ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - May 08 2019

Episode Date: May 7, 2019

Producer Caitlin thought she heard something on the phone yesterday, loose teachers and how many pets do you have?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Minus Vaughan today. Minus Vaughan. Who's still got the man flu. Sent us a message. Was it like half past one in the morning? It was, yes. Yeah. He suffers, doesn't he? Still sick.

Man flu hits him hard. Megan, man flu is a thing. It's a serious thing. I think it just hits us harder. To be honest, I'm glad he's not here because if he was back, he would be whinging. He would be whinging a lot. And coughing.

I'm like, I'm so sick, but I'm here. I'm here. Be like, hang on. Coming up on the show today, another chance with ZM's world tour to see Taylor Swift live at Wango Tango in LA. So the 1st of June is when you and a friend can be flying away. The 1st day of summer in LA. Oh, yeah.

Nice and hot. Yes. It's meant to be getting a lot cooler. Next couple of weeks, the downhill slide into winter. Thanks. Well, because it hasn't been too bad lately. No, it hasn't actually. It hasn't been too bad, but apparently, yeah, next couple of weeks,

that's when you're really going to need the lecky blanket and get the winter duvet ready. Flannel sheets, not a fan of those because they get all, like, pilly. You've got to buy nice flannel sheets. Oh, well, maybe I'm not buying the right flannel sheets. You're a fan of Sheridan, aren't you? Oh, I just use my summer sheets. Do you?

Yeah. But when you get in, initially, they're so cold. It's fine. No, you try a good flannel sheet. Treat yourself. This is actually, this will be your first winter with a boyfriend, Producer Caitlin, so you won't need an electric blanket. I know.

It's like I have my own personal hot water bottle. Blech. Yeah, yeah. Wish I'd not asked you now. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Three news headlines. Vaughn and Megan, normally you would argue, deliberate,

or you'd just let Vaughn pick. It's just easier that way sometimes. It is sometimes. Because Vaughn's sick, you pick, Megan. The one headline. The others, though, we never find out about. They are deleted forever. Headline one, trespass notice issued.

Headline two, man runs from police after pooping in woods. Actual headline. And headline three, measles on a plane. So the man pooped in the woods. I don't know how the police found him pooping in the woods, but that one's pretty self-explanatory. Measles on a plane. Did someone fly and then infect the whole plane?

Yes. Yeah, okay, so story number one, please. A trespass notice issued. All right, well, we go now to Virginia, home of the CIA headquarters. Okay. And a North Carolina woman, she's been arrested for trespassing at the CIA headquarters.

She's 58 years old, Jennifer Hernandez. She is accused of trying to sneak into the CIA headquarters. She's 58 years old, Jennifer Hernandez. She is accused of trying to sneak into the CIA headquarters on four separate occasions last week. Now, she was arrested following her final attempt to gain access to the facility on Friday, where she spoke to the CIA Visitor Control Centre at about 4.35. This is her last attempt.

Yeah. She asked to speak to Agent Penis several times. They were obviously like, there's no Agent Penis here. She's like, there is an Agent Penis and I've got to see him. What is happening here?

I don't know. But initially when she first tried to get to the CIA, she said, I'm here to pick up my visitor's pass. Yeah. They're like, I think she was here to, she said, I'm here to pick up my temporary pass. Like I'm working for the CIA or something. Right.

But they didn't fall for it. These four attempts, were they all in the same day? Or is this all over? The same week. Right. So yeah, she'd previously visited there, asking to speak to a recruiter, saying that she'd been given a job,

and then said, I'm here to pick up my pass. And then on the last day, I need to speak with Agent Penis. The first one sounded legit. It sounded like she was trying legit to get in there. So, on Friday, on her last attempt, they asked her how she was planning to leave the CIA facility. She said, I'm getting the bus.

So officers took her to the bus stop. And she said to them, you don't really think I'm going to leave, do you? And that's when they arrested her. And yeah, she's now facing charges. Right. And no word on if she actually got to meet Agent Penis. She's still on the hunt for Agent Penis. She's still on the hunt for Agent Penis. She's still on the hunt for the secret CIA

Agent Penis. Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Episode 4 of Game of Thrones. Lots happened, but it's the coffee cup that stole the show. In front of Khaleesi, at one point she's sitting at a table and there

looks to be, it looks like a Starbucks coffee cup. They've said it's a local coffee cup from a cafe. And I also heard herbal tea for Khaleesi. Yeah, so they have, HBO has said the latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered a herbal tea and it was just left on the table.

It has now been photoshopped out of the episode. Wow, so they've digitally removed it. But that hasn't stopped the memes. Oh my God, there's some great memes, some great videos. If that's a Starbucks coffee, I feel bad for the barista who has to write her name on the cup. The hand must be cramping. So what is she?

Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen, Khaleesi, you pick. And then you can imagine all the jokes about the barista spelling it wrong like they do on the Starbucks cups. I miss the story arc where Dany discovers pumpkin spice lattes. The product

placements are getting fierce on Game of Thrones. So good. So good. So good. But yeah, if you go on, I don't know if it would be edited out on, like if you watched it on Neon now, but on HBO. Yeah.

On their demand service, they've altered it out. Digitally removed it. Because there was the story the other week after the big battle scene where in the credits, the public of New Zealand were thanked, the government of New Zealand, because we're a workshop.

Sir Paddy Jackson's. Really? We had a workshop, did some CGI in Game of Thrones and they haven't said which parts. Wow. But then the whole story was we gave them a bit of a tax break for it. Because if they film or do stuff in New Zealand, they get a tax break. A tax credit, yeah.

So, I mean, maybe some CGI dragon scenes, maybe the flying battle scenes. Why couldn't We The Workjob have turned up the brightness a wee bit? Maybe they could have. Or maybe they got a call. Or maybe they're responsible for turning it down. Or maybe they got a call yesterday to CGI a coffee cup. Yeah, maybe. Out of Game of Thrones.

Who knows? But the actual outrage online as well. Yeah, maybe. Out of Game of Thrones. Who knows? But actual outrage online as well. Like, oh, how can this happen? I do wonder, though, how. But people are quick to believe flying dragons and accept flying dragons. But a coffee cup just on a table, people are like, no, that can't be real. Silly. She should have looked down at one point and been like, oh, whoopsies, that shouldn't have been there.

But I guess maybe they don't expect it to be in shot. Yeah. Like maybe they put things down. Right. I don't know. Or it's just normal to us in everyday life. You don't think about putting yourself in that world. Yeah.

You don't think that the coffee cup is not supposed to be there. I don't know. I mean, they should have had like a... I mean, it's easy to sit back and watch and be like, yeah, pick holes in it. They should have put her coffee into some kind of old...

Well, she was holding like a goblet. Yeah, a goblet. Could have put it in the goblet. But then how do you

make a keep cup lid for a goblet? I don't know. They need to work on that. Just a bit of leather, a leather flap or something on your goblet,

which keeps your latte nice and warm or your herbal tea. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There's a reality show in the UK. It's called Blind Date and pretty self-explained. But for the first time, they had some bisexual guys on the show.

And they actually matched up. So Jordan, Shannon and Jessie drew. They found each other on the show. And then when you get coupled up on the show, they send you away for like a romantic getaway and they film it. So it's kind of like Love Island? Not really. They're on an island.

And once they match up, they go there. It's like that. It's like, what's that naked one they did? It's just like that. Oh, okay. Except they're not naked. So they match each other naked. On the naked one they do. Oh, okay. Except they're not naked. So they match each other naked? On the naked one they do.

Yeah. Yeah. But this one, are they naked when they meet? Or no? No. They've got clothes on. They've got clothes on. Okay.

Same premise. So it's like the naked dating show when they get alone into their room. Yeah. Okay, yeah. So when they got matched up, they said, congratulations, you're going to St. Lucia. St. Lucia. St. Lucia. Yeah. Lucia. St. Lucia. Yeah.

In the West Indies. In the Caribbean. Beautiful. This is beautiful. This is amazing. So they get all expenses paid trip away. They obviously have to take the cameras with them. I was going to say this.

So the cameras have to go and film their every... Yeah. Right, okay. Just like a highlights reel of what happened. Except if you are caught in a homosexual or a same-sex relationship in St. Lucia, it's illegal and you can spend up to 10 years in jail. Well, it's very conservative in like the Caribbean. Which they did not find out until they were going from the taxi to the hotel and someone informed them in the taxi that that is illegal here.

And you probably should maybe stop kissing in public. Yeah. In case you're like. And also the fact that they were there. I mean, I don't know if anyone in the Caribbean had seen the episode, but like they were very well publicized as being in a like. Yeah, right. Entering into a relationship.

And also like what would you do when you go to check into your hotel? You just say, oh, we're just just mates but we want a king size bed. Just mates. Yeah. But the hotel security, for the ones who said most gay men here are in the closet as homosexuality is still illegal. So you go to prison if you're caught. But it sounds like the hotel was like, but it's alright here.

You know? But we don't care. We don't care. Because people holiday here all the time. We're not going to say anything. But imagine that. You're taken there, all expenses paid, but if you're out in public, you have to just like, oh yeah,

put a towel over your hands when you're holding hands. Put a towel over. That's so crazy. They actually returned from the holiday without incident. They didn't go to jail or anything. Right. But they are taking it up with production. I don't know what you're going to say though.

Can we have our money back? You didn't pay for anything. Or just send us somewhere where we can like do it on the beach. Send us somewhere like, I don't know, Europe? Yeah, send us somewhere where it's a bit, yeah. Go to France or something. Italy, then you can like, somebody's naked on the beach and then everything's okay.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. A police officer's been told off in Queensland and it's for hiding in bushes. So I would have thought this would be okay, but a lot of people have complained because this Queensland police officer, he was hiding in bushes, you know, in the middle of the road. What do they call it?

It's like a median strip, but it's got trees and bushes on it. Okay, like a raised. Like a little landing, a little island. So between the motorway or the road. Yeah, between the motorway. He's hiding and there's a picture of him. There actually was a lot of pictures of him doing the rounds on social media, which would suggest that people were taking photos from their cars.

Also illegal. Also illegal. But he's crouching down with his little speed gun in the bushes. So you would not see him. What does he do when he gets one? Does he hop out and wave them down? Or does he radio a head to someone? I don't know.

Is it not like a speed camera? Is he not holding a speed camera? Well, no, because he'd have a laser. And then when he gets one, they have to pull you over. I don't actually know, because it's definitely a double. He's got two hands on a gun like you see when they're in their car. Yeah, it's one of the

radars. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I don't actually know. Well, he must get out and wave them down. Well, they'll be gone. They're speeding. I'm sure he's obviously got a partner up the road and he radios and he's like, get the red Mazda. Yeah, maybe.

So he has, I would have thought that that was okay because he's catching speeding people. Like they're already breaking the law. It's pretty sneaky in Australia. I mean, you've got really got no defense. Like you're speeding. Like you're breaking the law.

But everyone has complained. They've put up photos and they've said, you should go got no defence. Like, you're speeding. Like, you're breaking the law. But everyone has complained. They've put up photos and they've said, you should go and catch the real criminals. This is poor form for positive community engagement. See, I'd rather they were hiding out in a car waiting for someone to steal it or hiding out waiting for someone to break into some houses, you know? Yeah.

Rather than just getting someone for being 15 over the speed limit. If you weren't speeding, you wouldn't be caught. Now, this is the interesting part. After everyone went crazy on social media, the Queensland police have said, we're aware of this officer. He has been identified and requested to cease operating from that position immediately.

So he's been told off. So it's not illegal for them to do that? They just don't want him? I don't know. They've just said, no, you can't do that, immediately. So he's been told off. So it's not illegal for them to do that. They just don't want him. I don't know. They've just said, no, you can't do that, mate. I know Australia have got, in the past, have used like wheelie bins with speed cameras and wheelie bins. That's cheeky.

Cheeky, eh? And I've just Googled, there's a company that makes it. It's called the NK7. It's a Belgium company. And they make this for, it $100,000 New Zealand dollars. And it's, yeah, just a speed camera and a wheelie bin. And you'd never know. It's this green wheelie bin out on the curb.

Is it attached to anything? Because what's to stop someone from wheeling it away? Good call. No, it's not. Just attach it to your bumper and wheel it home. You could see it flash and then chuck it in a river because you're upset. But don't be the last car photographed by the wheelie bin before you throw it in the river. Yeah, linger.

Watch it take a few more photos. Yeah, because otherwise that's the easiest police work in the world. It's like, oh, the last person that was photographed was the red Mazda with the number plate. Or like you're caught going up to the bin Just as someone speeds past Yeah Or you look right at it As you chuck it in the water

Yeah it's not ideal There's a new type of milk We need to discuss Not sure how I feel about it It's not a flavour So it is milk That will last And stay drinkable for 60 days How? So it's not a flavour. So it is milk that will last and stay, you know, drinkable for 60 days.

How? So it's not UHT, which is ultra high temperature or something. They heat it a lot. And the UHT milk lasts forever. That's the stuff you get in like, you get a little thing when you go into a motel. They're like, would you like some milk? Yeah. They give you some little pottles.

It's never enough. It doesn't taste, it always into a motel. They're like, would you like some milk? Yeah. Or they give you some little pottles. It's never enough. It doesn't taste, it always tastes a bit different. Well, they're heating it. They're pretty much boiling the crap out of it to get the nasties out of it, all the bacteria and stuff so it doesn't go off. Right. So they have not, this is a

Queensland-based firm, and they have painted to the technology which doubles the shelf life of pasteurised milk. So 60 days. What's normal milk? Like 10? Yeah. Well, you say double.

You wouldn't get milk that lasts for 30 days in the fridge, would you? No, no, you wouldn't. Like it's 10 at the most when you get it from the supermarket. You always get the one from the back at the supermarket. Oh, yeah, because they bring the older stuff to the front. Yeah. Same with anything dairy. Yeah. Cheese, yoghurt the older stuff to the front. Yeah. Oh, yeah, same with anything dairy. Yeah.

Cheese, yogurt, always look at the dates. Get the one from the back. And they're real cheeky too, supermarkets. Like, sometimes they'll put stuff, like, on special just because it's going off in, like, a week. Yeah. Mother effers. Don't they? They usually say, like, need to use quickly or something.

Or, like, quick sale. Or, no, sometimes they do those reduced to clear stickers and I am a sucker for those. But I always check the date. But then it just goes off in your fridge. Yeah. Because you didn't drink it. Pretty much.

So this will last 60 days and they haven't cooked it. They haven't heated it. My problem with this is they haven't said what the process is. Probably because they're painting it. Yeah, because it's a secret technology. Yes, and so we don't know exactly what they're doing to it. I mean, this is great for food waste.

Because milk is one of those ones where when it hits the date you've got maybe a day or two. You've got maybe a day or two. And I think more if it's trim milk because that's quite watery. The worst thing is though when you don't notice that it's past its date and it goes into your coffee. And there's lumps and it's a bit tangy.

Yeah. Yeah. Or you get a skin on the top. Even then I'm like, give it a sip and just double check that it's not okay. Yeah. But yeah, they can ship this now. So milk products used to go on a plane to overseas to Japan and like different markets. Yeah.

But now they're going to be able to ship this, which is a whole lot cheaper because it will last longer. So this is massive for the dairy industry. But still, I need to know. How they're doing it. Yeah. What have they added to it to make it last that long? The teats as opposed to the milk.

I don't know what's happening to this. Boiling the teats. They're boiling cows. Boiling the. To treat the milk. I don't know what's happening to us. Boiling the teats. They're boiling cows. Boiling the... To treat the milk. Yeah. I don't know. It's great though. It is good. Yeah, it'll make it last longer.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. We would love to talk right now about how many pets you have because in Toronto I think we can literally call this a... Actually, I don't want to say crazy cat lady because it hasn't been confirmed

who owns the apartment. Okay. But in this tiny apartment, it's very small in Toronto, they have found 300 cats. Shit. Okay, that's like next level crazy cat lady. So in Toronto, they have a limit of six cats in a single home.

And they thought- Is there a limit? Yeah. Six is two. That's enough. One's enough. Six is quite a few for a single home. And then when they went there, they thought they were going to find 70 cats.

Right. Turned up there was 300. Now, the neighbours had complained because of the smell. I was going to say, like, even if there were litter trays for all of those cats. Yeah. There's photos too, and I actually don't know how you function in this household because it's packed. There's literally cats.

You'd have to watch where you step. You'd be standing on cats all the time. Yeah, and they found that quite a few of the cats were actually pregnant and due to give birth at any moment. Oh, God. So that's probably what's happened is, you know, cats have given birth over time. Whoever this was wasn't well.

No. Because a well person doesn't have 300 cats in a tiny apartment. No. In fact, there was a story just the other week. A landlord was talking about his Invercargill property. He was saying it was absolutely ruined. A tenant there had 16 cats and a dog. And that was a house.

But even still, 16 cats in a house. Like, that story last week was crazy. But then when you're talking about 300 cats, it doesn't feel as bad, does it? No. Oh, okay, just 16. So you might think this is like cruel to the cats, but amazingly, all the cats were fine. All the cats were healthy, but the house wasn't fine. How much would you have to spend on 300 cats just to feed them?

You just need a trough and that'll just have to go for it. But you can see the stairway and it looks like they've all been chewing and like scratching on the stairs. Oh, God. So the house hasn't fared well. Yeah, right. No. But yeah, the cats all look pretty healthy.

They all look quite different too. I thought they'd end up all kind of looking the same. Do you know what I mean? Because they've been breeding with each other. Yeah, right. That's not good. But Vaughn, how many animals he's got? Two goats, two sheep, two dogs, and two cats.

He's our crazy animal lady. Yeah. But then he's got like a bit of a paddock out the back, so that's fine. He's got the room for them. But I'd love to know how many pets you have. Because if you live in a normal-sized house, any more than a few cats and a few dogs is a bit much. Not that we're going to judge.

No, no judge. There's no judge at all. So you would like people to call. Yeah. Okay, I want $100 at M. You can text 9696. How many pets do you have? Or have you had at one point? Yeah. Now, I'm not going to take any calls from people that have like, oh, I've got 300 cows. Because that's cheating. Oh, yeah, no, that's

cheating. That's cheating. You can't just say you're a farmer. That's cheating. But like, so we're taking calls from, you've got to have these pets in a house. Yeah. Or a flat. Yeah. How many have you had at one time?

And not like a bird aviary either. Because that doesn't count. But then they're pets, aren't they? Well, yeah, I guess so. You're not going to go out there and pat them, though. Like, if you're selling them in a neighboury, that doesn't count. Right, okay, so how many pets have you had at one stage? Oh, 800,000.

We're talking about how many pets you have. Someone has been found in Toronto with 300 cats in their tiny apartment, and apparently it smelled really bad. And in Vikicargo last week there was a tenancy or a court case with a lady with 16 cats and a dog. In a house. And apparently it just ruined the flat. Yeah.

I mean, the cats in this house all fared pretty well, but the house did not. Joanne, how many pets did you have growing up or do you have now? When I was growing up we always had five cats. I can't remember a time when we didn't have five but then at one point two of the cats got pregnant

so we then had 14 cats. Oh my god. Two dogs. Two dogs, a couple of sheep, cattle but we lived on a farm. Fun though. Fun though. Yeah. You live on a farm then you've got the space for them I guess.

The only issue is one of the mothers decided to gap it after her kids were born, after the kittens were born. So then the other cat took on her kittens. Aww. She lost a mum. Yeah. Did the mum just find another family she liked? I'm not really sure.

Maybe she couldn't handle having six kittens. Yeah, she's like, God, I regret this instantly. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. So what, did you have to find homes for them, or did you just always have 16 cats? No, we found homes. We kept one, but then we still had five. Right, right. Because one left, and then we just found homes for the others, and then we got them fixed. Okay. Oh, yeah, good. Good call. Yeah.

All right. Thanks, you're cool, Joanne. Jeff, how many pets did you have growing up? Hi. It wasn't really growing up. It was in a flat in Christchurch. I had a friend who was a bit of a David Annenberg freak. He knew all the birds and all the fish and probably on the whole planet. Okay. And so at one stage, we had two axolotls, three budgies, a canary, and about 50 fish in two separate tanks.

Oh, inside? Yeah, all inside. Oh, no. There's something about when you go into someone's house and they've got birds. I know your mum's got birds, isn't she? Yeah, she's got birds, yeah. The best thing about that was that we didn't actually have a cage for the birds. We felt sad if they were in a cage.

So we built this little, well, we called it a budgerama. It was like a road sign that we found on the road and we boxed it up. And then we just put sticks, like bits of driftwood that we found, and we tied them all up so they could just hang out on these sticks. Was it like at the zoo when you go into the bird enclosure, you've got to go through two doors so they don't hang out on these sticks just in the corner of the house. Was it like at the zoo when you go into, like, the bird enclosure, you've got to go through two doors so they don't fly out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had to keep the doors closed all the time.

We'd lose a canary, so George would go out and buy another budgie, and, like, it was pretty mad. What do you mean you'd lose it? What, when you needed to air the house out so you opened a window? Well, yeah, kind of. Someone would open the door and the canary all used to just round the lounge. And so, like, someone opened the door at the wrong time. He'd quickly zoom out the window if you opened the door at the wrong time

when he was doing zoomies around the lounge. But did he ever zoomie into a window? Not really. Not that I remember. Was there bird poo everywhere? Everywhere like in the lounge? Not really. There was, wasn't there?

There was, yeah. They did really little poo. Yeah, right. Okay. And, you know, there was bigger things for us to worry about in our student flat than bird poo. Yeah, true. Good call. I couldn't imagine living in a, you in our student flat than birds do. Yeah, true. Good call.

I couldn't imagine living in a... You're basically living in an aviary. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. We had a friend who was scared of birds and she didn't come around very often. The best contraceptive. Yeah, yeah.

Living with birds. All right, Jeff, thanks for your call. Johan, you knew a guy with a lot of pets at his house. Well, I actually had a fat mate inquiry on a trade we had, and this guy gets to me because I said I'll pet Medosiaville. And this guy gets back to me and he's like, oh, well, I've got 30 lizards, four spiders and some moths, and I've seen the moths were to feed the spiders and the lizards.

No! Do you know, it wasn't the lizards. No! You didn't know. Do you know, it wasn't the lizards that got Megan, or the spiders, it was the moths. No! Yeah, no. So to say he didn't end up getting the flat. No.

Sorry, Yaki be one of those people that takes their spiders out for a walk. Like, oh no. What, on a spider leash? Just like walking it, they walking out of the tank time. Yeah. Tracy, how many pets are yours? We have two chickens, two axolotls,

three fish, a dog, two cats, and two guinea pigs. And we're going to get a rabbit soon. You just stopped and think about if you'd counted everything then, didn't you? How do you take care of everything? My kids help. Right. Do you have a bit of space, like a bit of paddock or farm,

or are you in a house, in a suburban house? No, we're just in a house on the shore. It's got a little backyard. It's got a little backyard, isn't it? Right. It's like huge. Okay. But that's quite a lot for an inner city house, isn't it?

Yeah. But it's fun? It's fun. that's quite a lot for an inner city house, isn't it? Yeah. But it's fun? It's fun. That sounds like a lot. You said kids, Tracy. That sounds like a lot of explaining when they die. When their pets die. I'm sorry.

Next time. Sorry. Sorry. My daughter. No, I was just saying, Tracy, when you've got kids, it's a lot of explaining when you've got a lot of pets when they pass on. Oh, yes, but my son gets more heartbroken than my daughter because he's the animal lover, which is why we have them all.

Right. But they handle it well. I guess it's one life. Just get generic colours so you can just trade them out and they won't notice. Like a white rabbit for another white rabbit. Rabbit's got significantly younger overnight. That's just what we're feeding him.

Thanks, Tracy. We've got some text messages in. My auntie, at her most, so aunties are a repeat offender. At her worst. At her worst, had 16 cats, a dog and a magpie. A magpie? A pet magpie. My dad used to have 38 turtles,

but before you judge, they live in a fancy-ass shared garage which had a deck and a pond and stuff for them. So dad had completely like kitted out his house for these 38 turtles. When I moved into my current house, the owner left behind 33 wild cats that she'd been feeding.

They had to call the SPCA. You'll be pleased to know that they came and picked up all but three of the cats. Right. I have two cats, five dogs, but we also foster kittens. So the most we've had at once was 20 cats. We have a special room set up just for them. Oh, that's nice. See, I don't mind people having all these animals

as long as you've got the space for them. Not like the woman in the tiny flat with 300 cats. It smelled really bad. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, it has been announced that the 2020 election, which is next year. Well, isn't that scary? Isn't it?

Yeah, well, ours come around every three, whereas we've got to wait another... Oh, no, is Trump next year? They're 2022. God, he better not get another four years. Anyway, with our election, not only will we be, as usual, electing our politicians and our favourite party, we will also be voting a simple yes-no question with a cannabis referendum in 2020 during the election. Now, it's a draft law that has not been passed. Justice Minister Andrew Little has said it means a future government

would have to actually enact a law change if it's voted for. Right. Meaning it's not binding, although it's been described as such. So if a new government got in, they wouldn't have to, but obviously the public would have given their opinion. So it's the public kind of saying, well, this is how, where we're

leaning. Like the flag. Look how that ended up. Actually, now you've said that, and I mean, you look at Brexit. Yeah. Maybe people don't need to be asked, you know? Yeah. I'd rather be Maybe people don't need to be asked You know Yeah I'd rather be voting on euthanasia

Because to me that's like It's not something I want The option of because I wouldn't want to be sick And you know have it drawn out And be in horrible pain I don't think anyone should I think it should be your choice I don't See this is the problem is that

At the moment I don't know enough I don't feel, this is the problem, is that at the moment I don't know enough, I don't feel like I'm educated enough to vote either way. So if we're going to be asked to do it, I think we need to make sure that we look into it properly. Well, yeah, and I think that's what the next year or whenever the next election is about. So if the public endorsed the legislation, it would legalise personal use and purchase at the age of 20.

Right. So from 20, you'd be able to buy weed, cannabis. Does it have to be for medicinal use? So they'd only allow sale at a licensed premises. So there'd be like weed shops. Like a liquor store though. Yeah, it's like a liquor store. So there'd be licensed premises popping up,

like cafes I'd imagine. Yeah. It would only allow consumption at a licensed premises or private property. It would allow limited home growing. So mum and dad can pop in between the rows of corn and tomatoes. And tomatoes.

And pop a couple of weed plants in if they choose. Okay. They haven't said like how much, like how many. Right. I don't know what would be enough for personal. It would also ban all advertising for cannabis products, much like smoking. Right. Or exactly like you can't advertise ciggies.

And there's laws around liquor advertising as well, you know. Yeah, for sure. Interesting. So that's what it would be asking. And it would just be a yes, no when you go and vote in the election like you normally do. Okay. Is that equivalent to, say, Amsterdam? Equivalent laws?

Because it sounds like it. I don't know off the top of my head, but I mean, you can go to a cafe in Amsterdam. Yeah. And yeah, you're allowed to smoke it. Yeah. So sure. It must be very similar. Because I'm just thinking of the recent time when I went there.

If you're going out late at night, everyone just seems a bit chill. Glassy eyed. And then like giggling on the street. Yeah. And you know, like I'd rather encounter maybe someone who had had some weed than someone who was wasted. So what do you think

what do you think you'll vote for then? I'd probably vote yes. Because do you know I think my mum needs to have some weed because she's got

arthritis and like for people who have pain and all that kind of thing, it's like maybe just a bit of weed would help her out and she'd chill out. Because I'm not, I don't get, you know, I've only done it a handful of times. Yeah. Because it just makes me sleepy and meh. Yeah. Like I've never really been into it, but I don't have a problem if people want to. That's the thing.

So I'm like, I kind of believe that we should be free to choose, as long as we're not breaking the law. Yeah, and the thing is, it doesn't affect me, because I don't smoke it, and I don't feel like I need to. It will affect you, because the lines in the supermarket will be longer, and at McDonald's for munchies and stuff. Yeah, okay. Okay, no then.

No, but I think for people, especially people with like chronic illnesses and stuff or like who have pain and it would be really beneficial. And you look overseas like in America and places where

they've brought this in, it's got them heaps of money for tax and stuff. That too. Through all the taxes and stuff. Does that mean I get a tax break? Probably not. Because the people who are buying weed

can pay for it. But maybe they'll ask you for less because they'll have way more money from all the stoners. Yeah that mean I get a tax break? Probably not. Because the people who are buying weed can pay for it. But maybe they'll ask you for less because they'll have way more money from all the stoners. Yeah, right. Yeah, I don't know. See, this is the thing. I think we need to look into it more, pros and cons and all that kind of jazz.

But off the top of my head, I'd say I'd vote yeah. An early poll found that by the New Zealand Drug Foundation, they commissioned a survey, 65% of people supported it being either legalised or decriminalised. Right. So I think we've all just got to, I mean, over the next year, there'll be a lot in the media and there'll be some education and there'll be some for and against arguments. Right.

So I guess it's all up to us to... Is this looking to legalise it or decriminalise it? Because someone's messaged in and said weed is still illegal in the Netherlands. It's being decriminalised. Because I remember this, you're not actually supposed to be found smoking it on the street. Just in the cafes? Yeah. Well, it does say here

so it'll either be licensed premises or private. So you can walk down the street. So probably the same as the Netherlands. Still the same. Okay. So you couldn't just walk down the street with it. Hmm, interesting. But yeah.

And then it poses an interesting question for employers, right? Well, yeah, because you do a drug test at work. And if you're operating machinery or anything, you're going to have to do drug tests. Oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. Yeah. There definitely will still be jobs where that's not going to be okay. Hmm. But I'm not an employer of anyone that operates heavy machinery.

That's not my problem. Well, no, you employ people at the cafe. Yeah, but that's not heavy machinery. What about the deep fat fryer? Yeah, true. Okay. They'll just be frying more chippies for them. Or their hand and then realise it's in the fryer.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Food Fight. The Chippies Edition. But the Chippies Edition of Food Fight continues. Vaughan's away again sick today, so we don't have his cav in his mouth. For the sound effects. For the sound effects.

But we do have some results from yesterday's voting. Now, it's elimination. You vote on our Instagram, FVMZM. And once Chip is out, it is out. So we do have to say goodbye to two Chippies from yesterday. One of the rounds was Doritos up against nachos. It was nacho cheese. Nacho cheese up against spicy tomato manchos. And manchos took that out 55%. Yes. Oh, that's close. It is close. So we say goodbye to Doritos nacho cheese. And the second round. And Doritos,

my favourite Doritos is sweet chilli. They were out in the first round. Well, a lot of people find them a bit too hot. You know? It's an acquired taste. So the other round, Copper Kettle Woodfire Barbecue Chippies up against the Honey Soy Chicken Kettle Chippies. I don't mind either of those, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy either of them either. But if you had to choose, which one do you think?

Maybe the honey soy? You're in the minority. The wood fire barbecue took it out 58%. So we say goodbye to honey soy chicken. Okay. So the rounds for today. Do you want to go first with yours before you eat all those chippies? This is an interesting round.

Yes. So Pringles, sour cream and onion versus twisties. See, that would be my favourite Pringles flavour, I reckon. Sour cream and onion. But you have to choose one. Twisties. Twisties. Yeah, I reckon twisties will...

I reckon it'll be close, but I reckon twisties will win. And do you know what? I've just looked on the back because I'm eating. I've been eating a few twisties. In the ingredients, bra, bra, whey powder bra, gains. Oh, gains bra. It's an after gym snack. Twisties are an after gym snack. Bra, whey powder.

It's like the third ingredient. That means there's lots. Bra, gains. Most ingredient in there. Yeah, dirty bulk. Gains bra. Dirty bulk gains. Bra, twisties bra. Dirty bulk gains. Bra.

Twisties, bra. Do you want early voting? Because you can vote on our Instagram. Mm-hmm. Right now. This is just me getting extra bra protein, bra. Yeah. Twisties are losing 44% to 56%. 56% of people want sour cream and onion Pringles.

I'm absolutely shaken by that. I don't think you're in touch with the nation on your chippy flavours, is what we've learnt. I know that's the thing. You think you're normal, eh? Yeah. And then you Google something and you're like, oh yeah, someone else has Googled this.

I'm not normal. It's upsetting when you... I am normal. I don't know. So, next round for Food Fight Chippy's edition. I hope that comes around. Vote for twisties. I'm just still a little...

I mean, they're not... How do they get them all to stack like that? It's all artificial. I mean, so are twisties. Okay, carry on. I'm like, that doesn't look like a natural chip, the Pringles. And then I'm like, oh, your twisties are like round and twisted. You know, it's still the same.

44% of twisties. Okay. All right, next round involves one of my favourites, I think. One of my nostalgic favourites. Cheezels. See, it's weird because I'd go rations or twisties or burger rings before I got a bag of Cheezels. Really?

Because cheese balls were out early on. Yep. But just the straight up Cheezels are up against the Mexicano. So those are the round corn chips. Just cheese, straight up cheese. Good for nachos. Good for nachos. Yeah, well, because they're better for nachos because they're rounded as opposed to Doritos.

Well, you get more mince or your nacho filling on a chip. And easier to chuck the whole thing in your mouth than a Dorito, I would say. What's the voting? We've got early voting. I'm going to vote for Cheezles. Oh, 60%. Cheezles are winning 60%. Yeah, I knew they would be.

Dan, good morning. Hey, how's it going, girls? Good, good. How are you going? Are people voting how you thought they'd vote? Oh, look, twisties are pretty good, eh? But I've got a really good hot tip for eating twisties or any of those orange delicious treats.

Okay, so Cheezles or twisties or anything? Yeah, yeah. Use chopsticks and you don't end up with any of that orange stuff on your fingers. But are you doing this in public? As you said that, I looked at my fingers and they're literally orange.

I was like... No, but that's half the fun is the treat afterwards. Like once you've got like a layer of orange on your fingers. Nah, then you got that, then you got like

that residue, the resin afterwards. You are so extra, Dad. Yeah, that, how did you come up with this? You look like a germaphobe, though. You don't want to touch things. No, not at all. No, I just like having nice clean hands

after I've had delicious orange treats. So wait, do you take chopsticks with you and do it in public? Nah, sometimes. Sometimes I do have to raw dog it and eat them with my fingers. In an ideal world, I'd always have a little pocket for chopsticks just in case. Do you use chopsticks for other things or is it just your orange chippies?

No, just orange chippies. Forget about sushi, that's hands. Everything else, forget about it. You'll eat sushi with hands but not twisties. Okay, brilliant, Dan. Great tip. Well, you can vote now for your favourite chip on our Instagram, FVMZM. And then, of course, we'll come back tomorrow

with more voting rounds. And either... At this stage, what are we looking at? The nacho chip and maybe twisties could be eliminated tomorrow. 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. Producer Caitlin, it was just last week that you nearly said I love you accidentally on the phone to your boyfriend, your new boyfriend. Yeah. We've been going

out officially for three months. And one week. And one week. Three months and one week. But not that you're counting or anything, are you? No. No. And Megan knows because it was the day before Megan's husband's birthday that we were official. We had his birthday party the next day. And that party, Caitlin had some shampies and spent the whole night telling everyone that this is my boyfriend. Well, I wanted to, I said to him, how would you like for me to refer you as at the party like yeah sorry i refer you as i've mixed up my words um and i was like

so your friend or um are you my boyfriend and then he was like oh well you can say that yeah anyway so yeah that happened now and then you went i I remember you were in Megan's kitchen, PD-ing. It was disgusting. It's so cute, eh? It was pretty cute. Guys, we haven't seen each other in three weeks. Because he's been in Bali. Yeah, and I was at home for Easter,

so he's been in Bali for like 10 days. Okay. He's been very sick. He got Bali belly. Like, he was inside for five days. Oh my gosh. I know. Poor guy.

And I wasn't there. Oh my gosh. Is that how you talk to And I wasn't there. Oh my God. Is that how you talk to him on the phone? No. Are you okay? No, we're like, oh my God,

like try and not be too gross. Right. Well, because the big thing was last night, you, when you were hanging up the phone, nearly said I love you. Yeah, I know.

So, because like, and I think I just automatically do it with all of my friends and family. Yeah, you don't do it with me. You've never said it to me. Oh, I always say love you bye.

I always do. Well, maybe not you, Fletch, because... Yeah, actually, I think you do say that. Or Ellie. Ellie, babes. Ellie. Yeah, right. Okay.

Well, there was a call last night with the boyfriend. Oh, my God. Why am I even talking to... It's just us. We're not going to tell anyone. It's just us. No one else will know. It's just the girls.

So, now, I don't know if I heard it incorrectly. Oh, my God. So, no, okay, tell us exactly what you were talking about, how it went down. Okay, so. Should we do a reenactment of the last, like, 30 seconds of the phone call? Okay, okay. Okay. Are you at?

I mean, are you the boy? I mean. Are you at? You were like, don't say his name on air. I mean, he's only got a one-syllable name that you accidentally just said. Anyway. Are you going to name my boyfriend? Yeah. Okay. You go.

Oh, well, what was he saying? Oh, he was just like, I'm feeling much better, babe. Okay. Babe, I'm feeling much better, babe. Why is okay. Babe, I'm feeling much better, babe. Why is he a Californian surfer? I don't know, I don't know. Okay, that's good. Well, you have a fun rest of your day.

Send me some photos. Don't kiss hot girls. Yeah, no. Yeah, he's been very, well, obviously he's been good. He's not even looking at bikini girls, so that's good. Is that what he told you? And then. There's definitely none looking at bikini girls, so that's good, eh? Is that what he told you? And then... Because he's definitely none of those in Bali.

Thank goodness. He's back today, so it's fine. Right, okay. Yeah, and so it was just going back and forth, and then he's like, okay, okay. Okay, love you, bye. And I was like... But I don't know if he said it or not.

I don't know if I was just trying to hear... Like, oh my God, I don't know. But he said... I think he was like... I think he said, like, love ya. Well, I think he... I don't know if he said it or not. I don't know if I was just trying to hear it. Like, oh my God, I don't know. But he said... I think he was like, I think he said like, love ya. Well, I think he, I don't, because... Because he says bye like six times. Okay, bye, bye, bye, bye. Love you, bye.

Like, I think it was, I don't know. Oh my God. What did you say? I was like, bye. And then hung up. And then hung up and then were you like, oh my God? Okay, we're talking on Facebook Messenger. Yeah.

Has he mentioned that? But maybe did I just want... Do you mean you're on Facebook call? Yes. So the line's not that great. The line's not that great. So he could have just been saying bye-bye, but you thought he said love you.

Well, I don't... What else could it have been? Love ya, but that's still the same. And then you said bye. But then I was like, okay, I'm going to message him. And then I was like, no, I can't. And then I just got to, and then we just ignored it. Do we need to call him for clarification?

No, I need to do this in person and I need to look in the eyeballs. Well, that's the other thing. So either he's upset because you didn't say anything back. You're just like, bye. Or second. No, but I didn't hear it. What if he actually said it and I would be annoyed that it happened on the phone for the first time. What if he's sitting there being

like, Caitlin, you're out of your mind. I don't love you. Oh, this is so, guys, this is so hard having a boyfriend. For you or for us? I don't know which I prefer. For the general public, it's just very taxing, this whole thing.

Sorry, I'm sorry. Well, maybe just have her say tonight. Just say, what did you say when you hung up the phone the other night? No, don't say anything. Just do what happened. Well, he's going to bloody hear about that. I was talking on the radio, isn't he? Oh, yeah. Maybe we just

call him and get clarification. No, don't. No, don't. I'll let you know, hug, on Thursday. Okay, yeah, right. Oh, you'll know when I'm in love, I'll tell you. I think we're there, to be honest. I think we're there. Really?

Oh my god, cute. Why does James have his head in his... He absolutely hates me. You're just looking down, like, your head's in your palm of your hand. You're just like, oh, this is cringe. Oh, well, the thing is that, of course, all the listeners, this is the first time they've heard it, but this is the first thing I hear at five o'clock in the morning.

I was going to say, you think how sick you are of hearing it. Yeah. You don't sit beside Caitlin every morning. That's because we're boys and I tell him everything and he's, oh, James, I'm not going to tell you things now.

All right. We're all going through this relationship together. All right, can we get an update tomorrow then and you can clarify if he said I love you or not. What if he didn't? If you don't hear about it, he didn't. This is probably a reason I couldn't be a teacher.

You're not allowed alcohol. It's frowned upon. What, to do your job and drink? Yeah. Well, you do this job all right without, but you don't have to deal with kids, eh? So you have to deal with kids during the day, and then at night, you have to deal

like doing... Marking. And parent-teacher interviews. So if you think the kid's a dirtbag, then you've got to meet both of the parents. They would fill me with so much anxiety. Yeah, it'd be horrible. And then especially if you had to tell them that their kid was a dirtbag. So, um, a teacher

who attended a parent-teacher evening has been told off because they were under the influence of alcohol. So 15 parents complained to the principal saying they could smell alcohol and that they were repeating themselves and appeared disorientated. But like you say, you have to deal with kids all day and then you have to meet parents. You might not be in your comfort zone. Maybe a bottle of pain au noir or chardonnay takes the edge off. I don't know. So the principal went and spoke to the teacher and was like, hey.

Is this in New Zealand? It doesn't say. I don't know. But the story's on a local news site the story's on a local news, on a New Zealand news site. I think it is in New Zealand. But surely you'd lose your job for that. But then you're not teaching the kids, are you? You're just meeting the parents.

Well, they're going to like, they're being disciplined. Right. So we don't, maybe they will, I don't know. But the principal said afterwards, hey, mate, are you all right? And apparently he was slurring his words and was sweaty, flushed and very unwell. So we're probably not talking like a couple of wines. A bottle and a half. Yeah.

Right. Because I'd have a wine to maybe take the edge off and have to deal with parents, but that sounds like another wine. You'd have a red tongue. It would be the giveaway. Mind you, you're only one and I'd be like, hello. Then you start flirting with someone's husband.

Whoa, not good. But we'd love to talk this morning about your loose teachers at school. Like dodgy teacher stories. Or your teacher that was just, yeah, a little bit loose on the rules. Like some wine at the parent-teacher address. Yeah, maybe. Right. Or just the way they taught you in class.

It's such a hard job, though. I don't know how anyone does it. I mean, it's certainly not having you go at any teachers here. That's what I mean. I could never do it, especially without having a wine or like... So we're saying we don't blame you for having a wine at all. No, exactly. Yeah.

But did you have a loose teacher at school in terms of how they taught or how they dealt with your parents? Producer Caitlin, you're saying you had one? I didn't say that. I said that I thought maybe one of my, I had many of them, one of my PE teachers could have been flirting with me once. Yeah, but you think a guy says hello to you and you're like, oh my God, he was flirting with me.

I know, and I don't exactly know the exact... But why was he, how was he flirting with you? Well, he's just, you know, real nice and he called her name out when she put her hand up. Was he calling out the role and said your name? No, but I don't know. He was just, you know how like, you get a vibe. I get a vibe. I'm mostly wrong.

I'm mostly wrong on the flirting. So you're saying when you think someone's flirting, they're not. So he probably wasn't. Yeah, he probably wasn't. He was nice to you and said your name. No, he was just, he like, I felt like he paid me extra attention. Right. And said that I was like good at stuff.

That's called encouragement, Caitlin. Yeah, I know. Okay, look, I had a crush on my PE teacher. We all did. They're encouragement, Caitlin. Yeah, I know. Okay, look, I had a crush on my PE teacher. We all did. They're all, yeah. It's because they work out and stuff, you know, and they wear like singlets sometimes. James and I are just looking at each other like,

what is happening here? No, because they can wear like shorts and stuff and you're like, oh, I owe a bit of leg. Are we? I went to an all-girls school as well, so you need, you know, sometimes a bit of leg. No, I don't know. I'll stop talking.

Okay. Yes, let's move on from that, Caitlin. So when did you ever lose teacher? And what did they do at school? Yeah, maybe they bent the rules a little bit. Yeah. Give us a call, 0800 ZM, maybe they showed a bit of leg. Heavens forbid.

9696, you can text it. So a teacher has been told off because a pair of teacher interviews, they had a few wines and they were repeating themselves and slurring. 15 parents were like, he smells like alcohol.

So he's in a bit of trouble. So we want to know though, the stories of your teachers. Your loose teachers. Yeah, maybe to know, though, the stories of your teachers. Your loose teachers. Yeah, maybe the teachers that bent the rules. Maybe naughty teachers. Wow.

There are some text messages. So no, we don't want names or schools. No. No. Because like we've said, teaching is hard enough. We're okay with a bottle of wine in the desk. This is why I couldn't be a teacher,

because you get in trouble for these kinds of things. Are we going phone calls or text messages? Well, should we start with some phone calls? We're overwhelmed with calls and text messages. Michelle, you're a dodgy teacher. What did they do? Okay, so back like 20 years ago, when you could still smoke on school grounds,

our teacher used to smoke out the back of his art class. And then at lunchtime, when he'd catch kids smoking, he'd take their smokes and score for him and smoke them. Oh my God. Imagine that, like you could smoke

on school grounds. Yeah. Like that's nuts, eh? Probably not. It's probably not okay out the back of the art class but when you, you know, all the teachers

would smoke at lunchtime. Yeah. So he'd pretty much never have to buy ciggies because he could just confiscate them. Yeah, yeah. And he doesn't have to buy ciggies because he could just confiscate them. Yeah, yeah. And he doesn't have to give them back

because the kids shouldn't have them. Exactly. Smart man. Thanks, Michelle. Kylie, what did your teacher do? My teacher asked me if my mother enjoyed going to the movies

and then he ended up giving me A grades on all my tests when I should have been failing them. Because you wanted to date your mum. Yeah, my mum was 26 and I was 10, so she was a young mum. But yeah, he wanted to date my mum, so he thought

giving me good grades would get him in the good... Did he ever get a date with your mum? No, my mum had to go to the school and tell him to cut it out. Oh, I'd be like, no, just leave it mum until I finish. Lead him along. Getting good grades. Thanks, you, no, just leave it, Mum, until I finish. Yeah, you just leave it. Lead him along. Getting good grades.

Thanks, you cool Kylie. Rob, your film teacher was a bit loose. Yeah, my film teacher was pretty cool, actually. Like every film class that we went to, he'd always bring in his PS2 and he always used to play teak him with the whole class. And I'd have a competition and every time we turned up, there's always munchies and lollies and everything. We'd just sit there and he goes, well, one day you're going to be focused

and you're going to have eye coordination for filming. And to this day, I do filming. Do you actually work in film? And the funny thing is, my son is going to the same school now and he's still doing it 18 years later, but at PS4 this time. And the funny thing is, my son is going to the same school now. Yeah. And he's still doing it 18 years later, but at PS4 this time. He's upgraded.

He's upgraded. Wow. I guarantee when, what are those people that come in, the aero people, they come in and, you know. And assess the classrooms. And the principal and the teachers are all like, you've got to be so well behaved, guys. You've got to be listening in class. No lollies today. No lollies. no misbehaving.

I guarantee when they come in, he's actually doing, makes them watch a movie or he gets the cameras out. Thanks, you cool, Rob. Taryn, this is your loose teacher. What did they do? He'd just decide in the morning

that we'd go on a class trip somewhere with no permission, no parent help, no teacher help. And he'd take us all the way into Auckland City from South Auckland somewhere. Yeah. And twice he left a kid in town. Oh, my God. Because this was back 20 years ago when the Auckland train station was quite a way out of the city, if you remember.

Yeah. So we'd have to catch the bus from Queen Street to the train station. And twice he left the same kid in Queen Street and he only realised when we were halfway back to... Oh, my God. The same kid too. Ouch. Same kid. I still remember that kid's name too, the poor boy.

Do you know if he's like... Is he a world explorer now or do you know where he is? Yeah. I have no idea. No idea what he's asking now. Probably lost somewhere. Probably lost somewhere. Still getting lost.

Thanks, you called, Taryn. Wow, so many text messages. So many texts. Our art teacher would allow students to go to a house nearby the school to get stoned before school and during lunch. As long as she was there as well, that was her role. Always the art and the PE teachers. I don't like to generalise, but whenever there's a teacher in trouble,

more than likely art or PE. Well, someone got stoned with their science teacher. Oh, okay. Was he good at growing weed or something? Now, this is a quote. This is not my words, but someone has texted and said, I was in cabbage maths. Because I'm a normal person and only gifted people are good at maths.

Touche. Our teacher was so over it, just wanted us to pass so we wouldn't be in his class next year. So he would walk around and while we were doing NCA unit standard, he would just slip us the answers. He was a champ. Brilliant. I had this one teacher, she was a biology teacher.

During breaks, she would be behind our tech block and have a smoke because she didn't want to walk around school. So many reports of teachers having to figure out the back of the gym class. We had a teacher that used to always say, heading to the office to get some printing, that'd be gone for the entire class, and we could see him down at the fence having a ciggy, and a couple of times

he just never came back. We failed all our exams. Oh my God. Like he's actually given up on life, eh? You can see him. Hey, sir, we can see you.

Especially because like class could be for like an hour. Yeah. How many ciggies is he getting through? I know. He's actually given up.

It's so sad. But yeah, I don't blame him. It's tough being a teacher. Well, why not parent-teacher interviews is probably the least. If these texts are anything to go by, you're totally right. Right now though, and Vaughn's away, sick today, so it'll be missing a little bit with the jingle, but... It's just a duet.

It's time for... Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It was better than yesterday. Your timing was better today. I put in more effort today. That's good. This is a fact all the way from Canada. So in 2009, in Canada, they passed the Apology Act. So this is where a sorry cannot be used as an admission of guilt.

Because they're known, aren't they, for being very apologetic and very kind. You bump into someone, sorry, I'm so sorry. Even though they could bump into you and it's not their fault, they still say sorry. You could bump into them and they say sorry. Yeah. So Canadians say sorry so much, they pass this law. It says that an apology can't be used as evidence of admission to guilt. So say there was like a car accident and you were potentially being done for dangerous driving,

a lawyer could get in front of you and they would just say sorry even just for the fact that the car accident had occurred. Yeah. Be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. But they weren't admitting that they were at fault, but that could be used against them in court. Right. Because they'd said sorry. Because they always say sorry.

Sorry for the situation. I'm just sorry that we're all here. Yeah. But now saying sorry is not... An admission of guilt. Yeah. Huh. It was so bad.

They had to pass the law in 2009. Just like, sorry for everything. I'm so sorry. You do know those people that always say sorry? Like, stop saying sorry. Yeah. You don't need to be sorry. I feel like females say that a lot too.

Like, when you're writing emails, you're like, I'm so sorry to bother you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for... I'm sorry to be a pain. I'm sorry to be a pest. No, you've got a genuine question. I don't think New Zealand is very similar to Canadians. Yeah. We're a little bit like that. Yeah. I don't think we over say sorry too be a pest. No, you've got a genuine question. I don't think New Zealand is very similar to Canadians.

Yeah. We're a little bit like that. Yeah. I don't think we over say sorry too much. No. Maybe we should pass this law. So yeah, so today's fact of the day is in 2009, the Apology Act was passed in Canada declaring that an apology can't be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's happened, or they might be on the brink of making this happen. We always joke about just having a pill that would make you not gain weight or lose weight or whatever. Just like amazing pill. A magic pill where you could eat anything and it didn't matter. So they think they may have found it. This is a pill and they've tried it on mice.

The poor mice. They get all the shit. Yeah, but do you care about the mice if you can eat whatever you want? Well, so they have found a way to apparently eat whatever you want and not put on weight. So it's got to do with one gene. It's

R-C-A-N-1. That's the gene. Right. So when they disable that in mice, the mice can eat whatever they want, high fat foods, whatever they want, high-fat foods, whatever they want, for prolonged periods of time without gaining calories. So you might not gain weight, but your insides aren't going to be healthy if all you're eating is junk food.

Surely not. Surely not. It's like those skinny friends you have that eat everything, but their inside, they don't look that well. You're fat on the inside. It's still be quite, you know. It's visceral fat, isn't it? It's the fat that's around your organs and stuff. That's

the dangerous one. So you've got some junk in your trunk, that's okay. So if you take it from now, like it's not going to make you lose weight, just not put any more on. So you could go hard at the gym, get to an ideal weight, and then take this pill. But you've also got to remember,

food is your energy. And we all know that if you eat, like, bad food, if you eat junk, you feel lethargic. You don't feel great. So are you still going to, I mean, you're going to stay the same weight, but you're not going to feel good. Yeah, but at least you're not getting, you know, you're still going to be able to fit your jeans. But like, does it stop you getting the fat around your organs? It says this could be the thing that helps us combat obesity, which is an issue that worldwide that is

an issue. Any side effects in these mice? Like how bad would the side effects go? You're going to say how bad would the side effects have to be before you give it a go? Like if you got the odd headache, would you still take it?

Oh, I have headaches all the time. Just for a bit more of a headache, sure. Okay, sure. Okay, just take a couple of panties. If my nails are going to fall off or something, then no. Right. But they haven't said that there is

any side effects yet. But this is still on the testing stage. Right, it's on the mice stage. So they just need to get some uni students to test this out for a bit for a couple of hundred dollars a week. See if they get fat and if they drop dead or anything. And then if not,

we could be a few years away from this. So they have an elevated metabolic rate, which I guess helps. It's like how, you know, like Cameron Diaz always goes on about how she's got a speedy metabolism even at her age. That's why she's always been thin. We could get that. I hate people like that. We could get a speedy metabolism in a pill.

Well, if it is going to speed up your metabolism, you probably burn off a bit of excess fat as well that you already had. Yeah. So your body would just become resistant to diet-induced obesity. You've got a problem with this, Producer Caitlin? Yeah, well, if I ate everything that I wanted to eat all the time, then it wouldn't be like a treat and I'd probably get sick of it. That's true. Do you think?

There's enough food in the world that I could rotate it all. Yeah, I could probably eat it all But then I'm very focused on my skin at the moment So if I'm putting bad stuff in That's the issue though Because we don't know how it affects internal organs And also your skin And other features of not having a good diet

I'm with you on the feeling Like crappy as well You could have so many blowouts and it wouldn't even matter See that's why it's good Occas many blowouts and it wouldn't even matter. See, that's why it's good. Occasional blowouts, you don't have to worry about. As long as you had like most of the time a pretty decent question. Yeah.

Alcohol. Well, the calories and alcohol wouldn't count. You don't have to. You know what I mean? You're still going to have a hangover. Oh, yeah. It's not going to stop you from getting a hangover. But it means we can have lots of pina coladas and not worried about the fat and that.

I'd probably still take it. Yeah. I mean, yeah. We're all body positive, but if there was a pill, I'd definitely take it. You know? Yeah. Well, it's easy, isn't it? It is. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. This is actually something I noticed at the weekend. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast, ZM.

This is actually something I noticed at the weekend. I went to make tacos and I was like, do you know what? It's a treat, but I might get an avocado to go on this. That is an expensive treat. Yeah, but I was like- Even when they're cheap. You're worth it. Go get an avo.

Except I went to like a little grocer, a little grain grocer, a little veggie shop. Those places can be cheaper than supermarkets. Yeah, that's what I thought. But when I got there, it was $10 for an avocado. A single avo. $9.99. Not even joking. Were they even a good avo?

So the thing is, I think, I don't know for sure, but I think they'd frozen them when they were green and they'd got them out. So they looked like they were ripe. They were hard as rocks. Right. And still $10 each. Are they still nice when they de...

I don't know. Huh, okay. But like, what are you supposed to do if you're trying to sell Avos? You would freeze them knowing that Avogaddon's coming up. $10 an Avo though, that's ridiculous. So it's gotten so bad. And this is apparently an all-time high, $10 each. Right.

It's gotten so bad that there is a Mexican restaurant in Auckland that has had to cut guacamole from this Mexican restaurant. That's what you expect. That's what you do. Because can you, when avocados are like $3 for a dollar or when they're super cheap, can you mush a whole lot up and put them in the freezer? I mean, technically you can

because you can buy frozen mushed up avos. You can buy frozen avocado halves. At like wholesalers and stuff, food places. Yeah, I've never tried it. But do you think it would taste the same? I don't. Producer Caitlin, have you had frozen avocado? You reckon you can taste the difference.

Because you've frozen it before. Yeah, so I'm just eating a corn chip. What would be nice on that corn chip? Avocado. Some reckon you can taste the difference. Because you've frozen it before. Yeah, so I'm just eating a corn chip. What would be nice on that corn chip? Avocado. Some guacamole. Yeah, you can definitely taste it. Because some restaurants and cafes do it now that it's winter. And it's like really not as nice as fresh.

But how can you tell? It's still avocado. Is it like watery or something? No, it's like... You think of anything that's gone frozen and then you've like. Yeah, right. Like kind of heated it up. Yeah.

It's just sludgy. You can just tell. Yeah. Not very good. It would have a little bit of watery texture to it. But it is an option. But $10 each. Ridiculous.

So the cheapest avo apparently at local grocers at the moment is $7.99. Now, I don't know if that's nationwide. I don't know if there's a particular place around the country that has cheaper ones. God, you get it home and it's like three quarters stone. Yeah, and then you've really got to roll the dice. Is it like half of it brown? Yeah. Is it worth it?

Not worth it really, is it? We'll just wait until they're like, they have to get rid of them and there's like 20 for a dollar. Yeah, because nobody wants... There's bound to be some green them and there's like 20 for a dollar. Yeah, because nobody wants... There's bound to be some green bits in there somewhere. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too?

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