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ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast.
Thanks to Mick Cafe, Barista Made Coffee, available drive-thru and Mick delivery at level 3.
And also dine-in at level 2 tomorrow, the big Dave Vaughan Smith.
That's correct.
11 years.
11 years.
You've punished your wife.
That's right, she's put up with it.
Well no, he's punished her for more than 11 years. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, 4,017 days. You've punished your wife. That's right. She's put up with it. Well, no, he's punished her for more than 11 years.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
4,017 days.
You've been married?
Yeah, so far.
It'll be 4,018 tomorrow.
How many years have you been together?
Since August.
Oh, no, we met in August in 2004.
October the 10th, 2004.
Right.
She needed a few months
To actually decide
You know
They say
You should go with
Your immediate gut reaction
Not linger on a decision
For too long
She's a big believer in that
It was almost over last night
We were sitting outside
I mowed the lawn
So I was in my
Zen happy place
And then she decided
To bring me down
Well again
You'll hear on the podcast
I mentioned we're not drinking this week Although by the time you hear this podcast i will definitely
have had one yeah friday's the end of the week right and um so i was in my happy place yeah
sipping on a bubbly water with a slice of lemon in it and she said i'm thinking we um have one of
those outdoor barbecue things for some friends next weekend and i was like no and then i went on and on about how i
don't need anyone but her and she makes me really happy and i had this stupid face look on my face
i'll try so she knew i was just rocking her up taking the piss i just i just don't want to
socialize yeah i'm just i don't know don't you miss your friends no if i miss them i'll message
them yeah right yeah i'll see you guys maybe's how I get to socialize at work, whereas she gets to be homeschooled.
Yeah, do you think maybe that's the problem?
She hasn't been socializing, whereas you have at work.
So you could do it for her.
Totally.
She needs some social time.
Well, I told her she can go to their house.
Where's Vaughn?
He didn't want to come.
Oh, my God.
Why is he angry at us?
No, just humans, I think.
He's been put off.. Oh, my God. Why is he angry at us? No, just humans, I think. He's been put off.
I've got no interest.
This plague, it affects humans.
I don't want to see any of these other humans.
Well, happy anniversary.
Thanks.
Thanks, Rachel.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show.
Fleach Vaughan and Megan.
It's two minutes past six.
Happy Friday.
There has been some...
Did you just cat me?
Okay, Tom.
I don't know.
It wasn't meant to be a cat.
It was meant to be a celebratory expulsion of air.
Right.
Hey, yay!
Fierce debate behind the scenes before the show
because it's Vaughan's pick for Friday Flashback
and he wants to do something outrageous.
Yeah, it's outrageous.
It's a beautiful song.
I played it for my daughters in the car yesterday.
They were like, what the hell is this?
And then when it ended, they were like, that was something.
I think that's the response you'll get from a lot of people.
Yeah, they were like, a lot happened.
And I said, do you know what that guy looks like? And I showed them a picture and they were like, that a lot happened. I think that's the response you'll get from a lot of people. Yeah, they were like, a lot happened. And I said, do you know what
that guy looks like? And I showed them a picture and they were like,
what? How was he?
How was that guy a rock star
sex symbol? And I said, he's
one of the great unknowns. Alright,
well, 8 o'clock this morning,
Vaughan's pick for Friday Flashback.
Chance for you to win $500 cash on the show
today with Pump.
Looking out for the activator.
You've just got to guess which celebrity is splashing into the water.
Easy competition.
Also coming up on the show, the return of Sports Talk.
Yeah, we got pretty jazzed on some bloody willow on our leather yesterday,
didn't we?
The World Cup T20 cricket is happening at Abu Dhabi.
Yeah, so New Zealand enter the final, which will be Monday morning, 3 a.m.,
and they will play either Australia or Pakistan.
Which is happening right now.
I am watching along with Kumail Nanjiani, who is off Silicon Valley.
He's on Big Mouth.
He's in the new Disney Eternals movie
He's from Pakistan
So he's watching it as well
And at the moment
Australia are 103 for 5
On a 176
Well, 177 run chase
So you want Australia
To get through
To beat them in the final
Or you want them
To get out early
You want to beat Australia
Don't you
Yeah, but technically If they get out now You've beaten in the final, or you want them to get out early? You want to beat Australia, don't you?
Yeah, but technically if they get out now, you've beaten them anyway.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, that's true.
I didn't think about that.
Yeah, we would have done better than Australia because we've reached the final. Way better.
Okay, I like that logic.
Sport psychology.
Yeah.
Didn't we just play Pakistan recently?
Yeah, and we lost.
Yeah.
Come on, Australia.
Daryl Mitchell, the man of the moment yesterday,
smashing 70-odd, was it 74?
Yeah.
And taking us to victory.
Four sixes, four fours.
He joins us on the show very soon,
in about 15 minutes, for a very special edition of Spot Stock.
Going to get in his head.
Well, don't ruin it.
No, no, no, we're going to get in his head for good.
We've got a rule now.
One of my mates isn't allowed to say any cricketers' names before a big game
because whenever he says, they're my favourite, they have a terrible game.
Oh, okay, right.
So he's jinxing world sport, is he?
He's not allowed to talk about any of them.
Yeah, right.
Their names, Derrent passes lips ahead of the World Cup final.
The top six is on the way.
Yeah, the top six are other animals in Christchurch
that need human operations.
Tasmanian Devil had a hip replacement.
It's like you.
I did not.
Not a hip replacement.
It's still my own hip.
It had a reshape.
That's got a new joint.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is like a ball joint, a new ball joint,
new CV joint.
It's the first in the world, right?
It was clicking when it turned the corner.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Yeah, world first.
Great news for the Tassie Devil.
So the top six other human operations that animals need in Christchurch.
Next on the show, though, we've got a little treat, don't we?
Yeah.
Megan had a coffee yesterday.
Wink.
Yeah, I did.
Wink.
Wink.
Why are we winking?
Because we're, I don't know.
It's a secret. Okay.
Nobody's in on it. If that makes no
sense, because you're not in on it, we'll
explain next. ZDM.
ZDM, Splashbone and Megan. So we need producer
Jared to the studio, please. Someone's in trouble.
Oh!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! What you done boy God he's really taking his time isn't he
Well he thinks he's in trouble
You made your father get so
Here he is
Producer Jared
Hi Jared
He doesn't know
Because we did say this was going to be a joke about a coffee yesterday.
I had a coffee yesterday, Jared.
And Jared's like, that's what he thought we were going to be talking about at this very moment.
Completely unrelated to this break.
Good morning, Producer Jared.
Morning, team.
You don't know what you've done, do you?
No.
No.
Treasure Hunt.
It's where
Fletch puts his bottom
When we've got five minutes
What?
The nook
The couch
Look under there Jared
Go get it Jared
He's not in trouble it's a present
It's a treat
It is
What have you got there? I got some countdown bricks But like the biggest box It's a treat. It is. Okay, that was pretty cute.
What have you got there?
I got some countdown bricks, but like the biggest box in the world.
Yes.
That, my friend, thanks to the people at Countdown, is the entire set.
Oh, my God.
Of countdown bricks.
I've never seen your eyes open like that.
Oh, this is great because now I don't need to press that button at self-serve
and get my bricks because I'm only getting them for you.
So I don't need to wait for the supervisor, the checkout supervisor,
to come and hand me some packets.
Oh, I really appreciate that you put yourself through that awkwardness.
No, you're welcome.
I was happy to do it for our friendship, but now I don't need to.
Does it come with that play mat?
And you're like, oh, that's pretty cool, man.
Oh, the trucks are cool.
Wait, does it come with trucks?
The trucks are cool.
Open it up.
See what's in there.
Truck on the desk.
Oh, wow.
There's a truck.
There's a truck.
Yes, there is a truck.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
Hyundai have jumped in with their electric car because
yeah you look so happy i can't wait i'm gonna play with lego all weekend please send us videos
i don't think we say lego we say bricks we say we say countdown video of you playing with your
countdown bricks please i will i will this is so. This is so cool. At the checkout. Thanks, guys.
And Anna and Carwin.
Thank you very much.
Okay, well, you haven't won an Academy Award, mate.
You don't need to bloody thank everybody under the sun.
Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan.
The America's Cup is now New Zealand's Cup.
The team, the Adams.
Oh, beautiful connection.
Long black celebrating already.
Sports Talk. Well, already. Sports Talk.
Well, it's Sports Talk.
Where we...
That's right.
Three of the most sporting people.
So much sports out there to talk about, guys.
But we are focusing on cricket today.
Well, especially because we're into the final of the World Cup.
This is what we need in these COVID times.
Looking to add another, what do they say, trophy to the cabinet.
Yeah.
It seems like that saying could be fleshed out a little bit more.
Sure.
Add another bit of tin to the glass cabinet.
Well, an exciting game yesterday.
We were sending the vibes.
The vibes were being sent, and we hope they were received.
We're joined by a man that we were sending the vibes to,
Daryl Mitchell.
Hello.
Cheers, guys.
Thanks for having me.
I felt the vibes all the way over here.
See?
I told you.
I told you.
Well, Carwen at the social media desk
didn't send any vibes.
She doesn't like cricket
and we were worried for a while there.
We'll slowly win over,
so we'll see how we go.
Have you just had a wild 24 hours?
Yeah, it's been a busy day,
but it's also been quite nice
just to chill out
and reflect on what happened last night.
And obviously we've got another big one to go in a few days' time,
so start sort of switching on for that.
Yeah, I saw you playing the political down-the-middle card on 7Sharp last night
with Hilary and Jeremy saying, you know, you don't mind which team you face
in the final, but it'd be good to beat the Australians.
But let's cut to it.
Who?
I'm sitting here watching the semifinal right now at the moment
and it's going to be a hell of a chase if Aussie do win from here.
But you do love beating the Aussies, don't you?
Yeah.
That would be nice.
Now, is Jimmy Neesham okay?
He's okay.
He's back now.
We lost him there for a little while.
He was stuck in his own little world. But we've got him back and he's okay. He's back now. We lost him there for a little while. He was stuck in his own little
world, but we've got him back and he's all
good. What's it like out there in the middle
in Abu Dhabi?
Everybody's saying how hot it was.
Marty Guptill lost the equivalent of
three small children worth of sweat one
game and needed to drink 18,000
litres of water to gain it back.
You were out there for
a while yesterday. What was the heat like at the end of your batting
spell? Yeah, it's obviously pretty warm
over here. It's not as hot as what it was
probably at the start of the tournament.
I mean, when we started, it was probably mid-40s.
We're now at sort of early 30s.
But it's a humid day.
Just tweeting up an absolute storm,
as you can probably see when we're batting.
So, yeah, it's pretty warm out there,
that's for sure.
I think it was like 26 degrees here yesterday when I was mowing the lawns
and I felt very sorry for myself.
I can only imagine what it's like in the mid-40s
being in the blaring Middle Eastern sun.
And for people that don't know, your dad is John Mitchell,
famous name attached to rugby here in Aotearoa.
How was it knowing he was in the crowd yesterday?
Is he like, what kind of dad was he,
given his connections to sports?
Yeah, he's obviously,
he's seen a fair few sport games in his lifetime
and it was awesome to have him there,
especially with what's going on in the world at the moment
with COVID and getting over here.
But yeah, very lucky to have him there, but he what's going on in the world at the moment with COVID and getting over here. But, yeah, very lucky to have him there.
But he's pretty cool, calm, and collected.
I did see him show one emotion and clap once, which made me smile.
Because Megan made the point that her parents would probably just watch it on Sky.
I don't think my parents would fly over.
Yeah, well, my mum's sitting at home in New Zealand,
so she would have been a nervous wreck.
But, yeah, Dad was there, and he wouldn't show much emotion.
Get a smile out of him or something, at least.
After the match, do you get, like, pros and cons?
Like, oh, you did good, but here's some work-ons.
I think the message was, yeah, right, on to the next one,
which was a fair call call to be fair.
Yeah, job's not done.
Also, I think we found the reason Megan is an international sports person.
Her parents wouldn't watch her in person in a World Cup.
They just stay at home.
Just stay at home.
We'll catch it.
It's a long flight.
We'll catch it on Sky.
So what are the thoughts going into the next game,
regardless of who you play?
What's the mindset for the final?
Yeah, obviously we know we're in a
very lucky position to be, obviously
in a final of a World Cup. It's something that you dream
of as players and to get
opportunity, we'll be pretty detailed
with how we want to go about whoever we
take on after we see the game tonight
and come up with some clear plans so that, you know,
we're doing everything within our power to
make sure that we try and win a game of cricket.
But at the same time, we'll enjoy it and play with a smile on our face
and compete as much as we can because at the end of the day,
that's why we play the game that we love.
Awesome.
All right, well, 3 o'clock in the morning New Zealand time Monday,
that final starts.
Yeah.
I just want to say on behalf of other shaved-haired, bearded brothers,
it's just great to see somebody out there in the middle, you know?
Some representation.
We had Kane Williamson sporting a beard there for a while,
always with the hat.
You know, I used my imagination.
I could imagine he was a bald brother as well.
But, you know, it's just good to see the real McCoy out there.
Oh, well, you're an idol of mine, so I thought I'd copy that.
Oh, stop it.
Stop it.
Daryl, thank you so much, mate.
All the best for, yeah, the mate. All the best for the final.
Sweet.
Thanks for having me.
From the smoggy ZN Think Tank, this is the top six.
Gosh, I love Tasmanian devils.
Always have, ever since I first saw the cartoon Tasmanian devil
from old Warner Brothers cartoons.
You had Tasmanian devil boxes, didn't you?
Silk boxes.
Satin. I had a T-shirt in the 90s You had Tasmanian Devil boxes, didn't you? Silk boxes. I had like... Satin.
I had a T-shirt in the 90s
that was like Tasmanian Devil
and street wear being like,
and he was wearing rings and stuff
and he had a big baggy T-shirt on
and basketball sneakers.
I feel though that the Tasmanian Devil cartoons
have been bad.
Misrepresented?
Yeah, it does
because they don't look anything really like that,
do they?
No, they don't stand up on two legs.
And they don't spin. No. Yeah, it does. Because they don't look anything really like that, do they? No, they don't stand up on two legs. And they don't spin.
No.
Yeah, they're not like...
Either, either.
No, they don't.
Such a good character.
Would it be okay if I got another T-shirt with a Tasmanian?
No.
Oh, yeah, probably.
Like retro vibes.
Yeah, because it's retro.
Yeah, because it's retro.
Pajamas or something and then no one in public sees it.
I don't wear pajamas unless I get some more Tasmanian Devil boxer shorts.
Hello.
I could not imagine wearing silk or satin boxer shorts.
No.
Now, after not wearing them since I was a teenager,
I would feel weird and all loose.
I don't know.
This Tasmanian Devil and slip sliding.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You shit yourself the whole time.
This Tasmanian Devil is in Orana Park in Christchurch,
but I know Auckland Zoo's got some.
If anybody's listening with any powers to get me...
Do you want to pat one?
Up close and personal with the Tasmanian Devil.
Are they pat-friendly?
Yeah.
I don't believe they're pat-friendly at all.
They're called devils because when people first got to Australia,
they used to be on the mainland, southern Australia,
but they're gone now.
And they would hear them in the night and they'd scream and stuff like the devil.
Oh, right.
And they thought they were devils.
And if your horse was down, they'd eat a hole in your horse and live in your horse as if they ate the rest of the horse.
But they're awesome.
Waste not, want not.
Good lord.
They'll live inside while they're eating.
They're like, oh, this is big.
I might eat it and live in it.
And live in it.
Okay.
Hello, that's a two for one.
That's like Hansel and Gretel and the witch's cottage made of candy.
Yeah.
Baking.
So, anyway, a Tasmanian devil, Talay, I believe,
had a hip replacement at a run of Park and Christchurch.
World first.
It was on the news last night, wasn't it?
It was pretty cute.
That's so true.
It must be a tiny wee hip joint.
Yeah, I know.
Do you reckon it was specially,
I can't find in here if it was specially engineered
or if it was from like a dog.
Yeah, right.
Like a small dog situation.
Wow.
But we're going to look after our Tassie Devils
because of their...
Remember, we saw the ones with the face cancer
and it's contagious.
It's one of the world's only contagious cancers.
And they bite each other
and it transfers to the other person
and it's like wiping out massive amounts
of their wild population.
And they're real cute. Look at this. I don't like rats and I'm not a huge fan of possums and it's like wiping out massive amounts of the wild population. They're real cute.
Look at this. I don't like rats and I'm not a huge fan of possums
and that's kind of what they look like.
With like rugby player ears.
And bat teeth.
Yeah, exactly. None of those things individually
are cute, but together.
Look at you go, you little fatty.
So I've got the top
six animals
that need human operations.
Okay.
Number six, a cow that needs a breast augmentation.
It's a little worried.
It's getting older.
Yeah.
It's had a few kids.
Yeah.
They're saggy.
Yeah.
They get sucked on like twice a day.
Yeah.
In the milking shed.
It just wants to look good, you know?
It just wants to feel better about itself.
Yeah, cool.
Number five on the list of the top six animals that need human operations
are a blue whale that needs a C-section.
You might be thinking, why does a blue whale need a caesarean section?
Well, blue whale calves are the largest animal babies in the world,
clocking in at around about 1,360 kgs.
Now, I don't care how big your vagina is.
That's the size of a Hilux.
A bit smaller than a Hilux, but not by a lot.
A Ranger?
No, no, no.
Rangers are like two tons, aren't they?
A Jimny.
Probably a Jimny.
A Suzuki Jimny.
Hold on.
Now I've got to Google.
Or Megan Ssangyong.
Probably the weight of the Ssangyong. Weight of a Suzuki Jimny. Hold on, now I've got to Google. Or Megan Ssangyong. Probably the weight of the Ssangyong.
Weight of a Suzuki Jimny.
Stand by.
No, more than a Suzuki Jimny.
There are 1,000 kgs.
Oh, wow.
Out the gate.
So one and one-third Suzuki Jimnys.
Wow.
That's how big that is.
Okay, I can see why the whale wants a C-section.
Yeah.
Number four on the list of the top six animals that need human operations,
there's a hippo out there that wants a gastric bypass.
Oh.
Yeah.
Because it's like, I just can't say no.
Yeah.
Doesn't have the willpower.
What do hippos eat?
Everything.
Yeah, okay.
I've seen that they feed them whole cabbages, right?
They're vegetarians, though, eh?
No.
Oh, no.
I think they'll just eat whatever's in their way.
I mean, I know they kill humans and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, yum, they're not.
So I see a few more people died in Colombia the other day when they were fishing.
Pablo's.
Yeah, Pablo's hippos.
Number three on the list of the top six animals that need human operations, a ram.
Yeah.
That wants a scrotoplasty.
You ever seen the big old balls on a ram?
Very low. No. The hangers. The older they get, the lower they hang. Is that a thing? A scrotoplasty. Have you ever seen the big old balls on a ram? Very low.
No.
The older they get, the lower they hang.
Is that a thing, a scrotoplasty?
Yeah.
I had to Google what it's called, a scrotal lift or a scrotoplasty.
It's just a reshape.
A scrotoplasty.
But they all sag.
Some more than others, apparently.
Really?
Yeah, some more than others.
Sounds like an old man trying to regain his youth there with the scrotoplasty, doesn't it?
Number two on the list of the top six animals that need human operations,
a lion that needs a hemorrhoidectomy.
That is a surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
That's what happens when you eat nothing but meat and no fruit and veg,
very low amounts of fibre.
And you're angry and you've got to try to just squeeze it out.
Yeah.
And number one on the list
of the top six animals
that need human operations,
there's a crocodile
that wants veneers.
Aww.
Yeah.
Sick of biting his tongue.
It really hurts.
Wants sort of a smoother,
whiter look.
Yeah.
That is today's top six.
ZDM's Fletch,
Ron and Megan.
We're joined on the phone
to talk about
not hamstringing yourself
financially for February
by misbehaving with your money over January and December by Frances Cook.
Hello.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Now, this is a time of the year where spending can get a little bit out of hand.
What are some good tips going into the festive season to not blow all our cash and be poor
in February, March, April, May, June, July?
Start to sort it out by August.
I know, honestly,
if you go a little too nuts over Christmas,
you can get a financial hangover that lasts months.
So I think the first place to start
is also the meanest.
We're going to get the mean one out of the way.
You're going to actually
have to decide first who you actually care about the most. And just decide who's actually worth
spending your money on. And it's probably kids, for starters. You probably want to get one present
for each kid, you know, because kids are excited. But honestly, adults don't care
that much about Christmas. So
maybe have a think about who actually
wants a present and then talk to others about
whether you'll get each other the
present of not having to buy
you a present. Yeah, Megan,
Frances, Megan's
screwing up her face now because she loves Christmas.
You said adults don't care about Christmas. I was like,
ah, shot to the heart.
But I don't care so much
about the presents.
I care about the festivities.
Well,
there you go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See,
that's the key.
Although I would like to see
Megan unwrap a really cheap
present from someone
like her husband
and just scoff.
Oh no,
he has to buy me presents.
Right,
okay.
Presents.
Yeah.
Yeah. Everyone else is exempt. But it's buy me presents. Right, okay. Presents. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone else
is exempt. But it's a good point, like
people probably do spend a lot
of money on wasteful stuff that people
are just like, eh, don't care about.
Well, exactly. Exactly. If you
get a present from everyone you know,
how many people do you actually know well enough
to get something that they really want?
So this is why we see a surge
in listings on Trade Me on the 26th of December
because everyone gets given stuff they don't actually want.
Although I do have a tip to make sure you don't upset the Meghans in your life.
You can have some extra presents stashed under the tree,
just something generic like really nice chocolates or really nice biscuits.
And then if someone comes around who
bought you a present and you thought you guys
were on the no present buying trend
then you can be like, oh yes
I got something for you too
and you gift them this generic present
so that way you're saving without
offending anyone and the best part
is if you don't end up going through those
generic presents then you just eat them on Christmas
and you're fine. Yeah, it's a good idea.
It's a great idea.
What about with kids?
We've done this this year for the first time.
Rather than buying, like, nieces and nephews or gifts,
we're doing Cousin's Secret Santa,
and it is saving me lots of money.
I love Secret Santa.
I think it is the absolute best.
We do that for the adults in our close family as well.
We'll do a Secret Santa.
And you can even, if you really want to go next level,
you can set another challenge for the Secret Santa
where you can op shop Secret Santa.
People donate stuff that has never been used once.
This is going to sound terrible,
but my favorite cheese board
comes from an op shop. Now, usually I am a germphobe. I would say that's gross, but this
had never been opened. It was totally sealed up in its packaging, good to go. And it was 10 bucks.
It was originally like a hundred or something. I need to go op shopping with you.
You can find really, really good stuff.
So that can be fun.
If you make it an op shop challenge,
if you want to find good stuff at the op shop,
that can take Secret Santa next level.
And you can also have limits on present buying as well,
like a $10 or a $20, $30, $40, $50 limit kind of thing.
Oh, exactly, exactly.
And I think as well, you know, some people truly love Christmas and want to make it rain for everyone in their lives.
I get it.
If you want to do that, then see if you can rain in the spending elsewhere
because this is one of my favorite things.
It's summer.
You don't need to take in the car everywhere.
You can walk places.
You can do things like check if you're getting the best deal on your power with going on to power switch.
And then that means you'll just be paying less for the exact same thing.
You don't notice a difference with your power, what sort of place you're getting it.
It's just, you know, power is power. You can get it cheaper.
And then you can just free up money in your budget elsewhere and go absolutely nuts on
your gifts if you'd like. And then those savings will keep going into the next year as well. So
it's a double win. Wow. Okay. I hadn't even thought of the power thing. But when you said
power is power no matter where it comes from, I'm like, no, but what about the, oh no, that's
exactly the same. It's all electricity. Yeah. If you want to hear more from Francis, the podcast
is called Cooking the Books, but it's not a cooking podcast. It's money.. If you want to hear more from Francis, the podcast is called Cooking the Books,
but it's not a cooking podcast.
It's money.
Yeah, yeah.
Money.
Is that how to evade tax there, that one?
That sounds slightly like you're going to raise some red flags with the IRD there, Francis.
Yeah, you know, we're a little cheeky.
We're a little cheeky on the podcast.
Okay.
She said it.
Get her.
And her book is Tales from a Financial Hot Mess.
Thanks so much.
Thanks, guys. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan. She said it Get her And her book is Tales from a Financial Hot Mess Thanks so much Thanks guys Play
ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan
YouTube is removing
The dislike count
On videos
So it was like
A thumbs up
Or a thumbs down
They had
Yeah
Apparently
What was it
It was called
The ratio or something
The ups
The downs
Right
And it wasn't Oh you got a percentage Yeah Well it was like You could work out the ratio or something? The ups to downs? Right.
And it wasn't- Oh, you got a percentage.
Yeah.
Well, it was like you could work out your ratio.
Like it was a three to one or whatever,
but there was a ratio.
It wasn't 50-50,
but there was a ratio that made you a popular YouTuber.
But it was always like you'd YouTube something
like how to fix something.
And someone had,
it might not have been the best video, and someone was was like you just take this off, put this on, whatever
and someone would have dislikes
and you're like what
kind of person are you that you're disliking
this? Just shut it
down. You're on the internet.
Yeah, I know. It's so pointless though.
There is a YouTube video
called Perfectly Balanced or something
like that.
And the idea is you watch it or just load it up.
And if there's more thumbs up than thumbs downs,
you give it a thumbs down to try to like balance it.
And that was the whole idea of the video is it wanted to be perfectly balanced.
Right.
Yeah.
And people were kind of like playing the game.
But now they said all of this year's worth of ups and downs being perfectly balanced
is going to no longer apply because they're removing the dislike count.
I kind of like that.
Weird, you'll still be able to dislike.
But you won't be able to publicly see.
What's the point?
Because surely the more like something has, the more popular it is.
And if you don't like it, you just don't like it.
If I don't like something, I just don't
I just shut it down or go to the next video.
You're not going to give it a thumbs up.
Somebody, some of the comments on
this, somebody said, I use the
dislike count, but it's only to tell
what's clickbait when you start watching
a video. Oh, yeah.
Have you ever been drawn into one of those videos
and it's like nine minutes long and they're like,
oh, he's going to do it, he's going to do it.
I just fast forward.
And he just never does it.
I just like use that little preview along the bar
and see what's going to happen.
Drag it along right to the bottom.
So you're supposed to look at the high dislike count
and be like, oh, this is clickbait.
Yeah, this is nonsense.
But it is, you know, like somebody else said, that's about the only thing that's bad about
it being removed because people will just dislike something for the sake of disliking
something.
Yeah.
See ya.
Go on.
ZM's Flesh Warner Megan.
Play ZM.
Well, out of the UK, a TikTok from a mortgage advisor has gone viral because of some transactions,
multiple transactions in somebody's bank account when they were applying for a mortgage.
Now, what kind of transactions?
To the same place?
To the same subscription.
It's a reoccurring subscription.
Oh, okay.
He says, I have joked about this before,
but it's never got this far.
The underwriter, which I'm guessing is like the bank,
has declined the mortgage
because of a significant number of transactions
on the client's bank statement to OnlyFans.
Oh my God.
So apparently the mortgage broker rang the guy and was like,
hey, the bank said no because you keep subscribing to OnlyFans accounts.
And he was like mortified as you would be.
But then apparently they did manage to find this guy a mortgage with another lender.
So.
Like quite quickly after.
So they thought that was problematic
to the point where this could affect his ability
to repay a mortgage.
Yeah, because he's constantly subscribing
to OnlyFans accounts.
But like obviously he had enough money
for like a deposit for a house, right?
Yeah.
But is that going to become more of a problem
is what they're thinking.
Well, if mortgage rates go up
and you keep spending money on OnlyFans,
then maybe...
What's the deal with OnlyFans?
You pay per person, right?
Yeah, a subscription.
You don't buy a subscription
and then you get to pick
five people from that subscription.
No.
Right.
So you decide
who your own price tier is.
Yeah, so subscription
to that person,
not to OnlyFans.
So he was helping somebody else
buy a house too.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, do you remember we talked to that, the former supercars driver?
Yeah, that's right.
Who she got on OnlyFans, bought a house.
Yeah.
On the Gold Coast in Queensland.
Just, yeah.
And wasn't she using it to fund her next re-entry to the race world?
Yeah, killing it.
Yeah, absolutely making bank.
But yeah, apparently this is just a warning for people.
Because did you ever have any, when you got your house,
did the bank ever flag anything on your online banking?
Yeah, there was reoccurring payments to my best friend, Ali.
And they were like, what?
I never labelled them because I originally labelled them silly things.
But then we were like, oh, we shouldn't do that because they look at it.
So it wasn't labelled anything,
but then they wanted to know what these reoccurring payments were.
And you told them a friendship subscription.
I have to pay her.
I was like, no, she picks up takeaways and comes around to the house
and then I pay her back.
Constantly.
But I guess they just needed that explained
because otherwise they were like, uh.
How much takeaways are you buying?
Oh, it was like a weekly thing.
So it was every week you had money going out
and they were just like, that's a consistent cash withdrawal.
But what was it, like 20 bucks?
Yeah.
But it's a constant $20.
It's like a subscription almost.
And the bank wants to know where that's going.
I guess they have to do that thing that some online banking does automatically now
where you can opt in at the end of the month.
It'll send you a pie graph of what you've spent your money on.
Oh, I don't like that.
No, no, no, no, no.
We don't know.
We don't want to see that.
I don't even look at that thing.
Yeah, no, you'll stay away from me.
I know how much I spend on food and booze.
If you didn't want people snooping on your transactions,
would you just be better to get cash out every time you go to the supermarket?
No, but then they'd still ask you what those withdrawals are.
But they don't know.
Because at a supermarket it would say like New World Countdown
and then an extra coupler.
And they wouldn't see the extra cash out.
Or do they?
I don't know.
Or they'd be like, Jesus, what are you buying?
That is a great shopping tip.
That is a great shopping tip.
How did you not know about the shopping tip?
That's how people have affairs and buy drugs.
Well, clearly I'm not that.
And do escape funds.
Yeah.
Dodgy.
No.
But I thought, could we take some calls this morning?
Whether or not you're applying for a mortgage or not,
what would your red flags be in online banking?
Like what, when you look at your transactions,
is it always just like McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's?
Because they look at that too.
They do, yeah.
And maybe you've been in the situation
where you were like applying for a mortgage
and the bank were like, what are these?
Why do you keep going to the strippers?
These are seriously things you have to think about.
Yeah, why do you keep having transactions here?
It's just, yeah, it's really confronting when you have to sit there and talk through each.
No, but don't, the strippers come through something else?
I don't know, like car parts.
There was that one, yeah, car parts.
It's like you're at the garage.
Now, why did you make a transaction to the local Warner Fitness Centre at 2.30 in the
morning?
In the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, emergency break situation.
Yeah.
I'd just love to know if you've ever been in the situation where the bank has been like,
you know, what are all these transactions?
Or even just looking at your bank account, what comes up a lot?
What would be the red flag? Yeah.
We're talking about what would be the red flag on your bank statements
if you were to apply for a mortgage.
Like, what would the bank be like?
What's this?
What's this?
What's this?
You go here a lot.
Like, every day nearly.
A man in the UK has been denied a mortgage
because of OnlyFans subscriptions.
But the mortgage broker did find him a loan eventually.
Yeah.
So that's embarrassing.
Some messages.
And I'm a horse girl, so you can only imagine what my bank statements look like.
And I believe the bank would say nay to a mortgage.
I like it.
Yeah.
Online pokies.
Online, like online overseas?
Gambling, yeah.
So when it comes out of your bank account, it says it.
Oh, no.
Someone else said, when we applied for a mortgage,
we got questioned on all of our app store purchases,
Apple Music, buying games, gems to play games,
purchasing the apps the kids need for school.
We've got five people in our house on Apple devices
all linked to the same account.
Right, so any purchase is like...
It pops up.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, we've got questions on it like,
what's this, what's this, what's this?
You just want to say to the bank, none of your business.
None of your business.
You have to ask how much money I'm spending on Bejeweled.
Yeah.
Bejeweled Blitz and more angry birds levels.
I have a house deposit sitting in my bank account.
It's a significant house deposit.
They've said the amount.
I mean, we don't know who they are.
$190,000 deposit sitting in my bank account for a house.
However, the banks are on afterpay for $30
and I was declined for three months
and I had to prove I hadn't used afterpay
for that time.
Are you kidding me?
All for $30 afterpay payments.
That's so ridiculous.
Stay off afterpay.
I've heard this as well.
All of the banks
said no to that.
So is that because
they didn't want to touch
the $190,000
because it was in
a term deposit?
Well, I don't know.
It was probably
in a separate account.
You might have been penalised
for taking money out.
You might not get as much interest.
Because if one says no, you go to another one
and they might say yes.
Some of them are meaner than others, as I've found.
Michelle, what would be the red flags on your internet banking?
Well, we actually have a mortgage.
Okay.
And we went to pop it up just to do a few things around the house.
And they went down our bank statements and saw all the takeaways
and basically said, if you guys can afford the takeaways,
you should have saved all that and you wouldn't be hitting us up for money.
Oh, okay, Mum.
Yeah.
Okay, Mum, if this isn't an interest-free loan bank,
we're going to be paying you back and a lot more.
Wow.
I know, it's like having a lecture from your parents, for God's sake. Yeah to be paying you back and a lot more. Wow. I know,
it's like having a lecture
from your parents,
for God's sake.
Yeah,
and were you just like,
ouch,
and so what,
did you go to try another bank
or were you just like,
oh well?
No,
we kind of just flagged it.
We thought,
oh well,
maybe we,
maybe,
you know,
they hit home with that one
and it was like,
basically,
maybe we need to save our butts
off a bit more
and stop the takeaways.
Got into your head.
No,
but you just see like,
those takeaway payments are going to go into your bank account instead.
That's, you know, I'm going to stop buying that and put it back to you.
That's how that works.
Yeah, and I mean.
I love checks with the banks.
All right, Janine.
Famously senior point of view, the banks.
Michelle, thanks.
You're called Janine.
Hey.
You've got a lot of after pay. Yeah. Hey, guys. Michelle, thanks. You're called Janine. Hey. You've got a lot of afterpay.
Yeah.
Hey, guys.
Hi.
Yeah.
And you're right.
They do.
You feel like you're being interrogated by the Russians.
Famous for their interrogation.
Yeah.
So consequently, I just created a different bank account,
and I made a payment supposedly to my sister to help her out
when in actual fact it was my side hustle money.
Because, yeah, you get asked about what are you doing with, you know, after pay.
And yeah, it is very much the takeaways and stuff like that.
And it's like, like you guys have said, if I can service the mortgage,
why do I have to justify where I spend the rest of my money?
Yeah.
I think you're about to say you made a whole new persona
in a bank account.
Yeah.
That was a very eloquent way of saying what I was trying to say
before I responded to it.
Yeah, exactly.
Janine, thanks for your calls and messages.
Somebody said, I work for a bank.
They're jealous of afterpay.
Of course they are.
They're jealous of it.
That's why they won't approve your mortgage or your loans if you've got afterpay.
Because they offer financial loan services.
They'd rather you were using their credit cards and paying 22% interest.
They're jealous.
Can you say that to them?
You're just jealous.
You're just jealous.
Stop being jealous.
And then they'll be like, no, we're not.
Here's the loan.
Yeah, but you need their money.
You're like, I'm still tied to you for life.
I'm just seeing what's out there.
It's just a little bit.
I'm just trying to spice things up.
It's just a little smooch.
What are we?
All smooch.
No, no, there's more.
There's more.
We had $300,000 in savings for a house and had to cancel all of our streaming services
because the bank saw them as a problem.
Monthly streaming services for pre-approval.
Do they just expect us to go home and watch free TV and ads?
Yuck.
Yuck.
And not ever eat out.
My bank tried to, said, what are these payments for?
And I said, I'm putting regular, every time I get paid, I put a little bit of money into cryptocurrency
and they tried to block it
and said, you can't be doing that.
Again, it sounds like jealousy.
Yeah, it's jealousy.
Sounds like absolute jealousy.
My partner and I go to coffee club every weekend.
Oh, lovely.
Treat yourself to a coffee club.
You don't know where they live.
Coffee club is great.
You don't like it. it's such an elitist
unless they're over 60 that's unacceptable now if my parents go to coffee club that's okay right
okay every weekend um and sometimes that's the only thing on our um fboss transaction for a
couple of weeks and the bank's like i think think you've got a problem. You're like, actually that's spread over months. That's not just... You mean live my life.
Man, the banks are...
Bitches?
Yeah.
My friend makes and sells
epic protein balls
and every week I transfer it
and the reference is
my name and balls.
The bank was like,
what kind of balls?
I said protein balls
and they were like,
okay, I'm a mortgage broker.
We are going to need some clarification on the balls here. Please bring us in some balls. I said protein balls and they were like, okay. I'm a mortgage broker. We are going to need some
clarification on the balls here.
Please bring us in some balls.
I'm a mortgage broker and I've had to ask
people what regular payments for, and
I do this.
Very inappropriate things. You put silly
things. In fact,
you're saved in my internet banking
and it's still the same silly thing it's been for
the last 15 years. What was it? Because mine I think for yours
was like drugs, guns and prostitution.
Your sex dungeon or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something's in there, yeah.
Still got a mortgage though.
Take that.
I think the bank's into what I'm doing.
As long as it's not with afterpay.
ZDM's
Fletchborn and Megan.
Get it on Neon.
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Some great shows.
It's my favourite streaming service.
I'll say it.
Coober Enthusiasm, three eps down.
Vaughan, you're up to date.
So good.
It's just brilliant.
Yeah.
Just after I watched an episode I just like What has happened here
Such a good show
So we each have
Some picks
On there on this weekend
I'll start
American reality TV series
It's called We're Here
So this features
Former RuPaul's Drag Race
Contestants
Bob the Drag Queen
Eureka Ohara
And Shangela
And so they go around essentially
middle America. And they
take pretty straight edge people
and put them into drag and at the end of the episode
they do a drag show together.
Drag is about
empowerment. We travel across this country
to take people from who they are
to what they can be.
These small towns.
There are people who have never seen a drag queen.
Don't be afraid.
Don't be scared.
Everything about me at one point or another
has been used against me.
So it's kind of like Queer Eye.
It is.
Right.
It has the emotional tie in.
It's just really heartfelt and entertaining
at the same time because these drag queens are really funny.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
And season two has just dropped on Neon too.
The show I'd like to recommend is a new series made by Vice
called Dark Side of the 90s.
There was this venison of young Hollywood people.
Everyone was sneezing fame all over each other.
Now it's time to unravel the 90s.
The era that brought us
grunge, reinvented hip hop
and gave birth to the internet.
We're all doing what we're supposed to do
and this is how it ends.
Dark Side of the 90s.
Watch an episode called The Viper Room
Hollywood Sanctuary. Of course,
probably most famous for River Phoenix dying outside.
Didn't Johnny Depp own it?
Johnny Depp owned it.
I didn't know that at the time that it happened.
He bought it in the early 90s.
Right.
And was there owning it.
And he would invite Hollywood elite and stuff,
and they felt like it was their little sanctuary to hang out.
But it was also riddled with heroin and really hard drugs.
And yeah, really interesting look into the 90s,
all the different aspects of it.
The next episode we're going to watch is all about how the 90s gave birth
to talk shows.
Oh, yeah.
Like Jerry Springer.
What was the first talk show?
Jerry Springer.
Jerry Springer was the first like trashy one,
but it had like Phil Donahue, Ricky Lake, Sally Jessie Raphael, Oprah.
Yeah, all of them.
My show on Neon, Dexter New Blood.
Now, Vaughan, we were big fans of Dexter, Dexter back in the day.
Yeah, but most long-running TV shows, the end got a bit soggy.
It was terrible.
It was a terrible end.
He sailed off into
a storm or something, eh? Was that how
that ended? No, remember he was
in Oregon with a chainsaw. He was
doing some like logging. Oh yeah.
And I think this is where it picks up, right? This is where it picks up, yeah.
I think that they do feel the need to
come back and kind of rectify that
ending that nobody liked.
Everybody could agree it was a terrible end to a long
running TV show. So it's not a prequel. It's picking up where a terrible end to a long-running TV show.
So it's not a prequel.
It's picking up where it left off.
It's picking off years later.
Yeah, he is in Oregon.
Dexter Newblood.
And ratings are really good.
9.3 out of 10 on IMDb with like six, just over 6,000 reviews. Oh, strong return.
So strong return for Dexter.
If you're a fan of Dexter back in the, what, 2010s?
Is that when that was out?
Or two?
No, probably ages.
Jeez, when did it finish?
When did it finish?
I want to say it was not that long ago, but it was probably a long time ago.
Maybe.
I'll tell you if you wait two seconds.
It finished 2013.
There you go.
So, yeah, late 2000s into the 2010s.
Eight years later.
Yeah, it's on neon.
Nice. ZDM's Flet it's on Neon. Nice.
ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
It's Adele, Easy On Me.
Her album 30 is out a week today.
And she's doing that CBS special in America.
So you're going to speak that next week?
Yeah, that'll be early next week.
Yeah.
Is anyone playing that here?
Any of the networks?
I'm playing it on my network.
The Vaughan.
I tell you what
it has cost me a fortune
so you all better watch
Okay right
What you're just going to play that
My YouTube
My YouTube
Right okay
I'm going to also live stream it on TikTok
I didn't know that you had a channel
Can I live stream on TikTok Carwen?
I can
I've only got four followers
Do you have a TikTok?
Dad do you have a TikTok?
No he's got the kids
The kids I had to set up
a TikTok account so the kids could watch all this
TikTok bullshit.
And then they're like, Dad, watch this.
And now your algorithm is
bizarre. It's the weirdest
algorithm. A TikTok
computer must be like, oh God.
Find him something for his
For You page.
Is it Land Rovers?
Is it bloody dancing?
Animals doing silly things.
So I mentioned before the 70% of employers are doing this.
If you're applying for a job, beware.
And we've heard of the great resignation where people are over the pandemic
and they're looking for a new job yeah well 70%
of employers scope out an applicant's social media before hiring them and 54% so half of employers
have reported that they choose a hire based on that snooping of your social media so that means
that people have either hired or declined your job
because they've looked at your social media.
So lock it all down.
And you're like, bleh, on Saturday night.
Yeah, you're drunk.
You're just like, bleh.
A picture came up.
It's an old friend's birthday today.
And you know how Facebook's like, share this photo as a memory on your birthday.
And it's like from 2002.
And I'm like, bleh. And it's like from 2002. And I'm like, blah.
I'm just like, yuck.
No.
I want to see this picture.
It's so yuck.
It's really bad.
It's so yuck.
Like if I could meet him, I'd be like, hey, buddy.
Yuck.
You're a dickhead.
He'd be like, whatever, old man.
I've got a digital camera.
Oh, you're talking to yourself back in 2002.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Did you not get that?
I was like, what friend is this?
Weird.
No, that's me talking to myself.
Yeah.
Yeah, but don't do that.
Take off all those bracelets.
Stop doing that.
That hair's about to fall out, champs.
Stop putting so much bloody Dax wax in it.
Just wind it all up.
Stop it. Your Facebook's locked down, though, isn't it? putting so much bloody Dax wax in it. Just wind it all up. Stop it.
Your Facebook's locked down though, isn't it?
You couldn't...
Oh, yeah, no, no.
It's all private.
I've even hidden that from myself half the time.
You can make privacy.
It's like public, friends of friends, friends, only me.
I'm like, no one.
Keep it there.
No one can see it.
Welcome, everybody, to Friday Face Yoga.
Namaste to you all.
Namaste.
Namaste.
Namaste, everybody.
Namaste.
Now, the cat was let out of the proverbial Hessian sack just before. I was saving the announcement of my transcendence.
Okay.
From Yogini to Shaman.
But Fletch told everybody, but I won't harbour any anger
because we all know what happens when you harbour anger.
Don't we?
You get angry and you get headaches.
You get piles.
Piles.
Hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids, yeah.
So when do you become, because what's Brian Tarmacky now?
He's a.
Different religion.
Oh, okay.
Different made up thing.
Okay.
I'm a shaman because I received this message.
Shamans don't do a lot of social media, but this one does.
Yeah.
Matilda messaged me on Instagram and said,
Hi, Vongini.
Hi, Vongini.
The great Vongini.
Long-time listener, first-time messenger.
I work as a physio at the hospital
and recently was asked to see someone for Bell's palsy
and give them some exercises.
Now, my understanding, Bell's palsy, I had an auntie who had this.
A nerve that feeds the
face, comes down in front of the ear.
There's a palsy affecting that
nerve, and it can make the person
who has it look like they've had a stroke, like half
of the face isn't as active as the other half. Yeah, right.
This is largely outside of
my usual work, so I did a quick Google and
printed something off to give to the person, but
essentially, I should have just told them to listen to
Friday Face Yoga.
Because honestly, that's what the exercises are.
Exaggerated facial expressions and movements.
Oh, okay.
There could be an untapped market for people recovering from Bell's palsy
that need to tune in to Friday Face Yoga.
So.
What you've done there.
It's lovely, isn't it?
You allowed an ego as a
shaman? This one
is. Megan
Rice is a great point, shaman.
This one is. I'm just going to flush
the ego.
And let's begin.
Everybody, give us your smug face.
Your smug face.
Raise the eyebrows.
What is that?
Well.
Dude, I feel high.
You're terrible at facials.
Charmin, she's being mean to me about my face.
Did you see his face?
Do your smug face.
Show the Charmin your smug face.
What was that face?
Why are you being mean to me, shaman?
Why are you bringing this evil into my recently appointed shamaninium?
That's where shamans live, shamaniniums.
I just made that up.
Okay.
Shamaninium.
You converted your condominium.
Yeah, to a shamaninium.
Smug face because you're only allowed to use that smug face
If you're one of 90% of people
Who have had their first dose of the COVID vaccine
Yes, that's in New Zealand
That's over 12, 90%, that's so good
80% fully vaccinated
Extra smug face
Next
From smugness to sadness Smug face. Next.
From smugness to sadness.
I need us all to show sympathy and sadness.
Maybe pop a little bottom lip out.
Move the lip.
Because Arlie Williams and Anna Mowbray have had to apply for council consent to have a helicopter pad at a $24 million house in Heron Bay.
We don't want to have to ask permission to have a helicopter pad. I $24 million house in Herne Bay. We don't want to have to ask permission
to have a helicopter pad.
I don't think it's Herne Bay.
It was a Westmount, wasn't it?
Did I just up-neighborhood them?
Could they not afford Herne Bay?
Well, it's pretty much the same, isn't it?
No.
Is it, darling?
Is it?
Do they not like being stuck in traffic?
If you had $24 million, would you not want a helicopter pad?
I wouldn't live in frigging Hearn Bay if I had $24 million.
You'd never see me again.
I'd be in the middle of nowhere.
I'd have a helicopter pad and no one would care.
How often are they using a helicopter for transport?
I don't know.
I don't want a helicopter pad.
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All right, and finally.
And finally, I need everybody to send up their vibes.
I need a vibe expulsion.
I need a vibe.
From the face?
From the face.
ZM's Fleshborn and Megan.
Play ZM.
Friday Flashback.
Yes, baby.
Yes.
The year.
Now, there is a lot of...
Oh, my God.
This song is five and a half minutes.
Five and a half minute Friday.
Put your feet up
because you're going to sit in the nook.
Megan and I are so against this song.
We think you've gone too far this week.
This song is terrible.
I hate this.
I would say this song is God awful.
It's awful.
You're not doing anything to make me not want to play it, though,
because whenever you say something like that, I get so excited.
I would like to introduce Ross Boss to the show now.
Good morning, Ross Boss.
We've called the boss on you.
What's happening?
Do you know what song?
No, like I'm basically just waking up.
Well, thanks for listening to the show.
Well, Friday.
Hey, if you were working for Hollywood...
You're not in Dubai anymore, mate.
Friday's not day on the weekend.
Hey, good global knowledge there.
Well done.
Now, what's happening?
Vaughan would like to play Meatloaf.
I would do anything for love.
It's the Friday flashback.
Jam.
Yes!
He's on board!
Okay, I got him on board.
So, can I play the 12-minute album version?
No!
Oh, no.
No.
Five minutes 31 is enough.
That's the single version.
Even that's too long.
I may fade it out after two.
Yeah, Fletch whole like mini rock opera.
And at the end of it, do you know what they said to me?
What?
What won't he do?
Oh, my God.
One of life's great unanswered questions, my dear children. Well, thanks for nothing, Ross Boss.
Friday flashback today.
From what year?
1993.
It was certified platinum in the United States.
It was his first and only number one single on the Billboard Hot 100,
the best-selling single of 1993 in the UK.
It also won a Grammy Award for the best rock vocal performance solo.
It went to number one in 28 different countries.
Oh, this is so horrible.
It's your Friday flashback, meatloaf.
I regurgitated my banana.
No, don't do anything for love.
I'd run right into hell and back.
I would do anything for love.
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact.
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now.
Oh, no.
No way.
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that.
And some days it don't come easy.
And some days it don't come hard.
Some days it don't come at all.
And these are the days that never end.
And some nights you're breathing fire. And some nights you're breathing fire And some nights you're talking nice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen
If all will again
Maybe I'm crazy
Oh, it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me No one else can save me now but you It's true. I believe it, that I would do anything for love
And I'll be there till the final act
And I would do anything for love
And I'll take the vow and seal the pact
But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go away tonight
And I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that
I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of but I just won't do that.
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that.
And some days I pray for silence, and some days I pray for soul.
Some days I just pray if you got a sex
and maybe i'm lonely
that's just one and only one and only promise i can keep
as long as the wheels are burning as long as the fires are burning Thank you. And I'll never do it better than I'm doing with you
So long, so long
And I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, no, no, I won't do that
Will you raise me up?
Will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?
I can do that.
Oh, oh, now I can do that.
I've made it to every fantasy I got.
Will you hold me down with holy water?
If I get too hot
Will you take me places I've never known
Yeah, I can do that
Oh, no, I can do that
All the territory I've been around
It'll all turn to dust
And we'll all fall down
Sooner or later you'll be screwing around.
I won't do that.
No, I won't do that.
It's painful love, but I won't do that.
Oh, God.
Meatloaf On ZM
Yeah
See that's where
I'd do anything
If we were playing
The 12 minute version
About 30 seconds back
When the female
Stopped singing
He cranks in
And gives us
A whole lot more
We don't need
A 12 minute version
Of that
At all
Well
Well it's your
Friday flashback
This week
From 1993
And Vaughn is feeling
Slightly vindicated
On the text machine.
Not only the shaman
of face yoga,
but also the shaman
of a Friday flashback.
He has transcended,
ladies and gentlemen.
He's got a mouthful.
Best song ever.
Thanks.
What a banger of a song.
These are all different
text messages.
Love it.
Belting meatloaf
out in the car.
You're puffed.
I am puffed
on the dancing and singing. You were, yes. Great tune. Belting meatloaf out in the car. You're puffed. I am puffed on the dancing and singing.
You were, yes.
Great tune. Cheeky teenage memories.
Best Friday flashback
ever. I've never bounced out of bed so quickly.
Hey, you're welcome. Jam, Fletcher, Megan
are idiots. That's their words, not mine.
Damn you. I already arrived
to work. Now I have to stay in the car and try not to look
like an idiot having a mini concert.
Always time for Meatloaf.
Perhaps just not every day. Fair enough. No, no.
It's not an every day thing. Much like Meatloaf
the meal. Not an every day meal. No.
Blaster of the past. Well, you can feel the complaints
from the other radio stations.
Love Meatloaf.
It's not my fault they can't keep up.
Haven't heard the song since
93 but still know every word.
Getting into a work fight.
Oh, it's a no from me, dog.
There's one bad.
One bad one.
Okay.
Yeah.
So overwhelmingly positive for the meet.
Look at all these.
Look at them.
People love the life.
They love the life.
They love the life.
I'm scrolling down.
So many thank yous for all your support.
All right.
It's ego,'t need it. Now, at the risk of following up a 28-year-old song
with another way of showing my age,
there's a new addition to the Smith boudoir.
Yeah, right.
I purchased myself one of those pillows that goes between your legs.
They're always on the ad, the infomercials.
I think an infomercial thing.
When the chase and that's on.
You didn't buy it from the infomercial.
No, no, no, no, no.
I was at the supermarket and there was the,
you know the new world, it's by my place
and you reluctantly go because there's too many Ford Rangers
and Toyota Hiluxes and Dickheads in that car park.
Giant four wheel drives.
Yeah, Megan gets very, you get anxiety.
Don't put this on me.
Those people were arrogant drivers.
I get to the, please don't speak to my people in such a manner.
They will literally run you off the road.
Yeah.
You know when you get to the end and there's the two rows of freezers and they've always got a bunch of stuff in the middle.
Yeah.
It was up there.
And I get to the end of the shop and I celebrate. It was up there. And I get to the end
of the shop
and I celebrate.
It was up there.
I almost bought
an air fryer there once
but I didn't.
Wait,
you can buy pillows
at your supermarket.
It's like a whole bunch
of weird stuff
in between the two freezers.
Okay.
You can reach over
the freezer and grab it.
And they,
it's always infomercial stuff too.
I've got my daughters
these lights
that you like push
and they turn on.
Okay.
So they sell thigh pillows.
Thigh pillows, yeah. You're gonna be
one of those old mates. You
will go around to your house and you'll have a million things from
a mail order. Totally.
Brochure. Absolutely. When I was a kid I used to get
that. The magnum mail.
Magnum mail, yes.
And I'd circle the things I wanted.
And it was always stuff like a robotic butterfly on a wire.
And it would flap and it would go around and around.
And it was solar powered, so you lift it on the window,
it would go around and around and around.
I just thought that was like, what a great invention.
I like that.
Okay.
But this one is the thigh pillow.
Why?
It's parched.
I get, because I twist in the middle.
Oh, yeah. When you the middle. Oh yeah.
I like,
when you sleep.
Oh yeah.
My bottom half is,
face down on the,
on the bed,
but my top half's twisted,
like I'm sleeping on my side.
Oh,
okay.
So you think the pillow,
in between your legs,
is going to help.
It stops you rolling as much.
Oh,
okay.
You could have just,
I've got,
I had one of those for pregnancy.
You put it between your knees.
Was it a big one?
It's just a little small one,
that has curves for your legs.
Oh, this is what this is.
Yeah, okay.
So you're sleeping with a pregnancy pillow.
Well, on the thing it said great for all sorts of people.
Pregnant people, people with lower back pain.
Yep.
Other people.
Twisty sleepers.
Twisty sleepers, which is from the lower back pain.
Yeah.
Do you keep it in place?
Not all night.
Yeah, right.
I'll pop it back.
If I wake up and it's gone, I'll feel around.
My eyes shut feeling around in the dark.
I'll be like, there it is, and I'll pop it back in.
Right, okay.
You're a twisty sleeper.
I am a twisty sleeper.
Hello, I'm Vaughn Smith, and I'm a twisty sleeper.
You need one of those beds that goes up and down with a remote.
Like it can lift in the knees.
I'm not ready to give up on life just yet.
Are you talking like an old person's retirement?
Like a Ryman bed?
Yeah.
Not yet.
Not yet.
So I was wondering, not do you have a, I mean, if you've got a thigh pillow, that's great.
I was wondering what else people have, what foreign objects are in your bed at night? What do you need a, I mean, if you've got a thigh pillow, that's great. I was wondering what else people have,
what foreign objects are in your bed at night.
What do you need to go to sleep?
Because some people sleep with their blankies, don't they still?
Well, like teddy bears.
Yeah, teddy bears, blankies.
Even with their partner in the bed, they might have a teddy bear.
That's weird, eh?
Is that weird?
It's different.
I never thought I'd be a person that could sleep with a sleep, an eye mask on. Like it's not like
a rejuvenating eye mask. Although I could
definitely do with it.
Is it only because you do afternoon naps?
Yeah.
It has revolutionised
the afternoon nap. The eye mask.
And those silicon earplugs that you
gave me. They're a game changer
as well because you get dark and you get silent
and you wake up and you're so confused because you're like,
my eyes are open but I still can't see anything.
What's this between my legs?
And I seem to be deaf now.
It's a terrifying 2.30 wake up.
Right, okay.
So, yeah, what's in your bed?
Right, like what do you need to –
Apart from the obvious. Yeah, apart from the obvious. Do you need anything in your bed to, like, what's in your bed? Right. Apart from the obvious.
Yeah, apart from the obvious.
Do you need anything in your bed to, like, fall asleep?
Some people need animals, don't they?
They might need the dog or the cat.
I've absolutely banned animals on or in the bed.
Yuck.
Because they take up too much space.
They have the hair.
They generate heat.
They're constantly moving.
Oh, that's a definite no from you then.
Hard no.
Hard no.
All right. Well, 0800 dials at from you then. Hard no. Hard no. All right.
Well, 0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696.
What is in your bed?
What do you sleep with?
What do you need there to fall asleep?
What's in your bed?
What are you sleeping with?
It's maybe a little less than traditional.
I've acquired myself a thigh pillow.
A supermarket infomercial pillow.
It's triangular.
Heart-shaped, I'd almost say.
Okay.
Divots, you can go thin-end gooch or thick-end gooch.
I'm trying to get a fine gap for summer, so I'm going thick-end gooch.
What, so you can stretch it?
So it just pushes it.
Isn't that the wrong way round?
Huh?
Is the thick-end supposed to go between the knees?
Yeah, I think so.
See, that's the other thing.
I'm quite long in the leg.
You look at the average person and then look at that.
Look at the gap here from where you're sitting.
You do have a long upper leg.
I have a long upper leg.
You're a long thigh.
I'm long-legged.
I'm a long, what are these all called?
Limbs.
I'm a long-limbed individual.
You're long in the thighs.
Long in the, thank you.
That's all I've ever wanted to hear from you.
So I'm long in the thighs, Smith. Maybe the pillow's too little for in the thighs. Long in the... Thank you. That's all I've ever wanted to hear from you. So, old long in the thighs Smith.
Maybe the pillow's too little for my long thighs.
Yeah, maybe you could go bigger.
It's not supposed to cover your whole thighs.
Just go between your knees.
Okay, I need some adjustment there by the sounds of this.
But I've got one of those and I'm loving it.
And sometimes I wear an eye mask to bed.
And not one of those like cool cucumber juice ones.
It's just...
Who are the people that made the ugly shoes?
The soft shoes, the ugly shoes?
Crocs.
Nope.
I'm not wearing a Crocs eye mask.
This is a trap.
Auburn.
Yeah.
Is that who gave us that eye mask that time?
Yes.
Beautiful eye mask.
I wouldn't wear the shoes.
I just don't feel woolen shoes are for me.
No, no, no.
They don't need my endorsement.
They're worth a billion dollars on the stock market now.
That's a ripping IPO launch.
We want to know what you sleep with in bed that's a little unusual.
Yeah.
What have you got in your boudoir?
I'll tell you what.
We laughed, didn't we, about the remote-controlled Ryman beds.
The retirement beds.
So you don't need to sit up.
You just reach for the remote and zzzz.
Watch TV.
We've heard from a few people
who have Ryman's
beds. Yeah, my partner
and I have random remotes in our beds.
A couple of them are on cords. Two of them
are for the Ryman bed to go up and down and vibrate
as it happens. And a couple
of TV remotes.
Do you think Ryman beds,
do people make love in the Ryman bed?
You'd have to pick a side.
You couldn't just go in the middle because otherwise you'd fall down the gap.
Charlotte and Ellie, what do you guys sleep with?
Hello?
Hello?
Do we have a phone issue?
Charlotte!
Yeah, we may be having a phone issue.
Let's see if Bruce works.
Oh, Bruce is here.
Good morning, Bruce.
What's in the bed that's unusual, that must be there for sleeping?
Good morning, guys. Look, I've heard your
thigh pillow.
Yeah.
And I raised that by one pregnancy pillow.
Oh, you're going with the pregnancy pillow.
Have you, did a pregnant
partner give you the pillow
after their pregnancy, or did you snaffle it up
without a pregnant partner?
Yeah, I have no children, and my partner's never had children.
We went to some friend's place and I saw this massive horseshoe-looking pillow
and I said, what on earth is that?
Give me it right now and it will change your life, I swear to God.
Oh, wow.
So you spoon this pillow, this bananary pillow?
Yeah, look, it is a multi-faceted
sort of operation. Okay, yeah.
So it gives you perfect elevation
watching Netflix.
If the partner's not in bed,
you've got something to spoon either side.
And it slips in that little
thigh spot as well. Oh, I
miss my pregnancy pillow so much. What did you do with it?
I had to give it up for my marriage. It was like
three people in the bed.
I feel like it's an underrated give it up for my marriage. It was like three people in the bed. Ah.
I feel like it's an underrated
product that no one knows about.
Bruce, I want to thank you
for opening up to us this morning.
Yes, cheers.
You do.
Cheers, Bruce.
People may have been,
there may be other men
out there now
who feel comfortable
talking about their
pregnancy pillow
even though they're not pregnant.
Kind of paved the way.
Charlotte and Ali.
He's a trailblazer.
He is.
Charlotte and Ali,
good morning. Morning. Now you've kind of paved the way. Charlotte and Ellie. He's a trailblazer. He is. Charlotte and Ellie, good morning.
Morning.
Now, you guys are sisters.
We are.
We're just on our way to school.
Okay, and so what must be in the bed for sleeping?
Charlie Griffith.
My cat.
I've had her since she's a kitten,
and I have her every night in my bed,
and she cries if I'm not there.
Oh, that's love. That's cute.
Okay.
She knows what pyjamas are, so whenever you go and get changed into pyjamas and Charlie's
not home, she will go and follow you into your bedroom because she wants to go to bed
and she gets really upset when she's not there.
Oh my God, that's so sweet.
That is so cute.
What about you, Ellie?
What do you need to sleep?
Well, I'm just about to turn 18, so it's a little bit embarrassing,
but I still sleep with my teddy that I've had since day one.
That's cute.
And so mum and dad grill me that when I get a boyfriend
and I need to get rid of it, but I don't want to.
No, no, no.
You find a man that accepts your teddy.
Exactly.
No man should ever make you choose between teddy and him.
He's been everywhere with me.
He used to be pink and now he's grey.
That's dirty.
When I was little,
we actually left him on the side of a river
on the way to Christchurch and we ended up
getting to Christchurch and mum and dad had to go
all the way back just to pick him up.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be sleeping that night.
That's some Toy Story stuff. I imagine he was like
really trying to get back to you too.
There would 100% be people out there with teddies in the bed.
Growing adults.
Yeah, growing adults.
Sheldon and Ali, thanks for your call.
Some more messages in.
Gus the cat.
He sleeps in the fold of my legs and he's so fat and comfortable.
He's like a thigh pillow that also has a low deep per vibrate setting.
That's good.
Yeah, like a hum to get you to sleep.
I have to sleep with a cuddle buddy.
That's a little beanbag type pillow thing I have a blankie that I cocoon myself in
I'm 41 and my husband hates it
I've got to have my weighted blanket
And a headband with flat speaker panels in
And I listen to your podcast
Our tranquil voices help them sleep
I still don't know how people
Can listen to podcasts and fall asleep
If you're listening right now and you're drifting off to
Nanai's land.
That's much appreciated.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely most welcome.
ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Right now, time for
Fact of the Day.
Day, day, day, day. I just heard you telling her about the relationships thing
and I forgot about fact of the day.
I didn't know what time it was.
I was lost.
It's after fact of the day.
It's after fact.
And do you remember that I said to you,
hey, fact of the day has to be really quick
because we're running a little bit late.
I didn't. I didn't even hear that. When did you say that? Did I respond? He hears that. He doesn't do it. that I said to you, hey, fact of the day has to be really quick because we're running a little bit late. I didn't.
I didn't even hear that.
When did you say that?
Did I respond?
When he hears that, he doesn't do it.
Did I respond?
Yes, you did.
You said, okay.
Very interesting.
Are you worried about your cognitive decline?
Well, that's why I've taken a week off drinking.
And I tell you what, it sucks.
It sucks.
You've taken a week off drinking?
Yeah, Shada and I said,
let's just take a week off drinking
because we were both pounding the booze.
Isn't that what's wrong?
I think that's what's wrong.
And I can't remember the rest.
Oh, oh.
Oh, my God.
And bubbly water sucks.
I'll tell you that much because I've been trying to like,
I don't know why, bubbly water with a bit of lemon.
And I'll tell you what, because I've been trying to like, I don't know why, bubbly water with a bit of lemon. And I'll tell you what, spoiler alert, it sucks.
Watch out for your boomers.
I'm drinking tonight.
Your body appreciates it.
Does it?
Does it?
Yeah.
I've just felt pains that I'm guessing the booze have been numbing all this time.
Like my knees started being sore again.
Yeah, right.
So I think the fluid on the knee was primarily whiskey at this stage.
And now that I've stopped drinking it, the bubbly water can't get there.
And I've started feeling my sore knees again.
I don't know if that's our medicine.
Look, I'm not a doctor, but I've had a look online.
Yeah, right.
And that's what actually made me look up this
when I was playing with my sore knee yesterday.
Is this the fact of the day?
This is today's fact of the day.
And I was thinking about why do we have a kneecap but not an elbow cap?
Essentially, the same sort of joint.
Back, forward, a little bit.
The hip and the shoulder are similar.
Isn't that the elbow, the kneecap kind of same deal?
There's no cap.
There's no cap on the elbow.
Oh, there's no cap.
And there's a kneecap, but there's no elbow cap.
Why?
Well, this is what Dr. Nathaniel Martin at the Science Museum said.
The kneecap is a sesamoid bone,
which means that unlike most bones in the body,
it grows within the tendons that attach muscles to certain joints.
Right.
That's a lot to take on there at this time of day
in a completely sober state, Nathaniel Martin.
So human knees are under a great amount of stress due to walking upright.
Yeah.
So if we didn't have a kneecap, the knee would be more likely to,
like the pressure would go either side.
You'd look like a robot walking or something.
It would be a little bit looser.
But it is only a back and forward joint.
Yeah, right.
Primarily.
So without the kneecap, the stresses would go in other ways.
So the kneecap's kind of like a cover
that keeps it in place,
whereas the elbow doesn't have that amount
of ongoing stress on it,
unless we start walking on our hands
for a few hundred thousand years,
and then we might develop one.
It's a lot of effort to go to get an elbow cap.
Yeah.
So our knees also face forward,
which is the same direction that we
crawl. So in the crawling and our
elbows face backward.
Yeah. So the knee pad evolved
to, the knee cap evolved to protect
the knee, whereas the elbows didn't require such protection.
Unless you're crawling on your elbows. So that's why
there's now an answer to a question that you probably
never asked.
So today's fact of the day is we don't have an elbow cap.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah.
So there's three things that you could be doing,
sneaky habits that are sabotaging your relationship,
and it might not even be a big deal at the moment.
Oh, God, this is bad.
But it will be.
This is bad timing because, Vaughan,
it's your 11-year wedding anniversary tomorrow.
What if you're doing something to sabotage it?
Good timing to change your habits and turn this around.
Yeah, but why change your winning formula as well?
Exactly, don't mess with the winning formula.
Well, it's winning
until she files for divorce,
isn't it?
Fair call.
If she can find me.
You're pretty going to be
in the tree hut.
Damn it!
That was my number one hiding spot.
Don't you tell her
I'm in the tree hut.
Number one is you ignore
your partner's interests.
She ignores my interests.
Does she? Aww. She justores my interests. Does she?
Oh, she just doesn't like your nerd stuff.
I get it.
You know what I'm talking about?
Dungeons and Dragons.
Because you go on about barbecuing and...
But she gets the benefits of the barbecue.
She does.
Correct.
What does she get from Dungeons and Dragons?
Yeah, there's no benefits to having a husband that's into D&D.
That's true.
Yeah, that's true.
It's a free time. So yeah, you can have having a husband that's into D&D. That's true. Yeah, that's true.
So yeah, you can have different interests and that is really normal,
but a lack of acknowledgement for your partner's interests can eventually add up to feeling that their passions
or themselves are unaccepted in your relationship.
Just give them a, oh, that's cool.
That's from a therapist.
Oh, you're good at relationships, Fletch.
You should definitely listen to your opinion. Oh, that's cool at relationships, Fletch. You should definitely listen to your opinion.
Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's cool.
Does that not work?
Oh.
The second sneaky habit
that could be sabotaging your relationship
is something that I got taught
when I went to couple therapy
for my first time around.
Obviously didn't do a very good job at it,
but they said that you should say
thank you for all the small things.
So make sure you're acknowledging your partner
and they feel acknowledged in the relationship.
Now, where is
your first husband? Because I just
posted on Instagram before. He's always posting
amazing... Was it Abu Dhabi?
No, Saudi Arabia?
You told me. Not because I'm
looking at his profile.
You love to keep me up to date where he is.
He's in the desert filming a movie.
He's got great photos.
Cool.
Sorry, carry on.
I do like your photos.
You're supposed to
give thanks
and appreciate all the little things
because you end up treating
your acquaintances better than your partner
sometimes. You don't say thank you for doing the dishes.
But then you don't get given a chance half the time
because when you get home,
they list all the things that they've done
that you need to thank them for
and then want a medal.
You're big on that, wanting a medal.
Always.
I've mowed the lawns.
I've emptied the dishwasher.
Cool.
I mow the lawns for my own personal satisfaction.
Dishes are everything else. It's just personal zen, isn mow the lawns for my own personal satisfaction. Dish is everything else.
It's just personal zen, isn't it?
Yeah, that's my zen time.
And the last sneaky habit that could be sabotaging your relationship
is you've got on lax about your personal hygiene.
Oh, I thought it was going to be sleeping with someone else.
It literally says here,
skipping the occasional shower isn't a big deal,
but do it long term and it could be a cause of serious conflict
in your relationship.
What did you say earlier?
It was Sunday night a couple of weeks ago and I was like,
I haven't showered this weekend.
This weekend?
Yeah, I think I showered like Friday night
and then didn't shower again until Sunday.
Were you like doing gardening?
Nah, it wasn't a super sweaty weekend.
It was pretty chill and I had a swim.
Oh, okay. Well, that's alright then.
I did water touch my nether regions.
At some stage.
Yeah, right. Okay. So, semi-clean.
But just smelling like chlorine.
Ah, no.
It was salt. Oh, okay.
You brushed your teeth though.
I earthed. I grounded. Oh, did you?
Oh, that's good. I grounded.
And your crystals are recharged, aren't they?
Absolutely top notch.
Okay, good to know.
Chipper charged.
Ready to party, baby.
Keep a tab on the personal hygiene.
Yeah, that's actually a good call.
Nine minutes away from nine next on the show.
Something that we saw yesterday.
That made us all go, oh!
CDM's Fletchborn and Megan.
Yesterday after the show, we went to a cafe across the road from work
and we were sat outside waiting, because you can't go inside,
waiting for our order.
And it's always amazed me the cafe over the road from work's got retractable bollards.
Bollards are those big poles that stop you going somewhere.
Yeah.
They're going to park those things that stop you driving your car
from the car park into the grassed area.
That's a bollard.
Yeah, they don't want, like, anyone coming off the road
just parking in their car park.
So you've got to get out of your car if you don't have a remote
and you punch the number into the keypad.
Yeah.
And then the things disappear into the ground, you drive in,
and then they come back up.
But there must also be a remote for it, that one across the road.
Yeah, because I've seen someone not get out of their car.
Well, that guy pulled up and then sat in his car for a bit,
then got out as the bollards were going down.
So I wonder if he was clicking the remote and it wasn't happening.
Maybe.
You might be able to see where this is going.
So we sat outside, and I'd never seen the bollards retract.
I'd seen them retracted.
It's pretty exciting.
It's cool.
What does that look like underground?
Oh, yeah.
It must be quite deep.
They must have to dig a big hole.
At least twice the height of the bollard.
Once they're down, is it a, they see the car go over or is it a timer?
That's what I think because there's sensors on the top.
There's sensors front and back.
So like a foot or two before the bollards come out of the ground,
there's a line,
an invisible line,
a sensor.
Yeah.
So this guy gets out
and the bollards are already down
and he punches in the code
and they go back up
and he's like,
oh God,
and they go back up
and he's like,
oh God,
and he punches in the code again
and now I know the code.
Yeah.
Which is very,
again,
very exciting to know a code.
Yeah.
And then he drives in.
Then another car comes in off the road at speed.
And she's like, bollards are down.
I better hurry up.
And as she gets off the road,
so I'm imagining now the bollards have disappeared behind her bonnet from view.
The bollards start going up.
Oh, it was so exciting.
We were all watching.
Because I've seen a lot of YouTube videos in Europe.
They mustn't have the sensors or whatever,
but I've seen so many cars tipped over.
You should Google it.
It's amazing.
Once they start coming up,
there's no stopping them in this video.
So that's my immediate like split second thought
is we're about to see someone cake it.
Cake it.
And they were driving. They got the front wheels over and the bollards were still kind of like. Cake it. And they were driving, they got the front wheels over
and the bollards were still kind of like...
Coming up.
Coming up.
Yeah.
And then it must have been the pressure of the wheel
on the bollard that made the bollard machine be like,
oh, actually, I better retract.
And instead of pulling back down, I was like, no!
But the car did rip off the top of one of them.
Yeah, knocked the top off the sensor.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Must have been on the other side.
If the driver had been like a couple of seconds later,
I reckon it would have absolutely ripped all the underneath of their car off.
Or it would have bellied the car out or just done some great...
You know one of those car noises when it like scrapes and bang.
And there were people next to us as well and everybody was just like...
Did that person ever like come back and look?
Did they realise why we were screaming?
They stayed in their car.
I think they were a little embarrassed.
Oh, I thought they went to the office out the back.
Oh, did they?
I think they got out.
Oh, because I was looking for them.
I was like, I want to see who this was.
And they were just in a hurry.
They didn't come and put the cap back on the bollard.
I don't think they knew that they knocked the cap off the bollard.
What are they even yelling at?
That's dream stuff.
Here's what I want to see.
I want to see someone take their car on the bollards. Like the bollards are What are they even yelling at? That's dream stuff. Here's what I want to see. I want to see someone cake their car on the bollards.
Like the bollards are coming out.
They can't see it.
Maybe the front of the car just like cakes it
and the back of it.
I want them to hit it so hard
the back of the car goes jump, bang.
Yeah.
And they're like, oh God.
And then steam comes out of the radiator.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a dream.
Second dream.
I want to see someone drive full noise
through a barrier arm.
Not like a slow dislodging of a barrier arm.
I think I've seen that.
I think I've seen a barrier arm.
I've seen the aftermath of the broken barrier arm.
Yeah, very expensive.
If you're going to break a barrier arm,
you might as well hit it and explode it to a million pieces.
I want to see that.
And what I really want to see is somebody drive the wrong way
over those spikes that stop you driving back in.
Why are they so destructive and aggressive?
I don't know.
I want to see someone hit road spikes as well.
I want to see.
Full noise and then just.
Yeah.
I want to see someone hit the back of that thing that comes down on the truck with the
big flashy light on it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's got to be close.
You know when they spring it in case they get hit?
Yeah.
Like motorway roadworks trucks.
I don't want anyone to be hurt, but I just want to see these things in a controlled situation.
I want to see someone drive along the road and there's one of those
car carrying trucks unloading
and it looks like a ramp. I want to see someone hit it.
And just drive up onto it? No, I just don't want to
drip over it. Oh, just do a jump.
And maybe miscalculate the whole thing and take half of the truck
cab with it.
And then land on bollards that are coming up.
Yeah, right. I'd be like,
and die a happy man. I think you'd be great working on
Michael Bay movies. I would love it. I'd love the honour. I'd be like... And die a happy man. You'd be great working on Michael Bay movies.
I would love it.
I'd love the honour.
I'd love the honour.