ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - January 27 2020

Episode Date: January 27, 2020

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ZM. Hit music. Live the air. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Morning. Did you bring us treats? I bought some honey roasted macadamia nuts. So do you have a macadamia tree? I've got two. Oh my god. They, um, the rats, the rats love them. But anyway, I was picking them and putting them in the hot water cupboard. Oh, my God. That's so bougie. The rats love them. Right. But anyway, I was picking them and putting them in the hot water cupboard.

Right. And then yesterday, I just cracked one open. Okay. And ate it. And I was like, oh, that's good. So I cracked them all open, which took a long time because I didn't have an official tool. How did you do it? Well, I was using vice grips.

You know those things that you like squeeze, but you can tighten them to be different? Yeah. So I had to pretty much change the tightening every time to get the nut right in the middle of it. Oh, my God. How long did that take you? Like three and something else.

God, you're weird sometimes. But I just sat there watching my World War II documentary. Cracking your nuts. You're such an old mate. It was ideal. But anyway, straight afterwards, when I put a photo up online, someone's like, get one of these. So I've bought a nutcracker.

Not like just an old mate Christmas nutcracker. This thing's like you put the macadamia nut in it, especially made for macadamia nuts, hardest shell of any nut in the world. And you just go crack out next. One at a time. Oh, no, thank you. Well, there was a $5,000 machine, Fletch, that I could pour a sack of them into

and it would do 250 kgs in an hour. But I thought it best just to go in low end. Can you get the kids to do it? God, no, no. To pay their way? Oh, maybe with the new lever thing. The new machine, yeah. The new lever machine I could, but no, not with the rice cooker.

Oh, that sounds... Well, should we try one? Yes, please. So what do you do? You just put honey on them and then put them in the oven? So you put half a cup of honey and two tablespoons of butter into a pan and you melt that together. Then you put the... Oh, they're all stuck together.

Yeah, yeah, they're all stuck together. It's like a macadamia brittle. Yeah. Oh, good lord. And then... Oh, wow. It's literally caramel And then you

Stir them in to that And then you put them On a baking tray And then you bake them For like I did half an hour Oh whoopsies I got like five

No no no There's so many at home Shaday It was one of those things That Shaday was like Get those out of my house Oh my god Because you could literally

Just eat those all day I know That is so good I know right Oh wow You're welcome all day. I know. That is so good. I know, right? Oh, wow. You're welcome. You just want to be on country calendar,

don't you? Orton Smith started with a pair of vice grips on the couch watching a documentary and now he's made it into a multi-million dollar macadamia empire.

That's what everybody said. Oh, macadamias cost me a fortune when I buy them, but the only time I ever buy macadamias is when I'm leaving Australia in these chocolate-cutted ones at the airport. Those are my jam. Otherwise, they're too expensive for me. Good stuff. All right, coming up on the show, the top six.

Yeah, a Kiwi family is being introduced to Harman Awai. Australia. Australia is going to have some kawais on Harmanoway. Moving into summer. Bye. Well, it's kind of true to life, isn't it? It's got to be. It was the most unrealistic part about Harmanoway was that there were no New Zealanders living there.

Yeah. But our whole Kiwi family is moving in. So I've got the top six storylines for the Kiwi family. All right. Coming up, big announcement on the show at 8 o'clock this morning. Storytime's next. Alright, you lot, listen up.

It's storytime. Alright, storytime. Three news headlines. Vaughan and Megan pick one headline out of the following three. Headline one, don't cry over spilt wine. Headline two, fight over cry over spilt wine. Headline two, fight over dinner rolls turns deadly.

And headline three, police left high and dry. Don't cry over spilt wine. Was it Chardonnay? Don't cry over spilt Chardies. Was it a truck crash? It wasn't Chardonnay, it was red wine.

Oosh. You do cry over that if it goes on your carpet. That's true. You've got a light shade of carpet. What, um... Was it a truck crash? Was it like a...

En masse... Wine spill. Not a crash, but yeah, there was an en masse wine spill, sure. Police left high and dry. What's the other one? Headline two, fight over dinner rolls turns deadly. I kind of want dinner rolls. Do you want high and dry?

Oh, do you want dinner rolls? I was thinking high and dry. Okay. I'm going to Google the dinner rolls. I'm going to Google the dinner rolls You're not allowed I'm going to Google it I'm going to Google it No

It's against the rules Come over here and fight me No but I think there's got to be a Like there's got to be A punishment if you do this I might need to buy like one of those meat along What are those cow zappers Cow prod Cause then I could just lean over and just if you do this. I might need to buy like one of those meat along, what are those cow zappers? that's quite serious.

Cow prod. Yeah, cow prod because then I could just lean over and just jab you in the arm if you start googling. Yeah, well maybe

you should get one. You don't have one right now. I can tell you there's two people died in a shooting outside a place when they argued over dinner rolls.

What's O'Charlie's? Some restaurant or something. Sounds like an Irish bar. Yeah, that's quite serious. They got very upset about it. Okay. Were you happy? Yep.

Well, that's it then. Story time's done. I'm not happy that two people died, but I needed to know. So anyway, high and dry. Go for it. Okay, we go now to Chicago. And I actually saw one of these when I was in Chicago over Christmas New Year. Oh my God, you were in Chicago?

I was in Chicago. Why New Year. Oh my God, you were in Chicago? I was in Chicago. Why don't you say something? I did say something every day, Megan. And I saw one of these at O'Hare International Airport when I was there because weed became marijuana possession, became legal, but not at the airport because airspace and obviously different states Yeah, yeah, sure, not at a federal level, right? It's a state level. And actually I put a picture on my story of a

marijuana, a weed amnesty box It was after the airport security, so when you go through with your bags and you get x-rayed and body scanned, they have a little box and it's just got a police logo on it and it says Cannabis Amnesty Box.

Can you get your hand in there? City of Chicago. So there's a little like one of those, you know, those little locks like you'd put on a desk at work. Yeah. Or like a locker.

Some lockers have those. Yeah, not a heavy duty lock. And then I guess the slot at the top, you wouldn't be able to get a hand down. You'd get your fingers in but it would stop at the palm. Get your sticky fingers in.

Yeah, you'd get to the knuckles maybe, and that would be it for the slot there. But Midway Airport, Chicago's got two airports, Midway Airport, their amnesty box at about 6 o'clock, somebody reached into the box and removed the marijuana from the box. I was going to say, that's waiting to... somebody reached into the box and removed the marijuana from the box. I was going to say that's waiting to... That had been previously put in there by somebody. Apparently detectives are investigating and that tampering with the amnesty box

or attempting to remove anything placed inside is a crime. But that hasn't stopped someone stealing the weed from the weed amnesty box. That's pretty much saying free weed here. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Like, I found that amusing when I saw it. Enough to take a photo and put on my story. Because, like, just seeing a weed.

Like, we see the amnesty boxes at the airport. For fruit. For fruit. Or just anything. Have you ever looked? I've always wanted to look inside one of those. Just to see what people are chucking out. Because could you put a grenade in there?

I mean, I wouldn't. But it's an amnesty, isn't it? You leave the pin in. Of course you leave the pin in. Are you talking about on the way in when you're coming into New Zealand or on the way out? On the way in. You grab a card. On the way in.

On the way in. Yeah. What do you mean when you grab a card? The grenade would have to have been on the plane with you. Yeah. I don't know how these things get through, but they do the grenade? Would it have to have been on the plane with you? Yeah. Well, yeah, I don't know how these things get through, but they do, don't they? Right, okay. There are no grenades in there.

No. I poured water in there and then I turned around and I saw that there's actually a specific place to pour water. Oh, really? Yeah. Because there's sick of people like you. Filling up the black plastic rubbish bag with water because it makes it very, very heavy.

Now, just on Chicago, where do I sign up for those tour guides that you had when you were there? You're such a bitch. That was quite, I tell you what, I've had some duds in my time. Very attractive. I know. I don't know. What app did you use to find them?

TripAdvisor. Definitely TripAdvisor. Great. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Coronavirus is

everywhere. Boomers post a six pack of Corona on Facebook. I'm going to be like, yeah, I've had one of those. Made me have a couple of sick ups the next day.

So apparently the death toll has climbed above 80 and China's reporting thousands of new cases, extending the Chinese New Year break to try to stop the spread of it. Now, I believe there's one New Zealander in the, because the whole city's been put on lockdown. There's millions, I was talking to a friend who's actually been there to Wuhan.

As I said, it's mind-blowing to think that a city that huge. How many people, to put it in perspective? Is it 10 or 15? 10 people. Million. 11.08 million. So it's been put on lockdown. That's bigger than New York.

Yeah, Kiwi's like, well, I need help. And everyone's like, well, mate, you're on your own. Good Lord. Like, what do you want us to do? Yeah, because that's what it's horrible. Why aren't I being evacuated? But then the whole place is on lockdown, so that's why. But Timely release, I saw this at the end of last week

when Corona was midway through last week that Netflix has got a new show called Pandemic. I saw that. So you're saying this is just marketing for Netflix? The whole thing? Yeah. Probably the best since Netflix and chill. No, Pandemic is this docu-series about

the next time a pandemic will hit Earth and how to prevent an outbreak and but purely coincidentally released. I don't like those movies. No, it's a doco. No, it's a documentary series and it looks back at the time. It's not a movie.

It's even worse because it's real. It's real. Yeah, it looks at like H1N1, which was a big one. SARS, the flus of the pig and the bird. It looks at those ones as well. So probably pretty good viewing as to how to avoid, you know, do your best to avoid it.

Lock yourself in your house and avoid people. And a return to extreme popularity for the tablet phone-based game Plague Incorporated. Is that the one we played years and years ago? Yes.

Isn't that number one in the App Store in China? Yes. In the world, I believe. Worldwide, it's the highest trending. I saw the memes and the jokes, just everyone moved to Greenland. Because is that where you went on the game to avoid? Greenland was the hardest one to infect.

Yeah, to infect. Wait, the whole point is to infect the world though, right? You're not saving the world. No, no, no. You are the virus. I can't believe that game's still around. Like literally that would have been seven or eight years ago we were playing that, right? It was initially released in 2012.

Have you played it lately? No. No, because I went to download it and it would cost money. Wasn't it originally free? It was free. Does it cost money now? Yeah, but it's 99 cents. But I was like, I'm not paying.

The last time I played it, because it was one of those ones when I was trying to find some room on my phone of what needed to be deleted. I was like, I've still got that. So I had to play. It had changed so much. And apparently it's changed again.

It's evolved. Yeah. Yeah, I did try and download it the other day. But the idea was you wanted to infect the world. You wanted to make it super infectious, but not deadly. So everybody got it. Right.

Then you make it deadly. That was the key to playing the game. How morbid are we as people that we're downloading that game while... Get it into Singapore was a big one too because it's such a busy port. And that would spread it around the world. I don't know why but the other day me and my bestie

were like, let's watch Contagion. I know! At the time it was like, oh we all did thingsion. I know. That movie at the time was like, oh, we all dared things, you Gwyneth Paltrow. And now we're all going to be dared things to Gwyneth Paltrow because she thinks crystals are the cure to things.

And she's got a Netflix series as well, which is potentially more dangerous than the actual Netflix series about the pandemic. Good one, Gwyneth Paltrow. Good one, Gwyneth. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Kia ora.

Welcome to the Top Six. And kia ora. And welcome to the Parata family, who will be joining Home and Away as a New Zealand family, representing Aotearoa in Summer Bay. So you might not know this, but do they, like, audition? Obviously, they're not a family, are they? Like they're all just individually.

They just auditioned a family. But in my mind, like they just picked a family that live in New Zealand. They're like, come move here and just be actors. Like a whole family. No, no, they got them individually.

But in Australia, or did some of them move from here? You might not know that. Might be asking too. They better have Cowie accents. Yeah. Brie Peters is one of them. Oh yeah. You might not know that. I might be asking too. They better have Kiwi accents. Yeah. Brie Peters is one of them. Oh, yeah.

Winston Peters' daughter, Brie Peters, who was on Shortland Street. Yeah, she's awesome. She was a villain on Shortland Street. So, yeah, the whole whānau moving to Summer Bay. So, the top six storylines for the Kiwi family on Home and Away. Now, this is, again, with everything, I'm an ideas man.

I never follow through. So if anybody at Home and Away wants to use any of these, feel free. Absolutely welcome. And you won't charge a fee at all. Not this time. Number six. You know, what was that?

I'm generous and sharing wealth and a great guy. Yeah. But, you know, some of us are doing this for an MBE. Or Smith MBE. And then OBE and then Sir. For his services to the arts. Jesus. What other MBE could I possibly pin my hopes to?

The arts. Yeah. If only Jacinda gave out awards to people she went to school with. Virginia Dawson would get one before me. What's she doing? Bloody Doctors Without Borders or something. Ugh. Kiss ass.

I joke. That's great work. I think it's Doctors Without Borders. It's doctor-y stuff. Top six storylines for the Kiwi family on Home and Away. Number six, they shoot a magpie with a shotgun. Magpies are a protected species in Australia. That blows my mind because they're everywhere.

Same with possums. Yeah. Protected in Australia. You know, like a shotgun a possum's face in Australia. Good lord. You really love possums over there, don't you? Yeah, well, they're native there, not here. They're a scourge.

They're a pest. They're a bloody... Number five on're a pest. They're a bloody bum. Number five on the list of the top six storylines of the Kiwi family on Home and Away. There's a fist fight over who gets to bring the pav to the Christmas potluck dinner at the surf club. Because who invented the pav? And they get down to it.

They fight over it. They put strawberries on top. We put Kiwi fruit on top. Yeah. Everybody's putting chocolate chips on top. Oh, yum. You'd be mad if you didn't. Yeah, I like raspberries on top of my Pav.

Oh, bougie. Oh, okay, ACT voter. Calm down over there with your 1%. Number four on the list of the top six storylines to the Kiwi family on Home and Away. They refuse to stop calling a chilli bin a chilli bin. Yeah, they call it an ASCII. An ASCII.

Because it's a brand, isn't it? Just call it an ASCII. Because I actually have an ASCII. It's my brand of chilli bin. Yeah, actually it's a brand. Yeah. That we say. So that's Australia's fault.

Right, okay. They've done that thing, there's a word for it, where a brand becomes so synonymous with a product. Like Glad Wrap. Yeah. Or Sellotape. Yeah. Or Band-Aids. Wrap. Yeah. Or Sellotape. Or Band-Aids.

Lux. Yeah. Or soap. Oh, that's not one, is it? No, you broke the chain, so you lose. Drink. Number three on the list of the top six storylines for the Kiwi family on

Home and Away. It's another fight. There's a scrap over what's better, the Triple J Top 100 or the Rock 1500? The Rock 1500 goes for weeks. That's too long. Get it all done in a day. You can vote on this one. Get it all done in a day.

Australia Day. What was number one on the Triple J Top 100? It was the other week, wasn't it? Other day. Yeah, you're not woke, did you not? No. I just thought Chris Hemsworth saying't it? The other day. Yeah, you're not woke. Did you not see? I just saw Chris Hemsworth saying they need to change the day. Yeah, change the day. I didn't know what day it was.

Because what was it? A couple of years ago, everybody voted for Taylor Swift to be in there. Yeah. They had to overhaul their Triple J voting. We're too convoluted. Australia Day was observed yesterday. Oh, so it was just yesterday. Yeah, it was Sunday, but they Monday-ized it.

Yeah. Oh, right, okay. Billy Eilish, bad guy by the looks of things. Oh, right, okay. Well, good song. Dance Monkey was on there. Inescapable. Yeah.

Australia. Australia. Ah, all right. The top six continues. The number two on the list of the top six storylines of the Kiwi family on Home and Away, they just constantly say how hot it is. God, it's hot.

How do you guys do it? It's so hot. Hey, you're wearing jeans. It's so hot. God, boots. Oh, it's so hot. And number one on the list of the top six storylines of the Kiwi family on Home and Away,

a hungy causes a bushfire. Oh, born. I, Vaughan. I didn't do it. I would never light a hungy in a fire-restricted area, Megan. I'm a winter hungy guy anyway. A bit more moisture in the ground adds a bit more to the stay. Yeah, yeah, sure. That is today's top six.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Study has been done. This is New Zealanders age 13 to 24. It's about sending nude photos and nude photos with social media. It's a scary time, but people are still sending nude photos and they should be allowed to if they want to and if they're in a relationship. But it's scary because you don't know where they're going to end up.

Just always remember the golden rule. What's that? No face and Jenny's in the same photo ever. There we go.

Because it gives you plausible deniability. Yeah, you can just be like that's not mine and they'll be like yeah but well that tattoo's yours. I was going to say

any or any identifying features. Yeah. If you've got a tattoo in the hip, crotch, lower stomach region get out the thin Lizzie pre-nude pic. Or just like

coat it. Scribble over it with the scribble. In the app. Put your gif over it. Yep, you can do that. You say that like you've done that before. Nah. Okay. 61%. What gif would accompany your

genitals? Well, you've got a gif. Use your own gif. What do you mean I've got a gif? You've got a gif, don't you? Oh, the ZM gif that we made. Oh, yeah. No, none of those are appropriate. No, you just say like a cute

little heart or something. Yeah, right. Okay. No, 61%. This is Kiwis, remember. Age 13 to 24 have received sexually explicit content such as photos, videos via social media.

13. So that includes like 13 up to 18. Up to 24. I would have had to have gone to get them developed. At 13. If I wanted to send a

with my Instabax. Yeah. And then popping it in an envelope. Yeah. Or like printing it out of the home printer after I'd put it on a floppy disk. Or from one of the Cybershots. Plug the Cybershot into the USB and home print it out. Good Lord.

No. Yeah. But that's scary that they're doing it via social media too. Like you're not even direct messaging it, like Snapchat and stuff. So I'm just, I'd be way too scared that like you're going to add it to your story. Oh my God, yes. I had to tread lightly. Yeah.

Because remember when you accidentally uploaded your, was it your balls? Yeah. To your Snapchat story. But it was late at night. I'm so glad I didn't see that. It was only there for 45 seconds. So that's good. And it was kind of hard.

If you didn't know it was balls, maybe you wouldn't have been able to identify it. It's not to speak ill of my balls. They were right. But it was just, yeah. Right. Thank God. 35% of these people sending these said,

sexting is a good way for me to be sexual without physical sexual contact. Right. So it's a way to show their feelings that they're into someone without actually, like, doing anything physical. It's pretty scary. I mean, I've done it, but, like. Well, you've got a private vault on your phone.

You've talked about this before. It's hard because, like, you get into a relationship and on your phone. You've talked about this before. But it's hard because like you get into a relationship and you're like really into them and stuff. So you do it and you trust them. Yeah. But should you? If it all goes south, they've got all those photos. I mean, I'm lucky because we're still together and we're married.

But like... If there's ever a breakup, there could be a... But then you should... But then isn't that a breach of... It is. It's against the law now. It's against the law now. It is against the law now. The Digital Harm

Communications Act. Yeah. It's illegal. It's so important. 100%. People have gone to court for it. Yeah.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Apparently, if you're a wahine, it's good for you to be loud. Being a loud female

is good for your health Would you say I'm loud? Not really No, I don't think so Outspoken But I don't go on my way to be loud just out in the office or anything What defines loud? If you were a woman, you'd be loud

Yeah That's what you mean, eh? You're a man and you're loud. Yeah. You just go out and make a scene. I guess that's not agenda specific. No. But yeah, what constitutes being loud?

Well, 300 women participated in a study. And well, yelling is good for stress relief. Right. Okay. I yell in the car at other drivers. Oh, right. But you just went into your car, shut the door and just screamed. Oh, no, no, no.

Just screamed in. Well, this is what they found out is that yelling is good just to vent a bit of stress. Hiding your emotion, much like men. Yeah, right. It's bad for you. Biting it all up. That's not just a male quality. Women do it as well.

And healthy ways to express yourself are just letting people know your opinion and not being silent just because it's what's expected. Oh, well, no, that's me. I always tell you if I don't like something. The only part of that that's loud is screaming and yelling. Yeah. Everything else is just living. And saying how you feel.

Yeah. Yeah. Regardless of gender. But there you go. That's good for your health. Next time you're yelling. There's no need to raise your voice. And someone says, why are you yelling?

Say, for my health. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. We'd like to discuss a present that a wife has got a husband. She put together a booklet for him. Gave this to has got a husband. She put together a booklet for him. Gave this to him as a gift and it is a booklet of

steamy photos. It's like a photo album booklet-y thing. Of? Herself. Of herself? Yeah. So Are you shaking your head? I just wouldn't

want one Where do you keep it? Yeah like do you leave it on the on the coffee table? You can't even have anything in your bed

so I drew this because the kids are always like what's in here? There's gotta be somewhere you can keep stuff where your kids

aren't gonna get any Yeah but then what's the point in having it if it just lives up the back of the cupboard?

So you can pour it down in 15 years and be like, whore, and then your wife's going to be like, you don't know what can be like anymore. Like, yeah, but why did you give me this trap? This is a trap. You did all of this 15 years ago when you had these photos taken. It was a trap.

It was a long game trap. Well, that's not why he's angry. So she gave him this book, and initially he was like, okay, this is awesome. Pretty excited about it. He opened it and it was a collection of like, she's naked in some of these. Right. And seductive. And he said they were great photos of her.

Then he asked her if she took them herself. She said no then he asked her if the photographer was a woman and she said no again and that's when he suddenly turned and was very upset about the whole scenario so he's annoyed because she didn't

talk to him about it, she just posed in front of some random guy she's naked. Now, the internet is divided. A lot of people are saying he's a little bit insecure. He shouldn't be thinking about that. The intention was something special for him. And other people are agreeing with him,

saying, yeah, they would be upset if their partner posed naked in front of someone else, essentially. Well, we asked on our Instagram, how would you feel about your partner getting sexy photos taken by someone else? Not cool, 54%. Really? And totally fine, 46%.

Wow. Okay. I think it would depend who's taking the photos. Yeah. Like, if it's a professional. Then they're a professional, right? Then they're a professional. But if there's some guy from the internet who's saying they're a professional,

then what's he doing with those photos? Oh, yeah. Like is he running a slideshow when he pulls the curtains? I forget that they can technically keep. Well, they're keeping all your photos. Yeah. And who knows where those end up, especially if they're sexy ones. Because I said to Andrew yesterday, I was like, say it was your birthday

and I handed over like an album of sexy pics for your birthday. I was like, what would be your initial response? And he replied saying, do I get anything else or is that my present? Wow. It started. Yeah. But he was the same. He said if it was a professional

he wouldn't care. And I was like, ouch, you've answered wrong on both these accounts. Because he should care because he should be jealous that you're standing in...

But he was like... You were setting up a trap. No, I just wanted to see. But yeah, then I didn't talk to him for the rest of the night. You wanted to see what? No, no.

If he'd fall into a trap. I was like, would you not be jealous at all? And he was like, no, because it's a photographer. And then, like, the intention was they were for me. I was like, well, show on the other foot. Don't do that. Don't.

I don't think that gives you free reign to go and get some sexy photos done. No, don't do that. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I've been hospital passed to lead discussion on the following. Oh, Vaughan, you're a big believer in the power of positive thinking. Why don't you lead the next on-air discussion

regarding the six points of positive thinking manifesting success? I mean, I really, Megan should have been leading this. But Megan just talked about the... We're trying to like even out the playing cards. Yeah. And you are a very positive person. Very positive. No, you...

You're never cynical. Remember you said recently you were going to try and stop bitching about people so much. Yeah, but that's different. That's different. And I've given up on that. You and Sade were like, we've got to stop bitching about people so much. Yeah, but that's different. That's different. I've given up on that. You and Shana were like, we've got to stop bitching about people so much.

Because you just had a self-realisation on the couch. I can't remember who we were talking about. You just looked at each other like those two old Muppets and you thought, we shouldn't just...

We had a moment of clarity. No, no, no, no, it wasn't that. I said, I don't want to watch things where the primary purpose of watching is to have a moment of clarity. No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't that. I said I don't want to watch things with a primary purpose of watching is to have a go at it. Because it's, you know that? Like you watch some things because you hate them.

Or you watch some things because it's easy to follow. Are you talking about Instagram stories? No, no, it was like reality TV. Like don't watch it. The only reason you're watching something is to have something to be negative about. You just don't bother watching it because there's some high quality entertainment out there. It's therapeutic. It's like...

I know, but... Yeah, I mean, you know Love Island's trashy, but it's just like, you can't look away. Yeah, no, that's what I've said we've got to do less of because there's high quality entertainment out there. Like World War II in colour. I was waiting for that, old man. Oh, where I got up to yesterday. I was waiting for that old man. Oh, where I got up to yesterday. I don't think it's going

to end well for the Germans. Oh, really? positive viewing. It is because we won. Oh, right. Yeah. Thankfully. Well,

this neuroscientist, an actual doctor, has said that there are six steps to training your brain to manifest success. Right. And they said

they looked at this from like a neuroscience and psychiatrist approach. So there's the neuroscience, the measuring the electrons and the neurons and the brain signals. We're still in January for like a few more days. So I think that this like we could do this as a resolution for Fletch. You should write down these six points and... What do you mean? I'm very positive. We have a whole segment of you getting angry, but like...

No, but that's warranted because it's, you know... It's just warranted. You know, it's because it's warranted. All you need to warrant something is to just say warrant again a little bit louder. It's warranted. So there's six points. Dr. Tara says abundance is number one

and that is the belief that there's enough of everything to go around. So that would mean that you develop resistance through tough times because you remember abundance. So even if you are in the middle of a drought, there will be water. Remember, there's water somewhere. It's just not on your grass. Or in your body.

Not going to help. It's on my grass because I've got sprinklers. You should see my lawn at the moment. It's greener than anybody else that's on our road. Yeah.

But that's like saying to someone who is not housed currently, like walking along. Bill, look at all these houses. Look at all these mansions. I mean, like. Hey, let's be positive.

Okay. Carry on with the list. Manifestation. Dr. Tara admits that the concept of manifesting success through positive thinking has been dismissed

by other members of the scientific community. But she says thinking a good thing doesn't necessarily make it happen. Instead, just constantly trying to make your dreams happen, however big they must be, requires chasing it and believing that it could. Right.

I agree with that. So just a never-ending hope and belief. Yes. Okay. Magnetic desire is more than positive thinking. So just a never-ending hope and belief. Yes. Okay. Magnetic desire is more than positive thinking. It's the strength of conviction that leads you to achieve something that was thought achievable. So again, see, I think number three and number two are kind of the same.

Very the same, yeah, very much the same. I think Dr. Tara just wanted to stretch the list out to six. She didn't want five. I think she had... I think five things sounds more precise. No, but you know what? She had a magnetic desire to make that list six. And she believed she could.

And she did. And she did. Yeah. She remembered when... We are the wrong people to be reading out this list. Any of us. Dr. Tara remembered when there was an abundance of things. Oh, shut up.

There's still three points to get through. She's like, remember when I had six points of another list? Right. I can get back there. Patience is number four. Oh, you two don't have that at all. I'm definitely the most patient here. Because I deal with you two.

But thanks to your magnetic personality and me remembering the abundance of patience, we can work on patience because it's not an immediate thing. You have to work on it. And you know what?

To get patience, you have to be patient. And then you're like, I'm being patient, searching for patience. Oh my God, I've already done it. Who can believe there are still two more steps to success? Harmony. She says, at the core of rewiring our brain is the idea that the mind and the body need to exist in perfect harmony in order to bring all the chances to make our dreams come true.

However, it's more important to have harmony between our logical brain and our emotional brain. Right. So that's... She's lost me. Yeah, but be patient. Sorry. Stay positive. Okay, yep, yep.

I can't remember the other one. Be patient, stay positive. Abundance. Abundance. And remember when you could understand an abundance. Yeah. And you will remember. Okay, one more.

And the last one is being connected with people and the world. It's called universal connection. Oh, you hate that. Yeah, this is where I'm going to struggle, Dr. T, which is Mr. T's wife is Mr. T's wife. He's a doctor. He says, I pity the fool. And that's what she says too.

Who can't get universal connection? The world around you impacts on you and you have an impact on it. Right. So that's surrounding yourself with the right sort of people, I think. Maybe. And just chilling out and having patience. So you get rid of the negative people in your life. So we'll see you guys later.

Other radio stations out there will miss you. But, you know, do what you've got to do. You're welcome. I hope that's going to give someone some steps for success. Not you, though? Stupid list, isn't it? But that's the thing about give someone some steps for success. Not you, though? Stupid list, isn't it? But that's the thing about dishing out steps to success. Once you've dished them out, you've had your success.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Nelson is the place to be if you're stuck in traffic right now because apparently you can save six to ten hours in commuting each week if you moved to Nelson. This does seem like a big, I don't know, are they short of people in Nelson? I mean, it's my hometown and it's lovely and I'm all for it, but they've done like a big move to Nelson. Oh, yeah, okay. Oh, one of those.

One of those, yeah, right. So six to ten hours you can save, although mum will tell you that, like, she doesn't go to the supermarket between three and seven. Why? Because she's, oh, it's so busy. Too many people. Rush hour. Yeah, well, you know my mum in New Plymouth,

she gets upset if, you know, there's five cars at the traffic lights. Oh, this is right. It backs up on the bridge, you know. It does. Very busy. I'm like, mum, it's going to take us five minutes. Yeah.

What are you worried about? They do have the most sunshine hours. Are they currently holding that at the moment? You know, it does. Very busy. I'm like, mum, it's going to take us five minutes. Yeah. What are you worried about? They do have the most sunshine hours. Are they currently holding that at the moment? It's always a battle between Nelson and Marlborough. Yep. And then lots of, they've boasted lots of food places in Nelson, as in like Pics Peanut Butter.

Yeah, right. Nelson ends up very proud of Pics. We did the tour. Oh, that was amazing. Because you know I don't like peanut butter. But their peanut butter is just so good. But I eat Pics peanut butter with jam on toast. Yeah.

I call it peanut butter and jammy. That was pretty cute. I'll give you that. I do because it's not jelly. Because I said to the kids, it's like peanut butter and jelly. And they're like, but it's not jelly. And I said, well, it's peanut butter and jammy. And now I'm choking on my own cuteness.

It seems I've developed an allergy to my own cuteness. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. First of all, I don't want this to turn into YouTube giving me crap about my phone, okay? And updating my phone. Just a side note. So curb that. What? Megan famously is useless at updating her phone. Because I can never be bothered and I like to wait until other people have done it to iron out

all the issues and then I jump on board. See, that's a fair call, but you wait years. Like when was that time you were like, my phone just keeps playing up, it's not working, and I'm like, well, you haven't updated it for two years. Do you know, and I don't update my laptop either. Do you know, the other day, Netflix literally didn't work on my laptop. It's like, you need to update your

browser. I was like, oh, wow, I've obviously been leaving that too long. Netflix is like, okay, boomer. Yeah, pretty much. So, Ier. Yeah, pretty much. So I finally, oh, Fletcher's going to get real angry about this, but I finally like deleted heaps of photos on my phone and I had enough room for the update on my phone. You didn't even have enough room for the update.

Yeah. God, you give me anxiety with your... Yeah. I updated my phone. Yep. And it must have been a while between updates actually because lots have changed.

And I can do those... People with iPhones will know I can do like an emoji now. So like my emoji. Like you're literally a year and a half behind an update. I know. I told you to shut up.

Where you can make an emoji look like your face. Yeah. Oh yeah, gotcha. Okay. That was fun an update. I know, I told you to shut up. Where you can make an emoji look like your face. Yeah. Oh, yeah, gotcha. Okay. That was fun in 2018. Like it was like September. That was the developer's announcement at the end of September.

I told you at the start of this break. Yeah, 2018. Do you remember? I was like, I don't want you to make this about me. Okay. Go on. So also, you've been going on about dark mode, so you can change it to like everything being

like black on your phone? Last year I was going on about dark mode. Like even in your text and everything, everything's black? Yeah, I like dark mode. It saves battery too. Does it? Because white uses more battery than black. I don't know.

Right. Does it? Yeah, apparently that's why they've done it. Yeah, and Samsung's done it forever. Yeah. Well, anyway. I don't think people will tell you that. I've changed it to dark mode and it's taken a bit of getting used to.

But here's the ish. So I was on the couch yesterday on my phone. I think I was on Instagram. Yeah. And my husband looks over at my phone and he's like, what is that? And I was like, Instagram. I was like, I don't know. I, what is that? And I was like, Instagram. I was like, I don't know. I was just, what story?

I was like scrolling through. And he's like, no, like, why does your phone look like that? And I was like, dark mode. I've gone black. Yeah. It looks better. And he was like, when did you do that? And I was like, oh, yesterday.

It's only new. I'm still getting used to it. He was like, but we didn't discuss that we were going to do that. And I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, well, no, we both do dark mode or we both are on light. And he's like, you didn't discuss this with me. Wow. I was like, you didn't discuss this with me. Wow. I was like,

you are weird, man. He was like, actually a little bit like, not mad. Salty. But yeah, salty. Bit of a sock. Yeah.

And he was like, no, we've got to be on the same mode. So when we use each other's phone, like we're not, you know. Is he like, things have to be even, like time's on the microwave

and like. Yeah. Right... Yeah. Right. Yeah. So very perfectionist and very... Pedantic is the word that I would use. Very pedantic about everything. And so he's like, we either both do it or we both, you know, like, but we discuss it.

I can't believe you got grumpy over... You're talking about dark mode on my phone. It's not his phone, it's your phone. Yeah, but he was so adamant that we both needed to be on the same mode. Interesting. How do you feel about that? Bourne of Sade was like, go back to dark mode or go on light mode. I'm going to do the exact opposite of what she told me.

She was like, we both go dark mode. I'm like, yeah, right. Light mode it is. Well, I was like, oh, well, if you're insisting on our phones both being the same, then I need a big old iPhone X then. But no, that didn't. How did that go down? Not well.

Because my phone's way smaller than his. I was like, well, that's not fair. No, that's, I'd be with you on that one. You can't be demanding equality in settings and not be demanding equality in phones. I hope you sooked against his sook. It's like fighting fire with fire. The best way to fight a sook is to go double down on the sook. No, I just told him that he was a weirdo and he's like, what's wrong with you?

He wasn't mad. He was just like a little bit, yeah, sooky. Yeah. That's a weird thing to be in a sookie about. I know. I know. But I would like to know if your partner's ever had a sookie about something really weird. Right. Maybe they

are as pedantic as my husband. Over like not being both on dark mode on your phones. Yeah. The exact same settings. Yeah. So not necessarily mad, but yeah, what did your partner have a sook about? I feel like you would, Vaughn. Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do. Yeah. Yeah. So not necessarily mad, but yeah, what did your partner have a sook about? I feel like you would,

Vaughn. Yeah, I do. Yeah, I feel like you would. Over weird things? It's always weird stuff. I was just trying to think.

There's been a few. Right, okay. Well, I think we've got to take some calls on this. 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696,

when has your partner had a sookie over something really weird? Because remember just like half an hour ago I told you he'd be fine with someone else taking naked photos of me, like a guy, but he's angry about me being

on dark mode on my phone? That makes no sense. Wait, but weren't you in a sookie over the fact that he would be okay with letting a stranger take photos of you? Yeah, so it was like double sookies yesterday. Oh, okay, right. Were you guys even talking to each other last night? No. No? The Grammys were on. Oh, right. be okay with letting a stranger take photos of you yeah and then he gets up yesterday okay right were you guys even talking to each other last night no no grandma's wrong okay what weird thing did your

partner have a sookie about we're talking about um when your partner had a little bit of a sock sock about something weird like mr toyboy got angry at megan for changing to dark mode on her phone. Not his phone. Because they should both be either on the same mode. Did he change then to dark mode? No. No, because he was having a sook. He wanted you to go back to light mode. Yeah.

So what's going to happen when you go home tonight? I don't know. We're going to have to have the discussion about which mode. I mean, you know. Put forward pros and cons for each mode if that's the biggest problem in your relationship it can't be that bad

can it really so we want to know things that you've been in trouble for or you've had a sulk about in your relationship little silly things some text messages

somebody said my partner dreamed I had an affair two days later I was still in trouble for it what it didn't happen it's hard, when you have a dream. Because the feeling's still there when you wake up.

You wake up annoyed at them. Yeah. And you can't shake it. It's in your head, though. Yeah. I get that, meaning I'm on the receiving end of that. Oh, right. But that's what happens when you're married to a sexual icon.

Is that you're likely... Sade's married to me, yes, Leah. Oh, wow. I'm the sexual icon. Yeah, there's married to me, yes. Oh, wow. I'm the sexual icon. Yeah, there's just pressure there. Well, she... Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you won the lottery, babe.

People are going to come for the cash, you know? Who crowned you a sexual icon? It's why Brad Pitt can't stay married. GQ magazine. Isn't it? Yeah. Vogue. Making many international media outlets. Okay.

FHM. I'm such a sexual icon, I went in a guy's mag. Right, yeah. In a bikini. And they liked it. Okay. FHM. I'm such a sexual icon. I went in a guy's mag. Right, yeah. In a bikini. And they liked it. Right. I believe Georgia.

What desk is Georgia sitting at today? The technical desk. The technical desk. Georgia, is this you that got... I didn't get grumpy. I'm quite calm, cool, like cool, calm and collected to be fair. But I, you know, I have to fill out forms and it's like, who's your emergency contact? Yeah.

And I do not for the life of me know Hamo's number off by heart. This is your boyfriend, Hamo. This is my boyfriend. And the thing is, it's been six years and he's like, do you seriously not know my number off by heart? And I'm like, when do I ever have to use it? Yeah, no, I'm with you on this. People are like, why don't you know this person's number? It's like, well, you don't need to.

It's in the address book. No, see, this has been a sticking point for me because we're going on eight years and he's only just learnt my number. Oh, I see. And man, that has annoyed me. Oh, has it? Because we're six years and I still don't know it.

You've got to write a little song. So how long was he in a sookie about that for? Or is he still in? It's a constant sookie. It's a constant because every time it comes up, he's like, okay, what is it? And I'm like, I still don't know. I remember his first one, but not the new one. Oh, okay.

So he's changed it during the course of your relationship. Oh, that's on him. But that was after six months in. So it's still like five and a half years. I think you're going to say, I remember it's 021. Close enough. Kirstie, who's having a little sookie? Me.

I'm the sook this morning. Oh, this is fresh. Okay. I've only just pulled into kindy to drop the kids off. And I filled up my daughter's water bottle this morning and put it in the fridge because it's been really hot. And I was like, I don't want you to die of dehydration. So I will water you when I get home.

And then my partner thought it was a good idea to give it to her before she got on the truck. And then I had to take it off her. And then she started nothing out. And then I'm the nutter. And then he goes, and then reckons he's the old, and can you get the brakes on the truck? So it's like, what's that got to do with anything?

Well, this is fresh, isn't it, Kirsty? It's fresh. Get it out, babes. Get it out. Good luck with that one, Kirsty. Kirsty will be sorting through these issues tonight when you're sorting out your dark mode with Mr. Toyboy. Toby, I believe the wife has had a little sookie about something.

Yeah, so we've just built a new house and we got given the keys and the garage door remote. Yeah. Then when it come to moving in, I'd put the garage door remote into my car and one into her car and she was a bit upset because she wanted to put the garage remote into her car. What, did it clip onto the visor or something? Yeah, yeah, just that there.

She wanted to have the privilege of installing it into her car. What does it matter? Oh, no, buddy. I thought I'd just try to help and set it up for her, but no, it wasn't. Oh, my God, that is so cute. I thought I'd just try to help and set it up for her, but I wasn't seeing what I was doing. Oh, my God, that is so cute. Could you take it out and just give it back to her and say, here, put it in?

I did think about it, but I thought it might turn even worse. Yeah, the moment's gone, hasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Toby, thanks for your call. So somebody's just actually messaged me on Instagram saying their partner

is in a sookie with them fresh like right now. Right. Because he started talking before when we were talking about partners packing a sookie

and she shushed him because she wanted to hear the story and he's like fine listen to them then and then he's in a sookie now because he got shushed and it's because

of the sooks being packed. Right. Which is quite meta when you think about it. Yeah, it is, yeah. Some other text messages from people who are going to have some quiet time. My husband served himself a bowl of ice creams and strobes for dessert and didn't ask if I also wanted some.

I've never felt such betrayal in my life. That is betrayal. Ouch. Yeah, that's... Always offer. But was there not enough ice cream left? Probably not. Probably not.

And he's like, oh, I didn't think you wanted any. Oh, there's also none left. Oh. Oh, that's like double down. And then you go, do you want a little bit of mine? I've won it. I've just coroned it. My ex got sookie

when he asked me how to disconnect the hose from a tap I told him and then he stormed off saying I already knew how to do that and that's really

why he's your ex he never used a Gardena hose fitting before push it in click it back but you ask for instructions too

yeah don't ask for someone in their bag of sook when they tell you yeah um my husband went and bought me flowers because I woke up crying But you ask for instructions too. Yeah, don't ask for someone in their bag of soup when they tell you. Yeah. My husband went and bought me flowers because I woke up crying from a dream I had where he had cheated on me, but then I got angry at him for buying me flowers

because it made him look like he had been cheating on me. Yeah. I can't win. Why are you acting all guilty? That's a double trap. This is just a dream. That's a trap trap. And walking through a shopping mall,

my boyfriend's hands were full of purchases And he says Ah shit my pants are slipping down So I reach over and hitch up his pants for him Yeah Oh no she didn't He threw a massive soot How dare I act like his mother in public

Two years later the pants incident Has become known Still gets brought up whenever I try to help him out with anything. Oh my God. Let it go. Oh no, a hitch of the pant during a possible down trowel, that's a great thing to do for a loved one. But you can't tell how high you're hitching. Maybe

it was too high, you know? It'll work its way back down. It'll find its natural crevice. What's either that or he could have appeared in court for indecent exposure. Yeah. I would have down trowed him. The minute he bitched about? Or he could have appeared in court for indecent exposure. Yeah. I would have downtrodden him. The minute he bitched about it, he still had his hands on it,

so I just sort of ripped him down. Fix your pants now. Oh, you sort yourself out. It's the world's greatest radio competition. And bigger than ever. It is back. ZM's 100. Did you hear that? $100,000 secret sound. Biggest yet. Like, we've done... $100,000. sound. Biggest yet.

Like, we've done... $100,000. That is crazy. Wow. Joining us in studio... What else is crazy? Or should I say, who else is crazy? Soundkeeper Gary.

Morning, guys. I'm back. When he thought, you know what? I've been missing those 12-hour work days. You're not wearing your money suit. That's right. I am waiting for it. It's coming in the mail from Canada.

So I need a couple of days. I am getting a new money suit and I'm asking for shorts this year. And I've actually got quite a few demands this year. Oh, diva behaviour. Well, you get a couple of secret sounds, and then you've just... Well, Ryan Carey over here. I gave one co-worker the job, tell me if I stink. And he never told me, and I got told last week,

yeah, you stunk. So I'm getting multiple suits this year to make sure I'm clean. Good, because you wore the same suit over and over. This is huge. It is all thanks to Save My Bacon, a brighter way to borrow. From Monday, we're going to play

the $100,000 secret sound. That's right. This is huge. Once again, you're the only person that knows the sound, Gary. That's correct. And we've never given this much money away before, ever. Megan? We're taking questions.

Megan's raising her hand. Gary, when will we first hear the sound? That's right. I haven't actually picked the sound yet. That was going to be my next question. It's like The Bachelorette. I'm kind of going through sounds, deciding, and we will hear the sound for the first time next Monday

at 7 a.m. because I'm just going, it's $100,000. I'm feeling the pressure. I need to make sure the sound is perfect. Yeah. Gary, how many guesses will we be taking a day? 7 a.m. Yes.

8 a.m. Yeah. 11 a.m. Yeah. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. Okay, so six.

Suck up a bunch of money. Wow. Six. Because when we roll in five, we've. Okay, so six. Suck up a bun and eat it. Wow. Six. Because when we're rolling five, we've rolled five in the past. We've done an 8-12, 7-8-12-4-5 this time. Yeah.

11 and one in there. Okay. Yeah. That's a long day. It'll be nice winning an 11 because then you can have a nice lunch. Do you... Because I might actually get a lamington today.

Yeah. Now when we say ZM's $100,000 secret sound, is it, are we giving away, like, is it going to start at, like, 10 or 20? No, it won't be starting at 100, that's for sure. Right, I was going to say, will it go up to 100? Or will we maybe, if it goes, someone guesses it early and it's, like, 10 or 20,

do we give that away? And then start again with the other 80 or whatever's left? I can promise it won't start at 100, but it definitely won't be starting as low as 10 or 20, do we give that away? And then start again with the other 80 or whatever's left? I can promise it won't start at 100, but it definitely won't be starting as low as 10 or 20 as well. I reckon we might start with a record-breaking amount. You know, never before. It's such big money. Good Lord.

Do you have any form of, like, PTSD from past secret sounds? Or that Savage song? Because the other day when I was getting sushi, I broke open the chopsticks and rolled them together and I was like, that's me. I think that every time. It was the Secret Sound and it was under our noses the entire time and it wasn't a hole punch. It was not a hole punch.

Yeah, that Savage song, it plays at Les Mills sometimes in the classes. When your eyes start to talk. Are you going to be able to resist the temptation of fixing this? Because Gary, you did message me asking me if my local petrol station in Kiumiu was exempt from the Auckland fuel tax. Because you were going to drive all the way out there to fill up if it was. Now that says to me that you're a...

Soundkeeper Gary is incorruptible. He's incorruptible. He's incorruptible. I've never this is honest. I've never seen $10,000 in before ever in my bank account ever before. Cash money. Yeah I'm a bit corruptible. $100,000. I'll play this serious. I promise.

Alright. I thought what we could do is because you know $100,000 for the secret sound with Save My Back has not been done before. We've given away All right, I thought what we could do is, because, you know, $100,000 for The Secret Sound with Save My Bacon has not been done before. We've given away, you know, amounts anywhere from 10 upwards. So I thought what we could do is run through some of the previous winners and then maybe, Vaughn, you could simulate what it would be like to win $100,000

because that's life-changing. Yeah. That's like a house deposit. That's like paying off your student loan. That's paying off all your debt, your credit cards and then shopping and going on a holiday. Oh my god. And maybe even burning some cash just to stay warm in winter.

Wow. Like Pablo Escobar when he was on the run. That was Amy winning $10,000. This is Yvette winning $10,000. This is a vet winning $20,000. No way! $30,000. That was mostly Vaughn. Do you remember when Santana won $50,000?

Like, imagine winning $100,000. Like, imagine winning a hundred, Vaughn, you have just won $100,000. That's nice. Thank you very much. It's what we don't want. Thank you for that. I mean, you've got a gate in the swimming pool. I know that's not much to you.

Thanks, Save My Bacon. Yes. I'm listening. No, no, it's rolling in my hand. Like, I just got the sponsor mentioning it. Achoo. Well, it is life-changing. It is a huge amount of money. And Monday morning, we will play you that secret sound.

All thanks to Save My Bacon. A brighter way to borrow your chance to win with ZM's $100,000 secret sound. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. We are joined in the studio by New Zealand's first bachelorette doctor, Lucina Nikijusa. Good morning. Good morning. I like the doctor bit.

Doctor. Do your friends ask you for, like, prescriptions? And free medical advice? First question. Free medical advice, sure, right? So I, yeah, to be honest, my mum's my worst patient. Yeah. I can't, I live with my, my flatmate is also another doctor I went to med school with and I have to literally be like,

mum, can you just talk to her? Because I can't, she's got too many, every day she's got something. Every day she's dying of like something. Wow, is that why you became a doctor? Has your mum always been like that? Yeah, to treat my mum. I'm just that why you became a doctor? Has your mum always been like that? Yeah, did she treat my mum? Yeah. She was like,

you're her private. Instead of going to Google, she just asks you. She just comes to me. How long have you been a practicing doctor for? I graduated in 2012. Wow.

Yeah. So I was working in Auckland all up until last year. Yeah. And then I did some locum stuff in Australia. And it actually took some time because I was like, I'm working too much. I'm 32, I'm single, I want to meet people. And then I did some locum stuff in Australia. And I actually took some time off because I was like,

I'm working too much. I'm 32. I'm single. I want to meet people. And so I was like, I need to change something up. Yeah. And so, yeah.

What does locum mean? You seem to do some locum stuff. And you were like this. Yeah. I was like, I've got to ask what locum means because I've heard it before. Is it like relieving teaching?

Relief teachers? Sort of, except for you get, it's way more money. So it's like a lot of money. And it's also, you get to choose the hours you want and where you want to work. Right. Whereas relief is kind of like what's available. But there's always stuff available

and you just choose where you want. Why doesn't everybody do that? Right? Lifestyle though. You just described it far. I said that when I started doing it. I was like, why is every doctor not a locum doctor? But I think it's, you know, if you had a massive family and your commitments and you need stable income,

even though it's like good income, but it's, you know, you have to wait for it. It's all in one lump sum. And then I guess you wouldn't because you have to travel. Yeah. You have to travel sometimes really far. Yeah, it'd be hard to keep you on Grey's Anatomy if they were like, they're not in the same hospital.

They're going to another hospital. Yeah. Let's talk about last night's episode because, wow, I had to look at a few of these entrances through my fingers like this. You were so gracious because like they're lovely but a lot of the entrances were embarrassing okay yeah like oh do i pinpoint one i could never be mean i could never do what any of i think our zm wildcard was just like hey bye no he gave me a little um card that's right. A little like wild, what is it?

Joker, like wild thing. Yeah, just so you can remember me and walk straight past. In very low key. Good. And then like- Straight into the house, like I own this.

Yeah. But like also, what a scary situation because like meeting someone for the first time, like even on a blind date or something, it's scary enough. But then it's being filmed

and then they've got to do something that like showcases them. Yeah. We're both equally as nervous as each other. then it's being filmed and then they've got to do something that like showcases them. We're both equally as nervous as each other. So it's like kind of awkward. I had to be like, you know, you have to make small talk. And I don't even know why it was just all a blur, but it's, I don't know. Do you have favorites already and stuff?

I wouldn't have been break dancing. That's for sure. Or ripping my t-shirt off. What would you have done? What would you have done? I don't know I would find it hard to not Like show my distaste on my face Yeah, yeah

Just like, oh my god You're like, oh yeah, that was great That was great You look so good You're going home tonight I would have walked in Handed you a cell phone And then we would have both been on our cell phones

And then I would have said What do you feel like for dinner? And you would have and then I would have said what do you feel like for dinner and you would have said I don't know what do you feel like because that's how it all ends up. Wow.

That's how many years of marriage. Wow, you're just like cutting all the sexiness out of it. That's how you cut out everything between there and now to get straight to the point.

Watching telly on your phone wondering what you're going to have for dinner. Okay. That's how it ends up. It's great. Don't get me wrong.

I love it. Forecast. It works very, very well. Are you allowed to say favourites at the stage? No. They all, they all. I mean, who did I remember on the first night that really stood out? Baking was always, like, a huge thing.

So someone bought baking. I liked all the people that put in a lot of effort, really. But that's just your first impression, isn't it? So it changes as it goes along. Right. So it's not really, yeah. What were your expectations of New Zealand men? Because as you say, you were here up until last year

and hadn't found one to spend your life with. So were your expectations low? They weren't low. It was just I think everyone, I thought everyone was coupled up. You know, I was like, I feel like everyone's already got a partner or got somebody. It's true, all of us, all the good ones are. But then you go to Australia and you're like, everyone's hot over here. You're like, I'm not going back.

Yeah, but then you're like, but they're single for a reason, I assume. Because they're Australian. Yeah, no. I already, I know Kiwi guys are great. There just wasn't any single ones that I knew. Yeah, right. Thank you. Yeah.

But the show, there were a bunch of single ones i was like oh where did they get all these guys from like wow or you're like no no no comment no comment well she had to get one from south africa yeah yeah well um we're very looking forward to since we can't like get a gauge on if you've found someone or like what's going on so um we're just looking forward to it since we can't, like, get a gauge on if you've found someone or, like, what's going on. So we're just looking forward to the journey, and I hope that it has ended up and will end up good. Thank you. Thanks, Austin.

Good luck. I was going to ask, do you have favourites yet? I just call him Thor because I can't remember his name. Liam. Yeah. He just looks like Chris Hemsworth. Oh, you would love that. I know, but that's

the thing. He quite enjoys his own company too, doesn't he? No comment. She does very well. Oh, well, good luck. Thank you.

It's like you're keeping really bad news from a patient. You must be good at that too. Yeah. How are the results, Doctor?

You're like, well, let's just see, eh? Watch tonight on TVNZ2. So you can continue watching The Bachelorette New Zealand tonight and tomorrow, 7.30 on TVNZ2. Thank you so much for coming in. Thanks. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Okay. So I painted a picture of my rescue last evening. I'll give you a little bit of background. You were rescued yesterday. I was give you a little bit of background. You were rescued. I was rescued. Right. I was rescued. I inherited my grandfather's 1967 Land Rover.

Yep. He'd had it for ages, but then when he passed, it sat in a shed for a while, got it all warranted and registration did. You're real proud of this. I love it. I love it.

The other day, Vaughan said to Megan and I, guys, after the show, we should go for a ride in the Land Rover. And Megan said, I've got Gucci's on. What did you say? Was it Gucci's? Yeah. I've got Gucci's on. I'm not getting in that

dusty old trap. And I said, you've been uninvited. And I was like, I'm busy. I've got to get home. He wasn't busy. And so Vaughan was actually quite upset that we didn't go. Oh, no, I didn't mind and care because I would just love driving. And anyway, so I just took the Lucenic route home. And I do want to go in it one day just when I've got time

and Megan's not wearing coochies. Yeah, I don't know, maybe just dull it down to some Balenciagas for us over here in the pool seat so you can ride in the old cars. But I have taken it once by myself because over the summer holidays, when it was all working and everything, I said I'm going to take the Land Rover out to the beach. Because you can drive down, if you don't know, down in Middleway Beach. You can drive down there.

You've got your little permit, but it's all free and everything. Lots of fun going for a cruise. Do you go down there and have a barbecue? get a little permit, but it's all free and everything. Lots of fun. Going for a cruise. Do you go down there and have a barbecue? Yeah, yeah. We take a barbecue sometimes. We've taken our other car because it's a four-wheel drive

down there. But, you know, it kind of stands out driving a Hyundai Santa Fe down there. Everyone's fanging down there and Nissan Safaris and Pajeros

and all the four-wheel drives. With surf casters on there. So last time I took the, I went by myself. It was a great little solitary mission in the Land Rover. I went and got the waves and people loved it because it's an old beast cruising down the beach. Yep. So yesterday, actually Sade recommended it.

She said, should we take the Landy to Motowai for fish and chips? I was like, what? Of course. Of course. Speaking my language. Yeah. Yeah, we just need to put some petrol in it. But yeah, I'll get ready.

Let's go. Yeah. So went out there, got some fish and chips. Went down and I said to them, because the Land Rover's got very thin tires. Okay. Here we go. Okay. So I said to them, now last time I came out, don't freak out.

Last, to get down onto the beach. Yeah. Once you're on the beach, it's sweet because the water comes in. The sand's harder. This is tides. I could give you a background on tides, but we don't have time. The water comes in and out. It makes the sand harder and more compact and easier to drive on.

But you've got to go through a track through the dunes. Now, with the lack of rain, she's been pretty dry in there. Yeah. And so I said to them, it'll struggle, but we'll get there. And so we got down onto the beach, no problem. Drove down the beach. Everyone was loving it. The landy.

Fish and chips? Purring. Some fish and chips. Did you get a crab stick? Had some. No. No crab stick. This is my favourite thing about fish and chips.

Yeah, you always get a crab stick. I'm alone on that. Yeah. But it's my favourite thing. I'll get two. I'll get two sometimes. Wonderful fish and lovely chips. Had the dogs at it, run around.

It was all very picturesque. Yeah, right. And then back we go. Yeah. Purrs back along the beach. Loves it. Now, it's when we're getting

closer to the path up through the dunes back to the road. Yeah. And this is just, by the way, I'm not just driving through the dunes.

This is a fence. You're allowed to. This is a designated path. Designated path down to the thing. Just before you message. I'm a huge fan of the dot trolls. Yeah,

just before you message it because Vaughn's killing the dot trolls. I just like to imagine someone thinks I'm just like,

over nesting dot trolls. Watch out, dot trolls! Not the case. And I get a run up in the landing and we get up there, we get up there.

Stuck. And to reverse, back we go. Have another run at it. Stuck. And to reverse we go. Oh, God. I try reversing up it.

I try a few runs at it. It's definitely locals watching you at this point. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, one guy came in and stopped. And you could see he was watching. We're like, is this guy going to need help? But then I got up and over the hill part. And I'm getting down onto the flat.

And the kids are like, yay. I'm like, hold your chairing. We're not there yet. And that's where we just go down. We sink. We sink down into it. And then... And the little thin grippy

tyres, which granted I hadn't taken enough pressure out of because you drop a bit of pressure in your tyres. Oh, right. I hadn't taken enough out of it. We got stuck. And I was like, oh well. So I got out and I dug around the tyres and everything, tried to get us out. What's that going to do? Well, no, no, you

dig the sand out and you make, you'd like dig yourself a little ramp out. You dig out the sand in front of the tyres. Doesn't seem like that would work. Well, no, no, you dig the sand out and you make yourself, you'd like dig yourself a little ramp out. You dig out the sand in front of the tires. It doesn't seem like that would work. Well, it didn't. So then we're there and the kids are like, what are we going to do? I'm like, well, it's important we don't panic. Are they at this stage wanting to hide and not be associated to you?

No, not yet. Okay. No, yeah, they haven't quite reached that age. I think it was on the third run at the hill that August said, this is a bit embarrassing.

And I said, there'll be none of that. It's coming, it's coming. I feel like August is going to get there before Indy. Yeah, I think so. So we're stuck

and then another car is coming. It is a Toyota Hilux. Okay. Old Toyota Hilux. Yep. Pulls in, right in front, stops. I'm like, the rescue is here. Okay. Old Toyota Hilux. Yep. Pulls in, right in front, stops.

I'm like, the rescue is here. Oh, you're so embarrassing. Did this person, were they already travelling along or did they come specifically? No, no, no. They were on their way out as well. Oh, okay. And out of the red Hilux hops TV celebrity chef Mike Van Der Elzen, who had ran the food truck. The guy with the glasses.

Yes, yeah, right. Okay. I think I'm going to say Josh Emmett. Does he not have a four-wheel drive? I don't know Josh Emmett. Okay, right. If Josh Emmett does. I'm unsure.

And out he hops. Yep. And I'm expecting like, you know when you rescue someone, one of the sweetest parts is the slightly condescending chap? Yeah. Where you're kind of like, oh, heck, oh, new to this, or something like that. There was none of that.

Oh, that's nice. There was none of that until his kids arrived. I don't know how old they were. They were young. I'd say 10-ish tops. What did they say? Oh, you got stuck, did you?

You probably shouldn't have stopped. Which I said, you know, I didn't really have any choice because we just went in. You're right. When you stop, I didn't really have any choice because we just went in. When you stop, just don't, don't keep flooring it

because you'll just dig yourself a hole. I was like, thanks. You're getting driving lessons for a teeny ride. How much, how much pressure

you take in your tires? None. Obviously not enough anyway. Your dad's going to pull me out. And he, he pulled me out. And really one good pull. Right.

I was a bit worried the front end of the Land Rover might pop off because she's an old girl. And out we got. You were rescued by a celebrity chef. I was rescued by a celebrity chef like Van Delsen. That makes him like so much hotter. I know. It was kind of like next time I see see him whipping a whitebait fritter up, getting the arm in there, I'll be a bit like, oh, masculine.

Because he rescued you from it. A bit more masculine. Yeah, he pulled me out. Okay. Yeah, of the sinky sand. What are you going to do next time? Just not go? And then not only did he not condescend me,

he made me feel better by saying, I've never seen it this... Because we haven't had any rain for so long. It's been a very dry summer. There's no wet in the sand to bond it at any stage. Because usually you go through the top bit, which is dry, and then you hit a bit of bond stuff and you'll be able to keep going. But not in this case.

Why didn't he sink then? He's just trying to make everyone feel better. Yeah. He's got to get fatter tyres. Right, okay. That's one of the things I've got to do. We'll get you Tony's tyre service. That's the only one I know. Bow repairs. What about that Vince Martin character? Is he still doing? He did bow repairs,

eh? Anyway, I need fatter tyres. Yeah, right. Sort that out. Yeah, okay. Yeah, some fatter tyres. But I was rescued by Celebrity Chef. Or you could just stick with your skinny tyres and then maybe he'll rescue you again. More rescues. I don't need my wife to see me being rescued that often.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Right, now it's time for... Fact of the Day. Today's Fact of the Day is polar bears are Irish. Okay. Modern polar bears are Irish. What do you mean? Well,

modern polar bears, the polar bear we're familiar with, you know, the ones that are on tiny bits of sea ice and they drown in because of global warming and there's not enough sea ice in that. Or they are brutally murdering a walrus. Yeah. Something to eat. Them. Those guys. They are actually, they're a mixture of an ancient polar bear and a bear from Ireland.

I didn't know Ireland had bears. Ireland used to have brown bears. Oh, used to. They lived during the last ice age. over, these two bears, which had not spent time together due to the ocean between them, were provided means in the form of an ice bridge, or, you know, like the mass amount of ice during the Ice Age, to get together and get it on. And the brown bear and the ancient polar bear, what they did was... We can work that bit out. We can work that bit out.

You can work that bit out. I don't want to go through too much of that. You can stop there. And the result is the modern polar bear. Right. Now, they even know that the Irish was the woman. Okay. Because the, you know, what?

I'm just laughing at you getting your way through this. The Irish was the woman. Because the part of the Irish bear is carried on the XX side of the DNA situation. If it was XY, that would be the father. Why are none of them a little bit brown then? A little bit mocha. They got rid of it. Right.

They kept breeding back with other polar bears, but they still had the Irish blood there. Right. And you can tell because on St. Patrick's Day, they get written. They drink Guinness. Yeah. They'll always be. The first ones at the pub at 11 a.m.

Yeah, and they like scrapping. Yeah. And they really liked Brad Pitt's character on Snatch. Yeah. Maybe got a bit niche there. Sure. A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. A. Sure. A little bit. Yeah, a little bit.

A little bit. A little bit. So today's fact of the day is the modern polar bear has Irish ancestry. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Skyscanner, a travel website, have released some travel tips and hacks. You're a big fan. One of theirs is packing cubes, packing cells.

And that's you, isn't it? You know the last Like few years I've been big on my Packing cells Oh Life changing You can buy them At like Kmart And Camando Loads of places

Just little kind of Square mesh bags And they keep Everything in compartments All your Socks in one All your undies In the other

Like if you're going away For a few weeks And you know when you're Doing that thing Where you're travelling In between like hotels Or hostels or motels, whatever, Airbnbs every couple of days, your suitcase can become a real mess.

Oh, not with these. I just repack it when I change area. Yeah. I just repack it. So some of the big ones, concealing cash, if you're taking a lot of cash, in vitamin containers. Oh, really?

Like a Barocca tube. Yes. That would be good long ways. Or like a Centrum. Yes. You've got to have one that's not clear. You don't want a clear one. They'll say that you're not deficient in vitamin B.

You have money. Apparently people robbing your room don't need Barocca or Centra or multivitamins. So yeah, if you've got cash here, you can put that in there. But I guess that's if you don't have a safe in your room because a lot of places will have a safe, won't they? Take advantage of, another one of the big ones, take advantage of stopovers

so that you're seeing two cities for the price of one. I never do that because you're always like focused on the destination. You just want to get there ASAP. Yeah, but then have you seen sometimes if you're booking a flight somewhere like on an online booking site,

it'll be like, it'll have a stopover and it'll be like 30 hours to get there. But there'll be like a 16 hour stopover or something or like a... Yeah.

So you could do something like that where you can get off the plane. You might even be able to stay for a little bit, leave your bag somewhere and then see a city for a day. But it's stressful doing that because what if you get lost in the city and I can't...

Miss your flight. Yeah. I'd need a day at least. Otherwise I don't leave the airport because I get scared I'm going to miss my flight. And then I'm stuck in the city. Then you just get the train in and out. You've got to live a little.

What, are you going to spend 16 hours at an airport? Yeah. No, I've spent like nine hours at an airport before or maybe even 12 hours because I didn't want to venture out. I was scared I'd get stuck. Or like traffic, you don't know how bad traffic is, but then you said train, right? You've got to figure out public

transport. Buses? Yeah. You can do it with the bus, with the train. You're just going to have to do one of those oldies Trafalgar tours around Europe. Windy Woo. Will you be allowed to take Mr Toyboy on those? Because when you're of an... Yeah, he could be her, like, carer.

They don't have an age limit, though. Like an age... You know, like, Contiki's, like, 18 to 35. 35. 40s, yeah. I can't wait till we get older and he's, like, more decrepit than me. I'll be like, ha! You're, like, 10 years younger, but...

Why? That's a... What a sick thing to do. I can't wait till we're old and he's broken and sick. I mean, you're the only one laughing at his old sick body. You're the only one that's had a hip operation out of the two of you. Yeah, but it's good as new now. Do you know

one of the tips that's not on this list and something I did on my recent holiday when I was travelling around. Blew my mind. I saw this on, I think it was on Instagram or on Facebook somewhere. You get you know those coat hangers they have in the wardrobes at hotels with, it's got the little clips for pants and jackets. Yeah.

So you can put pants on. If you've got a gap. Those aren't just in hotels, you know that, eh? They live in lots of places. No, I've never seen them before. That's what you have your suit on, so you can put your suit together. I put the pants through like normal coat hangers. Yeah, no, suit ones don't, yeah, they tend to have.

They don't have the clips. They have a little bar that goes on top of the other bar and it holds the pant in place. So if there's a gap in the curtains at the hotel, you get those coat hangers with the pegs, the clips, and you clip the curtain shut. Oh my God, it's life changing. You know, you get those ones that are not for like jacket and pants.

Those little metal ones that just have the clips. Real skinny. Just for pants. Just for pants. Yeah. Just to pack one of those just in case. No, that's weight, isn't it? They're metal.

It's not very heavy. If you're that worried about the curtain. Maybe I'll take a couple of clothes pegs next time. Oh, pegs. A couple of spring-loaded pegs, you mean. Or a safety pin, yeah. That's how much I hate light coming into any room. I'm going to start packing two pegs.

Yeah. What if you pull together the middle and you put your pegs on and that stops the light coming through the middle, but it has pulled the curtains in on the end and you're sticking the light coming through the end. Okay, I'm also going to take duct tape. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Tinder is doing something that Bumble's already been doing for ages. They are going to issue blue ticks to verify that people aren't catfishing. Right, because nobody wants to end up on any... Do they still make MTV catfish? Are they still doing that? I think so.

I don't know. I feel like that's all we talked about for ages and then like... Can you do some research, please, behind the scenes? Right. So how are they going to do this? So they, basically you have to go to your Tinder app

and you can click the verify your profile button. I don't have Tinder, so this is a little foreign to me. Okay. You will then be shown. I really feel like she was trying to sell the point she doesn't have Tinder there. Like, does she have something to hide? Do you know what, though to sell the point she doesn't have Tinder there like does she have something to hide

do you know what though ages ago didn't we download Tinder and like I created a profile so I'm really worried that like if you go to the app store

it'll be like Tinder it won't be downloaded it'll just be like grab it back off the cloud yeah but I'd like everyone to know that I did

that for work you get given a pose they'll ask you to copy the pose by taking a selfie. And then they confirm that the selfie matches the pose. And then you can submit for review. Right. Because if you were grabbing anyone's photo.

Yeah. And then they ask you to take a photo. You couldn't. Yeah. Right. Okay. You couldn't copy the pose. That's cool.

Okay. Catfish is still going. Still going. Is it? Yep. What's the date today? So it's important. 28th of January. Tomorrow. Episode going? Is it? Yep. What's the date today? So it's important. 28th of January.

Tomorrow, episode, season eight, episode four, Jesus and Alexis. That's the one from the Bible. Jesus, I think it said, but sure. Oh, right. Yeah, okay. Right. So, you know, it's still going. Because remember it had a break because Niamh got accused.

Right. Of inappropriate behavior, but then that whole thing Got dropped and Right okay I feel like If you got yourself A blue tick Everyone would be like No one was catfishing you

No one's using your image Sweetheart You don't need the blue tick Ouch Yeah That's the most Kiwi thing eh Yeah Oh blue tick

We think we need a blue tick Do we Yeah ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast If you enjoyed this podcast Why not give ZDM's Bree and Clint a listen too we need a blue tack to it yeah