ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 14th December 2021

Episode Date: December 13, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fleets, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe, great barista made coffee on the go. Yeah, I'm off home now. Teacher Vaughan's stepping back up for a swift lesson in Fortnite trios. No, I thought that everyone was back to school. Well, it's the girls' last day of school tomorrow,

and lately they've just come home every day With we watched a movie today And I asked them what movie they watched Right So all that learning that was missed out on They've certainly made up for that Haven't they in the last Yeah

Oh I bet that's the other thing They just said there's so many kids Who just haven't come back Really Yeah And I can totally understand why Yeah If you lived in an area with low vaccine rates

Or like where you know Yeah Numbers of COVID have been concentrated I can totally understand why. Yeah. If you lived in an area with low vaccine rates or like where, you know, numbers of COVID have been concentrated, I can totally understand. If you can, you know, obviously afford not to send your kids back. Yeah. But why aren't they at school today? Well, it's pissing down. What, so there's no school when it's raining now? Well, they've been in small bubbles and they've been distanced from other bubbles with limited numbers of kids in each bubble predominantly outside lessons but it's heaving down

so now you've got to put up with kids all day we can use this to my advantage Fortnite Fortnite trios Is August good at Fortnite though? Indy's not bad though Indy's a real gun

Takes after old man doesn't she, on the Fortnite. Oh, doesn't she, on the Fortnite. But yeah, August is, she's in training. Could you imagine sitting down and playing PlayStation with your parents? No. No, neither. My dad liked it. We used to get a PlayStation 1 out and get Need for Speed and just spend all weekend

doing donuts. Yeah. And every now and then he'd walk past the TV and be like, is that a bloody lamborghini or something like that yeah is that a bloody mustang and then would watch us do doughies but he'd never try he'd never pick up the controllers that's weird i don't he wouldn't know he wouldn't know what the hell was going on and that was when the controllers were significantly more simple than they are now but yeah so off home what are you off home to do probably have a nap to be honest Probably have a nap to be honest Probably on the list

Probably have a nap to be honest I probably should go to the gym Yeah it's a farce that that thing's open when it's raining I know Really layers on the guilt doesn't it? You know like we had like a hundred and something days of no gym And you're like god when that gym opens I'm gonna be there every day

And today I'm like you know what? Nap time Yeah it's a nap day. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch Vaughan and Megan. Three minutes past six.

Good morning. Good morning. Coming up on the show, before seven, your chance to win. All thanks to McCafe With our Christmas balls On the Christmas tree Numbered Prizes behind each of them You've just got to get through

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The top six on the way. Yeah, coming up in the top six, the other colours that should have been colour of the year. Actually, the colour of the year, much like your T-shirt there. Oh, I think it's a slightly... Maybe. It's called periwinkle blue, but it's far more of a light purple. Like a light lavender. Yeah.

It's been compared to the Friends store. You know, the apartment. I couldn't tell you what colour the door was on Friends. In the apartment. Yeah, I got shown the photo of the inside of Monica's door. Yeah. Once you see the photo, you're like, oh, you're that door. You're like, oh, yeah, that.

Oh, yeah, that door. Yeah, it's not really a blue. It's far more of a purple. Yeah. I feel like blue's misleading. Right. Is it Pantone that do these? Yes, Pantone does its colour of the year.

So it's got to be one of their colours? They Pantone isn't a brand. No. No. Pantone's not I don't believe Pantone's a brand. It's like an institute. Right, a colour institute. It's like

Unicode look after emojis. They look after colours. These guys look after colours. Oh, okay. I think. Are they like the Razine colour chart people? It sounds like Razine because of Pantone and you're thinking Pantene keeps your hair the right colour. Is that how I got there? Yeah.

But I'll do some more research into... I've just made a huge assumption here that Pantone is some sort of independent colour body. But I could be completely wrong. All right, we're dealing with the colour of the year in the top six soon, but next on the show. Yeah, the regions of New Zealand buying the most sex toys. Yay, yay, yay.

Is your home region in there? No, we are all satisfied by fellow home region lovers. Right. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan Adult toy megastore Which I always bugger up when I try to say that without reading it Right I always say adult fun toy

Fun toys I get flustered You do I get so flustered at the thought of a big warehouse full of dildos And other sex toys Because they've sent out their end of year stats. And if you know me, you know I love stats. I can't read out all of the top ten sex toys.

There's a couple in there that I didn't even know. Things like this were on the market. I had no idea. You've been frantically Googling and realised that workers blocked a lot of things. You had to get on your phone to Google. I had to go on my phone and go on 5G to load those up. I had some questions answered and some eyebrows raised. You've educated yourself. Yeah.

So they've not only looked at the top toys, but the regions in New Zealand that buy the most. They've got the top regions, but the thing I find more interesting is the biggest increase in um adult fun toy sales okay year on year yeah 2020 to 2021 okay kai koe in northland a 46 increase well there have been a lot of lockdowns yeah i hope all those people well maybe they are vaccinated they're not, so they're staying at home. Yeah.

And playing with themselves. Yeah. You can't give yourself COVID, can you? It certainly sounds like it. Can you? No. COVID, you can't get it from yourself. Lincoln and Canterbury.

Isn't that where the agricultural colleges? Well, yeah, there's a lot of farming. Yeah, a lot of farming. Yeah. You've got to relieve that stress of the farming. You've got to get home. It takes up, you know, you work from sunup till sundown it's hard to find a partner. Come home, one's

been charging all day. Hello! Walkworth in Auckland. That's probably because Art and Matilda moved up there. Right, do you think they're influencing the market? Well, no, I'm just thinking, you imagine you're out and Art Green walks past, probably in a singlet,

probably catch a bit of sideness. He doesn't even wear a singlet when it's hot. A lot of the times he's topless and then you've got to get home and finish yourself off. Right, so you think that's the Adam Matilda influence. Yeah. There alone, okay. Hallensville, rural West Auckland.

This is where, like, just out, this is where I go for my rural supplies. Okay. And no wonder sometimes it takes a while, this is where I go for my rural supplies. Okay. And no wonder sometimes it takes a while to get some service. Everybody's playing with themselves. 32% increase. Year on year. These are all very, what I would say,

is conservative. I would have imagined they're- Rural. Rural. And conservative areas. Daryl, I'm thinking of buying myself a Satisfoyer Pro 2. Oh, yeah. Do I not please you anymore, Cheryl? Daryl, it's not about

that. Think of him as a co-worker, and I will call him Chenning Tatum. You work together. Yeah, you two should work together to satisfy me. Paihe Tua is very interesting

It's also had a 31% increase So you can go what For a tour of the Tuui Brewery And then go home And finish yourself off I don't know I don't know But that's the sort of area

Down there To the east of Palmy Right okay Again Very rural I'm pleased to see The rest is pretty rural as well Okay

Tikawiti is even on the list, they've had an uptick. Yeah. Yeah. And Waimati, just out of Timaru. Yeah, right. A lot of rural areas. I'm loving that these rural people are finding themselves some sexual relief. Was there some kind of advertising campaign during country calendar or something?

Maybe. Or the RD1 mail out. Or have, yeah. PGG Rights Centre. Like, hey, we've got a special on foot. And why not show your loved ones that they can have fun while you're out there working the land. They can be inside working their land. So those are the big. Wow.

But anyway, the New Zealand regions that had the most. Yeah. Kind of should be no surprise. It's kind of basically how our population goes fungada napier lower heart tauranga palmer's the north actually i would have expected tauranga to be higher than palmer's the north but maybe older older population uh palmer's the north dunedin hamilton wellington christchurch and at two in auckland auckland bought the most but then there's been they've been the most locked down region, so not surprising.

Did they have a big up crease? An increase? No, no, no. Not as much as those other regions. Right, an already flooded market. Well, yeah, everybody just absolutely grinding down the gears on the Satisfyer Pro 2 and needing to get themselves a new one. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan.

Well, a survivor, a contestant on a series of Survivor has gone viral on TikTok after she claims producers made her wear the same pair of underwear that were also the, that doubled as swimwear. So undies plus togs. Yeah. Throughout the entire filming. 38 days.

Did they have a sea swim? Was it a sea survivor? Was there a washable situation? Yeah, I'm sure it was by the sea. Aren't they all by the sea? Some of them are by rivers. I don't know. And mountains.

No, they're all. See, I don't watch. I don't watch Survivor. Neither. But there must have been a jungle one where there was water, but it was like a bit iffy. Well, yeah, apparently other contestants as well have said this happened to them. Okay. So she apparently complained at day 32

and producers gave her antibiotics for the UTI and said she could have another pair of undies, but they stomped on them in the mud to make them dirty so no one would notice. Well, no, you don't. One of your undies is the last ones are dirty and you've got a urinary tract infection. I don't imagine stomping the next pair into the mud is going to be suitable. Ah, no. Yeah, so see, there you go.

It's just another reason I wouldn't do Survivor or any of those kind of shows. Horrible. I would have gone, if I was thinking what I would wear if it was warm enough, I'd wear a, I wouldn't wear undies, I don't think. I'd just wear a tog with a supportive. Oh, no, but the mesh, that's like a grater. Unless you get a fine mesh. What about just a loose-fitting pair of shorts?

Yeah. With no undies? Yeah, sure. Or just have undies if you need them and dry them out and wash them. Were they allowed to take two pairs of undies? What survivors take on undies? Well, I don't know. It doesn't sound like it.

They were allowed one pair of clothes. What is this survivor contestant after? New undies. Publicity? Money? I think she was just doing a Q&A about Survivor and someone was like, well, what's the situation with the undies? Is it true? You've got to wear them for 38 days.

So you're already like, starving. Yeah. And then struggling to survive, and then you get a urinary tract infection, which I've never had, but friends have told me very unpleasant. It sounds, well, she says here it's 24 hours of just pain.

It's horrible. They give her some cranberry juice. Is it cranberry juice? I think so, but they just say antibiotics here. Right. But then that, the cranberry juice is just sugar, isn't it really? Yeah. Cranberry flavoured, it's not. Jenny So found that out, didn't she? No, that was Ribena.

But isn't that not cranberries? No, that's, um, I don't know what that is. No, Ribena's cranberries. Is it? No, isn't Ribena? It's Blackcurrant. Blackcurrant. So Blackcurrant won't clear up a urinary tract infection? No. Have you tried? Both of you shook your head in a disappointing,

unfortunately, a Ribena bath did nothing. Nah, in uni I tried it. Can confirm, no results. You tried a Ribena cure. Alternative because it was cheaper. Did you try Tropical Raro? I drew the line there. Wait, so what's in,

I've forgotten the berry, the cranberries. What's in cranberry juice that makes the UTI go away? And it is just drinking it, right? Yeah. It's not splashing it. On you. You don't... Absolutely not, sir.

Well, I don't know. How does it work? What do you think? You pour it on. Goodness me. Get ants there. Yeah, famously, I always have...ash Numraro on my genitals as some sort of hope for all cure,

and I wake up absolutely pilfered by ants. From the exotic ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hey! I said I was going to look into what Pantone was because I believed it was like Unicode. It was some sort of international ruling body on colors. Yeah. It is a limited liability company, so it's a company.

Yeah. It is best known for its Pantone matching system, a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing, manufacturing. So it is kind of the hard and fast rule on what colors are what. Okay. And how many cyan's go in and how many of the different color combinations. Right. And they've named their color of the year.

I remember they did this last year. Forget the color though. I actually found out what their color was last year. This year it's kind of like a purpley blue. It is. Is that what they're saying? Classic blue was their colour in 2020. It evoked a calm, confidence connection and a sense of thoughtful stability

as we embark on the next decade. Classic blue. They've got a real thing for sort of like blues. Yeah, right. 2019 it was coral, living coral. Ultraviolet in 2018, greenery. Oh, nicer times.

In 2017, greenery's nice. Rose quartz and serenity, a double winner there in 2016. So what's this year's colour called? 2021 colour of the year. I've got a billion bloody tabs open. Ultimate grey.

No, they were already predicting next year. I don't want grey. Oh, that's a horrible colour. I want grey. That's ominous. Yeah. No, this one is called periwinkle blue. Right.

Periwinkle blue, but it's far more of a purple. Don't let the blue fool you. So the top six other colours that should have been colour of the year for 2021. Number six, COVID Warning Yellow. Yeah. That vibrant white and yellow combination that we see often with a diagonal stripe. Yeah, it's a classic. Yeah, that colour is wasted now.

Every time I see that colour on anything that's not a sign. You think you're about to get an update. Yeah, exactly. You think you're about to get an update. Yeah, exactly. You think you're about to be told something. Number five on the list of the top six other colours that should have been Pantone's colour of the year 2021. Traffic light red orange. Yeah.

Or orange. Orange. Halfway between red and orange. It's kind of like a blood. Blood orange. Yeah, like a blood orange. It's a nice colour. Yeah.

Really eye-catching. Number four on the list of the top six other colours that should have been colour of the year. Long-tailed bat brown. Of course, to celebrate the fact that a bat won bird of the year. Yeah, it did, didn't it? And it's sort of a brownie. That was controversial. Very.

I think one of the years more controversial decisions. Number three on the list celebrates a holiday we're about to have next year. The top six other colours that should have been colour of the years. More controversial. Yeah, decisions. Number three on the list celebrates a holiday we're about to have next year. The top six are like other colours that should have been colour of the year. Matariki, bluey white.

Oh yeah, nice. People are quick to call a star yellow. But not too many stars are yellow. Most have a bluey white twinkling to them. I'm excited for another

public holiday next year. Me too. Sounds great. Me too. Number great. Me too. Number two on the list of the top six. I'm excited. I've had all regions down because we tried to start a tradition in 2020 with the Labor Weekend Hangi.

Horribly, horribly wrong. Went terribly. I'm thinking Matariki is the new holiday where I try to get the old Matariki Weekend Hangi happening. In a sodden ground. Oh, he's asking for trouble. Now you need a little bit of water in the ground

though because of the steam. You might want to seal it in. I know how upset you were when you last hungied. Horrendously upset. Horrendously upset. Number two on the list of the top six other colours

that should have been colour of the year. Vaccine green. It's just green because green's calming and green rhymes with vaccine. Yeah.

So that's why I went for it. And the emoji. What emoji? Oh no, that's the virus one. That greenie. That's a greenie. You could be destroying that green.

And number one on the list of the top six other colours that should have been colour of the year, Lisa Carrington gold in at place number one. That should be the colour of the year for New Zealand.

A massive haul for Lisa Carrington this year. That is today's top six. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Well, tomorrow, things open up a bit for people living in Auckland. And 12,000 people are expected to fly. A 400% increase in jet flights across New Zealand from December 15. Is that when Jetstar are opening back up again,

aren't they? Yeah. Because they've been waiting until the borders open. Yeah. They want to have a race. So it's all go. They want to have a race with their New Zealand planes

down the country. Do they do that? I think they do that. They're going to have a race. They're going to have a drag race. They're going to take off at the same time. Yep. Drag race.

On the same runway. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, they're going gonna start with their wings touching okay like paul walker and vin diesel in the first fast and the furious yeah and the jet star pilots an undercover cop that ends up right really falling for the family okay right then they'll drink coronas around some sort of fire that they've lit in some sort of makeshift brazier yeah life is not a fast and the furious movie va, Vaughn. I'm pretty sure it is. Okay. Well, because of that increase in jet flights,

the Civil Aviation, or throw the Aviation Security Service, have just given everybody a little bit of a reminder of what you can and can't take on a plane. In a segment called, Can I Take This on a Plane? And they said, We don't want to be the Christmas Grinch, but every year our aviation security officers remove well-intended gifts and items from people's luggage because they aren't safe to take on an aircraft. Like what, a chainsaw for dad or something?

You've got to check your chainsaws in. Okay, that falls under tools and power tools. Put these gifts in your check-in bag. Some tools and power tools can go and carry on, but the rules around metal shaft lengths on screwdrivers, trizzles and drill bits, I'm imagining also chainsaws. Yep. They're not allowed to be taken on flight,

but batteries, things like sometimes the batteries have to be checked in. Yeah, they do, yeah. Electronic items. If you're taking a phone, a tablet, airpods or a power bank as a gift for Christmas, they need to go and carry on not in checked. Yes, they do.

Because of the lithium batteries, which are classed as dangerous goods. Because I think I was checking in. It's weird at Wellington Airport, they scan your bags for batteries. Because remember, I had to go back and get some batteries that we checked in.

Yeah. But like nowhere else does that. Oh, like our actual carry-on. You know, they have that little scanner thing. Wellington's the only place that made me take my boots off too because they couldn't see my ankles. I was like, you flirt.

They were flirting. I think they were just flirting with you. Take your boots too because they couldn't see my ankles. I was like, you flirt. They were flirting. I think they were just flirting with you. Take your boots off because we need to see your ankles. I was like, oh. What is that, the 1920s? Party poppers and fireworks? I don't think you can take those on. That's a no-no. That's a no-no. That's a no-no for check-in or

carry-on. Yeah, batteries. There's a massive thing on batteries. The number one item that causes problems at screening points is batteries. Now, this is where I need to break the hearts of young Padawans and Jedis in training. Okay. You are not allowed to take lightsabers on board the plane. Why not? That seems bloody stupid. Nerf guns, toy guns, lightsabers, and toy swords.

You can't take a toy sword. You can't take a toy sword. You can't take a Nerf gun on board. That's stupid. No, you can check it in. Oh, you should be able to take that on. No, you can't. It's a Nerf gun. Popping around projectiles.

Calm down. No, I'm a huge Nerf fan. What, are you going to leap me into the cockpit? I've got a foam dart here. No. I'll do it. It's just about shooting it about. I mean,

they say... Do you reckon a nerf dart could go the entire length of an A320? A320. From the back galley? Do you know what? My nerf experience,

the nerfs that get you the best yardage are the single shot nerfs. The ones that you cock back and you shoot in one shot. Oh, you're not the ones

with the magazine. Not the automated ones. The minute you're automated, I think you shoot at one shot. Not the ones with the magazine. Not the automated ones. Yeah, right. The minute you're automated, I think you lose a bit of power for the fact that it's either an engine driving it. Okay. Or, you know, multiple springs being loaded. Check those. Yeah, you're not allowed to take those on flight.

They said even gimmicky gifts that look like the real deal. We often see plastic grenades and fake guns that hold liquids. Oh, right. Those need to be in your checked bag. Yeah, right. Just describe water pistols there. Yeah, they have.

Fake guns that hold liquids. Could have just said realistic looking water pistols. Yeah. So, yeah, no lightsabers on board. Jedi around the world

very upset about that. And don't forget as well the eNew Zealand you can download the app too because, man, I'm just saying it's going to be carnage with lines and all these people that haven't got their vaccine passports loaded. I mean, As well, the e-New Zealand, you can download the app too. Because, Matt, I'm just saying it's going to be carnage. Yeah.

With lines and all these people that haven't got their vaccine passports loaded. I mean, you're not flying tomorrow, but I'd imagine you'd be very orderly grunting at the fact. I'll give this. And I bet you they've only got one bloody thing open. That's what I was going to say. How many x-rays and scans and bag scans have they got open? I bet you they've got one thing open. I reckon they'll have them all open tomorrow. I think they'll leave one shut just as a power play.

Right. As a power play. Hot play. Hot play for them. Flash Warner Megan's Christmas Balls. McCafe Christmas Balls. This week it's your chance to win a whole bunch of cool prizes from McCafe. Good morning, Kate.

How are you? I'm good, thank you. Good. Now, we've got our Christmas Trance studio. We've got lots of Christmas balls. There's like gold, green, red, silver. What colour do you want? I'm going to go for gold.

Gold. Go for gold. Vaughan's going to get over there, his stretchy headphone cord reaches. He's got a gold ball. You have won a month's worth of McCafe coffee from McCafe Plus. A Fuji Instax mini Polaroid camera. Oh my God, thank you. Well done.

Don't throw that away. Throw that back at the tree. That's somebody else's problem now. Well done, Kate. Another chance for you to win tomorrow. All thanks to McCafe. Spoiler alert, because the episode is less than a week old, although if you've been on the internet,

it would have been pretty hard to avoid this as a sex and the city. Spoiler alert. Three, two, one. Okay, so in episode one of this reboot of Sex and the City. Spoiler alert. Three, two, one. Okay, so in episode one of this reboot of Sex and the City, Big died. Mr. Big. Mr. Big? Executive intern, aren't you, who is all over.

Can we call him Big or Mr. Big? We call him Big when we're on content. Because Mr. Big was that band, right? Yeah. That 90s band. They were a band. They played that song. Mr. Big.

And so he died on a Peloton or just after a Peloton workout. Now Peloton, I read Peloton had no idea why HBO wanted their Peloton and said, is it alright if we reference Peloton? And Peloton's just like, in what? And they said it's in

Sex and the City. And Peloton were like, holy shit, yes. Absolutely. Who's going to be watching this? Middle-aged woman. Who are the easiest to talk into getting fitness gear that they'll use once and then never use again? Middle-aged woman. Because these are like exercise bikes like you go to a spin class and

use and they have a screen and you subscribe to all these classes, you do it. They took off during the pandemic. Everyone was getting them. So he does one of those and then has a heart attack and dies. Not a good look. And the city Peloton

were like, you sons of guns. Because the share price went down like 20, 30%. People were just like, oh, these things are bad. Probably a great time to have bought Peloton.

What's it done now? Can you have a look at the Peloton shares? Is that something you can quickly look up? Well, enter Ryan Reynolds. No, still down.

Still down. In fact, yep, lower than. How many money are my shares? I'm going to buy some, and then we can keep an eye on it. Are you able to buy them? Is that one of the shares you can buy? You can buy American shares now. So last Wednesday, $46.

And they did go up a bit yesterday to $40, but they're down to $38. And a low of 37. What's it called? Peloton. Peloton Interactive? P-T-O-N is their NASDAQ number. Okay. Yeah, it's well down.

Are you going to buy some? I'm going to buy 10 US dollars worth. Jeez. Okay. So you're buying a third of a share of Peloton. You are absolutely the wolf of Wall Street. Oh, God, I've never bought an American share before. I have to sign up for a tax thing.

Woo-hoo, you can now invest in US shares. That didn't take long, but I also didn't read anything. Hon, let's do this after the show. No, Hon. Now, Hon. Hon, after the show. Hon, $10 US. Review, buy.

This could be my retirement. Well, I mean, yeah. It's ordered. I am now an investor in Peloton. Well, enter Ryan Reynolds advertising agency. Han. Six months ago, those shares were $112. And now how much are they?

$38. It's going back up. Buy low. Buy low. Sell high. Am I doing it right? Yeah, I think you're doing it right Yeah sure

Alright well Ryan Reynolds has an advertising agency Called Maximum Effort Yeah And it was just cause I don't know He wasn't busy enough Being an actor

And everything Yeah That anybody ever asked him to be in He doesn't seem to say no to anybody Well And then he sold his aviation gin Yeah For more than 600 million dollars

See why bother? And well then he sold his aviation gin for more than $600 million. See, why bother? And well, then he did an advertising agency. Enter advertising agency to save the day with a Peloton ad. Yeah. An ad has been made for Peloton featuring Big and an attractive younger lover. Oh, okay. And he says to her, should we go for another ride? Insinuating sex.

Right. But he's not. He's talking about a Peloton in the background. And then into Ryan Reynolds saying that, see, Peloton's good at cycling. Cycling gives you a healthy heart rate, blood circulation, and then lists all the positives of Peloton. Right. Now, I'm almost positive that must have been in the bag

before the sex and the city episode came out. Yeah, they must have known. Otherwise, they would have turned it around in less than 48 hours. Amazing if they did. Yeah. Truly amazing if they did. Well it hasn't done anything for the share price. Well now that I'm on board. You've watched Confidence in the

Shares go up through the roof. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan. Well the results are in from the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project. Now, this is a 12-year study by Australian sceptics and they have delved into predictions from psychics

and I've got the findings and you, Vaughan Smith, I know, as cynical as me, are going to love these findings. Very much a sceptic. So, they have found that so-called psychic predictions are only correct 11% of the time. Okay.

And that's probably a fluke, really, when you think about it. 10%, probably. Do they go into how specific they had to be, or is that even just only correct even in a broad stroke? So the survey looked at just under 4,000 predictions that were made between 2000 and 2020 by more than 200 Australian psychics. So they trawled through news articles,

magazines, TV, radio, websites, YouTube, social media to compile a list of all the predictions and they found 11% of the predictions were correct, 15% were expected, as in they were just stating the obvious. Right, yeah. Like tomorrow morning I believe the sun will come up. Come up.

Yeah. 19% were too vague. Yep. Well, that's the key though, isn't it? It's vagueness. And then the person who wants to believe puts the magnifying glass over it and is like, see? Yeah, 2% were unknown,

but 53% of those predictions were just flat out wrong. Okay. Some good stats there. Yeah, good stats. So, I mean, if you're paying money to these people, you're just absolutely wasting your time because they are absolutely having a shot in the dark. Because in the New Zealand Skeptic Society,

I love that there's international societies of skeptics. Yeah. But didn't they look into, I saw something recently about sensing murder for them, about however many. Oh, really? There still hasn't been a crime solved. Yeah.

Everybody got so fizzed on sensing murder, but it was nothing more than, you know. Well, it's just entertainment, isn't it? Well, exactly. And it was hitting all the emotional hotspots that people, you know, somebody's missing. Well, yeah, this kind of thing preys on vulnerable people because they want answers. And, you know, if someone says to you, I'll help you find your lost dead mum, you'd be like, sure, why not? Tried everything else. Yeah. Had a couple of things that mums always like.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm seeing a flower. Oh, my mum did like flowers. She did, yeah. It's a bit of a different one. Is it a hydrangea? It is. I think it's a hydrangea. Oh, mum loved hydrangeas.

Yeah. This comes from a guy who every week or so bullshits a whole bunch of lists of your mum's names and chances are they're going to be on there somewhere. So... Yeah. Yeah. Fletchbourne and Megan's Community Notices.

Hi and welcome to Community Notices, a segment of the show where we see what's happening around New Zealand according to local Facebook pages. Is that my fastest yet? It is, yeah. Let's pop down to Twizzle. I believe it's pronounced Twizzle.

It is, yeah. Named after the Twizzle sticks that you put on cocktails to give them a little bit of a stir. Of course, it was where there used to be a Twizzle forest where Twizzle sticks grew naturally. Yeah, they got rid of that forest, didn't they? It's a real shame. It really is.

The native twizzle stick tree, sadly missed. RIP. Ashley writes, does, oh no, Paul writes, does anyone in Twizel know Alice? If you do, could you pop around to the Takapu Drive area and tell the people at the party? They seem to really want to know who the F Alice is. Oh, I see.

Someone's made a dad joke, haven't they? Yeah. Well, there's a party and they're obviously singing that party classic. It's a sing-along, Chris. Three to four years I've lived next door to Alice. And then you fill in the bit. Alice. Who the F is Alice?

And they must have been really cranking that. Yeah. Well, Paul wanted the answer and Ashley gave it to him. On behalf of the party on Tekapo Drive, we would like to thank you for your concern of Alice. I am pleased to inform the community we now know who Alice is. We've found Alice and she is safe. Good.

So there you go. Alice is accounted for. This is worrying. Beach Haven and Birkdale community, we've both lived there, haven't we? We have, yeah. At different stages of our life. They're just west of dirty old Glenfield. Yeah.

Well, Beach Haven and Birkdale community mocks us off for a morning run. I'm just going on a morning run and I found this sleeping beauty, drunken girl sleeping on the grass. Does anyone know her? I'm concerned about her safety. And there was somebody kipped out on the grass. Oh, goodness. And you know what?

Here's the other thing. Yeah. It was a very dewy morning. Oh, no. A very dewy morning. That person's going to wake up wet. I've never woken up on a lawn. I've always managed to find a bed, my bed.

I've had naps. Naps on lawns. You had to sleep behind a service station once, didn't you? I've slept under a coal sack. It was a freeze too cold for dew that morning. That would have been a straight up frost, but I had some cover over my head. But I don't know. I need to know that person got all right.

Browns Bay, North Shore. Greg's got a question. Does anyone know what this traffic sign on Oak Tree means? And it's a go with RY above it. A go? Is it a traffic light? No and it's a go with RY above it. A go? Is it a traffic light? No, it's a stop-go sign. Right.

And it says RY. That's not te reo for go. No. There's no Y, is there? No, you're right. There's no Y in the Māori alphabet, so it wouldn't be. RY.

Was there an answer? No, nobody knew. so it wouldn't be. RY. Was there an answer? No, nobody knew. Maybe it's the company that owns the sign. RY signs. I don't know, but if anybody does know, now it's a question I have. It says go underneath that. RY? Is that Ryan Manning the sign?

Has RY gone and customised his Stop Go sign? Greg, everybody else wants to know now too. Greg's burdened us all. He has. Okay, Barbara's got a question on the Lincoln, New Zealand page. Now, you remember Lincoln we've already mentioned on the show because it skyrocketed in the adult toy megastore. Charts, yeah. Charts for places that bought adult fun toys.

If you knew somebody in Lincoln, I'd be asking them some serious questions about their online spending habits. Barbara. Yeah. Barbara commented on this page. Maybe Barbara's got herself a new one. Barbara says, does anyone know why there are so few dicks in the ponds this year and Liffy Stream lately?

Now, Barbara, of course, means ducks. Yeah. Because she then writes, oh dear, that was meant to say ducks Barbara of course means ducks. Because she then writes, oh dear that was meant to say ducks of course. I appreciate that you all have a good sense of humour. Did she not just edit the post? No. No. She added that as a...

Right, she left the typo in. Yeah, someone said I don't think you're going to the right part of the Liffey stream if you're not saying enough dicks. Yeah. Or ducks. Dicks or ducks. And while we're down in Canterbury, let's go to the People's Independent Republic of New Brighton.

Sarah writes, to the people that keep fornicating on the sand dunes right in front of my house, please stop. Well done for practicing safe sex, but others walk along here and I'm still sick of picking up your condoms. Oh, yuck. You've also traumatised

my cat. Does the cat go in the sand dunes? The cat goes in the sand dunes to, it's like one big sandbox. Oh, yeah,

it is, of course. Scratch into a little pit. Oh, that's a good reason not to have sex in sand. You wouldn't want the cat bringing one of those back in. No.

Oh, no, yuck. That's a good call, no sex in sand dunes because you don't want to be bare arsed in some cat shit. Yeah, you're basically in a big litter box. That's, no, yuck. That's a good call, no sex in San Jose, because you don't want to be bare-ass in some cat shit. Yeah, you're basically in a big litter box. Yeah, damn right. Well, those are today's community notices.

If you see anything on your local Facebook page, you can screen cap it and send it to us, FBMZM on Facebook. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Follow-up there from community notices. We wanted to know what RY meant on a stop, go sign. Well, somebody questioned it in the community notices. Yeah.

That apparently is what would be on a stop, go sign in South Africa. Afrikaans, right, go. Oh, okay. Or ride. Right. To indicate to start to move. And it was in Browns Bay, Auckland, which they call Mini Joberg. Yes, yeah.

Little Cape Town. Yeah, little Cape Town. So there's lots of South Africans around there. So there you go. Okay, that'll explain that. Thank you. Well, a study of Australians has found that 13%, and it's actually more if you look at the age group,

19 to 35-year-olds, 19% would quit their job for the right destination next year to travel. Right. Do you think it's still a bit too early to be thinking about the travel thing next year? I always assume when people are like, I would quit my job next year to travel, it goes without saying, it should be in brackets, should the world be in a better situation. Pandemic pending. Pandemic pending. Yeah.

Basically. Yeah. But I'd imagine when there is a sense of normality again, although I also don't think it's going to be like normal. It's going to be slowly. It's not going to disappear as quickly as it came. No. It's going to take a lot longer. It'll be a gradual.

And then I think it'll get to one day and people are like, oh, okay. And then I honestly do think there will be a massive resignation. Like the great resignation they talked about this year, people were like,

well, actually, I am unhappy with my job. I'm going to do something that I love. Yeah. Even if it means earning a little bit less. But then there'll be the great resignation of people being like, stick it.

Now I can go overseas. Or move to Australia where you get paid more. Yeah. That kind of thing. Which you can do now. Yeah, you can move to Australia, right? Yeah, but you just kind of come back super easy. Well, Kentucky have done this research,

finding that obviously people want to travel next year, and they have offered up a resignation toolkit on their website, which includes a keep it classy option. That's a good old resignation letter, a classic. Go out with a bang as an option, making an impact with a PowerPoint full of charts. You can do the bye-bye auto reply and out of office, but make it forever.

That's another option in the toolkit. Forever. Let the world know. Send a ripple of jealousy through your LinkedIn networks. It's another option there in the toolkit. Right. A pre-recorded voicemail and a breakup SMS, a breakup text message, all in their Kentucky toolkit,

the resignation toolkit. Breakup text. Oh, to your partner so you can go on to Kentucky. Or to your work. To your work, yeah. Would you work? Except that? I don't know.

As an SMS? An SMS? Well, you'd want to. The thing with going out with a bang at work is you need all your holiday leave and your pay paid out, don't you? Yeah. So you can't just like. Wait till you've got your holiday pay.

Then. Then give them the. Then do that jazz. Sure. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. A man in Italy, he's a 47-year-old man. He has been arrested. And he has done something I have always wanted to do,

but not once, a hundred times. He would pull the emergency brakes on trains. Totally. But, like, you know, we've all seen the brake. So he was in a string and he pulled it and it would be like... Well, some of them are a button or a lever, aren't they? Yeah. I don't know if it's a string, but he would have...

So apparently he's done this up to 100 times and always... He was never caught until now. He'd always wait until tunnels were in a train. Sorry, trains were in a tunnel. Imagine a tunnel in a train. Meta. Yeah. And then inside that tunnel in a train, there's another train inside that little tunnel.

But they have lights in them, right? The trains. Maybe not. Maybe they'd go dark. Maybe not, yeah. But so he'd always wait, right? The trains. Maybe not. Maybe they'd go dark. Maybe not, yeah. So he'd always wait until they were in tunnels or he'd wait until no one was around or it wasn't that packed.

And then he'd pull the brake. That's cool. A hundred times before he was finally caught. Apparently he'd done this all over the place and people were just sick of it. He'd wait until the trains got up to speed and then he'd do it. Massive delays.

People would be late for things, probably missing joining trains and transfers and everything. So once fun, that many times you are a little disruptive. So I don't know if he was altogether there because an Italian news agency is also reporting this is the same man that managed to get a plane to turn around after it had taken off because the man was intoxicated and began to shout when he couldn't find an emergency brake on the plane. So he's got a problem with public transport.

He loves brakes. He loves braking things. He loves stopping. Yeah. But do you know the other thing? There's always, you know that emergency glass hammer in buses and trains? God, I've always wanted to smash a window with that. Yeah.

Have you ever seen one of them smash a window? No. On YouTube? It's pretty crazy. I know, but I could. It does just absolutely shatter a window. I don't know. What is it?

There's something in the tip of it, eh? Yeah, the way it's, when you see the tip of it, it looks like it's got something on it or it's like just super pointy. It's a special metal or something. Because I can trace my want to pull the brake on a train back to that 1990s Cadbury Crunchy ad. With the... With the stick up on the train.

It was a Western. Yeah, it was a Western. And the granny just pulls the cord and everybody flies and then she gets all the Crunchy cars. That looked cool because the wheels locked up. Sparks blow off them and stuff. But I don't know if the modern braking system's that aggressive. Do you think we need to have that kind of power

to have an emergency brake on a train? I can't see... No. I don't think we need that sort of power. To me, there should just be an intercom that you just press it. Goes to the person who does have access to the brake. So there's someone back here having a heart attack. Yeah, stop the train.

And then they run back and see if it warrants stopping the train. Or you say, oh, there's someone with their arm caught in the door. Stop. Maybe that would be a good reason. Yeah. Look, I'm certainly not encouraging anybody to do this on public transport at all. We used to catch school buses at school every day. Yeah.

But we had one of these raggedy old, like, I honestly think it was from the 50s. Yeah. A Bedford. It had a big little pointy little nose on it. Like, that's what school buses in New Zealand used to look like way back in the day. Yeah. But then one day that broke down, surprise, surprise, because it was a thousand years old. Yeah.

And they gave us a flash bus. Ooh. And it had one of those pull the cords to stop. Well, goodness me. It would go ding. It would go ding, ding, ding. Yeah. And the sign would flash that said bus stopping.

Bus drivers hate taking school kids when buses have those. Horrible. Like, it was literally like ding. And then it became a big joke on like, who could be sneaky enough to ding it? And then, of course, when we got to school and everybody stood up, everybody was just like ding, ding, ding, ding, because the person couldn't see because the rear mirror was blocked with children

vacating the bus. And she apparently went back and said, we cannot have a bus with a ding on it. I don't care what I'm driving as long as it doesn't have a cord to pull. Because kids are shitheads. Yeah. Yeah. And it's still a great joy when I do catch a bus to push the button when I want to hop off.

Even if it's an airport thing that takes you from the park and ride. I'm always like, we're at the airport. Ding. It's the big kid in you. Yeah. This is what I the big kid in you. Yeah. This is what I want to ask this morning. Is there anybody listening that feels this way as well? Is there a button that you've always wanted to push

or something you've always wanted to pull or push? You know, like a lever or something that you know you're not allowed to? Or, oh, here's another one. The emergency button at the service station. That's always big. It's like a game show buzzer. The stop flow buzzer. Or, oh, here's another one. The emergency button at the service station. That's always big. It's like a game show buzzer. The stop flow. Yeah.

Yeah, I've had to push that. What happened? Was it exciting? It just stopped. Nah. Is there no flashing lights or anything? Nah. Buzzers?

Any sounds? Nah. No sounds. It just stops the flow to everybody. So everybody else that was filling up was like, what's happened? Right. This guy was filling up and he drove away, you see. The gas started coming out.

So yeah, but most of the time it stops automatically. But you always press it just to be sure. Maybe in your work or life going around, you see a button or a lever that you've always wanted to push or pull. 0800-DIALS-AT-M. Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696.

What do you want to pull? What do you want to push? What do you want to flick? Because that's want to push? What do you want to flick? Because that's the other thing, switches. Oh, yeah. Every time I go to the bathroom, I've got to walk past that fire switch. What about the switch to make a dump truck thing go bzzz?

A tip. A tip to make it tip. My granddad had a hoist truck. Was that fun? Yeah, it was real fun. Because it gets to the top and it goes, couldn't go any further. Oh, that's exciting.

Yeah. See, that's one I'd want to flick that switch. But pulling down, you've got to go slow. Oh, do you? I thought it was automatic. Is it not automatic? The hydraulics pump it up and then it just slowly drains it. But on my granddad's old truck, you put it too fast,

it'd go bang, and the whole truck would go. Oh, do that. Well, a man in Italy has been arrested after pulling the emergency brake on a train a hundred times. Yeah. I mean, yeah. We've always seen it and wanted to pull it. We know that we live in a society where we can't just do that.

Yes. And put people out. God, I want to... Yeah, and the glass, emergency glass hammer too. That's another one. We want to know this morning what you've always wanted to press button-wise or pull or flick. Well, on a slightly smaller scale, someone said, we got a new car and it was the first car where the handbrake wasn't a full-blown handbrake.

It was just that little switch. Oh, I don't. Do you like those? I never use it because that's the thing. When you park your car and put it in park, it automatically comes on. And then when you start your car and you accelerate, it automatically turns off. So that's fine by me. But I never use the little flick switch. That's weird.

But they said they were parked on the driveway and they were convincing each other to do it and their little sister pulled the handbrake, disengaged the park brake, and they flew backwards across a busy road in their dad's new car, crashed into the other side of it. Bailey, what have you always wanted to push?

Oh, you know those emergency buttons in the elevator? Yes. They're like little bells. I've always wanted to press one of those and I'll have these faint memories as a kid of my parents having to like stopping me from pressing them. Because I always used to try to press them. I have a friend who always presses that. And all of the emergency stop ones, just the bell rings.

It's just a bell that rings. It rings on the ground floor at each level. And he always does it. Oh, God. He's got me stuck in an elevator once for like a minute. Yeah. It's terribly underwhelming. So does he.

And it stops it. Because I always thought you can ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, but if the lift stopped, that's when you push it to get attention. Well, some of them have a stop, and then some just have a bell, right? And I think sometimes if you hold it down for long enough, it rings like the call centre.

Yeah. It is a little disappointing, Bailey. I'm not going to lie to you. Yeah, I'm very disappointed with that. I'm not going to lie to you. And then Bailey rings his bell.

What were you hoping would happen? You'd push it, it would ring a bell for three seconds and then just free fall to the bottom floor. Oh, I thought it would like,

you know, ring the fire brigade or something cool like that. Yeah. Maybe an alarm goes off and cash falls from the ceiling. That would be cool. Like a cash.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. And then the fan starts. Yes. And then a voice comes over going, Bailey, you've got 60 seconds to grab as much cash as you can. See, that would be people who'd be pressing that all the time,

wouldn't they? Bailey, thanks for your call. Keep your messages coming in 9696. A man in Italy arrested for pulling the emergency brake on a train or on trains 100 times. He's in prison at the moment. But it's got us talking about those buttons and levers

that you've always wanted to press. I didn't even know this was a button. But now that I know it's a button, I want to push this button. What's the button? I want to push this button so bad. I drive a fuel tanker. And I want to push the button that activates the foam deluge inside the loading bay. Foam deluge.

Button. Bam. Foam party. So is that, so you press the foam party button when like if something goes bad. If there's like a fuel spill or something goes horribly wrong. And it must rob the area of oxygen so a fire can't start. I don't know. That's speculation.

You know, there must be a button for those airport fire trucks. They've got foam cannons. Imagine pressing the button for that. Oh, dream come true. Someone said, I did a BMW track day. Oh, yeah. We were told under no circumstances were we to push the M Sport button in the BMW because it turns off traction control

and does some other stuff because we would not be insured. Well, I pressed it. And what a time. What a time. What a time. Could you just flick that on if you had a crash? Just before you're about to crash, just flick it back on? I don't know.

Cars might have a computer that records when it was turned on and off. Amanda, what button have you always wanted to push? The fire switches in, like, buildings and stuff. You see them everywhere. Where you break the glass. Yeah, yeah, and you just, like, flick the switch. How did you break the glass?

Have you thought about how you'd break the glass? Well, the new ones nowadays have that push glass stuff. Yeah, you push it down. You can push the little cut out bit and then you just flick it down. Oh, because I was thinking I'd always elbow.

Yeah. Or use the corner of your cell phone or roll your sleeve up and just punch it. Punch that one. Yeah. And then just flick it down and evacuate the whole building.

That's a hell of a way to get off for Christmas half a day early, you know? Maybe this Friday. Yeah. Except all the money you have to pay for the fire truck call-outs. Yeah, true, true. That's a problem. Hey, Amanda, thanks for your call. Jade, what have you always wanted to flick, push or break?

Well, it's funny because it's not me. It's my stepdad. Okay. When his parents were in a retirement home, I'm talking he is 60 years old himself, he would go visit them, and there's this button near the toilet in case you fall off the toilet or something.

Yeah. And you need a nurse. He would push that every single time because we would keep saying, you're not allowed to push the button, you can't, you know, they're going to come running thinking somebody's hurt. It's the same for hospitals. Yeah, it's just, he can't help it.

He's going to get himself put in a retirement home if he can't bloody control his fingers. Oh, well, I don't know if they'll accept him. They'll have to disarm the button. Bailey, thanks for your call. Bronnie messaged us on Instagram saying she always wanted to set off the slide when she was a flight attendant.

Wanted to pop the slide out. Oh, that would be amazing. I can't believe she had to not work there anymore and not get to do it. That would be, because you know when you sit in the emergency row and they're like, are you capable of an emergency of opening the window? I'm like, yes, I am. I'll do that in a second.

Yeah, but the slide's not at the window. The slide's at the door. I know, but I'd still like to do the window. Right. That would really, because I reckon it'd be heavier than it looks. Well, it's 13 kgs. I mean, that would surprise you in an emergency. You'd be so jazzed on adrenaline.

Right, yeah. You'd be able to do it. My husband drives a fire service mufti car. I always want to turn on the emergency lights to get shitty drivers out of the way. I always say to him, turn the lights on. Why do the fire department need an undercover car? Like, are they...

Yeah, because it's not like... Not like they're trying to... Fire's keeping it discreet, hey? Yeah. It's not like you've got to sneak up on a fire. Yeah. It's like, caught you burning here. Yeah.

Didn't see me coming, did you? And the fire's like, ah, okay, you caught me. I'll put myself right out. A cleaner once used, decided the Dunedin Public Hospital to flick a switch, a big blue button that says do not push. It quenches the MRI scanner. Quenches? I don't know what that means.

The scanner was out of action until they could source helium. So does it just blow the helium out or something? I don't know what that means. If the scanner was out of action until they could source helium, so does it just blow the helium out or something? I don't know. Wow. Because there are those, there are some, we've been in some broadcasting studios have inert gas. Yeah. Because they can't have water get on their equipment,

so it just pumps in this gas that's not full. Yeah, that would be an amazing button to push too. Yeah. Someone said, I fly helicopters, and on the skids there's an emergency button to push too. Yeah. Someone said, I fly helicopters. Yep. And on the skids, there's an emergency button for an inflation device. Oh, to go in the water. Yeah.

Fun. Well, I guess if you land in the water, then you push the button so it floats, or even if it goes upside down, there's something to float and hold on to. Yeah, right. Okay. And somebody pushed it. Oh, you're kidding me. Somebody pushed their inflator button.

Actually, do you know another thing I want to do is those life jackets with the pull string or like. I've done one of those. They're neat. They go out real quick. Yeah. And if you've got your chin on your chest, that'll really pop the old head up. Yeah, they inflate super quick. Yeah.

So lots of people touching things. We're a curious bunch, aren't we? We are. Curiosity killed the cat and quenched the human thirst for what happens when I do this. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM's. The 12 Days of Fleshmas. It tells you to win prizes leading up to Christmas.

Oh, let me get out my Christmas countdown. To give you an exact countdown. 11 days. 10 days and 15 hours. Oh, yeah, okay, you do it. And 47 minutes. See, I kind of count a part day as a day. Yeah, I know you're a rounder-upper, aren't you?

Hey, I'm Swedish. Yeah, you do your... I'm Swedish, I'll round up, I know you're a rounder-upper, aren't you? Hey, I'm Swedish. Yeah, you do your... I'm Swedish, I'll round up, I'll round down. But yeah, we are very close. Tomorrow, expecting 12,000 domestic travellers

out of Auckland Airport, so... Well, you know, dads everywhere will be getting there nice and early. Dad, our flight's not until 4pm. It is 4am!

I want everyone up and in the car in five minutes. Well, you know there are going to be massive lines. In fact, I'd imagine it's going to be madness every day. Yeah. Up until Christmas. Seeing as half the country's been locked down. So do everybody else travelling a favour

and get your vaccine pass linked with either your Air New Zealand app or print it out and ready to be scanned. It's time now to meet somebody from our nice list. Who's on the nice list? Good morning, Grace. Hello. Why are you on the nice list, Grace?

I'm on the nice list because all year, probably more than a year, I put up with my mother calling Spotify, Shopify and vice versa, no matter how many times you correct her, every time without a doubt. Wait, so she calls Shopify, Spotify and Spotify, Shopify?

Yep. Oh, interesting. This is just what mums do. Like, does your mum always call you Philip? Born accidentally? Nah. My mum always runs through my dad's name, my brother's name, and then mine. I probably get Ian more than I get Philip. It's just what they do, isn't it?

But you can't correct them, can you, Grace? No, it doesn't matter how many times. They're always going to do it wrong. Do you know my brother always used to correct my grandparents? Like, if they were wrong, like, mistaken about names or something. I just always let it go with my grandparents. Probably why I was

absolute favourite. Yep. But he'd correct them. Oh, that's... You don't correct old people. No, you don't. No, you just let them go. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or sometimes if they wanted something explained to them, you'd do it as simply as possible and then he'd try to go into detail and you're like, there's detail lost on these people. They're not going to, yeah.

Well, that's very nice, Grace. Thanks. Even though it's very nice, Grace. Thanks. Even though it's very annoying. The nicest thing you can think you've done all year is just put up with your mum. Yep, sounds about right. All right, well. Oh, who's on the naughty list?

Let's see what Laura's done. Laura, why are you on the naughty list? I may have sprayed my flatmate's plants with weed killer. What did they do to you to deserve this? He said he was going to bring a couple in and then

he turns up with like 20 pot plants and he just blocks the path and it's just so annoying. When you say pot plants, do you mean like house plants or actual pot? Like actual pots outside. No, but are you talking about marijuana or are you just talking like pot plants? No, like rosemary and lettuces and spinach.

What is your problem? He's trying to feed himself and you are poisoning them? Yeah, well, we didn't even eat from them half the time. What, so are they growing? Oh, no, even if he doesn't eat them, what a horrible by-product. Oxygen. But you're saying that he's blocking the path. Yeah, they were just all in the way.

And one of them was a matagary that he was trying to turn into a bonsai tree. Right, okay. And, oh. Pure, like proper evil. What happened? But why was it that bad that you needed to poison them, Laura? Oh, there was a lot of other stuff that it was just so annoying and I just had enough.

Okay. It was either that or break some of his stuff, so I thought that was a bit nice. I feel like you've got a lot to unpack here. Laura, what did he say when he came out and all of his plants had withered and died? He didn't say anything.

He just kind of, he'd spend a few days like standing out there looking at them very confused. Yeah, now parents listening, this is what happens when you don't hug your children. Oh, Laura. You get a Laura. Laura.

He doesn't live with me anymore, so it's fine. Oh, but he moved out. I wonder why. He moved out because, do you think he knew that you poisoned his plants? He might have suspected it, but he wasn't very intelligent, so I don't know. That's it. Oh, that makes sense. Oh, Laura. That does not excuse this behaviour, young lady.

Yeah, wow. Good luck. Wow. Today you've been dealt another puzzling hand because you've got the not so nice because all she did was put up with her mother. I know, yeah. Versus the like, I'm guessing Satan. Yeah, actually more evil than naughty.

The daughter of Satan, yeah. It is, it's not naughty or nice today. It's the least you can do versus pure evil. And for me, I don't think the flatmate was painted as deserving of this. It's like watching a TV show and, you know, they make a character to be quite evil, and then when they die or something happens to them,

you're like, well, they deserve that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know if he did. It didn't sound like he deserved that. The guy with the plants. He was just trying to grow lettuce. Yeah, that was all he wanted to do. I thought if it was actual weed, she might have been like,

well, that's illegal, I don't want that dragged into our house. Yeah, yeah. Grace. Hello. You are winning today. Oh, my gosh. For the 12 days of Fleechmas. I just couldn't.

I just couldn't. I just couldn't give it to Laura. He could be seen to be. I couldn't because, you know, I try to keep plants alive. I would be devastated if somebody tried to, if somebody murdered my plants. That's absolutely horrible. Grace, are you going to pick a present from under the tree?

Okay. Okay, I've got one here. Oh, it's a box. Okay, we've only got a few left. We've got three left. So if you'd like to register to play tomorrow, ZM online, tell us why you're on the naughty or the nice list. Oh!

It is a Fitbit Charge 4. Oh, my gosh. An advanced fitness tracker plus gyps. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much. Oh, what is that for? Global positioning software. Yeah, yeah. Satellites. Software satellites. Something positioning software. Yeah, yeah.

Satellites. Software satellites. Something, yeah. Association. Well done. Thank you so much. Thanks. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan.

Should we start some fights? Who with? Between partners? I feel like starting some fights. Okay. Every time we do one of these, there's been a study into relationships. All I think is this is definitely starting a fight with someone.

Right. Someone listening might be tired or strained or I'm going to say a magic word that always triggers a fight in a relationship. But maybe those people are just looking for one. You know, sometimes you want to start. You'll find what you're looking for. Sure.

Oh, that's philosophy right there. You'll find what you're looking for sure that's oh that's philosophy right there you'll find what you're looking for vaughn smith 2021. great kind of like i'm looking for my keys you'll find them if you keep looking well you won't well no eventually you will no i lost mine in an uber when i was wearing sweatpants right the loose because of the loose pockets shallow shallow never ever found the keys. Ever. Maybe you stopped looking. Oh, no. So this is why this broad, sweeping, philosophical quote I've just given you applies. Right.

And if you're looking for trouble, guess what you'll find? Trouble. You bet. Yeah. Okay. If you're looking for a reason for a fight, what are you going to find? A fight. You'll find what you're looking for.

Sure. Vaughn Smith, 2021. Mark my words. You'll be the, I looking for. Vaughan Smith, 2021. Mark my words, you'll be the I forgot sidekick of a great philosopher one day. You'll be a marble carving of me. I don't think they will be. They'll be like, God, he was ghastly. Because I'm assuming people are just going to get better

and better looking. Like you said, the carvings of the ancient Greeks, they're not much to look at. Speaking of Greeks, they were involved in the study. Predominantly out of Greece and China, the three most common relationship issues. And remember, you'll find what you're looking for. Okay. These are the three most common relationship issues. First of all, they were offered a whole lot.

These are the ones they were offered. They were offered 78 issues that could be affecting your relation. The 13 most reported ones. Yep. Enthusiasm, fading enthusiasm. Okay. So the persons not as into you as they once were. Infidelity. Yep. Enthusiasm. Fading enthusiasm. Okay. So the person's not as into you as they once were. Infidelity.

We all know what that is. Bad sex. We all know what that is, especially anybody I've been with. Non-monogamy. So you're the common denominator. I'm the common denominator in the bad sex part. So non-monogamy, that's where this person's interested in seeing other people that aren't just you. Yeah.

Violence addiction, lack of personal time and space, long working hours, clinginess, character issues. So they liked you until they got to know you, basically. Children, social circle issues. They've got a friend you don't like, is how I read that. Or they've got, they always want to go out and you're not that really keen on it. Lack of compromising or lack of effort. Right. The three most popular ones, clinginess.

Your own clinginess was a problem in the relationship. You felt like you were too clingy. Right. Predominantly, this was a problem reported by a woman who felt they became too dependent on men in the relationship or even in same-sex relationships. Okay. Woman that was surveyed said, my clinginess is a problem in relationships.

So that's pretty interesting that the most prominent problem they can identify within themselves. The next most common one was lack of personal time and space. So that is your part. That's the opposite side of the clinginess situation. Yeah, yeah.

Isn't it? Like I don't get enough time to myself anymore. And the third was long working hours. Right. Working hours, 22% reported long working hours as the biggest problem in their relationship. But you kind of need those

long working hours to pay the bills. Unless they're saying they're at work and they're using some of this work time to have some of that time apart that they said that they were lacking. And then the person who's at home has a problem with long working hours

which might just be standard working hours because of that clinginess they earlier identified within themselves. So those are the three biggest problems of this big study of relationships. Okay. Yeah. Those are relationships that were still together.

Right. So I'm imagining that infidelity and stuff would probably be more of a high-profile problem should it be studied in post-relationship issues. Okay. So how do we fix this? Just stop being clingy? Work less?

Well, stop being clingy takes care of it automatically, right? That's two of the problems gone and perhaps the third slightly taken care of. Right. Well, there you go. Life philosopher, life philosopher hey you'll find what you're looking for you don't sometimes you don't though well that's because you gave up well why don't you go and try and find my keys they're not my keys i'm not looking for them no but if i gave you the job to look for my keys i'd find you think you would find them i'd? I'd find them. It's like been three years. I'd dedicate my life to finding them and you could not afford my hourly rate. Well, the Uber

driver wouldn't even return the call. So that was a dead end. Right. Have you still got the number? Well, I'm looking for a press. Okay, that's a first answer. Sounds like we've got a mystery to solve. Sade's going to be upset about these long working hours

that I'm putting into finding your keys, though. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is there was a competition Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Simpsons house. Oh, okay. Located at 712 Red Bark Lane, Henderson, Nevada. It's still there. You can look that up on Google Maps. Is that? Yeah.

Okay. Still there. Now, the winner of the competition was either eligible to win the home or accept $75,000 cash prize. Is that how much it costs to build a home in 1997? When did you say this was? No. Oh, okay. It cost $120,000 at the time to build this, to buy it and build it.

Okay. Yet the prize was $75,000. At the time, there was an Airbnb, but wouldn't you have seen the possibility of renting this out to like Simpsons enthusiasts to stay at the Simpsons house? What did they choose then, the winner? They chose the $75,000 and walked away from it. Oh, really?

And then do you know what happened next? What? It was all stripped out. So they went to all this effort to build an exact replica of the Simpsons home, which is like, colour-wise,

art-wise, decor-wise, Bart Simpson's messy room-wise, Maggie's crib-wise. So it's not there now. So the house is there And it still looks like the Simpsons house from the outside But inside it's just a standard house

Right Do people go and like see it? Yes Would it be like having the Breaking Bad house Or like the Full House house It's not quite as much as the Full House house Or the Breaking Bad house Right, because that would be annoying Your house has constantly got tourists outside The full house house? Perhaps not quite as much as the full house house or the breaking bad house. Right.

Because that'd be annoying. Your house has constantly got tourists outside it. Yeah, but somebody does own it and she said she'll get visitors to her home sometimes. The doors are locked. But I understand it's just part and parcel of living in this iconic property. Like the outrageous fortune house RIP. Yeah. Now a housing development in the making.

But yeah, people would go outside and sit and watch, but it is still around. But yeah, the person who won this competition in 1997 chose the $75,000 cash because they lived in Kentucky and they said it's too far away. Rather than having the house and then selling the house, imagine how much people would pay on Airbnb just to stay at nine. Well, now you could do it.

You could totally do it. It was in Nevada, so it's like Las Vegas, Nevada, right? People would travel. I honestly do believe people would travel to stay in the Simpsons house. So today's fact of the day is in 1997, you could win, thanks to Pepsi and Fox, who broadcast to the Simpsons an exact replica of The Simpsons House. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. All right, it is time for the impossible phone-in topic.

I love this segment because it's a phone-in topic we think is just going to be so impossible. Well, this one, the origins of why we're going to talk about this. You may have seen a YouTuber who runs an account called Exploring with Nug. Yeah. His name is Jeremy. He runs a YouTube account where he just goes out and explores and goes to abandoned buildings and all sorts of interesting places. Well, he took it upon himself as someone who lived in the area to solve a cold case. And this is the fourth time since last October, since late October, so this year, October, that people investigating cold cases on YouTube have found the missing people or the missing cars or the missing, they've solved mysteries.

That's amazing. Yeah. Because, I mean, if you look at, like, even the podcast genre, True Crime. Oh, yeah. And True Crime, like, shows on Netflix and streaming services. People love them. People love them. Everyone considers themselves a little sluice.

The Gabby Petito case, like, a few months ago, people just got so into that. Yeah, that's already got a series coming out soon. Yeah. That seems to have moved very quickly. Yeah. What is it? It's quite a morbid thing, though, isn't it? Yeah.

And people get so involved. But then cold cases, there's just that big whodunit mystery. Well, 21 years ago, two teenagers went missing in Tennessee, and they could not find anything, any clues. They went missing in a car. It was a Pontiac Grand Am, a 1988 car. Yeah. Aaron and They went missing in a car. It was a Pontiac Grand Am. Yeah. 1988 car. Yeah. Aaron and Jeremy went missing.

And they didn't know if they'd run away or they'd been abducted or they'd been murdered or what happened. Well, Jeremy solved the case. He's got a boat. He's got sonar equipment. And he was checking lakes and bodies of water. And just before nightfall, after searching for a little while, he got a little ding. And so he camped out, slept in his car, and early in the morning went diving over the spot where a sonar had said there was a car-shaped item.

And it was indeed a car. And the license plate and car matched that of Aaron's missing Pontiac. They found the bodies. They were still in the car. 21 years later. There wouldn't have been much left of them. I don't know. They were still in the car. 21 years later. There wouldn't have been much left of them. I don't know.

I don't know. Wow. Yeah. And so just like that, a cold case, tick. And that's the fourth one since October that amateur sleuths

have done this online. Now the impossible finding topic this morning. We don't expect anyone to have solved a cold case or a murder. A murder, no. But is there a mystery, a big mystery that you've solved? Have you, like maybe it was a town mystery? Also not taking calls from police or detectives.

Because that's your line of work. That's your job. That's like a baker ringing up and saying, I've absolutely nailed a croissant. We would expect no less from you. You are a baker. That is your trade. Exactly.

But we want to know this morning, when you took it upon yourself to solve a mystery, it doesn't have to be, you know, a criminal mystery. Yeah. But just a big who done it. Or what's going on. Oh, yeah. What happened to the, Maybe something was stolen.

Yeah. And you were the person that tracked it down, saw it covered in with a tarp and solved the mystery. Well, the impossible phone-in topic. On the back of these decades-old cold case murders being or disappearances being solved by amateur YouTubers. There's been four of them now since late October this year. Yeah.

We want to know if you've ever solved a big mystery. Yeah. Now, obviously, we're not expecting like disappearances and stuff. Who found Parnia of the Reef that time? When they stole that big bronze statue? Oh, I don't know, actually. I don't know if that was amateurs or the police, actually. Ari, have you solved a mystery?

Yes, we had a girl's bike get stolen from the back of work. Right. And we all kind of set off and tried to go and chase them and see if we could figure out where they'd gone, but nothing happened. And then the next day I was at the mall and I saw this dude. He may have been of the homeless variety, maybe just struggling a bit. And I was like, I'm sure that is the bike.

So I called her and her partner and they came down and we managed to get the bike back. He just found it in a park, supposedly. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah. Well, that's a mystery of the stolen bike solved. That's a mystery solved. It's not like a just...

Mystery solved and bike recovered. Yeah, it's not like a decades old cold case. No. I mean, if you'd found that bike 10 years later, that would have been even more impressive. But still, mystery solved. Ari, thank you. We are getting some juicy mysteries solved.

Did you get the other one? No luck. Yeah, I can imagine why. My friend's dad. We thought he might be having an affair. Okay. All my friend had was a phone number, but no other info. She called the number, pretended to be a courier company with a package that needed a name and address.

This woman gave us all the info. We waited until the next time he left. Yep. And followed him. Surely enough, he went to the address. We busted in, in the he left And followed him Surely enough He went to the address We busted in In the middle

And caught him in the act Would you want to see your friend's dad's penis? Uh no I mean it depends Which friend's dad Yeah it depends Like if their dad was following Yeah I guess that's just

All you'd always wondered Sure Then sure Mystery solved though Mystery solved, though. Mystery solved. The impossible phone-in topic, a topic we think is so hard and unusual

that maybe we won't get any calls. And we're talking today about mysteries that have been solved. Decades-long cold cases being solved by people online. Yeah. Banding together.

Take the clues and all the historic newspaper clippers and stuff. Yeah, like a guy dived and found a car that's been missing for 21 years. The two teenagers who went missing in the year 2000 were still inside. Isn't that amazing that no one thought, oh, could they

have just driven off the road somewhere? No, but that was the big thing at the time. They said yes, but they just didn't know where, because they hadn't told their parents where they were going, and it's a big place. You can't hang off the cell phone towers 20 years ago, could you? Nope. Well, could you? Was there a payphone in the Best Buy?

Yes. What ever happened to that guy? Sayed Adnan Sayed. From, what was that podcast? Serial. Serial podcast. Yeah, you can still, like, I follow these accounts and I get an update on them every now and then. Is he out of prison? No, he's still in prison. From, what was that podcast? Serial. Serial podcast. I follow these accounts and I get an update on them every now and then. Is he out of prison? No, he's still in prison. Oh, God. He's jacked, though.

Is he? Looks good. Okay, good, yeah. Alright, Oliver, good morning. Hello. Welcome to the Impossible Finding Topic. Have you solved a mystery? In a way, yeah. Okay, what happened? A few years ago, a friend of mine had a video put up on,

like a voice put up on Instagram and that kind of threatening her with one of the Snapchat voiceovers. Yeah. A few days ago, a few days before that, I watched a video on YouTube about using Adobe software to kind of counteract the little voiceover um changing like changing the voice up you changed it back you took the filter off yeah so chucked it in some um adobe software and kind of found out who it was oh wow you go

and so you unmasked like a bully yeah Yeah, pretty much. It was clear as day who it was. Were they known to them? We don't need names, obviously, but were they known to them? Yeah, it was within like a college. Oh, wow. Wow. That's crazy. You could just reverse that.

Yeah. Do you remember when everyone was doing the silhouette challenge and they were getting like semi-nude in the dark? They're nude silhouettes. And then everyone was just like putting it into Photoshop and like... And boosting the contrast and the exposure. And they were like, we can see your doodles. Yeah, pretty much the same thing.

Yeah, right. Yeah, but with voice. Amazing. Oliver, thanks for your call. Sarah, when did you solve a mystery? Oh, this was quite a few years ago. It was a real weird coincidence. I had a friend from high school and she put a little thing on Facebook.

It devastated because not only had their house been robbed, but their dog had been stolen. Oh, wow. Yeah, and they had a beautiful little beagle and he had some issues, like he'd just been to the doctor. She was just traumatised. She was like, oh my gosh, my dog. And then like a day or two later, I was working at a pub at the time, and one of the

locals came in and he's like, oh, Sarah, do you want to buy a dog? And I was like, oh, well, not really. What is it? He's like, oh, it's a beagle. And I went, oh, this is quite the weird coincidence. You can't look after it like a big story. Went to his house when he wasn't there. It was all jacked up. It was

totally her dog because she'd explained about how he just had the operation, had a little bit shaved off him and I was like, holy shit, it's the dog. Jumped this guy's fence, nicked the dog back, drove to her work, gave it to her at her work, just like that. She was like beside herself. Like, I just got your dog back.

Did he have all of the stuff that was nicked from her house as well? No, I didn't even, I didn't even, I didn't go there if I may. I just jumped into the backyard. But yeah, it was, it was real like, oh, emotional. Like, I don't think we've had a dog stolen, but man, it was, yeah.

Did you get the police involved for all the other stuff? Oh, I don't know if you've had a dog stolen, but man, it was, yeah. Did you get the police involved for all the other stuff? Oh, I don't know, mate. That was just my small part of the whole entire thing. But I was like, I'm getting this dog back, man. Yeah.

That's amazing. That's crazy. You solved the mystery. Yeah. You're like Ace Ventura, pet detective. Brilliant, Sarah. Thanks.

You call us a few messages in. We solved the mystery about a guy's wife who had died, but it turned out she had not died. It was so bizarre. But we paid for the birth test and marriage records and everything. Oh, wow. That's all the text says, so I don't know if this guy had said,

oh, my wife died or she just left, or he thought she had died. Who knows? I found my Uncle George. He'd been missing for 12 years. I solved the mystery of Uncle George. Where was Uncle George? Do they say where Uncle George was? No, no, they don't say where Uncle George was.

I feel like Uncle George wanted another life. I feel like Uncle George wanted out. Yeah. A friend, oh no, sorry, we lost contact. We found a long lost father after 40 years. Nothing but a supposed name.

Lots of reading, contacting randoms. The man didn't even know he was our father. He was a father. He didn't know he was our father. Many, many years ago, this is a very interesting mystery solved, on a fine Christmas Eve, young me noticed the number of presents growing under our Christmas tree, and I wondered, how are these getting there? Okay.

So that night I stayed up behind the couch. Yeah. And well, well, well, look who came down the chimney. Santa Claus himself. Yes. And placed the presents under the tree for all the boys and girls. Right. Mystery solved.

Mystery solved there. Yeah, right. A little bit of a Christmas mystery. That story was wildly different, but halfway through I realised where it was going and I decided to freestyle. Yes, you know, well done, well done.