ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - November 12 2018

Episode Date: November 11, 2018

Vaughan went to Taylor Swift in the weekend, It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas and Fletch saw someone in their undies in public.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello there and welcome to the Fletchvorn and Megan podcast, thanks to Spark, where you can get a new Nokia on a prepaid rollover pack starting from $19. Now, on with the podcast. Hello, good morning, welcome to the show, Fletchvorn and Megan. Alright. What was that? Wearing jandals today. Hello. Alright.

Hello. That was such an oldaring jandals today. All right. All right. All right. That was such an old mate over the fence. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.

All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. You are wearing jandals today. And shorts. Yeah.

And a normal t-shirt. Have you seen the legs? That was like, it's not that warm outside. No, I know. It was just, well, I don't know. I misjudged the whole thing. Well, last week I wore jeans to work and then I get to like, it's not that warm outside. No, I know. It was just, well, I don't know. I misjudged the whole thing. Well, last week I wore jeans to work and then I get to like the end of the show and I'd just be sweltering.

You need to bring a mid-show change of clothes. Yeah, I don't want to have to do that. Costume change. Today I backed myself and I've maybe made an error. Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. You've been in Melbourne at the weekend?

Yeah. I went to see a lot of the Friday Jams artists perform. I tell you what, Usher still got it. I saw your snaps. Yeah, I saw your snaps. He's like, he can still move, eh? Weird a bit as to how old he was. Well, he's not 80.

No, I know. He's not as old as I thought he was. He's 40. 40 something. Is he 41 or something? Yeah. Okay. He's still got it.

His hips still have a lot of flexibility, shall I say. He's 40. Just turned 40. Right. In October. October 14th. Yeah. It's good.

He's very, very good. Right. I'm trying not to sound creepy. Was he the highlight of the show for you? Yeah, there was lots of highlights. Lil Jon is like really fun. Like, yeah. You need to go because it's really something to behold, that whole show.

Everyone, because you know how you expect that only the headline is going to bring the noise? Everyone brings a really awesome show. Everyone, because you know how you expect that only the headliner's going to bring the noise? Everyone brings a really awesome show. Like, they all treat it like they're the headliners, which is pretty cool. Alright, well, it's happening Sunday. Friday Jams Live still tickets available. Ticketmaster and all the details are at ZM Online. Alright, you lot,

listen up, it's story time. Alright, story time. I've got three news headlines for three odd, unusual, interesting news stories. Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three. Headline one. Tinder date gets tied up. Headline two. Mother

and son swanning around. And headline three. Teen just showing off. I think I want swan. Yeah, mother and son swanning around. And headline three, teen just showing off. I think I want swan. Yeah, mother and son swanning around. Because is it like actual swans?

It involves a swan. Of course. Because just on swans, have you seen, just remember, we are definitely getting to the season where we're going to see

the return of the swan inflatable on pools. Well. Is this about a swan inflatable? getting to the season where we're going to see the return of the Swan Inflatable on pools. Well. Is this about a Swan Inflatable? Funny you say that, Morn, because we go to Florida now where a Florida mother

is warning. But have you seen, just before, have you seen the massive ones? Oh, yeah. The four people. No, six people. Oh, my God.

This place I follow on Facebook. We simply must order one now. I know, but how much is it? That one. That'll be like 800 bucks or something. At Container Door. Well, my God. This place I follow on Facebook. We simply must order one now. I know, but how much is that? That's all one. That'll be like 800 bucks or something. At Container Door. Well, because you know I really want to buy the, what's it called again? Unicorn.

No, you're talking about the flotilla or something. The station. My mother-in-law's got one of those. The relaxation station. The relaxation station. That's what it's called. She's got a four-person one. But I don't have enough friends to fill it.

Oh. But I might just order enough friends to fill it. Oh. But I might just order anyway and hopefully find some in the new year. But where are you going to float it? That's the thing. You've got to do it in a lake. Yeah, because in the ocean you just see people topple off those. I've done it in the ocean. You've just got to tie it on if there's a buoy.

Right. Or somewhere where you can tie it otherwise you end up floating around. You've got to have an anchoring point. You've got to anchor your relaxation station. And avoid the waves. You'd be mad not to. Well, a mother is warning after her, she and her son drifted out to sea

in a giant inflatable swan. Now, it was an idyllic day for the beach. Well, it started out that way for Tara and her son. Brennan, I think. Is that his name? Brennan. Brennan, that's the name? Yeah, Brennan. Brennan.

Okay. He's seven. They spend a lot of time at the beach on the Gulf of Mexico and decided to get a large swan on their beach trip. So they launched it in what appeared to be calm waters. The current carried them out a mile to sea. And they needed to be rescued. But, like, there's a point where you're like,

okay, we're actually getting out quite far. Is it there? Where you'd be like, okay. Yeah, well, people on the beach actually called 911 because they don't think they had a cell phone. Oh, my God. And the fire rescue boat came to visit them and tow them back.

And tow them back. But even the towing, you'd have to tow it slowly. Yeah. This is the one I was talking about. Look at this. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, that's so good. How much is that?

$350. Oh, money well spent. Money very well spent. Money well spent. Giant six-person inflatable unicorn. Aren't they like one-person ones? They're like $100, aren't they? Well, yeah, for the...

Is there space for the trolleyboat? Now, this is in no way a paid endorsement for Container Door, but Container Door is one of those places where so many people have to order it before they place their international order. And estimated delivery is 12th of January. So you get a miss like that. New Year's vibe, but...

There'll be other places that sell those. Surely. Yeah, not for that price at that size, though. That's so good. That's huge. Pals are up to $9.99. Oh, goodness. Now, in the middle there, you can see a bit of water.

Do you think that's... Yeah, it's a mesh. Yeah. It's like a mesh. You could sit in there. Yeah, but that's good because you can do a cheeky wheeze. Yeah, you sit... Well, no, but if you see one of your team members slide down into the meshy port, it's...

Yeah, and they do it with a stupid look on their face. Yeah, it's like those people stupid look on their face. Yeah, it's like those people that just are sunbathing and they just go waist deep in the water and have a weird look around. We know what you're doing.

We know what you're doing. For a squash. They go for a squash. FM. So at the weekend, Saturday, it was Saturday night, our time,

Spice Girls tickets went on sale. And I was actually with Belle from the day show. She was frantically trying at the equivalent of Friday Jams in Melbourne. She was trying to get Spice Girls tickets went on sale. And I was actually with Belle from the day show. She was frantically trying at the equivalent of Friday Jams in Melbourne. She was trying to get Spice Girls tickets on her phone. But they went on sale. They've obviously sold out at this point, if you've missed out.

Right. If you didn't remember. But a lot of people are a bit upset because the announcement was, in the UK, they would go on sale at 10.30am. The queues opened at 10.28, which gave people like a two minute head start, which is a bit unfair. Online people or in person person people? Oh, it must have been, oh, it actually must have been in person, right? Who's doing in person?

Maybe you thought you had a better chance because no one does it anymore. I don't know, but there must have been queues. Right. And then lots of people who were trying the Ticketmaster website were upset because it kept saying something's gone wrong. In fact, people were getting tickets in their baskets. So you would have two tickets. Yeah.

And you'd click through and then it would throw the tickets away and say, there's been an error. It's not you, it's us. But that's what happens all the time. That's happened here with extremely high demand events. But I can't think recently when there's been a Ticketmaster overload. It's pretty good. It used to happen with the Sevens.

Back in the Sevens heyday when you could buy them online. I feel like that's happened. People would have them, but then it would be like, nope, gone. And so within minutes as well, there was already tickets on relisted sites like Viagogo and everything. They're up to a thousand pounds. But then haven't they announced six more shows? What have they? I think I heard before they've announced a whole lot more shows because of how many people said they'd missed out.

Oh, and they'll go around the world. They'll go to America. Yeah, there's rumours if it does well, or you know it's going to, they're going to go do it worldwide. So, yeah. Were they massive in America, the Spice Girls? Yeah, I think so. Okay, but they haven't had number one songs in America?

Oh, I don't know if they had number ones, but America, they were definitely well aware of the Spice Girls. Oh, yeah, aware of them, yeah, but I was just wondering if they were...

Because Belle actually managed to get tickets. I saw a couple of friends on Facebook getting tickets and I was like, oh, okay, well, it can't have been that hard, but obviously it was.

Yeah, no, I think it was. Okay. Oh, I don't know. Are you researching Spice Girls? The Spice Girls only had one number one single in the Hot 100 charts.

It was Wannabe. But it was number one? Yeah, in America. Okay. This definitely isn't the first case of this happening in New Zealand.

I remember last time we talked about it. It wasn't quite this amount of money. But it's happened again in Topol. A tenant has been made to repay $27,000 she made by subletting a place on Airbnb. So she was renting a place.

$380 a week. Can you open a calculator, Megan? Yeah. $380 a week is what she was paying but did not live there but was offering it for $105 a night on Airbnb right

now so $105 times $261 $261 $27,405 now you write down that Fletch $27,405 $405 down that, Fletch. $27,405. $27,405.

Now times $380 by $52. That equals $19,760. Now minus... This is maths on the show. Why are we doing this? I want to know how much profit she made. Like, was it worth it? So she had to pay back $19... Because she paid for the rent. Yeah. But no? I want to know how much profit she made. Like, was it worth that? So she had to pay back 19.

Because she paid for the rent. Yeah. But no, I want to know, and this is over the same period apparently. I want to know, and now it said go 27405. 27405. Minus 19,760. Well, it's just going to be about eight grand, isn't it? Just roughly.

7,645. Is that worth it? Was that worth it? Like 7,000 for a year? That's a lot of money. For a year. She doesn't have to be going around there and cleaning it all the time. Oh, yeah.

I'm just thinking there's always admin involved in here. If you were running an accommodation place, like if you had a place and you were, mind you, no mortgage repayments. Because it's not hers, is it? It's not hers, yeah. I mean, she's still making seven grand if she had a job on top and cleaning wasn't an issue. And she might have been doing this for 10 other places.

That's $147 a week she made. On the side. It'd be so much admin. I'm very lazy. So much admin for $100. Meeting so much admin. Meeting like 200 people to give them a key. Lockbox.

And like petrol being what it is, driving back and forth, meeting people and stuff like that. Yeah. There might have been a lockbox, but then you've got to explain to the landlord why you've installed a lockbox. But then I've always thought a lockbox at your own house would be a great idea because you know, you lose a key or you... Yeah. Yeah.

And you come home drunk and it would kind of be like you're breaking into a bank. Do you remember the 90s lockbox? Just a stone with a bung in the end of it. A hollow stone and you put in the garden but it would still have those yeah like fake stones yeah do you remember a friend of mine had one but they just used the rock to throw it through the window to smash it so he could get it and he said if they'd literally like turned it up the other way they would have seen the key but they picked up a rock and threw it through the window oh my god to break in were they in. Were they like, why is this rock light? Why is this rock bouncing off windows?

There's something metal rattling inside. It's got a key on the bottom. I wonder what that key's for. Anyway, no more time to think. So having to pay it all back for subletting. So it turns out you can't do that. No, that's a lie. Remember, Caitlin had that flatmate who was, she was doing the room

and you'd just turn up, there'd be random people in your flat Yeah, there was a child running up and down the hallway I remember the story of the child running up and down the hallway That you weren't warned about To me, that's like a ghost story Sort of horror film stuff if you hear a kid on the hallway Yeah, because I woke up and I was like Why is there a child in our house?

And she'd just be Airbnb'ing Do you know what, it's coming up to that time though Where people go away for summer break and they're like, I'm going to sublease my room. Yeah. Maybe for like two to three weeks. Are you allowed to do that?

No, that's the same thing, isn't it? That's the same voice. But no, but in a flatting situation, so there's already people in the house. You're just doing your room. Are you allowed to do that? Yeah, no, you're not allowed to sublet. I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to.

But like flatmates will turn a blind eye Because this way They want the rent Someone's there So the house doesn't get robbed And they get money Some money yeah Get the rent The rent still gets paid

So on Friday night It was Taylor Swift It was the girls first concert Oh how did they love it Well the enforced nap Did not work You know when you're A kid and your parents

Are like if you want To stay up late You've got to have A nap this afternoon And you just lie in the bed Just literally watching A clock being like I can't

Because you're excited Does Augie have Cute little pink earmuffs I bought them earmuffs Because Ali They are pretty cute Ali messaged Megan's friend

And Caitlin's flatmate Ali said This is insanely loud And all this doesn't Work on theaged Megan's friend and Caitlin's flatmate. Ali said, this is insanely loud. And August doesn't- I think he works on the show. Also Caitlin's friend as well. But flatmate and friend. Is she friend first or flatmate first?

Well, it's really weird when you say that. Megan's friend and Caitlin's flatmate. Megan and Caitlin's friend slash flatmate for one of the two. Yep. Ali, she was working there and she said, it's really loud. And August isn't good with loud noises anyway. Okay. And I'm not good with loud noises anyway. Okay. And I'm not good with loud noises.

Oh, you should have had your own pink earmuff. I just took a little orange earplugs. I'm glad I did. You're that guy. Says dad. I always think we protect the kids ears and we're just like, oh, whatever with ours. And then you get into bed after a concert and all you hear is like a... I know. And then you're into bed after a concert and all you hear is like I know

and then you're Bradley Cooper from A Star Is Born because that's what he had a raging tinnitus one of them's athlete's foot and one of them's a ringing in the ear

tinnitus tinnitus athlete's foot tinnitus tinnitus tinnitus anyway so protect your ears

so yeah we bought them some little earmuffs okay but before we went with friends of ours and they said let's go out for dinner.

So we went out for dinner. And it was not my choice. I did not want to go. We went to Prego on Ponsonby Road. Which in Auckland is on Ponsonby Road. That's Prego. If you're trying the calamari, it's not that far. Go to Prego.

I can imagine your face when you found out that's where you were dining. I ate the venison and when it came out, I jokingly said, I said, where's the rest of it? Oh, because I only give you a little bullshit. Because I was only a little bit. Anyway, that was all good. You ate venison at Prego on a Friday night. I know.

Who am I? I was disgusted of myself. Like the real housewives of Auckland over here. I know. It was, yeah. I didn't have any rosé though because I was sober driving. Yeah. So when we walked in, I saw Jo Cotton, who we've known for years.

Yeah. And I was like, oh, Friday, Prago, Jo will have had a few. And she had. She was in great form. Okay. But it wasn't like she came up and said hi. And then I noticed who she was with. True Bliss.

Shut up. Minus Kylie Binding. I don't know what, I don't believe there's. Oh my God. Connections there anymore. This is a banger, I don't believe there's connections there anymore. This is a banger. The rest of the True Bliss girls were there. Okay.

This is a True Bliss song which I've just googled by the way. Their album's still the fastest selling album ever recorded in New Zealand. Double played them in one week. Yeah.

Well, it probably helped the TV show at the time. Yeah, it was massive. They were everywhere. Everybody was watching it. Yeah, they were our Spice Girls. So, Jo was there, Kerry was there, Erica was there, and Megan Alatini was there.

Yeah. No Kylie Binding, as previously stated. So, they... Is she their posh Spice? More so. Right, okay. So, Jo comes out, we have a bit of a chat, and then Sade's like...

She leaves and Sade's like, oh, my God, it's all of True Bliss. Sade, my wife. She's about to go to Taylor Swift Sade my wife Who's been like Comes into work and stuff And met famous people Yeah

Very nonchalant Yeah yeah She doesn't like to get overly done But later on She might be like Oh my god But she plays it cool and calm At the time

Yeah she does quite cool And she was like It's all of True Bliss I was like yeah Okay And she's like Do you know My mum triplets. I was like, yeah, okay. And she's like, my mum took me to Trax Music Store in Hamilton. Now Trax was like a Hamilton Music Institute.

Yeah. You could go downstairs into the basement to get some real finds. It's not there anymore. They pulled the building down. RIP. And she's like, it was the craziest day. Like there was a massive line.

They signed my stuff. I got a photo with them. How old would she have been? She would have been young. Teenager. What was it, 98? So, 20 years ago, she would have been 14. 13, just

get my wife's age right there. And so I'm like, oh, okay. And then throughout the night, she's having a few rosés with dinner. And she's, just as we're about to leave, she's like, I'm going to go over. I'm going to say something. I was like, what do you mean? What do you mean?

She's like, you're coming with me. I was like, I don't want to come with you. Go by your own. She's like, and she kind of dragged me across and she sits herself at the end of the true bliss table. She did it. She sat down. No, no, no.

She stood. She's like, I just want to say. These people, they're having like wines and everything, I just want to say. They're having like wines and everything. I just want to say. And you can imagine my shock horror. I'm pretty like introverted in public. It's all go here, but I'm like, what's happening? She's taken the reins and we've gone off paced.

I just want to say. Oh, God. I am a huge, to say I am a huge not was am a huge True Bliss fan. My mum took me

to Trax when you guys came. Trax in Hamilton. I don't know if you guys remember that tour. Trax in Hamilton. And you signed my poster and my CD

and we got a photo together. I love you guys. I love you guys. And I'm like oh my god that's so nice. And she's like hugging them all and kissing them all. And she like grabs Megan Allerton and she's like, you are gorgeous.

Look at you. You have an age to die. And I'm just like, who is this woman? It's our eighth wedding anniversary tomorrow. I have never seen this woman before in my life. She's like, have the best night, okay? You have a great night. And she's like, goodbye.

I love you. And like walks out and I'm like, see you later, guys. Nice to see you all. Hope it's all cool. She's a loving drunk. And then she walks out, we were just getting into the car. She's like, I didn't get a photo. Oh, I can't go back now.

They'll think I'm a dick. Yeah, that's why they'll think you're a dick. I was like, oh, I'm sure they'll be flattered, but we've got to go. We've got to go. We've got to get to Taylor Swift. And even when she woke up the next morning, she's like, I'm so stoked I met True Bliss. I thought that was like a Rose Hayes-ay, but no, it was a legit feeling.

Okay, good, good. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Hello there. News that if you want to save money, and we all want to save money, right, so we can spend it on stuff we don't actually need. If you want to save money on food, you do your shopping with headphones in. One of the ways. Okay.

Do it by yourself and do it with headphones in so you won't be distracted and you won't have people convincing you to put other stuff in your trolley like your children

or family members. Or your partner. Yeah. Is it like, dependent on what you're listening to though? Like what if you're listening to angry...

Soothe, calming music will help you make better decisions than if you shop with death metal playing. But then to some people, death metal is calming. And soothing, yeah. And that would be like, get it done fast! Yeah, yeah.

You'll be drifting your trolley around the corners. I mean, I'd do that with any music. Yeah. Even the shop sanctioned Brooke Fraser arithmetic. You can get a good trolley drift onto that. Yeah. So apparently shopping by yourself with headphones in will save you money on the shopping bill. Top six other ways to save money at the supermarket.

Okay. Number six, do it with your eyes shut. You can't see, you can't buy biscuits if you can't see them. Yeah, but then what if you're buying the more expensive product of something? Maybe take a peek. Maybe a little peek. Maybe there's certain aisles that you're buying the more expensive product of something? Maybe take a peek. Maybe a little peek. Maybe there's certain aisles that you're like,

oh, I need something at the other end of this aisle. Shut your eyes and walk down it. Or skip it and just nip in the other end. Oh, okay. So you don't have to. So avoid temptation, visual temptation. Good call. Number five on today's top six other ways to save money at the supermarket.

Don't take the big trolley because you might feel the need to fill it. Well, that's how they get you, isn't it? I know, you take the big trolley. Maybe take a homemade kite. It's small and you won't want to overload it in case it breaks. And someone calls you kite piru. Just stink.

I'm seeing a lot of people now with the recycle bags just filling up their recycle bags. I'd take in the reusables. It must be a nightmare for shoplifting and stuff. Yeah. Because people are filling up their recycle bags. I'd take in the reusables. It must be a nightmare for shoplifting and stuff. Yeah. Because people are filling up their reusable shopping bags. Oh, you're saying fake bottom in the old shopping bag. Is that what you're saying?

I'm certainly not saying that. No, is that you're saying how people would steal it? I'm saying that, yeah, it must be a nightmare for stores. Right, because they're not using traditional, like everyone's varying their way of carrying things rather than the traditional trolley. Yeah, they're like, well, I don't need a basket because I've got a bag.

Yeah. I'll just fill that up. Well, I put my bags in the basket and they took up most of the basket the other day. It's a real problem. I guess there's another way to go about things.

Oh, saving the planet. No one said it'd be easy, did they? No. And I've burnt all my single-use plastic bags now so they can't hurt any dolphins. Number four on the list of the top six other ways to save money at the supermarket.

They say don't go shopping hungry. So how about just don't be hungry ever. That way you won't make rash decisions at the supermarket, but you'll also need to buy next to no food if you're not hungry. Apart from the stuff that you've been eating to not be hungry. No, I'm just saying knock it all off. Knock it on the head. You know how your parents would say, stopping stupid?

Stopping hungry. Okay. Is there a pill for that yet? Yeah, or just a button. If there was, that'd be pretty magical. Wouldn't it? Very magical. Number three on the list of the top six other ways

to save money at the supermarket, do it in one breath. You know when you're like crossing a bridge, or is it driving over a bridge? No, through a tunnel. Through a tunnel. Yeah. On Waterview Tunnel, it's very dangerous.

I've passed that three times driving through there. Or going past a graveyard. Is that the hold your breath go when you drive past a cemetery? I've never done that one. Only the bridges and tunnel. But then you get

some of those big bridges in Canterbury over the braided rivers. I know, yeah. Oh, God. There's one in Canterbury that's a real struggle. Is it just on this side of Rakaia?

Is it the Rakaia Bridge? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. That's a long one. I know you're like just about to pass out and you see a real struggle. Is it just on this side of Rakaia? Is it the Rakaia Bridge? Yeah. Yeah, maybe. That's a long one. I know you're like just about to pass out and you see a giant fish. And then you're like, and the fish is like, well done. I don't think it's a game for drivers. No, no, just passengers.

Well, I've learned that the hard way. Number two on the list of the top 60 ways to save money at the supermarket, become a canitarian. That is someone that only eats things from cans. Okay. Because it always blows my mind how if you get canned stuff on special, they can have a whole can of food for like 99 cents. Like a tin of tomatoes or something.

How is that viable? How is it viable to grow a tomato and then put it in a tin? They might say, oh, yeah, fill it up with sugar and stuff, but they've still got to get it in a tin. They might say, oh yeah, filling it up with sugar and stuff, but they've still got to get that in a tin. Yeah. And how it lasts that long is creepy as well. Creepy is a good word for tin food.

Creepy. And rip the labels off and then you're like, whoa, what am I going to get today? Yeah, old dinner roulette. You're hoping for spaghetti,

but you've just got a tin of fruit salad. Okay, well, that's the deal with tin roulette. And the number one way to save money while shopping at the supermarket is have no money. You can't spend what you don't have.

True, this is true. Unless you get a line of credit and then it'll end up costing you way more than if you had no money in the first place. That's today's top six. ZM. I want to ask now, and this might be, I might be alone maybe in this, the most inappropriate place you've seen somebody wearing undies.

Just undies. Just undies. And not at the beach. Undies, undies, undies. Togs, togs, togs. Right. Yesterday at the gym in the morning, there was an old mate there going pretty hard on the boxing bag and on the machines at the gym on the boxing bat yeah what was his technique like did he look like like he'd been a fighter

or was it just a bit rough and tumble yeah but a rough and tumble and he was punching the bag i was i was on the mat i was just doing some ab exercises right on the mat and that's when i looked up and i was like that guy is wearing undies like kind of like you know boxer briefs so the kind of tight ones they weren't really tight fitting they were kind of they'd kind of they've gone a bit loose right so that just means they're old though yeah they probably started life out they were old boxers yeah he was wearing old boxes and i was like in my head i was like is that guy wearing boxes? And then he walked away down to another part of the gym and all the other people

around were just like looking at him and looking around and we looked at each other and he was like, this guy was like, those boxes? I was like, they're boxes! He's wearing boxes! Well, he was doing boxing so that's what they were invented for. Undies. Wearing undies. And yeah, these people were just like, every time he walked past someone,

people would just like wait till he walked past and then just like turn around and be like, yep, he's definitely wearing undies. Cool. But is there a rule? I've been, surely. Somewhere before and there were hot pools and I was like, don't have my togs. But the people we were with were like, well, nobody does. Let's just all go in our undies.

And if anyone asks, we'll pretend to be Germans. A lot of pools have rules. You're not allowed to do that. Because it's a hygiene thing. Because you're... Sweaty gooch. You're sweaty gooch and you might have some skitties in there. And then that gets in the water.

But then you shouldn't be allowed to take your bum in the pool. Well, no, that's why most pools say have a shower before you have a swim. Right, get in. Yeah, I know a lot of pools, they'll say no undies. Like if you're standing in your undies and get kicked out, you've got to have a swim. Right, get in. Yeah, I know a lot of pools, they'll say no undies. Like if you're standing in your undies, you get kicked out, you've got to have togs. Right. I don't know if these would constitute as undies, but yesterday when I was in Melbourne, there was a guy, I don't want to estimate his age, but I will.

He was probably like 35 to 40. And he was on a scooter, not a lime scooter, like a push your foot along scooter. Okay. And he was wearing a t-shirt, but he was also wearing Union Jack undies. And no pants. Like boxes or why? No, no, like...

Undie undies. Undie undies. Briefs. Briefs, yeah. Jockeys. But that sounds like he was dressing up for something. No, I don't think so. Oh, okay.

It looked like his exercise attire. Because technically, if you're out in public and you're wearing undies, they're covering your junk. Yeah, I guess. That's not illegal, is it? It's not like you're exposing yourself. No, you're not. He didn't look self-conscious either.

A few people were looking and he was like. He didn't care. No, not at all. If you were just out commando but wearing a pair of pants, then technically you've got just as much coverage, one layer of material coverage. Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah. I was kind of like, good on you, you know? It was just weird. I don't know. And so I thought this morning, could we take some calls? The weirdest place you've seen someone in just undies. Yeah. Oh, it's a –

Like, should we stalk on Classic heading into the warmer months to just mow your lawns and your gruts? Like, you'd just be driving around and some dude's just mowing his berm and his undies. The berm's outside of your property. Yeah. Like, your backyard's all right, I think. But, like, if I'm going to drive past and see you in your undies, like, put some pants on. But then what's stopping an old mate like that going to the supermarket and putting pants on?

He's not going to put pants on, is he? He wouldn't go to the supermarket in boxes, would he? Maybe he's got sort of a radius from his house that he feels comfortable in his undies in. Like he'll pop to the neighbours, but he won't pop to the supermarket.

Well, this is what I'm wondering. And maybe we won't get any calls because maybe most people have the decency to put pants on. But what is the most inappropriate place you've seen someone

in just undies? Yeah. So yesterday at the gym, I saw a guy in undies. So they were tight boxes though. No, but they were old, so they were loose. Like, okay, let's put it this way.

I wouldn't have wanted to see him go into lunges. Right. What colour? Like faded, kind of like an off-white. Oh, no. Like it was pretty grey. Between an off-white and a grey,

you know. In my head, in this whole scenario, he's never had a shirt on. No, he's got a shirt. He's got a shirt. I had a t-shirt on. Okay, take us into your dark desires. No, but I was just like, why would you not wear pants but you'd wear a shirt? Yeah, it was bizarre.

What is the gym's policy on shirtlessness? Gyms across the board. It's not hygienic. It's not hygienic. It's not hygienic. Like sweating. They're not. Yeah, but see, the clothes I'm wearing are absolutely drenched in sweat, so I'm smearing sweat everywhere anyway.

So you've got to carry a towel. Yeah, I know, but it's still going everywhere. I'd still wipe down my thing if I did it shirtless. So the most inappropriate place you've seen someone in just undies? Somebody said, I live on a farm, sure, but I wear my undies all the time when I'm doing some building, when I'm doing the lawns, just general hanging out.

The nearest neighbour's a K away. See, that's okay. That's okay, I reckon. That's a great place, but I often have to explain to a courier. Do they go into

what kind of undies? Is it like boxers? No real undies. Farm. I'm feeling jockey. I'm feeling the briefs. Yeah, right. A nice comfortable brief keeps it all in place. Farm. I'm feeling jockey. I'm feeling the briefs. Yeah. A nice comfortable brief

keeps it all in place. Yeah. I are cued to purchase something in cotton on on Queen Street behind a girl who was wearing a bra and undies and shoes.

No one said anything to her. She was just going about her shopping as if it was normal. Everyone just let her do her thing. To me, I wonder if she's ended up

in a situation where she's lost her clothes. Well, that's why she's in cotton on. She's buying something to put on. And she's like, just don't judge me. Yeah.

You just act like nothing's wrong. It was definitely bra and undies, not togs. They said undies. Yep, bra and undies. Flat mate of mine was in the volunteer fire brigade. He used to ride his motorbike

down to the fire station when there was a call in undies. Because when he got there, he had to put on everything. Had to put it on anyway. No point taking clothes. But then when he gets back to the station, he's in all of his gear.

He's got to get back into his undies and get home. That's right, though. I'm a logger. A few years ago, my workmate was operating a very heavy piece of machinery, a digger,

and just as jocks because the air con wasn't working. Yeah. So he had the windows down and he was just doing it in his undies. The high-vis undies. You've got to wear something high-vis. And I had to get this helmet on.

I was at Mule Hut on Mount Cook. There was a French dude who had hiked up just wearing his undies and boots. Said it was too hot for anything else. Weird. It's not great because of the weather turns on. Mount Cook can get very cold very quickly. But then I guess you're in another, yes. It's not smart, is it? Get very cold very quickly. Yeah, but then I guess you're in another country.

You don't know anyone, do you? Exactly. Leave your mark. Last year, New Year's in New Plymouth, I went into the town on my undies and got into every bar except one. I don't know if that speaks more for the... For New Plymouth or...

And their dress code. The patrons. But they'll still tell you to take your hat off, won't they? Yeah. Take your hat off. Oh, but you're wearing undies. Come on in. Someone said, I lived on the Gold Coast for a while.

Old dudes just made themselves at home walking around in undies. You'd be like, are those togs? But then they weren't made of the tog material. They were always a cotton undie. Oh, yuck. What, till it's so kind of Speedo looking? Yeah. But not Speedos?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Briefs. Grim, isn't it? But cotton. I was in Melbourne at the weekend interviewing a few of the Friday Jams artists. Saw the show that's coming to New Zealand. You do not want to miss it. Usher is incredible.

I saw your snaps. I got very excited. Usher and, oh, am I going to spoil it? Nah. Usher and Lil Jon on stage together is something else. We knew that. Didn't he say that to us in his interview? Yeah.

He said that. They're going to be on stage together. Man, he can still dance. Incredible performer. Eve was awesome. I forgot how many songs I knew of hers. Yeah.

She looks incredible. She is the nicest woman ever. If you don't go, you're going to... Does she still spell her name? E-V-E. Let's go. Yeah, she does.

But yeah, if you don't go, you're going to regret it. Cheeky, look at the weather ahead. I know it's early, but Sunday is looking fine with a bit of cloud. Did you wish Eve a happy birthday? So when I interviewed her, she kept that quiet because they did a little birthday surprise for her backstage. But then when she got on stage, everyone said happy birthday. It's her 40th birthday on Saturday night.

And you got a happy birthday on stage. Usher's just turned 40 as well. Yeah. But tell you what, they've still got it. Usher's show was incredible. Okay, well get your tickets. Ticketmaster for Friday Jams this Sunday. Yeah, so there was a lot happening in Melbourne over the weekend. When we

landed, it was Friday afternoon. And I wanted to go shopping because Melbourne's like shopping central. And I, of course, wanted to get off the plane and go straight into town. Now, I was with other people, so I was conscious of their feelings too, Fletch. That's a foreign policy to Fletch. He's got absolutely no idea where he's looking at. It's so hard. That's a foreign policy to Fletch. It's so hard. He's got absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Trampling with giant groups of people.

And you've just got to be conscious of what everyone wants to do. So a few of them wanted to have a shower and get refreshed before we went out, did some shopping and had some dinner. So we got to our hotel rooms around four o'clock. Now, that's when I was waiting for everyone to get ready and I turned on the TV and watched some news. There was breaking news. It happened around

4.20. There was breaking news at 4.30, 4.40 time, where there was an attack on Bourke Street. Now, if you know Melbourne, Bourke Street is like... It's the main street. Main street. One of the main streets, yeah. Where we'd planned to go shopping. So had we had gone, like, had we gone straight to shopping, we'd got there at four, got to our hotel at four,

had we gone straight to town, we would have been on Bourke Street at the moment this attack had gone down. So this was a guy and he had some gas tanks in the back of his ute, didn't he? Yeah, some LBG tanks. Set them on fire and stabbed a couple of people,

one of them fatally. Yeah. So it was, we did actually end up going into town because at the time we thought it was, it just said there was

a body on the street and someone had been stabbed. We thought it was a crash gone bad. Right. So there was a car accident and someone had stabbed the other driver. So it seemed like it was all good to go into town.

So we wandered in there. That's when all of Bourke Street was shut off. Right. And there was, I can't even count how many police vehicles. I think we counted 40 just where we could see. You sent us a photo of, were they police cars, the black ones that were lined up? They look like very special police cars. And then we saw all

the federal police out, so there was 10 at least that I could see federal police and the town was crawling with more police officers I've ever seen in my life. We were like, I don't know what's happened here, but it was shut all night until the next morning and I was like, well, I can't know what's happened here but it was shut all night until the next morning

and I was like, well, I can't go shopping. This is ridiculous. Oh, how inconvenient. I know, they'd shut off the whole street. And our tram took ages because it had been redirected

and we were like, this is insane for a car accident. But it turned out it wasn't. Yeah, so we were wandering around the streets when it was crawling with police

just watching everyone, making sure everyone was moving along. But yeah, we found out later there'd been this terror attack. And there's a ton of video footage of it because everyone just pulled out their phones and started recording

when the police were chasing this guy down. This one guy that he stabbed, there's a video of that. You can see him. You can see him do it. It's pretty full on. I kind of wish I hadn't seen it. I just thought when I saw that video, if I was the police

I probably would have shot him a lot earlier. Because they were, he was swinging his knife at the police officers for a while before they actually kind of took him down. I guess they wanted to apprehend him with that. There's that guy they've called the trolley guy, who's kind of become famous. I guess

a bit of a hero out of this. No one apparently in the area, he's a local homeless guy. He had a trolley with him with all of his belongings in it. He started ramming at this lone wolf terrorist dude with his trolley because this guy only had a knife, so he couldn't do any damage at distance. So, yeah, he was using his trolley as like a battering ram to try to take him down.

And everyone's saying an ultimate selfless act. And he said, I'm no hero. I was just trying to slow him down and help out the police. So a GoFundMe got set up for this guy, Trolley Man. I think he lost his phone, didn't he? He had a phone and it got smashed. Right. And he's like, well, I don't have any way to replace that.

Well, I don't know what it's at at the moment, but he did. The GoFundMe had over $10,000 in less than a day when it got set up. Yeah. Set up to try to help him out a bit. Maybe get him into some housing. It's pretty crazy in Melbourne because I was there a few weeks back and you walk around the moors and the

footpaths, they have giant concrete blocks on them. Yeah. And you just, at the time, you don't really think, like, why they think like why they're there, but they're there to stop this kind of thing happening. They don't want people driving on the footpaths.

Right. They don't want people, because they've had a couple of incidences where people mounting the footpath for a run over people. In Melbourne, there's been a couple of cases.

Yeah. So you just, and there's giant concrete blocks in all the malls and stuff. You kind of forget that that's, you know, a thing. And do you know what? Through all of this, not one text from a mum.

Not one text from mum or dad being like, are you all right? I was like, I'm sure to get a panicky text. Yeah, your parents don't get the Herald alerts. Yeah. Pop up. They get the news at 6 o'clock every night. They got the news. Do they text at 6?

No, still haven't heard from them. I guess they'll hear me on the radio now. She's all right. She made it back all right. She's not dead. Great news. Great. Thanks from them. I guess they'll hear me on the radio now. She's all right. She made it back all right. She's not dead. Great news. Great. Thanks, Mum.

I'm fine. F-A-M. Last week, we spoke about Vaughan moving house. Now, Vaughan is somewhat of a hoarder. Oh, it's a hard word, the H word. A collector of things. A collector. A collector of things.

In fact, the only thing that's stopping you being on the show, Hort, is your wife, Sade. She's keeping it in line. If you were to leave her and that was to end, you would end up in one of those. I think she'd leave me if there was a... Well, that's what I mean. We're trying to make the scenario as real as possible.

That's what I mean. So when she's had enough of you, finally, I could imagine you in one of those small little pokey flats. Defecating on your floor. Why am I shitting on the floor all of a sudden? You are, because you've gone full hoarder. I'm sad, so I take a shit on the floor. Yeah.

Oh, everybody hates me. And to get in the front door, you've got to go over a pile of magazines. I don't know why. That's a trap. That's a trap to keep the burglars away from my goodies. Yeah. There's a couple of raccoons there. I don't know how they even got in the. That's a trap to keep the burglars away from my goodies. Yeah. There's a couple of raccoons there. I don't know how they even got in the country.

There's a couple of raccoons. Can you domesticate raccoons? There are piles of crap, basically. It's the only thing stopping you from being a full hoarder. Right. It's your wife. Right. So you're moving house and you've been given the job to clean out the garage.

Correct. Because you need to get rid of that stuff before you move. Get rid of it? Pack it. Relinquish. Pack it. Will the new place have more room for stuff? Yes.

It's got sheds. It's got a shed. Don't encourage it. It's got a garage. The garage has got this like thing on the side of it. It's got like sheds. It's a new place.

You need to cleanse yourself. So you're only taking the stuff you need, the important things, to the new place. Okay. So I've decided I'm going to help yourself. So you're only taking the stuff you need, the important things to the new place. Okay. So I've decided I'm going to help you. I don't need your help. You're going to need my help.

Today I'm going to come to your house and I'm going to help you get rid of a lot of your stuff in your garage. You're like Oprah. Yeah. So you... Yeah. Because there's this book that tells you you're supposed to cleanse your life and you take the item and you think, have I used it?

Do I need it? And then if you don't, you say thank you for your service. Hold on to it. Think about, you know, the time it's spent in your life and how it helped you at the time. You say thank you for your service and you let it go. So, for example, useless Star Wars toy. Do you need it?

Yes. When is the last time you've used it? We've had some good times. I remember way back when I actually used you. We had good times. Thank you for your service in the rubbish bin.

No, I would... Rubbish bin? It's collector's order. I'm thinking of all of the Star Wars toys. Oh, yeah. That thing they mass produced in a factory in China

that there's like a million of. But it's everybody else's collector's order. People are chucking them out. Eventually, if everybody else plays that game, it will be a collector's order. Yeah, but you don't want's like a million of. But it's everybody else's collectors. People are chucking them out. Eventually if everybody else plays that game, it will be a collector's audit. Yeah, but you don't want to have a garage sale, so. Oh God, no, no, no. I don't want people poking around my business.

You can throw it away or maybe you can re-gift it. Will everyone appreciate it as much? Well, Megan's got a plan. That's why she's coming to your house today. Okay. We're going to absolutely go through. Oh, do we have to go through all of it, actually?

See, too hard to remember. No, no, we're going to do it. Positive mindset. We're going to relinquish you of all of that shit. There's honestly nothing in there that I could justify. We'll see. Not getting rid of. We'll see.

This is why Megan's going. That's why I'm taking charge. I mean, we don't want to say that your wife's talked to us and had a word about this to us. Right. But she may have. Okay. Well, that's betrayal.

Because she doesn't want all this crap going to the new place. Right. To be continued. I just always tell her there's spiders in the garage and that's why she never goes in there. Because of the spiders. Don't get up in there because there's spiders and then she doesn't go looking for all the stuff that's up there.

And this is why you can hoard. Yeah. I'll come armed with raid. No, there's absolutely no spiders. It's just a deterrent. They don't exist. Otherwise, you wouldn't be in there, right? Oh, I wouldn't have gone.

That's so scary. Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It sure is. In six weeks, it's going to be Christmas Eve. How many weeks? 42 days. Six weeks. 42 days.

It is going so fast. Yeah. So we do this segment every year looking at Christmas penetration. Generally, some craziness pops up around July. We've tried to eliminate from it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, the midwinter Christmassy work do's and stuff. We don't try to do that. We wait until that's cleared.

That's fake Christmas. You know, midwinter Christmas. It's half Christmas. I visualised, I saw yesterday down to, I visualised Christmas yesterday. I know there was someone who set up a cookie time stand. You know those giant buckets? Yeah.

They were selling those. Right, they hit the streets with those. Because I've seen a couple of mentions on community pages of people saying, I'm going to be doing it in the area, so get your pre-orders in. Because I can say no online when it pops up and it's like, buy your cookie time bucket. But in person, I'm not as strong.

Yeah, and they had like samples. Yeah, try this. You're like, hmm. Yeah. Grab a couple of apricots for the road. And you're like, I tell you what, I don't have the money on me right now, but I'll... Do you know what else I saw online?

Smirnoff doing Christmas baubles. And inside the baubles, vodka. What, so you have a little switch from the bauble? Yeah, but I don't know. Unscrew the lid. Yeah, so screw. Just have a little... I don bauble? Yeah, but I don't know. Unscrew the lid. It would be a screw. I don't think they're down for having glass-infused vodka. Who can stop at one bauble, though?

Well, that's the thing. I don't know if they're in New Zealand, but this was in a UK website, so. Right. Can you fit mixes in the bauble? Just make your own. You'll be able to get something like that. Unscrew the ones that forget at the warehouse or Kmart. Fill them up with...

Yeah. You can. You can get glass baubles. These are glass. I saw some at Farmer's. Yeah, I've got glass baubles. Oh, flash. I fell on one once when I was hungover and it cut my arse and I had to go get a stitch.

And so that's why I don't like glass baubles. Okay. That's that. Now, there's only a couple of things to cover and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas today. We had correspondence from Louise, who's in Australia. She said, is this happening back home yet? It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas with Santa making an appearance at the Big W in Melbourne.

And yes, there have been spottings of Santa right here in New Zealand, Aotearoa, in malls. Grottos are being constructed. Grottos are being constructed. Grottos are being constructed. As we speak. Yeah. Santa's seen out and about. Isn't it weird that it's called a grotto?

We need to change that. Yeah, because it sounds like a ghetto, eh? Or a grotty. Or like grotty. A grotty ghetto. Yeah. The winter wonderland always sounds a bit better. Yeah.

Yeah. It sounds a bit better. But the undeniable Christmas event from over the weekend, and thank you to everybody who sent it in. The Santa has been erected on the Queen Street building, the Whitcills building in Queen Street. The farmers-y, Whitcills-y, big old building. It's farmers now, yeah.

It's farmers? Mm-hmm. Because wasn't it farmers when it was on what is now the Heritage? Yep. And now it's on the main street and that's a Farmers again. Yeah, it's a Farmers again. So the Farmers Christmas. He doesn't wink anymore.

No. He doesn't usher you near with his creepy finger. But he does have some reindeer pals. And over the weekend he was erected. Yeah. Stuck onto the side of that building. Santa's up. Santa's up.

Yeah. So that can mean side of that building. Santa's up. Santa's up. Yeah. So that can mean 42 days away from Christmas. 42 days, 16 hours away from Christmas it can only mean... Ho ho ho ho ho! Right now Christmas penetration is at... 100%. Oh! It is beginning to look a lot like

Christmas. Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Mosh Monday. Now it's time for Mosh Monday, that we do every Monday when we're feeling a bit vulnies after the weekend. Totes vulnies. We go back to somebody's teenage years

and what a song means to them. And if you have your own Mosh Monday, you can message us on our Instagram, our Facebook page, FVMZM. Tell us a bit about you and the song and what it means to you. The emotional backstory behind the song. Yeah, we could get you on.

Nyree, good morning. Good morning. Now, do you remember the year? Like, what year are we going back to here? Do you know? year? Like, what year are we going back to here? Do you know? I was 15, so probably like 2010, I think. Now, this song, it's emotional to you. Why is it so emotional?

Well, back when I was 15, I was going out with this boy. Yeah. And it got to the point where I didn't really like him anymore. I liked his friends. Oh no. Yeah, I thought, okay, I've got to end this. And it was a long-winded breakup

and I imagine, I used to imagine singing this song to him, but also like it was just my song that I just used to listen to and thought, you know, I really need to get this over and done with. Yeah. So was your theme song as

the breaker-upperer? Yes. Yeah, it was. I'm just googling the lyrics just quickly here to see. Okay. It's going to burn for me to say this, but it's coming from my heart. It's been a long time coming, but we're done.

Been falling apart. Oh, right. So very poignant. Poignant. Poignant. Poignant. Poignant. Relatable. All right.

Well, a lot of people are going to see this live this Sunday because he is performing at Friday Jams Live. Do you want to introduce your Mosh Mondays for us, Nairie? Sure. So today's Mosh Monday song is Burned by Asha. Sing along, Nairie. Sure. So today's Moish Mondays song is Burn by Usher. Sing along, Nairie. I will do. All right.

It's Moish Mondays on ZM. Usher, Burn. It's going to burn for me to say this. It's coming from my heart. It's been a long time coming coming but we didn't even fell apart i really want to work this out but i don't think you're gonna change it i do what you don't think it's best we go our separate ways tell me why i should stay in this relationship when i'm hurting baby i ain't happy baby cause there's so many other things I gotta deal with.

I think that you should let it burn. When you're feeling ain't the same in your body. Don't want you to know that I let it go. Cause the party ain't jumping like it used to. Even though this one proves you. Let it burn. Let it burn. Don't let it burn. Who let it burn It's not your best

We're stuck with you Hate the thought of a beard When someone else puts you down That is so weird It's too easy Gotta let it burn Gotta let it burn It's Usher Burn on ZM Mosh Mondays.

I saw Usher perform at the weekend. I don't want to brag about it. But if you're wondering if he's still got it in him, he 100% does. And you won't be disappointed because he cranks through so many songs. He's got dances. He was dripping with sweat because of his dance moves,

which he's still awesome. Right. It was an incredible show. Well, it's got dances. He was dripping with sweat because of his dance moves, which he's still awesome. Right. It was an incredible show. Well, it's happening Sunday. Friday Jam's live and all the details, tickets are at ZM Online Western Springs. And I saw the long range forecast at the moment. It's looking good.

Oh, that's good. Looking good. No Taylor Swift poncho kind of deal. Required. Yeah. Right. I want to talk now about a new bridesmaids trend. So this comes out of the US,

but I would say it would be worldwide. Okay. So the average wedding now, so this is up from in 2007. In 2007, the average wedding would have four bridesmaids.

Now it is up to five bridesmaids. So that's the average. So that means there's going to be weddings who are having more than five bridesmaids. How many's the average. So that means there's going to be weddings who are having more than five bridesmaids. I can't remember. How many did you have at yours? Three?

Four? Five? Ten? Two. Two. Okay. I love that you can't remember. Why would I remember?

First time though you had three? Three, yeah. Yeah. See how Dawn remembers? But I wasn't at your wedding thinking, great, she's got three bridesmaids. Two bridesmaids. Two bridesmaids. Two bridesmaids.

It's not a fact I'm going to need again in my life, so I don't remember it. No, I know, but it's just like Vaughan easily remembers. No, he didn't. He had to think about it. No, they just visualised. Right, the day. How many did you have? How many did your wife have?

You were one of them, mate. Yeah, I know, but I wasn't a bridesmaid. You must remember how many other people were on our team. Oh, two. Two more. There was three I wasn't a bridesmaid. You must remember how many other people were on our team. Three? Two more. So she had three. Three on each side.

I remembered that too. But again, it's not an important fact I need to recall in the future. Apart from this one moment. Okay, so. Apart from her right now. So the average wedding now has five bridesmaids. Usually, often I'd say they match them. So five bridesmaids. Have you ever been to a wedding where you've seen more than like five or six? Unbalanced. Sometimes.

An unbalance. Oh no, that's Oh, I've never seen an unbalance. Oh no. I wouldn't be happy. I'd go and stand and fill in the gap if there was an unbalance. I'd send shut up. I'd be like, there's one less woman. Get up. But my dress doesn't match. Get up there! It's got to be symmetrical.

My OCD. But yeah, it's like not uncommon now, apparently, to see weddings where there's like 10 or 11 bridesmaids. 10 or 11? What? It's hard because it gets to a point you've got your best friend and maybe another one. And then if you go next level down,

you might have like four or five girls in your group. So you're like, I'm going to have to go from either one or two to like seven. You're going to grow exponentially if you go next tier down. Isn't that just going to make the cost go up and up? Because you've got to get those dresses. But then remember we had that argument. I say the bride's supposed to pay for the bridesmaid's dresses, but a lot of people these days make the bridesmaids pay for their dresses.

So maybe that's why they're doing it. Are there any cultures that have traditionally way larger wedding parties? I'm just wondering if it's a cultural thing. Yeah, maybe. As you know, we've become more one world sort of situation. Yeah, maybe.

Spreading around. But if you're getting to that bigger group of bridesmaids, you're definitely going to get people who feel like they're filler. You know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not killer. Some filler.

Or like the girl's got 10 friends, so she's having 10 bridesmaids, and the guy's like, I've got to fill some friends here. I've got to find 10 dudes. I just can't cut it down, dear old. I just got 10 besties. Find 10 besties. He's like, oh, my old. I just got 10 besties. Find 10 besties. He's like, oh, my God.

I've got literally two. I'm going to have to get in touch with some people I haven't seen since primary school. And then like half the people that would be out in the wedding watching you are going to be up next to you, aren't they? Or like next thing you've got your boss as one of your groomsmen. But I've over the years seen people that I'm like, that's weird. Like, have you ever thought that? When you see someone go into a bridal party, you're like, it's weird that they've called them in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's never your place to like say it. No, no. I'll say it to shut out a bit. But it's weird that one person's in their bridal party. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah. You feel like there's definitely someone who you're like,

we've known them longer than that person. I don't know why we're not up there. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like you see someone get the call up, the tap for the bridal party, and you're like, we've known them longer than that person. I don't know why we're not up there. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like you see someone get the call up, the tap for the bridal party, and you're like, that's odd. That's weird. I've just thought that with general invites.

You know, like I've known someone way longer and then someone else gets invited. You're like, pfft. That's just because you're shit. I mean, you should take a look in a mirror on a day like that. That's more than you, Megan. I'm projecting that on other people.

Excuse me, because these are two guys who failed to get invited to so many weddings because i'm too much of a fun guy to have a run at weddings and it becomes more like everyone's just like that guy's a hoot and we're like hey it's not my special day it's not my special day i appreciate it i appreciate it i appreciate it but it's not my day we give great wedding gifts we're great winning games we do yeah your first wedding how much of it how great were we were you the ones vomiting in the garden no someone on our table vomiting in the garden i

vomited on the way that's why your table was at the back i stayed classy yeah okay vomited in a route back to the accommodation but back to the bridesmaid situation this could be bridesmaids or groomsmen okay when did you think that you were the filler the filler bridesmaids or groomsmen. Okay. When did you think that you were the filler? The filler bridesmaid or the filler groomsman? Maybe it was your partner or someone you knew. So you were making up numbers. You were making up numbers

in the bridal party. Obviously you knew them. Oh yeah, but like distant. You had no idea why you were a groomsman or a bridesmaid. That would totally happen

because like you say, when you want to make the numbers even. Yeah. Like if there are four bridesmaids, you've got to have four groomsmen. Otherwise it looks weird. Or like a

mix. Like I had a grooms mate. No, my friend Kim was on my side. The grooms gal. The grooms gal. I was like even. Groomspian. Groomspian. Groomspian.

So you've got to have even staging on either team. Yeah, yeah. Three and three, four and four. That's why he had you. So yeah, I was just basically making up numbers. So when have you been the filler in a grooms? In a bridal party. In a bridal party.

Oh, 800 dials at M, you can text 9696. So the average bridal party has gone up statistically. From four in 2007, it's now five. So bridal parties are getting larger. Would you think that would be the New Zealand average? This is a stat from America. Yeah. Just from the weddings you've been to recently,

do you think people keep it to three or four in New Zealand? I would say four is probably the usual that I've seen. Upper. Oh, really? Yeah. I was thinking three. Yeah. Okay.

Well, I had two. So we want to know when you've been the filler in a bridal party, when you were there really making up numbers, because maybe the bridal party was just too huge. Yeah. Some text messages in, someone said, I was in a bridal party where there was five bridesmaids and only one groomsman. See that? I couldn't deal with that. It's uneven. Then the

girlfriend of the single groomsman asked to be a bridesmaid because she thought she should be in the wedding party since he was. So then it was even, she proposed even more uneven. She should have been on his side. You can't just be like, my partner's in the bridal party and I need to be. I can't sit alone at the wedding. You can't just be like, my partner's in the bridal party, I need to be in. I can't sit

alone at the wedding. I'll be alone for like 30 minute periods at a time, tops, during spay shots. Just get blind drunk, that's what we all do. Nicole, do you think you were a filler in a bridal party? Oh, I don't know

if I was a filler, but there was 16 of us in the 16 bridesmaids. What? Wait, so that's not eight on the dude side and eight on the female side. That's 16 just on the bride's side. Yeah, there was only five groomsmen, so it wasn't like to balance the numbers.

No. Why? Who has that many friends? Well, she's very cool and very popular, so if anyone wants to be her friend, I guess she just doesn't want to hear anyone's feelings, and I'm just like... How do you even...

How do you get photos with that many people? Like, that's... It's like a class photo. Yeah, I guess. I would sort of just be lined up and... But you seem to think you weren't Phyllis, so you're one of the top friends. No, I was definitely in the middle to bottom.

In the line of 16, one being the one standing closest to her and 16 being the farthest away, the farthest away, what number were you? Well, we didn't sort of line up in order, but if we did, I probably would have been like 13, 14.

See, you wouldn't have been upset if you didn't make the cut, right? No, I would not have been upset. See, she just needed to be ruthless. She needed someone there to say, no, you're getting like eight. No, not even eight. Five.

Four. Four. Like it's costing it. Five. Four. Four. Like it's costing. Four. Did you have to buy your dress? Yeah, we bought our dresses, so it didn't really cost her anything extra. Yeah, right. Yeah, but ours and everything, didn't everybody have to be holding something?

To be honest, yeah, a bouquet. But she's going to look back in those photos in years to come. She's not going to be friends with all 16 of you. Guaranteed. I think she will be. Really? She looks overseas down, like she always writes up letters and writes up cards and like

keeps in touch. So I really think she will be. She's a lovely person. She's a lot of admin. Imagine running 16 letters. I don't trust someone so nice. I know. What's she hiding? Write one in photocopy and change the names at the top. Yeah.

Hey, thanks for your call, Nicole. Some text messages in. I'm going to be in a bridal party where there's seven of us on each side. It seems insane. I had three and even that was an absolute handful to manage. Yeah, see, seven is too many, isn't it? That's, again, you could cut that in half. Yeah.

I got seven. This is another seven. My fiance asked seven of his mates on a drunken night out when he told them all he was going to ask me to marry him. So seven of them. So I just had to match. So I guess I won't say whom, but there was a couple of fillers there. But again, like you say, you look back in a few years, you might not

even be friends with them. Yeah. Because that's just what happens, isn't it? Brittany, were you filler at a wedding? I got asked to be a bridesmaid because I was the only friend who was small enough who would fit into one of the dresses that she'd ordered. Well, so she ordered the dresses and then ordered the bridesmaids who fit them. Yeah, she tried. That seems back to front.

Yeah. I declined. Okay. Oh, you declined. You declined. Yeah, I declined. Did you even go to the... We were really good friends anyway.

Did you go to the wedding at least? No, I didn't. So you were going to be a bride. Wow. Yeah, good, because that would have just cost you money. Did you get struck from the list when you said you didn't want to be a bridesmaid? Partially, but I didn't really want to go anyway, because I didn't know her that well. Isn't it weird?

And you go all of it from hardly knowing her to bridesmaid.'t know her that well. Isn't it weird and you go all of it from hardly knowing her to bridesmaid? Like, that's bizarre. Yeah. Yeah, it was quite weird. So that's why I said no. Yeah.

You know, if I was going to be a bridesmaid, I wanted at least be a bridesmaid to somebody I know well. Yeah, and that's the thing. You don't want to feel like you're a filler.

You're a last minute, you know, addition. Bring in. Exactly. Yeah, which is pretty much what it was. All right, Brittany, thanks for your call.

Wow. My auntie had her wedding at. All right, Brittany, thanks for your call. Wow. My auntie had a wedding at the Grand Canyon, reads this text message, but had the wedding party back here, so told everyone to come in apricot dresses. And then everyone that came in apricot dresses got to be her bridesmaids. She had 23 bridesmaids at the party. Okay. Why do people choose ugly colours for their bridesmaids' dresses?

Apricot. Like, no one buys an apricot dress day to day. Why do you want to wear it, like, on your special day? I don't get it. Fair call. So they look like apricots, right? And then you look nice because you're the bride. You're right.

But everyone else looks like everybody's least favourite stone fruit. Yeah. Like it's not a cake. No, I love apricots. But it's not as good As a nectarine Or a peach Or a cherry Oh they're right up there For me

Are they Yeah Too dry and furry Oh really Well you're just not Getting the right one They're like a peach That decided I wasn't

Drinking water for a while Hard and sour To like fluffy And flavourless In a day So quickly now But make a great jam Yeah true

Make an absolutely Stellar jam Some other text messages On maybe when you thought you were a little bit of a filler. Somebody said two weeks before the wedding, the bride had a massive fallout with both of her bridesmaids and asked myself and somebody else to be her bridesmaids. Oh, you total fillers. And we were like, we can't really say no,

but we don't want to say yes because it's only two weeks and we wanted a bit more warning. And she got really angry at us for dilly-dallying, so moved on to two other people. Oh, my God. She sounds like she's the problem. She might be the common denominator. Yeah.

I was a filler for my mate's wedding. He's from the UK, so I didn't have any friends here, but his wife did, so he just needed to make up numbers. So I got in on his team. Wow, okay. You look back at these photos in like 20 years, you're like, who's that? Oh, that person I asked.

What's their name? Went out with Thingy for a while. Yeah. Great guy, good guy. Should I try to find him on Facebook? Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about something we see every day, but we don't look at.

Ooh. Something we see every day, but we don't look at. Yeah. Trees. We look at trees all the time. Oh, we don't look at. Yeah. Trees. We look at trees all the time. Oh, that's a beautiful tree. But how can you see it if you're not looking at it? Oxygen.

Good question. You see every day but you don't. No. That's a good one. I thought you had it. I thought you had it, yeah. It's the sun. Oh.

Oh, okay. You kind of see it every day but you don't look at it. You don't see the sun's rays. You don't see the sun necessarily. What? Well, no, don't look at it. You don't see the sun's rays. You don't see the sun necessarily. What? Well, no, you do look at it. You see it up in the sky. Oh, you should not look at the sun.

No, you don't look at the sun. You look directly at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying is you see it, but you don't look at it. Okay. You'll burn your eyes at Bibles. I like Fletcher's one better. Oxygen.

Yeah. You're welcome. I can't change the fact of the day to be about oxygen now. But today's fact of the day is the sun has never actually officially been named. It's called the sun. No, that's just the English word for it. Does it not have a scientific name? No, it's never been given like a name.

You know how there's like Alpha Centauri. Is that the closest one? What about like Solus Radiatus or something? Sounds like the sun in a pine tree. Solaris. Solaris is like, there's another word for it. Sol is about the closest, it's come to having an actual name, but that just turns out to be another language's word for the sun.

Well, we're just all going with sun now, aren't we? The sun's all, everybody's pretty running with the sun. So Solus is Latin for sun. Sol is the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun god. So Sol is just the Roman name for the god that they attributed to the sun. So it's not the name for the sun either. The International Astronomical Union

is this international body of astronomers. They've been officially together since 1922. They say, yes, that's Mercury. Yes, that's Venus. These are all official names. They're saying it's never been named. Huh. The sun has never officially actually been given a name.

Lots of other stars in far out places have. There's Polaris and Betelgeuse, which looks like Betelgeuse. Just now that I've said it out loud, I realise it's Betelgeuse. The sun's called Betelgeuse, which looks like Betelgeuse. Just now that I've said it out loud, I realise it's Betelgeuse. The sun's called Betelgeuse. Don't say this or that three times or it'll appear. But our sun has never been given an official name. But who called it sun?

It's just a word for it. It's derived from what the Romans called it, which was Solaris, which was the god. Is there a chance we can swoop in and get official naming rights? I know. Fletchborn and Megan. Oh, don't. Now, there's going to be a Fletchborn and Megan eclipse,

but don't look directly at it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. If only it was that easy, right? Is there going to be a Fletchborn and Megan day today? It's going to be beautiful. The Fletchborn and Megan's going to be out all day. Hardly at all be obstructed by the brilliant clints. That's what to be beautiful. The Fletcher-Wanamigan's going to be out all day. Hardly

at all be obstructed by the brilliant Clint's. That's what they'll call the clouds. I'm guessing we're going for the whole weather. The whole sky. We're buying all of weather. Well, it's better than, you know, a big corporate getting in there, isn't it? Yeah. But imagine if they do. They swoop in and buy naming rights to the sun. Like, you know, like Spark

Arena. Or like Forsyth Bar in Dunedin or like Westpac. It's all named after big corporates. Yeah. Yeah. AIA Insurance in the sky out there. Like, you don't want... I don't think they're corruptible.

But then, you know, anybody's corruptible with the right amount of money. So today's fact of the day is our sun has never actually been sanctioned an official name. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today in NCEA Welcome in Miss Hello class Good morning Miss How was your weekend Miss?

Terrible thank you Oh why? I was moving it was so hard I've got really sore hands from cleaning Oh that's a first world problem Miss I want it to be noted for the record that I did offer Caitlin to help this weekend when she moved.

You would 100% not have come. I'm saying, are you all sorted for the weekend? Does it really count as like offering? No, I said,

oh, do you need any help? And she was like, nope. Then what did you say straight afterwards? Good. Exactly. Good.

Good. Okay, class. Today, let's start with our questions, shall we? So level one English is happening this morning. This afternoon, level two Media Studies. Level three Home Ec and Scholarship Statistics.

I feel like everything but the last one is my forte. Oh, okay. We'll see about that. Let's start with... Names as buzzers? Names as buzzers, yes, please. Let me finish the question as well. Level three, Home Economics. Oh! Buzzers? Names as buzzers, yes, please. Okay. Let me finish the question as well.

Level three, home economics. Ooh. Question. According to the Chelsea Cookbook, how many grams of self-raising flour do you need to make eight date scones? Grams? Isn't it normally in cups and stuff? I will only take grams as this is home economics.

Megan. Yes. 500. Eh. is this is home economics. Megan. Yes. 500. And. What would be like two and a half cups worth of self raising flour? Fletch. Doesn't weigh a bugger all the way.

Fletch. 250. Correct! Yay! 250 grams. 250 grams is two cups of flour. Yeah, you're like cups, why does it have to be up there? No, but isn't 250 mils a cup?

And doesn't grams translate into mils? No, only in water. It's weird. Only in water. Not in, like, other things. Oh, okay. Okay. Anyway, moving on.

Second question. That'd be tiny scones, just for the record. Okay. How many scones are you making? Eight scones. Eight scones. You're making four scones in a cup. That's tiny.

Okay, carry on. Okay. Scholarship statistics. Yeah, doones. Eight scones. You're making four scones in a cup. That's tiny. Okay, carry on. Okay. Scholarship statistics. Yeah, do it. I'm out. This could be you, Megan. Nah, it won't be. If 250 people in New Zealand had trampolines

and a third of them were unsafe, what is the percentage of unsafe trampolines? A third. A third. Fletch, 33.3%. Correct! That was a trick question. That was a trick question.

I just thought you'd read it wrong. Guys, you need to see that. I got that right. Fletch, two out of three. We don't even need the third. No, we will do the third question because this is my favourite. I wasn't even bothering the last one.

There's no way that would be an... That was all those questions we have for scholarship statistics, everyone has a statistics scholarship. Well, the ones that are on the actual NCEA, you have to write like six paragraphs. So you dumbed it down for us. I did. I appreciate it though.

Now, the third question, level two media studies. Now, I need my assistant James if we can just turn him on. I'm going to be real pissed if you get this question. Yeah, I'm here. That was so easy to turn James on. I literally just pushed this up. He's a guy. We have a script.

Now, you need to name this movie, and we are going to do the script. Okay. So when do we buzz in? As soon as we know it? As soon as you know it, but like, yeah, just. Guys, she wants a chance to really. Let us see the scene for a while. Yeah.

Are you guys doing it together? Yeah. Okay, ready? Oh, my like, yeah, just. Guys, she wants a chance to really. Let us see the scene for a while. Yeah. Are you guys doing it together? Yeah. Okay, you ready? Oh my God, this is cute. Okay. The house, it's beautiful what you did. Well, I promised you I would. Great.

Born. We got to go. Noah, why didn't you write me? Oh, God. I haven't seen him anything in it. That's always the thing. You I was like the house is better. What was the answer? The notebook.

Fletch won that round. Good work. I'm just imagining now doing an exam and two people walk in and start terribly acting. Also, hey! I thought James was alright. James is great.. James is great. Caitlin is. The accent's great. Also, I feel like I thought we were using NCEA questions,

but we're not. Someone's, like, not studied properly for stats scholarship, and they're like, let's get me a piece of cake. You should see the NCEA stats. It was like, oh, I can't. Like, it hurt my brain even looking at it. And then you had to write, like, five paragraphs and explain it. It's real hard.

Good luck today. Good luck today. Good luck out there. Can we just recap who was the winner? Fletch was the winner. Good winning. But now we've all won one. Well, there's a few more days of NCEA left.

Till the end of November. And it is time for Last Calls. Last Calls back and all this week giving away everybody's favourite nostalgic game. Spyro is back. Now, this is Spyro Reignited Trilogy game, which includes three remastered games in one collection. In one collection. Well, technology's advanced somewhat since Spyro first came out.

They can compress those files somewhat and make all three Spyro games in one handy package now. So the collection is out tomorrow. You can get your copy on PS4 or Xbox One at all major gaming retailers. But we've got a copy of the collection plus $200 cash to give away to our favourite call. So we're going to start this morning with Candice. Good morning, Candice. What is your story for last calls?

So I was getting the kids ready for school and I was taking them inside, putting them in the car seats and I'd seen two guys next to me and we're fiddling around with a car, like the bonnet was up, car door was open and I was like, oh do you need a hand? They're like, nah we're all good. And I was quite quirky. I was like, oh do you need some water type thing or

do you need a jump start? They were like, nah nah nah, we're all good. And I joked that it was the Dizzy because that's like the only part of a car that I know about. So I was like, oh, it's probably the Dizzy. Righty, right. And then I go and take my car.

What's the Dizzy? The Dizzy. It's the distributor. Oh. That's the only thing I know. But my friend's called the Dizzy. So now I'm like, it's the Dizzy all the time.

And sometimes I'm right. So I go and drop the kids off and I come back and they're not there and I carry on my day and then it gets to like five o'clock and I get a knock at the door, and it's my neighbour. And she's like, have you seen my car? And I'm like, what?

And she was like, my car was parked out the front, and I've been at work, and it's gone. It wasn't their car. The guys that were doing it were stealing it. And I'd offered to, like, jumpstart them. You offered to help them. And this girl's car got stolen. Oh, my. Did you tell her?

Yes, I told her. And, like, the police came round and I'm like, oh my God, I feel like an idiot. Like, I'd offered to jumpstart them. Like, I'd offered, like, do you need me to go get some petrol? Like, I was none the wiser.

There's people at nine o'clock in the morning on the side of the road. You were so helpful. You didn't even tell them that it was probably the dizzy. The dizzy. They needed it. Well, if it had been the dizzy,

they wouldn't have been able to fucking... They wouldn't have been able to start it. Yeah. Dan, you saw their faces clear as day. Yeah, but I didn't really take that much note. Like, I saw them, and I said to the police, I was like, oh, yeah, they were there. And they were like, the car door was open. And they keep watching me.

And in hindsight, keep watching me because I was right next to them stealing a car. But I thought they were just being like morning people fixing a car. Yeah, really bad. Did they even find them? I don't believe so, but she had insurance and got a new car, so I was okay in that aspect. But I still felt, I felt like an idiot. Like, even when the police turned up to speak to me,

I was like, oh yeah. Like, I offered to help them steal a car. You're too nice. All right, Candice, wait wait there we'll vote in a sec Hayley what's your story for last calls? So this was when I was pregnant with my second child I was walking through the mall

and there was like a family like a father and kids and stuff and the kids were kind of lagging behind so I'm like walking past and the father turns around puts his hand on my boob, and says, come on, and I, like, stare at him, and he stares at me, thinking that my boob's his son's head.

And I'm like, oh, my goodness. And the wife is looking at him, going, what are you doing? And he just goes, oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I just like go, oh, it's fine. And I just walk off real awkwardly. But as I got to the car, I like cracked up laughing because I was like, oh, my gosh, that never happens. But he like kept on saying sorry. And his wife was just like, hurry up, let's go.

She was so embarrassed. How long would the grab have lingered for? kept on saying sorry and his wife was just like, hurry up, let's go, she was so embarrassed. How long would the grab have lingered for? A wee while because I didn't know what was happening because I was like, what the hell is this touching me? And he was like, what is this soft thing?

Because if you were expecting to grab your kid's skull, I mean, it's weird to just reach backwards and grab your kid by the forehead. And then it's soft, you'd be like, oh, shit, Stephen's weird to just reach backwards and grab your kid by the forehead. And then it's soft. You'd be like, oh, shit, Stephen's head's gone squishy. But we made that awkward eye contact, which was like, oh, my goodness, don't look at me in the eyes. Oh, that's brilliant. Hayley, wait there.

Eye to eye, hand to boob. We'll vote in a sec. Savannah, what's your story for last calls? Hi. So I was around at my ex's parents' place and it just so happened to come up a story about what my ex used to do. He used to be quite a germaphobe.

Okay. So before a night out he'd do a bit of prep. He would put an extra sheet down in the bed so that they didn't have to sleep on his bottom sheet. But then the worst thing was he used to, they used to go to sleep and he'd be like, oh, are you going to brush your teeth?

And they're like, oh, I don't have my toothbrush. He's like, oh, I've got a brand new one right here in the drawer. So he used to, like, give them that. But then after they'd leave, he would seal it up. He would go to the effort of sealing it up for the next person to use. Oh! Yeah, it's so bad. It's so bad.

He's like, oh, I've got this new toothbrush, brand new toothbrush. So he's a jammer for himself, but for the other five others. He's going to kiss them on the mouth, isn't he? Well, I suppose he's kissed them all on the mouth by that time. Yeah, it's interesting to know, but I never, yeah, he'd finished doing that by the time I came around, which was good. Right. Is he still a germaphobe?

Well, not so much. Not like that bad. Like, he doesn't put a sheet down. Oh, my God. All right. Wait there, Savannah. Let's vote now. The Tribal Council for our favourite story for last calls.

What are you doing? I'm flashing it up. You're having trouble with your fingers, mate. You're flashing all your fingers. Okay, you've sorted it. You've worked out how to use your hands. And behind the scenes, we hold up the number of fingers that correspond to the phone lines,

and the phone lines go from 6 to 12. I don't know why, because no one knows. Phone lines 100% should go from 1 to 7. I don't know why they don't. And no one knows we voted for 11, and no one knows who 11 is. Where are the first five phone lines? I don't know. Caitlin, where are the first five phone lines?

Do you know? They're there. We just used the bottom ones. Where? Is that where? No, no, no, no, because the first one's called 6. Oh, yeah, I don't know. lines. Do you know? They're there. We just used the bottom ones. Where is that? No, no, no, because the first one's called six. Oh, yeah, I don't know. I can't explain that. Why don't we just say we're voting for 11?

It's an ongoing show mystery. I don't know. Congratulations, Hayley. Oh, wow. You have won today. Oh, that's so awesome. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out ZDM online. I've won today. Oh, that's so awesome.