ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 12th February 2021

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morning Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app, buy five McCafe coffees and get one free. Today's podcast are broadcast from the lovely, my hotel, the lovely Taranaki from our New Plymouth studios. What an absolute treat it's been to be home. You love it, don't you? It's not my home. But you love it. It's your home. But you love it. Yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. I've been to it. It's your home. But you love it. Yeah, it's not bad.

It's not bad. I've been to worse cities. So it's middle ground. Yeah, like Palmerston North, for example. A lot of people can confuse the two. Oh, I thought I was playing that regional back and forth. Isn't there a bit of competition between the two? Because people, there's two words, Palmerston North, New Plymouth.

So NP and PN. And there's a P in there, and people always, yeah, they always mix it up. But I don't know if there's any bad, I mean, I don't think there needs to be. There's no bad blood? We've got a better town. Oh, here we go. There's the mountain, there's the surf. So you're saying there's no competition because this is so much better than them? Well, I'll tell you what, comedian John Cleese,

who I think has since been tried to be cancelled, several times people have tried to cancel him. You can't cancel the great John Cleese, who I think has since been tried to be cancelled. Several times people have tried to cancel him. You can't cancel the great John Cleese. He once described Palmerston North as the, did he call it the shithole? Or the arsehole? No, it was the Rolling Stones. Someone described him for Cargill as the arsehole of the world. I believe Palmerston North was the...

It's the first thing when you type John Cleese P. It comes up Palmerston North. The rubbish tip of the world or like? He once said the New Zealand town of Palmerston North was a great place to kill yourself. And that's one of the many reasons they've tried to cancel John Cleese. So this was 2006. Oh, God, you could say those sorts of things. He was doing his My Lifetime and Current Medical Problems tour.

Right. And he was recorded. I believe the Manawatu Standard, he did a podcast and they picked up on this. He recalls the city, the suicide capital of New Zealand, and said, if you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick. Oh, my. That is ruthless.

Jesus. Yes. Yeah. He said, we stayed in a little motel the weather was grotty the theater was a nut in nasty shape and the audience was a very was very strange to play to yeah it's because we're all bad students he said the audience laughed in all the wrong places and he had a thoroughly bloody miserable time in the city hello comedians like he's reached that level of comedian where most comedians are just happy to get a laugh. But he wants you to laugh

at the right spots. Yeah, he did plays other places. He even described Invercargill as delightful, Christchurch as very nice, and Wellington as sophisticated,

fun and lively. And Napier was a fabulous little place and Auckland had high quality restaurants. Oh, okay. So he did have nice things to say. have nice things to say.

So no real competition between New Plymouth and Palmerston North in the eyes of John Cleese. Well, not for John Cleese. I'm sure if he actually went there on that tour, though. So he may have put it on par with Palmerston North. But yeah, I mean, I can't say I agree with his thoughts on Palmerston North. And yeah, that. ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fletchfawn and Megan.

The podcast. Yes. Hello. Good morning. Thank you, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletchfawn and Megan with Hayley Sproul.

But, again, no Hayley Sproul for this week and next week. Megan still on maternity leave. Still having a baby. And we are today broadcasting from our New Plymouth executive branch, the New Plymouth Studios. It's great to be in the 06. You had to think about the area code for a second there, didn't you? Fantastic night last night at Banger's Bingo, I believe so fantastic.

Someone's had to have a cheeseburger. A pre-6am cheeseburger. Executive intern, aren't you feeling a little bit dusty this morning, aren't you? Oh, excuse me. You were on the Vino's too. But here we are. Here we are, professional as ever. I told you you should have finished the evening with a tawny port.

You all scoffed at the tawny port. That's just raisin water, baby. That's good stuff. All right. Coming up on the show. Are you also drinking a Coke, producer? What are you drinking?

No, it's like a thick shake. No, it's a Coke. Oh, it is a Coke. Okay. The straw is very up and down. By the way, they are the sponsor of the show, McCafe.

Yes, yeah. But I will say, I love the paper straws. Oh, fantastic. That's a good move. That's a hot play. Saving the environment and sponsoring the show. Two great moves there from McDonald's and McCafe.

Fantastic. On the show today, in fact, coming up before seven, it's the return of a feature that we started a couple of weeks ago. Bakery of the Day. We get two people on who are representing competing bakeries. They don't work for them. They just passionately love the wares that these bakeries have for consumption. And I tell you what, it gets pretty heated because if you get on the line, on the show,

you've got to sell why your bakery's the best and then we'll pick one. Yeah, and we could have a couple of curly questions about their lamingtons or what's their signature takeaway slice, for example, and you've got to have answers for us. All right. Also coming up on the show soon, the top six. Yeah, well, apparently for people who are missing international travel and seeing world wonders. Landmarks.

And landmarks. Yes. Such as, I'll use for an example, the Louvre. Now, that's the big triangle-y. Art museum. Yeah, and it's like a glass house, eh? Yes. Yeah. Now, that's the big triangle-y... Art museum. Yeah, and it's like a glass house, eh? Yes. Yeah, that one.

If you're missing that and the art inside it, you might be able to do augmented reality tours or virtual reality tours, headsets. But I've got the top six experiences that you can't have with virtual reality. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. And great news, if you have credit held with Air New Zealand, I mean, it's probably not great news

because you'd probably rather have your money back because a lot of people didn't get their money back. That's true. Unless you had a flight into or out of or through America, by law, they had to give you a refund. Otherwise, a lot of people ended up with a lot of credit. Well, they have announced that they will be extending that and customers now have until June 30, 2023

to use that credit. So two years and four months. Yeah. So, I mean, if you had airfares to Europe, that, you know, you could have a couple of grand. And if you were going as a couple or, you know, you could have like three or four or five grand in airfares and credit. And it's locked up in credit,

but you maybe couldn't find the time to use that domestically. So now you've got more time. Yeah. I mean, imagine having like three or $4,000 in credit for a couple of European airfares. Yeah. And then you've just got a couple of trips to Queenstown. It's going to take a while to burn through that credit.

And they're hoping that, I mean, obviously they're hoping that some bubbles will happen this year. Yeah, what if you spend all your credit and then the Cook Islands are like, Yeah. Kia ora ana, welcome back. Exactly. But also something that was in effect until the end of March,

you could book an Air New Zealand fare and then say there was a lockdown or a little COVID scare, you could cancel your flight and get credit. Well, that's stopping. And from the 1st of April, they're returning to the old rules. So unless you've got like a refundable airfare. Ah, right. I mean, unless another scare happens, maybe they'll have some flexibility. Well, the rules will change.

Yeah, they'll bring some in. But yeah, just be aware of that as well. But yeah, good news if you've got some credit. Yeah, you'll be able to extend that. Right. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Here's an update. We've got an update.

This was the Hanforth Parish Council that had a Zoom meeting that went viral because Jackie Weaver was not the chairman of the council, but she was booting people from that Zoom meeting, muting their microphones. There was an uproar. There was passion. There seemed to be a real split in the parish. Yeah.

There was some power dynamics at play there. Yeah, there was passion, there seemed to be a real split in the parish. There were some power dynamics at play there. Yeah, there really was. Now we're in our new Plymouth studio, but I believe with mind control, I can now play a highlight, a small clip of that Zoom meeting that went viral. Hello again. Hello again. I thought I wasn't going to get in then.

When do we plan to start? I think we could start any moment, Chairman. I think it's perhaps helpful just to go through the same things as we went through before, which is just to encourage people to switch off their microphones, because it does reduce the background. Can we be assured that we won't be thrown out of the meeting like we were last time? As long as we have reasonable behaviour from everyone, no one would be excluded from the meeting.

I was thrown out of the meeting. So was Councillor Whittle, so was Councillor Broughton. Please let the chairman speak. Mrs Weaver, please! If you disrupt this meeting, I will have to remove you from it. You can't! It's only the chairman who can remove people from a meeting. You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver. No authority at all.

She's just kicked him out. Jackie Weaver is amazing. So that goes on and descends into chaos. There's been an update. So the guy that you hear get kicked out there, that is Brian Tolver. Now, a guy called Burkill, Mr. Burkill

questions where he'd gone and then he has some words to say. Yeah. It turns out he is actually a mayor. Oh, right. So she was kicking the mayor out. No, the guy who was asking where he's gone has a mayoralty, and he also is a member of a council.

They're saying due to his behavior on this viral video, not within this parish, but outside in another role he has, he has brought the council into disrepute for not intervening and bullying and just letting it go by yeah uh and he's just received a vote of no confidence and so he's out so he's yeah he's gonna be he's gonna like lose his role all because this and did you know that zoom meeting that actually happened on december the 10th really it happened yeah last year before christmas but somehow it just got released.

And it went crazy. You know how good it is to watch, how much fun it was. And Jackie Weaver's been appearing on all the UK talk shows. She's a celebrity now. Yeah. It's brilliant. She's the one that held the power. And now someone's had a vote of no confidence.

It's all go. It's all go. I'd like to see Jackie Weaver get some kind of quiz game show where she ejects people. Yeah. Like if they get the wrong questions. What was that? The weakest link. Yeah.

Was that game show where they had a brutal host day? She could definitely do that, but like in a calm old lady way. Yeah. Just mute them. Just boot them from the chat. Fletchforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the majestic ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six.

Hello there. The Top Six today, we're talking about augmented reality or virtual reality tours of tourism hotspots that we can't get to anymore. Yeah. This is a way of going around like like, the Louvre, for example. Yeah, or seeing the Eiffel Tower, but you're not there. You're in Tokoroa. Exactly, with a headset on or inside a room where it's been projected. So, yeah, this is a way of semi-experiencing it.

I mean, I guess it's the way the future's going, right? You chuck on a headset, and it's pretty real. Yeah. So a university expert has said holograms and augmented reality could be taking us back to the Venice Canals, Oxford, Cambridge and Stratford-upon-Avon. So it's all just like holograms and stuff. Yeah, right.

It's like light shows and bits and pieces of what they've got planned. Well, I've got the top six shortcomings of a virtual reality tourist attraction. Because you don't get the whole experience. You don't get the whole cultural experience. Yeah. So number six on the list of the shortcomings of virtual reality tourist attractions. You can't get pickpocketed at the Coliseum in Rome if you're in virtual reality. Unless they hire people to pickpocket you.

But there's nothing fun. I suppose they need to time it up with the virtual reality, though, so when you spin, you just see stuff disappearing into a crowd. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six shortcomings of virtual reality are tourist attractions. You can't get lost in New York looking for the Empire State Building and end up getting mugged in an alley.

Yeah, that's true. That's not going to happen in virtual reality. They don't have the programming for it. Unless, again, unless they pay someone. Yeah, to mug you. Yeah. God, that'd be a good gig. Mugger.

Sure. Number four on the list of the top six shortcomings of virtual reality tourist attractions. You can't get all the way to the top of Machu Picchu to only have the whole thing clouded in so you can't see anything. Yeah. Because when you do your non-existent virtual hike,

I hope they at least make you walk up some stairs. Like if there's a stairwell, but the virtual reality glasses make it look like mossy stone steps. Yeah, nice. Made thousands of years ago. But I'd imagine once you get to the top of that fake walk, they're not going to cloud you in.

No. They want it to be picture perfect. Number three on the list to the top of that fake walk. They're not going to cloud you in. No. They want it to be picture perfect. Number three on the list of the top six shortcomings of virtual reality tourist attractions. You probably won't get rushed past the Mona Lisa from behind a 10-meter barrier to say, oh, that's a lot smaller than I imagined. Yeah. You're probably not allowed to take your time. You're probably even allowed to pretend to take photos of it.

You're probably allowed to touch it, too. Yeah, get right up close, give it a lick. Yeah. Or a sniff. Number two on the list of the top six shortcomings of virtuality tourist attractions. You won't get scammed in a tuk-tuk in Thailand in virtuality.

Didn't you go to some diamond didn't they take you the long way there? They always do. Oh we'll just stop off and see the jewelry. We'll do you a great deal on an engagement on a ring for your lovely wife. And you're like, oh, no thanks.

What? Don't you love your wife? Yeah, of course I do. Yeah. Okay, stop it. And number one on the list of the top six shortcomings of augmented or virtual reality

tourist attractions. Two thirds of the things you see in virtual Europe won't be covered in scaffolding and waterproofing because they're in the middle of never-ending renovations. How's about our trip to the bridge yesterday?

Yeah, the Te Ririwa Bridge. Yep. It's iconic. You stand at one end, and at the end of it, when the mountain is clear, you can see Mount Taranaki beautifully. Yeah. Well, it's bloody scaffolding.

Covered in scaffolding. They're painting, right? Yeah, they're repainting it. There's some tie-down straps, some high-tensile steel wiring, holding it in place. But you can't. We didn't get our photo.

Are they painting it white again, or are they going to try something different? I think they're going white again. They're going to go white again. They're going to go white again. That is today's Top 6. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

ZM from iHeartRadio. This is the latest. So I've never actually watched The Mandalorian. I think I'm one of the only people I know. Oh, Georgia. Georgia. I regret saying that. I knew you guys were going to give me a stick about that.

So good, Georgia. How good? Like, is it better than Gossip Girl? Here's what you need to do this weekend, Georgia. Clear whatever you've got on. You've got a whole lot of Star Wars to watch. You've got a whole bunch of movies. You've got animated series.

You've got the spin-off series, live action, The Mandalorian. Let's not go there. Let's go whole hog, Georgia. Let's jump deep into the Star Wars universe this weekend, please. I want a full report come Monday. Oh, my giddy aunt. There's not enough hours in the day for that one. Oh, my giddy aunt.

Did you just say, oh, my giddy aunt. There's not enough hours in the day for that one. Oh, my giddy aunt. Did you just say, oh, my giddy aunt? Amazing. Oh, gosh. What I was going to say is I don't know if it's worth watching now because Gina Carano, who plays Kari June, which I double-checked with you guys, and she's a crowd favourite, right? Well, she's one of the main actors. Yeah, in season one, she was a pretty important part.

And then in season two, yeah, she's in and out, her character. She's been fired though, hasn't she? Yes, Lucasfilm has fired her because of her latest social media post. And I say latest because prior to that, she actually mocked mask wearing during the pandemic. She also talked about the use of gender pronouns and listed them being beep, bop, boop on her social media. So she's done that in the past.

Yeah. And her recent one likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the US political climate. So she just, she's out the gate. Yeah. And what are they going to do on Mandalorian? Just pretend she's on another planet. Yeah, she kind of doesn't need to be in it anymore.

Right. There was talk of one of the live action spin-offs was going to follow her character but I just read an article before that said it was never actually promised and it could be

about anybody so it's just set in the same universe. She doesn't need to be part of it. Good riddance. Is there, look I am your father,

is he in there? What's his name? Darth Vader. What was that? What was that? No, because the Mandalorian is set after Darth Vader's been dealt with in the original movies. I knew that.

I was just messing with you. You didn't even know his name. You called him Cleopatra. That's the latest from what she got us at him online. All right, coming up on the show before seven, it's our search for the bakery of the day. This just is a Friday. It's our search for the bakery of the day. This just, as a Friday, it's becoming a quick Friday tradition. We get you to call in

and you nominate your favourite bakery. You don't need to work there. In fact, I like it better when you've got no attachment to it other than a personal love for some of their baked goods. Yeah, maybe you're just absolutely in love with their caramel slice or their pies or their donuts, whatever. If you do have a bakery in mind, stand by.

We're going to get you to call in about 10 or so minutes. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, Valentine's Day on Sunday. And I know we talked earlier in the week. The busiest weekend ever for dating apps is usually the weekend. It's either the first Sunday of the start of the year or the weekend before Valentine's Day. Right. Because people are like,

I need to find a Valentine's Day date at least or at least be talking to someone for Valentine's Day. Have some sort of romantic interaction. Well, also happening at the moment, Bumble, the dating app, which was started by, she's currently 31. Her name is Whitney Wolford started by, she's currently 31.

Her name is Whitney Wolpert. Now, she left Tinder. And then she filed a lawsuit against Tinder for sexual harassment. Right. Because she said her gender was stopping her advancing and she'd experienced things while working that weren't great. Tinder wanted to keep it out of court, so they settled. And apparently she received more than a million dollars plus stock as part of the settlement. So she's got stock in Tinder, or she sold that and then started Bumble.

She may have sold that because then she started Bumble, yes. She said she wanted to start a female-focused dating app. Yeah, did they sue her for taking the swiping thing? I can't see that they sued her in return. No. Right. Okay. So the idea was she wanted an app where the females sent the first message.

Yes. Well, this week she became the youngest female CEO to ever IPO, which is not a craft beer. That's an IPA. It's an initial public offering. So Bumble now has shares, Wall Street stocks, buzzwords like that. Yeah. And it is worth $8.2 billion. $8.2 billion.

Wow. Isn't that nuts? So like, you know, you use these dating apps, like, you think, who's paying for these? Because most people just use them for free, but you can, like, pay, like, $10, $20, $30, whatever it is a month, and have unlimited swipes and get extra features. Is there advertising in the apps? Yes, maybe. Maybe if you pay for it, you avoid it.

Yeah, I think that, yeah, if you subscribe, you pay for it, you avoid it. Yeah, I think that, yeah. If you subscribe, you get, yeah, no ads. But yeah, isn't that just insane? $8.2 billion. Yeah. And she's now the youngest. And she's 31. Is it the preferred?

I mean, it's female focused. That's what made it different and stand out from the start. Yeah. Females initiate conversation. I feel like Tinder's well known for the hookups and then Bumble is more serious. But then there's also Hinge. A lot of people are using Hinge now. Now, what's Hinge?

Because I've seen ads for that, which is weird that they would target me. I mean, I'm a little bit on it. Do they know something about your marriage that you don't? Oh my God. Imagine if your algorithm did. Just download this, buddy.

Get ready. Get ready. You might need it soon. Hinge builds itself. Oh, that's right. We've talked about this. It's more of a relationship app, emphasizing on more long-term connections.

Hinge's tagline was made to be deleted. So when you find love, you delete the app. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, just think about that if you're swiping on any app or you ever have. Wow. Bumble at the moment is worth $8.2 billion.

Nuts. All right, Bakery of the Day is next. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Bakery of the Day. All right, it's time for Bakery of the Day. We are on the search for the Bakery of the Day. It's pretty simple.

It's about yummy food. Yeah. You register or you call us and tell us your bakery nomination. You'll be vying against another caller and we'll pick one and then probably go to it. We're basically compiling a list of delicious bakeries around the country. Yeah, people have said that they find this a tease because they might not be in the area that Baker of the Day is. And then we talk about the delicious treats.

They may Google image search this place and deliciousness ensues that they can't get their mouths into. Yeah, we were actually talking about an upcoming work trip and rerouting a route from the airport to the hotel past a bakery. That's how into the segment we get. Yeah, definitely. Well, let's meet our today's bakery of the day hopefuls. What are you looking at?

Well, I've got a mouse now. Oh, okay. Because we're broadcasting for those just joining us from our new Plymouth studio. And I was using the big booty button on the Dell. Oh, yeah. And I don't like Dells. The only Dell I like is our Dell. Our Dell, yeah. But I've got a Dells. The only Dell I like is our Dell. Our Dell, yeah.

But I've got a mouse now. It's a wide USB mouse, so when I click the buttons, it's very swish. Okay, well, do it. Click it. Bakery number one. Yeah, that was good, wasn't it? A little pause there, because I had to line up the mouse cursor. Yep. On a little screen. Bakery

number one. Let's hear from this bakery's biggest fan. Aisling, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Now, what bakery are you here to hopefully win Bakery of the Day with? The Wagon Wheel in Morrinsville. Hey!

This is Vaughan. You're from Morrinsville. Are you aware of the Wagon Wheel? Very, very aware of the wagon wheel. It was, and I don't know if it still is. I can't speak to them. I haven't had one lately, but it used to be the guaranteed place to get a monster ice cream from.

Oh, yes, yep. They do real fruit ice creams now as well. That's a bit posh. That's a bit posh to the real. Do they have one of those machines that spirals down and poops out the strawberry stuff at the bottom? Yes, they sure do. There's something a bit odd about those machines, hey?

What? I don't know. You can only ever do one spiral. Yeah, and then you've got to clean them out, don't you? Yeah, what else does the wagon wheel do that you'd promote, that you'd say is, you know, worthy of Bakery of the Day? Well, they do have a good pie, but it's their dub-dubs that sell it for me. Their what? Dub-dubs? Dub-dubs, but it's their dub-dubs that sell it for me. Their what? Dub-dubs?

Their dub-dubs, yeah. What are dub-dubs? They're like a little donut, and they have like a custard cream filling with icing sugar. We call them, I don't know if I'm even allowed to say it on the show. Oh, well, no, let's not say it. Maybe not say it if you have to ask the question. Well, like, think about the powder under your nose when you eat them. Like, something balls is what we call them at our work.

Oh, right. No, you, what, Coke balls? Yeah, something along those lines. Okay. Wow. Okay, so it's the dub dubs, the custard balls. I'm on TripAdvisor now looking at photos of... What's this situation? A pork bun?

You know, a pork bun, to me, that immediately, the visuals would be a bowel bun. Yeah. No, this is just a bread roll with stewed pork in it. Oh, okay. That sounds really good. All right, well, Ashlene, the wagon wheel, your nomination today for Bakery of the Day.

I used to work over the road at the petrol station, and if you got a break, which you weren't allowed to because you were only getting paid $4 an hour before tax, we used to go get an ice cream from the Wagon Wheel. Be good. All right. Aisling, are you going up against Holly? Good morning, Holly.

Holly. Hi. Hi, Holly. I thought you were crying in the background there because you just realised you're up against Morrisville's finest. No, that's not my phone line. That's not my kid.

Oh. Ashlene, is that yours? Yeah, that's mine. Oh, okay. You can mute us if you like. I'm walking away. Okay. That's best to do to a crying baby.

Walk away from them. Okay, so Holly, what's the bakery of the day you're getting in behind? My fantastic bakery is Need. Need. Is it spelt like kneading bread? Yes, K-N-E-A-D. Keep going. You've got K-N and then I'm not sure from there.

Yeah, okay. Where is Kenead Bakery? That is in New Plymouth on Carrington Street. Oh, my goodness. We're in New Plymouth. I've actually been messaged about Kenead Bakery. Many times. I've established myself as such a glutton that whenever I go anywhere,

people will recommend me. The first, they don't recommend things to see. They recommend things to eat, which I'm all for. Yeah, exactly. I'm all for. Okay, I've clicked on it here. Need Artisan Donuts. They're not open yet. They open at 7am. Okay, well that's possible

to send a producer to or go on the way to the airport. Do you think, Vaughan? Yeah. So what is the item that you'd specifically like to nominate? Is it just donuts? Well, they only do donuts, so yeah. Oh, and coffee.

They do donuts and coffee. Okay, right. What more do you need on a Friday? That's a very specialist bakery, isn't it? Specialising in just one item. Because Marlborough does the Coke balls. Yeah, but they do everything. Yeah, their wagon wheel does everything. Pork bun, which is just stewed pork in a bun.

Now, this is quite a battle because we're in New Plymouth, my hometown. And we're going up against my hometown. Of Morrinsville. This is a real battle. So what to pick? Need. We can get need donuts today. Yeah.

And maybe if we gave them bakery of the day, they'd give them to us for free. Yeah, because you can't afford a donut. You can't promise that. No, Holly, but, I mean, we're going to support

local business. We'll buy the donut. We could print off the certificate and take it to them in person. And then I'll just print off another one

and get it to Morrisville next time I'm at my parents' place. You only have two winners. Vaughan Smith, you must now pick the winner of Bakery of the Day

Oh, god damn That's hometown versus something that's within my grasp I think this is what they call selling out Yes I think, you know what? No, I don't I don't know Vaughan, you must decide

What would you go for? No, you're deciding I don't want to don't know. You must decide. What would you go for? No, you'll decide it. I don't want to decide. This is Bakery of the Day. I tell you what, we'll avoid being the bad guys. Yeah. Producer Jared. No.

Hang on. We'll just plug in Producer Jared's microphone there. Jared. You can be the bad guy. Who's today's Bakery of the Day? Oh, it was a toughie. I'm kind of keen on these donuts. Okay. So Bakery of the Day is Need, it was a toughie. I'm kind of keen on these donuts. Okay, so Bakery of the Day is Need.

Yep. Fantastic. Congratulations, Molly. Tell you what, that was the closest we've had it because the Wagon Wheel is a wonderful establishment. Oh, yeah, and Coke balls certainly do sound delicious, don't they? If you're passing through, Morris,

do yourself a favour and stop at the Wagon Wheel. Now, does that mean that the Wagon Wheel can never be nominated again? No, no, no. It can still be nominated. Yeah, no. If you win, you can't play again. But if you come second in Bakery of the Day, you're always welcome to enter again.

All right. Fantastic. Congratulations, Neid. And thanks for playing Wagon Wheel Moronsville. No problem. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. A lady was applying for a job.

She's a teacher. She's a student teacher. She was putting together a CV. She was like, I actually don't know how to set for a job. She's a teacher. She's a student teacher. She was putting together a CV. She was like, I actually don't know how to set out a CV. So she took it upon herself to download a template. Oh, yeah. Because they have those in like Word and stuff, don't they, as well. You can get them.

Are you going to click on Word? I'm opening Word. Are you going to click? New from template. Okay, I've clicked on that. I can do a creative CV. Oh, yeah, okay. Designed by Moo. M-O-O. Okay. is like new from template okay I've clicked on that I can do a creative CV oh yeah okay designed by Moo

M-O-O okay Moo's done a lot of template design here so you clicked on that she downloaded one that had everything like

your name your email address all that this is actually a really okay everybody should just do this because it's one page no but everyone does that and then everyone

sends in a CV from Microsoft where it looks like unoriginal. Change the font. Take off the colours. Yeah. Send it in on A3 paper. Be an attention grabber.

Don't be just another piece of A4 paper when you can be A3. No, print it out on a giant billboard. Yes. And have it sent to the office to really get their attention. Well, Marissa is this woman's name. She's a teacher, as I said, and she printed off her CV and sent it in digitally. Sorry, it was a digital CV application.

So she emailed in the template. It was at that stage she realised she forgot to change the stock image. So while Marissa is a young white woman, the stock image showing her photo attached to her CV is an older black man in the medical profession. He's wearing a lab coat. He's got a stethoscope around his neck. Right.

He's like a stock image doctor. Yeah. Yeah, but wrong gender. Wrong race. Wrong age. Wrong everything. Wrong everything for who she actually is. Yeah.

She's mortified. She said, however, she won't make the mistake again. And it was kind of a warning to others. I'm always still amazed that people put a photo with their CV or any kind of job application. Only hot people are doing that, right? Because they know they're hot and they'll

get a chance of being hired. Like, would you put a photo? Of course, I'm a hot person. You just said it yourself. Only hot people do that. Sell yourself. You write down your best skills. If your best skill is how hot your face is, put it in.

If it's how hot you look in leggings, maybe put the whole bod in. Oh, yeah, put yourself in active wear. Top to tail. Maybe make that the whole CV, just a picture of you and a contact number. Done. Easy. You've got to sell yourself. You've got to be able to do it.

You said just before we were talking about this, do people still make CVs? Well, no, I just thought, I thought you'd just send a link. I have never, like, I've only ever had, like, two informal job interviews. I've never really had, like, done CVs or, because I've just always worked in radio and you just kind of, I don't know. Go from one. You don't do a CV, do you? It's a bit weird. Well, a lot of people do.

But no, yeah, but people still do. I'd just be absolutely lost if I had to do this. Like, apply for a job. I'd be like, I don't even know where to start. Well, maybe people listening were lost, and that's why they made a mistake. We'd love to know if you've made an embarrassing whoopsie while applying for a job. It could have been in the CV. It could have been in the interview process.

Yeah, I know a lot of people do that copy and paste when they're applying for jobs. And they'll leave out. People do this to us all the time. They email radio stations, and they copy and paste, but they leave the other radio station's name in there. Yeah. Or the other, you might be applying for a job, leave the other business's name in there and say,

I really want to work at this company and it's not the right company. Yeah. And I mean, you're never going to get, you're not off to a good start if you're doing that, are you? No. Because it just shows you're a lazy copy and paster. A big old copy paster. 0800 DARS.M.

Give us a call right now. You can text as well. 9696. What embarrassing thing happened to you when you were applying for a job? And it may have even been an embarrassment in the job interview. Yeah. Like something happened and you just absolutely put your foot in it. And you weren't recovering from that.

Or maybe you did get the job because they felt so embarrassed for you. I don't know. Give us a call. Hamish is called. Hamish, what happened in the job because they felt so embarrassed for you. I don't know. Give us a call. Hamish is called. Hamish, what happened in the job interview phase? So I had a very good CV. It was very strong. And I even backed it up with a cover letter in order to get into this job interview.

And I thought it was going really well. And then there was a lady walking across the street. She was a bigger woman, which in my defence did look like Reba Wilson. I said to the person that I was applying for the job, I don't know if Reba Wilson was in town. Oh, okay.

I don't know if I would have said that, Hamish. No, I shouldn't have said it, but it came off the top of my head. I'm just like, I don't know if everyone was listening. Right, and you didn't, like there was a moment of silence and you felt the need to fill it. That's where people fall into trouble, Hamish. Hamish, thanks for your call.

Blake's called up. Blake, what happened with the job interview? Yeah, well, I had a CV all sorted. I was a teacher myself too, and I sent a lecturer to help me out. And she crossed out all my mistakes and put all the new ones at the top. But in this format, you can only see all the crossed out mistakes when you send it. So I looked at the CV. I was like, oh, man, she's done a real good job.

So I sent it away to five people, five jobs looking for my first teaching job. And every single CV that they got had all the lines through and all my new mistakes. I didn't only pass one job. I passed five. Could you have passed this off as good teaching? Because you know how teachers do go through and correct mistakes, so that was just showing that you can correct mistakes.

I don't know. I'm just trying to help you out here. It was also showing that I had no idea how to use Google Docs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no. Okay. All right. And you didn't get any of those jobs?

No way. Only one person replied to me and said, do you know you've done that? And I said, yeah, mate, no idea. No idea. That's nice. What are you doing now? Are you a teacher?

Yeah, I actually ended up getting a teaching job. How good? Yes. Well done. Because you probably worked out how to use the lines in the Google Doc and stuff. Always learning. That's what you're always learning. Blake.

Not yet. Not yet. I just picked a pen and paper. Yeah. Exactly. Can't go wrong. Blake, thanks. You called some text messages.

There's a word when you write kind regards above. Yes. Above Yes You know There's a word that Yeah Is like regards With one letter changed And the letter's right above Now it changes the name It changes the entire

Meaning of the word Yes it does Yeah And it's a horrible word Yes And this person says I would never even use this word Yeah

And I didn't realise Until I had sent Oh Out to people That I had made Quite a whoopsie-dozy. I'm embarrassed for that person. I just got a new job, and I put my husband's cell phone number on the CV.

Yep. I don't know why, but I knew his cell phone number better than I knew my own because I call him all the time, but I never call myself. He got a couple of calls, but good news is I got the job. He was my PA.

Oh, right. Yeah, okay. I pretended the job. He was my PA. Oh, right. Yeah, okay. I pretended that they'd talked to my PA. Yeah. I was in the middle of a job interview, and someone asked, how is your grammar? I misunderstood it as saying, how is your grandma? And I replied, unfortunately, they're both dead.

That's cute. That's funny, though. Yeah, that is funny. You would like that, wouldn't you? I'm a teacher First year job interview, I showed up at the wrong school I said I'm here for the interview And they were like, we're not doing interviews today

And I was like, oh god, this isn't so and so And they said no, you have to go across town So I was late for my actual interview Second job interview, they asked me if I like to read books I said yes, and they said what are the last three books you've read? And I said the 350 Shades of Grey books. Which, I didn't get either of those

jobs, in case anybody's wondering. Oh my god, and imagine if you lied about reading books. Because that's something I'd say. I'd be like, yeah, I love reading. They'd be like, what, three books? I'd be like, it's been a while. Harry Potter 1, 2, 3. Yeah, just all the Lord of the Rings books. Oh, me too. Tell me more about Lord of the Rings books. Oh, me too. Tell me more about Lord of the Rings.

What was your favorite part? The ring. The ring, obviously. The ring was great. Someone said in an interview, I was asked what my biggest weakness was. I said Neenish tarts. Because that's so yummy, I can't say no to them. Oh, my God.

Give that person a job immediately. I would. If their biggest weakness is delicious Neenish tarts, Neenish tarts. They're a strong and amazing person. I would give that person a job immediately. That's hilarious. Someone said if you are looking to make a CV outside of Word,

Wix, W-I-X. Oh, yeah. I've seen them advertised. Right. Online, they'll help With an online CV Or Google site Oh yeah Google sites apparently

That comes from someone Who works in recruitment And they'd see I've got friends That work in recruitment You hear some great stories What about that story? Oh I don't know

If we can say that story Well I think we leave Names out of it But it was recruitment A person was being called back Yeah they were To make further inquiries About a possible job.

And their answer phone machine said, sorry, I can't come to the phone right now. I'm probably effing someone. But they used the full F word. So, yeah, that's not going to get you a job. No, no, it really isn't. No. Flesh Fauna Megan, the podcast.

ZM. Oh, Valentine's Day is on Sunday, which is why I think this story is in the news. Promise rings making a comeback. Now, in this article, Vaughan, it describes promise rings as an economical, so a cheap ring, and a humble ring that symbolises a serious relationship,

but not marriage. And then they quote like, you know, we've seen them in celebrity relationships such as like Liam Hemsworth and Miley when they were together and other celebs. And apparently on TikTok as well. This is dumb. It's trending. This is dumb.

So it's a pre-engagement. We've started going out. You're not engaged. You're in that period. A cheap ring. I'm not saying they're cheap, but you said economical, so I'm assuming cheaper than an engagement ring. It's not going to stop people cheating on you if they are that sort of person. It's like an engagement ring or a wedding ring won't stop them. A signed piece of contractual agreement in the form of a marriage certificate

doesn't stop people. No. So I guess it's just a symbol, isn't it? It's a show of love. This is Michael Hill, Jule. Well, absolutely plundering. Yeah, Pandora quoted in this article as having rings in the promise ring category, starting from $59 up to $229.

Right. So they're not as expensive and as fancy as your engagement rings. No, but it's just like a piece of jewelry. Yeah, but oh, God. Tackyy though. So we have run a poll on our Instagram already this morning.

Thousands of votes in. How do you feel about promise rings? Cute or cringe? I reckon cringe is wildly cringe. I'm about the same. Well, and a vast majority

of New Zealanders agreeing. 85% of you this morning saying cringe. Cringe. Promise rings are cringe. But then that means there's still 15% of people out there that are like, you know what, it's cute. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, how do you bring that up? Do you just, I mean, that's the thing. If you're a guy getting your girlfriend a promise ring, there's a high chance they're going to find it cringey. Yeah. It's a big roll of the dice, unless they ask for one. And then if you're a guy who finds that cringey, then take a leave before you buy them a promise ring, because then you've made a pre-engagement engagement.

Yeah. Get out of here. But it does just feel like another way for jewelers to get hooked into relationships. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Timely reminder that if you've got people in your life who you think could be targeted by online scammers, just to check in. Just to check in

if there's any budding online romances. Well, and also, just any kind of questions with emails or anything like that. You have a thing in agreement with your mum, don't you? She can ask. Yeah, no shame. No shame inquiry as to anything that looks sketchy.

Yeah. If it looks sketchy, it probably is. So a woman in Texas, this is in the courts at the moment. Okay. And someone's on a third-degree felony money laundering charge and if found guilty, these two men could face 10 years in prison. So how they scammed this lady was a 63 year old in 2018 she created an Instagram account in search for companionship. Okay.

She then met who she believed was Bruno Mars online. And if you know any 63-year-old woman, you know how crazy they go for a bit of Bruno Mars. Weak at the knees. Oh, my gosh. Your mum loves Bruno Mars. Something happens to my dad,

Bruno Mars could be trying to scam my mum out of money on Instagram as well. So a 39-year-old who actually lived in Texas as well, this is where the woman was from, claimed to be Bruno Mars, struck up a conversation, and of course, inevitably, it turns to being able to just borrow a little bit of money. Bruno Mars has to borrow money. Bruno Mars, not long after, so this was in September 2018, Bruno Mars, not Bruno Mars, the fake Bruno Mars, Anzu Wuno, asked her to send $10,000 US, so $13,000 New Zealand dollars,

to cover touring expenses. What? Okay, now, a quick Google search tells me, and maybe I'm more internet savvy than this poor woman, but it tells me he's worth $175 million. Has he? Yes. Savvy than this Poor woman But it tells me He's worth 175 million dollars Yes Yes He sold

He sold over 130 million records Worldwide It's just albums Not even touring So Right I mean he can afford

10,000 dollars of tour costs You'd imagine Apparently This was just a short term loan though Oh right Just cause maybe His money was tied up Yeah it was tied up

And he couldn't get it So the check was made out but this is the sad part. Bruno said, obviously don't make it out to me, you've got to make it out to my financier. His name is Basil Shadiadi

Amadi. So she did and that was cashed. This is the other guy that has now been arrested. Right. Fake Bruno Mars and Basil. Then two days later, he said, fantastic. That's great.

Now that I know you are a trusted friend of me, you're to be lover one day, Bruno Mars. I'm going to need 90,000 US dollars. Of course. And never explained what it was for. Okay. But if you could make this out to She Autos, which was a company.

Right. Okay. I don't actually know if they did any automotive anything, sold them, repaired them or anything. Were they using it to buy a car maybe? No, because that's that guy's Basil's. Company. Company.

Right. Because his last name starts with she, so she autos. And then after all this happened, someone who knows the woman was like, I think you're being scammed. She's like, no, I'm dating Bruno Mars. Oh, sweetie, you're not. We've been in a Google Hangout.

Now, I don't know. So I read of a New Zealand woman that was scammed A few weeks ago There was a news story And she got really scammed But they Used deep fake A deep fake video call

To I forget the name It wasn't like A well known celebrity But they Made it look like It was a celebrity And it sounded like

Them and everything And they of course Believe They're talking to them Because Well they give you The video proof And that's what it's always said If they, of course, believe they're talking to them. Because were they giving them video proof? And that's what it's always said. If they don't want to do.

Oh, that sucks. And if you were like, you know, of that kind of elderly age where you don't even really know what deep fakes are. Or that they exist. You'd actually believe that Bruno Mars was there talking to you. So these two guys, after it was investigated, the police tracked down. Because this is the thing. They weren't getting the checks made out of cash. They were getting them made out of two people's names.

It was easy to track them down. They arrested them, and yeah, they're on trial at the moment. And if they're found guilty, they're between two and ten years jail time. Up to ten years. Wow. Has Bruno Mars said anything? Like? Nah.

Nah? So, you know, I'm wondering. He's keeping very mum on this. Was he involved? Either that or he doesn't want anything to do with this woman who's obviously... But if he hears about this, he'll do something nice, right? Like send her a... A hamper?

Yeah. A sorry you got scammed hamper? I'm... Yeah, or an autographed photo or maybe like a video call with her and say I'm really sorry this happened. And then she won't believe that because she's been deep faked already. No, she won't, no. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.

Fletch Warner Megan with Hayley Sproul. Refund your date. The Valentine's edition. Great, it's Refund Your Date, the Valentine's Day edition. I was joined by Melissa, our head of Valentine's Day, to hear about her terrible date. We feed the details. I put them into a punch card in case you're wondering.

Feed it into the date refund of 2000 and then it lets us know whether or not she deserves the refund. And so far the date refund of 2000 has refunded all dates. It's bankrupt. Melissa, good morning. Good morning. Now let's start with the details. What happened?

Okay, so this was about 10 years ago and it was our first date on Valentine's Day, which in hindsight was a terrible idea. Yep. I was very nervous. He was a little bit older than me, and so I went out and spent heaps of money on a new outfit. I went to the hairdresser and got my hair done, and before the date, I had an art gallery opening to go to.

Oh, okay. I know, fancy, at the art gallery opening, and I had a few wines just to help with my nerves. And then next thing you know, I fell down the front steps of the gallery. But there was about six of them, and they were those metal grated stairs for grips. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Ouch, that brutal. It's like falling over on a cheese grater. Yes. I was just about to say that. And so I fell down and I was like, okay, time to leave. So I toddled off and walked from K Road to Ponsonby Road where I was meeting my date at a bar. And I get there and he was like, what has happened?

And I was like, what do you mean? And I looked down and I'd ripped my pants and skinned my knees so badly that blood had gone down my legs and into my shoes. Oh my God. How drunk were you that you didn't feel that? Well, apparently quite. And I ended up, I had scrapes on my elbows. So I'd ripped my shirt, ripped my pants, blood in my shoes. I had scrapes on my elbows,

so I'd ripped my shirt, ripped my pants, blood in my shoes, I had a scrape on my face, and because I'd be walking for about half an hour, it didn't have a chance to clot at all, so it was just free streaming down my legs for about half an hour. How long did it take to find out you got a clotting problem? Yeah, I don't know.

Oh my God, Melissa. And so you turn up looking like you've been beaten up. Yeah, 100%, yeah. And how long did that date last? Or did he just get out of there? Oh no, I did. As soon as I looked down and realised that I looked like a car crash victim,

I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go now. And then I didn't hear back from him after that. Oh my God. I'm surprised it's not him ringing up telling us about you, Melissa. Yeah, I know, right? I went on a date with this younger chick. I was a bit concerned about the age cap.

She just turns out like she's been through the wars. So how much did you spend on the new dress and that night out? So all up on the outfits, the shoes, the hair, it was about $260. And you said 10 years ago. Are we going to take into account inflation? Inflation, yeah. I think in the terms and conditions, we do not take into account inflation.

Oh, boo, because I had a great story about a date I took in the 1940s. Which means shillings. In today's money would be $600. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, all right, let's feed that in. Your date refund request has been... It's a Valentine's Day miracle.

Yay! Accepted. Congratulations, Melissa. Well done. $260 refund for you. Thank you so much. Almost makes up for the pain and embarrassment. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Friday Flashbacks. Well, it's a Friday tradition and Hayley is away for the next couple of weeks, filling in for Megan on maternity leave, so we thought it's her pick today for Friday Flashback. She's away, so we would let Executive Intern Anya step up and I'm surprised we've done this because she's

picked a couple of clangers. Okay, that is so rude. Previous picks have included Smash Mouth and Nickelback, which I will say were absolute hits. Oh, yeah, famously. The internet loves them. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, today, you'll be surprised to know the song you wanted to play wasn't in the database, executive producer. I'm surprised by that. Are you? I'm surprised by that. Are you? I'm surprised. Now, this song, tell us about the song. It's turned 10 years, hasn't it? Yeah, so this song came out Feb 10, 2011.

It went certified gold this week and at the time peaked at number 58 on the chart. Wow, that's good. Wow. Hang on, don't the charts stop at 50? Yeah. We've had to do extra research. So three months after it was released, it had 166 million views on YouTube.

Now, the majority of these were negative, and at one point it had three million dislikes. It's brutal. That's a lot of dislikes. Do you know what? We're broadcasting out of our new Plymouth studios, and last night this song was a clip at Banger's Bingo, and everybody sung along.

The people love it. Ironically. It's a dark horse. Is it hard to believe that it's 10 years old, in your opinion, before we play the song? Yeah. It is a little, yeah. It is a little.

She's back. This is something. And she's come out with a little sweet treat for the 10-year anniversary. Do you want to play the sweet treat now or after? Because I feel like that'll... I reckon play the sweet treat after. Yeah, let's play the sweet treat. Because this is the main meal.

We have to suffer through what we're about to go through. A chewy piece of steak and some powdery mashed potatoes to enjoy the sweet treat again. All right, so I believe now with the magic of radio, we're now going to play this off our soundkeeper Gary's phone because it wasn't in the system in our music database. That's our, yeah. All right, so are we ready?

I hope Gary's tuned on Do Not Disturb. We don't want to get a phone call halfway through the show. Don't send anybody. Don't send Gary a message. If you know Gary, do not message him. All right. That's just going to make them message him. Your Friday flashback today is...

Rebecca Black Friday. Wow, and it's 10 years old. Oh, God, it's already horrible. What are we doing? I have shivers. I forgot about the start. I forgot about this bit at the start. And was it the music video using some kind of quasi-Auckland landscape?

Yeah, Auckland. Yeah, skyline. Stock image. Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal. Seeing everything, the time is going. Ticking on and on, everybody's rushing. Gotta get down to the bus stop. Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends. Kicking in the front seat, sitting in the back seat. Gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take? It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday.

Everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend. Friday, Friday, getting down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. Partying, partying, partying, partying. Fun, fun, fun, fun. We'll see you next time. My friend is by my right, ayy I got this, you got this, now you know it Kickin' in the front seat, sittin' in the back seat Gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take? It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday, gettin' down on Friday Friday I'm looking forward to the weekend. Earth Day was Thursday, Thursday. Today, yeah, it's Friday, Friday. We, we, we so excited. We so excited. We gonna have a ball today, tomorrow. I'm going to be honest. I don't remember that being as, I remember it being bad, but not that.

Does anyone have Gary's number? We should ring him to stop this phone from playing this song. One more, one more. It's Friday. It's Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody's in a rush. Okay, absolutely terrible.

Now, Executive Inter90, that was your pick, and you are getting pasted on the text machine. Oh, okay. Oh, wait, our first good text is coming, but it's getting washed away in a flood of bad ones. What a great birthday present to me. That's what somebody else said. That song is 10 years old this week, Rebecca Black.

And like you were saying, wasn't her dad, didn't her dad bank? I think it came out when it got online and there'd been money spent and everything. Everyone was like, how did this happen? And I think her parents, her dad was wealthy, from what I can remember the story, and he bankrolled the whole thing. Well, do you know what? It is a gift that keeps giving because this week she released a 10-year celebratory remix. And there's a video that accompanies it. And she's all all it looked like

they took Rebecca Black and put her through an Ariana Grande machine and then put that Ariana Grande Rebecca Black hybrid through a Kylie Jenner machine

yep for the WAP video and then that's what she looks like now it's even worse how is it worse? It's worse. Wow.

Okay, let's stop there. Any other feedback to read? Oh, Jesus. I'm singing along and I'm so very disappointed in myself. Somebody just said, if you could just shoot me a reply on the text machine when this is finished finished I'll come back I like this

I like this one that's come through very diplomatic never heard of that song can't say I'd listen to it again like that's really

wholesome feedback that's a TripAdvisor review for that song also where were you 10 years ago because that song was like everywhere

for the lols right for the absolutely for the laughs absolutely now Executive Intern I don't know if you could just step out and have a good hard think about what you've done there like everywhere. For the lols, right? Absolutely for the laughs, absolutely. Now, Executive Intern Arnie, if you could just step out and have a good hard think about what you've done there for the show. Absolutely irreversible damage, I'd say.

We are joined now by Producer Jared, because we want to talk about an incident that happened yesterday at the airport. Not really an incident, a run-in, which prompted quite a funny story. Yeah, so yesterday we were in the Kauru Lounge. Oh, we don't say that. We try to make it still seem like we're down-to-earth

everyday people. Yeah, we don't, because we're not. Give us the Kauru Club bug. We don't say that. We just say that we waited out with all the other people. So we were having a Subway. We were lining up for Jetstar. We were just being everyday blokes, drinking some instant coffee and having a six inch sub of the day I'm actually

to be honest I'm actually surprised we're even allowed in the Coral Lodge because we had a whole bottle of wine at our table and they told us off once That's by the by

And you did steal a cushion that time accidentally But It's been a wonderful cushion Yes Okay anyway Sorry producer Jared No it's alright

So you ran into somebody at the airport just in the subway area. Yeah. So next to the subway counter, I noticed a girl I'd seen before. Okay. And I immediately went red and I just turned around and walked back to where we were sitting at subway. Right. You couldn't even get your food?

No. Yeah, okay. I had to take a minute. Because the last time I saw this girl was at the gym probably five or six years ago. Okay. And this was when I was first starting out my first foray into gymming. So I used to go at like midnight because I was like socially awkward. Don't want people to watch me struggle with the weights.

Right. It's amazing. It's a dangerous time to go to the gym if you're not sure of the weights though. Because if you were like doing bench presses and you dropped it on your throat. There's no one there to save you. Yeah. I did have a gym bra buddy. Oh, okay. Good. Oh, okay, good.

Yeah, spot it. So we just finished our, I can't remember what workout it was, but we were on the big weights. Yeah, on the big, okay. And I was racking up this pretty hefty 20 kilo plate. Yeah. And then I see my mate make, you know, the face that, like, there's someone hot there.

Yeah, like, I call it like the not bad face. Like, oh yeah, okay, yeah. Hey, check this out. Yeah, like, I call it, like, the not bad face. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. Hey, check this out. Yeah, so I, like, turned around and respectfully checked out this girl. Okay. Respectfully. Did you just catch yourself sounding creepy?

Is that what happened there? Yeah, okay. You caught yourself, you've learned. Yeah. So, I can't take my eyes off her and I'm trying to put this weight back on the thingy. Yep. And I think I've got it in place

and I let go and neck minute, boom. And my toe is suddenly broken in like three or four different places. So you dropped a weight on your toe because you were distracted. Yep. Because you were checking out someone. And then the same girl you saw yesterday at the airport.

Yep. So I made sure I wasn't carrying anything. And she would have had no idea. No, no. Wouldn't have had a clue. Well, she indirectly broke your toe. Yeah. Yeah, it was good.

I mean, I would take that as a compliment. You're so hot, you cause people to drop stuff on your toe. Well, I mean, this must happen to you all the time, Vaughn. People have accidents when they drive past you because they're checking you out. Yeah. Cyclists, you know the cyclists

that just drive into things because they're wrenching their neck around to... To check you out. Yeah. See what the face looks like that the ass belongs to, you know what I mean?

And they'll just drive straight into things. Yeah, right. They're like, with an ass like that, what's his face like? And then boom. And is it shock or is that what you mean?

Well, not shock. Or pleasant surprise. It's pleasant surprise. Okay. Extreme euphoria. Oh, yep. Okay. And then they quickly realize that they're dreaming.

Yeah, right. Because a 10 like me is not going to go for a 9 like them. Yeah, and they're involved. And then they're driving a vehicle or they're driving a... Yeah, and then they'll crash their pushbike into a park bench. So the question we want to ask you this morning is, when did you make a whoopsie in front of somebody hot? Because maybe you were checking them out.

Or maybe you were trying to look cool in front of them and you bit off more than you could chew. Yeah, so if you have had an accident in front of somebody hot and maybe it was their hotness that caused all this fluster, we want to hear from you right now. 0800 DARS at M. Talking about when you've made a fool of yourself, when you've had an embarrassing incident in front of somebody hot.

And it is because of their hotness. Maybe you got flustered. Maybe you were checking them out. And there may have been injury. Producer Jared's dropped a weight, broke his toe because he saw someone hot at the gym.

This was a while ago. Yeah. Just a disclaimer there because he's got a midi now. He does have a midi. This was a while ago. Yeah, this was ages ago. Toes are unbroken currently.

Yeah. Well, that's the thing. He's not limping. If he was limping now, this would be a hard lie to sell but it was a long time ago. Some text messages in. I was at a barbecue with a girl that I liked at the time,

and I thought, I'm going to ride this children's tricycle down a hill to impress her. Okay. I hurt myself quite badly. Of course, there was no brakes that worked when you're a fully grown man with a fully grown man's weight pushing you down a hill on the tricycle. I launched off an eight-foot retaining wall, landing face-first on concrete of the neighbour's driveway. Lost eyebrows, the top lip half opened up, and I chipped a whole lot of teeth.

Not good. Ellie has called. Ellie, what happened? I had broken up with an ex, and my mates took me out to the pub, and everyone was horrific. And right at the end of the night, these lovely guys were like,

can we buy you a drink? And I was like, oh, great. So I had passed their table. It was the first time in heels in a very long time. And the kids stopped moving, and I didn't. And I just face planted directly in front of them. Like right over the head. Like at the face of a human being. How did the heels stop moving?

Did they get caught in a crack? Caught in a crack. I don't know. And the worst thing was when I stood up, I looked at them and they were playing so tidily. Like I put them beside the door when I got home or something. Yeah. I'm puzzled as to what stopped them.

You say they're right beside each other when they stopped. And then over you went. The magic of drinking and walking in heels, I imagine. It's just your time to go down. Your lack of practice. Yeah, these things happen. That's the universe's way of telling you to slow down and go home. Thanks, you're cool, Ali.

Nicola, you had an embarrassing incident in front of somebody hot? I did, I did. So it was a few years ago. I was in Melbourne for Melbourne Cup. Yep. Brought myself an amazing dress. Had to kind of wear the Spanx underneath to fit into it, but that's all good.

Yeah. So we're having a chat. All's going well. I thought I'd better go and powder my nose. So I checked myself out before I went back to him. Perfect face. Hair's great. Feeling 100%.

Walk out. Only to find out that I had tucked my dress into my Spanx. All to see. Oh, no. You didn't end up on that Girls of Melbourne Cup Instagram that was big back in the day, did you? Oh, God, I hope not. Yeah.

I hope not. Brilliant. Hey, thanks, you called Georgia as well. You had an embarrassing moment in front of somebody hot, Georgia? Yeah, mine was quite bad, actually. Okay. So were they quite hot? Yeah.

So they were the hottest guy in school, and I think everyone had a crush on him at the time. Okay. And he ended up being in my PE studies class. That was all fine. We had to go on a trip down south to the Milford Sound. So we went down there, and we ended up doing a bike ride. It was about 30km long, and we got about 10km in.

I started to get a bit tired but we were talking through the whole thing and we were riding it together. Yeah. And I looked at him and I don't know what happened but I ended up

just going off a cliff, dislocated my knee, got lots and lots of bumps and bruises. Yeah. And I had to have a seven hour trip in an ambulance to the nearest hospital. Oh, my God.

And then did you end up, like, going out with him and living happily ever after? No. Oh. No. Okay. Really. Hey, Georgia, thanks. You called Kelly.

It's called Kelly. You had an embarrassing moment in front of a hot person. Yeah, totally. Okay, so what happened? So I had a beauty therapy business, and so I did lots of spray tanning. Yeah. And I had this really hot guy come in. He wanted a full body spray tan because he was doing a bodybuilding competition.

Oh, okay. Now, quick question, because I know they like to go a certain shade of orange for the bodybuilding competitions, don't they? When you spray tanned him, was he completely nude or was he in like a fine G-string? Yeah. Yeah, so that's the thing. So normally they'd have a disposable G, like for women or men. Yeah.

So he started with one on. Yeah. And then he was like, do you mind if I remove it because I don't want any tan lines. And at that point were you, now what were you like at that point? Because he is a guy that you're finding extremely attractive. Yeah. So at that point, that thing went south.

Right, okay. He whips it off and then like puts his hands over that area. Yeah. And so as I'm coming down with the spray tan, like the spray, I said, you're going to have to remove your hands. Otherwise, you know, we're going to F up your tan. Hands on the side, soldier. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so it was at that point that he removed, that he moved his hands. So I kind of was in the crouch position and I just literally like rolled back, did this backwards roly poly. But I still had the spray gun going but to be fair it would have been better than a forward roly poly

because you would have ended up right it would have been in your face I know but I was just like he was just looking at me like

what are you doing it was just so so so so embarrassing oh no you're like wee yeah basically oh no oh no and did you see him again So, so, so embarrassing. Oh, no. You're like, wee! Yeah, basically. Oh, no.

Oh, no. And did you see him again? No. No, okay. Brilliant. Amazing. And you said you used to own a beauty therapy business. Did you sell it?

I sure did, yeah. It was a shame of the backwards. Roly-poly and the rainbow arc of fake tan. Brilliant. Kelly, thanks. You call a couple of texts to finish. So many. From mostly females, too.

I was at jury duty on Tuesday. Reads this text. Oh, okay. Walked past the hot guy and was looking. Did not see all the cables on the ground. I tripped over the media cables and dragged a whole lot of laptops and microphones off the media desk. Again, the hot person should get the bill

for that. It's their fault for being so hot. That's their fault for being so distractingly hot. I've been out with a group of friends and met a super hot guy who dropped me off home. Walking away, I could tell he was looking at me through the passenger's window. So I tried to swish my hips to give him a little bit of something something. It threw me off balance.

I tripped over in the gutter and got a face full of grass. He said, are you okay? And I turned around and I had grass stains on my face and grass in my mouth. Mortifying, but five years later we're married with two kids. Yay! I'm glad we got a happy ending one. And a hairdresser. Somebody said, I'm a hairdresser.

There was one hot guy and I couldn't stop looking at his eyes and I got distracted while I was cutting his hair. I cut his ear with scissors. Again, though, that's his fault for being so hot. For having eyes he could get lost in. It's about time hot people had some repercussions. Some financial repercussions.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is that around the world, there are different big birds in different countries. Okay, this has been blowing up online for like the last week or so, right? Yeah.

This blew my mind. So Big Bird from Sesame Street, the very tall yellow bird. Yep. He isn't the same in Sesame Street's made around the world. It might have been a revelation to people that Sesame Street's are made locally as well. They sell all of the ideas and you buy it and you do it locally.

I just always thought everyone got the American one. Yeah. With a dub over. There was never an Australian one, was there? Like if anyone was big enough to have their own, it would have been Australia, right? Yeah, you'd think so, but we speak English. So mostly English speaking countries get American

Sesame Street. Right, okay. And this went around and people were saying it was a fabrication. It wasn't true. Big Bird himself on his official Twitter account weighed in and said, I heard my friends on Twitter were asking about my cousins around the world. It's true. I have a lot of bird cousins in different countries

and here's a little bit about them. He goes on to tell you about Mexico's Abelardo, who appears on Sasa Meo. He's from Mexico. He's a green bird around about the same height. Not a long pointy beak like Big Bird, more of a smaller nubbed parrot beak. Yeah, because they're different colours,

but they're also slightly different looking. Yes. All of them. The same height, but a completely different looking bird. Blue, different beak, different eyes, is Pino. He is from Sassamstraat in the Netherlands. He's a big bottle of wine. He's a big bottle of Pino.

Yeah. Pino. Delicious. There is a orange big bird. This is the Turkish cousin big bird. Okay. This is Minikus. He looks a lot like big bird.

But orange. But he's orange. Okay. And also big bird says here, he's a can like Big Bird. But orange. But he's orange. Okay. And also Big Bird says here, he's a canary like me. Oh, is that what he's meant to be? He was supposed to be a canary. It's too big to be a canary. Yeah.

Portugal has an orange Big Bird and a brown Oscar the Grouch. What? They didn't go with a green one. They didn't go for green Oscar the Grouch. They went for brown. Weird. A porpas is is a big bird in Portugal.

Next you'll be telling me the different snuffleupagus is around the world. Why did you say snuffleupagus? Snuffleupagus. Snuffleupagus. Snuffleupagus.

No, snuffleupagus. Not snuffleupagus. Maybe I'm thinking of Galapagos. You're confusing snuffleupagus with Galapagos Islands. Yes.

Because I always see those street cleaners in Auckland Central have those big machines with the big hoovers on the front and they look like a Snuffleupagus. Yeah, they do. Snuffleupagus. Because they're a sweeper, but they can suck a stomach too.

They're starting to go in the brooms. Yeah, it looks like a robot. Yeah. Snuffleupagus. A mecca. Yeah. Snuffleupagus. Now you've got me confused.

A blue one in Brazil and Big Bird said he's got more cousins that he's learning about all the time around the world. Wow. So today's fact of the day is Big Bird from Sesame Street is not yellow in any English speaking country that's doing their own Sesame Street. Fact of the day, dayughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton to listen to? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app

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