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

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by Spark. Get the new Nokia 7.1 from $499 on a Spark prepaid rollover value pack. And now, on with the podcast. It's on. Zim's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Oh, website, Wait Times, NCA online. Do you remember when it was, yeah, to wait for the posting?

Wait for the posting. And then you're opening the envelope in front of your parents. You're like, can you just go away so I can, like, lie to you? So I can colour photocopies and get the results. Yeah. Or just get a pen and write over them. Change the F to a B. Or say, oh, no, it was a wrong.

Yeah. Nothing. It didn't have anything on it. Yeah. But that's sad. They've put all this time into a website that literally only has any traffic one day of the entire year. Like who else is popping along to the NCEA website any other time? Oh, might just go and see what their plan is for the year.

I don't know. See what's happening in the NCEA world. Are you dealing with this in the top six coming up, Vaughn? Yes. The top six reasons to not be in the house when NCEA results come out. So much to do outside, guys. Or just away from your parents. Yeah. You know, just get out and enjoy the world so you don't have to face the NCEA results.

All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time Story time for those that are new to the show and don't know I give Vaughan and Megan three news headlines for three interesting stories that I've found online and they pick one Only allowed to pick one headline

Sometimes we Google the others Googling is not allowed It might be harder on that in 2019. Sometimes we may have come across the others in our journeys of the internet. Headline one, once you pop, you can't stop. Headline two, airline finds new low in flying. And headline three, robot with vape pen ends hostage situation.

I don't have any of those. Oh, I don't know if I want the low-flying one. What was the flying one? No, new low in flying, not low-flying. I just imagine that they flew really low. No. Okay. Not at all, Megan.

Nothing to do with that. A metaphorical low. A metaphorical low in customer service. Oh. You could say. What do you want? That, I think. I thought you were going to go for robots.

The robot with the vape pen. It just sounds like somebody really wanted a vape and they sent one in. Have you had a vape? No, I don't smoke. I got offered a vape at the weekend, but I was just like Do you want to try it? Because I was asking a lot of questions about it.

I was like, I don't think so. I've seen a lot of stores around, and they sell like real fancy ones. Oh, yeah. Like this store I saw looked like an iPhone store, like an Apple store. It was all like ooh-la-la. Really? Like full-blown vape? Yeah.

It was weird. It's weird when you see like, I saw this real blokey dude having a vape as I walked past, and he blows the vape in your face and it smells like apples. You're like, oh, that's weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like a shisha. But it's not smoke, is it? It's vapour.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like you've got the kettle on, but you're boiling an apple. Yeah. But then you charge your vape, like in a USB or something. Yeah, you've got a little charging spot for your vape. Apparently, someone that works here, I'll tell you their name later because people listening won't know, but they lost the mouthpiece to their vape. I apparently, someone that works here, I'll tell you their name later because people listening won't know, but they lost the mouthpiece

to their vape. Right. And so, but to get it to work, you have to form a seal. So they were like gobbling off the whole vape every time they wanted one.

I shouldn't have said that, should I? That was not right, the right word to say at all. No. Moving on. Good God. Like I said it

and then Megan like put her head down and I was like, that, I'm still a bit in holiday mode. I do apologise. They were, like, putting the whole, like, how a kid drinks from a Fanta bottle. They were putting their whole mouth over it and, like, pushing it halfway down their throat. And then, like, ooh.

And then they got a new mouthpiece, but apparently it just developed the habit of putting the entire vape in the mouth. And people are like, why is that? It looks ridiculous. Putting this much of the vape in the mouth. I people are like, why is that? It looks ridiculous. What invests the vape in the mouth? I can guess. Okay. Yeah, yeah, it probably won't come as too much of a surprise. All right, so we're going for the new low in flying.

We've chosen that story. Okay, we go now to the UK, where a family, they had paid £1,300 to fly on TUI Airlines. How's TUI spelled? Is it like our bird? Yeah, like our bird. T-U-I. Yeah. We've got some TUIs at our house.

I can't get enough of them. Well, they were flying from Mahon in Menorca to Birmingham. Isn't that Mahon in Menorca? No, it's M-E-N-O-R-C-A. Oh, that M-A-N-N-O-R-C-A? Oh, it's not M-A-J-O-R-C-A. it's not

Menorca. Mallorca. Mallorca. Mallorca. Mallorca. God, I don't know. Anyway,

they had this flight all ready to go. They went to the airport. They were given their boarding passes and that's when the Taylor family found empty spaces

where their seats should have been. Oh, I saw the photo of them squatted down behind their seats. Standing on the floor. So their seat numbers were 41, D, E and F. But when they got on the plane, there was an empty space under the numbers. Now, I'm the only one that

thought that would probably be not a bad option. No, you just lie down. You could make a nest and then snuggle up on the floor. There was one, I think, one or two spare seats on the flight, so a couple of them got an actual seat, and then the others had to sit on crew seats,

the little fold-down flappy seats for take-off and landing, but then, of course, they needed to get the food trolleys out, so they just had to sit on the floor where the seats were for the flight. Do they have seat belts? Well, for take-off and landing they were, but no, not for the flight. It's turbulence, just like, hold on. Oh, my God.

They've taken it to Britain's or the UK's version of Fair Go. Right. A TV show. So I'm sure they'll get some. It's called Rip Off Britain. Which has a better name, isn't it? Yeah. Fair Go. Rip Off Britain. No, no.

Kiwi's called, it's called Fair Go because it's like, give us a fair go. Come on, mate. Give us a fair go. Give us a fair go. Yeah. It's very in the TV version. Very sorry for the way the situation was initially handled. Any word on what happened to those seats?

I don't know. Because they had a number and a letter. Yeah, it's weird. So the seat must have existed at some stage. Because I've been on a flight where someone's had a boarding pass for a seat and another person has also had the same number. Oh, yeah. I've seen that happen, but not missing seats.

Yeah. What did they do? Sit on each other's knee? I don't know. I think they just got them another seat. So imagine if you got there and it's like some creepy old dude and you're like, oh, it's okay. And he's like, you can sit on me. Yeah, but what if it's someone hot? Then you sit on them.

Well, then they sit on your knee, but then you become the creepy old dude. So someone's always got to be the creep in this scenario. Right. F.M. We've just extended Lime Scooters to different cities in New Zealand, so Dunedin's got them. Did creep in this scenario. Right. F-M's. We've just extended Lime Scooters to different cities in New Zealand, so Dunedin's got them. Did we find out of Tauranga?

If they haven't got them yet, it's coming. And Auckland, the three-month trial, that's been confirmed, eh? It's going to be a long-term thing now? Yes. Get to keep them? I wouldn't think we were going to get to keep them. A media specialist to analyse how many dollars worth of advertising Lime scooters have had just by people talking about them.

The talk, yeah. The media. Every single day there's a news story about them. I love it. I didn't see any actual advertising. No, no, no, that's what I'm saying, but the unpurchasable. They don't need to. Yeah, exactly.

They don't need to buy advertising because it's been talked about so much. So if you took that airtime and put a dollar value to it and the print space and the news stories on tally. It'd be so much. It'd be in the multiple tens of millions, wouldn't it?

You'd say so. And I'm about to tell you about lime scooters in another country too. So in Switzerland, the scooters, they've had to recall them because they are just stopping mid-ride. So you're like hooning along and all of a

sudden it just stops. So it doesn't break, it just kind of cuts off. So the wheel lock comes in. The wheel lock comes in and obviously it's causing some crashes, people are falling off and they are doing an investigation. So I think what's happened is they are doing a software update.

It causes the scooter to reboot and then the theft protection gets triggered. Now the theft protection locks up the wheels. So during the reboot it's like, oh, I'm being stolen. And it throws people off. Jeez, okay.

That's in Switzerland, not here. It's not here. Also, side note, they've just, are they getting like big enough to do? They must be because in Vegas they've done like a big show to unveil the next generation of scooters. Oh, it's CES, the consumer electronics thingy that they do. So the new ones have bigger wheels and they are increasing their range by 20% so they can travel up to 48km on a single charge. But that depends on hills and speed and stuff. Yeah, right.

But that's the next gen. Will we get those? Will we get all the... No, we'll get everybody's hand-me-downs. We're definitely like the youngest in the family. We're getting the hand-me-downs. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Well,

the day is upon us. NCEA results are out today. 165,000 students will be able to access their NCEA results

online. It'll crash, doesn't it crash every year? Yeah, they said they've made allowances for it and everything but SPANS,

not Spanks, Spans, Secondary Principals Association of New Zealand, said it was a massive one for both parents and students. There'll be euphoria for those who have received their desired results and disappointment for others, no doubt. Positive people. There's always a job in radio if you don't do that well.

Remember that. There is Remember that There is We're all here The top six reasons You need to leave the house today When NCEA results come out Because this was what we used to do When they came via the post as well

You'd be like Oh, gotta go And you'd get out And still it's on the internet So you can escape Yeah You can escape it So number six

And today's top six reasons You need to be out of the house when NCEA results come out. Beautiful day. I hang the washing out. The neighbours have probably got some washing too, so you should pop over and help them and then help the neighbours' neighbours and work your way just, you know, be a good Samaritan out there today.

As soon as you just failed geography. Don't get lost out there. You did just fail geography. Number five on the list of the top six reasons you need to leave the house today when NCEA results come out. Bird watching.

Remember how you probably failed maths because of all that time you spent just staring out the window blankly? It was because you were bird watching. Just remember the word ornithology because that's the scientific term for your new hobby when you come home

and your parents are really angry and you can say you've got a backup plan. Number four on the list of the top six reasons you need to be out of the house when NCEA results come out. God, the family car's in an absolute state. I think I'd better get out there and wash it. And then try it and then set up a car wash stall because you're going to need to make some money now

because you've just failed high school again. Number three on the list of the top six reasons you need to leave the house today when NCEA results come out. You have been meaning

to go and see Nana. And if your Nana was anything like mine she doesn't care about exam results. She cares how skinny you're looking and how many biscuits

you want to take with you when you leave. Yeah. Which you may never do because you might be living with Nana now. Number two on the list of the top six reasons you need to take with you when you leave. Yeah. Which you may never do because you might be living with Nana now. Number two on the list of the top six reasons you need to leave the house when NCEA

results come out. Gardening. Oh, you've always loved gardening. What with all those, you know those colourful things? Bees like them. Flowers? Bingo. That's them. Flowers. Gosh, you like flowers. That's why you fail to water culture.

And the number one reason you need to be out of the house when NCEA exam results come out, your dad did always promise you he'd build you a treehouse, and what better time to bond with your dad than now? But you're 18. Dad, you promised me. Do you want me to get addicted to drugs? I already just failed NCEA level one for the third time.

All because you never built me that treehouse. That's today's top six. There's a story of a brazen theft. Theft. This happened Christmas morning, wasn't it? So when everybody was sleeping. Yeah. A hell of a time to

be in central Auckland because it's like abandoned. No one's around because nothing's open and everybody's not in central Auckland. People have gone home. But outside an Auckland art gallery, which last year had the dots thing. Because a lot of people went to the dots. Got the gram.

Got the gram with the dots. Yeah. Okay. With the dots. So they had a two metremeter tall, so massive, bronze statue installed. It is by an artist called Gregor Kregar. It was called The Thinker. Sounds like a Game of Thrones.

Yeah, it does a little bit. It does a little bit. And it was called The Thinker, and it was a two-minute tour bronze gnome. And someone stuck a little Christmas hat on it. It looked like an elf. It's very cool. I like to be confused with elves. It's very cool. Yeah.

You'd love that in your garden if you were rich and you could afford it. Like I wouldn't normally have a gnome in my garden, but this is a cool gnome. And you know how rich people kind of lose their taste and start spending money on stuff that's ugly? But this is art. Yeah.

And it was a big sculpture. See, I thought it was Christmas Eve. If I'd seen it in July, I'd be like, what are you doing here? But it was stolen. It was also bolted to the ground. Bolted down. Right. 100 kilograms.

Oh, my God. And $55,000 is what this retailed at. And it has been stolen. Apparently on the back of a ute. People in high-vis vests pulled up. This is genius, though, because if I saw people undoing that in high-vis vests, I'd be like, oh, they are there for a reason. They're taking that away because it's Christmas.

Yeah. It's done. It's been cleaned or something. Yeah. It's the perfect time to take away a statue and have it cleaned. So you might be thinking, like, my immediate thought was scrappy, like melt it down and sell it to a scrap metal dealer. Oh, no.

So apparently only $2,000 worth of scrap metal. And how much is it worth? Bronze. Bronze, yeah. $55,000 object due to the fact that it was sculpted. Oh, that's sad. Yeah. So it's gone.

The balls of some people. Brazen theft. I don't even understand how people can break into someone else's house. No, neither. Isn't that just nuts that people do that? Well, there was a story from my hometown, and while this is brazen and weird and you can kind of be like, how and why? Yeah. Some in my hometown of Morrinsville recently, there was a story about this guy who passed

away and people broke into his house and ransacked it and did drugs in it and pooed on the walls and did all sorts of awful things and stole anything worth any value and then bought back the lawnmower. So I don't know what was going on. Morrinsville. What's the train of thought that leads you to think that's a good idea? I don't know. Drugs?

Yeah. Maybe. Maybe drugs. So given the fact that a two-metre tall bronze statue of a gnome has been stolen. A hundred kgs. That was bolted to the ground. Bolted down. What can you not believe was stolen?

Maybe this was on your property. You're just like, surely it can't have been stolen. Well, yeah, just because it was so brazen or big. And you would have thought impossible to steal. Or it was like right outside your bedroom window. Or what made it brazen? I knew someone that had a digger stolen. How do you even steal a digger?

I've always wondered, like, they don't leave the keys in, do they? No. Okay. Because, I mean, even if the keys was in it, I still wouldn't steal it. Even if the key was in the digger, a very inconspicuous vehicle to steal. And it's not like a fast getaway. What do you remember when someone stole the caravan? Oh, yeah. Auntie Mark's caravan. Auntie Mark's. That's right, a fast getaway. Do you remember when someone stole the caravan? Oh, yeah.

Auntie Mark's caravan. Auntie Mark's. That's right, Operation Summer Knickers. And we never found that, did we? No. You can just hook that up to her. That was melted down. What, her knickers?

Both. Surprisingly, the knickers were harder to melt down than the caravan. Very old knickers. Very old. Very resilient. We want to take your calls now. 0800Diles.com. You can text as well.

9696. What can you not believe was stolen? The most brazen theft you know of. Give us a call. What you just cannot believe was stolen. A giant garden gnome's been stolen. Chantal, good morning. Hi, morning. Now, what can't you believe was stolen? A giant garden gnome's been stolen. Chantel, good morning. Good morning. Hi, morning.

Now, what can't you believe was stolen? Well, I was at a friend's house, parked my car outside her house. The next morning, woke up, they had smashed my window, turned on my car's lights, but only stolen a MacBook. A Mac, a Mac. A Mac. A Mac. A Mac, yeah. but only stolen a map book. A map. A map. A map. Yeah.

Not a Mac book like as in a laptop. You're talking about a book of streets and geographical features. Yes. Just a book of maps. They left the Navman. They left my wallet. They left my Timberland shoes, everything. All they stole was a book of Auckland maps. We're looking for a baby boomer then.

If they left behind a sat-nav and took a book of maps, we're definitely looking for someone like 55 plus. Yeah. But again, though, why go to all that effort and steal, like, a book of maps? Yeah. And then turn the lights on. That's just rude. That's crazy.

Chantal, thanks for your call. Isaac, what can't you believe was stolen? I was working on a construction site in Wellington and when we rocked up to work in the morning our port-a-loo was stolen. That sounds to me like students, Isaac. Students. That's very Apulian

if you ask me. Ah, Apulian. You really pushed it. That is on the absolute verge of being allowed to be a pun. I like it, I like it. But they never found it. It wasn't, like, taken down the road by hooligans? No, we watched the video camera,

and the guys had loaded it up to the back of the ute and then drove over the Wainui Hill. Wow, so it actually stole the portaloo. Yeah. But if you had, like, a cabin, like a bush hut handy. Oh, yeah. You said they went over the Wainui Hill. Anything can happen over there. I'm talking bush huts.

I'm talking. I'd have to paint it as well because they kind of stand out. Yeah. Yeah, you'd definitely be putting some leaves up on it. Probably paint it with some resin. I don't know, what, a lake wakatipu? Oh, you're talking about the resin we're hitting the Resene New Zealand colour chart.

Yeah, we're going to paint. You don't want to fluoro, um, portalo in your backhand, do you?

Maybe a chem flash? Yeah, good call. Uh, Isaac, thanks for your call, mate. Uh,

some text messages. The front bumper off my last car was stolen while I was in the shower. Uh, I came out

and the front bumper was gone. I was like, oh my God, someone's hit my car and driven away, but then I saw the screws on the ground,

so they'd literally known what they were doing, unscrewed, and and the front bumper was gone. I was like, oh my God, someone's hit my car and driven away. But then I saw the screws on the ground. So they'd literally known what they were doing, unscrewed and taken the front bumper of my car. You're looking for the same car as yours. Yeah. And then you find it. Because I thought about... I wouldn't be able to recognise my bumper. You know those monsoon guards?

That's what they call them. I had to end up buying one, but I wanted to steal one off another 2003 Honda because they were like 90 bucks each. I was just like I'll just steal somebody else's and they'll claim insurance. I'm glad that you did the right thing. But I didn't. I bought one

from like a Wreckers. Okay. You're lucky to find one of those and I said I was going to steal one off a car on the mall if I saw it. And he laughed. That wasn't that crazy a thing. But someone stole a bumper. Yeah, laughed. That wasn't that crazy a thing. He's like, ha ha. But someone stole a bumper. Yeah, wow. Somebody else had a 10-foot trampoline stolen from their backyard

right outside their kid's bedroom. Six-foot fence with locked gates. And somehow they got it out in one piece because they wouldn't have had time to take it apart and steal it. Good Lord. Crazy, eh? Somebody else said, I work in construction like the other guy, except it wasn't our

port-a-loo. Someone came onto the site after hours and stole 80 plus curb blocks. What's that? So you know on the side of the road with the pavement and then the curb? The gutter? Yeah, the gutter. So those go as far into the ground, easily as far

into the ground as they do above the ground. They're massive. And they're heavy. Because when they did the footpath outside our house, there was a couple and I said, can I have that? And the guy was like, I don't know. Yeah, we're just going to take it back to the depot. You can have it.

And I used it as like garden edging. And it was so heavy. So I don't know. But you used council. Hey, look, mate, I put my rates. Council curbing is your garden edging. It was legit. I would do it again.

Right, okay. It was so heavy, it wouldn't move. Right, because as a rain power, I could come around and just take that out of... I'll give you a potato. Because that's what I grew behind them, potatoes. And then you could get more and stack them up and keep growing more and more potatoes.

But that was at our old house. So if anybody wants to go around, I'll give you the address. You can steal those. No, it's not your property anymore. Steal and steal alike. It's the circle of stealing. Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast.

This footage surfaced towards the end of the weekend. Yesterday, everybody was talking about it. The footage of a family, an Irish family, as it turns out, who left Takapuna Beach in an absolute state. Like the mess strewn everywhere. Left their rubbish and then just got up and literally walked away. People started filming because they were like, can you believe this mess?

Yeah. And then confronted them. And probably the most shocking part about the whole thing was this kid came charging forward ready for a scrap. Smell my uncle. I'm not your friend Sam. Smell my uncle again.

Excuse me? Smell my uncle again. Smell it up. Cheat you. Cheat you. Cheat you. What? He was wildly aggressive. He was wearing a big Bunnings hat too.

Not great advertising for Bunnings. I haven't seen an official statement, but I'd imagine would be distancing themselves. Did he say he's six? How old was he? I think he said he was six. Six or seven. So a classy bunch of tourists. This story broke and then people came out of the woodwork.

They were like, well, I've had a run-in with this family as well. They carved a path across Australia and were pretty much run out of town. They robbed a dairy and there's video footage of them doing it. Not robbed as in like, give us all your money. Stole. Stole. Stole from the dairy. Right.

So this is in Australia. Yeah. One of them's distracting and the other one's just like shoveling all the stuff into their handbag and just causing chaos. Right. Somebody also described a guy said he was on the same flight into New Zealand with them. Right. And he said, I believe it's them. Same accents.

One of them looks exactly like one of the people on the plane. They said they were like yelling. They asked to be fed ten times before the plane even took off. They kept dinging the bell. They wanted endless drinks. The kids wouldn't sit down. One of the kids was shoving like passengers

to see what they were watching. Which sounds like our little mate in the Bunnings hat. What's the deal? Who are they and where are they from? I don sounds like our little mate in the Bunnings hat. What's the deal? Who are they and where are they from? I don't know. Somebody yesterday said the accent is exactly the same. And a very good point. If you ever watched my big fat gypsy wedding about Irish travellers that never sort of,

they travel around in caravans and stuff. They never really have like a specific house. They're Irish. Well, they're definitely Irish. Right. They never really have like a specific house with a caravan and parks and stuff. Well, they're definitely Irish and it is that really, it's almost like Brad Pitt in that movie Snatch. You like dirt.

Like, right. That sort of accent. And apparently been going to restaurants and then kicking up a fuss there not wanting to pay because they found

hair in their food. But then they put the hair in the food. My God. Rough as gut. So they're travelling around the country. Fun, though, if you see them now.

You're like, oh, what are they going to do now? Well, the news tracked them down yesterday and got photos. She's wearing a unicorn onesie here, hiding her face. I believe maybe the mum. And, yeah, they've been spotted. So I think they know. They are totally just going to be like, everyone's going to be keeping an eye out for them. Yeah. What are you supposed to do, yeah, they've been spotted. So I think they know. They are totally just going to be like, everyone's going to be keeping an eye out for them.

Yeah. What are you supposed to do, though, if they come into your, like, restaurant or cafe or whatever? You just tell them to leave. Tell them to leave. Photo of the mess you've got in front of you there. How long were they there for? Probably a good hour, though.

Yeah, it's a lot of mess. That's hours and hours and hours of mess. How would it feel to be in a country, like a small country like ours, and all of a sudden the entire country turns on you because you're in every media and online social? Oh, we'll ask them in a couple of days, shall we? That'd be great.

I wonder where they will pop up next. They're like when Moko the Dolphin was going up the East Coast. Everyone's like, oh, Moko's in Whakatane. Everyone's like, oh, yay, let's go down and see Mokko. They'll be like, the Irish travellers are in Gisborne. Ooh, let's pop down and have a look. See what crazy shenanigans they're going to get up to. I'd love to see

them try this shit on in Gisborne. Yeah. I think they might. Your Irish travellers are going to truly meet the likes they've never met before in Gisborne. That would be actually bloody good. Wow, as soon as we've played that. Actually, before we get on to that, on an unrelated note, Megan, you've just done a bit of travelling,

stayed in hotels. Yeah. Do you have any thoughts or feelings on when a hotel says if you want to reuse the towel and save the environment, hang it up? Or if you don't, leave it on the floor in a pile? Yeah. But primarily for environmental purposes. Oh, I always hang it up because then it's like, you know,

they're using less water. Exactly. They're trying to save the environment. Yeah. We should do our bit. Yeah. What's your point? Oh, no, I was just wondering.

Fletch, do you have any? Yeah, actually, I do. You know I do. Do you? Because we've talked about this. Oh, I didn't know. Go on. I did stay in a lot of hotels over the last four weeks.

And they all had those signs. No need to show off. They all had those signs, didn't they? They did. Signs like, we care about the environment. This hotel chain cares about the environment. No, but what's wrong with that? Please hang your towel up.

And, you know, if you want a new towel, leave it on the floor. I'm good with that. I'll always hang my towel up because I'm all about the environment. But this is my thing. They don't care about the environment. All these hotel chains are like,

they care about saving money. They just want to wash less towels to save money. I would appreciate a sign that says, this hotel chain would like to save its bottom line. We'd like to make more money. So help us out and hang your towels up. I'd appreciate that way more and find that slightly funny.

Because then what if they said, next time you stay here, prices won't be extravagantly put up. But what do you think about, you know, some hotels have a big bottle of like body wash strapped to the shower instead of having lots of little ones for every... Oh, I'm all for that. You are? But then I take my own soap.

What? I take my own soap. What? Megan Markle over here taking her own soap every week. You took your own soap all around Europe. Yeah, I took a bottle. Are you kidding me? No, I actually did.

Why didn't you buy it? Why? You've got sensitive skin, babe. Locally. I've got sensitive skin. And sometimes I find if there's a bar of soap or whatever, it makes my skin itchy. So I take my own. My precious princess.

But don't put up a sign saying you care about the environment because you don't. It's all just. But don't they lease all the towels? Don't they have to give them all back in dirty state anyway? Well, probably, yeah. Once you. But then do they get charged per kilogram of dirty? I'd imagine.

Yeah, that's totally how they get charged. Or per towel. No, because you wouldn't get. No, it wouldn't be that's totally how they get charged. Or per towel. No, because you wouldn't get weight. No, it wouldn't be weight because then wet towel weighs a lot more than a dry towel.

Oh, right. But this is my thing. It's just be honest hotel chains. Hey, we're a global company. We're trying to make as much money as we

can. Reuse your towels. It'll give us a bit more. I appreciate that a bit more than you pretending to care about the environment because you

don't. Fletch, someone more than you pretending to care about the environment because you don't. Fletch, someone messaged in wanting to know your thoughts on banks saying they don't want to send out paper statements because they care about the environment. Again, they don't care. They want to save money, don't they? But it goes hand in hand. But again, it's good for the environment. Yeah, so it's okay, isn't it? But you just don't want the BS.

You don't want the ruse. You want to be saying, look, it's 80% profit, 20% environment. What if they said that? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'd much appreciate the honesty.

You just don't like being lied to. I don't like the lying, the whole, oh, we're so green and, you know it, you're just trying to make money. So every time you go into a hotel,

you're like, when you see the sign. I see the sign, I'm just like, and I chuckle while I'm cleaning my teeth. I'm like, bullshit, you don't care about it.

You just want to make money. But I get that. It's cool my teeth I'm like bullshit you don't care about it you just want to make money but I get that it's cool that's cool but just don't lie about it be honest about it be honest about the fact you want to make money

there's no shame in that because we stayed at a place when we were overseas and it said oh we don't do plastic bottles because we're trying to so we give you you can buy a bottle

on the way in I was like oh we bought our own bottles and you saw their face kind of drop a little bit because they were like oh but now you're not buying these bottles that we put. I was like, oh, we bought our own bottles. And you saw their face kind of drop a little bit because they're like, oh, but now you're not buying these bottles that we put a huge mark on. Wait, so you bought your own body wash as well?

No, no, no, no, no. Water bottles. Oh, water bottles. Water bottles. No, you're on your own there, mate. We got there and the guy's like, oh, the water out of the tap, don't brush your teeth with it. Here's some bottled water.

I was like, but the guy at the door told us you don't do bottled water. He's like, we'll just give you a couple to brush your teeth with. These are plastic bottles. Again, they're trying to make money. Just be honest about it. Don't lie to me. I'll get you. They think they're

smarter than you is the problem. You don't like people thinking you're that smart as you are. I can see through the lies. FEM. There is a new most liked photo on Instagram. Previously, it was 18 million likes, and it was Kylie Jenner's picture of her baby, Stormi, holding her thumb. Just a picture of their hands.

Did that, and that beat, when that was number one, it beat, was it the Coke? Selena Gomez? I think it was Beyonce's twins. Oh, right, okay. Before that, or Cristiano Beyonce's twins. Oh, right. Okay. Before that. Or Cristiano Ronaldo's twins. Or baby.

Kendall Jenner's hair. Yeah. That was only, do you know when, I remember when that was number one. No, it was a pretty picture of her in like a wedding dress lying on the floor with her hair and heart. Explain this to your great grandparents. So like, thanks for fighting the Germans. That's going to happen again in 20 years, now

in about 100 years time what we do is we go on phones not like you know them and we like photos of things like exotic locations and animals yet to be discovered kind of kind of

people's hair and people drinking Coke can. You don't have to break it down like that. It's just a photo. We just liked it. It's just a moment in time. But there is a new most liked photo on Instagram. And every minute it is increasing in likes.

So I'll tell you the numbers first before I tell you what it was. So it has beaten 18 million. And this morning was. So, it has beaten 18 million and this morning when I checked, it had beaten it. It was sitting on 30, 3-0 million.

Now, a couple of hours later, it's now 32 million. Like, so, I don't imagine anyone anytime soon

is going to beat this because that's absolutely smashed Kylie's record at 18 million. But the picture is of an egg. Oh, God, it's a beautiful egg.

A brown, very slightly speckled egg. Yeah. Chicken egg. Imagine, oh, okay, here's a twist. Imagine if we find out that egg is a caged egg. Like it's not a free-range egg, it's a cage egg. Odds are it probably is. How many people would unlike the photo if they found out the origin of the egg?

I'm not for this either. I only liked it because I wanted to join in, but I'm unliking it because I don't know the origin of this egg. But the account is world underscore record underscore egg. It's got a blue tick now. 3.8 million followers. The caption just said, let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram, beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner, 18 million. We got this.

And yeah, they do got this. 32 million. Yesterday they were saying, where's our blue tick? Today they have the official Instagram blue tick. See, the thing is, that photo, I mean, it was Kylie Jenner, but it was a beautiful picture of a child holding her mum's thumb. It was like sweet. This is a stupid egg. This is why the internet's thumb. It was like sweet. This is a stupid egg.

This is why the internet's great. This is what we need. I like when the world gets on board with something weird. I don't want people doing it for nasty reasons and saying nasty things in the comments. But Fletch behind the scene was like stuff you Kylie Jenner. No, take her down. Why? It's a New Zealander in me. She's been too good

for too long. Let's let an egg win. And now this opens the door for lots of silly shenanigans like this. Nah, because nothing's... You can't beat this. I mean, people will try, won't they? I just saw world record dildo and it didn't have many likes at all. I was going to say, there's no way that can go made. It was crazy little because they cropped it really badly.

The top of it was missing. But I don't think you can have a full... You can't do that on Instagram, can you? You can't have a nipple on Instagram. You can't have a, like, a moulded, veiny. I know. If you open the picture, it's, oh, it's only got 330 likes. I'm going to give that a like.

It hasn't been cropped. You can still see the top of it. That goes on your permanent. Oh, no, that's a different one. That's a different one. The one I saw was fine. It's got a suction cup on it. What are you doing? What are you doing with it? Oh, no, that's a different one. That's a different one. The one I saw was far. It's got a suction cup on it. What are you doing with that?

So I've heard. Thanks for the demo, Vaughn. So I've heard. Oh, yeah. Okay. There you go. Great way to start the year with a world record. I love it.

In an effort to become an orchardist. Nah, because I saw how much hard work that was. And I was like, and it's always over summer. It's like, that's when I have a holiday. I don't want to take a holiday to work. So that dream's very quickly vanishing. Like 50% of the people in the galaxy when Thanos snapped his fingers. 2018 Avengers reference.

You've moved into the new place. You've got a lot of fruit trees. Lots of fruit trees. Two of which are plum trees. Now, one was a Christmas plum. That was a yellow-fleshed plum. Okay. For those who are interested in plum flesh.

I don't know about plum. Well, no, because there's the- It's purple on the outside, right? And yellow on the inside. Yeah, very dark red. And then there's a yellowy flesh plum. Well, now that tree's done for the year. That did its dash around Christmas.

And then now this other plum tree, we came home from holiday, and this other plum tree's like, I'm here! And is just like flamboyantly over-plumbing. I don't think it's trying to outdo the other plum tree because it's known that plum tree's done, so it can't try to outdo it back until next season. And it's just so many plums. Now, the other one I just got a ladder out and just got a bucket out

and spent like an hour picking. This one's just beyond that. I don't want to over-exaggerate, but there's a bajillion plums on it. Do you need some overseas backpackers to come in? I was thinking about what's the deal with getting those hot duchies, the woofers? Because, you know, the woofers, workers on organic farm, something farms worldwide.

I was like, I don't think you should call them the woofers. No, no, that's their initials. And I think all you have to do is give them a bed to sleep in and put food in their mouth. Literally, you have to spoon feed the duchies. But the thing is, you'd be in trouble if they were hot. I'd be disappointed if they weren't. So I'm like, damned if we're doing them, damned if we don't.

And you'd go for a swim afterwards. Be like, oh. Okay, creep. I'm in trouble. You're in trouble. I'll come over, eh? Well, I mean, it's win-win because, yeah, if it's... No, it's not win-win.

If it's hot, guys. But surely there's a selection on the website if you get a whopper, like, choose an Argo just so you don't get in trouble with the wife. It's not the SPCA, mate. You can't rock it and be like, all right, that one. Okay, that one. So you're going to have to pick these yourself.

So I'm going to have to pick the plums myself. Yeah. And it was just taking forever on the ladder and there was a whole lot I couldn't reach, and a stick stuck me, and I was like, ow, which I knew again that orcharding wasn't for me because the trees attacked me. Yeah.

And I thought to myself, because every time the wind blows or you shake it, plums fell, and I was like, time to get the flinking cap on. And I got these standards, like fence standards, and I put them in the corner of this tarpaulin that I had and I stuck them in so the tarpaulin was off the ground and then I shook the bloody absolute bejesus

out of this tree and it just rained plums and they all like fell so they didn't bruise because they fell and got caught in the tarpaulin and rolled to the centre. Like when firemen catch people jumping out of buildings with a big net. Except if that many people jumped at once, I'd miss a couple because there was some plums

that missed the time. Okay, right. And I put a video of it on Instagram. People were like, dad level up. Like, that's a dad invention. That's a dadvention.

Right. You've nailed it. And I was like, is this my first official dadvention? I've had other dadventions where you take like two kids toys and like merge them into one

and make them all fun. Like we had the seat thing and like merge them into one and make them more fun like we had this seat thing and then i was like that'd be more fun with wheels on it so put it on a cart and towed it around held down with a belt so that was pretty good dad mentioning then i think that's um been done though that's how they do olives isn't it yeah i know lots of people are like oh um you should buy a tree shaker and i was like what and someone sent me a link and it was like 25 000 for a tree shaker i'm like yeah it, what? And someone sent me a link and it was like $25,000 for a tree shaker. I'm like, yeah,

it's a great investment for two plum trees. Wait, it's like a machine. So this machine, I've seen them on Country Calendar in the high end. Of course you have.

High end. They come into the thing and they grab the tree at the trunk. Yeah. And then this upside down umbrella thing spreads around the tree.

Yeah. And then it just shakes the tree violently. Is that good for the tree. Yeah. And then it just shakes the tree violently. Is that good for the tree? It doesn't like rock it. It just shakes it. Yeah. And all the fruit falls off and it lands in the middle.

And then it goes down into the middle of this umbrella thing. And then it goes into a chute and puts it in a box. That is just magic. I know. It was awesome. But I'm not at that level of spending. $25,000. No, you're not ever at that level of spending. $25,000. No, you're not ever at that level.

You've got to get your ride on lawnmower first. Yeah, I'm going to need an army of hot duchies before I can, you know, warrant the tree shaker. No, just say to Sade, hot duchies. Or tree shaker. Your pick. Yeah, yeah. But then the hot duchies is the roll of the dice because if it's a hot guy duchy, she wins. Yeah, true.

Well, we all win. I can appreciate a hot Dutchess, male or female. Lists have been released of the top vegan countries and cities and we're on the list. New Zealand. Really? Okay. Well, go ahead, me, Tita.

No, I was going to say that our vegans don't seem militant. They don't. No, because... Because, like, in France, they tip blood on butchers and, like, smash their windows and torch the shops and stuff, which is just a real smack in the face because then it barbecues the meat and we can smell it. So we can't eat it.

This is true. So the list of top ten vegan countries, which includes New Zealand, at 10, Germany, Austria. Germany? Yeah. The sausage gobblers. They invented hamburgers. It's named after Frankfurt.

Also named after Frankfurters. I know. Ireland is in at 8. The States at 7. Israel, Canada, Sweden at 4. Swedish meatballs. Yeah States at seven. Israel, Canada, Sweden at four. Swedish meeples. Yeah, I know. And New Zealand, we are third on the list of the top ten vegan countries.

And following below above us, United Kingdom at two. And Australia, the top ten vegan country. Australia? Yeah. Which I found a bit. Is this percentage of population? Well, yeah, it's the popularity of vegan-related searches. Right.

Oh, right. Yeah. The top 10 vegan cities. We don't have a city in there on the list, but Glasgow at 10, followed by the Los Angeles... What about Haggis, Neeps and Toadies? Leeds, London, Manchester, Seattle, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Portland and Bristol in the UK,

the top vegan city in the world. Wow. I wouldn't have thought we'd be third. So they used, conducting the research, used Google Trends to analyze the search interest for veganism across the world. But then I wonder if heaps of it was like New Zealand has been like, what is a vegan? And then it's like they don't eat any animal products.

You're like, that's crazy. We have heaps of vegan cafes. I can name heaps off the top of my head. Go ahead. Bet you can't name more than five. No, but then it works. Someone's trying to butter up the vegans. Excuse the pun.

Whatever you use instead of butter. No, but I can name some. But you don't go, like, I mean, I don't live overseas, but when you go overseas, they're not, I don't see any. Like, they're quite visible. There's quite a few per capita

in New Zealand, I would say. Do you not agree? I think there's, like, quite a few vegan cafes or cafes that have vegan options. I could name more butchers. We're not talking about butchers here. But we have a lot of options.

Even if you go to a cafe that's not vegan, they'll always do a vegetarian or an option like that. Do vegans look down on vegetarians? No, I don't think so. Because you know how vegans kind of... I'm not saying we're all vegans. So on my trip that I did, I did the reindeer sledding. And the trip was, the idea was they picked you up in this van

and they took you to the reindeer sledding and you'd sled around and then you would eat at the end of it. And there was like reindeer stew, like traditional stew. Are you joking? Well, you tried growing a cauliflower in Lapland. You ate reindeer stew and you just... The snow's like three foot thick on the ground. You've got to eat what you've got.

The irony was we were in the van and they said, are there any vegetarians here? And like half the van put their hand up and I was like, do you not see the irony of this? Like we're getting these creatures to tow us around and then half of us are going to eat them. But they were still on the trip. I was like, that's a bit weird.

I like that. It's making use of an animal from start to end. Yeah. That feels... No, I'm not down for that. That feels weird. And then reindeer are just watching you eat their mates. You didn't even know reindeer were real until 10 years ago, Megan.

I know, but now I do. Not even 10 years ago, is that? I appreciate them. Seven. Six or seven years ago. Yeah, those videos blew my mind. Such big antlers. And flamingos.

Yeah. Sam Smith is in New Zealand. He's been here for a few weeks now, having a holiday. And he's got friends here, or a friend? I don't know. Hanging out, wasn't he hanging out with some girl? He looks like he's hanging out with some friends. But he's been here for weeks.

Is she a model? Why? Are you saying she's a babe? No, wasn't that the story when he was there last time? I think so, yeah. Right. So he is still in New Zealand. And yesterday he had some banter with Cam from ZM's Snapchat.

Now, how this happened was it began when Cam tweeted to Sam to say, Let me know when you're listening to ZM and I'll play Dancing With A Stranger on repeat just for you. Cheeky. So that was the first move. Good on Cam. But that's his new song. Now, Sam hasn't heard it on the radio before. He messages back and said, I'm listening now, in caps, 91, yeah?

Which is our frequency in Auckland. Wow, okay. Which he knew. I don't know how he knew that. Then Cam replies, you got it. Enjoy. Thanks for creating such amazing music. Sam then replied again and says, you've made my holiday.

Thank you so much, Cam. Super jealous. And not only that, he did an Instagram post, not just stories. He did stories as well of it playing on ZM and then he did a post. He said, I've been feeling sorry

for myself all day because of my eye. He's got like a stye on his eye. I'm in agony, getting worse and worse, but I just heard my song on the radio

for the first time and I'm eating an ice cream bigger than my face. I'm feeling much better. Thank you ZM Online for making my day. Spish. Oh my God.

Sam Smith. So if you haven't seen Sam Smith's Instagram story, this is how it went down last night. It's one of my favourite songs of the summer, so let's make this dream happen for Sam right now.

I hope you're enjoying New Zealand. The very first time for you to hear this on the radio. I'm so excited we could make this happen for you. Sam Smith on the radio. I'm so excited. We could make this happen for you Sam Smith This right here Play to get at 930 plus twice here This is all for you Sam and your money because it's such an incredible collab. Honestly, I just absolutely love this song.

Keep on enjoying it. Oh, my God! Is it actually losing it? Yeah. And while we're having a fangirl moment, someone even closer to it is Cam from ZM Snatcher joining us on the phone. Good morning, Cam.

Good morning. Did you get to sleep quite late last night? Were you buzzing? I honestly just had so many messages from people being like, what the heck, you're on Sam Smith's Instagram story. And I was like, I know. Honestly, out of it. So it just literally started when you just decided to tweet him.

Yeah, well, he had tweeted a radio station being like, hey, I'm listening, can I play your song? One of my followers on Twitter sent me a DM and just said, hey, you I'm listening, can I play your song? One of my followers on Twitter sent me a DM and just said, hey, like you should play

Sam Smith's song for him. So I was like, oh, just send him a tweet, he's never going to see it. He literally responded within seconds. At this point,

I was like, okay, cancel the show, we're changing it up, we're playing Sam Smith and Normani, let's go. Wow,

that's so cool. And then to see him on his story as well, like listening, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it was nuts. I was just like, I didn't expect that at all. I thought maybe I'd get a tweet back being like, hey, thanks for playing my song. Yeah. And like, have you had any correspondence since?

Were you tempted to like DM him? Has anyone slid into anyone's DMs, Cam? That's what we want to know. The only people that have been sliding into my DMs are people who are keen on him. And I'm just like, what do you think he's doing about that? Want you to play matchmaker? Yeah.

I mean, I'm no Cupid, but I can try. Well, he's answering your DMs at least. Well, you can see it on Sam Smith's Instagram story for, I guess, the next 20-something hours. So cool. But why not? 12 hours? 12 hours.

This happened last night. You know I'm not good at maths. It's 24 hours in a day. 12 have gone. That leaves approximately 12. Also, didn't he retweet one of your tweets and had a spelling mistake, Cam? Oh, yeah, that was so embarrassing.

I was trying to use the hashtag dancing with a stranger, but I used the hashtag dancing with a stranger. You could just say it's a Kiwi accent. Dance with a strangler. Better than dancing with a strangler, which could have been another. Oh, my God. Megan's Life Hacks. Okay, so it's been a while since I've done a life hack,

but this one is essential for summer. Now, this life hack might be one of my favourites. I think it will work 100% of the time. Now, Megan, you've gone shopping, and we're doing a role play. Everyone has a role in this. You've been to Bunnings for this role play. You're going to really appreciate this. Good organ.

And I can see ice cream too. So I'm all on board already. Who am I in this role play? Because I've got ice cream. So this is a dairy scenario. A good old scoop ice cream dairy scenario. And it's a life hack if you're buying an ice cream this summer. Yes.

So, Fletch. Why don't dairies do as much scoop ice cream as they used to? It's time consuming, isn't it? Right, is that the issue? Some still do it. No, he'd still do it. He would have been an absolute money printer. Because how much is one of those big 10 litre boxes of ice cream?

Oh, probably quite cheap for them. Sure, yeah, and you're charging $3.80 for a double. But then, like, the wrapped ice cream's like your Memphis's and stuff and your Tip Tops. Nah, I like scoop ice cream. And they still prefer a cone. Really? Every time. If there's a cone option's and stuff and your Tip Tops. Nah, I like scoop ice cream. Really? Every time. If there's a cone option, I'll always go for a cone.

It lasts longer than a Memphis meltdown. So, in this scenario, Fletcher, you're a customer. Okay. I'm also a customer. Oh, okay. Now, are we together in this scenario or individual? No, I feel like you'll embarrass me. By the way, we're a dairy in an affluent area because we've got waffle cones.

We're not using the little tiny little cup cones. Oh, okay. If you're going to treat yourself, treat yourself right. For a waffle cone. Get a waffle cone. So, Vaughn, you are the dairy owner. You are going to be scooping this situation. Why is Vaughn the dairy owner?

I'm Peter. No, I was just worried you were going to drip the ice cream. Do we know you well enough to call you Pete or is this our first time on your dairy? No, I don't know. Does this need to be... You don't want to know me, right? No. Because you want nothing.

Yeah. You want nothing but Pete. This is Peter, formal. Okay. Yeah. Okay, so we're going to order individually. So what am I ordering? So you're going to order a double scope.

Okay. Shall I go first into the dairy? Yeah. So if you just walk into the dairy, I'm going to wait. I'm walking in That's why I went to Bunnings How much was that at Bunnings? It's 50 bucks I had one of these

I had one of these 50 dollars for a dairy ding donger Not my money Hey we can attach it to the door We're going to burn through the show budget It's already the second day I know, yeah. Should I walk in again?

Go and go. Hello? Also. Hold on. Hold on, mate. I'll be with you in a minute. Just the bread delivery's just got here. Oh, God.

Why did I give him this role? How's that? Oh, that bloody thing's a pioneer today. Why doesn't it just do one bing bong? I should have just got a bell above the door so we'd open the door. Ding dong. Okay. G'day, mate. How are you?

Pete. Oh, okay. Fletch here. How are you? Nice to meet you. I don't know what we're doing. You're not from around here. I've never seen you before.

You don't need the pleasantries. Excuse me, Megan. I was just out the back unpacking the bread. I'm just holidaying with the family and I thought I'd just steal away some time and get myself an ice cream. Could I have a double scoop of the jelly tip, please? That's right. What kind of cone do you want? Well, what do you have?

A waffle cone, pine cone, cup cone. I'll go waffle cone. Pine cone. Good man, pine cone. Traffic cone. Okay. So two sco Pine cone. Good man. Pine cone. Traffic cone. Okay. So two scoops, please. Two scoops.

Yep. Just. Oh, Christ. I keep my scoop. Make it snappy. I keep my scoop in a wind glass. Why do we need to do this job? Megan, you wanted to do a role play.

I know. Okay, so. Oh, God. Have you ever scooped ice cream before in your life? It's gone. It's just gone a little bit soft on the top. Okay. Two scoops. Two scoops, God. Have you ever scooped ice cream before in your life? It's just gone a little bit soft on the top. Okay. Two scoops?

Two scoops, please. Is this the second scoop that you're doing? This is the second scoop. Dip it back in the hot water. Are you an amateur? No, you don't want to do that too badly. Okay, so that's your two scooper. That's a pretty healthy scoop.

Are you done? Okay, there we go. There you go, mate. Thank you so much. $3.80. $3.80. $3.80. I don't have any money. Give me back my bloody ice cream then.

You can't come in here and get a freebie. I'm leaving. I'm running a business. I'm leaving. Get the gun, Sue. We've got another bloody runner. All right. Okay, I'm coming in.

Where's my bloody doorbell? Oh, there we go. Okay, I'm in the store, Peter. We'll be taking this back to Bunnings. Doesn't work properly, does it? I'll be with you in a minute. The party ice truck's here. Oh, Christ, Peter.

I just want an ice cream. We'll get through some party ice at this time. I promise we're getting to the life hack. We'll get there. Yeah, how are you, love? I'm great, Peter. Give me a sweet... God.

Cold out there, innit, sweetheart? You want some party ice? Hey, sport. Don't call me sweetheart. Well, how are you, love? I'm great. Give me a sweet... God. Cold out there, isn't it, sweetheart? You want some party ice? Hey, sport. Don't call me sweetheart. Well, I've been called sport, chief. Peter, I would just like a single scoop today, please. Just a single, Dale? Yeah.

The jelly tip would be nice, actually. All right. God, this is a popular flavour. Just had another bloke in here. Said he was here on a family trip, but I didn't see anybody else. Always a little bit suspect with that park down the road what goes on down there this time of year okay hold on love okay there's your single pack um so actually i've my mind. I'd like to make it a double scoop. Just another scoop of jelly chips.

Sorry. I'd make it a double. All right. Very uncouth. What was the first one too small and you were wanting to? Well, this is getting to the point now of my life hack. If you wait until they've done the first scoop to ask for your second scoop,

your first scoop will always be bigger. Whose is bigger? Yeah. I have just come back into the school. Ask for a single scoop. When they're finished,

ask for the second scoop. Excuse me, Peter. I've just seen you rolled a double scoop there and can't help but notice it's smaller. But it also, you know how a single scoop is always quite decent,

but when they do a second scoop, they're always forced to match the size of the first scoop. So you get a bigger double scoop. So rather than getting one double scoop, you're getting two single scoops. But always wait for them to do the first scoop before you ask for a second scoop. And then you say, can I have a second scoop?

Mm-hmm. Because that is... I didn't intend, I was just doing it. But look how much bigger the single scoop times two is than the original double scoop. Yeah. I mean, your rolling's pathetic. It's not really rolled.

It went soft on the top. It's harder down the bottom. You're going to eat that now. Oh, but I'm trying to be good. Trying to be good. As Fletch shakes a mouthful. She soothes time. But seriously, that would work, right? That will.

I mean, this was just one test, but it worked. Megan, was this all worth the $50 bing bonger from Bunnings? Yeah. But I think we should just attach that to the... Shut up. Well, it keeps going up. I'm not even in the dairy. You bloody kids, bugger off. Sorry about that. Can I'm not even in the dairy.

You bloody kids, bugger off. Should we just put it above the door? Are they shoplifting again? Yeah. Those kids? They come in for the dirty magazines. Sue said we should get rid of them, but I tell you what, they're a moneymaker for the truckies

that are going through this time of year. Of course they are. And for the men like yourself who say you're here on a family holiday, but really you're just popping in for an ice cream and a porno. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about nagging.

Okay. Not nagging like about nagging. Okay. Not nagging like, thanks for having a show. Like couple nagging. Or nagging at work, mate. This is about the most effective type of nagging. Children nagging. Right.

Now, if you've got children, you'll know they're pretty good at it. If you've been a child, you've definitely done it. But there's been a study into nagging in a documentary where a marketing psychologist said that nagging by children was the most effective sales technique there was. Really? Okay. So if you had a product that you could market to the point where children would nag for it, it was guaranteed to be successful. 20 to 40% of all toy purchases would not have occurred

if the child wasn't nagging their parents for it. One in four, so one quarter of theme park visits would not have taken place without nagging. We're gonna Disneyland, we're gonna Disneyland. You think if all of a sudden theme parks were down a quarter. Yeah. Like if their all of a sudden theme parks were down a quarter. Yeah. Like if their business just, if any business went down a quarter.

Yeah. You'd be like, what's happened? Yeah. Like we're in trouble. We're down a quarter on what we were doing last time. And that's exactly what would happen if children didn't nag their parents to go to theme parks. Did you ever successfully nag and receive when you were a... Well, I guess if you wanted, like, I don't know,

shoes or clothes or something, a toy, you would nag, wouldn't you? I got told when I was little, we couldn't go to Disneyland because it cost all your money. Well, they weren't wrong. Yeah. They weren't wrong. There was no set admission price.

It was just all the money your family had. I was like, oh, they don't want to give over all our money. So I just stopped asking to go. That's why that would be a good one if you were going to pull that on your kids to be like at the house down the road for sale, you'd be like, they obviously want to go to Disneyland. They've had to sell everything. I would have been as a kid, I would have been like,

well, just sell the house. Just sell it. Let's see what happens. Let's roll the dice, baby. I want to go Space Mountain. Yeah. But then you've got, like, young kids. They must nag all the time.

What are they nagging for? Don't. LOL dolls? No, they don't really nag. You don't even know, so it's happening. It's happening. They've leveled up. They've evolved their nagging into not even knowing that they're nagging.

But the problem is when we were kids, my mother was almost completely immune to nagging. Yeah. Like she's a very stubborn woman and that's where I get it from. Yeah. But because she wouldn't get us anything, now I have done the opposite

and I buy things that I want. Like if the girls want a toy and I'm kind of like, that's actually pretty cool. I'll buy it so I can play with it as well. Right. Okay. Because you missed out on your childhood.

Yeah, yeah, because I wouldn't have got it when I was a kid. I was like, well, now I'm the adult mother. And now you've got a Barbie Malibu. Yeah, I sure as hell do. And I tell you who looks pretty hot pushing Barbie around in her Corvette? This guy. And Barbie, but also this guy. So today's fact of the

day is one quarter of visits to theme parks would not happen if it wasn't for kids nagging their parents. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's finally been announced by HBO The release date for the 8th and final season of Game of Thrones The 15th of April

I haven't watched the teaser Is that the week before Easter? 15th of April. Yes. It is the Sunday before Good Friday of the 19th. Okay. Good Friday of the 19th. Yeah.

So that means the second episode will be Easter weekend. Oh, God. How is it going to be? Is it going to be Wi-Fi wherever you are for Easter? Easter. At the Batch? No. Or Soho Sky?

Good question. We're getting it exactly the same time as the States, right? Because this season, you're going to have to avoid online. Because it comes out in New Zealand time. It comes out in the States 1pm. So Soho will be screening it. Sky and Soho will be screening at 1 o'clock at exactly the same time as the States. So if you want to avoid spoiler alerts and you don't have a job.

Oh, 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, 1 o'clock in the afternoon. So you'll be able to watch it. Yeah, you'll be able to watch that live the same time as the States. It'll replay as well at 8.30. And at 8.30, that's when it'll also go on streaming service Neon. But I don't want to watch it by myself. Like, I'm going to have to wait till the evening. I do.

I want to watch it, like, with people. Watch it again with them. Watch it again. I saw people saying, oh, it's the last season, we've got to have watching parties. No. I don't want to watch it by myself. People talk. And watching parties, people bring their partners and they're like,

why are there dragons? Who's that? No one's coming that's not into it. If you're going to have a watching party, you've got to be very selective about who you invite. Only people who are very much into it are allowed to come. And the rule is shut up and watch. Just don't talk. Yeah. Yeah, no chat.

Until the end. Yeah. How many episodes? Six. Seven. Eight. Eight. I feel eight, but I'm in no way qualified to say eight.

I just, eight was my immediate reaction when you asked how many episodes there were. Fletch frantically Googling. I am frantically Googling. Yes, Vaughn, I am. What are we going to do when this is over, though? What are we going to do before then? They've already started casting a new prequel. Set thousands of years before.

Yeah, before. Current Game of Thrones. So season eight will have six episodes. Oh, God. And I remember they haven't said here on the Wikipedia site, but I think some of them are quite movie length, aren't they? Yeah, every one of them is long. Way longer than an hour, I do believe.

Right. Crazy. So just other TV show, have you got anything else on the go? TV shows-wise? I've just started You, which is got... Which I want to watch. Is it Penn Badgley from Gossip Girl? Producer Caitlin, you've been watching You.

What's it about? It's a creep, isn't it? Creepy guy? Yeah, it's kind of a thriller, but he's so hot. You know how you get attracted to people that are bad so hot he's just so hot

and I'm like you can go and kill that guy that's fine because you're still really hot and his voice and his voiceovers is just so sexy

yeah what's he killing people for if he's a stalker I'm not gonna tell you you have to watch it is that because the person he's stalking

is kind of interested in them and so they're they're gonna go they're gonna get right out of the way. It's good though. What's this show everybody's wiring on about

about the lady that cleans up and everyone's like, I've got to clean my house now. Oh, you've watched it. Maria Kondo? Yeah, it's beautiful. It's this lovely Japanese woman. She goes around.

She's great at tidying and she's got all these folding tips and tricks. Also, remember when I said you had to throw things out and you have to thank them for their service? That's what Marie Kondo does. You have to say thank you to the item of clothing. There's a TV show about a woman that can't... So it's like, what's that show where the gay guys come around and...

Queer Eye. So it's like Queer Eye, but cleaning. Yeah, but for all your clutter. Just cleaning. She doesn't make guacamole. Just does a makeover of your house. Just tidies things up. She helps you tidy up and organise things.

Stacks them and stuff. And she saves marriages at the same time. She's so sweet. Through the power of cleaning. And people are hoarders, but they're rich people, not crazy people. I read, like, because of this show and everybody's watching it, people are donating to op shops quite a bit because they're getting rid of a lot of their crap.

It does make you want to clean up and get rid of your clothes. But then that's just giving hoarders more stuff. Like you. Yeah. Because they're not going to watch Marie Marie Kondo. Marie Kondo. They're not going to watch. You should actually watch this. There's a lot of things I want to watch before I watch Marie Kondo.

A lot of things I want to watch. A woman has made headlines because she's asked online if what she's doing makes her an a-hole. But she's basically put on a late fee for whenever her boyfriend comes home late or doesn't come home on time when he says he's going to be home after a night out with his friends.

Oh, so it's not if he's back from work and he's five minutes late. Oh, no, no, no. It's like when he goes out out with his friends. Oh, so it's not if he's back from work and he's five minutes late. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's like when he goes out drinking with his buddies and says, I'll be home at one and then doesn't get home till four or whatever. But what does she matter if he's home at four instead of one? You're not his boss. Like, as long as there's a bit of back and forth

being like, maybe a text to be like, hey, I'm going to stay out, then... Yeah, if it's worry and she's calling and he's unanswering, then that's, you know, that's concerning and you worry about your loved ones. Sometimes there's no reception in the strippie, so is there? Yeah, if they're underground. Yeah.

Concrete walls. So I've been told. I would think as long as you know that they're going to stay out, so you don't worry, and then as long as you don't have, like, something that you're supposed to be doing the next day. Like if you've got a family event that you're supposed to be at, or a kid's birthday party, and you've got

a piece of ass partner who's hungover. Sounds very specific. How much is she charging? $50 US dollars, so about $70 something New Zealand dollars. That's a lot of money. But she said she's also got the rule, he's got the rule with her.

Right. But what's late? That means you're setting your partner up like it's worth you. No, she said she doesn't set the time. It's when they agree,

like he'll say, I'll be home at one. Right. And then doesn't get home till four. You're setting yourself up for a fail. He sets the time.

Yeah, you set it late, wouldn't you? But why does she care? She's asleep anyway. Unless, like you say, she has to deal with him the next morning. Yeah. Worrying about it. But then you can get just as wasted by one o'clock as you could by four.

In fact, you could, like, walk it off. Yeah, the best time is earlier in the piece. Yeah. I think that's weird. You're setting a weird precedent when you're like making rules for each other like that. But she said, and reading her reasoning for it, it's not like she is that crazy partner. Right. That doesn't, because she's got no problem going out with his mates and drinking and everything.

Yeah. But if he says he's going to be home by a certain time, be home by the time. Why? Well, I don't know, because he said he was going to be. Isn't that weird? It's weird. It is weird. But then it works both ways.

She's out later and she said she can go out. No, yeah, see, it works both ways. But I guarantee he does it more. And deep down, she's like, it's not because I don't mind him going out. It is. It's because she doesn't like him going out. I reckon. And he definitely goes out more than she does.

If the rule's in place, I just wouldn't pay. How's she going to make me? Like, get Bay Corp on me? And if you have a joint account in the end, like, what's the point? Just, yeah. Yeah, you're just taking money off yourself. It goes into your personal spending, Kitty. Odd. It's very odd.

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