ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - September 13 2019

Episode Date: September 12, 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. Happy Friday. Very good. That means it's who's turn for Flashback Friday? Megan. Oh, shit. The pressure is on. Yeah, okay. Why don't you tell me this? We've been here for an hour.

I could have had an hour of research done. You've got time. You've got a few hours. Okay. A couple of tired looking faces this morning, aren't you? Big night? Big night last night? No comment to make about that.

All right. Producer James, late to work this morning. Big night? Big night? No, not too bad. bad oh you know that voice you know what that voice means oh not too bad i didn't get home too late but you guys were at the lunch so it felt like 1am to me it was probably about 10 o'clock yeah yeah how low can you talk right now? Say a sentence. Um.

Oh my God. God, my subwoofer just tingled. That wasn't your subwoofer, mate. I think it was just a lot of shouting last night. God, I wish I still had my Fusion sound system and my Honda Prelude with your blow-up green alien that you got free with

a speaker install of a couple of 6x9s in that Prelude with your blow-up green alien that you got free with a... with the speaker install of a couple of 6x9s in that Prelude back window. I mean, to be honest, I only woke up half an hour ago, so we're just trying to get the ball rolling at the moment.

Well, you know what we need. I think we need a GoDaddy. It's been a while. It's Friday. Let's have a Friday GoDaddy. Yes. GoDaddy. Oh! Go Daddy. Watch it out. Yes. Go Daddy. Oh!

Hey, yikes! That's my favourite yet. That's a goodie. That was a goodie. That is my favourite yet. I think we need a clean audio cut for that. You've got to HR about us. I feel like that's inappropriate. We need a clean cut of that audio to replay throughout the morning

because your voice might warm up. Yeah, yeah. Good Lord. That's a goodie. Yikesy. Boosted base on that one. All right, top six. Turn on the dryer.

Top six. Good start to the show. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Thank you, Caitlin time Thank you Caitlin Thank you Three news headlines now for story time Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines Headline one

Travel influencer couple come under fire Headline two Lively start to kindy And headline three Psychic fortune teller doesn't see prison coming I know Story one? No, I know three I know one and headline three, psychic fortune teller doesn't see prison coming. I know. Story one?

No, I know three. I know one. This is cute. We've bookended it. You go with one, one is with one. One, the travel couple from Perth who flew a drone and have been taken into custody.

Correct. Where did they fly a drone? Tehran. Tehran. Tehran. Yeah, and they got in trouble. Have they been released yet? They're still in custody, right? I believe so, yeah.

Because everyone was like, they were posting holiday pictures and then they went like quiet and everyone's like, where have you guys gone? Where's all the pictures? And they were actually in custody. In trouble.

Where did they fly it in Tehran? I think it was near a military area slash the whole country is quite paranoid so maybe don't fly a drone

anywhere in Tehran no wouldn't do that yeah three story three psychic fortune teller doesn't see prison coming

is this in New York a a woman said she could lift a curse someone came to her and said something's wrong and she said oh could lift a curse. Someone came to her and said, something's wrong. And she said, oh, it's a curse.

I'm going to be able to lift this curse off you. Yes, for $1.6 million. Yes, charged him an absolute fortune. But of course, curses don't exist. And neither do these people. But then, easily parted, falling their money, aren't they? Very true. How does someone who believed in that

get $1.6 million? I know. Oh, money. Must be. Gotta be inheritance. Must be. Gotta be. All right,

so lively start to kindy. Yeah. Is the only story left that you don't know? Well, we go to a Swedish preschool now. Okay. Where officers from

Sweden's National Bomb Squad put a preschool into lockdown on Tuesday after a child brought live ammunition into class. Staff at the kindy called police after they discovered the suspicious item in the evening after children had left for the day. Detonation experts assessed the device

and said it was like a rifle round but bigger. So it was like a big mortar. Or like a.50 caliber round, like a big striping round. So apparently the spokesman told CNN that the children had found the ammunition in a field used by military for training exercises and had brought it into kindy with them. That's good that your kindy-aged child is also just wandering around in a military field. Yeah.

Yeah, it's lovely, isn't it? Think about that, yeah. So then, what do they do with it? Well, the military team came and detonated it, took it away. Right. And everything's all tickety-boo. Good. Exciting episode of Show and Tell.

Not the first time it's happened at elementary school in the region. A pupil also brought in a live grenade after also finding that in a field. So Swedish military sounds pretty loose with its lolly scramble of ammunition that don't go off. I don't know. Just leave all the stuff lying around for people to find. No, but you know what it's like when you,

not even necessarily with ammunition, but if you're like building something and you drop a nail in the grass, you can never find it. Is that the same with like bullets and stuff? Oh yeah, if you're going to like put one in and you're like chatting, you're like,

sure, what have you been doing? And you drop it and you're like, where'd it go? Don't worry, just grab another. So you just grab another one and you don't worry about it too much. I can imagine

that would happen. Let's pop on down to the Manawatu region where I can tell you about a 78-year-old called Milton. But it's not one of those stories of a 78-year-old man

where you're like, aww, like he's done something nice. Remember that guy after the Christchurch shootings in March? Yeah. That old guy who took like four

buses and he was like everybody's hero and he walked with the... Oh yeah. To the Dependent Walk. I remember that. To the March. And then like just this is so great. Yeah. That was touching. So touching. Well this involves touching but of a bad kind. Okay.

Because Milton went for a walk, and he got to the start of a walking track at the Manawatu Gorge, and he saw there a Maori carving. Yeah. And it was traditional, and you might have noticed if you've ever been to a marae Or seen a traditional carving They're not embarrassed of the naked form

Often including peonies and boobies And genies, johnnies They call them when they're carving them Just doing the peony Well, it's just multi-language work I just wanted to say peony and johnny You're welcome Yeah, you're most welcome

I saw this guy in the news. So he was, as he describes it, a devout Christian. He deemed the statue's penis to be obscene and immoral to be greeting people at the start of the Manawatu Gorge Reserve walking track. I saw this guy in the news. I thought, he's a few sammies short of a picnic. So he tried to cut it off with a handsaw. Because that's level-headed.

Now, exhausted by the superior quality of the wood. Haven't we all been exhausted by the superior quality of the wood, ladies and gentlemen? You know what I'm talking about, lads? I liked that sentence. You've got a wry smile from GoDaddy next to you. In fact, anybody who is dealing with a penis this weekend, what a compliment that would be. I was like, where is this going?

This is superior quality wood. Okay. Someone please use that sentence with no explanation. Be careful though, because if Milton's nearby with his handsaw, he'll try to cut it off. Now, he was exhausted, you'll remember, by the superior quality of the wood. Yeah. 78 too's nearby with his handsaw, he'll try to cut it off. Now, he was exhausted, you'll remember, by the superior quality of the wood. Yeah.

With the handsaw. 78 with a handsaw. Yeah. So he returned the next day with a chainsaw. Oh, my God. And cut it off. Cut the penis right off. Went full Lorraine Bobbitt on it, and he cut it off.

He said absolutely no regrets in his heart as a devout Christian. This is, he was doing God's work, cutting off this grotesque penis that he. Why is he so grossed out by a penny? I know, I, yeah. I don't get it. Like, it's a carving, and it was a beautiful carving. Yeah. And just absolutely took a chainsaw to it.

Do you know where he works? And another twist of irony, the Woodville Organ Museum. Yeah. It's always those people, isn't it? Yeah. Come on, mate. Embrace the naked form. So the idea of the carvings, they were standing guard over the entrance to it.

It's a domain where the Ruahine and the Tararuas rangers meet. Yeah. You know, there's some myth and legend associated with the area. Significance. And of tribal significance, yeah. And he whacked it off. With a chainsaw. He tried with his hand, but couldn't.

One day he tried to whack it off with his hand, Megan, and he couldn't, so he came back the next day with some machinery assistance. No, he wouldn't be beaten. Fletch. Stop it. He took it in his hands. Yeah.

Word has it, before he even got the handsaw out, he tried to beat it off. Right, yeah. But that didn't work. But that wouldn't come off either because of the superior quality of the wood. You can just imagine him there in the forest. Yeah. Trying to beat it off.

Furiously trying to beat it off. And that didn't work. You two. So he's an old man in the forest. Okay. With a hand-operated one. Yeah. Trying to get it off.

And it won't come off. Yeah. Yeah, so he comes out there. What's happened to him? He got $2,000. He got a $2,000 fine. So not the happy ending he was looking for. That was good.

Very good. When you're paying $2,000, Megan, you do want something more than just a rug beating off in the bush, don't you? From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello. Good morning. Today's Top Six is dealing with the fact that New Zealand history will be compulsory to be taught at schools. Surprise.

Henceforth. Yeah. I just always thought it was. Same. It seems to make no sense learning the history of another country. England. I mean, it's important to, like, sprinkle it throughout. Yeah.

But, yeah, you don't need the full rundown as much as you do of your own country, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. We learnt, yeah, we learnt heaps about the New Zealand wars and colonial settling and all of that sort of stuff. We learnt about... But turns out we didn't have to learn about it.

It wasn't like... It wasn't compulsory. It was just that our teachers chose to teach us about that. We learnt about heaps of other stuff as well. We learnt a little bit of Middle East. Yeah. That was a, all I remember is that was a bloody mess. And it still is.

What else did we learn about in history? South Africa. The wars. The apartheid. Yeah, we learned about apartheid. Bit of Mahatma Gandhi. Oh, yeah, okay. We looked at like specific people throughout history.

Bit of Cold War. Bit of like Vietnam. Yep, yep. World War I and II we learnt a bit about. Something about the Suez Canal as well. Yeah. Some kind of thing that went down there. Now, the Suez Canal is the one that's by Egypt, eh?

Yeah. Yeah, real, because it cut out having to go all the way around Africa, Megan, for freight ships. They could come along the Mediterranean then and then nip through the Suez Canal, but that made it very important property for world trade. Right. And so it was a very important thing to have. Megan's glazing over like in history class.

It's when you say areas, I'm like, you act like I know where you're talking about. You know where Egypt is. I know where Africa is, but I don't know what's beside it. The top of Africa. Go to the top and then go to the right-hand side. Okay. That's Egypt, and that's where it joins on to sort of like the start of the Middle East. Cool.

We've got the pyramids. Yeah, and then the Suez Canal goes through there down in the middle. Are you saying Suez? Suez. Okay. S-U-E-Z. Okay. Suez Canal.

It's just hard in history because then you do tests and you have to remember dates and stuff and years and you're like, meh. Yeah. I don't know. So it's going to be compulsory to learn New Zealand history in school. So the top six things you may learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. Okay. Number six. There was an East Island. Okay, right.

North, south, east. But something happened. Right. Something very right. North, south, east. But something happened. Right. Something very bad. What? I can't tell you, Megan. You'll have to go to history to find out. Tree, where?

You know about the East Island, right? No. Did you? What is the... It what? Slipped off. Into the... The East Island. Yeah. Slipped off Into the The East Island Yeah

Slipped off Where was it? To the East Of what? The North Island North, South, East Nah Fletch is full of shit Slipped off

And the last bit of it Is the Chathams That was the highest part of it We had it going there For a second No but the Chathams Is the other side Oh no never eat

Soggy Weet-Bix Sorry yeah I was thinking West Island. Silly me. It's never eat Bix soggy West. Eat. Never Weet-Bix soggy. Eat. That makes no sense.

Number five on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. Kiwis could fly, and not even that long ago. But you'll never guess what made them stay on the ground. Attend school to find out. Food.

What? Yeah, hoo-hoo grubs. Yeah. Basically, they just become a bit like us. Yeah. Lazy. I don't need... Then they go a bit hefty. No need to do that, is there? Might just stay down here then. Number four on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. We've all heard of and are aware of the accomplishments of Sir Edmund Hillary.

Yeah. But what about Sir Edward Hillary? What did he do? Click here to find out. Very interesting story. I'm interested now. Yes. Related?

Brothers. Really? Brilliant. Okay. They were, okay, I'll spoil it for you. Yeah. They were Siamese twins.

Brilliant. So he also climbed Everest? In his own way. Yes, he did. Brilliant. You'll always see Sered wore a side satchel. Yeah.

Where he carried Sered. Little Sered. Brilliant. His conjoined twin. Yeah. Are we there yet? No, not yet, mate. We're just about there.

Shoe-pending's like, who are you talking to? No one? What? Sered Manila. You heard it here first. Sered Manila had a conjoined twin. Wow, brilliant. Ask Peter if you ever meet him.

Number three on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. Technically, is he your uncle if he's your dad's conjoined twin? Yes, he is. Or is he just the left half of your dad? He's an uncle. He's a person too. But they're joined.

Yeah. It just means when you see one, you see them both. My uncles are coming over. My dad's coming over. With his uncle. Of course my uncle's coming too.

He has to. Number three on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. Kupe arrived in the 9th century

to New Zealand. Famous Maldi explorer. Yeah. But would he ever have left the island of Motunui if it wasn't for Moana? You've heard her side of the story, but what's Coupe got to say? History coming soon to Disney+. Number two on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you.

Was Lake Taupo really a volcano that blew itself inside out, or is there something more sinister at play? Guess you better get your ass to school to see if it was an inside job. Hashtag conspiracy lake. Brilliant. And number one on the list of the top six things you might learn about New Zealand history that will shock you. Like your early interactions with settlers to be violent and heavily one-sided. Boy, have I got history for you.

Welcome to the tale of New Zealand. What's that, Dom Brash? I'm not. Are we not? You don't want me to say what actually happened. You want me to kind of like make us look like the good guys. Heck, they were savages until we got here and saved them with blankets and technology. History, according to Don Brash, coming to a school near you.

Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. That's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Just before we get to community notices in about five or ten minutes, there is news coming out of Kenya.

And I think this might help a lot of us. Kenyan MP is demanding a new law to combat farting on aeroplanes. To make it illegal? Yes. How would they, this is the greatest thing about farting on airplanes is you don't know who did it. And it has to be, once you're like an hour or two

into the flight, it has to be real rank to even make a dent. Like real proper gross. Sometimes you can tell who's done it. We're all just gassing each other. Yeah. So this MP is demanding the new law to combat farting on

planes and wants anti-flatulence drugs. Flatulence. Flatulence. What are flatulence? Fatulence. When you're sitting next to someone and their guts are spilling over their armrests and you're sick. Anti-flatulence drugs for passengers. Her argument

is that farting and the terrible smells may spark violence on board. No, because it happens so slowly. You don't know that it smells as bad. It's like when you guys gas us in here and then I don't realise it's as bad as it is until you walk out and you have to come back in again.

And then you get back on. Are you hearing this? It's so rude. You guys are well known for this. But there's a law to stop us farting on planes. There should be a law stopping you taking your shoes off and your socks. Excuse me? You gassed out that entire Air New Zealand Dreamliner. That was one time.

My feet don't stink anymore. That was, like, an anniversary of that recently. Because on my Today Facebook memories, there was a video, and it was just me being like, Megan's so rank. Yeah. We're on a dreamliner and then there's a brief dreamliner. That was five years ago.

My feet do not sink anymore. Like your plane landed in Australia and the quarantine, they thought there were dead mangoes under the seat. So they fumigated the entire plane. I do feel sorry for them when they have to open that door. Apparently it was just

like a hit in the face. After like a long haul flight? Yeah. Because it's pressurised. Yep. All those farts? Yeah. Just a face full of farts.

Fletchborn and Megan's Community Notices. Good morning. Welcome to Community Notices, a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around the country according to local Facebook pages and such. Let's pop first today. We're going to go down to Darfield. Lovely Darfield.

What's your favourite thing about Darfield? The pies. Yeah. We had a pie there, didn't we? Yeah. We watched rugby. We watched the lads play ruggers and the ladies are playing netball next door. Yep, yep.

It was good. Yeah, shit yeah. Yep, it was good. Yeah. So, Darfield, Nicky posts on the Darfield New Zealand Community Group, whoever is doing burnouts in front of the house, that actually sounds really cool

and I can't wait to see the marks on the road tomorrow morning. Actually. Yep. Wow. Nikki then comments saying, at first I was afraid I was petrified, to which Richard replies, I kept thinking I could never do another power slide.

Brett jumps in, but then I spent so many nights thinking how the smell of burning rubber turned me on. And Siobhan says, and I grew strong and I put a new set of tires on.

Oh my God. Hold on, did I get out of order there? No. No, that was right, I think. That was in order. Oh yeah. The ground was black

from speeding pace. I looked out my lounge window and saw your smug face. I should have yelled for you to stop. I should have called the local cop. You should have known you were bothering me. That's a part of the Queen song as it goes on. Oh, no, not I. No, not Queen.

It's, yeah. Abba. No. No. That was a great... i was petrified i can only think cake because they did a version of it i grew strong and i learned how to get along and now i'm back from outer space okay so that's that's the tune we should have gone. The ground was black. Gloria Gaynor, I will survive.

From speeding pace. I looked out my window and saw your smug face. I should have yelled for you to stop. I should have called the local cop. You should have known you were bothering me. And then it goes, oh, no, not I. I live to ride. As long as I've got bikes to skid, I know I'll stay alive.

I've got so much talk to give I've got two fat wheels for skids I live to ride I'll ride or die And I could never do another power slide But then I spent so many nights thinking how the smell of burning rubber

turned me on And I put a new wheels on. The ground is black from speeding pace. I looked out my lounge window and I saw your smug face. I should have yelled for you to stop. I should have called the local cop. You should have known you were bothering me. Wow.

Who knew Petrelheads could be so beautiful with their words? And like every one added on was from a different person. Wow. It was Darfield coming together. Yeah. Over skids. Yeah. Maybe more skids are the answer, not less skids.

Yeah. Brilliant from Darfield. Great work from Darfield. You're up there with the pies now, people on that page. It's our favourite things from Darfield. Okay. from Darfield. You're up there with the pies now, people on that page. It's our favourite things from Darfield. Okay, hit us with the lawnmower. Wow. We need to take a moment here.

Don't bring Gloria Gaynor into this. Gloria Gaynor wants to professionally distance herself from this. The Haunts Bay buy, sell and swap page. Kat has a lawnmower for sale. No details, just $100. I'm imagining this has been taken down. Not before there were screenshots. Kat has a lawnmower for sale. No details, just $100. I'm imagining this has been taken down. Not before there were screenshots.

$100 lawnmower. I can tell you a little bit about the lawnmower. It's red. It's got a catcher, which is great. You want to catch it. All four wheels are present. I don't believe it's a major brand. It's not sort of your mass sports.

Okay. They don't want to be dragged into this. It's a 50. So then a close-up of the engine. There's a few photos here. There's sort of what it looks like from the top, what it looks like from the side, a photo of the engine, a weird black square that just looks like

there wasn't enough light in the photo, and then a photo of Kat's vagina. A real close-up. A real close-up. A real close-up. A real. Like she's just whipped her knickers to the side. Oh, no. Kat.

Put it on selfie cam. And clicked a quick snap of the vagina. Thank you so much for screenshotting and sending that to us at FEMZM. Have you seen anything on your... Oh, no, I just wanted to... Thomas commented on the post. Oh, right, yep. You got...

I can't say what Thomas said, but Thomas did an alert cat to what had happened. Oh, right. In Thomas's own special way. Okay. If you see anything on your local Facebook page, screenshot it and send it to us, FBMZM, on Facebook. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

I said before, British people are nearly wasting a million dollars. I should have said nearly a billion dollars. They are wasting, it turns out, 800 million pounds a year on subscription services that they forgot about. Well, yeah, that they either signed up for a free trial and just keep paying, or

that, yeah, they forgot about. Right. It's so cheeky, because you have to put in your credit card to sign up for the free trial, and then you have to put a notification in your phone, otherwise you'll forget that the free trial's no longer free. I always put in your credit card to sign up for the free trial and then you have to put like a notification in your phone otherwise you'll forget that the free trial is no longer free. I always put in, actually, if I just open up my iCal here, I've got to cancel Neon on the 23rd of September.

Because that's when you're free. Because that's when my free trial, we've got a free trial. Such a tight ass. I do this. Unreal. And then I know that I've got to cancel my subscription, otherwise I'm going to have to pay for it, aren't I? Yeah.

Yeah. I'm definitely paying for stuff that I don't even, I just don't care. But they reckon it's, that's nearly, in the UK alone, that's nearly a billion dollars. That's a lot of money. Yeah. But you just don't, I mean, do you think it's because it's $4, billion dollars. That's a lot of money. Yeah.

But you just don't, I mean, do you think it's because it's $4, it's $6, it's $11. You're just like, eh. But it all adds up, doesn't it? Exactly. It's hundreds of dollars a year alone on just some subscriptions. But you must know you still have them, right?

Because then when you've got to use one of the streaming services and you've still got to log in, you're like, oh, yeah, I must be paying for that. Like, people realise they're paying for it though, right? Yeah. You must do. Well, I guess so. Because you've had it over a month.

Well, this is what I wanted to ask the question now. How bad are we here in New Zealand? Because these stats with nearly a billion are the UK alone. But how bad are we in New Zealand? And not just for like Netflix and subscriptions with free trials, but what about like those memberships that you're paying for that you don't use? Like how many people

are not even using a gym membership and how long have you been using it for? I use mine intermittently to make it feel worthwhile. You're still using it? Yeah. But I want to hear from those people that have signed up for something and then just completely forgot about it. Yeah.

Or maybe even just used it once. Yeah. Maybe it was a free trial and it just rolled over and you kept paying. Producer Caitlin? Yeah, well, remember when I lived in Gore? Oh, my God. Nine months. But it made you the broadcaster and person that you are today, didn't it?

It certainly did, yes. So you worked on the country music radio station. Nine months. But it made you the broadcaster and person that you are today, didn't it? It certainly did, yes. So you worked on the country music radio station? I did. What songs did you play? Did you play Taylor Swift? Shania? Yep. Shania Twain?

Yep. Lots of songs I hadn't heard of. Some Billy Ray Cyrus, I think. Oh, Dixie Chicks? Legendary. Dixie Chicks. Oh, yeah. Did you play The Cause?

I don't know. Run away. Run away. They're not, yeah. Did you play The Cause? I don't know. Run away. They're not really country. Not really Irish country. I think they lived in the country in Ireland. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They didn't play that in Gawr? No, no. They didn't play that in Gawr. They should have. I was there for nine months and I had a gym membership and I used it while I was there. But then when I left Gawr, I completely forgot about nine months and I had a gym membership and I used it while I was there. But then when I left Goa, I completely forgot about the gym membership I had. Until I was like looking, because I just didn't like really, I'm not very good with my accounts, guys.

I don't really like looking because then I see stuff. So it's too confronting to look at your own internet banking. Yeah, you'd be like, what is all this stuff going out? You forget when you swipe a card that it's money. Where are you going? So yeah, exactly. And so I think maybe I was like, okay, I'm going to get my life together.

And then I looked and I was like, why is all this money going to this place in Gore? And yeah, it was like a weekly. So how long had it been going out? Like a year. I know, I know, I know. Don't tell us how much. I know, because I'm already so mad us how much I know because I'm already

so mad I know it was like five dollars it was like five it was like 20 cents whatever no I know and I had to write a letter

and then they were like well you this is your mistake and it was bad you wanted them to refund you the money because you didn't

cancel it like I can't have used this because I didn't live there and they were can't have used this because I didn't live there. I don't even live in Borg. It sucks to be you. Yeah, imagine if they

did like, okay, yeah, no, we'll refund that. Like everyone would be Jim's would go broke. Yeah, exactly. I'd be out of business. All right, well, give us a call.

0800-DARLESS-AT-M 9696. What subscription or membership did you forget to cancel and how long were you paying for it? Preparation to get told off by Fletch.

Oh, no, no, no, Judge. I'll just roll my eyes behind the scenes. Yeah, no, out loud, Judge. Surely no one's going to do worse than producer Caitlin, a year's gym, not even living in that city. Surely. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We're talking about what you've signed up for.

Maybe you've got a subscription and a direct debit comes out of the account. And every now and then you see it and you're like, that's right, I'm still paying for that. Even though you're not using it. So British people apparently wasting $800 million a year on subscriptions that they sign up for under a free trial and then just forget about or just live with. In pounds it would be one and a half million New it would be. One and a half million New Zealand.

Yep. One and a half billion. Yeah. New Zealand dollars. Well, we've had a few text messages from people that could add to that. Someone said Weight Watchers Online. I've had a monthly subscription, $30 a month for three years. But what do you get for that?

Always planned to use it, but never did. Back then, now. Kids do it. Never did. Never did for three years. Is it like meal plans and stuff? Are you about to do the maths?

I'm about to do the quackalations. They don't want to know that. 12 times... 320... 360. 360. Correct. So times three,

1,080. $1,000 you've wasted. No judge though. I roll behind the scenes. You're just popping it in. No judge. But like why don't you, seriously though, why don't you cancel? I don't know.

Laziness? Well, like too much of a rigmarole to actually do it. I recently found out that I've, this is going to be way worse. This is going to be way worse. I recently found out that I've been paying fully comprehensive insurance on my old car that has not moved for three years. That would be thousands of dollars. Fully comprehensive.

So you've got fire, theft, third party. Just thousands. It'd be thousands. Oh, yeah. That's just as me out. Goodness. Anonymous, good morning. Good morning.

How are you guys? Good. You've got a subscription that's just rolling over. Yeah. So when me and my ex broke up, sadly, changed all the passes on the account, including the Netflix. So he's been paying for my Netflix and everybody else that's writing off his AFI account for about two and a half years.

Wow. That's good stuff. That's good. You're just kind of milking that until his credit card expires. Yeah, basically. Yeah, yeah. So you're getting the sweet end of this deal

that's costing people so much money. Yeah, well, he's gone off and, like, brought a house to someone else and everything like that. So I would have thought that you would have sat down and gone through everything, but no, no. So he's not using this account anymore because you don't have, like, a profile that you could rename, like, your ex.

No, no, I changed the passwords and everything. Oh, hot play. He's still paying for it. That's brilliant. And you say he's bought a house, so he would have got all his financials in order and to approach the bank and spending for the last like six months, and he would have been like, that bloody Netflix is still getting paid for.

Brilliant, anonymous. Thank you. Jaden, what are you still paying for? I recently cancelled it, but when I was in under study and had a student loan, student allowance each week, I ended up I recently cancelled it, but when I was under StudyLink and had a student loan, student allowance each week, I ended up signing up for these acting things online so that I would be put on the top of the list on this acting site.

And I ended up paying for that for about two and a half years. How much were you paying a month, Jaden? It was only about five bucks a week. Jaden, if you want to break into Hollywood with that, do what I did. You meet a guy in a weird room with a black couch. Now, he's not going to pay you today, but he can pass it on to people who could be paying you $5,000 a day.

He knows people. He knows all the big producers. Yeah. Now, what did I expect when I came here today? Modeling. But. Thanks for your call, Jaden. You've got to do what you've got to do.

Yeah. No, I was on the other side. Yeah, I'm not saying you're Harvey Weinstein. Oh, you were just saying Harvey Weinstein. Yeah, I'm saying he's, yeah. Right, yeah, okay. Someone said, I had a gym membership for five years and actually was going to another gym.

What? But was still paying for a gym that I didn't attend for five years. So gyms make it really hard sometimes to break up with them. No, but that'd be out of contract. No gym does a five-year term. A two-months max, wouldn't it? Or three months. Three years, sorry.

But you still have to tell them you don't want it anymore, right? Yeah, but that's not hard. You literally go in or call them. I don't want to do that. You'd be literally wasting hundreds of dollars. I'd definitely not face to face. And then they're like, why? What can we do better? Why are you leaving? I'd be like, because I just don't want to. You're like, well, I came twice and nothing's changed, so

step up your game, Jim. You've just prompted me to cancel three subscriptions that I've been meaning to cancel for months, so many thanks. Many thanks. Do you know, a lot of people will say, if you download an app with a free trial, go straight away to your subscription and cancel them.

You can still use the app for the free week or month, but then you're not going to forget about it and get stung. But it definitely still works. It's not going to cancel. Yeah, well it'll say you'll still be able to use the app for the remainder of the free trial. But you won't forget. My hairline started receding so I went to a place where basically

the program requires you to put stuff in your hair and take medication daily and you had to direct debit it. I didn't do it because I'm a guy and I forgot. And I forgot to cancel it as well. $3,500 and a bald head later, I'm making the call. That would have been so many beanies and hats.

All the beanies and all the hats. And all the shaving blades you'll need. I sure hope this pre-recorded laughing isn't after something inappropriate to laugh at, but I just want to take a moment to say thanks to Spark for sponsoring the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. You can grab Spark's $29 prepaid rollover packs and get stacks of extra value. Back to the podcast. Retailers are saying it's too easy for, and this is weird because you'd think they would just be like, shh.

Okay. We'll just keep doing this till we get caught. Yeah. We'll blame the government for not having things in place. Okay. They're saying it's too easy for minors to get alcohol online. And as someone that does buy alcohol online, it always blows my mind how easy it is.

So I think I've done it a couple of times. Yeah. You just click a box. It's like, are you over it is. So I think I've done it a couple of times. Yeah. You just click a box. Are you over 18? Yes, I am. What's your date of birth? Just put your date of birth and then add how many years to yours to make you over. I mean, we're certainly not.

Go for 21. Don't make it exactly 18. We're not endorsing it. No, but it's. Come on. If kids want booze, they'll sort that out. They'll figure that out by themselves. We're not exactly.

But then what happens when the courier comes around, knocks on the door? When you've had it delivered. Oh, I get it delivered to work. Oh, right. Okay. So, I mean, yeah. Imagine they're IDing the mail room, are they? No, I don't think so.

No, no, no. There's no ID. No, no, no. There's none of that. You've just got to be like, promise. You have retained promise? Yes. Okay.

What do you want? What do you want? And then I suppose you've got to have a credit card, so you could be using. I've never tried to buy one with a Prizzy card, but you can use a Prizzy card as an online. What about a debit card? Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah, because a debit card can be used in online shopping as well. They're saying it's easy, aren't they? It's too easy. Yeah, they're saying it's too easy for them to buy it online, yet they could be fined $10,000 if, say, if little Timmy's at home. Yep. 16.

He has a debit card because he's got a milk run. What? Nobody does a milk run. Okay, so Timmy's got a... A paper he works... He does junk mail. Timmy's got a debit card because he does shoe shines on the weekend.

For gentlemen catching the train into the city for big whack. Yeah. For the financial sector. Wall Street never sleeps, kids. Shine those shoes. And he orders it, and then it gets to the house, and mum intercepts the courier,

and it hits the fan. Yeah, right. Mum's not liable. Little Timmy's problem, the law's problem, is with the person that sold him that alcohol. Right, so yeah, you can see why they'd be upset. Yeah. Okay.

But then what do you do? But then, exactly. Because they're talking about this coming in with adult websites. They're saying courier companies have no responsibility. They do the sign, the, you know, when you get something dropped off and you sign for it, and they're like, what's your name? As long as they don't care, as long as someone signs for it. Yeah, exactly.

But they don't have time to be doing, like, ID checks and everything. That would be an additional service. Well, is that where this is going? Like, the adult websites, we're going to have to put in like ID if we're buying booze and stuff. Oh, yeah. But what about your RealMe account? That has your details, right? But do you need the government knowing that you love whiskey every

day? I'm buying a lot at the moment. I'm trying to build my whiskey library. It's a dream of mine. You've got three bottles. You're going great. No, I've got heaps. Really? But the problem is I always drink a lot. Real hard. You look up there and you're going great. No, I've got heaps. Really? But the problem is I always have a heap of drinking. Really? No, you look up there and you're like, oh, gosh.

Yes. Yeah. And you have a little one. But that's why you're always buying heaps. Right. You've got to buy more than you can drink. That's the idea here. Is it? Okay.

You stay ahead of the tsunami behind you. You're sounding like someone with a problem. I can see how it sounds like that. No, it's fine. But they, yeah, so they're trying to work out what they can do, whether it has to be an online identification thing. Like you say, there is this thing out there that we'll have to log on and use like an official documentation, such as our passport or our driver's license,

if we want to view adult content. Now, I'll put in my driver's license to buy booze, but I'm not putting in my driver's license to buy booze, but I'm not putting in my driver's license to play with myself. We don't need a long list of things associated to our names. Yeah, exactly. And then you're on your deathbed,

something will come in and you'll be on your deathbed and you'll be like, I love you kids. I love you grandkids. And then they'll be like, hello, I'm from the government. I'm just dropping off

the list of porn that he watched. This is Vaughn Smith. Yep. February 20th. Yep. Okay, this is him. This is in enough paper. It'd be a couple of boxes.

The head comes in carrying those evidence boxes you see in court. And they're like, boom. And the kids are like, mum? She's like, burn it. Burn it all. Don't look. Don't look. I'll be like, push me one of those boxes over. One last digest.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. I eat an apple on the way to work every day. Apart from today, there were no apples. That will be raised. Will I? At a family meeting. Buy your own apples. I just buy you galas all the time so that you buy your own apples. That will be raised. Will I? And a family name. Buy your own apples. I'd just buy you galas all the time so that you buy your own apples. And that's why you can't stay married.

What's wrong with gala apples? Because he doesn't like them. We've moved on. We've moved on. No, but a firm, good gala apple, you can't beat. I agree with you. You can't beat it with a Pacific you nay yirri be wrong lathi you can't beat it with a pacific rose

no that's such a poo apple it's not a poo apple it's got like a sour skin it's sweet and it's dangy

Megan's all like all like gritty all like gritty smiths I like the name jazz isn't bad jazz isn't bad the size is not too big a rose is like huge

nah see I like nah you can get different sized roses. No, get a jazz. Get a jazz. No, I love a massive crunchy rose. Anyway, I ate the whole thing. Seeds, corn, all the only thing I don't eat is the little stalky bit on the top.

I twist that around at the start and see what my girlfriend's name is going to be. Amy. And I get to that letter of the girl that I like and I really go to church. Tell you what, it was bad news for Amy's because... Yeah. Sorry, sweetheart. You're not getting a boyfriend anytime soon if the apples have got anything to say about it. I really like it. Tell you what, it was bad news for Amy's. Sorry, sweetheart. You're not getting a boyfriend anytime soon if the apples have got anything to say about it. So the only thing I ever chuck out the window

is the little wooden stalk on the top. So there's news that we shouldn't be throwing anything out the car window that we would think would be compostable or would break down. More than half of New Zealand is surveyed admitted to throwing food scraps out the window. Now, this isn't like a takeaway bag, which people do.

Yeah. See, I'll never throw rubbish out a window, but I've thrown apple core or banana skin every time. It drives me nuts people do it. Like living rurally now, you walk down the road and it's just like, what happened here? Just like as soon as you stop your car there's going to be a rubbish bin. That's a meal out the window.

Yeah. Crazy. Piling up in the passenger's well and then when you go to fill up your car, chuck it in the service station rubbish bin. They love that. They love that. Or do they not like that? At least it's not on the ground.

Exactly. What was your percentage of Kiwis? Half of New Zealanders surveyed admitted to throwing food scraps out the window. That's lies. In turn, Anya, in the social media centre. Kia ora, good morning. You've run a poll this morning, a very scientific, thorough poll. Yeah, so the question is, do you throw food scraps out of the window?

39% said yup, and 61% said nup. I mean, I don't want to call our listeners liars but you guys are lying. You guys are lying because this other poll sees completely the opposite. We're all throwing it out. We're not talking like when you...

No one's throwing half a cheeseburger out but like, you know, it's apple cores, right? See, I'd throw the gherkin out of a cheeseburger if I wasn't in the mood for the gherkin because I'm semi sometimes in the mood for the gherkin with a cheeseburger. Are you by a cheeseburger if I wasn't in the mood for the gherkin. Because I'm semi-sometimes in the mood for the gherkin of a cheeseburger. Are you by gherkin?

You're always in the mood for the gherkin. Don't lie. I'm by gherkin. Don't be by gherkin. Be either gherkin or not gherkin. Who's by gherkin's a myth? It's fluid. You can be anything.

Everybody's a little bit gherkin. I have gherkin any time of the day. Sometimes in the quarter, my go-to, my go-to, the quarter pounder or the cheeseburger, sometimes I'm not feeling the gherks. So it's out. It's out. Liar. And if we're driving, it's out the window.

No, that's terrible. Well, I don't have gherkin stats. Right. But an apple core can take up to eight weeks to decompose. Yeah, but it will. What a load of rubbish. Really? And orange peels and banana skins up to two years.

Okay, no, I don't throw banana skins out. I know, I wouldn't. I don't take any. Because of the potassium. It's great for the soil, isn't it? I always do it in an area where there's like agapanthus or some flax on the side of the road. How do you know what an agapanthus looks like?

It's those purple ones. It's that, yeah, you know I hate agapanthus, and they're always on the side of a motorway. I don't know if they need to be there or not. The roots keep the bank together. Ugly. So I hate them. So do we want international visitors landing at our airports,

driving down our motorways, seeing agapanthus? No, no. It could be worse. It could be a lot worse. It could be gorse, but at least that'd be like interesting. No, they have to drive out of the city an hour to see our gorse rage. Oh, they don't have to go that far. So, yeah, they're saying don't throw it out the window

because before it breaks down, it's more likely to be fuel for a vermin. That's your rats and your stones and bits and pieces. Rats need food too. They're going to eat my apple core rather than birds' eggs. Have you seen how giant rats are getting? It only powers them to get the bird. I'll never be able to catch a bird again. I don't have the sustenance for apple.

Oh, not idiot. I'm ready to eat a chewy. So that's why. So we shouldn't be doing it. But what about ants? Bugger them. What about ants? Bugger. What about birds? Do the birds eat apples?

Not the good birds. They'll do all right without the apples. It's always the yak birds. Your sparrow, your thrush, your blackbird. You're not made of blackbirds. They're saying use the compost bins. You get a compost bin. Right.

What about burying the apple cores in the banana skins? Where the garden? Could you do that? Yeah. At your house? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Banana skins are great under the roses.

Extra potassium. That'll help the bloom. Yeah. Of course. They love it. And most plants love a bit of extra potassium. Slice up the banana skin so it releases it into the soil quicker. This has been Maggie's Garden World.

Brilliant. All right, Flashback Friday is next. Megan, I'm jazzed about this. I'm so excited. It's topical. It's from 1999 and it's going to be a great one. It's not the usual though. It's a bit off-piste.

It is. It's what? It's off-piste. You're going off-piste. It's going off-piste, which is where you're like off trail and skiing. On the ski field. You could actually end up going over a ravine or a bluff.

Okay. A ravine? No, no, no. She'll rejoin the trail and be like, dudes, I just shitted the gnarly pal. And be like, next one we're coming to. Friday Flashback. Thank you, Anya.

Welcome to the show. Is my mic on? Bleach Warner Megan. are your headphones not working? Are they plugged in? Yeah, I don't know. They plugged into the wrong one. Hey, look, you know, Friday. Hey, Anya, Anya, we all make mistakes.

Cheeky. Cute. Brilliant. All right. Okay. Friday flashback. Each week, we take a turn picking an old banger. A song we haven't heard for a while.

Yeah, the rule is it has to be at least 10 years old. Yeah. Okay, this one is from 1999. So it's 20 years old. Oh, good Lord. Wow. An anniversary of sorts. Yeah.

So it is a song about the need for unity. And it reminds us of the Kotahitangi movement of the 1890s and Te Kotahitangi of the 1960s. And this is timely because it's Māori Language Week. Yes. And lots of people will remember this. Vaughan's very excited about playing this. In the 2000s?

Because I didn't do Jump Jam. No, Jump Jam was a little after my time, but having had two daughters go through kindy, they were huge on Jump Jam. And when I heard the song for Jump Jam, I was like, I remember this song. Yeah. It was weirdly everywhere,

but I don't know if it ever charted officially. Has it been in ads as well? It's been in ads. It was one of those songs that also represented New Zealand at like world events. Yeah.

Like if New Zealand was there at like an expo or something. Yeah, right. This was what they cranked out in the early 2000s. How does this go down at Jump Jam? Mate, cranks.

Cranks. There's people in their cars going about it and they know what song we're already talking about and they're so fizzed for it. So, from 1999, from the album, from Oceania, this is Kotahitanga. Brilliant. This is Kotahitanga. More tourists doing it. Brilliant, all right, ZM, it's your Friday flashback.ふん

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バカアベ アベ アベ 待てこと キサナ バカアベ アベ アベ バカアベ アベ アベ バカアベ アベ アベ ZM, it's Megan's Friday flashback. Sorry. There's been a lot of jumping. Kotahitangi. No, kotahitanga. Sorry. There's been a lot of jumping.

Kotahitangi. Yes. No, kotahitanga. Sorry. About halfway through that, I remember I had hips. And they moved. And I will not apologize. I have never seen you move like that. Yeah, thank you.

I really, I felt a spiritual connection. And for the rest, I don't even remember. I blacked out. Good early morning cardio. I let the rest, I don't even remember. I blacked out. Good early morning cardio. I let the mana. It took control. Watch out. Well, that's actually what somebody said.

They play that at Les Mills RPM. Do they? Do they? You'd be up out of your seat. Yeah. RPM's the bike one, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You'd be up out of your seat. Good times. You'd use it for the hills. Yeah. The hills. Yeah. You dig it. You dig it. Dig in. Yeah. The hills. You dig it. Dig in.

Lots of text messages. Someone said they literally watched their daughters do that at Jump Jam yesterday. Still going strong at Jump Jam. Classic. Yeah. Good. Lots of people remembering the moves in their car. My favourite text is like a Māori version of Jai Ho.

It does have a certain Jai Ho quality to it, doesn't it? It's very similar, isn't it? Sounds like Bollywood's version of Jai Ho. It does have a certain Jai Ho quality to it, doesn't it? It's very similar, isn't it? Sounds like Bollywood's gone to Rotorua. And enjoyed a curried chicken out of a hungi. Yeah, that'd be the way to go. Somebody said, and I will do my best to pronounce, Ka-mo-te-wehe, which means awesome.

Nice. Today a Maldi language. Lots of great texts, lots of great texts. Well, there's not a bad one. You of great texts. There's not a bad one. There's not a bad one. You've picked a banger, Megan. Thank you. A young and old alike, out of the box somebody said. Great work.

We go now to a survey, a study which has suggested that you do not, as an adult, feel totally independent, truly independent until the age of? 40. Born?

I think it would be different for males and females, wouldn't it? Why? No, there's one age for both. Okay. What is it? The age where you truly feel like an adult? You feel independent. Because I'm just saying that because I don't feel like an adult yet.

And you've grown up. Producers, any guesses? Producer Caitlin? When my parents die? Oh, my God. Oh, and you've literally got no one. You're so stupid. You're allowed to be independent before your parents are dead, by the way.

No, because I always run to mum and dad when I need anything. Money, help, advice. Like, literally the other day I was like, what? I was asking her about the countries that only have four letters. Like, she knows everything. Chad. I'm my dad too. Oh, no.

C-H-O-D. Chad. Fiji. Oh, yeah, good work. What else has four letters? Yeah, it's actually a side story. My friend went on a date with this guy, and that was like their cute little date thing that they did.

That's cute. And so I was like, oh, I'll ask my mum. But wait, how did they get up to Fiji and Chad thing that they did. That's cute. And so I was like oh I'll ask my mum. But wait what? How did they get up to Fiji and Chad? There's 10. We've done two. I need to know now. There's two in Africa. There's. Wait we've really sidetracked on what we were talking about.

So you were like well mum I'll go to mum. Don't Google it. So you're saying that the age that you truly feel independent will be later in life? Very much. Okay. Very later in life. What about you?

I paid a water bill the other day and I was like, oh my God, this is so hard. This is what adulting is. So how old do you think? How old are you right now? 23. Do you think it's 23? I think it's 23. It'll be older than that.

James? Producer James? I don't think I've hit it yet, but 30, I'm going to say. Okay, Vaughn? Did you come up with a figure? I'm thinking more like 40. The answer is 26. Oh, nah.

26 is when you truly feel independent, according to this latest study. That's when you have to, like, take care of your own car insurance? I'd say so. Because I that because that's when you have to take care of your own car insurance? I'd say so. Because I'd say that was when I drove my parents' car for a long time. They've given a big, huge list of all the things that have made people feel independent are being financially independent, not relying on the bank of mum and dad, Megan.

Yeah, so that's why I said 40. When's the last time the bank of mum and dad paid out? Like two weeks ago. Free petrol? Two weeks ago, remember? Oh, two weeks ago, yeah. When mum was up. Yeah.

Moving out of your parents' home is another way you can feel more independent. Managing your bills, buying a home, having a job. Listening to Miss Independent, the song. Yes. Yes, that too. Things like being able to budget and having control of your bank account. Oh my God, there's so many things on there I'm not doing. Control of your bank account, Caitlin, because didn't your mum, she could see your credit card, couldn't she?

Did you ask when I finally got it? Oh, mate. No, that hasn't happened at all. She's got that Britney Spears thing on you. Conservative shit. Conservative shit. Your mum can see your bank account. No No no

But I mean like I don't have control Over it Like I've She's out of control I'm out of control But her mum's not in control No one's in control

Yeah So you're like Kind of downhill With no brakes Yeah In a boat On a trailer I'm like Megan on that

On that episode of Megan's Diaries And then Oh my skates Yeah And it all You're about to grab it You're about to grab it And like post and shoot yourself Yeah That's the one thing Right On that episode of Megan's Diaries. Oh, my skates. Yeah. You're about to grab a light post and shoot yourself. That's the one thing.

Okay, well, I thought this morning, could we ask a question? What was that moment where you felt truly independent and growing up an adult? Did you have a moment? Maybe it was like Anya where you paid the water bill and you're like, oh my God, I'm an adult now. Yeah. I think it was having a car with actually like my name on the ownership papers because I always just drove my parents

cars for ages. Well and like nearly 30. I don't think I'm a very independent person. I've always got people with me doing stuff. Because I've like been married for most of my or like been with someone for most of my adult life. And my long relationships and they helped me a lot.

And one of them wasn't even an adult. When you were an adult and you started your relationship. Don't say that. Yes, he was. Well, he wasn't 26 according to the study. He was 18. He's still not 26. No, not yet.

Very soon. When's he going to help you feeling grown up soon? Yeah, mummy's going to want to move out. I'm so happy it's Friday. Alright, so we are reaching that point of saturation of each other, right? Like, this one's felt like a long week. We've had a lot of each other. Alright, so 0800DONALDZM, you can call us or give us a text 9696.

When was that moment you felt like a grown up maybe it was just one thing that happened yeah tell me what it feels like Chad Cuba Fiji Iran

Iraq Laos Mali Niue Oman Peru and Togo thank god

those are the 11 countries in the world that have 4 metres in the total no you said 10 no it's 11 oh well you were wrong Caitlin you just need to tell her that are they going back on a second date yeah yeah yeah she needs to No, it's 11. Oh, well, you were wrong, Caitlin. You just need to tell her that.

Are they going back on a second date? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She needs to tell him. It's going really well. No, there's only 10 because one of them is technically like part, not like an actual country. Oh, like a territory or something. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Let's not get bogged down in details on a first date. She's not wrong. Apologise. But maybe she could go back and then that will start like a terrible combo. I'd say, hey, hey, I've got a territory for you. It's four letters. Oh, my God.

This relationship's going to be great. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, just running two levels of thought here at the moment. Also talking about the times when you have felt like a grown-up, but there was conversation about the 10 countries with four letters in them. Apparently, new A doesn't count for some reason. Why not, Caitlin?

Has anyone told Niue this? That's just what my friend Kelly said, and she's real smart. What did she just message and say? Well, Kelly does. Is it an acronym? She was the one that was going on. Niue is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand, and New Zealand conducts most diplomatic relations on its behalf.

Niueans are citizens of New Zealand. What? Okay. Wow. Interesting. See, this is what... Unitary parliament. They should have a seat.

Sorry, Kelly. Where's their seat? They should have a seat in parliament. It'll take them four weeks to get here just for a parliament. Fine. This is what nerds do when they go on dates. They love to chat about this stuff. Oh, see, well... I think it's a good talking point. well, all I hear about dating is like the hookups and stuff,

but this is great stuff. This is great stuff. It doesn't sound that bad again. Talking about, you know, political structures of countries and such. So we want to know from you this morning, those moments you felt growing up. A study has suggested that the age that we feel truly independent is 26. I haven't felt that yet.

26. You're nearly there though. So we want to know what moment made you feel independent. When did you actually feel like an adult? Kayla, what was that moment? When I bought a vacuum cleaner. Oh, because that's a really grown up thing to buy, isn't it?

Yeah. Was it a real expensive one, expensive one, or did you...? No, just Kmart. Ah, those Kmart vacuum cleaners are legit, apparently. Yeah, they're really good. Okay, good. Okay, Kmart, calm down. This isn't Kmart Mum's Hacks.

Undercover Kmart on Facebook. Brilliant. Hey, Kayla, thanks for your call. Kendall, what was that moment you felt like you'd grown up? So I've been at my job for three years since I graduated from uni. So this is my first job out of uni. Yeah. So it's got to the point now where it was that question of I need to be getting paid more.

So having to go to my boss and organise a meeting to discuss how much I should be getting paid more. So having to go to my boss and organise a meeting to discuss how much I should be getting paid, it was very daunting. Oh, yeah. Wow. So you organised the meeting and did you ask him and what did he say? So, well, my boss is a woman, so I was like,

well, maybe this might be a little bit, I don't know. Okay. Yeah, so she um well I first I did talk to my dad about it first yeah and he was like you need to do this all by yourself this is your job and so you have to pick up the ball to do it and you did it you scheduled a meeting yeah yeah so I emailed her first and said I wanted to arrange time for me. And my heart was racing. So yeah, we did it. But then it was about negotiating, which was the really hard thing for me

because you just want to please your boss. And so did you get a pay rise? Yeah, I did. Yay! You're grown up now, Kendall. Yeah. Hey, Kendall, thanks for your call. Aunty, when did you actually feel grown up now, Kendall. Yeah. Hey, Kendall, thanks for your call. Aunty, when did you actually feel grown up?

The first time I felt like a grown up was when I had to pay for a 12-month subscription for a wheelie bin. Oh. Yeah, that's it. It really hit home. That's adulting, eh? You're like, I'm paying for a wheelie bin to take away rubbish. That's what I work for these days.

Yep, wheelie bins. Money's going to mundane stuff. Yeah. Work to buy things, to put them in the bin and have that taken away. And then you realise what your parents are always moaning about, about no money because they've got to spend it all on things. No, you just thought there was a magical bin that got emptied every week. Exactly.

Arnie, thanks for your call. Some texts. My friend and I have discussed this very topic at length. We decided you're actually an adult when you own your own trailer that you can lend to people when they move house. That's my, I would love a trailer. I don't have a trailer. I've been looking.

Why do you need a trailer? Mate. Why don't I need a trailer? You think of all the things I'll trailer around the bits and places. What will you trailer around? Well, I've got some stuff that needs to go to the tip. Could you get a trailer that attaches to your ride-on lawnmower? I've got a trailer that attaches to my ride-on lawnmower.

Why have I not been on the back of that? I have. Fletcher's been in it. Drunk. We carted him from one side of the property to the other. It was great. I was like, take me there. Yeah.

It was like, Caitlin, where's my Uber? Uber, Uber trailer. It's pretty bumpy. That's okay. So I've got that trailer, but I want to bring over that mushroom. That mushroom on your lawn. That's the poos mushroom. That's the poos.

You know the ceramic poos mushroom? Yeah. We had to replace that with a plastic pipe because it broke. We didn't want anybody falling in the poo hole. That's you, Caitlin. That's just rural living. Watch out for your ceramic mushrooms. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the Day is about... That was harmonies, actually. It was pretty good, wasn't it? It was pretty good. Real Solomio stuff there. Yes, it is. Oh, Moses. Yep.

I'm out. I bags Moses. It's the only one I know, if I'm going to be completely honest. If you want me to be completely transparent on it, I don't know. Any other... I know of. Yeah, and only because completely honest, if you want me to be completely transparent on it, I don't know. Any other... I know of. And only because he's on Celebrity Stranger. Solo me. I don't even know how to spell it.

Solo me-o. Vaughn, it doesn't matter. It's because it's a three. It's S-O-L-3. Or like, it looks like... Is that a three? S-O-L-3. Yeah. Okay, you find out who the other person is. That's Fletch. Well, it's important now for our Solomio.

Moses, Penne and Amitai, I think. Okay. Are we doing covers? A Solomio covers band? Yep. Yeah. Well, my Dane Rumble covers band hasn't had a booking for years. Dean Rumble.

Dean Rumble. I did all of that. Because he sent you a cease and desist letter. Yeah, but you could hardly even tell he was doing his old songs. Like, it wasn't I got, it was we got, because it was more of a communal feel from the Fast Crew days.

We got. We got. And we got. And we got. And we got. And because it was just me, all the other parts were missing. I can see why the bookings started to dry up.

Yeah. Today's fact of the day is about a Swiss nobleman and knight. Oh, okay. He was. He met a grizzly end. Did he? He was executed. He was burnt at a stake with his homosexual lover.

Because that was his only crime, ladies and gentlemen. Right. He was a Swiss nobleman and knight notable for his homosexual liaisons and his strategic avoidance of prosecution. So when they found out he was light on his feet, he was

gone with the wind. He was hard to track down, but later on he was tracked down and executed. His name? Richard Puller. Okay. Doesn't sound like a Swiss nobleman's name, does it? It was Richard Puller. That was his recognised

his entire title was Richard Puller von Hohenberg. Okay. Yeah, but just Richard Puller was what he went by day to day. So where did they find him? Well, he went to the city authority of Bern. Have you been to Bern? Yes, I believe so.

Everybody goes to Bern, right? Is it the one with the bridge? It's got a real... Yeah, an old bridge. Yeah, I think my parents went to Bern. They said it was absolutely gorgeous. Well, that's where Richard Puller... I, Vaughan, I have been here.

...did his thing. Yeah, okay. Burn. Yeah, good's where Richard Poirot... I, Vaughan, I have been here....did his thing. Yeah, okay. Burn. Yeah, good. So he went to burn. There was sort of an underground... People who were like, I personally, this is what the people would say,

and it's also an opinion I share, I don't believe homosexuals should be criminals. And so he went to them and he's like, well, I've got all these really nice things and I want to get them back because then I can sell them and then I can use that money to start a new life. Okay.

I'm Richard Puller. Yep. And someone in the group betrayed him and they said, we know where Richard Puller is. And they dobbed him in. Yeah. And so he thought he was going to meet up with someone and when he got there, he was arrested.

And they also got his homosexual lover who started life as his servant. Now this was his giveaway. And this is a lesson to take out of today's fact of the day. The servant was wearing clothes well out of his price range. Right. So someone's like, this is fishy. And someone said, where I'm from,

that means that a man is buying a silence for homosexual liaisons. And someone was like, who would he be with Richard Puller, would he? Old Pauls wouldn't. Pull that? Old Dick Pauls wouldn't do that, would he? No. Because that, of course, was his nickname around town, Dick Puller.

And so he was eventually found out, exposed, was on the run, got caught, and ended up being burnt at the stake. That's awful. For what isn't even really a crime. No. It's a bit of fun. Yeah. It's a lot of people's weekend now, isn't it?

It is a lot. Or they just said daily life, and it's a lot of people's daily life. 100%. Yeah. As it should have been all this time. So today's fact of the day is a Swiss nobleman and knight and notosexual, notable homosexual. A notosexual? As a notable homosexual.

No, a notosexual would be. A notable homosexual. Okay. A notosexual. It was a notosexual. Richard Puller, dick to his friends, was burned at the stake for his actions. Christ.

Okay. Is that? No, yeah. Is that the only reason you chose that fact of the day because of his name? What else is his name? Richard Puller. Richard.

Oh, my gosh. No. No. Oh, I've just cottoned on. Because he was a homosexual, he would have been. Oh, yeah, no. No. Oh, I've just cottoned on. Because it was a homosexual, it would have been. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. It is today.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, Fletch recently hired a rental car. Yes. On one of his jaunts. And he had not been charged for it. A couple of weeks ago, Fletch said to me, I haven't been charged for this rental car. I reckon they've totally forgotten. Hooray.

And he was very, very pleased. Then this morning, he says, oh, the buggers, but he used a far worse word, have charged me. Yeah, I did. Have charged me.

Well, that long time since I've been to the bank, you're like, where's that money gone? Have I been scammed? Like, you know, you instantly think, well, the worst.

Like that time, remember someone ordered cheesecakes on my credit card in Atlanta and I wasn't even in Atlanta. And you didn't even get to enjoy cheesecakes. And I didn't even get the cheesecakes. Of all the things for me, like, scammed of, someone's buying cheesecakes. Well, no, because Westpac ring men said, are you buying cheesecakes in Atlanta? And I was like, no, but I want to. So instantly I was like, well, God, I'm being scammed.

And then I opened up internet banking and it's bloody Avis. Charging you for? For what I paid for. For what I hired. Finally charging you for the service that you used. So that was a month ago. I hired this car when I was away. And, you know, you pay a deposit.

Yeah. And then you drop the car off and then they charge you and then they reverse whatever's left over of the deposit. Well, they just reversed the whole deposit and never charged me for the car. And I was like, I have got a free car hire. You've. Great. This is brilliant.

And then you rung them and said, hey, guys, you've really messed up here. No, I didn't ring. No, not at all. God, why would you? No. And so I reckon I'd got away. It had been four weeks I'd got away with this. And that's why I said to Vaughan, I probably jinxed it when I said to you I've got away with'd been four weeks i've got away with this and that's why i said devon it probably jinxed it when i said to you i've got away with this because you hadn't

got away with it had you no it's very cheeky of them to turn around like a month later and charge me there should be a rule if they don't charge you straight away it's free how did they find you well they've got they have my credit card no but how did they like i always wondered they must have been hiring out a lot of cars. How did they pinpoint where they went wrong? Maybe they just do their processing. Maybe they do it all in one big lump. Yeah, it's obviously,

it was obviously someone in the office might not have done it right or closed the account. I don't know how it works. So they refunded you the full amount of your bond. Of my bond, yeah. And that's why I was like,

well, I've got away with this. Right. And there was no charge. I was like, well, I've got away with this. Right. And there was no charge. I was like, this is great. It's free money. But then they must have been going through and been like, yep, yep, yep.

Oh, here's our problem. And now I've got to pay for it. Wow. Because I'd spent that money already, hadn't I? Because I wanted to have to pay for this. What's the statute

of limitations on these sorts of things? It should be a day or a week. Can they come to you like a year later? I don't think it's a statute of limitations thing.

Right. Because that's why they take your card. If you get any speeding tickets or camera fines, they can, you know, charge you. They can ping you whenever they get sent them. Whenever, yeah, exactly. Months or weeks later. Right.

But yeah, it's a trap for young players. Just watch out for that. You think you've got away with it. You think you've got a few hundred dollars. No. And then all of a sudden you don't. That'll be swept from under you. Yeah.

It's a great start to the weekend. Okay. Good that you've got a few hundred dollars and then all of a sudden you don't that'll be swept from under you yeah it's a great start to the weekend gotcha okay good that you've learnt that's all I have to say on the matter that you've been charged for something that you used that I've been charged for something I used

yeah tough it's a tough life it really is isn't it ZM's Fletch Warner Megan the podcast a woman in Australia has absolutely worn it online

she posted a picture to the Kmart Hacks Facebook group, thinking everyone would be like, ha ha, so great, oh yeah, yeah. She was not met with that response. Right. So her 18-year-old son had a birthday, so he was turning 18, and she wanted to do something,

I guess, a little bit different. So she got him a pot plant holder from Kmart. Is that it? No. Well, it's a Kmart hack. I assume it's Kmart. She might have bought the jar from Kmart. Maybe that's what she bought from there.

But it was a big glass jar. She made him a goodie jar for his birthday. So it was full of various paraphernalia appealing to a teenage boy. Here is what was in the jar. Please inform us what is in that jar. Chewing gum, juicy fruit, obviously a favourite of his. Yep, that's okay.

Nothing untoward so far. There was rolled up bank notes. Money. Sweet. Juicy fruit. I'm liking this already. There was mini bottles of alcohol. So there's some vodka in there. Okay.

Everyone's like, oh, okay. Well, he's 18 now. Yeah. He's gonna get it somewhere. He might as well be getting it from mum. Yeah. And then there's various types of condoms. Okay. Various different ones for her son. That's actually all we can see.

Face value in the jar. Is that what people have a problem with? There's a lot of the latter in there. Right. So yeah, I mean, he's 18. Yeah. Someone said, I love this. You're a great parent.

So many people can't even give condoms to their kids. It's kind of a responsible thing to do. Yeah, right. And yeah, lots of people saying love it. I had a giggle. Then lots of people were disagreeing. So much cringe that you bought him condoms. Cringe, cringe, cringe.

I could never imagine buying any of this for either of my children. You bought your son a variety of condoms for his birthday present. Is it just me or is that weird and inappropriate? You pre-rolled the notes for him, good mum.

I can see that. It's like for the drug, that's drug Zaid. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah. So a lot of people are just saying

it's inappropriate and cringe. But then, I just feel like she's not, she's not burying her head in the sand. Like she,

maybe just shouldn't have posted it to Kmart. Yeah. And I hate it. Any group, it's like mum support groups. It's like feeding friends. They can be horrible places. Yeah, yeah.

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