ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - October 16 2018

Episode Date: October 15, 2018

Madeleine Sami is in studio ahead of The Great New Zealand Bake Off, Fletch has had his feelings hurt and when did a price increase tip you over the edge?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Spark. Get more of what you love on the $29 prepaid rollover pack. And now, on with the show. ZM. ZM. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thanks, Anya.

Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. She had a little stomach bug yesterday. A little upset tum-tums. Yeah, went to a kid's birthday party on the weekend and think that might have been what kicked it out. They're like little petri dishes running around. Grubby buggers, aren't they?

Oh, you're not saying it was food poisoning, you're saying it was an actual viral situation. Yeah, I think it was a kid situation. We'll be there. They are absolutely filthy. Were they serving raw chicken though? Because that could have been it. Yeah, on Wee Skewers and I was like, mm-mm, Because that could have been it. Yeah, on wee skewers.

And I was like, mm-mm, just like sashimi. Yeah, yeah. Chicken sashimi. And you just told me it was like the scene from Bridesmaids. We were in high school. Tree shopping. Yeah, me and the boyfriend got it. So that was a hoot of a night on Sunday night.

But hey guys, good to be back. Great to have you back. Great to be back in the game be back. Great to have you back. Great to be back in the game. It's good to have you back. I've got visuals at Scrim. The top six is coming up in the next half hour. Actually,

great news for you too, Anya, in about 10 minutes. Great news for gingers is what I'll say. Oh, brilliant. We need a bit of good news.

Good news. What has been a bad news? Has it been a bad week for gingers? No, there's just always stories like, oh, gingers are going to die in two years. You know what I mean? No, no, no. They're going extinct.

You're not all just going to die of a ginger virus. Oh my God, imagine if there was a ginger virus. Ginger virus. Bird flu, swine flu, ginger flu. No, thank you. No, this is great news. This is great news, soon. All right, you lot, listen up.

It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines for three stories that are found online. Interesting, unusual, quirky, odd news stories. Vaughan and Megan, pick one of the following three headlines. Maybe. Headline one. Well, you have to.

It's the rules. Maybe. Headline one. Well, you have to. It's the rules. Maybe. Headline one, teen looking at hard time after class makes drink spike. Headline two, man too polite. And headline three,

World Health Organization say there's worm for improvement. Who? World Health Organization. Who? Who? Who? Who?

Who? Who? Who? Who? Who said it? Damn it Who did say it? I wrote it

Who And then I was like Who? Yeah To whom do you refer? Who To who Who

To who Yeah I've confused myself With the last one I think I heard The first one The hard time one Was there was a kid

Whose drink was spiked With Viagra. Correct. Megan. That's got to be unexpected. Oh, no. I liked story number two. Story number two,

man too polite. Yeah. We want to lock that in. Yeah. All right. We go to Japan now and Japanese people renowned for their manners

and their politeness. Would they be politer than Canadians? More polite. I'd say more polite, eh? Do you think? Or is it just that Canadians are so polite

compared to Americans? Yeah, it's when your neighbours are like that. Yeah. Well, an incident has showed just how far Japanese politeness can go. A man went into a convenience store.

He asked the manager if he could rob the convenience store. And upon being refused, he left and handed himself in to police. Oh. May I please rob your store? No. No. Okay. I will see myself to the local police station.

So, according to police, the unnamed man entered the store at 1.40am and told the manager, I've come with the intent to intimidate you and rob the store. May I ask you to please cooperate with me? Gosh, even the way he said it was very professional. I know. And of course, he didn't get the answer he wanted. He said no. So he turned around, walked out quietly without taking anything,

and handed himself in to police. The convenience store manager said, I can't do that. What did the police say, though? Because he didn't really commit a crime. Well, after searching the man, officers discovered a kitchen knife that he never pulled out during the exchange. They've charged the polite man with attempted robbery, but they're still investigating the motives for the crime.

Although some media outlets are suggesting he may have just wanted to be arrested this whole time. Oh, you're saying that he wanted to go to jail. Maybe, but then, yeah, I don't know. Wouldn't he do something else? I kind of understand that now. Yeah. He wanted to go to jail. Maybe, but then, yeah, I don't know, wouldn't you do something else? I kind of understand that now. Yeah. He wanted to go to prison.

Yeah, maybe. Just for a place to sleep, maybe, and some meals, and loss of your freedom, who knows, but an odd story

showing Japanese politeness. Super polite. When you say kitchen knife, I always just imagine it's like a bread and butter knife. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't ever imagine anything too intimidating. I don't imagine the biggest knife I've got in my kitchen.

Could be a veggie knife, a veggie knife. Like a small veggie knife. Yeah. Well, if it was concealed on this person, it must have been quite small. Some good news for redheads. I found the fountain of youth youth and it's being ginger. Really? So there is a gene that is responsible for red hair

and it is also responsible for keeping people young. So a study's been done and it's the MC1R gene. So that gives people red hair. I'm just trying to think of people I know that are like older redheads. I don't know if I can think of any. I'm literally going hot old redheads. The most attractive redheads ever ranked. This feels bad.

Isla Fisher. She's number one. Is she? She's number one. She's got 18,000 votes. She's number one. Yeah, she looks very young. Okay, how old?

No, maybe she'd be close to 40. Is she 40? 42. Okay, so old? No, maybe she'd be close to 40. She's 42. Okay, so wow. Okay. Yeah, it actually says they'd look around two years younger than they actually are. Okay. If we could somehow bottle up gingers.

Is that what you're saying? Bottle up gingers and Asian genes. Yep. Because you know they don't age. If you look at a photo of my wife now and 10 years ago, they just don't change. Looks the same. Put that with whatever you've got bottled, Fletch, because you're not aging at the rate that the rest of us are.

I don't know what you're doing. But that three there, family youth. Right. Yeah, okay. Into Narnia. Yeah. Now, how do we feel About this news I mean it's good

But I Like let's not Forget that time I was mistaken For a mum So No no maybe You've done your

Maybe you're just Going to look like this For 40 years now Oh that's okay Yeah That's alright You've done your ageing So you're 21

Or 22 So you're still Like 21 babes you still look 21, babes. That's great, babes. Babes, I'm so pleased with this news. Or 20. The fact you were mistaken for a mum was the fact that your boyfriend looks 12 and you were also in track pants. Well, this is true.

And also the cat T-shirt probably didn't help in retrospect. Yeah, mums wear cat T-shirts. Absolute fact. Oh, I'm just still scrolling down this list of hot redheads. Lindsay Lohan's on the list, so that kind of blows that out. But that's just, that's Mykonos, baby. Yeah, but that gene can only do so much. There's been a lot of...

You've got to want to look after yourself. You've got to put sunscreen on. You've got to moisturise. Yeah. Not drink so much. Eat and drink well. You've got to put sunscreen on You've got to moisturise Yeah Not drink so much Eat and drink well The Top Six With Vaughan Smith

Hello there Today's Top Six The Top Six next National Party Leader options I'm not saying it's happening But it feels like it's inevitable Doesn't it? Yesterday there was a big

Big stink Jamie There was a big, big stink. Jamie, there was a leak of Simon Bridges' expenses. That happened a while ago, didn't it? Yeah. And so they did an inquiry. Yeah, and then like 10 days ago, Jamie Lee Ross took a break and everyone was like, oh, okay, so he did it. Because that's what happens when you take a break.

Yeah. And then yesterday, knowing that he was about to get out, it apparently took to Twitter and was like, what's up mate? And said he's got some dirt on Simon Brodjahs. Yeah. But he hasn't produced the dirt. So people are either like, well,

do you have some dirt? Or if you do, let's see the dirt. It's not good news for Simon Brodjah as if he does. Yeah. And we went through all this with the Labour Party last time. Every time there was a problem, you just got a new one, didn't you? Yeah.

You keep getting new ones until you find one that works. Yeah, pretty much. So the top six next National Party leader options are number six, Paula Bennett. But it's just Tom Sainsbury pretending to be Paula Bennett. Now that would be a great leader to the opposition. See, because she never appears in real life, only through Snapchat filters. Tom Sainsbury was doing his Paula Bennett videos that he's famous for. Yeah.

And, you know, he got the keriru to be the bird of the year, didn't he? And then Paula Bennett did an actual video saying vote for the keriru. I was like, stop, stop it. No, but she's liked the keriru as well was like, stop, stop it. No, but she's liked the kereru as well. No, but I don't know, this was weird.

She's supporting the character of herself. But she's lost so much weight. I was just going to say, hasn't she melted away, said every mum. Has her hair got bigger

or is it because she got smaller? She got smaller. Okay. She got smaller. Okay. But it's like when people lose a lot of weight

and their heads look bigger. I know, they look like bobble people. But it's like when people lose a lot of weight and their heads look bigger. I know. They look like bobble people. Yeah, but it's just because they've lost all the weight and you're used to seeing the different ratios. But she's looking great. I know she had the surgery. The lap band?

But still, there's a lot of work involved in that. Yeah, there is. Some big lifestyle adjustments. And I personally think that grey hair looks great. Oh, I love the grey hair. Yeah, like, or did you see her yesterday on the, if you saw the news, she was giving people, like, the real eye. Like, you remember when the principal was, like, giving the school a telling off

because they'd been graffiti or something? A real West Auckland mum angry look. Yeah, but then the deputy principal was the one just absolutely scouring the crowd that she was playing deputy principal. Quite well. Number five on the list of the top six next possible nationally partied leaders, Mike Hoskin. He's had enough of trying to pretend to be in any way balanced in a political opinion.

Does he not work for National? Well, not officially. Not officially. Do it, Hosk. Everybody wants a prime minister that drives around in a car that costs as much as a house when there are people who don't have houses who are living in their cars.

Yeah. Makes sense. That would be great, right? Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six next National Party leader options, a foot-long ham Subway sandwich. One of New Zealand's most popular Subway sandwiches.

It's today's sub of the day. And of course it would be on white bread because it's the National Party. Brilliant. Pretty pleased with myself on that one. Number three on the list of the next National Party leader options are Zion Bridges. It's just Simon Bridges in a disguise. Hey guys, it's me, Zion Bridges. It's just Simon Bridges in a disguise. Hey, guys, it's me, Zion Bridges. Simon's lost long brother.

Who's better at politics? Because he learnt from his brother's mistakes. And knows that it's long lost, not lost long, brother. Lost long. Yeah. It's long lost. I know, you said lost long. Did I?

Yeah. It's just me, Zion Bridges. I know, you said lost long. Did I? Yeah. It's just me, Zion Bridgers. Wait, is Zion putting on an accent or is that... This is Zion Bridgers. Okay. This is how we talk on the Bridgers family. We just...

My mum made a dollar go a long way. Kai? Number two on the list of the top six next National Party leader options is Judith Collins. Crusher. With a crusher. I just want to say it because she's real mean and I don't think you can be the leader of a party and be real mean in New Zealand at the moment. But then I would have said that about America, but then Trump's mean.

Yeah, true. Like outright mean. My mum went to school with it. Crusher. Did she? Yeah, she did. She walked past us at the airport one day and it was just a chill.

Oh, I know. Like, you know on Game of Thrones when they can tell the ice, the white walkers are coming because the water starts to freeze. It was like that. She is a white walker. We're there and we're like,

my nipples went hard, but not like aroused hard. Not in a good way. No, like, I'm cold hard. Yeah. And, yeah, and then she breezed past. She almost did glide. I was expecting more of a,

Fee, fie, foe, fum. But it was a glide. Right. Something about that woman. Don't get me wrong, it's hot. It's power. I'm turned on by power. And she is full of power.

And the number one for the next National Party leader on today's top six. Why not give it two wins in a row? The kereru. Just catch one and put it in like a sizable cage. Yeah. So you can still fly around and do that. Don't fat shame it. No, no, no. Like a sizable I can fly it no like a big one so

You want a big one? You don't want a little one. Yeah, you're in a big drunk one. Okay, like Rob Muldoon in the 80s They get drunk on the berries don't they? Yeah, they do they fermented berries and mmm poop them out They're actually a wonderful bird because when they I mean for, for many reasons, because they're beautiful and all that, but when they poop out the seeds, it's dissolved the stuff around it. Yep. And the poo that it comes out and fertilises it and thus it can grow and re-begin the cycle.

That's nature. That's nature. And that's today's top six. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. So the news has broke that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Megan and Harry, are expecting baby Sussex in spring for them. So like April, May time.

Okay. Already. So this broke yesterday. The announcement was made and already in the UK, bookies are taking bets on the name. By the way, a lot of photos came out from that royal wedding at the weekend, which showed like the queens, like there were quite a few where people were saying they must have told people at the wedding.

Yeah, so that's the report. They told the royal family at the wedding. Like, is that a no-no? Like you're upstaging someone's big day. Oh, yeah. But that already, I don't know, there was an upstaging when she said, I'm going to have it at the same venue. Eugenie.

Was that the one that got married at the weekend? Yeah. Eugenie was, I'm going to have it at the same venue. Well, I'll show you, bitch. And they were like, oh, okay, well, I mean, good luck. And then she's like, I'm going to do the carriage ride. And went outside and there were some people just being like, who's that?

I know, it was a bit sad. Yeah, right. So that's kind of like an automatic upstaging, right? Yeah. And then they told the family at the wedding and then what, like, it was the weekend and then on Monday they announced the pregnancy. There was still pictures and everything going out about the wedding. And then, oh no, that's been wiped because Megan's pregnant.

Ouch. But yeah, the bets are in already for names. Okay. So it's even odds at the moment for a boy or a girl. So names in there, we'll start from the bottom to the top. 20 to 1 is William, Alexandria, Alexander are all 20 to 1. Yeah. These are the classic royal names.

They don't deviate, do they? Do they ever? Not really. If they're going to, though, if they're ever going to, this will be it. Because it's not going to be a prince or a princess. It's going to be an earl or a lady. And we were wondering why that is the case.

We've discovered George, King George, right? He kind of capped it at how many people could have that level of title. Yeah. So he said, and this baby's going to be so far out of the line of succession that it's not worth being a prince or princess. Yeah. Okay, right. Basically, back in the day, people didn't live as long as they do now.

So the queen would be dead, you know, so Charles would be king. So then there'd be a fresh lot of generations to get involved. But this is a bit far off the track. And they did say the Queen can change the rules. Oh, okay. I was going to say, what if she sees the baby, she'll be like, cute baby, change the rules. Ugly baby, keep the rules as they are.

So 16 to 1 is Mary, James, Elizabeth, Diana, Charles, and Alfred. The Queen is never going to let Diana fly. Maybe as a middle name. She's great grandma, though. Great grandma doesn't get a say. If my nan got to pick what all my brother's kids and that were called, they wouldn't be called Astor, Xanthi, Malika, Cruden, Kais, August, Indiana. It blows her mind.

She's like, what? What have you called them? Yeah. I'm like, my girls are easy. I'm like, one's a place and one's a month. So that's easy. Remember those. But some of my brothers and kids and daughters and sisters.

He's a pharmacist. It sounds like he's used some of the pharmacy medicine names. Yeah, he is. As Anthony or whatever. Bloody hell. And it mocks his sillin. It's his next baby. Moxie, dinner time, Zopla-clone.

Trammy. Trammy. You should see Tramadol's report card. Tramadol's been sleeping in class again. So 12 to 1 is Alice and then 10 to 1, Philip Arthur Albert. And the leading name is a female name. 8 to 1, Victoria.

Vicky. Yeah. Vicky. You wouldn't have shown it. Tori. I could be called Vicky, but I've decided to go with Tori. A bit more, you know, classy. I am an Earl after all.

I was just like a lady. I'm a lady. I am an Earl after all. I'm a lady. I am a lady after all. Lady Tory. But what if it was Lady Di? You couldn't be Lady Di. Oh, please. R.I.P. Please.

Oh, that would be so great. Everyone wants it. I've only got water in my bottle, but a toast to Lady Di. A toast to Lady Di. The Great Kiwi Bake Off starts tonight TVNZ2 at 7.30 and joining us in studio one of the hosts Madeline Sami. Good morning. G'day. Did you have to watch a lot of the British version of the show to sort of get how it worked or have you been a fan for a while? I've been a fan for a while. You know what I was I started getting annoyed because all

my friends would tweet about Bake Off or, you know, it would trend on Twitter and I'd just be like, what the hell is this Bake Off show? So I started watching it and then I was like,

kind of like, oh yeah. And then by the sort of second episode, I was addicted. And so then I went back and watched the first few series of it

and caught myself up completely with where it was at with the British one. So I got pretty obsessed with it. And I'm not not one a huge fan of reality television shows at all like I kind of get into a bit of x-factor or something but some of the other ones seem quite contrived and there's a there's a nastiness to a lot of um reality television there's a lot of humiliation involved in a lot of reality television I think it's a really nice kind-spirited show which is one of the reasons why I like it the UK one one stopped the nation at times, didn't it?

There's a lot of controversy. Was it a flange or a flan? What do you call it? It wasn't a flange. I think it was a flan. I don't know if you want to bake a flange. I don't know if that's going to – That might be appetising to someone.

Was it a bomb Alaska? A bomb. A baked Alaska. A baked Alaska. A baked Alaska. A bomb Alaska or a flange. You guys are. This is why they're not hosting North Turkey Park. This is why you guys could never go.

But I remember, I always remember. Someone opened the oven, right? Yeah, someone opened someone's oven and there was controversy and the whole nation was talking about it. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's sort of people get really caught up in the show and I think they get caught up, you get caught up in the contestants because you're basically coming back to the same contestants every week so you're really getting to know them and they're all just there

for a great reason. They're just trying to make the best bake they can make, you know. So I feel like people get really caught up in it and I hope people get caught up in the Kiwi version as well. Do you have a recipe, like a go-to baking recipe? I'm a terrible, I'm not a confident cook. Like there's not, there's a few things that I'm not, like won't give a goal, you know, that make me anxious,

but cooking is one of them. And I've slowly over the last few years been trying to get, you know, get my confidence up. I can do a decent roast. I can make you some eggs. But baking is not one that comes naturally to me but after the bake off I was definitely taking notes and just watching

because these are just average Kiwi people and you're like they can do it, I can do it. So I actually got a recipe off one of the contestants because it was one of my favourite things that I tasted on the show because obviously we got to eat a lot of food, put on a lot of weight.

And I've made that since so you know, get him a confidence up. Making meals and baking, very different, eh? Megan's a wonderful, she'll like put on a spread and a meal and a platter and everything, but Crush can't bake to save herself. No, it's too scientific.

You know, you've got to measure everything exactly. Yeah, and it's all your timings and everything, eh? And it's really technique-y as well. But it's really showing love. For people like baking, like cooking for people is just like, I mean, I have a lot of respect. I think it's really hot, people that can cook. Yeah. Cook well.

Little apron. Yeah. I don't know, there's something about being fed, like people feeding you something that tastes delicious, that you're just like, damn, shorty. You know what I mean? Yeah. Short bread.

Damn, short crust pastry. You're good. And what happens to, like, because they cook heaps of food, what happens to all the food? Does it get eaten by the crew? Actually, a lot of it got donated to charity. So they would take the food to charity, various charities around Auckland at the end of the day.

There'd be occasionally, you know, we'd get to maybe take a slice or something home. But they tried to donate most of it, which was really cool. Oh, that's cool. You know, there was a lot of Oh, that's cool. You know, there was a lot of food, a lot of, you know,

you start off with 12 bakers or whatever, so there's a lot of, you know, a lot of, and then they do two bakes, I think, per episode.

So there's a lot, a lot left over and nothing went to waste. Oh, that's good. That's fantastic to hear. Well, it starts tonight on our TVNZ2 at 7.30,

The Great Kiwi Bake Off. Madeline Summey, thanks for popping in. Damn, it starts tonight on TVNZ2 at 7.30, The Great Kiwi Bake Off. Madeline Summey, thanks for popping in. Damn, short crust pastry. I want to talk about something that angered me. Okay. But only because it didn't happen to me. If it happened to me, I'd be very happy. So you want to talk about jealousy? Yeah.

Pretty much. Someone's won lotto twice in five months. Five months? Yeah. Is that why? Pretty much. Someone's won Lotto twice in five months. Oh, five months. Yeah. They wouldn't have even been able to spend the lot. How much did they win the first time? So the first time several months ago, they won $333,333. So all the threes there.

I'm imagining they must have won like first division without the Powerball, but shared it with three other people. Okay, so that's a lot of money, right? That is a lot of money. Yeah. But then, you know, put that on a house and it's all gone. Oh, she's gone. So, I mean, it's not like you're winning millions.

So then they won Powerball five months later, $11 million. What the hell? Okay, and now they're out. Yeah, stop buying lotto tickets. Make a rule that if you win over a million, you're not allowed to buy anymore. You're exempt. You're out.

So, like, if I won $300,000 in lotto, I don't think I'd buy a ticket again because that's my one shot, isn't it? I'd set up an automatic payment. I'd just have it ticking over every week. Just forget about it. Probably. An automatic payment. I'd just have it ticking over every week. Just forget about it. Probably. An automatic payment for what?

Well, you can set it up in your app, so it just buys you a ticket every week. Oh. Yeah. It's like bonus bonds. No. Except you lose most of the time. Maybe when we set up bonus bonds.

How do I find out if I ever got anything out of that? I don't know. Because that was years ago. And every, like, once a year I'll be like, what ever happened to my bonus bonds? And then I forget that I ever got anything out of that. I don't know. Because that was years ago and every like once a year I'll be like what happened to my bonus bonds? And then I forget that I ever had bonus bonds before checking what it... Like imagine if I won one of the big bonus bond situations.

I don't even know what that is. Like old people talk about bonus bonds. You chuck in like 20 bucks or whatever, right? You put it in however much money you want and it's like a raffle. And you could win more money. But it's like the government. Every month, like,

they have like million dollar draws. It's weird. In New Zealand. And there's nothing to lose because you don't lose the $20 you spend. Yeah.

It's like lotto except you always win. You're like bought in until you win. Correct. What? I know. That's a scam.

Why aren't more of us doing that? That seems like a better... It's a $20 investment. At least you get your money back. No, it's because top prize is a million dollars, whereas Powerball gets the $36 million. And we're humans, we're greedy, and we're always chasing the big...

Well, yeah, you talk about greedy. They won $300,000 and they bought another ticket. Well, they doubled down. The chances of doing this... Yeah. I believe it's trillion. $147 trillion to one. See, they need to look into these people because are they...

Do they have a time machine? Time machine. Have they got a visitor from the future? For it to happen... But if they did, why would you, like, use one of your lotto numbers on a first division where, in their timeline, two people won already? To stop us raising suspicion.

I'd wait until Powerball's at 24 million, and, you know, 24 million, then no one wins those ones. It goes up to, like, 28. I would have won at 24. Yeah, right. Oh, shucks, what a great bunch of news. Anyway, I'm off to the TAB Because I've got a time machine

So Yeah And I'm going to invest In some Stock stuff I wouldn't do that That seems like Even if I had a time machine

That seems like too hard Yeah It's like a legitimate way Yeah To take your money And if you invested The right thing Double it

But I'm like Nah I'm just going to remember one sports result and put it all on that. Much easier. And then I probably get that wrong as well because I'm not strong with remembering sports results. So that's them out now, though.

I want to guarantee. Why? Why don't you go for three on the road? Go for one more? Go for it. You've got $11 million. Just let some other people win some money. Jeez.

Greedy. Greedy, greedy. Keep going. Greedy some other people win some money. Jeez. Greedy. Greedy, greedy. Keep going. Greedy buggers. Yeah. F.E.M. Z.E.M. Facebook chat is trialling something,

and I think it is good, especially for if you're going out at night. Right. So it's basically like a recall. If you are on Facebook chat, and you send a message, and you wish you hadn't, it comes up with a little message that says,

unsend message. Your message will be removed from the chat. Cancel or unsend. Because it's Instagram that's got this. Yeah, Instagram you can unsend. You can delete and WhatsApp, which Facebook purchased. Oh, so they've got the technology. They have the technology.

Yeah. But it's weird that they haven't used it. Yeah. Because sometimes, yeah, you'll send a message. It says it'll be coming soon, but it's still in the early stages. So what if... I just sent you a message on Instagram. And yeah, you hold down on it.

If you're listening and don't know what we're talking about, you hold down on the message you send and you click unsend. Did that work? Well, I don't know. You tell me. Because it's disappeared from my inbox. I haven't got it. Well, that means that it didn't happen. But what if he reads it? Can you still unsend it? Okay, hold on. Test. Oh, I put teat.

Sorry. I meant to put test, not teat. I'm not getting the messages. Then we'll refresh your inbox. Instagram. Instagram inbox. Oh, I thought you were sending it on. We'll refresh your inbox. Instagram. Instagram inbox. Oh, I thought you were sending it on. We all know Instagram works. Well, you do because you're a dark horse. I've never used it.

I see it now. Okay, hold on. What if I unsend? Unsend now. Yeah, it's gone. You never sent it. That's so good because you can have a conversation at night when you're both drunk and then deny it in the morning.

Whereas WhatsApp narks on you. Does it? It'll say message deleted by user. Oh. So you know that someone's seen you. But then that's okay. You could just, if they didn't see it, you could lie about what that was.

Yeah, just say, oh, that wasn't meant for you, yada, yada, yada kind of thing. So I don't know which version is going to be used for Facebook chat, whether it's going to narc on you or whether you can delete it even if they've seen it. But you will be able to unsend messages on Facebook chat. But it's like if you get the notification on your lock screen, you can read it. Yeah.

You'd still have time to read it before because sometimes I'll read on the notification screen so I don't have to reply to someone straight away. That doesn't knock on you, eh, if you do that? No, because you haven't opened it. No. Yeah, that's right. You leave that unread and they don't know that you've read it. When the message is like really long and you can't read it all on the screen. I know and you're just like, I don't want to

get a little taste. You can put it on airplane mode, right, and still open it. Yeah, but then as soon as you go back it knocks on you and says you've read it. Or you can just be like Megan in the group chat and not answer messages for like two hours. Yeah, but then as soon as you go back, it knocks on you and says you've read it. Oh, does it? Yeah. Okay. Or you can just be like Megan in the group chat and not answer messages for like two hours. Because I've got a life. And sometimes I do read it on the screen and I'm like, that doesn't need my urgent attention.

Because you guys are just waffling on. I mean, yesterday it was actually a matter that needed its urgent attention. Yeah, and I was having a nap. I'm sorry. Oh, life. She's got a real busy life. Yeah, and I was having a nap. I'm sorry. Oh, life. She's got a real busy life. Yeah, napping. Sleeping.

Yeah. Apparently Instagram, I'm just hearing from Lucy in the office. Oh, yeah. She's obviously a dark horse. She said, Instagram narks from the lock screen. This message has been unsent, it'll say.

Oh, okay. If you get a message on the lock screen and it previews the message, if you've got that on, and then you delete it, it says this message has been unsent. What's the point then? That's knocking. Yeah, but you still don't know what it was, right?

Yeah, you still don't know what it was. And then you're just going to ask them and it's going to be awkward. Oh, it was just a mistake. I meant it was shopping. That didn't sound right. Oh, you know me, clumsy old fatty fingers. Yesterday in Auckland and in Christchurch, electric scooters from Lime launched.

This is a company that's based in San Francisco. They've got scooters, e-scooters all over the world. And you use an app and you hire scooters, like Onzo bikes that are in rivers and up trees and on roofs. Yeah, but Onzo bikes, that are in rivers and up trees and on roofs. Yeah, but Onzo bikes require pedal power. They do. These ones, electric. So you literally stand on them and it hoons you around.

You don't have to scoot it. No, you have to kick off first to get enough power to then electric, throttle it. So you can't just stand on standing still, start. It won't do it. You've got to have some momentum. Like an electric bike. Like an electric bike, yeah. So once you start pedalling on an electric bike, kicks in. Weight limit?

They're pretty sturdy. The reason I ask is yesterday when I was leaving work, these were everywhere. But I saw a guy do a jump off the curb on one. And I was like, huh, day one. So I, that's what I wanted to talk about. I could not believe, because I live in the central city,

I could not believe how many people were using these yesterday. Everywhere. Well, it was day one, so it's a novelty, right? Everyone wants to give it a go. That, but also that they're so handy if you're just going across town. Right. Oh, 100%. You just scan in with the app, use it.

It was insane. And I biked from like the city out to like St. Heliers, like all along the bays. Yeah. So many people using them because you get like 30k range on them. So are you supposed to use them on the footpath? Well, that's the thing. So they're a low-powered vehicle.

Yeah. Meaning that it's advised that you wear a helmet, but it's not legal. You don't have to wear a helmet, but it's advised. They can't be ridden in dedicated bike lanes. Really? Because everybody was. I know, but I don't think they'll ticket you, because if the footpath's busy, it's far safer to be there than on the footpath,

like weaving through people. So they've got 400 in Christchurch, 500 in Auckland, and they reckon that those numbers will get up to 700 in Christchurch and 1,000 in Auckland in the near future. They can go up to 27Ks and have a maximum range of 48Ks when they're fully charged.

You can't do that on the footpath. You're going to take someone out. That's what I was thinking yesterday. Like, it's a matter of time before someone gets hurt. Wow. And you don't hear them coming. And they're wonderfully heightened to hit you right in the Achilles' head.

I saw a lady riding one yesterday in heels. Oh, yeah, girl. You totally could. You totally could, but I was like, okay, that's an accident. Imagine pushing off in heels. I guess you can. Well, if you needed to take evasive action, the heel would not be the best shoe to be in, I would imagine.

Producer Caitlin, you saw these every week yesterday as well? I was so worried. Like, I always drive very carefully now after double Ds and before that. Just to catch everybody out, Caitlin was crashed into by someone whose number plate was double Ds. Double Ds. But I was so scared because there were lots of school kids using it. I was around like in the Epsom area when school was out and all these kids just like zipping around

and I was like, oh my God, I'm going to like hit one. I was really nervous about it. So I, yeah, had to have my eyes on everything. As you do when you drive. Because you need a credit card, right? So they just got mum and dad's credit card on tap. Megan, it's Epsom. Oh, yeah.

Touché. They've got their own credit cards. A wonderful credit rating. They were going faster than I was in the car. I know. That's the thing. In rush hour, it would be way quicker to get around the city. I'm a big fan of these.

I'm so excited. I want them to get more. They've got them in Christchurch. And we're going to Christchurch this week. When do we arrive? Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon. Well, should we do a Hagley Park scooter tour?

Yes. A scooter safari. A Hagley Park scooter safari. How are you going to find six in one area? We go on the app, right? Yeah, so they have it. They're like Pokemon. Remember when Pokemon Go was all the go,

you go out and find a Pokemon. I got really excited to ride around to work today and they said they were on Queen Street, but they weren't there. But the dots were there. So I don't know if they were on the roofs of the shops or on drains. I don't they said they were on Queen Street but they weren't there but the dots were there. So I don't know if they were on the roofs of the shops

or down drains. I don't know where they were. Well, that's the thing. It just shows you the dot. It doesn't show you like the elevation. It could have been 50 metres up.

We've got 400 in Christchurch so we'll find some. How does it work if you ruin one? Just leave it. I don't know. Leave it. Walk away.

Pretend it never happened. The weirdest thing is James was saying that if you're close and can't find one, you ring it and it'll go, and then you hide and seek it. Oh, okay. So they must have some onboard technology. It has a ring thing on the app. Oh, right, okay.

They must know who the last person that wrote it was before. I'm surprised. It was completely shagged. Why haven't they got them in Wellington? That'd be perfect. Like fanging around Oriental Parade around the waterfront. That'd be nice. Through the tunnel.

Yep. They need little horns. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. People, that's why people love the long weekend group toot in the tunnel, don't they? They do. Especially if they're a pedestrian. They are. They love how it rings through their ears.

FM. Sorry, I was just checking the weather in Christchurch for when we are there. Oh, it's just showing me the day. We just want to know if the weather's fine so we can do a scooter safari. On our e-scooters. Vaughan's downloaded the app too.

I'm very excited. But how did they get everywhere? There's like 50 quite far north. Yeah, okay. They put them there. Do people ride them over the harbour bridge? No. Oh, okay.

You're not allowed to. Okay, great. We just heard before, and when I saw Harbour Bridge? No. Oh, okay, they put them there. You're not allowed to. Okay, right. We just heard before, and when I saw this yesterday, I was like, oh, no, it's happened. But we all knew this was coming. Yeah, Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande's relationship that burnt too hot. You know those relationships, they burn too hot.

You're like, you can't sustain this level of intensity. You're burning too hot. And like a sun, they burn out. Zero to a thousand in a month. And now apparently it's over. But your latest reports say that they're just on a break. Well, no, they've definitely broken up. The engagement's off.

But they were kissing and cuddling on Saturday. How long did it take to get from zero to engagement? Two months? No. No, it was less than that, wasn't it? Yeah, foul way, less than that. Maybe a month. Six weeks. Yeah. Wow, okay. So it got me to thinking, what's going to happen to those tattoos?

Because remember, she got his dad's fire badge number tattooed on her. There's twelve or eight matching tattoos between them. Eight? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and some of them happened right under the radar. They've got clouds on their fingers. Yeah, that's okay because

you can be like, I just quite like overcast days. He's got the dangerous woman mask. He had it behind his ear, but already that's been covered by heart. Okay, was that the rabbit? Yeah. Rabbit, okay. They've got reborn, which is what they got when they got engaged. They've both got their word reborn. Reborn.

What could you make that into? Scribble over it. Jason Bourne. Brilliant. Who isn't a fan of those movies? They're great. No, they are fantastic action films. Jason Bourne.

Jason Reborn, the sequel. Jason Reborn Ultimatum. Do you actually want me to go through all their tattoos? Oh, okay. No, do you want me to? Oh, yeah. Oh, you're not. I thought you were telling us off.

Oh, yeah, they felt like a mum telling us off. Do you want me to do this or not? No, I was like, I'm just listing them off, but I wasn't sure. Yeah, no, go on. H2GKMO, which is an abbreviation for

Honest to God, Knock Me Out. Okay. Always. Always, but not really. The word always. Until it's not. She's got pink,

pink peat tattooed on her finger, which is just the word Pete. Peter Rabbit. Yep, turn that into Peter Rabbit. The one you said, 8418, which is his dad's badge number. And Militandrusy, or however you say it, is a Breakfast and Tiffany's reference on the back of their necks. If they were your friends,

if they were your friends and they first get a matching tattoo after like a month or two, would you be like, hey, calm down, you two. If it was one of my really good friends, I would. But if it was like one of those associates. You don't get too involved in people's stuff. I'd just be like, oh, they're going to get it. They're going to get it.

They're going to get it. Like, who cares? Calm down. They just get it covered over. Listen to me, man. What are you doing that for? Calm down. I know.

If you are together forever, you've got your life to mark yourself. But having been through a divorce, you learn not to judge other people's relationships and stay out of it. And also just not to jump into tattoos. But you can get it covered over or lasered off or you can just keep it. Who cares? Well, I had a friend, him and his girlfriend, and he got a tattoo of her name, like, on his arm after, like, six months.

Oh, God. And then what happened? Well, they're not together now. Oh, we just cover it up with something else. What was her name? If he's got tattoos, I'm sure he'll be fine with getting a different one. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I mean.

Just slow down. They're only little, too. They're easily covered. None of them are huge. It's like when people are together for a little bit, and they're like, we're getting a dog. No, you're not. No, that's not okay.

Don't be silly. That's a life. I'm less okay with that because, yeah, if something happens, like are they going to pass it on to someone else? Yeah, who's going to look after it? Yeah. And it gets attached to people. Can we take some calls of those times when you've had friends

that have gone like real hard out early in the relationship. Oh, like what they've done early in the early stages. Like get a dog. Like after a month or two, get a dog together. And you're like, whoa. Move in together. Yep. There's always those couples that are like, we're just going to move in together.

Put them on the car insurance. Yeah. This is so judgy. If they're going to move in together, just let them. But I'm against what we'd love to do As humans Judge everyone else's relationship So you're not going to tell them

To their face But you can tell us about it Yeah of course I would tell them to their face Again if it was one of my good friends Also I want to hear from people Now that maybe Had a relationship

Looking back It went a bit full on too much Yeah Too fast And they're admitting it And they can admit it now So let's take some calls Jumped in boots and all

0800 Dials at M 9696 What did somebody do Too much. Yeah. Too fast. And they're admitting it. And they can admit it now. So let's take some calls. Jumped in boots and all. 0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696. What did somebody do really early in their relationship? We're talking about when a relationship kicked off at full steam. Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande have broken up. And they had like tattoos. They moved in together. His dad died in the September 11th taxi. He was a firefighter and they had like tattoos. They moved in together. His dad died in the September 11th taxi. He was a firefighter.

She had the badge. Like a lot of fairly intense stuff. And it's over now after like four months. So we want to know when it burnt hot and it burnt fast. And like you think moving in is one thing. We've had so many text messages from people who started building or buying houses together after a couple of months.

A couple of cases where both people have been saving for houses. Yeah. Got together. We're like, let's just do this together if we're both going to do it

and then do it and then the stress of like buying a house tears them apart. When you realise after two months that you don't like this person. Yeah.

You're stuck together with a house with them. My friend and her boyfriend have been together three months and are currently You're stuck together with a house with them. My friend and her boyfriend have been together three months and are currently in the process of buying a house with a $400,000 gift deposit from her parents.

But if the parents are giving $400,000, that thing's tied up in a trust, right? Like he's not going to get it. we want prenup. We want prenup. Yeah.

Somebody else said a friend of mine started building a house with her boyfriend. They broke up before the roof was even on. Because you imagine going to like the showrooms, you know, I really love these tiles. And they're like, I hate them. And you're like, what are you, a monster?

We've not built a house, but we renovated. It's intense because they'll ask you your opinion, but they don't really want it. No, all we want to hear is that you agree with us. No, because I don't all the time. And then that would be an argument. I was like, well, don't even ask me. No, all we want to hear is that you agree with us. No, because I don't all the time. And then that would be an argument. I was like, well, don't even ask me. Well, it's important you have your opinion. Well, it's obviously not because it doesn't count.

It's not a dictatorship. It pretty much is. Well, dictators don't have a tendency to be like, yes, this is a dictatorship. Did you choose any feature of your new en suite bathroom? No. Do you dislike any feature? No.

So it's all good. No, I'm like, meh. Oh, actually the extractor fan. I said I don't think we should go for that extractor fan and it does fog up a little. So you were right. I don't bring it up anymore. I don't bring it up anymore.

Okay, so when did your relationship go from zero to a thousand and burn hot pretty quick? Amber, what happened? Me and my partner moved in after almost two months together. And at the time were people like, whoa, this is too soon. Yeah, yeah. So we told everyone that we were moving in as flatmates. Okay.

Yeah. Well, I guess that makes people less judgy, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'd only known each other, yeah, exactly like two months. And how did it work out? How did it go? It went well, yeah. We've been together almost seven years now.

Oh, yes. There we go. See, that's the thing. It can go both ways, can't it? It can, you know, burn hot and stay, you know. Stay together. Stay together or it can last three or four months. It's way easier

to write to the tenancy tribunal and get your bond back and decide who's going to pay the last power bill than it is to get tattoos removed. It's a different sort of burning hot. It's an admin heavy burning hot. Was there anything else that you did

like full on, early on in the relationship? We got a kitten pretty early, but, yeah, no, we weren't looking into rushing anything else. It took him, like, maybe two years to let me drive his car. Oh, that's the best part about it. That's the priorities. Wow. Amber, thanks for your call. Caitlin, was this you or your friend?

No, this was me. So what did you do early on in your relationship? I moved in with my boyfriend. Well, he's now my ex-boyfriend. Two months into our relationship, we were only 17. Two and a half months into our relationship, we got a puppy. And then about four months later, we both got matching tattoos. So he's gone and found out that he's been cheating on me

the whole time, and yeah, now we're not together. Oh, wow. What was your matching tattoo? They were of hands, like hands almost touching. Like on our chest. Almost, oh yeah, okay. And have you covered that up since? No, I haven't.

We both haven't. I haven't got around to doing it yet. But you want to? Oh, God, okay. And have you covered that up since? No, I haven't. We both haven't. I haven't got around to doing it yet. But you want to? Oh, God, yes. God, if I found out he'd been cheating, I'd be straight into covering it up with I don't know what. I know, I know. What a douche.

All right, Caitlin, thanks for your call. Carter, what was the story? How quickly did this happen? About three weeks into knowing each other, he moved in with me. Okay. And you were all good with this? Yeah.

Yeah. No, we're still together a year and a half later. And we've bought, yeah, we bought two horses and we've got a puppy that we got about two months ago. Okay. And it's all good. That's the thing. If you know, you know, I guess, eh?

Yeah. No, absolutely. Like, yeah. Well, some people think all good. That's the thing. If you know, you know, I guess, eh? Yeah, no, absolutely. Like, yeah. Well, some people think they know. Yeah, well, that's the thing. No one's, yeah, exactly. But it worked for you. That's the main thing. Yeah, it did.

Oh, yeah. Like, we're buying a house at the end of the year. Oh, yes, girl. Nice. All right, Cara, thanks for your call. Some text messages. I got pregnant after, this isn't me, but I'm ready to text, obviously. I got pregnant after a month of officially being together,

moved in less than four months later, and now we have a 15-month-old daughter, which is like, okay, that's all going along. But then, and also three cats and three dogs. Wow. That's a lot of pet, acquiring of a lot of pets in a short period of time? How long has the whole timeline been?

Well, I'd say 15 months, given they've got a 15-month-old. Oh, no, a little bit longer because that's right, the baby's in the tummy for a little bit. So maybe just over two years. That's a lot of, like, that's six animals. That's too many animals. Too many animals. Unless you're a farmer. Or a vet.

Or a collector of animals. Or a crazy cat lady. Yeah. That's too many animals. Yesterday, after the show, my feelings were hurt. By who? All of you. Oh, by us?

Not James. And not intern Anya. What? Just Caitlin. Well, she wasn't here. It would have been pretty weird. In fact, this is mostly Caitlin's fault. Oh. That my feelings were hurt.

I thought you were going to say it was someone else. I feel bad it was all of us now. What happened? Well, you two, actually, you two accidentally, by proxy. Okay. Vaughn and Megan, but producer Caitlin. Oh, okay. Why didn't you just say, I've got an issue with producer Caitlin?

Well, yeah, but I'm a little bit hurt with all of you because you are in the process of applying for a new flat. Yes. My friend, Ali, Megan's best friend, and my secondary friend. No, you can do it. Our mutual friend, Ali. Yeah. We've decided to live together, just the two of us, and we are looking for a flat to do that in the next couple of weeks. And so you've found a couple of places, and you're putting down,

and this is what hurt me, you're putting down references. Yeah. Everyone except me. Oh, yeah, I missed a call at the weekend. Yeah, same. I called her back. She said, I'm not in the office. You guys were supposed to pick up the call.

I would have picked up the call. See, my problem, first of all, I was like, this is so great because I don't answer phone calls and I've been put down as a reference. That meant a lot. And I called straight back. I made a phone call and I called them straight back and they were like, oh, I'm out of

office. I was like, yeah, but you just literally called me from this phone number. So that's not my fault. Because they might be listening and we want to get flat. I was like, I'm going to say some really nice things about them and I was like building a case. Yeah, this is what do you think I couldn't say nice things about you? Well, okay.

I'm more reliable than Vaughn and Megan at answering the phone. Yeah, and I didn't even know who Ellen Smith was. I didn't even know who Ellen Smith was. I didn't know Ellie's last name was Smith. And that's Ellie's full name. And I didn't know she was going with Ellen. I know that.

I know. She's Ellen. So it's harder because you would have answered the phone, Fletch, but Vaughan, like, spins a good yarn. Yeah, that's the thing. And I don't know if you, I don't actually, I don't think I've heard you say a nice thing about me. To my face.

Don't take offense. I haven't heard any nice things about anyone. Have you ever looked after, you've never house sat at Fletcher's house? No. Oh, see, as someone, she's house sat at my house and looked after my children, I can say that she's responsible and respectful. And I thought the washing, but not the undies. But I don't know if she is responsible entirely.

Well, that's why you can't be on a reference. She reversed into her letterbox and I had to fix it. Which, this is the reason why. Well, I'm not going to

lie to someone, Caitlin. If they ask me if you're responsible, I'll say semi-responsible. But now you're answering your own question as to why you weren't

a referee. And that's why we put Ross instead of you. Ross ahead of me. He never answers the phone. He was the only one out of the three of you that answered the phone. And he said he said some very nice things about me that he would never say to my face.

So if I wanted to hear them, I'd have to call the real estate agent. You'd tell the property manager, like, how good is your leader box? Because it's likely to get run over. You know, like you're not reliable. And then you'd probably tell them about my dating history and just all really

strangers in the house. I'll say, yeah, do you want strangers in the house because she brings on Tinder dates? No, I don't.

She goes to their house. No, I don't. Or is it real? She plays away from home. Also, sometimes she gets too drunk, she bombs on the porch. I do. drunk, she vomits on the porch. I don't, I've never vomited on the porch.

Has Ali vomited on the porch? Not on the porch. Why is vomiting happening? This is a problem when you're a referee or a reference to someone. Even with their job, you can be held liable if they defraud the company. I wonder why Flex wasn't on. I wonder why. And that wasn't on I wonder why And that's why

I will never put you down As a reference for anything Well I'm honest I don't want honesty I want lying So you don't want lying And just like To make me sound

Really really cool Do you know The only thing we use Fletch for Is when you need To get a new passport Because he always Has his passport That's right

Yeah yeah yeah Of course I do I've got my passport On the cloud In case I lose it Or need to get a new passport because he always has his passport. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course I do. I've got my passport on the cloud in case I lose it or need it as a reference. There you go. You can meet all our passport references. Yeah, nothing else. But nothing else.

That hurts a little bit, guys. That hurts a little bit. That's why my feelings were hurt yesterday. Sorry, Fletch, but it was the right thing to do. I can't believe you so happily I'm just thinking more about you signing away

on passports because you say oh you haven't known this person for this long and they're all good and then what if Caitlin does something silly on a plane like has an emotional breakdown

and threatens the pilot and then they're like who referred this woman and then you're a black mom I'm only saying that is her identity I'm not responsible

for any mental breakdown and hijacking. Do you write that in your mail? How long have you known them? Five years, but I will take no responsibility for their mental well-being on a flight. This is just to confirm I know who they are. It's not a character reference. No, it's not. Fletch for the Negans.

Long weekend. And it's happening Friday, 8am. Long weekend. Good toot. And it's happening Friday 8am. Joining us on the phone, a man that not only plays cricket in New Zealand, but also scored a 35-ball hundred for the Wushuasai Sources. Martin James Guptill. Good morning. G'day.

G'day, guys. Did you just Google that, Vaughan? No, I just Googled Marty Guptill. Good morning. G'day. G'day, guys. Did you just Google that, Vaughn? No, I just Googled Marty Guptill, and it was like, do you mean Martin Guptill? I was like, oh, that's very formal. And then, yeah, it tells me. No one ever calls you that. No, Martin. I've never even thought of you as a Martin.

I've just only ever thought of you as a Marty. As a Marty. So what was the deal with this 35 ball 100? You took 35 balls to get 100 runs. Yes, that's correct. With someone like as useless as me bowling, that seems like not a lot. Well, considering I was five off about seven balls,

I thought I did pretty well. Yeah, very well done. Well, we're building up to the long weekend group two this Friday, and it is a tradition on Friday, any of the long weekend, and so we've decided to get some endorsers on board. We're covering all aspects of New Zealand society and you're representing sport. Oh, brilliant. Yeah, because Richie McCall wasn't returning our calls,

was he? No, we're still not giving up, though. We said we wasn't going to tell Marty that. Don't tell Marty his second choice. Always first. I can still hang up, though, if you really want me to. No, no, no. We're desperate.

That's what you're angling for. So, are you familiar with the long weekend group, Martin? Oh, so you're talking to me? Yeah. I was just going for a formal angle. Yeah, no, I am. I've certainly heard it over the years. Yeah.

Okay. Ever partook? No, I can't say have. Well, that's the thing. A lot of people can be driving and they don't hear it around them. Yeah, okay. Ever partook? No, I can't say have. Well, that's the thing. A lot of people can be driving and they don't hear it around them. Yeah. So, you know, they feel like

they want to be a part of it, but they can't. Well, that's what leading up to this long weekend group because I don't want people to wait. I just want them to join in regardless of their location. Right, now you're in your car

at the moment, Marty. I am. Okay, do you get a free car, by the way? Just a... Because we asked Matoodles. No, now you're in your car at the moment, Marty. I am. Okay. Do you get a free car, by the way? Because we asked Matoodles. No, I don't. Matoodles, Matilda Rice is currently, she's got a free Subaru. Oh, wow. You don't get a free car. I don't have that luxury. Who's that guy that

plays cricket with 2,000 followers that had a free car that Caitlin was telling us about? Oh, no, she's shaking her head. Okay, we don't talk about her. I think that was a Tinder guy. Yeah, we'll move on. He might have been lying. We'll move on.

All right, when you're ready, Martin, James, Guptill, lay the long weekend group toot upon us. All right, are we ready? Yeah. All right. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Yes. Wonderful technique.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. on his board. Excellent. Well, Marty, do we... I'll play him top spot now. Yeah, okay. Do it. We thank you so much for taking part in the long weekend group toot and setting a great example, a how-to, ahead of this Friday's group toot. Thanks so much. And also appreciate that you did that outside Eden Park, because we know those residents don't like any

noise, even though they move next to a huge function stadium. Yeah. You've got to wonder. Hey, thanks so much to a huge function stadium. Yeah. You've got to wonder. Hey, thanks so much, Marty. No worries, guys. Cheers, mate. Fact of the day, day, day, daychurch. Tomorrow, Producer Caitlin, have we got our team sorted?

We do. We do. So they've all been contacted? They have. Fantastic. Well, if you've been contacted, we'll see you there. You're in. $1,000 for the winning team.

And just thank you again to Air New Zealand's Grabber Seat for getting us down there. Yeah. And tomorrow, weather pending, we're probably going to go on a scooter safari on those new scooters you can scan on your phone. We should make an event. And you're coming. But then we've talked about this. We're worried that people will beat us there and then we won't get a scooter. So it's kind of like that sounds like good fun and a great radio promotion, Megan, but this is not about that.

Isn't there only like 400? There's 400? 500 in Christchurch. What if I have to drive right out to New Brighton to get one, though? Will you will? Then I'll have to scoot in and it'll be out of batteries and I won't be able to do the scooter safari. So join us Thursday morning when Megan's leg's in a cast again

because the last time we've been bicycling. I know, I'm actually really worried. Anything on wheels. Just like steering. I might go with the car and that's it. Today's fact of the day is this kind of started yesterday. My wife and I were driving down the road and I was like, oh my God, that guy looks like the creator of South Park.

And she was like. Which one? Yes. Matt Stone. Matt Stone. No, Matt Parker and Trey. That, sorry, Trey Stone. Trey Parker, Matt Stone.

No, Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Matt Stone's the taller, Matt Stone. Yeah. Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Matt Stone's the taller guy with the glasses, eh? Yep. Yeah, so it was him. Okay. And it straight up looked like him. And then we got talking about the South Park movie.

Yep. And how good the songs are off the South Park movie. And then when I mowed the lawns, I was just constantly singing all the South Park movie songs in my head. It's still going, eh, South Park? You always see it, like, pop up online. Yep. New episodes. Yeah, new eps. Oh, really? All the time You always see it, like, pop up online. Yep. New episodes.

Yeah, new eps. Oh, really? Yep. Yeah, they're still making it. And they can crank out, there's a great documentary about how quickly they can crank out an episode of South Park. Well, it's basic animation, isn't it? Yeah.

And they made Book of Mormon, didn't they? Yeah, the musical. So I'd be, that's what he paid half their money as well. Yeah. Because they'd be rich, right? So that's actually what I was like, how much would those guys be worth? And we looked it up. 500 million US dollars each.

Wow. That's half a billion, right? Yep. Half a billion each. I'm making a silly cartoon. Yep. All right, mum. No, I love it.

You're just making a silly cartoon. Your father works hard. He's not worth half a billion dollars. So they're still making the show. Yeah. So then I started looking into people who are making the most amount of money, even though the shows have stopped, like from residuals and syndication and stuff. What do you think about like your friends, Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld and that?

So friends, I'll start with friends. Those are actually my two examples. What's today's fact of the day? Today's fact of the day is friends continues to generate $1 billion a year for Warner Brothers, the people who made Friends. Holy S. That makes more money than a lot of movies. Heaps. Yeah, totally.

So that, due to the fact that they signed on for 2% residuals, means that each member of the Friends cast is getting $20 million a year. No! Even though Friends finished so many years ago. Yeah, they get 2% each of syndication income for Friends. That makes me feel happy for Chandler. Jennifer Anderson, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer still get $20 million a year.

That's insane. For Friends. Which is more than what they made in the first four seasons. And do you say your other example is Seinfeld? Yes. Because there's Jerry Seinfeld, but then there's also Larry David. Larry David, who created Seinfeld. Who does Cobra Enthusiasm. If you've never seen that, what's wrong with you?

So Jerry Seinfeld earned $900 million in 10 years. Primarily from old Seinfeld episodes. So $90 million a year is pretty much what he's ticking over for Seinfeld being syndicated and still shown around the world. Wow.

Good lord. You'd do nothing. You'd never work, hey? Does David Schwimmer work? He was in the OJ. That's right, yeah. It was Robert Kardashian. You still see him popping up every now and then.

It's weird though when you see him popping up in a serious thing. It's because he can do serious roles and it can do badly. What did he call Juice, eh? Because have you seen the scenes that got cut from that O.J. Simpson, the people versus O.J. Simpson? There's one where he's helping O.J. Simpson move a couch up a set of stairs and he's like, pivot. That was a long play, but I'm into it.

Long play for the pivot joke. That was good for me. You've got to go the distance for the pivot joke. So today's fact of the day is Friends, even though it finished ages ago, continues to generate approximately a billion dollars a year for Warner Brothers. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Some sad news flooded the Fleeche Warner Megan Facebook and Instagram inbox. Yesterday or day before?

Yesterday. The first I heard about it was at the weekend and I thought it might be an anomaly and I don't want to bring it up because I don't want to panic. It could be one service station. It could have been a one-off. It could have been a one-off. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that it is.

Intern Anya and I share a love. I know you guys do sometimes, but not as much as Intern. It's a sometimes rather than a yeah. I've never had one. Haven't you? Excuse me? What's wrong with you?

They don't look nice. No, they're delicious. They look yuck. So it has been a long tradition that when Antonia and I, when we're on the road, when we're doing a roadie, we stop and we go, is it like you're in a band or something? We take the band on tour? Yeah. That's what we do. Well yeah, when we when we're on the road next week and we need

gas, we pull into the BP Wild Bean and we get southern style chicken bites. Because they are delicious. And they are hefty bites, eh? They're hefty. They're bigger. And they were a dollar each. So for six bucks you get half a dozen and that'd be enough,

wouldn't it? More if you hung over. Okay. But delicious. Ten, ten. Was there a dipping sauce option? Although the last time I think they'd been in the warmer a while and they were a bit dry. See, they look very dry. No, but they're not. They're not, are they?

They're juicy. They're such a lovely, lovely nugget. Honestly, you simply must if you haven't. And my only qualm is there's such a juicy, big, voluptuous nugget that when you buy your 60 Cent Sweet Chili Pottle, you have to really work out your angles and it's a bit of a 10 cent game.

You always have to buy them in half down the middle and dip like that. Yeah, you could. Or just dip corners. But they're delicious. So I don't go enough because I don't have

a car obviously but people start saying there's been a 10 cent price increase. There has been. That's what we've been told. Shut the front door. Yeah. God, is this Jacinda's fault? I'm sorry to start saying there's been a 10 cent price increase. There has been. That's what we've been told. Shut the front door. Yeah.

God, is this Jacinda's fault? I'm sorry to tell you, but they've gone up 10%. You've just said that it's a hefty. There's a lot of chicken to that nuggy. But if you buy more, like I buy a big bag, you should get a discount. You mean like a bulk buy discount? Yeah, if I'm buying like a six pack, there should be like a little bit cheaper. Combo deals, right.

You're saying buy enough of them, they should go back to the old pricing. What were people saying in the inbox? I got a lot of personal messages as well, just being like, you will be ropeable. And ropeable I was. Yeah, it's just, it just kind of feels like a kick to the guts, you know, like it's the ones you love that hurt you the most with these kinds of things. It hurts most when it's someone close, eh? It's because you trusted them.

That was your first mistake. I know. I put my heart and soul in there. Yeah, it's disappointing, especially when you've got a cheeky... Funny because a chicken actually put its heart and soul into that nugget as well. Literally, its heart and its arsehole, that is. But if you had a fine... No, they leave out...

They don't mince the arsehole, do they? No. You mince it. What do you think this is, my friend? This is everything that can't be eaten and no one's going to eat a chicken bite. It feels like a real, like, it doesn't feel minced up. That's why the bites are so yum, eh? It feels like an actual bit of breast or something.

But now if you don't have a $5 note, like, if you've got a fiver, oh, it's just, what's that going to be? Four nuggets? Yeah, and then you're going to be down 60 cents change. What a kick in the teeth. Oh, what a nightmare. And that is after you to be dealt 60 cents change. What a kick in the teeth. And that is after you've got your fuel, which is already a kick in the teeth. Yeah.

Is this an odd rogue BP wild bean, or is it across the board? It's across the board. It's universal price increase. Unbelievable. I mean, I'll still eat them. Don't get me wrong. I'm just going to be paying more for them.

And you'll go... Like wrangle a combo deal when you're there next. Well, they do a combo deal when you buy a muffin and coffee. Maybe next week we could try bartering and see how that goes. What, like exchange a goat? Yeah, or just be like, oh, $1.10 or 80 cents. That's not going to work. To the person at the counter.

Yeah, that sort of bargaining is not going to work on the fly. Have you guys ever done that before? You know, like you shop somewhere, you always get the same thing. Like it might be a lunch deal or it might be the same thing you get for lunch around work. And then the price just goes up a little bit. And that's enough just to get you wild or say, nah, that's it. Yeah. I used to get these salads and it had like noodles on the bottom

and then salad and then like a chicken, crumb chicken on top. And it was $7, which bargain. Yep. And then it went to $7.50 and it tipped me over the edge. They knew. I was like, no. Because if it went $7.50 from the start, you would have paid that. Yeah.

But then someone said to them, you're not charging enough for that salad. And they're like, oh, put it up to $7.50. Yeah, because that's cheap for a salad. Yeah, but the 50 cents really did it for me. I was like,

I'm not coming here anymore. But would you have gone to the next place next door and got a $7.50 salad? No. No. Okay. It was just a $7.50

that was okay, right. No, because nowhere else had a $7.50 salad. It was still cheap, but it's the 50 cents that tipped me over. Keeping from wrong, did this happen to Subway Cookies once? Did they go up in price?

Didn't they have a little sneak up in price? Maybe, yeah, maybe. You're right. I remember when they went up in price, there was an outlaw. There was an uproar. An outlaw? Uproar. Outrage.

Outrage and uproar. Okay, yeah, right. Or an uproar and an outrage. Could we take some calls this morning? When did a price increase, you know, tip you over the edge? Like 10 cents. 10 cents on something that you just spent like a good minute describing as succulent deliciousness.

I know it's 10 cents, but it's just a principle to me. Like you should never be able to change your prices ever. I know that it's never going to happen. I get that. Because then houses would still be like $80,000. Yeah. That'd be great, wouldn't it? Yeah.

Fuel would still be 80 cents. Yeah, that'd be pretty top notch. Let's go back to those days. Yeah. Does that mean we'd also get paid like $8? Yeah, probably. Probably. Yeah, true. And women would have less rights than they've worked hard for over the last bit.

Yeah. Well, should we just carry on then? Carry on life. And just whinge about it. How about that for a compromise? Well, we love that, don't we, as Kiwis? All right, well, I want $800 at M9696. Maybe it was something favourite.

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But someone said you can now get four nuggets and a dipping sauce, and that's your round fiver. No one's paying with a $5 note. It's FPOS. I don't care about that. Someone's only $0.10 extra. I know, but then you get five, and that's, you know a $5 note. It's FPOS. I don't care about that. So it's only 10 cents extra. I know, but then you get five and that's, you know, $5.50 instead of five.

That's up, Megan. And for $10, you would have got 10, but now for $10, you'd only get nine. Yeah, I know. I know. And I'm buying 10. I should get 11 for 10. Just saying.

That's, where's the loyalty? Absolutely. Where's the love? Somebody said, when I was at uni in 2005, the Waikato Uni put their wedges and sour cream up from $5 to $5.50, caused a mass boycott.

Closed shortly thereafter, replaced by an overpriced cafe, but that was very popular. And I was like, this makes no sense. You should do it. We boycotted the place that was feeding us for next to nothing

because of a slight price increase. And now the place that's replaced them has totally blown out the budget. Yeah. I feel like you've got to do a price increase over summer when no one's at uni. And then they come back, they will likely forget about it. Yeah, they don't know. Yeah, yeah.

Somebody else said, I'd love to see a cheeseburger index. Oh, yeah. Like a growth chart yeah of how much that's cost yeah because that shoots up yeah

and can we talk for a moment about hash browns McDonald's hash browns oh they're having a laugh now that's a laugh because my daughters love a hash brown they used to be a dollar right

and when you think about a hash brown a dollar seems a fair price $2.50 they're buying those in bulk and they're potatoes we've got tons of potatoes right? And when you think about a hash brown a dollar seems a fair price. $2.50. They're buying those in bulk and their potatoes. We've got tons of potatoes. Yeah. Explain

your price. Explain yourself. Enough doesn't it? Alicia you've got an issue with what? Okay so McDonald's also do their soft serve now which used to be $0.60 and now they're $1.10. Outrageous.

Because I remember for ages it used to be $0.50, but was that years ago? That was years ago, and then they went up to $0.60, which, you know, like semi-tolerable, but $1.10. Like, are you kidding me? They're not even like giant size. They're tiny, and $1.10 just seems ridiculous. Good call.

So did you boycott or you still do it? Well, sometimes I do it. Less though, less though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Thanks for your call, Alicia. Kate, what price increase got you? So I used to go to this place and get a dish called a Donbury.

Okay, yep. It's like rice, a salad and meat on the top yep good went up a dollar and i was pregnant at the time so i was curious okay a dollar's turn snaking up 50 or 20 cents at a time hey that's one big hit it's a big hit like it went from like 12.90 to 13.13.90. Oh no, too much. Did you actually, did you have it up with them in store? No, we just haven't gone back. That's the thing.

It's really not too much for a salad, is it? But it's the principle. You feel like your loyalty's been, you know, nothing to them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Exactly. It's like some massive international company's not really thought about you. Yeah, exactly. Hey, thanks for, yeah, yeah. You know? Exactly. It's like some massive international company has not really thought about you.

Yeah, exactly. Hey, thanks for your call, Kate. Some other text messages in. Somebody said, since when? Since when? Since when? Since when?

Has additional sources being added to burgers been 50 cents per source? Recently went to VK and I said, hello, cheeseburger with mayo, please. And then it was 50 cents extra.

I was like, I beg your pardon, what's happening here? And they said, oh, it's 50 cents per sauce. You can't really get angry when it's additional. Like if you were switching out

a sauce maybe, but you're still getting something extra. If you were getting a mayo packet, you'd have to pay for that. So that makes sense. Yeah. Would you have to pay for a mayo packet?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you would. You don't pay for ketchup, but you pay for mayo. Yeah, and your extra sauces at Macca's you pay for, 50 cents or 60 cents. The world is spiralling out of control. But then sauces, condiments should always be complimentary. But if you ran Vaughan's Burgers, would you just go through thousands of dollars worth of condiments every month? Yeah, and that's what would keep people coming back.

To Vaughan's Burgers. The price would be absorbed in other areas of business. Your burgers would be $25, but free condiments. But you trick people into being like, oh yeah, free condiments. And people get carried away. They don't think about the price. They think free. They hear free and they want the free.

But they've got to spend the money to get the free. It's why entertainment books keep selling. People are like, $25 off at a place that I would never have spent $25. I'll buy this book for $60 and spend $25 and now I've spent $85 I wouldn't have spent previously. But heck, I've saved

$20 that is non-imaginary and never existed. It kind of made sense to me. Okay. I should be like finance minister or something. Really? You should do work though. I'd be like, yeah, big surplus.

How much? I'd be like, yeah, none of your business. I'd be like, Vaughan, why does the country bought all these Star Wars toys? Yeah, we're saving them. Collector's edition. The company would be heavily invested in premium Lego.

I'm telling you that. I'm telling you that right now. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out ZDM online. ZDM.