ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - February 15 2019

Episode Date: February 14, 2019

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Welcome one, welcome all to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast brought to you by Spark. Get four gigs of bonus data on Spark's $49 prepaid value pack. Now, on with the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Happy Friday. Friday. Friday. Oh, don't, Anya, roll your eyes. Anya's in a grump today. She's not impressed by photos on the internet. Yeah.

Well, I don't want to. The interior of a Dreamliner 787 with no seats in it. It's a phenomenal picture. And she's like, Harry. Well, I just thought, how are you going to do long haul without any seats? It'd be very uncomfortable. I didn't realise that this was a pre-seat picture. I thought this was the plane.

Well, you thought this was a functioning aircraft. That's what I thought. Went on board and slummed it up. Sit on the floor in beanbags or something. That's what I was thinking. I was like, that's just silly behaviour. Imagine beanbags and you've just got a seat belt into the floor. Yeah.

I think because then you get an able-bodied nun eyes in the beanbag. Yeah. I'm onto something. Have you just thought of the future of the air travel? Yes. They take up too much room, though. No, you can get some slimline beanbags. Still not as slim as an airline seat, though.

God, can you imagine if one popped open during a flight? Oh, they'd be everywhere. They'd be everywhere. In fact, that's reason enough not to. Yeah. And then, oh, no, but how would you eat your meal? You'd chuck on all your fush? Oh, you'd spill it all over yourself.

Yeah, you would. Okay, maybe that's not a good idea, Megan. Speaking of airlines and aircraft, in the top six, there's some sad news for aviation lovers. Yeah, the A380. There will be no more A380s. Airbus is retiring their Super Jumbo.

Megan just rolled her eyes. Emirates have got one more order of them And then no more So from like 2021 There's not going to be Any more new A380s It is sad news Megan Well then

What are we going to do Get an A390 I don't know what's next 50 Because Boeing always do 7s They'll do 787s And 747s And they're a 7 number

And then And then Airbus is more A3. I really don't give a shit what number it is. Oh, the A3. Oh, no, there's something about the A380. Oh, it's beautiful. It really gets me going. I love when one flies over your house.

You're like, damn kids, quick. It's one of the big ones. I don't even know what plane you're talking about. The double decker. The double decker one. The one we went to Dubai on. The real, real big one. Oh, yeah, that's all right.

It's cool. That's the A380. It's cool. Yeah, it's a big one. It's massive. Megan, not so moved. It looks like some, it looks too big to fly. I know it does.

That's what I like about it. Physics. What? What's going on here? So the top six coming up. Yeah, the top six uses for old A380s. Oh, Christ. Okay.

All right. Also coming up on the show this morning, the Prime Minister, although she did stand us up last time. So I'm loathe to tease her too much. I'm loathe to tease her. I'm loathe to say she's coming up on the show. She may be in talks with Jaina. Oh, that Jaina.

I know, because Jaina hates us. Don't talk about the messy Jaina. It's a... It's a situation that needs fixing. It's a real situation, the Jaina. Oh, yeah. Well, apparently tourists are saying they don't want to come here

because we're not letting Huawei... Huawei. Yeah, but Huawei think they are. To hold us to ransom over the 5G network. We're not letting them do a 5G network. Yeah. So, I don't know. We can talk to her about that orG network. Doing a 5G network. Yeah. So, I don't know. We can talk to her about that or, I don't know, something else.

I don't know if you want to delve into this. This is really interesting. Someone was saying this could really affect our exports because China's a massive market. And tourism, because already people are saying that Chinese tourists are saying they don't want to come because they feel like we've backstabbed them. Yeah, but what do they care? Your average Chinese citizen.

They're very patriotic. But then someone's like, oh, our dairy industry without them would be... But then also, something phenomenal, like 66% of adult Asians are lactose intolerant.

So technically, when we send out our dairy products, we're just giving them the shits anyway. Don't tell them that. Hey, you guys want some milk? No, thanks.

It's not good for us. Lactose intolerant. It's nine past eight. Nine past six. Eight past six. It's eight past six. It's eight past six. Friday meltdown.

I blame Caitlin. Can we restart Fletch? Someone left him running overnight. Nine past six. All right, you lot. Listen up. Can we restart Fletch? Someone left him running overnight. 12.6. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Because it literally changed from eight to nine. Oh, my gosh.

And then... Time, eh? Oh, God, time. This is confusing. Oh, my God, have you guys used clocks before? I try to avoid them. Awful things. I don't know why Megan's laughing at me.

You can't even read analogue clocks and you're like 40. You can't read the digital. It literally says 6, oh, 9. She didn't say anything about me saying she was 40. I know, I was waiting. That was going to be the major... I'm not 40. Major point there.

Story time, three news headlines. And Vaughan and Megan, pick one of the following three. Headline one, residents warned about roof-a-lunches. Roof-a-lunches? About what? Roof-lunches. Oh, roof-lunches. Right, the snow falling off the roof.

Yes, okay, you got that. Always wanted to see one of those hit somebody. Because have you seen in Europe where it snows all the time, they have like the little iron, like the lovely old kind of apartment buildings have those like wrought iron kind of stops in the gutter. Oh, okay. I always just thought those were

decorative. No, it's so that it stops the snow like when it melts sliding off and hitting you on the... And like in Europe, you walk along in summer and they'll just have caution tape around like little bits because icicles form. Wow. And they just like obviously fall off

and stab people in the head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well that's what happened to that guy at the end of The Lovely Bones. Spoiler alert, I haven't seen that movie yet.

I don't think I ever will but if I ever do, thank you for spoiling that. Stanley Tucci. Yeah. Really ruined it. Ruined Stanley Tucci. See that's the thing I've never seen. He did too good a job. Yeah. Really ruined it. Ruined Stanley Tucci. See, that's the thing I've never seen.

He did too good a job. I've never seen it, so I love Stanley Tucci still to this day. Headline two, fire engine at fire station catches on fire. And headline three, special police unit set up. Those are the headlines today. Special police unit set up. Yeah. I'm all. Special police unit set up. Yeah. I'm all for special police unit.

The fire engine caught fire at the fire station and they put it out? With the fire? Sure. Oh, but the fire engine? The fire truck was on fire. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory.

All right, you'd like to go for the special police unit? How did it catch fire? Did someone not put oil in it or something? Well, I haven't clicked on the story to read it yet, Vaughan. Do you not read these stories? Some of them. But sometimes I save time

and I think, well, you're not going to go for that one. Oh, okay. So you assume, well, from now on. Yeah, now I'm going to try and pick the one

that you think we won't go for. You kind of hit it on the head, didn't you? Yeah. All right, well, we go now to Papa New Guinea. Papa New Guinea. Papa and New Guinea is what it should be called.

Papa, well, it's in the story, called Papa New Guinea. They're on the same island, but it's like Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Are they the same island? Same island. Yeah, same island. It's like that. Haiti's on the left, Dominican's on the right. Last year, at the end of last year, hosted the Apex Summit, you may remember.

Which was an odd... Some people said, well, that's an odd place to hold the Apex Summit with world leaders. I didn't want to say that loud, but it was an odd one. It was a good... Well, you know,

because people ate each other still in Papua New Guinea. There's still a bit of that. And you, remember your ex-husband saw someone get speared. No, macheted. Macheted. No, it was those New Zealanders that got speared. That's right, they got speared.

Yeah. Rough. I mean, no offence Zealanders that got spared. That's right, they got spared. Yeah. Rough. I mean, no offence to anyone that's from there listening. Well, I assume they haven't bought those, like, cannibalistic nature with them. No, of course not. Of course not. Well, when the APEC summit was on, they imported 300 cars to drive around dignitaries. Because you can't just put a dignitary, you know, a foreign prime minister or a leader in a, you know, Toyota, 80s Toyota.

Yeah, true. A ute and transport them from the airport to the APEC accommodation. So they imported 40 Maserati sedans. Oh, wow. And a whole lot of fancy ass cars, including Land Rovers, Fords, Mazdas and Pajeros, which I believe is Spanish for a-hole.

Yes, it is, yes. And they've still gone with that, haven't they, the pajero? Is it a Mitsubishi? They're stuck with it. Or a Nissan? Oh, no, it's a Nissan Safari. You are right. It's a Mitsubishi pajero.

Thank you. I mean, I don't know a lot about cars, but I know my pajeros. You know your 90s family four-wheel drive boat towers. They did. They were big in the 90s. Yeah, if you had a boat in the 90s, you had to tow it with a pajero. So the priciest vehicles of the 300 cars that were imported to Papua New Guinea included the Maseratis worth more than $100,000 and three Bentleys.

Good Lord. Now, all of those cars have been reported missing. 300 of them. Are just gone. Yeah, they're just apparently they're gone. Nine of the missing cars apparently have been stolen, some having parts removed, and a special police unit has been

set up to try and find these. Now apparently a lot of them have just been used by government departments and picked up, but still, everyone's just like, where are these 300 cars we had for the Apex Summit? That's nuts.

Hide it in your garage until the... Yeah, until the storm blows over. And then go back to driving your Maserati down the main street of... Because I thought, how hard is it going to be to find these cars? I mean, obviously a Maserati will stick out like a sore thumb. Any country, won't it? Because they're quite rare.

Oh, yeah, they're beautiful. But 7.3 million people live in Papua New Guinea. Wow. I had no idea it was that huge. But it would still be a developing nation. It wouldn't be the sort of place where a Maserati's commonplace amongst those 7.5 million people. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're not going to be at Port Moresby and see a Lambo roll by.

It's not Dubai. No, no. Yeah. So a special police unit's been set up, and that is now on the lookout for those expensive cars once used by leaders of the world. Wow. That's nuts. FEM.

ZM. We've got really upsetting news. I'd say the most upsetting death of the year so far. The Mars Rover Opportunity. The first one. No, the most famous one. I don't think it was the first Mars Rover Opportunity. The first one? No, the most famous one. I don't think it was the first one. Opportunity... The one that took the photos? Yeah, yeah.

And it was hooning around. It was like a little go-kart. So Opportunity... No, no, there was heaps. China's had a few. Sojourner, Spirit. Spirit was around for a little bit. Okay. It died in 2010. None that were able to take these kind of photos. No, this was the most advanced one and the longest life one.

This one landed in 2004 and went until just recently there was a really bad dust storm on Mars and they lost contact. Now, this was only supposed to be there for nine months tops, nine months of missions planned, and it exceeded everybody's expectations and was there for 14 years. Wow. Hooning around on Mars. It had solar panels on it and they don't know what's happened to it in this dust storm as they've lost contact.

Right. Isn't it weird to think that one day when there's more extensive Mars exploration, they'll find it? Yeah. And it might be like upside down or tipped over from the dust storm because its solar panels couldn't charge it. It just died there. Yeah, and it just got dust in its bits and pieces.

It was like... Done. And that was it. And it died. Well, it was officially declared dead yesterday. Like a missing person at sea or something. Yeah, they put out its final... This is the thing about these NASA missions. Yesterday. Like a missing person at sea or something. Yeah, they put out its final.

This is the thing about these NASA missions. Everything's kind of like planned, every possible outcome. Right. And they had a series of calls and they hadn't returned it. And yesterday was its final one. Right. And they were like, we've given up. And it didn't recall. And that was their last attempt.

So I'd imagine like they flicked off a little screen and it went down to a dot in the middle. But it was actually, people were really upset. I saw some NASA scientists and they were like crying because it had kind of been there. Well, you imagine you'd been working on something for all that time. That was your main thing.

Yeah. And there was people who work there say, when I worked here, when I started working here, it had already landed. So I haven't known life at NASA without this little Curiosity rover. And now it's gone. But if it's exceeded all expectations, you'd know that it was, like, coming, right?

Well, Barack Obama Instagrammed and said the following. Right. Don't be sad it's over. Be proud it taught us so much. Congratulations to all the men and women of NASA on the Mars rover mission that beat all expectations, inspired a new generation of Americans, and demand we keep investing in science

that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge. Isn't that quite a good president? And what did Donald Trump say? Quaint for a little... I think he blamed the Mexicans. He said it was a bad hombre on the remote, and that's why it happened. Wow.

But we've got another one's inbound, right? What's the one that's inbound? And they're like, this one's like next level. Yeah, it's next level. It's got all the nice cameras. Because it's like, you know, when you buy a GoPro, I brought a GoPro, and now there's already like one way better. Oh, yeah.

Just like, you know, if I'd sent my GoPro to Mars eight years ago, there's already like been 42 GoPros since then. Oh, yeah. The quality of photos, we're going to get back. It's all, it's just going to be so much better. Yeah, but is opportunity like the Nokia 3310? Is it just going to go and go and then we send a new one up and it only lasts like...

Oh, it lasts half an hour. Yeah. Probably. And then it turns out the other one was just like a little bit wet and it's been in the hot water cupboard at work again. The next ones do look rad though. Well, one of them's got a drone. One of them that's planning to go up there's got a drone.

So it can like dispatch the drone up and the drone can like search around and then land back on and charge because the drone obviously only has a little battery on board because you can't have the weight of solar panels. So it docks and recharges off the solar panels so they can fly again. I hope they don't fly near an airport. Okay. Yeah. Shuttles coming in and then drones, then they have to turn around and come back.

So some celebrities and some influencers were having a bit of a while yesterday because there was a huge drop in followers. So, I mean, you may have noticed a few drop off because this isn't just for people who have huge followings. This is for everyone across the board. You may have seen you lost a few followers and were like, ouch. Well, not as many as Selena Gomez, who lost about 2.3 million followers.

But Kylie Jenner, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, and Selena Gomez were the big ones hit. Right. But everyone noticed it and everyone was like, okay, well, Instagram announced last year they were going to do a,

they were going to take steps to look into third party apps and reduce the bots that were following people and everything. That's a waste of time. A lot of these bots and they,

what, they have fake accounts, they fake like. They fake like. They fake like and follow because then people will like follow back, you know, like for like. Yeah, right. So that's how they get extra followers and stuff. Yeah, right.

But they said they were going to crack down on these because they are fake likes and follows. So everyone was like, well, it's happened. Yeah. Right. But Instagram had tweeted that they were aware of the problem because some celebrities and stuff were tweeting them being like, what's going on? Yeah. Right. But Instagram had tweeted that they were aware of the problem because some celebrities and stuff were tweeting them being like, oh, what's going on?

Yeah. They were aware of the problem. People said, is it, you know, the follower purge? And they said, no, we are working on the issue. It's actually a bug. So I don't know if that means you're going to get your followers back or whether it's something they can't fix. Because it was weird yesterday.

We were looking at different people's accounts and then we're looking at our own. And when we viewed our own, it looked like we'd lost them. But then when we viewed ours through somebody else's account, like Fletch looked at mine, it hadn't lost any. Yeah, it's weird. So it is a bug. And then sometimes it will go away and then it will come back again

right like what am I doing wrong but yeah if you have noticed that if you've only got 100 or 200 followers and you lose 50

you'd be like ouch yeah did you really hate that last photo even if 50 of you are Russian bots looking to influence an election

this is still really hurtful for me it is so they seem like they're just looking into it and there's no facts. It is a bug and they're working on it at the moment is what they've said. From the ZM Think Tank

this is the Top 6. Hello there. Announced yesterday the A380 will cease production after its final order from Emirates. I've said no more after that thanks. RIP. Yeah. Airbus. I don't know what this means for a market

share for Airbus. They have moved on to the A350? Yeah. A350? X. A350 X, which can go long distance. Or their answer to the Dreamliner. Nah, it's not bigger. It's not bigger, eh? Just go longer.

They want them to go longer. Yeah. Less people, longer distance. Okay. But then Etihad cancelled an A350 order recently too, so maybe it's not looking so great. Right. For the Airbus.

For the Airbus folk. But, I mean, it's RIP the A380. What a... I mean, they're going to be around for a little while. It's a double-decker one, Megan. Yeah. It's a big one. It's very exciting. they're going to be around for a little while. It's a double-decker one, Megan. Yeah. It's a big one. It's very exciting.

They're going to be around for a little while. Oh, thank God. Because obviously they've made them. Yeah. And they're going to be in the fleet, like the 747 Jumbos. Around for a while. They'll be around for a little while. God, but then that's it, Megan.

Yeah, that's her. All she wrote. Yeah. But then there'll be another big plane. Imagine if a shoe brand closed down a particular style. Okay. Like Air Jordans. That's definitely a thing, eh?

Exactly, that's a thing. Imagine if they were like, no more. But then you couldn't do half of this. But then you'd just get another shoe to love. Or you'd get another plane to love, but you miss the classics. So the top six uses for an old Airbus A380. When we don't have them anymore, when they've been decommissioned, what are we going to do with them?

Well, number six, make it into a McDonald's. Like that plane in Topol. Could you imagine how huge that would take up? Like more than a McDonald's. Like that plane in Topol. Could you imagine how huge that would take up more than a McDonald's? I reckon Rotorua should do it. That's a real FU to its lakeside sister town. It's like, oh, cool, you've got a DC-3. We've got an A380. You can literally drive through ours.

Yeah. The drive-through is up into it, back down out. That's just how we roll. You can actually drive. You can make the drive-through in it. That would be brilliant. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top successes

for an old Airbus A380, a bowling alley and roller disco. In one. Good call. In one. Yeah, you board. It's long and straight. Yep.

Thus making it great for a bowling alley. Probably only two alleys. Yeah. Side by side. Well, three, you get three side by side. Then you have to have some room to walk past. Yeah, you'd be very close. And then a roller disco as well.

Brilliant. Flat floor, great for it. Number four on the list of the top six uses for an old Airbus A380, a tree house. Now, you're going to be needing a massive tree. Tane Mahuta, I'm looking at you. Yeah, yeah. It's your time to shine.

Like, how long do we know how long that tree's got left anyway because of the carry die back oh god I hope yeah I'm not sure

we should get an Airbus in it just what at the top just chop it in half and put the plane at the top or or when the

if the tree dies just put the plane on the end and then paint it brown no one would even know oh yeah that's a good idea it looks heaps like a tree.

Number three on the list of the top six uses for an old Airbus A380 are student accommodation. Oh, yeah. Good. How cool would that be? Like dorms. You could fit so many dorms in there. Well, yeah, because accommodation's tough this time of year. Wellington, you know, a lot of tough to find places.

Yeah. Park it up. Put some curtains in there for walls. Yep. Call it the Mile High Hostel. Or just get a business class seat. Put all business class seats in there. Yep. Park it up. Put some curtains in there for walls. Yep. Call it the Mile High Hostel. Or just get a business class seat. Put all business class seats in there. And you just rent those.

And you've got to fit all your living stuff in the overhead locker. Yeah. Brilliant. That's how it'll work. That'll be good. Number two on the list of the top six uses for an old Airbus A380 is swimming pool. Just cut the top off. That would actually be so cool.

Well, mate, I was trying to find out exactly how much pressure a plane fuselage can take. Yeah. Because... What's a fuselage? The body of it. I'll just say the plane's body. The plane. It's called a fuselage, Megan. But how much pressure? Because they're pressurised, right? Yeah. Because when you go up if they weren't there, we'd all die.

Because there wouldn't be enough oxygen. So they've got to pump them up a little bit. So they can take a bit of pressure. So they could probably hold a lot of water. Pretty strength. Cut the top off though. You're affecting the structural integrity. I'll look into this more. Number one on today's top six uses for an old Airbus A380.

An underground bunker. How rad would it be to dig a massive asshole, put an Airbus A380 in it, cover it over and have it as an underground bunker? It would be a big... And again, they're made to take pressure, so I don't think it would be a problem. Yeah.

Great idea. It'd be good fun. Great idea. Great for doomsday preppers. They don't exactly have the billions sitting around to buy an A380. No. No. That is today's top six.

FEM. I've got great news. If you love a tato, which I do. Megan, I know you love a tato. I love a tato. I like tatos in chip form. Yeah, you're a big fan of slicing tatos and then deep frying tatos. You like kumara.

Yeah. Well, I love carbs. You know I love carbs. Yeah. We all love carbs. Unfortunately. Too much. So people get rid of carbs, don't they?

A lot of modern diets call for ignoring carbs. Or Atkins, keto. A lot of paleo. Yep. Dukin, whatever that is. Dukin? Tekin? No, that's the fighting game.

Oh, okay. That will make your life shorter. Tekin's greater than Dukin. If you fight Tekin. Yeah.icken's greater than Dukin. If you fight Ticken. Yeah. So Atkins, Dukin, they all say that lower carb, higher fat is the way to go. Yeah. Well, there's been a massive study conducted.

This has tracked 447,000 adults around the world. So that's quite substantial. That's huge. That's not just like a focus group. That's a very large group. And they studied what makes up these people's not just like a focus group. That's a very large group. And they studied what makes up these people's diets and the longevity of life. And it seems like the ones that cut out carbs completely

did not live as long as those whose 50% of their daily calorie intake were made up of carbohydrates. Now, obviously, that doesn't mean donuts, pizzas, kebabs. But then you look at nations where people live a long time, like Japan, Italy. Italy, they do. They eat carbs. But they just don't eat as much sugar, I feel.

Yeah. You know, like they might be eating rice, you know, pasta and stuff, but there's not a lot of sugar in that, is there? No, not as much as donuts. Not like added sugar. Yeah. Or highly processed stuff. So it wasn't just carbs, and this is bad, bad news,

but those who combined low-carb diets with high animal protein, they died a little bit younger, as opposed to those who consumed plant-based proteins. Well, that's the other thing about Italy and Japan. Their pastas and stuff, they don't have a huge consumption of meat. Japan's fish, a lot of fish in the diet. And when it is meat, it's very thinly sliced. It's not like a 400-gram porterhouse steak.

No, we go a bit overboard. I saw that fake you know, that fake mince meat, but it's plant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see that mixed in with the normal mince and it looked exactly the same? It's at the supermarket. It looks exactly, I was like, I'm going to try this. And then I saw the price, which

was like $12 or $10 or $12. For months. For months. For how much? For like 400 grams a month. Expensive for months months And I was like I really want to try this But I'm not going to spend 12 or 10 dollars But it's that

Catch 22 right We have to start buying it To make it cheaper Or something Yes Yeah But I feel like They need to be the ones

To drop their pants first Like You got the classic Mexican pants stand off Have we Like who's taking Their pants down first Like you want me

To try your product, start it at a low rate, and then, you know... Get me addicted. Get me addicted. To your plant mints. Because, I mean, I'm all about saving the planet. Yeah. And that looks so much like mints.

I didn't expect it. Like, that's the thing. I reckon if you mix it into, like, you know, a bolognese or whatever... You're not going to know. You're not going to notice. Vaughn? I haven't tried it. I'd be totally willing to try going to notice. Born? I haven't tried it.

I'd be totally willing to try it. Have you seen it though? No, no, I haven't seen it. You wouldn't put a mince label on it. You wouldn't tell. Well, I might see if I can withdraw some of my KiwiSaver and I'll buy some and I'll let you know how it goes. Remortgage the house. Hey there. This is an unusual request. I need

to remortgage my house. I want to try some of that plant-based mints. FVM, the podcast. A man has been torn to shreds, one would say, on TripAdvisor. He asked a question on TripAdvisor. I'll always Google travel questions, and normally someone in TripAdvisor has already asked it. If you want to know

what the best cell phone provider is for a tourist yes guarantee it's already been asked so don't ask well how do I get from this island

or this country to the next it will already have been asked yeah I've never asked a question don't be the person that asks

it's like on community Facebook pages where someone will ask a question does anyone know any good local Tylers and then the next week

does anybody have any connection for a good Tyler? Rather than just searching Tyler. In the page, yeah. And I'm talking about the job, not a person called Tyler, because I've never met a person called Tyler that's, you know, switched on. I've never met a person that's switched on either.

You don't know any. They're all judgmental pricks. Unbelievable. I apologise to any Tylers listening. Well, no, but that's just my personal experience with Tylers. Well, don't tarnish all Tylers. Don't give me sound on Jareds. Again, don't. No, I know a couple of nice Jareds.

Always one R though, not two R's. Oh, not two R's and an O. No, but I know a two R's and an A. Gerard. Oh, Gerard. Gerard. Gerard. Oh, not two R's and an O. Yeah, but I know a two R's and an O. Gerard. Oh, Gerard. Gerard. Gerard. Oh, my God.

Calm down. Gerard. Anyway, no good anyway. You look at it. No matter how you paint it. So, this tourist asked for advice. They said they were flying into Sydney. Yeah.

And then they were planning on driving to New Zealand, to Auckland, and then to Queenstown, and then flying back home from Queenstown. Right. I'm hoping that I can hire a car in Sydney and drive it through to Queenstown and drop it there. Right. Yeah. I'm recently told that driving across two countries requires

separate rental car agreements. It'll certainly require some insurance forms for your water-damaged car. I would not be the first to have seen the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge and see the type of bridge they are and think, well, they both go up over the top. Maybe it's the same bridge. Vastly different bridges. Yeah, but at a quick drop.

Will you actually pay attention to bridges? Yeah. Yes. So he asked the question, and there was some really nice replies, just being like, oh, you actually need to fly that, and there's no bridge that joins it. Yeah. But there were also the people trolling him,

telling him to just make sure the windows wind up quite tightly if he's planning on doing the drive. Did he reply at all afterwards? I haven't seen any replies. I think he just did that thing where he just maybe looked through the answers, realised his mistake. I would have deleted the answer,

the question pretty quickly. The same. I would have not left any kind of evidence of my stupidity on an online forum. It's a classic and we've talked about it before,

but there's always a new story about what people have thought about New Zealand or the weird questions you've been asked about New Zealand when you've been overseas. Americans are the worst. Americans say this.

They're like, oh, well, how long does it take to drive to New Zealand? Do you know why they started making the TV show and the game Carmen Sandiego? We're in the world as Carmen Sandiego. I learned this recently. Because Americans didn't know anything about the world? Nothing. One quarter of Americans couldn't identify the Pacific Ocean

on a map or the USSR, who at the time they were in conflict with. Yeah, right. They wouldn't be able to point them out on a map. Well, even didn't Jimmy Kimmel recently do that as well? He took a map down to the street and he was like, name any country, and half of them couldn't name our country. Oh, you are kidding.

And then some little kid came and like blurted half of Europe and all of them couldn't name our country. Oh, you are kidding. And then some little kid came and like blurted out Europe and all of the Americas and everything. We are a country of travellers. So when you've been overseas, what is the stupidest thing somebody's asked you about New Zealand or thought about New Zealand? Like, do we live in mud huts?

Yeah, that's a common one. Do you have electricity down there? Yeah. Do you have sheep for pets Yeah do you all have a sheep Yeah Yeah but not that long ago Everybody did Yeah

That's just a matter of time Really Okay so give us a call We want to take your calls 0800 DALS at M9696 When you've been overseas Or you've met someone From another country

What's the stupidest thing They've asked you Or said about New Zealand? And we'll just share those. And have a lulz on a Friday. A man on TripAdvisor asked about renting a car in Sydney and driving it to Auckland and then on to Queenstown to return it was subsequently torn to shreds

because of his lack of knowledge of a country that he'd already booked tickets to. You know what? He's not the only one. No. And we are taking your calls now and your text messages, those times when someone has said something stupid to you

about our lovely country. Somebody said, our English students asked me why we don't sing the haka as their national anthem is sung. And I said, no, the haka's not our national anthem. We've got a national anthem as well.

And then when part of it was in English, they were like, it's weird that it's in English. And we said, we speak English. That's one of our languages, yeah. And then the Maori verse came on and they said, is this part the Haka? So yeah, it was very confusing times for them and asked if we eat Kiwis like they eat chicken. Which isn't, I can understand why people don't know heaps about the Kiwi. It's a weird bird. It is, yeah, it is.

When I was in Ireland, I got told my English was amazing for someone from New Zealand. Yeah, right, yeah. Because it's not our first language. I'm from the UK, but before I moved here, I just assumed New Zealand was one big single round island. Like a volcano, like Rangakoto, but really massive. Yeah. Maybe. Or just one big single round island? Like a volcano like Rangakoto but really massive. Yeah. Maybe. Or just one

big Waiheke. Yeah. Full of vineyards. I mean it kind of is really isn't it? Yeah. Alright we'll take some calls. Jo what was something stupid that somebody said to you about New Zealand? Hey so I used to work on cruise ships and we had a lot of Americans as passengers. Okay. So we had quite

a lot of stupid things quite often. Okay. And I had a guy come into the bar one day, and he was like, so you're from New Zealand, right? And I was like, yep, yeah, I am. He was like, wow, you speak really good English. Another good English comment. Yeah.

And I was like, oh, thank you. He was like, yeah, hey, can I ask you a question? I was like, yep. He was like, do you guys still live in mud huts over there? Why do people think that? Where does that come from? I was like, no, no, my mum just bought a house last week, so we're the first person.

And he was like, oh, congratulations. But then, like, multicultural, there was never mud huts as far as I know. There may have been pre-New Zealand days, but it was all buildings with wood and sticks. There might have been a bit of mud plastering and stuff involved. But not like your African mud hut. No. No.

Yeah, I don't know what he said. Because you'd bloody get one of these New Zealand downpours and your mud hut would be down the river, wouldn't it? Yeah, it just doesn't work. You'd have a leaky home. Thanks, you're cool. Jo, Alex, what was something stupid that was said to you about New Zealand? Well, I was working in America as a waitress.

And what happened is someone came up to me and said, wow, you've got a very unusual accent. Where are you from? And we said, New Zealand. I was working with my friends. And what happened is they said, do they have running water there? And I was like, well, we're a normal country, so I suppose we do. What did they think that we were just third world and had to get river, water river, river

from the water, river water, water from the river. There you go. There you go. Yeah. And they also said they used to pay me money to say hi or recorded a sentence for their phone so that if someone didn't pick up the phone, then they'd be like, Hi, my name's so-and-so from New Zealand.

They just loved it that much. That's called an answer phone. I can see why these Americans thought we were a little bit behind in TV. What is this machine that answers your phone for you when you can't? Hey, thanks for your call, Alex. Leontay, what was the strangest thing someone asked you about New Zealand? So I work out at Hobbiton Movie Set, and I've been asked many questions. I've actually been asked if our bumblebees are real,

as well as if hobbits are real. Wait, do they think that bumblebees are sort of a where to workshop many robot drone thing? Yeah, well, that's what I've been Wait, do they think that bumblebees are sort of a wetter workshop mini robot drone thing? Yeah, well, that's what I've been asked if they're real because they're so big that people think that they are just robots. We have it with all our animals out there. We have it with our ducks as well that are just out on the pond. They're like, those ducks are real.

Are those real ducks? Yeah. I can't believe they think. Have they never seen a bumblebee? I've heard that our bumblebees are bigger than We've got fatties. We've got fatty bumblebees. Fatty bumblebees. I get it asked on a daily basis. Yeah, no, it's quite funny

but you sort of get used to it in the end. That is insane, eh? I'd love to work there just for the crazy stuff people ask me. Just for the stories. Yeah. Leontay, thanks for your call. Some other text messages in. Someone said whereabouts in Africa is New Zealand because there's a Z in the title and all countries with Z in the title are in Africa.

I mean, that stacks up. Really? Yep. Zambia. New Zealand. All African countries, of course. My sister was traveling to the US and asked if New Zealand saw the same of course my sister was travelling to the US

and asked if New Zealand saw the same moon as the rest of the world no we get the second moon yeah we get the other one the other one the clone moon what the hell

we get southern hemisphere moon somebody asked when I when I was in America and I referenced a television show, they were blown away as they just assumed New Zealand didn't have television. They were like, how do you know about that?

I was like, it's on TV. What, do you have TV down there? They were just blown away that I had TV. Somebody else said that I got asked whereabouts in New Zealand I was from. I said Auckland. And they said, oh yeah, Auckland's where the bridge is that joins the two islands, right?

I was like, what? And they thought Auckland was Wellington and the Auckland Harbour Bridge joined the North Island to the South Island. Well, that's better than thinking it joined Sydney. Yeah, at least. I was in America and I was really loving this dog and I was patting it heaps.

And somebody said, is she all right? And my friend from America replied, yeah, they don't have dogs in New Zealand. She's very excited to see one. And afterwards I said, that was a funny joke. And she was like, oh, why? Do you guys actually have dogs in New Zealand? And it wasn't a joke.

She just actually thought we didn't have dogs down here. Because what? Americans are the only ones with dogs. Yeah. Someone said, I was traveling overseas with my friend who's a New Zealander. Her parents are originally from Singapore. And when we're in America, people would say, where are you from? We'd say New Zealand.

And they would say, she a Maori. I'm sorry. No, her parents are from Singapore. So she's not a New Zealander. Yeah, she's a New Zealander. It blew their mind how that all worked. And someone asked somebody when they were overseas if living in New Zealand gave you headaches more often.

And because they believed when you went around the globe to New Zealand, you'd be upside down. And when you hang upside down for a long period of time, you get a headache. That's not even geography. Wow, that's just stupid. Absolutely stupid. And it's happening tomorrow at the Blue Lake Lake Tikitapu

in Rotorua. The weather forecast, 29 degrees high. A big fat sunshine. No mention of rain. It is going to be a stinking hot day and what a day. New Zealand's only festival floating on water. You can see

Drax Project, Mitch James, King, Saatchi, Chesby, Jupiter Project, Thea, Balu Brigada, Foley Mountain Boys, Stan Walker as well. Now tickets are still available. You can go to grabone.co.nz $65 and if you are coming tomorrow, all the questions

that you have are at ZM Online. We're joined in studio by float alumni, Mitch James. The veteran. The veteran. You are a veteran. Yeah, three years now. It's ridiculous. I've only actually been in the game three years, but I'm that float guy now.

Do we have you locked in for like a five-year contract or something? Must be in the fine print somewhere. Yeah, that was good. Good play from us. Do you remember the first year it was just a little stage on a truck and the generator broke? Yeah, I remember that because I was on stage. It was about 45 degrees as well.

I sweat bad enough as it is on stage. That was something, yeah. Well, that forecast for tomorrow as well. It's looking like another hot day. Great. And we've got extra acts now and more area and a different venue. Oh, it's growing. It's growing so much. Now, what have you been up to over summer? You had a good summer? Yeah, I actually just chilled, to be honest, man. I didn't really have any gigs and took some time off of everything,

off of social media and all that jazz, and just sort of got back to what sort of got me here in the first place. Yeah, it was good fun. Is social media a bit of a drag for you? Because I'd like to think that you're a Kiwi, so Kiwis support you and wouldn't say anything bad on your social media. Is that the case? Not necessarily. Kiwi so Kiwis support you and wouldn't like say anything bad on your social media is that the case not necessarily I think I think um it's kind of got to a stage where uh I mean I've been

I've been called out for quote-unquote making South Island men pansies um oh my god it's just I mean it's just losers to be honest but I mean the general population is quite supportive but I just took a break from it to just sort of be honest but i mean the general population is quite supportive but i just took a break from it to just sort of get away from the whole comparing yourself to everyone thing but but no there's definitely some people that love to love to have a crack i can't believe someone would say that hey that's what the hell and like their names next to it yeah like yeah yeah oh it's hilarious it's hilarious you come off social media and then your mum trolls your new tattoo anyway. Yeah.

Thanks, mum. So you got a new tattoo. Yeah, I got like a little silhouette of my album cover. And then as soon as I got home from tour, my mum then called me self-absorbed. That's a bit nasty. Nah, you've got to run it through the mum filter because they'll tell you how it is without being unnecessarily rude. Yeah. You know.

Just trying to keep me grounded, eh? It's mum truth. It is also on me for the rest of my life too. So mum was too late. You should have asked mum, I'm just about to get just, hold on, turn that off. I'm just going to ring my mum. Mum, I'm going to get a tattoo of the album.

Cover my mum. What do you think? Self-absorbed. Okay, fair call. Cancel that, mate. Just colour my mum. Mum, I'm going to get a tattoo of the album. Cover my mum. What do you think? Self-absorbed. Okay, fair, cool. Cancel that, mate. Just colour it in. Yeah, yeah. Has she had any other gold comments about your career

or how you're doing in your life? Not really. Not anything that lives up to the self-absorbed tattoo. But mum's generally quite supportive. Oh, that's good. Most of the time. Most of it. 99 Most of the time. 99% of the time.

Your dad's just online saying you're making South Island men pansies. He actually is a South Island man, so I'm actually going to do some research into this mysterious character. It might be Dad's secret Instagram. Maybe my parents are just jealous of me. I think that's the whole story. They want you to move home and take over the family business. Right. Mould down the knees

about his musical career. So as someone who's been to Float before many times, you perform there, you technically don't work for us because we can say it's amazing. Why should people go, do you think? I just think it's pretty much

the cream of the crop of New Zealand artists and it's just a fun day on the water and good vibes. And yeah, I mean, trust me, I've been there three times now. You keep coming back. Yeah, no, it's just an awesome day.

And I'm in the new venue last year. It's just, yeah, it's incredible. It's so beautiful. And Mitch will be there. Yeah. Tomorrow, and you're definitely going to need some sunscreen. Tomorrow, if you do want tickets, grabone.co.nz $65 and as you said

the cream of New Zealand music at the moment it's a pretty bloody good price for the top dogs yeah it is and of course the Bomb Comp Tower

is there as well all the details are at ZM Online and for those tickets go to grabone.co.nz Lake Tikitapu tomorrow the Blue Lake Rotorua it's all ages

alcohol free and all thanks to Tip Top Trumpet. Mitch James, thank you so much. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you guys. Cheers. So this is our segment where we take someone who has never done something. We're sitting in a Black Thunder in a KFC car park with

Monique who has never had fried chicken. You've never had ever any fried chicken? No. It's beyond comprehension. Never. And what about ordinary chicken? Yeah, like chicken off the bone, like de-skinned, de-boned, everything like that. But not fried chicken.

Have you heard the hype? You are aware of everyone's passionate love because how old are you 28 that just blows my mind were you not allowed

it as a kid or no my parents we just never had it like my mum grew up in Holland they don't really have fried chicken there so

using the catholic school girl model of they're not allowed to have sex and then when they're allowed they go crazy surely if you never

had fried chicken when you're allowed to, you'd go crazy. Never. No. Never crossed your mind. I mean, like at university, they offered it to me, but I wasn't really like... Aware of the hype. Yeah. From a sheltered Dutch upbringing.

All right, well, we're going to drive through. Are you going to be through a KFC drive-thru? No. Oh, my God! I feel privileged that you're doing it with me. I know. This is're doing it with me. I know. This is great. Great to witness.

So, okay, so I think we're just going to order a Big Bucky. That's a bucket. And then we'll come back around and we'll park in the car park and you can try it for the first time. Thanks to our sister station, Radio Hauraki, for the voucher. We're literally going to ask for as much chicken as $50 can buy us. Okay, sure. Sounds good.

So how does it work? So you've got like the fry part and then... Oh my God! There's chicken underneath. Oh my God, the skin's the best part. At KFC there's 11 herbs and spices. No one really knows the recipe and it's like coated in like a batter. And then that's on the chicken and then they fry it.

KFC should be giving us a lot of money for this segment. And this old guy with the beard, he's called Grandad Chicken. Okay. He invented chicken. So we've parked up with Monique. We've just ordered a giant bucket of chicken. The smell, firstly. Yeah, it's strong.

I'm going to lift the flap on the bucket. You stick it up to the old sniffer and give it a... Yeah, I definitely want to try it. Yes. It's inviting. That's how they get you. Can I just ask, you've it up to the old sniffer and give it a... Yeah, I definitely want to try it. Yes. It's inviting. That's how they get you. That's how they get you. Can I just ask, you've never walked past Caves and smelt this and gone, I want that?

No. It's like human burly. You walk past it, it draws you in. Okay, so now visually, those are wicked wings on top. They fall into the fried chicken family. Okay. What do you think visually? How does that look?

Yeah, like it's interesting it's kind of like your normal chicken's got a coating almost yeah yeah pretty much cooked in extremely hot oil and just under that this is your standard chicken okay do you want to try one of those first you're more traditional yeah a smaller piece maybe not the okay okay well dig in because you've never ever had fried chicken. Okay. Oh my gosh. Okay. You don't hold it like that. How do I hold it?

Like on the side. Yeah, there you go. Grab it. Grab it. Grab it. Let it have it. Yeah, it's okay. It's okay.

It's okay. It's nice. Like just because I've never had it It's like eating batter I suppose But So that's a That's an underwhelming Wow Do you need a bite of wicked wing?

Yeah Try a wicked wing Yeah try one of those How do I hold it then? However you like I won't judge you on how you hold a wicked wing That's up to the individual Well if that's got a bone in it though

Don't try it Go on for I've never even thought about it You've got to go on the side You've got to hold a wing horizontally. Yeah, you'll break a tooth trying to bite a bone. It's so hot. That'll happen when things are deep fried.

You're learning so much today. I like these better. You like the looking wings better. All right, all right. That's what we're after. That's the reaction. Wow. Well, now you can say that you have tried fried chicken as a 28-year-old for the first time in your life.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But I'm glad I could do it with you guys. Yeah, well, it's been a pleasure to experience it with you. And if there is something that you have never done, like eat fried chicken at the age of 28. I just still cannot believe that someone could go through life without eating fried chicken. It's so yum. I was still a little bit disappointed, by the way. And through life without eating fried chicken. It's so yum. Somebody messaged you saying they're 30. And they've never had fried chicken.

But I was also confused. I mean, we're not shouting everybody KFC if that's kind of what you're aiming for. I was confused because she never had a decent reason why not. No. I need you to like. Yeah. It wasn't like it was banned. It could be anything.

You've never tried. For your age. It's weird that you haven't, you haven't experienced this yet. ZM online to register. FLEETS for Megan. So, no. I think our phone lines literally have just shared themselves. And right before ZM's secret sound as well.

Most people won't care about the Prime Minister not being able to call through, but they'll care about being able to guess their secret sound, won't they? Yeah. Yes, bizarre. What a bizarre situation. Right when we were meant to go on air. Murphy's Law, they'd say. What peculiar timing.

Some would say we were due to talk to the Prime Minister. We were going to ask her about Huawei and our Chinese relations. Who's calling me? Is it a blocked number? No. It's not Jacinda Ardern. No, I don't think so. The Prime Minister's not calling you. Answer it. It could be the Prime Minister. I was just about, is it? No, I don't think so. The Prime Minister

isn't calling you. Answer it! It could be the Prime Minister! Answer it! I've missed it. Oh, for now. Huawei.

God, you Huawei on? I was going to say we were going to talk about Huawei and now our phones aren't working? I don't think this is a coincidence.

Can someone call if you were calling for one, call them back? We all want to know who it was now. No, because I've got her number I would have flashed it. No, it was a mobile phone number.

You can just answer it privately and then just be like, oh, no, this is not for a phone conversation. I'll do it again. Oh, God. That could have been like a secret service or something. Maybe it was. Do we have a secret service? Should I call it back?

No, because it could have just been a wrong number. Call it back. Because what if it's... Someone is ringing the hotline, but I can't answer it. You can't answer it. Hi, how are you? Yeah, we don't know what's wrong with our phones. It is the Prime Minister, guys.

Oh, just put her on speakerphone. I'll just put her on speakerphone. I'm going to hold the speakerphone up to the microphone, okay? So you're on air now. Good morning, Prime Minister. If you want to take a seat, call your personal number. Yeah, these things happen. I mean, they don't, but that's, we, you know, we didn't know what was going on because our phones just stopped working. We did say on air we were going to

ask you about the whole Huawei situation. So I don't know if this is China or what's happening. Related. Look guys, I think probably a slight stretch to say that something's happened to your studio phone because of our diplomatic relations. I do love the commitment she has to call us back though.

Yeah, thank you. I don't like to miss an appointment. Right, no, that's where we do it. I don't like to miss an appointment. Right. No, that's good. Thank you very much. Well, how was, just quickly, because, you know, now that we've dealt with all the fine stuff,

the time has slipped by. How was Valentine's Day? Look, I think that really this year for us was probably just an example of how, regardless of what particular special occasion arises, life still happens. Clark had food poisoning. Oh, that's not sexy. I had to go to Nelson, and so I had my cousin pick up a loaf of white bread for him for Valentine's Day. Wow.

Very romantic. Romantic, yeah. How was Nelson? Look, Nelson has an incredible community. Anyone who's visited there will know that, and that's really come to the fore with the fires. I visited a school that is currently meeting in a community church instead of their school because they were in Wakefield

and just didn't want to risk the issues with the evacuations. But the kids didn't want to go back to school. They all told me they'd like to stay at their new home forever. This is easier to get away with stuff when you're not in a specifically designed school, I think. I think there's a bit more drawing going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a bit more of that sort of thing. And seriously, we're worried about what's with China and stuff because now the tourists say they're, yeah, a bit more of that sort of thing. And seriously, are we worried about

what's with China and stuff? Because now the tourists say they're not coming or is that all good? Is that taken care of? Oh, look, I saw that comment today. I quoted someone in China

off the back of some discussion going on around Huawei here in New Zealand. We're not the only country having that conversation. The same has happened in Australia and the UK. Not to be too dull, but we've got a bit of a process if any of you want to come in and make a proposal like entering into the 5G market.

There's a national security assessment that happens soon. That's given rise to a couple of concerns. I've gone back to Spark, who are the ones who put up the proposal and just said, look, you need to mitigate these concerns. And that's where we're at at the moment. So no final decision has been made. But that's an independent process

and we need to stick with it. We do need to make sure we protect New Zealanders' security and that's where it's at at the moment. Because my father-in-law just got a new Huawei phone. Should I be avoiding being in its camera line of sight? No. No, that's fine. Yeah, that's about it.

This is obviously about 5G. Yeah, right. Phones are good. Because my mate Mark's got one too, and it always stamps Huawei phone stuff on it. I'm like, stop trying to promote yourself internally when you share a photo on Facebook, but that's a different matter.

Anyway, thanks for calling me back on the phone. Sorry, sorry guys. Look, I found you eventually. Yeah, yeah,

you got us. That's the main thing. I'm going to take our speaker now, guys. Okay, thanks. I'll deal with this. Personally,

thank you. Yeah, thanks for that. I appreciate it. No, no, these things happen. Yeah,

yeah, you did. All good. Thanks, thanks. Yep, talk soon. Okay, no, these things happen. Yeah, yeah, you did. You're not all good. Thanks, thanks. Yep, talk soon. Okay, see you later. Bye. That was a weird thing.

Do you guys know I went to the school with the Prime Minister? Yeah, we know. We know. We know, we know. Friday Flashback. All right, it's time to kick off Friday Jams a little bit late. We start Friday Jams now at 8 with a Friday Flashback, a tradition. Oh, my God.

I've just seen the song. I'm all about this. Yes! I guessed it! Yes! I guessed it! This song came out in 2009. I don't know, mate.

I don't know. You're Columbia. The first time I heard it, I was like, oh, my God, she's back. But she never left. She's your spirit animal. She hasn't been paying tax lately, though, has she? Hasn't she? She's a genius.

She probably thought she could outsmart the Colombian tax department. That's right. She is a genius. That's mental level genius. Let's focus on the positives. Number one on the Mexican charts. Yep. Well, they love a banger.

And number one on the US Hot Latin Songs Bimblecharts. Okay. Actually, in the States, this went platinum. It sold 1.2 million units. What in New Zealand? What number? Oh, ouch, 36. Pretty poor performance by New Zealand.

This song was everywhere when it came out on the radio. It's a great song, and the best part about it is the howl in the middle of it. You've given it away. This is one of the other songs that I've really been looking forward to playing. Playing. From 2009. Yeah. And I'm robbed.

Absolutely robbed. It lost its Grammy to Pitbull. I know you want me. Oh, banger. For the Latin music festival. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Today's Friday flashback

from the album of the very same name. What's that twitching you're doing? From the Latin princess herself, Shakira She-Wolf. All right, it's flashback Friday, ZM. Everybody howl along when it gets to the howling part. Ah-woo! Ah-woo! Coming in, coming in Everybody howl along when it gets to the howling part. So feed the hungry I've been devoting myself to you Monday to Monday and Friday to Friday Not getting enough retribution or decent incentives to keep me at it I'm starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an elephant

So I'm gonna go somewhere closer to get me a lover and tell you about it There's a sheep wolf in the closet Open up, I'm satisfied There's a sheep's in your closet Burn it out so it can breathe It's all that she's in this bed It's all that she's in this bed It's all she's holding this bed

Coming out, coming in, coming out SOS, she's in disguise SOS, she's in disguise SOS, she's in disguise Coming out, coming in, coming out. And there's a she-wolf in your closet. It's your Friday flashback. Okay, Shakira, she-wolf.

In December, Spanish authorities alleging she owes 14 million euros in taxes. Oh, she can pay that right now, can't she? It's the change. Probably. Easy. What's the feedback? Pretty people didn't like it. Okay, right.

Someone said I'm 26. I've literally never heard this song before, but heck, I'm kind of into it. Yeah, right. Okay. That's a compliment. of into it. Yeah, right. That's a compliment. They get it. They get it.

I have never heard this song before, but now I need to hear it a lot more for it to grow on me. Right. I don't want to forget about the very last part of that. Read some of the other ones. Somebody said, Yas, Shakira. Shakira. She-Wolf is an anthem. Somebody said, the best line in Shakira She Shakira. She-Wolf is an anthem. Somebody said, the best line in Shakira She-Wolf is that she's starting to feel just a little abused

like a coffee machine in an office. Now, she's always... Lyrical genius. She always nails a couple of bits in a song. You might remember Lucky That My Breasts Are Small and Humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains. Right, okay. So not an overwhelming response to Friday Flashback. them with mountains. Right, okay. So not an overwhelming response to Friday Flashback.

No, no, no, no, no, no. No. All right, well, we've kicked off Friday Jams. Am I a bad person? I don't think it needs to be this segment. Yes, it does. It does. I don't think it needs to be this segment.

It does. Well, the girls in the group have decided it does. We were. You know I'm on your side here, Vaughn. But it is a Vaughn edition today of Am I a Bad Person? We were aghast this morning because it is Vaughn's lovely wife, Sade's birthday today. Happy birthday, Sade.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Sade. I was going to find a photo of me and her back in the day, but she just looks the same. Yeah, she doesn't change. Unbelievable. Yeah, and any photos with her is like, oh, she the day, but she just looks the same. Yeah, she doesn't change. Unbelievable. Yeah, and any photos with her

is like, oh, she looks great, but I don't know. You know when you put a photo up, it's like, I've got to at least look on par or it's not going up. High praise.

High praise. But it's her birthday today and when we asked you what you're getting for your lovely wife for her birthday, do you want to fill everyone in on what's happening?

Well, like specifically today, nothing. Because she already got her birthday present. She got an early birthday present. How early? Like a couple of weeks ago. She wanted some outdoor furniture. And so she was like, it can be my birthday present. And I was like, that's cool.

Because it was a bit higher than what I would have budgeted for outdoor furniture. Right. And she's like, well, it can be my birthday present. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. And I got the lawnmower and the lawnmower was my birthday present, the right-arm mower. So you don't expect anything on your birthday?

No, certainly not. Was the lawnmower the same, like similar price? No, the lawnmower was significantly more. But the lawnmower was a required tool. See, I'm on your side here, Vaughan, because you, Megan, and everyone else is saying that Vaughan should have got something else for today. 100%.

Especially given the lawnmower was way above the outdoor furniture. Plus, wait, did you have a discussion about how you both wanted outdoor furniture? I wanted outdoor furniture, but I was happy for just like some stuff to tide us over. So this is basically, this is something for the both of you for the house. Yeah. Yeah. And then the lawnmower was something for that, for the, that we needed, a practical tool

that we needed. The lawnmower was 100% for you, for fun times. Oh, 100%. Don't get me wrong. Producer Caitlin. Now she's got a boyfriend. She's an expert on this. Because I'm going out for dinner. I'm going to take her you for fun times. Oh, 100%. Don't get me wrong. Producer Caitlin. Now she's got a boyfriend. She's an expert on this. We're going out for dinner. I'm going to take her out for dinner tonight. I don't know.

That's something you both get to enjoy. You're in so much trouble. What did you get her for Valentine's Day yesterday? Yum-sha. We went for lunch. Oh my God, Vaughn, you actually made me so angry. You haven't, like, I mean, I understand Valentine's Day. Go out, we went for your lunch. Oh my god, Vaughan, you actually make me so angry. You haven't like,

I mean, I understand Valentine's Day, go out like together for something, that's cool, but like it's her birthday today. What if I put like a really special post on my socials? Oh my god. Letting her know. Like influence your wife's

birthday. Yeah. I already saw your post on Facebook, it wasn't that special. Oh, no, that was just to her, though. You know those ones that you don't really do for the person you do to make yourself look like a really good person? Are you thinking like an Instagram post, like swipe up for 15% off your birthday or something? Yeah, yeah.

Or use this code for teeth whitening. Yeah, okay. She's not going to feel special on her birthday, Vaughn. You're going to go home and be like, hi, how's your day going? And she's going to be like. No, I'll say, hi, happy birthday. Oh, cool, because that makes sense. Oh, yay.

And then say, let's go outside and sit in the nice furniture. Or let's go and enjoy your birthday present. On Monday, you're going to come to work and be like, I never got any. Any what? Loving. Yeah. You're always, you don't make me feel special. You're not going to get anything.

Zero. So. Never again without any presents. This is what, this was our discussion early this morning. We think Vaughn is a bad person

for not buying her a present on the day. Granted, there was outdoor furniture a couple of weeks ago, but it's what they both wanted. It's for the house. It wasn't what I wanted.

You wanted outdoor furniture. Is Vaughn a bad person for not getting his wife a little something on her birthday? 0800 Dials at M. The phones are now working. I can tell you behind the scenes our phone system is back up and running. You can call 0800 Dials at M or text

9696. For the record, Vaughn, I'm on your side. You're also on this. I'm also a sing. You're also. On this. Single. I'm also a singe and single, yes. But there has been a present. There has been a present.

There's no issue here, Megan. I mean, I'm just here to help you. When she says, this came at my birthday present, you don't have to get me anything. It's right between the lines. Don't say it.

What do you think? Maybe you've been in this situation before and you were told, because has she said it's okay? What? Your wife. She said, that's fine.

The furniture two weeks ago, that's enough for my birthday. Oh, we 100% always say what we mean. We made like an agreement. Always. We just say straight up what we mean. It's my birthday next week and I don't expect anything.

Am I a bad person? It's the Vaughn edition today and Vaughn, I'm on your side. However, not everybody is. So Vaughan's lovely wife, Sade, it's her birthday today. He hasn't got her anything because he said he bought her outdoor furniture a few weeks ago. Is he a bad person? Does he need to get something?

Okay, Charlotte, is Vaughan a bad person? Yes. I'm so riled by this. Please try and explain to him then, because I can't get through to him. Okay, well, so, because I've got a similar situation with my husband, except he claims every year he has no money,

even though my birth date's on the same day every year, so he's got plenty of notice. Yeah. Doesn't change. Same with Christmas. It annoys me every year. Yeah. Oh, it's just happening.

Birthdays are so important because they're the most special day of anyone's life because if you didn't have a birthday, you wouldn't be alive. Birthdays should always be made so special. You're not going to die if someone, if you didn't know your birthday, you're not going to die though.

No, that's not the point she's trying. It's special to you. Valentine's Day's for everyone. Christmas is for everyone. Yeah, that's right right Your birthday's for you Nah because on Facebook today There's like seven other people That are having birthdays

Charlotte she's getting She's got the outdoor furniture And that was agreed upon In a verbal contract That that was her birthday present Just take some flowers home Do the right thing What are they still on

Valentine's Day prices I remember I was going to get A couple of them left over that they didn't sell? They'll be on sale today. Yeah, they'll be getting rid of all the red roses. But then she'll know they were half-priced specials. It was like, any time I take flowers home, all she says is, who sent these in? Because we get sent weird stuff to work like flowers.

So why don't you do it once where you've actually bought them and you haven't actually brought them home from work? I can't believe that he's bought them. Take the receipt. Yeah, that's romantic. Here's some flowers that he's bought them. Take the receipt. Yeah, that's romantic. Here's some flowers. I did purchase them. See the receipt here.

Check the F-plus card as well. You'll see that come out of the bank. Things you call Charlotte. Jaden is born a bad person. No, not really. I just think that if you don't celebrate the small things, how are they going to know that they're the best thing in the world to you? Oh, my God, Jaden.

Oh, no, romantic. So say it all the time. Do you say it all the time? Not all the time, but I do say it. Right. And you call her mate and pal on the phone. Yeah, she's my mate. She's my best mate, though.

That's why I call her mate. She did get the furniture, Jaden, already. Jaden, she got the outdoor furniture. She's got a present. She needs to feel special. And how's outdoor furniture that's going to be the best for both of you make her feel special for her? I love Jaden. It's got a waterproof cushion.

It does. It does. It's got cushions that are waterproof. Like that's next level. It's not plastic work or shit either that deteriorates in the sun. Yeah, no. It's good. I've got some of that. Yeah, how's it going? either That deteriorates in the sun Yeah, no Hey I've got some of that Yeah, how's it going?

Deteriorating in the sun? Thank you, Jaden Thanks, Jaden Adam, is Vaughn a bad person? What do you think? No, not at all I think he's right on the money Yeah

I think he's done the right thing I like to think that a good relationship Is built on clear and open communication And if you guys have communicated clearly But then she's hinting at something else, sounds like she's in the wrong. Good, yeah. Oh, we seem to have lost Adam.

No, he's still here. Adam's still here. Both the phones are still working, Megan. Adam's hit it on the head. Hey, I mean, I agree with you. She's also not hinted at anything else. No, I agree with Adam, and I see what you're saying. But, like, what's wrong with just a little wee surprise

on someone's birthday to make them feel special? Hmm, okay, thanks you call Adam. Some text messages. Vaughn if you would. Oh, that Vaughn guy sounds like a great guy. Thanks. Is that what it says? Somebody else said this is the woman that gave birth to your children

you should take every opportunity to spoil her. I'm just looking, that might be her mum's number actually. Looking at that. She's getting shouted dinner tonight too, so everyone should just calm down. I'm just looking. That might be her mum's number, actually. Looking at that. Well, she's getting shouted dinner tonight, too. So everyone should just calm down. I'm taking the mother-in-law for dinner. Right, okay. That's all.

Oh, so she's getting a dinner tonight. It'll be a lovely dinner. Yeah, okay. Well, there you go. Lovely dinner. Yeah, but you get dinner every night. I let her pick the place. Oh, my God.

Because usually I strong-arm her into something that's quite meat-heavy. Right. Today I was like, your choice. It's kind of going. Lucky. Right, yeah. What else am I going to do?

What are people saying? If you could... Sum it up. Are you a bad person? It's kind of split. Everybody's like, well, if they've decided that, then surely that's what they've decided. Why don't you make her a card?

Sade's messaged. Bad person. Hey, Sade, I'd like it noted that I tried. Oh, she's just, that's just a bit of a laugh, though. I'll just message back, you're alright, mate. She's getting a party next weekend, too, isn't she?

A joint party? Vaughan and Sade's joint party? A joint party? She, yeah. Vaughan and Sade's joint party. With the waterproof cushions, Megan. Oh my God. Also, there'll be no beverages in the pool. I'm not cleaning up. God, that filter, I'm telling you,

getting the pH levels right lately. It's all your hair in there, mate. It's all your hair and pubes in there. I need to bring you down a peg in your pool and your right on lawnmower and I'll pour some cider in there. You didn't bring you down a pig in your pool and your right on lawnmower. Pour some cider in there. You'll be expelled from the party. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is about Ecuadorian ambulances. We were talking about Ecuador before. We were talking about Ecuador before because it's 2,000, the city of Quito is 2,800 metres above sea level. That's insanely high altitude. When I sat there, I got puffed running up the stairs. I would imagine so. How high is Mount Ataranake? 2,500 metres. So it's taller than that. It's higher than that. There are stairs like running up the city. How high is Mount Taranaki? 2,500 metres.

So it's taller than that. It's higher than that. Yeah, there's stairs up all the way up. Up? At the mountain. No. No, it's a city that's just that high. That's how high.

Oh, the city is as high as Mount Taranaki? The city is 300 metres higher. Yeah. Oh, okay. A lot of South American cities are quite high. Because as in the Ring of Fire, right? It's that side. That's what made that huge mountain range.

The Andes. It goes down into the Andes. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Right, so it's very highly elevated. Yeah. A lot of bananas from Ecuador. Huge amount of bananas.

Yeah, huge amount. And the Galapagos Islands are there. Are they? Yeah. How far off are they? Off the coast, aren't they? I thought they were down by South America a bit more. I think it's East Ireland. It is South America.

You're thinking of Easter Island. I'm thinking of Easter Island. Okay, cool. What's fact of the day? Well, today's fact of the day is the ambulances in Ecuador can take over radio signals to let people know they're coming.

Oh, like the tunnel. Yes. It hijacks. All our ambulances have an inbuilt low-power broadcast antenna that will overpower nearby AM, FM frequencies, all of them, and say, there is an ambulance coming. There is an ambulance coming. Yeah, excuse me.

It's like car amor. It's like, there's an ambulance coming. Excuse me. Welcome to Ecuador. Move out of the way. We're coming through. So they, yeah, they are on board. But the problem is it's got quite a wide broadcast range.

Right. So you could just be sitting at home if you live beside the motorway. Listening to your favorite morning radio show. Yeah, and then all of a sudden it's like ambulance coming through, ambulance coming through. And it takes over the AM. You're just eating your cornflakes. Yeah. So when they put these into the Ecuadorian ambulances, because they had a lot of trouble with the streets, small streets.

What an old city, old setup, narrow streets. When ambulances would be rushing, even if cars pulled over, they couldn't always get around them. So they put this in so people would pull over and let them by it reduced time of getting to an accident by 40%

they got there 40% quicker quicker right than they used to because everybody would pull over and get out of the way who knew

yeah but I've still got a problem with it just hijacking anybody it's driving past yeah should be more targeted and it's stopped working so much with people using MP3 players and CD players and streaming music in their cars.

But then they say enough people are still doing it that they'll pull over and those people will realise that they should pull over and get out of the way so that ambulances can go past too. So today's fact of the day, by the way, it's brought to you by the New Zealand Herald Quizzes. One printed, two online daily, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Do it once, get the answers wrong, learn the right ones,

do it again in front of people and seem real smart. Yeah. That should be their tagline. That's their tagline. Definitely should be their tagline. They brought to you today's fact of the day, which is Ecuadorian ambulances hijack radio stations. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

And we're one sleep away from ZM's float, thanks to Tip Top Trumpet. The Bomb Comp Tower is up. Looking amazing. The stages are being set up today. Some of the photos that are coming through on the group chat, the work group chat. It's looking amazing. Beautiful.

And weather tomorrow, it's going to be a scorch of 29 degrees. No cloud forecast. Lots of sun. And it is New Zealand's only festival floating on water. And it's our third year and every year it's getting bigger and better.

If you don't have tickets already, grab one.co.code.nz 65 for an incredible kiwi lineup uh matt from drax projects is on the phone in just a sec but first we thought we'd just run through a couple of faqs and some event info because a lot of people are heading along tomorrow now um there are buses that will run from the city center again a gold coin donation to get on those buses. They are going to run from 9.30. I will say, you know, I'm going to take your inflated floaties on the bus because that will mean that far less people will be able to fit on that bus. So you can inflate them when you get there.

Although if you're just coming in cars and stuff, probably best to inflate before you arrive. Those buses go from the Puaranga Park centre to float and back continuously, like I said inflate before you arrive. Those buses go from the Pūrenga Park Centre to Float and back continuously, like I said, from 9.30. Limited parking at the event for $25 over the road. It's just easy

to get the bus. It's not a long ride and it's a gold coin. Easy. It is an alcohol-free event. The floaties are probably the only big thing to remind you of before the event. So there are in the past, obviously safety is the biggest thing. Like there's a lot of people in the lake. We don't want like people getting overtaken by a giant air mattress.

Smushed. Smushed by a big floatie. Exactly. So we've got to be very mindful of that. And because of that, floaties should be for one person only. No dinghies, mattresses, or rafts, or large stations for like four people. Yeah. I mean, a medium-sized swan, that's fine.

Yeah. But if your floatie is too big, you won't be let in with that. There are 600 ring floaties. That's a preferred floatie. A single ring for a person. You could bring an old tyre tube. Yeah. But probably tape up the valve.

Otherwise, that'll stab you. Well, that's on you because that always floats in the middle. So that'll probably hit your bum. And there are 600 for the first 600 through the gates at float. There are inflation stations, air compressors that we have. But those do get very, very busy. So if you can bring like a cheap foot pump, like a Kmart foot pump or something or an air mattress pump, again, preferred. All of these

questions, Q&As, these FPOS, loads of food, all of these questions, if you go to ZM Online, the big FAQ is right up the top right of the website. You can't miss it. But playing at Float tomorrow and joining us on the phone now is Matt from Drats Project. Good morning. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good. Are you looking forward to Float? Absolutely. That goes without saying.

We played it last year and it was one of the highlights of the summer and we're hoping to, yeah, that will happen again this year. We didn't even pay you to say that, so that's good. That was great. Thank you for that. I don't want to draw any correlations but

since last year's Float and this year's Float, it's been quite a big year. At Float last year, that was actually when we found out, straight after we got off stage, we found out that we were opening for Ed Sheeran a couple weeks later. And yeah, a couple other cool things

have happened but yeah, I couple other cool things have happened, but yeah, I think maybe it's all, probably we could thank Float for everything. Yeah, I didn't want to say it, but yeah, there was probably a scout in the crowd checking out before they, and they dialed it in immediately when you got off stage

and it all got locked in. So just try your best this weekend too. You don't know who's in the crowd. Yeah. Well, Elton John might be looking for an opening act.

You never know. Well, yeah, and you don't know who you're going to team up with next because, you know, Hayley Steinfeld. Who would you want

to team up with? Oh, there's a massive list. I mean, like, imagine that Ariana would be amazing, but I guess right now her price would be pretty high. Yeah, yeah. Did you actually meet Hailee Steinfeld, or was this all done different studios didn't meet?

Yeah, this was all done over the interwebs, so it's amazing how that all happens these days. But, yeah, we will be meeting her soon, which will be cool. But, yeah, it was all over the internet. Where are you going to meet her? We are going over to the States for a little bit, so we'll go say hi. That sounds like you've got stuff in the works.

It just sounds like you're going to turn up at her house and be like, we did the song you sung on. Medicine. Hey, mate. That was you guys? Yeah. She'll send Bubble Bee out to deal with you sung on. Let us in. Hey, late. That was you guys? Yeah. She'll send Bubblebee out to deal with you.

Yeah. No, so does that mean you've got some exciting things in the works but you just can't tell us? Yeah, pretty much. Right. Yeah, pretty much.

Oh, awesome. What can we expect from you guys at Float this year then? We'll be playing some new music, definitely. Okay.

We're going to, yeah, we're not going to beat around the bush We're just going to play bangers We'll be riffing into it Are you going to play Hayley On like a Cassette? Do you just like play Hayley in the corner? A cassette

Are you going to play her version though? Yeah well we kind of need her. We would need her to be there, so. Maybe not. Well, Megan has been called New Zealand's Hayley Steinfeld. Do you need me to do it? We could just play the song and then just, like, totally mime the whole thing.

Yeah. And then when she comes in, I don't know, we'll just pretend that Sian's singing her part. I don't know. Yeah, that could work, too. Yeah. There's so many options. Yeah. And then when she comes in, I don't know, we'll just pretend that Sian's singing her part. I don't know. Nice. Yeah, that could work too. Yeah. So many options.

Nice. Hey, well, there are still a few tickets available. You can get them at grabone.co.nz for $65 for an amazing Kiwi light item, including Drax Project. Matt, we'll see you tomorrow. Awesome. Sounds good.

See you then. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out ZM online. ZM. Sounds good. See you then.