ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 17th March 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morning Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Buy five McCafe coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. Hayley is back with us. Hello. We do mention this in the show opener. And then you're leaving us for the rest of the week and all of next week. Well, no, I'll be here some of two days next week, two split days this week.

Megan, you're welcome. I'm doing a really good job of covering you. Yeah, very, you're non-committal. I am non-committal. Well, I've got bigger fish to fry. Treat a man, cave him cane. She's not giving us her all. I don't want to come across as too eager.

Yes, and then we chase. I realise, though, I have desperately ruined the title of the show. Because now, yesterday I was listening to you guys when I was in Palmerston North on a shoot. And it was Fletch, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul, but Hayley's not here. Yeah, so it's just becoming longer and more ridiculous. Now this is the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast without Hayley Sproul. Yes, from tomorrow.

You're going to have to change that. After this record today, I'm flying to Dunedin for the Marching Nationals. Where do they have it in Dunedin? Is it Atlantic Castle? Because that would look cute. That would be the best place for it. I don't think their lawn's big enough though. No, it's in an indoor

arena. I've marched in Dunedin before and we marched at Forsyth Bar Stadium the day before there was an All Blacks match and they told us that we had to keep our marching, but we had to be very careful with the grass so that our marching boots didn't tear it up. And I was just thinking about

getting destroyed by the All Blacks coming in there. But no, we're in an indoor arena this time. Okay. And then it's a hard floor or grass? Like a... AstroTurf. AstroTurf.

Now, when do we find out if you win? Saturday night. Will you let us know? Yeah, we'll let you know. Okay, good. Is anyone live streaming it? They'll live stream the awards ceremony. But you can't live stream.

You've got to get consent from all the teams to live stream their matches. Or do they not want to go viral for this Amazing content I don't know For their synchronised marching But look we're going down there to honour the sport And if we were to place

That's good It's more about the fun Don't give me that bullshit You're there to win Of course I'm there to win But yeah about the fun I'm a winner No don't give me that bullshit You're there to win Of course I'm there to win Yeah good But yeah I'm sorry I'm abandoning you

And then I will be back On Monday But then that Monday I'm going to leave again I'm flying out To a different shoot Then I'll fly back On Friday

So I'll be back on Friday Great Yeah fantastic I do enjoy being with you Because it doesn't seem like it ZM Hit music Lucy Flesh for an American I do enjoy being with you. Because it doesn't seem like it. Good morning. Welcome to the show.

Fleach, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul, who's back today gracing us with her presence before she leaves for another week and a half. I'm half committed, aren't I? I really apologise. I did listen to you guys, though, when I was in Palmy. Oh, okay. Filming something. We got there and put really apologise. I did listen to you guys, though, when I was in Palmy filming something. We got there and put you on.

Were you like, I know those guys? I was like, shh, shh, shh. He's my friend. My friend's a dwarf. Did you see that billboard in Palmy that it was at Whakatane put up? They put up a massive billboard and it was like their sunshine hours compared to Palmy's sunshine hours. They put it up in Palmy? In Palmy, yeah yeah Is that like an ad

Like come to Whakatane Come live here maybe That is amazing Get the heck out of Palmy What a great bit of Beef Yeah

I love beef I love when Small town New Zealand Has regional beef Yeah Regional beef We've got beef Waikato versus Taranaki

As to who's the best At dairy Like the areas With the dairy area Yeah but we've got beef. Waikato versus Taranaki as to who's the best at dairy. Like the areas, the dairy area. We've got the beautiful Maunga. We've got the beautiful coastline. We've got Perongia, mate. We're not without our Maungas. We're bordered by... Don't laugh at Perongia. It's a beautiful mountain. We've got

Karioi out at Raglan. We've got Mount Te Aruha. No, no, no. I would stand here and say we don't have monger. We've upset you already. Look at the regional beef. This is how regional beef gets going. This is how it gets going, yeah.

I think we need more one-on-one direct regional beefs. No, we don't. That's America. America's got regional beef. We don't need regional beef. I want light-hearted regional beef, like a bit of Sunshine Hours banter. A bit of jibby-jabed Regional beef Like a bit of Sunshine hours banter A bit of jibby jabby

Yeah A bit of like Who's the better wine region Yes Like how you're allowed To give your brother Or your sister Or your friends

A bit of stick But when someone else does You're like No no no That is my family Yeah Yeah exactly But you're allowed

To slag them off Whenever you want Exactly But you've earned that right Because you're related to them You have Alright Secret Sound Coming up again this morning

at 7 and at 8. It's all thanks to Star streaming now on Disney+. $40,000 is the current jackpot. The top six on the way and library fines are in the news. Well, Auckland libraries

are thinking of getting rid of them. So I've got the top six other things libraries could do to get more patronage because that's apparently why they're getting rid of them. They want people to come back and use the library more often.

That was why back in the day, you know, when you go get DVDs and you get an overdue, you just go to a new store. New store. I did it at Wellington Library that I just never walked in there again after going, I just never returned that book. And then they did one of those things, you know, where they just went, all fines are cancelled. Ah, right.

Welcome back. Welcome back. What about when you found out that some libraries talk to other libraries? Like all of the Auckland libraries talk to each other. So you can't,

well, they're getting rid of them, but you wouldn't be able to have late fees at one library and just be like, well, I'll just go to another library because they all talk

to each other. Nerds. All right, well, the top six Is coming up Next on the show though A man got a little surprise He did one of those DNA tests

We've done them Ancestry.com I really want to do one It's quite fascinating You'll just find out That you're really white though Like we do Do you know there's

There's a new one now Where you can do it And it'll tell you What you'll most likely Die of Oh yes No I know that No bags not.

Yeah. But then it can help you try to avoid that. Oh, right. Like fried eggs and stuff. Don't eat those. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Well, a TikTok user has gone viral after he shared his DNA results. He did an Ancestry.com test where you spit in a chew, send it away, pay a couple of hundred dollars and they send you your results back or you log in,

you make a profile and you see that you're 30% Scottish. I feel like every white person that does it gets so thrilled when there's a little bit of something spicy in there. Do you know what I mean? When they're just like, oh my God, I'm not white.

And you're like, no, no, no, no, no. You are. You still are. We initially all did it and then they, like over the my God, I'm not white. And you're like, no, no, no, no, no. You are. You still are. We initially all did it. And then they, like over the last year, I think because they had so many more tests done and so many more people globally have done this, they refined a lot of their groupings.

Do you remember that? They came out and they said, actually, you're not so much Viking. You're more just plain white Scottish English kind of. But those Scots had to come from somewhere. The Gaelic, they came from across there, right? I had like a tiny percentage of the Iberian Peninsula, which is Spanish.

He was very much all about that. I had the same percentage Russian Jew. Do you remember that? That was confusing. Right. I was like 3% Russian Jew. I had no idea the family came from anywhere near there. But shalom. That's what I said.

Because it's not super like regionally specific or anything. Because is it ancestry.com? Did you guys do that one? Yeah. That they don't have a specific thing for like Maori. It's just Pacifica. Pacifica. Yeah.

Tell you what, when my wife did hers, that was a real. That's right. Because she's like an absolute melting pot, isn't she? She is. She had... She's an absolute mess. What? She had Nepalese, Indian.

She had Middle Eastern. She had Asian. She had English from her mum's side. She was a real... Hence why everybody asks... Sailor's situation. What's going on here? Yeah, and what were you?

Just French and Welsh or something? Oh, no, going on here? Yeah, and what were you? Just French and Welsh or something? Oh, no, 100% Irish. Yeah, right. Which explains the drinking every night. Just to go along with that stereotype. Well, a man has shared on TikTok his results. He did the Ancestry DNA, and he grew up always thinking that he was an only child with his mum and dad.

Well, it turns out he has 30 siblings and his dad is not his dad. Yeah. Wait, so who he grew up thinking was his dad did not biologically supply the goods. No, his dad was not his biological father. So who was, did they seek a sperm donor? Or was his dad just a real player? Yeah,

he did, yeah, so he continues after a quick Google search. Oh, I've just got an ad for dogs that's just come up. Tell us about the dogs too

while we're here. It says here, which dog grooming goes wrong? One, two, or three? Three, and then you click on it.

Pomeranian is going to go wrong. Yeah, three. Four, there's not a lot of hair there. Three, Roxy's alpaca transformation. We're very distracted. Click on that. I want to see what it looks like. So they've got a dog that looks like an alpaca?

No, because they have to put in my email address. You're sucked in by this advertising. I'm shocking. You know when it's like, what do they look like now? And it's got like a picture of like Yasmin Bleeth from 1990s Baywatch. And I'm immediately like, well, I remember being a teenage boy and thinking she was hot to trot.

But there's like a thousand slides and she's the last one. So apparently his dad, long story short, his dad's a sperm donor who was partying in Mexico that he didn't know about. I don't know.

It sounds wild. I don't think he knows all the details. Does the man, so there was a man that raised him who he believed't know about. I don't know. It sounds wild. I don't think he knows all the details. Does the man, so there was a man that raised him who he believed was his father. How do you have that conversation with your mum? That's not in here. Put in a mum. Yeah, that's not in that whole confrontation with the parents. Maybe mum didn't know either.

Maybe she assumed it was dad. But actually it was something that we tell her. So he was the result of the sperm donor or the partying in Mexico because I feel like he might have been the sperm donor and they might have got it.

The sperm, but I don't think mum and dad have told him that he was the result of a sperm donor. Yeah. And he's just got

so many siblings because he also partied in Mexico. I'm literally on ancestry.com now about to order a kit because I've wanted to do it for a long time

but now that he's got this shocking information maybe I don't want to know. You don't want to do this because they caught that serial killer with Ancestry information. So once your DNA's out there

just don't be a serial killer I think is what you were trying to. I don't know what the future holds. Who am I to say what might become? There might be a string of people whose lives entice you to end them. Hayley, you're a fan of, we were just talking about this before this break, you're a fan of true crime.

I love true crime. I've told you about I'll Be Gone in the Dark. It's a book written by Patton Oswalt, the comedian. His wife wrote this and then died. She passed away. She was hunting this Golden State serial killer and then she died. And DNA from one of these websites matched to the killer and they arrested him.

It's fascinating. I think Neon have the show, the HBO doco, but read the book first. It's really, really good. Well, now I'm nervous that I'm going to get caught for a future crime. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

A scientist has been really working out the tough questions. Some scientists cure cancer. And this one works out how many times a day you should go wee-wees. Okay. So they're saying that the average, so this is, there's a lot of factors obviously to take into mind here. Bladder size, whether you're pregnant, certain medications make you go to the toilet more. Or like you, you've only got one kidney. I was going to say liver.

Kidney. I do have one liver. Everybody famously only has one liver. What's the other one we have two of? Lungs. Lungs. Do you have two lungs? Nostrils.

But what's the other thing people give to other people? Is it only kidneys? Yeah. Like, I'll give you a kidney. That's it. I think it's it. Dying person. You can regrow a liver, right?

Like, if your liver's tattoo, you can have it removed. If you can find a donor, they can give you a slither of liver. Slither of liver. And you can grow the liver. It's self-generating. Yeah. What would you like? A slither of my liver?

I'd love a slither of your liver. She's got her own liver. It's a kidney. Oh, now I need a little kidney. I don't need a slither, though. I need a whole one. of your liver. She's got her own liver. It's a kidney shiver. Oh, no, I need a little kidney. I don't need a slither, though. I need a whole one. Oh, right. Okay.

So it's a liver and kidney pie. That's what she needs. Ew. Well, yeah, so I do wee slightly more frequently than this. So in a 24-hour period, this is based on the average two litres of water per day. That's the bare minimum by the way that you should be drinking. I reckon I'm going to be over the average because I wheeze so much. Oh, I drink

like three and a half litres of water a day. The average you should be peeing is between six and seven times. Between six to seven times a day. Oh, maybe I'd be about there awake for 16 hours. Or you're supposed to, if you're getting eight hours of sleep, right?

Yeah, because at gym I'll drink so much water. And then at work I'll drink so much water as well. Yeah. And then you go home and you just dehydrate. I reckon I could be six to eight a day. So that's normal. Yeah, you're peeing quite normally. I'm going to count today.

I've already done two. Have you done two already? Yeah. I've done one, but. I'm going to count today. I've already done two. Have you done two already? Yeah. I've done one, but I can feel another one tingling. And now that we're talking about it, it's going to make you think about it. Yeah, yeah. I'm also having a classic liquid breakfast as well,

plus I've got the water here. It's St. Patrick's Day. Your liquid breakfast is booze. Yeah. Happy St. Patrick's Day. I've had a couple of guineas. So they're saying, yeah, within a 24-hour period, six to seven times is a healthy person.

Because your wheeze doesn't need to be entirely see-through. You know when they're going like, you don't want an ambly amber. But it shouldn't be too dark, yeah. And then sometimes you have a brocker and that really throws it. But that's a different, that's a bright, vibrant whee, and that's okay. But every now and then you might have like a bit more of a staley. Dark, yeah. Yellowy brown wee.

Yeah. You're dehydrated. Get some water in you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if blood's coming out, go and see a doctor. Yes, absolutely. Immediately, please. Oh, a good sign.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Netflix have announced they're going to be cracking down on password sharing. Yeah, this has been rumoured for a while, hasn't it? But I think they've actually found a way and they're rolling it out to test it with people. It's not exactly like you're not going to be able to do it at this stage. Right. It's basically Netflix introducing two-factor authentication. So you have to give people approval to use your account.

So, like, for example, it would text the login to your phone if you logged into a new device. Yes, you would have your own Netflix profile. If you've got your phone number or your email in there, it sends you the code that then you have to put it on your device. But wait, would you only have to do that once? Yeah, not every time. So say you were logging in on your laptop

and you get the authentication thing, you authenticate it and then that's it? Because then that's exactly the same. All you've got to do now is share your password and then your authentication code. But then do you think it would ask you randomly every couple of weeks? Maybe. That would be annoying.

You could do that once for a friend but you're not doing it every night for a friend when they want to sit down and watch another four episodes of whatever they're binging. Yeah. They're like, hey, you're about to get an email. Can you just send me the code? Yeah, that's not going to work.

That'd be a real pain. Soon enough you'd be like, no. My parents use my Netflix account. Same. I set it up at Christmas so that I could watch Netflix. Yeah. And the only time it's ever annoying, because I ended up upgrading it to multiple screens.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you can go four devices at once or something. The only time it's annoying is when me and my mum are watching the same show because then I'll get lost. Oh, no, you've got to set her up her own profile. Set her up her own profile. I've set one up called Mum and Dad. And then they log on. But she doesn't use it. Oh, well, cut've got to set her up her own profile. Set her up her own profile. I've set one up called Mum and Dad. Yes, I am.

And then they log on. But she doesn't use it. Oh, well, cut her. Cut her. Get her out. Cut her and then she'll learn. Remove device. Go into your settings and remove her accessibility.

We were both watching, I think it was Shameless at the same time. Oh, Patsy, no. And then I would press play and be like, I'm five seasons ahead and I've just had a spoiler alert. Because I made a new profile if people ever house it while I'm away because I'd get back and all of their trashy reality shows would be in my like, here's what you should watch next and I'd be like, absolutely not.

I mean, you should give them a go though. They've got a lot of good trash on there. Everyone's talking about is it Selling Sunset? Oh, I've seen it. That's it. I watched a small slither of it and it was just Is it selling sunset? Oh, I've seen it. You've got to watch it. And I'm like, no. I watched a small slither of it, and it was just set up. It was nonsense.

Yeah, I just go to the true. I always go to the true crime, the drama. Yeah, same. All right, well, we did run a poll, and it turns out a lot of you are leeching, and this could be causing some, I guess, annoyance in the future if this goes ahead. Yeah, 18,000 votes were received

and the large majority of people actually paying for it for themselves. Yep, 60%. Yeah, 60% paying it for themselves. Otherwise, the other 40% leeching. So that's actually not bad. I expected it to be a lot worse. Really?

I thought that's terrible that's almost half. But then half of, I thought it'd be the other way around to be honest. I thought it'd be 60% leeching. I would like to know how many people are actually leeching off someone that doesn't know they're being leeched off anymore. I know we've talked, yeah.

Or you have like a just a Tinder hookup and they log in and then you just leave it logged in. What sort of person has a Tinder hookup and they're like, hey, can you just log on to Netflix?

I beat you on that one. If you want to take part in the chill, log into Netflix. Or have you been to, you know, like a hotel or a motel where they've got the Netflix app and you have to log in

and you forget to log out. But then you can just go into your settings and forget to remove the device. There was a machine at the gym where you could log on to like Oh yeah, the treadmills. Yeah, they have it. But admin. Admin and the fact that yeah, the next person

is just going to be, they're going to be mooching. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. From the vulnerable ZM Think Tank this is the top six. Hello there. This is the Top Six. Hello there. This is an amazing story.

Auckland libraries are going to be ditching fines to increase patronage. And they talked to a lady who's a library addict. Oh, yeah. Library addict. This is insane. Sarah. Yeah. Fake name.

I don't know why she's so worried about her identity being revealed. She said reading is her one superpower. That's because she only needs three to four hours to get through an entire 300 page novel. Oh no, it takes me so long. Yeah. Because I start daydreaming. Me too. I was reading last night and I had to

go back a few paragraphs because I'd spent like the whole page just... Yeah, thinking about something else. Reading pages and then being like, oh, hang on, I didn't address any of that. Do you ever do that thing where you get to the end of the line and you go back to the start of the next line but you read the same line again and then you do it again and again

and you're like, this is... Go to bed. Oh, I've read the same line a lot. I used to be a fast reader but now that I spend way more time on technology... You like to take it in. Oh, I just... I don't know. I'm reading a whopping book, you know,

something you could kill a man with. Bludgeon. Yeah, it's taken me like a year. Wow. See, I always forget what I was up to. If I leave a book for too long, I've got to start it again. So I like, because we were just having this argument as well before when you were buying a book online.

Upon your recommendation. Yeah, but I was like, get a Kindle or an e-reader. Because then you get the percentage down the bottom. It's like 16% left. Did you see there was something on the news literally overnight that said that kids, it doesn't, it will make them less smart. What? Reading on Kindles and the likes.

Oh, why? And actually, I don't know, I didn't read the article, but I just felt quite smug about it because I read the paper. You were like, think about the whatever. I was like, think about the trees, Hayley, and the environment. Oh, we've got plenty of trees. Yeah. So the article talking about reading off screens,

making people not smart, you would have read if it was in the paper. Don't come at me. So apparently Sarah, remember her, book addict, who can read a book real quick, she has paid

over $500 in fines to Auckland libraries over her time and her single biggest fine was $200. Yikes. How did she do that? You couldn't even,

you could replace the book five times over. Yeah, I know. For that. So, Auckland libraries are thinking of ditching fines. And you know they'll get an increased patronage. That's their idea.

They just want more people in the fines. It's a service that you pay as part of your rates. Have you been into a library lately? Like I did because there was a Justice of the Peace in there. Oh, yes. Like a year ago. It was just tourists and students wanting free Wi-Fi. It used to be awesome going to the library.

I grew up in Wellington and I always went to the Wellington library. Is that the one that they want to privatise half of or something at the moment? I don't know, but it's a funky building. Oh, is it a funky old library? Well, I've got the top six ways to get people back to the library. Okay. If the library wants to ditch late fees. Number six, free internet.

Oh, they already do it, guys. Let's get back to the library. Get into the library, dumbos. Yeah. Well, you want to play Minecraft, do you, nerd? Well, get to the library. It's free. They've got computers there.

And they've got Wi-Fi. That's why you always see people parked up outside the library. Basically, yeah. but not going in. Number five on the top six ways to get people back to the library. Maybe they should try a different sort of book. A comic book. They already do!

They've got a great selection of comics. And if you want to read a comic, but it's not at your local library, they can get another library to send them a comic, and then they'll tell you the and then you can go in and read the comics. Oh, wow. Wow. This is really shocking.

I didn't know you were so passionate about the library. I'm a big fan of libraries. Number four on the list of the top six ways to get people back to the library, maybe they could think about movie rentals. They already do. Do they actually still do that? You can rent movies, like DVDs. What, like Video Easy?

Yeah. Well, when Video Easy went out, they were like, we could take care of that because we'll just buy them and then you can borrow them, bring them back within the week. Yeah. Interesting. Number three on the list of the top six ways to get people to go back to the library.

You mentioned e-books before. Yeah. Finally, they could get into that corner. Interesting. Number three on the list of the top six ways to get people to go back to the library. You mentioned e-books before. Yeah. Finally they could get into that corner. They've got apps. You can download an app. And then you can like borrow books from the library. That feels contradictory. E-books.

Yeah. It feels contradictory for the library to be like, come back to the library. We've got apps. We've got apps. You don't need us. But come in anyway. We've got a lovely cafe. Yeah.

You could read your e-book here that you rented, but you didn't need to, but use the free Wi-Fi. Use number six to get number three. Yeah, okay. Okay. Number two on the list of the top six ways to get people back to the library. Need a quiet place to relax because working from home is too noisy because there's people around?

They already do. They already do. You can set up. You can truly set up and work all in there. Work from the library. They've got the Wi-Fi. They've got the cafe next door. They've got somebody you can ask questions to.

And number one on the list of the top six ways to get people back to the library. I was thinking they should employ some people, some lovely, kind, soft-spoken people who will help you find what you need and even let you photocopy something or print something for free if you're charming enough. But only if you're charming enough. Yeah, okay. Wait a minute.

They already do. They already do, yeah. They're called librarians. Do you know what's really funny is my fiancé, Greg Grover from Nova, was a librarian. What? He's too big to be quiet. He's too tall.

Does he walk with the silence of a field mouse? He's a vivacious actor. He glides. He glides as he tall, vivacious actor. He glides. He glides as he engages acting walking. Maybe. He glides through the library with a big load of books. Yeah. Oh, there you go.

It sounds like a pretty great place, this library. Get into it. That's today's top six. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. We're talking about a bit of info that has just been talked about online that says that women are still doing more housework than men in New Zealand.

So official data on who does the housework in New Zealand has been collected over about a decade. Right. And women are still severely short-changed. Yeah, right. Except as we mentioned before in my household. In your household, which is just you and a male cat. Yeah. Right. And he does nothing.

Absolutely nothing. I'm in a household of one man, one woman, me, and a male cat. And I reckon we, I'd say we're 50-50. Okay. It's hard to think of,

because when you think of housework, you think dishes, cooking, laundry, mopping, vacuuming. Watering the plants. Watering the plants. But then there's other things like mowing the lawn or like the house maintenance stuff. So I feel like me and Aaron are pretty 50-50.

Okay. He's a bit more outdoorsy and a deep cleanie whereas I'm a bit more indoorsy keeping tidying. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Guys tend to be like that, right? Like when we do clean, we intensely

clean. Like Sade will not move the couch but if I do a vacuum, I like flip it over. And I'm like, ah! No, I won't flip over all the time. Use your madness! Yeah, but if I do a vacuum, I like flip it over. And I'm like, ah! No, I won't flip over all the time. Use your madness. Yeah, and if I clean the shower, I get in all the nitty gritty and I pull that thing out in the plug and I like pull all the hair out of it.

Does she not pull out the thing in the plug? No, she doesn't pull out the thing in the plug. I mean, her idea of cleaning the shower is just going in there and just spraying around the top and letting it dribble down. I can scrub the shower. I also don't remove the hair from the top and letting it dribble down. I can scrub the shower. I also don't remove the hair from the plump... But it's your hair! No, to be fair, Aaron's got long curly

hair. Yeah, he's got hair. To a bit of my situation it's 100% Sade. I'm like look at what you've done and she'll be like, that's not all me. I'm like, a big pin? Who else? It's all super long, straight black hair. Well, apparently the reason for this is it's how we've been raised.

There's still an issue with men in general. Not all men, I know. But some men thinking that that's the norm. Because that's how we've been raised. What is it in your house? Because you've got the robot vacuum cleaner now. Has that still evened things out? Well, you've got to prep for Robbie. Okay. The robot vacuum cleaner. You've got to do a little bit of prep for him. Who's doing the robot vacuum cleaner now. Has that still evened things out? Well, you've got to prep for Robbie.

Okay. The robot vacuum cleaner. You've got to do a little bit of prep for him. Who's doing the prep for Robbie? I do a far better prep for Robbie. Whenever she's in charge of Robbie, I'm always getting notifications on my phone, Robbie's battled out on something or Robbie's tank got tangled up in something because I go around

the house, I put all the chairs up on the table, I put everything that's on the floor, I put it up. Yeah. I roll the mat up, I put all the chairs up on the table. I put everything that's like on the floor, I put it up. I roll the mat up, I put it up on something. So Robbie can get in and do a private show. They'll just be like, go Robbie. And he'll be like, yum, shoelaces. Help me, Vaughn, help me. Well, this expert that's chimed in says that you either need to say,

you either need to have a look at it as a couple and say, well, hang on, this isn't fair. Or hire a cleaner. Yeah, right. Remove the issue entirely. But you do have to do a pre-cleaner clean. Who's doing that? The woman.

The woman's probably going to do the pre-cleaner clean. But that's the only way that we're going to change the system. Right. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm 50-50. No, I find throwing in their face, well, you can mow the lawn anytime you like, really helps. Does it?

How does that go down? Oh, an absolute treat. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you did the, did you do the grass? Did you stop the grass growing up over the concrete? You did the edging, did you? No, this is the opposite of what you should do,

which is not, well, I did this. Well, I did this. Yeah. I swept out the garage, did you? No, this is the opposite of what you should do, which is not, well, I did this. Well, I did this. Yeah. I swept out the garage, did you? Good. You wouldn't want her mowing the lawns because you're so particular. She wouldn't do it right.

No, you're right. I don't want her in there. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM's $50,000 secret sound. Are you all right this morning? Soundgiver Owls is in with us this morning. Good morning. Hello.

Sorry, I hope that wasn't inappropriate. Oh my word. I know. It's too early for that. $40,000 is the secret sound. How has your life changed in the last couple of days since you released the video? Dramatically. Yeah.

I'm imagining you're getting hit up a lot more. No, it's tame. It's all good. It's just, what's the secret sound? Well, ZM's secret sound on Instagram, there is a 2 minute 40 video, and in that video is the secret sound. I've watched it so many times.

Oh my God, I'm feeling so frustrated. And I watched it and I was like, pause it and be like, hang on, was that it? And I go back. Oh, I don't know. Well, Hayleyley you and everybody else kelly joins us good morning kelly morning hello all right good now have you been pouring over that video too i have been okay and you think that with all the clues and listening to the sound

and watching that video you've got the secret sound well i hope I hope I do. All right. All right, well. Well, she's being coy about it. Very coy. All right, for $40,000, Kelly, what is the ZM's secret sound? I think it's someone dropping a portable PA system. Wow, that is left field. Now, is there a portable PA system

in the video? Well, there's the amplifier in the microphone, which is a portable PA. Yeah, right, okay. So you think it's the microphone bit dropping and it's a sound, it's on, and it's the sound that that makes? Yeah, when it drops on the ground.

Because there is static there, isn't there, in the noise? I've always thought that there's some kind of metal-y, static-y sound. Have the other clues helped? Yes, I think so. Sometimes it makes it harder for people, but that's good.

But it's like a conspiracy theory. If you want to believe it, you'll believe it, right? You'll make it. If it works. You can find evidence to support it. Yeah, I thought we had it last week and I was convinced. Alright, Callie, for $40,000. Kelly. That's not the secret sound.

Dropping a portable PA. It's not that, but you do get $100 for an incorrect guess, Kelly. And another chance is coming up at 8 o'clock. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. So, a couple in the UK are married, and this is how they met. This is how they met. This lady. This is how I met your mother. This girl,

Jo, was on Facebook, and you know how it pops up? It's like, people you know, you might know. Yes. Because of your mutual friends. This guy, Matthew Matthew was in there and she'd accidentally added him. What was their connection? Did they have

mutual friends? I think they might have had a mutual friend or two or it had just somehow suggested them. Yeah, because sometimes when I get those suggestions, it's like you've got 54 mutual friends and then other times it's just like... Yeah, you're like, how is this Facebook suggesting this person? Do you have a shared interest perhaps?

Maybe you like pages that they like or something like that. Yeah, I don't know. So she accidentally adds him, Joe adds Matthew, and then they start chatting because... Well, you get that notification. You're like, hi. Who's this? And she was a little embarrassed at first. Long story short, they sort messages, they date, you get that notification. You're like, hi. Who's this? And she was a little embarrassed at first.

Long story short, they sought messages, they date, and that's it. They marry. Happily ever after. Oh, my God. All because of an accident. That's a true modern romance, isn't it? Kismet.

Is that what that's called when you just... Kismet, yeah. The universe... I heard the word, and I Googled it to confirm it, and it means fate or destiny. Kismet. The universe made you meet at a place or at a time and it happened.

But you can kind of say that about any relationship. But not like a Tinder. I mean, could you say that the universe and fate and kismet put you on at the same time? I was just like, this is just such a waste. And I was like, one more and then there they were. Like that could be, you, I was just like, this is just such a waste. And I was like, one more, and then there they were. Like, that could be, you know. Yeah, right.

People like to put a bit of magic into their romance, don't they? They like to give the origin story a bit of a zhuzh. Yeah. But I kind of thought we could take some calls this morning because you like those stories of maybe, I don't know, you've got a flat tire and then someone stopped to help you. Those kind of stories. When did you meet your partner accidentally?

Or maybe you were making a complaint to a company and you were like, can I see the manager, please? And out they come and you're like, hubba hubba. Hi. Oh, my gosh. And somebody fell in love with a Karen just like that. That's how Karen met Dave. So, yeah, I thought, can we take some calls this morning

of those times when the person you're with now, you met them accidentally, just purely by chance. Yeah, like you weren't connected to begin with. It wasn't like a set up date. It wasn't a Tinder date. It was just kismet, baby. It was kismet, yeah.

Kismet. Kismet. I don't know what kismet is. I'm not googling that. Don't google that On the work Wi-Fi Scary 0800 DARS at M

Give us a call 9696 to text How did you meet Your partner Accidentally Or just purely by chance A UK couple Have gone viral

A news story They met When she accidentally Added him on Facebook She bumped the People you may know Button And accepted him

Matthew And they moved in Married Somebody said accidentally added him on Facebook. She bumped the people you may know button and accepted him. Matthew. And they moved in. Somebody said that they found out one way that Facebook works in this situation. If you look someone up on Facebook, but you're not friends with them, but you're doing a little bit of a name stalk. Oh, okay. If you do it more than twice, that person will pop up in your people you may know list. A name stalk.

So if you're going for a look-see, look-see as to who somebody is more than once. Yeah, right. Then they'll get a little bit of a you may know this person because they've been looking them up. So he might have been creeping, she might have been creeping, someone's been creeping. Yeah. I look up strangers profiles a lot because. Like what? Like when you hear a name on the news?

Yeah. Are you just like, I'm going to see if they've got a. Yeah, totally. Or if they've got a Yeah totally Or if I have like a meeting with someone And I've forgotten what they look like You know like Oh you know let's meet I always Google them

And Facebook them So that I can go I know your face That's your face That's your face So we want to know Have you Experiences

Have you Accidentally met your now partner Fate Like fate Fate man Oh my god it was destiny Imagine the vows Kismet Have you accidentally met your now partner? Fate. Like fate. Fate, man. Oh, my God. It was destiny. Imagine the vows.

Kismet. I love you so much. It was fate and destiny that brought us together. Are they Americans? Only Americans would have vows that say fate and destiny. Absolutely. Some text messages in. Somebody said, I met my ex at a Macca's drive-thru.

I was drunk and so I couldn't drive, so I was walking through and they said they wouldn't sue me, so I said, do you mind if I hop in your car so I can make an order? And they let them in, but they did say ex. So it wasn't forever love. Driving around the Southern Bays in Wellington, I saw a stuck

car, went down and helped her out, and 12 years and two kids later, we're still very much in love. You saved her from the incoming tide. I don't want to be sexist, but who does the driving on the roadies? Probably not her. Well, she drove on the beach that time.

Every time she's driving, he's like every corner. Hey, slow down. Anne, how did you accidentally meet your partner? Yeah, my parents employed my now husband of 34 years to come and do some electrical work at their house. And he was up in the roof and he actually, well, I hadn't met him at that point,

ended up falling through into our dining room. Yes. Every time I see someone getting into the ceiling, even if it's my own house, I'm like, God damn it, I hope they fall through the ceiling. Yeah, yeah. So dramatic. And your husband literally fell from the heavens?

Totally. Yeah. Oh, my God. You hesitated for too long there, Anne. She was like, he's a real pain in the ass now, wasn't he? Because he's clumsy and he's always falling through the ceiling. If anything needs to be put in the ceiling space for storage, Anne, whose job is that? We do it together.

Yeah, you keep an eye on him because he's got a history. He's got a history. Anne, thanks. You call some text messages. I met someone on Tinder and on my way out of their house in the morning, I bumped into their best friend. We've been together five years now and got married in December of 2019. Oh my God.

I must know if the best friend was at the wedding. The original Tinder hookup? The original Tinder hookup. I mean, if it's a Tinder hookup though, they don't have much of a claim, do they? No. But you can imagine it would be an issue at the time. It's very awkward.

Yeah. Amy, how did you accidentally meet your partner? Amy. Oh, hi. Sorry, my parents, not me. Oh, okay. How did they meet? So Dad was a photographer,

and he was at the beach doing some photos for a newspaper. And Mum was there, and they bumped into each other and just started talking. They got along really well, so they went out for dinner. Oh, okay. But didn't exchange any numbers or keep in contact. And then about a month later, mum was on holiday in another city that she'd never been to

and she was in a cafe and dad walks up to her and was like, oh, hey, I remember you from the beach. And he was on holiday as well. And yeah, they're still married like 30 years later. Oh my gosh. Did dad remember mum because he'd got out his big zoomy lens and taken some creepy photos on the beach? Yeah, probably.

He was like, I've been developing photos of you in my bedroom. Oh, that is pretty cute though. And like ran into her again. That's so cute. That's so cute. Thanks for your call. Some more text messages to finish. I saw my partner across the room at our debrief at Spooker's Full Horror Makeup. And we instantly fell in love. I didn't know him at all, but I saw my partner across the room at our debrief at Spooker's full horror makeup.

And we instantly fell in love. I didn't know him at all, but I knew I had to have him. I had a partner at the time and I left the guy two weeks later. Ten years had gone by and we're still so happy together. This is just what we need. Every Halloween they're like, let's get back into character. Yeah, let's dress up. Let's run through the cornfields making little kids wet their pants. Let's do it because that's how we met each other.

Oh, it's so cute. This is warm to the cockles of my heart. My parents met because my dad broke up with his girlfriend. Mum was comforting the girl who was her friend.

Then she went around to give dad a piece of her mind and ended up being talked into going on a date with him. That guy has some skills. Yeah, but you're never

winning an argument in that relationship, are you? But now they're divorced. I'm not sure how she missed that original red flag. Yeah, it was a big red flag. It was like the big red flag they put up at the beach saying, please swim between these flags.

Yeah. What's my love language again? What's the one where you like doing things together? Acts of service. Yeah, acts of service. No, that you like doing things together? Acts of service Yeah, acts of service No, that's not doing things together That's you doing things for your loved one Yeah, but then what's the one where I like it

Where we just do things together? Quality time? Quality time, yeah Because I like that one, right? That was my love language, wasn't it? And cuddles Mine's cuddles and words of affirmation You beautiful people Yeah, yours wasn't quality time, wasn't it and cuddles mine's cuddles and words of affirmation you're beautiful people yeah

yeah yours wasn't quality time wasn't it no presence it was just get them in and get them out yeah that's me as well you were quick time pro oh you're still here yeah you're an app yeah you know he's your fiance he's not leaving i know 10 years he's still there come on so i like doing things like together. One of my favorite memories, this is real dumb, but like whatever, I don't care what you think. You might think it's dumb. I think it's cool.

Sade and I spent the day once. We had a whole lot of trees cut down at our place when we first moved in. And we had this massive pile of like bark and wood chips. And we spent the whole day moving it from one place to another with spades and wheelbarrows and it's one of my favorite memories of our play our new place together because it didn't cost us anything yeah and we just spent the whole day shoveling and talking and there was no arguments and we then at the end of the day we could be like look at what we've achieved we moved all that from there to there

so i like doing that sort of stuff together so So Sade wants this part of this old garden with these huckery. Don't you have a favourite memory from like a tropical island or a holiday? Yeah, something romantic or sexy. Instead, you're like, we moved bark. I know, but that's what. Did you make love afterwards? Yeah, on the bark pile. We were too tired.

Oh, my God. We were like, we're going to sleep well tonight. You know when you say that at the end of the day were like, we're going to sleep well tonight. You know when you say that at the end of the day? Oh, I'm going to sleep well tonight. Married life sounds great. Oh, it sounds so fun. It's real fun, guys. Get a couple of kids in the mix.

Oh, no. She's all go. So then we've got those. Remember when everybody was doing garden surrounds with those half round poles? Yeah. Remember the 80s and they'd set them in concrete? So we've got one of those. Yeah, horrible.

So we've got one of those. I'll say it. Tacky. That's so tacky. What would you go for a modern surround? Well, I would. I'm thinking railway sleepers. Like for a rustic look.

Oh, no, that's also tacky. Oh, you think railway sleepers is tacky? Jesus, what have you got left for a garden surround? A lot of fire bricks. For garden surrounds. No, it's not tacky. Fire bricks for a garden edging. Yeah. Why fire bricks? Why not just a. Firebricks for a garden edging. Yeah.

Why firebricks? Why not just a brick brick? Because we pulled out a fireplace. Oh, so then you use that. Oh, so you've used them. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Right, and it's got a rustic appeal and it's for a rustic place. Okay.

Yeah, well, that's why I'm struggling with what I'm going to replace this with. Anyway, there was this one outside the kitchen window and I said, let's do this. This can be one of these things we do together. Okay. So for the last few days we've been digging out all this really compacted old garden and smashing out

the wood and doing a little bit of a working bee and it's another one of these things that we can look back on and be like

we did that we did that can we get Sade on and see if she's having as much fun she doesn't love it as much this is Aaron as well

anything renovation he's like come out and help me come out and keep me company come and do this yeah yeah that's what you just want to do it together and I'm Because this is Aaron as well. Anything renovation, he's like, come out and help me. Come out and keep me company. Come and do this. Yeah, that's what you just want to do it together. And I'm like, this is not fun for me. Okay. Yeah, I don't imagine it's like one of your top five memories. It's not fun

loading a skip full of rubble. No, it is. Maybe Aaron, maybe I should move in with Aaron. He seems like a good joker. Roger, you and Sade would get nothing done. You'd be shopping the whole time. We would be. Two new chairs turned up yesterday during it.

She wanted to take a break from the working bee to unpack the new chairs. I'm like, the chairs can wait. We're in a working bee. Yeah, right. So she got something. She likes the gifts, I think.

That's her love language. She likes buying things. So one of the problems is in the middle of this garden, there used to be this ugly old pergola thing. Pergola? Pergola? Pergola?

Tacked onto the side of the house. You know when people in the 90s loved trellis? Yeah! And they grew like some huckery climbing plant up there that just like ended up strangling it and just killing the wood. So I chainsawed that off a while ago, but the base

was still in the ground. Digging around it. Insane amount of concrete. I can't seem to get to the bottom of this concrete. There's scoria everywhere. And I said, but the base was still in the ground. Digging around it, insane amount of concrete. I can't seem to get to the bottom of this concrete. There's scoria everywhere. And I said, I'm going to go get the Land Rover and I'm going to pull this out. This is my Land Rover

that I inherited off my granddad. 1967, so 54 years old. This is what it was made for. This is what it was made for. That's what I said. And she said, you're going to wreck it. It's going to cost a fortune.

It's a car now, Vaughan. It's not a utility vehicle anymore. I think this was my favourite content on Instagram yesterday. Your story of you pulling this out of the ground. I found it so satisfying. Like a pimple popper. Yeah. So Sade said, you're going to wreck it

and then it's going to cost us a fortune to fix because old cars aren't cheap to fix and mechanically I've got no idea. So she's like, you're going to wreck it. And I said, we'll video it, because either way, one of us is going to win. Yep. Either I'm going to pull this out, and it's going to look real sweet, and we're going to have it on video, or I'm going to wreck the Land Rover,

and you can laugh at me on video. And you've also got a great video of the sale. I went and got the Land Rover and backed it up and hooked it on. She started videoing, and I was like, and it pulled it out, and I was so stoked. Yeah. And I got to turn around and be like, I was like, yeah. And then she stops the video because I didn't want this bragging on video.

I was like, yeah, Land Rover still got it. End video. I told you so. Yeah. Straight after I saw her put the phone out. Told you so. Just straight in the face with it. Straight in the face with it.

Told you so is honestly the most poisonous sentence. It's toxic, hey. It's right up there with I'm fine. Yeah. Nothing. I'm fine. No, I'm all good. You all right?

At least there's no lie to I told you so. I told you so is when I told you so. I'm fine. The I'm fine is like there's a little tree above or an iceberg. You can see the top of it. That's the I'm fine. And then under the surface is 90% of the iceberg with all the reasons why they're not fine.

But yeah, the old girl's still got it. So don't worry about it. Told you so. Yeah, told you so. The clutch did smell a little bit funny and has been a little sticky since, but we're not telling Sade that. It's ruined.

We're not telling Sade that. She might get to tell I told you so yet. Yeah, she probably will. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. In the wake of the horrible story of Sarah Everett, who was murdered in South London after she was walking home on her own. By a policeman. Yeah, he's discharged.

And who from the royal family went along? Kate. Kate. Kate went along, marvellous, to pay her respect. Yeah, she did. And she said that she remembers that feeling of walking home alone in London and full of fear. And it's really sparked a conversation about women's safety on the streets

and a lot of celebs chiming in and sharing things on Instagram. And there's a lot of articles popping up online, and I read one yesterday that was sort of tips and tricks for women who are walking on their own down the street on how they can keep themselves safe and it was some of the things that were obvious

like have your keys in your hand, which is a real old trick, so you can one, use them as a weapon, but two, if you finally get to your door, you're not wasting time rummaging around. I went for a run the other day. It was during the day. It was like down to the local

park. You can go around. And a woman was walking and I ran. I gave her a wide berth because, you know, when you're kind of like listening to something or distracted, all of a sudden someone's right on you. It's quite a horrible. Guys or girls, I don't like getting real close to people because it's, ah,

freaking people out. But she was holding her keys between her hands the whole time and I was like, but then I was like, fair enough. I would too. Yeah.

I was just walking around. There's like some bush or like bushes at the corners and stuff. She was completely by herself. Yeah. Horrible that she has to, but I wouldn't blame her. Well,

you don't. For being safe. You don't, would you, you wouldn't, if you were walking home alone, carry, feel the need to carry your keys You don't, would you, you wouldn't, if you were walking home alone, feel the need to carry your keys between your fingers, would you?

I'm scared of everything, so I would. I'm easily frightened. Yeah, well, there's a lot of, I mean, when I went to an all-girls school and we got taught self-defense, and I mean, I'm not going to, you know, speak badly about the self-defense course that we had, but the extent of it, I remember one exercise really vividly. And we had to get up and run from our friend from the ground. And that was sort of the... Oh, so someone like shoved you over.

If you were down, it was like, how best to get up while someone is chasing you, which is honestly, it's just, it instills a really terrifying thing in you from a young age that you are in danger when you are walking in the street. Yeah. So yeah, like I say, there's lots of things about how women can keep themselves safe, texting friends. You know, there's that thing, text me when you get home that's going around

at the moment where people are sharing experiences. But now there's a thing that's being shared around by lots of celebrities, including Jamila Jamil, about how men can also support the safety of women on the street and it's not like, don't attack them. It's for all men. About being aware that they are... Being aware that they're in a different position potentially to you. Yeah, yeah. Definitely aware of that

because I walk to work through Auckland Central every morning and slash scooter. And I'm definitely aware of this. What time is that? It's like 5. Oh, it's dark. 5 a.m. 5 a.m. It's dark.

There are still a lot of like women walking on their own, either from a night out, going home or going to work. And I'll always give them a wide berth. I always wear my work lanyard just to, you know, show I've got my school bag on. I'm going to work and I'll always like either cross the road, give them a wide berth, you know, or I'll just jaywalk and cross the road. Because, you know, you are aware of that. Well, that's one of the things that's on this sort of list that's going around, which is ways that men who aren't attackers or predators

can support women when they're walking home alone and when you see them by themselves, like go over. If you see a woman being harassed, don't hesitate. Go over and help her. If your mates are wolf whistling, you know, call them out on it

because it's actually quite terrifying when you get wolf whistled because you know instantly that the attention is on you. Yeah, and that a whole lot of eyes are on you. Yeah, and you just don't want that. If you see a woman walking alone, keep a distance. Slow down or cross the road at night because they're going to do it anyway.

I do that. I cross the road. You know, keep your face visible. Keep your headphones out. This is for you know keep your face visible keep your head your headphones out this is for men keep your face visible um yeah don't stare don't run behind women yeah so there's lots we can do to make our streets a bit safer i was just saying before the aaron was so worried about it because i you know i've got some late nights and i socialize a lot and he bought me a switchblade which is like

you know the ones that flick on the side and it goes, shoots out and he was like, I think you need this because if you're going to be out my mum had also bought me a whistle and I was like, this is not going to do anything so he went a step further with this switchblade but I'm so scared to have it in my bag

because I'll probably be rummaging around looking for my keys. Flick the switch, go through the hand. Go through the hand. It's sharp. You pull it out, you've got a knife through your hand. Anyway, look after yourselves out there, everyone, and just, yeah, be aware of it. Be aware.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. On our Instagram account, you can see our little video that we made at Wild Foods at the weekend. Fun time eating all sorts of things. Your face is priceless as you're eating some of that stuff. I had never eaten hoo-hoo grubs or locusts before. No, are the locusts crunchy? Yeah, they weren't deep fried.

I've had deep fried. When we were in Cambodia, we did tarantula and crickets, and they were yum. Tarantula? Ooh, and they were yum tarantula ooh fluffy ooh no they're not they're like they're like

because they put cinnamon it was like a donut it was like eating you know those donut stalls at fairs oh yum except the donut had been cooked

within an inch of its life it's weird you're not eating the tarantula you're eating the dough and the cinnamon the stuff around it also just a quick shout out

because I know that at the ZM tent we were giving away the Dr. Feel stuff around it. Also, just a quick shout out, because I know that at the ZM tent, we were giving away the Dr. Feelgood frozen pops. These are from Nelson. Oh, so good. They come in like the little cardboard, amazing. The good bit not-fee flavoured one. They actually made a special one-off for Major Murray Fluffington.

Did they? A tuna one. Don't accidentally eat that. Do you reckon while they were making it, they were like... It was tuna and catnip. Oh, for... So I don't think they're going to branch out into that full time. And they might just stick with their delicious flavours normally.

But I wanted to say thanks to them as well, because that was pretty cute. Pretty cute. If they do want to branch out, I've got a great name. But if I say it now... You don't know, but Vaughn does this all the time. He's like, I've got a great idea for an app, and he says it. I'm like those people who are lying. Reluctantly, and it's already done.

It's already a thing. Oh, yeah. I'm one of those people who like, I could totally be a business consultant, because you know they just say ideas to people, and they're like, run with that if you want. But like, the idea might be rubbish, but they just say it without having to follow through on it, so it's easier for them. I'm not an ideas woman. You're not an ideas woman?

No. I'll hit you with ideas, but my follow through is weak. Now, some research has been done looking at drinking levels around New Zealand. Now, this does only include Auckland, Canterbury, and the Bay of Plenty. Why not Waikato, New Plymouth? Where's Wellington at?

This is the problem. They should have done everywhere in New Zealand. So what they did in this research. We can probably fill in the gaps. Wellington, lots of craft beers. Otago. Kombucha, alcohol of kombucha. Spice, spice, spice.

Yeah. So they didn't ask people, how much are you smoking and drinking at the weekend and during the week? They tested wastewater. I love the wastewater tests. I know. And because they've done a lot of this during COVID,

they can pick up COVID in the wastewater. So they're always looking around the country at the wastewater. I feel violated because, you know, when you go to the doctor and they're like, how many standard drinks will you be drinking a week? And you'll be like, four to five a day. And you do your urine test and it comes back and they're like, you lied to me. Yeah, whereas this way, you don't have a choice. So they collected wastewater samples from locations around Auckland, Canterbury and the Bay of Plenty over the course of a week.

And then they tested them for signs of alcohol and nicotine use. Now they found while nicotine use was consistent over the week, alcohol consumption peaked at the weekend. And they can tell because they're testing the wastewater. Surprise, surprise. It's also the freaking weekend. It rised up to 171% over a typical weekday in some urban areas. Yeah.

Now that doesn't surprise anyone. The pattern of alcohol use so differed across the three regions. They have plenty drank most overall. Bay of Plenty? Weekday and boomers. Because they're retirees.

There's nothing else to do. A lot of sabs. Shardy Club. And then they finished the day with a Bay lease. Yes. And then that was followed by Canterbury

and then Auckland. So people in the Tauranga urban area drank more than those in the rural Bay of Plenty. They cited obviously more bars, I guess more population in the rural Bay of Plenty. They cited obviously more bars, I guess more population in the central area.

Rural Aucklanders drank more overall than those in the city. Wow. And they keep it right up throughout the week as well. Yeah. Rural Aucklanders, the minute you get too rural, you're on your own.

Like we've got our own septic system. Yeah. And do you reckon if you're rural, because you can't you know, if I want a glass of wine I might go, oh, just pop down to the shop and get a wine. But when you're rural, you have to stock up. And then you have a wine and you're like, oh, might as well have another, we've got plenty here.

Got a wine rack that's full of wine, might as well try to destroy that. Oh, look at it. At the weekends Aucklanders in the city more than double their consumption overtaking those in rural areas. But I'd love to see them do everywhere and also like to do things

like the America's Cup is on at the moment that's you know lots of people hitting the bars it's St Patrick's Day today yeah you know like

does that change it but isn't it freaky that they can test the water and know that there's like people smoking what drugs people are doing yeah because they always

have at least methamphetamine stats from it, eh? They always have stats of all the popular drugs in wastewater and yeah, they can test for COVID. How do they get it out of the water? Rubber gloves and a dip? Like a ladle.

Maybe it's a designated ladle. Don't put it in the dishwasher. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM's $50,000 secret sound. Tell me what the secret sound is. ZM's $50,000 secret sound currently at $40,000. It's all thanks to Star Streaming now on Disney+. More comedy, more drama, more action.

You can learn more at DisneyPlus.com. Soundkeeper Alves is in, and we welcome to the show, AJ. Good morning. Good morning, guys. How's it going? Good, good. Right, AJ, $40,000 cash. This is the secret sound.

Have you poured through the clothes? Yeah, yeah, I have. And I've had a few juices, that's all I know, but I'm going to go with my gut instinct on this one. OK, all right. The video yesterday. Oh, hang on, sorry, start again, Al. Fletch had failed to turn on your microphone.

They just were a little behind the scenes. That was completely Fletch's fault. Hey, I'm sorry. You're allowed to be here. Thank you. I'll ask the question again. Did you see it, the video? Have you seen your guess? Yeah. I've seen it non-stop.

Okay, so it's in there. Good. Right. Well, AJ, give me a guess. Is it a rubbish recycle wheelie bin? A wheelie bin. And would it be... Which bit of it?

Yeah. Sorry? The lid. You know how the lid... Oh, the lid. So would the lid be closing? Like slamming down on it? Yeah, pretty much.

Could be. Depends on what's in the bin, to be honest. If it's got a lot of shattered glass, maybe. It could be a really stinky bin. Could be a stanky bin. Just a video at your house. I've seen a really bin full of recycled plastic. Oh, yeah.

That might have been me. Thank you for recycling, Alice. So it goes down. Yeah, right. Okay. Well, AJ, I'll break it to you now. $40,000. That's not the secret sound.

AJ, all right, well, back to the drawing board, but you get a $100 cash prize for having a wrong guess. All right, next shot is coming up at 11 this morning with Georgia and Chance is right throughout the day. Keep listening to ZM. Secret Sound Jackpot. Oh! A double whammy? Yep, jackpot

and clue right now. It's St. Paddy's Day. Feeling lucky. Feeling lucky? It's too bad we had it in the air. What is the new jackpot? How much are you giving us? I'm giving it all. I'm going all in. 50K. Yay!

Oh, God. It is all on now. The phone lines literally start lighting up from 6 a.m. when we get here. Good. I hope so. Wow. That is so much money. 50, oh, God.

What would you rather do? Go to Marching Nationals or be here when someone wins? If this goes while I'm away, I'm going to flip a table. Oh no. Who knows? It's getting close. Okay, well. Okay.

Yep. $50,000. And what is the new clue? What clue have you got for us? So I've got a picture clue. As you can see right now. It's a rainbow going into a pot of gold. Can you see that?

Yeah, so it says 50K on the pot of gold, and the rainbow goes in. It's very St. Paddy's Day inspired. Yeah, so what do you take from that? What clues did you get from that? Anything in the colours? Anything in the rainbow? Rain? Water?

Is the secret sound a leprechaun sneezing? No comment. Is it Roy G. Biv? You know, red, orange. Biv, G. Biv. Definitely sounds like a leprechaun sneezing. I think you've just given it away. Oh, I do beg your pardon.

Maybe. I've just had a wee sneezy. Fiddy-dee, I didn't sneeze in me. Apologies. Okay, well, the photo is on our Instagram, Secret Sound. All right. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

A US millionaire called Stephen Klubeck, who I think he works the stock market, works the stock exchange, making a lot of money. He was in a relationship, he's 59, he was in a relationship with 29-year-old Stephanie Gazansky. Bit of an age gap there. Right. Was she into him because of his

looks? Well, I'll just show you the image of the two of them side by side and you can tell me what you think the attraction was there. I think the size of his wallet. Yeah, so she's an Instagram and fashion model. Yep. And he thought that's all she did.

Yep. Showered her in lavish gifts, jewellery, cars, everything. Yep. And then found out that she was posting videos on OnlyFans. Yeah. And that actually she was making a bit of money out of it and is now saying in their separation he's demanding everything he gave her back because he said that basically she was loaded enough.

Yeah. She's a con artist. And she was an exclusive. He was under the impression that it was an exclusive arrangement. Yeah, it was indeed. He thought she was just a... Well, she's not cheating putting photos on OnlyFans. I'd like to talk to someone who's not making money on OnlyFans.

I'm only ever reading articles about people who are making money on it. I want to hear about someone who's done something that they thought was going to, you know, make them hit the big time on OnlyFans. $39 or something. Hey, but that's better than nothing, right? I don't know. How degrading was the thing that you did to make the money? Because I'd probably put up a photo. I'd go,

hog. Would you? Well, he's saying that she tricked him into claiming she was a legitimate fashion model. And now he's saying, no, she was a porn star the whole time, which is not what OnlyFans is. No, that's not right.

You know, she's a glamour model. She's very, very attractive. But he's saying that basically that lie of you're not a fashion model, you're just a porn star is grounds enough to sue her for the $1.3 million worth of stuff that he gave her over that period of time. He won't have a chance though, right? Well, you wouldn't think so because it's a gift.

You can't take a gift back. It's like have a chance though, right? Well, you wouldn't think so because it's a gift. You can't take a gift back. It's like when a breakup happens or an engagement and someone's like, can I have the ring back? Should you give that back? Legally, you don't have a claim to it, right? I don't believe so. I don't think so. No, but why would you want it? You're going to keep wearing it like it's a ring. Trade me.

But she is now, her counter argument is that he absolutely knew about it and in fact he encouraged it. Right. You know, he thought it was a bit of sexiness. Right. And so, yeah, he's asking for everything he gave her back, which is just absolutely not going to happen.

So I wanted to ask, in a breakup, have you ever had an ex ask for something back? Maybe a gift that they gave you. And in the event of your relationship ending, they say, well, I want my... Well, I can imagine people asking for rings back, especially if they were maybe sentimental rings. If it was a family ring, I'd be like, absolutely.

Have it back. But then it depends how messy the breakup was, if it was petty. And then there'd also be people that ask for things back just because they are being petty. They don't even want it. Can I have that t-shirt? Because I gave you that.

Take it off now. Exactly. I took a hoodie on the way out of the house when a girl broke up with me. I'd given her the hoodie. I was like, I wanted that.

That was comfortable. What kind of cool, sweet hoodie was that, bro? I don't know. It wasn't even that. It was comfortable. I remember it being very comfortable. As hoodies famously are.

Was it a Planet 8 Helen Steins hoodie? No. Was it like a novelty South Park hoodie or something? I'm just trying to imagine in your teenage years. No, it wasn't. What kind of a hoodie would this have been? I'm trying to think about. It was definitely a brand of hoodie I had no business wearing.

It would have been like a motocross brand or something. I've never been on a motorbike. They scare me. Imagine you buy like an X, a PlayStation or something for Christmas. And then you break up a couple of weeks later. Would you ask for that back? Yeah, but what did they get you for Christmas? No, I wouldn't.

I actually, when I was a teenager, I had the opposite. So while I was dumping someone, they were like, oh, okay, well, hey, I'd bought you this. You might as well have it anyway because I don't want it. Yeah. And it was like this sort of girly wallet thing. And so he was like,

well, you might as well just have it because I bought it for you. And what am I supposed to do with it? Yeah, I had it for years, this wallet. I've only just remembered that. Well, give us a call. 0800 DANCEATM.

You can text him as well. 9696. When did an ex ask for a gift back? And how messy was it? How ridiculous was the gift? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. A very wealthy man has split with his Instagram model girlfriend and he's asking for the $1.3 million worth of gifts he gave her back. Like, he's so rich. It's obviously just a bad breakup, right? It's very petty.

It's very, very petty. And also, and I don't mean to be shallow, but it has to be noted, he's 30 years older than her and he is not in her category. So it shocks me that he is now suing her because he thinks that she was not with him in earnest. Yeah. Yeah. Sarah, when did an ex ask for a gift back?

My husband, we were together almost nine years, cheated on me. Broke up with me and then said, I want my wedding ring back. And I said, um, no. He asked for the wedding ring back. He had already sold his the day we broke up on Trade Me. Oh, my God. He did not waste any time. Oh, mate, he moved her in four days after I left.

Okay, there's no... I would have thrown that in the ocean rather than give that back to him. I'm believing in karma. I'm still waiting for it, but it's got to be there. At all, yeah. I always wondered if it would be a lucrative business to trawl trade me for, like, people who are selling engagement rings and stuff out of spite,

because they'd probably take a lower price. I'm just looking. Yeah, well. Did you sell his? No, I've kept it because we have a child, and I believe one day that child may want those rings. Oh, that's true. Yeah, but also, that's bad luck.

Are they bad luck? Melted down. Melted down. When you melt down gold, the luck actually evaporates first. Oh, okay. Good luck or bad luck, it goes back to neutral. I'm having a look on Trade Me Now, actually, in the category of engagement rings used.

Uh-huh. Tell me about it. And there are heaps. Oh, do you know how much he sold it for, Sarah? I have no idea. I've got the engagement ring too because he won a bet as well. Look at this. Absolutely not.

Stunning ring which was bought for an engagement that unfortunately didn't go through. How much? Starting bid $750. Buy now $1,000. Low ball them, Sproul. Put it on your watch list. And when it doesn't sell, you'll get one of those messages

that they're offering a fixed price sale. Hey, Sarah, thanks for your call. Josh, what did an ex ask back? She asked my boxers back, mate. Boxer briefs or your boxer dogs? Boxer briefs, mate. Wow. Wait, she wanted them?

Yeah, look, she had a key to my house. She came in, she took the boxers and then sent me a text saying that I've taken the boxes. And I was like, I'm quite a big fella. Like, they're quite big boxes. And found out that she had another fella that was the same size as me. Oh, no. Oh, wait. Wait.

Wait. So she liked her lads a certain size. So she broke into your house. I don't want to ask. Imagine getting undies and you're like, well, these don't have the tags on them

or the receipt from farmers in the bag. Yeah. And she's like, oh no, these are secondhand. I'll be like, oh no,

I don't do that. Yeah, no, I was just like, I was blown away. I was like, what are you, you know,

she was from Gord, so. Right, yeah, right. That's your explanation. You know those chicks from Gord, undie recyclers. But wait, were they like really, were they still quite new Right, yeah, right. That's your explanation. You know those chicks from Gorda, under-recycled.

But wait, were they still quite new when she took them back or were they quite worn? One of them was probably quite worn and the other three weren't. That guy wasn't wearing those, was he? That's ridiculous. Also, you get like a three-pack of them

from the Warewhare for like 10 bucks. Yeah, I know. Josh, thank you for sharing that. It's an absolute heartbreak. It is. It's hard to hear stories like that. Somebody else, we're talking about engagement rings. Somebody else said, my fiance called off our wedding three months before the wedding was due to happen.

So now you're in your no refund zone from wedding bookings. Asked for the ring back. I said he could buy it off me for $5,000. Oh my God, fantastic. I wonder how much it was worth if she was offering $5,000. I don't know. Hopefully less than $5,000. But if he wanted it, he could buy it and then do his best to sell it on.

Well, I'm just trawling Trade Me still looking for some juicy gossip. You know, buy this ring from my piece of trash. Yeah. X. Because, you know, the passion does sell. A good story on Trade Me will sell. Yeah, you might end up

in the news too. Yeah, yeah. It's what you want. You don't want a ring from a failed, you know, that feels like a bad omen. Yeah.

Having a secondhand ring from a failed proposal. Maybe when you list it, just say, I found this when I was metal detecting on the beach. Oh, yeah,

that's a hot story. But then you're selling stolen goods. Yeah, if the beach. Oh yeah, that's a hot story. But then you're selling stolen goods. But then losers keepers find the sleepers. Yeah, if they're insured, they'll have a new one. I split from my husband, started dating someone new on Tinder,

got spontaneous, and I thought, it's off to cash converters I go with engagement ring and wedding band. Next stop, Fiji, with the new piece of honey. We haven't been to a cash converters for years. I remember once when I sold my warehouse microwave for $10 more than I brought it for. I was like, I been to a cash converters for years. I remember once when I sold my warehouse microwave for $10 more than I brought it for.

I was like, I'll take that cash converters. So this person pops into cash converters. Turns out the diamonds were fake. And we only got enough to drive and have two nights in Rotorua with a supermarket discount receipt. Oh, no. Still cool, but very karma and a crack of the story. Some seven years later, a cracker of a story over some drinks.

Also, if I was working anywhere buying jewellery, I'd tell people things are fake. Yeah, same. Me too. They don't know, right? How do you know that they're telling the truth? Yeah, this is why our porn shop wouldn't work, would be struck off the list for dishonesty.

Yeah, you would. Also, you misspelt porn too. Yeah. Oh, that's why business went really well at the start and then quickly petered off. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. 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- Oh, yeah. That's good. Love me some history documentaries. A lot of factories were repurposed for the war effort. Yep.

So like car factories made Jeeps, for example, or tanks, or there was these big factories that got turned into making the Mustangs or the big bombing planes or anything. Every factory had to chip in for the wartime effort, and a lot of factories couldn't make what they normally made because of restrictions on materials that were needed for the war effort. Well, there is the Steinway & Sons pianos. Steinway. Steinway.

Well, okay. Well, there we go. Steinway is... Let's cross now to our music student who went to a private all-girls school. Yeah, I'm a pianist. And Steinway is the creme de la creme of pianos. Yeah. Is that the best? Is that what Elton John's got? Yeah, he'd have a Steinway. Oh, okay.

And they did like... I thought he had a Yamaha. Now, isn't that weird that they make motorbikes and pianos? My piano's a Yamaha. How did that cross over there? When were they like piano makers then decided they needed to make motorbikes or were they motorbike makers that then decided...

To make keyboards. We should branch out and make pianos. I don't know. And the odd amplifier. I don't know. I was just Googling actually. Or did they like pianos so bought a piano company and re-net?

Or was it a family thing? Was there like dad Yamaha and then he had two sons. One was like the nerdy musical type, and one was like the bad boy. The motocross guy. Who wanted to build motorbikes. It is the same corporation, Yamaha Corporation. Of course it's the same corporation.

Yeah, but it could be different. It could be a couple of Yamaha families. No, they're all trademarks. They go, middle C, middle C. And then he's like, two stroke, two stroke. So it's just like, you know, they get together, everything makes sound, doesn't it? So it kind of fits some way.

Anyway, Steinway, is that how it's said? Steinway. Steinway, you know, the Steinway grand pianos were a thing to behold. They were, as you said. It is my goal in life to own one. Really? A grand? A baby grand, let's be honest.

A baby grand. Not a concert grand. So what are you calling it, like a Model S? That's like their little one. I don't know. I'm just looking at the sizes. Yeah, like the baby ones are. And they're not too ridiculously priced.

I'll give you a size. So this is 5'1", 155 centimetres. It's the smallest of the Steinway Grands specifications. I like how they always hide the price at the bottom. Oh, you've actually got to send them a request for more information if you want to see because you've got to pick what wood you want it in and all that. Yeah, you can get them all custom made and stuff.

Yeah. So they were the place to go for a piano. And then in World War II, the government in America was like, hold your horses, champs, because we need all of that stuff for the war effort. We can't have you wasting iron and copper and brass and other raw materials on pianos. So we're going to need you to make coffins for a bit. Coffins?

Pretty grim, right? They made coffins. They made some parts for gliders. And then one of the people at Steinway said, what if we could make a piano that was light enough for gliders. And then one of the people at Steinway said, what if we could make a piano that was light enough to parachute into the troops so that somebody who could play the piano could play the piano and raise the morale of the troops?

And that's when they invented in 1942 the Victory Vertical, which was a vertical piano. More like not a grand piano. Yeah. More like upright. Yeah. Like the one heaps of people's houses used to have, but they don't have anymore. No one really has a vertical piano. More like not a grand piano. Upright. More like upright. Yeah. Like the one heaps of people's houses used to have, but they don't have anymore.

No one really has a piano anymore. I've got a piano, an upright piano. Do you? Yeah. That's because you're a piano player. Like there was no piano players in our house growing up. Yeah. For some reason we had one.

Yeah, everyone had a piano. Yeah. So they invented one of those. It could be dropped by parachute. And it included tuning equipment and instructions because if you've ever moved a piano you have to get them tuned immediately after moving them. So I've just googled Yamaha

and it's pretty much exactly the same story. From the late 1800s they made pianos and then in wartime the factory was turned into make motorcycles and hence they make both now. Yamaha's a Japanese company so they would have been on

the other side right yeah so they made military motorbikes during world war ii yeah the remains of the company's wartime production machinery um blah blah yeah motorcycles wow ya1 yeah crazy wow so um the uh victory vertical was also used in the Korean War as well. And they produced them. And they worked out that it was just a cheaper way to make a piano and lighter. So they also started selling them after the wartime was over. They put them in their shops as like a cheap option to use for people who wanted a piano in their home but couldn't afford a grand piano or a big heavy piano. Don't have the space.

Guys, plot twist. In 2005, Yamaha bought... Steinway. Yes. I didn't know that. Wow. Steinway is so fancy. They must own them,

but they've kind of kept them as two separate brands. Yeah, they have. Yeah, they are. Looking at these grand pianos, I've got no reason to have one of these. No. Boy, I want one. I don't even know where I'd put it.

I've got no idea where I'd even put it. God, I want one so bad. It's got the pedals. Just to look posh. Tonk, tonk, tonk. And then you put the pedal, it goes, tonk, tonk, tonk. The sustain pedal? Yeah.

We called it the echo one when we were growing up. Press the echo pedal. We didn't all go to a private school, Hayley. We don't know what that pedal is. Because as flash as... I can't even think of Mary Had a Little Lamb, how it goes. Press the echo pedal. It just sounds posher.

So today's fact of the day is when they were told they could no longer make pianos because the resources were required for the war effort, Steinway made a piano that could be parachuted in to keep Tripp's morale up. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. There is a TikTok Wouldn't you believe it Where someone is saying That something that sounds very easy to do

Is impossible You can only swallow two to three times Before your body forces you to stop. Go on, try it. Let me know how many times you can do it. So I did this this morning. Hayley and I were talking

about this before you got to work. I tried it. Can you please stop talking about things before I go? I want pure silence until I arrive at work. Well, maybe you should stop arriving.

No, I don't want to come earlier either. I want... You know the rest of us are always waiting for you. I want everyone in separate rooms until I arrive and then we unite when I'm here.

I say the show starts now. But you... So this is without drink because I'm just going to wet the palate because I've got quite a dry throat at the moment. Okay. So this is without... It's not liquid.

Wait, so you had to swallow just... So you have to swallow. One. Yes, the other day I chatted... Two. I can't do it. I had to swallow. Iatted Two I can't do it I had to swallow I didn't have water on me And I had to swallow

Two pills Oh that's hard It took me so long They were like Half dissolved in my mouth I was like Oh you've got to All the time

I'm a real I'm like a pill box girl And I All the time I do it without water And I'm always like No And then it will like

Fizz in the back of your throat Gotta have a massive glass If I'm doing pills Okay I'm gonna give it a go Oh damn it I just swallowed. Hang on. One. I can't even do two.

Why not? What's the story here? Well, you try. You try, Vaughn. One, two, three. You can't do it, can you? No, I know you're just got to get a bit sideways. Really?

And by that third or fourth one, your body... I think it's because you've got nothing to swallow, though. By the fourth one, I had nothing left in my mouth. No, but you can't even just do the action. I can't even do it now. I've got nothing. I can. Isn't it bizarre?

I can. I'm still swallowing over here. Is there any reason why we can't? It's eight swallows. Am I a world champion yet? Are you actually going? That's a swallow, right? There's a bit of a rhythm to it.

I'm working at it. It does depend on people. Some people can do up to maybe four or five or six or seven. That was nine. You're lying. You were not. I thought I was swallowing. That was nine. You're lying. You were not. I thought I was lying. Listen, listen.

Cut the music. I'm putting this microphone on my throat and you can listen to me swallow it. Okay. One. Oh, no, that was 11. How much of a... No, no, no, no, no, no.

All the rest of them have been off mic. One. Oh, that was about you. I think I sucked a bit of air down. Am I allowed to suck air down? Because that would be a cheat. No, just a normal swallow. One. Oh, that was a foul trick. I think I sucked a bit of air down. Am I allowed to suck air down? Because that would be a cheat. No, just a normal swallow. One.

Two. You're stuck. No, I pushed the microphone too hard onto my throat. So I've just Googled. So I Googled why are we unable to swallow more than a couple of times in a row, and it's because each time we swallow, a small flap of tissue called the epilodocus. Epilodus?

Yeah, that's the thing. That's sometimes when it goes down the wrong pipe. Yes. So it's because that epilodus diligently covers and protects the windpipe. You'll notice in the second picture, oh, blah, blah, blah, and so there's a diagram here of how it flaps open and it's a bit like the male flap on the letterbox. So the wind and rain doesn't get in. Yeah, right.

But you can squeeze a newspaper in. When you said male flap, my brain went so far away. I was like, I'm a male. I haven't seen my flap. Where is the flap? On your letterbox. Am I flapless?

I don't know. What about when you're swallowing water? You can swallow because that flap puts itself over the air pipe and doesn't have to reset. Yes, yes. I've never thought about this and now I will never swallow normally again. It's actually maybe quite uncomfortable. Yeah, same.

It's like when you think about your tongue. You know, your tongue's in there all the time. Oh, yeah, and then it's in the way. And now that you've thought about your tongue, everybody's like, get out of the way. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fletchfawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. A UK dog owner has come under fire for returning a dog.

This is a terrible story. And it's a reminder that if you get a pet, it is for life. This happens not just in the UK, it happens here. It's why animal shelters are overrun after Christmas. Yeah, so this animal shelter, the CEO at London's Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, the CEO, Claire, told the BBC that around 10% of the dogs that they adopt out are later returned.

10% of them. Right. And she says that this can be sometimes for very genuine reasons, such as a relationship breakdown, a death, an illness or financial troubles. They just carnivore to look after it. Or a lot of rescue animals might,

you might just have trouble controlling them as well. So other people struggling with dog ownership will get people to bring them back because they hadn't thought out that it was going to wee on the carpet or chew their boots at the bottom of the door. She said, but this case that we're talking about now is one of the strangest. She said, we had a dog come back because it didn't match the sofa.

Wow. That was the only reason the woman gave was that it just doesn't match the decor. I mean, you already had the decor. Then you went to the animal shelter and you picked the dog. Like, that's on you. So say it's like a cream French bulldog and then you put it on a white couch and you're like

cream and white. Don't match. To cream it might not go. I would never have a white couch. No, neither. I don't know why people get white couches. When I see white couches, I'm like, I hate that for you. We've got grey couches. And even then I'm like, we shouldn't have done this. Yeah, I sat on somebody's white couch.

I was eating chips and dip. And I put a little dip stain on. And I was like, and then we went out of the room. And I was like, okay, great plan. I'm going to turn the cushion over. I turn the cushion over. Someone had stained that side of the cushion already. Pillow.

Pillow relocate. You're a monster for turning that over. Because that stain is going to settle in there for life. Oh, no. Already. Pillow. Pillow relocate. You're a monster for doing that either because that stain is going to settle in there for life. Yeah, I know. Rather than dealing with it straight away. Isn't that terrible?

Return to the dog. They said, thankfully, the mismatched unwanted puppy has found a happy ending and was re-adopted into a loving family who doesn't even mind

that it clashes with the furniture. This is why I got my, both of my cats have matched my furniture, British blue and my grey, my now British grey. You've got a simple palette. Yeah.

Matches the grey couch. I've got a very grey monotone colour scheme. The CEO, Claire, has said that they try not to judge people for returning pets, but they have banned that original adopter from ever adopting another pet again. That's fair enough. Fair call.

You don't deserve that gorgeous, ugly puppy.