ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - July 17 2019

Episode Date: July 16, 2019

Katy Perry is on the phone to talk about her new single, Vaughan had a great night on the claw machine and did you change your look to get something?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch Warner Megan. Good morning. I've got a pimple on the inside of my nose. Oh. I don't know if it's a pimple, but it's sore and it feels that way.

Did you pick a... Stop poking it. Did you pick a hair? Yeah, I might have pulled a hair some days ago and it's... You've got an ingrow. ...and an ingrow on. Oh, no. It's just a tight days ago and it's... You've got an ingrowing......resonating an ingrowing on. Oh, no. It's just a tight bit of skin

that's a bit tender to the touch. Oh, dear. Okay. On the inside there. Are you going to be able to go on with the show today or do you want a day off? I don't think so. I don't think so.

You'll be fine. I'll be okay for now. Okay, good to hear. But if I'm just not here, that's what's happening. Okay, right. Special guest on the show today, just after 8 o'clock, Katy Perry. Yeah. Exciting.

Katy Perry. This is the first time I've spoken to her. Yeah, I've never interviewed her. Has she been relegated to radio station interviews? Now. Yeah. We've never been given the opportunity to until now. Catherine Hudson.

Yeah, we know. That's a real name. That's when you say Katy Perry, I want to say you mean Catherine Hudson. Catherine Hudson. Well, we don't call her Catherine Hudson. No, not unless she asks for it. She's technically Kate Hudson. Oh, so that's why she didn't go with that.

It's taken. Kath Hudson. She's like the older version of Kate Hudson. Oh, so that's why she didn't go with that. It's taken. Cath Hudson. She's like the older version of Kate Hudson. So she's on the show with us. With her song Raw. Cath Hudson. Alright you lot, listen up. It's story time.

Alright, three news headlines for interesting odd news stories that I've found. Vaughan and Megan, deliberate. Pick one of the following three headlines only. Headline one, visitors unhappy with sleepy panda. Headline two, man sleeps off boozy night. And headline three, hair gives it away. Hair?

Yeah. Like hair on your head or rabbit? Like hair on your head. Sleepy panda? Yeah. Like hair on your head or rabbit? Like hair on your head. Sleepy Panda? Yeah. Was that it? Because mum and dad went and saw the pandas when they were in China. Yeah.

And they said they were like amazed by them and they got to see like different pandas at different stages. My mum asked where the older pandas were and the guy said there. And she said, no, you just told us they were four years old, but earlier on the tour they can grow much older. So where are the old ones? And he had no answer. So she thinks he's a conspiracy. Well, they ship on the tour they can grow much older, so where are the old ones? And he had no answer so she thinks he's a conspiracy.

Well, they ship off the old pandas. Well, maybe. Right, and they just have the... Because there's pandas on loan to the world and they pay China a million dollars a year for the privilege, which doesn't seem like a lot in the scheme of things. China's GDP must be massive. Yeah. But it probably keeps the

panda breeding sessions going. But someone on their panda tour said they'd literally travelled all the way to China just for this panda tour and they felt that their pandas didn't do enough. And my mum gave them a talk about managing their expectations. Which is good to know that she gives other people that talk too, not her own kids. Yeah, right. Well, very similar story. This one.

Right. What was story number two? Man sleeps off boozy night. Yeah, see. Well, very similar story. This one. Right. What was story number two? Man sleeps off boozy night. Yeah, see I know this story. A dude, I actually don't know the ins and outs of it, he got boozed and tried to jump a fence and his zipper got caught. So he's caught from the crotch, but his,

he ended up upside down and then passed out. So he's stuck on a fence, passed out. Sleeping on a fence. Upside down. Yeah. Well, I'd say a 35, 45 degree angle. Yeah, I'd say 45 too. Good angle knowledge. Well, we all had those protractors, didn't we?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Story three then, unless you want the pandas. Nah, nah. Story three. Happy to follow your lyrics. All right, we go to Barcelona. Barcelona in Spain.

Barcelona. Where an airline passenger was caught on a flight from Bogota, the capital of Colombia, with half a kilogram of cocaine. Hello. Okay. Now, let me just bring up this. Where did the photo go?

That's not much in the Bogota scamming thing. No, it's not Okay here we go I'm just going to pause this video Where do you think it was hidden? I'm showing you a photo of him In his bum hole You can't even see his bum hole

Show me Where else are you going to hide him? Show me the guy I don't know I'm showing you the mugshot Or his skin That is here We'll just remove the toupee Oh not bad I don't know. I'm showing you the mugshot. What about his skin? And then his hair?

We'll just remove the toupee. Oh, not bad. And there is a half a kilogram bag of cocaine. Not bad. Now, if you look again, Megan, if you look at his hair, it does look odd. Yeah, no, I saw it. I saw his hair. It's definitely under there. But it's like the toupee's on the brick of cocaine on top of his head.

He looks like he's got a quiff at the back of his head. Yeah, it's not working for him, is it? Did they check his bum hole afterwards? Why do you want to check his bum hole? Because I'm just saying it's where everybody hides it. He's got half a kg on his head. Yeah, eight and a half kgs in his rectum. Yeah, right.

Well, the man was noticed looking nervous and officials became suspicious about the disproportionate size of his wig, his toupee. When they removed the black hairpiece, they found a package stuck to his head. Tests revealed it contained 503 grams, valued at 30,000 euros.

Imagine having to ask someone to remove their toupee, though. I know. Yeah, that's a yelchie. And they're like, what? I don't have a toupee. This is my natural hair. No. People with toupees are weird about it, eh?

Like, why don't you just be bald and shave your head? I don't know. And then they're always weird about being asked. It's, why don't you just be bald and shave your head? I don't know. And then they're always weird about being asked. It's like, but it looks so fake. But everyone knows it's a toupee. Yeah, so that defeats the very purpose of it, right? Yeah. Does it make them feel better? Because it's kind of like

fake breasts that are obviously fake breasts. Right. It's like, okay, so we know they're fake, so they're not yours, but if they make you feel better, is that the idea of them? Yeah, okay. So the toupee makes them feel better. It's a security blanket. But, yeah, I don't know.

Like, no hair off my head on it, but each to their own. Each to their own. But just, like, we used to have this old landlord in Hamilton, and he glued his on, because I think that's what you used to do back in the day. But he wasn't buying you wigs and the glue was like seeping up through the because he obviously was just like, it's a bit loose,

bit more glue and it was kind of like up and was, or just like PVA. No, it was like a, it looked like that F2 glue that you glue your shoes together with or sniff if you want to get high but don't because it'll melt your brain cells. And he had it on his head and it was kind of like

all crusted up and it's a very unusual situation. Right. And you can't help but look at it, can you? And you know when somebody's looking at you but they're not looking

at your eyes? Like I'm looking at your hat right now. It's obvious I'm not looking at your eyes, right? Yeah, yeah. It's like when I catch people staring at my breasts all the time. Eyes up.

Yeah. Eyes up. You're like, I know they're fake but they make me feel better. I told you there was a warning out for one of the public parks in Auckland. I think most people in Auckland would know about this. Homosexuals. Are you kidding?

No. No. That's like, we're laughing because I was joking. But like you imagine like 30 years ago, that would have been official, like a proper thing. Now careful if you go into the park after dark. Homosexuals lurk. They want to do things with their penis.

And your penis. All males do. I know it sounds fun and they might lure you in, but be careful out there. Stay vigilant. You've got a wife and children at home. You're just down the park at sunset for a walk. You weren't going down there to have a bit of shenanigans in a bush, were you?

You're a good man. You're a good man with heterosexual thoughts in your head. It's funny because you can literally hear that. Yeah. No, I was just down there walking my dog. It's like the guy on the radio said, I've got good heterosexual thoughts in my head. It's funny because you can literally hear that. Yeah. No, I was just down there walking my dog. It's like the guy

on the radio said, I've got good heterosexual thoughts in my head. I don't know what happened, it just happened. Sir, we found

you mid-action. Yeah. This is Western Springs. Now, if I was to tell you there was a boarding place for

Well, I can tell you historically, what we've just been joking about, very place for Western Springs. Well, I can tell you, historically, what we've just been joking about, very true for Western Springs. I had no idea you were such a historian on gay cruising. Oh, I've looked into it. Right. There's still a couple of spots around.

Okay. Where, you know, there's like a hot spot. But there's like Grindr. Why bother? Because they're old school. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, in Western Springs, there is a number of highly aggressive sexual predator.

Geese. Geese. Oh, okay. And ducks, it turns out. Is that a gay term? Is it geese? What do they do? I've heard of bears.

Because the bears are older, hairier dudes. Otters. Like a big dude. That's a younger sort of slick but hairier dude. Like a bear in the making. Right. Like a cub. But That's a younger, sort of slick but hairy dude. Like a bear in the making. Right. Like a cub. But what's a geese?

Just an actual bird. Just an actual geese. An actual bird, yes. Oh, right, right. Because those geese are geese anywhere. I thought they were axs in them. They're the... They're always aggressive.

So the numbers have apparently exploded. I thought they were. Yeah, I thought they were going to like quietly... Feed the homeless. Shoot. Serious. People used to eat geese all the time. Right. They're boiled ghosts for Christmas. Well, I thought they were going to like quietly. Feed the homeless. Shoot. Serious. People used to eat geese all the time. Right.

A boiled goose for Christmas. Well, no, ducks are a problem too. Eat them too. They're delicious. Have you ever had a bit of duck, a bit of Peking style duck in between a bao bun with the cucumber and some chives? Get Josh Emmett down there. Mallard ducks though?

Are they the ones that we ate? Mallard? We used to eat them. Like those are the duck shooting ducks. That's the most popular thing you can eat. So they say the mallard ducks are highly invasive and sexual predators. A threat to many of the native animals in the area. Okay.

And because of the fact that everyone's feeding them when you know you shouldn't. But you go to Western Springs to feed the ducks and the birds. It's the only way to get rid of them. You throw a bit of bread in your run for your life. You don't do it anymore because they literally attack you. I just came down here for homosexual sex. Fuck me. Take my duck. Take the because they literally I just came down here for homosexual sex. Fuck me. Take my duck.

Take the bread. Could you just as a laugh, I don't know how this would go down with your kids, but could you sell a tape like bits of bread to like August's arms and then just tell her

to walk up to the ducks and film it? No. Yeah, you get your children and take it off you. Oh, okay. Oh, I was all for it I know Sal

Take bits of bread To your kids And take them to the park It would be fun To do to like a dog Oh no No not a dog We'll do it to Leo

Oh no Leo would Leo would probably die He would be so scared Well it's funny When it's my kids Now it's a small dog All of a sudden It's a crime

Yeah when you said It was a small dog I was like That's terrible. That's horrible. Defends this child though. Hilarious. Well, the child can run.

Yeah. So what are they saying? Please don't feed them because the overfeeding them has made the population boom. But we've heard that for years and people still feed them. Bread should never be fed to them

because it's like junk food. Well, that's a good way to make sure they don't chase you and do things to you because they'll be too fat. They'll be like, Quack, quack, quack. Is that an obese duck? Oh, quack. I'm just going to try to fly.

ZM's Fletch,-Megan, the podcast. The nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards, which is TV, have been announced, and there is a TV show that has landed 32 Emmy nominations, which is setting the record for the most nominations in a single year. Guesses, please. Game of Thrones.

It's disappointing, though, because it's far from the best season of Game of Thrones. I. It's disappointing though because it's far from the best season of Game of Thrones. I think we can all agree that it felt rushed and it wasn't the best it could be.

Oh, but it's still like production, I mean, not storyline, but I mean, production-wise. But so much of those nominations were for actors. Yeah.

Which I thought was a bit. They pretty much nominated the whole cast. Yeah. So I can tell you that Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Nikolai Kostel,

yep, Alfie Allen, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Gwendolyn Christie, and Carice Van Houten were all nominated.

Wow, okay. So who's left out? That's all the main cast, right? The dragon. Yeah. Very disappointed. Did you say it's acting when it got shot in the neck?

Great acting. Great acting. It was beautiful. So, yeah, they got 32 nominations. That's the most out of any show. Next up was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which is an Amazon show. 20 noms. 20 noms.

And I've never heard of this show either. Because this is what I love about the Emmys list when it comes out. It's a good list to see if you've missed any TV shows. So the series is about Miriam Midge Maisel, a housewife in 1958 New York who discovers she has a knack for stand-up comedy.

Oh wow, okay. And apparently, yeah, because they're up to season two. Season two's done. Nine episodes each season. Apparently really, really funny. Okay. Next up was Chernobyl.

19 nominations. I knew this was going to happen. If you haven't seen it, it sounds, when you guys were like, oh, I watched Chernobyl, it sounds real serious. And it is,

but like, for some reason, it just really grips you. making a nuclear meltdown could be a real hurt for the whole thing. is it like a documentary? Is it real, like, boring? But for some reason, real hurt for the whole thing. No, but I was like, is it like a documentary? Is it real, like, boring? But for some reason, it just really grips you.

It's nominated. I was like, where are the nominations? But because it was a limited series, like, it's only doing one season, it's nominated differently to, like, the likes of Game of Thrones. And drama. It's nominated for Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Lead Actor, our boy Jared Harris, Emily Watson, who plays the

female scientist, who's not even who is one of the very few characters that isn't entirely real but it's a culmination of a whole lot of scientists that were involved in Chernobyl. Stellan Skarsgård is nominated as well. He was fantastic. The Skarsgård dad? Yeah.

There's good genes in that family. He should be proud of himself for multiple things. Yeah, yeah. He should just win an Emmy for Hot Sons. Yeah. And the Emmy for Hot Sons. And the Hemsworth dad. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. Ooh, nominated. That'd be a tough competition. Yeah. Skarsgård or Hemsworths. I'm just trying to think who else has Hot Sons. It depends how exotic I was feeling. Hemsworths.

Yeah, are you going to go for the tall white blonde ones or the tall white blonde ones? Who knows? It all depends on how exotic she's feeling. Where are the Skarsgårds from? Sweden. Sweden. Yeah, Sweden's a bit more exotic than your Aussies.

I just looked up other hot brothers. James and Dave Franco, are we still? Not as much, eh? No. Not as much? The Franco? No, we've cancelled them. So what else?

Luke and Owen Wilson. What were the other big noms? Saturday Night Live got 18 nominations. Okay. Fosse, Verdon and Barry. Two shows. 17 nominations each. Fosse, Verdon is about,

it's about theatre, isn't it? Stage show. It's got Heath Ledger's wife. I'm really bad at that. Michelle Williams. Oh, and Sam Rockwell. Yeah. Oh, Sam Rockwell.

It looks really good. I want to see this. But I just have never watched it. I think it's on Neon. And I don't know what Barry is. Barry is a story. Bill Hayter's in it from Saturday Night Live. Right.

He's a hit man that moves to LA because he wants to be an actor. But he still has to do this. But he's still a hit man to pay the bills. It's just called Barry. Apparently it's Henry Winkler's in it. Oh, okay. And he's like his agent, I think. Yeah.

Apparently it's amazing. Okay. It's on the to-watch list. And last one I have here listed is When They See Us. 16 nominations. Oh, yeah, okay. So deserved. Caitlin just started watching that.

By the way, Caitlin started watching When They See Us at the gym. And Megan and I were just like, that is not a show. Oh, no, not a gym show, right? The first episode and the last episode will just destroy you. The last episode has ruined me more than any TV show I can think of. Yeah, so, like, I know this is super controversial, but I don't actually think I'm going to keep watching it. I don't think I can.

But you need to. Are you too guilty? I don't think I can. Do you feel guilty? I feel guilty. I hate the world. I can't, like, it's actually so harrowing. White person guilt. Yeah.

That's why you need to watch it. It was quite good at the gym because I was walking up the stairs and I was getting real angry so I was going harder and harder. And people must have been looking at me like, is she okay? A few TV shows on the list for you to watch.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So there's a new danger in the online shopping world. A new danger. Well, I mean. A money trap. It depends if you're trying to save and be good or whether you're like, yes, it's happening. Right.

Sounds like Smeggle and Gollum. The new website is called The Market. So it is run by New Zealand's largest retail company. Now they have the warehouse, Noel Leeming Warehouse Stationery, and they are launching The Market. So basically it's to rival ASOS and The Iconic, but it's like a New Zealand site. Does that mean it'll get here even quicker? Because even with like the Iconic and ASOS,

that stuff's here so quick. It blows my mind. I know. It is, it's crazy. Yeah. So it doesn't say like how quickly it will get here. It doesn't say if it will be free shipping, if it's over a certain amount like ASOS and Iconic.

But it does say that it will offer home delivery, delivery to a work address or to a market point location like dairies or post offices. So it can deliver to... And probably their warehouse stores, right? Or their stores. Maybe. You might be able to pick up there.

So at a warehouse by my house, when you're walking in, there's all these lockers of various shapes and sizes. Oh yeah. And it's called click and collect. Oh, so you buy online and collect, right.

You buy it online and then you just walk into the foyer and you've paid it and you've got your four-digit pin and you punch it in and it tells you what locker

it's in and it clicks open. So it could just be like that, right? Yeah, sure. So when I say it's under the warehouse, like it's under the same company

as that, it's not going to be the warehouse online. Right. They are going to stock heaps of brands like Reigns. We like Reigns. Ola Plex. What do you mean

Reigns? This is fancy. Fancy. No, I thought you too. It's just a brand. Sharing with us that you like to have Reigns on your horses. Oh no, Reigns isn't like Reigns from the sky. There's no way Vaughn would be into paying.

How much do they cost? Like $250 for a raincoat. Absolutely not. For what? I thought you were going to swear. For a raincoat. I had to cover my own mouth this summer. For a rain jacket.

For a raincoat. Is it? Or $299 or something? They do really nice bags too. Anyway. So, yeah, it's got heaps of well-known brands that's going to be on the market. And it launches in August. There's a $167

one here and it looks like one of those plastic yellow ones you get from... Yeah, they do have yellow ones. When it came out. You'd always hear, your mum would say, don't go too close to the people wearing those in the public parks. You can wear that and hold a red balloon. Right. And we all float and hold a red balloon. Right.

And I'll float down here dodgy. Well, we love online shopping, don't we? So another site isn't a bad thing. Yeah, but this is a New Zealand one. This is very exciting. August is when it launches. Fleshfawn and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

Little Blue Penguins, which are possibly the cutest penguins because you know I think sometimes I feel penguins are just documentary filler like I don't need

to see all the penguins in Antarctica anymore because you've seen enough like I feel like they've been in every animal documentary because it gets cold and they just stand still

so they're very easy to film and they sold out to Bluebird ages ago ages ago they sold out to Bluebird absolutely ages ago. Sold out to Bluebird. Absolutely. Ages ago. We're done with you penguins. I don't know, I just feel like

I want to see the more exciting animals. They never really do too much exciting. All they make for life, it's like, give me a break. Maybe documentary makers are like you, they're just lazy. But it's always easy to get the penguins on film. But it's 100%. It's always your emperor penguins. Yeah.

And those penguins that don't really move. But you don't see the little cute ones enough on documentaries. And this is where the blue penguins, like, really still put a smile on my dial. Okay. Because they're little and they're cute. But there is a problem. They've been inviting themselves under a sushi outlet

at Wellington train station. Now, they went under the sushi bar and it became apparent to the sushi owners. The sushi bar owners. So they called the police and said, there's penguins. Is that what you're supposed to do? Well, I don't know if it's the police or the Department of Conservation

because then the police came and they had to traffic manage because they were crossing really busy roads. And the Department of Conservation took them out and took them back down to the water and I'm imagining gave them a little boot in the ass and said, go on, scurry off. Did they take the little penguin handcuffs off first?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want them diving in with your flippers tied up. So in they went. And then the sushi place called back and said they're back. Right. So they just want some sushi. Well, yesterday was teriyaki salmon day.

So obviously, they were really after that sushi special. Yeah, yeah. And they didn't have any money, but they're just paying in cuteness, which is also how I buy

my sushi on a Tuesday. And they got taken back again. Now, apparently, the thoughts are that they're looking for a place where they can lay eggs, like winter kind of time. Yeah, right. Looking for nesting places.

And this was both warm and smelt like food. It smelt like salmon. Why wouldn't you? Yeah, exactly. Nest in a sushi shop. And when working in the sushi shop, Winnie, who worked there, could hear a cooing, sort of a humming noise because they were in a sushi shop. And when working in the sushi shop, Winnie, who worked there, could hear a cooing, sort of a humming noise

because they were hidden underneath the shop. And so they have to come and get them and take them away. Right. But it's like 200 or 300 metres. Yeah, right. Because how would they have popped up by the train station there and how would they have got up? They walked across the road.

That's what I'm saying. It was a 200, 300 metre. Oh no. They got out of the water down at the docks. Imagine just seeing the penguins waddling across the road. Like what?

So confused. Do they have a penguin crossing sign there? Because you see those signs. Well, they're going to see the penguins. South you see them. Yeah.

But then that's like the old rule is if you're driving and like a possum's on the road, don't deviate from, stay on task and run it over, same with rabbits. But penguins, gosh, I'd slam my brakes on. Oh, you'd say. I'd plough into a power pole.

For a blue penguin. Not one of those ones in the documentaries. I'd probably just plough him down. I'd be like, let's make it a little bit harder for these documentary makers. Fleshfawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. We went to the arcade. The arcade?

The arcade. That's what it's called. Yeah, or like time zone or something. Oh, yeah, but I don't know if it is a time zone. Okay. Time out? I don't want to call it a time zone. I want to give time zone the brand recognition if it's not a time zone.

Is there a time out and a time zone? Yeah. Are they different? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know why everybody's so focused on time for arcade based activities. Yeah, right. But we went to the arcade and

you buy these little cards and you just put the credit on the cards. Oh, okay. which would be a very dangerous thing for casinos to do because you kind of forget how much money but it's basically if possible the only thing you can buy is fun yeah um so the girls were playing a few different games a very long drawn out game of air hockey on the tabletop just had it were they getting it in yeah yeah they're too small wouldn't they yeah they were quite small So it was always like Yeah

Yeah right Yay And you have to stand there like And I'm like Well at least Indy's gonna have this Like it's gonna be 7-1. It's going to be over pretty quickly. But then August launched this comeback.

Clunk. Yay. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.

Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Oh, my. Carry on. No, come on. Can't you just turn it off at the wall and say it's 7? It's 1-7.

It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7. It's 1-7.

It's 1-7. It's 1-7. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Cl off at the wall and say it's run out. Can't you just make it first to three? And then it would be like, con, con. No, but you've paid for it. You've got to use it. And it was actually quite good because it takes, I mean, you can look around.

So when they were playing that, I went for my first claw machine. Right, okay. Because it was close and I knew it wouldn't take long, so I thought I'd just do a claw machine. And I won. I won my first claw machine. Right, okay. Because it was close and I knew it wouldn't take long. So I thought I'll just do a claw machine. And I won. I won my first claw machine. What did you win? I got first out of the blocks

was a Woody from Toy Story. Oh, okay. Do you remember when we won the Minions? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those big Minions. That was great. Center City in New Plymouth. Yeah.

That's a great day. It was a great day. My best claw machine ever was August 2nd birthday. We went to Rambo's End and they had a claw machine there and it was Frozen characters. Oh, yeah. And I went in with the claw. I put in like five bucks, so I got three goes.

Okay. And I went in with the claw and Olaf slipped from my grasp. Yeah, it always happens. But when Olaf slipped from my grasp, it freed up an Elsa. So I dropped in and I got the Elsa. And this was on August's birthday. Okay. And so plonk, Elsa comes out.

And they're just like, oh my God, I'm like Elsa. You're the best dad in the world. But then when Elsa moved, and you'll remember three for $5, I had one remaining, an Anya. Ana? Ana. No, that's our newsreader. Didn't pick up into an Anya with the claw machine.

Although that could be a great radio competition as we put Anya in our thing and we try to pick her up with a digger claw. Oh, that could crush her. That could crush her. Or wrap her in polystyrene. Okay. Polystyrene, she'll still get crushed.

It'll just be squeaky. He'll laugh. It'll just be like, she'll be like, squeak! She will be. And then blood will come out. We need bubble wrap. So then with my last remaining claw, I got Anna from Frozen as well.

Wow. And these other kids were there watching and they were just like, my dad couldn't do that. And I was like, yeah, well, your dad sucks. And then walk back with my kids. It's just like, what? So the other day I got Woody and I came back and they're like, where'd you get that from?

I was like, claw machines. And they're like, oh, Dad's so good at claw machines. They say it loud enough. Some other kids hear. They kind of look. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not wrong. So I... I mean, claw machines are rigged. It's an absolute fact that they can dial them up and down. But then, yeah, I don't know if that's always true, is it?

I won other things. How do you win more? Yeah, I won... So I had eight goes at a claw machine when we went. I won four times. See, how is that possible if it's a record? Different claw machines. Right, okay. Oh, my God.

I wandered around to different claw machines. What else did you win? I won a Kung Fu Panda, but not like top tier character. It was the raccoon thing that Dustin Hoffman voices. Oh, okay. Boo. Or Dustin Hoffman. Shibu. Shibu is it?

Right. Is that his name? I won a Tigger ball. So it's like a ball. Okay. But it's Tigger. And then miscellaneous Japanese character. Right.

I won that one. But kind of the job is you walk around, you've got to identify what you want. Not what you want, what you can grab. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because if it's at all hindered by another character, it's not going to happen. Like, not what you want, what you can grab. Yeah. Oh, okay, yeah. Because if it's at all hindered by another character, it's not going to happen.

Yeah, right. The claw doesn't have the strength to pull it out. So that's where I think the strength of the claw, you've got to go somewhere where there's lots of options. Yeah, right.

Like, our old supermarket had one, and I'd walk in and I'd look at it and I'd be like, nothing today. Not today, not today. Yeah.

No. You wait for other people to loosen it up. Bingo. And then you swoop in for the toy. See, I'm more about what are those machines and they have the little mini chocolate bars. And then it's like the tipping point,

that TV show. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they get to the edge. But then you can grab the machine and you pull it towards you and the alarm goes off. So you've got about 15 seconds to get Scarborough away with as many yuck lollies as you can because they never put in the good lollies in those machines.

No, they're not. There is some grape-flavoured filth from Korea. Nothing against Koreans. I mean, sure, you love your lollies, but they're not very nice. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello, thar. That's Welsh for there. Is it? Hello there. That's Welsh for there.

Yesterday it became official that this Welsh street, Fleugendurgenmurgen, is now the steepest street, but it's only a portion of the street. It's a 10-metre portion of the street, and its average gradient is steeper than the steepest 10-metre percentage segment of Baldwin Street. What a bunch of horse nonsense. It is. The Dunedin City Council have got to fix this.

They've got to. Get the grader, the diggers out, and just do it enough that we can take the title back. Only one 10 metre section. You choose where. It could even be the first 10 metres, make it really steep and then put a little flat bit. Yeah.

Or could we get to Cinderide Inn to drone strike the hill in Wales to make a giant hole so it's not a road anymore? Do we have a drone? We do, but it's just like a DJI. DJI. No, it's a DJI. We got it from Southeast Asia. It's a rip-off.

Okay, right. And it can't carry bombs. Oh, well, my options are out Asia. We don't. It's a rip off. Okay, right. And it can't carry bombs. Oh, well that's, my options are out then. Yeah. Okay. Well, you thought, you had a think.

I tried. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely something we could do with the old Hercules when we're done with it. Load it up with firecrackers and crash it into Wales.

Okay. I mean, is that an act of war? Yes. All right. Okay. 100%. Yes.

Okay. Yes, very real act of war. Right. Well, the top six things that Eden could become the world's of war right well the top six things Dunedin could become the

world's best at is today's top six gotta start thinking outside the box while Dunedin City Council sort out this greater and a bit

more tar seal to make it steeper and then the flat bit we've gotta have something else yeah because they used to say come to Dunedin

the world's steepest street it was like you go there at any time, there was always people there. Oh yeah, it's nuts. It was like a crazy tourist attraction. Yeah.

And now it's not going to have that title, so surely less people will go. You're not going to rush to see the world's second steepest street, are you? No, not at all.

So the top six things Dunedin could become the world's best at are number six on the list are the world's worst insulation in houses that desperately need it You can go on a tour

And it's got all like Everybody's like freezing And then there's like one house That's completely see-through Yeah Like completely see-through Because there's no insulation in it Yeah

And the outside wall And then the inside wall It's all see-through It's very, very cold Right Apart from in summer Very, very hot Yeah, okay

Very, very hot Stinking hot okay. Very, very hot. Stinking hot. Number five on the list of the top six things Dunedin could become the world's best at, the world's most photographed train station in the Southern Hemisphere, in a city starting with D, that doesn't actually have many trains coming through it.

I know I had to be quite specific with that. Yeah. But yeah. Well, because Dunedin people do love to say that's the most photographed building in the Southern Hemisphere.

And then you're like Opera House. Sydney Opera House. The Sky Tower. Yeah. Everything else. Everything. The Beehive.

I mean, that's just the New Zealand. Yeah. I mean, it's nothing. It is a lovely train station. It's beautiful. Like if I could pick

a lovely train station, I'd say that one. That one. That would be my favourite. Yeah, for sure. Better than the Oneyhunga train station. Absolutely. I don't know, I haven't seen it.

Shut up. I mean, it's a great way to get to the Warriors game. Right, okay. Well, no, technically that's the Penrose station, Vaughan. No, but you can go on the other side. Yeah, okay. It's about the same distance of a walk, I think. I mean, it's predominantly a freight train situation. Yes, it is. Yeah, okay. It's about the same distance of a walk, I think. I mean, it's predominantly a freight train

situation. Yes, it is. As is many. Number four on the list of the top six things that anyone could become the world's best at. The world's largest pile of old couches that no one will ever admit to owning. Brilliant. Who put that couch there? Dunno, man. I've never seen it before.

It's got your name written on it. That's a lie, obviously. I didn't write it. And why is it on fire? Well, that's number three. The world's largest pile of old couches on fire that no one will ever admit to owning or ever lighting on fire.

Yeah, right. It's on your driveway. Yeah, but why would you light a couch on your own driveway, officer? It's madness. I'm being framed. That's a great comeback. Yeah.

Because why would you? Why would I? If I was going to light a couch on fire, that obviously isn't mine. I've never seen that couch before in my life. Why would I light it on fire outside of my own house? Laziness. I mean, you've got a great point.

No doubt you've got a great point, but I'm not stupid. I'm not as stupid as I am lazy. Number two on the list of the top six things that Eden could become the world's best at, the world's most beautiful beach that it's way too cold to swim at 90% of the time.

Yeah. Lovely beach there. The beautiful beach. St Kilda's a beautiful beach. And Tunnel Beach. Yeah. Where you walk through the tunnel to get to the beach.

It's a beautiful beach. Beautiful. That is cold. Yeah. Need a wetsuit, even in summer. A long, long wetsuit. Like so long

that your wetsuit can be in the water and you can be in the cafe watching it. Shit, that looks cold. You alright, wetsuit? That's like bloody freezing.

Number one on the list of the top six things that Eden could become the world's best at. The world's highest percentage of Kathmandu puffer jackets in one place at one time.

Yep. Teamed up with Ugg boots. Yeah. Chuck on your Uggies. Got to stay warm. Yep. Don't be foolish. But also keep that Katmandu puffer jacket zipped right up.

And if your mum bought you one without a hood, she doesn't really love you. That's not really a move. That's probably it. So that's a real step-mum move. Yeah, isn't it? I'll show you. Thank God we're getting rid of this bitch. She's under Dunedin.

I can finally have her father all to myself. What's that love? You need a puffer jacket? Oh sure, I'll get you one. I'll get you one without a hood. That is today's top six. I sure hope this pre-recorded laughing isn't after something inappropriate to laugh at,

but I just want to take a moment to say thanks to Spark for sponsoring the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. You can grab Spark's $29 prepaid rollover packs and get stacks of extra value. Back to the podcast. This hit Reddit yesterday, and, well, they love just piling on.

So it happened. Somebody shared an email they received from the production team of Married at First Sight New Zealand. Okay. Now, we're currently in this is – I'll read you the email. Subject. I don't know why I cleared my throat.

For effects, sound effects. It was good, Megan. Do you want me to do a typing sound effect? Of a – pardon me? Well, you're reading out the email. Oh, right. I could do a typing sound effect if that...

Like with your keyboard. Enhances it. But if you press the button... But then if you push it, it could take... It could do something to the... No, I'll use my laptop keyboard. Oh, okay.

That's a... It doesn't give a good click, though. Can you unplug your keyboard? No, absolutely not. I'm in control of... Can we get a keyboard in here, please? We need a keyboard for Foley. Or a typewriter.

A typewriter. James has actually sorted us out a sound effect. Oh, no, an actual sound. James has got a fake sound effect. Oh, I don't know about that. But also, like, praise his swiftness. That was very swift. That's fine, actually.

Actually, that's perfect. Thank you, James. So this must have been an auto-form on a photographer's website. Okay. Because the first thing he says, how did you hear about blanked out photography? Right. Like, okay.

So you answer that question being like radio advertising. Okay. Of course. Always put radio advertising. Always. Please. Please. Just write radio.

Please. Even if you don't know how you heard about it. Maybe even if you don't even write radio advertising, just write the power of radio. Yeah. That would be lovely. Thank you. Thanks.

Just thanks for that, Simon. So the message then writes, hi there. Blanked out name here. That's a bit loud, actually. Just pull it back down a little bit. Sounds like I'm doing that thing at the end of Sex and the City or Doogie Howser, but I've got the microphone right near the keyboard, but it should be closer to my thoughts.

Okay, right. So-and-so here. I'm part of the production team at Warner Brothers New Zealand. We're currently at the wedding planning process for Married at First Sight Season 3. Has this been? Why are you still typing if you're not reading? Should I be pausing the typing?

No, because he was reading faster than he was able to type, so he had to catch up. Oh, right, okay. So, wait, have we had three? No, this is our third. Did we know there was another one coming? Well, we do now. I mean, none of us wanted it, but it's coming anyway, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the soup course at a restaurant. Like, skip that. I don't want that. Like, give me something solid, but it's coming anyway. Would you be interested in being our photographer on one of the wedding days?

Now, at this stage, you're like, this sounds like it's going to be good. Especially if it falls on a day that I don't already have a gig. Pick up a bit of extra photography. Yeah, that'd be great. And then goes on to read, our three days of weddings are the 29th of July to the 31st of July, and we'd only need you for one of these days if any suit your availability. Right.

Great. Great. What days of the week are those? Let me just open up. You can stop my typing there for a minute. I'm just going to open up my cowl and see what I got on those days.

Does it matter what days? So 29th, that's a Monday. The Monday, Monday's the, and there's a Monday, Tuesday and a Wednesday. Okay. So that's great

because not many people get married on a Monday and a Tuesday and a Wednesday. So unless you do commercial photography during not many people get married on a Monday and a Tuesday and a Wednesday. So unless you do commercial photography during the week, you've probably got some spare days up your sleeve there. Make some moolah. Okay. That's where you get hit with the next paragraph. It is unpaid.

Which is every creative's... That was a lot of typing for just one sentence. For it's unpaid. I deleted it and then went... Delete it. Make typos. I was typing how I wanted to. For it's unpaid. I deleted it and then went, delete it. Make typos. I was typing how I wanted to jack this person out of money. So I was like, how do I word this?

So they want a photographer completely unpaid. Yes, it is unpaid, which is when you work in creative industries, you're just waiting for it. And you're still typing? No, he was just talking. Is there more to it? I was just replying to a Facebook message in the background. But I've tabbed back now.

Okay. However, we can offer you a logo or text credit at the end of your featured episode. Parentheses. So I've just put a bracket. Hold on. One, one. Yeah, just one click. No, too many clicks.

One click. There we go. Pretty great advertising. Yeah. Exclamation clicks. One click. There we go. Pretty great advertising. Exclamation mark. One more. Just one. No, too many. I just want to close my brain.

There's a parenthesis. There we go. That was it. I'm going to close the parenthesis. Okay. So I've said pretty great advertising. Yeah. As a sort of a sweetener.

Yeah. Remember when I said it's unpaid? Yeah. But then I've just said you can have a logo Right at the end of the show Because everybody famously Watches the credits For TV shows Yeah

They're like Oh I would just love to know Who the network executives were I can definitely tell you Oh that's the network executive Do you know Just kids Just don't change your channel yet

I want to know Who the gaffer boy was Do they even still do credits On TV shows? They do them real quick and they're telling you what's coming up next. It's like... Who was the network executive? Don't!

God, did anybody have that recording? Rewind. Pause. Great. Yep. No? I thought it had Celine written all over it, actually. So then the parentheses has been shut and it reads on.

You'll also have to be comfortable being on camera right so then almost like that I feel is addressing it in a in a sort of a

you'll have to be comfortable being on camera but at the same time I'm telling you that you'll be on TV yeah do you know they're playing TV

you're gonna be on TV yeah yeah I hope it's okay that you're gonna become an overnight star like that sort of sweetener. Feel free to send me an email

if you're interested or know of anyone else suitable for the role. Thanks. So not only do they want somebody for free, they want you to run to all your friends

to also do... It's very cheeky because how much would you have paid for... How much ballpark do you pay for a wedding photographer? Oh, like thousands. Yeah, if you want a good one. Yeah.

And you do want a good one. Well, you wouldn't have had a drone. You wouldn't have had a drone. That's the only thing that you have left over after your wedding. Yeah, because you drink so much you can't remember it.

Well, I mean memories, but like... Yeah, true. You need to see the picture. So this is where people piled on on Reddit and rightly so yeah because it's asking a professional

to do something for nothing it would be like that person who asked you to do this person who's organising something you'd be like

okay I'll do this for free if you can organise my wedding for free they'd be like well obviously I can't do that interesting and anyone that

knows anything about Photoshop or graphic design knows that they get asked all the time to do things for free. Yeah. And photographers, they're used to this, I'm sure. Yeah. My wife's a whiz, and even I won't ask her to do something for nothing. Well, what if she does a logo for you or some design in Photoshop?

What do you have to give her? I asked her a while ago to make me a logo, and she just hasn't. And I don't know how much to keep pushing it. For a letterhead. For Vaughn Corp. I even gave her the inspiration. I said I wanted her to look like Wayne Corp from

Batman. Oh my God. Okay. But instead of the W it will just be a V. Maybe she's not doing it because that's a shit idea. She could have said so. I mean it was part of our brainstorm that she didn it will just be a V. Maybe she's not doing it because that's a shit idea. She could have said so. I mean, it was part of our brainstorm that she didn't want to be part of. But I wasn't paying her to partake in.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. We noticed that intern Anya has been wearing her spectacles more often than usual. Her glasses. Her glasses. Oh, today also sporting a leather jacket. That's by the by. Why did you want to point that out?

I don't know. Give it a beat and it'll call you Danny Zuko because anyone who ever wears a leather jacket gets called Danny Zuko. And you know what? I'm just covering my own insecurities. I'd love to be able to wear a leather jacket. Just wear one, babe.

You can't pull it off. Can I try on your leather jacket? No. Please'd love to be able to wear a leather jacket. Just wear one, babe. You can't pull it off. Can I try on your leather jacket? No. Please. Ten bucks. I'll come and get it. Ten bucks triage fee. Let him try it on.

I'll come and get your leather jacket. The arms are... Did you hear the... Is that actual leather though? Who says you can't pull off a leather jacket? No, it was like 30 bucks. Oh, so it's pleather. Yeah.

I'm stuck. No, this isn't actually. No, not at all. Is it rubbish? It's not rubbish. It. I'm stuck. No, this isn't actually. No, not at all. Is it rubbish? It's not rubbish. It's just not made out of an animal. Oh, my God. Your arms, actually.

See, you could pull off a leather jacket. Oh, my God. It actually fits you really well. Does it? We'll have to get a photo online. How cool do I look? It's a bit cropped. Yeah, it's a bit cropped.

You see, you look fine. I mean, I will take the piss out of you. Yeah, but that's why I don't want to do it. You look bad. It was like the other day when I wore chinos because both of my jeans were wet. Both of your jeans. No, but we only took the piss out of you after you pointed them out. No, Anya drew attention to them.

She's like, oh, why are you wearing chinos? And I was like, because my jeans are wet. And then she kept talking about the chinos. And that's why I don't wear anything different. But they look great. You should wear the chinos more often. You actually look like a bit bad boy-ish. Do I?

Yeah. Do you know what? You should go buy yourself a leather jacket and go home and just not say anything. Just shut up and see what she says. I'll walk in and she'll be like, sup girl. Yeah. Sup baby. Sup baby girl.

Sup baby. Sup baby girl. Do you want to? Do you hear them laughing at you? I mean it looks really great apart from the cropped length Yeah I think if you had one your size it'd be fine I'm your like cut Length Yeah length is what I mean

Now in turn on your It's so funny from the back You've got like this cute little I'm not gonna say it What? No it's just funny because your jeans are like riding low and then it's just funny. My jeans are riding low. Now, it's not the leather jacket that pipped our attention in 2009.

It's the spectacles because you seem to have been wearing them a lot more lately. And that is because after the show, you're going to a lot of flat viewings. Yes. The boyfriend and I have decided it's time to fly mum and dad's nest. And we're looking for a place. And I just thought it would make me look a bit smarter if I wore glasses. So you're hoping that property managers and landlords will think, here's a mum and her teenage son that have it together.

No, that's good. Get it out. Tommy and Dick. I'm just stating facts. In a chemist, you were confused for a mum in your sweatpants with your teenage son, who is in fact your boyfriend. Also, Andy gets ID'd and I do not. So, that's cool.

So, I wanted to look mature and smart and hot in my leather jacket. You know? Woo the property managers, maybe. I wouldn't rent you a house if you came wearing that leather jacket. I'd expect you'd be in a motorbike gang. I look like a cool gal about town. Well, you and the rest of the Hells Angels.

The Greasers. What did they call them on Grease? The Greasers? I can't remember. The Caitlin or no? What were the bad boys called on grease? The birds. The tea birds.

The tea birds. I love that James knew. Closet grease fan over there in the corner. Okay, so now has this been working for you, looking more intelligent? I think so, because they've been asking, like, would you like to fill out a form, which is quite a forward. Everybody fills out a form.

That's the worst part about looking for a flat is all those forms you have to fill out. Yeah, but the only issue is that these are reading glasses, so I can't actually really see a huge amount when we're going into these places. You're just bumping into walls and stuff. Yeah, like I walked into a fridge yesterday. Wait, so do reading glasses make it hard to see far away? Yeah. I do that. But I could really look at the trimmings of the walls and stuff.

That's great. So I've been hoping that it will make me look a bit smarter, a bit more, you know, give me a house. That's totally a thing. They're judging everyone by what they see. Oh, yeah, you would judge people, wouldn't you? Totally. Do you ask things like,

how far is it from here to the nearest library? I should do. Oh, yeah, you would judge people, wouldn't you? Totally. Do you ask things like, how far is it from here to the nearest library? I should do. Oh, yeah, that's smart. And that sounds very studious, like not a party animal. No, library. Library. You've got things to learn. Well, can we ask a question?

Have you, anybody listening, have you done an intern on you and have you changed your look to get something? To get like a job or a house. Yeah, for a job maybe you had to change your look and then you got the job or you got the flat or whatever and then you changed back. Right. Or maybe you just dress differently than how

you normally dress just to get something. I mean, I guess job interview is a perfect example, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for the job you want, not the job you have. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Have you ever done this, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for the job you want, not the job you have. Yeah. I don't know, have you ever done this, Megan? No, I don't think so. I just

wear whatever I want, whenever I want. Yeah, and then just hope they like it. I mean, I'd love to wear glasses, but... Because now you've skinned a Muppet today to wear its fur as some sort of show of dominance against Snuffleupagus. I don't know what's wrong with me.

It just happens. Does it make you feel better? It does. How did you feel when everyone was going at your chinos? You didn't like it. I didn't like it. So how does Megan feel now when you've called her Snuffleupagus? No, I didn't say she was Snuffleupagus.

I said she's skinned Snuffleupagus. Worse. Snuffleupagus killer. You wait till Big Boots finds out. You're going to be robable. All right, well, let's take some calls. 0800-DARLS-NM-9696. Have you changed your look to get something?

Maybe to look smarter. Maybe you were trying to impress a guy, a girl. Or the ladies. Or the ladies. 0800-DARLS-NM-9696. Lots of people doing what Intern Anya doing and changing their looks to get rentals. Yeah.

Or places to rent, accommodation. I dressed hella profesh when I was viewing potential houses to rent. We've got multiple offers of tenancies where people who we also spoke to were getting no callbacks at all. Right. This was during rental crisis, which I guess is still kind of

going. It's super hard of a good place, right? We got so many offers in a short span. No one knew deep down we were just a bunch of crazy bogans because we all dressed up very nicely when we went to rentals. Nice. Morgan, did you change your look to get something? Yeah. So my partner and I have been looking just for a house

for like the last nine months, but we haven't even been looked at in the door because everyone was competing against the families of children. So you're just renting a house. Why don't you prefer a couple that we're going to like run toys into the wall constantly? And kids draw on the walls with crayons. I wouldn't want kids in there. So what are you doing to compete?

We're bringing our friend along with their kid. Brilliant. Wait, so the friend and the kid or the friend waits in the car and you take the kid? Friend waits in the car and you take the kid? The friend waits in the car and we take the kid. Wow. But what happens if you get the house and the landlord's like, how's your child? He's gone to university. We saved that little bastard off the boarding school.

See you. Wow. Well, Morgan, good luck finding a place because it's tough at the moment, isn't it? Yeah, it sure is. Nicole, did you Morgan, good luck finding a place because it's tough at the moment, isn't it? Yeah, it sure is. Nicole, did you change your look to get something? Yes. I sort of fooled my boyfriend thinking I cared about what I looked like.

OK. So what did you change your look to? Well, I was, you know, dressing a bit sexy and, you know, making an effort with my hair and make-up and sort of all that kind of stuff. And once I got them pinned down, I sort of changed to sweatpants and chocolate on my face. I love you, Nicole. That's brilliant.

That's all of us, though, isn't it, really? Yeah, pretty much. Well, I mean, you can't sort of do it in the first place because, you know, you're not going to get a good guy. Yeah. So how long do you think for those maybe in a new relationship do you need to keep it up for? Oh, you've sort of got to wean into it.

Okay. Six months. Like one item at a time. You can't, you know, overnight change into Hagrid. Yeah. Wait till they say I love you and then shed. Heels become Ugg boots Skirt becomes track pants

That's how this is happening Hey Nicole Thanks for your call Somebody messaged in On the When you changed your look To get something Somebody said

Myself and my girlfriend In brackets Lesbian couple Okay Close brackets Found the dream house We put in the research To find out

About the landlord, who unfortunately was a conservative Christian. I love this story already. We dressed up, bought ourselves some little gold cross necklaces, and went as a couple of friends who just wanted to flat in this two-bedroom place.

And just friends that wanted to flat together and, I don't know, pray. I added that bit in. Flat and pray. I'm guessing that's what you do when you... Yeah. And went there, spoke very softly, were dressed very conservatively. I love this.

Never mentioned we were actually a lesbian couple. Please tell me they got the flat. They did. They got the flat. Oh, and do they do stuff in the flat? They got the... I'd imagine they do. Best story ever. They do all the stuff got the flat. They did. They got the flat. Oh, and do they do stuff in the flat? They got the flat. I'd imagine they do. Best story ever.

They do all the stuff in the flat. And they're great tenants. Well, yeah. Yeah. Why wouldn't they be? No, that's my main great tenants, and that person's none the wiser. When the landlord comes around, there's like Xena box set, and the landlord's like, hmm.

Candles. Hmm. Candles? That Holden ute parked in the driver. You're stereotyping now. Yeah, you bet. Cue me farming. We're farmers.

I've got a confession. We're farmers. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. We're joined on the phone this morning by a very special guest, Katy Perry. Good morning.

How are you? I'm really good, thank you. I'm happy to be speaking with you guys. I love New Zealand. It's always my favourite place. Don't tell the Australians. Stop it. Stop it.

Did you record your new single here when you were here or Australia? It was a combo. It was a combo because I knew if I was only doing Australia, then you guys wouldn't allow me back. You're right. You're right about that. Yeah, I was on tour at the end of my tour for Witness the Tour and Zedd was with me and he was playing a couple of shows with me

and we thought it would be good to get into the studio while we're together on tour. And you know, after doing a hundred shows, you can kind of do the show with your eyes closed but not really um but i can you know i can go in i would i remember i was going into the studio right before i was about to like go get hair and makeup uh to do the show but yeah so i've i've had never really over for almost a year before i put it out wow because i was going to say that must be about a year winter Winter here, so freezing.

Studio's the best place to be. Honestly, I don't know if I would have ever really finished it if it was summer in New Zealand. And I had like, you know, because I've been to New Zealand when it's been warmer and it's so fun.

You can just do everything. I was like, you know, it's amazing. I went on a helicopter tour one time in New Zealand. I mean, I bungee jumped off of the bridge there. I went on this helicopter tour and we went on top of a glacier. Wow. And we got ice.

We picked up ice for our drinks for dinner that night. Just looking at your Instagram, your latest post, have you stumbled across the next big TV show, Potty Jams? I don't know. You know, everything always sounds better in a bathroom besides the echo effect of the plop. But when I was just starting singing, when I was a little girl, I would go to the bathroom to get that echo effect of the plop. But when I was just starting singing, when I was a little girl,

I would go to the bathroom to get that echo effect. I watched it though, and I had to wait for the chorus because I thought like when you're recording a song, it's much easier in the studio. But how on earth are you going to perform while dancing and everything that chorus? Like where do you breathe?

Where do you breathe? You take a really big breath and you train. That's why I did more of an acoustic version because I have yet to train for a full-fledged tour slash, you know, show that incorporates new songs. But believe you me, when I wrote Firework, I was like, I'm never going to be able to sing the song. And then you like etch a little notch in your vocal cords and it's muscle memory because it's a muscle

and you get to it every time. Yes, I have to squeeze my butt in order to hit that note. Have you got others banked up? Are we expecting an album? Well, I haven't decided yet um but i definitely have a lot of irons in the fire i have a lot of songs that i have written i've never been able to put out songs and have it not lead up to an album but a lot of people that's how they're ingesting music these days it's kind of uh just streaming it and so I think if there's demand for an album,

there could possibly be one, but unless people really want it, then I'm just going to keep on giving them little bite-sized songs. Because, you know, if people are like, oh, it's a shame, a body of music or an album, yes, but for me, I guess I'm just speaking for myself, I love putting out one song at a time

because then that means I get to for sure do a video with it and all these songs mean something to me. So I get to give it a life of its own, you know? Speaking of music videos, are those needles that are in your face and never really over, that's CGI, right? No, that's real. Like acupuncture?

It's acupuncture, yeah. You know you's real. Like acupuncture? Actually, it's acupuncture, yeah. You know you can get a facial acupuncture that will help stimulate collagen in your face, and I know this stuff because I'm in my 30s now, and I'm not as young and buoyant. But, yeah, it was so funny.

I had an acupuncturist come to the set because, you know, the whole video is a little bit of like this kind of play on like a esoteric new age healing center, a place where you go to heal your heart and, you know, you do different exercises to get there. Yeah. And so I had her come and she was like, I can put a hundred needles in your face. And I was like, not one hundred needles in my face, just a few. But she had something that I'd never seen, which is, have you ever seen cupping done? Yes, but it just looks like you've got a hickey on your back. A huge hickey.

A huge hickey. No, but she has cups in the shape of hearts. And I've never seen that. So you can like, instead of having a huge hickey, you can just have like this cool kind of like heart bruise on you. So that's real as well? Yeah. All of it's real, honey.

Is that something you'd get done again, the acupuncture facial? Oh yeah, for sure. It's something that, you know, acupuncture is amazing. It stimulates, it stimulates blood, like the new blood to all the areas that haven't had it. Yeah, right. Now, the music video for Never Really Over, it came out at a similar time as Taylor's new video. So my question is, why did you appear in hers,

but she's not in yours? It was actually different timing. Oh, was it? I had no idea when her songs were coming out necessarily, but it was just amazing to be able to have that moment and to be, I think, a good influence to younger kids to see that they can repair old friendships or they can make up and they can do the right thing.

I saw so many questions on the videos, of your video and hers. Everyone wants a collab now. Well, one step at a time. One step at a time. Now, are you planning on, you're not sure about an album yet, but are there plans to tour, to come back to New Zealand and sing us some songs again? Definitely when I do come over to that part of the world,

I will never, ever leave out New Zealand because it's a place that I love and it just stands for all the things that I love. Yeah. And I love the people especially. But I think what would probably be most appropriate is to come over with a new body of work. And so we'll see when that happens. But I want to definitely sing new songs when I'm over there. Just come for a holiday. Yeah, you know, I mean,

I have a friend that just bought a piece of land over there and that's what a lot of people are doing. And so, yeah. Okay, hey well, Katy Perry, thank you so much for speaking with us today and we look forward one day, hopefully soon seeing you back in New Zealand. Yes, I'm excited. Thanks, guys.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's Fact of the Day is about TV shows that are about people finding new houses. You know these sorts of shows. House Hunters was the original one. The host would take two prospective house purchasers around a few houses and they'd look at all the houses and then at the end of the episode

they'd pick one of the houses and buy the house. Okay. So in those shows, those people already own a house and it's the house that they end up picking out of the houses that they're showing. But they've already been living in it. They've already purchased it.

So, when you apply for House Hunters to be on the TV show House Hunters, you must have just purchased the house. Okay, so they're lying the whole time. Yeah, they've already purchased the house. How is this a thing though? Are you sure? Yeah, it is.

They show them houses that are of a similar budget and what they said they kind of wanted. But the house they end up with, they owned before the show started filming. Somebody who used to work on, you remember when, like, a couple of years ago, everybody who worked on reality TV was sharing their secrets? Oh, yeah, okay. Like, all the dating show secrets and how they get them all boozed up

or they might not, like, feed them enough and they try to get them ratty and all those horrible secrets of reality TV. Well, someone who used to work on House Hunters came out and said all of these housing shows where at the end of the episode they've purchased the house. Yep. They already owned the house. So they're just working backwards. Yes. Right. So that they can confirm that there's

going to be a purchase at the end of it. Right. Yeah. And there's a show where they didn't and it got cancelled because people didn't like watching a show all that time for the end. When there was no house purchase. No, yeah, no resolution at the end of it.

They didn't actually end up buying a house. They just stayed in the same house. Oh, yeah, okay, that wouldn't be fun to watch. They've already bought the new house. There was one case, this person who kind of outed this said, these people had bought the house, but they'd moved all their stuff in and they went in and the production company moved it all out

and put it in like trucks and parked the trucks just down the road and made them come in and make it look like a vacant house. And then at the end of the show, they're like, oh yeah, we've decided on house A. And then the production people move it all in and literally they walked outside and came back and pretended it was two weeks later. How are you

liking your new house? Oh, my God. TV lies to us. Crazy, eh? It's all a lie. Smike and mirrors. It's all a lie. Unbelievable. But there's the occasional British one where they don't end up in a house.

Right. They just like to be shown the houses. Oh. Yeah. It's not as fun. Which isn't as fun. And again, there's no satisfaction at the end of it. Yeah.

Because then there's that jeopardy playing at home as well as you. I'd pick this one. Exactly. And you're like, they'll be bloody idiots if they go for House B. House A was a better option. Then they go for House B and you're like, why would they go for that? It's because they already own that and they've just been showing House A as something else. But then are you asking these Joe public to like act?

That's the other thing. You are asking them to act. And guess how much they get paid for the entire thing? How much? $500. Oh, that's not enough. Somebody said they did it. What are they actually getting out of it?

There was four days of intense filming. Oh, that's not enough. For $500? For $500. Just to be on TV. But people would probably do that just to be on TV. People would be on TV. Yeah.

Yeah, well, people famously got pregnant as teenagers to be on Teen Mom, so. Like, just buying a TV. Yeah, well, people famously got pregnant as teenagers to be on Teen Mom, so. Like, just buying a house and getting 500 bucks seems like the way better end of that step. It does, yeah. So today's fact of the day is the people hunting for houses on House Hunters have already hunted a house, and they're living in one. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

So we know that The Bachelorette is coming. TVNZ are going to be doing New Zealand's first Bachelorette. So this is where there's one girl. One girl. The Bachelorette. So this is where there's one girl, the Bachelorette, and lots of guys. As opposed to the Bachelor, vice versa. So there's been lots of ads out. As opposed to the Polygamizer.

Oh, we should do that. Which is just basically the Bachelor, but he gets to take heaps of them home at the end of it. Isn't that already a TV show? Was it Bill Paxton? Yes. Bill Pax something? Big Family.

Big Family, yeah, that's right. That was just the Bachelor. The Polygamerizer. The Polygamerizer. I feel like we're going to get ourselves in trouble. So, it sounds... I don't think Polygamizers are going to be coming forward and being like,

what I have done is illegal. I feel like we were going to trip our words. It sounds like we may have found a bachelorette because now they're on the hunt for guys. TVNZ would like eligible bachelors who would like to be on the bachelorette to apply. Okay, so even, and I'm guessing if you know any single guys, you probably can't enter on their behalf, can you? But I mean, hit them up.

Yeah. Put them forward. If you're brave enough. They're looking for single men aged 18 plus from across New Zealand. That's all, I guess, and you need to be single. Right. Otherwise it's going to be really awkward. I'm guessing, what, do you need a bit of time to film?

Yeah. Like a couple of weeks? Yeah. Sometime soon? Get a couple of weeks off work? Take some time to film, like a couple of weeks, sometime soon. Get a couple of weeks off work. Take some time off work. What do you actually get? Like you take time off work and if you like don't win, do you get anything?

It's just lifestyle. A social media profile that hopefully you can start making money off. Okay, true. Is that like the vibe of it? Is that why you do it? You might get a Fijian holiday out of it. Maybe. A little trip somewhere.

A little trip somewhere. A little summer summit. Yeah, maybe start a watch brandian holiday out of it. Maybe. A little trip somewhere. A little trip somewhere. A little summer summit. Yeah. Maybe start a watch brand or sunglasses brand. That could happen. Yeah. Do you think they're going to struggle to find guys like straight up? Yeah.

Kiwi guys who are willing to put themselves out there like that? Maybe, but then also like no. Yeah. I mean, you know, they don't have trouble finding guys for other reality shows, do they? I thought they did. I thought that was the whole reason we hadn't had a bachelorette yet, because they couldn't find enough, like, willing single guys, Kiwi lads, that would do it. I'm so keen to watch this.

Yeah, it's going to be great. So if you are a guy listening, you're single, registrations are now open. Or ladies, if you know of any guys, hit them up, see if they want to register. tvnz.co.nz forward slash bachelorette. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, what it was a week ago on the show, you said that you told your wife

that you had applied for a new passport. Yeah. I hadn't. You hadn't. I had not. Which gave me anxiety because I'm super organised with travelling.

We've got holidays coming up in about three and a bit weeks. I'm going to a place now I don't believe many people have been to this place. Belai.

Is that near Nadi? No, no, no, no. It's not in the Pacific Islands no It's not in the Pacific Islands It's not in the Pacific Islands It's not in Faijai No, it's not in Faijai Balai

Balai Never heard of it Are there good photo opportunities on Instagram? Of course Why else would I go there? I don't know if any people have taken this photo But there's a swing You can go to it

In Balai Yeah, no one knows about it So you should be fine Why else would I go there? I don't know if any people have taken this photo, but there's a swing you can go to. In Balai? Yeah. No one knows about it, so you should be fine. But if you get on the swing at sunset. Okay. You know, there's just one hope I have for Balai. I've got that photo, bitch.

On Instagram. How dare you? How dare you? There's only one thing I want from Balai. Did you go to Balai? You've said that wrong. It's Balai. Balai. I don't want...

I hope there's no Australians there. Oh, no. They don't know about it. They don't let her go there. Also, it's Balai. I don't want, I hope there's no Australians there. They don't know about it. They don't let her go there. Also, it's really rare. You could just be walking along and see a magical monkey. Very rare. They could go on your shoulder. Stop it.

You should definitely take a photo. If that happens. I will. Very rare that that happens. But also, like, you're worried about me not having my passport in time, but I'm also worried I'm not ripped yet. And I wanted that to have happened by now. There's an app. Megan and I found an app yesterday.

That's awful. Is it called Body App? I sent it to Megan. I think, what does it do? Do you have to have a hairless puku? Because I'm worried that if you warp what's there, the hair could be very obvious.

It's just shading, I think. So you use the app, and you also give yourself pecs, tattoos. How much did this app cost? It was an ad on Instagram. I'm not paying for it. No, but I'm just saying if it's less than what a gym membership is. And you need to fade them in. So don't go full washboard straight away.

In the distance. Megan, I want to go full washboard straight away. We'll put up some ones now where there's like definition beginning and everyone will be like, you've been working out. Oh my God.

So like work into it and then when you get to Bali, go full washboard. I've got to be careful going to Bali because I'm getting my back lasered and you can't like tan because it'll stop the lasering work.

So I'm going to have to wear a rash shirt in the pool and I hope people don't think it's because I've got weird nips. We're going with friends of ours and the other night we had dinner with them and I was like, I've got to tell you guys now that I'll be wearing a rash shirt a lot and it's not because I'm worried about my nips or ashamed of my body. It's just that I can't tan my back because it'll stop the hair lasering.

Please put up a picture of you and your rashie. With one of those hats on that's got a flap on the back. And be like, sun smart is cool. Sun smart and bar lie. Yeah. Cool, bro. Well, this isn't even the stress in studio because you told your wife a week ago

that you'd applied for your passport. You're literally doing it now. Yeah. And I've had to be the referee. Is that what you call it? Reference? Reference. Reference.

Yeah. Why did you get Fletch to be your reference? Because I have a copy of my password on my cloud. If you ever go down, you're taking a lot of people with you. Because I'm imagining if you do something stupid then everybody you've been a referee for or reference for.

My drug smuggling into the country. International criminal will be you. But the problem is the photo that you're submitting is a selfie and they've said no selfies. Yeah. I know you can't see your arm. No, because it's like down.

And you look like your head's on the, leaning to the left. On a lane. Yeah. This is a photo promo show. I've got a leaner head. Oh, you do too.

I do too. I've never noticed it. And a wonky eye. Because Vaughn's like, pick one of these photos. I'll put one forward. You don't need eye. Because Vaughn's like, pick one of these photos. I'll put one forward. You don't need to. You've got to be careful because this is a photo that's in your passport for 10 years.

And I want to look at it every time you travel and see your leany head. And your wonky eye. And it's not cropped. Don't worry me. I will reference you my driver's license where I'm wearing a gold chain. I look like the rock in that meme of the old rock wearing a bum bag and an orange earring and I've got a deviant smile. And a turtleneck.

And a turtleneck and chain. Well, that was a funny radio thing, wasn't it? Yeah, so this is like, it doesn't matter how bad the photo was. But so have you uploaded the photo? Yes. And it accepted it? Yes. Don't be fooled by that, sweetheart.

Because when I uploaded a selfie. But a customs official has to give it the tick. Yeah. I uploaded a selfie and I think they literally emailed back and said, sweetheart, because when I uploaded a selfie... But a customs official has to give it the tick. Yeah. I uploaded a selfie, and I think they literally emailed back and said, ah, selfies are not allowed. There's also a shadow behind the wall. That's not allowed, is it?

No, because no, it said that it did the shadow scan. And it's fine. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, well, it's your passport, mate. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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