ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - September 27 2019

Episode Date: September 26, 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. Beg your pardon, where did you say that game was played? I looked up the YouTube pronunciation guides for both of those and I got them correct. Fakoka. Fukoka. Fukoka. Almost sounds like a place in the Bahamas.

Sure, yeah, sure. Or in Japan. Fukoka. Almost sounds like a place in the Bahamas. Sure, yeah, sure. Or in Japan. I thought it would have been more of a Fukuoka in Japan. Well, maybe. Are you emphasising the F? Bermuda, Bahamas. Don't take Vaughan's Fukuoka on how to pronounce Japanese place names. No, carry on.

If you looked up the pronunciation. Who am I? Who am I to step all over? Absolutely no one. Exactly. Exactly. Back in your place, Smith. What's up with you today?

You're particularly annoying. It's two minutes past six. Anya's agreeing with me. I'm being bullied. This is bullying at its absolute finest. I'm reporting this this is bullying at it's absolute finest I'm reporting this yeah right HR the top six

is coming up soon yeah if you've got an Alexa hey Alexa if you've got one of those Samuel L. Jackson

could soon be providing the voice for it you're going to be able to download a Samuel L. Jackson patch I feel like I'd like this for You're going to be able to download a Samuel L. Jackson patch. I feel like I'd like this for a day or two. Yeah.

And then after that, I'd be like, nah. Well, did you know there's a Pikachu skill on Alexa? Have you tried that on your Alexa? You should try. You have to download the Pikachu skill. Yeah. And then you're like, Alexa, I'd like to speak to Pikachu. And then he goes, Pikabee.

And then you're going to be like, Pikachu, tell me a joke. And he goes, Pikabee, Pikapika, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu. And then he goes, Pik-a-pee. And then you can be like, Pikachu, tell me a joke. And he goes, Pik-a-pee, Pik-a-pika, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu. And then you laugh and he goes, Pikachu. It's pretty great. Right. Of course he downloaded that. It's pretty great. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. Welcome to another edition of Storytime. I have sourced three news headlines from news sites, news sources around the world. Vaughan and Megan, pick one of the following three stories.

Headlines. Headline one, Wedding DJ Scores. Headline two, Underage Airport Shutdown. And headline three, Tandem Bungie Draws Backlash. Tandem Bungie. Oh, I bungee draws backlash. Tandem bungee. Oh, I like one or two. Why did tandem bungee? Oh, you would smash to get.

Oh, no, because there are tandem bungees. Yeah, I've done a tandem bungee. I was just thinking you'd get to the bottom and clap. You'd have to hold on to each other quite tightly. Yeah, I can't remember. Because if you weren't holding on, you'd be like. Yeah, I think you did. You have to kind of put your hands or arms around each other quite tightly. Yeah, I can't remember. Because if you weren't holding on, you'd be like, bang. Yeah, I think you did. You have to kind of put your hands or arms around each other.

Yeah. It's called a hug. I know you don't give them or receive them too often. How does that go? It's a sign of endearment between two friends. Yeah. Great, okay. Put your arms around each other.

Nice, that's good to know. In case I need that one day. Yeah, no, a pleasure. A pleasure. Um... One or two. Will you pick then if one's easy, Megan? It's a lot of Friday morning.

I want to eat eggs. That's the PG version of I want to get high. What? I want to eat eggs. That's the PG version of I want to get high. What? I want to eat eggs. What was number one? South porch.

I told you, he's so annoying to get it on stage. I want to eat eggs on some sourdough with a little bit of bacon. Just keep going. Ignore him. Wedding DJ scores. You want that one? Wedding DJ scores. Or what's the other one?

Did he hook up with someone from the bridal party? Or is it? Underage airport shutdown. So do you want the DJ one or underage airport shutdown? You pick. The DJ. The DJ at the wedding, please. Well, we go now to the UK where Megan, who's 26. Correct.

Yeah, she got married to a guy And at this wedding First or second wedding? Jake, I think, was his name when she was 26 No, this is a different It actually doesn't mention her first husband's name But at the wedding was a DJ A wedding DJ, Mark Stone, who's 49

Now, they Megan got married in 2015 And this is their story of love, because a year later, she ended up breaking up with her husband. Imagine that. I can't even comprehend it. Megan, imagine that. Oh, my God, that sounds crazy.

Yeah. And anyway, she ran into the wedding DJ a year later, after she broke up with her first husband and long story short, she found herself opening up about her failed relationship

to the wedding DJ and now they are in love. Bless. Bless. Are they getting married? I believe so, yeah. Is he going to DJ

their own wedding? He could DJ their own wedding, yeah. Is he going to DJ their own wedding? He could DJ their own wedding, yeah. Oh, that's sweet. And it's obviously the news loves a bit of an age gap story. Oh, this is like hitting close to home. But he's got, she's the other way. How old is the DJ? 49.

And she's 27? 26. She was 26 when she got married. Yeah, yeah. And Mark's 27 year marriage came to an end as well. Mark the DJ. Mark the DJ. As a result of this, or he called it off before that.

Well, it doesn't say. That came to an end, so it's very timely. Oh, my God. She knew that he really liked her when she requested a song and he played it next. Yeah, exactly. And I just said, yeah, it's coming up, and then just ignored her and went on with his absolutely banging playlist that is pre-sorted. DJs love that when you clamber up into the DJ box and say,

I'm playing Mr. Bright song. I just got here. I just got here. Can you play Jim Deathly Child? We just played Deathly Child. I'm going to play again. No, oh, okay. I'll put it on my list.

Thank you. I'll see what I can do. Yeah, yeah. That's the classic response from radio stations when you call up. Okay, thanks for your call. I'll see what I can do. Good on you. All right, next on the show.

I don't know, mate. A police car. Who are't know mate A police car Who are you texting? A police car Who are you texting? No, I was just about to send somebody a message Asking if I'd played this game But don't worry about it

I was going to do it When we were winding down I was just picking up my phone Getting ready to do it Before I forgot Winding down Because Fletch does the end of the break And we're just like

We just tap out Well this is my brain Oh remember to do that for I forgot. Watching down because Fletch does the end of the break and we're just like, we just tap out. Taron, Taron, Taron. This is my brain. Coming up. Pim, pim, pim, pim, pim, pim. Oh, remember to do that and I've got to do it before I forget to do it.

Okay. Tesla cars are world-leading electric cars. They're kind of like the brand for electric cars, right? Big car brands have electric cars but these guys have only ever done electric cars.

And in San Francisco, there are police cars that are Teslas. Okay. Yeah, electric cars. Now, San Francisco, there are police cars that are Teslas. Okay. Yeah, electric cars. Now, one got into a police chase and started to run out of juice. Right.

During the police chase. Oh, no. As they were just doing their patrol when they were asked to be part of this police pursuit. So they could have been like, oh, we're low on juice. We're going to head back to the station anyway.

But then all of a sudden. Yeah. Someone's like, we've got a perp. I've actually got the audio from inside the police comms unit. Oh, okay. This is the,

and I believe also, thank you to our tech department who replaced my dicky. Your dicky cord's been replaced. My dicky cord. That's great. My dicky cord's been replaced. Okay.

That's not the word they use to describe the cord. But when they came in, which cord's dicky, they did not say that. Yeah. But I think we should be able to hear this in stereo sound.

Okay. Okay. So that is, the person who had to take the number one spot was in the old school petrol one. Quite. Right, releasing a lot of emissions, but still on the case of the bad guy. But still on the case of the perp that they needed to apprehend.

Because that's an issue with, so if you had a Tesla, say you lived in Wellington and you're driving to Auckland. Yep, needed charge spots. Yeah, would you had a Tesla, say you lived in Wellington and you're driving to Auckland. Yep. Need to charge spots. Yeah, would you be able to, you wouldn't be able to make it the whole way, right? I don't know what their current mileage is. At a decent speed, you'd probably get pretty close. I know like the top end ones.

But how long does it, because I don't have an electric, I don't know anyone that has one. But if you did pull over, say you did lunch in Taupo, for example, how long would it take you to charge up your car? Is it half an hour? Is it like four hours? I don't know, because at our local supermarket, there's a charge point. And who pays for that? Do they pay for it?

Don't know. How many Ks is it from Wellington to Auckland? Oh, look, I'm looking. I've just Googled a map for driveelectric.org.nz and the charges map. Yeah. You'd have no trouble. There are so many spots on the road between

that you could charge your car. This is a problem, you know, because you pass the camper vans, the milk tankers, the logging trucks. Yeah. Then you're like, oh, now I've got to charge up for half an hour and they're all going to pass you again.

It'd be pretty close because the Tesla apparently has 600 k's is the range. Oh, right. You need to charge once. And then it's 664 k's from Wellington to Auckland. So you could probably get another 100 k's while you're waiting for your mocha and your slice at the servo. Yeah. I'm just looking.

You'd be surprised how many there are. Did you know your very own hometown of New Plymouth has a few spots to charge? I'm not surprised at all. It's very futuristic. Yeah. So I'm just going to click on one here. There's one at the Belt Road Seaside Holiday Park. Oh, that's lovely.

Do you know the Belt Road Seaside Holiday Park? I'm familiar with one, yeah. Loitered around there, have you, for a bit? Did you do some loitering there? The Devon Hotel. Oh, with the Marbles Buffet. Yeah, that's got an EV plug.

I'll tell you what, I've loitered around that buffet. That's a good buffet for a loiterer. It's a good buffet. They did it away with the jelly beans and that was a controversial call. The Warehouse Bell Block. Do you have to charge to, like, do you have to pay to

charge a car? That's what we're saying. See, I don't think at the moment you do because they're trying to encourage people to get electric cars. But I think when everyone has an electric car, then we're going to be like then there, I imagine there'll be little tap and go kind of payment ways to charge your car maybe. They'll need lots more

when everyone's driving electric. So that's the other thing. It'll become... Oh, Morrinsville's got one. At the New World. You plung into one of those giant cows. That would be good! An electric charging cow.

That's what they need to do, an electric charging cow. You should be on the cow committee. No way. Sounds like too much hard work. Oh, that's my job. I'll be on the cow committee. No way. Sounds like too much hard work. Oh, that's my job. I'll just be the ideas guy. This map tells you in real time if any of these are in use.

So if you're driving and you look at this map, it can be like, well, don't go there because that one's been used. Go to another one. Time to get an electric car then. The one at Morisville is a high power station as well. That's a DC fast charge. Oh, okay. What does that mean?

It'll charge you faster. Just do it a bit faster. You'll get a bit more juice for your time. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Samuel L. Jackson

will be the first celebrity to offer their voice to Amazon's Alexa. This is rather than the standard Alexa voice that's available at the present. Yeah, it's like a lovely lady, isn't it? Yes.

Yeah. But I wonder if when this comes in, you won't say, hey, Alexa. You'll say, hey, Samuel. Yes. Or hey, you'll probably still say, hey, Alexa. God, we're probably setting people's Alexa off. Without a doubt, we've definitely set somebody's off. Have you got an Alexa, Megan?

No. I gave in because, you know, Ross Boss is all about it. He's telling me all about it. I don't have a need for that. Neither. No one does. You don't think you do. You don't think you do, but it's actually so handy.

Yeah. Yeah. So it can tell me what the weather's going to be. I'll look at the weather. No, I can, like, turn on, like, without having to get up and get the remote, I can just be like, hey, Alexa, turn on lounge or turn on everything. Apparently, you can hook it up to your lights too. Yeah.

It's bougie. Cool. But it's listening to your conversation. But then I'm okay with that because then it'll tell me things I want that are on sale. I'm okay with the complete lack of privacy. So, today's top six after Samuel L. Jackson, who will be the other celebrities to lend their voices to Alexa? Because this surely is just going to open the door to many doing it.

And I wonder if they only have to say key phrases and then AI can take the sounds of all of those words and make them into all the words. Maybe, yeah. If they get Cardi B, I'm getting it. Oh, that would be a good one. But then ones like Cardi B all the words. Maybe, yeah. If they get Cardi B, I'm getting it. Oh, that would be a good one. But then ones like Cardi B and Samuel L. Jackson

because they've got catchphrases. By the way, there's two versions of Samuel L. Jackson, family friendly and explicit. Yes! Oh, that was going to be my question. Is he going to say the, yeah. F word. Heaps. Yes! Apparently if you say, if you have it explicit and you say,

hey, Alexa, it starts with, what do you want? MF-er. Okay, yeah, I'm definitely downloading this. It's going to scare the kids. Is this going to cost money? Or is it just getting people to use Alexa? I don't know. So the Alexa skill will cost 99 cents as an introductory offer,

and after that it will cost $4.99, apparently. See, I think you could get your 99 cents and that'd be it. Yeah. Because I feel like that would wear off. Yeah. Cardi B was in an ad for the 2018 Super Bowl commercial for Alexa. She filled in for Alexa when Alexa lost her voice, along with some other celebrities.

So maybe, maybe she's got an in with the company, so it could happen. So these are the top six other voices that would make great. No, don't open. I've clicked on that thing where you accidentally open. I will try to go back to Microsoft Word, but I opened the program next to it. Oh, no. That's all right. I quit it.

The top six other celebrities that have made great Alexa voices. Number six, Liam Neeson. It's a classic. Yes. It's a classic. That's gotta happen. Yeah. Because this has been done before with like Navmans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. TomTom had a big range of them. Can you be like do you have to say hey Liam or do you say

hey Alexa still? I don't know. Probably still Alexa. Oh, because it's going to be like hey Liam sing me to sleep Yeah Yeah Then he's singing a song Yeah This deep voice

And then you can just Visualise that rumour Yeah Yeah Number five on the list Of the top six Other celebrities That make good Alexa voices

Scarlett Johansson She's got a great voice Yeah She's got a great voice I saw a thing She talked about her voice and she said it hindered her when she was a kid because she wanted acting jobs when she was 10, but that's

what she sounded like. Oh, right. So it looked like they couldn't use her in ads and stuff because it sounded like she'd been smoking durries. And she was only 10. And she has been an assistant like this in that movie Her, where Harkun Phoenix falls in love with his like Siri device.

Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six other celebrities that make good Alexa voices are Gordon Ramsay. Yes. Also has done an Alexa ad so could totally

Okay. could totally be on in for the next one. Number three on the list of the top six other celebrities that make good Alexa voices is Fran Drescher, the nanny. Oh, you'd get a bit sick of that, wouldn't you?

Yeah. Nah. I'd say like she... It would be just like she's your nanny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be great, but telling you the weather. Number two on the list of the top six other celebrities that make good Alexa voices are Jeremy

Irons, the original Scar. Oh, yeah. Just a great, deep voice. Just a wonderful voice. And number one on the list, and no, it's not Morgan Freeman. Oh, yeah. It isn't even on your list. I actively chose to avoid Morgan Freeman.

Why? Oh, because he would expect to be on there? Yeah. Can I guess? Is it David Attenborough? No, he would be good too. Is it a girl or a guy? He would be good too because he's not got forever left, has he?

No. It's a guy. And I reckon Star Trek Wars guy, Darth Vader. No, James Earl Jones. I was considering putting him on the list. Guy from Batman who plays with the North Core. Bane, no, not Tom Hardy. Is it Cartman?

No. You know all the stuff. Hey, Alexa, wah, wah, wah. It's Batman and the Baratheon. Alexa, lounge on. No way. It's Batman and the Baratheon. No.

Snoop Dogg is number one. And this will only be a matter of time Because he always Does these things He's the first in line To lend his voice To anything So that is

Today's top six News out of Australia ACT The state We talked about them Earlier in the week They legalised

Marijuana They're set to legalise personal cultivation in 50 grams possession. Yeah, so you're allowed a couple of plants in your backyard or in your house, wherever you choose to grow. Another law that they've passed, and this will come into effect in March next year, it will be illegal to not walk your dog in ACT, in Canberra. Every day. Yeah, so there will be huge fines for owners

who don't take their pets out every day under the new law. Owners will be fined $4,000 if their dog is kept inside all day and not exercised. Right, but if it's an outside dog, if it's got an outdoor area to run itself around in. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay.

And also, if they're not being fed properly, you'll also be fined. I can get on board with that. Yeah. I think it's terrible when people buy dogs and they end up just cooped up all day. Yeah. But then what if you've got a silly little dog like yours, Megan? If you walked it down the street and back, it'd be puffed, wouldn't it? Well, he wouldn't be puffed if he's going for that long a walk.

But he'd be all right inside because he's only little, right? Yeah, so we play fetch out the backyard and it only takes a few goes and then he hides the toy so he doesn't have to play anymore. He doesn't have to do it anymore, yeah. Like hides the exercise. He's your dog, he's your dog, isn't he? Or you throw it and he just looks at you and leaves it up there. He's like, oh, I don't want to do that.

That's enough, I don't want to do that. So if the dog is cooped up inside all day and bear in mind, I guess it's quite a hot place as well. If it's not exercised within the next two hours, I'm assuming of you getting home, then that's when you'll be in trouble. How are they going to monitor

that? Yeah, I don't know. Well, you know what I'm saying, if you live next to someone whose dog's inside all day, you hear it. You'd be yapping, wouldn't you? Barking from inside and you'd notice that it would just never be outside. So owners won't be fined if their dogs are kept in a backyard where they can run around or if it needs to be kept inside for their own well-being. Right.

So yeah, so in March that'll come into effect. And owners that don't give animals adequate food, water and shelter also get a $4,000 fine. Wow. That's good. So yeah, it is good. But yeah, what if you get home and you're like, I don't want to go for a walk. And also what constitutes a walk? Like are people just going to walk them down to the end of the driveway?

To the letterbox, yeah. I don't know if this is coincidence, but it just popped up on my Facebook feed that Boston Dynamics latest robot, that could totally walk a dog. I know, every time they release a video, it's like, I feel like we're getting closer to the end of humanity and robots taking over. This one's doing flips. This one's, because remember when it could hardly

walk? That wasn't that long ago. This one's doing flips. Did you see that one that was putting up walls? That was a few months ago. Yeah, putting up a jib board and drills it in. And plasterers and jib stoppers were like, hey, hey, hey, no, bad robot. Fletchbourne and Megan's Community Notices. Hello and welcome to Community Notices,

a segment of the show where we see what's happening around New Zealand according to local Facebook pages. Here's a Facebook page we've never had a community notice from before. Okay. What Kiwi Vegans Eat. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. It's where Kiwi Vegans share their recipes.

Yeah. And tell each other what they're eating. And so other people have an array of food to eat. And don't get bored with the same old recipes that they've got. Same old salad. Susie posted on What Kiwi Vegans Eat, it's time to make sushi for my boy. Ingredients.

Avocado. Flavour stock. Sushi seaweed. Rice. Some mushrooms. Yep. And baked beans. From a tin?

She makes the sushi, yes, from a tin. She makes the sushi as you usually would and just slops the baked beans into the sushi. I don't know how I feel about that because all the sauce would make it a bit soggy, wouldn't it? Well, no, not...

Well, just a bit of sauce. I think she must spoon them out. Right, okay. Yeah. But people are taking great offence at the fact that she would put baked beans into sushi. Yeah.

Not because they're not a vegan product, but there's a civil war amongst vegans whether or not baked beans have a place. Someone says, baked beans? And she said, yes, see the picture. She said, yeah, I'm looking right at the picture and that's the problem. She said, baked beans from the canned food department, dear.

That's a bit passive. Oh, yeah, it is. And she said, yeah, I know what they are, I'm just wondering if they've got any place in sushi, vegan or not. Seems's a bit passive. She said, yeah, I know what they are. I'm just wondering if they've got any place in sushi vegan or not. Seems like a real cultural wrong, doesn't it? Real. I just. It's odd. Don't fight amongst yourselves, vegans.

It doesn't seem very forgiving, does it? Fight the meat eaters. Be united. Don't fight amongst yourselves. They're going to fight each other. There'll be nothing left for the meat eaters to eat of the vegans. I assume that's where it's going to end up. Yeah. Let's go to buy, sell, swap.

Huang Anui. There is a couch for sale. Reposting as no one got back to us on the weekend when we posted it. Right. Obviously, everybody's busy because who wouldn't want this couch described as a three-seater couch in good condition. Just need to be washed down to get the cat piss stains out of it.

Oh, no. A two-seater, also available for purchase. Nothing wrong with it, just a big dip in it. Okay. It's like a big dip. It's like you would sit in it and you'd go into the dip. So the spring's broken. Also, we've got a coffee table that's still for sale. It's got wheels, but just

doesn't have handles. And a cabinet's in pretty's got wheels, but just doesn't have handles. And a cabinet's in pretty good nick, but it just doesn't have one of the doors. Sounds like a trip to the dumps in order. So, yeah. That's probably why someone didn't get back to them on the weekend. Yeah. Let's pop across to Glenfield on the north shore of Auckland. Megan has posted, not our Megan, another Megan.

I am shocked at the behaviour of some people. Ten minutes ago at the time of this posting, I saw a male wearing a maroon puffer jacket going for a poo on somebody else's lawn on Alice Road. If I'd spotted him sooner, I would have driven up onto the footpath and pinned him. Really? Run someone over. I don't know if that quite... The punishment doesn't equal the crime.

No, no. I've made a complaint with the council. I hope the occupant of the house with the green fence has a lot of disinfectant for their lawn. Disgusting behaviour in public at the time the kids were coming home from school. So this was in mid-afternoon. Oh, okay. In my mind it was dark at least.

No, no. He was pooping right there on the side of the road. I would take care of that. I wouldn't even want to look at it. That's not the last. O'Brien Road Neighbours. This doesn't say what page it was on because the person that screencapped it to get the whole picture of it has cropped out where it came from.

O'Brien Road Neighbours. Anyone else have experience with this crazy cycling lady who drives a maroon station wagon? We are speechless. Can we get a trespasser in my area? We pick up, every day we pick up bottles and bags from takeaways, but I refuse to pick up her poo. What sort of person does this on someone else's road frontage?

And there's a picture of it. Oh, my God. She's a cyclist. But she's a cycling lady who drives a maroon station wagon. So does she have her bike on the back and she drives and she stops and then she goes through a... I don't know. I don't know, but they've seen her drive to a toilet.

Doing it right there on the... Yeah. On the ground. Very unusual. And finally, from the Whitby community page, Jane writes, need very urgently three exclamation marks. Okay. I need a mole catcher.

I've tried everything. Please. A mole catcher? I don't think we've got moles. I don't think we do. Rabbits will dig a hole. Rabbits, we've got rabbits. Plenty of rabbits.

Is there a mole? A small localised infestation in Whitby? Yeah, it's from the Whitby New Zealand Community page. Is that all? Is that all it says? Unless she's talking about mole, that delicious Mexican chocolate and spicy sauce. That's a delicious chicken mole.

And it's fallen from the sky and she wants to catch it in some sort of mole-catching receptacle. Yeah, she must have rabbits. Definitely not moles, eh? No! I'm not going nuts. I searched moles in New Zealand and all that came up was, like, how to check your moles on your back.

Yeah, skin cancer moles. You know, how to check your moles. No, there's no moles in New Zealand and all that came up was like how to check your moles on your back. Yeah, skin cancer moles. You know, how to check your moles. No, there's no moles in New Zealand. I feel like we would have seen it by now if that was the case. Those are today's community notices, moles and all. If you see anything on your local Facebook page, screen cap it and send it to us

with FVMZM on Facebook. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A woman has ended up hospitalised after she thought she was tucking into a yum spoonful of avocado, but what she was doing was putting wasabi straight in her mouth. One spoonful? Yeah, but

hospitalise is a bit much, eh? I think she might be a bit dramatic. Unless she's one of those people that, like, even sweet chilli sauce is hot. No, but you think when you eat wasabi, you don't, you eat like a little bit with stuff. You don't eat like a tablespoon in one go. And also, does that have different levels of hotness? No.

Is it just one hotness? Because before I said it's a weird hotness, it's like a breathing hotness. Yeah. And there's a Japanese word for it, but there's not a similar English word. But yeah, so chilli peppers will stimulate the tongue. Yeah.

And it will feel like a burny hot, whereas wasabi stimulates the nose more than the tongue. And that's why you call it breathy hot because afterwards it feels like the back of your nose. Yeah. That is really all go. It grows, it's a plant that grows in streams, naturally grows in streams in Japan. And is it true that they water it down? Oh, no, that's avocado they put peas in, eh? So wasabi, most wasabi we eat here is just horseradish,

tainted green. Right. Yeah. Yeah, okay, because I knew that, yeah, I knew there was something. Wasabi, you can eat the leaves, because the bit that we mooly up to have with sushi and stuff is the root and stem.

Right. You can eat the leaves. They've got a spicy flavour of the stem, but I have a common side effect of diarrhoea. Oh, okay. That's not ideal. No. Because they always, if I get sushi, they're always like,

do you want ginger wasabi? I'm like, no thanks. You don't get ginger or wasabi? No, I don't get either because that ginger's weird as well. Okay, Mum, but much worse, yeah? Pickled? A bit too much taste, isn't it? Yeah, that pickly ginger stuff, yuck. It's yum. Nah, it's yuck. What is wrong much taste, isn't it? Yeah, that pickley ginger stuff.

Yuck. It's yum. Nah, it's yuck. What is wrong with you? I know it's supposed to be a palate refresher. I know you're supposed to pop it in between different flavours of sushi to freshen the palate. Oh, I didn't know that. But I put it on top of the sushi because I like the crunch. Yeah, that's what I've tried in the past, but I'm like, nah.

I just get the little wee soy sauce fishes. Yeah, and pollute the environment. Actually. Which is why everyone's marching today. Soy sauce fishes. Actually, I was very proud of you the other day when you didn't get one. I just did it in the store. Yeah, he took a sushi in that plastic container that definitely can't be reused for anything. You're welcome, fish.

We told you you have to take a plate from now on. Well, no, I will now. I will now. Take a plate. He's so woke. No, he's not. He hasn't done it yet. I'm trying to be.

But you've got to encourage them. Oh, you're so woke. You've got to encourage the baby boomers. You don't, like, attack them, Megan, because then they get really entrenched. Hey, just a suggestion, please. You two both have cars, multiple cars in your households. I have a bicycle. So I can do what I want.

I can bike to work. I won't be here till 8 o'clock in the morning if you're happy to have me on the show for, like, one hour. Absolutely not. I'll be more than happy me on the show for like one hour absolutely not I'll be I'll be more than happy to join the show for that amount of time but well she accidentally ate the wasabi

she thought it was avocado and it led to a hospitalisation we'd like to know what you accidentally ate like and it doesn't have to even be a confusion of food you could have eaten something

that was definitely not for human consumption yeah because I always take the dog food. If we get canned dog food, I don't leave it in the can. When I open it, I put it in another container. Why? Now that's led to people

being like, what's this? Is that leftovers? Now, there's been times where I probably could have said to some friends of mine, yes, and watch them put it on toast. Nobody's thinking that's pate. No, but if you get the dog food that's got no chunky bits or the really cheap nasty stuff, they might. Although if you did that with that fancy cat food,

Jimbo's, that could just look like a mincey. Yeah, yeah, it could. And that could end up in a stir fry. Yeah. I think Jimbo's would stir fry really nicely. It would stir fry really nicely. Because it comes all shredded. Yeah, yeah.

So it just looks like mince. You'd be like, oh, someone's just put mince in another container. We always hear of people that might use the wrong stuff and toothpaste and might use something else. The deep eat. Sure. I always spill things on my clothes and I always pick it off and eat it.

Without knowing what it is. That's a real risk. That's a roll of the dice. You wait until you have kids and you think you've got chocolate on something. You'll never make that mistake. You always sniff. Always sniff. Or just don't eat little bits.

No, well, I'm like, oh, that's definitely food I've dropped. Yeah, right. All right, well, we want to take your calls and see if you've done this. Anyone out there listening has done this. 0800 dials at M9696 to text. What did you accidentally eat? A woman has been hospitalized for accidentally eating wasabi. She thought it was avocado.

Avocados. So we want to know what you accidentally ate. Luke's messaged in, my friend made some Afghan style biscuits. Okay. But for the crumbly aspect, used Tuck's dog biscuits. But they were absolutely delicious. Me and the lads finished the lot.

Would eat again. There was Tuck's. Well, I don't know whether or not the mates started out as a joke and the mate ate them and then they started eating them and said they were real good and they said there was Tux Dogs biscuits in them and they said, well, we don't care and kept eating them by the sounds of things. Odd.

Instead of the cornflakes. Yeah. For the record. But that's weird that you're putting a biscuit in a biscuit. It's very cannibalistic. Taking one biscuit to make it another biscuit. Meta-biscuit. It's weird.

Biscuit. Inception. Square root of biscuit. Yeah. I don't know enough about maths to come up with a better term than square root. Sure. weird. Biscuit. Inception. Square root of biscuit. Yeah. I don't know enough about maths to come up with a better term than square root. Sure. But that'll do you. Somebody said there were two mousses in the fridge.

A bowl of whipped salmon mousse. And a bowl of strawberry mousse. I didn't know about the salmon mousse. I grabbed a spoon and thought I'm going to sneak me a big spoon of strawberry mousse. Scooped up a big spoonful, put it all in my mouth, gave it the old around your mouth as you do with mousse, and swallowed. It was at that stage that the taste buds were like,

that is not strawberry. That's almond. I threw up all through the kitchen, and I still do not like salmon. Yeah, because if you didn't like salmon, that would be the most grossest thing ever. Well, even if you liked salmon, but you were expecting strawberry, that would be a real shock to the senses.

It would be. Kayleigh, what did you accidentally eat? Hi there. So not me, but my mum. Yeah. So my sister made some weird brownies and put them in the freezer, and she went travelling. Yeah. She went travelling. Yeah.

She went travelling, so was that like she left a time bomb? Yeah, she did. She left the country and my mum and dad got hungry one night and went into the freezer and thought they were eating brownies. Did they? And so what? How bad did they get it? So they had one eat and then they really liked them,

so they went back for more. Oh, no. But that's not the best bit. So mum went to hospital, creeping out so much. Oh, no. And was your sister in trouble?. Oh no. And was your sister in trouble? Oh no. Well, yeah, she's not been allowed

to bake brownies anymore. To be fair though, she froze those. Mum and Dad got their sticky fingers into her baking. She went overseas. Yeah, it was kind of bad karma. Yeah. Wow. That. Wow. That's brilliant.

Kayleigh, thanks for your call. Rachel, what did you accidentally eat? Hi, I accidentally ate a guinea pig. How do you accidentally eat a guinea pig? I was in South America, and I'd managed to go the whole trip without intentionally eating it because they have it just in the stalls at the markets and stuff. It's one of their major meats. It's one of their major meats, and I've managed to avoid eating it, because they have it just in the stalls at the markets and stuff. It's one of their major meat sources. It's one of their major meats, and I've managed to avoid eating it.

But my last day there, my host had done a 10-meat barbecue, and I didn't think anything of it. I just cracked on, like, yes, this is delicious. Pass me all the meat. But hang on a second. 10 meats? I need to know what else. That's a giveaway.

One of them is going to be guinea pig. Like, once you've gone past cow and sheep. If I had to do a 10 meat barbecue in New Zealand one of them would probably end up being guinea pig. And are we talking like steaks or was there bones? Because if there's like a little... No, no, there was no bones. It was like there were sausages and there was steak and there was, I'm sure there was goat

and sheep and like so all your usual meats but like I couldn't get past about four or five before I'm like, yes, guinea pig is definitely in here. Probably some of the monkey that died while we were. Oh no, a monkey. So I'm sure, I don't even know half of the meats I ate, but they were really nice.

Yeah. I now know, how would you cook a monkey? Would it be low and slow? Would it be fast and seared, marinated overnight? I don't even want to think about it. A dry rub or wet mopping? So many things to take into consideration. Thanks, you cool, Rachel.

Some other text messages in. My dad made lasagna once for a family meal. Mum realised that he'd grabbed the dog meat from the fridge, not the mints, but she tasted it and it tasted okay, so she let it go. She let the family be fed. It would have been the fancy dog food

like we were talking about. Maybe. They said it was back in the 80s. So probably not. It probably came in a massive roll. Yeah. And dad was just like, no, that doesn't deserve any better.

You know those little dehydration packets that come in, you know, those little oxygenators or they keep the moisture out of things. Oh, yeah. My brother thought that was jerky seasoning and sprinkled it on his jerky. Oh, no. No. And seeing that, do you say something or do you? I don't know if he's dead, but his eyes don't look in the same direction anymore.

No. Somebody said that when we lived on the farm, I thought we were having roast beef for dinner. I said to mum how bloody delicious and tender it was. I really enjoy this roast beef. And mum said it's heart. It's devastated, to say the least. But then don't let anything go to, if you're going to eat it, you've got to eat it was. I really enjoy this roast beef and mum said it's heart. It's devastated to say the least. But then like don't let anything go to if you're going to eat it, you've got to eat it all.

And then somebody else said I want to use Savlon as toothpaste. Savlon as toothpaste. Oh yuck. I feel like that's the way they said it too. Yeah. Savlon as toothpaste. Yuck. Hasn't it been a wonderful podcast so far?

And it's all thanks to Spark, our primary sponsor. Do you love free data? Then you will love the Spark data stack. More data every month that you stay. Hey, guys, let's get back into that podcast. I said that Japan Airlines has announced something that will really tickle Fletcher's fancy, and it has divided people.

Is it no kids on planes ever? Close. When you book on Japan Airlines, there is now a little diagram that will show you a child icon. So if you're going to go book your seat, like pick your seat, a little like kid face will appear if there's a child around where you're planning

to book your seat. So you can choose to not sit by a kid. So if someone books online and they've got a kid and they select their seats that'll show up. Yeah. But if they're not planners and they don't select a seat,

it might not show up. Yeah, so there is a couple of problems here. Yeah, right. If they don't select their seat or if the flights are booked through like a third party. Right. Or if there's a last change of, last minute change of aircraft,

they're obviously not going to show. Yeah, right. Because that's all an area to stay away from is where they put the, what do they screw those things in? The bassinets. The bassinets. Yeah.

So, you know, right at the front of like those walls where the toilets are, that's where they screw those in. But then that's also the place with the best leg room. Yeah, a lot of leg room. A lot of leg room. So you've got to weigh up leg room. And no one in front of you to put their like seat back. Yeah.

But then you've got to weigh up crying baby could be right next to you. Yeah. So someone actually tweeted about this saying, thank goodness now you can choose to not sit near kids. And everyone was like, hey, you should be tolerant. You're a child once. Oh, people love to say that, don't they? You can also wear noise cancelling headphones.

Yeah, that's what I find. Noise cancelling headphones will drown out babies. And now that you can wear headphones from start to end... Apart from the safety video. I don't mind... Then it's fine, really, isn't it? I don't mind the little babies. It's like when you get bigger kids and they kick the back of your seat.

Or you just turn around and give them a glance. No. You give them a glance. Give them a hard glance. A glare. A hard glance. And then say something. No, I can't do that. Because otherwise they'll them a glance. No. You give them a glance. Give them a hard glance. A glare. A hard glance. And then say something. No, I can't do that. Because otherwise they'll keep doing it.

Yeah, that's worse. I just Googled, because I knew there were some airlines that did it. Air Asia, Indigo, Malaysia Airlines and Scoot Airlines all offer child-free zones on aircraft. Right. Child-free zones? Yeah. So I'm guessing they put all the kids in one area. That's an interesting. So there'll still

be kids on the plane but there'll be whole sections where they won't be. I don't know. They must be in the wing or like families. In the cargo bay. Yeah in those silver cargo things. You see them putting in the underneath bit of the plane. Yeah the bins. Lined with like I don't

know some fur or some pink bats or something. To keep them warm. Yeah, so they don't go to minus 50. They don't like that actually. I can speak from experience. Kids. Kids don't like being below zero degrees. Oh, right.

Okay, yeah. That's just, but it's a parenting 101 for anybody listening who's having kids. They don't like it when they're real cold. So put them in the cabin, in the main cabin. Yeah. Okay, good to know. ZM's F the cabin, in the main cabin. Yeah. Okay.

Good to know. Now the School Strike for Climate New Zealand is happening all over the country today. If you go to the Facebook page, you will see where all the events are happening all over the country. There are so many entries scrolling through just on and on and on. All around the country there is a chance for you to join in.

And you don't have to be a school student either to join in. They've said we want everyone there to strike, to show. Most of these happening either from this morning or lunchtime. Producer Caitlin, we spoke to you yesterday. I saw you overnight painting your signs. Yeah. I'm very passionate about this, guys. I know.

I'm joining the students to try and make some change happen. So you've made a sign. Did you think of a chant? Is there like a chant that you're going to? Oh. No, I didn't think of a chant. Well, I'll just do what everyone else is saying. Okay.

Yeah. But I'm not a sheep, but I will just say what everyone else is saying. Oh, we'll follow everyone else. Power in numbers. Power in numbers. But I have decided, even though I really liked your one yesterday, Megan, about the, it's getting hot in here, so take off all your coals. Thank you.

It was quite wordy. I hope someone does go with that, though. Well, I've seen it. Just make a bigger sign. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, it's quite hard to get. And we didn't want to get too much cardboard.

But I've come up with this sign. This is going to be my quote today. It says, Our planet needs us to give a shit. And I'm including myself in this because I'm the problem. I'm not saying we need you to give. I'm not going to say that word too many times because we're also turning off. Okay.

And I'm not going to put an asterisk because I'm passionate about it so I'm swearing on my sign. Oh, so you're going to leave it, okay, because you want your sign to get on the news. Well, I had a message from my mum this morning. She said, please don't get on the tally and please don't disrupt traffic. So she's really happy about me striking

today. I think she sees me with like a picket, you know, like outside with that. We don't have a stick for our signs. We're just going to hold the cardboard so we're not like forcibly like. Because that's the thing. If you have a stick, then you've cut down a tree for that stick, haven't you? Exactly. Unless you use a plastic stick.

Like a bit of drain pipe. Then no trees were harmed. Or you find a stick that's already broken off on the side of the road. Yeah. A stick that died of natural causes. I've come up with a picture that I want broken off on the side of the road. A stick that died of natural causes. I've come up with a picture that I want to put on as well. So you're just having the text

on the sign. Yeah, so I'll just write it on with paint. And then I'm going to put a picture in the corner. And this is actually producer James helping with this. James just nodded his head. He's like, yep. It's a picture of Captain Planet.

Yeah. Because he says he's our hero. Yeah. You're going to take pollution down to zero. Yeah. But with Greta Thunberg as the face. Yes! Oh, that looks good. I've cut out Captain Planet's face and I've cut Greta.

You should just blow that up. And that could be your billboard. Because that looks so cool. I don't know how to do that. Captain Greta, she's the hero. Maybe I'll chant that. Marketing people around the corner will know how to just use a colour photocopier. That looks really good.

Or put that on the back. I'll just keep going, bigot, bigot, bigot, bigot. Is that really bad? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. Printing out more paper for your sign. You've got to spend money to make money. You've got to make pollution to stop pollution.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think that works. Do you reckon they'll be right, police? Because I'll fight someone. I'm kidding. I'm not going to do that. But for our planet, I will. Your mum doesn't want you on the television

with a swear word. She's not going to be that. But for our planet, I will. Your mum doesn't want you on the television with a swear word. She's not going to be happy when you're face down saying, oh, the pepper sprayed me. This is the students and we're just supporting them because I totally... It's peaceful. The whole thing's been touted as a peaceful march. We'll see it on the news as like a peaceful march and then Caitlin's being like scrappy and loaded into a...

Pushing kids to the ground. Loaded into a paddy wagon. Yeah. Who are you going? Are you going with James Producer James Are you going No James isn't having a bar

You don't care about the planet No I've I mean Not saying I don't care About the planet I mean that's That's a turn of words You've got playstation time

I helped with this I came up with the Captain Planet idea So I feel like I've done my bit As well You've chipped in A lot of admin into this as well.

I mean, it's spatial awareness on like a sign. You can't have that too big. You've got to have your letters. There's a lot that goes into it. Yeah, you do those block letters and then you realise when you got to the end you haven't got enough room. So that's going to be my problem.

I love seeing a sign in a protest that the words go to the side because they've run out of room. They're still getting really small about halfway along. I haven't written the writing yet so that's probably going to be me, guys. Our planet needs us to give us... In all seriousness, what a great cause.

Because, you know, it's the only planet we've got to live on, isn't it? I know. There's no planet B. I said that yesterday. I said that yesterday. Everyone says that. I'm just repeating it. I said that yesterday. I said that yesterday. Everyone says that. I'm just repeating it. I said it yesterday.

No, no, you can't claim that. I'm not claiming it as my own. It sounded like she was claiming it. You can't claim it either. It's a sign on everyone's... I can claim it for this use for this show. Hey, you guys are really passionate. I know what you could do to that in a day.

Come and strike with me. Well, the irony is I'm actually... I can't because I've got a flight. Oh, Flick. Oh, my God. I'm actually, I can't because I've got a flight. Oh, Fletch. Oh my God. What would Greta say? No, but it's okay because I'm going to drop seeds out the window to offset my carbon emissions. Don't make

jokes. Hey, we all just need to start caring a little bit more about our beautiful planet, okay? Did you tick that box when you booked those flights? Yay! Bloody boomers, eh? Yeah, that box. Do you need a rental car? That those flights? Yay! Bloody boomers, eh? Yeah, that box. Do you need a rental car? That one?

No. No, okay. Did you off-seat your flight? It was an accident. I didn't know. Yeah, well, I will. I'll plant a tree. Okay.

Good, good. Good job. Good. Well, what are you doing, Vaughan? Huh? I'm going to my second job. I've got to, well, we've misestimated, like our recycling bin's full,

but recycling's not until next Friday, so I have to take all the cardboard out of that and find an alternative means to it. Make some signs. Make some signs. Yes, yes, and I'll just put them on the side of the road and hope they blow away. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.

If you're having a few drinks this weekend and stuff gets a bit out of hand, I mean, if you can prep. As it does. Prep before bed is essential. Oh, it is, yep. A Barocca before bed, that'll see you right. Barocca before bed?

Yep. Yep, and then one again in the morning. A special little concoction I call a green turtle. That's a blue Powerade with a Barocca in it. It goes green. That's good stuff. Well, the Powerade at least has the electrolytes, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. aid with a Barocca in it, it goes green. That's good stuff. Well, the power aid at least has the electrolytes, doesn't it? Yeah.

But St. Andrews University in Scotland has tested 13 common beverages that people will drink when hungover to see what ranked the best for rehydration. For rehydrating over a four hour period. Okay.

Question, is coconut water on the list? Because I reckon that is so good. Like it's nature's power. It's not. It's not on the list but that's, I don't know how popular it is in Scotland. I can think of nothing worse than if I was hungover and drinking coconut water. Nah, super cold coconut water. Yeah, super cold coconut

water. So it's gotta be super cold and it's gotta be the, it's gotta be the, not that concentratey sweetened stuff. No, no. It's gotta be. It's legit. I reckon it's nature's power. Straight from the tea to the coconut. Swear by it, yeah. Find the tea to the coconut.

Milked in the islands. Don't do that noise. You know. A milking machine. Yeah, milk it, put it straight into the bottle. Oh, legit. Have you ever been overseas and like someone's macheted one open? Every time.

It's my favourite part about going somewhere tropical is drinking coconuts. It's amazing. Love it. Then you crack the rest open and eat out of that yummy white flesh. You know. I don't think they were just making up that song from the Moana soundtrack about coconuts. I think they actually had that. That was fairly based on fact.

Yeah. So the water is great. They said there's no doubt about that. Water is very hydrating, both still and sparkling. It does a pretty good job of quickly hydrating the body. But when you drink, there's two parts to hydrating your body. It's how quickly the water will move through you, as in goes into your stomach but then carries on.

It's absorbed from the stomach into the bloodstream, and that's where the real hydration happens. Now, water goes through a little bit quick. So it doesn't make it the most hydrating drink possible. That's pretty crazy, isn't it? Because you'd say that's nature's fluid. Like, you know, that would be the one. And it does.

If you drink it consistently, it hydrates you sufficiently. But in the dehydrated state of being hungover, it's not. Yeah, okay. You drink it and it too quickly goes through you. You need to drink with a little bit of sugar, fat or protein. They'll help keep you hydrated for longer. It's a thick shake. Is this why, yeah, is this why when you're hungover?

And slowly moves through you. Chocolate milk. You always crave the chocolate milk when you're hungover. Never. Never? Okay, right. I can't imagine anything worse than a milky product. Well, it depends if you've had a night out on the Carlowers or the Baileys.

You're never going back to the milk if it's been a big one on the Baileys. You might be off milk forever. Yeah. So a really effective one is milk. Yeah. Because the sodium in it acts like a sponge and it holds onto water in the body. And so there's less urine produced from the milk you drink. Right.

So is that the number one? Yeah, that's number one. A skim milk because then there's more water in it than there is full fat. Okay. That's the number one. The next on the list is oral rehydration solutions, like Pedialyte. Yeah. Or like when you've been vomiting as a kid and your mum would be like, drink this.

And you're drinking it. Yeah. It would have a salty sort of a taste to it. Because I had a whole lot left over when I had food poisoning and I'd use those a couple of times hungover and they're so good. Yeah. You mean good as in like to rehydrate and all that tastes good? Yeah.

Oh, no, they taste yum. I had like a berry one. Oh, you're going to get the right flavours. Full fat milk is the next on the list. Okay. Followed by orange juice, cola. Yes. Diet cola.

Yes. Because a lot of runners will use flat coke, won't they, during a race? Yeah, but you need the energy and you need the sugars out of it. Then cold tea. Yeah. Because a lot of runners will use flat coke, won't they, during a race? Yeah, but you need the energy and you need the sugars out of it. Then cold tea. Yeah. Then tea. Oh, cold tea. I'd rock a tupper tea.

I have a tupper tea. A cold tupper tea. Yeah. It'd be so weird being hung over and having to hold a cup. Oh, no, a hot tupper tea. Just holding a cup over a saucer and be like. But mind you, it's a fast forward in life to when you're like a dottery old woman. It's all I've got.

After tea is a sports drink. I'm guessing the amount of sugar in that might stifle it a little bit. But still, it's above still water, which is next. Then sparkling water. Yeah. Then a lager. I believe that's called hair of the dog. Yeah, right. Followed by coffee. Yeah. Then a lager. I believe that's called hair of the dog. Yeah, right.

Followed by coffee. Okay. Oh, so coffee's like right down the list. It's dehydrating because it encourages you to urinate and that gets more water than it does. But sometimes you just need a coffee to kick the day off, don't you? You need a coffee to get the energy to do all of the rest of the stuff. Yeah, pretty much. All right, next on the show, it's the oldest ever Flashback Friday.

And, I mean, this could turn people off. 1976. Oh, for December. It was a Christmas release. We did Bohemian Rhapsody. That's the 80s, right? Nah, Bohemian Rhapsody's in the 70s as well. Hold on.

Let me check because this could actually be the second oldest. Bohemian Rhapsody. That was released. Oh, that's the movie. That's not going to help. Please just give me the song. Oh, okay. So that's of a 1975 album. And this is 1976.

So this is the second oldest song. Well, I wasn't happy when we did Bohemian Rhapsody. And that went off. Well, we'll see how this goes next. Friday Flashback. But it is a tradition where every Friday we pick an old song. It's got to at least be 10 years old, but maybe not too old. Well, that's not a problem because this one's 43 years old.

Oh, my God. But it is a G. It's as old as Oh my god. But it is a G. It's as old as a split. I'll throw this That is not correct. They both have aged fantastically. I won you over yet. You will be reprimanded off air

and given a written warning for that. This song was written by one member of the band about the breakup they had with another member of the band because the person they got broken up with, they were the songwriter for the band. Right. And, I mean, that's pretty awkward. You've got to still keep writing songs

for this other person to sing. So what more pass-ag thing to do than to write a song about how they broke up with you? Why? What? Why are we playing this song from 1976? Well, because it's great.

It's a great song and they were like here last week and I think they sold out, what, nine shows around New Zealand? Your friend Ali was working on the tour. They sold out a bunch of shows. My wife went to one in Auckland and she just said it was

one of the best concerts she's been to. Does your friend have any goss backstage? Because, like, what are old rockers like when they're backstage? No, she said they were lovely. Do they just go have a nap, probably, eh? All the young ones are doing drugs. No, everyone can... Well, she's done her fair share of drugs.

The woman in this band has done it. There's certain stories. Right, okay. She believed the rock and roll legends. She didn't even come, though, right? The woman in the band that you're referring to did not even come. Yeah, yeah. To New Zealand?

Yeah. This band wouldn't be the band without her. I don't think she was here. Of course she was here. You need to check that. I don't think she was. She was singing with, yeah, she was. I couldn't tell you which one of the Finns was involved,

Tim or Neil. It was so confusing because Neil looks like a Tim and Tim looks like a Neil. And then I don't know if I have to double guess myself. No, Megan, of course she was. They wouldn't have come without her. The band isn't a band without her. Okay. Come on.

I can't be wrong on this one, can I? I'm pretty sure I heard rave reviews about it. Right. That she was still great after all these years. Yeah, she was there. Right. Who are you thinking of? No, I'm thinking of the same band as you.

I'm thinking of the time the Wiggles came without one of the Wiggles. It would be like Alanis Morissette coming without Alanis Morissette. Megan. Just wouldn't happen. It wouldn't happen. It wouldn't happen. It wouldn't happen. So this song is off an album called Rumours,

which is one of the greatest albums of all time. And Ross Boss has said yes to playing this. Correct. This song is well regarded as one of the greatest rock songs of all time. From 1976. From the band Fleetwood Mac. Today's Friday flashback is Go Your Own Way. Jeez.

Wow, on ZM. It's like we're in a tavern Shut up, shut up How can I Ever change the Things that I feel If I could Maybe I'd Kill you my way

How can I When you won't take it From me How can I when you won't take it from me? You can go your own way Go your own way You can call it another lonely day You can go your own way Go your own way

Tell me why Everything turned around Packing up Jacking up's all you wanna do If I could Maybe I'd give you my world Open up, everything's waiting for you You can go your own way

Go your own way You can call it another lonely day You can go your own way Go your own way guitar solo You can go your own way Go your own way You can call it another lonely day Another lonely day You can go your own way

Go your own way We'll see you next week. guitar solo ZM? Yeah. It's your Friday flashback on ZM Fleetwood Mac. Of course, they were in the country last week. Oh, I made a flippant remark, didn't I, that I should have played Fleetwood Mac as a joke. Yeah. Last week for my Friday Flashback, and you've pounced on that.

And then you were like, oh, scared. I'm scared. And what did you play instead? I can't even remember. Exactly. Forgettable. Exactly. So feedback's pretty great. I can't even remember exactly forgettable exactly so feedback's pretty great because I was

certainly worried that people would turn it off Megan's been screwing her face up I don't like Fleetwood Mac I know I'm in a minority well you just tried to tell us that Stevie Nicks didn't come with them that's madness so I looked up the Wikipedia for ZM, the first ZM station,

because I was like, would this be the first time ZM's ever played Fleetwood Mac? But no, the first ZM station was in 1973. Oh, they definitely would have

played Fleetwood. So it's definitely been played on ZM. It would have been early days bread and butter for Pauline Gillespie then in 1973 when she was in her 40s.

Yeah, no, yeah. That was unnecessary. You're a cheeky chick. I wish I hadn't said it now. Megan enjoyed it though. Far more than she enjoyed Fleetwood Mac.

But I personally, I'm full of regret for saying it. I'm just laughing quietly. But anyway, I'm Fletch and I do these things. Moving on. Vaughan, you've got something to say? Yes, Fletch, thank you for that i do agree what you said before was a little bit rough but you are fletch as previously stated uh and now you're laughing about it so that's good there's that signature laugh of someone who says things

and then later regrets them um but no great great friday flashback feedback there was good feedback i'll give you that yeah a couple of debbieers, but you can't please everybody, can you? No. Right. All right. Am I a bad person? Are you a bad person? Yes, Vaughan, you are.

So we've had some correspondence in. Megan, you've got the email. This is anonymous. Yeah, okay. I'll just read it to you. I have a problem I'm hoping you can help me with. I am 27, work in the legal industry and earn a good six-figure salary. I'm looking to buy a house in Auckland before the end of the year

and I live with my partner who earns similar money. The argument we're having at the moment is about my parents. They're really well off and currently pay for my rent, bought me my car, cover transport costs and living amenities. The thing is, they really like helping me out. I've offered to pay for things in the past, but they like treating me. I do like to treat myself too, so if my money isn't going towards my house savings,

it's going on travel, nice clothes all nights out. Am I a bad person for not being financially independent, I want to say yes. No. No, but I would say they were a bad person if their parents were struggling to provide them with that level. Yeah. But their parents sound very well off, and that's the thing with money.

It's you earn it. It's then up to you, the freedom for you to choose how to spend it. Yeah. But parents sound very well off and that's the thing with money. It's you earn it. It's then up to you, the freedom for you to choose how to spend it. Yeah. And while most of us could say, why aren't the parents helping people who need help?

That's how they're choosing to spend their money and you can't tell someone how to spend their money. Yeah, if you look at that situation, the parents and the, I actually, are they female or male?

No, I don't know. The child is, they're both happy with the arrangement. It just sounds like the partner's a little bit jealous. But there's no losers in that scenario. Yeah, but doesn't that say a lot about that person? If you're judging them, it does. But you don't know them. Maybe then if they are thinking maybe I am a bad person,

that money that they are being given, like if their parents are paying like directly for their living costs. Yeah. So they don't see it. Maybe the money that they would have paid for rent otherwise they could use to help out people in a less fortunate circumstance. If they feel bad about it. Yeah.

If they're like, should I be still getting this money? And be like, well, maybe I can get, maybe it's not even money. Maybe it's their time that they have where people might have to work more hours to, you know, pay these bills. They don't have to. So they could use that time to help people on that. Yeah. But then you don't feel bad, do you, Megan? If your mum was just like, here's heaps of money.

You'd be like, sweet. She doesn't give me heaps of money. She just like fills up my car and stuff. No, but I just think it makes her happy to like do stuff for her kids and it makes me happy to receive the stuff that she's willing to give me.

Of course it does. So no harm, no foul. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Okay, well, this is where we ask, are they a bad person? Somebody said, did this person just contact your show to brag about how easy their life is? No, they're obviously having arguments with their partner

who's like calling them out for being spoiled and stuff. Yeah, I know. But then like, yeah, okay, so the partner might have grown up where that wasn't the vibe at all. So they've come up differently that money is to be earned and you shouldn't just easily take it from their parents. Which serves you better in the long run if you get to a day where your parents cut you off and you're like,

but help me. But if these parents ever plan to cut this girl off, then... We didn't grow up in a wealthy situation like that. Excuse me, we don't know it's a girl. I thought you said before. No, I see what you're saying. Oh, okay, we don't know. It's difficult for us to imagine that

because we didn't come from that kind of wealthy background. But if we did, I'm sure we'd all take it. But then because I didn't, I'm like, no, it's not on. I think what you're describing is jealousy. Yeah, is that it? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, well, what do you think?

Is she a bad person? Sorry, are they a bad person? Yeah. Oh, 800-DARLS-IT-EB-9696. We were thinking about me. Yes, whenever we get an anonymous, an anonymous bad person. We attribute it to.

We always attribute it to somebody. Yeah. Who sides with them. Because Megan was like, it's all right by me. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, give us a call. Are they a bad person?

You can text in 9696 as well. Am I a bad person? So just to quickly summarise, Megan, you've got the email. So this person is 27. They work in the legal industry, earn a good six-figure salary, and they are living with their partner now. Their parents cover the cost for rent. They bought this person a car, cover transport costs and living amenities,

even though they can't afford it. So they want to know if they're a bad person for not being financially independent. My favourite text on this is saying how much they love a lawyer coming to us for moral advice. It's the blind leading the blind, which I'm a little bit hurt about. They're calling us morally corrupt. Are they wrong? I mean, not about you. But some of us are nice people most of the time.

You just said that thing. You said it. Don't try to pass the buck. Yeah. So after thousands of votes on our Instagram poll, is this person a bad person? 60% say yes, bad person. And only 40% say totally fine.

Megan's rolling her eyes because she loves a free fuel handout from mum. The banker mum. Everyone who said that she's a bad or this person's a bad person is people who are jealous. Yeah. Like, this sounds like a sweet scenario, and everyone's, like, fine with it. Apart from the partner. But then I don't know.

It goes a bit beyond that, because surely you'd see people struggling and want to help in some way. If you're being helped, if you're being given the free ride, surely there's something inside you that wants to... You don't know that they aren't. Yeah. All right, well, for an opinion, Josh, what do you think?

Is she a bad person? Are they a bad person? Yes. Totally. Yeah. Now, you're in this situation, aren't you? Oh, yeah. My girlfriend gets given groceries.

Parents paid for her last car. I don't know why parents pay for anything really. Right, okay. Does that annoy you? Oh, yeah. It just gets really frustrating when they turn around and say, oh, you do this, you pay for that. You're like, well, hang on, how about you just pay

for your own groceries, you pay for your own car and then we'll see who's better off out of it. Yeah. I can see, yeah. It really yeah really grind your gears i'll tell you that because what because you think that people should be independent and oh yeah like it's just a spoon spoon fed woman's little brat really but also your girlfriend could she be financially independent if she wanted to be? Oh, of course. Okay.

Well, truly. But then, like, no harm, no foul. Yeah. But is it like us? You haven't come from that background where everything was given to you, so it is hard to imagine and see that happening? Oh, even then, like, you know, I don't mind getting away, but for mum and dad,

maybe for a Christmas or a birthday present, but why should they pay for all my stuff and miss out on what they want to do? Yeah, see, that's a good point, because they're taking money away from their retirement, from holidays. Yeah, exactly. Megan just rolled her eyes.

Imagine how many cool holidays parents could have gone on Megan. No, my parents, they don't, mum doesn't like travelling. Legit. Oh, imagine how much of a cooler car

she could have or something. Oh, she's alright. Or imagine how much she could be donating to the nudist park that they go to. Oh, she already pays a fee to go there.

They could get a new shade sale. Don't worry about mum, she's fine. Josh, can you get Josh back? Oh, yeah, sure. Yep, Josh. Thanks for that, Josh. No problem.

Has anybody ever told you you sound like Steve Hansen? Oh, no. You think he sounds like Steve Hansen? Don't you reckon? No, he talks more. I've been down there the whole time. He talks a bit more, but getting down to rugby, he sounds a bit like Steve Hansen.

Yeah, especially when it's like, you bloody spoiled brat with a spoon, spoon fed. Courtney, what do you think? Are they a bad person? Necessarily, fundamentally, no. Okay. Fundamentally, no. I just want to respond to Josh by saying, how do you know that the parents are't actually, are actually missing out on anything

because you guys did say, you guys did say that the parents were well off too. Oh yeah, I think he was more putting it on the situation that his girlfriend was in, more than the situation overall because yeah, as we said, they sound like they're extremely well off. Yeah, well, you know, they're living in Auckland,

they're paying for their, you also did mention that the 27-year-old partner does live in the house. So is it right to assume that the partner's actually getting free rent too? Oh, 100%. They might be paying their... They might be paying their half.

Their share, their half, yeah. Okay, well, thank you, Courtney. Some text messages. I think it's pretty... Do you think text message-wise it's 60-40 like a pile? Somebody said they don't know a lot about money, but it's bloody madness that they can afford to buy a house while they're paying somebody else's rent.

Couldn't... That makes sense. I wanted the parents to buy an investment property. Yeah. Oh, God, that annoys me too. And just throw money away now. That annoys me too. I know that annoys me more now.

People are just... No, but... Well, do you know people that are... Yeah, no, it's mum and dad's place. Oh, no, that doesn't annoy me as much. At least they're housing it as their house. mean more now do you know people that are like yeah no it's mum and dad's place oh no that doesn't annoy me as much at least they're

housing it as their house as though I bought this house this is my house but then they're just lying and that's a different just basically comes down to jealousy

situation altogether I came from a very wealthy background says this texter but about 25 I was forced to be financially independent for the first time

after my parents broke up what an absolute shock to the system and it was far too late to learn the basics about money to sort myself out before I was 30.

Oh, wow. Okay. I thought you would have been able to play off your parents more. Yeah. Like when you're a kid, it's like dad takes you

to McDonald's but now it's like dad buys you a three bedroom. Yeah. Brick and tile. Yeah. Like, dad,

mum gave me $3,000. Can you give me more than that? I love you more. Maybe they were wealthy until they went through. Yeah, that's true. The legal aspect of getting divorced and the lawyers became the wealthier out of it. Somebody said, I totally agree. Disagree.

This person's not a bad person. We're all just sounding very jealous. I agree with that. Someone said, not a bad person, just still a child, and should not ever consider themselves an adult until they can look after themselves. But they work in the legal industry, earning six figures. I don't think that's fair.

Fact of the day, day smoking on aeroplanes. Okay. Because some airlines still have a cigarette. What? Can you still smoke on some planes? I remember a friend told me, I might message him now and see when this happened. Because I think he said he was in Russia

and he's like, yeah, they were smoking on a plane. I was like, seems silly. There's still, planes have ashtrays in them which always really bothers me but then there are some old planes

that have just continually been refurbished and made to look more modern that have been around since the times you were allowed to smoke on aircrafts. So,

what were you, are you asking? I'm asking someone. I'm going to Google. If they were smoking on planes in Russia. Well, I can tell you that under some circumstances, pilots are still allowed to smoke on planes. That's today's fact of the day. What?

Yep. When a plane's going to crash and they're like, well, screw it, I'm going to die. They were allowed to continue smoking after the 1990 ban due to concerns over potential flight safety issues caused by nicotine withdrawal and chronic smokers and addicts. Or just get a patch. If you could prove that you were addicted to cigarettes,

you could continue to smoke as a pilot on a plane. So this is pretty crazy on a whole about how this worked. The US ban on in-flight smoking began with domestic flights of two hours or less in 1988.

Right. 88. Wow. You were still allowed to smoke on planes but they thought if it was a flight of two hours or less, then you could have one before you took off, go through, go on the flight, land, and have one when you landed, and that two hours was enough to ask people not to smoke. Then it was extended in 1990,

so two years later to domestic flights of six hours or less. And then in America, it only was the year 2000 when all domestic and international flights in the US banned smoking. The year 2000. That's crazy. When there was a blanket ban across it. It was in 1995 that Canada and Australia

banned smoking on international flights between the US, Canada and Australia. I found an article saying the Cuban flag carrier, Cubana, was the last airline in the world to ban smoking in... 2000 and... Lately. Have a guess. 17.

14. Yeah, I was going to say, when did Cuba open up to American tourists again? That was around then, eh? Yeah, maybe then. They would have been smoking cigars on those planes too, Cuban cigars. When did Cuba open up to American tourists again? That was around then, eh? Yeah, maybe then. Crazy. They would have been smoking cigars on those planes too, Cuban cigars. The smoke would have been sad.

Horrible. Even as late as 2002, airlines such as Aeroflot, Condor Iberia, the Spanish airline, and Garuda, Indonesia, still allowed smoking. Wow. In 2002. Wow. In 2013, a family of four were accused of smoking on a flight from Halifax to the Dominion Republic.

They had to make an unscheduled landing at a Bermuda airport. The family were arrested, but they were only sentenced to $500. They got a $500 fine. Wouldn't it cost more than that to... To divert a plane. Yeah. And to land divert a plane. Yeah. And to land it. Crazy.

Yeah. So today's fact of the day is even after it was banned for the rest of the aircraft, pilots were still allowed to smoke on a plane if they could prove that they were that addicted to nicotine. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. There's been another round of mean tweets. So Jimmy Kimmel does these. If you've never seen it before, I don't know where you've been, but basically they get celebs to read.

They are legit tweets, eh? Yeah. No, because I remember I searched them all one time. Did you? Because I was like, is this set up? Yeah. So I searched them. And they were there. Yeah, people actually tweet these.

And then I'm guessing when all these guests go on Jimmy Camel, they pull them to the side and they're like, hey, can you read out some mean tweets? Yeah. And then they make a big comment. So they don't get them all in to do it. Oh. No, no. That makes more sense. Yeah. And then they make a big... So they don't get them all in to do it. Oh. No, no, they...

That makes more sense. Yeah. And then so that's why every couple of months there's a new one. They just go with all the guests that have been on his show for the last few months. That's smart. It's a weird thing that most sort of like daily shows do, Megan,

is that they think about future shows. Yeah, right. I know, it's weird. It's a foreign concept to us. That makes sense, though. They like put in little bits of work to reap the benefits. It's like planting a crop, I guess. You sow a little bit of work along the way

and then it's not stressful and having to like talk about nothing on the actual day. Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. It's a weird one. Sounds like a lot of effort. No, it's not. So I've taken some of the good ones.

I feel weird saying that. I know, because they're quite horrible. They're mean. But there's actually one celebrity that actually gets a little bit hurt by the one they're reading. F*** you, Chris Rock. You are on Grown Ups 2.

Well, if you lost all your money in divorce, you'd be on Grown Ups 2 too. I'd rather plant poison ivy plants in my anus before hearing another word about Kim Kardashian. Go ahead and do that. Please. Maisie Williams looks like a very young grandma.

I bet Zendaya's feet smell like Funyuns. Let's check, shall we? Nope. Smells like success to me. Kappa Kappa says, Jeff Goldblum is starting to annoy me now. Like, okay, dude, you're quirky.

We get it. You have some weird sweaters. Good for you. I know what you're talking about. Believe you me. If I was in your shoes, I might feel the same way. Like my new shirt? He's wearing a very colourful shirt.

Maisie Williams actually looked like that was the first time she'd read that tweet and she looked really sad. She just kind of like looked down and was like, huh. Well, she was the one that came out of the last season of Game of Thrones.

Better off than she went in. Yeah. She was kind of the hero of the like, so she probably wasn't used to it. I did like when Zendaya actually takes off her le bouton and shows the red bottom soles, gives it a big old sniff, and she's like, no, it smells like success.

It's a very expensive pair of shoes. I was going to say, yeah, you'd have to be successful to afford those. Countdown will not be selling fireworks this fireworks season. Okay, because they normally do, don't they? They've said the consumer taste for fireworks has changed over the last little while. And there'll be no more fireworks. They won't be selling fireworks this season. They've been very proactive because they've recently just stopped selling energy drinks to under 16 year olds.

You've got an ID check for that. Yep, yep, yep. And now no fireworks. Did they sell like boxes? Yeah, like $20 boom boxes or mega boom boxes or little sparkler things. They just had like a display. Right. Because what are you allowed to do three, four days before?

Yeah, I reckon they probably said no because it's too hard basket. And then you've got all these fireworks you've got to get rid of. Yeah. And you've got to store them in a container or properly. Oh, yeah. What happens if they don't sell all their fireworks in that window? That's why if you go to a place that sells fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day, you can get bargains. Last minute.

But then sometime all the boom boxes and all the good ones are gone and you're only left with sparklers. So it's like, do you rush in or do you wait? You just go to like a big public display because they're way better than like the stuff you can do on your back yard anyway. Yeah. Yeah, and you can leave at any time

and not worry about like wasting money. Whereas if you bought your own halfway through, if you get bored, you're like, yeah, you've got to set them on fire. Well, I live next door to horses now, so I won't be engaging at all with animals that close. I wouldn't do it because of my own animals. I don't think the goats or the sheep or the chickens.

How would Helen take to fireworks? Well, she'd probably see it in the lit phase and wanted to eat it. So that would be problematic to see a goat pick up a Roman candle and then it starts going off. And she'd run around freaking out but not dropping it. And of course, you're chickens now. Chickens wouldn't like it. Because they don't have ears, do they? No, they've got holes.

They don't have ears like we've got. They have little holes with a feather over them. But they are capable of hearing. Do they? Yeah, they're very capable of hearing. 100% they have little holes with a feather over them. And our little cows are arriving sometime soon. Yeah, right.

So yeah, I don't think we'll be doing it for animal safety's sake. Also, on the day of the climate strike, fireworks are not very good for the environment, are they? Well, no, it's all the packaging. And then we get the smoke. Oh, the smoke's minimal, though. But then the fires they cause as well. Yeah, that's more problematic.

Like, we're burning enough forests. Probably shouldn't burn anymore. Yeah. So, yeah, not a bad idea from Countdown. Zedding's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too?

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