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

Episode Date: July 25, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thank you, Anya. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Crazy temperatures in Europe. I've actually just been messaging somebody on Facebook. I'll find their name while I explain the story, they said they just had to get off the tube 37.5 degrees at the surface, so the tube down there would just be an absolute muggy mess, and they had to shut it because the, quote, rails were melting. Oh, my God. That's Mark, Mark Ellister in the UK.

There's no air con in the tube. No, he said, help. Help. Wait, it's so hot, your tongue's heavy. Help. Help. Help. We've heard from somebody, re-producer James, who's away on a catamaran.

He's on a catamaran in Fiji. It's a family. Has a girlfriend's family got a catamaran? Yes, they do. No, no, it's their catamaran in Fiji. It's a family. Has a girlfriend's family got a catamaran? Yes, they do. No, no, no. It's their catamaran. Catamaran. And it's the first we hear.

Catamaran? Catamaran. I've always said catamaran. But it's not a moran, isn't it? It's a catamaran. No G. Yeah. First we've heard of this catamaran.

But like your batch in Waiheke in Ternania. Elusive for the rest of the show. And the Sellers family batch at Kaiteri. Oh yeah, but I don't even get to go to that. That's elusive to me too. We're missing out on all these treats. It's unfair. Your family got a secret? Nothing. Beach property? No, they've got nothing. Just one house.

Yeah. Yeah. Only one percenters. Oh, how the other half live. With their beach houses. Shut up. Right on lawnmower. Lifestyle block. Well, no.

Pratish saw James. Report. Producer James has been on Mana Island. They stopped to get some Fiji gold. And then they left again. Pratish says he'll grab a photo if James passes back through. Good. Do they look happy, tanned, relaxed?

I reckon he just looked producer James. Yeah. He doesn't say much. He looks the same the whole time. What's the matter, mate? He's like, nothing, I'm fine. They're like, oh, no, that's all good. And then he's really angry, but you don't know because he's just got the same face.

Yeah. Straight up poker face. I think she was here to give me a GoDaddy. I need a GoDaddy. We said the other day he never says much, but he definitely provides like a wee presence. We'll get one on Monday. But can we get, can we go into the

audio archives and get me a GoDaddy? I don't know. Does Caitlin know how to do that? Please. I don't know if Caitlin does. I need a Producer James GoDaddy. Is that possible? Do you want me to just a germs GoDaddy. Is that possible? Do you want me to just do a GoDaddy? Okay. GoDaddy.

No. Oh, my God. That was deeper than I thought we were going to do. I know, but it didn't rumble. It just felt like cardboard being dragged out to the recycling bin. Sorry. Trying to go a bit deeper with a bit of... It's got a rumble. Bit of...

I don't know. No! Oh, my God! I just got whatever the opposite of an erection is. It's gone back up inside. It's gone back up inside. It's retreated. It took one of my balls with it.

Only one. Survival of the fittest. You can't afford to lose anything. I just need it all. Big show today. We get the first listen to the new 660 song. They're going to come in. This is the song, The Greatest.

Yes, The Greatest. And so we're going to have the 660 boys in. Quarter to eight this morning, we had the first listen of that song. The guys from Drax Project are in after 8.30 as well. And loads of cash to give away on the show today. 20 questions. Our game is back with sort of a random object.

Your chance to guess what that is to win cash this morning at 7 and 8. And the top six is coming up. I just heard from a Scottish listener. Oh, yeah. Kirst listening live on iHeart. She said 30 degrees in Scotland at the moment. That's six o'clock on high. Archive.

Whatever you say. Archive? I don't know. You tried. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. All right, you lot.

Listen up. It's story time. Story time. Three news headlines. Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines. One, Aussie supermarkets clash. Headline two, vlogger cancels himself. And headline three, Irish moon landing.

I know Irish moon landing. It almost sounds like one of those old Irish jokes. The Irish were always dumb in the Irish jokes, weren't they? Yeah, it seems unfair. Like it was like blonde jokes. You could put like Irish person in instead. Yeah, right. And it was, yeah, right.

But then this is a Irish mistake. It is, yes. They released some currency to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and they spelt moon wrong. But not moon. You might be like, how did they know? But the Irish spelling of moon. Oh, right. Yeah.

Difficult. Gaelic? Was it Gaelic or was it something like that? Yeah. Bless them. Right. So it should be spelled G-E-A-L-A-C-H, but it was spelled G-A-E-L-A-C-H.

They got the A before E except after F. That is difficult. I understand that. It's not M-O-O-E. It's like receive. But they don't have autocorrect. If you're running have autocorrect. If you're running a receive by hand or achieve by hand or community.

Blenheim, Fielding. Everyone understands that. I before E except in Fielding or Blenheim. Even in Marlborough. So you've got to think about that. They spelled it wrong, though. Yeah. Okay, well, do you want vlogger cancels himself or Aussie supermarkets clash? Aussie supermarkets clash? Aussie supermarkets clash?

What did the vlogger do? They would have just done something stupid. Yeah. All right. We go to Australia now. And Woolies, Woolworths. We used to have some Woolies, didn't we, back in the day? But then they all became Countdowns.

Same company. They own the Countdowns. They do something in Australia. We end up getting itdowns. Yeah, right. Same company. They own the Countdowns. They do something in Australia. We end up getting it here. Pretty much, yeah. Well, they are going up against Coles, the competition supermarkets, with a range each at the same time of little collectibles.

So, you know, the New World, they do the little shop. Yeah. Very similar overseas. Coles are doing that. And Woolworths are doing Lion King Oshies. Have we ever had those? What? We've never had Oshies as a giveaway.

Oh, my God. They've got to come. They've got to come. Well, I'm sure that I'm sure. It's like little squishies. Why? They're real, like, They've got to come. Well, I'm sure that I'm sure. It's like little squishies. Lion King. They're real like little squishies. Yeah.

They're real cute. Woolworths are doing Lion King Oshies. Lion King. And a lot of these, and they've only just come out at the start of this week. Oh, they're so cute. They're so cute. So basically, people, there's an uproar in Australia because on the very first day, there were whole sets available that you could buy on Australian eBay

and people were saying, hey, look, come on, who from Woolworths is putting all of these in their pocket and they're selling them online? So now there's an investigation into some stuff that they reckon have been taking home these toys to sell on eBay. The very first ultra-rare collectible toy has been reported as being sold on eBay for just under $10,000. What?

Apparently there are only 100 furry Simba Oshies, and that will cost you $10,000 on eBay. Yeah, because that's the thing. You could get a Simba, but then it wouldn't be an ultra rare because maybe it's the furry one that makes it ultra rare. There might be a whole bunch of Simbas out there. Right.

So if you wanted to collect the whole set with a furry Simba, you'd have to pay 10 grand on eBay. But then there might have been whole sets. I remember when Countdown did the Dominoes, and I won't beg, but I will beg, if they do the Oshers, I'm going to need a whole set, please. To promote it, they sent around to some media outlets like a whole set.

Yeah, right. Oh, my goodness. I know, but you'd imagine it might come, it probably would come here. Same thing, Coles doing their little shop just like New World did and it's head to head and apparently it is all go at supermarkets in Australia.

One woman as well was ridiculed on social media after she was $4 short or $0.40 short of getting another free toy because you've got to spend a certain amount of money. Yeah, yeah, sure.

And apparently just threw down at the manager and people were saying online just buy some chewing gum. Exactly. Oh my God. But she demanded to speak at the manager and people were saying online, just buy some chewing gum. Exactly. Oh my God. But she demanded to speak to the manager and just said,

it's close enough, you should just give me a toy anyway. No, that's not how money works. Yeah. Well, she was ridiculed on, I think, mum groups or some Facebook pages. I was thinking like,

mums groups would roast each other, isn't it? No, it's very supportive. No, not at all. I thought mums were supposed to lead by example on how to behave, you know, with maturity in these situations. Coming up, Megan,

you've got a list of the highest paid Instagram celebs. Yeah, so this is famous people who, you know, get paid to post about, you know, like... Anything. Anything. Slim T.

It will upset you how much money these people get for one post. And new laws for rentals. There's a law change that I assumed this was already the law. So it's always good to know that. Always good to know what you consider to be the law eventually becomes the law. Yeah. Yeah. Tenants will have to pay for accidental damage they make to rental property that exceeds the law. Yeah. Yeah. Tenants will have to pay for accidental damage

they make to rental property that exceeds the bond. So, you know, if you move out of a place you've been renting and there's damage and the landlord can be like, well, actually,

they actually have to prove, I believe, the repair costs. Yeah. And then they're like, well, you don't get your bond back because you paid $900 bond but it was $1,500 damage.

That $600 has always, either come out of the landlord's pocket or they could claim insurance on it. Or they'd take you to court maybe. They could probably make a little bit of a... I mean, they're probably unlikely to get that. But you're right. That's crazy. That hasn't been the law.

Yeah. Because you always heard of those horror stories of people that would have parties and places would get trashed and the landlord would be like, oh, well, I guess I've just got to pay for that. But yeah, like you said, they had insurance. Yeah. So the weird part is it's capped at four weeks rent. That's the most they can claim off you for accidental damage. Right.

Now, accidental damage, if someone's gone around building holes in the wall, that's not accidental. That's intentional. That's true. That was the other thing i guess defining accidental uh but apparently in dunedin this this was the landmark court case there's always like some big court case that changes it yes it is but the owners of a deneden house that got burnt down and they weren't able to claim the insurance excess back for the damage from the people who burned it down. Right. They weren't allowed to say, well, coming out of your bond or you need to pay us the

insurance excess because you've burned a house down, albeit accidentally. Yeah. Your, you know, your act directly led to it. They couldn't claim it back from the people. Right. Okay. So now they can. So now it's changed.

Right. But it's going to be capped at four weeks. So I always wondered what happened if you burnt your rental down. Because when I leave my straighteners on and stuff, I'm like, they turn off now. Landlord insurance covers all sorts of things, including methamphetamine manufacture. Not covering you to make it, but should someone move out of your house.

Not the ingredients to buy what you need to make meth. I am just ringing for my landlord's insurance and my making meth starter kit. What? I think I misheard the guy on the radio. I'll just hear it later. So, yeah, you get landlord insurance so that if something does happen, you can claim it and it covers a whole bunch of things. It's a little bit different to standard household and contents insurance.

But yeah, not being able to claim the excess, like if it's the tenant's fault that something happens, you previously weren't able to claim the insurance excess from them. Because if you have to replace the whole house, insurance, depending on what insurance you've got sorted, it could be thousands of dollars and then you're out of pocket for that. So if we're having a party in our flat, we've just got to be a little bit more careful, do we? Yeah.

Yeah. I remember that when we were intoxicated. Everyone just be really careful. Because I can be up to four weeks rent. Yeah, a whole month's rent and I'm not getting my bond back. So that'll be the end of the parties.

No more parties. Are you actually drunk? No. That's a very good drink. It's Friday. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. So an Instagram scheduling and analytics program

has unveiled the 2019 Instagram rich list which means that you know it's legit. Right. There are no average people among this. All celebrities. All celebrities. Average people. Sorry Joe Public.

You're not earning a million dollars a post. Sorry Tiffany with your slim T. Oh yeah. You're not on this list dollars a post. Sorry, Tiffany, was your slim tea? Oh. Yeah. And your motivational quotes. You're not on this list. Sorry, Tiffany, no one's buying Arbonne off you. No. So the list is based on how much each Instagram person can charge for a single Instagram post.

Okay. And they do it all kinds of, they base it on all kinds of things, average engagement, number of followers, industry fluctuations, so it's very legit. Okay. No prizes for guessing who is number one for the second year running, Kylie Jenner.

Okay. She can earn up to 1.2 million US dollars, so that's 1.7, almost 1.8 million New Zealand dollars. Just for one post? One post. And then like, what if she posts it when we're all asleep or something? Yeah, but you still see it. And the way that Instagram is now,

it doesn't really matter in the same way that it did, right? Because you don't always see someone's post right when they do it. Sometimes you see it like a day later. Okay. Coming up second, Ariana Grande. She can make up to, I'll just do New Zealand dollars, 1.48 million New Zealand dollars for one post. It's more than we're just going to ever earn in our lifetime, eh?

Just one Instagram post. It's more than we're just going to ever earn in our lifetime, eh? Just a one Instagram post. That's so sad. And third, it always surprises me because we don't really talk much about this guy, but he's massive on Instagram. Cristiano Ronaldo.

The footballer. The footballer. Because he's, I think he's the number one most followed on Instagram at the moment. But you know why? It's because the guys

follow him because of soccer, football, whatever you call it, and then the girls follow him because he's hot. Yeah. Yeah, and the South Americans follow him because they love football. Yeah. And they're massive on social media.

Europeans, the same. Yeah. So he's got everyone. He's got all the bases covered. He does. So he can earn up to 1.45, so almost 1.5 million New Zealand dollars for one post. Wow.

That's why they can be like selective with who they are. Is Justin Bieber on the list? Scrolling down. He's last. He's number 10. Number 10. If you can wait that long. All right.

Kim is in fourth place, 1.35 million. Selena Gomez is in fifth place. She doesn't really do that much on Instagram anymore. She's not the number one most followed anymore, but even just with as little as she does, she's still got heaps of followers. She can still earn $1.3 million. The Rock, sixth place.

He's getting, it doesn't convert this one for me, $882,000. That will be $1.2 million. That would mostly be the thing he promotes the most is his own products. His own movies. His own movies, his own workout gear. He had headphones. He's launched tequila. And wasn't he charging movie studios for every movie he's in like a million dollars?

Well, most of them, it's part of their sign-on to do the movie now. Right. As it comes with the fee, includes however many social media posts they're going to make. And if he promotes his own companies, he can pay himself, and then that's tax deductible through the company. Sweet. So it's just a win-win. Sweet gig.

Then it is Beyonce. She's 785, so one point, maybe one million-ish for her. Taylor Swift, just under that. Then there's another Brazilian soccer player who I've literally never heard of. Neymar de Silva Santos Jr. Okay.

And Justin Bieber's last. Right. $722,000. US dollars. US dollars. Just under a million. Wow. Yeah.

We're in the wrong game. You also needed like 100 million followers to get that kind of. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Flesh Warner Megan. The podcast. ZM. Well, Megan, you'vean and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Well, Megan, you've got a cafe, both of you and co. We wrote a stunning jingle for your birthday, for your cafe yesterday. It was actually a very good jingle. Thank you. Good feedback on that jingle. Welcome.

I'll be expecting absolutely thriving business today, tomorrow, Sunday. Yes. In fact, Vaughan and I have seriously considered going into jingle writing as a side venture.

But no free coffees this weekend. I just want to reiterate that. No, that's a deal that doesn't stand. Well, there's a story about reviews on websites. You get reviews for your cafe, but Google reviews, eh? Yeah. And TripAdvisor? Oh, I don't know.

I haven't actually looked. I haven't had any alerts of TripAdvisor. But you were all over the Google reviews. Let me look. Oh, God don't know. I haven't actually looked. I haven't had any alerts of TripAdvisor. But you were all over the Google reviews. Let me look. Oh, God. Yeah. You can't delete those, can you? So I've had a one, one star review.

We've spoken about that one before. The chili oil. That was too oily. No, that was a five star review. But then I think they wrote like a negative comment. About the oil being too oily. But it's oil. It's explained in the menu that it was a chilli oil.

Always finding oil very oily. Yeah. And what was the one star for again? The one mushroom. That's right. Yeah. But I looked, when I saw the one star review, I was like, not that I was going to, but I was like, can people delete these?

No. But no, you can't. Not on Google. And that's for the best. I think it is because you want everything. You want a balance to all this. You want everything, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I know you can't delete on TripAdvisor, which is good again, but- I can't find you guys on TripAdvisor. Yeah. Well, you need to get it. You need to, but then you're not really, your cafe's not really near like accommodation, is it? No. But as people could be passing through.

Yeah, I think you need to get on there. You need to set that up. Okay. The Commerce Commission in New Zealand is investigating multiple companies for altering or deleting negative online reviews. So this is where you have a website

where the reviews are on your site. Right. And you would, wouldn't you? I would. If someone's giving you a one-star crappy review, I'd be like, just delete that. Just hide it. Well, Batchcare has been charged. You know, the batches.

Yeah. You know, you go for a week and you're like, I need a batch. They've been charged breaching the Fair Trading Act by removing negative comments and deleting reviews under 3.5 stars. The commission said that while this was the first time it had charged a company relating to altering or deleting negative reviews, it was unlikely to be the last. And they're also investigating a few other companies who are collecting, editing and publishing their own online reviews.

Because Batchcare would make money by batches being rented out and if it started to slip too low, it wouldn't get rented so they wouldn't make their commission off it. Exactly. But then that doesn't stop people on like Expedia or Booking.com or any kind of hotels like booking crappy one or two star hotels, does it? No. No.

That's so dodgy. That's the thing. But I mean, I'd do the same, so I don't blame them. And it's hard when you get a bad review and you'd feel like that's completely unwarranted. But you can always reply. You, I would take that more personally if it was my cafe. But if it's someone else's holiday home

that I'm renting out through my site, I wouldn't take it as personally. Oh, yeah, true. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then, I mean, they don't want crappy stuff on their website, do they? No, no, they want to hire it out because they get their money. I can see why they did it.

Yeah. But yeah, that's interesting to know because I didn't know you'd get in trouble for it, for deleting. Well, you know, apparently you can because I wouldn't have thought you could get in trouble for it either. No. You're just hiding the bad. It's like, you know, you just hide because I wouldn't have thought you could get in trouble for it either. No. You're just hiding the bad. It's like, you know,

you just hide something under the rug or you clean your room and you put it all in the wardrobe or under the bed. But that went under 3.5, so they're still leaving like 3.5 and 4s, you know. Yeah, exactly. To keep the kind of average-y ones in there. It's not like they were only keeping 5 stars. But then you, by deleting reviews under 3.5,

you're pushing the average up of these places. So that's misleading. Cheap, yeah. Isn't it? Very cheeky. The top six is coming up. We've got a 24-hour Kmart coming. Do we need it?

I don't know. No. No. I mean, the lines can get quite long. Yeah, it might be actually quite a good thing. But I'm not, like, setting an alarm to wake up at one o'clock in the morning and go to Kmart.

I imagine you'll wake up and your wife will be gone. Yeah, she'll be like, where's she gone? Kmart. So the top six things to do at Kmart at 2am.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Kmart. We're getting a 24 hour Kmart. This is at top six. Hello there. Kmart. We're getting a 24-hour Kmart.

This is at Sylvia Park. I mean, is this a thing Kmart could do around the country? No. Absolutely not necessary. 15th of August, Thursday. That's when it goes 24-7. Sylvia Park Shopping Centre. This actually, I don't know

if Facebook heard it and thought, this guy needs to see this. But Sylvia Park Shopping Centre on their Facebook page shared a post saying this is when it's happening and we've got a $50 Kmart gift card to give away to celebrate. Pass on the good news to a friend by tagging them below. I know!

Splash out Kmart. Like I know you can get a lot of stuff from Kmart for 50 bucks but like Like how many people will be falling over themselves for $50? All of them Megan. Seven and a half thousand comments.

What? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Well they're the ones laughing. They know they don't need to put up a $1000 voucher when a $50 one will do the same. Including Carwin from work here.

I'll mock this about her after the show. I'll mock this about her after the show. Be there or be square, she said. It does make them look cheap though. They could have done like a $150 voucher. They could have done

a $500 voucher. Because really, what's the actual cost? This is bad, but whenever I see someone giving away a $500 voucher, how much is it actually costing them to give away $500 worth of their product? Kmart, probably like $4.

So the top six things to do at Kmart at 2 a.m. when it opens 24-7. Number six, hide inside a beanbag. You'll need a scuba gear. Hide inside a beanbag and wait until you get purchased and then pop out in somebody's living room. That could be a little creepy to some people, Vaughn. It's quite hard to get into the beanbags during the shopping day. Yeah, right.

They're always like, sir, what are you doing? And I'll be like, I'm so bored. So bored. She won't leave. She won't leave. And she keeps asking my opinion on things, but I know she doesn't really care for it. Number five on the list of the top six things to do

that came out at 2 a.m. Just build an entire living room inside a pillow fort. Oh, yeah. Because you could build a pillow fort because of all the pillows, but then inside it you could literally furnish it. All sorts of things. You could, yeah. Neat little side table.

Pot plants. Chair. A little rug. Fake pot plant. Yeah, get yourself table. Pot plants. Cheer. A little rug. Fake pot plant. Yeah, get yourself a rug. Some geometric concrete shapes. To hang on the side of the fort. Yeah, you've got to be very careful

when you hang your prints in a pillow fort. You don't want to affect the structural integrity. Number four on the list of the top six things to do at K-Mart at 2am. Paintball. I just think paintball would be great anywhere. Might make a little mess of the store, Vaughan. Maybe laser tag would be more. paintball would be great anywhere. Might make a little mess of the store, Vaughan.

Maybe laser tag would be more. Laser tag would be slightly more fitting. Okay, yeah, I can get on board with that. And they might even turn off the lights for you

and then put on the disco lights. And turn on all those disco lights they've got in the party section. Yeah. That party section would be freaky

when the lights were not on. It would. When those came on. They all go. Number three on the list of the top six things to do at Kmart at 2am. Make a fake copper kingdom. All that fake copper. It's in, isn't it?

And you've got all the time in the world to build your own kingdom. Yeah. So you could be surrounded by that brownie, orangey, not quite copper, copper. Number two on the list of the top six things to do when it came out at 2 a.m. when it opens 24-7, play That'll Be Recalled. It's where you walk around a store and you're like, I hate her.

For $8, that's going to get recalled. Just in the news this week, isn't it? All their recalls. Famously, many, many recalls. And just take a moment during That'll Be Recalled to play the side game to that'll be recalled called wow there is a lot of plastic in the store

there is a lot everything's in plastic and it's made of plastic wow and number one on the list of the top six things to do at Kmart at 2am say now how can that only be $3 yeah who got ripped off in the production of this?

What's the story? My wife hates this game and came hard. Yeah. How's that only $6? Like how did that even get into the country for $6? Where does that come? Like who made that? Who made that?

Ignorance is bliss, Warren. But you're playing it now at 2am as opposed to all the other times when you play it during the day and other came out husbands are also playing that game like, yeah, $4. How?

It's got wire in it. It plugs in at the wall. I don't trust anything for $4 that plugs in at the wall. Who made this? That is today's top six. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's 20 questions. I have questions for you. 20 questions. We have a random item. We've thought of a random thing. And you have 20 questions, New Zealand, to try and figure out what this is. We'll give you a yes-no question if you get through,

and you get to ask that, and then make a guess. Yesterday, these are the guesses so far for the new item, which we started yesterday. Is it a living thing? The answer was no, it is not a living thing. The guess then was, is it a shoelace? It was not a shoelace. Question for 8am yesterday, is it found in a house? No was the answer and their guess was a car. It was not a car. So it is not a living thing and it is not

found in a house. 18 questions left. Good morning, Chanel. Good morning. All right, so 18 questions left. You get a yes, no question. What is it? Is it a power tool?

No. It is not a power tool. What do you think it is? Is it a ladder? It is not a power tool. What do you think it is? Is it a ladder? It is not a ladder, no. No, it is not a ladder. Okay. It is not a power tool.

It is not a living thing. It is not found in the house, and it is not a ladder, a car, or a shoelace. We will take another question after 8 o'clock. Thank you. Bye. All right. Thanks.

We've been very cagey because we don't want to give away too many hints. I know. The toothbrush, I feel like we just gave it away. Yeah. Like you feel so guilty because you know. Yeah. That's why when the secret sounds on, I like not knowing what the sound is. I know, that's why I'm not saying anything.

Yeah. Now we talked about on the show Bindi Irwin. Bindi Irwin turned 21, got engaged, but the gifts kept coming from Bindi. And this was when, you remember when we talked about Russell Crowe and if Russell Crowe was still dating Terry? Yeah. And we were all like not quite sure. They went like quite quiet on it there. Yeah.

Well, Russell Crowe's given her a gift to make me think if he's not dating Terry, he wants her back. Yeah. Surely they are still together. Megan, do some digging. gift to make me think if he's not dating Terry, he wants her back. Surely they are still together. Megan, do some digging. They denied that that was even happening at the time.

Oh, they've got to be together if this has happened. It's juicy, juicy. We'll tell you what he got her next. Flesh Fauna Megan, the podcast.

ZM. Russell Crowe, this is for Bindi Ewan's 21st birthday. Which made me feel old. She's 21. She's 21, yep.

We all remember when she was like a foot high. Yeah. Or two foot high. I don't know how big kids are, but she's little. Three foot? Three and a half foot. Tiny. Tiny.

In a little car key. We remember when she was a little kid. A little kid. Now she's 21. And she's engaged to a guy that she met at Australia Zoo. Yeah, he was coming through. And she was like, I'll show you the crocodiles.

It's young love over a crocodile eating a goat's carcass. So Russell Crowe, family friend, and there was a lot of speculation as to whether or not him and Terry Irwin were more than friends if there was some dating. You know, I want Terry to find someone. Yeah. I don't want her to. It's going to be hard to publicly move on after dating.

Your life's so public. Yeah, but. And then you have to get a new. Steve passed away. R.I.P. Steve. We'll never forget him. No.

It's all right that she finds somebody else to share her life with. You asked me to do some digging. Yeah. This article was from a month ago. She has been spending a lot of time at his house is on some cliffs. Coffs Harbour, which is a six hour drive from Australia Zoo. So not only does Terry

but the two kids spend a lot of time with him at his property. They're dating. They just don't admit it though. They haven't gone public. It's going to be 13 years in a couple of months since we lost Steve and I think she deserves to have romance. But now imagine... I mean, that with anybody.

Imagine your dad's Steve Irwin, and then all of a sudden your stepdad's Russell Crowe. Gladiator. Russell Crowe. Well, I reckon Russell Crowe would, like, fight alligators, but not to, like, save them. He'd just fight them. Yeah.

He'd just like the challenge of fighting an alligator because he's a battler. So he bought Bindi Irwin for her 21st birthday a $25,000 Rolex watch. Yeah, they're definitely dating. Even if I won Lotto, I still wouldn't buy things that expensive that people can buy in Thailand for $5. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's like you got a handbag yesterday for your birthday. Yeah. Everyone's going to think that's a rip-off. No, but it's not. You wait till I bring eight of them back from Bali when I go next week.

No, but people who know can tell that it's not. Do you know what I mean? Can they? But you're talking about ten people in the world that know. Yeah, but it's just,

I don't know. When you know, you know. Yeah, when you know, you know. Where could you take that nice handbag? Where would you take it? Anywhere. Like events and stuff. Events, cinemas? No. When you go, you know. Yeah, when you know, you know. Where could you take that nice handbag? Where would you take it? Anywhere. Like events and stuff.

Okay. Event cinemas. No. When you go out. When you go out and you get dressed up, you take your nice handbag. Getting dressed up's a foreign concept to me. Yeah, but see, you just don't even get getting dressed up. No.

Okay. No, no, no. If you're into it, that's totally. Well, you and Bindi, you could hang out and you could take your handbag. I don't have a $25,000 Rolex. She could wear a solid gold diamond encrusted $25,000 Rolex. That's nuts.

This is, and my parents are still, all of us here, our parents are still married. Yeah. I had friends growing up whose parents separated and the new partner would come on the scene and try to win them over. I'd be easily won over. If your mum got a new partner? Yeah.

And he was like, let's all go to Dreamworld. I'd be like, you're my new favourite. Dad who? Exactly. Dad who? Dad who? Yep, easy. Done. Yeah, because that's them being nice. It would be a bizarre situation. I can't

none of us can relate because our parents are all still together. But it's so common these days. You'd want to be real grown up about it. Like being on the other end of it now, having kids. If my marriage ended and there was a new guy on the scene, you want to be mature about it. But at the same time, I'd

be like telling my kids be like, he's no good. Like, what? You don't accept anything from him. He's no good. It would be so hard. I know. It would be so, so hard.

And then imagine the new guy gives him a $25,000 Rolex. I wouldn't even take that. It would be a horse. A horse. Oh, yeah. I would have lost them. But I'm not buying them a horse. Don't be stupid.

Yeah. Until, not until, if we separated then, I could buy them five horses each. You'd totally go and let the horse out of the paddock too. That's something you'd do. If he bought them a horse. Yeah. I'd set it free. I'd do that with my niece.

I'd just try and buy her love. Imagine if I was a step-mom. I'd be the worst. Now, you'd ship them off to boarding school. One hundy. And you'd be like, I don't need you competing with my partner for affection. They need to go to boarding school. Lorenz?

You're off to King's. No, Lorenz with Lorenz's blood. He's a favourite child. He's not a stepchild. Probably just Gavin. Craig and Gavin. Gavin, Craig, you're off to... Lorenz comes in. Mother, Craig and Gavin. Gavin, Craig, you're off too. Lawrence comes in.

I don't like this picture. Mother, Craig and Gavin are just absolutely uncouth. Ship them off somewhere bloody awful, please. When did Lawrence get British? Oh, he's trying something. He's trying to find out who he is. We would love to know this morning

on i800dolls.com where you can text to 9696 When did a step parent try to buy your love? How did a step parent try to buy your love? Yeah Or the new partner Step parents are an official title That's when they become married

But just like mum or dad's new partner How did they try to buy your love? And did it work? Maybe it was a $25,000 Rolex Yeah I'd give them a list of things That would take to buy my mom. Of course you would. Here's my love list.

We want to know when a step-parent tried to buy your love. Bindi Irwin is received from Russell Crowe, even though not officially seeing her mom, Terry, even though we just want Terry to be happy in whatever form that takes. Yeah. But he's bought her a $25,000 gold and diamond-encrusted Rolex for her birthday. Hmm.

So, taking your calls and your texts. Sinead, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good, good. So, this was a step-parent trying to buy your love? Yes. So, my dad was quite the ladies man.

So this is about step parent number three. Okay. And my mom had always said that she wanted to take my brother and I to Australia. So when step parent number three came along, she was like, let's take them to Australia. Oh, okay. Yeah. So we went to Australia. We had an awesome time.

We went to all the theme parks. It was about day eight. And her and my dad ended up having a massive argument. And my brother and I were walking behind them. And we thought it was the funniest thing. So we started mimicking them. She turned around and she saw my brother and I doing this. And she threw the biggest tantrum ever.

And she walked off and we couldn't find her. Like, she was just lost in Australia. In Australia. Just leave her there. She was just lost in Australia. Yeah, so my dad and I and my brother went back to where we were staying and we were just like, she'll turn up. And we had the best time without her.

Yeah. I like how your dad's, this is like third, like you said, about third step-mom. So dad even then, by then, he's like, there'll be another one around the corner. I wouldn't worry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's married now, so he found one. Right.

Oh, another one. He found one. A different one. Another one that was lost in Australia. But did she ever turn up again? Yeah, she came back about six hours later and she just was frosty the rest of the holiday. It ruined the holiday. And was that it?

Like, Dad broke up with her when he got back? No, she stuck around for a while, but I think my brother and I were pretty relentless in pissing her off, so she did leave. Good work, yeah. She tried. At least you got a holiday out of it. Thanks, you're cool, Sinead.

Melinda, what happened? I used to be almost like an only child because my brother and sister are about 10-15 years older than me so they had already got left home and then my mum and I were on our own and then she decided to leave me for another man and I wouldn't share her at all. I wouldn't even allow them to be alone in a room together or anything. It was horrendous. I was nine and then they decided that they wanted to move in together and she wanted to move me from Christchurch to Ashburton of all places.

I thought it was like the mountains and nowhere and I was going to go to boarding school kind of type stuff. I didn't realise they had traffic lights or anything. And I didn't want to go, so I refused. I would unpack my bags and they sold the house and stuff and I refused until I got a pony. And you were? I got the pony, yeah. Wow, so Stepdad got you a pony.

He definitely got me a pony. It was in there too. Did it work? Well, it reared me off. I smashed my elbow in three places. And yeah, so it didn't really... Joke's on you. Joke's on you.

The horse is gone. He's still your stepdad. Thanks for your call, Melinda. Some text messages in. When we were growing up, my best friend, their parents separated. He got a new stepdad. And the kid said to the stepdad, I want Sky. Now, this was in the early 1990s when only the elite could afford Sky.

Got him Sky, got the family Sky. Gosh, we used to go in there and watch hours of television. And then for his 15th birthday, bought him an RX3 to learn to drive in. It was just like the best stepdad ever, but I felt really sorry for his original dad who didn't, his original dad, sorry. His original kids.

No, no, this guy wrote original dad. What he means is his actual dad. Like his biological father. Yeah, of course. Yeah, right. Original dad. Because he just couldn't afford to keep up with this guy. Oh, yeah, that's. Yeah, right. Original dad. Because he just couldn't afford to keep up with Fiskar. Oh, yeah, that's sad.

Yeah. Yeah. My dad's ex-girlfriend bought my sister a horse and all the gear and private lessons. Had my sister wrapped around her little finger, but I didn't fall for it. I didn't like her at all. Until she got you a car. But then mum's new boyfriend got me a puppy. So.

Yeah. I liked him better than I liked dad's new girlfriend. Yeah, right. So that's like you've split them in half there. That's good. One inch. Somebody said that their dad's other woman got me a bunch of concert tickets to prove that she was cool and chill and whatever.

But she also didn't realise I was underage and couldn't go to half of them, so I sold them and made some cash. Sweet. My parents separated and Dad's new boyfriend bought me a car. Okay. I sold the car and took Mum to Fiji on a girls' holiday. Dad's new rich booty call can bite me.

Nice. Some people try. They do. Fleshfawner Megan, the podcast. ZM. For a little Nice Some people try They do They try Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast ZM For a little recap Received a message This was initially supposed to be

For our segment Am I a bad person But I read this to Fletch and Megan And we were kind of across the board Being like This guy's not a bad person I don't think anybody Would have called in and said

He's a bad person Otherwise No Yeah So the issue was He had a partner He'd been with her for over six years, really possessive and jealous, and she will acknowledge it. She's got no trust in him, but he said always been faithful,

never having a reason to not trust them, never broken the initial trust. But he has friends that he's been friends with for over 20 years, and they're approaching times in their lives where they're having the big parties, the 50th, the 40th. Yep. And he doesn't live by them, but she is just flat out, if you travel to go to these parties,

and of course stay the night because they're all the way away, don't bother coming back. It is over. Didn't like him having female friends. No, absolutely not. Yeah. Absolutely not.

And he's like, well, I've got to lie to my friends to say why I can't make these big events that I've had plenty of warning about. Because, and when I don't go, guaranteed they all know the actual reason. But he said that he loved her. He loved her. Yep.

Loves her. And he's never done a thing to break that trust. Yeah. He's never cheated. He's never. So yesterday, a lot of people were saying, well, why isn't she invited to the party? And why doesn't he introduce her to these friends? That was one of the main points.

Someone said, have they tried counselling? Is there any communication? So we've actually heard again from this guy. He said, I'll read you the email that we received last night. He said, listen to the podcast with my dilemma. Firstly, thanks for saying that I'm not a bad person because it had been weighing on my mind for a long time that maybe I am a bad person in this situation.

Thanks, Fletch, for saying I should get out as it's what most of my friends have been saying. Megan, you were very thoughtful in regarding to approaching communication and counselling. Unfortunately, I had tried that and was told by my partner on several occasions that if you need to go to it, you go. There's nothing wrong with me.

You're the one with the problem. Oh, wow. Okay, so there needs to be some kind of acknowledgement that you have a problem. Because she has a problem. So that's the counselling has been tried. To the listener who talked of respect, I've given my partner the utmost

respect. I introduced her to all my friends who she immediately dismissed, was really rude to and didn't want to have anything to do with. Wow. So those are the questions that a lot of people were asking yesterday. Had they tried counseling? Yes. Had she been introduced? Yes. So last night I had a talk with my partner. I her about the issue of trust and how I've never broken her trust, so I'm not sure why she doesn't trust me. I've talked of controlling me and having total control of the relationship, and that's not how relationships works. It's got to be 50-50.

And how my friends, how I don't get to see my friends, and it's all because she doesn't like them. She won't let me see them. She continued to deflect she blamed me and consequently broke it off with me saying that

I'm a lunatic and I'm impossible to be around can you believe it she broke up with him she broke up with him he needed to break up citing him

wow trying to open lines of communication he did really well there to like oh my god that's a hard conversation to have. She broke up with him. He needed to break up with her years ago.

So he says, I'm emotionally shattered, but off to work. I loved her deeply. I'll need some time. Thanks for discussing it and giving me the strength to approach this again. I said, you're a good man. All of the feedback on the topic was in your support any that wasn't assumed you hadn't tried counselling

or introducing to the friends which you've cleared up now life's of course far too short to live unhappily so go to these parties reconnect with friends bear around people you trust and love and 100% you will be emotionally shattered

now that came through yesterday evening after I messaged back this morning. And then this morning followed up again saying, yeah, please give everybody an update on the situation after everybody offered helpful advice. I feel it's good that they know what's happened. I have already started receiving texts from her this morning saying that I was ridiculous and they should get back together. But I know what my heart says. Thanks everybody for the support.

It means a lot. Yes, be strong. You've got to give yourself a good cooling off period. Get to know yourself. Go reconnect with your friends again. 100%. It's hard because he loved her but he's going to find someone and he's going to realise

that that's how you're supposed to be treated in a relationship. Yeah. In retrospect, you're going to realise how toxic that was. Yeah. Because he's lost so much in those six years. Yeah, but you can't think of it like that. He's also changed a lot and grown a lot from it and learnt a few things. But yeah, don't go back there.

That's very unpleasant. Yeah. I love that she's asking for him back already yeah get in the text yeah Flesh, Vaughan and Megan

the podcast ZM 660 you're in studio talking about the song you've just heard The Greatest was this named because I always thought

there was a band in the 90s Faith No More named one of their albums The Greatest Album of All Time and there's other places that have called like album of the year.

Was this in the mind? People would be like, have you heard that new 660 song? It's the greatest. So already people are on a positive before they've heard the song. Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head there. Nailed it, perfect. That's all I'd do would be like album of the year, best song you've ever heard.

There's a bit of a backstory to it though, right? Yeah, there is. Would you like to hear it? I would love to. Can we get some story time music maybe? Yeah, in the studio where the song was written, there's this classic photo of Muhammad Ali and the Beatles. Oh yeah.

And we spotted it walking in, and for some reason we thought, when we go into the studio, let's try and write a song that captures that energy. The time when that photo was taken, when the Beatles and Muhammad Ali were basically on the rise or about to, the years after,

saw them kind of dominate the world. So we went into the studio with that in mind, but then it grew into something different and it's more of a story of aspiration and overcoming self-doubt and things that we kind of feel is quintessentially Kiwi

really we punch above our weight and I think it's the right time for the song to come out considering the cricket and the rugby's coming out and all that stuff, it's timely So when was this song recorded? When did you guys make this? for the song to come out considering the cricket and the rugby's coming out and all that stuff. It's timely, yeah. So when was this song recorded? When did you guys make this?

Now that the album's done, it's actually the first one, the oldest song on the album of all the songs. Right. And it's kind of the song, we'd written a lot of songs before this, but we feel like sonically this song kind of birthed the whole album. Kind of set the tone for the rest of the work. So is the album going to sound

like this song? Because it's a bit of a different sound for you guys. I think so. And how grand and massive it is. We're a stadium band now, so we wanted to make something. Jess, you might be sad here man but don't forget your roots my friend. The new album

though is going a lot of places sonically and a lot of places probably I'm quite proud of us for how brave we're being. Sometimes putting it out there a bit further than we've ever really managed to go. So it's definitely going to be something to look forward to, to hearing the entire album.

And there's a documentary. Does the documentary follow the making of the album or just the journey so far? Both. Right. Both. Cool. Is there some footage of your uni days that's going to be unearthed that you don't want to see?

Yeah, we're editing it a lot. Because I get a Facebook memory. It was 10 years this year. I get a Facebook memory of a time you guys played in the backyard on Castle Street and the flats next door all just kicked down their fences so they could fit a bigger crowd in it. So that was like 10 years ago. I mean, that was before the days of too much video footage on cell phones.

There'd definitely be some out there. We're lucky there weren't many phones around that time. Oh, yeah, we can say the same. We're all very lucky that there wasn't video-capable phones in the early 2000s through to the mid-2000s and henceforth. So when's the doc come out? That's kind of next year? Yeah, it's going to be next year, I think. March.

Yeah, and it's been a really cool process, you know, going down memory lane and confronting notes, like kind of warts and all this documentary. Yeah, because that's when you look back on it, if there was anything bad, you kind of had got no choice but to relive it, right? Yeah. Awkwardness of certain things.

Yeah. And I think reliving those things has helped actually in the process of writing this album. As you said, it's 10 years and we feel like maybe, we kind of feel like finally we're on steady ground and we feel like we know who we are and what we're trying to do. And we feel, yeah, I'm personally super proud of this album. I think it sums us up really well.

Thanks so much for coming in, guys. Best of luck with singles, albums, concerts, documentaries, the lot. Thank you, guys. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Friday Fashbuck. But it's a Friday tradition, and I don't know if it'll be cancelled after this. If you were listening last week, what did you do last week? Megan, you were away.

Fletch chose. And I did the Kanye song, Heartless. Oh, yeah, huckery. Great song. Oh, I love that song. I know, Jane. Why did you be so heartless? It's not really a banger though. And I said, in passing

you would have been better to have played the 2009 seminal classic from Heartthrob Swooner Michael Bublé, Haven't Met You Yet. And Fletch scoffed at that, but then people text messaged in saying, I would much rather have heard boob late.

Well. But saying much rather doesn't mean that they really like that song. I know. You know I'm with you on the boob though. We love the boob but Do we need the boob at eight o'clock in the morning?

We don't play the boob ever. The boob's good any time. On ZM. Calm down Kanye. Well. Because that's the thing Megan it doesn't need to be the best ever. It just needs to be better than the one of most recent memory.

Yeah, right. And by the text we received, Heartless would have been better than Bublé. This is pretty cute. Okay. Some facts about the song. Okay. He dedicated it to his then-fiancé, who appeared in the video for this as his love interest, and now they're married.

Louisiana Lupiata. I've never seen what Michael Bublé's wife looks like. She's beautiful. I bet she's a model. Okay, good work, Bublé. He's got the chat. My man! Have you checked with Ross Boss that this is okay to play?

I don't care. The song won single of the year at the Canadian Music Awards. Well, that doesn't mean anything. Canadian Music Awards, they celebrate Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, and Justin Bieber. Oh. Justin Bieber's okay. He's so great. I want to see him live in concert. He has such good

banter. It's like a comedy show. I would love to see Bublé live. What else can we tell you about Bublé? It's a rubbish song. Do you need to know any more? No. It's a rubbish song. I mean, do you need to know anymore? No. It's a sing-along. It's for the mums. Oh.

It's for the mums. No, it's for everybody. You let me get to it and everybody else that enjoys Bublé. Yeah. Regardless of age,

gender, race, colour or creed. It's your Friday flashback, Michael Bublé. Oh my God. No. No. No! No! hard not to lose it. I came up with a million excuses. I thought I thought of every possibility.

And I know someday that it'll all turn out to make me work so we can work to work it out. And I promise you, kid, that I'll get so much more than I get. I just haven't met you yet. It's your Friday flashback. Michael Bublé, haven't met you yet. Jam. Well, Ross Boss is in. Sorry, Megan's dog is here and it gave me a fright because I thought it was a bird in the studio

what are you more scared of birds or dogs that or Michael Burble oh Burbs great great concert he's just got style it was great

it was a great concert so you didn't come in here to tell him off no but I do like some of the texts someone said what is this Jurassic Hits

yeah it's messed up and then my favourite one was get rid of this crap and play some Wagon Wheel. So that's next week. Oh, don't encourage people. Where's Intune? We wanted to do Wagon Wheel. Save that for Golden Guitars weekend maybe.

Yeah, crank that out. I'll do a Wagon Wheel. If it gets around to my turn next time and I don't say Wagon Wheel, I'll do Wagon Wheel. We're not doing Wagon Wheel. People either loved that or hated that. I'm a huge fan of a controversial pic now.

A huge fan. But either way, no one was like middle of the road. Everybody was like love or hate. Okay. Somebody said they just looked at their fiancé and he said no. And that's what he's been saying lately when he doesn't want those songs at a wedding. Right, okay. No.

Someone said, I'm very confused with myself. I'm singing this very loudly in the car, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it ironically or not. That can be really confusing. The boobs gets in there, doesn't he? Yeah. He just does.

He just gets in. He just gets in there. He just gets in. He gets in. But, you know, I'm pleased. You'd say overwhelmingly positive? Positive choice.

No, God, no. You baked yourself I'd say it's probably down the middle right we received an email earlier in the week a message to the show

yeah somebody said that for the first time they'd seen our faces and they'd been listening to the show for a while but they'd never seen our faces

and we were like it's quite crazy like 1980s 1990s radio that was always a thing growing up. You're always like, what do they look like? And you'd see them

and you'd be like, on a whole, that's very disappointing. But now with social media and the fact that you can just literally pick up your phone or even just tell Siri to Google, you can find out

what someone looks like. Like if I listen to a podcast, I'm instantly like, I need to know a true crime podcast. I'm like, I need to know what all these people look like. Even the hosts of the podcast, I'm like, I need to Google them. If you listen to our podcast, the pictures on the podcast,

the imagery, yeah, I guess. But we asked the question when this message came through, if there was anybody listening that doesn't know in this day and age what we look like. And we had a call from Annabelle. Annabelle, good morning. Hi, good morning, guys. Good morning. You don't know what we look like. No, and to be honest, I really don't want to know.

One day, we were having dinner with some friends, and we were talking about radio people. And they said, oh, why don't we search, you know, the radio that you guys like? And I was like, no. I have this idea in my head of how they are, especially Megan. I feel like you are absolutely stunning and amazing and skinny and everything is perfect.

And you guys are like, I don't know. I just feel like if I see't know, I just feel like after, if I see their faces, everything will change and I just, Are you worried about being disappointed by our actual appearance? Yeah,

no, I mean, don't ever say. You've never seen a billboard or an ad pop up? It's good to know the marketing's working.

Yeah, it's funny, funny you see that I went to, I got to Wellington a lot for work and it was one month since I'm like,

you know, postage or something that says, Fletch, you're not vegan. And my husband was like, oh, look,

that's the guys on the radio that you guys listen to. And I was like, no, no, turn, no, I don't want to see that.

Like, I'm really keen and not pointing out who you guys are. I don't want to look at him and I'm like, don't show me, don't show me.

I think we should get you in to look at us. No, I should be so disappointed. I work about three blocks away from where you guys are. And I always think one day I may be maybe in the same street, in the same cafe, and I will still have no clue who you guys are. You'll hear Fletcher's obnoxious laugh in a coffee shop and you'll be like, I can't look. I've got to leave.

Cancel my coffee order. I've got to go. Bye. That's it for me. Thank you, guys. She's wrapping us up. So that was the other day. Annabelle's outside.

She's waiting. She's waiting. She's blindfolded. Yep. And we're going to get her in studio next to, I guess what, smash her dreams, disappoint her. Oh, yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Waiting outside the studio door right now is a listener that's been a long-time listener,

but has no idea what we look like. Never seen our faces. Yeah, never seen our faces. No, but she's out there. So, Caitlin, bring her in. Okay, just a little step up, step up. Yep, yep, yep. Um, now,

Annabelle is blindfolded. Caitlin starts putting her in this chair. Don't take off the blindfold yet. We want to have a chat to you first. Sit up? Yeah. Okay. Okay, this is happening. This is actually happening okay hi there we go hi hi okay i'm just gonna chuck some headphones on you so don't be surprised if something touches your ears just yeah there we go oh i just we're just gonna disappoint her this is megan you're

already amazing okay okay stay there perfect go. Well, welcome into the studio. Hi. Now, we played back the call from earlier in the week just before. For those that have just joined us, you have been listening to the show for how many years? At least 10 years. And again, I just think like, I don't know if it's you guys, but for the last 10 years, I've been listening to it from 7 a.m. till 1 p.m. pretty much so I don't

know if it's you guys or not but you know okay well we've been here five so close enough now you've never seen us no up until I went on air and then everyone started showing me photos of you guys so I was like why do you do this to me like I don't want to know so they were were running and you were just like, no. Yeah, I was like, exactly what people, what you were thinking pretty much in terms of the billboard. It's like, I just don't want to see it. Like, why is it a big deal?

Like, I don't get it. Like, I don't want to see them. So rather than have a stranger ruin it for you or a friend ruin it for you, you agreed to come in and be blindfolded and take it off and see it set in the flesh for the first time. Mm-hmm.

I'm really nervous. I would probably rather the boom board because at least we were, like, Photoshopped in there. You know? Well, some of us. Without permission. Without permission. Okay.

Also, do we want to take the blindfold off? I just want to, yeah. Are you nervous? I'm bloody nervous. I can't to, yeah. Are you nervous? I'm bloody nervous. I'm going to do it. Can you not tell? I'm going to explain to you the situation. So, you know, back in the day, so when I was a teenager,

we used to get, you know, in the neighborhood, you get a phone number of your house and they will call you and then they sound amazing and then you meet them and then things don't go so well, you know. So I had this in my head. Oh, no. They don't look like they sound. I know.

Yeah, you know, and it's just like why? Why do you want to do that? I don't. I want you to believe in your mind that we're like these beautiful beings. But maybe you're even more beautiful than what I thought. You know, I just feel like I have this amazing imagination in my head. You guys, and I'm pretty sure you are way more better than what I think.

I'm pretty sure. But do you really guys want to know? No, I don't. Speak my saying. We'll just leave it at that. Okay, see ya. No, we've got to take the blindfold off. We've got to do this.

Okay. When you're ready. Vaughn, are you ready? I'm ready. Why were you stroking a pose? What are you doing? Should I suck it in my cheeks? Vaughn's trying to do this. Okay. When you're ready. Vaughn, are you ready? I'm ready. Why were you stroking a pose? What are you doing? Should I suck it in my cheeks? Vaughn's trying to do a sexy pose.

Oh, God. I can't do it now. It's going to be obvious I'm doing a sexy pose. Okay. Let's take the blindfold off. Oh, this is awful. Okay. Three.

Oh, God. Three, two, one. Whoa! Whoa! You're blonde! Oh god 3 2 1 Woah You're blonde How come you're blonde You're similar I'm not naturally blonde Oh my god I'm shaking

Just when you went like that Were you like double chin or beard What were you implying With the chin thing When you Boy Born's out He's out Oh my god hi with the chin thing. Bye! Vaughn's out.

He's out. Oh my God. Hi. Hi. You can't see your double chin, Vaughn. The beard covers it. Oh my God. I'm shaking. All right.

He's left even more now. Is he okay? He's gone. Fletch, spot on. Spot on. Skinny I think you're tall Did you hear her say skinny

She's here Skinny Tall Like yeah Skinny Stop it Megan I'm just messaging

The Prime Minister To see if we can get this one Deported back to wherever She came from I don't know this Vaughn I think you're gonna have To give Vaughn a compliment now.

Yeah, yeah. Gosh, I can't believe this is happening. Seriously, guys. I just feel like you guys are part of the family, my family at least, because, you know, so many years listening to you guys is so relatable. Like, when I arrived

about, let's say, 10 years ago and I started listening to you guys, you know, as you can hear, I'm not from New Zealand, I started listening to you guys you know as you can hear I'm not from New Zealand even though I'm citizen so no you can't get me out yeah you know so um I have to learn and how to you know practice my pronunciation you know over the while I talk on the phone so what I used to do a lot is listen to the radio and listen to you guys and only thing I can hear is no matter what I say to say a lot is listen to the radio and listen to you guys. And the only thing I can hear is, no matter what I say, to say a sentence and then laugh because it sounds like it works, you know.

So, like, how are you? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, God. Ha, ha, ha. You know. That's basically the radio show. You've ruined everybody who's coming here to try to learn English from us because you laugh at everything.

Well, you just laugh after everything that makes it all funny, doesn't it? Exactly. So, yeah. Megan, your English is perfect. So, I've been learning so much from you, you know. And every time I hear your stories about kids, I have a kid. And I'm like, well, now I know what not to do. Every time you talk about your stuff.

I'm glad someone's learning something. Annabelle, thank you so much for coming in. Thank you, guys. You're amazing. Flesh, Vaugh you so much for coming in. Thank you guys, you're amazing. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Today's fact of the day is about 10 Downing Street.

Oh, okay. Boris Johnson's moving in, isn't he? That's right. So we're likely to see it on the news. It has been the official residence of the British Prime Minister since 1735. Wow. It's London's White House. I've never heard that comparison, but I suppose it is.

It's where the President always lives. Or Prime Minister, sorry. It's weird because it's just on a street, eh? Yeah. Does she have to get the carpets cleaned? Like commercially cleaned or anything? Before she moves out. Get your bond back.

Do you get allocated a budget to kind of make it a bit more you? Because they go through, they've been getting through the prime minister. I know they do, the White House they do. Yeah, they do, don't they? Because Trump made it a bit more crap. 10 Downing Street was constructed by Sir Thomas...

In 1581, he arrested Guy Fawkes. The guy that won the parliament. Yeah. God, and all these years later, all those baby boomers complaining about fireworks. Yeah, well, everybody complains about fireworks. Not just baby boomers. I know, but they seem to...

No, they love it. They love it the most. They're kind of like the most for it, aren't they? On a whole? Because they don't want to see PC madness. That's PC madness. Right, okay. Maybe it's a psychograph rather than a demograph.

Oh, it is hard when you've got your animals in there going crazy. Yeah, totally. So today's fact of the day about 10 Downing Street is that, if you are familiar with 10 Downing Street, the brick is black. Well, originally 10 Downing Street was yellow. Ew. It was blackened by the smog during the Industrial Revolution. What?

The bricks got covered in smog and the bricks kind of absorbed it. Right. What do you call it when something's slightly absorbent? Porous. Porous, yeah. You know how I remember that? The SpongeBob intro song. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

SpongeBob SquarePants. And something porous is he. Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. Right. Much like 10 Downing Street used to be. Much like 10 Downing Street was yellow as well. And porous. But didn't live under the sea.

No. But anyway, in the 60s, they cleaned it a little bit. And everyone was like, oh, my God, they've painted it a ghastly yellow. But it wasn't. Right. It had just been cleaned. So they painted it black because that was what everybody had come to know it. Right.

As and preferred it to be. It was easier and more aesthetically. It looks more chic. Yeah, well, I mean, black painted brick. Oh, it looks so nice. Our place is brick and we're definitely, because it's orange brick. Yeah, I know.

Wasn't that a weird move in the 80s when everyone was building houses out of orange brick? They're like, let's make orange houses. Yeah, it is weird. Yeah. But then when you paint, if you painted your orange brick house, once you painted it, you can't go back.

You can't go back. But then no one's going to go back to orange bricks, are they? No, no. I just can't see in the future us being like, I wish that brick was orange again with brown specks in it. Are you thinking like a charcoal or a black? Charcoal. Oh, yeah, that would look very cool.

Yeah. Well, I've been a massive fan of painted brick forever and a day. You remember one of my favourite episodes of Grand Designs. She came in under budget. She did it all herself. Yeah. And she painted the brick white and everyone warned her off it, but she painted the brick white and it looked smashing.

Yeah. It looked like, I'm going to find out what episode of Grand Designs this is and give you a season and an episode. This woman, everyone, she's just so chill. She did it all herself and it looked great and she came in under budget and she got it finished before she thought she would and she painted the brick white. Don't doubt yourself. Don't doubt yourself.

Well, no, you should doubt yourself because like 90% of people don't get it finished. Afterwards, the repayments cripple them. But this woman is, you know, someone to look up to. She really did fantastically. So today, we just had a little bit of brick painting chat there. And I know you've got to get a special sort of paint. Oh, do you? Yeah, yeah.

You can't just rock in with whatever's cheapest on special. You've actually got to get a special sort of paint if you want to paint bricks. Because apparently they breathe or something? I painted my bookshelf at the weekend. My shelves, not bookshelf, shelves. I had to ask the guy at the store. Did you do a primer?

Yeah, I did three coats. So did you do one primer and then two coats? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. That's real hard because my hand hurt. Yeah, that's why I get my carpal tunnel from painting my bloody cafe.

I'm not made for the trade of life. We're not made for physical labor. No, it's hard. We're just made to sit on chairs and talk rubbish about painting bricks. That's the closest we can be. I'm exhausted. Maybe I've got a bit of that from the painting because my wrists have been a little bit sore. Really?

Oh, my God. Got tingly fingers? Numb fingers? I'm good. I'm getting tired from all the talking. Well then you're screwed. What are you going to do? Friday, you know. Us tradies are going to relax

and have a couple of beers after tomorrow. Why go through so many monster energies on the way to the job site? It's a long day. And if I don't get one, I just get such a headache. I should have another one just to get rid of this headache. So today's fact of the day is 10 Downing Street, and you'll probably see it on the news this weekend

when Boris Johnson moves in, and you can say, do you know those bricks there? They were originally yellow, but they've painted them black because people thought yellow was yuck, and they were not wrong. Yep. That's today's fact of the day. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Oh. A flute. So nice. So nice at the end there. Is that a flute? It's a saxophone, guys. Yeah, that's not a flute. No, it sounded like a flute. You can play that last bit again. No, it doesn't sound like a flute. So nice. So nice at the end there. Is that a flute? It's a saxophone, guys. Yeah, that's not a flute. No, it sounded like a flute.

You can play that last bit again. It doesn't sound like a flute. It's a saxophone. Everyone knows it's a saxophone. No, I know there's a saxophone in the band, but it just sounded like someone just put it down and just pulled out a flute for a little bit. I can't play the end of it.

I'd have to fast forward the whole song. We all agree it was a flute. It's a flute, guys. It's all... Even the people in the band. Let's ask Drag Project for official word on that. Yes, confirmed. It's a flute. Yes!

The whole song is a flute. It's not even a saxophone. It's a really jazzy flute. The most brutal flute ever. Now, what have you guys been doing? A lot of stuff, though. So many things. We've been a lot of places. We've been writing a lot of music in Los Angeles.

Yeah. Which has been really fun. And we went to do some shows in Europe. With? With Christina Aguilera. You're so coy about all this stuff. No, we did our own shows. I was getting there.

All right. We did our own shows too. Do we have any Christina Aguilera goss? Some Christina goss. What did she do for the encore? She did like a medley. She did a medley.

She did. I'm not a fan of medleys. Okay. The way she did it was awesome. Oh, really? It was really cool.

Okay. There was a couple medleys. There was one thing where she did really early like Disney tunes and she did some stuff from, it was really, it was really sick because like she played her like really, really early like Disney tunes and she did some stuff from it was really

it was really sick because like she played her like really really early stuff Genie in a Bottle well yeah that too but yeah what was the movie that she's on

um Pocahontas yeah yeah yeah she sang Pocahontas because she sang it was sick okay right

it was cool though and she has very sparkly outfits yeah some goss some goss some positive goss her band is amazing yeah okay and they were really nice and they talked to us like and they gave us like props and stuff so they let you hang very sparkly outfits. Some goss, some goss, some positive goss. Her band is amazing.

Yeah. And they were really nice and they talked to us and they gave us props. So they let you hang with the band but not her? Oh, she was around

but we met her once but she's like makeup, costumes, you know, all that stuff. Wow, okay.

Did you get like a special changing room backstage with your name on it and stuff? We had a paper printed out thing. Someone wrote with N. No, no, no.

Vivid. It was vivid. Oh, okay. What was it stuck on with though? Probably sellotape or just like in the little. Yeah. Oh, they had a holder? Maybe a bit of blue tape.

I was going to say blue tape. Sellotape's going to save a lot of blue tape. You're just like, oh. Probably blue tape. To be honest, I'm not sure, guys. Yeah, right. It all adds up. You know, it paints a picture. Yeah, it paints a picture of what you guys have like, oh. Probably Blu-Tack. To be honest, I'm not sure, guys. Yeah, right. It all adds up, you know,

it paints a picture. Yeah, it paints a picture of what you guys have been up to. Who else have you been rubbing shoulders with in LA? A whole bunch

of different writers We actually just saw we hung out with 660 there. Yeah, that was cool. We had a barbecue with them. That was awesome actually. They came around

and who else? Did some manus in the pool. Do you guys have a nicer house? Do you guys have a nicer place over there than them? I don't even have like a um like a spot i think they go from different airbnbs like not sure they weren't there for too long but do you have a place there like if we're over there we've been airbnbing as well but yeah yeah it's all good but it's got a pool we got a little pool that's yeah that's you it's you gotta cool down it's just a little one yeah okay hey don't point down oh you can do a manu or two right yeah not too many

people doing manu's at once your bum does hit the ground that happens in the deepest pool though if you've got a good technique that's true that's true that's all on your technique yeah that's true how you how far down you get so well no actually you don't want to go too far down that means you're more cannonball no you're right yeah don't tuck the legs in don't want to go too far down No Because that means you're more cannonball No you're right Don't tuck the legs in Don't tuck the legs in Because what you do is

You go in at an angle And then you release And then that's what makes the splash I wouldn't mind getting some tutorials Because I'm not a Manu guy But Matt the drummer is And we did a Manu at the same time Just the other day

And my splash was bigger You're like you're coming along. Just saying, I'm just saying, I've been, my manu has been increasing. Can you vouch for that, Sam? Pardon?

Was his splash bigger? He didn't say, I got it on video though. I'll find it. Yeah, I'll need a judge. I'll send it to you. You look at me, I've got the girth

and like the mass to be, I'd be good at it. And the beard. Yeah, well the beard should play a bigger part but no, I've never been good at it. And the beard. Yeah, well, the beard should play a bigger part, but no, it doesn't. I've never been good at it. Maybe it softens the money.

It absorbs the shock. Yes. Water's like no further. So you guys are playing tomorrow night at Auckland's Town Hall. That's sold out. Sold out. Tough if you want tickets to that. But Christchurch Town Hall, that show is next Friday,

the 2nd of August, and there are a few tickets for that. Yeah. We're very excited to get back down to Christchurch. It that show is next Friday the 2nd of August and there are a few tickets for that yeah we're very excited to get back down to Christchurch it's been a while get your tickets they're almost gone

I think I'm just guessing it says in bold here few more tickets there we go I wasn't lying that can't be many and we got some

great opening acts as well Kristen Aguilera no maybe it's rude that she doesn't return the favour.

So rude. Imagine. We've got Fortunes and we've got Paige and they're some of our favourite New Zealand artists or New Zealand-y artists. Yeah, cool.

So it's going to be awesome. Awesome. Fantastic. How long are you actually home for? Any plans to do some chill out? We've had two days. We just arrived on Wednesday.

And we're going to be here for a couple of weeks. I've eaten fish and chips three times in two days. What have you been in LA? You can't get a good fish and chips. You can't get a good crumb fish. They put orange cheese on everything. Oh, look, it's not good. You miss the food when you leave New Zealand, don't you?

Definitely miss it. Pies. Honestly, but fish and chips is a sought after... Commodity? Delicacy. A commodity. You can trade in it. Honestly, someone should start some good New Zealand fish and chips shops around the world.

Surely there'd be. Nah, there isn't. Honestly, in the UK, there's some fish and chips, but it's a little bit different. They've got mushy peas. They have like a weird store in LA, and it's called like the New Zealand store or something, and apparently you can get frozen fish and chips, which is kind of whack.

It's not the same. Like a hokey filled or something. I won't hear of it. You know what's really hard to get is actually Waddy's dinosaur. A lot of Heinz, not a lot of Waddy's. Yeah, right. Well, you've got to take it back with you, don't you? I might be able to do that.

I've just Googled fish and chips in LA.a catch 56 is rocking a 4.6 okay okay let me see those photos yeah yeah okay let's do some investigation here yeah look at that that's not our fish and chips look at that fish and if wadis is that looks a little bit that looks like kfc yeah yeah it does these guys need some bowl come tomato sauce to take that. Matt literally, like when we're on tour, he has like a bottle of tomato sauce, Wattie's tomato sauce that he carries around like in his sports bag, like in the drink bottle holder.

It's not even refrigerated. Ready to go at any point in time. Monster. Always refrigerate your sauce. Guys, thanks for coming in. We'll catch you back next time. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM.

There's lots of puppies and kittens and bunnies and every animal actually that need your help and for the 11th year we're just pausing to welcome Vaughan back into the studio because you gave me crap about my poo-sies yesterday. Vaughan's been having poo troubles this morning.

Yeah, weird. So your third visit this morning. Second, yeah, it is actually my third visit this morning. How'd it go? Everything go well? That was a, well, I feel rushed. Okay, well, anyway, we're meant to help. We've got to help some animals.

It's good that you can join us back, Vaughn. That is what I'm just doing. Oh, okay. For the 11th year in a row, so happening on Monday the 5th of August, it is SPCA's Cupcake Day. So they need people to bake cupcakes. In fact, they need about 95 more people to make their total, to raise their total.

So they're looking at making $300,000 this year and that will help the 41,000 animals that go through their doors every year. So to put it in perspective, six cupcakes, if you sell six cupcakes for $5, that can give a bed, blankets to a cat or a dog in need. Right. 15 cupcakes will help a sick and injured animal

receive vet examination and 77 cupcakes will help a dog, give a dog a new loving home. So, yeah, they need quite a few people to make the cupcakes and then sell them and then you give the proceeds, obviously, to the SPCA. So I'm imagining this is all over the country. All over the country. So if you can spare some ingredients, a kitchen and some time ahead of next Monday? It is August the 5th.

So you've got a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks away. Okay, so not this coming Monday, the Monday after. Yeah, okay. Right. And if you do see someone, like if you can't make the cupcakes, if you see someone selling them, $5 a cupcake and you heard the stats, it can really help out the animals.

Nice. If you want to help out the animals. Nice. If you want to help out, what do people do? You can register at spcacupcakeday.co.nz. All right. Thanks for asking that question. No, it's all right because people might have been listening, wondering how they can. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

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