ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - June 07 2019

Episode Date: June 7, 2019

Star of X Men and Tolkien - Nicholas Hoult joins us on the phone, Friday Flashback and when did a vet insult your pet?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan are from our Dunedin studios this morning after another fantastic night of Cha-Chingo Bingo, wrapping up season one. Oh, okay, cute. Yeah, cute. We're like a TV show on Netflix.

Season one of Cha-Chingo Bingo. I think we've got to bring this back. Success, don't you you think Do we say that About ourselves Or do the Viewers need to say it I think everybody Who makes a TV show

At the end of it Is like that was pretty good But then it's up to How many people Or it's up to the network If we get Season two Are we going to be renewed

We'll do that thing Where they're like It's not happening again And then And then people's like Yeah that won't happen again I don't think No

On the show today Special guest Nicholas Holt Joins us Just after Or just before Eight o'clock this morning That's right

He's in two movies That opened yesterday X-Men Dark Phoenix And also Tolkien Tolkien The story of J.R.R. Tolkien The guy behind

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings worlds He plays Tolkien And let's not forget That he was What was it Tolkien, the story of J.R.R. Tolkien, the guy behind The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings worlds. He plays Tolkien. And let's not forget that he was, what was it, where he was a boy with Hugh Grant. About a boy. And he was in Skins. Yeah.

He's done so much. He's been in a great lot of content. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, I've scoured the news internet for three news headlines, three news stories, quirky, humorous, odd stories. I'll give you three headlines.

Vaughan and Megan, you must pick one only. Headline one, man finds fortune in cookies. Headline two, Operation Meltdown. And headline three, Florida man clears Walmart of evil spirits. Operation Meltdown, is that a nuclear meltdown? No, but I know that meltdowns are all the rage at the moment.

Or historical meltdowns anyway. Right, yeah, nuclear meltdowns, general workplace meltdowns. Have you listened to the podcast yet after the last episode of Chernobyl? Not after the fifth episode, no. Oh, so good. If you've been watching Chernobyl, listen to the podcast yet after the last episode of Chernobyl? Not after the fifth episode, no. Oh, so good. If you've been watching Chernobyl, listen to the podcast, Speaking of Meltdowns.

It just kind of explains what they do in the show. I love a TV show with an accompanying podcast, and I know there's going to be one for Handmaid's Tale. Yeah, that's awesome. The third season of Handmaid's Tale is going to have an accompanying podcast with special guests and stuff from the show. Yeah, you can find that at iHeartRadio. Who asked, was it Caitlin?

She's not here today. She's in Sydney. She asked if there's a season two of Chernobyl. Yeah. Yeah. I mean. And she said,

I said, what would you believe that would entail? And she said, just cleaning up. She's not wrong. They could just do a whole. I mean,

they could. Probably enough stuff's happened. Yeah. Okay. So, which headline's tickling your fancy? She's not wrong They could just do a whole I mean they could Probably enough stuff's happened Yeah Okay So which headlines Tickling your fancy The fortune cookies Man finds fortune in cookies Operation meltdown

Or Florida man Clears Walmart Is that his operation Is the fortune cookies Because I know there was a guy That won a massive Powerball jackpot Using fortune And he I only saw that Where he got the numbers cookies, because I know there was a guy that won a massive Powerball jackpot using fortune.

And he, I only saw where he got the numbers. You'll be amazed. You know one of those clickbait headlines, so I didn't click on it, but you're saying fortune cookies. Yeah. So it was his number from fortune cookies. But I've never seen fortune cookies with numbers. Oh, I have. Sometimes they come up with a bunch of

numbers. I don't like fortune cookies because they're yuck. Yeah, they don't taste good. Oh, I love Sometimes they come up with a bunch of numbers. I don't like fortune cookies because they're yuck. Yeah, they don't taste good. Oh, I love them. Make a yum one, like with a minty chocolate filling, a minty biscuit. Some of them are dipped, like half of it's dipped in white chocolate. They're delicious. Okay, you're not eating the right fortune cookies because that sounds right in your wheelhouse.

Yeah, okay. So, number two, meltdown. Meltdown. Okay, Operation Meltdown. Wow, 46 ice cream trucks have been seized by owners in New York City who have allegedly amassed 22,000 traffic fines, totaling $4.5 million since 2009. Whoa. T-Zones. Apparently. So police launched Operation Meltdown.

Great name for an operation against ice cream trucks. Yeah. They launched this after truck owners amassed all these tickets. So obviously weren't, you know, they were parking wherever they wanted. Yeah. They were running red lights and they were just doing it so, what would you call? Frequently. Frequently.

And just did not GAF at all. So it turns out that they created shell companies for their ice cream businesses. And so they couldn't track, the city couldn't track down the owners. Oh my God, they're like vigilantes. They'd registered their ice cream truck to some shell corporation that was probably registered the city couldn't track down the owners. Oh, my God. They're like vigilantes. They'd register their ice cream truck to some shell corporation that was probably registered four different times in a million different countries. Yeah. And they couldn't track down these people to give them the fines.

And over 10 years, 4.5 million in fines. So they just rolled around collecting all the ice cream. Parking on... We own this city. Yeah, they'd park over pedestrian crossings, crossways, because they wanted to sell ice creams. Didn't care. Right.

And, yeah, apparently arrested all these few people who ran a lot of these ice cream trucks. Oh. And they have seized the vehicles, 46 of them. Oh, my God. I don't know if they're going to be able to sell 46 ice cream trucks and make anywhere... And the people...

Look at the people running, whoever they've arrested. Mug shots of three people. They do not look like the sort of people you would buy ice cream. They look like they've been arrested on meth possession

or something. Dad, can we have an ice cream? Not from that guy. Not from that guy at all. Why don't they just have a cart? Like have a little stall like all the other vendors in New York.

Well, they did. They did. No, but they had a truck. Well, truck stall, yeah a truck Well that's true yeah Had a stall on the footpath I think you've still got to have like permits and stuff So yeah Could you do that here?

Could you register your car to a shell company? Go through that tunnel That costs $2.50 and not ever pay I don't know enough about Shell companies And tax evasion, as I'm a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen. But it does sound great not being able to pay tax, though, eh?

It has its appeals. It has its appeals. I saw this on Reddit, but it comes from a Facebook page called the Petone Beach Cleanup Crew. Now, these are people who, as their name suggests, Let me guess. Tronu, yes. Clean up the beach at Petone.

Correct, yes. Very well done. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, that's really awesome. They've got a little bit of a collective in doing it. So, basically, they put up a photo. It's a yellow plastic bag. And on the yellow plastic bag, it says,

Kentucky Fried Chicken, corn on the cob. And it's got a very old drawing of the colonel, not a modern take on the colonel. Okay. This looks old. Even the font on it is quite an old-looking font. So they write on this, Question, does anyone know what country this Kentucky Fried Chicken corn cob bag comes from or how old it is? I never remember, as a kid kid there being corn on a cob

from KFC in a plastic bag. No, I can't remember that either. We probably wouldn't have opted for corn because mum would have said we've got corn at home. Which we always have corn at home. And you can have one piece of chucken. This was found washed up on Petone Beach hidden in the mulch. That's what this poster says.

By a volunteer called Chris on Monday at the beach cleanup. The reason it's interesting is that KFC told me that they have not used corn cob packaging in New Zealand. Okay. And secondly, Kentucky Fried Chicken shortened their name to KFC on their branding in New Zealand in 1991. Wow. So if that was from New Zealand, it would be 27 years old. Wow.

And that bag is in pristine condition. Yes. It's in really good. It's got a couple of holes on it from maybe where something got pushed against it and went through. But it hasn't deteriorated. Yeah. It already did. Well, it's come from another country, which is even more concerning, isn't it?

Yeah. But that's still doubtful because other countries don't call it Kentucky Fried Chicken, do they? No. Well, no, they haven't for years. And you're right, the colonel looks different. Oh, it's old. He looks older. Yeah, it looks like an older colonel.

Yeah. It definitely doesn't look like it's the last decade. It's heartbreaking, isn't it? Because it's like when they get those dolphins or whales and they're full of plastic bags and you see shots from Southeast Asia or if you've been to Southeast Asia, it's all the plastic and rubbish on the beach. Yeah. It's so sad.

And plastic bags are a big offender. I've just Googled KFC corn in a bag. I can't really see it anywhere. Like any modern photos of corn cobs in bags. So it must be really old or from a completely different country. And old. Which again is bad. Because again, I can't remember corn on a cob

ever being served. They still do a bean salad. The three bean salad. Who's buying that, eh? No one. No one's going out of their way to buy a bean salad. If you buy the three bean salad, you've made a huge mistake.

You should have bought just another extra large side of gravy. Or slaw. Or gravy. Just a whole thing of gravy. The slaw's pretty legit. Yeah, good slaw. The bean's not. Yeah.

Yeah. But we don't need a plastic bag, do we? No. No. Certainly don't. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

This is a nuts story out of Australia. A home that's been valued at $1.7 million. Okay. This is modern pricing. Has been, the ownership of that has been claimed by a man who has claimed the title under squatters' rights. So you hear about this, this is like a UK thing. I thought it was far more of a British thing. Yeah.

Than it was Australian. But apparently there is some rule in Australian property law that kind of can identify squatters' rights. And it's kind of a long story. It starts in 1998 where a guy called Bill Gertos, he owned properties. He was a property developer. On the same street as this house is, he was visiting one of his tenants. They said something about this house down the street. They said it was neglected

and that he didn't believe anybody was living in it. So he went in and he found the house in quite a bad state. Okay. He asked the neighbours and they said, well, the last tenant was a lady called Phyllis and she died last year. But it's just been sitting there empty. There was no door on the back door or anything.

So he, I don't know why, in 1998 thought, I'm going to make this into a livable situation, rent it out and start claiming the rent on this property that I don't own. Nuts. Because I guess he just figured if no one had come within a year and no one had put it for sale and real estate agents didn't know anything about it and the property title was sketchy.

He just thought, I'll do it. So in 1998, he spent $35,000 getting the home up to reasonable value. And that's a gamble. I know. You don't know that the actual owners aren't going to come along. And then in 2014, he spent a further $100,000. I'm imagining the equity alone, like how much that house had improved in value. He really hadn't spent anything on it.

So it turns out the guy that did own it had died in 1947 without leaving a proper will listing all of his assets. So this was kind of lost in red tape and this grey area and the family didn't really know about it. Well, who was Phyllis? Phyllis was just living in there. But she was paying somebody rent. So I don't know if she'd been living in there so long that the guy that

died in 1947, because it happened in 98, so she might have been living there since she was young and just lived there forever. Yeah, right. And not paid any rent. So it turns out that the family, extended family, find out that they're entitled to the ownership of this house.

Yeah. So they come and they say, well, that's our house. And he said, well, I've spent all this money on it and you didn't know about it. And so he started legal proceedings. He apparently said to the family at the very start of it, he said, I'll pay you a whole lot of money for this house because I've put money into it. And obviously it's worth this much. So I'll give you some money. And they said, no, we don't want that.

We want the house. We're entitled to the house, to which their lawyers and his lawyers both advised them that they were in a real grey area and they might not come out of this with anything. And they didn't. He was legally given the house. So how long do you have to squat in a house to get it? It's different everywhere and it kind of depends on, like, this was a really unusual case.

Lawyers have said that. A really unusual case. Because the sensible, common sense thing would be... Give it back to the family. Give it back to the... You don't own this house. You never bought it. Yeah.

Yeah. Not a legal argument, but he said if he hadn't stepped in, it would have been a real blight on the street. It would have been a rat-infested squalor. And he said, why should these people who didn't even know their granddad well enough to know how much property he had be entitled to anything that he owned? Yeah, right. Yeah, but that doesn't mean, why should he be entitled to it?

Because he was there and he believes he is. Finders, keepers, I've done it up. Well, New Zealand doesn't have a squatters law, does it? Because he was there and he believes he is? Finders keepers, I've done it up. Well, New Zealand doesn't have a squatters law, does it? No, but Britain does

and Britain's is even looser. Like, yeah, if you just don't use a house and someone's been living in it for however many days, they can claim a stake to it. See you later.

Not your house anymore. Yeah. That is a nut story. Yeah. $1.8 million is what it's been valued at. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. There is a new app that I want to talk about.

You can get this in New Zealand. It is awesome. It is called Foodprint. So one third of the food that is produced for human consumption is wasted. Yeah. Which is a scary stat. And you know I'm the worst at this. I buy like, I'm at the weekend. I'm like, I Yeah. Which is a scary stat. And you know, I'm the worst at this.

I buy like, I'm at the weekend, I'm like, I'm going to have a healthy week. And I get some vegetables and then they go mushy in the vegetable thing in the fridge. The greatest intentions. Yeah. I like to play a game where you have to make something out of what you've got. Oh yeah, sometimes I do that too. Yeah, it ends up being pretty hard. And then I'm like, oh, I need to go to the supermarket and get some more ingredients. I think that's called dad risotto, isn't it?

Yeah. Making something out of what you've already got. Well, there is a new app. It's called Foodprint. You can download this. And then this is something that I'm not sure about other cities in New Zealand, but Auckland has adopted this because I can see some Auckland eateries are on it. So basically, if they have food left over, it could be the next morning.

So if you're a bakery and then there's bread, I guess you don't want to serve it because it's a day old now. It could be like a cafe at the end of the day. They've got like things that they can't keep over for the next day, sandwiches and whatnot. They sell them for 50% less or they put a heavy discount on them. So you can go onto this app and basically there's a list of eateries and you can see what they've got left over. It gives you a time to collect as well. So say there is, I can just see them here. They've got the, how many are left? So a chicken, Caesar, rat, there's three left. They were $12.50. They're selling them at $4.25. So you can just go through a list. There's sushi,

there is bakeries on here. Would you be rolling the dice on some of this stuff with chicken that's been in, I mean, it'd be refrigerated all day. Refrigerated. No, well, I guess it's still, the eatery's still selling it. So they're still obliged to keep it. Yeah. To abide by health and safety rules. Like, it would still be okay to eat.

So at your cafe that you've just started. Yeah. What do you do at the end of the day when you've got, like, things left over? So we don't really have a lot of stuff in our cabinet left over, but if we do, the staff take it home. For free? Yeah. We're talking like one or two things.

No, because people will come in and they'll be like, oh, do you have any of those donuts or slices left? I'll be like, sold out. Sold out, sorry. And I would have kept them under the counter. All real gone. But we were looking at maybe registering people around the area. Maybe there's a retirement village around the area as well. Registering that and then taking, if we had larger quantities of food, just taking it to those places or families in need or something like that.

Yeah, right. So this is actually a really good idea for things that are left over. And some of those places are ooh-la-la that are on this app. Yeah. Like you'd be getting some cheap discounts. I'm like going to sign up for it because even if you're just like in the city and you want cheap dinner, it's such a great idea. They're like half price.

There's a Reuben sandwich on here for $3.45. What's a Reuben sandwich? What's a Reuben sandwich? It's gherkins. What's the meatuben sandwich? What's a Reuben sandwich? It's gherkins. What's the meat in it? Pastrami. Gherkins.

Is it a sauerkraut? Is it Cuban of origin? The Reuben or is it? It's like a tangy pastrami. Or like a Jewish deli situation from New York, I think. Is there like a chutney in that or some kind of liquid? Liquid. I don't know there's a Russian Russian dressing

that says Russian dressing. Okay good because it sounded very dry. Corned beef also an option Swiss cheese sauerkraut

and Russian dressing. Oh yum okay. Yeah. And pickles sometimes. Okay so what's the name of that app again? It is called Reuben Sandwich.

No the app. No the app is called Foodprint. Good. All one word. Because we need to start wasting less food, don't we, as humans? Russian dressing is apparently just mayonnaise with sauce in it. What? Tomato sauce?

Yeah, yeah, it's mayonnaise with tomato sauce in it. Oh, God. Russia, originally. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Three men are saying they want to have a straight Pride march. So the difference between a march and a parade is a parade sounds happy and a march sounds slightly aggressive.

It does. Now, so what? It's Pride Month in the US. Correct. And all their states and cities are having their pride parades and events. Yes, and three men who identify as straight say that they're not happy with the airtime ratio of, and they say there's nothing wrong with being straight, so we should plan to have a parade or a march on the 31st of August.

No one's ever said there's anything wrong with being straight. And what do you think your airtime has been from ever to now? You never hear of someone being attacked because they're straight. You never hear of somebody being bullied for being straight. You haven't heard of somebody not getting a job because they're straight, whereas being gay, bisexual, transgender, all of those have that history associated to them.

So the Pride Month is to be proud of who you are, to not be ashamed of it, and that's not something that straight people have ever really faced. Exactly. This is like, you know, this winds you up when it's International Women's Day. Men's International Men's Day. There is like, you know, this winds you up when it's International Women's Day. Yeah. And people are like, what are the men's... When's International Men's Day?

There is International Men's Day. November 15th or something. Yeah, November something. So you can wait for that day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Calm your fear. But luckily the internet's got most people's back. Yeah.

Because the internet has responded brilliantly. These are the top six things you will see at the Straight Pride Parade. And this is actually based on straight people I know. So you can't say I'm making these up. You can't say I'm being straightist. Or straightphobic. Number six. Lots of straight men who gay

men would never sleep with, but these straight men are under the illusion that they're some sort of mega gay magnet. Get away from me. Yuck. You want to sleep with me? You gays, you want to sleep with me? Rate yourself. You gays, you want to sleep with me? No.

No, Barry. No. No. God. You seen all the hot gay men that we can sleep with before we sleep with you? Nothing there is getting me. Number five on the list

of the top six things you'll see at the Straight Pride Parade. One of the floats is a big bed and in the bed is a guy wearing a t-shirt that says, The Man, The Legend. And he's jamming it in his wife's back and she's saying, Not now, not tonight.

Straight Pride. I like this parade. Straight Pride. Yes. Number four on the list of the top six things you'll see at a Straight Pride Parade. A lovely big gut and a white stained singlet. And hairy, hairy shoulders. Now there's nothing wrong with that. No. And hairy Pride Parade, a lovely big gut and a white stained singlet and hairy hairy shoulders. Now

there's nothing wrong with that. No. And hairy shoulders you could also see at gay Pride Parades but generally teaming hairy shoulders up with leather vests and arseless chaps. Yes. Slightly more. Bears. Yeah, bear daddies is what we're talking about there. Identified.

Number three on the list of the top six things you'll see at a straight pride parade. Again, all these things I've seen. Ill-fitting jeans. Heaps. Heaps of really ill-fitting jeans. Yeah. Teamed up with sneakers and their old whitey brown New Balances. And the laces on the sneakers broke, but they just tied them back together.

Yeah. Not to be confused with actual loose jeans now and white shoes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wow. Number two on the list of the top six things you'll see at a straight pride parade, the straight pride rainbow. Oh, okay.

And you know, like the rainbow, red and yellow and pink and green. Yeah, the traditional rainbow. The traditional rainbow adopted by the LGBTQI plus community. Yeah. The straight pride rainbow has a song too. Cream and beige and khaki and tan. Pebble and off-white and brown. Just a lovely range of those.

Straight pride flag doesn't look as good, does it? Nah. Nah. It looks like someone put a sepia filter on it. Yeah. And number one on the top six things you'll see at a straight Pride parade, if this happens, August 31st in Boston, insecurity. You will have a wonderful view of all the insecurities.

That is today's top six. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM. So away from home for a couple of days This week And one of the things that was happening while I was away at home Was that a vet was coming to visit Okay For your goats

For the goats And also this is the first vet visit since we got two sheep Which I said to everybody don't give them names Because crockpot But They got named. So they're Heather and Hannah. So these are like your goats.

They rescue sheep. No. So somebody was selling some sheep. Their dog got kicked in the head by a horse and they needed to liquidate. Their dog got kicked in the head by one of their horses and they needed to liquidate some stock assets. So they said I've got some like turn them into money Megan.

But to save the dog? Yeah, yeah. The dog's mounting vet bills. Oh. Good lord. Put the dog down. Oh yeah, that's the country answer but

Yeah, okay. No. Are you serious? No. So, but I mean that's by the by. This is how I came by the sheep. They were selling them, and they're Suffolk sheep.

So they're the white ones with the black heads. They're cute, aren't they? Yeah, they look like black sheep with a woolly coat on. They got a blanket around them. So anyway, when I got Heather and Hannah, I thought, these are some big units. You can't say that. You can't fat shame sheep. No, I didn't fat shame them.

I was like, these are just some big units. Well, that's fat shaming. Because I've never dealt with Suffolk. My grandparents, I don't even know what the breed were. They were just bog standard bloody whiteys growing up. See, sheep are sheep to me. I'd do you to say to an actual Heather or Helen, these are big units.

No, Heather or Hannah. Or Hannah. Say it to an actual Heather or Hannah and say what you get that's a human I wouldn't say it to a human don't do it to a sheep if they had to be trailered to my house

I probably would tell a Hannah that she's a big unit so I said that's some big units and then I had to drench them so I had to get them I had to corner them

grab them flip them on their back and drench them and I was like these are some I haven't played rugby for a long time. That was real sexy up until that drench bit. I had to grab the big girl.

I had to corner her. Flip her over. Flip her over. And then stick a drench gun in her mouth. So I had to drench them. And I was like, these are, and my dad was laughing at me because he was there. Not helping, just laughing. He's like, those are, like, big units. And anyway, yesterday, the me because he was there. Not helping, just laughing. He's like, those are like big units.

And anyway, yesterday the vet came in my absence. It's the first time she's seen the sheep. She diagnosed them as morbidly obese. Oh, wow. Do you know studies just come out today that as New Zealanders, we don't like it when the doctor says you're morbidly obese. But it does. I'm not sure you can't say to the doctor doctor no, I'm not happy with this cancer diagnosis.

You can't argue with the doctor using medical terms to describe your condition. I don't think you need a study to tell us that we wouldn't like that though. I know. But apparently we don't like it. How are they deathly chubby? I don't know. Your cute chubbiness is so cute

you're going to kill yourself. But at least your sheep You need to lose a little bit. A little bit of cuteness because the rest of us need some of your cuteness. But at least your sheep can't feel offended.

They can't feel offended but um You are. Because I knew that but Sade was like you're morbidly your base is a bit much. Wait a minute.

How can sheep be fat? Like all they eat is grass. Just shear them and then they lose a little bit. That's the thing. It's like when I grow my beard out and then I shave it short and people are like, have you lost weight? I'm like, oh, thanks. But it's not.

It's just that. But apparently, even if we shore them, shed them, sheared them, shorn them, they'd still be quite fat. Oh, really? Yeah. Ouch. But they only eat grass, but the problem is there's two sheep in this massive paddock because they haven't got around to getting any more sheep.

So it's like going into a chocolate factory that no one's there and you can eat all of it. Well, it's like, what should humans eat, like, lots of? Five plus a day. Like fruit and vegetables. You imagine just eating fruit nonstop. You're just putting banana in your gob after banana in your gob after banana in your gob. It's a lot of sugar.

It's a lot of potassium. Yeah, so you can get fat off stuff that's good for you if you have too much access to it. Sure. So that's basically what's happened with the... But, great excuse for when we're at the field days next week, I get to buy some electric fencing. Oh my God. I'm not going around with you shopping electric. Strap those shiny red bands on, my friend.

I know. Yeah. We're going electric fence shopping. But I want to know, this morning, when the vet insulted your pet. My nana used to get really, like, my nana used to feed her dogs hot Weet-Bix every morning out of her bowl. Oh, please. And she'd spoon it around for them

so it didn't go stodgy as they were like wolfing it down but she always had labradors and those things will just eat themselves to obesity yeah yeah um and but when the vet said to her rita smith you've gotta you've gotta lay off the treats for the dogs because these dogs are both morbidly about she'd be like how dare you how dare you how many times are you feeding them three times a day with snacks and the vet would be like it's too much she dare you? How many times are you feeding them? Three times a day with snacks. And the vet would be like, it's too much. She'd be like, how many times a day do you eat? And have a go at the vet for calling her dog fat.

So she knew that they were chubby, but she wouldn't dare let anybody call them fat. So I want to know this morning, on 0800DOLLS.MOR, you can text the studio 9696. When did a vet insult your pet? Megan, you've got a... Don't... You insult my pet every day. I was just going to say, you've got a dog. No, you weren't.

You were ready to pounce to his defence. No, because they always tell us we have to clean his ears. Because she said to us one day, he's got quite large ears for his body. So they flop over and you have to keep them clean. I was like, um, he's right there. He can hear you. Also when they told you... Your dog does have a

Yoda quality to it. Yeah, but that's cute. Also when they tell you, like, he can't weigh anymore. Right. It's like you're at the maximum capacity. Yeah. That's pretty offensive. Give us a call. 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696.

When did a vet insult your pet? So, Vaughn, your sheep were told that they are fat, morbidly obese. Yeah,

morbidly obese. Which, like, is bad to hear if you plan to live a long life, but if the end of your road is a freezer, is this a bad thing?

Vaughn! The fat will render down into a slow-cooked, Megan, you know what I'm talking about. You love a little bit of slow-cooked lamb. You know, you can appreciate some fatty ribs. So what are you supposed to do, though? Just give them massages every day?

And feed them beer. That's what the Japanese do to their beef just before. That's so mean. Hey, this is life. So we want to know when your animal has been insulted by a vet. Ryan has called up. Ryan, what did the vet say about your animal? The vet said our cat had diabetes.

It ended up being something like 12 kgs and couldn't even jump on the couch. Oh, my God. Like a type 2 diabetes for a cat. Yeah. So we had it at Little Brothers. We used to feed it biscuits every time it little brother and sister used to feed it biscuits every time it meowed. We used to feed it biscuits

every time it meowed. So, and no one knew who was feeding it and all of a sudden we're going for a lot of biscuits. And it was 12 K, how much,

did you say 12 or nine? 12. 12 KGs. 12. Like, think about something that's 12 KGs. Like that's 12.

Wasn't it a bag of spuds like 10 KGs? Yeah, 10 KG bag of spuds. Ohs. Wasn't it a bag of spuds, like 10 kgs? Yeah, 10 kg bag of spuds. Oh, my God. It's a bag of spuds that meows. Thanks for your call, Ryan. Someone messaged in about a chua hua hua. Yes, a very fat chua hua hua. I'm a vet nurse, and we have a client who has a chihuahua that weighs 9 kgs,

and she will only see one vet because the other vets aren't afraid to say that your dog is fat, but there's only one vet that will tiptoe around it and she gets worked up anytime anybody says the F word. That's crazy because, like, those dogs are tiny. 9kgs is huge. That's all tum-tum. They were bred

to chase rats, right? Chihuahuas were bred small to go down holes to, like like flush out rats. Those are only little legs though. How is that carrying 9kg? I just see it just rolls everywhere. I need to see a photo of the 9kg Chihuahua.

I would like that. Eden, what did the vet say about your animal? That he had a shaky tummy. Which is an indicator that he's overweight. Yeah, it's a nice way

of putting it. Did the vet grab the pouch of the tummy and shake it? Kind of, like, flicked it with his finger because it kind of just sticks there like a pregnant belly, but he's a boy. Right. This happened to our dear cat, Anakin, when Fletch looked after him in 2005.

He was a fit young specimen, and then Fletch fed him so much he couldn't fit through the cat door, and then when he shed all the weight, he still had all the sag. So I ruined your cat for life, is that what you're saying? Yeah. Right, Brad. He's been working hard and rubbing on olive oil every night and he has seen the results.

Hey, Eden, thanks for your call. Adam, what did a vet say about your pet? Hello? Hi, Adam. How did the vet insult your pet? We took him to the vet. We had this bit of a wild cat because we were sort of out on the farm.

And we used to catch dead animals, not dead animals, like birds and stuff like that. We took him to the vet one day and the vet told us our cat had chlamydia. What? Apparently they can get it from eating way too many birds and stuff like that. Birds?

That's the excuse your cat uses. That sounds like the cat equivalent of catching it off the toilet seat. Yeah, honestly, I got it off the toilet seat. Oh my God, no, I was eating a sparrow and I just, I don't know, I knew it tasted funny and now I've got the clamp. I just need some antibiotics, it'll clear right up. Wow, Adam thinks he he calls some text messages. My mum won't go back to the vet because the vet described one of her cats as dumplings with legs. Oh.

That's so good. And one of her other cats, they actually was a rescue cat. And so they had it on record. And then when it came back, it had tripled in weight. Oh, wow. And it's because the mum said, I think it needs extra love because it's a rescue cat. And they said, loving your cat by feeding it is actually giving it a death sentence. Yeah, it is.

Not feeding it too much. Somebody said, we took our dog to a dog trainer. And the dog trainer actually just told us that our dog was an asshole. And there wasn't much that could be done for it. Someone said, everybody should go to my vet. It gently covers the cat's ears And says things like We don't say the F word But your cat is

Let's say A little too lovingly chubby That's nice Somebody was told by a vet That their horse had Tourette's Syndrome Somebody said He's a bit special But nobody talks about my sonny like that

So we've got a new vet now. Like the swearing threats or the stuttering threats. Like a tick. Right. I don't know. After an appointment with my cat at the vet, I glanced at the computer screen just to check my details. They wanted to confirm my details. But down the bottom in bold in our notes section was unfriendly cat. I was heartbroken.

That must be like finding out your kid's a shit when it goes to school. Yeah, yeah. Little Timmy's an absolute angel. And then you get the report and it's like, he is a terror. We were told we weren't welcome back at the cattery because our cats were very unsocial and ganged up on the other cats. It's got to be. That's got to be a hard one to take. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

The TV show that we've been talking about incessantly for the last five weeks because it's five episodes long. That's all that will be made. And it's amazing. IMDB's most rated TV show. Oh, it's amazing. IMDB's most rated TV show. Oh, it's incredible. Chernobyl, the story of the nuclear meltdown at Pripyat in the Soviet Union in 1986

and the disastrous nuclear fallout that followed is what's covered over the five episodes. You went pre-show. You went last summer. I went in December. Mid-De yeah December it was covered in snow it was just incredible I'm there's actually a video on my Instagram that people have started because I guess I hashtagged it yeah and I've noticed in the last two weeks I guess since the kind of buzz of the show started happening yeah that just random people are liking this old video from like two, three, four months, oh actually seven months ago. Oh, it's June the 7th.

Yes. And so random people are obviously like, well, I want to go and check out Chernobyl. So it's on my Instagram. Just searching the hashtag on Instagram. On my Instagram, FletchNZ. We'll just get a little plug in for that if you want to watch that. But it was an incredible place to visit. So a local tour company called Solo East.

Who did you go through? That's who I did my tour. That's who you went through. And it was super cheap. I think it was like $65 US for a whole day tour. Right. They have seen a 30% rise in tourist bookings in May. So that was before the show came out, just from the press for the show before it came out.

Bookings in June, July and August. So this is bookings happening. The tour happening. And it's summer there at the moment. So it'll be a completely different experience to the winter you had. Up 40% day on day for the year prior. And they're expecting it to be significantly more

when people actually plan these trips specifically around a trip around the Chernobyl exclusion zone. That's so surprising to me because having watched it, it makes me want to be around it even less. Like, I even am wary about being around Fletch because you're probably

still radioactive. A lot of people said like, after watching the show, like, do you regret going? Yeah. Because it is quite a harrowing watch, Chernobyl. And you realise like how toxic it is quite a harrowing watch, Chernobyl. And you realise how toxic it is. That was 1986 and they have covered the reactor. Yeah, it's 1986

and 33 years ago, but throughout the show, multiple times they talk about the radioactive material uranium-235 having a half-life of 12,500 years. And I mean, they covered the reactor, but none spilled out anywhere. I mean,

you can get a Geiger meter on your tour. It's a bit gimmicky, but it is pretty crazy. You can go up to like machinery like the old Ferris wheel and places

and your Geiger meter will just go off. And you're standing there. And you're standing there. But okay, so I've had a look online. The level of exposure ranges,

but it is similar to the... Because this is what I never understood before I went to Chernobyl and looked into it. Radiation is everywhere. It's everywhere on the planet. And even more when you fly. So going to Chernobyl is the equivalent of

being exposed to radiation on a long-haul flight. Because you can take a gigameter on a plane, there's YouTube videos of it, and the levels will go up. Right. So you are, I mean, I don't know what that means to like flight attendants or pilots who are flying all the time,

but I mean, you'd need a lot. You'd need a lethal dose for a very long time and you're not there long. Like people, people have worked, people live and work in the exclusion zone to this day in Chernobyl. Yeah. Or 90 seconds of exposure on the rooftop of Martha People live and work in the exclusion zone to this day in Chernobyl. Or 90 seconds of exposure on the rooftop of Martha in full protective gear would also be the equivalent of flying forever in a day.

If you've seen the show. But yeah, if you do get a chance and you've been watching the show, I mean, it's just incredible. It's a town that was evacuated and just has not been touched. I look forward to the documentary in another 28 years about Fukushima, which did the same thing. We never hear much about that. But that was caused by...

The Japanese are very good at staying quiet. Well, David Ferrier touched on it a little bit with Dark Tourist, and they're kind of covering up how bad that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really a bad situation. But I would totally recommend going if you're in the Europe area, in the Ukraine.

Super cheap place to visit as well. Really cheap. A radiographer messaged in. Oh yeah? I'm saying Chernobyl's more than a flight.

A flight to Sydney is the radiation equivalent of one chest x-ray. Do you know they always leave the room when you get an x-ray, don't they?

Yeah, what do they know? They're like, we'll just leave the room. They're dishing out 5,000 trips room. But you're all right in here. They're dishing out 5,000 trips to Sydney a day. That's why. Okay, true. Collectively, they wear those big lead vests.

Well, I don't know. That's just what I Google. I mean, that's what they tell you so you do the tour, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, you Googled. You looked on the internet, so you know. That would never be wrong. No. Exactly.

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Chichingo Bingo last night A fantastic night at Starters Bar But we decided before Bingo To go out and find some food Some dinner We said let's meet outside the hotel At five o'clock. And we're there. We're waiting for producer

James to pick us up. And all of a sudden, Vaughn leaves Megan and I mid-conversation. Just turns around and walks off. Says to a random man standing a couple of metres away from us, hey mate,

do you mind if I grab a selfie? No, I didn't say... I said, hey, Simon. Big fan. Like, my girls love you guys. Like, you've been part of our family for, like, the last seven years. Would it be all right?

I don't mean to intrude, and I know this is your personal time. Would it be all right if I grabbed a selfie? Because Fletch and I were standing there. I've literally never, ever, ever seen you walk up to someone out of the blue and be like, hey, act all weird. And then be like, can I have a selfie? Yeah. I was trying to be like.

You looked nervous. Yeah, but I was trying to like approach him in a way that I don't want to be like invasive. And I was trying to, like, approach him in a way that I don't want to be, like, invasive. I was trying to be polite. So it turns out that the Wiggles are staying at the same hotel as us and are touring New Zealand at the moment. Yeah. The sold-out show. This was Simon, the red Wiggle.

Because when you were talking to him, I was like, he looks vaguely familiar. He's a unit, hey? He's a big unit. I thought he was a sports player, but, I was like, he looks vaguely familiar. He's a unit, hey? He's a big unit. I thought he was a sports player, but then I was like, you? Yeah, the guy next to him was wearing a sports top. Yeah, an NRL top. I was like, are they some kind of rugby? And then I was like, you wouldn't be asking for a photo.

We've met some huge, like Ed Sheeran, some big celebrities, and you don't ever get a photo with them. Maybe sometimes. Well, at the end, someone takes a photo, but. But you never go out of your way to get a single photo with them, with just you and them. And you're always pretty, like, meh, you know. You're always pretty, like, underwhelmed by most people.

But we just couldn't work out what you were doing. It's the wiggles. Like, they're massive. I got so excited. I was like, oh, I hope when I'm coming back after bingo in a couple of years with some mates who live down here, I was like, imagine if they're coming back in. Well, that happened to me when I went into my room. There was a wiggle.

I don't know which one. In your room? No. Oh. No, staying on the room over. What kind of shirt was he wearing? No, it's hard because they don't wear their shirts. Oh, they don't wear them all the time. Out of the job. In the wild. In the hard because they don't wear their shirts. Oh, they don't wear them all the time.

Out of the job. In the wild. In the wild, they don't wear their top. Well, it wasn't the guy that, where are you, Della? He had real short hair. Okay. Was he an older? Was he a little bit balding?

Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, that one. Anthony. The only original. The OG. The OG. His blue wiggle. Yeah, blue wiggle.

His blue wiggle staying over the road. He was on 112. He must be 110. Okay, crying about his room number. Oh, yeah, shit. Sorry. People don't know where we're staying. People don't know where we're staying. He must be 110. Okay. Can I think about his room number? Oh, yeah. Shit. Sorry. People don't know where we're staying.

People don't know where we're staying. Let's keep that under wraps. Sounds like you've just bloody doxed the Wiggles. God, I don't want the Wiggles to be like Wiggles management. Anthony's the only OG Wiggle. He's a legend. He's done this. He did a talk about depression because he suffered from crippling depression.

Yeah, right. And it was a very interesting way of hearing somebody describe depression that I hadn't heard before. Okay. They're great people. Parents know. Yeah. Pop the wiggles on. Free babysitting.

Yeah. You've got time to make dinner or... Get down to the RSA. Yeah, yeah. The supermarket. Leave the kids there with the wiggles. So we went to dinner afterwards. Are you going to say what happened then? So he's bloody fangirling, still fizzing at dinner.

So I take the photo and I'm like, you know what? This is an Instagram story. This is so good, it's an Instagram post. Like when you take a photo, you rank, don't you? Before you make your decision, you're like Is this going to be a poster Or is it going to be A 24 hour flash in the pan The waitress is trying

To take your order And you said hang on I'm flustered I've met a wiggle I just need to put this up She's like Are you guys ready To order food

I was like Five more minutes please So I put a photo up Of me and Simon Wiggle Yeah And I tagged him in And I said Absolute highlight of the week

Was meeting Simon Wiggle In Dunedin. Grabbed a, he dealt with it very, very well and he commented and he said, great to meet you, mate.

And I said, the pleasure, Simon, was all mine. If you guys are at a loose end tonight, we're hosting a bingo night. It'll be our honour to host you guys. I'll clear a table.

And he said, thanks for the offer. I might stay in tonight. I'm still nursing the wounds from New South Wales losing origin last night. And then somebody asked if what he was wearing

under his jacket was a New South Wales jersey, which was the blues. That's not a New South Wales jersey under my jacket. But now that you mention it, it does look like one. Have fun tonight.

And I said, you're a good man. Oh, God, don't keep commenting. Irony of the red wiggle, bleeding blue, is not lost on me. And he did two laughy cry faces. Oh, my God. Okay, stop now. Don't comment again.

We'll guard ourselves a best friend. We were at bingo, and Vaughn's reading out his conversation with the blue. What colour? Red. Because he was messaging while bingo was happening. So Bourne had to stop bingo to talk about his messages with red wiggle. You were like fangirling hard. You were shaking going.

Hey, look, this is what he had. He had to come into the wiggles. And for the first time, the red skivvy was not on legendary, original Wiggle Murray Cook. He had to put on the red skivvy, guys. And if you imagine how intimidating that would be. It would have been like replacing Dan Carter at first five. Yeah.

If Dan Carter had been playing rugby for like 20-something years. Yeah. You know, like this is. You're saying that's bigger than replacing Dan Carter. It's bigger than replacing Dan Carter. And no one's more savage than children. Well, rugby commentators and armchair coaches might be. Yeah, sure. than replacing Dan Carter. It's bigger than replacing Dan Carter. And no one's more savage than children. Well, rugby commentators and armchair coaches might be,

but... Yeah, sure. But, you know, and he stepped in and he changed the game. Are we just going to get another Murray Cook? We did not. We've got a brand new Red Wiggle. He can sing high. He can sing low. He can dance.

He can dance. He's very, very fit. I'm happy for you. Yeah, he's great. If we go back to get our gear after the show and they're like checking out, I'm just going to be bleh. An absolute mess.

You're like a teenage girl waiting outside Justin Bieber's hotel room. Ooh, they are my One Direction. 2012 One Direction 2, not those bloody scraps that are left now. Fletchvorner Megan, the podcast ZM. Special guest joining us on the phone this morning, you will

know him as Beast from X-Men and to talk about the latest X-Men and Tolkien two movies, joining us is Nicholas Holt. Hello. Hello, how you doing? Very well, thank you. Now, not content with being in one movie to compete with a busy movie market,

you've decided to compete against yourself with two movies out on the same day in New Zealand. Yeah, I didn't realise they were coming out on the same day. And obviously when making them, I didn't realise that would ever be a thing. So I guess apologies for everybody. Well, it's great. If you're a big Nicholas Holt fan,

you could do a double header. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say, it's like a mum having to pick her favourite kid. Could you pick one? Or no? You're probably not allowed to. Do I pick the favourite kid?

I mean, no, they're so different. It's very difficult to choose. And I think they scratch different itches, I suppose, in terms of what people want to go see. But they both have fantasy elements to them and are kind of quite big sweeping epic movies So which which one did you film first? We thought we filmed X-Men first So I was on set of that prepping play talking

Which was it was fun because I would like I'd be on set in the full like Beast makeup, but doing kind of watercolors in between Talking paintings and stuff. So I've got some very funny images behind the scenes. Wow, okay. So no rest for the wicked and then you finished and just went straight on to the Tolkien movie. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. There was a little brief pause, but yeah,

that was kind of straight into the research and prep period and getting ready to do that, yeah. I imagine it takes ages to get the Beast make-up on. What about getting it off? Are you, like, blue for days? I do end up with like bits of blue like for days later that I'll find behind my head

and then there'll be like a bit of blue fur that like comes out my mouth and I'll be like, what's going on here? And balancing not only like multiple characters, you've got a new role recently. You're a dad. Congratulations. Hey, thank you very much, yeah.

Is that hard to balance the busy acting lifestyle with being a dad or have you found a happy way of balancing the two? Yeah, it's a learning curve and obviously it's a balancing act, as you say, but I think it just makes you more aware of how precious time is because you have this kind of stamp of how quickly it passes. So where before if someone called and said, right, we're going to Africa for seven months to do a film,

you kind of jump on the plane, no second thought. And whereas obviously now when you approach work, kind of there's more of an awareness of that. Is there anything you struggle with? Because Vaughan is the dad on the show. He's the only one that's a dad

and he's quite, oh, I don't want to give him a compliment, but he's quite a good dad. I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take that compliment. Yeah, compliment, but he's quite a good dad. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take that compliment. Is there any advice you need or anything you're struggling with? I mean, you know what it's like.

You're a father. It's that balancing aspect, and it's the time and dealing with kind of always feeling like you're exhausted but having to dig into your reserves of energy. And one thing I know about being a father is there's never any shortage of people willing to give you advice even when you have absolutely no need for it. Is that what you found? Oh yeah, everyone comes forward with their advice. Have you not been met with

everybody who's got a little tidbit? Take a lot of photos. Take a lot of photos because it goes quick and I can attest to that. It does kind of fly by very quickly. Well, thanks for chatting to us, Nicholas Holt, who's not only in Tolkien playing the titular character, but also Hank McCoy-Beast and Dark Phoenix both out today.

Thanks so much. Hey, thank you very much. Have a great day. Friday Flashback. Flashback, flashback. All right, it is time for my pack this week for Friday Flashback. We're going back to the year, actually end of 2008, this song was released, kind of got big in 2009. It made it to number two here in New Zealand.

At the end of the year, it was the 14th biggest song. Okay. Of the year. Of the year, that's pretty good. I think everybody will know this song. Made it to number five in Slovakia. They weren't as big of fans. Sweden, only 32.

Did alright in Canada, was number 10. Australia, 16. So did it do it best here? Well, it was number one US Billboard rap songs. Pop songs made it to five. And so you did well here and also in the UK as well. Big song.

You choosing a rap song? Okay. I guess I am. Okay. I don't really know too much else about this song. I was a huge fan. Other than it's a jam. Huge fan.

No, I was just like, I like that song and I haven't heard it for ages. Okay. So I was like, my Friday flashback today is Soulja Boy. Oh, wow. Kiss me through the phone. Oh, you went right there. Banger. All right, it's your Friday flashback on ZM.

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I need you in my life Yeah, all day, every day I need ya And every time I see ya My feelings get deeper I miss ya, I need you in my life, yeah All day, every day, I need ya And every time I see ya, my feelings get deeper I miss ya, I miss ya I really wanna kiss ya, but I can't But I can't Baby, you know that I miss you I wanna get with you tonight

But I cannot, baby, girl, and that's the issue Girl, you know I miss you I just wanna kiss you But I can't right now so baby kiss me through the phone kiss me through the phone i'll see you later on later on kiss me through the phone baby i've been thinking lately so much about, everything about you I like it, I love it, kissing you in public, thinking nothing of it Roses by the dozen, talking on the phone Baby, you so sexy, your voice is so lovely, I love your complexion

I miss ya, I miss ya, I miss ya, I really wanna kiss ya, but I can't Sex and I can't, trippin' I need to wait Baby, you know that I miss you I wanna get with you tonight But I cannot, baby, girl, and that's the issue Girl, you know I miss you I just wanna kiss you But I can't right now, so baby, kiss me through the phone

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It's your Friday flashback today. Vaughn, feedback from the public? Mixed and varied. Overwhelming. Pretty good. No, there's some really good ones on there. Somebody said they were seeing a guy in the army when this was a big song.

Okay. And they liked to kiss their soldier boy through the phone. Oh, God. Well, it's spelt differently. This is so, yeah. This is so jar. Jar. He's a soul.

I was on the Wikipedia page. In the lyrics, he reads out a phone number. That phone number actually can be dialed. And in the United States, it was set up for promotion for the song. And then that kind of ended. A company now has that, a commercial advertiser in Georgia. And also, if you dialed it from the UK thinking it was a UK number, it just went to some poor family's house in Manchester.

Oh. It's like, soldier boy there in the bloody hell. So they get calls all the time. Like, just kissing you through the phone. Oh, no. For that number because it's in the song. Yeah, but overwhelming. You know, good people saying, yeah, took them back.

Somebody was saying, I wish it hadn't taken me back. You know, mixed, saying, yeah, took them back. Somebody was saying, I wish it hadn't taken me back. You know, mixed, but overall, I'd say positive. Am I a bad person? Okay, get your judgey pants on, New Zealand. We have a dilemma. Are we actually, are we, you don't mind us saying your name? No, that should be okay. Okay, Tara.

Oh, no, I wasn't expecting Tara. When you said use my name, I was expecting a Sarah or an Emma. Okay, right. Because, you know, they're a dime a dozen. Now, Tara, you would like the nation to judge you now to weigh in on whether or not you are a bad person. What is your predicament? So, basically, my issue at the moment is,

sorry, I'm just going to a quiet place. Yeah, I like that. I can hear the delaying in there. Yeah, my issue at the moment is that my mum is dating a guy who's the same age as me and it's a bit awkward. She keeps, I know they're going out and stuff, but she'll bring him to events,

and then people think that he's my boyfriend. And then it's like, no, that's my mum's boyfriend. And then there's just, every time, there's just, like, this really awkward kind of moment. Firstly, let's step away from the personal aspect of it being your mum and say, good on her. Yeah, go. Because if this wasn't your mum and say, good on her. Because if this wasn't your mum,

surely you could appreciate a woman of her age snagging a lad of your age. But now let's put the family glasses back on. How did she meet him? I guess they were just, I think it was just like at a pub or something. Like it wasn't on dating apps or anything, but at the pub. Right. And it's also annoying because I can't find a bloody boyfriend. There it is. And then she's here.

And then here she is. She's delving into your pool. She's in the wrong pool. She's in my pool and there aren't a lot of fishies in there and she's tucking them out. So can I ask, so what are the ages again? How old are you you him and her? She's in her 50s and I'm in my late

20s. Right, okay. She's in early, early 50s. Right, and the guy that she's seeing is the same age as you, late 20s? Yeah, like by about a year. So if it wasn't your mum, would you be happy for her? I don't know.

I don't know because it is my mum and I'm just like, ooh, like you're sticking it to my mum and it's gross. So you don't have to see him, so what, you can like avoid him or? Well, it's a bit hard when she brings, like, you can't help it if you're bringing your boyfriend to places, right?

But, and then seeing them like canoodling and, ugh. You see them canoodling? Oh, no, that would be.

Well, not like poking my head in the bedroom door, I just mean like in public. Yeah, yeah. You know, he's got his arm around her

and stuff, which you, I mean, I get it, like they're going out, but, you know. Is he a nice guy?

Yeah, he's nice. I was hoping he'd be really crap and then I get it, like, they're going out, but, you know. Is he a nice guy? Yeah, he's nice. I was hoping he'd be really crap and then I could just, you know, I think he might be around for a while. Well, you're going to have to start calling him dad soon. Stop teasing. Is your mum happy? Yeah, she seems happy. That's why I feel like I might be a bad person.

Yeah, you can see where I'm heading with this, Tara. But on the other foot, Megan, when you started seeing Toyboy and you were the same age as his mum, how did that go down? Excuse me? Excuse me? I'm not old enough to be his mum. How did it go down with his family, though? No one enjoyed it.

No one liked it. His family, my family. But do you know what? Then they saw us together and they were like, they both make each other happy. down with his family though. No one enjoyed it. No one liked it. His family, my family, but do you know what? Then they saw us together and they were like, they both make each other happy and so they were like, this is great.

Yeah, Tara. Yeah, Tara. She's not anyone's mum. Yeah, true. I don't think this is the same scenario. Thank you very much. No, it's different.

I'm just like, you go girl. Thanks, babe. As long as it's not, as long as the girl is not your mum. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, so yeah. So you as long as the girl is not your mum. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. So, you want to know if you're a bad person. Yeah. I feel for you. I'm just going to wait for everyone to tell me I'm crappy. Here we go.

Let's do this. Let's do this. When it's your mum, it's different though, isn't it? Yeah, I know. That's what I was going to say. Everyone's got expectations of their mum, right? As I mean, like, from the outside, I'm like, don't be a bad person, Tara. But then I would not like to be you.

Because. Yeah. Yuck be you because yuck. Yeah. Yuck. I don't have to see it. Thanks, babe. So I don't know. All right. You're like good on her.

Yeah, I'm kind of like... I think maybe, yeah. We're kind of team mum, aren't we? Team mum to a point, but then you do hold your own mum to a higher regard. And I can see how that would affect you more personally, not just me being like, good work, mum, high five. Team mum, curb the PDA, maybe. Yeah.

I mean, I don't want to tell her what to do, but gross. I'm the one that's got to look at it. But I feel I sound like such a dick right now so yeah but also like here's another thing like that you know some people will think about and maybe not say out loud but he'll get the will won't he because there's this age gap right i hadn't actually thought about that but um but it's just a boyfriend at the moment no but i'm saying about saying if this... I'm talking about my mum, like, dying, so... Yeah, thanks for that. Oh, you're sorry about that? I'm thinking about this. I've got bad news, Tara.

We all die. We all die. But yeah, here's the thing. So then he gets everything, but he's the same age as you. So then you could get nothing. I mean, I don't know. I think that's a bit early to be, like, asking my mum to make sure I'm being put on the will.

And not him. Just an insight into Fletch's mind always sign a prenup okay Tara let's see what the people think if you're listening

is Tara a bad person maybe you've been in this kind of situation 0800 dial ZM is the number or you can text us 9696 no worries

am I a bad person well if you've just joined us Tara moments ago 9-6-9-6. No worries. Am I a bad person? Well, if you've just joined us, Tara, moments ago, gave us a dilemma. Her mum is dating someone her age and she's not happy about it. There's a little PDA. Is she a bad person? Yeah. I mean, she does want her mum to be happy,

but maybe she doesn't want to see her mum who's like in her 50s dating someone in their late 20s. And he is a nice guy as well. Just to rub salt into the wound. Yeah. It'd be easy to hate him if he was a bad person. Yeah. Mum's poaching out of your pond, basically. Yeah.

And that's the other thing she said. She's currently single. Yeah. So that does kind of make it a bit worse, doesn't it? But that's not mum's fault. You should meet a nice boy like my... My boyfriend. My boyfriend.

Yeah. So what would the age difference be there? Like 20 odd years? If he's late, 20s. And she's 50s. Could be 30. Could be 30 years, depending on how true the 50 she is. Some text messages in, someone said, do you think that's gross?

One of my actual friends dated my dad for about a year after mum and dad broke up. Gross. Also, no, I wouldn't say it was gross. Don't be mean. Could you do that to one of your friends, though? What? Date their dad. What if your mum and dad broke up and Ellie, your best friend, is like, I've got the hots for wine.

Oh, yuck. See? Oh, my God. That's so gross. She's like, I need Big Wayne in my life. No, stop. She does. That's grossing me out.

She does. She messages us. She's like, grab a seat, flights to Nelson, Megan. Should we go and see Big Wayne? Oh, my God. That's so awful. But this is how she must feel. It's practically like that, isn't it?

Mom's a bad person. Producer Caitlin, now that you've got a boyfriend. I've got a boyfriend, yeah. How do you feel about this? I always want my mum to be happy. Like, she deserves the best. What if your mum started dating one of your boyfriend's friends? Okay, for example, your parents broke up.

They would be in for an education. No, they wouldn't break up. But okay, I'll put myself into that. For example, they did. And Mama Jane and Vaughn started dating. How would you feel? Get the... Mama Jane deserves better. Look at, they did. And Mama Jane and Vaughn started dating. How would you feel? Get the hell out. Mama Jane deserves better.

Look at her stupid face. She deserves better than you. I think we established earlier she deserves the best. It's not about the age. It's just about Vaughn. I think I'd probably like slap her. No, like actually get rid of Vaughn and then it wouldn't happen. You're grounded, miss.

Oh my God, yes. And call me dad. Call me dad. No. Or daddy. I would slap your mom and be like, what is wrong with you?

I don't think she would even, she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't. My feelings are being hurt. Yuck. Somebody else messaged saying, my auntie came out as a lesbian after 25 years of marriage

and hooked up with a girl we used to go to school with. It was weird, but we supported it. Nothing illegal, nothing immoral. She'd been... That's just a lot

to take in all at once. It is. You know. It is. Okay, well, Katrina has called. Katrina, is she a bad person?

Definitely a bad person. Like, why doesn't she just want her mum to be happy? Oof. Yeah, I know, but it's easy to say that from the outside.

It's not your mum. So what happened if your mum was dating someone like 20 or 30 years younger? I mean, true, it's a bit weird, but like at the end of the day, she should just stop ruining her happiness, you know? Just let her be. Yeah. It's true. Yeah, it's a fair call.

All right, thanks for your call, Katrina. Sophia, is she a bad person? Um, I think it's really weird. Like, I don't think she's a bad person. There's no way that I would want my mum going out with someone my age. It is so gross. But you don't think she's a bad person? But what if he was

like a hottie, like George Clooney or something, or Brad Pitt? No deal, because what if he hangs out with people my age and I see him at parties and stuff? Yeah, but what if

you get like lifetime free Nespresso just getting back to the George Clooney thing? You seem really stuck on this George Clooney point, Pritch. I don't think

anybody's mum is starting to date George Clooney. Damn it. Okay, right. I'd be so happy for my mum if that happened.

I mean, I think he's my dad. Yeah, yeah. But then again, they're kind of the same age though, aren't they? Yeah. So George Clooney isn't that far off. Same vintage. Yeah.

All right, hey, thanks you, cool, Sophia. Some other text messages in. Somebody said, this very situation happened to me after mum and dad broke up. I'll tell you what, stay with it, you get used to it, and then you don't lose your mum either. Yeah, because that's the other thing. If you fall out with your mum, then you don't lose your mum either. Yeah, because that's the other thing. If you fall out with your mum, then you don't have her in your life.

And also you've got to think about the person as a person, not as the number or, you know, you can't think of him as the 30-year-old boyfriend. You've got to, like, get to know him and then what? No, it's nothing. Why are you laughing at me? Is that what you said to your boyfriend? Shut up.

Family. Just get to know me. Get to know me. I'm lovely. Yeah, I'm okay. It's just a number, baby. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day about sound effects,

but one specific sound effect in question is the sound of a bomb dropping from an aeroplane in old World War II movies. That was real bad, eh? Yeah. Yeah. So this sound is often portrayed as something people on the ground would hear. Okay. Like, they would hear it.

They'd be like, is that a... Yeah. However, that is how the person in the plane would hear the bomb, but the person on the ground would hear it like this. Right. So not from high to low, from low to high. Right. It's misleading.

It's actually... as it gets closer. Either way, both sound quite scary. Yeah, I think the way we're not used to hearing it would even be scarier, getting louder and higher pitched just before it hits the ground. Have they ever managed to record that actually happening? Yeah, so in World War II,

there was actual recordings of it, mostly when the bombing of Britain, when the Germans, because Germans actually put whistles on their rockets. They made them with like, you know, when you throw a nerf. Yeah. And it goes, because it's got the whistle on the side. Yeah.

They were putting bomb whistles onto bombs so that they'd howl and just cause more panic before they went off. Because when they went off, they might affect a small area or miss the target completely. But they loved the idea of putting terror into people by them being able to hear the whistle. Those nasty Germans. Nasty Nazis. Nasty Nazis. I'm going to put a T right in the idea of putting terror into people by them being able to hear the whistle. Who's nasty Germans? Nasty Nazis.

Nasty Nazis. I'm going to put a T right in the middle of that word, Nazi, and call you the Nazis. Nazis. Nazis. So they practically invented the Nerf. Yeah, I mean, on the positive side of things. There's some good to come out of that.

Go long, Tomo. Yeah. I saw a Nerf being thrown the other day, and it didn't have a whistle in it. So I was disappointed. Was it a rip-off Nerf? No, no, no, it was an actual Nerf, because they didn't all come with whistles.

They're annoying at the beach. As a parent now, I can tell you that it's great that not all Nerf, because for Nerf guns, you can buy the darts that are just darts. You can buy the ones that stick to windows, and you can buy the ones that whistle just darts. You can buy the ones that stick to windows and you can buy the ones that whistle. Now, the whistling and the ones that stick to windows sound like a good idea until it's just constantly...

Those are the ones... And you're just windows covered in marks. Those are the ones that mysteriously go missing, eh? And that mum and dad aren't keen to replace. Oh, I'll get you another pack. Oh, the only ones they had were the standard Nerf bullets. Because I don't want to rule out Nerf war on a whole. I'm a big fan of Nerf war throughout the house.

And a sneak Nerf attack on Sade when she's carrying groceries inside. Although actually she's not carrying the eggs, because if she drops them you get real told off because you wasted all the eggs. You wasted all the money on the eggs. Yeah, so today's fact of the day is the bomb sound that you would hear in not only movies, by the way, but like cartoons and everything when something falls would actually go in reverse.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Ah, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Now, I said before that there's been something hovering around for a long, long time that is a proven reducer of anxiety. Okay. Now, I even know for a fact this is on 4.30 in the afternoon on TVNZ2

because while we've been out on the road, I've had the TV to myself. Because, by the way, I don't get to pick what's on the TV. At home. Basically from about 4 o'clock. Oh, because the kids are home. I try to have the TV off.

We're trying to do something. But if the TV's on, it's very rarely on traditional television. Right. It's YouTubing or it's Netflixing or it's Nick Jr-ing. But I've noticed that Friends is still on television. Oh, Friends will be on TV forever.

It will never not be on Friends. So it turns out Friends, watching Friends, is a good reducer of anxiety. So apparently repetitive and relational nature of these programs, such as Friends. And Friends is the example because not only did it run for so long, it's still running.

But they also use, and this will really get you going, Fletch, because this doesn't so much reduce your anxiety, the Big Bang Theory. Oh, God, I hate that show. Is likely to be the one that this does next. Right. Because it ran for so long, everybody was familiar with it.

It's always there. And it's syndicated, and it's always on television. And the thing is, even if it's the same episode, in fact, watching episodes of Friends that you've watched before are even better for your anxiety because you already know what's going to happen.

It's literally watching your friends that you know. And a completely predictable and safe circumstance. Right. Yeah. So there's no surprise about it. You don't need to worry.

You don't need to feel anxious because you're set for the next 22 minutes to know exactly what's going to happen because you've seen it all happen before. Because the Pivot episode was on only a few days ago and i was like oh my god oh that was so great it made me feel so good the one the episode i saw was the thanksgiving episode where and like even now you've got to appreciate no one of the other thanksgiving episodes you've got to appreciate they had six central characters and every episode every

character had had their own storyline yeah like that's so great but did it does it make you feel better after it does actually right it is kind of relaxing yeah i know if it's on tv my wife shada she can watch sit down and watch it and she almost like knows the words to some episodes and i'm like why don't you watch something you haven't watched? It's comforting. Yeah, it's comforting and it reduces your anxiety. So if you're ever feeling, you know, a little anxious,

a little, you know, worried, on edge, sit down to a TV show you've already watched a thousand times or a movie or a book. It's just that repetitive nature where nothing's going to change.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, as always, the experts can't let us have any fun. They've come out now saying that the vacuum challenge, this is where you jump into a big airtight rubbish sack. I wanted to do this at work the other day, but Anya and I could only find little rubbish bags. Either that or I'm too big.

I took it as an insult to my stature. But the bins at work are small. Yeah, they're those clear plastic bags. Yeah. Yeah, we needed a big black sack. You need a big black sack. Like when you're moving out of a flat and you just decide that's when everything's just going in the big black sack. Yeah.

Clothes, actual rubbish. Yeah. And then your clothes get thrown out and you end up taking a bag of rubbish to the new place. One of those big black sacks. Well, apparently it's dangerous because it restricts your movement and when you fall over,

you can't use your limbs to protect your head. Because it basically vacuum packs you in a plastic bag. You suck the air out with the vacuum cleaner. You don't put your head in. No. You put it around the neck. vacuum cleaner. You don't put your head in. No. You put it around the neck. Yeah. So they're also saying this could result in cerebral hypoxia.

That is a decrease in oxygen to the brain despite adequate blood flow. Yeah. You're basically suffocating yourself. Now, that also, you shouldn't put your head in the bag because, I mean, obviously. I mean, yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, obviously. If you need to be told. Yeah.

Obviously. Obviously, like, don't do that. This is basically experts coming out and saying, hey, dum-dums, don't put a plastic bag over your head, which I thought we were all familiar with. I did too, yeah. And if you're young enough to think that maybe putting a plastic bag over your head is a good idea, that's why you still need to be parented. Yes. And that's why you need to watch your children. But other than that, just experts again

reminding us, and I don't even think they need to be experts really, to say that dum-dums will be dum-dums. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. And music lives here. ZM.