ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - February 26 2019

Episode Date: February 25, 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. It's on. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thanks, Arnie. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. I was like a lone scooter rider this morning on the way to work. Oh, because you've got Bogsy's scooter.

I've got CEO Bogsy's e-scooter. It's white, slick. It does look fancy. How are you feeling it? Are you feeling it? It's good. I mean, it's like the handlebars are a little bit smaller than a lime. So you don't have as much control turning.

So I feel like I've got to be real steery. Has it got a bell? Yeah, it does. A warning bell? Oh, it does. A warning bell? Oh, it's got a good bell. Oh, it does. Bring it in, Anya. Bring the bell in.

It's a really good bell. It's a solid bell. I was thinking if you get your own, you definitely need to go to like J-Car and get one of those little battery powered, more of like an alert. Or like an anuga, a wuga. I wasn't quite thinking an anuga.

A wuga. Or a train horn. You just come along and say, Anya's struggling here. Well, they're heavy. You're just like, go and get it. Go up to the mic, Anya, and do the, this is a good bell.

This is not, it's a really good bell. It's a really good bell. Told you, didn't I? See, that's a good bell. That was not worth the effort that it took to get it in here. It is quite loud. Yeah, it's a good bell. It's a good bell. Oh? That's a good bell. That was not worth the effort that it took to get it in here. It is quite loud. Yeah, it's a good bell. It's a good bell.

Oh, it's a good scooter. But the trouble is now that those are like 600 bucks. What's that big scratch on the back? Pass off. No, don't. I have been so careful with this. I've been riding it like a nana. So I'm like, I cannot ruin the CEO's e-scooter.

No. Do the maths on it. How much did you say? $600. Yeah. What does a lime cost? So every day, if you unlock one and then ride one, what does it cost you to get to work? Well, I'd spend about $2.50 a day.

Sometimes it's $3. Well, yeah, depending on where I get it from. Should we say $3 if you're going there and home? Yeah. So that's only 200 days of travel and you've paid that off. No, that's $6 a day if you're going home again. No, but I never ride at home. Right.

But I would ride this home because I'd have to. But also, you don't have a car, so that's perfect. Oh, yeah, true. I reckon this is an investment. Yeah. You're not paying retro, you're not paying... Yeah, this is true. This is true. But it. You're not paying retro. You're not paying wolf, petrol. Yeah, this is true. But it's not like a lime.

You can't do jumps off the gutter and break it. Because then it's yours. You've broken your e-scooter. Yeah. Right. But it's probably best for your safety. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Well, coming up on the show, we've got the top six worn. Yes, well, it's... Personally, guys, I don't know how you took this news. I'm devastated that at the King's Tuck Shop, now this is King's, is it a King's Collegiate? What's its deal? No, it's just a King's, King's College. It's a very posh school in Auckland. They'll no longer be accepting $100 bills.

Oh, God. I know, heartbreaking, because that's the smallest note that Dad has. So it's pretty heartbreaking that all that tax avoidance Dad's been doing through his high-end business that's resulted in cash payments and $100 bills. Now you can't use that money at the tuck shop. Oh, so I've got the top six other things, other forms of payment that are now unacceptable at the King's Tuck Shop too. All right, that's coming up.

And Vaughn still in exile in hiding, knowing the ZM secret sound. Yeah, I mean, apparently I've said it at some stage. I don't know which of my many guesses is correct, but. Have you zeroed in on one of them? Not really. I've got maybe three or four that I think are my high-end ones, my high-end guesses. And my wife's very angry with me.

Of course. Because I won't tell her the secret sound. Right. And I said, it's just better you don't know. And she said, does our marriage mean nothing to you? All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Story time, three news headlines.

Vaughan and Megan pick one headline only. And we hear that story. Headline one, police launch sting after bee theft. Good, good. Police launch sting after bee theft. Good. Police launch sting after bee theft. Headline two, 15-year-old hitchhiker ditches travel plans. And headline three, fortune cookie was right. So 15-year-old hitchhiker ditches travel plans.

I feel like they ended up in a ditch. Like he got picked up. Is that right? No. Oh. No. Is that right? No. Oh, I thought you had it. I felt like you really hit ditches. Ditches. No, that was just my weird... Sentence

structure. Yeah, sure. What about three? Fortune cookie was right. I was trying to Google that, but I can't find it. Megan. It's walking a tightrope of vagueness, Megan. That's why I like it.

Do not Google. Well, I can't find anything, so I'll go for that one too. So we're going for fortune cookie was right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, God, I've got to disable that. Hang on.

I've just got to disable this. Have you got to disable cookies to get to the fortune cookie story? The irony is thick. It just guilt tripped me as well because of journalism isn't free or something. I'm going to donate to our website. No, because if you start paying for journalism, you'll be able to sway it. Okay.

All right. Okay. You know, man. We go now to Maryland where a man says that a piece of advice from a fortune cookie has turned him into a very lucky man. He was eating lunch at a Chinese buffet with his brother. Well, he's already lucky. I know, right? And he got a fortune cookie.

It informed him it was his lucky day. Okay. So after they finished their lunch, the brother's like, well, if it's my lucky day, we better stop at the 7-Eleven because I need to buy their version of an instant kiwi, a scratchy. Scratch ticket, yeah. So he got a $10 Power 8s scratch-off ticket, and he won $100,000.

Wow. Good Lord. Here's the thing, though. The brother loaned him the money, the $10. He's like to his brother, can I have $10? His brother's like, yep.

And then, like, no word on, like, how they're splitting that money. Like, are they going halves? Yeah. This is always an issue. Yeah. Apparently they're splitting that money. Like, are they going halves? Yeah. This is always an issue. Yeah. Apparently they're going to go to Argentina to see family.

So the brother's in on that. Right. But I don't know if he's splitting it exactly 50-50. But when you give someone money, you kind of forfeit. You've given it. They're going to pay you back the $10. Whatever they use it for is theirs, right? I bet you'd expect half.

Well, it depends what side I was on. If they'd given it to me, then I'd say no. But if I'd given it to them, then I'd expect half. Then you'd say yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's another example of money that can destroy family. Well, yeah, because families get quite, you know,

arguy over wills, don't they? Yeah. It can be a problem. Well, this doesn't even involve your dead parents, does it? It's a straight loan. But I've been in this situation. Because remember at the pokies, I gave my friend Matt $2. And he never played the pokies before and he won $800.

And I was like, well, that was a loan. I didn't just give it to you. You were playing with my money. I know, but all he was guaranteeing was he was going to give you that money back. It's horrible. It's a horrible situation to be in. That's why, to this day, I won't give people scratchies for presents. If someone says I want to borrow money to gamble, that's a genuine no from me.

If you don't have the money to gamble, you shan't be gambling. Yeah, you probably shouldn't be gambling. F.M. On Z.M. Oh, God. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Vaughan's in another studio. He's been exiled.

He knows the secret sound. He's in hiding from the public. Is there something you want to share? I don't even know what you're laughing at. So because I can't see you guys, and because it's weird not being able to see you, even though this is radio, I get to see you. Hugh, you just want to see us.

Caitlin's trying to get us a video connection. Yeah, she's trying to Skype. And she can't Skype on her laptop because she's never updated the software on her laptop. Never. Like baby boomer level freaks out every time it pops up and every single day clicks not now. Yeah, she's been doing my head in this morning. And so she just Skyped me from her phone and then she's like, I don't know what this button does,

and has sent me a screen cap on Skype, a screen cap of our conversation. And she's like doing that thing where mum's got the phone like really down low and you can like see right up her nose. And then she tried to share screen with me because she was trying to get rid of that and she pushed another button. She's an absolute mess. Well, it's quarter past six, so it must be time for this. Dirty break.

I was so glad we made that. No expense was spared. So we get away with certain things at this time of the morning because there's less kids listening. That's also the second show feature that features the Black Eyed Peas, by the way. I don't know if we're showing any sort of favouritism. Yeah, because there's don't get Fletch started. Favouritism or laughing stock?

I don't know what it is. So our dirty break this morning, if you can just please behave yourself while I get through this, okay? Okay. We can discuss in a second. Okay. So this is in a second. Okay. So, this is from a psychologist. His name is Mark Sargent

and he has a great idea. Mark Sargent! Mark Sargent! Oh, you guys haven't watched the Netflix documentary about the flat earth? No. Oh, is it the same guy?

The guy on there is called Mark Sargent. I don't think so. He's a senior lecturer. No, surprisingly, this guy who believes in the flat earth doesn't actually have any formal qualifications, Megan. Okay. That's not surprising.

So he has a very effective at-work way to relieve tension and stress, and he thinks that these particular breaks should be introduced in offices. He thinks a masturbation policy would result in more focus, less aggression, higher productivity and more smiling. Masturbatory breaks. Yeah. At work. That is, okay, come on.

There's a time and a place and it's not at work. So would you have separate toilets? The time is sometime in the morning and then again sometime in the afternoon. Would you have separate toilets or could you like go into it? Oh, that's disgusting. Yeah. So he reckons if you're bored. This is such a guy.

I'm sorry. If you're at work and bored. But he said if you're bored and you go and take this break, it would increase your focus. So you come back to your desk and you're like, okay, I'm ready now. To be fair, I don't smoke, but you always see smokers outside. Now, if I'm going for a smoke, I'll be like, great, I'll grab a beet while you're out.

Fine. I was going to say a far worse word than that, I think. Well, that's what the first question in the story is. Should masturbation breaks become the new smoke breaks? I just get back to my desk and want to fall asleep, though. No, whether it's a make-or-break array, it'll either wake you up or put you to sleep. And it's a roll of the dice every time.

And then smokers would need a ciggy afterwards, so that's like double the break. Yeah, true. Well, no, they'd have to choose one or the other. They already get a lot of breaks, smokers. Right. But they say that smoke breaks can actually be good for a workplace because the smokers congregate and they gossip and they talk and they bond, whereas you couldn't do this with this particular break.

Well, no. Who says it has to be a solo activity? This is true. I mean, depending on the workplace, I guess. Wasn't it Paul McCartney and John Lennon? It wasn't solo for them, was it? And that's how they wrote so many great songs together. Productivity.

Yeah. Through the roof. Yeah, right. Okay, well, thank you for sharing that with us. Hey, no worries. And this isn't, this isn't, this is for everybody. This is an agenda-specific recommendation. The trouble is, too, like, you'd go to the, you'd leave and you'd come back just a lot more chill and I'd just be like, oh, yuck.

It's just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know? And, like, you'd need a separate toilet because if you just need to go wheeze. It's just... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no? And you'd need a separate toilet because if you just need to go wheeze... Yeah, okay. Anyway.

Guys, I don't think we'd do it in the toilet. That's a bit yuck. I think they'd set up a separate room altogether wouldn't they? Well, like the boardroom and just put a curtain up. The boardroom? Yeah. You want to make sure you get the right boardroom. Well, you'd want to make sure you clean up before the board of directors have their meeting.

Well, you know when you've got a meeting in a room, but the previous meeting's running over, and you've got to be like, I've actually got this room from 11. So, I mean, you guys can stay, but I will be masturbating. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Yes, good morning. It is with a heavy heart that we bring you today's Top Six because while we've laughed, there are people suffering and we should never laugh at the misfortune of others.

No. That's what we were all raised to believe from our parents, weren't we? Yeah. Well, we shan't laugh anymore during the segment at King's College. That's one of Auckland's most affluent schools. Yeah, well, one of New Zealand's richest, yeah. Yeah, well, tuition over $24,000 a year. Oh, wow, okay.

Good God. It costs $275 just to apply to go to the college. Imagine if you spend $24,000 on your shithead kid for all those years and then they just end up just doing nothing. Well, the thing about spending $24,000 on your kid's education is if you're spending that much on their education,

how much are they expecting their drugs to be worth, you know? They're not going to be going to school with people who smoke a little bit of, you know, really leafy weed. They're going to be going to school with people with Colombian connections, if you know what I'm saying. So the tuck shop has let them know in what one internet user called, sadly lacking in graphic design, a laminated piece of A4 paper stuck to the window with blue tack and capital letters saying,

Tuck Shop will no longer accept $100 notes. I don't know how much of a problem this was. I'm imagining it must have been that they just couldn't keep the float. You know, you start the day with a float. Yeah, yeah. Well, it must be a problem if they're putting up a sign. I never see $100 notes. No.

Like, I didn't even see cash. Who's just, what, are they asking mum and dad in the morning for some money for lunch? And this is the smallest change they have. Or maybe they start the week with a hundy. Oh, yeah, right. That's got to last them the week. So, you know, by the end of the week, they've... If that makes you feel better. Nah, you'd still have heaps of money. Yeah. I can't paint last in the week. So, you know, by the end of the week, they've... If that makes you feel better.

Nah, you'd still have heaps of money. Yeah. I can't paint that in any other picture. If you're spending more than $20 a day on school lunch, including snacks, and I'm assuming a drink from the drink machine, you're spending too much money on lunch. Yeah. So the top six today is the top six other forms of payment

now unacceptable at King's Tuck Shop as well. Okay. Number six, they'll no longer be accepting payments from the My First Unlimited Platinum Black Visa. You guys probably don't know about this because, like me, you weren't rich growing up. But, you know, the series of My First Kitchen and My First Hairdressing Set and all those My Firsts. Yeah, they do have my first unlimited black platinum visa. Nice. And they won't be accepting payments from those anymore.

Just with, you know, you've got to pay the extra with paywave and credit card. Yep. Tuck shop profits down. Yeah. And yeah, you can't go out of business when you're working for a rich school. It's not a great look for all the rich company people involved. Number five on the list

of the top six other forms of payment now unacceptable at the King's Tuck shop. You'll no longer be able to swap land titles and deeds to islands in the Hauraki Gulf for pies and sausage rolls. Oh my god. I know, that sucks. What is the world coming to? I know, I actually

a friend of mine had the deed to Titi Titi Maty and they would not accept it in exchange for a custard square and a field roll. It seems a little out of whack though. Does it though? Yeah, I guess. How much do you love native birds?

More than a custard square? I didn't think so. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six other forms of payment now unacceptable at the King's Tuck shop. Straight swapsies for mum's old 2017 Audi Q7. Ooh, because yuck, it's 2017. I know, and it's got over 50,000 kilometres on the clock, which is a sign of straight poverty. When you go to a decile 10 school.

Yuck, ooh, yuck. Oh my God, does the front number on your parents' spidometer not say zero? Ooh. Ooh, you are poor. You're going to have to go to St. Kent's if you keep up this attitude towards being rich. Number three on the list of the top six

other forms of payment unacceptable at the King's Tuck Shop. Shares in Dad's new property development company that's really just a shell company for tax avoidance in the Cayman Islands. You can't be dishing out dividends and shares in Dad's companies anymore in exchange for food like cookies and that. Damn it. I know, because he's got so many.

That's the good thing about a shell company. You can have as many shares as you want because they're completely invaluable apart from the fact that it's used to put tax through the Caymans and, well, money through the Caymans and come out tax-free. Okay. Sorry about that. Speaking with some experience, then? Yes. A little bit.

A little bit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I did my time, so. It was 2008, man. It was a crazy time to be in finance, you know?

Yeah. I was high a lot of the time, and then I was in jail. Number two on the list of the top six other forms of payment unacceptable at the King's Tuck Shop now are prepaid membership cards to the ACT party. Okay. You can't give those to the canteen lady anymore to keep the ACT membership up to date in exchange for, I don't know, Belgian biscuits. Okay. Yum. I'm just trying to imagine what would be at the King's Tuck Shop. up to date in exchange for, I don't know, Belgian biscuits. Okay. Yum.

I'm just trying to imagine what would be at the King's Tuck Shop. Imagining like what I'm all just, I'm at a very rich tuck shop, but I'm saying all like pavo foods, like sausage rolls and pies. And the number one on today's top six other forms of payment now unacceptable at the King's Tuck Shop, the pelts of rare or extinct African safari animals. You can no longer be handing over a rare black leopard pelt in exchange for a field roll. You can't do it.

Oh, my gosh. You can't do it. They've finally said no more ivory, okay? We don't want your tusks from all elephants, rhino horns, everything. Sorry, guys. We're going to have to start saying no somewhere, though. That is today's top six. Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast.

News today, a new Facebook group, a new Facebook page is going to be launched, and this is the result of, I believe, a bored baby boomer. And we are all going to be more responsible for the boredom of our baby boomers. You know, remember when we were young and they didn't want us to get bored

because when you get bored, you start doing silly things to fill your time. Yeah. Remember, like, your parents were like, go play more after school sports, whether, you know, it keeps you out of trouble. What was that thing they always used to say, like only boring people get bored or... Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a saying like that.

Yeah, and the devil makes work for idle hands was always one that, you know, you shouldn't be sitting around doing nothing. Well, we're all going to have to watch our own parents. And I don't know who calls this guy dad, but Stanley is a man who lives in Queenstown, a retired businessman. And he is starting a campaign to

not only rename the South Island, but just change how the South Island works and make it work more independently from the North Island. And apparently the South Island's name, not only is it too similar to the North Island, but it's also very boring. So guess what they want to rename it?

I don't know. You must be like, at this stage you're thinking, this must be something. The Maori name for, like officially call it, the Maori name for the South Island. Oh, I know this one, Megan. It's the boat one. It's, no, no, it's got Pounamu in it. Oh, God. Te Wai O Pounamu?

Yeah. Te Wai O Pounamu, water of the Pounamu. Anyway. But yeah, yeah. I know that's exciting, right? I like that name better. Te Wai O Pounamu. Yeah. Te Wai Pounamu? Water of the Pounamu? Anyway. But yeah, yeah. I know that's exciting, right? I like that name better. Te Wai Pounamu. Oh, yeah.

Nailed it. Yeah. So well done. But a baby boomer's not going to want a Maori name. Just putting that out there. Not traditionally, Fletch. Not traditionally. So you might be thinking, are they going to pick a real jazzy name?

New Zealand South. What? Is what they want to rename to. Turning it from South Island to New Zealand South. Yeah. But it's already to rename to. Changing it from South Island to New Zealand South. Yeah. But it's already called New Zealand and it's the South Island. Yeah. Why?

Yeah, look, I don't know. I just think if you're going to rename an island because you think it's boring and too similar to the other one, don't just kind of change the order of the words. So the North Island will still be the North Island and then New Zealand South? Will be New Zealand South. Okay. What the hell, eh? Even though you make New Zealand South, where's New Zealand North?

I know that's the North Island, but there's some sort of uniformity here to the North Island and the South Island. Collectively, we are New Zealand. Yeah, who's baby boomer is that? And how is this even being picked up in the news? Well, why are we even discussing this? This shouldn't even have the light of day, the time of day. Quiet News Day?

Did you say is it a petition or is it just a campaign? No, he's starting a Facebook group. And this is it. He says himself and other anonymous high-profile South Islanders are putting this together. And there's a whole lot of, like, it's also, you know how baby boomers love a go about the bureaucracy of local councils? They're always like, you get them started on rates. Yeah. Get a boomer started on rates, and then you can just put the phone down and walk away and get your tasks done and come back and they'll still be going.

So it's all that sort of boring nonsense as well. But, I mean, yeah, we're all, as I said before, we're all responsible for a baby boomer. If we can just watch our boomers. Keep them occupied. Yeah, keep your boomers busy. I know my parents aren't, like, trying to rename islands or anything, but if they get a bit busy, I tell them a hedger's need trimming. They love that. The garden could do with a bit of a joo-joo.

Actually, don't teach them the internet, because I feel like this is where they went wrong with that boomer. They've taught him the internet? Yes, yeah. Leave them off the internet. Boomers are like dangerous dog breeds. You've got to keep them on a short lead, often muzzled, often muzzled. And remember, it's always important when they get to a certain age

to have them muted or spayed. Hellenstein Brothers are in the news. There is a new ad they've done. Actually, Fletch, you showed this to me end of last week. Yeah. And I remember you were like, hey, look, a female's fronting their suit campaign. That's cool. No, that was me. Or was it you? I was just going to claim hey, look, a female's fronting their suit campaign. That's cool.

No, that was me. Or was it you? I was just going to claim that, but I did chime in and say that's cool. God, you guys look the same. Even people we work with get confused between who's who. You just look the same, you talk the same. Which one's got the beard and which one's got the laugh? So Bourne showed me this and was like, that's cool.

And I was like, that's cool. I remember I was having this conversation in studio and we were just like, oh And was like that's cool And I was like That's cool I remember I was having this conversation In studio And we were just like Oh yeah that's cool And then we left it We didn't even Kind of think twice about it

Much like the Whittaker's Pink and blue chocolate I thought Oh that's cool It's yum Next Move on I didn't even think

There would be a In any kind of controversy Controversy You were like Do I say controversy Or controversy Yeah which one do I say Next. Move on. I didn't even think there would be any kind of controversy. Controversy. You were like, do I say controversy or controversy? Yeah, which one do I say? Whatever you feel like. Controversy. So, yeah, there has been a little bit of fallout with this,

which I'm surprised about. Now, I guess they are described as a New Zealand men's fashion store. However, there are lots of women who claim to shop there and I don't think that they would turn women away from shopping there. So if you haven't seen it, there is a picture of a bunch of guys and then a female leading the charge

wearing one of their suits in the new campaign. And lots of people have praised them for inclusiveness, but lots of people are very, very angry. Helen Steins is a male clothing store. This is ridiculous. Get off the bandwagon, another person put. What bandwagon? Staying in business by getting as many people to buy clothes as you can.

Toxic feminism, probably. Toxic feminism? I'm just over every company jumping on the bandwagon to show how progressive They are to the point now it just feels disingenuous That's a big word I've done well there One woman wrote Let the boys have something to themselves for once

Come on ladies we have enough clothing stores Of our own plenty of which Have suits that we can wear. Now, I don't think... But, Megan, but can you get a suit, a shirt, and a tie combo for $199? See? You've got it great. Why can't we have it too?

Exactly. You can. You're more than welcome. I mean, the buttons might fall off after a couple of wears, but, you know. Yeah, no, you get your mum to sew those back on. Or your dad or whoever sews in your family. I'm not gender specifying that role. I'm always upset that women chime in on this and are saying it's a bad idea.

I don't know. It's just let them do whatever. It's just clothes. It's just marketing, isn't it? Another woman said, I am a woman who's purchased T-shirts from Hellenstein's before, so strike me down. But I think, yeah, it's just showing that everyone can shop there if you want to.

And like, put a dude in the Glassons campaign. I'd be all for it. Who was that guy that wore the tuxedo dress to the Oscars yesterday? He's a Broadway star. How cool did that look? I was like, that's pretty progressive. My initial thought was how problematic to weasel.

Well, welcome to being a woman. Would he have had to have gone into the stall or used the urinal? No, if he'd gone into the stall, it would have fallen in. And let alone would he have fit in the stall. What do you mean? This is what we deal with. You just lift

the dress up. But it's almost like a big wedding dress. Like you probably would have had like a friend to help you like you do on your wedding day. Like you hold it, I'll go wheeze. I would have gone in the garden and just pulled it up a little bit and just wheezed straight down. That's the difference between you and Billy

Porter. And then I probably wouldn't have worn undies. I probably wouldn't have worn undies. Yeah, right. Just for sake of ease, into the garden, point it straight down, go wheeze, and then pull the dress up and like tiptoe out of the wee patch I've just made and then on with the Oscars. You're at the Oscars. There's

no garden. It's a inside venue. You can find a garden there. Give me some palms or something. Park a shrub, a pot plant. You just park yourself over one of those pot plants, way into that, and then up and over where you go. Classy, classy.

News yesterday, and the news articles I've read, it hasn't been confirmed by Air New Zealand, but reports are that they are getting ready to cut fares, air fares, by up to 50% on a whole heap of its domestic routes. Domestic routes. Yes. Which is nice. And I'm like, what do you mean how? They just say it.

How are they going to do it? When they put the price on the website, they just make it a little bit lower than what it was. I'm familiar with how numbers work. Thank you for the brief recap. Previously on numbers. But how are they doing it?

Are they going to start putting 91 in the plans instead of 98? I don't know. Maybe make less of a profit? It's not on like, obviously, they're talking about the cheapest airfares. Yeah. Right. And then so there'll still be about the cheapest airfares. Yeah. You know, like. Right. And then so there'll still be the more expensive ones.

Right. Right. You're talking about just the seat rather than like a flexi-fair. Well, yeah, I don't know. Or you're going to have to take your own seat. Is that how they're saving, like? No, it's like a bus. You have to hang on to the pole.

I'll take a van. There's a phenomenal amount of money to be able to save on an airfare. Well, yeah, but it's not all. They're not doing it for all of them. It's just to get people excited. They want to kind of get people, you know, buying the seats. The thing is, all these articles yesterday, it's all rumours. They've yet to respond to comment.

But it's exciting, isn't it? Serious question. Could you do it like a bus and just have some poles at the back and, like, strap me into a pole because I'd stand for an hour and a half like nowhere in New Zealand is over two hours.

What, for how much? $10? Yeah. A $10? It's not safe, Megan. No, but you can seatbelt me into the pole. Yeah, I get what Megan's saying.

Strap me onto the pole. You stand up and you get strapped into a wall or something. You can fit more poles in. Like on that, you know that ride at the, well, we called them AMP shows,

but like fairs, the Gravitron, where it spins you so fast. You strap yourself against the wall, and it spins you so fast, you vomit on the person next to you, but you don't go anywhere. But do you reckon if we're all in a Gravitron-type seat, there'd be, fit more people in?

Yeah. I think so. I'm down for that. I'd stand. No, no, no. It sounds very Jetstar. As long as I can... Okay. Probably still more knee room to be honest.

I'd forfeit my comfort if it meant that I'd get a cheaper fare. Yeah. Well, this is true. This happened to my brother-in-law. What did? The Jetstar. What? What Jetstar happened to your brother-in-law. What did? The Jetstar. What? The Jetstar? What Jetstar happened to your brother-in-law? He was just waving. Caitlin just waved at us.

She heard us say Jetstar and was like, I've got something. Sorry, no, because I'm flying Jetstar this weekend going down to Christchurch. And I didn't book a bag or anything. So I was like, I'm just going for the weekend. And my sister was like, well, make sure it's only 7kgs because this happened to her husband and he'd pay 60 extra dollars. Well, are they weighing all the

I remember they said that, Jetstar and Qantas. But it's only allowed to be 7kg. I think his was over by like a little bit, but he's like, oh, well, I can't, you know, put it in another bag. He didn't have a checked on bag or anything. So he had to pay $60 and it wasn't even over by that much. So if I have an extra pair of shoes, I'm just...

You've just got to wear it. I'm okay with this, mostly because I never travel with luggage over 7kgs, you know, carry-on. But you see people taking the piss with carry-on luggage. Like, they've got one of those big backpacks, and they're like, oh, no, I'm carrying it, so it's carry-on luggage, like, they've got one of those big backpacks, and they're like, oh, no, so it's, I'm carrying it, so it's carry-on, and it takes up three people's What? You know that I'm one of those people.

Yeah, it's annoying. You're annoying. You're annoying. I want to take three bags. Just let me. No, because if everybody takes three bags, there's not going to be any room for anything else. Boring people like you won't take them, and then people that need more stuff like us.

You just... But then you that need more stuff like us. You just... But then you need a hand getting them down. No, that's the trick is when you walk up to like checking in you just gotta like hold it like it ain't no thing.

Yeah. Do you know another little hack for that? You know how they put the stickers on your bag to say they've weighed it? You just save those and then put them

on your bag next time. You're welcome. You're welcome. Oh my God. Yeah. It's happening. It's happening. Slow clap. Slow clap. It's happening. You're welcome. You're welcome. Oh my God. Yeah. It's happening. It's happening. Slow clap.

Slow clap. It's happening. You're welcome. What do they look like? What do they look like? The stickers that say their bags have been weighed. They've both got different ones,

don't they? So you've got to get one from each. Yeah, you've got to get one from each. You've got to get a craft knife and make a little slit. Oh my God. Yes. Perfectly.

And, you know, keep it in good condition and then sellotape it back when you go for your next flight what i'm just thinking you get one you scan it you take it home you scan it you copy and paste it like eight times on an a4 printed out on sticky paper yeah no but they don't look the same unless you get megan's dad to make them because he's got a label machine he's a screen printer. That is an idea. You're welcome. Or if they're not at their desk in their check-in area, just grab a bunch.

Yeah, no, I'm not. That gets you banned from domestic travel if you're reaching over the unattended check-in and grabbing things. I mean, pre-9-11 you could. Oh, pre-9-11 you check yourself in. You jump the thing, give yourself an upgrade.

Oh, change the world. Change the world. Yeah. There's a new dating term, I think we'll call it. It is very topical. It's called being fired. Like the fire festival? Like fire festival.

Okay. So it means when you have set up a... Take one for the team. When you have set up a date and you get there and it's not what you expected. You get like a soggy piece of bread with cheese on it. And they don't have a bed, it's an air mattress, an emergency tent. Yeah. There is a dating expert that has said this is quite serious though. Yeah. There is a dating expert that has, like,

said this is quite serious though. Right. So you are talking to someone, you feel like you're getting everything, their backstory, you know them well, when you finally meet up

you get there and they might be hiding something or they might be giving you like a version of themselves. It's not quite who they are. So... Isn't that just

dating in general? Yeah. Isn't that just dating in general? Yeah. Isn't that just living? No, but they're talking in terms of actual scammers. Oh, right, okay. Who want something from you, whether it be money or something else. Right.

So there's a few things I've seen that you should do to avoid being fired on a dating app. When you go there, if you're taking photos and the person stops you from putting it on social media, there's a difference. Oh, yeah, they could have a girlfriend or a boyfriend already. There's that. Or a husband or wife.

And some people are just private and they maybe just don't have a Facebook account. But if they're stopping you from putting it up and it's getting quite aggressive, then you've got to ask yourself why. They've also said if you've been with or you've been seeing someone for a little bit and you feel like you need to meet someone in their life, friends, family or whatever and they're blocking you, that's another red flag. You obviously need to meet them. And they're saying that stalking people before you meet up with them is actually a good idea, which we all do.

It's so hard now because you can't Facebook someone's number anymore. Do you remember? Why did Facebook disable that search by phone number situation? Something about privacy. You know, because remember when we were all like, good one Facebook. And then now we're like Facebook, can we search

by number again? You don't really care about privacy because I was talking to someone the other day. Oh, somebody messaged me yesterday in further proof that they're listening. Yeah. Remember yesterday, I can't even remember what we were talking about, but I mentioned flooring extra. Yeah.

Someone said they were listening to the show. 30 minutes later, they got targeted flooring extra commercials. And they have not looked up anything. Yeah. I don't know how they can keep denying that they're not using the microphone to target us advertising. Yeah. They 100% are.

It's bananas, right? He's just like, I didn't know that was doing that. What, Saves? Yeah, it's crazy. So don't get fired on Tinder, on any of your dating apps. I've just been reading up about New Zealand's placing on the healthiest countries in the world index. This is a Bloomberg Global Health Index. 169 countries examined in this.

But there's more than that, so I don't know what countries have skipped PE, but they have not got a note from their mum, Mother Earth, because they're not on the list. I'm guessing it's the real bad ones. And it's not just like obesity levels, is it? No, no. It's mental health as well. So there's actually heaps of what they call health score metrics involved. It's how often there's death by disease or accident. So in developing

countries, obviously safety measures aren't nearly as much as they are in first world countries. Things like workplace safety, but also helmets on bikes, those sorts of things that we just expect to do that lots of countries don't. Whipping around on scooters in Thailand with no helmets on.

And then there's life expectancy at birth, like how likely you are to survive the sort of really early years, childhood, youth, and then what the average age of death is. Yeah. The percentage of population that are obese and have obesity-related health problems, blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, et cetera.

Also, percentage of your country that are smokers, drinkers, how much physical inactivity or activity they do, childhood malnutrition, mental health, basic vaccination coverage is another one. Also, your country's access to clean air, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities. So maybe... What's that?

A lot of those things are going to push us down the list, aren't they? Like, spoiler alert, we can't be in the top five or ten. We're very... But far from the bottom. We're very lucky. We've got access to pretty good air and water and toilets

and stuff. So... But I mean, then there's the smoking, which is on the decline. And the drinking. But then the drinking, the physical inactivity, the obesity and stuff. But I mean, then there's the smoking, which is on the decline. And the drinking. The physical inactivity. The obesity and stuff. So we are sitting pretty at 18th. But good news is,

we're up one place on when they did this last time two years ago. We were in 19th. Oh, that's great. Is that because we improved or someone else got worse? The smokers died. Singapore went down four places. I'm just looking at people that have slipped Oh, that's great. Is that because we improved or someone else got worse? Or the smokers died. Oh, yeah. Singapore went down four places. I'm just looking at people that have slipped quite a bit.

Who's number one on the list? Where should we be aiming for? Spain. Who do we need to take down? Really? Spain. Yeah. I've got no problem with that.

Sangria. You guys, yes. Good for you. It's got fruit. That is five plus a day. Yeah, exactly. It's good for you. But's got fruit. That is five plus a day. Yeah, exactly. It's good for you. But they dethroned Italy.

Italy was first place last time they did this. How is Italy? There's so many carbs in Italy. Like, how are you not fat? Isn't the Italian diet always like lauded as being, you know, great? And their whole family, they have a, you know. Olive oil. Olive oil and the great and their whole family. They have olive oil and the Mediterranean diet and the family unit.

Iceland was third place. Japan was fourth and Switzerland was five. Australia's seventh which kind of surprises me although they're down from fifth. They were fifth last time so they've gone down two and we've actually gone up one. So we're catching.

Okay. We're catching. But looking right down the list, what are some other countries you're interested in? Mexico, because it goes Mexico, the U.S., and then us for obesity, but Mexico is 53rd. Oh, okay. So they're well down the list.

I can't even actually. Oh, the U.S. is 35th. Wow. So they're right down the list. I can't even actually. Oh, the US is 35th. Wow. So they're right down the list as well. But yeah, really interesting factors taken into account there. I wonder who's going to slide down a few with the anti-vax movement kind of gathering a bit of pace. Although they'll probably be dead by then maybe with the measles outbreak

that's happening. So I don't know. I don't know how that's happening, how that's going for them. All right, yeah, let's aim to get up a couple. Or, like, what do we need to do to go up? Go for a run. That's a bit hard, mate. I was looking for baby steps.

Just go for some baby steps. Just do a little walk. Science is in. Science. Science has weighed in and has discovered that husbands are actually big babies. So there is a study of 7,000 mums across the US and they asked them to share their biggest stress. So they all said, yeah, they're pretty stressed, rated an 8.5 out of 10. And that's mainly due to their husbands.

So they said when a seven-year-old is acting like a seven-year-old, you know, you can deal with that. But when a 35-year-old or just your husband, a grown-ass man is acting like a seven-year-old, it's because they should know better. So it's causing them a lot of stress. Yeah, Vaughn. Get your own daddy long legs out of the toilet then.

Is that your one thing that you do? Get your own hair out of the shower drain because you said it's too gross to touch then. I do that because he's always like, you have to get it out because it's your hair. As a bald man, that is a particularly on-the-nose task to be given. It's a kick in the teeth, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. It's like, hey, bald man, unblock the drain of all the hair. Can you get your fingers in this gross mess of hair and conditioner

and shampoo and general soap scum and pull it out of the sink? It's so gross. It's like, well, no. Are there examples, though, of this, Megan? So, well, most of them are saying that, in fact, 75% of them are saying that they do all the household and parenting chores because otherwise they just don't get done at all. So basically every chore in the house. And there's a sulk or a tantrum, is there, from a husband?

It's an age-old argument. Like if whoever's going out to work then comes home and is like, well, I've done a full day of work, but it's like the parenting is like a 24-7 job. Like that doesn't end. I always think it's really bad when people look at parenting as a job, like as a reluctant task. Like we kind of made a decision. We said anything to do with the kids,

we're not going to look at as a, it's your turn because that's such a bad, it's terrible, isn't it? It's like you chose to have kids or you have kids. It sounds horrible. It's your turn because that's such a bad, it's terrible, isn't it? It's like you chose to have kids or you have kids. It sounds horrible. It's bad. And then when they're old enough to understand and no one wants to do the thing, it's like it's your turn, you're palming it off.

I don't know. Yeah, but they'll get over it. There's much worse things they're going to deal with than your parents being like, it's your turn. It's your turn. Your turn to do that. Well, that flight that we were on the other day to Christchurch, There's much worse things they're going to deal with than your parents being like, it's your turn. It's your turn. Your turn to do that. That flight that we were on the other day to Christchurch, I was sitting in my row.

There was babies. And the parents were just like, it's your turn to the nanny. They had a nanny with them flying along. And the nanny just looked after the kids. I was like, that would be the way to go. Well, sure, if you can afford it. They've employed her for a task. Yeah, if you can afford it. But then you're

like really saying your kid's a task. Yeah. You've hired someone else to totally. You're such a punish, we've contracted your care out to. To Mary Poppins. But in this scenario, in this study, it's the husbands that are the hard work, not the kids.

Pretty much big babies, and they're causing their wives the most stress. Not the kids, the husband. Could we take some calls now from ladies, females listening now. Do you have a boyfriend or a husband who is just a big baby?

In fairness and in the interest of equality, let's hear about just partners in general. The big babies. Maybe you're the dude in the situation and you've got a big baby that you need to look after. But there are guys out there that get their lunch made for them. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I've done that. That sounds pretty sweet. But only out of choice. Why don't you get the problem? No, if you're choosing to do that, then that's fine. But it's when, like, they demand their lunch be made. But you know there are guys out there that get,. But it's when they demand their lunch be made. But you know there are guys out there that get looked after because they're useless.

Yeah. They're big babies. Yeah. Okay. They're driving me nuts. Is your partner a big baby? Give us a call. There's a survey that's been done that says husbands are big babies who actually make their wives' jobs harder and cause them a lot of stress.

Like more than kids? More than kids. So we're trying to find out the adult baby in your life. Either way, if it's a female or a male. Some text messages. I have to admit, I'm actually the big baby in our marriage. My husband has to put up with a lot. It's funny because

if a test was done to see if women were control freaks, we'd upset a lot of people. But anything can be said about how men are big babies. It definitely goes both ways. Just yesterday I packed a really top-notch sook. Somebody else said, my partner and my seven-year-old are actually on par

with being big babies and a handful to deal with. I even say to him sometimes when he sides with the seven-year-old, do you hear yourself? And someone said this isn't just partners. My mum's a big baby. Mum's a real handful, always crying, and she'll just demand a hug. It's like she is just a three-year-old who's stomping around and one minute angry at you and then one minute not.

Mum. All right, Sarah, who's the big baby in your life? So my husband not. Mum. All right, Sarah, who's the big baby in your life? So my husband is. Okay. So over the weekend, I got a horrible stomach bug. And then yesterday I dragged myself up and I went to work and I came home straight from work at the end of the day, got into bed, turned the lights out, was just like, nah, I need to go to sleep. And then about an hour later, he walks into our room and goes,

thanks for making me dinner, by the way, and then walks down. Oh, my God. You're kidding me. Are you speaking to each other currently? I was less than impressed. So did he get dinner? I'm very concerned for his welfare. Oh, absolutely not. I told him to F off and I went back to sleep.

Good. Right, so is he quite often a big baby? You have to do all of that kind of stuff? Oh, sometimes. And sometimes he's really good. I will say he looks after me all weekend. But then other times I feel like he just loses some brain cells.

Hey, we've all been there though, tired and hungry and a good bit of hangry. Hey Sarah, thanks for your call. More text messages in. Someone said I'm actually in the car with my husband and no one's said anything for the entire time

you guys have been talking about this because we know the minute the floodgates open, everybody's just going to be going each other. So I appreciate if you move on. Yeah, we'll move on soon, but let's try to get that argument started a couple more times since before then. Someone said, I'll pack a massive tantrum if I'm tired. The worst part is I can feel it coming on and I know I'm about to do it.

My darling partner just tells me to suck it up. Suck it up, princess. You're a flight attendant. So, that's... You don't want to see a flight attendant packing a sock. Nothing's worse than packing a sock and having someone tell you to suck it up. Suck it up, princess. Are you grumpy? Why are you grumpy? Stop being grumpy.

Stop being grumpy. Just stop it. Just stop being grumpy. Do you need some food? Somebody said my partner and I were arguing about weird stuff like this. Who was doing more chores. So we came to the joint decision to get a cleaner. It cost us a little bit of money, but my gosh, arguments just don't happen anymore. Okay, if you could afford it, that would be a good idea. Good option.

If it was causing friction, but you could afford to do it. I have a self-confessed man child. His hanger tantrums are on par with nothing else I've ever seen. I could do a good hangry. I do a good hangry. I need food immediately. Yeah. And then I'm fine.

You like literally shut down. Yeah, I know. Like your battery runs out. Yeah, it's I'm fine. You like literally shut down. Yeah, I know, I do. Like your battery runs out. Yeah, it's because my battery's running down. Get cranky, get very cranky. F.A.M. Oh, I am from a family, and this is generational. Yeah.

Our biggest expenditure as a household would 100% be food. And we did that. You know that you can do that thing where your bank will tell you what you spend your money on and you kind of say, oh, this is for, yeah, your regular shopping places, you say, oh, this was food, this was, and then over a month it'll calculate how much of your Yeah, you don't want to. Spendings on food. That's quite, it's confronting.

My husband loves that and I do not. Very confronting. Ours was like 80% on food. That's quite in your fits. Confronting. My husband loves that and I do not. Very confronting. Ours was like 80% on food. Right. That includes bills and stuff like that. It's where, like, supermarkets must love me. I'll go in for something and I'll fill a trolley. It's nuts.

So I've just been reading a story about a Northland woman, Lynn's her name, who decided that she would give herself a grocery budget of $1,000 for a year. Now, is she growing anything? So yeah, she did start her own garden, but she also did a fair bit of foraging. She gave up the treats, the choccies and the wine.

She traded food with her neighbours, soaging. She gave up the treats, the choccies and the wine. She traded food with her neighbours. So if she had excess from the garden, she would trade for other things. Right. She bulk purchased everything that can be bulk purchased. You know that you end up buying like, you know when you read that little thing of how much it's going to cost you per 100 grams? Yep, yep. And she was doing this to the extreme. She was bulk buying everything that could be bulk purchased.

Right. She learned to make pastry from scratch. Wow. From the big, I mean, we've all been looking to make a home pizza and just ended up buying one of those bases or just ended up buying a whole pizza for $5 instead. It's literally cheaper to buy a pizza online or from a store than it is to make your own.

They're ridiculous. This is the one I've got a question mark after. She ate eggs from chickens wandering on the farm. Does that mean she was stealing somebody else's chickens' eggs to chickens wander about? It must be her chickens. Oh, you're saying she's ultimate free range.

So I've just done the math. That's $2.70 a day. Yeah. As her food budget. Well, take a little bit more off because she finished the year with $12 left in her pocket. What? She was trading with the neighbours. So yeah, she accepted gifts.

She's got a farm and a garden. It's a lot harder living in the city if you don't have a garden. You're not going to be able to do that. Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. And we all know supermarkets mark up fruit and veggie like 400%. Yeah. Yeah.

So you want to eat healthy. It's hard. It's expensive. My problem was the white vinegar for deodorant. Yeah, I was just about to say the beauty products. She also cut right back on that. Coconut oil became a major player. But that's not cheap.

And white vinegar is deodorant. Coconut oil is not cheap. Maybe she got it bulk. Yeah, she might have just... Yeah, okay, yeah, right. Yeah. Baking soda, she said that can be anything.

That's like toothpaste, soap, shampoo, any sort of cleaning around the place. God, it's grim living though, isn't it? I mean, good on her. Yeah.

I mean, obviously she wanted to see that it could be done. But does she go back to... Yeah, but does she go to parties? I don't know if it is grim living. It's... Well, yeah, but she would be one that it could be done. But does she go back to... Does she go to parties? I don't know if it is grim living. Well, yeah, but she would be one of those people that would turn up with no beers and you'd see her drinking a Heineken and you'd be like, wait, hold on, hold on, Lynn.

Hold on, you didn't bring any beers. And she's into your snacks. Oh, she'd be right into the grazing table. Doesn't want to spend her turtle eyes 70 a day. She'd be one of those tight-ass friends we all know that doesn't like to spend her $2.70 a day. She'd be one of those tight-ass friends we all know that doesn't like to buy anything. Yeah. But she, you know, hats off to her totally for doing it.

Oh, yeah, no, totally. And she's working as well. She's a share milker, so she's working pretty hard. Oh, she'd get free milk then. That's another thing she'd be saving. Yeah, she could make her own butter. Yeah, but we've all had the intention to make our own butter, but then you're like, how hard is this going to be?

Because a block of butter down the road is not that expensive. She sounds like she's on one of those pioneer shows where you live like a pioneer for a year. Well, she might end up on a show because she's got a Facebook page that she started called Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce. Okay. Class. I don't know where.

Is that an old saying? Maybe. Maybe. Is that more like when the kids are like, what's for dinner? And you're like, pig tits and parsley sauce. Yeah, because my granddad used to say pig shit and cabbage when you asked for dinner. But obviously that was never for dinner because I don't know

if that's even edible. For sure. Fact of the day! Day, day, day, day. Hi, everybody. Today's fact of the day. If you're like me, I'm a terrible drawer. I can't draw to save myself. I've never been able to.

And I remember at school, people said, a drawing's just like anything. You've got to practice if you want to get better. And I was like, yeah, this stick figure's really not getting any better. This is as good as it gets. Yeah, I know you. I wanted to drag you into this, but I felt that's something you have to admit, rather than...

I've got lovely handwriting, but I'm a terrible drawer. I'll write yourself. I don't know if I'd put your handwriting up there with... Well, it's definitely better than yours. You should see. I tried to write something down yesterday and someone was like, are you okay? I was like, what do you mean? They're like, do you know?

Like, I don't even know. Are those letters? Is that English? Is that shorthand journalism? I was like, I would never have learnt shorthand journalism. Your, like, S's are like Z's. Like lightning bolts. Yeah, it's not good.

Very jaggedy. It's not good. That's why computers were invented, though. Well, I have learnt a fact for those who like to draw human faces. Okay. If you were drawing a human face, the eyes are one eye apart. Apparently, that is the best distance for eyes to be apart. So if you, and this will work if you're at home and you think, man, my eyes are close together.

And you can measure how wide your eye is. And then from the inside of the eye, measure across to the other eye. And if it's closer than the width of your eye, then, yeah, your eyes probably do look a little bit close. But it's you, babes, and you do you, and be happy with that because you can't change it. I'm just doing a measurement now. I think I'm good. Are you okay?

Yeah. You all right? I think so. Yeah, that does look like they're one eye apart, Megan. Yeah, yours does too. Yeah, okay. I need to put that there. Yeah, right.

Okay, that works. So, yeah, if you're drawing, the width of one eye is also the distance between two eyes. And here's some other handy tips for how to draw a human face. I learned this while learning this initial. I scrolled down. Here's some more. The head is approximately five eyes wide, including the ears. So not only-

Well, it's one, two, three in the middle. Yeah, and then one on either side. Huh, okay. One more eye on either side. And if you're drawing an entire human head, the pupils are roughly in the centre of the head. So right between the chin and the top of the head, if you're going to draw the eyes,

that's whereabouts the pupils kind of sit. Right. So should you start with one eye and then do a space, eye space, do a space eye space and then another eye do the other eye yeah and then measure a distance down where you're happy for the chin to be and then that same measurement above the eye would be the top of the head this is all well and good but my face is still going to look awful like i'm just terrible at drawing even with these hands oh i thought you meant you're just your face and i was going to be like, sorry, may you do all right?

So did I. Oh, thanks. It's okay. It's not going to win any awards, but it's okay. We can't all be oil paintings. Hey. Oh, my God, thanks, Megan. That's really kind of you to say.

I will assume that was directed at me. So today's fact of the day is the distance between the eyes is also the width of one eye. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. So 660's concert at the weekend, 50,000 people there. Already announced their next year's show, haven't they? Yes, they have. And there was a young boy by the name of Riley, who is eight years old, who is a massive fan of 660.

He was at the concert, but he suffered an asthma attack because people were smoking at what is supposed to be a smoke-free event. And I think missed out on most of the show. Definitely missed out on 660. So we thought we would get in contact with Jacinda, who is Riley's mum, to one of the biggest fans. That's right, eh, Jacinda? One of the biggest fans.

I was going to say, it's one of those bands everyone will claim it. Yeah. So were you a bit surprised yesterday by the kind of, there was a bit of backlash online saying you shouldn't take a kid to 660. What were you thinking? Well, yeah, it is one of those things. Maybe as a naive parent who hasn't been to a concert since I was young where there were no people smoking, I thought it was going to be okay.

But, you know, he had as much right to be there as anybody else. And because Western Springs is supposed to be a smoke-free venue, we assumed nothing of it. But, yeah, I mean, backlash is backlash. It's going to happen regardless. And it's an all-ages event. So, again, you'd be right in thinking that you can take your eight-year-old son. Yeah, yeah. I mean, outdoors, you thought it was going to be big enough. Yeah. You wouldn't have to deal with it, but unfortunately, you didn't. Right.

So how much of the show did he miss? Like, when did you have to get him some medical attention? Sort of in between Drax Project and 660, so. So he missed 660 entirely? He did, yeah. Oh, my gosh. And how did he take that? I think he was more upset that he was sick

and, you know, we got the whole, oh, I really wish I didn't have asthma. I hate that I have asthma and I hate my life. And I'm like, oh, you know, don't look at it like that. They'll be back next year and we can go next year and it'll be really fun. And, you know, next year we'll have a bit of a puzzle with us and right around, but

yeah. Right. Right. Is he there now, Jacinda? He is. He's in the back. Could we chat to Riley? Yeah, definitely.

I'll check him on. Okay. Hi. How long had you been looking forward to going to the concert, Riley? A long time. A long time. Did you get the tickets for Christmas or like a special occasion or did your mum just get the tickets? Like about three months ago.

Oh, so you're really looking forward to it? Yeah. Is that your first concert that you've been to? Yes. Oh. Well, we have a little surprise for you, Riley. You know the band Drax Project? Yeah.

Well, Sam would like to join us from Drax Project. He's in the band Riley. He's got something he would like to tell you. Good morning Sam. Hey mate, how's it going? Good. Oh that's good. So we heard about the little mishap that happened in the weekend and that's a real shame. So the great people at ZM have organised for you to go to the show next year and they've got tickets for you. How do you feel about that, mate? I feel happy now. I'm so glad. You're going to go see them You're going to go see them next year

Oh mate So it's a little It's a little while away But you've got Something to look forward to For next year Okay buddy Okay

Thank you So mum We've got mum back on the phone We're going to give you And Riley some tickets for next year's show, which 660 have already announced, and we'll give you some accommodation as well. Oh, that is fantastic.

Thank you guys so much. If you could see Riley's face right now, he's smiling ear to ear. He sounded pretty calm about the whole thing. He was. He's laughing at his brother now. He's smiling. Well, I hope your experience is better next year. Yeah, I do too.

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