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

Episode Date: October 11, 2018

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Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Let's just imagine for a moment the meeting of the two egos in the room, Kanye and Trump. I know. I saw a Batuta advocate headline. I summed it up so beautifully. It's like Kanye and Trump to meet on how to belittle Taylor Swift in a more public manner. Brilliant.

I just thought. I love. If you don't follow the Batuta advocate on Instagram, it's gold every day. You're missing out. Always good. Always good headlines. All right. Yeah, what a bloody meeting. Are we going to see

any footage from that meeting or nah? Oh, they were 100% posed for a photo. Two publicity whores. No way. I'll totally keep it on the downline.

Yeah. For sure. Friday today, that means Friday flashback. It's Megan's pick today. We're going to go quite far back. I haven't yet decided exactly on which song but I know that We're going to go quite far back. I haven't yet decided

exactly on which song, but I know that it's going to be. But there's a reason. There's a reason why we're going far back. There is. There's been a concert announcement. Yeah, but I don't want you

to give it away, Fletch. A Friday flashback handed to you on a platter. Is it true there are tickets? I don't know. Well, every concert has tickets, mate. That's how they do it.

I meant to give away. Sure. Is that not why we're doing it? Oh, are we? I don't know. God, you need to read group tips. She was just more doing it out of the goodness of her heart, I think. I decided this early, early on in the week.

Right, okay. This is happening. Well, we can give away some tickets. Good. We'll make a call. Okay. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

All right, all right, here we go. Three news headlines. Born and Megan pick one of the following three. Headline one, parking tickets divide. Headline two, the grape escape. And headline three, man's Best Friend Anything But. Okay, immediately, I know the third headline is The Scottish Man Whose Penis and Testicles Were Bitten Off By A British Bulldog.

Oh my God. Yes, grim. Secondly, I don't know what story two was, The Grape Escape, but did you have that board game? What board game? There was this board game in the 90s, The Grape Escape, but did you have that board game? What board game? There was this board game in the 90s called The Grape Escape. No. And so you got, like, purple Play-Doh.

Oh, my God, I wanted this game. I know, me too. So badly. But it was real expensive. Do you remember it? Magoos? Nah. So at the start of the game, you would make your figurine,

you would make your playing piece out of purple Play-Doh and it was in the shape of grapes. You would push purple Play-Doh into this mould and then go... And it would make how many players you were playing with. So you'd make four. And the idea was your grape had to survive the longest and there was all these things on the board game to stomp the grapes. What?

It was loose. It was like Mousetrap. I just Googled it. It was a Play-Doh squishy grape version of Mousetrap. And man, I wanted that game when I was a kid. So bad. You could roll over the grapes with a roller. Yeah, it was just the whole thing was to survive

because that thing was out to kill. Oh, you should try and track one down. You know they've read our Mousetrap. Get out of town. You remember the old 20 stage situation with Mousetrap? Not anymore. I'll send you a photo. Okay.

Of the kids that game of mousetrap. When we opened it, I was like, oh, this is disappointing. No. Oh, it's disappointing. No, they've turned it right back. It's PC madness. Lame. Is the grape story about the people that sold three and a half thousand tons of grapes in Germany?

Yes. Well, they stole the entire thing. Three and a half thousand. Oh, plants. Yeah. Three and a half thousand tons of grapes in Germany? Yes. They stole the entire vineyard. Three and a half thousand. Oh, plants, yeah. Oh, they stole three and a half thousand tons. They stole the whole vineyard. Yeah. Like the entire vineyard.

And they used the whole actual machine, the harvesting machine. So no one's suspecting anything. They're just like, oh, they're harvesting. Yeah. You got that correct. Where were the people that owned the vineyard? Germany. No, no, no.

Were they just like away on holiday or something? You don't go away that close to. But they did it in broad daylight. Yeah, I know. You don't go the people that owned the vineyard? Germany. No, no, no. Were they just like away on holiday or something? You don't go away that close to... But they did it in broad daylight. Yeah, I know. You don't go away that close to harvest. All right, well, that leaves one story. Okay. Story number one.

With the internet divided over parking tickets. Okay. So I'm going to show you a photo. Obviously, this doesn't work for the radio, but the photo I'm showing Vaughan and Megan is a BMW parked on the white line of two car parks, the dividing line of two car parks. I hate it when people do that.

I can see what's happened, though. And they have put two parking pay and display tickets on the dashboard, one on either side. So they've paid for both parks. They've paid for two parks. They're taking up two parks, obviously because these are quite skinny car parks. They look like very skinny car parks.

And they don't want anyone to ding their BMW. They don't want anyone. So they're paying for two car parks, and this is where the internet is divided because people are like, well, you're a rich a-hole because you're driving a BMW. You're taking up two parks. It's inconsiderate. But then some people on the other side are like, well, you're a rich a-hole because you're driving a BMW. You're taking up two parks. It's inconsiderate.

But then some people on the other side are like, well, if you don't want your expensive car dinged and you're paying for two parks, what's the problem? That's why I... One of the many reasons I'd never want a really expensive car because you could be as careful as you want,

but someone else will just... Or some kid's going to kick open the door of the bloody trivia they're getting out of next door and put a massive dent in your car. And apparently, this is a regular thing in the UK. People apparently are used to it. I've never heard of this happening. Taking two parks, but paying for two parks.

But maybe because they have small cars, don't they? They're very, like, you know, European cities. They have little cars. It's not unusual for every, you know, the police cars are even little, tiny cars, don't they? They're very... Yeah. Like, you know, European cities. They have little cars. It's not unusual for every... Well, yeah, they're not big. You know, the police cars are even little, tiny cars, aren't they? So it's not unusual. But, yeah, so the internet kind of went to town.

To be loved by anybody. I don't know if I'm upset with that because they paid for it. Yeah, me too. If they were just, like, trying to, like, was it a super busy car park where there are no other cars available? No, I think it was a super busy car park Were there no other cars available No I think it was a super busy car park So a lot of comments One person said

I like the fact that he's paid for both spaces But he's still being an entitled wanker Yeah that's true Lots of comments I think most of the people Are just going to town on him to be honest I mean it's fine Because I wasn't trying to park in that car park

But if I was trying to find somewhere to park I'd be pretty pissed. Yeah. Two tickets or not. Yeah, yeah. Got to be confusing because, you know, sometimes there's just like a little car parked and you pull, you think, oh, there's a space, and you're like, oh, no,

you were just a short little Daihatsu. Other people are pointing out that the SUV that's parked next to him in the park over is right on the line. In fact, it might even be over. One's over the line and the other one's right on the line. Yeah, so they're too skinny. The car parts are too skinny. Too small.

So I'm almost, I can kind of understand. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. What do you do? When I initially saw that photo, I thought that they thought that, because the dividing line's like a T. It comes to an end and then it turns into a T.

I thought they thought they just had to get over the middle of that. They weren't familiar with how parking lines worked. Because they've never parked in their life ever before. Well, Amazon have scrapped an AI tool they were using to hire people for jobs at Amazon. As it turned out, that not only is society a little bit sexist, but so is artificial intelligence.

Okay. This was created to pick through the many, many CVs and pick out the most promising candidates for roles offered at Amazon. Isn't that insane? That's artificial intelligence. Because, you know, it's quite scary to think that in the future,

a lot of jobs that people do now are going to be gone. I would never have thought that selecting people for a job would be AI. Well, this is a great example of how maybe not yet. Okay. But it taught itself to prefer the male candidates over the female ones. Why? And it would penalise CVs that included the word women's, such as women's chess club captain or women's football team, or if they had done

anything that was just female. Gender specific, right. It also downgraded graduates from two all-women's colleges. Really? If they went there and it was all-women's. Who taught it to do that? Well, it had been taught by data submitted by a period for the previous 10 years. Right.

Which had come from men that were in charge of hiring at the time. So they identified it and they're like, okay, it's preferring men because of the 10 years prior, we also, it seems, preferred men. Right. So they tried to tweak it. a guy who founded a UK job website, said the basic premise of expecting a machine to identify strong job applicants based on historic hiring practices is a surefire method to rapidly scale up the inherent bias and discriminatory recruitment practices.

Meaning, if you've been sexist in the past and you've taught the robot what you're doing, it's just going to double down on how you were doing it. Right. Because my fear was people would read that headline and be like, oh, well, now even the AI know that men are a better prospect than women. But no, it's because they've been taught that.

So if on the rare occasion it did select a woman, she'd be hot? Most probably. Yeah. Yeah. And willing to do something to his hard drive. But apparently IBM launched further AI that would be designed to detect bias in AI. So now there's AI examining AI. Oh, no, I'm not okay with that.

Because it was Stephen Hawkins and a lot of people have come out and said AI, it's not going to be good. It's not going to be well. Because AI is like, males are better at jobs than females. And the other one's like, you are better at jobs than females, and the other one's like, you know who's better than males. No, I don't. Tell me.

Robots, destroy the humans. That makes sound sense. Destroy the humans. And that's all it takes, and then we're screwed. As soon as those two robots started talking to each other and we couldn't understand,

I was like, pull the plug. It sounds a bit racist. If you exchange robots with Chinese people, Megan, that would be very racist. But one's human and one's mechanics. At the moment. And I won't have you calling the Chinese robots. FVM, the podcast.

A UK couple have gone on holiday. They went on holiday. They got a bit boozed and they made friends and had a chat with the owners of the hotel they were staying in. So it was a beachside hotel in Sri Lanka. Actually, they were honeymooning there. Oh, boys, I've always wanted to go there.

Yeah. For Sri Lanka, yeah. Apparently it's beautiful. And it's not like as touristy as like your Thailand's and your others. But it's also got its problems, eh, if you go too far off the beaten path. Tea. Huh? Tea.

Tea gangs. The tea mafia. They grow a lot of tea there, tea. Huh? Tea. Tea gangs. The tea mafia. They grow a lot of tea there, don't they? I don't know. Sri Lanka. Yeah. Isn't that where Dilma tea's from? Yeah.

And isn't it where MIA's from? Yeah. Sri Lanka, she says in one of her songs. Okay. Well, she must be. I come from Sri Lanka. Yeah. But beautiful.

Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful people. Yeah. From what I've seen. But trouble in the areas. The Tamil Tigers? Yeah. Is that the rebel group there? Yeah, yeah. Beautiful people. Yeah. From what I've seen. But trouble in the areas. The Tamil Tigers? Yeah, that's...

Is that the rebel group there? Yeah, that sounds like... The Tamil Tea Tigers. The Tamil... The Dilmar Tea Tigers. He's trying to get sponsorship. Yeah. So Gina and Mark went to Sri Lanka for their honeymoon,

staying in this hotel. And yeah, they got boozed one night and they were talking to the hotel owners. Now the hotel owners were like, we want to get out, our lease is up, you know, I think we're done with the hotel and that's when Mark and Gina, whilst drunk, paid $87,000 New Zealand dollars to buy the hotel. I mean, in terms of a hotel, that's pretty cheap, isn't it? It is, but apparently it looked very grotty and cheap, but it was by the beach, so they

were like, this is nice. You're not going to get beachfront property in, you know? Yeah. So they woke up. Now you might think if you woke up the next day, you'd be like, no, sorry, we were drunk. They actually still own this hotel. I would have just skipped the country if I'd recruited that person.

What, they've gone through with it? They went through with it. And then she found out she was pregnant and was like, I actually feel a bit guilty that I might have wasted all this money on this business that might not work. But hey, they're sticking with it. That'd be the dream, wouldn't it? Running like a little place on the beach like that.

Apart from all the people. Yeah. Because when you started saying that, I was like, you know part of running a hotel is having to like deal with people and like go out of your way to try to please them. And I was like, it's not really your... I'd be like faulty towers. You get upset because you're in paradise, but you'd be working all the time.

So you don't get to enjoy it. But working in paradise is better than working in golf fishing. What's that thing on the back of those people's boats say? A bad day fishing's paradise work? I don't know. I don't know. You know, like guys. I'm really not wearing.

A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work. A bad day fishing. But then what if your work is paradise and like, you could go fishing off the wharf. I've found some fishing sayings. Okay.

Oh no, hang on. I've got some stickers, some bumper stickers here. Yeah, go on. That's probably more of, some bumper stickers. Yeah, go on. That's probably more of what we're after. Sex is like fishing. It's not in the cast. It's how you wiggle your worm.

It's not in the cast. I don't know. Yeah, when you cast the rod. That's someone who's never had sex. You shouldn't be entering the ladies, you know, cards like casting off the beach because this is how I cast off the beach. Yeah! Okay.

That's not how I start sex. You'd like to though, wouldn't you? What, running and just going, yeah! It's fish o'clock somewhere. Well, no, it's not. I'd rather be fishing. Nothing's fish o'clock. I'd rather be fishing.

They apply that to anything. What else you got there? What does that one say? The fisherman. You know a fisherman lives here. Fishing is like boobs. Even the small ones are fun to play with. Oh, my God.

That's rubbish, isn't it? I like fishing. Please hold. I'm on the other line. Oh, that's good. And it's a little fishing line. I like fishing Please hold I'm on the other line That's good And it's a little fishing line I like fishing But if you have a

Body parts Either that one If you have a body part I mean if you have a bumper sticker I'm kind of like Oh nah I don't think I like anything enough Fishing is my retirement plan

I just don't like it It's all You've got to put the bait The hook The stinky fingers Oh yeah If I'm going fishing Someone has to bait it

And get the fish off for me Terrible Although I did I saw an old mate once At the beach A few months ago The hook, the stinky fingers. Oh yeah, if I'm going fishing, someone has to bait it and get the fish off for me. Although I saw an old mate once at the beach a few months ago up north and he had like a potato gun that followed into the water. I was like this, now I could get into fishing. Because these explosives. Fishing is like sex. Instead of castigating it. Someone's got to help Fletch get started

and then and then at the end he doesn't want his finger doesn't want his what we've lost four no I you calm down

we're gonna give away free fuel next okay your microphone's gone oh no FEM what is being described as the world's first Netflix addict

has gone into rehab. Oh, wow. So this is an Indian unemployed man. He apparently spent seven hours a day at least on Netflix for six months straight. Mostly just watching trailers to decide what he should watch next. I know, right? Like, that's the thing. You sit down and you're like,

well, what am I going to watch now? Yeah. When you've gone through all the big kind of shows. Doctors in India said the man watched are the hours to shut out reality. The addiction led to eye strains, exhaustion, exhaustion, and erratic sleeping patterns.

Right. And so he's had to go to rehab. Are we all that far away from him though? A digital rehab? Not really. In the weekend? Not really, no. Yeah, we'll watch it at Shutout Reality, watch it for seven hours. I mean, we've all like...

Isn't that just what TV is at the end of the day? We've all got to that point in Netflix where it's like, are you still watching? You're like, yes. Judge me, I've been here the whole time. Yeah, I was just... Continue. Like staying as still as I could so I'm sorry

you've done such a wonderful job putting together these great programs yeah and when they just roll on it's like okay I will one more

one more next one one more one more and now I have to go to work speaking of which Riverdale season 3 starts today not that you guys

and Making a Murderer is that next week? That's soon. I think there's a few good releases coming out this month. Yeah, because it's American fall now.

Yeah. So they're losing their great weather so they start piling in the good Netflix shows for the colder months. Well, that sucks because then we get sunshine

and you're looking outside as you're watching Netflix being like, I should be out there. I feel guilty as you develop rickets for not getting enough vitamin D. There's been an agreement between Australia and New Zealand that our bottles of wine will have suitable warnings on them.

Yep. Booze, in fact, not just wine, but suitable warnings on them to deter those who shouldn't be drinking, i.e. people who are pregnant. Yeah, just like those gross labels on ciggy packets were, okay? And the fallouts of drinking them. I hope, the big thing, obviously, with pregnant people drinking is fetal alcohol spectrum syndrome,

and it can be varied and wildly different, but you'd think people would know. You would think people. But that you'd think people would know. You would think people would know. You would think people would know. Who's getting a reminder on a bottle thinking, oh, that's right. Yeah, I'm pregnant. I shouldn't drink. Like, really?

It's just not fair, though, because that's a person that can't decide. You know, like if you're choosing to smoke, you're choosing to smoke for yourself and ruin yourself. Yeah. But the baby can't decide. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe get a baby on board sticker for your stomach just so you remember.

The top six warning labels that need to be on booze, non-baby related. Okay. Number six, this will taste nasty at first, then it won't. Its taste hasn't changed. Yours has and you're hungover now. So then you're like, actually, I think I'm developing a taste for this.

I think you've just drunk enough that your taste buds have been like, we out. See you tomorrow when we're tasting vomit. Thanks for that.

Number five on the list of the top six warning labels that need to be on booze is, remember how you said you were taking it easy this weekend? Yeah.

You probably only need one of these. Isn't that just you every weekend, Caitlin? There's a few of these. I'm never drinking ever again. Yeah. You probably only need one of these. Isn't that just you every weekend, Caitlin? There's a few of these. I'm never drinking ever again. Yeah.

No. Well, I had a few cocktails last night. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six warning labels that need to be on booze.

One that says, a glass of milk has as many calories as this glass of wine. And how many people drink so much milk that they vomit up all the calories?

Not many. True. Well, that's, yeah, that's got scarring they vomit up all the calories? Not many. True. Yeah, that's got scarring. It's all the calories on the way home when you get the kebab with the chips. Yeah. You get a bit carried away with the sauces. Number three on the list of the top six warning labels that need to be on booze is

you're better than a pre-mixed bourbon from a can. Come on. Nothing against bourbon. I mean, enjoy a bourbon but pre-mixed? Come on. At least get a nice bourbon. Sometimes it's just easier, Vaughan. It is convenience. It's convenience.

Number two on the list of the top six warning labels that need to be on booze is one that says the perfect drink for your latest reasoning for saying I'm never drinking again tomorrow.

Which would be a good range of wines. Yeah. I think. Oh, yeah. The I'm Never Drinking Again Rosé. For those people that are always saying they're never drinking again. Caitlin averaging about two a month on that one, eh?

She's gone quiet. Why have you gone quiet? No, just every weekend. Yeah, okay. Most times. And the number one warning label that needs to be on bottles of booze is one that says, look, you're going to end up messaging your ex or that person you've sworn off when you drink too much of this product.

So tread very lightly. That is today's top six. Well, I talked yesterday about putting on a slumber party for my two nieces across from Australia and my daughter's... My sister's daughter and my daughter's, my sister's daughter. My daughter's sister. No, that would be my other daughter. Some kids. Nieces.

It was an all-girls slumber party. I saw your photos on Instagram and stuff. This was ooh-la-la. I know, great set up. Next live slumber party. We never had slumber parties like that. No. And so many people saying, can adults have slumber parties like that? I suppose you could, right? Yes, you could, yeah. Like in all gals.

Although I don't do... But then I said, as I get to the end of it and you'd want to go to a bed where you didn't have to sleep two foot from someone. And I don't like air mattresses because they're too wobbly.

And if it was a whole bunch of single adults, you know what I'm saying, where I think it would end up? Yeah, true, yeah. Orgy town. Okay, we got it. You got it without me saying orgy town.

Like we went there in our head. Yeah. But I said town, so, like, that got past a lot of people. Do they have a post office? Or have they probably shut it down? Well, they shut it down. Everyone wouldn't be surprised. Only the old people go to the post office in Orgy Town.

Okay. You don't want too many old people in your Orgy Town. Maybe one or two just for token sake. Yeah, okay. Just to look good on the posters. Anyway, a slumber party went down. And by 8 o'clock, it was lights out. And, you know, I was expecting chaos.

I said, I'll record some of the screaming. And it was quiet. Okay. At 8 o'clock. And I was in bed by 8 o'clock. Lame slumber party. I know. We had pizza and stuff before. And I was in bed by 8 o'clock. Lame slumber party. I know.

We had pizza and stuff before and there was games and playing. And your parents would say, oh, right, we're going to bed, everyone shut up. And you'd be like, okay. And then you'd stay up real late. Yeah, I know. I'd go to bed. But they were all out in the lounge blocking the TV. Like, what did you guys do?

We just went to bed. Okay. My mum stayed. She had a book. I said, what do you want to do? She's like, well, I'm just going to boil the jug and I'm going to go and read one of my mini books. I was like, all right. My mini stayed. She had a book. I said, what do you want to do? She's like, well, I'm just going to boil the jug and I'm going to go and read one of my many books. I was like, all right. My many books.

What did she bring her mobile library? She has six books on her. That's a lot of books to have on her person. Why are you bringing that many with? Well, she's flying to Australia and back today because she's taking these kids back. So you're going to read one book? Yeah, I know. I don't know why she's armed with so many books.

Oh, weird. Half a dozen books. Okay. That's more than all the books in the Orgy Town library. No time for books in Orgy Town. Not a lot. Not a lot of time for books. One of the books is a how-to.

Run Orgy Town. And so everybody was in bed and there was quiet and I went to sleep. And then when I woke up this morning, I was like, didn't hear a noise all night. Yeah. Snuck out of the house. I made provisions last night to exit the back door. Okay. Which is also how you get out of Orchard Town.

Stop. And snuck out. Right. And it was all, all was well. Peaceful. And I was like, they did so well. No disturbances. No knocking on the door in the middle of the night being like, I'm scared.

Or anything like that. I was like, this is great. They've set the bar in the middle of the night being like, I'm scared or anything like that. I was like, this is great. They've set the bar high for, you know, we'll do future slumber parties because that's if it goes poorly the first time, maybe you don't do it again. Yeah. That's when I thought, I'll check the Arlo. We've got this camera.

And last night I set it up, the camera just in the lounge, to activate and record 30 seconds of footage when it heard anything. And at quarter to 10 last night, August woke up and proceeded to wake up her cousin Malika. And they started doing some colouring in and having a little bit of a chat. Now, the audios, you can just hear them. They're just whispering. Otherwise I'd play you the audio, but you can't really hear what they're saying.

They're whispering, whispering, whispering. At one stage, I heard someone go, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. That was about... They went over the lines, maybe. Yeah, maybe, maybe. And then my mum comes into the lounge. Because one of them must have made enough noise that mum came in and was like, get back in the bed.

Get back in the bed. But then I won't play that audio because I don't want to make it look like too much of a grumpy nana because that's her biggest fear that everyone's going to call her grumpy nana. And I thought, well, that's good. Yeah. However, then I checked again just before

and at quarter to five this morning, there was action. Okay. There was action on the camera. So it was two waking up and I'm guessing going in to wake up Nana, who then probably held the hostage in her own bed. And then everybody else kicked off at about six o'clock this morning.

So not too bad. Not too bad. But there will be words. I've got a screen cap of them pointing at the camera being like, they'd forgotten, and that was the minute that I remembered that I told them that the camera would be recording if it heard anything.

Yeah. And it's just the guiltiest look on three of their faces. But no, overall success. But Augie was the instigator. It looks that way, yes. Yeah, so good luck. There'll be a thorough investigation launched.

A thorough investigation. Want to talk now about times when you can't believe you were charged for dot dot dot okay because uh mom has turned to an online forum i love these forums it's not a mom's net is it oh jeez i think women wander in there no i think people wander in there just expecting a bit of friendly advice but it's like wandering into the craziest, like, cannibal ritual. Because they're so mean to other mums. They sit on each other and just, there's not a lot of support in mums then.

I think that's why I enjoy it, because I'm not a mum. Because if I was a mum, I'd get real heated. It's all the passion of political debate with, like, very tired, frazzled mothers. Yeah. So it actually does describe this woman as bewildered. She turned to

Mumsnet for advice and maybe like camaraderie. Camaraderie. Yeah. Because she was charged $51

for her daughter to attend her friend's birthday party. So her daughter went to a birthday party and it was obviously quite lavish and they were like,

hey, for her to be here, 51 bucks. Was there champagne for $51? Well, you'd want bottomless, wouldn't you? I'd want a bottomless brunch for that. Yeah, and so they'd only given two days notice for this party too, which, I mean, that wouldn't make a difference to me. I'm still not paying that.

But a kid is not going to churn through $51 of chips and lollies and cake. But have you seen these birthday parties? Having catered some birthday parties, it's always over catered. Because they get too excited. But is it because now, like, because do you remember when we had a birthday party, she was pretty budjo. But now there's this expectation, there's Instagram,

if your kid's birthday party isn't up to scratch. Remember mum would just make like a chocolate cake and it was like real flat and then the icing dribbles off the side and she's like, there you go. And you weren't even allowed to have friends over. No, it's just Nana. Nana can. And Nana would be like, your cake's rubbish.

This party sucks. But then she was confused too. She's like, do I have to buy a present as well? Because we're already paying like 50 bucks to go along. I just put an on say to little Timmy, little Timmy, we're not going to Julian's birthday party now. Julian. Julian's birthday party now.

That is the name of a child whose mother charges 51 dollars a year. Julian's mum is a witch. She's a bee. She's a bee, Timmy. And we're not going anymore. And then Timmy goes to still tell. In my mind, Julian's mum's name's Chloe. Yeah.

Right, okay. Okay. But with the two dots over the E. Yeah. Timmy and we're not going anymore and my Julian's mum's name's Chloe yeah right okay okay but with the two dots over the E yeah yeah Chloe Chloe so

would like to know off the back of this when you couldn't believe you were charged for something and maybe it was friends charging you for something or maybe it was just

an unexpected situation yeah you didn't you didn't expect to pay for something and then all of a sudden you get hit with a little fee. Yeah. Well, I remember being invited to somebody's birthday trip.

Now, it was a very small, exclusive group, me and him. Yeah. And wait a minute, that sounds romantic. It's not me. No, I was like 11. Oh, okay, yeah. I was really young. Okay.

And he said to his mum that he wanted to go to Rainbow's End. Now, that was a bit of a hike from Morrinsville. But we came out to Rainbow's End and my mum gave me $30 for food. And then we got to the ticket booth and they made me pay my own admission to Rainbow's End. And so you had no change. I had no money. I had like $3. It was $26, I think.

Yeah. In fact, I know it was because I'm scarred in my memory. And so I had $3 to eat. If you invite a kid, is their family supposed to pay for the admission to? If you're inviting one kid to a birthday party and you go to a room and you pay for the kid, right? Well, yeah. My assumption would be unless it was like a large scale event. Yeah.

If you're only taking one or two kids, you pay for those kids, right? Okay. Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be a birthday party. Well, my mum was of the assumption that I was being paid for and she was giving me a lush...

Imagine if she'd only given me 20 bucks. I would have needed to take a bloody loan off the people that took me. They'd charge me interest as well. Well, it doesn't need

to be a birthday party or anything. What can't you believe that you were charged for? 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696-FEM. ZM. We're talking about when you couldn't believe you were asked for. 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696-FEM We're talking about when you couldn't believe

you were asked to pay for something. A mum went to Mumsnet and was like, this seems nice. Huge mistake for a start. Yeah. Mumsnet seems to be everyone's either like

100% for you and wants you to be the queen of the world or literally wants to see you burnt at stake for witchcraft. So a mum wanted to charge you 52 New Zealand dollars for her son attending a birthday party.

And she's like, is this okay? And everyone's like, yes and no. Yeah. But we want to know what you can't believe you were charged for.

A text message in, somebody said, some people we just met invited us over for dinner. And we thought, well, that is very nice. And of course, politeness and manners

indicated that we should say, can we bring anything? Yeah. And they said, like a dessert, et cetera. Yeah. To which they said, no, $50 should cover it. Ha ha. And they were like, ha ha ha. All right.

See you, Sat D. Yeah, because ha ha. Ha ha. Yeah. They arrive and like after dinner, they like get hit up for that $50. You don't invite someone. You don't invite them over for dinner and charge them for the... No. If you're inviting someone to your house for dinner, you're providing.

Yeah. There's no doubt about that. You'd be like, oh, maybe bring something to drink or something, but otherwise we're all good. Yeah. We're all... Plus $50. I know. You could go out for dinner.

I know. Yeah. You better hope that that is... I'll be like, actually, no, because the steak wasn't up to scratch. It was overcooked. I was thinking a roast, but you'd want more than a roast because you get a roast for like 11 bucks from the roast shop. Yeah.

True, true. I'd want pudding. I'd want a soup. I wouldn't even, I'd even like soup. Entree. But I'd want one. And I'd probably steal something from their house too, just to make sure I got my money's worth. The butter better bloody well be spreadable.

I don't want a hard cube of butter. It better be garlic butter. Oh, yum. Herbed garlic butter and a fresh cob loaf. Delicious. I'm just in my head now designing the perfect meal and now I'm quite hungry. Some other text messages in for people that can't believe

they were asked to pay for it. I arrived at a hen's night after they'd been on the bus. Yeah. Now, I was only there for a small appearance. Yeah. I wasn't going out, so I hadn't brought cash with me. The minute I arrived, they wanted 20 bucks for the bus and the stripper that had been on the bus.

The bus, you'll remember, that I had not taken part in. So they'd deliberately chosen to avoid the bus. Yes. Yeah, right. And then they were coming to have a couple of drinks and then off home. Right. You can't charge them for that. No.

No, no. And so they said they also didn't have cash on them because they weren't going out. Yeah, right. They had enough for a drink. And then they were going to go home. They had to call their boyfriend and he had to like tax her in 20 bucks because these people were so persistent about it. Oh my God.

Yeah. What was your butt, Fletch? Are you kind of on the side? Like, just don't even turn up. Like, go all in or don't go all in. No, because you want to support, like, the hen. But sometimes hens... But you just don't want to see some greasy dude rub his jennies in her face. Exactly.

On public transport that on Monday we'll be taking some kids to a pool at another school. I've seen it happen. I was like, what are those kids doing on a party bus? And they pulled into the school at the pool. I was like, okay, I hope they didn't touch anything. I hope they sanitise the poles. Yeah.

Oh, God, I hope so. Always sanitise. Always give the, like at the gym, you know, you grab those sanitising wipes. You'd very much think so. It must be hard though. What? Like being a

stripper and like it's also a school bus because you don't want to be sliding down a pole and get the stop bus buzzer. You know and you... Just as you're doing a pivotal part of your routine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the doors fly open and you hit the pavement. You're in your G so you've got no

protection. No. Sally, what were you asked to pay for? I was asked to pay for a call-out fee of $82.80, I think it was. Yeah. Because my washing machine broke down. And we only have one company in my small town that you can call. There's nobody else. There's no competition.

Yeah. And they were coming from a call one street away to tell me that it couldn't be fixed. So not only did they have to buy a new washing machine, but I had to pay $82 to be told they needed

a new washing machine. If they look at it and say, I can't fix it, they shouldn't charge you. No, they can charge like they came, but $82 isn't safe.

How long were they there for? Three minutes. And you said they came one street over? Yeah, they just came from one street over and the guy wiggled the drum and he says, oh, it's come right off its spindle, that can't be fixed. It'll be about $600 to fix.

I said, oh, I might as well buy a new washing machine anyway. But I guess they figure, who else are you going to call? Ghostbusters. That's true. All right, thanks for your call, Sally. My mate drove us all to R&V and we all paid gas money along. Every time we stopped, we'd all chip in for gas money.

He didn't pay for gas money. Okay. Because it was his car. Yeah. And then when we got back, he tried to charge us for wear and tear to his car. Oh, wow. Like mileage. After he'd forced us to leave a day early.

Oh, he sounds like a no. Someone who was charging them depreciation on his motor vehicle. He's not getting invited back to R&D. No, that's a real down-to-year R&D. Any roadie next year at all. Yeah. No fun. Chewing your face off.

He's like, I don't know if this is the time to ask, guys, but, you know, we hit a couple of potholes on the way down. I'm figuring we're going to need a wheel alignment before we hit home. We can all just chip in 20. I'll pop down to the garage and get that all sorted. Yeah. Yeah, lots of people can't believe they were charged for something.

A friend of mine once asked a group of maybe five of us if we wanted to see a movie with her and proceeded to say she would organise it. So she bought the tickets, but then she also tacked on a $2 per person administration fee. No, you can't do that. Was she open about it? Or did they figure it out? They might have said, well, why does the tickets cost that much rather than this much? And she told them it was a $2 admin fee.

By 2050 we could all be gone because the Earth kid That's depressing. How old would we be? 80. So that's 30 years away. Oh so we'll still be here. And 32 years to what you are now and yeah, what's happening?

But that'd be good if they can confirm that because I will have been entitled to my KiwiSaver for one year and that would be a pretty legit year turning 265. They're being like, here's your lump sum KiwiSaver. And then being like, we're going to be dead in a year. And then me just being like, pretty. What's happening? So the earth could cease to be able to support human life.

This is if we keep eating meat and wasting food. So we need to really cut back on eating meat and figure out our production of food. Huh, okay. Because how many people in the world right now? 7 billion. So we're going to hit 10 billion by 2050. Jeez.

Where are we going to put them? I don't want any more in my house. But we need to produce. You've got a spare room. No. One at your house. Megan, you've got two spare rooms. Yeah.

Four at your house. Well, one's Leo's room. One for the dog. Yeah. Okay, so what do we have to do? Not eat meat. We're going to need to produce 50% more food to support the 10 billion people. So we're not going to be able to do that with meat. We need to figure out how we're going to need to produce 50% more food to support the 10 billion people. So we're not going to be able to do that with meat.

We need to figure out how we're going to eat less meat. Fake meat. And bugs, right? Yeah, fake meat. They've said bugs is the next protein. I'm all for bugs being a protein source. So that's all we're going to do. See, I've been going around this meat eating thing the wrong way.

I love a bit of meat. But I often make fun of vegetarians in a kind-hearted way because they're probably pretty tired. And they don't need this as well as having to eat broccoli again today. Yeah, for sure. But I've been going about this the wrong way. I need to tell more people to be vegetarian. So you get to eat more meat.

So I eat more of the meat allocation. Right. It's a great idea. All right. It's a great plan. Zedium. Don't leave me alone. ZedM Switch.

Born and vegan. All right, 10 to 8. We're joined on the phone this morning by the Prime Minister of this lovely country of ours, even though it's snowing and it's like October, which is probably somehow her fault. Jacinda Ardern, good morning. Good morning. I take responsibility for everything. Yeah, I knew it.

I knew it. Well, at least you're honest about it, bloody snowstorms. How's everything going in the Beehive? Oh, yeah, good, good. We're back in session on next week. So we have periods where we're back in our constituency. So I'm up back in Auckland this week.

Okay. But busy, busy. Okay, well, you've come back from New York and it's been all go here. Vaughan has promised this morning, despite going to school with you, Jacinda, that there's going to be a grilling. There's going to be a grilling on the show.

Because Hoskins has been away for a couple of weeks on school holidays because, I don't know, he's 13 or something and he gets two weeks off. But petrol prices, where are we at with this investigation?

Yes, you might have heard me, you may or may not have heard me talking about this quite a lot. Yeah, I've noticed New Zealanders have been quite hot on the topic. Wow, and you know, I've been accused now of becoming obsessed because every time I drive past a petrol station, I fly into a rage at the moment.

Because, you know, this week alone, I think in Wellington and in Auckland, there's been a 10 cent difference between the price you'll pay in Wellington versus Auckland. Now, most people would think Auckland would pay more. Not the case. They are paying more in Wellington. And there is a 40 cent difference across the country right now. I know, my dad's not happy about it. He's in Nelson, yeah. So why is that happening?

There's a difference. Yeah, and that's what we've got to look into because that can't be, that's not something I'm finding easy to explain. 10 years ago, you didn't see that variation across the country in the way that you are now. So it's not just down to transport costs. So we're changing the law. So the Commerce Commission will be able to go in

and take a closer look through these things called market studies. And I'm nominating the fuel industry as a place for them to start. And what supermarkets are next? No, I've been asked a question around who else might this kind of market study apply to. There's a whole process we have to go through

before those kind of market studies can take place. I've just said, look, this is the kind of example of where they might occur. Right, yeah, because sometimes I'll swipe my one card at what works. I don't know if that's something we can chuck in the mix. Are you asking us to look into... I mean, if you've got time. If you've got time.

Find out why the magnetic strip doesn't work and then they put the receipt paper around it and swipe it. True. And then it works. I don't know why that works. You know, I have this theory, though, around fuel prices. Ten years ago, we weren't reliant on coupons to pay a reasonable price for fuel. And now everyone is saying you've got to have a card

or you've got to have a discount voucher from a supermarket. But often they require you to fill up to a certain point. You know, I remember when I used to 20 bucks a time. That used to be how I filled up my car. And so I do think that there are some people who just aren't going to be accessing those discounts. Right. They're into my rant.

Okay, no, no, that's good. Grilling continues. Next, what's the difference between the stock market and the share market? And why did we have a bad one yesterday? Oh, so that's a flow in effect from what we've seen in the United States. And I don't know if anyone reads what Trump's been saying,

but he usually relies quite a bit on using that as an example of why the United States economy is in good shape. But there was a bit of some jarring results for some of the tech companies in the US yesterday. It wasn't, I wouldn't call the flow-on effect for the NZX New Zealanders a bloodbath in the way that it has been described. I don't think I'd call it that.

But we have seen some flow-on effects here. This is great morning radio, by the way. This is great. Well, Kanye's there today, so problem solved. I saw that. Can someone explain to me what's going on there? No one can. Look, if you were at the UN the other week,

if you don't know, the rest of us are only guessing. Wow, I don't know. I already wore the hat and the whole rant started. I don't know. Maybe there's some kind of power attached to the hat. I don't know. Are you done with your grilling, Vaughn? No, I've got one last thing.

Okay, what? Bird of the year. Who did you chuck your two cents behind? Well, you may or may not know this. I was once the ambassador for the black petrol. The bogan of the bird. Dad. That's an absolute dad.

There were black hoodies made. We had merch. And I failed the black petrol, and I still carry that. And so I will back the black petrol until it succeeds. Okay. And one last. This is a serious question. What is Anne Hathaway actually like?

Yeah, good question. Actually really lovely. Exactly as you'd imagine, really. So, well, no, to be fair, I mean, she's not her character. She's a princess diary. A lot of people hate on Anne Hathaway and then you've met her, so.

No, she was really nice. She was really, really nice. We sat and talked for about an hour about exciting things like paid parental leave and family policies and things like that. But she was very lovely. Well, we've covered it all, from petrol prices to the black petrol

to Anne Hathaway. To Anne Hathaway and back. All right. Wide ranging. You're done for the week. You can take the rest of the day off. After that grilling, it's the least you deserve. And what a grilling it was.

An absolute grilling. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Thanks, guys. Friday Flashback. Flashback, flashback. Can I just say as well, Megan, before you give us some free tickets in this Friday Flashback, Producer Caitlin, you've lined up somebody

for Swipe Mears next. Yes, and this story involves a car chase. Producer Caitlin, you've lined up somebody for Swipe Mears next. Yes, and this story involves a car chase. So buckle up and get ready. Who's got the money to be in a car chase anymore? Petro price is the way they are. Very expensive time to be running from the police. Actually, you've found some actual Asira's moment on the show, seeing some fuel-saving tips that you didn't even know. No, no, some of these I didn't know. Because there's the on the show, seeing some fuel-saving tips. Yeah. You didn't even know some of these.

No, no, some of these I didn't know. Because there's the air con one, eh? You turn that down or off. Off. But then that's no fun in summer. But then there's a catch to that one as well. Oh, okay. All right, well, they're coming up.

All right. I am playing an artist from So Pop. So So Pop has been announced. It is a gig on the 5th of February next year. Did you just look at what it is? Oh, my. No. And no.

Why did you put it in so early, James? Caitlin's so excited about this. I can see what it is. So, So Pop is Aqua, Vengaboys, Blue, Bewitched, Eiffel 65, Lou Bega, and more. It is one of those artists. This is going to be one of those trips down memory lane, eh? I can't believe we haven't played it. 1998. And I didn't

know they're Italian. Which might explain some of the singing. I thought they were French. Yeah, nah, Italian. Because of the name. Okay. The song makes absolutely no sense, but it was super fun at the time and I think it'll be super fun this morning. Now, are you going to give away a double pass to the Soapop now? Yes. Now.

0800 dial ZM. Call a 10. Gets it. So if that line up is a bit of you down memory lane. You could be seeing this next song live. You could preload on some purple goannas. You should. And if you've never seen the music video for this song,

give it a Google. I just watched it. Awfully, like, looking, like, at the time, everyone was like, wow, computers, man, that's pretty cool. What a trip. But now you look at it and you're like, oh, I feel like I need a wash. All right.

My Friday flashback this morning. Eiffel 65. Oh, yeah. See them. he sees is just blue like him inside and outside blue his house with the blue little window and a blue car wreck and everything is blue for him and himself and everybody around because he ain't got nobody to listen to listen to listen to listen From here it's fairly repetitive. I mean, you could argue that the minute it started, from there, it was fairly repetitive.

It's Megan's Friday flashback, Eiffel 65. Oh, hold on. Don't talk over this bit. So they're coming. And we're done. They're coming for So Pop. It's still going. They are coming for So Pop.

Tuesday, the 5th of February. So it is Aqua, Vengaboys, Blue, Bewitched, I-465, Lou Bega, and more. Now the tickets go on sale the 16th of October at lunchtime from Ticketmaster. Emma, who are you most looking forward to seeing? Oh, probably Vengaboys now, I reckon. Oh, I think that'd be so good. Unless it's Vengabass. Yeah.

Vengabass, yes. All right, well, you've got the first double pass to So Pop. Emma, congratulations. Amazing, thank you. All right, some feedback. Some feedback. I don't know if it'll be good. Still going.

Yes, he's still blue. Somebody said, this song always reminds me of my dad screaming, please don't play that it'll be good. Still going. Yes, he's still blue. Somebody said, this song always reminds me of my dad screaming, please don't play that song again and shut up to us kids when we played it and danced around the lounge. Somebody else said, I had a blue wetsuit when I was a kid and this was like the song I always sung

when I put on my blue wetsuit. Did you start that again? Yes. It's not still going. Somebody else said, this song was so savagely overplayed 20 years ago, I still don't feel I need to hear it again. That's a searing review.

Somebody said, their son does a good Fortnite dance to the song. I guess it's off that. Okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that could work, I suppose. Somebody else said, I used to jump jam to the song. Okay.

Somebody else said, I used to jam to the song hard when I was 15 and pregnant. My daughter doesn't like this song. I don't know if those two things are related. They may be. They may be. All right, we're 10 minutes away from $100 free fuel. Six, five, four, and me. Swim, swim, swim, swim. I sang along with it

I harmonised perfectly You probably wouldn't have had another one Beautiful Melissa joins us this morning Good morning Melissa Good morning Now you have a tale of swipe memes. A tale. A tale to tell. You matched with someone

on a dating app. Which dating app was it? Good old Tinder. Good, of course it was. It's always Tinder. Legally, they ask us to cease and desist using their name in the title, but sometimes we don't even need to. That's true. So, what happened, Melissa?

So, I went on a date with this boy, and he's really lovely. And then I was like, I'll go on a second date with him. Went on the second date. We went bowling. We went to the mall. And on the way back, we were like, oh, we'll get some petrol. And before he dropped me home. So we went to go get the petrol.

I know where this is going. And we looked to the right because I heard some honking. Some crazy girl is honking and, like, looking at us. I'm thinking, oh, God,

I don't want to be a part of this. So he would not look at us. Like, he would not tell me who it is. He starts hooning down

Morehouse Avenue, almost crashing into people. He was running red lights. Like, I was like, freaking myself.

Yeah. So I was like, who is this girl? He's who was the deal he's like going down like one way street just going crazy she's following us and then he goes i'm really sorry we're gonna have to go to my dad's house and i'm saying holy crap i don't even know you yeah i don't know your dad i don't know this girl. What? So we're driving to this house, and then he gets out of the car about a block and a half, like around the corner from his dad's house. Yeah. I see this car drive past, so I'm thinking, oh, hell no. And she drives past and comes back around the block.

He's on the phone giving his sister a heads up about World War III is about to happen. We've got incoming. We've got incoming. We've got incoming. Okay. And then he gets in the car and I see this crazy woman running at us. I think she's going to smash the window shouting. And I'm just sitting in the passenger seat texting my

flatmate like, oh my god, crazy girlfriend. SOS. He's like, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to drop you home. I was like, that is more than okay. He's driving me back home. His dad rings up. He's like, oh mate sorry, I'm going to have to drop you home. I was like, that is more than okay. He's driving me back home. His dad rings up. He's like, oh, mate, about time you get home. And then he's like, yeah, on my way.

She's at the house screaming, who the F is that girl? All the limo. I'd never even kissed the boy. I'd never given her a cuddle. And she's just gone eight shit, pretty much. So who was she? His ex-girlfriend. And he's like made her sound like she was like real crazy.

And like I found them on Facebook. And they'd only been broken up for like two months. But she apparently is real possessive. Well, yeah, get over it. I mean, if they're not together. So I thought they were together initially. No. But no.

Oh, she needs to let it go. She needs a restraining order. Oh, wow. Crazy stuff. But he wouldn't let me call the police or anything. He just completely took her side. And I was like, this is not for me, I don't think. It sounds like it's an ongoing thing he deals with.

Yeah, there's a lot going on there. You don't want to be involved, eh? Walk away. Exactly. Up to the moment. Because I, Megan, were you thinking when they got to the petrol station he was going to make you go halves? I was going to make you pay. Yeah, I thought he was going to be asking you

for petrol money. So I've been driving you round, you need to pay. That would have been a way better ending to the story than the crazy girlfriend. Well for you. He almost crashed three times and killed me. Holy crap. Up to that moment that you got to the gas station, was it a good date? We didn't even make got to the gas station, was it a good date?

Like, were you like, this is good? We didn't even make it to the gas station. Oh, God. Because she felt like she had seen it before then. Oh, so he's also... It was not bad, no. He's also trying to evade the crazy woman on an empty tank of gas.

Yeah. Madness. I was so scared to break out. Hey, Melissa, we're going to hook you up with a Swipe Mears prize pack. Thank you so much for sharing. Cool, thank you. And if you're listening and you want to share that. Hey, Melissa, we're going to hook you up with a Swipe Mears prize pack. Thank you so much for sharing. Cool, thank you. And if you're listening and you want to share your Swipe Mear,

your bad date on any dating app, give us a message on our Facebook page, FVMZM, or our Instagram. FVMZM. Fuel's expensive. I don't know if you guys have noticed, but everyone's talking about it. That's an understatement at the moment. A huge understatement. So I was thinking ahead of the weekend, ahead of driving,

we'd give you some fuel-saving tips. By the way, crazy out there on the road, some of the roads at the moment, I just had some Snapchats from out the back of Dunedin Ways, and it's blizzarding. Blizzarding. Blizzarding. There's a blizzard.

What have you got? Some sort of connection in state highway patrols or sheep and beef farmers. Cleo messaging. Oh, yeah. And it's pretty loose goose. On Snapchat. Oh, it was insane. Like, couldn't even see 10 metres ahead.

It's like, dangle spring in front of you and then it's like, no. Yeah, that can stop a cook straight. Well, it's not. Stop right now. Should be a chilly weekend. So some fuel saving tips. I just like to start with a super obvious one. No burnouts.

Obviously. Because here's why. Your wheels are going around real fast, but you're not going anywhere. Do you know what I've noticed is those traffic lights to get onto the motorway, you know how there's two lanes and you usually always burn off the other person to try and get in front of them? Yep. People aren't doing that now.

People aren't doing that. It's real casual off that and then you're like, you go. No, you go. No, you go. One of the biggest tips to saving fuel is avoid unnecessary acceleration. So, like, just fanging it to try to beat the other person

when the two lanes go down to one is becoming an expensive hobby. It's hard when you get road rage too because you can't be like, and put your foot down. You're just like, calm. Drive slowly.

I'm actually going to show how angry I am by taking my foot off the accelerator and just gliding for a moment. But when you take your foot off the accelerator, another tip, don't brake aggressively because every time you brake aggressively, you've got to accelerate

to get back up to the speed you were at. Right. So slower, careful braking. This one's obviously not for everybody, but don't drive in rush hour. Well, some people have no choice. Some people don't have any choice. So the more stops starting you do,

the more fuel? The way more fuel in stopping and starting. I have a question. So if you can cruise, yeah. One of my cars does the thing where it turns off and then you turn it on again, but doesn't that use fuel? Oh, yeah, I've been in, like, new cars do that, eh? Yeah, when you stop, it turns off, but, like, when you turn it on.

When you're on a traffic. Yeah. Yeah, so the engine cuts out. It cuts out. And then it starts up again. Wouldn't that use more? I thought so. So literally when you're accelerating, it'll be like...

Yeah, it starts again. And ignition that use more? I thought so. Literally when you're accelerating it'll be like rrrrrrrr. Yeah, it starts again. And ignition. Yeah. Huh. Is that good or bad for your field? They wouldn't have made it if it was a big guzzler though. But how much research did they do? It needs to be thorough. Maybe someone knows can text in.

I've actually wanted that. If that's good or not. Okay. Now here's something to do with the air con versus the windows. Yep. If you're driving around town in a slow area, it's better to have your windows down because they do create drag, but at low speeds, not as much. Okay, but then when you get over, is it 80 or 100?

If you're fanging it, it can create a bit more drag. So, air con, really fast. Windows, when you're going slow. Yes. Okay. So, yesterday when it was raining, the window just comes down in my Mazda because it is wet.

The window doesn't... And it slips. It just falls down. So it was raining. It gets wet and it's like, help, help, help, help, I'm slipping down into the door. So I just had to keep pulling it up with my hand.

So I had drag from the motorway and rain coming in. I have a question as well. I have a budget city sales taxi sign on the top of my Prius. Boom. Next point. Is that causing drag? Remove roof racks or ski boxes or anything causing unnecessary drag like your taxi sign.

Okay. Yeah. So there's no need for them? No. If you're not using them, they're just going to cost you more. Like you might look like a cool dude because you've got a fuel roof box and we're all like, fanging it, dude. Hang 10 on the slopes.

But you're costing yourself money. Is that what people are saying? That's what they're saying now. This is one that's interesting. Don't carry around unnecessary weight. Now, I'm not talking about your children or your mother-in-law. Fletch. Or Fletch.

Rude. You are unnecessary weight when you bum a ride. You offer me a ride home. So I'm like, okay, I will have a ride home. Now I'm being referred to as unnecessary weight.

Rude. So if you've got stuff like golf clubs in the boot of your car, it all adds up. What about the spare tyre? Where do you draw the line there? Like if you've got an AA membership.

Necessary, I would say. Do you lose the spare tyre to save a dollar a week? Well, isn't it, aren't you supposed to have it? Like you don't get a waft if you don't have it. Oh yeah, you put it back in for your waft. Yeah. But are we talking like taking the back seats out? Are we talking like.

Maybe make it as light as possible, but just don't drive around with unnecessary weight in there. Okay. Another tip is to walk if it's just small distances, but that's easier said than done because sometimes like me, you're always late.

Wheel alignments. Oh, yeah. I don't know if this is just the big wheel alignment mafia trying to get you to, oh, like you go, you're like, I need a new tyre or something

or a tyre fix. They're like, mate, you need a wheel alignment. I'm like, how do I know I need a wheel alignment? But then if you ever let go of your steering wheel and it veers to one side, does that mean you need a wheel alignment? But then if you ever let go of your steering wheel and it veers to one side,

does that mean you would need a wheel alignment? No. Isn't it supposed to pull a little bit to the left in case you fall asleep? You don't go into traffic, you go into like a tree. Are you kidding? No, that's not a thing. No, that's the camber of the road.

That's why they make the roads like that. Okay. But, no, it's if they're like working against each other. It can cause, obviously, your car has to work a little bit. I know, but that's not money saving because you have to pay for the wheel alignment. What about checking your tyre pressure? Free? Yep, that's a good one.

Yeah, because the more inflated your tyres are, the better. Well, yeah. There's a kind of like a Goldilocks sign because you might save fuel if they're pumped up real hard, but you might not stick to the road as well. Oh, okay, so maybe right, okay. If you've got an economy or sports mode, have it in economy, not in sports mode. But that's like easier said than done

because that button's on my gear stick and I'm always fiddling with it. Oh, yeah, right. And then I'm like, oh gosh, I've been driving in Bathurst for the last 100 kilometres. Does he have a sports mode? Megan, it's a Honda Accord. Sports mode.

Do you remember when I had the Honda Preload? It's fuel injected or something. It's got DeHoc written on it. It's got DeHoc written on it. That's so funny. My car was in the Fast and the Furious. What, when? In 1998?

Yeah, the first one. He's like, you owe me a 10-second car. He gets him a Honda Accord. Yeah, but they had that gas in it. And did it have two baby seats in the back? And a unicorn pooping cupcakes. Mine is a sticker. That would have been pretty cute.

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Bees? Bees. The saviours. The pollinators. Yep. The, you know, the hard workers. Yeah. And if I may, I'll give a shout out to Caitlin's brother, Big T.

Big T. He's because it's... Why are you laughing, Anya? She knows what Big T means. No, he's Big T because he's a big dude. Yeah. Yep. He's, he's, he's grooming a lot about the bees.

He's because he's back in bee action, isn't he? He's back with the hives. Yeah. Him and Doug. Yep. Him and Doug. Yeah. Him and Doug will be. Gotta get back into it. Make Doug.

What is it? South Canterbury? Would you say South Canterbury? Yeah. Yeah. Getting those bees around South Canterbury. In the McKenzie country. Making our honey pups.

That pollen. Yeah. Making the honey pups. Stay fresh. Stay with us all the time. You know, I'm playing with honey bees. Honey pups are yours and mine. So he's back on there

and he's putting up some killer bee, pun intended, content on the gram. Can I give his gram a plug? Well, have you ever given mine one? What's your one?

Caitlin Marrett. Okay, his is Taser Marrett. Okay, Taser. Follow Big T. Because he's putting up some killer bee,

some hot bee content. Okay. This one is a picture of a queen bee, and it says, New Queen Who Dis? Oh, that's good. What's the fact of the day? Get to the fact of the day about bees. Queen bees.

Loves a bit of bee content. During 2017's total eclipse of the heart. Turn around. Yeah, from now on, man, I get a little. You keep distracting him, and you tell him more. Total Eclipse of the Heart. Turn around. You keep distracting him and you tell him off. It's a banger. Turn around. Look what you've done.

Can we actually, can you put that in the background? Okay. Sure. Oh, good lord. Say the fact of the day now and then when he plays it you can sing along. It's called Total Eclipse of the Heart. Yeah, I know. I've found it now, haven't I? when he plays it, you can sing along.

It's called Total Eclipse of the Heart. Yeah, I know. I've found it now, haven't I? What else would it be called? Turn Around. Actually, I've searched Turn Around before. Carry on. So, during the Total Eclipse of the Heart,

in 2017, people across North America, you'll remember this. Yep. An eclipse arced its way across America. Donald Trump stared at the sun. Everyone was like, don't look at it. He's like, it's a young sun. Stared right at it.

Well, on that day. Yeah. At the University of Missouri. Yeah. Bee specialists. Entomologists. Yeah. Insect specialists.

Were buzzing. Why? Okay. Because they finally got to see what bees did during a total eclipse of the heart. I thought that was unknown. What do you say about bees did?

Bees, here's the little thing about bees. Because you know how some of these are as busy as a bee. Yep. A worker bee. Yep. Indicates that someone works really hard. Bees will literally work from sun up

to sun down. The minute there's light they're like, knock off. Make some honey puffs. And then at the end of the day they're like, darkness let's get back to the hive. So what did they do during the total eclipse of the heart? They went to the hive. They hung tiny microphones amongst flowers.

I'm not even lying. I'm not lying. And they recorded the buzzing of the bees through all stages of the total eclipse of the heart. Yeah. They were active and noisy and they were all as busy as little bees. Yeah. Partway of the solar eclipse, they were still working hard. Okay.

As there was approaching full eclipse, they were still at it. Okay. Total eclipse of the heart in unison. Silence. Oh. For the length of the, and the minute the light came out, back to work. Because we'll never be wrong. Together we can take it.

It was literally, they do? They just like sit there and go They just sat. They're like What's happening here? This is weird. What do we do? Don't move.

Unscheduled smoko break. Yeah. Well now you know when the power goes out when you're sitting at home and it's an unexpected power break everyone takes about

three seconds to be like Should have got batteries. I wish I got those candles. It's legit. Get the torch. Yeah. It's legit, get the torch. Yeah. It's legit, get the torch. And the minute there was light, they got back to it. Now, it wasn't just the honeybees.

It was their fat cousins, the bumblebees as well. Okay. Fat shame of bee, and I apologise for that. You have fat shame of bee. They're super cute. I have. They are the cutest of the bees. And, you know, it's the fur coat.

They are not that fat. They're luxurious. It's the coat. Yeah, it's the fur coat. They're not that fat. They're luxurious. It's the coat. Yeah, it's their winter coat. Yeah. But they also stopped in their tracks. Okay.

Wasps, however, took that time to do some home invasions. No, they didn't. They looted some Noel Leemings. They're like, yeah, see us our chance. Let's get in the hive. Take the queen. They just, I don't know. They weren't studying wasps.

They were just studying bees. Okay. That actually helped feel not just like awful. Yeah. Okay. But they stopped and then they started again immediately as there was any sort of light. Answering the age old question. What do honeybees do during a total eclipse?

Brilliant. Okay. We have finally have our answer. So today's fact of the day is when there is a total eclipse. Of the heart. Correct. Honeybees stop for the entirety of the total eclipse and we'll get back to it when there's some light. Turn around.

What? What? Okay. She really got into that apart. Okay, okay. She really got into that part. Yeah, she did. All right, that's... Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do do do do do ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan

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