ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - September 06 2019

Episode Date: September 5, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thank you, Anya. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Friday morning. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Been a slow week. I've had way too many late nights this week. You have. You were saying yesterday that it kept you awake. And then last night you went to the School of Rock. Yeah. It kept you awake. It.

The movie. I feel like you're doing... So I'm still suffering from it, like trauma. I drove to work at like 4.30 in the morning, pitch black, country road, and... Take me home. A red balloon. No.

Oh. Next, like, scary thing. Oh, a. No. Next scary thing. A cat in a yellow raincoat. No, a man in an orange raincoat walking very slowly in the middle of the road. I hope you ran him over and asked questions later. I was like, oh. He heard me coming and moved slightly to the side. And then I drove past and looked in the rear view mirror.

I was like, you're a clown and he wasn't there no I couldn't see his face he could have been right I sent Megan a photo of the giant billboard over the road

from my house yesterday because it cycles through all the ads oh they've got a digital they've got a big ad for it you've just got it eyes outside your window

yeah that's horrible so I had to send those to you just to tease you how are you dealing with that I don't care it doesn't bother me outside your window. Yeah. That's horrible. So I had to send those to you just to tease you. How are you dealing with that? I don't care. It doesn't bother me.

I'm just winding you up and loving it. It's great. Well, I haven't seen it, but School of Rock didn't give you any nightmares? No. Those kids are talented. Crazy talented.

That's what I was getting at. I saw a lot of people went last night. Yeah. And yeah, the kids, I don't know if I want to see kids be better than me at everything. I don't know if I need that. Confronting, isn't it? Like, instruments like rock stars.

It's insane. Yeah. Definitely worth going to see. Okay. Today, Friday flashback. It was my pick last week. Remember, I had an absolute banger last week. That I gave you.

With my Lizzie McGuire. Oh, Lizzie McGuire. Yeah. So whose turn is it this week? Mine. Vaughan. Do you need help? No pressure.

Don't have anything. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Top six is coming up. Yeah, today's top six deals with the fact that, Megan, when you're driving to work in the future, you might not just be seeing

a man in an orange raincoat. You might be seeing international flights landing over you as the military airstrip, finelope, airbase, could become a commercial airport.

It used to be, right? It used to be back in the day that was the... Did it? I don't know. Did it? I think so. Air New Zealand wants it to become a second airport. Yeah.

So the top, I mean, yeah, I know, not great, but the top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, story time, three news headlines. Vaude and Megan pick one of the following three. Headline one, smart parking. Headline two, hotel staff ask guests to bear with them as they clear restroom.

And headline three, no tonic for motorway spill. Those are your three headlines. Well, I like one or two. Tonic was a, a, a, yeah. Truck carrying,

what was it, 3,200 litres or 32,000 litres? Of gin. Of gin, overturned on a motorway. Good recall. 32,000 litres of gin.

And not just gin, concentrated. Gin concentrate, so highly flammable, apparently. Wait, do they make gin from concentrate? One thing they can do, yeah. Huh. Right.

What do they... Road suck. Road suck. I think if you road sucked concentrated gin, you would die. Yeah, right. From the road? Or the concentrated gin.

Or just the 2000s. Yeah, you get a couple of stones in a minute. But a dead hedgehog? Okay, so we know that one. The clearing restroom one? Or was it smart parking? Smart parking is number one, yeah. What do you want?

Smart parking? Of course you want smart parking That sounds boring Restaurant beer Restroom beer with us Yep There's a Well there's a bear involved

Is there a bear in there? In the hotel Yes there is a bear in there There is a bear in there There's been lots of beers Footage of beers It's hibernating season Oh so they're trying to find Cool places season. Oh, so they're trying to find

cool places to hibernate. Yeah, they're trying to find places to hibernate. Ah, right. So hence they're getting into a lot of bins and people's garden sheds and restrooms. Right. Okay. Smart parking. Smart parking. Okay, we go to Florida now where a man

Patrick Eldridge of course wanted to protect his precious vehicle from Hurricane Dorian barrelling towards the state. Sure. So he was like, well, you know, you've got to get everything tied down. A lot of people put shutters on the windows on their island homes and Floridian homes. Yes.

But he was like, well, I've got to get my car sorted. So he decided that he would open the French doors in his kitchen, which go out to the backyard or the street, and drive his little wee cute smart car into his kitchen. And I'm showing you now a photo of the smart car. You know those tiny little cars that you'll see, heaps of them overseas, you see people just pull in. They don't even park them parallel,

they park them nose in. It doesn't take up much more floor space than like a beanbag. Or it would be less than a kitchen table. Yeah. Yeah. So this has gone viral after it was posted to Facebook.

And yeah, there's a couple of dogs for scale next to the smart car. Oh my God, it's so small. You wouldn't consider a guy that owns a smart car to own two pit bulls. I know, right? When you said he has two dogs, I was like smart car, small car, small dog.

But maybe you should let go of the toxic masculinity there, Vaughn. And just accept that the stereotyping and just accept that a man with a smart car can have a couple of pitbull staffy mastiff crosses or whatever those are. I thought it was toxic masculinity. I just thought that like Well you were just basically saying

that a guy Those dogs left alone with that car could tear it to pieces. Literally could eat it. They actually could him and the dogs all fit in there?

Also they've got those cut ears. You know where they cut their ears? They've got the flappy ears and they cut them so they stand up and that makes them look more intimidating? Are their ears not like that normally? No, you have to cut a dog's ears to make them look

like that. I did not know that. Yeah, they cut them here. It's the same with Great Danes and they cut them here and they pull them. And they take a bit out and it peaks it up. I mean, they're not floppy like a spaniel's ear, but they're not that. Right. Oh.

You should look into it, guys. I'm just over here being woke. Okay. Right. Animal cruelty, but still totally being part of toxic masculinity. I'm a confusing mixture of woke and not woke. I'm what you call half woke and not woke. I'm what you call half woke, sleepy.

Right. Not woke. I'm like fully woke, but not woke. I'm at that stage where I'm having those weird half dreams. Yeah, total half dreams. 12 past 6. The top 6 is coming up. The top 6 positives about having an airport on your doorstep.

This could be a possibility for a whole lot of West Aucklanders And Megan, which is why we're rubbing it in Lord of the Rings, the Amazon series is starting to pick up a bit of pace This has been filmed not too far from my house This massive giant green screen. They've taken down the Mulan village. They filmed Disney's Mulan there. Could you see that from the road?

You could see the ancient Chinese looking sets. In West Auckland. Because there's this massive amount of this, I believe it's called a pine belt behind it. Pine trees were grown to block the wind and create a barrier. Did ancient, were pine trees the sort of go-to for ancient Chinese trees?

Oh, just CGI in the Great Wall. Perfect. If you want. Yeah, perfect. Or different kind of trees. Yeah, or different kind of trees. Sure. They just changed them slightly.

I just thought a wall might be easier to CGI in than individual trees, Megan. Yeah, well, I just don't know that they would have the wall necessarily in their back. That's great. It's right there. Not every part of China, the wall's just right there. Are you sure? Just skirts around the

outside. It's pretty big. Yeah, it's pretty long. You can see it from space. Yeah, so they say. Yeah pretty long. You can see it from space. Well, so they say. Yeah. So that's starting filming out in West Auckland in QMU and they've just cast Eyebrows Kid as one of the show's lead roles. Now, you probably know exactly who I'm talking about just by saying Eyebrows Kid, but if you don't,

his name's Will Poulter. He was in the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror. And he was the kid in We're the Millers. Jennifer Anderson. And the Maze Runner. He was in the Maze Runner movies. I just clicked on Google. He was in the Chronicles of Narnia. Did that film in New Zealand as well?

Yes. So he's already been... Who was he in the Chronicles of Narnia? He would have been... It'll have his character name under the thing. How long ago was that? Who would have been? 2010 that was released. So that would have been filmed there. That his character name under the thing. How long ago was that? Who would have been? 2010 that was released. So that would have been filmed there. Oh, that's the last one. Is that the...

Because it goes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Caspian Prince, Bed Bath and Beyond. So that was probably the third. Right, okay. It was probably the third one in the Chronicles of Narnia. Oh, well, he might like it. He's coming back. So who's he going to be in?

It doesn't say, but this is not Hobbits. I think I've said there's no Hobbits in this one. It's kind of like the story of the ring, how the ring came to be. If you've seen a lot of the rings, the flashbacks with all the humans and the wars and everything, I think it's going to cover more of that. Right. I'm just trying to think how I can get involved wars and everything. Right. I think it's going to cover more of that. Right.

I'm just trying to think how I can get involved now and make some money. Well, because it's down the road. Yeah, just down the road. Or just start up in like a tourist shop or a... Oh, no, because the tourists won't come yet until it's filmed. And will they even come?

And they'll probably pull down the sets once it's finished. Yeah, true. They'll want the outdoor. They might be doing some outdoor shots somewhere. We'll start a cafe or something. Paparazzi. That's been all the talk of the local sitch is that there's one place, a restaurant, shut down because they're going to be so busy catering it.

They don't need a restaurant as well. Oh, they don't need to open. And there's already existing cafes. Yeah, Megan's right. Beer paparazzi. Yeah, let's get the drone up. I was going to say just get a big camera, but yes. Oh, right.

A drone. Sure, climb up into those pines. I was going to say just get a big camera, but yes. Oh, right, okay. A drone, sure. Climb up into those pines that I was talking about before. And they won't see you because it'll be the Great Wall to them. Yeah. No, no, no, that was Mulan. Different movie. Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know. I don't know how. Doesn't have a Great Wall. Walls. Are you sure? It does have a wall. It probably is a wall. It's probably our wall.

Just say it's a different wall. I don't know if it's as good as our wall. Look, I don't know how CGI works, Megan, but they'll be like, get out of the tree. I'll be like, CGI me out. I'm trying to get some photos to sell. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Today's Top Six are dealing with the fact that Air New Zealand says

it could be commercially viable to operate for newer players as second Auckland Airport running services to Wellington and Christchurch. If you're flying in from Wellington or Christchurch, would it be about the same time to get into the middle of the city? Pretty much. Then what's the point? What? What's the point then?

Well, it alleviates traffic. International. Because apparently Auckland Airport's quite busy. Like, for landings. For landings,

right. Will it hurry up and build a second runway? Problem solved. Done. At the moment, it's fun because the planes that come in

are like, like, fancy, like, you know, interesting ones. Because you literally live on the approach. And you're like, whoa,, interesting ones. Because you literally live on the approach.

And you're like, whoa, look at that one. It's so, like, got a big round nose. The approach or the take off, depending on which way the wind's going. Every time I'm like, is that Jacinda? Nah. No. I was trying to pick which one. But they'd land in there because that's where the, yeah, right, okay.

Every time I'm like, that's Jacinda coming back from Wellington. It's not going to happen. I hope not. No, because this isn't the first time this has been talked about either. And now there's like 10,000 more houses out there than there was when they used to talk about it. So 10,000 more families to be like,

no thanks. No thanks to it. But I've got the top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep if it does happen. Number six. It's the perfect excuse for not following your spouse's instructions because, oh, I couldn't hear you. Oh, you must have told me when that flight from Fiji was coming in.

Yeah. Sorry, I would have, but I just didn't hear you at all. Number five on the list of the top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep, closer to duty free. Yeah. But I can't just walk up and... You could say if a friend was landing,

being like, go through duty free, I'll just wait at the gate. Save yourself five bucks for all that effort. I read a story, because did you hear in the news someone got arrested, I think it was in Singapore, for saying goodbye to his wife.

He bought it like a, I don't know, some one-way ticket, somewhere really cheap, so he could just go through into departures and wave goodbye to his wife. And then what, just walk back through? And then walk back. Apparently 33 people have been arrested in the last year doing this, because you're not allowed to do that.

Well, once you've gone through, you're not supposed to come back out. No, no. You've got to go through passport check and all that. Yeah. Crazy, eh?

How did he even get back through? Because it always blows my mind you can get off a plane and you can see where they put that little tape up where the people come on the plane and then you're separated

by a glass wall the whole way to... Yeah, well, some airports overseas you're not. You can walk right through. Really? A Home Alone situation. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six positives

about having an airport on your doorstep. It's harder to be late for a flight. It's not impossible. It's still very easy. But a little harder than it already is if you've just got to walk over. Imagine if you could get to the airport in five minutes. Yeah, that'd be great.

It's too close to drive because you'd have to pay for parking. You could get an Uber. Imagine that. You'd be like, oh yeah, just an Uber to the airport. And they're like, please be the one in the South. And you're like, 200 metres that way. Number three on the list of the top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep. Charge people a small fortune to park

on your front lawn. Oh yeah. I've got a big front lawn. You'll probably get bogged down. I was going to say very muddy this time of year. Very muddy. Number two on the list of the top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep. You'll get to know the arrival

schedule of international flights off the top of your head. So you can be like, oh, NZ157 from Fiji? Then you can amaze your guests with your knowledge. It's just a shame that no one will want to come and visit you anymore because your house rattles every time NZ157 from Fiji lands. Yeah.

And the number one on today's top six positives about having an airport on your doorstep, doggies. Whistle loud enough and a beagle might bring you some drugs. Yeah. Yes. Wait. Don't think that's how they work.

Wait. I think they just sniff out for bananas and stuff. And drugs. Oh, do they? Yeah. Okay. Different dogs have different tasks. There's dogs that smell like cash too.

Like big wads of cash. Yeah. They bite into it. You bring it. You pay them in drugs. Yeah. Totally doable. It's not all bad.

That's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Guys, this is really sad news out of Ngaruawahia. We are on the lookout for Ernest. Ernest is a kunikuni pig who has been stolen from the Waikato Pound Pups. Oh my God, I saw this. This is the one that got stolen From the pound pups Yeah

What's pound pups? It's like It's like an Animal shelter Oh right Yeah right Generally for dogs But they had this pig

Because people always Tag me in every single Rogue animal now They're like Adopt it This pig? Yeah And I got tagged

And I was like Oh actually That's real cute And I said to Sharda I was like Are we allowed to Coon and coon And she said No no, not yet.

You've got to sort your life out first. Well, this is the pig that's been stolen, but you'll be happy to learn, I mean, side note, he did actually find a forever home. So he had been adopted and he was literally about to be taken to his forever home. And he has been stolen. They believe stolen because the fence is totally intact. They did a perimeter check and

there's nothing wrong. There's no way that he could have escaped. Oh, so he couldn't have escaped. No. So they said it looks like someone's jumped down into the paddocks and broken him out. But they've also said due to his size he would probably had to have been lifted by two people. So this was a heist.

I guess you could say, Ham on the run. There's a ham on the run. I like it. Thanks. What is the original lyric? Man on the run. Oh, okay.

Yeah, that's good. I don't know. Cute. Yeah, so he has not gone wee, wee, wee, wee all the way home. Yes, that's good also. That's good also. Do you think it was a rash decision for them to break him out? Yeah.

Yep, yep, yep. They'll be on the trotter now. Look, we could sit around and pork about it all day, but it's not getting anything done, is it? I like that one. Yeah. Yeah, but they've said he's the most loving, friendliest pig ever, so he probably would have been like...

So someone had to bake an enter to get him. Yeah. Pretty happy with that one. That's the winner, that's the winner, yeah. But yeah, the fence definitely wasn't chopped. Shazam! Did you just read that off the text? No!

I don't even have the text open. The text machine always comes hot with the puns, but it's always when we're finished. Yeah, because people think of more. Hey, look. We're all getting a bit worked up. We just need to calm down, babe. That's from the text machine.

That's good. So, yeah, we need to be on the lookout for Ernest. He has ginger hair with black spots. And he's real friendly, apparently. He's too young. I don't want to be grim, but he is too young to have been eaten at this stage. Like, he'll have to be fattened up. No, they said it would be a two-person lift.

Is he that big already? Well, I mean, he's not a piglet. He's not a piglet. Mate, that is sad to say. No. That's prime spit roast right there. Oh, my God. They've got to find her before they turn them into a spit roast.

If you go somewhere this weekend and there's a spit roast. It answers to the name Ernest. No, we can't laugh because that's a real risk. This weekend in that situation. I'm sorry, Ernest. This because that's a real risk. That's what we get in that situation. I'm sorry, Ernest. This is no time to roast you. Yeah. Both literally and metaphorically.

So, Ngaruahua here, what you just call the police there, if you've got any leads or the animal shelter. Pound pups. Pound pups. Yeah, he does have a forever home who are devastated. They were waiting for him to come home. So, I'm reading about Kunikuni because I've always heard the name and never asked why.

Kunikuni is a Maori language word meaning fat and round. Oh. They're so cute. Yeah. I'm just reading more about them. They're the only true grazing pig that can just live in grass and just like forage and stuff all by themselves. Most pigs have, you know.

You've got to feed them. Yeah. Right. Okay. Oh, no. I just Googled, can you eat Kunikuni? And it said the quality of meat is excellent. Please do not.

So you not only stumbled across an answer, but almost like an ad for it. Oh, God. Ernest. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. Oh God. Earn it. Fleshforn and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. This is the sort of headline you want to read when you've just got a 1967 Land Rover back on the road.

Newer model vehicles are better at protecting road users in all range of crashes. The older the car the slightly less likely it is to protect the driver. Like it might come out okay. Yep. Because you know the old built like a tank. Yep. But you as the driver the driver. Like it might come out okay. Yeah. Because you know the old built like a tank. Yeah.

But you as the driver, maybe not. Like all of these old cars that will hit something and just stop and not be too bad doesn't mean you're absolutely getting thrashed into the driver's wheel. Yeah. Steering wheel. Steering wheel. Completely forgot what that was called.

I was like, you know, the wheel the driver uses. The turny-wernie. Yeah, right. Yeah, and so there's been this big study into car safety on New Zealand and Australian roads. Yeah. And the NZTA has announced that next year vehicles with the faulty Tarketer Alpha airbags will automatically fail warrant of fitness inspections. Because they did a massive recall

but then heaps of people were like, well, I don't know. My Honda had one of those. Really? But they messaged me and said this is the period of time you can come in and get this done for free. But then, if you'd got that second hand, that Honda, or your car, but then if you hadn't taken it to a service dealer, how would you

know that that needed to be recalled? Exactly, I don't know. So there'd be heaps of people out there that just don't know. That don't know. So they've studied all range of vehicles over a 30-year time frame and looked into the crashes they were in and the accidents and how badly injured drivers were. Yeah.

Along with that and one-star safety ratings, I will now scare you before you head out for your morning commute. Is this, do they do that crash test dummies thing? Yeah, they play the song. Yeah. And they, have you seen those videos? Oh, you're horrible. They have to waste a car every time they do that.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, but that's part of developing a new car. You want to make it safe, so you sacrifice a few and you can be like five-star safety rating. Yeah, right. But these are, then this is, I'm just reading this. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but don't shoot the messenger. It's in the news, yeah.

Australia and New Zealand, the AA, we were found to have unsafe one-star ratings. In the light car category, congratulations to the Ford Fiesta, the Ford Fiesta, 2004 to 2008. Okay. One star. Holden Perina, 1995 to 2000. And then again from 2005 to 2011.

One star. I have a Perina. These are lots of mum cars and a lot of people's first cars. Don't stereotype. Or when you live in the city, you might call them your 50K cars. Yeah, right. I was talking to a family and they have a car, but they only drive it if they're going

like in the suburbs. So they'll never take that car over about 50k an hour. Well, because it's not reliable enough to last a long journey. Well, no, no, no, no. It's reliable. Right. It's just not safe and doesn't fit their whole family. Right.

So they just use it for suburban runarounds. The Hyundai gets from 2002 to 2011. The Mazda Demio, which I believe Bev drives a Demio. Well, it's a Mazda 2. From 2002 to 2007. I don't know. Is that what Anya has Mazda Demio, which I believe Bev drives a Demio. What's a Mazda 2? From 2002 to 2007. Is that what Anya has, a Demio? Oh, Anya. What year is your Demio?

Uh, 2007, I think. Oh, it's nice knowing you. Right, bro. I would also like to point out at this particular moment that you guys were the ones that said she should get that car. Yeah, would I have had this problem in my cool dude Jeep? No, I wouldn't. We'll get to them.

Suzuki Swift 2005 to 2017 and the Kia Rio 2000 and 2011. So that's quite a few. You think about how often you see those cars on the road and that's only the light cars. What year was the Suzuki Swift? 2005 through to 2017. Oh, goodness. These are late model cars.

I get into my friend's Suzuki Swift every now and again. Next time, don't. Oh, well, I won't be. These are late model cars. In the small car category, the Holden Astra, it features prolifically 96 to 98, 98 to 2006, and Holden Astra. It features prolifically. 96 to 98. 98 to 2006 and 2004 to 2009. The Honda Civic from 96 to 2000.

The Mitsubishi Lancer from 2003 to 2007. And the Toyota Corolla from 2002 to 2007. Right. Medium cars. The BMW 3 Series. So if you've inherited Mums. I'm glad I got rid of that. 1992 to 1998 though, so it's an old one.

Oh, right. So it's probably already costing you a fortune to keep on the road already, let alone the fact that it's not safe. The 94 to 98 Honda Accord. The Subaru Outback from 94 to 98. The Toyota Celica and the Toyota Camry from the 1990s. Late 1990s. Large cars included.

And if my dad's listening down in the cow shed, Ian, it's time to trade in that Falcon because the Ford Falcon, the AU from 98 to 2002, no good. Oh, really? Okay. No good. Holden Commodore, 97 to 2002. Holden people were like, oh, bloody Ford, and now you.

Shut up. Actually, and a year longer too, a year. Yeah, right. And your duvet is probably, and a year longer too. A year. Yeah, right. And your duvet is probably unsafe and flammable too. You do not want to meet a crash in that duvet.

But don't worry, with a holding duvet on your bed, I don't imagine you're bumping into too many things. Nissen Maxima. And if you're bumping

into her, I hope she's got third party. Nissen Maxima from 1995 to 1999. Yep. So these are all the one star. Yeah.

Yeah, right. Utes, the 96 to 99 Ford Falcon, the Holden Commodore from 1994 to 2000 and the Holden Rodeo from 1996 to 2002. If you're driving a Mitsubishi Delica People Mover and it's dated between 95 and 2003, that's pretty unsafe. So basically what you're saying is Mitsubishi Delica People Mover and it's dated between 1995 and 2003, that's pretty unsafe. So basically what you're saying is get a brand new car.

Not always in the budget to get a brand new car. Yeah, well, this is a problem, isn't it? But I remember looking into that when we bought second-hand cars as well. You'd want to know their safety rating and their, like, reliability. Yeah. But see, I don't even think about that.

I just go for, like, that's a nice colour and it looks nice. Low-case and it doesn't cost too much and it's been serviced. Right. Yeah. So can you go to a website for, you can Google the safety rating. Yeah. ANCAP or something or New Zealand. Yeah, ANCAP safety rating.

So I found it through the AA and also New Zealand Herald wrote a story on it yesterday. If you want to find how much of a death trap you're about to jump into on wet roads, I'm trying to work. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. So yesterday after work,

I took my lovely wife out for breakfast. She came into the city. Okay. We went out for breakfast. Mm-hmm. And as we're leaving this establishment,

it does an amazing slice. It's got this big slice cabinet. You know the one I'm talking about. Oh, I know. I know this place. And every time I go there, I can't decide which cake or slice I want. Why don't you say the place? I can if you want.

Is this bad for them later in the story? No, no, no, no, no. I'm going back today. It certainly isn't bad for them. Okay. It's called Rude Boy. Right. It's in central Auckland.

And like their breakfasts are real good, but then when you go up to pay, you're like, you're standing there waiting for your turn to pay and you're just stood by this glass cabinet of absolute sugary temptation. And I said, Lord, forgive me. No, you didn't.

I am for I am about to sin for I cannot say no to this temptation and I will covet thy neighbor's sugar-coated ass and ass. Well, that's one of them. You shouldn't covet your neighbor's ass, but it means donkey. Oh. So I was making a likeness to the sweet slices. So I had the world was my oyster as I stood there standing in front of this.

I'm salivating just thinking about this glass cabinetry. And so I look around and there's your standards, there's your lolly cakes. I've had a few of these slices over my various visits. Hello, that's a new one. Okay. And because they're right on the glass window in a chalk pan, what it's called. Okay. And it they write on the glass window in a chalk pen what it's called. Okay.

And it was kind of squished. They'd run out of room. Yeah. And I said, excuse me, is this slice called a Whanganui slice? Because I could see the H. Okay. So Whanganui, Whanganui slice. And they said, yes.

And I said, I'll take it. I'll have one. What's in a Whanganui slice? What does it look like? Stay tuned. Okay. So on the top it looked to have a sort of maybe like a cornflake-esque topping. Like you get a real good crunch out of it.

I'm out already. You get a real good, no, no, no, no, no. Shut your face. Okay. It looked good. It was gooey. It had caramel looked good. It was gooey. It had caramel in it. It had chocolate vibes.

So it's like a brownie-esque thing. Yeah. With gooey caramel and then, yeah, it has like a texture on top of like a corn. Oh, so this is an established slice. They didn't invent the slice. Is it an Edmund's cookbook number? Might be. Okay.

So I put it in a paper bag and I said, I'm saving this for a treat for later. Because Shara and I were going to the home Number? Okay. So I put it in a paper bag and I said, I'm saving this retreat for later. Because Shara and I were going to the home show. Okay. And I thought afterwards I'll need sustenance. Okay, yeah. Because either money will have been spent or her expectations of what she wants the house to look like

have just got far more expensive. Yeah. So I left it in the car and went to the home show. And after the home show, walked back to the car and thought, the time is now. Whanganui slice, prepare to be eaten. And so Sade then says, maybe we should crack into this, to which I immediately responded, you said you didn't want anything.

Oh, God, how do you deal with that? At the slice cabinet, I was like, do you want anything? She's like, no, no, no, I'm fine. Big breakfast. I said, yes, but for later. At the time, she was fine. I said, for later. You gave her the option for later.

Well, then she has. I said, think for later, woman, because the woman might have an H in it because of the fonganoi slice. She turned down a slice then and for later. She doesn't have any right to touch that slice. She had no claim to the slice. She's married to you. She's 50-50.

Everything. No, but you gave her a slice. You gave her the chance to buy the slice. At that stage, she picks up the bag and I said, did you not hear what I just said? You didn't want a slice. And she opens it and she's like, oh. And I was like, what's happened?

I know that. That's a heart of disappointment. Yeah. She said, ants all through it. You have ants in your car? To which I said, why are there ants in this car? Because last time I was driving, because it was her car, the one that she drives.

I said, last time I was in this car, there was ants on the dashboard. Why are there ants in this car? And she said, oh, because the kids eat and then they just like put packets down and I guess the ants have come in. Yeah, right. And they've made themselves at home. And I said, you're kidding me. You're kidding me.

Now I don't get the Fungadooie slice. And she said, you're overreacting. And I said, I'm not overreacting. You didn't want slice. I've been looking forward to this for hours. Hours ago, you stated, I don't want a slice. Now, two minutes ago, you became invested in the slice again. That entire home show, one thing on my mind.

Slice. Whanganui slice. Whanganui slice. And then she's gone and put ants in the car. There's ants in her car. Yeah. Completely her fault. She's running a loose car here. Fonganui slice. She's gone and put ants in the car. There's ants in her car. Yeah. It's completely her fault. She's running a loose car here.

Question, Your Honour. Proceed. How riddled with ants? That was my question, Megan. Because then I said, how many ants? Blow off amount? Yeah, like a wipe off. No, she said riddled.

Like a whole colony. She said riddled in the bag and there was lots of ants in there. And I said, don't throw it out yet. This could be salvageable. And she said, let them have what they want and then once they've left. Yeah. They're not going to eat all of it. And she's

like, well, you're not eating this. And I said, don't don't do anything rash. Let's not make any crazy decisions that could be salvageable. And she said, I'm not letting you eat this. You're a growing man. Go back and get another slice. I said, woman. You did not.

Woman. You feel like you're ruining my day. Don't do anything. And she opened the bag and tipped the slice out the window. She didn't chuck the bag out the window, just the slice. And I was like, what have you done? And she said, you would have eaten that the minute I got out of this car. Because we had to come back to work and she was going to take my car.

I said, yes, I would have. So wait, there's a slice on the side of the road in central Auckland somewhere. I was on the motorway. On the on-ramp to the motorway. Right. So I was like, what you've just done is littered. And she said, I've got a family to think about. Can't have you eating ant-infested things and getting sick.

Right. But that slice had protein on it. I'm kind of with you. Block your nose, you wouldn't even taste the ants. I mean, you wouldn't taste the slice either, but you wouldn't taste the... either But you wouldn't taste the It's what you'd expect

A Vaughan to be that grim But maybe Like Not me But I'd still I'd still eat it I am just I was just ruined

The rest of my day Was just Was just ruined It was just felt Even in the afternoon Like saw the kids And They told me some funny stuff

From school And I was like happy to see them But the day was a little bit skewed Yeah Wasn't complete Nah Yeah I was like happy to see them. But the day was a little bit skewed. Yeah. It wasn't complete. Nah. Yeah.

It was like I started running again, but one foot was in an orthopedic. Okay. There was a stone in your shoe. Yeah. You're like, I'm just not, I'm running again, baby, but I'm not comfortable. Yeah. You're wearing shape ups. Yeah.

One foot's in a shape up, one foot's in a standard runner. It was – so today, the minute the show finishes, because when I got back here, I called in. Yeah, they were shut. They were done. Heartbreak. Right, okay. Absolute heartbreak. And I would have eaten it with the ants on.

I think Megan and I can agree. Yeah. Yeah. A couple of deep breaths and a huff and a puff and you're back into that slice. Just shake them off, blow them off and then you're sweet. And you're in to go. But I wasn't allowed to. And it got me thinking about when you've eaten something

that maybe you shouldn't have. Maybe you really wanted it. Yeah. I'll put a hypothetical out there. If you ate like a big bag of lollies or say Maltesers Maybe you really wanted it. Yeah. But there was... I'll put a hypothetical out there. Yeah. If you ate like a big bag of lollies or say Maltesers. Yeah. And you maybe got like three quarters of the way through and you're like, oh, I'm so full from all this junk food.

I don't want the rest of the bag. I'll chuck them in the bin. Yeah. No, don't chuck them in the bin. The next day or hours later, would you hypothetically be able to go back to that bag that was sealed in the bin? 100%. Yeah, no,

I thought so too. I'm more aghast that you were like, I don't want these anymore and chucked them in the bin. But I didn't need them. Zero foresight for future Fletch.

No, because Fletch gets riddled with guilt after he eats treats. He's like, no more, I can't believe you did this to me. Like an emotional break up.

Yeah, yeah. You know, it's not been a healthy one. At the bin. You're dumped. And then it's like going back into the bins like sending that 2am text. Sup 2. All right. Well, 0800-DANCE-IT-IN-9696.

When did you eat something when you probably shouldn't have? Did you dip back into the bin? Maybe it was past it. Maybe it had something on it. Maybe you dropped it face down on the bin? Maybe it was past it Maybe it had something on it Maybe you dropped it Face down on the floor Maybe it was covered in ants So many of these

So many Alright we'll get to those next Give us a call 0800 DALES AT AM 9696 FLOOM Who had a great burning man Depending on where you sit

On E.coli When did you eat something You probably shouldn't have? You didn't even get this chance yesterday. No, I didn't. I would have blown the ants off and shaken them off and I would have gone all in. I get this from my dad. He's just a waste not want not guy.

Like if there's a leftover mince dish, he doesn't eat it the next day. He gives it a few days to mature in the fridge. Gets the orange growth. Doesn't microbe it. Eats it cold. When you micro Oh, gross. It's the orange growth. Yeah. Doesn't microbe it. Eats it cold. When you microbe it, that's where the bad things start happening. I don't think that's true. I don't even know if that is a thing or ever will be.

But we want to know when you have eaten something that maybe you probably shouldn't have. Yeah. Maybe you had something on it or maybe it was old. Jordan, what happened? I walked through the mall a few years ago. I was pretty broke and I was really hungry. I've seen a young family left quite a lot of their McDonald's on the table. So I patiently waited for them to leave.

They didn't put it in the rubbish bin. You waited? You stalked the food? Yeah. Yeah? And how much are we talking? How much was left here, Jordan? Well, I managed to eat at least half a Big Mac. Yeah. And how much are we talking? How much was left here, Jordan? Well, I managed to eat at least half a Big Mac.

Okay. Oh, you- Because I must have ordered too much, so. Wait, you ate half of a half-eaten burger? Yeah. Did you eat it all apart from where their mouth had touched? Because that'd be my vibe. I'd eat it all apart from like a lip buffer

where their lips would have touched the burger. Yeah. I would have left a line. Yeah, they had plastic knives there because they had the hot cake, so I kind of cut a segment off. Here he is! You are the Bear Grylls of Westfield. Surviving, baby. Brilliant.

Hey, thanks you called, Jordan. Georgina, when did you eat something you probably shouldn't have? Just this past weekend. cool, Jordan. Georgina, when did you eat something you probably shouldn't have? Just this past weekend. Oh, okay. Right. And you're still alive? You're not sort of like starting to feel bad? You've survived this one?

I'm pretty sure we're okay. Okay. Tell us what happened. Dog sitting with his friends and get to the house and they're packing up to leave. And they've bought a couple of apricot danishes that they've gone, yuck, yuck, yuck, toss in the bin, in the container.

Okay. And us, they've skedaddled out of the house and we've got the dog. And my partner's looking at me and he's like, those danishes though. I'm like, yeah, go on.

You two are meant to be. You guys are so made That's how you know You've found the one If you'll eat bin food together I'm going to keep it And who knows what I'll sniff out next And were they in good neck

The apricot danishes Perfect, pristine And they threw them out They were delightful You are ending the food wastage in Auckland, you know? Yeah. I will do what I can. I'll do my bit.

Yeah, you are. Good on you. All right, Georgina, thanks. You called some text messages. Somebody said someone offered me a milkshake once, a chocolate milkshake. I'm allergic to cow's milk, but crikey, I love chocolate milkshakes. Spent the rest of the day with lips like a baboon's ass.

What an idiot, babe. What? Wow, thanks for that. I was draining ravioli over the sink last night and the majority of it fell into the dishwater that was underneath. Put a bit of it back into the thing, just ran the cold water over it,

rinsed it off, unbeknownst to the rest of the family. Wait, it's been in the dishwasher, like where the dishes were washed. Yeah.

Oh, that's like everyday. That's everyday for me. Oh, you've been in the sink. Never mind, back in you go. And then you roll the pasta around and you're like, where's Wally?

Clean. Extra clean. Which one was on the floor? That's when you drop a sausage barbecue and you put it back on and you do a big shuffle on the grill and you're like, where's Wally? Clean. Extra clean. Which one was on the floor? That's when you drop a sausage barbecue and you put it back on and you do a big like shuffle on the grill and you're like, hey, carbon San Diego, good luck. Good luck finding out which one was on the floor. I watched my partner eat leftover honey chicken fried rice, put it in the fridge, pull it back out, reheated it.

Two days later, pulled it back out, reheated it Two days later Pulled it back out Reheated it again I'm like You're gonna die You don't reheat twice Do you? You get one reheat That's all you get

He's alive and kicking Wow Yeah Went to a dairy To get a Magnum ice cream Phone rang on the way Out of the shop Took the wrapper

Off the ice cream And threw the ice cream In the rubbish bin By mistake And not Oh not the shop Took the wrapper Off the ice cream And threw the ice cream In the rubbish bin By mistake And not Oh not the wrapper Not the wrapper There was a pause

And a young girl Behind me said 10 second rule I reached into the bin Grabbed the magnum Turned around And I just saw a child Nod at me

With their eyes closed Do it Eat it And I ate it Wow That's something That, and I ate it. Wow, that's something. I ate it. You mentioned, you come into work, you mention one little thing,

and then all of a sudden there's a radio segment on it. One little thing. One little thing. One little thing. One little thing. Two thirds of that phrase are wildly underplaying how you react to things. It's never just one thing, and it's never just a little thing with you. It's always a big thing.

I was wondering, Megan. Yeah. Boy, cold out there, probably a great time of the year to have a spa. Well, you know I love submerging

myself in warm water. It's one of my favourite activities. You're a massive fan and then maybe to change things up, you might like to turn on the bubbles.

Oh, well if it's a spa, like that's what it's for. That's the difference between it and a bath. Yeah. Right? Fletch, what do you think about turning on you just sprayed

that laugh was the most saliva projecting laugh I've ever seen. I don't like bubbles. I don't like the bubble jets. So lately I've been doing a bit more running, so my legs are like sore AF. I wish you'd said something.

Yeah, I've also been going on about that behind the scenes. And so I've been going to the local pool, doing a bit of swimming, and also afterwards soaking in the spa, which is delightful. Now, there is a button that you can press in the spa pool that turns on all the bubbly jets.

Okay. It's a spa pool. Yeah, and I go during the day, there's not a lot of people around, but every time the bubbly jets stop, it's nice and calm in the spa pool. I'm like, this is perfect. It's calm, it's hot, it's relaxing, and then someone wades over and presses the bubbly jets button.

We don't need bubbles all the time. Why do we need bubbly jets in a spa pool? It's not relaxing. It's a spa pool. That's its primary purpose. It's like bubble, bubble, bubble, and you're just like blah, blah, blah. It's supposed to be like massaging. No.

I don't like it. Am I the only one that doesn't like the bubbly jets? And then every, there's like, if there's five people in the spa, there's always someone that goes over and pushes. I give them a dirty look. I'm like, don't press that. You didn't ask all of us if we wanted bubbly jets. It's such a weird scenario to find yourself sitting in warm water with strangers.

I know. Yeah, I know. Someone pushes the bubbles and then you give them the stink eye, but you're still just sat in the same water. And you're like, I'm pushing the bubbles. I wanted this water to be calm. Not bubbly. Don't the bubbles make the water...

And you're a stranger and we're only wearing one layer of clothing. Well, unfortunately, I don't have my own spa pool worn, so this is the only option. But don't bubbles make it colder as well? Well, it has like a heat. It's got like a set temperature. Yeah, but you're pumping air. I don't like the bubbles.

We'll get there. My only thing against the bubbles is that if the spa isn't keeping up with the heating, the bubbles can fasten the cooling. But then that's also a benefit if you're sitting in the spa and it's too hot. Get out and have a cold shower or get in the cold pool. No, because you don't want to be cold. You just don't want to be as hot. Get the big fuss about bubbly spa pools.

In that scenario, the bubbles are the least of your worries. Like you have a bath at home. That's lovely. How relaxing is that? Imagine if there were bubbles. But if you didn't have a jet bath. Oh, I'd turn the jets on. 100%.

Why? You're sitting in, you're stewing in hot water with other strangers, and that's your worry? That's what you're worried about. There's chlorine in there. That's fine. Have a shower afterwards. Someone who's had hot tub folliculitis, that should not be your only worry.

Yeah, but to be fair, that was an Airbnb on Waiheke Island, Megan. You were asking for that. And when we turned the jets on, residue came out. Yeah. Now, some text messages in. Some people do agree. They like the calm. But somebody says, I work in pools.

You should be more worried about how filthy public spa pools are. Screw the bubbles. Think of the faecal matter and dead skin that you're soaking in. See? Well, that's why you don't submerge. You don't go under. Never go under in a spa pool. No, you just let it soak into your...

Isn't there an urban legend? You die or something if you put your head under? Is that a thing? No, that's a natural hot spring. You get meningitis off the soil at head under? Is that a thing? No, that's a natural hot spring. You get meningitis off the soil at the bottom. Is that a thing? Yeah, it's a geothermal hot spring.

Like a natural one. You don't put your head under because there's meningitis in there. A geothermal hot spring. Lovely. No bubbles. Not needed. It's calming.

Do people agree though? Do people agree with me? Somebody said the bubbles make them itchy. What? I don't like the bubbles. They make me uncomfortable. Somebody said they enjoy the jets but not the bubbles. See, I like the jets.

The jets are nice. Because if you want a jet, you just put your lower back up again so you're like, that's nice on my back or my leg. Yeah, but that's kind of the point is that it's like a jet. Yeah, but that's not a bubble. That's a jet of hot water. Somebody said the bubbles hide a bit of hanky-panky quite well in the spa. Not in a public spa.

Good Lord, no. How long are you in there for? Because you don't strike me as the type of person who can sit still and run. No, I get bored. I do 10 minutes. When you get to your bathroom, I'm like, when Fletch was renovating his bathroom, I was like, put in a bath. It'll look awesome. Like, how good is a bath? And they don't have jets. They don't have bubbles. No, I'm not sitting in a bloody bath. I'm not putting in a bath. I'm not sitting in a bath. Because I run a bath and then I was like, put in a bath. It'll look awesome. Like, how good is a bath? And they don't have jets. They don't have bubbles. No, I'm not sitting in a bloody bath.

I'm not putting in a bath. I'm not sitting in a bath. So I run a bath and then I'm like, oh, why did I do this? I'm bored. I want to get out. It's been two minutes. Put your Netflix on.

Somebody sells spas and they've got a bubble stat for you. Okay. Seven out of 10 of their clients would rather sit and soak with the jets and the bubbles off. Thank you. They just want an outside bath.

A big bath. Thank you. Well, want an outside bath, a big bath. Thank you. Well, then why are they getting a spa? I don't want to put... Yeah. I mean, obviously, this person selling spas shouldn't be promoting this, but make your big outdoor bath. Again, I am a barometer for 70% of the people in this country. Let's not forget that.

That worries me. When you roast me in this segment, I know what people want. Given how well we know you, it worries me as well. Greatly. Thank you. Well, are we done here? Yeah. I hate the bubbles.

I was relaxing in a spa pool, says a texter. A kid kept running up and pushing the bubbles only to run off again. Every time they'd turn off, he'd run back over. Look at Fletcher's face. I would absolutely let that kid have it. Finally, his mum caught on and absolutely tore him to shreds. Good. So he should have.

I hope he was grounded and he didn't get McDonald's. That was our big thing. If we were naughty, no McDonald's on Friday. She gets McDonald's every Friday. Nah, sometimes. Would your mum ever be getting close to Friday and you'd be in well-behaved? Absolutely. So she'd bait you into misbehaving?

Yeah, because I probably didn't have the money to take her. So she'd be like, it's entrapment, you're on. Yeah, she'd be like, roll with this one, John. What are you kids doing? Nothing. Oh, you come here. I'm not coming here after nothing. You answer him back.

And then they just bait you into misbehaving. Get up, go to the big table. That's it. No more. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. We're looking into our Plunket books, don't even talk about it. That's it. No, but... ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We're looking into our plunket books, which is a bit of a hoot.

I had a message from somebody who pulled out their plunket book. Yeah. And they said they didn't know that they had a wart burnt off when they were a child and their mother had been keeping it from them. A wart? Yeah.

Wow, okay. So that's something. It's quite funny. It's been quite funny to look back and read. Yeah, okay. So that's something. It's quite funny. It's been quite funny to look back and read. Yeah, definitely. It's always funny to roast our 10-month-old selves. Yeah, roast us from newborn. Mum's gone overboard because I said to you how Mum just sent me the cover

and just a photo saying that I had been immunised, but I wanted the whole juicy gossip. And there's my growth chart there. Look at this. Can I say my weight was, but I wanted the whole juicy gossip. And there's my growth chart there. Look at this. Can I say my weight was like always pretty good? So where did that go wrong? You know, I know exactly where it went wrong. I broke my ankle when I was at primary school.

And I was laid up in bed and everyone kept bringing me chocolate. I just kept eating it. And I put on like so much weight and I've never really been able to lose it again. And mum will tell that story to people. He was. He was the smallest child we had. He was lean. Yeah, right.

Until the ankle broke. And there's all my vaccinations. I'm all done. I've had your diphtheria. I've had your tetanus. I've had your diphtheria tetanus. Diphtheria for like cows and stuff? What's that one?

You always hear on the ads for trenches and stuff. Oh, yeah, mate. No, not diphtheria tetanus Diphtheria for like cows and stuff What's that one? You always hear on the ads for drenches and stuff No not diphtheria Your measles, everything I had mumps in May 1986 I had chicken pox in September 1989 But let's take it back right to the start there When I was Three weeks old.

Okay. Breastfeeding on demand. That's like before it's time. Before all the on-demand services. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before TVNZ on demand. Early. I don't know if I'm demanding it or mum's demanding it.

Oh, right. There might be some sort of mutual demand there. I've got a sticky eye though. Do you think that's why? My though. Do you think that's why? My eye. Do you think it's that eye? Does it say which one? Nah, it doesn't. It just says sticky eye and I've been given a prescription.

It's weird on all of our billboards and images that they don't fix that in Photoshop. Yeah, just open it up a wee bit. It's when I smile, I smile crooked and one of my eyes shuts a little bit. It was cute when Paris Hilton was doing it but not so much when I do it but

so I've got the sticky eye then we go to a month later I'm fully breastfed again it says to bathe the eye a month later it's an ongoing issue with the sticky eye

but then it says I'm doing very well bowel motion normal. Then what's happened? It's really turned to... You'll find throughout this, they do reference my bowel motions quite a bit. Okay.

Then in April that year, I was sleeping eight to ten hours a night, apparently an absolute dream job. Eight to ten hours? Yeah. In a couple of months, what an absolute darling child. That's only followed up by, again, mentioning of the bowel motions being normal, which is good.

Later that month, I'm sleeping 13 hours a night. What? Dream child, two months old, sleeping 13 hours a night. Sounds to me like Ian and Christine were giving you a little bit of whiskey. Just rub it on his gums. Dose him up on that anti-islamine. Get him into bed. No mention of the eye, so hopefully that's cleared up.

Okay. But then my brother gets a mention. This isn't his plunker book. Piss off, Philip. Who cares? Philip. Philip, get out of bed. Breastfed.

I eat a bit of custard, apparently. It's only at three months old. Should you be feeding a three-month-old custard? Not nowadays, you bloody wouldn't. Egg yolk? I'll eat a bit of egg yolk. It's probably from custard powder. It's not like they're making custard.

Nah, you're probably into the custard squares. You love a slice. Old Smithy loves a slice. We'll put it on the weight. We'll run it against the weight. Yes, that's when you discovered. Oh, no, see, I was really high there. That was probably the custard squares as a three-month-old.

But then I averaged out and went to down. I'm sleeping through the night later that year, so I'm an absolute dream child. Is there anything juicy here? We're just going to hear about how you're working. I roll over. I sit on my own. When are you sitting?

So advanced. Five months old, Ming. What? I don't want to go on about it, but I'm sitting at So advanced. Five months old, Ming. What? I don't want to go on about it, but I'm sitting at five. Well, can you turn in circles? At seven and a half months,

I'm eating mashed food and finger foods and very active. Well, I'm not surprised I'm eating it, bloody. I'm on the solids already.

How old were you there? Seven months. Seven and a half. Should you be allowing a seven and a half month old on a food platter with finger food? I don't know. I'm up there though.

I hope they cut the grapes in half. I'm eating meat at nine months. This is where it started. Yeah. This is where it started. I was conditioned to be a meat eater. I pull to stand and I can crawl there as well. I'm drinking from a cup at

ten and a half months and eating... Oh, that's more advanced than you can even handle a Tommy Tippy. You're crawling and standing at nine months. No, ten and a half months. I was pulling to a stand and yeah, crawling. At ten and a half months I'm eating most things. That's outside of food by the sounds of it.

Just at all. And then at 12 months, at my first birthday, I'm just eating with the family now. I've got a knife and a fork apparently. I'm eating with the whole family. Again there at 18 months, eating very well. Mentions again, good coordination. Right. Let's pop forward to two years.

Eating again. Loves his food. Feeds himself. Eats very well. So nothing's changed. At three years, fully toilet trained. Speaking very well. Guess what? Won't stop talking. Eating also. Still eating very well.

Okay, and my final entry. This was just before I went to school. It said, a very cooperative boy. Yeah. Development test, normal, can balance on one foot and also hop. Oh, okay. Don't want to brag about four-year-old me, but there I was, hopping. Hopping.

It says, healthy, happy boy, happy schooling. And off I went. So, I mean, dream child. Just like that, dream child. Dream child. Sleeping through the night at a couple of months. Let's not forget the sticky eye. There's parents listening right now on their fourth coffee of the day

being like, I'd trade a night's sleep for the bloody tit to have a sticky eye. I'll tell you that much. Friday Flashback. Thanks, Anya. It's Vaughn's pick for Friday Flashback today. Sure is. We're doing this now. I thought you'd chosen one.

Yeah, no, I just, but then 8 o'clock completely snuck up on that. I don't have any stats on the song. I just looked to see if it was in there. Have you checked out for the weekend already? It's not in there. It's arguable if I haven't checked in for the week. The single sold over 3 million

copies in the year 2000. Okay. So that's, you know, undeniably that's massive. That's a huge single for the year 2000. The video features the city of Kuala Lumpur. In the music video? In the music video for this one.

I'm not getting anything from that. Is it pop? It was described as a savvy follow-up for Top 40 longevity. Precisely the kind of song that ensure this crossover artist's chance to dance up the ladder of success. Is it a female? Masterfully, no, masterfully produced, passionately sung and ready for the ladder of success. Is it a female? Masterfully, no, masterfully produced, passionately sung and ready for the kind of video

exploration that will further reveal this gorgeous young artist as one of the blossoming solo sex symbols of the new millennium. Oh, we are not playing this song. Did you know about this, Anya? Yeah, I'm dead against this. I think this is a rubbish choice from you, Bowen. We are

ready, baby. This got to number two in New Zealand. This got to number two in New Zealand. Oh, this is a rubbish choice from you, Bowen. Alright, this got to number two in New Zealand. This got to number two in New Zealand. Oh, this is... He is sexy, I'll give you that. Certified gold in New Zealand also. So, if you're like, oh my god, I hate this, find someone that was buying CD singles in the year 2000 and blame them.

Because this guy doesn't care. He knows a banger when he sees it. As producer James said, big risks equal big rewards. Today's Friday flashback is Enrique Iglesias, Rhythm Divine. Oh my God. Oh, he is good looking, isn't he?

Is he still with Anna Kournikova? Can you not do that sexy dance? There can never be another for me All I need is a rhythm divine Lost in the music, your heart will be mine All I need is the look in your eyes Viva la music, I say you'll be mine When you feel the heat of passion Can you taste our love's rewind? Join the dance and let it happen

Tomorrow's here right out of your mind As the music drives you closer And you fall under my spell I will get you in my arms now But the night can take us No one can tell us All I need is a rhythm divine You and I are on the same boat And I can't take it Cause no one can tell the difference All I need is a rhythm divine

Lost in the music Your heart will be mine All I need is the look in your eyes Viva la music I say you'll be mine Gonna have this feeling forever Gonna live this moment together Nothing else matters

Just you and the night Follow on the wings of desire Now the rhythm's taking you higher No one can stop us from having it all You are my heart You are my heart You are my soul All I need is a rhythm divine Lost in the music, your heart will be mine

All I need is to look in your eyes Viva la musica, si All I need is the rhythm divine Lost in the music, your heart will be mine All I need is to look in your eyes V are the music I say you'll be my friend Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm?

Burn it, burn it Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Burn it, burn it Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm?

Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhythm? It's your Friday Flashback on ZM. Rhythm Divine on Enrique Iglesias. Enrique Iglesias Rhythm Divine on Enrique Iglesias. Enrique Iglesias. My name is Enrique Iglesias. Wow. Somebody said, I text Mr. Jin, somebody said,

Vaughn, I will get my husband to pen you a thank you letter because he's getting it tonight. I've Googled image. Yep. And, yep. We've forgotten about how hot he is. Oh, no, I think this woman, the song sparked something in the engine house of passion. She's got a fire burning.

She's got to stoke that cold all day, though, baby. You don't want that fire going out before you get home tonight. I think you've had a bit of a dud here. I don't know if this was very well received. Are you kidding me? Really? I think it's been like far better received than I I support your choice for a bloody great song.

Yes, what a banger. Awesome song. Excellent choice. Somebody said, I love me some Enrique, but you should have gone with Hero. Someone else says Balaemos. Balaemos. But how does that go? Balaemos. Which sounds exactly like that one. Pretty much like that one. Balaemos. Balemos. How does that go? Balemos. It sounds exactly like that one. Pretty much like that one. Balemos.

Talk about soul destroying. I led with a, I hate this song, but then proceeded to sing the whole thing. I'm so disappointed in myself. Yeah. I'm on board with this. I forgot this song even existed.

Don't listen to what the others say. They obviously don't know. A banger. Great way to ring in the Friday Sexy hip movements Can't resist the song Great trip back to the 90s Thank you Vaughn

For bestowing this gift upon us You're most welcome You're most welcome I needed to hear this this morning Your hip thrust What Megan and I had to endure In the studio The listening public is lucky

They didn't get to see that It's a swing It's a little summer Don't do that Summer, summer I didn't even know see that. It's a thrust, it's a swing, it's a little summer, summer. Don't do that. Summer, summer. I didn't even know your hips could do that and I didn't need to know. Well, now you know.

There's no going back. This is an interesting choice of topic after talking about your hips. But someone has had an accidental... Well, they got married and then they found out that they shouldn't have been married. How'd they find out? So, for a birthday present, which is not... I would have been disappointed with this present.

Birthday present was a DNA test to find out... People get real jazzed about it. We've done this. It is quite exciting because you get to see if you're like a little bit, I don't know, something cool.

Justin Bieber did one. Oh, no. Who did one and found out they were related to? Justin Bieber did one. Ryan Reynolds and No, Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling and Avril Lavigne. Yeah, there you go. They're like 11th cousins or something. Yeah. So they did, she got her husband this DNA test and they were like really excited

about opening it and then they found out that they are related how closely though because we're all related pretty much hey

if you go back down the tree enough sure yeah to the early days early early days New Zealand if you've been here

for more than five or six generations you're probably going to have ties to everyone it sounds like you're making excuses for kissing a cousin, Vaughn. I've never kissed any of my cousins.

That's why I married a woman with ethnic origins, just to avoid that. To avoid that. Mix and mingle. Yeah, right. Is first cousins on the paternal side too close? Ah, yes. Yep, yep.

So that's the cousins on your dad's side, right? How do you not know that that was your cousin? too close. Ah, yes. Yep, yep. Wait, yep. So that's your dad, that's the cousins on your dad's side, right? How do you not know that that was your cousin before you get married? Like, surely when you're

inviting the family and even on the day when they're all mingling, you'd have some kind of... These are questions that need to be asked and they were brought up in the same town.

So I have no idea how they didn't know this. It was like a slip up from an uncle. Like what if Uncle Steve cheated on his wife with another woman and the baby was born like that. So then you wouldn't know but then the test

would reveal that you are indeed a cousin. Yeah so that's what they're speculating. They've said that maybe it's a member of the family's had an affair. Uncle. Uncle. Bloody Steve. Uncle Steve, you naughty boy. His parents are still married.

Yeah. So have been for 30 years. Oh, no. It's questions to be asked. But yeah, it's actually caused like a massive issue with their relationship. They're married and what are you going to do now? It's very awkward. But let me try, let me float this with you today, New Zealand. When have you accidentally

hooked up with a family member? You can be anonymous in this one. I said accidentally, you didn't know. This was a famous long-going Shortland Street storyline, wasn't it? Yeah, Rung it? Yeah. Rungy and Donna.

Yeah. Also, Megan, you're asking people to call up about the time when you accidentally hooked up with a cousin. I said accidentally. You didn't know? Yeah, but no one's going to ring up and admit to that. Anonymous. Just say, oh, I'm anonymous. No one will recognise your voice.

Or send us a text. There's got to be, it's got to have happened No judge Again It's accidental No there's no judgment I just don't think Anyone's going to call up And be like

Oh yeah this happened to me Hilarious I don't know what it's like To have hot family members But man it must be hard To like I don't either But I can message my cousins

And ask them if you want I'll get back to me About it Okay Let's see Okay well sure We can try and ask them if you want. I'll get back to me about it. Okay, let's see. Okay, well, sure, we can try. Let's roll the dice. 0800 DARS.NM. If you want to text in anonymously or call anonymously,

0800 DARS.NM or 9696. If this doesn't work, we'll just talk about something else next. But we'll see. When did you accidentally hook up with a family member? Well, Megan's found an article online about her husband and wife. Yeah, our marriage is on the rocks

because they did a DNA test. The wife got it for her husband for his birthday and they found out they're actually first cousins. 100% Oh. DNA test.

Turns out I'm 100% your cousin. Whoopsie daisy, this is awkward. So I got boy problems, he's my cousin, don't you know? You're floating the idea, Megan. You're thinking this must have happened here in New Zealand. And I said accidentally.

You can be like, whoopsies, kiss to my cousin. Like, no, we're not going to shame you. And if not, like, just say anonymous. Okay. We do have an anonymous caller joining us now. This has happened to a girl that you used to work with. Yes. And she got with her first cousin and they were quite aware of the fact

because they had the same last name. What? No. That's weird. No. And they justified it by the fact that they didn't grow up together, so it was okay. No, but like.

Wow. So you're then married now and have a couple of kids too. How's that? I think the silence in the studio was enough for that. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say to that either. So they were first cousins? Yeah. So you're first cousins? Yeah.

So you're allowed to do that in New Zealand, clearly. I'm not sure. I just closed my mind. They should have to change your name. That's so annoying. I've done it three times. I come from a huge family. Yeah.

But I know all my second cousins. How? That's a bigger net. Yeah, right. I'm all my second cousins. How? That's a bigger net. Yeah, right. I'm interested in family flesh. Anonymous joins us. Good morning, Anonymous. Morning.

Have you done this accidentally? Accidentally. It was about 20 years ago. Right. Okay. And so what happened? So we grew up in just a small town. Yeah.

And I got up, sort of met this guy at college. Yeah. Started hooking up. Didn't do anything sort of out the gate. Yeah. Two kisses here and there. Yeah. And she goes, well, you know that he's your third cousin

because me and his dad are second cousins. I went, what? And she goes, yeah. And I went, oh nah, see you later. As you would, but then you weren't to know. And to be fair. No, I didn't know because we like, everybody in that town, we were all related in some way anyway.

Yeah, right, okay. But it wasn't until that day that I found that out. Yeah, right. And to be fair, third cousins, we've heard worse already. This is true. Anonymous, thank you for your call, third cousins, we've heard worse already. Already. This is true. Anonymous, thank you for your call. Colleen, good morning. Good morning, guys.

How are you? Good. Have you done this? Today is our third wedding anniversary. To your cousin. To my cousin, yes. Full cousin. Full cousin. Not like step-cousin.

Our fathers are brothers. Now, you guys said no judgment there. No judgment. No judgment. No judgment. No, that pause was for recollection and to gather my thoughts. Is that, I mean, obviously you signed the legal documents, right? That's legal.

Absolutely. There is nothing in the law that says I cannot marry my brother's child. Oh well then, your dad's brother's child. Right. You're not hurting anyone and you're happy about it and you're not breaking the law. We've been together 16 years. We got married three years ago. Do you have kids? No.

Okay. years we got married three years ago so do you have kids no okay no but i did do the research and i've seen lots of tv programs and they reckon that um genetic um something something yeah so something wrong with the child is as much the odds are exactly the same as somebody else really okay well my first cousin, yes. But I know when it gets further out, it gets more issues. Right. So you're more likely to have issues with a child you have with your second cousin than your first? I believe so, yes.

But I'm not a doctor, so don't quote me on that. Colleen, thank you for sharing. Yeah. Not a problem. Some text messages have come in. They have. Somebody said, I'm of South Indian origin from Fiji. We're allowed to marry our first cousins.

We're allowed. As long as the fathers are of a different family. So, example, I can get married to my dad's sister's kids, not my dad's brother's kids. What's the difference? No difference. Tradition. Oh, tradition, right, okay.

My good friend is with her cousin, very happy, not breaking any laws. Yeah, right. Lots of her friends and family cut her off. I didn't though. I'm gay, so I'm used to prejudice, so I can see past these sorts of things. Oh, cool. Yeah, that's what,. Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask

Colleen. What her family initially thought of that. Though obviously, well, maybe not obviously fine. Why didn't you ask at the time? I know, well I just thought about it. She sounds happy though so hopefully her family are supportive. My friend was married and pregnant when she found out her husband's parents

her husband's parents were first cousins. Right. But see, that's not going to affect her if it didn't affect him unless there's something hidden away in the genetic code.

But beyond me, I could never do that graph at school, you know, where you worked out your recessive genes. That was my weak spot in science.

You know the graph? I was great at the genetics. And they'd go, bigger, bigger, little r, little r, bigger, bigger, little R, little R, bigger, little R, bigger, little R, and you'd be able to work out.

I don't think I was there for that, but. That's how you work out your eye colour too. What's the dominant? You can work it backwards. I was great at that. No, I definitely wasn't

at school for that. Must have been sick that week. I think it took longer than a week. It did at my school anyway because I kept going, I don't get it. Go again?

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It's on Amazon Prime. On Amazon. I've started this on show called Man in the High Castle. It's on Amazon Prime. On Amazon. I've started this on Vaughan's recommendation. It's a slow burner. So it's interesting though. In the 1960s, a guy wrote a book, a guy called Philip K. Dick, who wrote apparently just crazy. Don't laugh at us.

Come on, guys. We're all in our 30s. Except you. You're older, so you should know better. Don't laugh at someone's last name being Dick. I was in my 30s at the start of this're older so you should know better. No, I'm going to still love my life. Don't laugh at someone's last name being Dick. I was in my 30s at the start of this year.

You can still cash in on that. So, Philip K. Dick wrote these fantasy novels and he was a bit of an out there thinker

and so he wrote a book called Man in the High Castle and he hypothesised about what the world would be like had the Germans won World War II. The Germans

and the Japanese, the Axis forces. And that's what this series is about. That's what it's based on like had the Germans won World War II. The Germans and the Japanese, the Axis forces. And that's what this series is about. That's what it's based on in the book. I'm loving it. Or America is like run by the Japanese and the Nazis. Yeah, they kind of split it in half. The Japanese have the Pacific side

and America has everything east of the, what's that mountain range? The Rockies. Yeah. Is the Nazis. Like a fascinating thought to how different the world could have been if they had developed. Because the only difference was the Nazis developed the hydrogen bomb first.

And that was the whole turning point of it. Right. That was the whole situation. That was how the war changed. You've watched that, but you haven't watched Righteous Gemstones. That blows my mind. Oh, no, but Righteous Gemstones, there's a bit to get through. It's one of those ones where there's like four seasons or something.

Yeah, because I got the real slow episodes. I had to watch Dairy Girls. I watched both seasons, which, by the way, is one of the funniest shows. Fletch loves a bit of Dairy Girls. I've seen it. It's so hilarious. Oh, my God. So, ahead of World War II, this is like World War II has taken on a new life for me after

watching the show, and I find all these fascinating weird little stories amazing. So, before World War II, Hitler knew that it was going to go down. Yeah.

So, he said, I need to get a plan here to make the domestic consumption, the domestic production of fats on par with the domestic consumption because when we go to war, we're doing a lot with Norway

and a lot of other countries, but we're going to need things like butter, cream, cheese, margarine, detergents. And so he was talking to the Norwegians, and they said they got most of theirs from whales. So he's like, well, maybe I need to get into this whale business. Okay. So he built a whale factory, which is as grim as it sounds. It was a massive boat that harvested whales at sea.

And they were actually, whale fat was one of the main ingredients for margarine in the first part of that century. So off they went to claim also a bit of Antarctica that wasn't being used. They were going to name that New Swabia. And they were going to have boats down there and they'd send it back to Germany to get all prepared for the war and everything. And it was down there that

they didn't really have a huge lot of success, but they needed supplies dropped to them. They would have supplies dropped to them from massive planes that would fly over and push out boxes on parachutes with metal swastikas to them. They would have supplies dropped to them from massive planes that would fly over and push out boxes on parachutes with metal swastikas on them.

Okay. Now, none of those hit their target. So out there at the moment in the bottom, I'm guessing the bottom of the Antarctic Sea, massive metal crates with swastikas on them. Huh. Is that the fact of the day? Yeah. Today's fact of the day is Hitler went looking forikas on them. Huh. Is that the fact of the day? Yeah.

Today's fact of the day is Hitler went looking for margarine ingredients in Antarctica and left behind a whole lot of metal boxes with swastikas on them. Huh. People have been kind of out looking for them. It's not exactly the most welcoming part of the world. No. It's pretty cold and pretty rough and pretty brutal.

And that's why they came home and actually gave up on the whale hunting for the margarine supplies, which is why in World War II, Nazis had to eat dry bread. That'll teach them. They didn't have any margarine. Good. Jokes on you. Suck it, Nazis. Suck it, boys.

Suck it, Nazis. Good luck eating your dry bread. Can't even have a bit of bloody marokes on you. Suck it, Nazis. Suck it, Nazis. Good luck eating your dry bread. Can't even have a bit of bloody marge on it. So, yeah, those big Nazi boxes of supplies are at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean somewhere with squash stickers on them. And today's fact of the day is Hitler didn't have margarine in World War II. We got there. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. If you like a bubbly drink, you're buggered pretty much. Soft drinks. Right. Artificially sweetened or sweetened with sugar.

Either way. It's not good news. No. Why? No. There's been a study. Okay. There's been a recent study.

There was also a study between 1992 and 2000. So then they were followed up for more time as well as this new study. And they said regardless of what you're drinking, if it's a soft drink flavoured with sugar or with any artificial sweetener, regardless, it's not a good sign. It's likely to lead to an increased risk of death. Oh, okay. So it's not just like bad for my teeth.

So even if you're going for a zero or a sugar-free or whatever. Okay. Boo. What about just like bad for my teeth. So even if you're going for a zero or a sugar-free or whatever, it's okay. Boo. What about just bubbly sparkling water? Because, you know, dentists don't even like you having sparkling water. I know, because I'm trying to drink more like soda water because then it tricks me into thinking I'm having fizzy. Because it's bubbly.

But then, yeah, I don't think you're supposed to have the bubbles, period. It's not good for your teeth. What is good for you? Can't do anything fun these days. That's my one vice. I was going to say, what? Coke Zero. Yeah, you're right, it is.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, diet soda. Like, I don't even drink that much alcohol. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't do anything naughty. Online shopping is a vice, though, but not a health vice. And sometimes I do them at the same time Have a wee cola in an online shop

Don't you love it when you're hitting multiple vices at once? Yeah, that's a good time Because you see somebody having a wine and a ciggy And they just look so happy And you're like, double vicing Do they look happy? Yeah They look like they love cigarettes

And you're like, ooh, they've gone for the double vice. Yeah, right. Do you ever hit two of your vices at once, Fletch? What are your vices? Why did this? This wasn't a roasting me segment. No, Megan just said, see, she does two at once. She does the shopping and the...

Oh, lollies and biscuits. Yeah, I do those at once. When they start putting lollies on biscuits watch out yeah watch out ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan the podcast

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