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

Episode Date: June 25, 2019

Vaughan witnessed something grim from Fletch and Producer Caitlin yesterday, we hear your drama and do you go on dates for free meals?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fletch Warner Megan. The podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Warner Megan. Two minutes past six. Are you jet lagged after your big European trip in Ternania? I'm running on three hours sleep, guys. So that's cool. Did you have a nap during the day? Nah. I haven't had a full night's sleep since Thursday, so I feel like I could go cray-cray any sec. That picture in front of the Eiffel Tower can't help you now, can it?

Why don't you take a dose of Venice and see what happens? Why don't you look back at that picture of Buckingham Palace and see if that recharges the batteries? Oh, shut up. I need a mocha and an eggy bap. Eggy bap and a mocha? Yep, that'll go through. There you go, there you go.

Ready to party. What are you on, the Irish moss? I'm on the Irish moss, yep, Bonington's Irish moss. I get this every time I get a cold and I just end up drinking it because I like the taste of it. You always bring a bag of stuff. Like, when you get sick, do you just go to the pharmacy and buy everything on the shelf?

I've got, you know, and buy everything on the shelf? I've got, I've got, you know, I'm back on the Otraven. Even though you've been advised not to be. I haven't done this for years because kids, one winter,

Uncle Vaughn did this every day, multiple times a day and it melted his sinuses. So don't do that. When it says on the Otraven, used for no more than three days in a row, you bloody listen to them.

Because otherwise you'll be prone to very bad sinus infections. But last night I could hardly breathe, so I took a squirt. Sweet, sweet relief. It was like I was back on the cocaine. You're like an investment banker with your nostrils. Yes. Except it's not cocaine and partying.

It's Otraven. It's Otraven and early nights. Yeah. I got eight hours sleep last night. Unheard of, right? Unheard of. I was in bed asleep by eight o'clock. It was glorious.

Glorious. Can't even remember the last time that happened on a weekend. Wonderful. All the medication. Brilliant. Get to bed. All right, you lot. Listen up.

It's story time. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, story time. I have sourced three news headlines from news websites around the globe. Megan Vaughan picked one of the following three headlines. Headline one, Masters of Marijuana. Headline two, Literal Shell Company. And headline three, Potpourri hold up

Those are your headlines today All pretty short and sweet Potpourri hold up Yep What was number one? Masters in marijuana Masters in marijuana is the university offering a degree in All things marijuana

Correct Potpourri hold up is a stoned cat robbing a bank. A stoned cat. Oh, it's potpourri. Pourri. Oh, no, it's potpourri. Potpourri. It's not spelt for puri.

Oh, right. Otherwise, yeah, you'd be right. A drug-dealing cat. Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, I like that. No. It's not a drug. Well, Vaughan's always really good at guessing them. Let's give him a go. Yeah, I like that. No. It's not a drink. Well, Oren's always really good at guessing them.

Let's give him a go. Shell, literal shell company. A company selling shells? No. Huh. Number two then. You want literal shell company. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That needs an explanation. Okay. We go now to Tel Aviv, where a mother and daughter decided they would go to Tel Aviv for a lovely holiday. I want to go to Tel Aviv. It looks lovely. I do too, yeah. I don't know too much about the entire area, but is that sort of like at all dangerous?

I know that whole... I don't think so. Birthplace of Jesus, Palestinians, rail situations situations There's a bit of Back and forth there Yeah I guess there's always It always flares up doesn't it But I've had friends That have gone

One recently And it looks like A bit of a party place It's like And great beaches Beachside Yeah Really

Beautiful Well mother and daughter Christine and Tonya Silman They decided they would Check out Tel Aviv And they found a Lovely hotel

The Royal Jafar Hotel. Well, that's already bad omens, because Jafar was the bad guy on the Aladdin movie. Aladdin, yeah. Oh, really? Okay, well, yeah. I love the place. Ominous sign. She doesn't know that.

No, I don't know that. No, I haven't heard the name. Jafar. I've heard the name, but you know me. I'm not familiar with his work. You know me in animated movies. I'm not a fan. Well, they decided they would book a

lovely four-star hotel. It was advertised in the Old Town. Luxurious rooms and en-suite bathrooms with sea views. And we all know when we're booking a hotel online, the sea views further down the list, they're always more expensive. Yeah. Well, they got there and they were

shocked to find that the hotel was just a building site and nothing else. And it wasn't a hotel that was being built. It was just a half-finished building that was not a hotel. That's the shell. It was the shell of a building. Yeah, the shell of a building. Exactly.

The little shell company. They walked down the street, got to the corner. They thought, well, we must have the address wrong. But then when they double-checked and triple-checked, they had the address correct. They went to a building over the road and asked for directions. Another hotel and the concierge said, well, no, that's it. And it's not the first time it's happened.

So they're now warning other people. Yeah. Booking.com. Well, that's not going to work. That's bad that they've still got that on there. No, as someone who runs a B&B

I've always been sceptical about Booking.com as they were doing really bad stuff. Yeah, that's weird but I've used them and they're fine. I've used them heaps.

But then maybe they don't know. Like, do they go around and check every hotel? Yeah, I guess not. Bizarre. Well, I mean, obviously not. It says here in the news story, it's notable that the booking.com page for the hotel had no customer reviews. Oh, that's a red flag. That's a red flag, isn't it?

Yeah. Wow, I wonder how many people this had been done to and what's actually going on there because it wouldn't be enough to warrant holding onto real estate, like the cost of having real estate. Yeah. No, but they maybe don't even own the real estate. Tax dodge is true.

Right, they just sound like they own it at all. Right. I don't think they own that land at all, Vaughn. They've just said, hey hey that's where we could say our hotel is right but even if you've made low-end scam that's i always just think for like how much effort are you putting into a scam like for reward what's the effort to reward pay off but then if you got bookings solid for a few months and you know it was for months away but it would have been oh yeah and so they all arrive at once. Yeah, and then you're gone with their money.

Yeah. Yeah. What a mess. Would booking.com refund you? I'd say they would. I'd say they would, yeah. But, I mean, that's probably a good warning sign if you book a hotel on any site. It's got no reviews.

No reviews. You can't find it on TripAdvisor. Do they even have photos of the rooms or anything? Yeah, they had all fake photos. Right. Yeah. And the hotel. This was meant to rooms or anything? Yeah, they had all fake photos. Right. Yeah. And the hotel. This was meant to be the hotel.

See, that looks alright. Oh, okay. It looks believable. Yeah, it looks believable. They haven't gone too overboard, you know? Yeah, it just looks like your mid-range, you know? Yeah. Standard-ish hotel.

But I'll always, if I'm booking on any site, I'll always check it on TripAdvisor. Give it a check. Because then you hear about the bed bugs. Multiple site checks. Yeah. Because you might also find it cheaper on one of the other sites.

Well, yeah, because another story in the news, a guy booked a really cheap hotel and it actually turned out to be a swingers hotel. It had all, like,

kinky harnesses on the wall. Oh, that's what he's saying. Oh, what? It turned out to be a swingers hotel. I did not know that. Yeah, my wife went for a weekend away

with the girls, so I just thought I'd come by myself. Yeah. Oh, who knew? You knew. You knew, mate. You knew, yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

So this week, coffee's good for you. Literally was what, like a few weeks ago, they were like, oh, no, it's bad for you. Because I remember thinking, don't tell everyone that. I've just bought a coffee shop. How bad was it last time though? Was it like, you can't drink 18,000 of it? Yeah, it was don't drink more than six or something.

Like it's like, have a glass of water. That was the basic advice of that day. Pretty much everything in moderation. So now, there is a story saying that coffee's actually very good for you and can help like make you lose weight. Oh okay.

So that was always the vibe right because it speeds up your metabolism. Yeah and it's a hunger, it's a known hunger suppressant. Caffeine. Yeah. Right. It was like the old, in the 80s when you wanted to lose some weight you just started smoking and drinking heaps of black coffee and it was like the old, in the 80s when you wanted to lose some weight, you just started smoking and drinking heaps of black coffee.

It was like a known. I don't think that's a. Try to squeeze in a game of tennis and some aerobics, some jazz aerobics. Are you just saying what all your mum and friends did in the 80s? No, mum never had a durry. No. Mum never had a durry. But she'd love a coffee and some tennis.

Loved coffee. Nah, couldn't do tennis. Oh, yeah. Nah, she was never that big on tennis. She didn't have the hip for it. Okay. So this works on the brown fat cells. So you know that there's white fat cells and brown fat cells.

The brown ones are good and they help control your body fat. Okay. So the research that's been done has indicated that drinking coffee could activate the body's fat-fighting defences. So that's been done has indicated that drinking coffee could activate the body's fat fighting defences. So that's your brown fats. Huh. They did test on stem cells, so they put

caffeine into stem cells and once they found the right dose, they said that a few men and women were affected in a positive manner. Because also sometimes you have a coffee, your morning coffee, and you'd be like, okay, better go to the bathroom.

Like a flush. Yeah, kind of flushes you out. Do you know they haven't like figured out, I was reading about that the other day. They were saying it might not actually be the caffeine. It might be something else in the coffee bean that does that. Oh, okay.

It's not necessarily the caffeine. Because I was like, I only just, I never wanted to talk about that because I was like, is that a thing for everyone? Yeah, it gets you going, right? Yeah, it gets you going, yeah.

Yeah, so it might not actually be the caffeine. Something else in there. Unrelated to this. But yeah, apparently, and again, I guess if you are having a lot of coffee, probably not good for you. And if you're having a mocha with like five sugars, probably not good for you. No. We're talking like, you know,

straight up caffeine. And if scientists have to look through a microscope and they still don't know if it's happening or not, obviously it's not a solid plan to lose a significant amount of weight, right? What do you mean? It could. Yes, it is. It could. It might. We can't really see that close yet. Let's just take it.

This week, it's good for you, okay? Good. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Wellington, excuse me, if I can have your attention. Wellington,

you are still flushing too many wet wipes. Wellington, specifically. Wellington is in the limelight. Wellington wet wipes. The Wellington wet wipes.

Those aren't to be flushed. Why? Why Wellington? Everyone's flushing those, aren't they always? Everybody is, but Wellington's, it's 32 tonnes a week

of flushed rubbish. You do? Wow. Yeah, so, wet wipes. Listen, nappies? What?

Oh, come on. People are flushing whole nappies? How do you flush a nappy? Without it, like, you'd have to push it down, wouldn't you? Yeah, even if you wanted to, you're running real risk of clogging your loo. Yeah, real. Even public toilets, like, they're not made.

I feel they're a bit more hardy, but they're still not made to have that flushed. Tampons, like, they're in no flush. No, because they've got their receptacles. Yeah, in public toilets and stuff But what about at home? You wouldn't flush them at home Or would you? Well, it depends Oh, someone's got a guilty look on their face

Well, they just add up They're causing what has been described as harmful rag monsters What? Rag monsters Not the tampons specifically It's not like Oh, okay It's not like... Oh, okay. It's not on the rag monsters like that.

It's because of those nappies, wet wipes, material that doesn't break down like toilet paper. So they get really long. They wrap around things. They cause blockages. Somebody has to put their hands in there. Oh, yuck. They do, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, real gross. So wet wipes, they say, are the main problem, though. Right. Because they take ages to break down, don't they? Or they don't? A very long time. Yeah. Yeah.

So other things that have been found in the Wellington pump station during the removal of one of these rag monsters, a pair of jeans? No. Are you? This is primarily. No, but they might not necessarily be flushed, right? Is it stormwater?

No, this is primarily the sewerage. How do you flush a... Not stormwater, because you know stormwater runs straight to the sea. There's different pipe setups. So sewerage and wastewater. Okay. Sinks. Yep.

That's why you can't, like, pour fat down. This is why you're not supposed to pour fat down the sink. Fletch, yes. No, I always use paper towels. But yesterday I was washing out a paint thing that went down the sink. The paint? But I thought that went to the...

Yeah, you're not supposed to. But then where else are you doing? Yeah, what are you supposed to do with the paint? You're supposed to take it back to the paint place. Oh, that's not... No, I mean like

if you're washing out like your thing that you painted with. Like the tray. Yeah, because that's what I was doing yesterday. The tray. And there's a bit of paint in there and I mean like if you're washing out like your thing that you painted with. Like the tray. Yeah, because that's what I was doing yesterday. The tray. And there's a bit of paint in there. I was like, damn the sink, Hugo.

Because what are you supposed to do with it? Exactly. Yeah, I don't know. I don't have an answer on that one. Let's move on from that then. So jeans, false teeth, and the odd adult fun toy also found in the rag monsters at the pumping station. I'm still baffled at how the jeans got down there. Yeah.

One leg at a time. An adult fun toy, that's like a snake just slips away, doesn't it? Yeah. Slithers down the toilet. Does it though? I don't know.

You're telling the story, mate. We're intrigued. We're intrigued as to hear what you've discovered about that. So yeah, Wellington. I mean, we're primarily pointing a finger at you because they've... What's in the news this week, but it's been... It's an everywhere problem.

Yeah, it's been in the news for the last year or two, isn't it? Those wet wipes being flushed. So don't flush them. Because, you know, since moving rurally, we've got to worry about ourselves. Oh, because you've got a tank. We've got the tank, yeah. So what happens when you flush? It goes into the tank, and then what happens when that tank fills up?

When the tank fills up, it gets to a certain point, and the liquid gets to the top. So there's liquid in there already? No, these are your ways, and when you flush the toilet. Oh, you know, I thought it was like a port-a-loe. There might be that blue stuff. No. Oh, I don't believe so.

Okay. Because it eventually flows out over the top and into these things that go out under the ground. And the weirdest part was when it was really dry over summer, you could see where it had overflowed, like with the wheeze and stuff, because the grass was like 75 centimetres tall and everything else was like brown and diamond.

When did it overflow? It just kind of constantly does. Wait, so where does the... The wheeze goes over. It's not until it's full of poo's that you've got to start worrying about it. Right. And apparently you smell it. But then you get a truck to come in and take it out.

Yeah, and then they come in and some poor bastard's job is to put a big hose down there and vacuum up all your poo's, wheeze and... Oh, are you kidding? And peas and bits of broccoli that you push down the kitchen sink. No, I cannot live rurally. Is it weird to know that out the back of your house is a giant tank of all your doodoos? No, because I grew up with it as well. That's weird.

I can't. It's so weird. When we were kids, we had this ceramic mushroom, and that was the air vent. Do you remember ceramic mushrooms? I remember those, yeah. So that was the air vent to let like the methane gas and everything out of the decomposing poos.

Yeah. Otherwise you get like a little bomb. So there was this weird blockage and it caused this build up and when we were kids we looked at the back and on the lawn one day

it was just poos. Like something had happened and it had, like I don't know if it was a bubble or a blockage and it had gone and there was just like a hundred.

I'm not living in the, in the whops. Nah, it's good. It's good. I'm going to plant some garlic in that overflow, but I'll plant my veggie garden. And then I'll bring you guys home produce and you'll be like, what are the secret to your carrots? And I'll be like, what are the secrets to my carrots? Absolutely not.

Bit of wee-wees. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Even though we're getting further and further away from when the time of the dinosaurs was, we're finding out more and more about them. Something to just ponder, to just think about it. So the paleontologists,

the Paleontological Society, have got together and they said they've learned some new things about T-Rexes, Tyrannosaurus Rex. Okay. It may have used its tiny arms to sexually arouse partners. What, like what?

To tickle them. With a little tickle? Yeah, it would tickle them. Tickle, tickle, tickle. Tickle, tickle, tickle. No, you're giving a laugh. Yep, yep. And they were most likely gingers.

Oh, okay. They were the tickling gingers of the dinosaur world. They had feathers, like hair-like feathers. See, we don't know what colour. How do they make that conclusion? They could have been fluoro-pink. Yeah, well, we don't know. We just won't know.

I mean, fluoro-pink wasn't a supernaturally occurring colour at any time. Oh, flowers. Flowers. Thank you. But then they weren't trying to attract bees. They hadn't evolved to attract bees. They hadn't evolved to attract bees and such. And they're like major predator, so they don't need to hide from anything. You know?

Yeah. They could have been pink. They could have been. They were the apex predator. That's what I was, yep. Apex predator. So they have also said a couple of other things about, they've changed to the largest dinosaurs. They reckon they would have weighed upward of 50

tonne. Okay. Which is like 10 elephants in one dinosaur. They just have a meeting and they're like alright guys, we're just going to change tact on a couple of dinosaurs here. Yeah. And then do a press release. This is why so there are two forms of melanin and those were the main things

that coloured the hair and feathers of the dinosaur. Melanin makes black, brown or grey colours and pheomelanin gives ginger colours and some ancient dinosaur-y,

fossil-y bits. They found proof of the other. Okay, that's how they're working that out. Yeah. They've definitely got... But the tickle thing's very... Yeah. They're not just deciding. They've definitely got... But the tickle thing's very...

Yeah. They're not just deciding. They've definitely got like scientific things. How do they know about the tickling? I'm sure they'd explain it to you. The T-Rex is kind of

going down in popularity. Yeah. Like T-Rex peaked at the first Jurassic Park when it was running behind that Jeep and ate that guy on the toilet and all that other stuff.

So they're just trying to make it more exciting again. But I've always wondered what those arms they're so unnecessary but now it makes sense. Tickling.

Little tickle fingers. Hey little tickle. It's me. The T in T-Rex stands for tickle. Tickle Rex. I'm the tickler Rex. I'm a ginger tickler-axe.

So if they're trying to make up things to make the T-Rex more interesting, here's the top six other things that'll make the T-Rex more interesting. Okay. Number six, it played tennis left-handed. Okay. Think about that ambidextrous. It's all in the wrists, isn't it, tennis? Yeah, right.

And they've got wrists, not much else. Can it get down low, though? It leans back. Got the powerful legs. Yeah, true. The powerful legs they've got wrists, not much else. Can it get down low, though? Leans back. Got the powerful legs. Yeah, true. The powerful legs get that ball up over the net again. Would it be cheating in tennis if you were a T-Rex to use your tail? No, you're allowed to use what you've got.

Yeah. Your substantially shorter arms would be balanced somewhat by your large, powerful tail. Okay. You're saying put a racket on the tail? I'm saying or use the tail as a secondary bat or racket. Oh, no, I don't think you could do that because you're not allowed to do that in tennis. You've got to use the racket to hit it over the net, don't you?

I think the rules aren't there for T-Rexes playing tennis. No, you're right. You're right. Number five on the list of the top six other made-up things to make T-Rexes more interesting. It was only actually a meat- meat eater three days of the week. Other than that, it was a vegan. Or really tried its best to be.

Just because, you know, of the carbon footprint of meat. We just thought that it would just try vegan lifestyle. Like producer Kate when her boyfriend's over. Vegan. Precisely. Number four on the list of the top six things made up to make the T-Rex sound more interesting. It drank its coffee black. Long thought that the T-Rex enjoyed a soy latte,

but no, it's an Americano or a long black. Good for the T-Rex, of course. Yeah. Of course. You didn't get that cranky by drinking milk. Number three on the list of the top six other things made up about the T-Rex to make it seem more interesting. It sounded like this.

And also whistled, it sounded like this. number two on the list of the top six other things made up about the T-Rex to make it seem more interesting it said it was gluten intolerant but it wasn't it was just trying to have an interesting it was trying to have an interesting dietary requirement such a punisher

brunch yeah I know it's like where do you want to go for brunch Tickly Rex but then Tickly Rex could just like just get the eggs right

but like Tickly Rex you don't want to take Tickly Rex to like a tapas No Should we get the breads Well you just don't get the tickly Well I shouldn't have to pay for the bread If I wasn't gonna If I wasn't gonna eat the bread

And then top six other made up things About the T-Rex To make it seem more interesting. Number one, it was asthmatic. Okay. That's the real reason it couldn't run for long distances. Like it's got a little short thing in it. What you didn't see in Jurassic Park is it ran after the sheep.

And then when it stopped, it was like. Does its little arms reach its own mouth? Yeah, it has a lean into it. Got it. Thank goodness for this Jurassic Simba court in the home. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. An analysis of New Zealand police data has revealed

the most tickets per head of population around New Zealand. So... Okay. I'll do the top three. I'll start with three. That is Waikato. They have 0.74 tickets per head of population. So almost

a ticket. Is that over it? No, that's going to be per hundred. 0.74. Per hundred. So per 100. 0.74. Per 100. Yep. So per 100 people. It says per capita. 0.7?

Does that mean almost one ticket per person? Yes. That can't be right. That can't be right, surely. Are you reading that right? It says, well, so if you do the most speeding tickets, it is 1.01 tickets per head of population over four years. So it's almost one ticket per person living in that place over four years.

That's nuts. So that's a lot of tickets. Over four years. Yeah. I haven't had a ticket in four years. That means somebody's got two tickets. Over four years. Yeah. I haven't had a ticket in four years. That means somebody's got two tickets. In your name. Yeah.

Sure. So, yeah, third is Waikato, 0.74. Okay. Second is Waitemata. How do you say that? Waitemata. Waitemata. Yeah, that's it.

Have you never heard that? You live in the Waitemata area. Oh, yeah, I do, too. Waitemata. Nah, because it sounds like you want to say Waikaraka Park. Waikaraka Park. Rolling in the dark.

That's 0.82. Okay. Getting higher. And 1.01, so a ticket per head of population over four years. Everyone would get one. That's Tasman. So Nelson, the Nelson Marlborough

region. Wow. Wow. It's mind-blowing. So they have said to take into account they can't, they don't know whether people lived locally or whether they were just driving through the area. Yeah. So that would kind of account for like Waikato and that other place. They skirt Auckland

City. So like people might be hurting to work, maybe. But that's still mind-blowing that in a place like the Waikato or even Nelson, that on average, there's one ticket per person. That's nuts. So it includes speed cameras. Right.

It includes any infringement. Right. But it doesn't include stationary speed cameras. It doesn't include ones that are always there. Oh, like full-timers? It doesn't include full-time speed cameras. Because I think they took them out of the study because people slow down because they know they're there.

Right, okay. Also, it doesn't say how heavily the roads were policed around that area, because that's what everyone in Nelson always says. Oh, the police have got nothing else to do. Like, look out for people who smoke weed and speed. Yeah, the police have got nothing else to do. Like, look out for people who smoke weed and speed. Yeah, the police have got nothing else to do apart from, like, trying to stop one of the worst killers

in New Zealand speeding on roads. Yeah. They've got nothing to do apart from trying to keep society safe from killing itself. And I find that so hard to believe because that's my pet peeve when I go home to Nelson. It's like 50Ks and everyone's like, oh, 40. We'll just do a casual 40.

I know, they drive slow. Or it's 70 and like, oh 40. We'll just do a casual 40. Or it's 70 and they're going 50. I'm like, you live here. Put your foot down. So yeah. That's crazy. I've just found that stats, but while you're going to say the bad, you've got to congratulate the good.

Canterbury, Wellington, Bay of Plenty and Counties Monaco have the lowest. Okay, good. That's bullshit. Have you ever driven on the Canterbury, Wellington, Bay of Plenty and Counties Monaco have the lowest. Okay, good. That's bullshit. Have you ever driven on the Canterbury Plains? You're super fast, eh? Jeez, you're driving like an absolute lunatic.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So I mentioned there is a stat one in three women do this. Yeah. We cannot fathom doing this, but someone must be. It's very cheeky. So one in three women have admitted. Now, I will say in this study, it was majority heterosexual women. Okay.

And they tend to believe in traditional gender roles. So with that being said, one in three women have been on a date just to get a free meal. They're calling it a foodie call. Yes, it's got a name. I like this one so much. Do you even have to go through with the booty call? No.

Part of it. Foodie, foodie, foodie, foodie, rucking everywhere. Foodie, foodie, foodie, foodie, rucking everywhere. I found you, Miss New Foodie. Sit down and eat an entree. Then get yourself a main course.

It's someone who sets up a date with someone they're not romantically interested in just to be wined and dined, just to get dins. Right. No judge, I'd do it. Would you? I'd done far worse for a free meal. Because is it even a thing now that the man is expected to pay for the meal? It's not, is it even a thing now that the man is expected to pay for the meal? No, it's not, is it?

That's where they say it's women who believe in traditional gender roles tend to do this more. See, I would not, I wouldn't let anyone buy me dinner straight after that. What if it was Thursday before payday? Like Wednesday, Thursday. You'd at least put up a pretend fight like you do with your parents. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's okay, no. Hold on, hold on.

Are you sure? And then they're like, I'm going to the bathroom. And you know they're going to pay when they go to the bathroom. But you're like, all right, see you soon. And then they get back

and you're like, you didn't pay, did you? That's good stuff. Because if I was in that role and maybe someone was like, oh, we'll take you out for dinner, I'd always have the money on my card expecting to pay. I wouldn't just expect.

Yeah, 100%. Right. Like if you're going out with a guy that you just met, I would be like, well, we'll just pay for ourselves. Producer Caitlin, you said you have definitely in your single days have never done this. You've never gone out on a date expecting the free, just for the free dinner? No, because if I did, then it would be just my luck that I, because I always offer,

like I can't help myself, I always offer to pay. So it'd be just my luck that I'd be like, oh. For the whole dinner? No, no, no, no, no, like half.

Okay, yep. But it'd be just my luck I'd be going out expecting a free meal and then they'd be like, oh yeah, no, you can pay half. And then I'd be like,

mmm, I don't have any money. Because that would be the, if you did this, it'd be horrible if you didn't have the money to pay. Yeah. So are you supposed to lead them on with the, like, let them think they're going to get more? This is so, it's so naughty. So you've never done it.

People do that in clubs with drinks as well. Oh, yeah. That's a whole different argument, that one. Yeah, but if you're going to flirt with a dude for a Maduri mixer, then that's... That's absolutely fine. That's up to you. So we asked on our Instagram a quick poll this morning.

I mean, it's only been an hour or so. Have you ever been on a date for a free meal, a foodie call? Yeah. 16% have made a foodie call, have done it. And 84%, no, no way. Is that one third? No, not quite. No, it's not a third.

Right. What would that be like, a fifth? And that's anonymous too. People don't have to lie on Instagram. You can just be like. I know, I know. Maybe they can be very honest about it. Maybe that's Kiwi Girls.

This was a UK study, wasn't it? This was out of the UK. But a third of people. So we thought now we would ask you, have you ever done this? Have you ever been on a date for a free meal? Have you ever made a foodie call? We want to hear from the 16%. Yeah.

We won't judge you. I don't know. I've already heard from a couple. Really? Actually? Yeah. We won't judge you. I don't know. I've already heard from a couple. Really? Actually? Yeah. Okay, what about like if you just ask on Tinder for them to buy you? Because remember that, was it a girl in Dunedin or someone in Dunedin said if you get me an Uber Eats or a free pizza?

That's right. Remember that? Yeah, but she was kind of like straight up about it. She was straight up about it. Yeah. But then like what kind of creepy dude is going to be like, I'll come around and watch you eat. No, they weren't watching them.

They were just delivering the food and then they'll get a date later maybe. Oh. Maybe. So that was like the application process. Yeah. So the pizza was the CV. Yeah. So if you turned up with a Domino's, she'd be like,

you're lacking the experience. But she turns up with like a wood-fired pizza. Yeah, yeah. Then you're like, this is obviously a better, this is better for you. You've put together a great curriculum vitae. All right, well, have you ever been on a date for a free meal, a foodie call?

I'll wait until you're done. We've had a few requests for that booty call song. Well, maybe we can do that next. Give us a call, 0800-DARLES-AT-HEM-9696. Third woman in a UK survey admit that they have been on a date just for a free meal. We've asked you

on our Instagram a poll. 16% in New Zealand say that they have done this. We were just like, no one does this. I am like shooketh

by the texts that are coming in. Sure. So people have 100% been on a date just for the free food Well I just like It's too much admin talking to a new person

Like you've got to make conversation Pretend you care It's not worth it Yeah even just like a coffee date It's too much admin It's too stressful Well do you remember when I took that girl For wood fired pizza

Yeah And I don't go on about it 20 years later You do I certainly don't keep going on about it Yeah Well wood fired pizza 20 years ago Was a big deal

It was very big. It was a very big deal. And you were a young man? Yeah. I thought word would surely get around and there'd be an influx of women wanting to go on a date with me after the word got around that I was

splashing out on the wahine, taking them to wood-fired pizza. Well, it just never took off. It never took off. That was before my time, though, obviously. And you paid for her. I did, yes. Yeah, well.

I did. And I wasn't expecting, don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting, like, a hookup at the end of the night. Yeah. I was just expecting her to pay half. But you don't want to be used

for your wood-fired pizza. I don't want to be used for my wood-fired pizza. I'm better than that. True love, you are. We're all better than that. Jen, this is your friend. She goes on a date or two

for a free meal. So, she's friend. She goes on a date or two for a free meal. So she's single. She goes on quite a few dates during the week and probably about three times a week she'll get a free meal out of it. And is she only doing this for the free meal or does she actually want to meet love, someone to, you know, be with? She's very picky with the guys, but she's not in a hurry to find a guy. She's just enjoying, you know, being wined and dined and complimented.

And yeah, basically just for the free treat. Does she ever offer to pay? No. Why would she? And so is she eating, is she getting a quality dinner? Or are these like cheap places? She's had a few, you know, just the normal going to Macca's or Pizza Hut, but then she's had a few where it's quite up there.

Okay. I don't know if you're going to find true love by you getting a Macca's combo, are you? That's not the attitude. I mean, I guess there's a playground. Yeah. Jen, thanks for your call. Rachel joins us.

Rachel text messages, text them. We had to call her back because we needed to know if this is a thing. You are in an online Facebook group. It's a girls group, right? Yeah, that's right. We ask each other questions, share experiences, move forward. What's it called? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

you can't breach. That's got us in trouble before. I know which group though. What do some people do in this group? They do Nudes for Foods, which is Nudes for Uber Eats. Nudes for Foods? Yep. And then poor old producer James has to turn up as the Uber Eats driver.

He's not nude. They're not nude for him. No, but I'm saying that someone that James is delivering to has... Sent naughty pics. Sent naughty pics. But when do you send... I wouldn't send the pics until I got the Nando's. That would be mine.

Yeah, I don't know how it works. I've never done it myself. And they give the neighbour's address like a few addresses down the road so it's not directly coming to their property. Oh, so the creepy dude who wants the nudes in exchange for foods. Right. He doesn't know where they live. Even then, he's got like a ballpark.

He's got nowhere happy enough to walk there. Yes. And do they get to specify what food they want? I think so from what I can gather. What's to stop you from Google imaging? Yeah, I was going to say like, but then also just Google, go to Pornhub or something and then you're saving money. I'd say they probably just recycle the same photo again and again

and again like each night. You know, we're talking about the guy buying them Uber. Yeah, I don't know. But then maybe he feels this is some kind of... Oh, yeah, no, I don't know. Does he feel like this is some kind of charity? Maybe. Popping out a good cause, a lonely, poor female.

How do they hook up the nerds for foods? Is it via dating apps? No, I think, like, just through, like, Instagram and Snapchat and I don't know. Yeah, I've, like, just through, like, Instagram and Snapchat and I don't know. Yeah, I've got no idea. But it's a pretty big thing, it seems. Oh, my God. Someone just messaged in, they do nudes for foods.

Okay. They're in a relationship, but they get enough food to feed their partner and themselves, and he's happy for sending off the nudes. I mean, doesn't this say more about the people that are like buying the food for the people that are sending them

nude pictures? Like how do the spring rolls from the Thai place down the road, you know? Come on. Is it worth your genitals being on the internet?

I don't know. I'm just saying the person who's sending the food just for a nude picture. Yeah, like you. Have they heard of the internet? It's like literally you can get it for free. a nude picture. Yeah, like you. Have they heard

of the internet? It's like literally you can get it for free. In video form. Yeah, thanks. They're token-sending parties like whatever.

It's an old school barter system. Thank you for your call, Rachel, shedding some light on nudes for food. Wow. But yeah,

we got a lot of messages, people that would go on dates as well for the free meals. Who knew? Someone said, in my younger days, when I was 17, I was always hungry. Went on a date with an older, rounder gentleman, mostly because I thought, that guy doesn't look like he goes without food.

So we went out for dinner, and I was not wrong. I was always very well fed. However, I ended up in a pretty toxic relationship with him for three years. Oh. So they said- You hung around. Yeah, that's the mistake they made there. Yeah.

Stay for the meal. Get out before the relationship. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I just can't believe this. Notes for Foods revelation. I know.

Yeah, it's going to be quite confronting when I need to order Uber Eats next and I realise I could get this for free. Wow. Could you? Yeah. You'd have to buy Uber Eats for someone to accept your nerds. Please, just look at it.

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. What are you looking at your phone for? Are you trying to get involved in Nerds for Foods? No.

Megan was just showing me the Facebook page, though. Wow. I just. I'm so shook by all of this. I find the psychology behind it fascinating. Like, do you think it's a, what am I worth, a family pack? It's a car. Be honest with me.

Could I get like a bag? You're a bucket. There's something for everyone. You're a bucket There's something for everyone You're a bucket of chicken Oh my god thank you You're welcome There's like niches for everyone Yes yes yes yes

If I was at McDonald's Would I be one of those Really big boxes At least Yeah because Especially in the gay community You'd be like a big bear The twinks would just

They'd be buying you Family packs Yes Does that make you feel better Which is great Because I have a family The twinks would just be buying you family packs. Yes. Does that make you feel better? Which is great because I have a family. But then the alluring nature of the twink and gay community. What if I end up leaving my family?

Or because I wanted free food. Oh my goodness me. At the moment, everybody, well not everybody, but people are gearing up for Dry July. Yes. Oh, yeah. And I didn't know this, but in Australia, a massive supermarket's teamed up with the Dry July Foundation and everyone's like, the irony's not lost here

because you guys are always making alcohol super cheap, so people will buy more of it. Because in Australia, you can't buy it in the supermarket, but they all have the little shops right next door that they own anyway. Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A bit like West Auckland with the licensing trust.

You can't buy it in the supermarket, but it's in there. But the supermarkets all own the... Yeah, right beside it. Yeah, yeah. It's like why Rebel Sports always beside a Briscoe's. They're owned by the same people. Huh? Huh? You don't know that. Nah. That's why they both always have sales. That's. They're owned by the same people. Huh? Huh?

You don't know that. Nah. That's why they both always have sales. That's why they're addicted to sales. Yeah. The guy in charge is like, put a sale on that one. And a sale on that one. Just, I love sales.

Both of the stores have a sale. Sales. So the little alcohol situation right next to them, they're saying the irony's not lost on us that you're trying to promote Dry July, yet you are at one of your main profit things. Anyway, I was reading this press release, which is weird for me because I get sent heaps of press releases and I'm like, PDF, delete, boring.

This one, though, here's this. How's this for a line? Alcohol is a class one carcinogen. I mean, kind of knew that. Kind of knew that if you've got an unhealthy Relationship with alcohol It's more likely to lead to cancer Or some aspect The alcohol in a bottle of wine

Has the equivalent cancer risk of smoking Five cigarettes for men And ten cigarettes for females A bottle of wine is Equivalent to 10 ciggies. It has the equivalent cancer risk of 10 cigarettes for females. Unbelievable. So last Thursday at the Radio Awards,

when you straw-pated a whole bottle of wine, you might as well have just absolutely power-honed 10 darts. Don't get on your high horse with me, Fletch. I had a whole bottle at the weekend at the birthday dinner, and then I think I had a bit of Vaughan's wine because it was just down the end of the table. Oh yeah, I had a whole bottle at the weekend at the birthday dinner and then I think I had a bit of Vaughan's wine because it was just down the end of the table.

I wonder though because I was like, I feel remarkably sober for somebody who drank a bottle of wine. And then you like waved the bottle at him being like,

your wine's almost gone. Yeah, I was like, heck, I have. But it was my birthday. I'm cute. I can get away with it. Yeah, he did also go, hee hee, I'm so cute.

All night. So, that, also go, hee hee, I'm so cute. All night. So, that, like, I was like, wow. That's confronting. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't drink that often. It's just like, every now and then. If you were a smoker, what's your,

like, how many smokes do you smoke a day? I don't know. It depends. It would all depend. How much is a pack? $400 now, I think. No, no, how many smokes do you smoke a day? I don't know. It depends. It would all depend. How much is a pack? $400 now, I think. No, no. How many in a pack?

Oh, I don't know. 20? 25? I have no idea. I always just remember hearing Paul Holmes, legendary broadcaster, Holmesy, could get through three packs a day. Jeez. I was like, how did he have time to broadcast?

He must have just had a fag in his mouth the whole time. You're supposed to remember. Different days. Yeah, you talk to me this time. Hold on, hold on just a moment there. He could smoke in the studios back in those days. Really? Yeah. How did he do the telly show?

The ads. He just must have had like a row of cigs in his mouth just going Well, they had an extractor fan and so he'd just have a ciggy during the break What, like an oven rain shirt? Yeah, rain shirt on. And he'd just stand up on the desk. He was always just at a shot when during the break. Or like an oven rain shirt. Yeah, rain shirt on. And then just stand up on the desk. It was always just at a shot when they were seated. But that's quite something to think about, isn't it?

Almost enough to make you, I don't smoke. Yeah. If you drink a couple of bottles of wine every week. It's enough to make me do dry July. Yeah. It's enough to make me block my ears if anybody wants to tell me statistics about beer or whiskey. Well, I don't drink too much wine, so I'll block my ears now. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

There is a body language expert who has revealed how you sit on the couch with your partner, what it says about your relationship. So the meaning behind the position. Right. Don't you and your wife, Vaughan, have separate couches? Correct, yes. about your relationship. So the meaning behind the position. Right. Do you have, don't you and your wife all want to have separate couches?

Correct, yes. Because you like to sprawl. I've got one for separate couches. We both lay on the couch. Right. Weirdly, I lay on the shorter couch. Oh, that's not. She should have the shorter couch.

She should have the shorter couch. It causes numbness in my feet because the back of the Achilles lands on the end of the couch. What about, very problematic. Producer Caitlin, who's now got a boyfriend, how do you sit on the couch. It causes numbness in my feet because the back of the Achilles lands on the end of the couch. What about, very problematic. Producer Caitlin who's now got a boyfriend,

how do you sit on the couch with your boyfriend? So I lie on top of him, not like that. I lie like he sits up and then I lie like snuggled into him.

No, but like my head's like this. Oh, that's so uncomfortable. On his lap or against him? No, no, no, no, like against him. Oh, that is awful. I'm his lap or against him? No, no, no, no, no, like against him. Oh, that is awful.

So like I'm like leaning against his arm. Okay. It's really cute. My daughters all sit like that and it's nice because they're small, but after a little while you're like, all right, get away. Off you hop. But you're like a fully grown woman. Excuse me?

Pulling me back. No, but you're a fully grown human. Yeah, I am taller than him as well. Yeah, I know. So you'd be like almost... It's either like that or I can't be bothered with him and then we just like sit on the edge. Well, so what does that mean, Megan?

What have you... I can't decipher what she means. So he's sitting there and she's leaning against him. Let Fletch and I demonstrate. Cute. Who's taking up more space? Me.

Okay, so that is And then you put your arm around him, Fletch. Chic. Yeah, that's it. So there is a closeness in this relationship. Wait, what are we watching? Black Mirror mirror probably. There's closeness but this

position can also signify a power differential in the relationship. The person spread out is owning the space suggesting confidence and power in the relationship. That's you. 100% it. That's you. That's how our relationship is. Okay, so what separate couches? So separate couches

it sounds bad but it's not. Because 37% of people sit this way. If you are on different couches, it's a long-term relationship. It doesn't necessarily indicate any problems, but a couple that's used to each other over the years. That sounds like a married couple getting lazy boys, eh? Yes. Do you know the worst one is when you sit at opposite sides of the same couch.

With a gap in the middle. So say you've got a four-seater and you're at one end each. If there's a massive gap in between you or a pet or you're using something in between you, it's bookends and it is a bad omen for the relationship. It can also mean that maybe you're doing protest behaviour after argument. Protest behaviour. I've always thought there should be a name for this. Protest behaviour.

So you've had an argument and you're still peeved about it and you're sitting opposite ends of the couch. Or you've grown apart in the couch. Like some protest. Or you've grown apart in the relationship. Yeah. Are there any others? Yeah. So cuddling,

if you have one, like if you're sitting and someone's got their legs on or head on the lap, that's 20%. So whoever has their legs or head on their partner is the one in control. The person with the legs over the partner is demanding attention and has the dominant position.

Okay. What else is there? So if you're sitting side by side and you're just touching, like maybe you're holding hands. Like the movies. Or you're just, your thighs are touching or something. You're happy and contented. Okay. You maybe have lost a little bit of passion, but you're still like maintaining contact and you're happy and contented. Okay. You maybe have lost a little bit of passion, but you're still like maintaining contact

and you're happy with each other. Mm-hmm. How do you sit on the couch with anyone that comes over, Fletch? I don't know, side by side. Do you ever sit on the couch or is it like? Naked lying on the couch. More. None of that on the couch.

I never make it to the couch. Yeah. Straight to the room. Then an Uber in the couch. I'd never make it to the couch. Yeah. Straight to the room. Then an Uber in the morning. Morning? As soon as. How did this turn into ragging on me? I was just interested in how you sat on the couch.

Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Yesterday in studio, Megan, you weren't here. I don't know if you do this, but I don't think you do. So, wait, I do this and Caitlin does this? Yes. Because I noticed you do it and then sometime,

and I was sitting on it, stewing on it, and then sometime later I saw Caitlin begin to do it. Now, the first part of this isn't disgusting, but it's the end part that's grim. You put on lip balm. I've got my lip balm right here. It was that very one because Caitlin used it as well. As you squeeze it out of the tube.

She kind of put her finger out and I was like, don't take another person's lip balm. I'm sorry, but you just don't use another person's lip balm. But that's one where you squeeze it out and you wipe it off. It's a squeezy tube onto the finger. I don't ever put the applicator straight on my lips. No. So I was okay giving Caitlin that but if it was one of those ones

where your lips stick it, don't use another person's lip balm. I don't think that would be the, that would reduce this problem. So he's putting it on now. Yeah. Watch it. He's putting it on.

Man, you're like really chucking a new gob. It's winter at the moment. You've really got to get it on and then... Now. What did you just do? Did you see that?

What did you just do with it? You'd miss it if you weren't watching. Where did that just go? He puts it on his finger, wipes it on his lips, and then wipes the rest on the chair that he's sitting on. The chair that he's sitting on. Fletch! I then saw Caitlin use Fletch's lip balm. She put it on her finger,

lip, straight on the chair. Sorry Megan, it's all over your chair. That's so grim. But I don't even think about it. I don't have a car but when I do drive a car, I'm terrible for wiping fast. I've never been getting in my car ever. No? Do you do it in your car too? My car's pretty

and like the side of my bed okay that's true but I don't even think about it I don't think about it I just do it yeah do you know what if it's lip balm

I rub it in my hands me too that's why my immediate thing was if I've got some anything like that I don't want a hand pimple I don't want a hand pimple

it's very greasy oh my god oh fuck when have you ever want a hand pimple. I don't want a hand pimple. It's very greasy. Oh, my God. Oh, fuck. Have you ever got a hand pimple? Your hands touch everything. I've had a hand pimple once. Your hands touch more than the normal hand, and you don't get hand pimples.

Once, one time, I had a hand pimple. I won't go through that again. I'd rather wipe my grim mouth finger juice all over a chair. Do you know my main problem with that is that we, the chairs aren't exclusive in here. No, they're communal chairs. So I'm probably touching your man-cazzled chair. I look under your chair.

Is there any man caught it? I don't think you want to. Lip balm always reminds me of that stuff in the bottom of Petri dishes that they used to grow bacteria in. So you think about that. You've just effectively turned your chair into an incubator. But it's clear. What?

It's not stuff on the side of my chair. I'm not even kidding. There's stuff on the side of my chair. It looks like grabbing hands. Sometimes if I have breakfast and get a bit of yogurt on my finger, I'll also. I don't do that. What's wrong with you? I've always known that those two are the mankiest on the show, though.

They are manki. Excuse me. You're a manki, a- They are manki. Excuse me. Manki, a-hole. Manki. Manki. It's just a thing I've done for my entire life. I don't know.

That doesn't make it okay. You're a broadcaster. You know defamation. I will see you in court, Megan. You just admitted that you do that. We've got audio proof. If it's defamation, you need to prove that I am wrong. Oh, yeah, I did.

Mum sees me do it sometimes in the car and she's like, what did you just do? And I'm like, oh, I forget, sorry. But, like, otherwise you just wipe it on your jeans. Oh, sorry, I forget I'm a human and not like a two-year-old. It's better than wiping it on your pants because I don't want to wipe it on my pants because then I'll get a sand on my pants. Yeah, I don't want my stuff to get dirty.

So you just wipe it on the chair. It's just, it's what happened. Hey, you know what? I'll risk hand pimples and I'll start putting it on the chair. It's just, it's what happens. You know what? I'll risk hand pimples and I'll start putting it on there. Don't put it on, you'll just rub your hands like this and it disappears.

No, but then I've got to touch all the buttons and they get grey. It's good for you to put it on your cuticles. They get real dry. Just rub them.

What a great idea. Oh my God, I'm full of those. Fletch, that's disgusting. Sometimes you are. Yeah, you guys are rank.

Oh, it's just a habit that we've picked up that we can't stop. And now stop it. It's good a habit that we've picked up that we can't stop. And now stop it. It's good for the chair. Just get a lip balm where you just go straight in the mouth. The chair's not chapped.

The lips on these office chairs are supple. Look at this. They're supple. That's not me. That's not on me. That's yucky. Oh, yeah, that's quite grimy, isn't it? General film on both of the sides of my chair.

Well, we might need some office chair cleaners. Solidly, Mank. Get a tissue, get a... There's paper towels behind you. No, that's such a waste of paper towels and tissues. I'd rather see a pile of paper towels that can be put in the bin. No. Bad for the environment. Or don't put so much lip balm on your

finger. We're going to start on your gross habits? Name one. Help me out here. Oh, I do have one that you do. When you bite your fingernails and then you use it as floss. Yeah, I do do that. Now who's manking? No, that's good.

But that's only manking to himself. He's keeping that mank in just his own little area. Get it in there. In his own little area. It's just a little immunisation as well. It gets your body used to the bacteria under the fingernails. It's his own little area. Get it in there. Oh, it's good stuff. In his own little area. It's just a little immunisation as well. It gets your body used to the bacteria under the fingernails. It's good stuff. Flesh, fauna, Megan.

The podcast. ZM. The knitting world is experiencing a dropped knot. A drop stitch. Damn it. Should have researched this slightly more. A drop stitch. Okay. A very popular knitting site where you upload patterns or instructions on how to do knitting,

where you talk about knitting. There's knitting forums. Lots of knitting. Is it an actual site or a Facebook page? It's an actual site. Okay. They do have a Facebook page, but it's an actual site. Right.

And people of all ages and all, you know, levels of knitting school involved in Ravelry, they've banned pro-Trump content. And this has really put a spin into the world of knitting. Well, there's some grannies out there knitting Make America Great Again content. Oh, okay.

What kind of content can the knitting world? I'm always like that. And an absolute firestorm. Yeah, that's next level if you're knitting and you can do letters in a beanie or something or a sweater. That's amazing. Sort of big block letters. It wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, handwriting.

Well-defined font would be sort of a big block letter more. But, yeah, they're saying you can't show support for Trump administration. And then pro-Trump knitters have said, well, you shouldn't be able to show support for Trump administration. And then pro-Trump knitters have said, well, you shouldn't be able to show support for the Democrat. And there's been a bit of a... Back and forth. A bit of back and forth.

And the knitting community has been pulled apart. By politics. Yes. Knitting. Unbelievable. So it's this little club that's experiencing some massive drama. Some beef. Yeah.

And I just thought, I don't really belong to any clubs. Like little... Well, you're on some Facebook pages, though. Yeah, I'm on Facebook pages. Those things are just absolutely riddled with drama, though, aren't they? They thrive on drama. Not too often you put up a post on the community page that said,

drove to work and no one was driving like a moron. Like, you don't see that, but if someone does something, then it's all out there. You don't put up there saying, I saw a dog on a lead today and it's only picked up its poo. You just don't see those posts. So they're just like... But I like the dramas, the admin dramas

or the things that happen in those groups. It's always juicy. There might be some inter-admin dramas that everybody else gets to be witness to. Or maybe you're involved in a club where a rule's changed and some of the old schools don't like the rules changing. They want them to stay the same. This could be in like a sports club.

So you want to hear from people that have got some drama going down. What's the drama going on in your little club? Your little club, your little corner of the world that maybe us outsiders would have absolutely no idea on. Maybe there's been some rule changed in the show dog competition world, for example. And you're outraged. And there's some people who are for it and some people who are against it. Right.

Maybe they're, you know, accepting poodle crosses as their own breed now. Now that sort of thing would be, for drama in the dog breeding world. The rest of us living in ignorant bliss at this sort of conflict's even happening. You know? Yeah. Are we too chill in New Zealand? Nah, there'd be dramas. No, no, no.

We're chill, but we do also love a little bit of drama. So you'd like people to call now, 0800-9666. If you're involved in a club, a group, or even a Facebook group page, and there's drama going down, you just want some goss, don't you? What's the drama in your corner of the world that the rest of us are probably living in pure ignorant bliss about? Maybe it's time to lift the lid and tell the nation. Yeah. About this drama. We can either say that is something to get worked up about

or let's just remember that this isn't a life changer. Okay, 0800-DARLS-IT-M-9696. Those little dramas. Yeah, your drama in your corner of the world. Right now we are exposing those scandals, the big news going on in those tiny groups around the country. Hobby groups. Hobby groups, yeah.

Facebook groups. Yep. Any of those kind of groups. Your friend group. Oh. And there's some dramas. Some low-key dramas going on. Some text messages at our mountain bike track.

Somebody wants to change one of the corners. Oh, God, no. Huge debate. It's getting really serious about whether or not this corner's going to be changed. I don't know what. Why does it matter? Wouldn't they like to change it up? Yeah, I would.

Or maybe some people particularly like the corner. I don't know what it is about this corner. I've not seen the corner. I've just been told that there's this corner and there's talk about changing the corner. Maybe it's too aggressive for the learners. If you are on the same track over and over again, right? Like, wouldn't you get over it? I would.

I would think so. I've done that a hundred times. I'm done with the sport. But then that could be your home track. So when it comes to racing, you'd know it better than visitors, for example. That's why we can't change a corner because I've been timing myself and my times will be out. Exactly. You thought you wanted to change, but you didn't.

So what are the dramas going on at your local club? Kayleigh, this is your grandma's over 80s club. Yeah. So Nana, she's involved in the bowling club. They have an over 80s club, and they go out for lunch once a month and all this stuff. And the other day we were at her house, and she was fuming. And I was like, what's wrong? And she said she'd just gone out for an over 80s lunch

and there was over 70s there. And apparently... No. No. No. No. No. Get out of here.

Absolutely not. How dare they with their extra vigour. It's not right. No. And they'd created their own over 70s club and apparently it's been going for a couple of months. And then someone got together with one of the 80s ladies

and they decided to invite them to the lunch and there's like this mutant look at them eating all that hard food

but do you think there could be a merger Kayleigh of the over 70s and 80s and just make it an over 70s well that's the

that is what they're proposing but Nana no she's not on the fence she's not happy about it. You've got to earn your right to be in the over 80s. Of course you do.

Of course you do. You've got to exercise, eat right, not smoke. You know, if you want to get over 80, there's over 70. Every Tom, Dick and Harry makes it to 70 these days. Exactly. I don't think if you're over 80, you should be putting that undue stress on your body. That's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you going.

Okay, Kayleigh. Something to live for. Thanks, you call anonymous. What's happening in your hairdressers group? So,

as you know, hairdressers, we love to gossip. Yeah. So, I'm a client and we're recently talking about

a friend of mine that I went to school with. And the gossip is that he got caught cheating on his fiance at his engagement party with her best friend. Wow. What was her best friend doing at his engagement? Oh, engagement party, not stag do. Yeah. Right, right, right, right.

What, so the drama, what's the drama then? Obviously, that's pretty, but is there a he said, she said, he didn't, he did situation? Well, not really in that sense, but the drama is like, are they going to carry on with the wedding? Well, yeah, because this is work for the hairdressers club, isn't it? Oh, yeah, true, yeah. This is the problem. That wedding cancelled is a day of work down. Anonymous, thank you.

Some more drama. Somebody said you joked about dog breeding, but I tell you, the dog show, the agility and obedience, is absolutely wrought with drama. At the moment, someone is proposing the seesaw goes after the tunnel. Are you joking? But it's always gone tunnel, tunnel, seesaw. What does it matter?

Tunnel, seesaw, not seesaw tunnel. Tunnel, seesaw. Did you even know there was an order? No, I just thought. Do that little fence, little fence, little fence. Zigzag, zigzag through the poles. Zigzag, zigzag. Seesaw.

Seesaw, tunnel. What a great end. Seesaw ramp across the board, down back through the tunnel over the seesaw. Little fence. Little fence. Little fence. Zigzag. Somebody wants to change the order.

And I'm imagining somebody's border collie isn't used to the change of order. So they're not happy about it. They feel like they're being sabotaged. I'm in a pottery group. And the rule is the more experienced potters sit at a table and then you ones sit at another table. Oh my God. There's a hierarchy in pottery. Well, it might be to do with the pottery wheels.

Okay. Because the pottery wheel on the experienced tables are slightly nicer pottery wheel. Wait, go faster. Hang on a sec. If I'm going to get into pottery, I don't want a substandard pottery wheel for my first time. You've got to learn on the roughest guts wheel before you move up to the smooth sailing wheel. That's just pottery one on one. I don't know if that. So anyway, there was no learn on the rough-as-guts wheel before you move up to the smooth sailing wheel. That's just pottery one of my mates. I don't know if that...

So anyway, there was no one on the nicer pottery wheel, so an inexperienced potter saddled up. Yeah. The nice pottery wheel. Well, it's just all kicked off now. It's absolutely all kicked off. Right, okay. Surely the novice potter just needs a wee chat in the ear.

It's a spinny round wheel. Who cares where you sit? It's a spinny wheel. There's got to be something to look forward to. It's the spinny wheel. Has your pottery going, I think I'm about six months away from the nice wheel. Well, I've got bad news.

A more experienced potter's moved into the neighbourhood. Oh, no. It puts you back four months until someone dies and you can step up to that table. Wow. Somebody said our school board at the moment, it started off with, are we going to get a new playground or a new vegetable garden?

And it has turned into, what's the best way to stop your kid getting fat? And like full-blown arguments. Well, I was thinking one's nutrition and one is exercise. But one is considerably more dangerous than the other. One's a lot more work. Even once you've got it, a veggie garden is a lot more hours invested, isn't it? We're going to need a lot of parent help.

It's a good, like teaching them good skills for later. Both are open to vandalism. Yes. Oh, imagine if someone pulls up the radishes. So you can see Evan and us just mucking around there. Like there's a bit of back and forth. Our farm discussion group. My dad used to go to one of these.

There's a whole lot of farmers get together and they just chat. Moan, rag on each other's farms. Moan about the weather. But actually, it's actually quite good now because that's kind of turned into a bit of a rural support thing. Because a lot of men can talk about their feelings. Yeah. You know, there's that. But anyway, the other day, somebody messaged us in,

farm discussion group, somebody's trying a new calf meal this season. Wow, shit. You would have thought the absolute, the wheels were coming off. It turned into a furious debate. Feed the calves. The calves, once the calves are finished on their mothers and on the milk, they get a hard meal.

They might have been getting some sort of group purchase discount. And if one guy runs out, of course, it's going to cost a little bit more. But somebody wants to branch out and try something else. What do they care what Gary feeds his calves? Well, they only want the best for bloody Gary as well. They don't want Gary's stock not doing as well because they're not getting the... All this drama. I love it.

It's so good. It's really good. It's really good stuff. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about Toy Story. Caitlin, you went and saw Toy Story? No, Caitlin's not here. Where's she gone? Well, you can't rely on anybody. Yes. Caitlin went and saw Toy Story? No, Caitlin's not here. Where's she gone?

You can't rely on anybody. Yes. Caitlin went and saw Toy Story 4. She's still scary. She'll come back. She said there's ventriloquist dolls in it. They scared her. It's been getting amazing reviews, hasn't it?

Yes, it has. Well, today's fact of the day about Toy Story 4 is that unfortunately last year, the guy that voices Mr. Potato Head, Don Rickles, he died before he could record all of his lines for Mr. Potato Head in the upcoming, in the release tomorrow Toy Story 4. Now Caitlin

Welcome back Caitlin, we were just talking about Toy Story 4 I was just making myself coffee Very scary Just said that, we just said you'd say that Yeah, it was like The ventriloquist dolls. But not like scary for kids, do you mean? Oh, yeah.

Like I was sitting with my boyfriend and I was like, kids can't watch this. No. I think they can. I think they will. I think they will. But I don't know if maybe they don't because we like with the ventriloquists, you see, we've seen lots of scary movies with them being like steady murders. Yeah, yeah.

So I think maybe kids. And we've all like met a ventr them being like steady murders. Yeah, yeah. So I think maybe kids haven't seen that. And we've all like met a ventriloquist and they were creepy, so. Yeah. I jumped a few times. I was like, ah, like I got fright. Well, that's good. But it sounds a good movie. Did it make you cry?

Because Toy Story 3 made me cry. Yeah, I cried at the end. But it was really funny. I really enjoyed it. Did you notice anything about Mr. Potato Head? Anything different about Mr. Potato Head? Because just when you were making the coffee, we just started the... Were his lips on his ear?

No. Does he always have a moustache? Yeah. I never put the lips where they're meant to go. The thing I was just saying, you were making the coffee. I said that today's fact of the day, Don Rickles, who was the voice of Mr. Potato Head since the start of Toy Story, he died last year before he got to record all his lines. So do you notice any change the voice of Mr. Potato Head since the start of Toy Story. He died last year before he got to record all his lines. So do you know if there's any change in voice? No.

Because to get the full voice for Mr. Potato Head for Toy Story 4, they went through all of the archives since 1994 when they started voice recording for the original Toy Story. They did Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, the video games,

the TV specials, the Christmas specials, and they managed to get enough of a vocal performance from Don Rickles to put together the complete Mr. Potato Head. So it was still him. It was still him, even though he died before he recorded. How does that work, though? Because his tone would be so different. Like, you know, when you talk to an answer phone message

and it's like, dial 1 if you want to. They just use little bits with want to it's Pixar maybe it's Pixar and maybe just lines maybe the script changed a little bit

but they said they could piece together the entire everything they needed for Mr. Potato Head for Toy Story 4

from previous voice recording sessions that's nice that they didn't just replace him that would have been so much

easier and they're like do they have to pay his family or probably not because they paid him once tough yeah yeah like, do they have to pay his family or probably not? Because they paid him once, tough. Yeah, yeah.

He's dead. They'll just pay him and see what happens. Hey, do you know what they've got? And do you know, because Tom Hanks is the voice of Woody. Yep. And has been. But he is not the only person that has voiced Woody. Do you know who else has voiced Woody? What, in the movies? Tom Hanks

for TV shows? For ads, dolls, little bits and pieces? No. Tom Hanks' brother, Jim Hanks. Jim? Listen to Jim. Here he is speaking about his role of impersonating his brother, Tom. He's famous.

Pretty much every square inch of this planet. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. There it is. There's Tom right there. Hi, I'm Tom Hanks. I've traveled with Tom and stuff like that, and I see the... See?

Wow. Oh, my God. It kind of looks like if Tom Hanks was in a frat house. Is that him there? Yeah, that's Jim Hanks. He's 58. Oh, they look very similar, don't they? Yeah.

Have you seen Larry Hanks? Tom Hanks' other brother? The Hanks gene is strong, because Colin looks just like Yeah. Have you seen Larry Hanks? Tom Hanks' other brother? The Hanks gene is strong because Colin looks just like his dad. This is Larry Hanks. He's very different. Oh, yeah. He's a very different looking Hanks. He's got a very long beard.

He looks like Forrest Gump when he went running across America, Hanks. Or like Tom when he was stuck on that island. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Castaway Hanks. Yeah. Maybe that's where he drew inspiration from. Wow. But today's fact of the day, And when you go see Toy Story 4

You'll be able to keep an eye out for this now Oh and he's got a sister called Sandra Sandra Hanks Sandy Hanks That's so weird Tom, Sandy, Larry and Jim When the parents were naming them They didn't know that Tom was going to be

One of the world's most recognisable actors Yeah true I think they probably still would have stuck with Tom anyway They didn't know that Tom was going to be like one of the world's most recognisable actors. Yeah, true. I think they probably still would have stuck with Tom anyway. So today's fact of the day is that Mr Potato Head in Toy Story 4 is made up of bits and pieces from the previous Toy Story recordings. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Helen Fisher so she is a sex researcher Match.com chief scientific advisor and she has a PhD oh okay

so she knows what she's talking about okay so she says the general rule is that you should only have between five

and nine people on the go at any one time because any more than that does she mean like actually dating them or just talking

or matching date all of it. Five to nine. Because any more than that and you just don't choose any. Right. This is investing any sort of time in. Right. We should only have between five, definitely no more than nine people.

So once you get to five to nine matches, stop. Wait. And then go through those. Invest some time in. Right, okay. She said get to know at least one of those people more because the more you know somebody, the more you tend to like them.

She said the trouble is at this point is over dating. So you can over date and the mind has a tendency to see the negative in everything rather than the positive. So when you go out, rather than focusing on what maybe they shouldn't be wearing or the one thing about their face you don't like or, I don't know, just like little things you don't like, focus on the positives that you like about them and then go on another date.

Right. Because over-dating tends to make people think about the next date. Yeah, right. This person doesn't, these are the little red flags and this person, I have someone else lined up, I'm going to try them. And then you're just unsatisfied with the whole.

You just keep bouncing from one to the next. And you'll never get to know one person enough. Right. So five to nine people. Like remember when you were like, I don't like short people, Caitlin.

And then you were like. Your big old list. Your big list of no's. Yeah. You threw all that out the window, didn't you? I did, guys. And now you've got a boyfriend.

I do. It was the best thing to do. But you still had to keep some things. Like morals and stuff. Like important things. Yeah, important things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you don't like what shoes they're wearing,

you can change that about them. You can work on that later. Yeah. Like buying a villa to do up Yeah Get a rental And then hopefully In 20 years you can sell them for more Is that the idea?

Unless there was asbestos Then you're going to spend a fortune On getting that removed Yeah Right so Get someone to check it over Before you invest Yeah

Get a boyfriend or girlfriend Builders report Yes that's right You want a thorough inspection ZM's F. Yeah, that's right. You want a thorough inspection. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Well, in Rotorua, famous for being

a geothermal wonderland. Oh, it is. Certainly is. On a cold morning like this morning, there would have been some steam arising. What in there?

Yeah. There would have been some scents being carried by that steam. Well, currently 0.9 degrees in the Geyser City. Oh, okay. So you're getting some lovely, you're getting the full experience if you're there this morning.

Yeah. Well, a mud pool just popped up in a residential area in Rotorua. Yeah, it just, at the end of a cul-de-sac. Yeah. It just came up through. And now it, like just, at the end of a cul-de-sac, it just came up through. And now it, like, steam's coming out of it, it's going bloobity, bloobity, bloobity.

It's not too far from a main part where there is a park that's kind of built around geysers. Right, okay. And everything. It's Mead Street, if you're familiar with that. It's just on the way out of town towards Dote Ball. They just woke up one morning and there's a bubbling mud pool in the backyard. Yeah.

Brilliant. Is that something you have to worry about if you're buying a house in Rotorua? You have to be like, oh, they're really like. Yeah. Yeah, because there's. Because can you just drill a hole down to some hot water and make a spa pool? Famously, yes. Famously, you can pipe down into the ground and then pipe it back up.

And it's so hot down there that the water will go down and heat through the pipe and come up and be hot water. How great is that? Keeping your hot water bill right down, but also constantly living in fear of the earth opening up and swallowing everything. And a 100-degree mud pool appearing in the backyard. See, that's why they're all fenced off.

They all look cute, don't they? Bubbling away, these mud pools. You think, oh, we've all jumped in a muddy puddle, haven't we? Yeah, that could be great for my skin, but no. No. No. It's yeah, burny for your skin. It will literally take the skin right off you. Yeah. That's how

hot it is. I remember, I've told you this, my brother ruined a family holiday to Ototoro once. He touched a hot pipe at the motel we were staying at. Even though it said don't touch the pots? Wide enough it said don't touch. He touched the hot pipe.

Burned his hand. Then we had to spend the whole holiday at the A&E, didn't we? We didn't get to go on the luge. Why did you have to be there? They could have dropped you off at the luge. No, you can't. Even back in those days

you couldn't drop kids off at the luge. Oh, is that frowned upon? I thought your dad wouldn't have wanted to hang around either. He would have wanted up the luge. So what? You'd imagine so, yeah. But then there's that great debate of me going up the luge and leaving my wife in the A&E. Is it going to be worth the fallout later when this gets thrown back in my face?

Exactly. Deal with it later. Like every relationship, just deal with it later. Better to ask for forgiveness later than the mission now. When you're all happy because you've been all day on the luge. Yes. Good times. Thrilled to bits with a little zip down the hill.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Saw a headline, thought that's pretty funny. Actually read a bit more about it and it's pretty crazy. Christ Church School has been trying to get involved. And I quite like this idea.

It's simple because school's not for everybody, right? Like sitting down and learning about like maths and science and stuff. It's not for everybody. And what's the point learning that if in the future you want to do something that, like in the trades perhaps, that doesn't involve that much of that. Like do you need to know about Shakespeare if you want to be a mechanic? Not really. That sort of stuff. Like, do you need to know about Shakespeare if you want to be a mechanic? Not really. That sort of stuff.

You know your basics to get you through? Probably far more important than teaching you about Pythagoras' theories, talking you about like GST and how tax works for that sort of thing if you're going to go out there and try to start your own business one day. So I'm all for schools having all that alternative sort of education for kids that don't want to do the traditional.

For sure. And it works better for everybody. They're not bored, so they're not causing as much trouble. Yeah. And, you know, that's... God, you could be education minister. Why aren't I? Talk to Jacinda.

Who is? Because you have to do, like, a real job. Scooch over. Should I just be like, scooch over, I'm education minister now. Easy. That involves lots of meetings, though. I'm out. Oh, yeah. I involves lots of meetings, though. I'm out. Oh, yeah.

I just imagine there's a beehive round table and Vaughan's on his phone with his feet up like he is in our meetings. What do you think of that? And they're like, hey, Vaughan, hey, Vaughan. This is simple. Just trust me. Just trust me. And then I walk out of the meeting and I get it all done in 10 minutes and then I go home.

Yeah. So a 16-year-old, his name's Jaden, at the school in Christchurch, he's been, for the last year, been working on things that aren't traditional school stuff to earn NCEA credits. Right. One of the things he did was, like, learn how to fix cars, kind of tinker around and get cars going. He worked on a few staff members' cars.

Yeah. If they had little problems. It might just be tiny problems. Like replacing the windshield wiper fluid. Yeah, or just the windshield wipers. Is he doing new cam belts? I don't know if he's quite got into cam belts. Tinkering with the diff or something. Whatever that is.

Time and change and stuff. Yeah, I believed you for it until you said whatever that is. Tinkering with the diff, just whacking it with a hammer and stuff. So painted a staff member's car. Primed and painted a staff member's car, and spent hours working on two other staff member's cars. Oh, yeah, you made that face. I don't know how the end product was as well. Yeah, I was like, I don't know if I would let him away.

But there's no formal assessment saying achieved or not achieved for all the stuff that he was doing whilst at school. So he's got no credits. Yeah. So another thing was that apparently a staff member had like a derby race or something. So there was like, they made a derby car and they worked on it for the staff member. And then there was a race on March 30th. Now it doesn't say whether or not that race was like part of a school thing or outside

and the teacher was just like, sweet, I'll just get some free labour. I wish you could have got NCEA credits for derby racing when I was at school and just sort of entered a car. Yeah. Got out of school. You had to make the quick and stuff. Yeah. So the one that really caught my eye, I was like, okay, that's a bit weird.

The third project, as noted by Jaden, was the teacher purchased a rolling chassis, so like the basics of a car, for $350 and then applied for school funding to obviously get this restored using the kids. Right. And so the school was like, no, we can't tick that off or whatever. So the teacher was like, well, you guys are going to have to raise $100

to pay me back for that thing I bought for you guys to work on. So they had car washing and stuff to pay back this money. But then it's a project for the kids. So that's all right. Isn't it? Or was the teacher going to get a free car? They bought it before it got approved as a cost from the school by the sounds of things. Right.

Bought it with the hope of, well, I've got this. Maybe the kids could work on this and bill me a sweet car. But also, I don't think schools have that much money to be chucking around. No. Money on a car to... It's cool that they get to work and do something that they're into. But there, I don't think schools have that much money to be chucking around. No. Money on a car to... It's cool that they get to work and do something that they're into. Yeah, but there's no credits. Oh, right.

There's no... The end of this year and a half and the mum's like, how are the credits going? And there's no saying, oh yeah, he did this. There's not even anything saying he dedicated this much time to it. It's not like he tried, but it was not achieved, which is how NCA works, like achieved or not achieved. So even if he did it really badly,

they'd be a not achieved. So you'd know that that time had been spent on it, but apparently there's no records. Yeah. There's no records. So this kid's like, well, I've been like- Does he want some credits? Well, I think his mum wants to talk to the manager.

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