ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - November 27 2018

Episode Date: November 26, 2018

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Hello there and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan 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. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Almost done with November. Almost ready to Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Almost done with November.

Almost ready to put it in an envelope. And then we can absolutely ooze Christmas safely. Ooze Christmas. Ooze Christmas. I've just actually realised because I drove past

the signs this morning. A line scooted past, I should say, the signs for the road closures for the new Christmas parade time. Yeah. It's going to be when I'm hungover after the work Christmas party. Well, that's good. You just stay at home. Terrible news.

You know, but the noise comes in. No, but you're always blaring on. I almost said something way worse. Blaring on about those noise-cancelling headphones you got. They are the best on the market. Yeah, I'll get those way worse, blaring on about those noise cancelling headphones you got. They are the best on the market. Okay, yeah, I'll get those. I'll pop those on. What is it? You're going to sit in your

apartment with noise cancelling headphones on? I'll probably leave. Oh my god. But if you leave, you've got to wander through the merriment. Yeah, I know. Down past your place will be where people are parking and they'll be walking past and they'll all be joyful and Christmassy and there'll be children squealing on a bike.

I'm not against parades. It's just the noise. I always hope that one day I'm just going to get sent a photo of you with a cap on and sunglasses, like, enjoying the Santa parade. Yeah, like in secret. Undercover. You're like, ah, this is so great. No.

You're just like, this is just a front and you're actually like really festive. Right. No. No. Not going to happen? No. All right. The top six is coming up.

Yeah, the top six things that go better with strawberries than needles. Because yesterday. What idiot's doing this? I don't know. But one was found, a needle was found in a capsicum. Yeah. In Tauranga, I believe. And yesterday at a New Zealand-grown strawberry, there was a needle found.

Some moronic copycat nonsense. You can go to prison for this. Yeah. Like, what are people thinking? And you know, in prison, something much larger than a needle will be put in you. Don't chuck out those strawberries, please. It's a penis, Anya. You looked at me like, what's he talking about?

I was aghast. It's another prisoner's. It's a penis on you. You looked at me like, what's he talking about? I was aghast. It's another prisoner's... It's 603 that you were having that insinuation. Well, it's 604. Well, I mean, in prison probably right now, someone's not had a choice. Oh, my God. And that's what happens if you put needle in fruit,

you silly idiot. Good morning. Good morning. Jesus. I mean, it's a systemic issue. We can go into that later, but... All right. All right, you lot, listen up. It morning. Jesus. I mean, it's a systemic issue. We can go into that later. All right. All right, you lot.

Listen up. It's story time. Three news headlines that I've got here. Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines and we'll delve into that story. Headline one, new rainwear for the brave. Headline two, police in the dark. And headline three, glassy engagement. Those are the headlines.

Glassy engagement. I'm leaning towards... Oh, glassy engagements. It wasn't a diamond, it was a glass. What? Is that right? The ring was glass. The ring wasn't... There's no ring. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Okay. I would have thought maybe that the diamond wasn't a diamond. It was just glass. Fashioned. I don't think there's a ring. Fashioned into a diamond. No.

What was the other two? Yeah, what were the first? New Rainwear for the Brave. New Rainwear. And headline two, Police in the Dark. Kind of into New Rainwear for the Brave. Or Police in the Dark. Did of into new rainwear for the brave. Or police in the dark. Do they have their torches stolen?

No. You know they have those nice torches. They've got, yeah. The mag lights. They've got like those big mag lights. They can hit you over the head with those. Yeah. In a scuffle.

Yeah. When you know about it. What a good torch. Great for around the home because if the power's out and you've got an intruder, like you can see them and then just absolutely bludgeon them for intruding them. Just, boof. You should not have come into this house.

They look heavy. And then you hit them one too many times and that it goes from a thunk to a boof and you realise. And then you realise it's your neighbour coming to say it's your power's out. Yeah, because a car hit the power pole down the road. And you've bludgeoned your neighbour to death.

Oh, no, all because you didn't buy a dolphin. You know, remember those old plastic torches in the 90s that would float? Yeah, great. Oh, they were good torches. I know a lot about torches. Which story do you want? I want all of them. Can you just tell us a little bit about all of them today?

No, that's not how the game works. Yeah, rather than have a main meal, can we have three appetizers? Yes. I'm not, like, real hungry. I want to try. Yeah, it's tapas. It's tapas. It's tapas story time.

It's story time tapas. I don't know how I feel about this because it's breaking the rules. You've got to break the rules, mate. Break the mold. Okay, well, headline one. New rainwear for the brave. Yeah. You've got to break the rules, mate. Break the mould. Okay, well, headline one. New rainwear for the brave. Yeah. You've got to describe it in eight words or less.

Japanese company's hands-free umbrella looks like a giant condom for your head. That was more than eight words. Close enough, though, eh? That's good. That's nice. I actually want one. That's nice. It's like a sombrero.

It's like a sombrero with a very deep head well. Yeah. Headline two, police in the dark. Okay, eight words or less, slowly. Five miles of copper wire stolen from streetlights. Nine words. Close enough. I'm not word counting as we are.

I'm not Microsoft Word. Five miles of copper wire. Yeah. And what were that? And so all these neighbourhoods are in the dark in America. I'm not word counting as we are. I'm not Microsoft Word. Five miles of copper wire. Yeah. And whereabouts? And so all these neighbourhoods are in the dark in America. Because then there's this scrap dealer that's like, look, I didn't even think to ask any questions when he came in with five miles of copper wire.

Haven't people stolen, like, cables here in New Zealand? Oh, yeah, because you don't leave a big spool of cable out anymore. And copper pipes and stuff, right? It just used to be stolen by the people who worked for them but now it's stolen by criminals. And glass engagement? Glassy engagement is about...

Will you use more? You've got to do this in seven words because you use more. I don't know. This woman, she's engaged to a 91-year-old chandelier.

Oh, I saw this story. It's called Lumiere. She named it. Lumiere's the candle after Beauty and the Beast. She's called Lumiere. She named it. Lumiere's the candle off Beauty and the Beast. She's an objectum sexual. So she's into like... So she has sex with objects.

Yeah, she's into objects. How do you have sex with a chandelier? She sleeps with it. She sleeps with the chandelier. Oh, that's not a comfortable bed, fella. She said it was love

at first sight after she spotted the German 91-year-old chandelier on eBay. 28 inches wide. Yeah, but I see things and I'm like, oh my God, I love that. But I don't want to put it in.

Yeah, I don't want to be married to it. She first fell in love with a drum kit at the age of 14 and has since gone on to love the iconic Statue of Liberty, even changing her last name to Liberty. Now, I'm no one to cast judgment. Do it ever. But is that, in all seriousness, is that a mental illness? Last name to Liberty. Now, I'm no one to cast judgment. Do whatever, but... Is that, like, in all seriousness, is that a mental illness? It feels like that.

I think it is. Probably. As surely it is, isn't it? It is, right? I think it is. And do you reckon she gets turned on when she hears the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack? Be our guest, be our guest. Put the service to the test.

Look at her lounge. She's got a statue of Liberty's everywhere. Oh. I don't think she's well. I wouldn't let her be in the news. Like, I'd be like, what's her number? I'd be like, Auntie Lois. Auntie Amanda.

Auntie Amanda, don't do this because people are being mean about you. People are going to judge you. It's okay. You just, like. Do it quietly. And the Statue of Liberty also told me it's very jealous of your new chandelier. Yeah, she's got multiple partners.

Well, at least it's not long distance. Yeah. Because, you know, before it was long distance. You had to travel from Staten Island to... Catch the ferry. The UK, yeah, exactly. Long distance. FM.

Season three or four? Three. Of? Four. This is season four of Narcos. No, three. No, it's not. It was two Pablo seasons.

It was the post-Pablo season, and now there's the Mexico season. Yeah, he's right. Pablo one was all about Pablo's rise. Number two was Pablo's fall. Number three was what happened to the Cali-catel. Cali-catel. And then fourth is what's on now. I've got like three eps to go in the latest season.

I haven't watched any of it. It's hard because there's heaps of subtitles, obviously. I actually dig watching shows with subtitles. No, same, but you can't be on your phone. I know, because I look away and then you miss a whole section. You're like, oh, now they're arguing and I don't know what's happened. I know, but it's a good season because, yeah, it's kind of the rise of the Mexican cartel.

Right. And there's, I mean, I don't think it's a spoiler, but there's like Chapo's in there, El Chapo. Is he? And he's like a nobody and they just refer to him and you're like, oh, I have a feeling he's going to have a bigger role in a new season. Or two. Famously.

Yeah. Quite recently, eh? Yeah. He's about to go on trial, I think. I'm wondering if I can take it seriously with Michael Pena as one of the lead actors. You know the guy that's on Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the... He plays heaps of comical characters. But he's done heaps of serious stuff as well.

Yeah. But he's okay? Yeah, he's good, yeah. Okay. He's awesome. I'm into it. Well, if you like the original series of Narcos and you're in Wellington,

you could be experiencing a night with Steve Murphy and Javier Pena. They're coming to Wellington to do a talk. They've been to Auckland. We went last time when they were in Auckland, didn't we? Oh, it was so interesting. Yeah, it was really interesting Yeah it was really interesting What was my really great question

That I wish I'd submitted? Because at the start They're like You get to submit questions Yeah and then They answer them And they're a well-oiled machine Like they've been going

All over the world Doing this tour And this talk So what kind of things Do people ask them? Oh just details on the case Or how they handled it afterwards Yeah what it was actually like

Compared to the show Yeah That's what it afterwards. Yeah, what it was actually like compared to the show. Yeah. That was what I was going to ask. If there was anything that they knew that had yet to be... I mean, they weren't going to tell you. Right.

They'd probably take it to their grave. But I was going to say, is there anything that you'd take to your grave about this time in Colombia? Because there must have been some stuff that they've not told you about. Some off-the the record stuff. And all they need to say is yes and then you

just let your imagination run wild. So was it as brutal as the show? Was it? Oh yeah. Even more. I think they showed some slides of some gruesome images. They do show photos that they took for evidence and just photos they took

that were never submitted for evidence. It's a really interesting night. Yes, if you're a fan of Narcos of early seasons, 100% worth going along. I don't know what the deal is with tickets. And it might even be interesting to hear their thoughts on the later seasons as well because they were both kind of involved

in the DEA and everything for a while and know people that are still involved. It was a really interesting night if you're into a good bit of a chat. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Good morning. A needle was found in a punnet of strawberries at a purchase at a South Island supermarket.

This was in Geraldine over the weekend. Sounds like a stupid copycat, doesn't it? Stupid idiot. You moronic bloody idiot. What's our laws for if you tamper with food? Because I know in Australia that this woman who started that whole thing, looking at years in prison. I don't know.

Yeah, well, she is. I mean, you're putting someone's life at risk. It's like walking in somewhere waving a gun around. It's got the potential to kill someone. If somehow they end up swallowing it and it gets trapped in their digestive tract, it can tear a hole. Well, I can't remember what they charged her with. Was it something as big as

like... Body and potential food, tampering. There was a list of things. And apparently one found in Capsicum yesterday. In Tauranga. So, I mean, jeez. It sounds sad, but do you have to check everything now? Anyway, the top six things, this is to encourage you to be better humans.

I'm not saying anyone that listens to the show would put needles in fruit. The top six things that go better with strawberries than needles. Number six, pine needles. If you're growing strawberries, pine needles are a wonderful bed. They're called strawberries because they grow in straw, but traditionally the berries grew wild in forests, pine forests. The pine needles grab... In fact, when you're finished with your Christmas tree,

strip the needles off, let them dry and put them around your strawberries. This is a serious one. Why? What does that do? Well, that's kind of where they evolved from the forest floor. They're just like that sounds lovely. So you pack them around. Oh no, it's when they rot and everything comes out of them and the rain goes through them and it like fertilises it's like composting down. Right.

Trust me, I've done it. Wonderful batch of strawberries. The only thing that's held my strawberries back was they were in a position that wasn't getting all day sun. Oh, right. You want all day sun for your strawberries. Number five on the list of the top six things that go better with strawberries than needles, more strawberries.

As someone who in front of him has a punnet of strawberries, can you ever say no to just one strawberry? No, I ate the whole punnet at once. You eat so much fruit, your poos must just flow out of you. You heard his fart. It's always risky business. Do you ever need a squeeze or do you just think about it? The thought alone is enough to move it through.

I've got a high fibre diet. That's how you should do. No, totally. There's a lot of sugars in there though, babe. But it's good sugar. It's good sugar. So much good sugar. Is that what you say?

It's balance, isn't it? A lot of fruit. Is that what you say? It's all sugar. It's all sugar. It's balance, isn't it? A lot of fruit, a lot of fruits. It's all good. Yeah. A lot of treats. A lot of treats as well.

Balance. That's exactly right. Number four on the list of the top six things that go better with strawberries and needles. This might be controversial of me to say as a New Zealander, but pavlova. I prefer a sliced strawberry and a Pav to a kiwi fruit. You can put both. You can do whatever you want. Could you do it?

I've never seen both. Strawberry and kiwi fruit. That would rock Marlene's boat. Marlene, my nan, is still in charge of the family Pav. Oh, tell her to change it up this Christmas. Go kiwi fruit and strawberries. I tell you what, Pav's just yuck. Shut your mouth, woman. You're off the hook with this desk. It's Spider Monkey here. Much you what, Pav's just yuck. Shut your mouth, woman, or I'll fly over the stairs and get spider monkey.

Much better desserts. Pav's are yuck. It's just a fluffy, sugary mess. You can eat so much of it. I know. That's my favourite part. You can eat like a whole Pav by yourself if you put your mind to it. I can't remember the last time I had a Pav.

It's yuck. We're proud of her. What is up with this woman? It's just a fluffy, powdery sugar. I'm not allowed to punch her. Caitlin, can you come in and hit her? What about a lovely cheesecake? Oh, yeah, look, don't get me wrong.

I love all desserts, but the Pav, just so good. What's wrong? You think you know someone, eh? Yeah, you really do. Number three on the list of the top six things that go better with strawberries and needles, rhubarb. Look, I'm no huge fan of rhubarb, but man, needles are real bad. Yeah.

Real bad. My dad has stewed rhubarb every morning. Does he? I don't know where he gets this much rhubarb. Rhubarb? It grows like a weed. I know it goes crazy, eh? And then mum stews the rhubarb and then he eats it throughout the year.

Right. I'm not even lying. Every morning. goes crazy, eh? And then mum stews the rhubarb and then he eats it throughout the year. Right. And has it in a... Every... I'm not even lying. Every morning, this monstrous bowl of cereal. Yeah. But you remember

the Nutri-Grain ads and that kid sat down in that massive bowl of cereal and they don't have those ads anymore because everyone's like, that's eight years worth of sugar. Yeah. That kid's got

straight up time two diabetes from being in that ad. My dad eats that much Nutri-Grain a day, covered with rhubarb. That's madness. But it's tangy. Better than needles. He loves it. Number two on the list of the top six things that go better with strawberries and needles,

balsamic vinegar. Oh, it's, yes. I thought of this when I saw you because I know you love your contrasting flavours. It's delicious. You wouldn't think it, eh? Balsamic vinegar You can put strawberries and balsamic in a salad.

It's to die for. So you put strawberries, balsamic vinegar, some sugar, some pepper and some lemon zest all together and leave it like

for an hour and then serve it with some ice cream. Hmm. Does it sound savoury because of the balsamic vinegar? No, I'm not a fan. Not you? You haven't tried it.

No, I'm not trying it. Yuck. I hate balsamic vinegar. Try it before you knock it. Don't knock it to the thing with the saying that I'm trying to spit out. And the number one thing that goes better with strawberry than needles, ice cream and icing sugar. Yum.

Yes. Yum, yum. You put the ice cream and you put the icing sugar in, then your parents will be like, don't put too much icing sugar on. You'd be like, I'm not. Pour, pour, pour. Spoon, spoon, spoon. And hopefully you'd think that the ice cream would disguise it.

Yeah, but they know. Right, they know. They know. You're going through a bag of icing sugar a day. They know you're eating a lot of icing sugar. That is today's top six. Fletch. Va is today's top six. Some Norwegian scientists have looked into,

this was a study into childhood obesity. Okay. With the problem of children at the moment, the BMI, the fattest generation of children that there's ever been on record. So they were like, what's causing this? Let's look into trends. Chippies. Yeah,, what's causing this? Let's look into trends. Chippies. Yeah, 100% chippies.

Let's look into chippies. Because when you were a kid, there were like six types of chips. And now there's a hundred. And now there's like a million types of chips. What do you expect? You've got to try them all. I remember, this is going to sound weird, and maybe because I was in a small town,

but I remember the first time I saw a corn chip. Oh, what happened? I remember it was a CC. Yeah, it was CCs. I was like, well, these are new. And then they became Doritos. Mum's like, we're not getting those. That's what Mum said.

Yeah. I was like, can we get some of these? These are new. It might have even said, like, new product. Yeah, right. Morrinsville Three Guys. Morrinsville. And then I said,

can we try these? We're not getting those. Your father likes potato chips. And so we just got potato chips. Like I remember. That's crazy, eh? I would have been like five or six. Yeah.

And now the chip aisle is the whole aisle at the supermarket. You wouldn't go a standard chip anymore, would you? No, you wouldn't. You'd be frowned upon if you just rocked home with a ripple.

Oh, yeah. No, especially when you've got sea just rocked home with a ripple. Oh, yeah. No, especially when you've got sea salt and balsamic vinegar now. Your sweet chilli. Yeah, that's just salt and vinegar. Those are good. Those are real good. Salt and vinegar ripples. Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, I was more referring to ready salted. Oh, yeah. No one's getting that. I was somewhere recently and there was a ready salted chip and I put it in my mouth and I spat it out. I was like, it's not even worth the calories. You're so elitist. I won't be wealth shamed. And I also

will not stand by and let people serve plain chips in this day and age. It's not acceptable. Having the calories. But yeah, exactly. I was like, oh, it'll be worth it because it looks, it didn't look chickeny because you know how chickeny's got that yellow tinge to it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yuck. Get chicken out as well.

And I put it in my mouth expecting salted vinegar. I was met with the bland taste of ready salted and I went. People would say there's children starving in the world. And I said, no child's hungry enough to settle for that. Anyway, there are fat kids. I'm taking my family. I'm getting out of here. So they looked into it, and the main thing they found was that if the mother lost weight, the children followed suit.

Now, these are, by the sounds of it, fairly traditional households. Right. Where the mother was the activity planner, the mother was the chef. Right. The mother was in charge of making sure they got to after school, like sports and stuff. So if the mother didn't want to do any of that and was happy to eat chips,

the kids would be bigger. Right. Whereas the father, and what they describe as traditional households, and I don't think they set out to only study traditional households, but they said the majority of the households they studied fit the nuclear mould.

Right. So I guess if you're in a house where Dad's the homekeeper, then it would be a bit more on the father. Right. So basically they said when there was dramatic weight loss on the mother's behalf, it didn't often reflect in children because that was when mum went to Jenny Craig.

But she'd still cook a meal for everybody else. Potatoes and mints. And she herself would go to an extreme. They said that didn't carry over to the kids if there was extreme weight loss through illness or solo dieting. Because mum only ever did diets once I'd

gone to uni and stuff. She'd be like, I'm on this diet. What does your mum need a diet for? I mum only ever did diets once I'd like gone to uni and stuff. She'd be like, I'm on this diet. What does your mum need a diet for? I know she's tiny, but she would do like all these diets and she's like, I've lost five kgs.

Who would she lose it from? She's short. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, she's like way tinier than me. It's not fair. Right.

But then when I was at home, she's like, tatoes, mints, casserole, eat it up. Because it's the cheaper way of feeding the troops. So she's the reason we're the way we are.

Hundie, my mum is too. I literally thought growing up you were legally required to have potatoes with every meal. You'd finish everything on your plate. That was from my mum's mum. We were at a buffet once and she told us off

for not finishing our plates. We're like, we're at a buffet. Look, it's endless food. She's like, no, no, it's wasteful because she grew up in the like the Depression

and World War II times. Yeah. Eat it all. You'd be like, I just want chocolate. Yeah. I want dessert now. Not on that plate, Clay.

It's party time. It's coming up to Christmas. Everyone's having like Christmas parties. We've got a few events this week and we're all trying to avoid a hangover. Especially like midweek parties. You don't want to like end up having a hangover. I just don't even bother.

What? Going to midweek parties. Or parties on the weekend. Basically, I like a one-man party and it's me partying in my shed. Okay. I'm packing at the moment anyway for moving on Friday. So, I mean, that's a great, I might move more often just to have the excuse to not go to social functions. See, you know, some people like social functions.

I know, but I find them loud and too many people. You just said you had that bottle of whiskey at home by yourself yesterday. Yeah, that was yum. Brian, an international listener, popped in and bought us Fireball whiskey, which is cinnamon flavoured whiskey. It tastes like those hot, you know the chewing gum?

Yeah. The cinnamon chewing gum? Yeah, yeah. What are those called? I feel like they've got a slightly, you know, controversial racial name. What are those called? I feel like they've got a slightly, you know, controversial racial name. Oh, do they? No, that's those lollies.

Oh, right. Yeah, but it is. It's a lolly. Big Red? Big Red? Yeah, Big Red. Okay, okay. We're there.

Roger that. So I've got five tips on how to avoid a hangover this festive season. Whether or not you're drinking with your workmates, friends, or just by yourself. Or at home. Yeah, I haven't heard these before.

Eat asparagus. Make your wee smell funny. Yeah. That's not everybody though, eh? My wee doesn't smell funny after asparagus. Oh, mine does. Mine does. Be interested to see how the children go. Which way they go.

Well, you take after your mother. Your wee stinks after asparagus. So this is preventative. The amino acids in asparagus may protect your liver. So they're saying you should eat it before you go out. Have like a healthy salad. Your liver starts getting asparagus. It's like, oh God.

Oh no. Oh no. Oh please no. Maybe those old, the old nannies and mums are onto something when they do asparagus rolls at, like, parties. Yeah. Maybe that's why. Because the bread will soak it up.

Yep. And the asparagus will give you the amino acids. Yeah. Pick your alcohol wisely because darker liquors obviously cause worse hangovers. They contain fermented byproducts called congeners or something

which seamless yeah which makes worse like stuff in your body everyone knows that yeah like your

vodkas are better your clearer liquors gin yeah gin you might cry later but that's another issue get plenty of vitamins

B vitamins is the one you need taking a B vitamin So like a Barocca Or like something Before you go out I know people That'll do a Barocca

Before they drink And then before Oh I do Before bed If you're drinking Yep Because I would always Do it in the morning

But then It's too late It's too late Yeah too late So take a Barocca Before you go out Yep The Green Turtle

Blue Powerade Glass of Blue Powerade. So you've got that for the morning, but you have like a glass of it and you put the Barocca in there and it goes green. Yep. And then you have the Green Turtle before bed. Okay. You might be a little high on sugar before you go to sleep. Nah, you just hit it straight away.

Whack, straight to bed. Speaking of sports drinks, so they say stay hydrated, of course, like while you're drinking,, alcohol dehydrates you. You should drink sports drinks in between, have a Powerade there and you sip it in between and it'll help keep your electrolytes up. Well, yeah, I know people that have little, you can get the sachets so they're not full of so much sugar.

So while you're drinking, you have sachets. So there's this stuff that kids have when they've got diarrhea. And it's pink. And you can also get it in sachet form. And it's amazing.

It's like no sugar. It doesn't taste great. But you drink it and it rehydrates you when you're like really sick. Right. It's good stuff.

That's what we need. Get little tubes like Barocca for like travel sickness. If you get it when you're sick You just pop them in Yeah Easy

And lastly Sprite Drink Sprite So scientists have said Like when you drink Your body turns the ethanol Into like another thing Which I can't pronounce Which is a compound

It gives you the headache The next day Right Sprite Actually helps to break down That compound in your body Why just Sprite? It produces an enzyme That break down that compound in your body. Why just Sprite? It produces an enzyme that breaks down this compound.

So it will help you the next morning maybe not have a headache. Is this Sprite saying this or scientists? Well, I don't know. It does say Sprite specifically, but I don't know if they mean like lemonade or whether it is specifically Sprite. Well, so vodka and Sprite. Because a mate of my

dad's used to say the trick to not getting a hangover was a glass of water for a glass of wine. So when you had a glass of wine, you'd hit a glass of water, but this dude used to drink. Like, he'd be going to the toilet every five minutes because he'd just hoon a glass of wine, then hoon a glass of water. Get ripped, but he reckons he never got

hangovers. Oh, I hate those people. So I mean, yeah, these five tips or just take it easy. I read a very interesting article last night about Black Friday sales. How many things did you have got Black Friday-wise, Megan? You got your shoes worn. Yeah. And that was a good deal.

You can't argue with that deal. No, I shan't. Jeez, how many fingers are you counting? Six. I'm just going through my order of confirmation. Intern Anya? Six things. Not all for me, by the way. Christmas shopping. Christmas shopping. How many? How many?

Twelve, maybe? Yeah, she's always worse than me. Christmas shopping or for yourself? I sort of went on the basis of like, one present for somebody else. Good job. One for me. Yeah, one for them, one for you. Yeah.

Right. And do you reckon you got deals with Good Friday? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So I saw people in Australia laying into ASOS. What happened there? Because we didn't get an ASOS. They were like, oh, make sure you're, you know,

keeping an eye on our site on Friday or Monday. And you're nothing. I checked over the weekend multiple times. People were abusing them. Apparently they just thought Aussie and New Zealand weren't getting anything. I don't know. Weird.

That's rude. The loss. I could have given them all my monies. You could have had all the money. Well, I was reading an article about Black Friday sales and how they're not all they're cut out to be. Right. Because, so for example, they might're cut out to be. Right.

Because, so, for example, they might have a TV on sale. Yep. They might say, 50-inch television. And you're like, I'm in. That's so much cheaper than other 50-inch televisions. Yep. But they're selling last year's 50-inch television. Now, I'm not saying this is always the case. Right.

If it's listed and everything, but this website, Business Insider, looked into Black Friday sales and talked to people who worked in the marketing departments for stores that do Black Friday sales. Right. So they might be saying this is what it is, and then technically they're not lying. But you were buying last season's. Is this last season?

Yeah. You could ask for more information on it. Because if they lied to you, then they'd be in trouble, right? But people are just so excited to get a 55-inch TV. It's reduced ridiculously. And they just jump in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was one of the things that I read about.

And another one was that it might also be a time for companies to offload factory seconds or floor stock that they would have sold for probably cheaper than that. But they say Black Friday sale and it goes crazy. One of the ones I actually saw a photo of this on Reddit. This wasn't in this article. It was another one. It was that classic. We talked about this. If you kept an eye on prices, about two weeks before the sales, they went up.

And then they say 40% off, but they put 15 to 20% on in the first place. So it's not 40%, it's 20%, really. And if you compare it to a month before, not two weeks before. Well, because you said someone was looking at a particular model and saw it go up. And you can actually go to Pricebuy.

We saw that. I wonder if that's legit. Price Buy keep a history. I didn't know this, but on Price Buy, if you scroll right to the bottom of an item, they may, not every item, but they may have been keeping a tally of it. And it shows like, we saw a few things yesterday.

It took a spike two weeks ago and then a bit of a dip for the sales that were over the weekend. Very, very cheeky. But it's also a way of getting rid of factory seconds so they might have a scratch because they did a study into it and when people are getting a good deal, they're more likely to accept something they wouldn't if they were paying

full price. Like if it's a ding or a scratch or just a little bit out on the floor and everyone's been touching it. Yeah, right. So you might not be getting the great deal that you thought you were. But that doesn't help them when I've had something on my watch list for like months and then I'm like, okay.

It's gone down. I'm thinking like clothes. It's time to buy. Yeah. Now's my time. Yeah. That's very cheeky. But I guess clothes are a bit different than like say a TV or a washing machine or whatever.

There was even, no, there was an example of clothes. One clothes manufacturer that they didn't name. Yeah. Which I'm always a little bit sus about. If you're not going to put a name to it, it seems like it could just be a made up story. They could sue you. But then they don't want to get sued. One retailer said a clothes brand was known to make Black Friday clothes that were of a lesser quality than their ordinary,

just so that they could sell them and not lose as much money on them. Right. Who is this? I don't know. Because it was in this article that they make Black Friday or like super sale special clothes. So you're like,

I'm getting a great deal, but it's cost them less to make because I don't know. I don't know how clothing works, but maybe a less quality fabric or... Or they're getting rid of their crap that nobody wants. Yeah. Well, I'll let you know when it arrives.

Get a good pull. Get a good pull at the seams. Good tat. FVM, the podcast. If you've just joined the show, we were just talking before about Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday sales and a few things you maybe didn't know. Yeah. Maybe that product quality or price going up, then coming down, a few things.

Anyway, if you did hear it, somebody said they've worked at two competing retailers, big, big retailers, and they can confirm almost everything we've just said is true. Cheeky. They hiked the price up so that the percentage off seems better than it is. It's very cheeky. Oh, you're very cheeky. They've hiked the price up so that the percentage off seems better than it is. It's very cheeky. Oh, you're very cheeky. Last on the news, heartbreaking images of two whale strandings. So there was one in Stewart Island.

That was the massive one, around 145 pilot whales. I remember, was it about eight or nine years ago, same thing happened. Same spot? I think it was 200, was it 200? It was a massive amount, yeah. Pilot whales at that time. It's horrible. And they were all dead.

Like, they had to euthanise some yesterday. But they're all dead. The beach just looks like that aerial shot just looks like logs, eh? Yeah, it looks like just a big storm and there's heaps of seaweed and logs. But if you look closely, it's whales. This is ignorance. Feel free to text me and correct me if I'm wrong, but is there

could you drag a whale, because you know how they always cover them and water them and then roll them back into the ocean? Yeah. In well known beaching spots like the spot in Stewart Island, sure it's only happened twice in eight years. Could you have, oh yeah, right, okay, but like currently there's some in 90 Mile Beach as well.

Could you have... Is there a tool to get her... Can you pull them out by the tail? Or is there weight so much that dragging them by the tail... You know, like swinging a kid by the arms is bad because you can dislocate their shoulders. Yeah, I think it would be distressing and like... Bad. That's all I really wanted to know.

So a long-thinned pilot whale is 800 kgs. A short thinned pilot whale is 1,000 to 3,000 kgs. Okay, so you're talking a few tonnes there. So those are the ones on Stewart Island. No, but then you couldn't just get a forklift under it, could you? No. No. Like in all seriousness, I've wanted the same thing to be honest.

Because there's always like the same spots. Like I'm not saying 90 Mile Beach is obviously a very big place, but if they had something there that they could get there on a truck and refloat, I don't know. So I know the Stewart Island, that was spotted by a tramper who called Doc. So that's such a remote spot because I remember that same thing happened last time. They didn't know in time. 90 Mile Beach though, if you are in the Northland area, there is a chance for you to help out

if you're listening this morning because you're looking for volunteers. 12 pygmy killer whales. So they're different than the ones that stranded in Stewart Island. They have stranded just over 24 hours ago. There are eight alive out of the 12 and they are asking from 6.30,

so now, members of the public, if you can please help report to the Rarawa campground on arrival. So that is at 90 Mile Beach. That's where they need your help this morning. And what do you have? Bring a bucket, bring a wetsuit if you've got one. Bring warm clothing, a sun hat and sunblock and plenty of food and water to look after yourself

and I guess they will have the tools you need to look after the whales. Well, if you can help out. I just Googled Rawara Beach. That's on the other coast. The Rawara Beach campsite is on the east coast. But isn't it on the west coast on 90 Mile Beach? That's where you're reporting to. Right.

And hiking over. Yeah. Oh, right. Okay. So that's just where you're reporting to. Right. Then hiking over. Yeah. Oh, right. Okay. So that's just where you're reporting to. So how much is a pygmy killer whale weigh then, if we're talking about dragging them out? Wow.

I'm googling. I'm googling. It sounds like smaller, right? 120 kgs. You're still not going to be able to do that? You're not going to be able to get the forklift under it. No. Because the thing is, you're on sand.

You can't just. Yeah, and they would have like, you know when you stand in sand and the water comes in and your feet sink down? Here's a nuts idea. Okay. You get a triangle shaped air cushion. Nah, because you've got to get it under them. Where do you get that from?

No, I'm saying you make them. I'm inventing a whale saving device. Okay. And it's triangle shaped. It's like a wedge. Now, I don't know how you get it under them. Maybe like dig. I don't know if you can dig it under them.

See, I've never done this before. This is just brainstorming. And then you inflate it and it rolls it. So it's triangle shaped and it goes up. It would roll it. Yep. But then you'd have to keep rolling it so it wasn't blowhole down. Oh, you're saying roll it to the sea?

Roll it back into the deep water. Oh, right. And you do it and then it would deflate and then inflate. Look, I'm just trying, I'm just brainstorming here. And I mean, there's probably people who have actually been

to a whale rescue before being like, that wouldn't work. But then if you're doing an inflatable triangle pillow, why don't you just get a forklift under it? Get a little scoopy scoop

under it. No, but that's what I was saying. Have you ever driven a forklift on soft ground? No, I haven't. Impossible. They get stuck and then you put a bit

of weight on the front and you lose all your traction on the back. I like that idea, but then I can just imagine a whale just swimming away the front and you lose all your traction on the back. I like that idea but then I can just imagine a whale just swimming away to sea and it's got a triangle on it forever. No, no, no.

It's just a huge synagogue. It's a big wedge. It's not attached to the whale. Oh, I imagine it was in the middle of a triangle like a floaty armband. No, no, no. And then we just roll it out. No, not like an isoscel.

Not like an equal triangle. Like a right angled situation. We could do that. And it inflates under and it rolls it over. And then you put one on the other end and just roll it to the beach, to the sea. Hundreds of kgs. There's got to be something.

Megan, there's no bad idea in a brainstorm. No, it's all positive. We're trying. Let's get some engineers under this. Yeah. Sure. If you can help, do it. Next.

NCEA exams today. What, last couple of days? The whales beached at 90 Mile Beach, but the reason they're meeting at the Railwater Campground is they're trailering them

to the other coast to refloat them. They've got them on trailers. How do they get them on trailers? Probably with a giant triangle. I knew it. Today, NCEA. And what, Probably with a giant triangle. I knew it. Today.

NCEA. And what, only a couple of days of NCEA left? Thank God, this has been so hard. Yeah, and we haven't even had to study. We're going to try our hand today at some of the NCEA exams, some mock questions. Good morning, Miss. Good morning. Good morning, Claire. Should I. Good morning. Good morning, Claire.

Should I tell you what's on today? We've got Level 1 Biology and Level 1 Business Studies, Level 2 Music and Social Studies, Level 3 Media Studies, Agriculture and Horticulture Science, German and Chinese, and Scholarship Accounting. So best of luck to everyone today. Best of luck, everybody. Best of luck. Okay, let's

start with Level 1 today. Best of luck. Best of luck. Okay, let's start with level one, biology. Movement of cell against concentration gradient is called A, osmosis, B, active transport, C, diffusion, or D, passive transport. B. Fletch. B. Correct. Oh, yeah.

That's good. Because if it's moving against it, it's not passive, eh? That's what I was going to be one of those two. You, you, you, you. Good work. Good on you. Good job. Okay.

Question number two, scholarship, accounting. Megan, listen. Just ask me a percentage of something. Ready? No, don't use your phone. No cheating. I can't do a percentage. Use your Ready? No, don't hear your phone. No cheating. Use your name to buzz in, please. Okay.

Okay, I want to buy a top. It's $127. What is it at the end if you add GST? So $127 plus GST. How much am I paying for this top? Vaughan, $150. Could be less than that. Could be less than that.

GST's 15%. Correct. $150. I just can't work it out. $15, $16. $135. No, not enough. Not enough.

$137. No. Vaughan, $140. $142. Close. $143. No, close. Vaughan 140 142 close 143 no close

145 close 46 yeah 146.05 I just said 150 because I was like you know how everything's

a weird number and you're like that's a weird number and then it says plus GST and it comes to a nice round number yeah

okay when I say I'm good at percentages I can work out percentages on my calculator real quick. It's not in my head. Sorry, my guys. Okay. And the final question today is level two, music. Now, Fletch, you might actually, you could take this round out.

Okay. Okay. On your button bar. Well, yeah, you have, but we i did nobody gets points for the second one because everyone was just fine yeah that's not everyone got one wrong no well i got it right first one you got right first point but you know that's not how exams work stop trying to downplay okay on your button bar you have three names megan flch and Vaughan, I want you to, in that order, finish the lyrics. Megan.

Laugh when you lie. You said the gun was mine. Isn't cool. No, I don't like you. Got a little daughter in the nick of time. No. Timmy. No, no, no.

The road got harder. I got smarter in the nick of time. The road, keep going. How much? You can't go back and do it. Look what you made me do. No. Look what you made me do.

No. If Taylor had pulled that shit at Mount Smart, I would have said stop. Stop. Stop. I'm still going by the way. Okay. I know. I did that whole line Only one person can get a point

And it's the person that does it best Okay let's go Fletch finish the lyrics Oh my god There This is Yeah Excuse me we can all do this one. Ready?

Oh! Do you believe in life after life? I can't get it. Dine! Stop it. I really don't think you're strong enough. Do you believe in life after life? He doesn't get a point. He didn't do enough. You don't get a point, please. You did't do enough. You don't get a point, please.

You did not do enough. I didn't know. Laughing is not the lyrics. We know that this is March. Ha ha. Okay. And finally, Bourne.

Finish the lyrics. Oh! He's concentrating. It's going to be a high-ass mountain. No, you've gone pre... No, I'm... This is too early, Miley, for me. I've told you before.

You've gone too early, Miley. I'm post... You never let me down. I'm post-miley. That's the climb. No, I'm more of a party in the USA onwards. That is disappointment from all three of you. Well, Vaughn wins.

I mean, Fletch wins that round. Thank you. Three from three today for me. Ducks. I'm the Ducks. I'm the Ducks head of prize giving. I'm taking it out. Okay, do a speech right now.

Is there going to be a prize giving at the end for who wins the most points over the entire... Yes. We'll see. That person who wins should have to prepare a valid Victorian speech. A valedictorian? A what? A valid Victorian.

No, they're... Valedictorian. No, they're from Victoria and they've been validated. What did you say it is? Validictorian. I don't know. Are you serious? I thought it was a valid Victorian. I thought it was from the Queen Victoria.

I honestly thought it was from the age of, like, Victorian. You know how you like Victorian buildings? Valid Victorian. And they've been validated. Valid Victorian. And they'd been validated. Valedictorian. Yeah, a student who delivers a valedictorian at a graduation ceremony.

What does that mean though? What's the definition of the word? I know the valedictorian valedictorian the valedictorian does the speech but what's the origins of the term?

It doesn't really matter, does it? It does to me. Okay. A thread on Reddit asked people if they knew, if they had a moment exactly when they knew they wanted to marry their partner. Okay. I think it was men being asked if they experienced the moment

like woman did, if woman had the moment, and then if men had any, they wanted to share. So a whole bunch of people were telling various times where they just experienced an overwhelming, she's the one, this is her, that's me and her. This is so cute. I'm going to ask her to marry me.

But it's actually stuff like she, I found out she hated the CD I had in my car that I always sung along to, but she put it up to, but she put up with it whenever I listened and sung along. So that she just put up with the terrible singing and he found out she didn't like it, but she'd been silently enjoying it. Somebody else said they witnessed their partner run out and jump into a pile of leaves with his nephew at Thanksgiving. I was like, this is the moment, like great with kids,

and this is the moment when I realised that. I mean, he could have been cheating on the side, but he ran into the leaves, so it doesn't matter. No, no, no, the other way. No, no, no. She ran and jumped into the leaves. I mean, she could have also been cheating. She could have been cheating too.

It was just some gender clarification. Do you have a moment? I couldn't think of one off the top of my head. Just so she'd put up with you for so long. She's done the time. Yeah, she's done the time. She's done the time. So you might as well lock it in.

She had also done the crime. So yeah, lock it in. Life sentence. Yeah. For her. There wasn't one moment where you were like, yep. Not that I can think of. She did bottle somebody once.

That was pretty cool. They, by the way, totally deserved it. Yeah. And I was just like, oh, it doesn't, doesn't like forget about it because they were bothering me.

Yeah, but it's just, and they were like shoving and stuff and I was just like, ah, forget about it. And then she just reached across and was just like, and I was just like, holy shit.

I forget that Sade. She's like, and I was just like, holy shit. I forget that, Sade. She's like, amazing mum Sade is so different to Hamilton Sade. You've got to wean them off, Hamilton. It's like a drug. You can't cut them cold turkey. You've got to go through all the,

all the proper steps. Yeah. Well, I, we were talking about this earlier and I was like, I'm going to text my husband and see if he had a moment. I honestly was like, he's going to be

like Vaughan and not remember anything. Has he come back with a moment? He sent me back a text. Here we go. You've got to just get someone to spew into. No, don't be like that. So he texts back. Read it word for word. Can I read it?

No. Why not? Because I don't want you to. You'll make it like... I'll do it in that tone you're writing. No, there's actually no, there's no like schnookums or anything like that. Okay. Nah.

Okay. He said, I think it was the day when you moved out into your new house and you were homesick and I brought you soup and bread rolls and I remembered thinking, I will definitely marry this girl.

He then said, I actually... Yeah, because nothing's more attractive than you sick, gobbling down bread and soup. Yeah, I don't know why that was.

Yeah, thank you for bringing this old, super maiden soup and bread young man. He said, I actually think I was thinking

I'll have kids with her and that was more my thought at the time. There wasn't even any hearts or anything. You didn't do anything. Yeah, that's weird. He was serving you. He was serving you.

Submissive. I know. Because I remember thinking at that time, I was like, man, this guy's like a real keeper. So that's probably when you thought it. Yeah. Oh, my God, we're at the same moment. Except I was like snotty and like not feeling well and taking.

And he was like serving me. And were you in your comfy pants? Which house was this? I would have definitely been in my... Was this the mouldy house? No, which house? Down there. The mouldy one.

The damp mould one. Yeah, right. Yeah, so there was nothing romantic about it. Because I would have been in my jammies. Yeah. Snotty. Yeah. In a mouldy house.

In a mouldy, tiny, tiny house. And he's like, I want this one. This doesn't one better than this maybe he just realised that even like that at rock bottom it was okay yeah

he's like lock it in yeah yeah wow we want to know if you had one of these moments where you looked at your partner

guys and girls we want to hear from both where you looked at your partner and you're like this is it this is I'm going to marry them. What was that moment?

Okay, give us a call. 0800-DANCE-IT-IN. Talking about when you knew they were the one. Some text messages in. Do you want, I kind of want to do this. No, I'm going to say that one for the last. It's pretty good. I was going to start real good, but I was like, no, it's almost like your finisher.

Like, I'll say it, bang, we'll all laugh, you'll play the button. Okay. Because it's that good. It's that good. It needs to go exactly like that now. You're building it up. Okay, so I'll say it. No, I'm fine to build it up.

It's pretty good. Okay. Somebody said, I knew he was the one when he waited for me in the rain for more than an hour. I was late finishing off a class at uni. I said, no, you go home, I'll be okay. But he waited because it was dark and he wanted me to be safe. That's when I knew he was one. 14 years later, still treats me like the centre of his universe.

Oh. That's really sweet. My moment was when my boyfriend and I were walking down the street and an old lady tripped and fell over. He ran to her, helped her up and walked to her car that was 10 minutes away in the opposite direction to where we were going. That's nice.

I would have checked that wasn't like a great auntie or something taking a fall, making me look like a hero. And then like two Christmases later, you see an old lady, you're like, don't I know you from somewhere? She's like, no, no, my cover's busted, David, run. You're so cynical. Somebody has set up their great auntie to fall over so they can be the hero. Take a tumbler.

I'm going to tell everybody you took more than your fair share of great nan's will. I'll do it. You son of a bitch, you blackmail me. I like this manner. Yeah. She sounds great. She's going to do it. She knows how to take a fall.

Somebody else said, I knew he was my one forever when he would cuddle into my neck every single night and give me sweet, soft kisses every morning to wake me up. I am, of course, talking about my cat. Hashtag forever alone. He just wants feeding. Yeah. He's like, wake up, human. My bowl's empty.

He's like, oh, boring. Brittany, when did you know that he was the one? Well, we went on our first date out for coffee one afternoon, which turned into dinner. Yeah. And then it finished off at Coffee Culture with dessert. Yeah. So I ate my cake.

I then ate his cake. And he fully encouraged it. And I was like, this is it. Can't let this go. He gives me cake. I'm marrying this man. Not only does he let me eat off his plate here and encourages it. He watched me eat two full desserts

and he was still like, no, this is good. He's not a feeder though, is he? No, no, he's all right now. Wow. You don't identify a feeder until you're 300 kgs and you can't leave the house.

And then they're like, I've got something to tell you. I'm a feeder. You're like, damn it, I knew it. Get that forklift. Brittany, thanks for your call. Dan, when did you know that she was the one? After she had her epidural.

You were like, okay. Yeah, yeah. See, we were having our first child, and she had the epidural, and I thought, well, shit, she's going through so much pain. For me, this is the moment, and I actually asked her straight after she had it. She's under the influence of drugs and you asked her. She can't feel from her chest down and you're like,

hey, well, you can't run away. And I'm assuming she said yes? Yeah, she did. She did. It was actually the first thing she told her mother after the birth of the child. Really? Because I just treaded very lightly during my wife's two labours.

Just like... Yeah, I bet you did. Didn't ask any questions. Hey, Dan, thanks for your call. Some text messages in. Somebody said, I walked in and he had an apron on and he was baking scones and cookies for his kids with his kids. Ovaries.

Blown. Exploded. Ovaries blown. When we were best friends still, and I'd just gone through a really rough patch, he took me on a road trip to the middle of nowhere. We sat in the back of his truck, staring at the stars. And that's when I realised that's what a relationship was meant to be like. We're getting married next year.

Was there a blanket on the back? It's cold. Because it's cold. Yeah, if you're sitting straight on the tray. Yeah. Wooden tray My home is a mattress Listen to all these females

They don't want much Do they? Like We don't want much We just want to love A simple Couple of slices of cake And a back of the ute

Okay No I'm just trying to say Like you always say We're crazy But we actually Don't want much Just a bit of love You know

Yeah but it's easy To not seem crazy In 160 characters at least. Anybody can do that. Even the craziest people. Okay, you ready for your button? Yes. We're going to laugh. When we finish, we laugh.

Wait, wait, wait. We're not allowed to discuss this afterwards. Just laugh and then hit me. I won't need discussion on that. Okay, all right. After a big night on the booze with my boyfriend, I stayed over at his house. Next morning, I did a big gnarly hungover poo and blocked the toilet.

I was so embarrassed. But he put a bread bag on his hand and removed said poo. And told me it was all good. And I thought at that stage, this guy's a keeper. We are now married you went wrong amazing so I've been cleaning out the garage at home

pre-move there's a lot of stuff in there eight and a half years of some say hoarding some say collecting hoarding

bits and pieces collecting stuff good stuff now one thing that was in there was the cot that both of my daughters slept in as babies. This was a really nice cot.

My mother-in-law bought it for us. Very, like, nice. Is it that white? Yeah. Yeah, that was quite pretty. I didn't even know. I Googled the instructions to put it together. Yeah.

Because I found, turns out I never took the tag off, which is weird. Like I was going to return it and be like, hey, this is the wrong size. I'm not going to make that. But it was like a barcode or something. It was just like this little tag that said the brand

and what kind of cot it was. Yeah. So I Googled that for instructions to put it together. Right. Because it's quite a complicated thing to put together. Right. Like you've got to do it in a specific order.

So it wasn't put together when you found it? No, no, no. So it wasn't. No, I'd taken it apart and put it in the ceiling. Right. So when we originally got it, I had the instructions. I put that together for Indy back in 2012. Yeah.

I put that together for her when she was a baby. And then when August came along, we moved it into a room. So I had to take it apart because it wouldn't fit through the door, take it apart, take it all to the next room, reassemble it. I've put this thing, and then when we renovated it, I had to pull it apart, take it out, reassemble it, then disassemble it, then bring it back, then reassemble. This thing's been put together and taken apart quite a few times.

Right. But when we were cleaning out, I said to Sade, well, I think it's going to be too much of a mission to sell this to somebody unassembled. Right. So what I'll do is I'll go out to the garage and I'll put it together and we'll sell it assembled and say, if you want to buy this, you've got to come and pick it up.

Right. It's going to be easier than selling it disassembled and trying to find the instructions that people can follow because it's quite a complicated situation. Yeah. So I was like, I'll be in the garage putting this together. Wow, my good of thee. I got it all lined up, like all in its bits,

and I was like, oh, God, this brings back memories. And then I made the mistake of like looking at different parts of it. And when Indy was a baby, when she could stand up, when she was teething, she like chewed on the side of it and you could see all like little teeth scrapings like people think that's gross but I was just like oh my god I remember this I started getting a little bit misty I was like she used to stand

in there and I used to go in and she'd be looking at me and now she won't stop talking back to me and answering back when I tell her something she just won't listen to me anymore because she's nearly seven so there was like little teeth chew marks and stuff. And then August on the end of it would like scratch on the ends of it like a prisoner.

Put her fingers through and then like scratched on the other. So there's like not huge marks, but you could, if you know they're there, you know what happened and everything. So I was like, oh, and I put it all together. And then I stood back and I looked at it and I was just like a tear in my eye. And I was like, I can't sell this. I just, I can't sell it.

What are you doing with it? So then I was like, I'm going to have to go out and tell Shadaya I don't want to sell it. So there's been a few things in the garage. She's like, get rid of that. I'm like, no, coming with. So I go in and I get her and I'm like, you have to come out and see this. And she's like, why, what's gone wrong?

And we get out to the garage and she said at first, she's like, we can't sell that. And I was like, I was just bringing you out here to say, look at this beautiful thing and all the memories we've got attached to it. We can't sell this. Do you ever imagine your parents were like that about the cot that you were in? They were like, that form was a mess, burn it. Yeah. Make the room, chuck it in the dump.

Set it on fire. That's 100% my parents. Like there's not a lot around from when we were young because it all just got chucked. Chuck it away. They've moved out. Get rid of it.

But I suppose by the time you're 18, they're like, they don't have those sweet memories of you anymore. They say, yeah, true. We soiled it. We soiled them. Like, get out of here.

Yeah, that's true. As in those days, we were a disposable generation. I reckon my parents' generation were the ultimate disposable generation. Like, just got rid of stuff. Yeah, right. Just like, just get rid of it.

So what are you going to do with a car? So anyway, I've disassembled it again because it's too big to, like, it's quite a lot to transport. And so we're taking it with us and we've made the decision that when they have kids, we're going to have it at our house for their kids.

I mean, we're looking at, we're planning miles ahead, hopefully. And then you put the baby in it. So you're hoarding for 20 something years. Fingers crossed it's 20 years. Hope it's not 10. That could happen. But yeah, 20 years would be good

So we're just going to Hold on to it And it's going to become Because when my mother-in-law Bought it She gets carried away With herself And buys very expensive things

It is really really nice Right It's like It's got an Italian name And you know Italians Yeah they do You know Italians

Nice things They're doing nice things So now we've got the I was so stoked When she agreed to keep it. She's like, oh my God, look at the little teeth marks. And I was like, I know, and look at that here, with the little marks.

But at a little moment, she's like, anyway, I'm going to go back inside because I was halfway through something. You interrupted me. I was like, I'm going to get out of here. You're going to give it to August in like 20 years time or whatever, and she'll be like, oh, this is so yuck, Dad.

Or you'll put the baby in it and it'll collapse. Yeah, because in 20 years time I'm going to have to try to find out how to put it together again because it's so complicated. And I'll get there and I'll be like, yeah, no, I think it's pretty good. Chuck your baby in there, pan, crash. Well, that was with 20 years. Space taking up for that one. So, yeah, my hoarding's going well.

Thanks for asking. So, it turns out New Zealanders love Christmas songs, unlike Fletching. Vaughan's not a huge fan of Christmas songs. Nah. I dig it. Because they're the same ones every year. Yeah, but it signals like Christmas and festive season. It's like nostalgia every year.

But I want a new one, a really good one. No, sometimes there are new ones. I want a New Zealand one too because I was just saying, we don't really, like we've got the Pukeko and Ponga tree. Now that's a take on it. And I just said, is anybody aware of any Kiwi Christmas songs that have ever been massive? I'm not.

Intern Anya said, yeah. Young Millennial. Snoopy's Christmas. I was like what she's like snoopy new zealand character snoopy's christmas i was like um heck i've got a lot to break to in one sentence but snoopy's not kiwi and that's not a kiwi christmas song heartbroken christmas is cancelled this year guys it's off the cards. That song is huge in New Zealand and hardly anywhere else, right? I don't know. I just always thought it was a New Zealand thing.

It's like an Australasian kind of British thing. Americans don't have a clue what you're talking about. Snoopy's Christmas is an American rock band. Snoopy's an American character. But it's not big everywhere, eh?

I've never looked into the worldwide appeal of Snoopy's Christmas. And pretty much people were just like, what are you guys on? Yeah, every time I hear it, I'm like, man, this dude, what's up? Did he have permission from Charles Schultz, the owner of the Peanuts copyright, to write those? To write the... And is it Snoopy? I always just imagine it's Snoopy the dog. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Yeah, because there's some piloting in the comics. It was released in 1967. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Jeez. Hell of a time in the 60s. That's a hallucination. Snoopy's Christmas reached number one in New Zealand and Australia

and remains a popular Christmas song in those countries. The song was the fastest selling single at the time it was released. Yada, yada, yada. No way, but nowhere else in the world loved it as much as we did. Crazy. So, I have a list of the top 10 Christmas songs that Kiwis are searching and

I'm just going to shock you and say that Snoopy's Christmas is not on there. It's not even in the top 10. It's not in the top 10. It might be 11. I don't have number 11. So, maybe it was popular. And actually in this list, there is a lot of new ones born. There's a lot of like...

They're shopping. What do you mean shopping? Like buying. What? No, I said shocking. No, I thought you said there was shopping. So what are we? It's just we're streaming.

Streaming. This is streaming. Searching and streaming. So number 10, it's an old favourite. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I don't know who sings it. It's an old person. Heaps of people sing that song. That real vintage one. Number So, number 10. It's an old favourite. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I don't know who sings it. It's an old person. Heaps of people sing that song.

That real vintage one. Number nine. Sia. Sing for my life. Have you listened to the Sia Christmas album? I listen to it when I put up the Christmas tree. It's really, really, really good. And there's one that's like puppies are...

What's it called? Puppies are forever. Are a forever gift. Are a forever gift. That's a really good song too. Simply forever gift are a forever gift it's real that's really good song too simply must listen to that album it's really good okay well can you tell was that convincing so i'm not going to my own hair so number eight and the christmas songs that kiwis are playing and searching yeah is mary did you know pentatonix. Ah. They're the ones where no one plays any instruments and they all just do it with their mouths.

Mary, Mary. Oh, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary. I wouldn't buy that. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. And then it goes. Pentatonix. See, easy. Pentatonix.

Easy. You love them. But you love them. There was that one song. Oh, they did a Disney medley. Oh, my God. Did I fall? My heart melted.

My heart melted because they did the song, my favourite Disney song of all time, the Flynn Rider Rapunzel song. Okay. Number seven is an oldie, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee. You know that real old. Rockin' around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee. You know that real old. Rockin' around the Christmas tree.

How's this on there? But Snoopy's isn't. Yeah, that's weird, eh? That's nuts. We're probably sick of it. This one, classic, love him, Buble, comes in at number six. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Oh, yes. Give me chills. Give me chills. I can sing anything. Everywhere you go. You know what? When you get a speeding ticket, they should have an automated message that rings your phone.

It's like, you got a speeding ticket. And it should be Burble. You are going 114 in a 100K zone. He should just deliver all bad news. Yeah. Yeah. You can pay at your local West Coast. At any branch.

Or online. Hey, guess what? There's a stinger. 22 merit points. Number five is Justin Bieber mistletoe. Justin Bieber. This is old Bieber. This is young Bieber.

This is pre-Siggy's Bieber. He was trying to get in on the Christmas cash. Number four. Wow, somebody else was trying to get in on the Christmas cash using him as a utensil. Number four in the Christmas songs that Kiwis are loving and searching. Pentatonix again, Little Drummer Boy. Hit me. Are we going to get another?

Yeah. Do you want to hear some Little Drummer Boy? Yeah. See, it's harder than it seems. Number three. There's literally someone in the background going. Yeah, he's the bass. Number three is Wham!

Last Christmas. Oh, it's a goodie Number three is Wham! Last Christmas. Oh, it's a goodie. It's actually really sad. But the very next day you gave it away. Oh, yeah. Remember this was a song when I got dumped on Christmas. Remember I was driving home and this song came on the radio because I could only get one radio station and this song came on. Yeah.

How's that? Poor choice. Number two, a newer artist as well are in a grande her song sent to tell me just hold on just a wham real quick yeah my george michael died on christmas two years ago two years ago two years ago all right where's that time gone? This is Ariana. This is number two. Okay. I'm just... And no Snoopy's Christmas. No Snoopy's Christmas.

So that leaves one more song that Kiwis are searching and playing for Christmas. New Zealand's favourite Christmas song. I know, yes. What? Obvious, right? What is it? It's not Snoopy's right? What is it? It's not Snoopy's Christmas. What is it?

Do you want to play that little button there? Yeah. This song is one of the biggest selling songs of all time. It's the 11th biggest selling. Like, not Christmas. All songs. Out of any song ever made. The 11th biggest selling,

highest selling song. So we just did a Christmas list of songs which I think we should probably play the number one song. Glee did a pretty good Christmas few songs back in season one. You know when Glee was like good Glee before it went

all over the place. So in studio voting. We have to play it. It's number one. We just planned a little while ago. We planned a little while ago. When Christmas penetration hit 100%. No, but.

That's enough. You kicked it. You stopped it. We played it once in November. You can't play that song once in November. Are you kidding me? We just did that whole list. I was thinking at the end of it.

We can play it once. The pivotal moment is we play the number one Christmas song. But then we can't, we always play it on the last song of the show for the, or, you know, the last. Yeah, but that's like three weeks away. Yeah, I know, but you can't go then, now, and then. We're over it, Megan.

Can we do a vote on the text machine then? No. Nine, six, nine, six. No. Do you want to hear the number one Christmas song? No, we played. Do you want to hear Mariah Care-6. No. Do you want to hear the number one Christmas song? No, we played.

Do you want to hear Mariah Carey? Shush. Do you want to hear Mariah Carey All I Want for Christmas? Text 9-6-9-6. Well, no, let's do

an in-studio vote. All those in favour, say aye. No, but that's not fair because there's three of us. Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Because both of these two in studio don't want to hear it. No, actually, there's been quite a few requests for the Fletch and Vaughan Atonix to remake this song. No, there hasn't. Well, one person called us that. Fletch and Vaughan Atonix. We'll be touring over summer at the Waihi Tavern. Yes. Corrigland as well.

Just your basic, your Corrimandle hotspots. The Rewalker. The Lee's Sawmill. All the basic summer spots. Anywhere that there's a campground uh well you know a few people asked for asked to play the song the ron carrey christmas song yeah a couple yeah you're lying because caitlin said there was heaps of texts caitlin how many there's literally pages like i'm not even... Saying... Saying yes, play. I just heard you.

I heard you scrolling now. Can you hear my scrolling? Listen. I heard the scrolling mouse. Yeah. So then we have to play. Yes, yes, play, play, play, play, play. They're swearing at us now.

But what if it's like, no, Megan, we don't want to hear that. Is it taking you that long to find a no? No, no, no, no, no. It's still November. Next thing Megan will want bloody hot cross buns in December. Those are January. She's a harmony van of girls selling a three-day tramp. They need it.

Okay, well, there's no time. Oh, no, you don't want that song stuck in your head just before you start. There's no time now, but after the break. I'll fight you. I will fight you to get it on. But right now it is time for Fact of the Day! Day, day, day,

day! Today's Fact of the Day is that the hardest place to hear a train coming is on the train tracks. Huh. Why? Isn't that crazy? What? a train coming is on the train tracks. Huh. Why? Isn't that crazy?

Because say you're standing on the train tracks walking away from a train. Now, mostly in the movies, there's a bit of rattling, right? Yeah. Well, they put their ear to it and they're like, train's coming. Well, that's like old steam engines that would really like pound the tracks. Yeah. But modern engines actually glide pretty easy. A 62-year-old even uploaded a video

of him, one man, pushing a train car. Oh, yeah. That's how, like, well they slide along the tracks now. Right.

He's one man and he's just pushing along a train car, moving it around, saying these things are made to go without much friction and they slide along

really nicely these days. It's not like you always see in the movies where they're making a real... More economical. Well, yeah. Heck yeah. It needs to get you always see in the movies where they're making a real... More economical. Well, yeah. Heck yeah. It needs to get a pull so it makes it more economical to pull down the track.

And also there's a thing called the Doppler effect, which I'll read what's written here rather than mutilate the definition, which explains how sound changes pitch based on the observer's location relative to the sound's origin. That's why sirens sound different the closer they get. And have you ever noticed that sirens, you can hear them coming for ages, but then when they go past, it's like Yeah, they go past.

Exactly, Doppler effect. So if you're walking on a train track, the train's coming right behind you, the rails aren't going to be making any noise, anything on the side of the track acts as absorption and you're only in a really thin channel to get the sound waves to you. Right. And they said that's why people walking down the train tracks

often get killed by the trains, because they think really easily, oh, I'll hear a train coming, but then when they do hear it, they turn around and it's right on them. The best thing today would have like a little mirror system. Sort of a rear-view mirror. Or just stay the hell off train tracks. Would also probably be my number one piece of advice to avoid being run over

by a train. Okay. And they say people, yeah, are often walking with headphones or earbuds and thinking the trains are so loud.

You know, I've seen it on TV, trains are so loud, I'll hear them coming and they don't. And train drivers can't stop. In New Zealand, wearing headphones

like crossing the tracks, seriously, it's terrible. Yeah. So the average rail car travelling at 50 mile an hour, which is just below 100 k's an hour, which is just below 100km an hour,

makes about the decibels between a loud voice and a moderate shout. Oh, wow. So you think if someone's talking loudly but going at about 100km an hour, when you hear them start talking loudly, it's going to be too late. You're going to be on the way.

So staff train tracks. Wow. That's my basic advice here. I don't know what the modern thought is on putting a coin there to get a coin run flat. I'm pretty sure that's anti now. Yeah. Shouldn't be doing that. You shouldn't be on the train tracks at all.

So today's fact of the day is the hardest place to hear a train coming is on the train tracks. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's 27 days, 15 hours away from Christmas. Personally, I don't think Christmas music should start until the 1st of December. But why? It makes you feel festive. It brings joy. This is the number one song that Kiwis are searching and listening to.

We had an overwhelming number of text messages. I'm not even joking. It took ages to scroll through them all. Of people wanting to hear this song. Because it brings them joy. On their way to work. Reminds you of friends, family, good times, yummy food, togetherness.

Insights about to land on Mars. Born! You know what I'm saying? There's no Christmas on Mars. Pause that for a second. Is there no Christmas on Mars? Why wouldn't there be a Christmas on Mars? Well, no, because there's no one there to celebrate.

Because baby Jesus wasn't there. Oh, right. So now Christmas is a planetary exclusive holiday, is it? I believe so. Yeah, I believe so. That's not on. I'm not okay with that. The people have spoken.

This is your favourite Christmas song, New Zealand. Oh, God. It's happening, isn't it? I got tingles. I got actual tingles just then. Why? Is it me? It makes me happy.

I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree. I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas Is you I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need

And I don't care about the present Underneath the Christmas tree I don't need to bend my stocking There upon the fireplace Santa Claus won't make me happy With the toys on Christmas Day I just want you for my own More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is you Baby, all I want for Christmas is you Baby, all I want more Christmas with you. Oh, baby. Oh, I want more Christmas with you. ZM, Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan Addams, New Zealand's number one streamed, Googled Christmas song.

I haven't had Vaughan's car keys. You're actually, you're puffed. I am. A little bit, because you've been dancing that whole time. Vaughan and I have been watching the Mars rover lander about to land. What are they calling this one? Discovery. InSight.

Because it's going to go, it's going to land, and it's going to dig massive holes. Take some dirt and fly back. Deep, deep holes. Cool. No, it's not going to fly back for crying out loud. Is it staying there forever? No, it analyzes the dirt.

It dies there. They die there. And goes blip, blip, blip, blip, blip. And it's like a robot graveyard up there. Even there's like 25 dead Mars robots just like. And Matt Damon. And Matt Damon. And Matt Damon got off.

Dead body. With his poo-tates. He did. With his poo-tates. With his poo-tate. Poo-tatoes. Back here on planet Earth, bigger issues here in New Zealand. Bare feet.

In malls. A Kiwi right, I would say. Yep. To go anywhere in barefoot. Well, one Auckland woman was asked to leave Sylvia Park. This is a massive shopping mall in Auckland. Yeah. If you've never been there.

It's just like the others. Lots too many people and heaps of shops. So general feeling, are people up in arms about this? Like, what do you guys think? Well, she was kicked out, but then the mall came back and said, no, it's fine, but some shops may have a footwear policy.

Because it's just health and safety, right? Like, if she stands on a nail or something in Sylvan Park, there's no need to blame. Well, there shouldn't be nails on the ground. You can stand on those as shoes or they'll go straight through a shoe. No, but I mean, you can stand on anything

or something could fall on your foot or like... Or you could cut your toe on a tile that wouldn't otherwise get cut and that sort of thing. Totally, totally. But this is the weird thing. This is the weirdest sentence of the whole story. She'd forgotten her shoes and phone and rushed in

urgently needing to use a computer. Where do you use a computer at Sylvia Park? I don't know. There's not like an internet cafe. Just run into Nando's, you're like, computer. What? Or maybe she works somewhere and was wanting to go on a new weird.

Yeah, that was anyway. She said she was approached by security guards and asked to leave because of the fact that she was in barefoot. Travelators, escalators are dangerous. Yeah. But that's a single story mall, isn't it? Oh, apart from up to the movies. Yeah, no, they've got some. Yeah.

Oh, and up to the car park. Well, we caught up yesterday. International listener Brian came in and visited. He said he saw his first person in bare feet. Yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah. Not a person living rough either,

just a person who had chosen to forego shoes on that particular mission. Where did he see them in no shoes? Downtown Auckland. Yeah, but wasn't it in a shop? Oh, it was in a bar. In a bar. It was in like a well-known bar.

You've been in a bar with bare feet, very sticky floors. Yeah, see, that's not a place I'd go without shoes. I'd probably go into a dairy and stuff, but I wouldn't go to the supermarket and bare feet. I'd go supermarket bare feet. Your feet come out very dirty from the supermarket.

And it's real cold by the chiller section. Very cold on the tiptoes. But then you don't linger in at picking ice cream you don't need because your feet are getting cold. Good diet technique, going bare feet to the supermarket. True, true.

This is my least favourite thing about us Kiwis. Honestly. Yeah. That's because you've got weird webbed toes though. Your feet aren't. I don't get it. Like wear shoes

for your safety. Also it's gross. Don't force your shame onto everyone else Megan. I just don't like it. I don't get it. You find it a cringy aspect to our culture.

Yes. Yet grew up in a house with naturalists. Naturists. Yeah. Would they wear shoes? Well only if you were... You can't say you're naked.

If you needed to wear shoes, then you'd wear shoes. Yeah. We're also not going to the supermarket naked. No, no, that's true. But like fanging around the campground. No, like if you were mowing the lawns, you'd wear shoes. Well, that's just safety first. But then you should also wear clothes. No, sometimes they don't. Mowing the lawn? Yeah. That's an they don't. Oh, in the lawn.

Yeah. That's an odd, that's odd, that's odd. That's very unusual. We'd like to know this morning, being that we are Kiwis and we are a great barefooted race, where have you been in barefoot? This could be overseas. That's unusual.

Maybe it's caused some controversy because you do forget that, that we are a nation of barefoot adventurers And you go overseas And people give you the most disgusting locks I remember walking I've been up the top of Mount Maunganui once And someone was in bare feet And I was like

Did you walk up here in bare feet? That's gravel the whole way Yeah I know They said good enough for Good enough for my ancestors Good enough for me I said yeah but your ancestors Didn't have to walk up a gravel

Like a gravel path Very hard on the foot They also didn't have number one shoe warehouse No they didn't have to walk up a graveled, like a graveled path very hard on the foot. They also didn't have number one shoe warehouse. No, they didn't. So, I mean, if they did. It was just a chore. It was more of a, you have to.

Sure. Situation. But I was just like, yeah, but gravel's so hard on the foot. They was like, no, you get used to it. Okay, well, love to hear when you've run into maybe a bit of controversy

going somewhere barefoot. 0800DARLS.M You can text as well, 9696. So we want to know this morning after a lady was asked to leave a mall in Auckland

where you go barefoot. Yeah, and maybe you get a few funny looks for it. Maybe it's happened to you overseas. Somebody said a few of my mates

and I got kicked out of Henderson Mall for not having shoes. Probably didn't help we were also in towels because we'd just been at the beach for a swim. Henderson Mall.

Yeah. Would have thought that would have been alright there. Oh yeah, dress code. We're still clean. Dress code.

I go everywhere without shoes. Turn up to work. I sometimes have to go home and get them for the shoes. My best friend is constantly in bare feet.

It drives me crazy but she's so well known for her bare feet that if she's wearing shoes people comment you're wearing shoes. You've got a job interview. You know when you wear a nice something to work?

Yeah. And people are like, oh, what are you? You're a job interview. It's like, no, I just brought a new top. I was in London and regularly walked barefoot home from the gym. The looks I got was always amusing. People didn't know what to do with it. They think you were homeless.

Yeah. There. A Nigerian guy asked me where I was from because if he had shoes, why didn't I? I'm just from New Zealand. I don't know how he answered that. Yeah, I'm just from New Zealand.

Just from New Zealand. Michael, whereabouts do you go barefoot? Pretty much whenever I go, like, go travelling, go on a plane, as soon as we, like, get airborne,

I just take my shoes and socks off and never put them on until we land. So I, like, walk all as we get airborne, I just take my shoes and socks off and never put them on until we land. So I walk all down the aisles, walk all through the bathrooms with pretty much completely bare feet. Oh, yeah. Hand me to a bathroom because people on the aeroplane,

they wheeze on the floor a little bit. Yeah, it just doesn't faze me. I just take my shoes and socks off straight away, even if it's a 14-hour flight, straight away, and then just never put them back on. See, but if it's a long flight, sometimes some airlines will give you the socks, won't they? Yeah, and if you're in business class

and they give you slippers and stuff, I'd just put them on. Slippers? They do la-la. Those socks are very sweaty socks, though, I find. Oh, they're chasms. They don't breathe. Very sweaty.

Yeah, they're not ideal. The slippers are okay. I like the slippers. Right, well, can't comment on it. You're very sweaty. Yeah, they're not ideal. The slippers are okay. I like the slippers. Right, well, can't comment on it. Yeah, we've never had them. Never had business class slippers, Michael, so you're on your own here. Hey, thanks for your call, mate.

Thanks. Somebody said, I spent four weeks in South Africa cage diving with sharks. Didn't put shoes on the entire time. Just from boat to jetty to accommodation, back in the water. Shoes were just never put on. And they were just like,

what are you doing? Yeah, just didn't even think about it. Just got it done. What does your South African husband think, Megan, of no shoes? No, he wears shoes. He doesn't like bare feet either. Okay.

It's just weird. Somebody said their South African husband just screams like, oh, what are you doing? With a go to leave the house with no shoes on. But somebody else said their husband was from England. Very prim and proper on arrival. When I used to wear barefoot, he'd freak out.

But now he's been here for 15 years, barefoot and stubby shorts. Good. Go to. Loves it. We got him. We got him. We got him. That is a classic conversion.