ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - October 04 2018

Episode Date: October 3, 2018

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Spark. Get more of what you love on the $29 prepaid rollover pack. And now, on with the show. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. You sound like you need a lemon honey, Anya. You're not on the lemon honeys. No, does someone want to make me one? I will need lemons, I will need honey. I don't have either.

There's honey, a massive thing of honey in front of you. Oh, that's true. Oh, I've got honey. Now, is that Manuka? No, that's Gary. That's sound caper Gary's honey. Gary's honey. Because, you know, have you heard about the Manuka honey scandal?

They can't actually guarantee if it's Manuka honey. No, there's some. You can't control the bees, guys. There's something like a lot of tonnes of honey being touted as manuka honey, and they tested it, and it doesn't have enough manuka in it. But you can test it, eh, to see if it is... Yeah.

...if it has that unique factor. Unique manuka factor. I think... What's manuka? Is it a tree? It's a tree. It's a tree, yeah. It's a wonderful tree. It's very versatile. It's a tree, yeah. It's a wonderful tree.

It's very versatile. Good for making fence posts, isn't it? Very hard. Very hard. Good for whacking. Great for cooking. Great for hongi wood. It burns really hot.

It's a very hard wood. Good for a wood-fired pizza oven. Good for smoking because the bark on it gives you a good smoke. So if they get the pollen from those flowers, it's extra good for us. Is that right? And the flowers are, I believe, very medicinal and traditional Māori medicine.

But I think you know if you're getting traditional or good manuka honey because it's costing like $800 for a little pottle. Mucho expensive. Well, you hope that it's got manuka in it. Well, you hope, yeah, if you're paying that much. That's not where, is that good news or bad news? If it's manuka honey thing. That's not where, is that good news or bad news? Manuka honey thing.

That's kind of bad news, right? I've got good news. Okay. Tony Veach doesn't live in New Zealand anymore. He's moved to Bali. Oh. Good. With all the obnoxious Australians.

Yeah. Oh, good. Good riddance. Look at Megan. I don't wish to comment. I'll just let my silence speak. He's a piece of shit. And he's no longer our problem.

Let's move on. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. I've got three news stories, three news headlines. Vaughan and Megan, pick one of the following three. Headline one, Geyser throws up some surprises. Headline two, kinky fraudster. And headline three, third time unlucky for bad luck bandit.

I know one, I believe a geyser that has nay erupted for a very long time. Correct. Jellystone Park. Yellowstone. Jellystone National Park. Jellystone's where Yogi Bear lives. It erupted for the first time in ages, and people have been using it as like a rubbish dump or like a bin.

People have been throwing like basketball shot and rubbish at it. Oh, and now that it's like erupted. And it erupted in a blowout junk from the last 80 years. They found a baby's pacifier, a real old one, but no baby. Okay. So they didn't know if the baby was still down there or just the pacifier. And do you remember old cans? You see them in some cafes have real retro kind of, yeah,

and they had a tear top. They were tin, not aluminium. Yeah, like tin cans, like soft drink cans like that. Yeah. Wow. My grandparents used to have them in the wool shed, tang and stuff. Right. And I was always amazed that was one of the, that was like, that was a drink.

Tang. Like it was really old. When I was a kid, it was old. Right. It was in the wool shed. Okay. Yeah. And i always just remember the tear top being like what's this like my granddad reckons that people just used to cut

their lips on tins all the time it was just what happened oh yeah for aluminium cans you just had to be careful that would have been a tetanus as well i'd imagine probably um oh well kinky fraudster Or third time unlucky for bad luck bandit Kinky fraudster Yeah Kinky fraudster Yeah Okay We go now to the UK

And a Grenfell council Grenfell council boss Is going to prison Because she stole money from the survivors Of the Grenfell Towers Disaster We're talking about Grenfell Towers disaster. What does that say? We're talking about Grenfell and the tower. Yeah, we are.

So Jenny was her name. She's 39. She used the Kensington and Chelsea Council job, her job there at the council, to get hold of prepaid credit cards that should have been given to survivors of the fire. Stealing £,000 pounds. So 180 odd thousand New Zealand dollars. Oh, wow. And that money, yeah, had been raised for the survivors of the fire and she got in there

and stole it. Seems a weird way to give people money. Well, yeah, but then you also don't want to get, otherwise you've got to get bank accounts. You've got to, you know. True. There's admin, whereas you can just walk up to someone and give them a card. Yeah.

I'm guessing with a thousand pounds on it or whatever. And they'll be able to buy food and pay bills. Yeah. How does someone like that justify that to themselves? I don't, well, and it wasn't just one card. It was 62,000 pounds. So the court has heard, the Crown Court has heard,

she splashed out on £51,000 on holidays to Paris, Iceland, LA and Dubai within the space of five months. They had evidence on Instagram and snaps showing her lavish lifestyle of dining in high-end restaurants, even spending £200 on one meal at Delaunay Restaurant. Is that ooh-la-la? It must be ooh-la-la. I don't know, but yeah, if they're naming it,

it must be quite flash. So yeah, they had a lot of selfies, a lot of evidence, but one thing that they did detail, and leading to the headline that you chose, kinky fraudster, Leading to the headline that you chose, Kinky Thronster. Oh, yes. She purchased a... Dildo. It was 48 pounds.

That's heavy. It was a double-ended subway. It was a 12-incher. Teriyaki Dilly. Teriyaki? I'm disguising that. That's an interesting flavour. Oh, teriyaki Dilly Teriyaki Oh you know I'm disguising that Yeah That's an interesting flavour

Oh Teriyaki Wow Why does she need it to be Double ended I don't know Why does anybody need to be double ended What happened to one at a time Use your imagination Megan

Wow Okay What ever happened Do you remember that Well that adult fun store sending a toy for you when Mr Toyboy was away overseas? Womaniser. The Womaniser.

I actually don't know where that is. What a waste. That was a lot of money. Yeah. Still in the box, eh? Well, I'm not. I've moved a couple of times since then. It's a little suction thing like you milk the cows with.

But in a much smaller... It was leopard print. Was the whole thing leopard print? Yeah. I think it was quite expensive you milk the cows with. But in a much smaller... It was leopard print. Was the whole thing leopard print? Yeah. I think it was quite expensive too. Yeah. It wasn't cheap. It'll be somewhere because I've moved a couple of times since I got given this.

But surely you've been married for ages now. Surely you need to spice things up. Do you want me to answer the question, please? With the womanizer. No, I don't. I don't know why I'm asking. I don't know why I'm asking. We're all right.

That's a while ago. At the moment... Now, the womanizer 7 came out. Then don't know why I'm asking. I don't know why I'm asking. We're all right. That's a while ago. Now, the Womanizer 7 came out, then the Womanizer 7 Plus, Womanizer X. They're up to the Womanizer Max now. Yeah, the Womanizer XS. XS Max. I don't think you should just jump into the – That's the thing, the minute you buy a Womanizer,

they're already updating it, and the next Womanizer's going to be out in a couple of months. I don't know if you can just jump straight into the Womanizer Max SX, though. It's confusing for mums. Yeah. They're used to a more basic model. Yeah. They're probably using your old smaller one anyway.

Yeah, true. Yeah. The ones that the batteries last for ages. More or less indestructible. Anyway. Indestructible? What are you doing to it? Moving on.

Yeah, okay. F.E.M. Australia has beaten us. They're a bit more progressive in one area than us, which is upsetting. I know, because we beat them in everything else. Progressive, like, you know, gay marriage. We're muchos progressive.

Women voting. I can't think of anything else. There'll be other things. Even like knowing two words of the language of the people that were in the land before white people arrived. And they still haven't done that, by the way. So Australia have removed GST on tampons and other female sanitary products.

The tampon tax. The tampon tax. The Australian state governments unanimously agreed yesterday to remove. So that'll take away the, what, the GST on it? How much is it over there? 15% here. Nah. 12 or 10?

10? It's less than ours. They didn't have GST for a while, eh? Yeah, we had it before them. And do they call it GST? Or do they call it VAT? I don't know. No do they call it GST? Or do they call it VAT? I don't know. No, they call it GST.

VAT in the UK. In the UK, yeah. That's right. And that's in the UK, right. But, so there's a petition that's been going on in New Zealand for the same thing to happen here, signed by over 41,000 people. But they're saying it's probably not going to happen. We're extremely unlikely to follow Australia due to

this seems like silly like someone's asked and they're like yeah we have different tax given the different philosophy that has underpinned GST here to date what the hell does that mean? too hard basket? it sounds like it's too hard for accountants

I don't know yeah so we've taken a different approach with regard to GST and they're not allowing exemptions to the 15% tax. So a woman could expect to pay almost $2,500 GST on sanitary products

in their lifetime. Which, I mean, in a lifetime it doesn't seem that much. But it's still... If you're doing, you know, the shop every now and again, it adds up, doesn't it?

Yeah, it does. And also, why should we have to pay it? Over to you, Vaughn, to answer that. What? I don't know. Couldn't we be... I don't think there should be a tax on... Can't the government just... I don't know. Couldn't we get a...

Give the supermarkets some money and they take the price down. I don't know how it works. You can get like free condoms, right? Why can't we get like free sanitary products from like... The doctor. The doctor.

They just give you a script of like... Well, they don't give you free condoms, but they'll make them real cheap. I mean, where would you put a thousand Tammys?

I don't know. That's the only problem with a bulk purchase of Tammys. Where do you put them all? You need a Tammy cupboard. Yeah. And that's alright if you've got? You need a Tammie cupboard. Yeah. And that's all right if you've got room in your house for a Tammie cupboard.

Yeah, I know, but not everybody has the storage options for a Tammie cupboard. In the ceiling space. Maybe get a chilli bin. In the ceiling space. Especially if you're getting like... What if you've got to get out the step ladder every time you need a tampon? When it gets hot in summer too, you don't want to overheat your... Oh, no, you don't.

Yeah. No, but it's... That wouldn't be too much of a problem. I mean, because they're wrapped up. What if you're getting super tammies? Well, they're even bigger. Jumbos. You'd need a garden shed. But then moisture's an issue.

Hopefully they do. Well, there is a petition, like I said, 41,000 people. That's not many. Come on, let's sign that. Well, I haven't seen it. There's a link here. I'm going to go sign it. sign it find the link sign it and we'll get that number oh no it won't let me go there because it says privacy error okay well we tried we did our part it's chocolate related today. Yes.

And this is set to hit shelves April 2019. Did we talk about on air about how if we discussed if you had to get rid of chocolate or lollies, what would you get rid of? If you could only have one for the rest of your life. Lollies. Chocolate. I chose chocolate as well and Megan chose lollies and that really surprised me.

I don't dig chocolate but I know that people do I'll eat it There's so many different sorts of chocolates and dark chocolate is so good It's not like I hate it, I eat it but I couldn't care less if I don't eat it again Surely you'd eat more chocolate than lollies

No I love lollies I just don't eat chocolate. Like, we have lots of chocolate at home and it just sits there. Just never really feel like it. Are you a monster? Are you even human?

No, but I think I might be genetic because my mum doesn't like, my parents don't really like it either. But they got a sweet tooth for lollies, do they? Yeah.

Do they like lollies? I can't keep chocolate in the house. Lollies are chewy and sweet and they taste fruity. No, you're a monster. No, but it's fake fruit. But I mean, I really dig peanut M&M's. It's like chewy and sweet and they taste fruity. No, you're a monster. No, but it's fake fruit.

But I mean, I really dig peanut M&M's. Oof, they're my jam. Right, okay. So I want to talk about M&M's. It's a new flavour, but I don't know if we're going to get it in New Zealand because you know how often we don't get the same flavours. These guys have been cranking out some flavours lately. Didn't they? Caramel earlier in the year?

Yeah, caramel's among the new releases. And this one is, they're calling it hazelnut spread. Because I guess they can't call it Nutella. But that's what it is. Because they don't want to call it hazelnut because then it suggests that it's got a nut in it. Hazelnut spread M&M's starting April 2019. Also, they've said they're including the new releases White Chocolate Peanut.

Did we know about that? No. So Caramel, White Chocolate Peanut and Hazelnut Spreader are the latest releases. Why are they discontinuing White Chocolate M&M's

if they're going to do White Chocolate Peanut? You can get, I got White Chocolate M&M's in an M&M store overseas. Right. They just don't do them in New Zealand.

But we got the Caramel flavour so maybe we will get this flavour. Why? They just don't do them in New Zealand. But we got the caramel flavour, so maybe we will get this flavour. Because we don't get a lot of, why don't we get a lot of M&M flavours? Because we have certain like colourings and stuff

Yeah, there's certain things. But then there's like all the importing stores like Martha's Backyard and all those stores. But why can't we have white chocolate M&Ms? Well, I don't know.

Because surely they're just going to colour them the same colour as the milk chocolate M&Ms. It's not fair. Yeah, I don't know. Because surely they're just going to colour them the same colour as the milk chocolate M&M's. It's not fair. Yeah, I don't know. So there's not enough chocolate in a peanut M&M

on your white chocolate peanut M&M's. There's not enough chocolate in them. It's got a coating of chocolate. It needs more. Maybe that's why I like it. You barely taste it.

Are you saying it needs like a scorched almond amount of... Maybe we could go... Maybe we could meet in the middle. Right. Halfway between a scorched almond and an M&M now.

Because I wanted like a chocolate covered peanut with a candy coating. Right. That would be my ideal situation. Well, it's just a nice thin layer so it doesn't get too much. Eh. You can't have too much chocolate. Okay. Well, 2019, let's see if we get them hazelnut M&Ms.

And we choose, we get through Nutella, don't we, as a nation. So I'm sure those will go down as an absolute treat. As a species, we're quite fond of Nutella. This is why. Fact. This is why. Fact. This is why.

This is why. This is why. Fact. FEM. Danielle Bregoli, or you may know her as Bad Barbie, or you may know her as Cash Me Outside Girl. So she has, this might be news

to you, but she has a record deal. Bad Barbie is her stage name. Spelled B-H-A-D Bad. And she has her debut mixtape out now. Oh, phew. I was wondering when her mixtape was coming out., phew. I was wondering when her mixtape

was coming out. Catch Me Outside. How about that? Yes. That girl. Yeah. I just found that. I was just like,

I'll search for that. Do you know though, so her song, what is it called? I can't remember what it's called, but it's had over three million views.

Like, her debut single off the album. But ironic views. No, it's not that bad. Really? It's honestly not that bad. I found myself, I watched it and I was like, huh, okay.

Right. And it's actually doing quite well. So she got herself a 2018 Billboard Music nomination for top rap female artist. She is currently the youngest rapper to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in Top Rap Female Artist. She is currently the youngest rapper to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Okay. So laugh all you want, but she's doing okay. And

if you are into the song, you can go and see her live in New Zealand. So she has announced that she's coming. Really? No need to see her live in New Zealand, surely. So, yeah. She's not doing Spark Arena, is she? Like, where is she?

It'll be a little, it'll be like the studio or it'll be like the power station or something. Yeah, I would say so. But tickets go on sale the 8th of October, so Monday. How much is it to see her? Do a quick little Google. Do a Google and see. $54? $100 and something to meet her?

Would you do a meet and greet? Oh, are they doing a meet and greet? How much? Wow. $100 and something? No. But that's still cheap in terms of a meet and greet. Or you wouldn't meet Taylor Swift for that.

Or maybe now because she's not selling that well at the moment. I'd rather meet Taylor Swift. There's Or maybe now because she's not selling that well, is she, at the moment? I'd rather meet Taylor Swift. There's nothing particularly I don't want to meet. And does she say, cash me outside when you meet her? Well, you'd want a video, wouldn't you? You wouldn't do a photo. You'd be like, okay, we're going to take a photo. Do your line.

She's probably like, oh. But then she's getting paid $150. And she can be like, hold on, I'll just tell myself. Cash me outside, how about that? That's one minute, like one and a half seconds. One and a half seconds to earn $50. Yeah, yeah, so then that's not too bad.

That's not too bad. That's a good hourly rate to do something that you're probably well sick of by now. The Top Six with Vaughn Smith. Today's Top Six Chris Hemsworth's doing a bit of press

at the moment for Bad Times at the El Royale which is the next movie he's in that looks pretty good That looks really cool Yeah

Did you notice by the same guy that did that Cabin in the Woods movie that he was in Is it? With New Zealander Anna Hutchinson

I did not know I've never seen that movie just before we went for our hike in the Iquimote National Park around Mount Taranaki, I went back to the hotel and my wife was watching it. I was like, you don't watch movies like this just before you go into the bush. No.

Her specifically, she'll get very worried. But this new movie, apparently pretty good. I mean, if this screencap here is anything to go by, shirtless Chris Hemsworth with low slung pants on. No one's complaining about that. Not even heterosexual men.

No, they can even appreciate it. No, I mean, even we can look at that and be like, all right. So he's doing all this press

and he's, and it's also, he's got the Kiwi, the Aussie Kiwi thing is a bit the same, isn't it? Self-deprecating. Self-deprecating.

Like, oh, I'm really... But then I feel like Australians, like, flaunt their wealth more than, like, Kiwis do. Yeah, but not the down-to-earth ones. Yeah. But it also happens to have come out that he earned $64.5 million in the last year. Right. Putting him in the top 10 highest-earning actors in Hollywood. And he's like, oh, yeah, it's a bit gross, really,

considering, you know, I grew up saving for everything and, you know. And he doesn't want his kids to. Yeah, I don't want my kids being spoiled little ratbags. But he says that and he's building that huge house that looks like a shopping mall. But then you would, though, wouldn't you? Yeah, oh, it's so gross. My house is so gross.

Oh, yuck, when I walk in the door. He says he feels gross about his wealth. So this is the top six other things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about. Okay. Number six, his obscenely beautiful blue eyes. He should look in the mirror and say, Chris, yuck. Number five on the list of the top six other things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about. the mirror and say Chris yuck. Number five on the list of the top six other things

Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about. His stomach churning picture perfect family. He should look at his wife Elsa, his daughter Sasha, India Rose and his son Tristan and be like tidy up your acts. Also his parents. We're all perfect. Oh my god his parents. The whole his brother.

Hot mum, hot dad. Hot brothers. Hot wife. I don't know her personally, but she seems like an angel. He's always away with work. And the sort of movie roles he's in, he's always snuggling up to some hot young thing. But she's an actress. She knows the deal.

Yeah, she gets it, but still. You know. She must be sometimes being like, damn it. But then he's got the gorgeous kids as well. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about, along with his wealth. Number four, his abhorrent adventures around Australia.

He's always going to the most picturesque places, doing the most amazing things, meeting great people. But he, that's a Tourism Australia deal, right? Yes. Because he's like, hashtag Australia. He should feel terrible about representing his country with such pride.

And getting paid to do so. Yes. Number three on the list of the top six other things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about. His repugnant amount of high-earning movies and how much he's wanted by Hollywood directors and producers. He's at the peak of his craft and he should feel terrible about it. Number two on the list of the top six things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about. His nauseatingly adorable personality.

Didn't you meet him? And just the nicest guy. He touched my leg on the way into the interview. He was like running late and he came in and they're like, oh, we've got someone waiting. We're going to be on in five minutes. And he was like, hey, sorry about this, mate. And tapped the side of my leg.

Did it tingle? Did you quiver? I quivered. I quivered in all the wrong places. Was there like feelings that shot up your leg? Yes, there was. It was electric. It was an electric touch. And then just the smile and... Yeah.

He held me captive. Yeah. And the number one thing on today's top six of the top six other things Chris Hemsworth should feel gross about, along with his wealth, his disgustingly perfect body, including his unpalatable biceps, his unappetizing chest, and his unsavory abdominals. Disgusting.

He should feel terrible about it. That's today's top six. FVM, the podcast. God, this one went crazy yesterday. Everybody, when somebody must have got a hold of an old thing, an old press release or something, or an old politician quote, saying that the registration of your car or your vehicle, truck, motorbike, whatever, whatever you pay registration on, is a revenue-gathering exercise

and probably don't need it. And everyone's like, so I saw the headline here. They were considering getting rid of the Rego. Nah, it was, from what I read, because that was what all the headlines said. And so everybody, it was clickbait in its purest form in 2018. Everyone got so jazzed about it because if you ever pay a Rego, it always sneaks up on you. You get your little letter, you forget about it.

And then you're like, damn it, my rego's out. Because I thought, yesterday when we went in your car, when we went out, I thought you'd let yours go. But you've paid until next year, September. This has happened to me the last two times I've paid registration. I get the letter and in this weird moment I open the letter and I go online and I pay for the rego straight away. Which is really unusual for me. I thought your wife

must have been doing this because that's very unlike you. I know. Because I was about to tell you off and say, Vaughan, you've not registered your car. So onto it. Yeah. So then you pay it and then you get the ticket straight away but then that ticket's like ahead of its own time. Right. Because they give you a month

warning or six weeks warning or whatever and so you pay for it and they send you the ticket. You put the ticket in and then you forget you've done it, basically, and you walk into, well this is what happened to me, you walk into the garage and you see the date and you're like, oh my god, my rego's out. And then you look at the year on the end and you're like, no it's

not, thanks past Vaughan. Yeah, present Vaughan's back when all this was going down. So they're not, it's just click-baity headlines, all this stuff yesterday. Yeah. They're not looking at getting rid of it? It's not on the table. It's just that Phil Twyford, who's now Transport Minister,

said when in opposition that it was a giant revenue-gathering device. Oh, but now he's the boss. Because it doesn't need to cost as much as it does. Yeah, but now that he's in charge, he's like, it's just, yeah. Let's just forget what I said. It raised $469 million last year. Yeah, the government's not getting rid of that.

But it costs $50 million to administer. Oh. Yeah, that could be done for cheaper. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it. It's all online. I'll do it for $25. And they've just set up a little office, Vaughan Smith Registration.

Vaughan Smith Government Department of Registration of Vehicles. That's what I do. Yeah, okay. So, but then when the alternative at the time was a fuel tax, and there's been a few fuel tax lately, so then when you got to that part of the article, I think most people were like, oh, I'll just pay the hundred a year. Rather than have more fuel.

Rather than easily chalk that up over filling my tank like five times in a couple of months. They need to do what Australia does in America and have third party insurance in your rego that's compulsory. That was a really interesting comment I saw in that story saying get rid of rego and make third party. Yes.

Compulsory. People like Caitlin, when you got hit and run the other day, you would have been sweet. You wouldn't have had an XSA. Yeah. No, but which is because the other guy didn't stop and he didn't have a registration. So technically that would have been him paying for compulsory third party, but that had expired.

So he still would have done a runner. Yeah. Yeah. Still on the lookout for double Ds if anybody sees D-B-L-S space D-S. I'm going to have to pay my excess. Yeah. Well, hey, we've got you a new car.

Maybe. Potentially. Maybe. You're charged with a $10,000 Suzuki Swift. Thanks to Stadium Cars. Tomorrow in Christchurch, we're going to give that away. It's a raffle,

and it's Caitlin versus Christchurch, and really the rest of the country, because you can redistribute for a chance to be in that raffle. You can either call through on 0800DARLS.M tomorrow at 10 past 8, or be there. We're going to be broadcasting the show live tomorrow. We're going to be in the Countdown BK car park. On Morehouse Ave.

Tomorrow morning. So you're going to be there to win. Super easy. Couldn't be easier. What's in the box? There's a box in studio. It's quite big. It's quite a weird shaped box.

Shoe box is long. Yeah, it's long, but it's not that girthy. Okay. Mystery box in the office this morning. I carried it in Because I always like Carrying another people's mail Because I'm nosy

And I want to know What they're getting Megan will tell you I will quite often Bring in the mail too But I left it out there today My box Because I was like

I'll get it when we're back On Friday Oh really From Christchurch Okay Because it's a big box You don't want to lug it around Yeah I don't want to lug it around

I don't want to open it yet I know what's inside I'd put it in here I'd put it in here Under the producer's desk. You don't want to lug it around. Yeah, I don't want to lug it around. I don't want to open it yet. I know what's inside. I'd put it in here under the producer's desk so people don't steal it. Yeah. You always get big boxes and then you just like, you quickly put them under the desk and don't say anything. No, because sometimes they're those big buckets of protein powder. Like an obscene amount of protein powder.

Well, you could get a 3kg bucket. It'll last you ages. But sometimes it's a box and you'll be like, oh, it's just protein. I'll be like, is it? Is it? I feel like that's your ruse now. Because I'm not telling you, because you guys, like, now, what is happening now? You just judge me and you make a thing out of it.

Well, it's because you're being cagey, we need to know. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm entitled to my privacy. Too much privacy. Too cagey. The thing is, that's not protein because it's a long, like reasonably skinny box for how long it is. It'll be probably, what, 70, what, three, two foot? It looks like a mini-it's-your-Christmas-tree box.

That's more than two subways, two foot-long subways. Yeah, so that's going to be 75 centimetres. Yeah, okay. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, good. I tell you, we can use the new thing on the iPhone. Have you used that? I know I've heard about this.

So you point, you open up the camera. You've got to like move it around. Should I move my fruit? Yes. I'll move my citrus. Your huge bag of citrus. So what you've got to do is it says move the iPhone to start and continue to move on. And so the idea is it uses augmented reality or AI or whatever to digitally measure the box or whatever you're pointed at.

You have to draw a line from corner to corner or whatever. Are builders and pros using this? I feel it's a bit... Oh, no, you wouldn't rely on it for building, right? You wouldn't rely on it for an actual measurement, would you? Oh, no, I've done this wrong. Hold on. We don't really need to know the measurement that bad, do we?

Yeah, we do. Okay. Boys. Have you measured it? 56 centimetres. Oh, you were wrong. 56 centimetres tall. And...

But that's amazing that you're just... You guys are always overestimating me. 19 centimetres. You always add an inch, Megan. I'm going to screen cap that. To your boxes whenestimating me. 19 centimetres. You always add an inch, Megan, to your boxes when you're trade-me-ing at the post shop, is what I mean. What? No, you never add a centimetre to your boxes. Oh, no, not when you're sending because it costs more.

I was talking about other things. So, yeah, that's smaller than what we estimated. What's the word? 19 centimetres wide. Okay. So I have What's the width? 19 centimetres wide. Okay. So I have a box here that is 19 centimetres wide. Yes. By 56 centimetres long?

Yeah. Correct. Yeah. And it's a weird shaped box. And I was like, what's in this box? Did you lift it? Is it heavy? It's light.

It's light. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's not. It's not. Did you shake it? Please don't. It doesn't say fragile on it. It doesn't say fragile. It's not fragile., yeah, okay. Yeah, it's not. Did you shake it? Plinks don't work. It doesn't say fragile.

It doesn't say fragile. It's not fragile. You can shake it. Oh. Slides from one end to the other. That's you tipping it up and down. Oh. From end to end.

Okay, great. What's in it? Nothing. We should play a game. What's in Plinks' box? You're building up this and it's real. I'll see you in federal prison. You cannot open my mail.

You cannot open my mail. What do you reckon it is? Oh, is it shoes? No. Two pairs of shoes? You're ripping the box, by the way. I know, I ruined the box. They say you shut the box.

How am I getting this home now? Shut the box, funny. Is it two pairs of shoes? Oh, my God, fathers. Who am I getting this home now? Shut the box, funny. Is it two pairs of shoes? Oh, my God, fathers. Are you opening an apparel store? What is it? It's like 100 hats. So I always use the same hat.

I always get the same hat. And you're a short man. And so I'm like, well, I'm sick of getting them. You're a small medium. I am a small medium. You're a small medium. You're a little pinhead. That the same hat. Are you sure? And so I'm like, well, I'm sick of getting them. You're not a small medium. I am a small medium. You're a small medium. You're a little pinhead. That's my hat.

No, because there's no buffy hair to fill it out. So I've got no buffy hair and I'm still like an extra large. You've got a giant head though. How many hats is that? Oh, it's lots. I can't remember. It's like 20. It's a bulk order.

Can you not take them? You bulk ordered your cap. One, two, three, four, five. Yeah, because that's the only hat. Can you not take them away? You bulk ordered your cap. One, two, three, four, five. Yeah, because that's the only hat. Oh, that's catchy. That's the cutest thing. It's the only hat that fits. 15 hats.

And not one colour. This is pretty great. You know this is right up my alley. Find something you like and buy a lot of it. Exactly. What colour is that? Incipid blue. It's called charcoal.

Incipid blue. Ouch. I didn't say you had regrowth. That was Vaughn. Oh, we're just sharing it around today. You could sell these. Because you could be like, you want the hat that Fletch wears? Every single minute of every single day?

It's not quite blue and it's not quite grey. Yeah. It's called charcoal, actually, Megan. Is it? No, thank Yeah. It's called charcoal, actually, Megan. Is it? No, thank you. That's charcoal. I know it's not charcoal, but it's what they call it. It's too blue to be charcoal.

It's like the same colour as the Huiho. Yeah, I hope you had a good laugh. That was so much better than I had hoped for. Fifteen bloody hats. Well, no, now, because now I don't have to buy hats for ages. How long will that take you to get through? Is that a year? That is a hat for every month until the end of next year.

You go through a hat a month? I don't know. I'll go through a hat to hats. Well, it depends. In summer, like, if you get sweaty in your hat, you get the sweat marks, and then you wash them. Nah. They don't wash.

Right. They don't wash well. Thank you for... Are you going to tell everyone how you have to stop yourself from buying... There's a note in here. Is it the receipt, or is it a note saying something like, what do you need this many hands? It might be.

It might actually be. Just a receipt. You have to stop yourself from buying, what is it, extra tubes of toothpaste and stuff when you go to the supermarket? Fletch Bolt buys everything. Oh, no, because Vaughn told me. He's a doomsayer.

Vaughn said to me yesterday, he's like, oh, there's a Nivea deodorant special. Do you know about it? I was like, yeah. I got so Nivea deodorant special. Do you know about it? I was like, yeah. I got so excited. But then I had to stop myself because every time I open up the drawer in the bathroom, there's like 10 deodorant bottles.

Because every time I see it on special, I'm like, I'll just get one more. Oh my God, you're my mum. Yeah, I went up to get one can of deodorant because I was out and I get sweaty. And I mean, that's, didn't need explaining, that everyone's familiar with deodorant and I was out and I'd get sweaty and I mean that's didn't need explaining did it everyone's familiar

with deodorant and antiperspirant and I got there and it was like half price and I panicked and I bought six that's madness

yeah because I'd never just buy three at full price I'd never be like full price I'm buying three full price

buy one half price buy six so you can see that was great that was great for me I'm proud I'm proud that. Full price, buy one. Half price, buy six. So you can see that was great. That was great from them. I'm proud.

I'm proud. That was good business from them. Good on you. Good bulk purchase. See you. Fletch. Vaughn. And Megan. The podcast.

Sam. It was a terrible time last night for like an hour. Oh, the world ended. You would have thought the world ended. I thought so. I didn't know what was happening. I was like, is this the start of the apocalypse? I don't know.

Because I can't cheat my Instagram. Was it an hour? Around an hour? Yeah, and it was most of the world. Was it? Yeah, I think it was Instagram HQ that shit the beds, the technical terms. Because I got out of a movie and I was like, well, the world needs my opinion on Venom. But then it was like, era, era. And I was like well the world needs my opinion on Venom but then it was like

error, error and I was like error? error? so I freaked out and did what every normal person does, log out

of the account and then it won't log me back in so I delete the app reinstall the app still not working then check other social media

to see if it's reporting on another social media that's not working like it's you can go on Twitter and normally find out

pretty quickly if Instagram's down. Yeah, because people are using it again. What I found incredible were breaking news alerts from all of the main news places. Instagram's down. Yeah. Like, okay. Was it down or were they doing something?

It was down apparently for an hour, yeah. So people like, do you know the good thing though? The people that went out of it was Twitter. Because everyone took to Twitter to talk about what had happened with Instagram. Yeah, I tell you who wasn't feeling good about it, F45. Because night classes are coming out and people needed to tell every single person that they knew that they'd been to an F45 class. Presumably by using a photo of them sweaty in front of the giant F45 logo

on the wall of the F45 gym. And, you know, as far as the world knew, no one did F45 in that hour. It was worrying. It was very worrying. Yeah. But, you know, we rebuild. We go on. We move on.

We become stronger people. We say we went without it for an hour and we were like, maybe I should do this more often. And then it came on and we scrolled through it for an hour and we're like, oh, no, I was happiest judging other people. Yeah. I need that in my life. A man has taken to the internet to pose a question to people on Reddit.

He said, my wife's pregnant. My girlfriend's pregnant. My partner is pregnant. And she has asked me during the course of the pregnancy to gain weight with her. As she will be, well, she's growing a human inside her and they take

up a bit of room. So she'll look like she's gaining weight. She might not actually gain much weight apart from baby weight. Yeah, because he's not going to get to nine months and it's going to drop off him. Not in one sort of like seven-pound burst with placenta and then that. But then they can both work out together afterwards. They're both gym bunnies.

Right, okay. And, you know, go to a lot of gym classes, do a lot of running, do a lot of cardio, in pretty good shape. And she's saying, during the course of this, I want you to not exercise any more than me. Okay. And obviously put on weight, as I put on weight, growing a baby. If I did that for nine months, I'd be so big. But then you don't have to stop exercising when you're pregnant. Some people do.

Some people are told by a doctor to take it very easy and exercise absolutely minimally. But some people keep up a pretty intense regime. Yeah, I saw a video of a girl going to like F45 while she was like eight months pregnant. Did she post about it on Instagram? I don't think you're allowed to put up photos and videos from F45. Oh, I do not.

She definitely made sure people knew about it. On the download. Right. You're an F45. So how much weight is he, is this kind of about to happen or is it? Well, she's pregnant. Yeah, right. In the early stages of it.

He's joining her. Yeah. But, I mean, obviously he's not going to be there. They're not going to be able to match it exactly. Well, no. But she just doesn't want to look at him while she, you know, feels like she's putting on weight. Yeah.

She doesn't want to look at him and see him all, like, toned and, like, working out and, you know, you want to feel a bit flubs together. A bit flubs. You know? They should be in marriage vows. Through sickness, through health, and let's be in flubs together. Yeah. I mean,

your wife's had a couple. Yep. Did you, because there's a lot of craving during pregnancy. There's a lot of treats. I put on weight 100% but it was just because of the increased amount of treats in the house. It wasn't a conscious decision. Right. But she's also one of those anomalies. Like, she looked tiny apart from like a basketball up her shirt.

And then like two weeks after she'd had the babies, it didn't look like she'd had any babies. But meanwhile you were like. I know, I couldn't shake it. But I had to work really hard. Yeah. But I'm not blaming her. I had to work really hard to lift my baby weight.

When you didn't have a baby. There's one in the house. But you didn't have a conscious conversation where she was like, gain weight with me. No, no. I said to her, I'll stop drinking for the nine months with you. And she was like, oh, no need to do that. I was like, well, I often. That's exactly my conversation.

I often once. Well, I tried. I tried my best. I tried my best. Anyway, do you want a beer? Oh, you can't have a beer. I'm going to get a beer. But I just think to say. They often once. Well, I tried. I tried my best. I tried my best. Anyway, do you want a beer? Oh, you can't have a beer. I'm going to get a beer. But I just think you do.

Right. Yeah. You do gain weight with a pregnant person in the house. Because they're like, oh, get me some. I'm craving, I don't know, ice cream. And so you're not going to sit there and watch her eat ice cream, are you? You're just going to eat some too. Are you going to have this?

I still get this. Are you going to have some ice cream? I'm like, oh, no, not tonight. Oh, you put it away. Neither. I don't this. Are you going to have some ice cream? I'm like, oh, no, not tonight. Neither. Oh, you put it away. Neither. I don't want. That's standard. But then they get really angry at you because you didn't want ice cream,

but they need you to have ice cream so they can justify having ice cream. What is it? Do you want to sit there and eat ice cream by myself while you're looking at me and judging me? You're not going to judge me. I'm not going to judge you. Oh, no, that's standard. I'd be like, do you want dessert? No.

Okay, well, no. Well, I'm not having it either. No, no, you have it. You're the bad guy. Absolutely not. It's not fair. What's the matter? No.

This is just... I just wish you'd said you'd wanted some dessert. So do you ever give in and have ice cream? Well, what I'll do is I'll dish up two bowls and then I'll give it to her and she'll start eating and I'll just put mine back in the container. That's a good one. I mean, that doesn't happen. That's happened like two times on record. But it feels pretty good, but then they get really angry.

But I mean, once it's in a bowl, it's pretty hard to say no to it. I would chuck mine back in too. No, no, no, because they start eating and then they're all about it and then they finish and they're like, did you finish yours? I didn't eat it. That's awful. So good. Cat amongst the pigeons.

But I was wondering this morning from guys or from girls that have maybe asked this of their guys, how much weight did you gain during your partner's pregnancy? How much baby weight? Yeah. And maybe you weren't doing it on purpose. Maybe the snacks were in the house and guys, you put on the weight. Or maybe from the females listening you could call,

maybe you were encouraging your man to... Just eat a little bit more of this. Just eat a little bit more to make you feel better. Just have some seconds. Yeah. I'm eating for two, you're eating for you. Three technically because I need you to eat for me. So 0800-966-966.

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Yeah. We've all been there. Wife currently pregnant, living on a solid diet of Macca's breakfast and Whitaker's ice cream. I expect her to be up at least five by April. If you're only up five by April and you're living like that, that's not too bad. Yeah. That's one of those skinny people that can eat whatever they want. God, I hate those people.

Sons of bitches. Fat insides, eh? But then they all want to be bigger and stuff, so you can't win, can you? Not all the time. Sometimes they're just happy with what they've got. Oh, life is the worst when someone's happy with what they've got. I know.

How dare you be happy with what you've been given? My fiance's seven months pregnant. I'm currently up 14 kgs. I hopped on the scales, especially to measure myself. Thanks, guys. Sorry. Sorry if we are making you do that.

I gained 10 kgs during my pregnancy when my husband gained eight. He is now a medium, but was always a size small. Okay. Oh, he's still average. He's all right, yeah. It's not like he's big.

All right, Marion, how much did your partner put on during pregnancy? Oh, he put on like seven to nine kilos, but he refused to admit that he was, and he was accusing me of shrinking his clothes in the washing. Stop washing these in hot water. Yeah, I've done that. I was like, oh, I must have put this t-shirt in a hot wash.

Hot wash. Hot wash, hot dryer, hot wash, hot water. Yeah, I've done that. I was like, oh, I must have put this tattoo on a hot wash. Hot wash, hot dryer, hot wash, hot dryer. And did he end up losing the weight after the pregnancy? No, he's still there because we had to go buy him new clothes and stuff. Much easier option. Much easier. Marion, thanks for your

call. Sonia, how much did your partner put on? About six or seven kg. Okay, and so was he, was this a conscious effort or was kg. Okay. And so was he was this a conscious effort or was it just because there were so many snacks around? It was because I had pregnancy diabetes and

I hated the fact I couldn't eat lollies so I made him eat them and I was... So you got off on him eating sugary treats? Yeah, because I really wanted them. I really wanted them. I think it's just the satisfaction of seeing somebody eat them, and I tried to imagine what it tastes like. Yeah.

Remember I used to do that in my wedding diet. I'd watch you eat it, and then I'd smell it and be like, okay, now eat it. Yeah, Megan was like once, she's like, oh, can I sniff your Doritos? I was like, you're so weird. Like, get away from me. I thought that was a sexual thing. It was very creepy.

The theory is, well, that they can't go much further if they've put on a little bit of weight. So I'm sort of keeping them there. Right. So they're their own anchor. Yeah, and it's nothing to do with a baby. I mean, a baby's not an anchor, but the fact that he put on six or seven kg might be.

Yeah. How was he after the birth? Did he have trouble losing that weight again? Well, we've kind of just gone back because the pregnancy diabetes disappeared. And yeah, nah, we're good now. Okay. You can eat your own lollies. All right, Sonia.

Lick your own chocolate. Sonia, thanks for your call. Thank you. Ryan, have you put on weight during a partner's pregnancy? Yeah, it was a long time ago. It was about four years ago. Okay. I was about 80 kg when we first got pregnant,

and then by the end of it, I was about 100. Wow, that's a big... 20 kg. How big are those sex of potatoes? Are they 10 kg? They're 10. So that's very sex of spuds. Oh, and I like it when you compare it to actual physical food.

That's not... And size. Yeah. Did you end up losing it, Ryan? No, no. Just keep going. Okay. All right.

Well... Over the four years, I'm 115 now. Wow. And you used to be 80. Yeah, I was 80. In my defense, I was... And I don't know if it'll be said at the radio. I was quite a hard druggie.

Right. You probably might be healthier now, I'd say. And when she got pregnant, I had to stop all the drugs. You know what? A bit of weight's better than drugs around children. Yeah, I replaced the drugs with food pretty much. Food's really good. Well, I mean, chocolate's my crack, so I can... But you're not robbing a dairy to keep up your chocolate habit, are you?

Not that Ryan was robbing dairies. No, no, no, I'm not saying that, but it can lead to that. Yeah, sure. Ryan, thanks for your call. Some text messages. Some other people have put on weight during their partner's pregnancy. Somebody else said they had put on 7kgs two months into it and their partner hadn't put on any weight.

Well, that's... Ouch. 7kgs two months into it and their partner hadn't put on any weight. That's ouch. Baby weight I've put on 17kgs. Wife is currently 8 months pregnant. We were on the FitBuzz beforehand losing weight and so I was at a very low weight. Right.

But I have put a lot on. Yeah. Obviously it's... How good's fried chicken though? Let's just talk about that for a second. I've actually just sent a recipe to the group chat. If you look at that, basically you get those frozen waffles and you whiz up frozen waffles in a food processor

and you make a batter out of the frozen waffles and then you dip chicken wings in those and deep fry that and then you make a teriyaki maple syrup. Teriyaki maple syrup. Teriyaki maple syrup. Get out of town. I know. That's not something that had even crossed my ideas board

on Pinterest of food I want to make. And now it's pinned to the top. Well, if you're joining your partner in pregnancy or you want your partner to... And who cares? Look after them and be happy. Well, I'm sure if you use that waffle recipe for chicken wings, that'll certainly add a couple of kgs over a week.

Having that every night. Oh, yeah. Easily. Well, there's no point just making it once. No. This time tomorrow, we will be giving away a car. Thanks to Stadium Cars in Christchurch, we will be in the car park of Countdown BK.

So you've got to join us if you want to win that. Christchurch. We will be in the car park of Countdown BK. So you've got to join us if you want to win that. Christchurch, tomorrow morning. Otherwise, we will be giving a few lucky callers a chance to call through and win. It's a giant raffle. It's free to enter. You've just got to be there or get through. And it's either Caitlin or maybe you winning this car. It's Caitlin versus Christchurch.

She'll get one ticket for every ticket we give away. She got hit and run. Thanks to Stadium Cars. And the car, I mean, the car was, in all fairness to Caitlin getting 50% of the tickets, the car was offered to her. Yeah, but she's got insurance, so she's going to get a car either way. So we thought we'd have some fun, because how

cool would it be to give it away? Yeah. Okay. Tomorrow, join us. Yeah. And so don't feel bad for Caitlin. She's win-win in away? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Tomorrow, join us. Yeah. And so don't feel bad for Caitlin. She's win-win in this. Yeah. Yeah. I put up an Insta story a couple of days ago.

I don't want to be like a, I don't want to, first of all, be a whinger about weight and stuff. But I, and I don't worry too much about the scales because I've had lots of people like messaging me saying, don't worry about weight, blah, blah, blah. But I am still seeing my nutritionist and I'm still going to the gym for healthy,

you know, health and wellbeing. But I do have certain goals that I'm trying to meet. So I went for my weigh-in a couple of days ago and I was like, this is going to be so good because I've eaten exactly what I'm supposed to. I have worked out six days. I've been so sore all week. Like, I've been, like, going hard.

When was your last weigh-in? Three weeks before that. Okay. You've been pretty good for the last three weeks. Like, when we nip across the road for a treat. Yeah, I'll always get a... I never go for treats again. No, you never go for treats.

So sad. Sometimes I just go to keep Fletch company. I can't afford a treat every day. You get a little blissful. Yeah, I'm like Vaughan's wife. I'm like, if he's not eating ice cream, I want a treat. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, I've been really good. And so I was like, I was actually excited. I was like, this is going to go so well. I'm going to be so pleased with myself. And again, I don't like focus too much on scales, but I put on a KG, put on 100 grams of muscle, which is awesome. But I'd also put on like a lot of centimetres. But muscle weighs more than fat.

Yeah, it does. But 100 grams of muscle doesn't account for the KG. What was the other 900 grams though? I don't know. Could you water or? Who knows? Who knows? But the point was like I'd been gunning it.

Yeah. And I was feeling pretty stink. So I put up a story and I said, hey, so I've done my weigh-in and it's gone not how I wanted it to. But I was thinking it's very important for especially women to share our fails as well as our successes. Well, because no one on Instagram is doing that, are they? It's being like, hey, I've put on weight. They're all like, oh, I've lost heaps of weight. Look at me.

Look at how great I am. Look at these. And that's awesome too. Like always, I think it's important to, you know, celebrate your successes. But you never see it. And I didn't really think too much about it. But I had so many messages from other women who are going through exactly the same kind of struggle. And there's some people out there who have been trying to shift some weight

for a year or so and have just not been able to do it. I saw a woman at the gym the other morning called the Scales son of a bitch. That's what I wanted to do. She's like, oh, no, no, no, no, you son of a bitch. And I was like, aren't they though? Yeah. And I was like, seriously, go in there, take your shoes off, take all your clothes off.

That's where I do it. I take my bangles off. Oh, I lose everything. I breathe out. I don't want any excess air. You take that air that weighs nothing. But didn't you hit it on the head before? You said, I went to the gym.

I've been gunning for the last week or two. You've been feeling good. You've been feeling good. That's all that matters. You feel good. Who cares about scales? You feel strong and healthy. Yeah.

So, I mean, of course, like, you can't, like, go by the scales and everything. But, like, when you put on centimetres, you can't really argue with that. But my main point was, let's, like like put our fails and our successes out there so that we can share it with each other and we can realise that, you know, we're not all perfect and we all have struggles. And then it makes us feel a bit, you know, a bit better about ourselves. Because there was just a tonne of people, including guys as well, who were in the same position.

Oh, guys are, yeah. I think it happens to guys just as much. Guys are super competitive in that scheme of things. So guys wouldn't want to share that. Yeah, I'm always surprised like the amount of guys I see at the gym weighing themselves because the scales are like in the changing rooms. So you'll go in to get your bag and people are always jumping on. And they weigh themselves at the start of the workout and then at the end of the workout.

What's the point in that? Wouldn't you be heavier? At the end. You're just torturing yourself. Well, because I drink heaps of water, so I'm like, oh, that's water. That's water weight. That's water weight, yeah. Yeah, I haven't done wheeze this morning.

And that was breakfast. It's definitely breakfast. I had an apple before. Yeah, oh, apples are real heavy. They are. Like, have you picked up a whole bag of apples? They are quite heavy. Yeah, exactly.

Way heavier than a bag of donuts. And what's better of apples? They are quite heavy. Yeah, exactly. Way heavier than a bag of donuts and what's better for you. So, you know. Yeah, exactly. Keep that in mind. So what were people messaging you? What kind of stuff? Just support. I actually had a mum message me and say that her daughter has struggled.

She has friends at school who are the type of people that can eat anything they want to. And obviously, genetically, maybe she's not that way inclined. So she's struggled. That changes when you leave school. Until you see people that were real hot at school and now you're just like, ah. But then you, like, someone like that can look on Instagram

and you don't see anyone that represents you and how you feel. Like, that's pretty shit. Yeah, true. Yeah, just share, like, share your fails and your successes. Because then, you know, we all realise that Instagram's not the reality.

You're asking people to portray their real selves on Instagram. Are you crazy? I don't know if it's going to catch on. I don't know if it's going to catch on. Because I can't see a video of my children having a good 20 minute meltdown.

Yeah, can you put that up there? Getting quite the likes that some kids stuff that they do get. I'd actually love to see an August meltdown. Oh, there was a ripper yesterday. It was, you couldn't even, scripted this meltdown, saw a fly, panicked. A fly? Yeah, it's just a fly. August panic.

Yeah, she panicked. I was like, relax, don't tell me to relax. And then she, that's just a fly. August panicked. Yeah, she panicked. I was like, relax. Don't tell me to relax. And then she, that's what she said. Then she started crying. And then she threw herself on the floor. And I was like, what are you doing down there? Get up.

And then I said, you're going to have some time out. And I put in the time out. And then she started laughing. And I was like, what are you laughing about? And she said, I ran out of crying. And then started crying about running out of crying. It was just really unusual the whole situation.

It just reminds me a lot of you actually. We're both very unpredictable. You should see unpredictable having to deal with unpredictable. Like the time you cried about running out of crying. Who was running out of crying? FVM the podcast.

A haunting headline in this world of, you know, we get a lot of bad news. The earthquake and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the ongoing Brett Kavanaugh coverage and that latest Donald Trump dealing of that is just insane.

Yeah. But this could trump it all. Excuse the pun. Horrifying CCTV footage emerges showing food delivery driver stealing single chippy. Single chippy? Is this a UK headline? Because they call them chippies, eh?

Yeah, they call it. We just say chips. Stealing a chip. So the Uber Eats driver got to the door and just before he knocked, he didn't know he's on security footage. This house has got cameras to check on who's at the door. He doesn't know.

He opens the Uber Eats bag, looks, puts his hand and grabs a single chip and then rolls the bag back down. It's delivery tax. I would say delivery tax. Yeah. What we talked about, we've talked about the delivery tax. If you're getting your partner's fast food, you're allowed some chips or enough.

If you go and get everybody's fast food, yeah, help yourself. That's the tax. Or you shake the bag a little and you get the chippies that are in the bottom of the bag. Yes. That's the delivery tax. Very good. Either you just shake them around a bit. Because I live in the city, so I'll go to all the fast food or the takeaway places and they've got separate little counters for Uber Eats pickups or food pickups.

And I noticed the other day, one of them puts like stickers over the, and Maccas do it too, they put stickers over the bag. So you can tell if it's been opened. You can't open the bag and steal a chip or a nugs. Right. What if you tip the bag upside down? Can one sneak out the corner? Maybe.

This is why I couldn't be an Uber Eats driver. But then you're not getting your five stars, are you? Yeah. No. What, because the bag's been tipped upside down and out of the box just because you wanted one single chippy? Pretty much. But they were obviously not happy

about it and wanted it taken to the highest court of the land. They did say that they called the restaurant and said they were going to get the police involved. Over a chip? Calm down. What do they want? Some free food or something?

Considering the waste. Also, if you're lazy enough to get food delivered to your house, I think you're too lazy to start a court proceeding. A litigious proceeding. Should we go to the lawyers and start, oh, I can't be bothered. It's on the other side of town. Well, maybe this had something to do with yesterday

why Uber explained what happened to the food that doesn't get delivered. Because you've seen this before, right? People order late at night. I will so many, I've come to work twice because I'll come to work in the morning at like, I'll leave the apartment about 5am. And yeah, there was that time that Uber Eats food was there for like a day and a half. And it was kebabs, it was rice, chicken. There were hot chips and just over, it was just left there because somebody just got

drunk, ordered it and then fell asleep. So apparently if someone doesn't collect their order so they knock and they wait apparently for five minutes they either have to return the meal

to the restaurant it was ordered from or they dispose of it in their mouth yeah the bin it's my mouth I had to get rid of it

I chucked it in the bin yeah I chucked it in the bin but they could technically just take it home right yeah well if they wait five minutes I disposed of it I'd just say I chucked it in the bin yeah But they could technically just take it home, right? Yeah. Well, if they wait five minutes, I'd just say I chucked it in the bin. Yeah. But then I'd knock and be like, oh, that didn't come to the door.

Mine now. A lot of people leave it at the gate or the apartment door. If you can leave it, just put it in. But then the thing about leaving it at your apartment is that's going to attract like rats and cats. Cats, rats, dogs. Dogs, stoats, ferrets. Ferrets. Koalas.

Wild birds. All kinds of backpackers. The worst type of rodent. You need to give yourself like a, if you're a drunken Uber Eats orderer, just like delete the app before you go out and then reinstall it when you wake up in the morning. I'm not sure anyone's ever ordered it while being boozed and then when it's arrived, they're

like, I shouldn't have done it. I don't need that. I don't need it. And had an argument with themselves and that's why they don't go down and get it. Maybe. Maybe. Or they just fall asleep. Yeah.

The falling asleep would happen all the time. Yeah. Better to fall asleep during an Uber Eats order than to fall asleep with something in a fry pan though. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's true. Much better. 100%.

Don't drink and fry. Feel free to drink and order. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. A doodly-doo-doo, doodly-doo-doo, doodly-doo-doo-doo, doodly-doo-doo, doodly-doo-doo, doodly-doo-doo. And a great time to mention, before Vaughan, you give us the fact of the day,

our next fact of the day pub quiz, Christchurch, the 17th of October. Now, it's going to be a Wednesday. We're going to be at Cleaver & Co. So $1,000 for the winning team. If you want to register your team, go to ZM Online, and, yeah, we'll be at Cleaver & Co. for that, which will be, oh, it's always a good night.

It's a well-oiled machine now. Yeah, it is. We've got rid of all the grammatical errors. Do we? Have we? I'm pretty sure there was still a what and is where there should have been an R.

Or a who's. It should have said who. We're getting there, though. We're getting there. I mean, let's not promise it'll be error-free, but it's a great night. They're like little Easter eggs

for you to pick out. Exactly. Good way of looking at it. But yeah, if you want to join us, you're ready to set him online. Today's Fact of the day is about elephants. Okay. One of my faves.

Yep. The humble elephant. Megan, you got to play with some elephants earlier this year. Oh my God. Those were... And an ethical elephant sanctuary. Yeah. We're going to Thailand at the end of the year.

And I want to go up there. If you are going to a place where you're riding the elephants, it's not ethical. Oh, you shouldn't be on the back of an elephant. Don't ride them. No. Please don't ride them. No. And they shouldn't be getting turned with a little tap with a hammer either. No. Yeah. You wouldn't turn your dog with a little hammer. You're participating

in a nasty trade. Please don't do that. So this is about elephants and elephant skin. If I said elephant skin what would your first sort of like thought be on elephant skin? Well, at the zoo I've seen an elephant up close and I was quite surprised.

What do you mean? It's quite rough. It's quite rough. Yeah. Would you expect an elephant skin to be smooth? Well, I don't know. You just see them from a distance or in like, I don't know, I just, but up close I was like oh, that looks quite tough. I've always known them to be wrinkly. Yeah, quite, okay. Oh, I never

thought it was smooth, but I thought it would be soft, but it's not. It's real hard, isn't it? It's hard. Yeah. Well, the elephant skin, often for a very, very long time, everybody just thought they had wrinkly skin. Well, a scientist who studies and specializes in evolutionary mechanisms in animals here on Earth, he has actually studied it at a microscopic level

and it's not wrinkles. It's kind of like fingerprints. Yeah, folds and everything. Oh, but micro, like... So are they different from like a fingerprint? It's different on every elephant, but it serves the same purpose. The cracks and wrinkles on an elephant's skin is actually so they can maintain their body temperature a lot easier.

God, you'd need a big ink pad if you were running an investigation. Yeah, roll your elephant. Imagine having to ink an elephant for a fingerprint, for an elephant print. I'm just going to dip you in the ink here. And just roll you on the paper. Hurts me every time I do that. I know, you looked in pain. It's quite an intensive process to elephant trumpet.

The kids really like it and I have to be like, all right, you're getting one elephant trumpet today because it hurts me. But dad loves you. This is how I show my love. They'll have to write a story. How does everybody know their parents love them? My dad puts himself in immense pain to do elephant noises for us once a day.

The teacher will be like, call the police. I don't know why we're calling the police, but that's very weird. We need to get them involved somehow. So they've got fissures and everything in their skin, and they can actually control, they can trap mud in there and then depending on how hot it is, they can trap more and more water in there. They can trap

up to ten times as much water in the wrinkles and everything. It's just on the surface of their skin keeping the water in there and then controlling the temperature and when they want it gone, they just like shake it off and then they suck up some more in their trumpet and squirt it on themselves and get a fresh lot of like cooler water.

Isn't evolution in nature amazing? Phenomenal. This was the same guy, I didn't even know this, but on a crocodile's head, it's not scales. It's born as one piece and it cracks. What? Like a crocodile, you know how they look like they've got scales on their head? It's born as like one fluid piece Cracks. What? Like a crocodile. You know how they look like they've got scales on their head? They're not.

It's born as like one fluid piece and then it cracks. The same sort of thing for temperature control. Oh, use some Nivea. Some moisturiser. So depending on what environment they're born into, it cracks differently. Huh. Wow. Learning.

That sounds sarcastic. I didn't mean it to be. And you know, scientists this week, just on a bit of science and this is about us, they've turned a human blood cell into an egg. An egg for what? What do you mean? For hard boiling. No.

For omelettes. Like an embryo. I mean, no. I don't know how else to describe it. It's in your uteracy bits. That you could actually make a baby out of. Yeah. They're not going to, just FYI, in case anyone's freaking out.

But just good to know they can They can They can They did it this way They're like Oh that worked Which I was imagining Heaps of sciences like that

This won't work Well geez it worked Brilliant We better pretend That we thought That was going to happen all along So today's fact of the day Is elephant skin

Isn't wrinkly Because they're like Saggy and old And don't put sunscreen on It actually serves the purpose of regulating their body temperature. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. FEM City Bar 101 and Hamilton an institution of sorts

yes earlier this year announced they'll be shutting down which Megan was quietly happy about because she had to use the toilet there once

and you weren't overly impressed there was no toilet paper there was no hot water and then like yeah it was rough I think it's just worse

when you see a toilet in daytime yeah there was still light. I needed to be drunk and it needed to be dark. It needed to be darker or just nicer. Membranes over the year from Bar 101, because, you know, if you live in Hamilton or you visited Hamilton,

chances are you went there. Yeah. At some stage. Well, over 1,500 people turned up to the closing party, according to Bar 101's Facebook page. Hell of a send-off. It's a special wee place in our hearts. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, three weeks after saying we're shutting, they're just saying, well, actually, we're just moving down the road. Oh! Attention seeker. Hey, good play from them. Yeah, I mean, good play from them.

Got everybody chatting. You've got to be honest. But it's moving. Whether or not down the road was going to be opened as a new bar and they just decided to keep the name a little closer to the time or not, but

it just reminds you of everybody's got a friend that's always leaving, always going on an adventure. We coined the term always leaving, never leave as years ago. Yeah, for those people that are like... For those people

that are always like, oh yeah, well next year's the year or next year's Maui. Next year I'm going or I'm moving cities. I've had enough of a small town. I kind of get that

because it can be quite stressful to move your whole life to another... But then don't go on about it. Keep saying it then. But it's not even just saying it.

Some people throw like leaving parties and then two weeks later or two weeks later they're like, I'm just going to like casually insert myself back into your life and pretend nothing happened. Like bar 101. Yeah.

Yeah. Or people that go on their OE and then come back after two weeks. I thought you were leaving like for good. Yeah. Oh, no, it's just a holiday. Why do you have a leaving party for a two-week holiday? I don't know. You know me, love parties.

And now I'm back, so we should have a party to welcome me back. Well, we're wondering for a fresh batch, we want to hear from you with your stories of always leaving, never leavers. If you are an always leaving, never leaver. Yeah, or... This could be, we could inspire you. We could give you a little chat, a little rev enough to finally make the move you've been telling everybody

you're going to do anyway. Or just dob in that person at work that you had a leaving party for or a friend that you had a leaving party for. They're still here. And either they came back after a month or two. Yeah. If I ran a business and I held someone a leaving party and then they're like, I'm not actually leaving,

I'd be like, well, you're fired. I think they'd see you in employment court. We commemorated you. We wrote it a big card. We got you a token gift. Oh yeah, those big leaving cards. You're out. I only said those nice things in that card because I thought I'd never see you again. Yeah.

I don't want you actually taking me up on the thing I said I'd do in that card. Know that you're going to be here. 0800 dials at M 9696. I don't know if many people will admit it themselves, so you're going to be here. 0800 dials at M9696. I don't know if many people will admit it themselves, so you might have to dob in some people you know. Who's always leaving but never leaves? FEM.

ZM. Talking about people that are always leaving but never leave. Some calls. Kate, what happened? Oh, had a shocker. Yeah. Sorry, I was at my job and I was always like, yep, here I go. I'm shocker. Yeah. Is this UK? So I was at my job and I was always like, yep, here I go.

I'm going travelling. Okay. And then so had my leaving due. Everything happened. Got all the presents, like you guys said. All the cards. And then met a guy a week before I left. And I was like, oh, that's nothing.

I'll see you later. Yeah. And carried on, went to the UK, got a job interview, got through to the second stage, woke up that morning, was like,

oh, I'm going to go home. And was it for this guy? Yes. Please tell me you're still together today. Yes, and it's just about been three years, so thank God.

Oh, you just knew. You just knew. Wow. Great story for the grandkids one thank God. Oh, you just knew. You just knew. Wow. Great story for the grandkids one day too. Yeah, yeah. Well, one day maybe, yeah. Are there some days when he like leaves his clothes all over the floor, you're like, God, I wish I'd gone to that job interview?

You know what? I could be travelling right now not doing your washing. Nah. I could be in Mykonos, you son of a bitch. Pick up your wet towels. Hey, thanks for your call, Kate. Greer, how long did you move away for? Hi, two days.

Well done. So where were you leaving from? So I was in Hawke's Bay and I went to Wellington. Okay. It was a very, I always say I'm gonna do stuff and never do it, so I was like, nah, stuff it, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna prove to everybody that I can do it. Okay. It was a very, I always thought I wanted to do stuff and never do it so I was like nah, stuff it I want to do it, I want to prove to everybody that I can do it and

it didn't last very long. Well you did it, I mean no one said how long you had to do it for. Although yeah, you're just like everyone else going to Wellington for a weekend Greer. Yeah, well pretty much it was just like a Monday to Tuesday holiday. Maybe you just didn't get the right day because you know what everyone who lives in Wellington says,

you can't beat Wellington on a good day. Exactly. But the weather was so terrible as well. It was raining and windy. I thought I was going to blow away. I was just like, what am I doing? This is awful. So you're still back in the bay now?

Yeah, yeah, I'm back in Hawke's Bay. I haven't left yet. Nice. Hey, thanks. You call Greer? Some text messages in. My workmate and I were both always leaving, never leavers. We wanted to leave our jobs.

Didn't know how to do it. Convinced her to finally, how we were going to do it was she had to go on her OE and I was going to have another child. Two wildly different approaches. Yeah. But we ended up actually doing it was she had to go on her OE and I was going to have another child. Two wildly different approaches. Yeah. But we ended up actually doing it after talking about it all the time and people actually saying,

I wish you would just leave. That's so horrible. Would you just leave already? Our company had a tradition of giving cash to our leavers from staff. It would all chip in. This one girl, very well liked,

was going to start a new life in Australia. Staff contributed $450, which was pretty enormous. She came back two weeks later. Did she give the cash back? She came back into work and got the feeling she wasn't welcome. So she said, oh, I wasn't coming back to work, just to the country.

And that killed the tradition. No one ever gave cash. She ruined it for everyone. Yep, she ruined it. Someone said, I'm the person. I'm that person. Always said, I'm the person. I'm that person. Always said I was going to leave. Finally, I came back just under a month later.

I'd been given a card and a $100 voucher. I tried to give the voucher back. But they said, oh, no, that was all right. You could buy the team something with it, though. And I found out one of the people at work was having a hard time health-wise and financially. So I bought her kids $100 worth of Easter eggs. And everybody looked at me as a hero.

And now they've got diabetes. So, yeah, that was the health problem. It was running in the family. My husband's mate was going overseas and had about four leaving parties. And everyone was like, how long are you going for? And he was like, oh, a couple of weeks. So what are you having leaving parties. And everyone was like, how long are you going for? And he was like, oh, a couple of weeks.

What? So what are you having leaving parties for? He's like, well, I don't know. If I really like it, I might stay over there. I don't want to miss the opportunity to have a leaving party. But he wasn't. He was back in two weeks. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

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