ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - June 12 2019

Episode Date: June 12, 2019

Fletch is live from Sydney, weird party themes and what did you fake to get out of something?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. Fletch coming to us live from Sydney. Where you've just actually picked up the contract to repaint the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Well done to you. That's a pretty big... Thank you. Well, you know it was a large tendering process, Vaughan. Huge, yeah. I know you've been in and out of meetings and online

international Skype calls and such. So congratulations. I was paying for a different colour but they're going for the same colour but that's fine. Well, it's their bridge. And what a lot of people don't, yeah, what a lot of people don't know is you finish and you pretty much got to start again. It's just a constant repaint. That's the most awkward part of your painting

is you'll actually cross paths with the people who have just finished painting but didn't get the next round of painting. Yeah. But I mean that's good because you get paid, don't you? Yeah, that's life. That's life, isn't it? You've got to have that fallback after radio, don't you? Yeah, and why not paint large pieces of

civil engineering? Definitely. Definitely. And you also caught one of your favourite bands large pieces of civil engineering. Definitely. Definitely. And you also caught one of your favourite bands when you were over there, which is great as well. Positive.

It was a positive. It was a positive trip. Not that you've probably heard of them, but you know, whatever. Because you're so hipster. They've got that thing on at the moment where the Vivid Festival, where everything's lit.

Oh, I love that. It's pretty amazing. Apparently there's a specific Toy Story one that you walk through and it shows you the evolution of Toy Story characters from the first ever sketches and they slowly morph into what we know to be Toy Story characters now. Why are they so wasted on Fletch? I knew.

Well, my friend was saying last night that I think last year or the year before, you could submit a photo of your family and it would go on the Opera House. But apparently all these families were turning up and there were so many photos and it was really delayed that they weren't popping up until one o'clock. So all these people were like annoyed, I guess, or waiting around until like midnight just to see their family portrait on the Opera House. Imagine if your family popped up and someone's like, oh, God, ugly. We should have gone before them.

Yeah. Or like you're just with a whole bunch of people and they all just laugh when your photo goes up. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh. Ouch. Oh, my heart. It hurts a bit.

All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines for three stories that I found online. Interesting, quirky, unusual news stories. Headline one, pick one of the following three. Vapes on a plane. Headline two, planned backfires.

And headline three, police looking for sex addict. Oh, sacks. Sacks are fine. S-A-X? Correct. Or does he or she like sacks, as in sacks of potatoes? No, it's S-A-X. A sacks addict.

Sacks. S-A-X. The vapes on a plane, is that the person that's been banned from flying for life for smoking a vape on a? Correct, Vaughan. You're in touch with the current news cycle. I just, vapes. I'm just very into vape news. Very into vape news.

Not that I've ever smoked a vape. You don't call it smoking, do you? What do you just call it? No, I just think you call it vaping. Puffing a vape. Puffing a vape. Because they've gone from those big, giant objects to more of USB sticks. Yeah.

Tiny little. Now. Yes. Yeah, the tiny little USB stick vapes. Anyway. Yeah. Each to their own. If it's helping them quit smoking.

I was judging, actually. I was. Yeah. No judgment. Just like when you say, no offence. No offence, but prepare to be offended. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, so I guess that just leaves us two, is it? Okay. Is it two? All right, well. Yep. Yep. Headline two, planned backfires. Well, this is the great story.

A grocer, an East West market in Vancouver in British Columbia, had a great idea to start people bringing their own reusable rubbish bags. Okay. Now, I've sent you in your inbox, because we're in different studios, pictures of these bags. The idea was to print stuff on the bags that made people not want to use them

and bring their own. Like embarrassing things. Oh, okay. The colon care co-op. The Dr. Tony's Wart The colon care co-op. The Dr. Tony's ointment wholesale. Yes, and into the weird

adult video emporium. And all kind of like 70s, 80s designs on the plastic bags, but they actually look really cool. Yeah, I was about to say I would totally rock those because they look funny. Yeah, and the plans backfired because they've actually

used more plastic bags than normal because everyone wants one of the cool plastic bags. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. They are cool designs. I'd do that into the weird adult video on Porium. It looks like Stranger Things or something. Yeah, very kind of 80s

isn't it? Yeah. But then very kind of 80s, isn't it? Yeah. But then you think of it, they should have marketed it as this is the sort of thing your dad's weird friend would wear on a T-shirt. Because you could imagine some of those being on like a, you know, your dad's creepier friend, his T-shirt. Yeah.

Well, it's backfired. Because you can get the nice, you can get some kind of designed, some of the reusable bags-shirt. Yeah. Well, it's backfired. Because you can get the nice, you can get some kind of designed, some of the reusable bags. Yeah. Yeah. But they're more, yeah, they're more kind of arty,

aren't they? Not funny. Yeah, they're more arty and pretty. But maybe that's what they need to do for. Right. Get a funny reusable bag. Yeah. Well, it's just an idea.

I mean, I don't want to make them because it sounds like hard work. Yeah. But it's an idea idea. I mean, I don't want to make them because it sounds like hard work. Yeah. But it's an idea for someone else. Like a bumper sticker type? Is this the kind of humour level we're going for? I think so, yeah. Yeah, like my other shopping bags are Maserati or something. Yeah.

She liked that a little bit too much, I'm worried. Fletchfawner Megan, the podcast. ZM. Now you may remember This was a massive story And it really Caught our attention I said our favourite story

Of 2018 It was 2016 Oh my god That this happened Wow Really Yes I know crazy right

Where did the years go Well they just Just fly by. It's like, who are those jokers? You've got to give us more. They did the song. Come on. No, they did the song on Shrek.

Smash Mouth. Smash Mouth. It's like Smash Mouth said, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. It was worth it. The great philosophers. The great philosophers. We didn't take them seriously at the time, but the more time that passes,

the more I appreciate what Smash Mouth has been offering us endlessly. Yeah. That one song over and over. So, I remember at the time you said this has to be a Sunday theatre. Oh, 100%. It would make a wonderful Sunday theatre.

Because we never ever knew all the details. Sunday theatre. Oh, 100%. It would make a wonderful Sunday theatre. It would, because we never ever knew all the details. Did we? We were never like... No. We never knew who had been arrested. Well, now that they have been, the trial's been, and they've been found guilty. This happened in the last couple of days. They've been found guilty.

We know a little bit more about them. We know it was a man and woman and they have been found guilty. We know a little bit more about them. We know it was a man and woman, and they have been found guilty of importing meth, and this was New Zealand's largest ever drug bust, which is another reason it's definitely got to be a Sunday night theatre. Yeah. Because it's, you know, like they made one about Sir Evan Hillary. He did the biggest mountain.

They did the biggest meth. So comparable. It was just comical because didn't they buy a boat and then they couldn't launch it? Yes, they bought a boat. I believe it was tried to be launched or put onto a trailer at completely the wrong tide. And then they asked a whole lot of locals for help.

People grew suspicious. And then someone called the police and the boat was found with 500 kilograms of methamphetamine on board. If it was sold in 1kg lots it could be worth up to 150 million New Zealand dollars.

Good lord. Six people had already pleaded guilty to their roles in it so these two I believe are the last two. So now that it's done and it's through the courts who do we talk to? Who's the company that gets this stuff going? Greenstone? Top Shelf? I'm opening the bidding.

I'm going to start talking to New Zealand production companies about who wants to bid. What? Oh, you're going to New Zealand. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Because there was a camper van involved as well. Wasn't there full of it as well? Yeah, the camper van was found at the boat ramp that they were trying to get to, right?

Yeah, it was just a comical appearance. No, no, no. Camper van was found at a caravan park on the opposite coast of Northland. Yeah. But it was registered to the same people. So they just literally just followed them straight there. This just has ex-Shortland Street actors

now, you know, great New Zealand actors written all over it. I'm going to start taking auditions. This is going to be massive. It'll win awards.

Robin Malcolm. I'm going to put Robin Malcolm forward for Detective Inspector. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Detective Inspector. Detective Inspector. Detective Inspector.

Whatever you call them. I don't know. She could be a constable. I'm not, whatever. She'd be, and Peter Elliott, who she was married to on the show, great voice, does a lot of voiceover work. He could be a grisly local. Oh, yeah.

He blows the case wide open because he's a grisly old local. And a swan dry, even though it's like hot up north, and he just wants to go fishing. But he can't because of the great idea. Yeah, no, this thing's writing itself, guys. Let's catch up later

after the show and get pen on paper and actually script this out. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I want to dish out a Vaughan Smith Award for Business Innovation

and Quick Thinking on the show now. And it goes to Burger King Blenheim management. This is one of the finest stories of business quick thinking and innovation that I've seen in 2019. Blenheim woman Amber Clark pulls into the... What does Amber want to be named?

Well, she's named in the news story. Okay. She's put herself out there. So she pulled into the drive-thru at BK. Now, she wanted to take part in the mix or match deal. This is a deal where for $10 you could get two burgers. Now, she wanted two of these deals. She had $20 to spend.

$20! So she pulls up and says, I want to do the mix and match. And someone said, oh, we're not doing mix and match anymore. That's not happening. And she said I can see it on a sign right in front of me

and the person said I don't think we're doing that anymore so the manager says hello it's the manager here look if you just pull up around the corner

and park there we'll deal with all this and she's like okay fine she pulls up parks in the corner someone goes out and switches the sign around

so that the mix and match sign isn't showing anymore and then comes back and says switches the sign around so that the mix and match sign isn't showing anymore and then comes back and says to her, I can't see that mix and match sign. She's like, it's right there. And they're like, show us. And she goes back around with them and she's like, it was right there.

And they're like, my word, I know what you're talking about. And she said, someone switched around the sign. I can see this is a sign that can be moved around. And they're like, don't know what you're talking about. And she said, someone's switched around the sign. I can see this is a sign that can be moved around. And they're like, don't know what you're talking about. No one's been out here. Definitely not in that time

that you were parked over there. I think you were imagining the entire thing. She's obviously not happy about it. The manager then goes and leans against his car and has a smoke, according to Amber.

Which is good because after you've screwed someone, you always do feel like a cigarette, don't you? I am feeling it. Wow. So she didn't take a photo in the drive-thru at all? There were, there are photos of the drive-thru with mix and match.

Someone used it. Right. Yeah, someone used it. And you can see the sign in the blend and draw through is literally one big rotating sign. Like you got your breakfast menu, you know, and like in Maccas or fast food outlets

when it's the breakfast menu's hanging up then you're there at the magic golden hour to see someone spin it around and you're like and it's like that except it's a big sign that swivels and so you can turn it around and you're like, and it's like that, except it's a big sign that it swivels. And so you can turn it around and just change the meal, the deals and stuff entirely.

But what would have been the big deal to just be like, oh, we don't actually have any of those at the moment. No, that's what they said. And she said, it's on the sign, you've got to honour it. And he's like, where is it on the sign? This is where the quick thinking comes in, Megan. This is where the quick thinking comes in, Megan. This is where the quick thinking comes in. Rather than just being like,

look, I can't be bothered dealing with this so sure, let's do it. Apparently she was later contacted and offered some free burgers, but she said she's not interested. It's the principle of the matter. But I don't get it. What does she want then? I don't know. Does she want someone to lose their job over this? It seems

like one of those things that, like, someone's going to be unemployed now and not be able to afford rent. It's a butterfly effect. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? But the other side of this is it's only a win-win for her. If she wants someone fired, she could probably get them fired. But if she wants free burgers, she can get free burgers.

Yeah, but, like, don't get someone fired because there's no joy in that for you. No. Or there shouldn't be. No. But, like, free burgers. Yes, there's don't get someone fired because there's no joy in that for you. No. Or there shouldn't be. No. But like free burgers. Yes, there's joy. All the joy. There's joy.

Yeah. There's joy to be had in free burgers. Take the burgers. Yeah. Yeah. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello. Today's top six are the top six colours that Air Force One could be repainted.

This is because Donald Trump apparently wants to repaint Air Force One because the colour currently is known as Kennedy Blue. That's named after JFK, the president that was assassinated. And he said it's just time for a change. He doesn't want to fly in the plane with Kennedy Blue on it. Kennedy was a Republican though, right? Like it's the same. Was he?

Yeah. Oh. Let me check that because I remember finding out once was, hold on, was JFK a Republican? Because I remember finding out and I thought, oh, I thought he was a Democrat. I always got Democrat vibes. Kennedy defeated his Republican.

I absolutely lie. Kennedy was a Democrat. Oh, you did. Hold on. Does someone want to go, I said I was a Democrat. Hold on. Is Senator Kennedy a Republican? I said I got Democrat vibes. Yeah, no, because one of the other Kennedys is a Democrat turned Republican.

Oh, I don't know. But yeah, JFK was a Democrat. Was he? Right. Let's just agree to disagree. He was a conservative Democrat. So if he's going to repaint it, these are the top six colors that Air Force One could be painted from. Kennedy blue to number six, American white. That's Trump's dream, I guess, just to have a white America.

So it would just be very, very plain, very monotonous from start to end American white. Number five on the list of the top six colours that Trump could paint, Air Force One, Republican brown. That's also white. That's just mostly white. Yeah, it's just another name for white. Number four on the list.

Now, this might cause some confusion on the top six colours that Air Force One could be painted because it could be painted rainbow colours, but this would not be in support of the LGBTI. Of course not. Not with Trump. Oh, right. A freedom rainbow.

That's reclaiming the symbolism of the rainbow from the LGBTQI community because they don't own rainbows. I want a rainbow. I can almost see him doing that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And attributing it to some real horrible thing. It's almost see him doing that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And attributing it

to some real horrible thing. It's like the swastika previous to the horrendous use by the Germans and the Nazis. It was a Hindu sign for peace for like

hundreds and hundreds of years. But of course they can't really use it anymore. It's been tainted. Like the name Adolf. And the moustache. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. It is a shame, that moustache. Charlie Chaplin did all that good work for that moustache and then Hitler came in and ruined it that easily. Number three on the list of the top six colours that the Air Force One could be repainted. Big wall grey. This is

to match the grey of this wall that he's building on the border of Mexico that's going great, by the way. Is it? Yeah, but did you see that he actually wants to paint that wall? What colour does he want to paint it? Like a really dark black so that it absorbs the heat and makes it extra hot so they can't climb over it.

Wow. He's such a penis. If he wants to do that, he should just make it out of those silver playground slides. Because do you remember in the heat of summer how hot they are? You slide down there. Touch that. Yikes. Kids don't know these days.

No, they don't. Plastic slides, do they? They've got it too good. They've got it too good. Number two on the list of the top six colours that Air Force One could be repainted. 1930s Germany red. It's just nothing else was happening in Germany in the 1930s apart from a love of red.

Lots of marches celebrating red. Lots of flags with red on them. 1930s German red. And the number one colour that could be the new colour for Air Force One if it gets repainted in today's top six, Trump orange. Orange goes with everything. You know, suits, faces, just orange is the all-pleasing colour. Everybody loves a little bit of orange,

so why not have Air Force One painted orange as well? That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. There is a make-up brand that has, well, it's top sick. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There is a makeup brand that has, well, it's been recalled. So the scary thing about this is it is a makeup brand that is sold to girls, younger girls. You may or may not know Jojo Siwa. So Vaughan does. I know Jojo Siwa.

Jojo Bowes. That's how I know her because everyone buys the big bows to put in their hair. Yeah. She's a YouTube star. She's massive. 9.8 million subscribers that are mostly teenagers and young girls. And she sells a Jojo makeup line. Now, there is, in America, they're doing a bit of a,

they're doing a whole lot of testing because they've found in Claire's products, so Claire's is a store where you get all things like beauty and fashion for girls and in Claire's products they have found asbestos. And now

it's been revealed that in one of Jojo's makeup kits, so this contains eyeshadow, two lip glosses, and a nail polish, they've found trace amounts of asbestos in it, which we know has been linked with cancer. It's not good for you. And, I mean, people are putting it on girls. Young girls are putting it on their eyes and lips and nails. So that

has been recalled. You always hear it's in like building stuff. Yeah. But what is it like a dusty powdery something that they add to, is it like a filler or something? I don't know what it's like corn flour when you're trying to thicken up a slightly runny sauce.

I don't know what its makeup purpose is, but it was always used in building materials because it was cheap, plentiful, and semi-fireproof. Like it was a fire-resistant material. So it says asbestos ends up in makeup because of poor regulations involving cosmetic-grade talc, talcum powder. Oh, right. Because even talcum powder has been in the firing line lately,

hasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it has. Nana will be greatly upset. You put this makeup on your face, at least you're fireproof. Is that what you're saying? Yeah.

Fire resistant. I wouldn't say fireproof. I don't want anyone wandering into a fire with their Jojo makeup on, thinking they're going to be protected because they heard me say it. No. Yeah.

Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast, ZM. I want to talk about a birthday party that has gone viral, a three-year-old girl's birthday party. Her name is Lucia. Now, Lucia was at her grandma's house, and the grandparents must be watching The Nun because she then said,

I want to watch that. So The Nun is this horror movie. It came out in 2018. Didn't rate very highly, but horror movies never do. Like they never get critical acclaim. It's part of The Conjuring, right? That franchise. Is it? Yeah, I think so. Like, they never get critical acclaim. It's part of The Conjuring, right? That franchise.

Is it? Yeah, I think so. Oh, right. I've never seen it because... Scully. Okay, so a young nun at a cloistered abbey. What does a cloistered mean? I don't know.

Sounds bad. No idea. Sounds old. An old word. And Romania dies. A priest of the haunted past., blah, blah, blah. They uncover the order's holy secret. So there's like that religion, freaky spirits, demons situation.

Yeah, right. Can you see your rating on that movie? Because she's three. Yeah, definitely inappropriate for a three-year-old. Actually, she would have been two when she watched it because this was her third birthday party. Okay, so it cost $22 million to make and made $365

million. Right, okay. So did alright. Did alright there for a horror movie. So her grandparents were like, this is not a cartoon. She demanded to watch it. So she must have enjoyed it because afterwards, she asked that her birthday party,

her third birthday party theme be the nun. So to her third birthday party, she wore a black nun outfit with her face painted white with black eyes. She had a sort of a stuff, like what we used to make for bonfires for Guy Fawkes, the dummy. She made one of those that looks like the nun. She had a nun cake. Yeah, she asked all of her friends to come with the face paint on

and if they didn't, she could paint their faces when they got there. And again, a reminder, this was her third birthday. Yeah, but it's gone viral and the Walking Dead's official account responded with three black heart emojis. Lots of famous people. Jordan Peele was like, does she have a godfather? Well, he's made a couple of creepy horror films in the last few years. Yeah.

But it's not your usual third birthday party. If you turned up to that, you would have got a bit of a fright. No, but kids do ask for weird themes to birthday parties. Just like they'll be like, well, what do you want to do for your birthday party? And they'll just say like an animal. Cats. Leopard. How do we do that?

Do we all leopard print? What's the story? Right. Very different to your traditional Mickey Mouse or unicorns or anything like that. But kids aside, I hate when people theme a party because you've got to go to an effort to dress up. It's like, no. Me too. You know I hate dressing up.

Just let me wear my normal jeans and a T-shirt. No, I like it. I don't mind a themed party. I won't go. Don't get me wrong. I don't go to parties. But like I'll look at the photos and I'll be like, hmm, didn't want to go to that anyway.

But I like when people, an outrage, a different theme. Not just one of the standard themes. One of the outside themes. Like this, you've got to take your hat off. One of the three-year-olds had a horror movie themed birthday party. And that's what we want to talk about this morning. We want to ask the weirdest party theme you've ever seen. Maybe it was a kid.

Maybe it was your own child. Maybe it was you when you were a kid. You had an unusual request for a theme to your own child. Maybe it was you when you were a kid. You had an unusual request for a theme to your birthday party that people were like. And everybody had to come. Yeah, right.

Yeah, more points if it led to your parents being very worried about you and booking you in to see a doctor just after you'd cut your horror-themed birthday cake.

All right, well, give us a call. Yep, 0800-DOLLS-ANNY or you can text 9696. Your weirdest party themes. We're talking about weird birthday themes. A three-year-old is one of the theme of The Nun, which is a horror movie.

We said before, what does cloistered mean? Cloistered means like isolated, like not open to the public. So they were shut away and hidden. So there you go. There's your word of the day. Cloistered. Cloistered.

Cloistered. She demanded a nun-themed birthday party for her third birthday. Very unusual. So we want to know what themed parties you've been to that were the most unusual themed parties. Somebody said they went to a four-year-old's birthday party and when they were walking in, in those big silver letter balloons, organs was spelt out and they were like

what is this party going to be like but then it was a Frozen themed birthday party and they said they thought it was organs themed when they said to somebody I'm making some inquiries because maybe it was Morgan's party right and the M went a little skew if but they thought they were about to walk into a party that either

celebrated piano organs or the internal working of the human body. Jordan is on, oh, $800. Jordan, what was your five-year-old's birthday party theme? A demolition derby theme. How do you pull that off? I didn't really. All I'd done was I bought a broken car and just let the kids smash it with hammers and all that.

Safety first. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Best party ever. Did you let them... No, I removed all the glass and everything first, though. Okay, right. It's good.

It's parenting. That's sensible parenting. Did you let them just smash into each other on their bikes or anything to replicate any sort of demolition derbiness? I mean, they probably did. I wasn't really paying too much attention. I was too busy smashing the car myself. Right.

Remember, this is actually a dream of mine. When my old house got demolished for the Waterview Tunnel, I wanted to hold a demolition party. Just to smash the house down. Yeah. They wouldn't let us. Nah. It's not the same.

You already stole the copper pipes, Megan. This probably wasn't a great idea to take the walls as well. Ali, this was your nephew. What was the theme for their party? He asked for a YouTube themed birthday cake because he loved watching

YouTube videos so he literally had a cake that was the YouTube logo. How old is he? He is that was the YouTube logo. YouTube. That's pretty cute. How old is he? He is now seven. So for his seventh birthday, that was his cake. That's commitment because that would have been expensive. Do you know what?

I've Googled YouTube cakes, no shortage of YouTube cakes. Somebody even shows you how to make a cake that when you cut it, the YouTube logo's on the inside. Oh, no, it wasn't that fancy. It was a homemade job. That's for next year, though. Don't scoff at this. Don't scoff at this, Auntie Ella.

You could get started on that cake soon and get him a YouTube cake that looks like the YouTube logo when it's cut in half. I'll step it up for next year. Yes, please. Somebody else said, we had a glow-in-the-dark fairy party. It was like a fairy party, except it was all in the dark. Oh, that's pretty legit. Because it's usually very light and glittery. Yeah.

The only two boys invited had to be elves. I don't know why they had to be elves. There's male fairies. The birthday party I had when I was a kid was the letter B. There's no B in my name. I had no sort of spiritual connection to the letter B. I just decided that was it Because I wanted to dress up as a bucket

My friends all had to come With something that started with B We had a swore themed party You know the swore Jigsaw Yeah like another horror movie I was nine at the time We ate heaps of junk food

And watched swore movies one to three. I don't know if that's a great idea. But they're nine. Yeah. My parents knew that they were R18 movies and let us watch them anyway. Loose. It's really surprising now that we're older, none of us have more serious issues as the amount of things we're exposed to at a young age.

My 21st had a Disney theme. If you were going to come to my 21st, you had to come and something Disney. I don't know mine what it was, but it had to be a Disney party. Somebody else said, for our daughter's third birthday we hired a nightclub. I'm imagining. Sorry, what? Did you say third?

Third birthday we hired a nightclub. I don't know. Can a three-year-old do a whole vodka cruiser? You do three jelly shots, don't know. Can a three-year-old do a whole vodka cruiser? Well, no, you do three jelly shots, don't you? Well, we do three. Okay. Yeah.

Fran, when you were four years old, what was the theme to your birthday party? Beetlejuice. Because why not? Had you seen it at four years old? I think I was three when it came out, so probably still obsessed. And then Beetlejuice also. So if you go back and watch Beetlejuice now, really weird, wildly inappropriate for children, but they did bring out like an animated series

because I guess there was something about the character that appealed to kids. Yeah, my kids love it. Yeah. It's good stuff. That scared me when I was in all that movie. You know what scared me? It was the worms that came up out of the sand and he didn't want to go there.

And then every time I went to the beach, I was like, there's definitely those worms under the ground here. Oh, that's what you say for the birthday cake. Oh, yuck. And that's ruined stripy suits me forever too. You can never wear a stripy suit. Fashion ruined stripy suits for me. We had a birthday party.

The theme was ninjas versus gingers. You could come as either or. Okay. That's actually pretty good. That's a pretty good theme. We had a party theme request from an 11-year-old girl. She wanted it to be about pest control and shooting possums. That sounds like one of your daughters.

Yeah, and then we did a dissection. So that was really weird, but on a whole, that was. And when I was five, I had a murder mystery party. Okay. It was pretty legit. We had to solve who had been murdered throughout the course of the party. Some five-year-old detectives. It sounds fun, but maybe not for a five-year-old.

No, maybe a little bit older. Yeah. Maybe a little bit older. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I'm just uploading right now to our Instagram story, FEMZM, a picture of my goats, Harold and Helen, and I won't have any fat shaming, even though Harold has been identified as

slightly on the obese side. But I just think he's just happy. Yeah, he's just living his best life. People with fat pets say. He's so handsome at the moment. He's just one of those people that suits a bit more chub, maybe. Do you know what I mean? Like his coat's thick, he's looking good.

It's real sad when your pet's like begging for food and you're like you don't want to be the one that says no. You don't want to be the uncool parent or goat owner. And you're like yeah you can have a treat. Are those the same size? Yes.

Oh no but also Harold was nibbling on his so it's written a bit funny. It's written a bit funny. But you can see because I've finally field tested these and they look fantastic. These are swan dry coats for goats. We've taken swan dry... Oh, Harold is fat.

Harold is quite fat. Oh my god, it doesn't even go all the way around. No, okay, I'm going to upload another one. No, that's a bad photo. I shan't have it. I shan't have the shaming of Harold. I'm going to get one where... It looks like it's a bad photo. I shan't have it. I shan't have the shaming of Harold. I'm going to get one where... It looks like it's under duress. I've got one here where he's doing a happy jump.

Okay, actually, that's not even any better. That's not slimming. Because Helen's one looks perfect. But Harold looks like that Donald Trump ill-fitting tuxedo. I won't have it. Also, like, Helen's got a defined neck, whereas... You guys are being really mean. There's actually a nice photo here of all of us.

Of all of you. How cool are the pouches on the side? Yeah, they're pretty cool. Yeah, great for carrying things like snacks for later. Not in Harold's case. He won't be getting any snacks for later. After all this fat shaming of my goat, he won't want any more snacks later.

So the idea is that tomorrow at Field Days, Field Days kick off today, and if you need tickets, fielddays.co.nz, all the info is there online. Yep. Tomorrow we're going to pop along, get a little stall,

sell some coats for goats. I'm imagining these are going to fly off the shelf. We'll be home by mid-afternoon and rubbing our hands together. Leave the people wanting. Leave the people wanting more. How many are you selling? Yeah, that's a really great question. I don't know.

I've left that in the hands of somebody else. I'm mostly an ideas guy and a front for businesses. But we've got a few to sell. I'll probably sell Harold's one because he needs a larger size. Oh, bless. You know when your mum bought your school uniform but it was the wrong size and she'd like try to on-sell it because she'd underestimated how much of a summer you had. Or make you lose weight before school started.

It was always a kick in the guts from mum. But we're going to be there tomorrow selling the swan dry coats for goats. I'm going to put up another photo. It's all of us, but I don't want any fat shaming, all right? Because he's... Okay. You'll see why it's writing up, because he loves chewing the little button. Right.

He loves chewing on the little button. What a great podcast so far, wouldn't you agree, Fletch? Yes. And it's all thanks to Spark. Get one gig of bonus data with the Spark U25 pack. Now, back to the podcast. So somebody sent a story, and I thought this was interesting because we all go overseas and use our credit card at times,

and you'll swipe, and you've probably had this. You swipe the card or you insert it, and it's like, would you like to pay in New Zealand dollars or would you like to pay in the local currency? Right. And you know, you're like, well this is handy. I'm here in Australia or I'm in wherever. I may as well pay local

like I'm buying the local item like it makes sense, right? Yeah. Sure. I never know. Like what do you do? I just go with whatever I feel like at the time. Okay, well, here's what they're saying. So you should always choose New Zealand dollars. So wherever you are, if it gives you the option on the terminal,

always choose your currency, not the local currency. So whenever you select yes to selecting the local currency where you are, you're not avoiding a currency exchange. You're leaving it in the hands of the institution that's processing the card payment. And they can set the exchange rate at whatever they want. I mean, your bank's obviously going to be, you know, taking you a little bit as well because there's always a little bit of a percent fee. Right. But this article from the UK gave an example of 7% to 8% more than if it was paid in the

local currency. So if you buy it in New Zealand dollars, the currency exchange is done by your bank? Yes. Whereas if you do it in the local, it's done by whoever. So who do we trust more, this faceless whoever or the bank? Better the devil you know. Well, exactly. I mean, yeah, exactly. Better the devil you know. But I mean, some people do point out that not all places are like charging up to 7% to 8%.

Some are just, you know, your standard fees. But you've got to be careful because it doesn't always give you that conversion straight away. And for the example, they use a $450 hotel bill that could end up being $486 or $36 more than it should have been. Right. But it's all right because I stole two pillows, so that probably comes out about even. Yeah, and a coffee machine and the TV. I stole all the Nespresso pods. Don't even worry about that.

I'll take anything that's not bolted down. No, that's good to know. Always choose New Zealand dollars. Yeah, always choose the local. No, wait, wait, no, because Megan just said always choose New Zealand and you said always choose local. Your local currency, yeah, yeah. Always choose your own home currency.

Where your bank is. The country in which your bank is based. Yes. Okay. There we go. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Costco has been announced to be coming to New Zealand in a West Auckland, what has been an empty lot for quite some time,

out by Westgate. Us, mine and Vaughan's. Yeah, the nice quiet mall I liked because it was quiet. It's not going to be quiet anymore. Malls don't succeed when they're quiet. They need people. I know, but I'm happy for one to fail every now and then if it means once every few months I get to go

and not have to be surrounded by people. But there is a Costco coming. It is apparently the world's second largest retailer behind Walmart. And it's going to be opening a store in Auckland's northwest area. Right. So is it true you have to have a membership? Because I remember a friend in America saying you've got to have a membership

and then you get the access to go in. That's the deal with the American Costco and the UK and the Australian. All slightly different levels of membership, but I'm imagining it will be a membership situation as well. So I looked up. In America, there's the Costco Gold Star membership, which is the standard level membership, and it's $60 a year is what you have to pay.

Wrong. So you literally can't shop there unless you have a membership? Yes. And then there's the Costco Gold Star Executive Membership, which is $120 a year, but you start getting cashback rewards. For the more money you spend there, at the end of the year, you get a cashback reward. And you get discounts on things like Costco insurance

and all sorts of other bits and pieces they offer. So they're going to start paying me to shop there? Effectively, yes, Megan. Oh, God. Yes. So it's going to be 14,000 square metres. There's going to be 800 car parks. It's going to cost $90 million to build.

It's going to have an estimated 350 full-time jobs. It's all go. Wow. But to get a feel of what they're exactly like, an American listener, Zenobia, joins us on the phone from Chicago. Good morning or lunchtime or whatever it is where you are. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys?

Good, good. So you shop at Costco in America? I love it. You love it. All right, all right. Oh, okay. Oh, God, Zenobia. First of all, I want to know the craziest thing you've ever seen for sale because somebody text messaged into the studio saying they had a mate

that went shopping at Costco in America, and there was a 150-liter barrel of Jack Daniels for sale. Oh, I believe that. I haven't seen it, but, yeah, they have some crazy stuff. Like Christmas starts in July, and you can get pretty much anything and everything off the top, whatever you want there. Starts in July?

Christmas starts in July. Oh, my gosh. So somebody said you can buy coffins there. Have you ever seen coffins for sale at Costco? What? No, I've never seen a coffin, but I've also never looked for one, so I'm not sure. Right, is it so big

that you kind of have to specifically go to different areas looking for different things? Like you say, you've never seen a coffin. Is that because you've never been to their morbid death section? Yeah, like there's, right when you enter,

they've got like all their electronics and jewelry and like the travel agent. Like I've never been in that area because I but so much stuff in there. I mean really once you're going through every single aisle and like looking at everything, you may

I might have to pack a lunch I reckon in one day just like just put on a hiking pack with some supplies and some scrogon in case I get lost and literally hike every aisle of it. Is Costco bigger than Walmart? It's like Walmart on steroids because little things are in there. It's anything like tenfold.

It's such bulk that if you want to get like one thing of Nutella, you're going to get this giant Nutella capsule. Right, so you can't just buy like one jar. You've got to buy the entire store worth of Nutella. So this is a great place for like dairies and small shops to just go and stock up. Because if you've ever been in a supermarket when someone who owns a dairy is there and they're just buying every Pepsi there is, you're like, okay, it's okay.

Take the Pepsis because yuck. But don't take the rest. Zenobia, thanks for the chat about Costco. We'll let you get back to your day in buying in bulk. I was on the radio in New Zealand this morning talking about Costco. Do we have a date for us? I've got more on Costco. Okay.

I won't need to pack a lunch as Costco's overseas do free samples on every aisle. Oh my God. Somebody else said when their grandma died, sorry, when their granddad died,

their grandma wanted to go to Costco because it was their tradition to go for every week they'd go $1 would get them a foot long hot dog and a soda.

And that was like all the old people need to. Oh, God. Somebody else said, when I went to Costco, they were selling TVs in packs of three. Okay, so even bulk electronics. It's like when you buy undies, you can buy them in one or you can buy them in three. Who doesn't need three brand new TVs all at once?

Yeah, somebody said it's crazy on the next level. I'm kind of excited about it. Incomprehensible to our Kiwi minds. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, central Otago and the Lakes region known for pinot, picturesque vistas and partying is unfortunately getting known for another P word as well. Well, just the letter P. Apparently the epidemic

of... What was your suggestion for a P word? Oh, I don't know if I can say it at this time on the radio. Go on. Yeah. I can see you on... Penis. Are we playing that game? Penis.

Penis. Appro we playing that game? Penis. Penis. Penis. Approximately half the people there do have them, so it's a fair call. Penis. You don't. No, you didn't need to do that. I've won. You're being silly.

So apparently methamphetamine is becoming a problem in the area. There was a raid with $200,000 worth of methamphetamine and $30,000 in cash was recovered, and that was a raid in urban200,000 worth of methamphetamine and $30,000 in cash was recovered. And that was a raid in urban Queenstown as well, not like a farm building or anything where they were storing a whole lot of it. That was just like in actual Queenstown. Now, apparently gangs are moving in on the area because, you know, who doesn't love to take their family away?

And leather jackets are very warm. Yeah. Even when it's getting colder, you could wear your patch jacket, maybe with a thermal underneath. Yeah, of course. And a beanie. And a beanie. Or your motorcycle helmet.

How big are those? They need like shirling collars and stuff on their nice leather jacket. Shirling collars? Yeah, like that little sheet. Like wool. Yeah. Wool for the rest of us. Oh, yeah.

I don't know. It's called shirling. Surely the mob or these biker gangs are wearing thermals underneath, like a nice icebreaker. I definitely do. I'd ask them to take it very, or put chains on their motorbikes because you'll slide off the road otherwise. You put some chains on your wheels when you're going up the ski field.

Are they worried because it's easy to use cash in a place like Queensland? Yeah, it is. Apparently it's like the perfect place to kind of go and sell drugs and then use those drugs to have like a nice holiday. Use that drug money to have like a nice holiday. You can go into the casino and launder a bit of cash, that sort of thing. And apparently gang numbers have been growing in the area.

Just like your ski field workers and your hospital workers, it's going to be hard for your gang members to find rental accommodation. Oh, well, that's the thing. They're earning so much money selling the drugs that they can stay in high-end accommodation. Oh, well, that's the thing. They're earning so much money selling the drugs that they can stay in high-end hotels. Oh, right. Which is sometimes cheaper than weekly accommodation if you're living there full-time.

Is it hard to get permanent workers or is it seasonal? Drugs. Workers. Well, this is the other thing next door in Cromwell. You know, Cromwell's very seasonal because of the stone fruits. Yeah. You know, maybe a bit of a quieter time employment-wise this time of the year. So they're saying that, you know, that's also a lure.

Right. For, so. Goodness. You just don't. Yeah. Do drugs, sell drugs, make drugs. That's the three don'ts of drugs. Okay, kids?

Okay, Dad. Now you're going to have a fun time. You think it's going to be fun doing the luge on P, do you? You'll be trying to get past Grandma. She's going slow on the corners. You'll get road rage. You'll charge Granny. Yeah, you'll end up smashing her with the luge.

It's not funny. You stop laughing. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. We want to talk about what you've faked to get out of something No, it's not funny. You stop laughing. We want to talk about what you faked to get out of something because this story comes to us from Australia. A woman has claimed that her taxi driver faked a heart attack because he wanted to get out of giving her a ride. Do you know I, because I'm in Sydney, obviously from our Sydney studios,

I went in a taxi and an Uber yesterday and they were both talking about this. This was huge news in Australia. Yeah, because it was on a current affair. They're like kind of seven sharp or project kind of show. Yeah. So there is actually audio of this happening. So he, it was a short fare.

And we know that taxi drivers don't like short fares but in Australia, I don't know if this is the law here or not, but you are not allowed to refuse a fare unless you're finishing your shift. So he didn't want the short fare and this is how it played out.

I'm not driving, my condition is not well. Yes, but you've just dropped me in the middle of nowhere. If I make the accident, who's responsible? You, no, no, no, you're a liar. driving my condition is not well yes but you've just dropped me in the middle of nowhere you no no no you're a liar you said you wanted to turn the meter off because you wanted a big affair you said you wanted a larger fare than the airport to annandale and you might have heard at the end there you can hear him going oh and he kneels down on the ground and he clutches his chest. And pretends to have a heart attack. Yeah. So she actually, she doesn't feel sorry for him.

She says, the Oscar goes to you. Hollywood, Hollywood. Hollywood. Faking. But he was like, oh, my condition isn't well. If something happens to me, like who's at fault? He's saying he's not well enough to drive her, but it was a short fear.

Well, he shouldn't be driving full stop if he knew he's got a condition that's likely to cause him to not be able to drive. Yeah, what if I turn around and want to go further? Are you going to take me then on your condition? But yeah, apparently, like at airports, taxi drivers have to wait for like two to three hours. So they wait for two to three hours. Someone gets in the taxi and they're like,

I'm just going 10 minutes down the road. They're like, oh. Yeah, that sucks. Again, the law is you can't refuse someone. But yeah, you kind of feel for them in that regard. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how to fix it. Sign up to Uber. Sign up to Uber and

just, you know, wait around. But do they get told where they have to wait? Do they have to wait at the airport or can they go wherever they want? No, the taxis do. Yeah, the taxis have to line up. But if somebody gets a ride to the airport, it makes sense for them to go at the airport. Yeah. And it's kind of, you're always going to get work at the airport.

It's one of those hot spots. Yeah. Yeah. Like cruising around town when the clubs close at three o'clock. You know, that's going to be like a busy area. But yeah, he faked it to get out of having to take her any further, which is some classic stuff. I would love to know what you faked to get out of things this morning.

I know at $100. You can text 9696. What did you fake? I faked a asthma attack for cross country when I was little. I mean, that's... But my mum knew. And as soon as she picked me up, oh, did I get in trouble?

And she was like, she said to the teachers, next time just call the ambulance and look straight at me. And I was like... Called your bluff. Let them call your bluff on her. And then when I got home, I wanted to do all kinds of things. She's like, no, you're going straight to bed if you're not feeling well. The asthma, yeah, the asthma.

You can't. But I got out of cross country. Every kid with asthma has used it. And it is bad, obviously. It is terrible. And, you know, people can get very ill from asthma. But don't tell me you haven't used it to your advantage as well. Yeah. I've watched people with asthma who friends of mine would wink and be like,

I can't do it. And PE. And the teacher would be like, oh, you better sit down. You've got the asthma. Yeah. So we'd love to know what you faked to get out of something. Caitlin, didn't someone fake an injury to get out of your netball recently? Well, you've got your suspicions.

Yeah. So a few of us. Okay. This is actually not me because the person would be really angry if they knew that I was talking about this. But yeah, at netball the other week, the culprit was seen at the gym running on the treadmill. And what was the reason they said they couldn't be a netball? Sore or pulled calf

muscle. Now a calf muscle is a crucial muscle when it comes to any... I didn't know that. Dirty dog. So it's not me, I'm staying out of it. Yeah. But I'm just passing on the tea. Yeah, this is the ghost. Really? Yeah. I won't be able. Yeah. But I'm just passing on the tea. Yeah, this is the guys. Really?

Yeah. I won't be able to trust him when I'm watching him deliver the news, the weather on the news in the morning with his blonde hair. It's Maddie McLean. Fine. It's Maddie McLean. I'm actually just messaging him too. You two are so naughty.

You message him and tell him he's in big trouble. This is just what everyone... That's just what the other team members are saying. It's not me. Well, I've messaged him. I can't have him lying. He gives us the weather every day. That's, yeah.

Guys. We want to know what you faked to get out of something. Alright, give us a call. 0800. Love, luxury, brando. You said it as well, mate. Say it as well. Double down.

Double down. Say it again. Well, a taxi driver in Australia has gone viral after he faked a heart attack to try to get out of a fair. Well, get out of driving someone. A small fair, yeah. He didn't want to take a woman a small distance, so he pretended to have a heart attack. And then what?

What is he just wait it out and then pick up the next customer? Yeah. I don't know. Well, she wasn't letting him get away with it, was she? When have you faked it to get out of something? Someone said, I was going to fake a foot injury to get out of work one Saturday,

and a friend said, why don't I just run over your toes in my car? Oh, my God. So that there's some, you know, you will actually limp convincingly. Ended up breaking a small bone and ended up getting a full cast all the way up the leg and was on ACC for five months. Oh my God.

That's good use of ACC there. Why don't I just run over your foot a little bit? Just be like, no, I'm pretty sure I can deliver a convincing hobble. Yeah. Somebody else said, I faked having the runs. This is a classic diarrhea fake. Very hard to prove you've got diarrhea.

It'd be weird if they wanted you to prove it. To get out of bivouac night on fourth form camp. What's that? That's where you have to build your own shelter and sleep in the bush. Oh, yuck. The nurse gave me a pill that would stop the diarrhea and told me to pack my bag for bivvy night. That would have then, of course, because they didn't have diarrhea,

when they took the pill, led to days of constipation, I would imagine. Oh, no. So they tried faking it. I faked being in labour to get out of a speeding ticket. I don't know. No word if that worked or not. Right. Yes.

Oh, I've got to know. I've got to know. Yeah. Luna, what did you fake to get out of something? I actually pretended that I broke my arm. And what were you trying to get out of? I was just getting out of work for a really terrible reason. I just wanted to participate in Crate Day with my friends.

But did you think that through? Because you'd have to go back to work the next day with the broken arm. Yeah, for like six weeks. Yeah, well, it was actually my resignation also. I never went to that job again. So bad. What's your current employment status, Luna?

No, I'm employed, yeah. Okay, until Crate Day rolls around on December 4th. Righty-o. All right, thank you. Holly, what did you fake to get out of? I faked a nosebleed when I was in primary school so I didn't have to go to my friend's house. And I know that sounds really bad, but she was really mean

and I didn't know how to say to my mum, I don't want to go to my friend's house. And I know that sounds really bad, but she was really mean. And I didn't know how to say to my mum, I don't want to go because she's mean to me. So I just pretended my nose was bleeding. Why did she invite you around? Did she invite you around to be mean to you? She used to do things like I'd go to the toilet and she'd come in and check how I'd folded my toilet paper. What is wrong with this person?

That is the weirdest thing. I know. Is she in prison now? Is she a serial killer? No, she's really, really good looking now, which is really unfair. Oh, that sucks. Does she have any of these weird, like,

habits and tendencies left over, though? I don't know. I mean, we're not friends anymore, obviously, because she has to check how I went to the toilet. Yeah, she could mean, we're not friends anymore, obviously. You don't know. Because she used to check how I went to the toilet. Yeah, she could be a really good looking Psychopath. You don't know. Like Ted Bundy.

Yeah, thanks guys. You made me feel better. Yeah, we got you girl. Holly number two. Another Holly. What did you fake to get out of something? So I, it sounds pretty basic, but I was just at a work seminar

and I just went up to like the manager of the whole thing and said like, I'm just feeling a work seminar, and I just went up to, like, the manager of the whole thing and said, like, I'm just feeling a bit unwell. I'm going to go home. But then her reply was, yeah, that makes sense, because you do look terrible. Oh, ouch. And you were like, actually, I'm staying.

You know what? Yeah. I'm staying, okay? You can't tell me I look terrible and it's time for me to go home. I'm staying. Thanks, Holly. Yeah, kind of backfired there. Yeah.

A little bit of a backfiring. Somebody said, I think we've all faked the big O to get out of certain things. I actually have never done that because I don't back myself to do it. Like do it well. I was going to say that, yeah. Like you'd oversell it, overact it, and they'll be like, what's going on? You're like Shakespearean it. Oh, my goodness, what a great time I'm having.

They'd be like, why do you sound like Sir Patrick Stewart in the 1990s? You'd be like, I don't know. I guess I'm in the thrills of passion. Yeah, something like that. You've got to sell it, though. I can't believe I just of passion. Yeah, something like that. You've got to sell it, though. I can't believe I just admitted that. Yeah, wow.

Another text message. Somebody said, my son played dead during Cross Country. Oh, my God. And was actually like, wouldn't do anything. And when he finally was like, I guess I'm going to have to pretend I'm not dead because I'm actually not dead, he faked amnesia. What happened? I don't know who you are.

Because I don't know who I am. Where am I? Who are you? I said to him, next time, just pretend to, like, roll your ankle or something because no one's going to make you run on a rolling ankle. Like, don't go deep into the pool with your fake. Yeah, full dead. Yeah, don't go full dead.

Don't go full dead. Now, we're joined on the show by someone who has been accused of faking an injury. He stands accused. Matty McLean, good morning. How dare you? I'm so offended at this insinuation.

Now we only present to you the evidence that producer said you weren't at indoor netball and someone on the team, not her, but someone on the team said they saw you at the gym running on the treadmill. I would say lightly jogging on the treadmill. Thank you very much.

Should one with an injury such as yours be lightly jogging on the treadmill, Maddie? Here's the thing. The injury happened about five weeks ago, but it is certainly not properly fixed. I tore my calf muscle. Tore it. It tore. Oh, goodness.

Very serious sports injury for someone so athletic as myself. Yeah. And I've been seeking medical advice, professional advice, and my physiotherapist, who I see once a week, has suggested that I start lightly jogging on the treadmill at the gym. No hills, no fast sprints. So it's rehabilitation. Exactly, Megan. Can we see a medical certificate?

And can we please have the number of the physio? This is a full investigation now. You want to double down on your lie, we're going to blow it right wide open. Do you know who it was that has accused you and the team? Can you wave? Yeah, I did see one of our team members and I kind of sheepishly waved from afar.

We really miss you, Maddie. Like, you are quite a vital part of the team. Oh, shut up. You are. It's because you're a psycho bitch on the team. Oh, shut up. You are. It's because you're a psycho bitch on the court. No, I've heard that. I've heard you're nuts. Yeah, I am a little crazy.

Yeah, that's good. But doesn't that go to show I take my nipple very seriously and I only want to come back when I can properly put my all into the team. You're our generation's Brendan Talfa. Exactly. Did Brendan Talfa play Nebula or did he just commentate it? I don't know. I imagine he did.

I was going to more say he's our generation's Bernice Mene. Oh, yeah. Ferocious on the field. Ferocious. All right, thanks. Good luck with the rehabilitation, babes. Yeah. Somebody says it sounds like Maddie might have pulled his lying muscle as well.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. That was too hard, do, do, do. That was too hard, guys. That's hard. It's because we told Fletch he's in Sydney. We said, take your headphones off, you lead, and we'll follow. But you put your bloody headphones back on, didn't you? It sounds so weird when you listen to it without. Do you know what we should have done?

We should have been like, take your headphones off and then just not sung. Oh, no. That's the way I put them on because I was paranoid that you'd left me out to dry. Oh, we wouldn't do that, babes. Yeah, sure. So today's fact of the day is about the origin of the word sabotage. Oh, okay. Suffering.

Oh, no. Friend suffering. Succotash. Suffering. Suffering. Sabotage. Suffering. Suffering Succotash. So Succotash is a, it's a mix kind of, of a French and English word. It comes from the word sabot, which was a form of wooden shoe.

Like a, you know what the Dutch. Like a clog, what the Dutch wore. Except it was used as a protective, it was like the first protective boot. Because leather could protect you from stones and like cuts but if you dropped something on your foot the leather would do nothing. Like an early steel cap.

Exactly. Except it was made of wood. You would buy them carved and they would protect your foot. So that was a saboteur. Now a saboteur would be a kick with sabots as to willfully destroy something. Right. As if you were to...

You hit your sabots on. Yes. And to saboteur would be to... Your boyfriend cheated on you and you go to his car. You would saboteur him by kicking... His car. By kicking him. Oh, okay.

Or his car. So you would be the saboteur, the act of it, the verb. Well, no, back in those days, you have to kick his horse and carriage. Oh, don't kick his horse. Just the carriage. Kick his car. So you would be the saboteur, the act of it, the verb. Back in those days, you had to kick his horse and carriage. Don't kick his horse, just the carriage. Well, not the horse, kick his carriage. Yeah. So saboteur became the act of kicking with sabots. Right.

And then the act of kicking with sabots, you were the saboteur, became sabotage in French. And the first sort of like use of sabotage was the boots, the sabbats, they would just chuck them into machines and stuff if they didn't want to do any more work that day.

They'd be like, I'll just put this in there because they found that it would just chains, belts, anything would come off the machine and they'd be like, oh, I guess that's, oh, the machines, call them a cab. We'll go home. We'll just come back in tomorrow when it's all fixed. That'll be really great.

So it became a sabotage. The sabots by the saboteur committing sabotage. Right. So today's fact of the day is sabotage effectively means using your boots to stop some work. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. No.

I saw you leaving me hanging out to dry. I forgot about the screen. I forgot about the screen. Yeah, you forgot that I could see you on Skype. You start and we promise we'll go. Ready, go. No, absolutely not. You start.

Leave the headphones on. You've got to be able to ignore our voices coming through. Ready? Three, two, one, go. Fact of the day, day, day, day,'t, obviously. You can tell. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A study has found what type of people you go after, after you break up. So if you're in a long-term relationship

and then you break up and you're like, okay, I've learnt my lesson. I know what I want and what I don't want in a partner now. I won't make that mistake again. Yeah, I won't make that mistake. Yep, what you said. Or you're like, I'm going to try something completely different

because I've tried the same type of guy. You always see that on The Bachelor. They're like, I've tried bad boys this whole time, so I'm going to try a really good guy. They wanted bad boys again, didn't they? Yeah, we're all suckers for a bad boy. Aren't we? It turns out.

Fletch, can we get a three for three? Oh, sure. Yeah, why not? Suckers for a bad guy. Yeah, yeah. So it turns out this study has been published in the journal PNAS. Just trying to help us. Why are you laughing at the PNAS?

I was like, how do you say that? P-E-N- P-N-A-S medical journal P-E-N-E-N-E-S no because I was like how would you say that as a word you'd literally be like penis the penis

okay oh sorry so yeah it's been published in this journal it said that basically you will end up yeah in the penis journal

you will end up with one particular guy so you do have a type. They have followed people who have been in relationships over a long period of time. And even if you have a rebound who is someone different, you will eventually end up with the same

or someone similar to your previous partner, personality-wise and looks-wise. Do you reckon that's true? Because your ex-husband and your now current husband are like two different people, aren't they? Chalk and cheese. Yeah. Are they similar in any way? Actually, no.

In every single way. They're both got hair. They're both. Men. Yeah. With hair. Yeah. And skin. Yeah skin and fingers.

Technically foreign families. There we go. Yeah, there we go. But I'm not a great case study for this because they are very different. But this study says that even though you might have rebounds, eventually you'll go for someone who is exactly the same as your ex because you are genetically attracted to

a certain personality type. Right. That's your... That is your jam. Right. So don't fight it, baby. If you like the bad boys, just change them. Oh, but I can't go through that heartbreak again. Not again. Not this time. Yeah.

Lock them in and then... It's been a while though I know it has, but have I learned my lesson? Probably not There is a new lawnmower I don't believe it's on the market You're not going to be able to pick it up at the field days Even though many a lawnmower will be purchased because of all the field day specials But there is a Honda lawnmower The be purchased because of all the Field Day specials. But there is a Honda lawnmower, the Mean Mower V2. I think it's because it's the version 2 of it.

It can go 215 kilometres an hour. Good Lord. Would the blades even work going that fast? That fast, I don't know about blades. I don't think you're really engaging blades at 215 k's an hour. Wait, is it enclosed? I suppose a motorbike is not enclosed, is it?

No, it's open. It looks exactly like a ride-on lawnmower with a steering wheel, but with the tractor-style one with the nose out the front, except that, but the driver's

sat down a little bit lower. That, crossed with a go-kartart is what it looks like. Huh. But a practical mower because it does have a catcher on the back and blades. You don't need this. Don't I?

No. Because it was piloted by Jess and she got it up to 215 kilometres an hour. But that's not as exciting as it goes from zero to 96 kilometres an hour in less than three seconds. Well, you wouldn't want to accidentally nudge your house, would you, if you're just trying to, you know? Yeah, you'd probably want to slow down if you're going around the fruit trees. And if you're getting too close to Mum's rhododendron head, you'd want to slow down a little bit.

Yeah. But it's a 900cc, 999cc engine. So like it's a litre, the engine. Yep. So it's not a huge, huge engine. So it's really flying along and it weighs apparently 69kgs. But is this a gimmick? Like why have they made it?

Because you're obviously not going to be able to mow your lawns at 200 kilometres an hour. Totally. The speed of it is totally a gimmick. But they also wanted to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the fastest lawnmower with the best acceleration. So they've just done that. Right. They're trying to get on top gear. You can engage blades at that speed.

That's insane. You can engage. Yeah, you can engage blades. Like, it is a practical lawnmower. Well, it's not overly practical, but it's practical in the sense that you. You can engage blades. It is a practical lawnmower. Well, it's not overly practical, but it's practical in the sense that you can mow the lawn. But you sat so far down, anyone will know if you're mowing a lawn, the reason you

sit up high is you've got to be able to have good spatial awareness. Visuals. You want to be able to identify how close you can get to something. Back in a little bit. Back forward you go. Are you sick of your right on lawnmower? No.

Like, does it feel like a chore now? Do you know he does this? He mows his lawns once a week. Like, that's a lot of time. You want to stay on top of it. That's a lot. You don't want it getting away on you. I mow my lawns, but like every three weeks.

Then you mow them and you mow them too low and they get stalky looking. If you want to keep a lush greenness, you've got to mow my lawns, but like every three weeks. Then you mow them and you mow them too low and they get stalky looking. If you want to keep a lush greenness, you've got to mow often. You've got to mow sharp. You've got to mow often. Right. Now, you were allowed to buy this expensive ride-on lawnmower. Has your wife claimed back her fair share of the ride-on lawnmower? It still gets mentioned weekly when I'm like, do we need that?

And she will say, did we need a rhino lawnmower? Yeah, good. She can dine out on this for a while. Good on her. Have you added up the total, though? Because surely at some stage soon she's got to say no. She can't say that anymore. He's not married.

He's not even in a relationship. He's not quite sure of how the balance of power works here. But you just have to take this forever. Yeah, that's how it works. For the foreseeable future. But she thinks it's like a punishment to me, but then jokes on her when I'm looking sweet cruising around on my lawn.

It's all out the window, mate. It's all grass and the catcher. Right. But I don't have a catcher. Because I don't have a catcher. Because I don't have a catcher. Let it go raw on the grass. Well, yeah, I know. And I do something that I shouldn't do,

but I mow the same way every way and chuck the grass the same way constantly and then, like, put it under the hedge. And so little to no mess. I am thinking about getting this trailer right. You can tie it behind your lawnmower. Oh, my God. And the wheels go round on the trailer, and that turns this gear. So at the front, there's this brush that spins significantly quicker.

You're familiar with how gears work? The slow wheels at the back when the ones at the front go quicker. And it flicks all the debris up into the trailer. Who have you been talking to? That's all the – why is that? You've been talking to that person who's, like, into grass porn, aren't you? I know. Lawn porn. A bit of lawn porn. Yeah. Yeah, but no, they didn't put me onto it grass porn, aren't you? I know. Lawn porn.

A bit of lawn porn. Yeah. Yeah, but no, they didn't put me onto it. Oh, did they not? Yeah, no. And I'll tell you what, field day, Samara Fletcher, I hope you're wearing your comfy boots because we're going to have to walk every road looking for specials.

Oh, okay. Is there food? Do they have fudge? There's free samples, remember? Lots of food. Good. Yeah, I like food. We should even actually try to get a lawnmower to ride around to save us walking.

Oh, that sounds pretty good. It sounds great. Or a golf cart. Yes. Do they have it like a golf cart for the farm? Like a four-wheel? Yeah, they do. They do.

Also, aren't you running a stall? You're not supposed to be. You're working there. You're not supposed to be running around. No, I've got plebs doing that. We've got to go out and shake hands and make connections and do rural networking. No, you call them employees when you're paying them. You call them plebs when they're doing it for nothing.

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