat. Yeah, I think we're... Yeah, you might be goat. Boo! Isn't the... The rat doesn't sound great, but isn't it good? Yeah, he hitched a ride, I think.

Yeah. In the great race of the Chinese Zodiac. Smart. Work smarter, not harder. Yeah. That's you. Jumped on the tiger, I think. Now, for a lot of the country, this is a Friday.

Really, isn't it? A couple of mini weeks this week. The whole country. For most of the country. Well, you know, I'm saying some people have to work tomorrow. Some people might have to work. Oh, yeah, but that's not a geographically dependent. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm saying some people have to work tomorrow. Some people might have to work. Oh, yeah, but that's sort of geographically dependent. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm thinking just about work.

But yeah, for most of the country, it'll be a day off work tomorrow. Use this as a little time maybe if you're up already to turn off your weekday alarm. Megan, you've turned up to work one day on a public holiday. I know. So if I turn off my alarm, I need a reminder that I need to turn it back on. And maybe a wee reminder tomorrow that I'm not supposed to be here. You turned up that time, didn't you? No one was here. I waited a long

time. You are a sheep goat, by the way. I'm a sheep? What do you mean a sheep goat? Or a goat. A sheep or a goat? A sheep goat. What's better? Right. What is the personality of a sheep? It's a meek animal. Oh no. What? This is just actually the personality of a sheep? It's a meek animal. Oh, no.

This is just actually the personality of sheep. They're not specifically related to Chinese. Thoughtful, initiative, sociable, tender, easygoing, and sacrificing, self-sacrificing. Absolutely all the opposite of you. That sounds like me. That's me. Nah. You're a horse.

I'm a bit kicky. If anything. No, they are like they're a handful. Oh yeah, okay. We're a big handful. That sounds like me then. Secret Sound is back.

So we'll give you chances this morning at 7, 8. There'll be chances as well at midday and Brian Clinch as well at 4 and 5. A load of guests on the show today. It's like the radio show has been transported back to the late 90s, early 2000s,

because joining us in studio this morning after eight o'clock, a whole lot of the So Pop artists. Lou Bega. Aqua. And Blue. Good Lord. Wow. This is my wall.

Back when I was a teenager, my posters on my wall. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. This is amazing because you dressed up as Lou Bega. Yeah, I did. I didn't. Just clothing. Yeah, you didn't. Yeah, I know.

I'm not trying to start a controversy here. No, no, me neither. I know, but it'd be great to see a side-by-side photo. I don't think it would be. You know me. I'll say and do a whole lot of stuff when people aren't around, but then when they get here, I drop balls. Well, they're on the show, the Giggers tonight.

They're on the show after 8 o'clock this morning. But also because it is Waitangi weekend or Waitangi Day tomorrow, rather, I should say, there will be the odd person heading away. Yeah. And I'm imagining some people maybe took Thursday, Friday off and making a mega long weekend. We are giving away free fuel every 15 minutes on the show today. All right, you lot, listen up.

It's story time. Three stories, three news headlines that I've found online. Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines. Headline one, man suffers strokes. Headline two, tens of anti-vax parents hit Reddit. And headline three, dolphin loan sharks. Dolphin loans sharks. So dolphins started up a business hiring sharks. Notphin loans sharks. So dolphins started up a business

hiring sharks. Not really, no. It's not a very nice story, is it? Is it the one about the dolphins dying so they cancelled their loan? It's in Phoenix. Is there a dolphin hiring? You can hire dolphins? Yeah, I

believe you loan them. It's like an aquatic centre. They killed their fourth dolphin so they're not allowed anymore. Are there dolphins? You can loan, yeah, I believe you loan them. That's like, aquatic centre, they killed their fourth dolphin, so they're not allowed anymore. I know, that's why after you see that, the Cove documentary,

you shouldn't pat dolphins at SeaWorld and the likes. No. How did they kill their fourth dolphin? Did they not take them out of the tank while they were cleaning the tank? That's how you get dolphins. You've got to leave them in,

you've got to leave your dolphin in a plastic bag, in the water, to acclimatise, and then pop the bag, and it's, yeah. I think just captivity, right? They're just not really supposed to be in there. So do you want teens of anti-vax parents hit Reddit or man suffers strokes?

Because at the moment, the anti-vax, there's a real problem in the States. This area that's a real traditional anti-vaxing area. Where was it? It's had a measles outbreak and it's just tearing through. Oh, no. Yeah. And so they're all getting quite sick. Yeah.

It's not a nice thing to say, told you so about, though, is it? No. The measles. I don't know. Did I say this on here the other day? I said off-air to you guys? That measles resets your immunity. I don't remember you saying that.

On-air or off-air. I bored someone with this. Maybe it was Sade. Yeah, right. Measles have been, they've studied measles. If you get measles, say you've had chickenpox.

Yeah. So you don't get that again, right? Well, you can, but it's unlikely. Measles can reset your immunity so you can get chicken pox again. Oh. It, like, wipes the slate clean of what your body can remember how to fight, like a factory reset. Yeah.

Like it got a pen out and pushed it in that little hard-to-reach reset button and held it down until everything flashed, and then went blank and set it up again. Yeah. Crazy, eh? Yeah. So I've forgotten what the headlines were.

Well, you've talked about that one. I think we've talked about the vaccine. Oh, man suffers strokes. Oh, yeah, okay. Man suffers... Man suffers... Man suffers strokes. Oh, did he go to...

Oh. Is that masturbating? Now, a bank manager, Megan... So, what? Now, a bank manager, Megan... What? Yes, it is. Okay. A bank manager, 67, suffered a stroke, which made him believe it was fine to masturbate without shame

in front of his relatives. Right. Okay. Now, his family... I'll hear him out. This apparently is in Spain. His family were concerned when they noticed drastic changes in his behaviour after he had a stroke and they conducted several tests on the unnamed man

and the doctors claim that his stroke was silent and occurred with little symptoms. Yep, as they can. As they can do. Like, they might just, your old mate might just feel a bit, you know. Sleepy, dizzy. Sleepy or, you know.

Yeah. Saw one day, and yeah, apparently he'd believed, doctors believed he had a stroke, a minor stroke. Yeah. And that made him believe it was okay to do this in front of his relatives. Wow, so you just never know what you're going to get. Yeah, he was also apparently addressing

his family with inappropriate sexual words. Oh, yeah. So the stroke had happened to the part of the brain that filters and decides what's appropriate. I remember when my granddad had a brain injury, they said to us now, we will warn you,

he's likely to have lost the filter. And everyone was like, oh my God. Because he already didn't have one. It was bad enough, but he'd say things to you, like, God, this stupid bastard's coming over and blah, blah, blah. And then the guy around would be like,

G'day, mate! Like, it'd be all really bad. But, you know, he lost that. Yeah, and he always said what he was thinking. So we be like, G'day, mate! Like, it'd be all really about him. But, you know, he lost that. Yeah, and he always said what he was thinking. So we were like, without the filter, what's going to be long? So instead he'd be like, what do you want, you stupid bastard? Yeah, stuff like that. Good Lord.

Exactly. Oh, okay. Well, at least your granddad didn't start blaming himself. No, no, he definitely didn't. That was good. Glad he went out not ever having done that. I know, what would you do? Just leave.

Just leave him to it. Put a blanket over him. Like a picnic blanket. Have one of those pop-up sunshades you throw at the beach and it poof, into a little tent. It can be Uncle Steve's FM. Instagram released a guide for New Zealand, are releasing a guide for New Zealand parents to how to know a whole lot of things about Instagram, I guess.

Right. Because parents to high school kids now, Instagram, when did Instagram get really big? 2012? Yeah. So the kid would have definitely been around by then. Maybe Instagram isn't their forte. Yeah. But lots of kids on Instagram and it will

help parents to protect their children but also know for signs that your kid isn't having a good time on there but due to social pressures

feels they need to be on there. Right. And if they say to you I'm being bullied on here or I've experienced something bad of course every parent 's immediate reaction

is just delete this thing then and get rid of it. Oh's immediate reaction is just delete this thing then and get rid of it. Oh, but you can't do that. But then you can't do that because then people will be like, what happened? And then, I don't know. You know, it's like any bullying.

It's not as simple as just being like, stop. Yeah. No. Tell them to bugger off. My mum was always, just smack them. It's really escalating it. Yeah. It's really escalating it. It's really escalating it But they're releasing this product

And the most amazing thing out of this is The New Zealand Herald approached A 17 year old New Zealander For comment On what he thought And this is where I found out We've got a 17 year old New Zealander Called Dominic

Who has 270,000 followers on Instagram. What does he do? He does memes and stuff mostly around superheroes. Right, okay. So he had a field day yesterday when the Super Bowl was on and there was a new Avengers trailer and a new Captain Marvel ad. But he's just putting memes up. He wouldn't get much grief online, would he? Because he's not putting his face on there, is he?

But he said when it gets to a certain, and this is dead right, when it gets to a certain point, it must get to a tipping point where you've got that many followers, there's going to be some crazies in the mix who when you say something like Iron Man's better than Captain America, they'll say, I'll kill you. What, he gets death threats? Yeah. man's better than Captain America, they'll say I'll kill ya. What, he gets death threats? I'm imagining they're not like solidly grounded death threats

but when you're 17 a death threat is freaky, regardless. Just mostly because of how passionate people are about superheroes. Wow. But I guess they wouldn't know that a 17 year old's running that, would they? And it's more acceptable to death threat an adult guess they wouldn't know that a 17-year-old's running that, would they?

And it's more acceptable to a death-threatened adult? I don't know. Is it? No. They don't care who's behind it, I think, is the point. Yeah. I agree. They don't think, do they? So they want, the main tips in this is they want parents to feel confident

to just tell their kids to block unwanted interactions. Like if someone has been mad, just block them. Just get it out of, don't worry about the, I mean, bullying's one of the, like, I don't know. It's a hell of a thing to have to deal with. Yeah. If you had all the answers. But yeah, you block someone, you're not going to see them in your feed. They're not going to be able to see you.

Yeah. And also just privacy, not having to put everything, every single thing online is important. What I would hate, I'm so glad Instagram wasn't around when I was at high school, because like, man, what a mindfuck. I know, like, Mufti Day was hard enough, wasn't it?

Oh my God. Oh, hey, okay, so if you're a teenager now, your everyday on Instagram was, Was a mufti day A mufti It would still be like that I'm assuming Oh it would 100%

For uniform schools When there's mufti day There would be Maybe more than ever The judgement on What other people are wearing Yeah Oh let alone the poor kid

That forgot their Forgot it was mufti day And got to school In the uniform But did he forget Just go home Actually like A pretty good play

If you can put up with the first like hour of the day in your uniform, surely everybody's over it by then. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Today's top six is the top six other toilets worth of

visit in New Zealand. The Honda Vasa toilets get 250,000 visitors a year. I can say I have urinated in those toilets. As I try to urinate in them every time I go through Kawa Kawa. What's fancy about them? It's kind of like tiled. It's all tiled. It feels like it's made up of recycled materials like mosaic tiles.

There's glass bottles in the wall. It feels like it's made of clay. Yeah, it's very happy. Mud. Very happy. Well, that artist, yeah, he moved to Northland and kind of proclaimed it his home. They love him.

I think they're building a massive art centre somewhere around there for him. To celebrate him. He's dead. Right. I think they buried him in a linen sack. And I was like, that makes great sense. Yeah, wrapped around and buried him in a linen sack. And I was like, that makes great sense. Yeah, grabbed around and buried him in a hole.

You've been reading up about it. Okay. I think I got talking to a local once. They released a stat. So we can 250,000 people use this public toilet. That's crazy. It's on TripAdvisor and stuff. It's a big brown tourist sign.

You know how all of our tourism signs are brown? Yeah. Toilets. And everyone's like, well, I'll go for a look. I think it's more exciting than a train literally drives down the main street of Kalakaua. I think there's a more exciting thing about it. And there's a couple of great cafes in that town that do a killer slice. It is number two out of everything to do in Kalakaua.

What's number one? Well, I don't know. I need to find out now, don't I? What beat the toilets? I'll tell you. Hang on, just clicking on it now. Oh, no, that's... It would be the wider area, right?

Yeah, because it's got the... Taihe, Russell, Waitangi Day. Yeah, the Waitangi Grounds are up the road. Yeah, the Waitangi Grounds. Are they number one? It looks like they're number one, yeah. Yeah, that's good. The greater area, though.

They've got toilets, too. Yeah, they do. So the top six other toilets worth a visit in New Zealand, number six. Those creepy, dark, underground toilets that were built in, like, the 1920s that you would only use if you wanted to go waste and get stabbed at once. Yeah. Do you know at our old work, there was creepy toilets under the... Remember the underground toilets?

Oh, I never went there. No. And in old cities, in cities that have been around for a while, there's always an underground toilet. Like a lot of... Some of them have been turned into bars. Well, most of them in the city have just been shut down.

Yeah. There's those ones if we walk into the city from work. I don't know the street. Is it Albert Street? Oh, yeah, yeah. Creepy. No.

Yeah, creepy. No. Not for me. It's very stabby looking. It's very stabby looking. Number five on the list of the top six other toilets worth a visit. A long drop out the back of a wool shed that was dug by hand in the 1930s. And you're like, how's that not full yet?

Grim. Do you ever go on a wooden seated long drop? Both my grandparents were sheep farmers, so it was like. No. And there was always a spider. Oh, yeah. There was always a spider. And they'd say

oh just go at least we're not in Australia redback will bite you we have redbacks don't we what do we have catapults

redbacks that's what they call them redback spider we don't have too many of them it's the white tails that everybody's on about

I wouldn't want them to bite my bum either no I wouldn't want anything biting my bum. Even a playful nibble. You're not into it. From a loved one.

Not the bum. No. There's lots of places to go before there. Number four on the list of the top six other toilets worth a visit. The toilet on the inter-islander during very rough seas.

Will the splash from the toilet hit your undercarriage? No one knows. It's part of the fun of games. Of going ways on the inter-islander when it's rough. They must have, like in planes, they must have handles to hold on if there's turbulence. Yeah.

But planes have got the... But the inter-islander is just an actual toilet, isn't it? I think so, yeah. So you could get a bit of splash, the slosh, slosh, up. Oh, nothing's worse than a bit of toilet water hitting your balls. In America, their toilet water's way higher than ours. Yeah, it's like a swimming pool in there. Yeah, you poo and everything.

And it's like... It's weird. Is that used more or less water? Well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But there's not a lot of distance between genitals and water. No. Especially if you've got some saggers like you do.

I don't have saggers. Number three on the list of the top six other toilets worth a visit. Your nana's toilet with those blue water stains on it and those really heavy and super cold toilet seats. Did your nana have a cold toilet seat growing up? My nana had the coldest toilet seat in the world. I remember it was really heavy. You had to be really careful to lower it. Yeah. But also in the winter, it was the coldest toilet seat in the world. I remember it was really heavy. You had to be really careful to lower it.

Yeah. But also in the winter, it was the coldest thing. It was so cold. So cold on your butts to sit on nana's toilet seat. Number two on the list of the top six other toilets worth a visit in New Zealand. A child-sized toilet at the mall because you were super busting and you really had to go and it was the only one that was available. But now that you're in there,

it's turned into the fact you need a poo. So you're doing a poo on a child-sized toilet and someone just started knocking. So you have to go, oh, I belong. From a kid's voice. It's the only thing to do.

And the number one toilet worth of is that if toilets are your thing, such as the 250,000 people that go to Kawakawa, a portaloo on a construction site that's been left off the cleaning and swap-out schedule for six months and it's just been summer. You can imagine that would be quite nice.

Probably won't get tagged on Instagram as many times as the Honda Vasa. No. That is today's top six. FEM. ZM. Hey, South African man hopped on Reddit with a question. Bit of an Ask Reddit situation. Okay.

What would you guys do? He says that he's been with his wife for a few years. Mm-hmm. And they are into sending each other nude photos. Wait, you said this is something Megan's mum would be into. I'm going to get to that part. That character's yet to be introduced to the story. Okay.

Okay. So they've got, he describes as a few weird fetishes. So some of the photos are purely for her eyes only and I would find it humiliating if anyone other than her would just see them. Wow. Now we'll take it back a step. When they first got together,

apparently the mother-in-law was very handsy. Like very... Is this actually about me? Is this about me? Wait, what are the photos on your phone of? Oh, I know. Fetishes. What are your weird fetishes?

Apart from that. Yeah, right. Yeah, okay. Yeah, right. So the mother-in-law has a crush on the son-in-law. The son-in-law's the one sending the kinky photos. This is a two-way street, by the way. The wife sends them back to him.

They've got some unusual things they're into. No judge. No kink-shaming. I don't want to kink-shame again. I've got someone message me about kink-shaming Richard Quest. Quest brings business. But he was found in a park with a rope around his genitals. And his neck.

But it was under his clothing. Ah, right. Okay. And apparently he was just taking a shortcut. Wasn't aware of Central Park's curfew. The police said, is there anything on you we should know about? And he said, I've got some meth in my pocket. He was very honest about it.

But then on further investigation, they found a rope around his neck. And we laughed around the rope around the neck of the jinnies. And that's kink shaming. I just find it amusing that he kept his jaw. I know, me too. That's what I thought. I know. That's a chat for another time. So the mother-in-law who's into the son-in-law

recently got a hold of her daughter's phone and sent herself, airdropped herself, some kinky photos off the phone. Because she loves the husband. Because she loves the... That is something your mum would do. If only she knew how to work airdrop. Get into a...

So apparently she came back to her phone after being in the shower and noticed it was moved and then Get into me and slide into a stick. So apparently she came back to her phone after being in the shower and noticed it was moved and then opened it up and went into photos and you know how when you're airdropping

photos it stays on that share screen? Yeah. Unless you like go back into the album. They're still selected. And she was like what?

Yeah and it says like sent. It's got the text on the photos. And she's like you've got to delete those. And she's like

I don't need to delete them. They're just photos don't be silly. And she's like mum you've got to delete those photos. She's refusing to delete those. And she's like, I don't need to delete them. They're just photos. Don't be silly. And she's like, Mom, you've got to delete those photos. She's refusing to delete.

Yeah. Wow. And so the son-in-law is like, this is not okay. She needs to delete those photos. Those were never intended

for anybody else to see. And now they've got some other family coming to town and they're not inviting the mother-in-law to dinner. Obviously, she's being a bit creepy. Yeah, yeah. And now she's like complaining and they're not inviting the mother-in-law to dinner. Obviously, she's being a bit creepy.

Yeah, yeah. And now she's like complaining that they're alienating her from her family. So she thinks she's somewhat entitled to...

So he's asking Reddit because he's like, what do we do? I think you've just got to put the hard... You've just got to make her delete them. Get her phone.

Yeah, just take her phone off her. You'll know her password. Yeah, if she even has one. One last twist. He's a school teacher, so he really doesn't want her getting vindictive and releasing the photos. Right, okay. Get one of those photo vaults.

I just can't recommend them enough. Then your mum wouldn't have gone into it. Your mum, well, she wouldn't have been able to get into it. She wouldn't have your password. So it doesn't store it in the album. It just stores it in the photo vaults. No, it's a separate app. Very clever.

Christ, I hope I never see that on your phone. I mean, I'm just amazed. You can talk. Someone's mum knew how to use AirDrop. Well, exactly. I told you this was a good one for millennials to stick it to the boomers. So there's been a study. In fact, this study is ongoing.

Abacus data, they do it in Canada, and it's a millennials report. I wouldn't trust it if they're using an abacus. I think it's just... The beads on the sliders. The millennials report, they interview over 4,000 millennials per year to just see what they're up to, you know? Get a gauge on what's happening. So they have found that the average wages for 18 to 35s have remained stagnant for almost

40 years. However, millennials are participating in the labour force more and working harder by some measures than the generations before them. So working harder, officially, and getting paid before them. So working harder officially. Yeah. And getting paid less, essentially, because the pay has never changed. Boo. Suck it. Suck it.

I mean, it's boo, but suck it. Yeah. Yeah. So they've also learned that the unemployment of millennials has lessened. So in 1980, 78% were unemployed millennials. Yeah. lessened. So in 1980 78% were unemployed millennials. In 2016 81% were, did I say employed or unemployed? Unemployed but yeah you mean employed.

Yeah are employed now. You mean in 1980 the age bracket equivalent of millennials now? Yeah. Because millennials probably weren't even born. They are also more millennials are taking up unpaid internships. So there is 300,000 Canadian millennials that are

In unpaid internships Just so they can get into the workforce That's so cheeky eh And then just fire them when you get sick of them And get some new ones I don't know it's attitude towards invaluable work experience And acquiring Skills on the job We all did it didn't we attitude towards invaluable work experience and acquiring skills on

the job. We all did it didn't we? Hey you paid to go to uni you're not paying to be here. Very true.

And also between 97 and 2017, 10 years the number of millennials on minimum wage has doubled. So the employment rate has gone

unemployment rate's gone down but they're working for less. Boo. There you go. Yeah. That's actually down, but they're working for less. Boo. There you go. Yeah. That's actually quite depressing, really, isn't it?

Yeah, it is. Fletch. Vaughn. And Megan. The podcast. Sam. Vaughn. Speaking.

Over the weekend, I hate to go on about it, but it was my husband's birthday and I posted a lovely collage. Collage. Yes, it was a collage. Thank you. Yeah, I could have done a carousel, but I chose to do a collage. Okay. People are like, you know that you can put multiple pictures on and scroll through.

Yes. Thank you. I know that. I feel like sometimes people don't scroll though. I know. I was like, I just wanted to do one picture that had lots of pictures in it. I liked it. That's called a collage.

Yeah. Very old school. I have a bone to pick with Vaughn, though, regarding this Instagram post. Okay. So. I know what this is going to be. I think I know what this is going to be. There is a comment from Vaughn on this post.

And might I add, it doesn't actually say happy birthday anywhere in this comment. Well, you don't have to because you've liked the photo. That's acknowledging the birthday. That's enough. And you didn't have to, Fletch, because you came to the party't have to because you've liked the photo. That's acknowledging the birthday. That's enough. And you didn't have to, Fletch, because you came to the party. Like, if you come to the party, you don't...

That's right, actually. I did not. I actually feel bad about that. I shook Mr. Toyboy's hand and said, happy birthday, mate. And you came along. Yeah, I actually...

Well, neither came. I actually have a bottle of whiskey for Mr. Toyboy, though. Oh, bless. I did buy... Don't try and make this... It's definitely mix it with Coke whiskey. It's not drinking by itself whiskey. Don't Toyboy though. Oh, bless. It's not expensive. Don't try and make this. It's definitely mix it with coke whiskey. It's not drinking by itself

whiskey. Don't get too excited. It's just a little of one. Don't try and soften this. Okay. Because you posted, you commented on this post and I'll read it to you. It says, and again, nowhere in this does it say happy birthday. Born. Mr. Toyboy can

hire a car. Oh my lord they grow up so fast. Which I was like He can because he just turned 25. And cheaper car insurance so that's great. Not factually untrue. It's correct. And I was like classic. Like nothing that we don't hear all the time on the radio right?

Like typical Vaughn stuff. I was like huh. So on my here all the time on the radio, right? Like typical Vaughn stuff. I was like, huh. Gold. So on my end, at the same time, this is what's happening. It was when my dad was up. We had a big day, a 12-hour day of hard labour, which I've been going on about as much as Megan has been going on about Toy Boy's birthday.

But, you know, Saturday was a big day for everybody. And I just saw it and I was like, oh, that's a nice collage. I actually said collage. Yeah. And I made the comment and then I literally put my phone down on the kitchen bench and outside I went to do my work because I know my dad doesn't like doing work. If you've got a phone, because I'm looking and he's like,

oh, he's like, put the phone down. Get to it. There's work to be done. Yeah. And, yeah, so I saw the comment and was like mildly amused as per usual

come back later to well what now has 908 likes the comment alone great and multiple

replies to Vaughn's comment yeah when I came in later in the day and opened it up and it was like oh what have I done you knew you were going to be in trouble yeah I actually I did actually message Megan saying Yeah, when I came in later in the day and opened it up and it was like, oh, what have I done?

You knew you were going to be in trouble. I did actually message Megan saying, do you want me to delete this? Because I didn't think it would hijack the post. And in my defense, I said, no, don't worry about it. No, no, it's fine. Yeah. But I'm a little bit disappointed in everyone because someone said, Vaughn wins the internet today.

That comment made me spit my coffee. He cracks me up. This is so good. Oh my god, insurance just got cheaper. That's so great. Haha, I was so many people tagging in their mates being like this is the funniest thing I've seen all day. It's good for the ego. Come on. Really?

Did you go on the internet that day? To be honest, it was these comments that made me message Megan and be like, I'll delete it if you want. Because she doesn't like, doesn't want that. And plus I screen capped all the nice ones. Did you? I read in my low moments. I don't need it to be there anymore.

I was going to reply, but I'm like, no, I don't want to. It's so. I don't need to start that. Yeah, I didn't. Because I don't like hijacking posts. But you did. But it did. It happens.

But has he ever had his, when you go away, do you have to put your name down to rent the car? Yeah. Yeah, every time. But now he'll be able to do it. Yeah, I mean, again, I said it's not factually untrue. And how much has your insurance premiums dropped by? I'm going to call them today.

I forgot yesterday. Oh, yeah, get on them too. Because that's the thing, they don't put the price down. Oh, no, they don't contact you. They've got his birth date. They know how old he is, but they don't say, they don't put the price down. Oh no, they don't contact you. They've got his birthday, they know how old he is but they don't say, hey,

we'll put it down. Yeah, if you've just gone like, if you're just 25, 26, you bring them up because they don't put them down. They're cheeky buggers.

Yeah. Do it when you've not got anything planned though because insurance companies. eight hours on the phone. Yeah, there's a bit of Holder. There's a bit of Dave Dobbin

on hold. A lot of Dave Dobbin. They keep pumping like, call on the phone. Yeah, there's a bit of Holder. There's a bit of Dave Dobbin on Hold. A lot of Dave Dobbin. They keep pumping like, call me loyalist. Like, don't try to trick me into being loyal. I know I can shop around my insurance to get the best deal.

Via GoGo, who they're the ticket reselling site. You mean Via, oh no. Anyone's even bought off Via GoGo. I don't know why anyone still does. I got a message over the holidays saying, hey, I've got no one else to does. I got a message over the holidays saying, hey, I've got no one else to ask.

I want to ask you. I need an answer really quickly. We're about to buy tickets. It's via go-go. That one that I've heard you guys say is untrustworthy on air. And I didn't see the message because I was on holiday. And then when I did see it, there was two messages following up being like, couldn't wait any longer.

Had to buy tickets through via go-go. Oh, no. And then they sent me a photo. Does this look legit? I'm like, A, no. The thing is, they can be sometimes. It's not worth the risk, though. But it's not worth the risk.

And the Commerce Commission have, I'm guessing this is what you're about to talk about. Yeah. So they filed for an interim injunction against them because they sold dodgy tickets. There have been like 50 charges or 50 complaints against them. Yeah, so we heard about the Bruno Mars one was a big deal and then Ed Sheeran tickets. Lots of people being scammed out of those too.

So they are set to be a no-show at their High Court hearing in Auckland. Now that's today. Not going to show up. So they refused to be served in New Zealand as well. They had to be served in Switzerland, which takes much longer. So they just wanted to draw it all out. Yeah.

They haven't made any written submissions and they won't have representation at the hearing, but they might have a few observers. But they're just not going to turn up. Wow. So they're just like basically like a big fingers, giving us the fingers. Pretty much.

Here in New Zealand. I've had a friend that bought tickets to Pink and they were via go-go and they were fakes. Oh, no. He's just like, can we go on? Friends don't let friends buy off via go-go. Well, I didn't know. I didn't know.

I was like, what have you done? Yeah, tell your friends. Because I had to tell my family that they couldn't buy M&M tickets from via go-go. They had no idea. I was like, what have you done? Yeah, tell your friends. Because I had to tell my family that they couldn't buy M&M tickets from Viagogo. They had no idea. I was like, don't do that. Yeah. You're really rolling the dice. Your dad went to Phil.

I've seen some baby boomer stories about people going to Phil Collins. Phil Collins last night. And there's people that have got tickets from Viagogo. And it's just a roll of the dice when you get there if it's going to scan. So dad went super early. He was on at 8.30. He went at 6 p.m. And he said, don't worry.

The ticket we got in, the tickets weren't bogus. I was like, of course they weren't. I bought them for you from Ticketmaster. They're legit. But he's worried. But then he's like, we have to sit here for two and a half hours. Well, you're the one that got there at 6 o'clock. But the great thing about a Phil Collins concert is that you can FaceTime and text and do all that.

No problem. Because no one's on their phone. Some of the boomers are on their phones. Oh, right. You're saying they're not like sucking up the... The Wi-Fi. Yeah, the 4G. There's a new story today that the government could be looking at cameras that catch you on your phone while driving.

Like a speed camera or a red light camera, these cameras use technology to spot you in your car or on your phone. Question. How? Not that I do it. Yeah. Because I don't like being on my phone anyway, especially answering calls. But if it's on your lap, they can't detect that, can they? Like if you're hiding it down.

I'm guessing that the, I guess the criteria would be it would have to be in your hand, right? Right. And visible. It would have to be visible. And visible. So apparently they have been using these cameras in Sydney, Australia. Australia. Already.

They've started a trial in October and it's caught more than 11,000 drivers using their phone behind the wheel. And it doesn't say how many cameras they've been using. Maybe just a couple. Apparently, even at high speed at night and in poor weather conditions, Conditions? Conditions, I'm talking Australian. It's catching them.

So you think it's night time. Yeah. They're still working. High speed, still working. So this technology apparently is pretty amazing and it could be coming here. But do you think Vaughn ever goes, it's raining, it's inclement outside,

I'm not going to touch my phone. Actually, they've been really good lately. Thank you very much. You need a holder is what you need. I bought a holder. This is the weird thing about it. I bought a holder, except it held it right above your steering wheel.

Oh, that's stupid. You want it to the side. And landscape. You want it to the side and upright, right? Well, that's on you for buying. It was like this holder was made for watching things on YouTube while you're driving. Oh, my God. I didn't, but why else would you want you to see that?

You don't need your phone in landscape. That's on you, though, for buying a poor holder. Yeah, I was actually just got excited because it was a cheap one. There's a stat here from Data in New Zealand. How many tickets do you think the police give out for using your mobile phone while driving? A month. How many?

Oh. 200. Yeah, a couple of hundred, I would have thought. This blew my mind. 2,900. Wow. A month. A month.

Who's the worst offender? It doesn't break that down. I heard that in America and Canada, it's 30 to 50 year olds that are the worst offenders. Really? Younger people have grown up constantly being bombarded with why you shouldn't be on your cell phone while you're driving. So if you're between 30 and 50, you're more likely offenders. Over 50, no.

Right. Not using it as much while you're driving around So if you're between 30 and 50, you're more likely offenders. Over 50, no. Right. Not using it as much while you're driving around. F.M. There's always a new book coming out with something to do with the Donald Trump White House. I guess they must be selling

because everybody's got a new book, right? Because people are just like, what's happening? Because the latest one is by a guy that worked there for 500 days. Yeah. In a few years, there's going to be some awesome movies.

Oh, yeah. Can't wait for that. So the latest one really breaks down how Donald Trump spends his time. Okay. And he doesn't do much, does he? So this was based on the schedules from November the 7th, 2018 till the 1st of February, 2019. Okay. And a large majority of the timeth, 2018, till the 1st of February, 2019. Okay.

And a large majority of the time, over 50% of the time, was called executive time. And you might be thinking, that's okay because that's executive orders. Yeah. No. Meetings is the next one,

which is where you would have thought fell into executive time. Yeah. Travel. Lunch. Lunch a lot. Yeah. Travel, lunch, lunch a lot. Yeah. Lunch was almost double the amount of time that he spent at events as the official president of the US.

Yeah. And how much was it? Executive time was broken down into TV, wasn't it? That's Hammond as residents. Executive time was broken down into watching TV, reading newspaper, and tweeting, basically. So he's reading and looking at stories about himself and then tweeting about it, essentially.

More than, that's like half his day, isn't it? Or waking hours. Yeah. How is that possible? He's the President of the United States. Doesn't he have things he needs to be doing? I read an article when this came out and they asked staffers

from other presidencies. Yeah. Apparently Barack Obama and before him, Bush, very organised and everything was down in 10 minute blocks

or 20 minute blocks. Very busy days. Yeah. Barack Obama apparently stayed up sometimes reading until like two in the morning. Didn't sleep a lot.

Did he do that thing where you're reading late at night and you start falling asleep and you've got to go back a page because you realise that you'd stopped reading but your eyes were still going? And even Bill Clinton, before them, apparently he was quite disorganised.

He was disorganised? Apparently he was a bit all over the show, but Donald Trump, definitely the worst out of all of them that they looked at. Right. Yeah. Oh, great. It made me think there's got to be some lazy bosses out there.

Well, he's the top boss, isn't he? He's the big dog. Yeah. He just gets people running around. I'd like to know, and if you're brave enough, or maybe dub in an old boss. Okay. Or use a fake name.

Who's the laziest boss you've had? What's a great example of your laziest boss? Snoozing? Just look at me like this. Well, just people that bosses... I was trying to job in Ross, but I can't give any examples

because he's here early at the moment doing Secret Sam. Yeah, that's not lazy, is it? No. No. But, you know, you're right. Like, bosses that just

delegate to everyone and then literally do nothing. That's an effective boss. A good delegator. As long as the people they're delegating to are capable. Yeah, but if he's not, if the boss isn't, he or she isn't doing anything... No. A good delegator. As long as the people they're delegating to are capable. Yeah, but if the boss isn't, he or she isn't doing anything.

No, you're delegating. That's all they're delegating. Yeah, but what are they doing? Delegating. It's not a job. But things constantly come again. You heard of middle management? It's pure delegation.

Sounds like a sweet job. Where do I get one of those? Well, you're a white male. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding one. All right, well, let's take some calls. I'll't have too much trouble finding one. Alright, well, so let's take some calls. 0800 Giles at M 9696. Do you or have you ever had a really

lazy boss and how lazy were they? We're talking about your lazy bosses though. The laziest they can possibly get. The latest book on the Trump White House is released. He spends over 50% of his time in executive time. Now that's just shut the door on your way out, mate, and tell everyone to leave me alone.

Probably just running his business and tweeting and watching Fox News. Yeah. Someone said, my current boss is the laziest boss I've ever had. He's regularly late, leaves work till the last minute, and often goes home in the middle of the day for a nap at lunch. It's worth mentioning at this point that I'm self-employed. I like that. That's why I couldn't be self-employed.

You know when they're like, you should work from home and you get so distracted at home. I'd be in the fridge constantly. And I need someone to tell me off. I need someone to tell me to get to work. You should record all your motivational messages in that one hour of the week where you feel motivated to do something. Yeah. And then you replay them to yourself for the rest that one hour of the week where you feel motivated to do something. Yeah.

And then you replay them to yourself for the rest of the hours of the week. Joseph, you had a lazy boss. What happened? I used to work at a certain fast food restaurant, and a couple of times she'd turn up about an hour late and say she was going to be out back and not to disturb her. Okay. We go out there and she's curled up on the box,

the flattened cardboard box, sleeping off a hangover. That's, I mean, wow. I'm going to be busy out the back. Please leave me be. Why don't you grab some of that fast food on the way through the restaurant for a hangover cure? Don't disturb me. I'm doing the accounts.

And someone on the drive-thru wants like three large chips. A sundae. Yeah, some burgers. Joseph, thanks for your call. Some other text messages in. Our boss would say, I've got to go into a meeting and then pretend to be on a conference call, but just be reading his book.

Most of the time it was sci-fi erotica. Oh, okay. During work time. It's like sexy alien stuff, right? Yeah. Bit of sci-fi, maybe sexy robots. Anyway, something's got to be sexy. Yeah.

And slightly science fiction. Okay. Somebody else said we had an executive that would write his BMX to work always late, go to a couple of meetings, and then go and sit in the CEO's office, and then would always leave early because he had to go to a couple of meetings on then go and sit in the CEO's office and then would always leave early because he had to go to a couple of meetings on the way home. What was that? We're running, working in a t-shirt.

It sounds like a boss of a t-shirt company. Yeah. Doesn't it? Yeah, it does. Our boss arrives at 10.30 and leaves at 3.30. Wow. Spends most of the day on the news website, reading out news out loud to anyone who would be listening and telling you

to make your own decisions, you're a grown up. Well, you're the boss. I'm coming to you for the final say. My boss was so lazy. Well, my bosses were so lazy, plural, that the day I told them that I was resigning, they resigned

as well because they were worried it would become really obvious that they hadn't been doing their work and just passing it all on to me. What? So they both, one resigned and then the other one was like, this is all crumbling,

House of Cards is coming down. They resigned as well. I didn't hand in my resignation and I got the management position that they vacated. Cheeky. It's a hot play though. Hot play.

Very hot. Good morning, boys and girls. Today, we're throwing it back. ZM, ZM. hot play though hot play very hot good morning boys and girls today we're throwing it back yesterday hands music

well I mean if we're going back to the late 90s, early 2000s, we need some retro radio imaging, don't we? We do. Tonight in Auckland, this is pretty amazing. So pop is happening. Before I say the line-up, there's still tickets available. If you want to see Aqua, Venga Boys, Blue, Bewitched, Eiffel 65, Blue Bagger,

the Out Here Brothers, 2 Unlimited and Mr President all in one show. Wow. And it's tonight. It's happening tonight. And of course, it's a day off tomorrow. Oh, yeah. Mums have got a blowout planned, right? I think so, yeah.

Keep your mum in. Take it easy on mum tomorrow. Yeah. So we are going to theme the next hour. We're going to flashback. All of the we are going to theme the next hour. We're going to flashback. All of the songs are going to be artists that are playing tonight and we have a special guest joining us next. Lou Baker.

In fact, so special, the CEO's come down. He has. Bogsy. Bogsy doesn't turn up for anyone. No. Lou Baker, I'll tell you that much right now. So Lou Baker's going to join us in the studio next. What is life?

I think the CEO wants a photo too. That's why he's here. he's got his phone ready. I think he's getting his phone. It's pretty cute. We've broken the ice for you now. And we're joined in studio by none other than Mr. Mamba No. 5 himself, Lou Begg. Good morning to you. Good morning, Siddham.

Finally. You were just saying it's your first time in New Zealand. It's my very first time and I just recently said I should have been here 20 years ago, but wrong business decisions. Now I'm here, I'm enjoying your fantastic nature. The friendliness is all around. I get hugs everywhere.

It's fantastic. I've been missing out. Because that is the thing. It's 20 years since Man By My Number 5 came out. Unbelievable. When you were involved in the making of the song, any concept that 20 years since Man By My Number 5 came out. Unbelievable. When you were involved in the making of the song, any concept that 20 years on, this song would still be taking you around the world?

Not at all. By the way, maybe if calculated it a little bit, you know, the names that are used were names and are names that are used all over the world. I could have named girls like Iteltrout, for example. I wouldn't sit here today. That's very true. You went for some universally

accepted known names. When you were writing the names, was that a conscious decision? What names were you going to use? First of all, no. I wanted just to use past ladies and then I mixed it up a little bit. In the western world, you need names that people really have because they love to hear their names, of course.

That's the thing with the names you chose. Do women come up to you and they're like, I'm Rita. Every day, yes. In fact, the singer of Mr. President, her name is Erica. She was in the song? There's a little bit of Erica.

Wow. Or you go to a shop and a lovely lady says, hey, my name is Martina. I'm not in your song. Can you change it for me? I would if I could. It's 20 years too late. We can work on that for the revival, the new

one where it's got more. When it pops up because the song would still pop up in tv shows and movies and everything do you get still get a buzz out of it seeing people using it yeah for example just recently tracy morgan you know the comedian yeah you did a mammon number lubega biopic and all of a sudden you know know, you wake up in Australia and you watch that and you think, what did I do? Why? Why? But I love it. I love it. It's like one of the, I think, classics in pop music.

And it's an icebreaker. And you get like all the generations. That's the fantastic thing about the song. You get the babies and the grandmas and everything in between. And that's just a rare thing to happen. A catchy song is a catchy song regardless of age, isn't it? Yeah. An icebreaker.

Yeah. You pull it out, it works. So do you think you'd like it then when people do like versions of you and like parodies of you? You'd like? Yeah. Yeah. Anything is good.

You know, anything is good. Of course, there's things that are a bit obnoxious, but most of it is really positive and cool. Because I'd like to run one past you. Vaughn, who is actually sitting next to you. What are you doing? He's actually dressed up as you before, so I'd like to gauge whether this is that.

Can I just back story though? In the month of November we would do a different O-vember every day and one of them was Mambo-vember It was the last day of O-vember

See people come up with great things Mambo-vember And the idea was we wanted to find every woman from the song Yeah

I would start singing and we had a list of the ladies names and as soon as one had called up with each of the names we ticked it off I could stop singing Fantastic But had a list of the ladies' names and as soon as one had called up with each of the names, we ticked it off, I could stop singing. Fantastic.

But I think Megan's just got a photo. Oh, Megan. Ooh. I did my best. I'm wearing jandals though. I've never seen you wearing jandals. Yeah, I wanted this today too. It looks good.

It does look good. Kind of got the hat right. Yeah. It needed to be a white hat though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Panama or Bosolino, but it's good. It's look good. Kind of got the hat right. Yeah. It needs to be a white hat though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Panama or Bosalino, but it's good. It's all right. Do you still get free hats?

Free? No. Oh, you have to buy your own hats? Yes. It's crazy. Surely someone wants to fit you out with a hat. Or I should actually make them myself. You, that's a genius idea.

What do you do with your free time now? Oh, well, we're traveling a lot. That's really crazy. My family's always with me. For example, before we came to Australia, we've been traveling to the Philippines and did some mission work there. Oh, wow.

Yeah, that's what we love to do in our free and spare time. You know, And then go back Into the crazy world And mumble them up Fantastic Well I didn't ever think We'd be in this situation But would you like

To introduce your song Now Oh yeah I would love to Okay But it's a bit hard But I'll try my best Alright ladies and gentlemen

Wake up here in New Zealand Wherever you are Mr. Lubega The mumble king Is right here And I would love To introduce Ladies and gentlemen, wake up here in New Zealand, wherever you are. Mr. Lubega the Mambo King is right here. And I would love to introduce, ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo No. 5. We're joined in studio. Are you all right? Shut up, Dick. We're joined in studio by very special guest, Blue.

Hello. Hey. Hello. Good morning. Good morning, Megan. In my life. My God. I don't often get nervous, but this is like my teenage years sitting in front of me.

This is weird. Megan had a poster on her wall. Yeah, okay. We've kind of changed a little bit. Have you covered it now with black plaster and paint? That's good. That's interesting. Welcome. Have you been to New Zealandaland before yeah yeah once 18 years ago yeah a long time ago yeah a long time okay it's

good to be back to auckland and wellington yeah so what were your memories when you were here 18 years ago i don't remember too much actually there's been a lot of there's been a lot of parties there's a lot of damage that's gone on in the last 18 years. So it was in the early days of Blue that you came here? Yeah, literally. Within the first year? We never got asked back again. No. Must have behind you.

So we flopped like a jelly on a mattress, innit? But Megan was our friend, so she was a fan. She kept us going. She brought us back. Your husband was in a boy band. So you must have. Okay. What's a boy band?

No, let's not do this. Do you love a boy band, Megan? Who is it? Partial to a boy band. She's partial to a boy band. She wouldn't say no. She wouldn't say no to a little boy band. Oh my God, I'm so embarrassed.

I can't handle this. I just won't look at you. Who's your husband who's in a boy band? What's that? Have you got a husband that's in a boy band? Yeah, but you won't know the boy band. It's like a New Zealand boy band. Go on, go on, go on.

Titanium. Oh, Titanium. Damn. You know it. Never heard of him. He's super cute though. I've never heard of him. That's a good song though, Titanium.

That was a really nice song. I like him. When you ask a question. Are you going to be invited back in another 18 years? Misbehave so much that... You guys don't even look any different. No. What's partying?

Are you still naughty? No. I mean, we're not boring, but like we don't, you know, we don't get invites as much anymore. It's all like, you know, I don't know. Yeah, we don't really go to the opening of an envelope. We just, you know, we're mostly touring and seeing our kids and stuff. It's life changes.

So was it when you had kids that it changed? Or was it a little bit before that? Was there a moment where you're like come on lads I think kids do change your life yeah because it puts

things into perspective whereas obviously without kids it's just party party party party yeah it's going to last forever

now we're all family men and we're just like right okay we've got to sit down see what's right for the kids because at the end

of the day it's for their future do you know what I mean I'm either working or with my kids at the weekend I play in FIFA it's for their future, do you know what I mean? I'm either working or with my kids at the weekend. I play in FIFA. That's what happens.

Yeah. So touring now is just, what, early nights at the hotel, is it? And a cup of tea. No. A couple of drinks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wink, wink, nod, nod. I don't mind that.

I don't mind that. Who on the So Pop tour is still living that party lifestyle of the other bands? What's his name? I don't know. Is that Ray? Ray from Tour Unlimited.

He loves a party, him. Does he? Yeah, he's proper. He's a lovely geezer, but he's proper. He'll go till six in the morning. Really? Yeah, still be like Brighton Daisy.

Just, yeah, how you doing guys? You all right, man? I need my six in the morning. Really? Yeah, still be like Bright and Daisy. Just, yeah, how you doing, guys? You all right, man? I need my six in the morning. I need my six hours. And at six in the morning, you've had your six hours. You wake up bright and breezy as well. Bright and jet-lagged. Jet-lagged's been the worst.

Yeah, mate. Have you ever toured with any of the bands that are playing tonight or on this tour? Yeah, B-Witch. Yeah, Be Witch. Yeah, Be Witch. In the big reunion tour back home in the UK back in 2013. So we didn't know him first time round, but we've really grown really close to him even before that.

Right. Yeah, they're lovely. They're just our sort of like go-to people because obviously part of UK and Ireland. So we sort of hang out with them mostly. We went out to a tap and yaki last night here when we landed, which was landed which is real oh that's where they do the in front of you yeah we've now called ourselves blue witch so you've made a mega group you've witnessed the emerging of a super group nice hey we're looking forward to seeing you guys tonight at our so far would you like to introduce your song seeing as you're here which one is it we'll go all rise okay oh okay okay hi we're blue and this is all

right we've never done that before you guys are great for your first time show bags because tonight is so pop uh with blow and megan uh you hardly kept it together i had to have a drink of water because my mouth is dry oh my god it something. She was doing okay and then when I left she had to have a sit down. Oh my God. Look at my... Yeah, I was going to say before you got a bit red. Got a bit red and rashy. Who was the one leaving and they went to... Simon? Yeah, they went to shake... Okay, they went to shake your hand and you hugged them.

I didn't even see he had his hand out. I was like, sorry, I've gone in for the hug and I can't take it back now. And then Duncan called me baby and I was like, sorry, what now? Okay. They don't have us on in the car, eh? You'd hope not.

No, they're in the office waiting for another radio session. They'll have us on out there so they'll definitely hear this. Not creepy at all. Alright, it's time now for Fact of the Day! Day, day, day, day, day. Let me tell you today about Manfred Raminger.

Okay. Raminger. Manfred Raminger was a German architect, playboy, and undercover KJB agent. Ooh, okay. He once stole, this is today's fact of the day, a KJB agent once stole an American sidewinder missile in a wheelbarrow.

Okay. He literally walked onto the base of the wheelbarrow and put the missile in the wheelbarrow and chucked a sheet over it and then walked it out and posted it back to Russia. Posted it? Put it in a box with the address on it. It cost them $79 because it was quite heavy. Yeah.

And posted it through the mail. Okay. As you do. Yeah. And posted it through the mail. Okay. As you do. Yeah. That's all it is, what he did. Right. Just walked on with a wheelbarrow, put it in, put a blanket over it, walked out, chucked it in a box and posted it back to the Russians

so they could have a look at what, you know, military technology the US had that they didn't. Ballsy. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is a KGB agent once stole a missile in a wheelbarrow. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's our Soapop special. You can see Aqua tonight at So Pop.

And we're joined in studio right now by Rene from Aqua. Good morning. Hello, Kia ora. Hello. Oh, Kia ora. Kia ora. Kia ora. That was really good, actually.

Yes. I got my first tattoo here. It's a tiki. I have it on my neck. And when was that? That's a long time ago. So how many times have you been to New Zealand then? I actually think this is the fourth time we're here.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we really enjoy it every time. Unfortunately, we don't have so long time here. We go back again tomorrow to another country five hours from here and have another concert. But we try to spend as much time we can outside and see the beautiful country.

See the sights. So when was your first trip here? Oh, I think, actually, I was thinking about it earlier. I think it was about 1998, something like that. There was a big power cut in this town. Cable. That's right. And there hasn't been any,

or the people didn't come into town for about like two weeks. And then we came and they hired generators and different things. And then we had like a big square and we had a concert and all the people came back to the town. Wow. I remember that, yeah. Look at you, of all the places and concerts you've done, you remember a New Zealand one all those years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely, definitely.

Did you have any idea when you were riding Barbie Girl of the road and path and adventure it would take you on? No, no, no, no, no, definitely. Did you have any idea when you were writing Barbie Girl of the road and path and adventure it would take you on? No, no, no, no, no, no. We knew we had some kind of hit, but we didn't expect it to sell 36 million records. Yeah. So it, first of all, of course, came by surprise, but also that we had to give it different names

because we were afraid any of our friends or somebody would pick up our good idea, which we thought it was. And we thought, you know, it could maybe be a top ten in Denmark. Right. Then it turned out to be a number one around the world in more than 37 countries. So it had code names, essentially.

Yes. Do you remember what they were? We had Burger King. Yeah. So you just code names essentially. Yes. Do you remember what they were? We had Burger King. Yeah. It's going for big brands. Yeah, because nobody would go, oh. Burger King. I love it. I'm a Burger King. It works though, like syllable wise

it all marries up. It's got 586 million views on YouTube, which is amazing considering it came out in 1997, well before YouTube was even there. Is that just one of them? Oh, yeah, there's a few. Oh, no, that's Dr. Jones.

That one's the lyrics version. You should get that taken down because that's your copyright you deserve. That's good. Would you please just send me an email about all this? Yeah, yeah, I'll email you all these. Go through it. Just go through it.

Right. Dodgers. Yeah, and you've had 99 million on Spotify, which is insane because Spotify has only been around a little while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's amazing, you know. It's kind of, we've been so fortunate that the people coming out now is actually pretty young.

And it took us by surprise because, like, they are from, like, 14 and upwards. Right. And you would think they were from 45 and upwards. Yeah, yeah. But they're not, and it's kind of, you know, it kind of skipped a generation, and, you know, we get a second time around, so we're really, really blessed about that.

I've got a six-year-old and a four-year-old, and the first time I played it to them, they were like, what is this song? This is speaking to us. Why does the people look so weird, man? This is amazing. That was straight away, and I guess that's just the appeal of it, right? Well, I would sing about Barbies, so

it had their interest. But here's just that catchy nature of it. Thanks, man. Regardless of age. We love that song. Yeah, it's a great song. I always liked Dr. Jones. Oh yeah, Dr. Jones. Because I like Indiana Jones. It's not to sound big-headed, but we all in the band agree on that

when we have a concert, we only play number one hits. So all the songs you will hear tonight at Spark Arena has been number one around the world. Yeah. Fantastic. We don't have a second one. Only number one. You're not wrong.

You're not wrong, exactly. Not wrong. Including Dr. Jones. Including Dr. Jones. Good. Do you get lots of people asking you to be like, hi, Barbie? You know, come on, Barbie, let's go party.

Yes. Yes. If you sample that, please, you know, copyright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want some royalties. Yeah, of course. Yeah, people do that. Yeah, sorry.

I would expect they would do the same with other bands, you know. Sing that song again. But you know what? Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. Okay. Oh, I feel privileged. Thank you. But if we get the halftime slot next time, we'll do it.

Super Bowl. That would be 100% better than Maroon 5. Could you just imagine that? Aqua, Super Bowl. Put it out into the universe. It's out there now, you know what you put out comes back. Exactly.

Well, SoPop, it is happening tonight. There is tickets still available. Aqua, Vengaboys Blue, Bewitched, I-465 Blue, Bega to name a few and Renee from Aqua, thank you so much for joining us. Hey, and I tell you what, the first 10 people that calls you right now will get free tickets from me. You can do that?

I can do whatever I want. Whatever. I like it. I love it. I just did it. Okay, well, Caitlin can deal with that. I'll wait $100,000. I'll be doing 10 or 5 doubles.

You don't want people to go by themselves, do you? No. Bring a friend. 5 doubles. Should we do that? Okay. 0800 dials at M. Easy.

All right, Rene, thank you so much. Thank you, guys. 0800 M. All right. An Australian Facebook phishing page called Fried Fishing Australia. You can imagine already this is a classy sounding outfit. Fried Fishing Australia. Fried Fishing.

Yeah. Is in the absolute line of sight of many members of the public. After the moderator, and he's the moderator of this Facebook page. Yeah. He's a fisherman and I guess he likes doing it fried. Not fried. Not fried. As in like fish and chips.

No. Not the opposite to that. Yeah. Not that. Marijuana, fish. Fish and chips. No, not the opposite to that. Not that. Marijuana, Megan. Right. Drugs. High on dope. It's even hard to describe it.

It's pretty, like the shark is dead. There's a young shark, a juvenile. A baby shark. A baby shark. And that's the song that's playing while he does this. But he turned the shark dead, not alive when it happened, into a bong. And he's smoking a baby shark. He's smoking through the baby shark.

Now, I'm certainly no engineer when it comes to the physics of bongs or sharks. I don't really know how they work. That's terrible. And Facebook haven't taken that down. So it's had heaps of complaints and reports, but as yet, no, it hadn't been taken down. That's horrible, but also, is that hygienic?

That'd be very stinky. Are you allowed to catch sharks? He said his mate caught it when they were fishing in the mangroves. I don't know what that's relevant. Right. Would there be cruelty to animals?

If you were doing that to a dog, you wouldn't be allowed. You'd get charged for that. Somebody said the only thing you'd be charged on was drug use and he's like, no, it was tobacco. Yeah, because you can't prove it. Unless you drug test them. Yeah, they could arrest them and drug test them.

Come on, man. That's just like taste and decency, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know quite what it falls into because it is dead and so it may have been eaten. So it's not cruelty to animals then if it's dead? Yeah, I don't know. Disrespecting an animal carcass? I don't know.

Something. Find something. Find something, yeah. I'm not okay with it. And he's wearing a bucket hat, so there's that as well. I mean, that's to be dealt with. How many crimes are there in this Facebook post? Multiple.

Multiple.