ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - October 10 2019

Episode Date: October 9, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thank you, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Did you get changed in the dark this morning, Anya? I always get changed with the phone torch on. Do you put the phone torch so it's just like, it's up and illuminating? Yeah. And then Andy's still in bed and he's like meh, it's so early.

And then I come to work with my top inside out. You should say, shut up you little bitch. Mama's gotta make some bread. Oh, poor Andy. But your top is inside out. Yeah. Are you just gonna roll with it all morning? Um,

no. I have standards to uphold, Carl. I have a great reputation. It almost looks like it's supposed to be, though. Thank you. On behalf of the top. No, because you can see the label on the side. Yeah, I mean, apart from the label, that gets you away. I wouldn't have noticed.

But that's okay. Now I know the cleaning instructions as well. What are they? Cold wash? No, it's machine wash. Machine wash, yeah. And maybe don't tumble dry. No, I reckon you'd put it on a tumble dryer,

but you wouldn't put it on a hot tumble dryer. Yeah, don't tumble dry anything. Avoid at all costs. Absolutely. Hang to dry. Now, Lotto wasn't won last night. No, it wasn't. Bloody hell.

Well, that means I'm not getting my... $5,000. Well, you should renegotiate before Saturday. Well, yeah, if I win on Saturday, I'll give you six. Million. Thousand. I was going to say thousand. No, I need to get the same as Bourne.

Equal rights. Five million for me on Saturday. Well, no, if I've got it equal, you both get two million. Yes. Well, that's better than nothing. Yeah. Exactly. I'll be happy with two million.

Yeah, I'll be happy with two million. Alright. Two million. Alright, you lot, listen up, it's story time. Alright, story time.

As usual, I've got three news headlines that I found. Quirky, unusual, odd news stories. Vaughan and Megan, deliberate, debate, decide one headline only. Headline one, that's nuts. Headline two, mum warns over internet challenge. And headline three, cold-blooded crime.

Ooh-weh. That's nuts. Did you say that's nuts? Yeah, I quite liked that's nuts. Yeah, me too. You like that's nuts? Yeah I quite liked that's nuts Yeah me too You like that's nuts? Yeah Fan of the nuts?

Love the nuts Love the nuts Do you know Cashew nuts Is it okay What's your favourite nut? Oh it depends Like what's it going with

On it's own Yeah tamari almonds Oh you know I'm a big fan Of a Brazil nut on it's own Oh Nah that's too much Such a dry Such a big dry nut.

And it's rich. Cashews are yummy, but you can't have too many because they're fatty. Oh, I love a cashew. Don't tell me how many I can have. I'm sick of almonds. I don't want to eat another almond. Had some spicy peanuts. Oh, don't come around here with your peanuts.

No, but have you know the restaurant we like? I'm just going to say it. It's not like a pain in the ass to say it. Woodpecker Hill in Parnell. Very nice. I was about it. They do. That's like a treat yourself.

That is an absolute treat yourself. Right. We went there. Shade and I went there for a date night because the kids were away. And we ordered. And the woman's like, I think that's probably enough for two people. When we placed our order. I was like, I think that's probably enough for two people. When we place our order. I was like, it's like you don't know us.

Yeah, we're literally paying for food. What have they got to lose by? We have to pay for it even if we can't eat it. And she's like, I think that's enough for two people. I was like, it's like you don't even know us. I was like, what are you, my mum? I'll eat what I want. And they do a wonderful spicy peanut.

Oh, really? Oh, yes, queen. What about all the almonds for honor? Surely an almonds ball. I mean, other nuts would go really well in the spice dust. What about pistachio? Yeah. Oh, yes.

If we're just talking a plain nut. Yeah, pistachio. It's got to be pistachio. Is the admin involved in peeling nuts? No, I like that it makes you work for it. It's a little treasure hunt and a treat. It's like playing hard to get, you're like, okay. What about macadamia nuts?

Oh, yes. No, I forgot about those. Because I've got... You can roast those, you can put yum stuff. I just didn't even consider those because spinnies. I've got the macadamia nut tree and rats just love them. But they said, I read how to do it. And if you're listening and you're a macadamia nut farmer,

feel free to correct me, even though that's very unlikely. Very niche farming, the nut. Yeah. It said, when they come off the tree, you take off the husk, and then that really hard to break thing, you've got to keep them in the hot water cupboard or somewhere until they dry. So you shake them and you can hear them rattling on the inside. Then you crack them open with like a vice.

And then that's the nut. A lot of work for the nut. Go to shake them and you can hear them rattling on the inside. Then you crack them open with like a vice. And then you... That's the nut. A lot of work for the nut. Go to the supermarket and buy them. They, um... I've had a couple come to the point where they shake and you get them out and they're like a wrinkled little testicle. It is not...

I'm not expecting to be a voluptuous nut. Maybe you've got a walnut tree. No, no, no. I know a bloody walnut when I say walnut. I'm not a moron. Well, uh... What kind of nut are we talking about? We are talking, actually, it doesn't really say. Oh.

Walnuts, walnuts, walnuts. Oh, walnuts. Okay. So they're the brain-looking ones, aren't they, the walnuts? Good for the brain. Not testicle. Because they look like a brain. Exactly.

Well, anyway, we go now to America. I can't, Pittsburgh Action News is where this is from. And a woman started up her car and all she could smell was burning. So she's like, uh-oh, Spaghetti-O. I know where this is headed.

Because of the... Because of my macadamia nut rat issue. Well, okay. Well, the burning smell led to them popping the hood and investigating. And they the hood and investigating, and they found dozens and dozens, in fact, enough to fill up half a bucket of walnuts inside their car

that had been squirreled away by squirrels. Oh, the squirrels. Because obviously it's going into winter in America, and they're like, well, I've got to save my nuts for winter. I'm going to make a little case of nuts. Yeah, so unlike a cartoon

where they take them in that little hole in the tree into a cavernous home, they use this car and the engine and so when the woman started up her car engine,

of course, the nuts were all in the engine-y bits. The heat, the exhaust bits, the hot bits. Yeah, the hot bits

and so it heated up the nuts. Oh, the squirrels are like, now where's my dinner? And it was funny because apparently the husband and wife were saying, well, where are all the nuts going? This tree's not giving us many walnuts. Squirrels. And then they find out they're all underneath the bonnet of their car. That's nuts.

I knew it because we find macadamia nut shells everywhere, nowhere near the tree, and it's because rats carry them. I kind of want to see that. Do they have little backpacks? No, they apparently like... Or wheelbarrows? They gnaw into them and then they like jam them on their front teeth and they scurry.

I need to see that. Even though I find rats absolutely... I have to jump on a chair. Yeah. They nasty. Yeah. That's pretty cute. But yeah, they do. They nasty. Yeah. That's pretty cute. But yeah, they do.

They carry them for ages and put them everywhere. Like in the roof cavity. If you saw the hashtag Free Lord, there is a massive movement that has got underway in the US

is kind of where it started because obviously we know that Lord is not in prison in New Zealand. Well, I know she hasn't been arrested or anything or fined. So this came about when the National Party said they were considering fining people up to $3,000 for parents of children who leave high school and don't enter further education and training.

So if you leave high school early and you don't do any training or education afterwards, the parents could get a fine of $3,000. What about if you got a job? Well, I mean. The school's not for everybody. No. And what's wrong with getting a job? From what I can read, getting a job wouldn't have excused you of the fine.

You'd still get the fine. Really. You'd still get the fine. Really? Still get the fine? It's almost like you're paying $3,000 for the ability to start earning money to pay tax. It's a weird. But isn't that on the job training? Like you're learning. Well, I guess so, yeah. It's a weird one.

Yeah, it's weird. The article that said, that wrote on the spinoff about how Lorde would have been slain with a $3,000 fine talks about other people and mentions Paula Bennett. She left school at 16 and started working in a stationery shop. Her parents would have been fine. Was it Paper Plus? It doesn't say what stationery shop it was. Okay.

I got the feeling when she was 16, there would have been a lot of mum and dad stationery shops. Oh, yeah. Before it was all, you know, the big ones, it would have been like a little bookstore maybe. Yeah. Did a ripper 1B5, but couldn't compete with the warehouse prices when the warehouse rolled into town and folded thus.

Yeah. But yeah, and it lists other people who did leave school but had jobs to go to and they would have been fine. So this is where this has come from is Lorde was listed as one of the like potentials. And so people in the US were like, oh my God, Lorde is in prison in New Zealand. For leaving school.

For leaving school. For leaving school. Even though it was 2014, it was five years ago that she didn't go back and finish. There's tweets like, Ella, we're coming to save you. She saved us with melodrama. Now it's our turn to save her. I eventually want to live in a different country

other than the US, but when I hear Lorde is getting imprisoned by the New Zealand government due to her not paying a fine for dropping out of high school, that's whack. So yeah, obviously that's not true, but that's where the Freed Lorde movement's coming from.

Unlike people on Twitter to do some research. Yeah. No, just Twitter to do some research. Yeah. No, just fly blindly into a rage. The MO. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. While the Rugby World Cup in Japan is at risk of having some games cancelled, thanks to Super Typhoon Huggabas. Huggabas. Huggabas.

How did Anya say it? Huggabas. How do you say it, Anya? The typhoon. Huggabas. Huggabas. Huggabas. What is that?

Huggabas, it's coming. It's a Category 5 Super Typhoon, apparently, according to three hours ago by the Washington Post. We learned yesterday that's just, it's different areas call them different things. Like we call them tropical cyclones. They call them typhoons. Hurricanes.

Hurricanes. It's all whereabouts you are as to what you call it. But it's ramping up. Have they ever, ever had to cancel a Rugby World Cup game? I don't know. I looked. I couldn't see. So it'd be unprecedented if they did.

Yeah. Right. So, yeah, I can't see anywhere that it's ever had a game cancelled before, but the England versus France and Japan versus Scotland games could be affected. They might be moved to different venues or just cancelled entirely. Wow. Okay. It's...

So New Zealand next playing Italy on Saturday. Yeah. And I know at the start of the week they were saying that they were... Worried. Watching the weather and worried. But at this stage, they're not worried about that game? No. Unless it changes from its predicted path.

But it is a super typhoon. And last time I checked, they do what they want. Yeah. That's true. So if this game was to be cancelled, they still need to assign a victor. And that is today's top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game victor. Do you actually know how they do it? Duckworth Lewis. That's cricket.

But you're right. Buckworth Lewis. Okay, the rugby version. Just slightly different. Ruckworth, actually. Oh, Ruckworth Lewis. Okay, the rugby version. Just slightly different. Yeah. Ruckworth, actually. Oh, Ruckworth Lewis. Yeah, that's a good one. Number six on the top six ways to decide a cancelled rugby World Cup game.

Everybody plays that game where you hold a broomstick above your head and you spin around. Yeah. And then you put the broomstick on the ground and then you've got to jump over it. But it's hard because you're super dizzy. Oh, right, okay. Because you've been looking up and now you're looking down

I've never played that before How have you never played all these childhood classics? I'm not surprised Duck Duck Girls, Spinning the Broomstick Because even as a kid he'd be like, that's bloody stupid, what's the point of that? I'm not doing that, I'll get dizzy But you're seven, why don't you have some fun? You're at a birthday party I don't want to be here, where's the cake?

That was actually me. I'll have some cake and then I'll go home. I'm not spinning around and then jumping over a broomstick. That's just redonkulous. Number five on the list of the top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game. Elastics. Remember elastics? Oh, yes, yes.

Put it around the ankles and then you had to start it low. How did it start? I just remember England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside outside, Puppy Dog's Tails. Yeah, that was one of them. Yeah. And then they go higher and higher. Up studded low. How did it start? I just remember England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and so I'd outside Puppet Dogs' tails. Yeah, that was one of them. Yeah. And then they'd go higher and higher. Up to kneesies. Yeah.

Hipsies. Yeah. I mean, if I was you, I'd get the front row out of the way when it was around the ankles. Yeah. And save the, you know, your fullbacks, your wings. More agility.

Yeah, a bit more agility. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game are sumo wrestling. Oh, yeah, okay. 15 face-offs. You face off against your opposition. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game are sumo wrestling. Oh, yeah. Okay. Fifteen face-offs.

You face off against your opposition. Yeah. You sumo wrestle. Whatever team has the most victories at the end of that 15, they get through. Good plan. They win. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game, karaoke competition.

Brilliant. We're in Japan. There's all these karaoke machines. It won't be affected by the weather. Yeah. It's completely indoors. Who do you think

would be the all black with the sweetest tones? Oh. Because there's always an all black with the guitar on the tour bus, isn't there?

Yeah. But I don't know who would be the best singer. Do you know, I reckon Kieran Reid could belt out a classic. He probably couldn't hit the high notes, but he'd belt out like a

dad classic. Okay. The Gambler or something. Yeah, maybe even maybe an Elvis, maybe a... Maybe do a pretty good Mr. Brightside. Oh, okay. Do you reckon? He probably could, yeah.

I'm going to ask him next time we talk to him. Okay. What's his karaoke go to? And then put to him if he doesn't have one, it should be Mr. Brightside. Yep. I'm coming out of my cave. And then we'll bring out a karaoke machine and he'll never want to come back here again. Oh, I'm surprised he'll want to come back after last time we had so many questions about

his mochaccino and not really about the rugby. Well, it's a fact that the all-black captain drinks mochaccinos. Drinks mochaccinos. Loves them too. And I drink mochaccinos. What does that say? You could be all-black captain.

Thank you. That's what that says. Number two on the list of the top six ways to decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game, a sushi roll-off. Rolling sushi's hard because you want as much in your sushi as you can, but you can't put too much in.

It's like a It's like a Japanese burrito It is It is It's all about Packing the right amount in Yeah Which is so hard

For someone like me Throwing out your Sushi rolling kits We can get some more Should the occasion Ever arise And trust me It probably will never

Okay yeah And number one On the top six ways To decide a cancelled Rugby World Cup game in Japan. Sashokumiken. Oh, what's that? It is the Japanese, and I don't know if you know this,

but the game of paper scissors rock actually originated in Japan. There is, there is, I've just been reading the Wikipedia page. Okay. The Chinese Ming Dynasty like to take credit for it. And they say it goes back to the Han Dynasty. Okay. The Chinese Ming Dynasty liked to take credit for it. And they say it goes back to the Han Dynasty, which is like 200 BC to 200 AD. They said, we invented that. But the Japanese

are like, let's not go crazy. We're claiming that. And they used to play, it wasn't always paper scissors rock. It was sometimes played, your hands represented different creatures. Oh, okay. Yeah, so there was snake, frog, slug.

How do you do a frog with your hands? Slug's not beating anything, is it? Okay, so this is slug. Little finger up is slug. Pinky, your pinky finger. Thumbs up is frog. And snake is like a bent over index finger. But what does slug beat?

Slug beats snake. Why? A snake would eat the slug. But it gets on its head. Well, apparently one of the other, the Chinese version, was that the slug was a poisonous centipede and it would burrow into the head of the snake. Oh, wow.

The snake bit the frog and the frog ate the centipede. Yeah, right. Yeah. There's lots of different versions of it. What? Janken. You'll remember that from Alex Kidd in Miracle World, built in on the Sega Master System 2 if you're in your 30s. It's called a Janken match.

So, you could decide it that way. We'll see how it all plays out, and if this typhoon actually cancels any rugby World Cup games, that's today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. if this typhoon actually cancels any rugby World Cup games. That's today's top six. Spicker have issued a warning. I don't think that's what they're... Well, overseas I think they're called wrist spicker. It's R-E-S-P-C-A.

No, S-P-C-A here. R-E-S-P-C-T. R-E-S-P-A-C, Kat. Yeah. The S-P-C-A has said that we're letting our pets get too fat. Now, this should not be news to people because do you remember that American study that looked into obesity in pets over time and how they're kind of mirroring us, to be totally honest. We're like, treat for cat, treat for me.

Treat for dog, treat for me. Treat for cat, treat for dog, treat for me. Yeah. Or the cat's just there and it's like, meow. And you're like, okay, I'll give you a little treat. So they're saying that the animals in New Zealand

are exactly the same as animals worldwide. We're treating them too much and they're getting fat. It's reducing dogs' lives by about a quarter. Oh my god, that's a lot. When they're little fatty boombas. And cats by about 20%. My parents' cats are so fat. Like, they're solid.

Like, they're fat. It must be hard for a cat because with your dog, you'd be like, okay, well, it just needs to go for more walks and stuff. But it's not like you walk your cat. What are you going to do? You're like, get off the couch and do some exercise. Chase it around. But you just don't feed it as much.

Yeah, true. And then it'll go out and try to feed itself by eating native birds and rats. But then they have to do exercise to catch them. Yeah.

So that's kind of like their natural cycle of things. that's a good thing to do then because we're protecting our native birds if our cats are fat. I'm, yeah,

you know, I'm on the native birds side over cats, which are handy for catching rats, but rats are kind of like ground-based, so that's fine. And they're a pest, so I'm fine with that. Well, that's why you can get your cat a little collar with a bell, and then that's annoying because you're always hearing cat.

Super annoying because then, yeah, there's a bell going off all the time. But how are we supposed to do this when we can't even keep ourselves skinny? You know, because we're like the third fattest nation in the world. Yeah. So of course our cats and pets and dogs are going to be fat. Yeah. And what we're eating we're like passing down to the dog, like bacon and that

and they're saying, well that's not a good thing to do either. Because I remember when I did have a cat I had the little, you know, bags of treats and someone said that... I did. That is like having, giving had the little, you know, bags of treats. And someone said that. I did. That is like giving them one little tiny biscuit, biscuity treat. Yeah.

It's like giving them a Big Mac. Yeah. And you give them like five at once. Yeah, you give them a handful. And you're just like, here you go. And they eat it all up. And they eat it all up. Yeah.

And then they're like, I'll just go watch some TV. And you're like, all right, Kat. And they're like, oh, I'm just going to crawl over here in the sun and do nothing for 12 hours. You're like, okay. But if that was a human, you'd be like, you okay? Yeah, you're lazy, mate. You ate five Big Macs and now you're settling in for a nap.

Actually, that just sounds like a weekend, doesn't it? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So a 10-year-old boy is a hero. He managed to avert what could have been really a serious tragedy yesterday. So he was driving with his nana, and his nana, Kathy, experienced a medical emergency. So she passed out behind the wheel of her car on State Highway 1. Jeez, so like going 100 or something?

You'd assume. I don't actually know exactly how fast they were going at the time. Okay. But, I mean. Wow. Whereabouts was it? So it was between Merrimitty and Mercer. Oh, no, she wouldn't have been going 100.

That's got roadworks all the time. It's like 80. She was probably cruising at about 30 or at a complete standstill. Classic State Highway one between Auckland and Hamilton. So he saw, you know, she had passed out and he stepped over the centre console. He stepped on

the brake. He couldn't get his nana's foot off the accelerator so he waved to other motorists to like stop and help him out before. He was drifting towards the barrier and into the Waikato River. So like he managed to wave someone down.

Someone stopped his truck and went and helped Ryan out. But that's quite, like me as a 10 year old, I would have been like, ah, ah, Nana, Nana, ah. Like. Just screamed.

I honestly don't know that I would have known. Classic ah, ah, Nana, Nana, ah. Just screamed. I honestly don't know that I would have known. Do I say Nana pretending to die again? Great gag, Nan. Wake up, Nan. We're about to go into the river. At 10, would you have known which one the brake was? I don't think I would have. Nah.

I probably just sort of pulled the handbrake. Yeah, I would have pulled the handbrake. Pulled the handbrake. Yeah. Would that have worked? Hard to reach the brake from where you are in the passenger seat. Well, that's the thing. We jumped over. Had to jump over. Yeah, I would have pulled the handbrake. And pulled the handbrake? Yeah. Would that have worked? Hard to reach the brake from where you are in the passenger seat. Well, that's the thing. We jumped over. We had to jump over. Yeah. Jumped over the

centre console. No, I may have. And leaned down and pushed it. Or did he sit on Nana's lap? He pressed the brake. How the hell did he do that? Stepped on the brake. Handbrake it. But couldn't get Nana's foot off the accelerator. Yeah, but then if you handbrake it while Nana's on the accelerator passed out. Knock it into... Neutral. Nah, cause you can't get Nana's foot off the accelerator. Yeah, but then if you handbrake it while Nana's on the accelerator passed out.

Knock it into. Neutral. Nah, you can't get it. Yeah, neutral because you can't get it into park unless your foot's on the brake. Is that. You know. But if your foot's on the brake and the accelerator. Can you put it.

Yeah, that's. I don't know. You know you do something every day, but you can't explain it. Like, yeah. Hold on. I could just imagine you in the car and foot. Yeah, you got to put your foot. Like, yeah, hold on. I got to imagine you're in the car and foot. Yeah.

You got to put your foot on the brake to get into park. Yeah. Yeah. And out of park. So you just aim for neutral. Even when you drive an automatic all the time,

sometimes you're like, oh my God, it's broken, but you just forget that you haven't put it in park. Oh, because I've only just got automatic for the first time.

I've always driven a manual and sometimes I'm like, well, my keys are broken in the ignition. Like they literally won't come out of the ignition. But you can't get the keys out. Turn it right. It's parked. Yeah, or you've got to start it again and it won't start.

And you're like, I'm in gear. I just turned this off while it was still in gear. That's madness. Yeah. I've only just got this car and it's broken. Yeah. Yeah. But it's just every day, so you don't think about it, do you?

Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Very exciting news for only 10,000 Aucklanders. Oh, exclusive. I don't know. Percentage-wise, I don't know what that is. How many Aucklanders are there? One and a half million?

I don't think it needs to be Aucklanders. This could be anyone. You'd be lucky if you... Well, I mean, you can get the tickets online. Because this is clashing with Friday jams. Not clashing. Not clashing. Same day.

Hand in hand. This goes hand in hand wonderfully for any civil engineers who also enjoy hip-hop R&B bangers. Jason Derulo. That aren't from Auckland. Right, okay. If you're coming up from Wellington and you're like, I love Janet Jackson and the Black Eyed Peas, but I also love tunnels,

this is your Christmas. I got so excited when I saw this. I tagged Vaughn in it immediately and he responded within five seconds. I was also very excited. On the 17th of November, Sunday. Friday Jams Day. Friday Jams Day. There is going to be an open day for the city rail loop tunnel built so far.

And only 10,000 people will get the free ticket. Megan, you didn't hear that, but she rolled her eyes. Boring. How can you not love a tunnel? Where is it? Why is it boring? It's under the city. They're building a tunnel under the city.

The clue was in the title. Did you do the walkthrough of the one the victoria tunnel you did a you guys did it no vaughn did the water view tunnel yeah but like that was cool i know but we drive through it all the time i know that i've walked through it indy still talks about that when we drove through it she's like remember that we walked through here i was like yeah that was cool and like, yeah, it was really weird walking through a tunnel. See?

You can walk through a tunnel. Her father's daughter. I just don't, I'm like, oh, go through it. I'm fascinated because I walk past it every day,

the construction mess that is. And I'm always trying to peek in and see what's happening and I'm like, I can't see anything. And then sometimes

they'll release a little video and I'm like, that's so cool. I definitely want one of these tickets. I want to go. Okay. For the walkthrough. And Vaughan's keen as well. I just don't get the fascination.

We're going to try and register for tickets. Wednesday. This is like the 10,000 people. That's how many it takes to pack out Spark Arena, right? Full arena, 10,000. I believe it's about that. 12. And think about how quickly a gig sells out there. And this is Full arena, $10,000. I believe it's about that. $12,000. And think about how quickly

a gig sells out there. And this is free and just down the road. How much would you pay? Would you pay $5? Oh, yeah, shit yeah. They should pay for $5. I reckon they should

trade me tickets. What's five times $50,000? Do you reckon they will? 100%. That's not odd. I reckon it'll sell out. Non-transferable.

Not taking you all year to outside. It'll 100% sell out. There's only 10,000 tickets. And people love it. They can make an easy 50,000 bucks. People love a nosy. You see, that's why I want to go.

I love a nosy. I reckon charge 25. Oh, no one's paying that. No one's paying 25 to go in a tunnel. I'll pay 25 to walk through the tunnel. Because soon you're not going to be able to walk through there. I wouldn't do it for free. You'll only be able to take the train down there.

I wouldn't do it if Ross told me I had to do it for work. You wouldn't do it? Nah. Boring. It's so boring. It's just a tunnel. Civil engineering, Megan, is anything but boring. That's good on them.

I can appreciate they've done a really good job, but... Well, it's still not going to be finished for like five years, so... Yeah, right. We've got a while. So there's a timeline here. I'm looking at a timeline there. It is 2024, they reckon. It'll be finished.

Wait, so you have to wait until 2024 to walk through it? No, no, no. For the whole thing to be finished. They're putting a train in it, Megan. You know that, eh? Yeah. Okay. You didn't know that.

You thought... I thought you'd drive through it. Okay, that's Right. You know that, eh? Yeah. Okay. You didn't know that. You thought you... I thought you'd drive through it. Okay. That's cool. You thought the city rail loop was... Oh, the clues and the name. Yeah. Okay.

I mean, the name tells you everything. It's a city-based rail loop. So you're going to walk through the whole loop? No. No, they haven't built the whole loop. They've literally built like... You're going to walk through a section. 500, 600 metres or whatever they've done.

Oh my God. Boring. They've also got to decide what tunnel boring machine they're going to use. Are they going to use a Chinese tunnel boring machine or are they going to use a German, too big, a German could you just turn her microphone

off? I feel like she's adding nothing. We're talking tunnels over here. Because the one they used for the Waterview Tunnel was Alice, was from Germany. Yes. It was Alice. Turned Mike Megan. This was, they're saying there's an option for the same company

from Germany, or do we use a Chinese one? I don't know. Well, I'm just going by my experience with AliExpress and buying stuff from China. It turns up six months later. And it'll be the wrong size. And it's the wrong size. It'll be boring a little wee hole. Oh, we need one bigger

than this. That's so boring. Alright, well 12 past 7. But have they busted down the Mercury Plaza yet? No, that's years away. So they're still doing noodle soup? Yes. I don't know, maybe for a little bit, yeah. Hasn't it been a wonderful podcast so far? And it's all thanks to Spark

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Don't get fleshed outed. Don't get fleshed outed in here. Megan. Yes. Just before we get to don't get fleshed outed, I was wondering what your thoughts personally were on when you go to somebody else's house and

you need to use the toilet brush, maybe you at a stretch pose at somebody else's house. And in the bottom of the toilet brush, they have chosen to put disinfectant as a sort of a lingering cleanliness of the brush, just

maybe to put their own mind at ease. Right. Okay, well, I mean, their house, their rules. Yeah. It's kind of like, it's not what I do, but I don't mind if someone else does it. If it's disinfectant. I mean, it's hard to tell sometimes

if it's just like water or disinfectant. If it's water, that's not as nice, but if it's disinfectant, then that's their choice. And obviously, just trying to maybe kill the smell. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Of remnants on a toilet brush. Fletch, what are your thoughts if you were to go to somebody else's house?

I can't stand it. Why do people fill the toilet brush holder half full with water and disinfectant? Because it becomes all manky. And then you're basically putting the manky toilet brush into manky water. But. Stop doing this. Why do people do it? Why are you putting the toilet brush back in the holder when it's manky water but stop doing that why do people do it the toilet brush back in the holder when it's manky don't you give it a little flush and of course you give it a little you ever get

a stubborn bit on there and you're like whacking it on the edge of the bowl and you're like come off poo get off the brush and it won't come off you're like why won't you do that and then you're just like frantically shaking but you're also like covering your mouth in case it comes loose and goes skywards and you're like peeking through your fingers. Your wife's like, what's going on with me? You're like,

don't worry about it! Get off the floor! There's the poo sack on the toilet brush again. Yes! What are you eating? No, don't worry what I'm eating! I'm just trying to get it off. Have you tried flushing it?

Of course I've tried flushing it And then you shake And then you had a sweet combo of like A shake and a flush and a whack on the side Yep And it's just enough to dislodge the Give it a little spin while it's flushing A wee little bit of poo and you're like

Yeah I can't believe I gave birth to you You agree with me Megan It's manky water I'm kind of on board Like I don't do it myself Because it goes like syrupy. Exactly.

It does go a little syrupy. And then it's when you're taking the toilet brush out and you've left disinfectant in. Because I'm kind of a fan of it because it kills any, like, smell in that. But you've got to give that a little mini jiggle before you've got to get to the toilet. You end up with a trail of drips on the wall.

If you're surprised by the fact there's water in there, you've just splashed the wall with it. It's like when people have honey and they've got one of those wooden things in it and they're like, oh, you dip it in and then you roll it, but you've got to have your toast waiting right at the honey. So it's a bit of a jiggle. I always push down on the toilet brush and drag it along the floor

in its case so it goes... Oh, sweet. And put it right beside the toilet and then you, like, excalibur out of the rock straight up,

straight into the toilet. But that's the other thing. If you are going to move the brush and it tips over... Oh, big risk. Big risk. Because you've got syrup everywhere.

Thank you, syrup. Yeah. It's... Don't... I'm not a fan. It does get me started. Yeah, I'm not a fan either, but I'm like, I'm not going to get all up in arms about it. But see, I, but I also get the point that it gets rid of smell, it disinfects, but unless you're cleaning,

changing that every day, don't bother. Yeah. I'm just trying to think if, I think it was you that tipped ours disinfectant into the toilet. So I went, did you do that? Why would I do that? No, no, somebody, it was so offended by it once we had a party and then the disinfectant had been tipped out of the toilet brush holder into the toilet. I was like, someone was so disturbed by that liquid in there

that they actually touched the thing that the toilet brush goes into, which is a big no-no for me because yuck. I mean, I certainly do look like a guilty party because I was at that party and I'm not a fan, but I don't know if I would have done that. Definitely not. Maybe someone else. Yeah. See, that's why I don't think I'm alone with this.

Yeah. I just think it's too hard to tell if it's actually disinfectant or whether they didn't shake the brush and they put it in there and it's just manky water. Okay, so let's agree that everybody shouldn't do that. Next on the show. Just across the board. The Great Nelson Preset Reset.

We are Nelson's 13th favourite radio show. Broadcasting all over the country, but Nelson, they just don't want it. For whatever reason. Do you know, Al, from Productions Just Messaged, there's a local trailer running. Now, that means an ad kind of thing, but only in Nelson. And it says the text keyword Nelson if you want to come along to our bingo night. Yep. Well, with cash and prizes.

Eight people have responded to it. That's awesome. Oh, what? Oh, no, that's not enough. Oh, it's better than I was expecting. Well, no, but if they all bring a few people, that could be 20 people. Yeah, well, everyone's got to bring a friend, right? So that's...

Well, look, we're trying. And the great preset reset. Next, thanks to our friends at Grab A Seat, next Friday, we're going to be broadcasting the show live. Friday morning, next Thursday, that's our Cha-Chingo Bingo night. I was just thinking about Cha-Chingo Bingo when we've done it in Christchurch and Wellington and Auckland. People will message in and they'll be like,

oh, has everybody been picked? I haven't heard back. And you have to be like, I'm so sorry. It's a full venue, but this way everybody's coming. Nobody misses out. So there'll be no disappointment. Yeah. That's a good thing, right?

Megan, your parents, when we heard this news, they were like, well, we've got to try something. Your parents put up a billboard because your dad erects signs. Yeah. So he said he'd put up the billboard for free if we sent him one, which he did. Still 13. We're still number 13. Still 13.

I mean, it's a work in progress. Waiting for that to kick in, but it has worked. We have heard that and we have that living example on the phone with us. Good morning, Jaden. Morning, how are you? Now, Jaden, good, thank you. You saw our billboard and you listened because of the billboard. Yeah, well, I kept seeing your guys' face every day,

so I thought, well, I'm going to listen to what you guys have to say. Oh, my God, it works! It works! Oh, my God! Oh, my gosh. So how many days do you reckon you've been listening? About a week now. Okay, so have we got you trapped yet

or do you feel like you could still leave us? No, you guys are pretty good. Pretty entertaining. Pretty real. We're not coming across too needy and desperate. Sometimes, you know, some people are into that. Yeah. Oh, I hadn't thought about that.

Like, what are we, the submissive type? Are we? Like, did Nelson like to dominate Megan? Yes, they do do don't they yeah yeah okay you and jordan have both confirmed nelson woman like to dominate so we'll be submissive okay right so do you have any like constructive feedback then over your first week of listening anything we can do better not really just keep being your guys' selves. I don't know how to say it.

You're not scripted. You don't come across like that, so that's actually quite nice. You're real. What's everybody else listening to? It's just rubbish, Jaden. What were you putting in your ears before us? Well, I was listening to Spotify. I've never heard of them.

But my partner is really big on The Rock. Oh, okay. Yeah, classic. Yeah, mail bogans. Love a bit of that. We've got a funny laugh on our show too. Do it. Yeah, okay.

Not yet. It's good to save it. Okay, well, Jaden, thank you so much. We've got one back from Spotify absolutely plundering our numbers for years

that's great and you're more than welcome to come along to our Chichingo bingo night too Jardin that would be lovely I've already applied

so I'm one of the eight oh great that's fantastic we'll make sure it happens brilliant this is great news thank you so much alright well

the billboard's working we've also got Megan's mum listening in to some of the Nelson radio stations. She's in set some homework this morning. Yeah, and we're going to catch up with her later in the show. She's going to maybe give us a few tips. She's making notes on other radio stations and what they're doing. Okay. Obviously working for them in the market as they're above us.

Yep, absolutely. Right. Okay. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast, ZM. A little while ago, how long ago was this? A couple of few months ago. Did we talk about it on air? I think we talked about it on air.

Yeah, I think we did because I mentioned on air that it would be Sade's anniversary, Christmas and birthday presents all rolled into one, but I could only get two, not three, but that's okay. Close enough. So that's anniversary and Christmas. That buys me through till February. We talked about wanting miniature Highland cattle. Like fluffy cows.

Fluffy cows. That's what somebody said. I said miniature Highland cattle and someone said, I think you mean haricots. Oh, okay. Because that's how you'd say it in a Scottish accent. Hairy cows. Haricots. Hari.

Hari cows. Hari. Oh, right. Haricots. And they're kinddy. Huddy cows. Huddy. Oh, right. Huddy coos. And they're kind of reddish, aren't they? They're super cute. They're gingery. I've already scheduled a visit to Vaughan's Farm Let tomorrow.

This will be the second or third time you've been to my house since we've owned this new property. Well, I didn't want to come for the goats and the chickens because I've seen those. Now, will they let me pat them because they look super fluffy? They're super fluffy. They're just taking some time to settle and they arrived last night. Right. After a big day.

And so they're a little bit like, this is all new. Yeah. So we're going to give like, apparently you give them a week to settle. Okay, but I can try and pat them, right? You can try to pat them. Which one's which?

So there's a boy and a girl. There's a boy and a girl and we've called them Humphrey and Hermione. So all of your animals are H's. Someone did raise a good point on your Instagram. Why are they not called Harry and Hermione? Because we've got Harold the goat. Yeah, but that's Harold. Yeah, but Harry is short for Harold.

He likes to call Harold Harry sometimes, so it's taken. Well, it's like Harry Styles. That's not short for Harold. Is it short for Henry? sometimes, so it's taken. Well, it's like Harry Styles. That's not short for Harold. Is it short for Henry? No, I think it's just Harry, isn't it? Because you know Prince Harry's real name is Henry. Yeah, okay. No, because he doesn't look like a Harry Potter.

Yup. Was not like this, whereas Hermione had the hair. Have you got too many animals now? We're at sort of maximum animals. Yeah, right. We've got two goats, six sheep, two Highland cattle, eight chickens. Apart from the chickens, which, because Megan, you've got a big bowl of

eggs today. Apart from the chickens, they're not doing anything. Can you milk them? Have you thought about that? The Highland cattle? Yeah. I don't see why you couldn't. If you were to. Anything with nipples you can. Gonna milk you. Could milk the goat. If we got Helen in kid.

Yep. We could milk the goat. Okay. She wouldn't like that though. Goat fetter. You could make goat fetter. Could make little blocks of goat cheese. You know I love cheese. And then pretty much make your own omelette really with chicken eggs and your goat fetter. But yeah, that's what people, someone did raise,

someone asked me, do any of these animals serve sort of an animal-esque purpose? Yeah. Eating, providing, et cetera. Yeah. I was like, no, they're just cute. So you've decided to get all these animals because they're cute and you want like a little animal farm?

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up on a farm, but we were never allowed chickens. I don't know why mum and dad didn't, they didn't want chickens. Yeah. We had pigs. They were for eating. Okay.

Which was okay. You kind of, by the time I got to the eating, they were a bit scary because they were really massive. Yeah. But then I remember the day mum's like, oh, we can't get any pigs because there was this thing about like the diseases that cows could get from pigs. So we had this farm

but all we ever had was dumb cows. Yeah. Like, oh they weren't dumb, they were right. Yeah. But they didn't want to like pat and they didn't want to cuddle. You'd walk into the paddock and they'd all look at you and be like, what do you want? And then run away. And then they wouldn't let you get close. Yeah. So we had school calves that were a little bit friendly but then they... Yeah.

So I think there was just too many of them. Right. So what you're saying is that this is because of your childhood. So we weren't allowed chickens and we always wanted chickens. Yeah. And I'm kind of still keen. One more animal I'd like to add to the farm link would be a coony coony. Oh, yeah. And a llama.

Nah, I've been put off alpacas and llamas. Why? They apparently scream. Oh. They scream happy. Somebody said to me, as someone who owned them all, they're not happy. And it sounds like when you have to trim their hooves and stuff,

they scream and it sounds like a child being murdered was how this person described the sound. Like a blood curdling scream. Yeah, right. Or if they can see you and they're hungry and they want attention, they're like. Oh, no. I'm not down for that.

No. I'm not down for that No I'm not down for that I like the tranquility The peace and quiet But yeah basically I'm doing what My parents told me I couldn't do

When I was a kid Okay I have animals That serve no purpose Apart from pets And I like them better Than indoor pets Like cats and dogs

Because they're outdoors And you can like Go inside and leave them Yeah right Outside And not inside creatures. No maintenance. But then it got me thinking last night when someone asked me why I'm doing this and I said

basically because I wanted to when I was a kid and I wasn't allowed. There must be heaps of people out there that when you get to be an adult, you're just like, I'm doing this but it's only because I didn't when I was a kid. Maybe it's like buying toys. I'm pretty bad at that too. Yeah. Like I see a cool toy and I'm like, I want that.

My mum and dad wouldn't have bought me that. I'm my own boss now. I'll buy myself that toy. Didn't Ed Sheeran do that when he got heaps of money? Go out and buy like all those toys? Do you remember him saying that? Yeah. Yeah.

That he didn't have that stuff growing up as a kid. So he wants it now. He wants it now and he kind of felt like he missed that in his childhood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not buying Neverland Ranch or anything like that. No. I still get excited when you go to the supermarket and you're like, if I want lollies, I can buy lollies.

My money, no one says no. How cool is that when you're an adult? I was looking at a little cake at the supermarket the other day. Yeah. Not like a cupcake, like a cake, but like a small cake. And I was like, man, I'd like that. And I'm like, holy shit, I'm an adult.

I'm going to get this cake. And I was like, I'll take that cake because I'm home alone. I went home and I'm like, how much cake is a good, hey, Vaughan, no one's here to tell you not.

And I was like, you're right. I could eat it all. So I ate a large piece of cake and then I ate a little bit of a tummy ache. Is there any of that cake left? God, no.

As soon as I'd forgiven the cake for giving me a sore stomach I ate more of the cake Okay well let's take some calls 0800 DALES AT M 9696 to text What are you doing

as an adult only because you wanted to do it as a kid and you weren't allowed to at that stage Maybe you weren't allowed to

Alright give us a call 0800 DALES AT M talking about those things that you weren't allowed to do or have as a kid. And now that you're a grown-ass adult, you can do whatever you want. I do it a while. You're the boss and it's your money. Some text messages in on the subject.

I'll have pancakes for dinner because I wasn't allowed when I was little. And guess what? You're the boss. I'm my boss. I'm my own boss now. Someone said sometimes I'll have a couple of Tim Tams for breakfast. Do it. Eating dinner on the couch is the ultimate

screw you to my parents. We were never allowed to do that. And then you'd go around to someone's house and they'd all be eating on the couch and you'd be like, no manners. Like, what if you spill on the couch? My God, we are bored.

I'm all dragged. Go around as like a seven-year-old and scoff at some family. What's going on in this riff around the house? I was never allowed to colour my hair when I was a kid. Okay. So now I change it to ridiculous colours whenever I want. Every few weeks I get one of my kids to pick the next colour. That's mean.

I bet mum loves that. Rose, what weren't you allowed as a kid? Hey, mine's not as epic as the farm, but I have a hell of a lot of animals now. So like Vaughn, this is because growing up you weren't allowed anything? Yeah, not quite anything. When I was younger, we had like a couple of dogs and a couple of cats, which was great. But I've always had this obsession with fish. Oh, yeah?

But my mum's thing was she didn't want to have to look after them. And she decided I was too young to to have to look after them and she decided I was too young to be trying to look after them. So I still live with her now. Yeah. But she's accepted that now that I'm old enough

to look after them, I now have four fish tanks and I breed them all the time. Four fish tanks. Do you just constantly need to go to the toilet thanks to that running water sound?

Well, yeah. And then we've got, I convinced her to let me get a couple more cats as well. So now we've got three of those. Okay. And if they get hungry, then there's the fish.

And we've also got a lot of dogs again now, but I do share them with my parents. So I don't count them as me personally. Right. How many dogs? Currently we've got, I think, seven. Oh, wow. Jeez. That's a lot of dogs.

Okay. Rose, thanks. You're called Georgia. What weren't you allowed as a kid but you have now? So growing up, my husband and I were both not allowed to have Viennetta on any occasion other than Christmas. So you Viennetta ice cream. Yum.

Because I remember mum would get a fancy one from the supermarket and then bring it home maybe on a Friday or a Saturday or the weekend. Well, you'd just get Vianettas willy-nilly every now and again. Wow. So yeah, we were only ever allowed it on Christmas and it probably took us a solid five years of living together to realise we can buy Vianetta whenever the hell we want to eat Vianetta. So now we get it all the time. So you and your husband didn't know each other growing up,

but your families both had this Christmas Day only viennetta rule. Yes, we definitely did, yeah. I think that's fate. You guys are meant to be. How often are you still rocking a Streets viennetta? Oh, it's been a while, but you know, maybe every couple months we might find one, hunt one out.

It's Treat Yourself Thursday. You go and get yourself that viennetta. Oh, we will. Thanks. Yes, girl. Do it. Georgia, thanks for your call. Jaden, what weren't you allowed as a kid to do as a kid,

but you do now? Well, when I was younger, I always had to mow the lawns, and I hate mowing the lawns. So now I'm older, and I pay someone else to mow my lawns. Wow. Just because you don't have to mow the lawns. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, you're a grown- the lawns. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, you're a grown-ass man now.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. See, I was the same, and I remember my dad saying, when you're older, you'll love mowing the lawns. And I was like, he's crazy, but I do. Yeah, no, I never felt that way. Never felt that way. You never felt that way.

It got so bad that my mum actually got someone with horses onto our property because I wouldn't mow the lawn and the horses ate all the grass. Because it was that long. I'm not supposed to mow your rugged horses. Brilliant. Jayden, thanks for your call. Someone just messaged in saying when they were a kid,

their parents told them that Viennetta had alcohol in it, so they were kids and weren't allowed in it. Alcohol. Lies. Lies. Not the only one. Somebody else said, Dan said when they used to go to the Mount, their mum used to get a big Copenhagen

cone. Now if you've never had it, it's like a waffle cone with like ice cream and nuts and chocolate sauce. You see them make the cones on the little roundabout press. It's a bougie-ass ice cream. So mum used to get one of those and then get them a popsicle from the dairy next door. What? Savage.

It was a waste on a child. Yeah, would they eat the whole thing though? Yeah. Every time. Well, it's because it was probably $10 an ice cream or whatever. Yeah, that bougie, that expensive ice cream. Every time he goes there, he gets himself a full blown one. Take that, mum.

Take that, yeah. Somebody said, when I was a kid, I was absolutely chastised in front of the family for peeing in the shower. Oh, okay. They made an example of them. Okay. So guess what? Every time I'm in the shower now, I do a little wee.

Absolutely no repercussions. Rebellion. You can do what you want. Not one repercussion of weeing in the shower. How did the parents know they were weeing in the shower? Well, they'll be seeing there with them. If you're going to pee in the shower and you're in a shower that belongs to someone who's anti-pee in the shower, you've just got to make sure you wash it all,

like give it a rinse around so there's no... Yeah, residue. Come on. You're rookies here. We're dealing with rookies. Fireworks. When I was a kid, mum said, I might as well just burn my money.

So now every year that there's fireworks, I go and buy myself a box and send mum a photo of the fireworks going on. Say, see mum, I'm enjoying myself. Mum and Dad, you can't tell me what to do with my money anymore. My husband's family only ever had fruit toast at Easter. For years he thought it was called Easter toast. Because I guess like hot cross buns, it's like a similar thing, right? It's all year round.

Oh, fruit toast is amazing with melted butter. Oh, lots of butter. Lots of butter. But what a simple wee thing. Damn you,. Oh, fruit toast is amazing with melted butter. Oh, lots of butter. Lots of butter. But what a simple wee thing. Damn you, I will have fruit toast. So now I get it for him when I think he needs a little treat and it always has a smile on his face. That's so cute.

Having fruit toast when it's not Easter. Well, wherever you are listening across the country, thank you. Thank you. Because in Nelson, no one's really listening because we're the 13th favourite radio station. We've got eight people listening. We've worked out there are eight people listening. Now, 13th out of 15.

It's not very good. So, we've sent Megan's mum some homework. She joins us on the phone now. Good morning, Ray Ray. Good morning. Morning, us on the phone now. Good morning, Ray Ray. Good morning. Morning, Mum. Morning, Megan. Good morning, Ray.

How's the weather from the view from yours today, Ray Ray? Grey, windy, and clement. I won't be going fishing today, that's for sure. Oh, it's sunny Nelson. Well, we had sunny yesterday for a wee bit. Well, we've talked about the weather. That's got to be some brownie points. Now, we've seen you some homework this morning, Ray Ray, to listen to the number five

breakfast show in Nelson, The Breeze. Yeah. Quite a varied quite a varied amount of music. Ouch, what are you saying? Right, right, right. You know, quite sort you know, quite,

quite sort of not rappy stuff. Shitty, crappy rappy. Shitty, crappy rappy? Were you just calling Lizzo shitty, crappy rappy, were you? Yeah.

Him? Who? As soon as I turned on the radio, as soon as I, as soon as I found the station, I thought, yes, my kind of music, electric light orchestra. So I was grooving around the... See, I told you, she's not coming back.

Right, OK. Yeah, and then we went to Dave Dolan. She's not a fan of Dave Dolan. Not in Dave Dolan. Yeah, quite serious. Yeah, that. And then we went to sleep. I just got up.

Okay, so you're saying that was actually a bad thing. It was a bit too sleepy. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I've done a little survey. You see, 17.5% of the whole country live in Nelson are 65-ish. So we're all pretty old farts.

And you know, there's 12 retirement villages. Whoa. So you're saying we need to play a bit more older stuff? Oh, probably. Yeah, I don't know if that's going to work. I don't know. I don't think we can just play old songs. Yeah.

Well, yeah, because you can, can you visualise some of these old farts in these places where you have that rapper crapper stuff? You know, they don't want to get out of their wheelchair and groove around the floor. Well, maybe that's what they need. Yeah, right. Okay, you've raised a great point there, Ray.

Okay. But it's very local. That's the other thing I noticed is it's totally local on Nelson. You get the local news. What were they talking about? Well, they were telling me that Wayne's got a job to do in Stoke and they're ripping up the road, so he's

not going to be able to do that job. We're broadcast to the whole country, Ray. We can't be talking about roadworks in a little Nelson street. Why not? We're special. We're going to share the love. Okay. So maybe, do you think once a morning we could do a local roadworks report for Nelson?

Yeah, we could work on that. Okay. And now look, the radio announcer, he had a real nice voice. He's got a nice voice. I used to work with, I know Blair. His name's Blair. He's a lovely man. Lovely man.

Are you saying we don't have nice voices? Is that what you're saying? Well, he doesn't seem to chat a lot. They have quite a lot of music. They don't have a lot of ads. Okay. Right, okay. So, I don't know.

They talked to some school kids and asked them if they knew what a court jester was. And that was actually quite hilarious, listening to what these kids were saying. My mum's loving it. A little bit of like, yeah, okay. Right, okay. So we could hear I bet the baby boomers

are really laughing at those idiot kids but they won't be laughing at them when they need the Wi-Fi reconnected. True. Yes. Now,

what else can I tell you? Anything else? Well, I don't know anything else that kind of stuck out. So do you think there's work-ons for these two with their voice

a little bit? Maybe like, what, deepen it, get a bit sexier? Possibly, yes. You've got to get more smooth. Oh, I know, Ray Ray, that you're a fan of producer James and his deep voice.

Do you want to talk to producer James before you go? No. I don't want to get his hopes up. James, come on. I think you've got to just say hi. Not what I was't want to get his hopes up. James, come on. I think you've got to just say hi. Not what I was expecting. She's treating you right.

Yeah, that's the kind of voice you need. Gravelly. Okay. Damn it. Right, okay. Okay. All right, Ray Ray. Maybe you could come to Nelson, James.

Yeah, sure. I'm actually down there next week. Yeah, we're down on Windsor. Oh, okay. Very good. Right, hi then. Do you want to meet up? We week. Yeah, we're down on Wednesday. Oh, okay. Very good. Right, hi then. Do you want to meet up? We might, yeah.

Okay. I'll have to go and fix the banner so everybody knows who it is, won't I? Yeah. Yeah, okay. I thought that was a euphemism for a bit there and I was like, oh my God, I've got to go fix my banner if James is in town.

You did sound flustered. Ray, Ray, thank you so much. Thanks for doing some market research for us. Yeah, okay. I don't know if we can take... What? What? I hope that helped.

No, it did. No, it did. Thank you. What road? Just have that road works on it out Stoke way. Tai Tai. The main street in Stoke. Okay.

There you go. Tai Tai Street. There you go. We've done our road works for the day. That's got to be worth a place. I don't know if that's going to help. And everyone else listening in Auckland and Wellington and Crutchridge is like, great.

I won't go to Stoke today. Thanks for that. Yeah, brilliant. Okay. I don't think James should come. I think James should stay here. Yeah. Just for James' sake.

I think it's for the best. For his safety. Yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. They are triangling something with Uber in Australia... In America, yeah. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. They are triangling something with Uber in Australia, in America, sorry.

So I don't know if this is going to come here, but if it goes well in America, probably, like every other thing they've done. Yeah. Well, I know we haven't got Uber helicopter yet. Remember they were doing Uber helicopter in the, what's that, the Hamptons? The rich New Yorkers could get a Uber helicopter.

An Uber helicopter. I just got the Hamptons, the rich New Yorkers could get an Uber helicopter. An Uber helicopter. I just got the Hamptons for the weekend in my Uber helicopter. Oh, my God. And you know what else we don't have here is the carpool one. Because in big American cities, they do like Uber carpool. But then so you have to pull over and another random, it's like an airport shuttle, another random stranger gets in and then on your way to where you're going,

they might just do a little detour and pick up another random stranger. No thank you. How do they work the payment on that? They just get... No, I think it is cheaper, though, but you've just got to have the time to detour. So it's none of those things. They are trialling UberPet.

So it starts next week, and they're doing it in Austin, Denver, Nashville, Minneapolis. Minneapolis. Philadelphia. Minneapolis. It's Tampa Bay and Florida. So in a few places. Right. week and they're doing it in austin denver nashville minneapolis minneapolis minneapolis tampa bay and florida so in a few places right so the deal is um it'll just come up as one of the options you can select over pet um and you can take your pet with you uh there is a surcharge there's a little like surcharge tacked on to the fee i don't know how much it'll be. Probably not a lot. And then you and your doggy or your cat can go in the Uber. How much is the fee? Because like a dog could sit, like you take a dog in the car all the time, but cats, they're just crazy.

You'd have to take a cat in a cage. Yeah, it has to be a cat in a cage. But then surely they would take a cat in a cage in an Uber it has to be a cat in a cage. If you were going to the vet, they should be able to take a cat in a cage in an Uber now. Yeah, I wouldn't imagine it would be a problem. I thought a dog would have been more of a problem for scratching and hair everywhere. Well, my dog doesn't scratch or molt. Yeah.

So he would be fine. You need a dog hardly. Dogs, so. This is kind of a duh. He's more of a ugh. He's the middle part. He can sit and speak and roll over. It's more than what you can do.

I speak but not on command. She's got a point. But you could easily put your dog in a handbag, get an Uber. I don't think anyone's really going to care, are they? I wouldn't have thought so. Would they though? I reckon they would. But then if your dog makes a mess, Vaughan, you've had an Uber soil feed before.

How does that work? The dog didn't do it. The wife did it. It was $150. Oh, yeah. Soilage. Okay. Yeah.

Right. And also news on Uber, New Plymouth, Nelson, Hastings, Napier, Palmy, Rotorua and Taupo. Oh. Uber available. Because, you know know you visit these places If you live in an Uber city and you're like Ah that's right, taxis, how do they work again

What's the number for a taxi And then you go to pay with the EFTPOS and they're like It's a $1.50 fee on top of that You're like I can see why Uber's doing this to you I can see why you're all whinging Can you not see that you're Playing a hand in your own defeat Fact of the day Day, day, day, day, day.

Tonight's fact of the day is about a wacky radio stunt. Oh, okay. A wacky radio stunt that proved a man guilty of murder. Murder? Murder. I hadn't heard of this, but apparently there's been books written about this murder case. It sounds like it might have been an episode of a murder,

my favourite murder, that podcast that you listen to, Caitlin. So if it is, you let me know. Have you heard anything like this before, Caitlin? About a radio announcer? About a radio wacky out and about radio guy? I'm very intrigued, though. This might be the first fact of the day I listen to it. No you let me know. Have you heard anything like this before, Kevin? About a radio announcer? About a radio wacky out and about radio guy? I'm very intrigued, though. This might be the first fact of the day I listen to. No, I'm kidding.

I listen every day. I listen every day. Absolute sense of it. So rude. I'm ready. I'm here for it. I smile and nod, but sometimes there's not much going on behind me. So rude.

Go ahead. I'm listening. Go on. All right. This happened in Vancouver in British Columbia A guy called Rene worked for a radio station called CKNW CKNW And he was like their wacky out and about stunt guy

But this was like a while ago This was in like 1965 Oh, wow, okay So like, you know, early days Yeah He was out there doing crazy things. I mean, you wouldn't get away with it now. He dressed up and brown-faced himself and called himself the Maharaj

and how he had enough money to buy Vancouver as this radio stunt. And they had him on the phone and stuff. And it actually launched all these like protests about like keep Canada all this, like, quite revved up racial stuff. Right, okay. Anyway, he had a wife. Yeah. And the marriage, there wasn't a lot of love left in the marriage. Okay.

But, you know, he was earning money and they had a house and they had a daughter and everything. And then they had a big argument one day and soon after she started getting stomach complaints and he was still at work and he was like,

I think it's because you don't have a very good diet. Okay. She would drink multiple milkshakes every day. Yeah.

She'd have a couple or three milkshakes every day. Maybe she was lactose intolerant. With just like Nesquik or something? Well, that's what they're saying. She had some, what? Was she just using Nesquik? No three milkshakes every day. Maybe she was lactose intolerant. With just like Nesquik or something. Well, that's what they're saying. She had some, what?

Was she just using Nesquik? No, milkshakes from shops. Oh, okay, right. Yeah, like from the dairy or the ice cream store. Yeah, so she had some diarrhea, some intense stomach pain. Yeah. And they were like, that'll be your poor diet.

And then her fingers and toes went numb. And they were like, oh, this is sodium retention or a gallbladder issue. Again, brought on by your poor diet, so you need to sort yourself out. She spent weeks in hospital, went through all these different tests. Then eventually, she

died. Okay. Now, everybody was like, heck, that's unfortunate. We'll never know what she died of. But one guy was like, I don't, I want to get to the bottom of this. I need to get to the bottom of this. And exhumed the body. So that's

what's been buried. He dug it up. He took hair samples, worked out how fast hair grew, and then tested the hair at the different lengths. Okay. He found out that there was arsenic in her system. So she'd been poisoned. Right. At which time the husband's like, I've got no idea what you're talking about.

Obviously nothing to do with me. Was it another female? Because we all know from True Crime Podcast, Caitlin, that females, that's their preferred choice, isn't it? Of murder. Murder. Poison. Poison.

So there was a stint during her illness where he lived on top of a car sales yard's roof for nine days. Yep. As a crazy radio station. And I'm not getting down to all of these cars have been sold. Okay. And so he lived up there for nine days in which he didn't leave the rooftop. Everything he did, he broadcast from up there and they called him and everything.

He lived up there for nine days. They worked out how many days before her death that was. This forensic investigator went back how much your hair grows a day to the length of her hair and took a sample from there and nine days before and there was a blank period of arsenic in her system.

Oh, okay. So for those nine days that he wasn't at home, she hadn't been poisoned. So every time he was at home, he was poisoning her? He was poisoning her. He would bring a milkshake home from work every day, he'd take it into the kitchen

and under the kitchen he had a weed killer called Triox that had arsenic in it and he'd sprinkle a bit in and mix it into a milkshake and it would cover the taste of it. Oh my God.

Then when she was in hospital, he would take her milkshakes as a treat because he knew she loved milkshakes so much. She was sick in hospital, drinking the milkshakes. Why didn't he just divorce her? Because he'd ramped up her life insurance.

Why are you going to get away with that? But it was in the 60s. Right. And he almost did if it hadn't been for one person, one doctor that was like, no, this is weird. We've got to solve this. We've got to get to the bottom of this. Exhumed the body and solved the murder.

That would be a great true crime podcast, wouldn't it, Caitlin? This is like maybe you should – I'm going to write into Georgia and Karen because they always – this is my favourite murder. They always take your like stories and suggestions. So if they haven't done it already, I'm going to say, my friend Vaughan read this really good fact the other day, and I think this would be great. They can read.

I will choose to ignore the negativity. You've got to be able to tell a good story. Just drink up your milkshake, Megan, and shush. Murder by Milkshake, the astonishing true story of adultery, arsenic, and a charismatic killer. They always do. I've got a catchy title too. Wait, he was cheating on her. He was sleeping with the receptionist at the radio station.

But all of the olden day ones, like you were surprised, but it's all because of life insurance. Really? Yeah. They just want to get some more money. They want to get their life insurance money. So there you go. Today's fact of the day, a wacky radio station stunt proved a man guilty of murder.

Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM. Wayne Rooney's wife, Wayne Rooney, the football player, his wife, Colleen. I have a question already. Didn't he cheat on her? Wasn't there like a big thing? Is this the new one?

No, I don't think so. Is that the same one? And then they were all like, Colleen's not wearing a wedding ring, like it big thing. I don't know. Is this the new one? No, I don't think so. Is that the same one? And then they were all like, Colleen's not wearing a wedding ring, like it's over. Okay, so it is the same one. Okay, so she forgave Wayne. So obviously if you don't know,

he's a huge footballer. Yeah, English football player. And in the UK, huge celebrity. Yeah. And around the world even. Yeah. So she has a private social media account.

Okay. I don't even know if she's got a public one, but she's got a very private social media account and she's very particular about who she lets follow that social media account. Well, because you've got to be, if you post a story, it'll be on all the tabloids.

You've got to have a very trusted circle of friends. So she's not doing it for the white appeal. She's doing it for a close group of friends. She had been putting stories on there and somehow they had been getting leaked to the media. Do we know how many people like is in this close?

That's what I was wondering. I don't know. Because I remember Kim Kardashian doing something similar but this was just by word of mouth. Kim Kardashian would tell friends different stories and note down what story she had told what friend. And then when that story got out, she'd be like, well, I only told you that version.

What's the story? Because you imagine these people would get paid thousands and thousands of pounds. Yeah. Oh, Wayne Rooney would sell. Wayne Rooney or the drama he's having with his wife would move some papers. Yeah.

Get some website clicks. So, yeah, if you've got a leaker. So what she was doing on her Instagram account is when you put up a story, you can choose to share it with close friends. Yeah. Not just everybody that follows you, but close friends. And you can handpick who is in your close friends. Yeah.

She was picking one person at a time to see her Instagram stories. When a few of her stories got sold to the paper, she was picking one person at a time that would see particular Instagram stories. Then she would note down what person had seen what Instagram story in an effort to find out who was leaking her stories that she wanted to be private and amongst close friends

to the media. This would be so. This would sting. Like, would you do this if you were, say, like, someone like Ed Sheeran or. Yeah. Like this Colin. It would be, wouldn't it be so much fun.

Yeah. To see who you can trust. Yeah. So it turns out that the next story that the paper had that shared, shared to that group, but only to one person that was made up, was the story that she shared with one of Wayne Rooney's English teammates on the English football team, Jamie Vardy's wife, Rebecca. Wow.

Oh, no. So she then released this public statement. For a few years, someone who I trusted to follow me in my personal private Instagram account has been consistently informing the Sun newspaper of my private posts and stories. So then she goes on to say how she flushed them out. Past five months, I've been posting a series of fake stories

to see if they made their way to the Sun. And you know what? They did. The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV, and then the latest story about the basement flooding in my new house were all made up. Oh, my God.

But I know for certain which individual it's come from. I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It's dot, dot, dot, dot. She literally them. It's dot, dot, dot, dot. She literally did it's dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. Drum roll, please. Rebecca Vardy's account. And everyone's just like, oh, shanae.

Wow. It's gig its own. And Netflix, UK and Ireland, Netflix official account said, we will have to be making a documentary series. Brilliant. This absolutely needs to happen. That is brilliant.

I thought she'd just done that on the sly and then not, you know, just flushed her out and not talk to her. I didn't realise she'd literally publicly called her out. And the first Rebecca Vardy heard of it was in that very public outing. Has Rebecca said anything? I can't

find... Rebecca responded via Twitter, as I've said to you on the phone, I wish you'd called me if you had thought this. I never speak to anybody about you as various journalists who have asked me over the years can vouch for. It's a bit hard to deny if you're the only viewer of a story.

If you thought this was happening, you should have told me and I could have changed my passwords to see if it had stopped. So she's saying hacking. Somebody's hacked me. No one's believing you were hacked. Oh, no. And someone rightfully tweeted that they were amazed it took this to unite the country over Brexit.

Because everybody. Brilliant. The best thing about it is even like football analysts after the game after football games have been talking about it like gossip as it's important to them

as strategy for like an amazing story hello there it's time for another. I'm just trying, guys, because you know how I love to do this. Okay. Bloody hell. I've just converted how much this new treat is in calories.

Why? Don't do this. It's for sharing, though. You're not going to eat that yourself. This is a segment of the show where we highlight a new food product, and this time it's not anything caramilk. No, it's not. Oh, God. You tagged me in those caramilk pancakes.

Oh, yeah, on the Goldie. Caramilk pancakes on the Goldie. God, yum. And Megan, you did caramel stuff at the cafe last week, didn't you? Caramilk? I was buying them before I'd even managed to get them out of the kitchen. What did you do? Caramilk? Donuts and caramel hot chocolate.

I almost messaged you to say, save me one of those donuts and bring it in on Monday. Wouldn't have been the same. No, no. Wouldn't have been the same. Oh, you have to have it fresh. Oh, no, you wouldn't have it fresh. I thought you meant like to eat it in your cafe. Oh, right.

I was like, that was a good sales ploy to get through. But nothing caramilk related. No, it's savoury because it is in Australia that we go today to tell you about the new KFC Australia secret menu popcorn chicken slab. Oh, I

love popcorn chicken. I know, same. It's $10, $9.95. Now, there's six of the soft rolls that you can get from KFC. These are the small rolls. Like, if you get a quarter pack, the rolls that are in there. Yes. The little dinner rolls. But they're not broken up.

No. It's a slab of all six of them. Six of them together. And in the middle, you have a ton of barbecue sauce, popcorn chicken, and oozy cheese. They ruined it with the barbecue sauce. Can you switch the sauce out? Imagine a sweet chilli sauce.

So now... Do they just put a knife through the loaf of six buns? It's like a big loaf of... Yes. It's like sliders, but they're all stuck together. Yeah, right. So six of them Yes. Oh, my God. It's like sliders, but they're all stuck together. Yeah, right. So six of them all stuck together.

And it's off the secret menu that you can go in and be like, Hey, I'll have the popcorn chicken sliders. Do we have this here? The secret menu? Unsure. I mean, you could make your own, couldn't you? You could go and buy popcorn chicken and get a loaf of bread. But how much popcorn chicken would you need?

Because that seems quite cheap, considering how much you would need to fill those sliders. It does seem cheap, hey? Yeah, $10. Because a big thing of popcorn chickens, like... I don't know. I don't know. I just press the button or ask for it.

Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. It depends. Maybe you could add more. So one of these rocks in at 1,535 calories, which is just shy of your daily recommended. Yeah, okay. 2,000 calories for an adult.

If you're trying to sit on that and just retain your weight, it's about 2,000. So if you're dieting, it's probably about that. That's for lunch and then do celery. And then just go to sleep. Yeah, go to sleep, sure. Just wake up, eat that for lunch, and then go back to sleep and sleep all night. Now, there's other options.

There's what's called the popcorn chicken slab feast. And that is five times that amount of calories. But that is also one that you should be sharing with. I think it's important. I heard yesterday that amputations caused by type 2 diabetes tripled in some period of time recently. And people are very worried about it. And there needs to be the same sort of campaign against unhealthy eating as there was about the unhealthy aspect of smoking. Right. Right.

Okay. Because they're saying it's the next big thing, obesity, apparently knee replacements through the roof because when you're heavier, it's harder on your joints. Yeah. Right. I mean, you can't smoke in a food court, so you're saying that soon we might not be able to eat in a food court either.

Well, no, because that's the primary purpose of it. That's like saying you can't smoke in a smoking room. Oh, you heard they've banned smoking in the smoking rooms. Oh, and it's still banned food in the food court. You can still go there to eat. You've just got to be aware. Right. And I need healthy.

But it's all moderation, isn't it? So I could have a popcorn slab today. 100%. And tomorrow's salad. A light salad. With carrot milk sprinkled on it. No, no, no. You're doing it wrong.

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