ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 1st November 2021

Episode Date: October 31, 2021

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When it comes to advent calendars for me, I always end up going, oh no, I don't need that. But you know what? This year, fuck it. I do. I want a Lego Star Wars advent calendar and I want a whiskey advent calendar. I want two calendars.

Children can open them, but they can not drink or play with either. Right. What's with the whiskey advent calendar? Do they give you a little bottle for like the whole month? But then it's all like the 12 drams of Christmas. But advent calendars have 24 days i'm not cheaping myself i'm not robbing myself of half of the pre-christmas drinks well why don't you make your own it's not a bad idea with different whiskies i could make a wooden one surely there's a wooden something you can buy with doors and then just fill it up myself every

year. Like Kmart bookshelf or TV units. Jesus, how big have you experienced this to be? You've met my wife, right? You know she's going to be angry about the thing even being on the bench for a month. Yeah, I know. I could make mine actually. That's a really great idea.

Get some little glass bottles. Put a few shots in from different whiskeys, but then you're making it so you wouldn't be able to surprise yourself. No, exactly. I want the whiskeys. I know what I'm putting in there, but I want them to be like every one of them. I saw at the supermarket yesterday the lindered advent calendars back in the year. Now I love a lindered ball in my mouth.

God, those are good. Good chocolates. They're a top notch. Yeah. So that's something you could get yourself and enjoy yourself. But if you've got children, they'll just eat the junky ones. Just get them a junky one. Yeah, but I can't trust myself either because I'd sit down for a movie and know I've got 24 balls.

Yeah, but that's why you need to buy a supplementary bag of lint balls. I'm just thinking, why don't you just buy a couple of bottles of whiskey? You just buy some bags of lint balls. What do you need, why don't you just buy a couple of bottles of whiskey? You just buy some bags of lint balls. What do you need the calendar for? Is it to pace yourself? I've got the same problem with whiskey that he's got with lint balls. I'll sit down and watch a movie and I'll polish off half a bottle and I'll be like, well, there goes two weeks.

I've short-changed myself horrifically here. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleets, Fawn and Megan. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Oh, guys, happy 1st of November. It is the 1st of November. The 1st of no-vember. Why? No. Why no? I don't know. It just doesn't feel like it should be, does it?

Well, no, yeah. Well, 53 days away from Christmas. In some ways, it's gone very slowly. In other ways, I blinked and it was... November. Yeah. Great news. If you miss it on Friday, Secret Sound,

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why it's a better idea to go on holiday with your grandparents than it is with your friends. Sounds like a great idea to me. Yeah, six reasons why. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. So I know, Megan, you're waiting for parcels, quite a few parcels. I'm going to have to start a spreadsheet because I'm doing my Christmas shopping. Obviously, it has to be delivered, so I've got heaps coming.

But some places you'd wait a couple of days. It can go up to two weeks. I'm just waiting. So go easy on your couriers because wow, some stats out from New Zealand Post. Auckland's 11 week plus lockdown is growing demand

for deliveries and it has left them apparently, according to them, on the brink. On the brink of what? I don't know. Exhaustion? Exhaust everything? Exhaust everything. Disaster. Right. So, you know, those ads.

Have you heard the ads? It's like, we've got a thousand jobs for elves. That's why they're hiring so many people. So they have hired hundreds of extra workers and there are no more vans left to hire in Auckland. There's no more vans? Yeah. So Aucklanders have spent $700 million online are no more vans left to hire in Auckland. There's no more vans! Yeah, so Aucklanders have spent $700 million

online in the past three months. That's $122 million more than the same quarter last year. That's on average $700 How many Aucklanders are there? There's like 1.5. It was so much better when there was just a million. It was so much easier to do

round. Yeah. So New Zealand Post executive Brian Dobson said it's the busiest they've ever been. Their busiest week of the year tends to be around Black Friday. And their projections are showing that in the last five weeks, there have been five weeks worth of online sales in Auckland, and that'll be bigger than Black Friday. Any Black Friday ever. They've hired 400 extra

vans, 800 workers in Auckland, but they still need 300 more workers. Wow. To drive what vans though? Well, that's the thing. There are no more, he's saying there are no more vans. BYO van. BYO van or BYO like station wagon. Yeah, right. Truck. And yeah,

apparently as Christmas approaches, it's only going to get worse. At the moment, two million parcels are processed and delivered around the country. 750,000 are in Auckland

and that's about four parcels a second. Wow. So that stat, you had about 700 million Aucklanders. That's how much they've spent. That's $467 per Aucklander.

That's a lot. When you take into consideration how many of them are children who would be unable to. Old people that don't shop online. Wow. They talked to a worker in this news article that I'm reading, and they've extended working hours. So they're doing six days a week. Yeah, Saturdays now.

Yeah. And one of the workers said that normally they used to process around 2,000 to 3,000 parcels and now it's about 10,000 a day. Because sometimes I get you know, usually you wouldn't see a courier after like 5 o'clock. Sometimes I'm getting

like couriers at 6 or 7pm and you're like, go home. They can't. A million packages delivered. Yeah, so yeah. Just be understanding. Be understanding. Don't give your courier any sass.

It's not their fault. Like literally they are snowed under. And yeah, and also warning as well, if you're sending for Christmas, especially overseas or just anywhere in the country, you want to get onto that ASAP. Yeah, but what about returns is my question, because usually you have

30 days to return stuff, right? Oh, to like clothing or something. Oh no, they're not taking it back. They're not taking it back. No, no, no. Traffic doesn't go that way which purely, it's a one-way water pipe with couriers. They're dropping them off. They're not taking them back. Yeah, right.

Don't even bother asking. Yeah, no. So, yeah, have some love for the couriers because, yeah, they're doing insane hours. Yeah. And maybe get a Fiorass and just do click and click next time. Ouch. That targeted.

You pointed right at her. I did point right at you. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. One of the easiest replicated home aspects of Squid Game would have been game two, the honeycomb game, otherwise known as the something challenge. It's got a name. Is that the one game, like, after watching Squid Games,

you were like, if I had to go in any game in Squid Games, that would be the one? Yeah. Or the Traffic Light game. Traffic Light, and then I just wouldn't move. Oh, yeah. Wouldn't want to do Glass Bridge.

Oh, that would be my absolute last one. Not Tug of War. This relies too much on other people. Not the Marbles one. Not tug-of-war. This relies too much on other people. Not the marbles one. Yeah, probably actually. Probably honeycomb, yeah. Now that you mention it.

Dalgona Challenge. They make some honeycomb. A shape is pressed into it. Then you've got to cut that shape out using only a needle without cracking the honeycomb. So a bit like fun game. You can do that at home with your kids. Is that the same recipe as hokey pokey when you make hokey pokey as a kid? No, because hokey pokey swells.

It's like hokey pokey without the baking soda. Yeah, because hokey pokey is soft and, like, thick, right? Whereas this, it needs to be thin and hard. Yeah, baking. Isn't hokey pokey golden syrup and baking soda or something? Yeah. Now, this is just, like like pretty much just melting sugar. So sugar melts at 186 degrees Celsius.

Oh, okay. That's when it becomes liquid. So that's nearly twice the temperature of boiling water. And if you've ever had boiling water on you, you know that it burns, but water also runs straight off. Whereas burning sugar is like a globule, super sticky, nearly twice the temperature,

takes longer to cool, because it's thicker, and will stick to you as it continues to burn you, and that has seen lately three children admitted to Sydney Hospital with serious burns. From trying to make it. Yeah, making it and then spilling it on themselves at some stage.

They don't have a grasp on how hot it is, and so they put it on their hand to test. But, yeah, this 14-year-old got really bad burns on his hands and also deep burns on his legs that have also led to nerve damage in the leg. Oh, jeez. So if you do get burnt, doctors say under cold water for 20 minutes now. It was always a 10-minute cold water. Remember when it was 10 minutes of cold water?

Yeah. 20 minutes cold water now. And remove any clothing or anything because if it's in the clothing. Yeah, right. It'll continue to. Horrible. Continue to do it. So don't get it on yourself. the clothing. Yeah, right. It'll continue to horrible. Continue to do it. So,

don't get it on yourself. Do it with the do it with when I say do it with the supervision of adults. I've met some adults that probably couldn't

be trusted with hot sugar. Yeah, I don't know if I could back myself with hot sugar. A lot of them were doing freedom marches at the weekend. Those are the sorts

if your adult says they've done their own research maybe just find a really responsible child to melt your sugar. Sure. Because I trust them more

than I would those adults. Halloween's like the only time where I get dressed up and I'm happy about it because I hate dress ups usually, but Halloween, we have a friend whose birthday is on Halloween

or around, and so we always have a big Halloween party and everyone gets dressed up. This year, not so much. But in case you're wondering if it had kind of stopped Americans from celebrating, it hadn't. And not even in 2020.

I've got some Halloween stats on how much they spend. They go all out. It's actually insane. So in 2020, $8 billion was spent on Halloween. So that's actually, it is down a little bit on previous years. So 2019 was $8.8 billion. 2018 was $9 billion. Previous year, 2017, was $9.1 billion. So around that.

Yeah. But even, yeah, in 2020, $8 billion. They go all out. Like, they decorate their houses and their front lawns like it's Christmas. Yeah. And so everyone's out and about in America wearing masks and stuff, but COVID's still there. But this year, $10.1 billion, the most ever, has been spent on Halloween.

$10 billion. Is it that escapism of Halloween? Yeah, maybe. You dress up as somebody and pretend it's all not budget. And maybe they're feeling the most freedom they have in a while, so they're like, yeah. A little bit of a splurge the last of their sort of summer because they're in their autumn now, eh?

So they're heading into their winter. Some people hate it, but people – Halloween's taking off here in New Zealand. Yeah. Every year I feel like it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Yeah, I couldn't believe just on Instagram, friends – I mean, most of them had kids, but they were doing like dress-ups and stuff.

So maybe there was a whole aspect of like their kids wanted to do something. Because last year I was on the street that was in the news for the most packed out. It was the most celebrated suburb in all of the country. It was massive. And this year, not so much. 82% of households in America were planning to celebrate. 82%.

Yeah. So on average, $102 per person is what they will spend on Halloween. Well, you've got to get your costume. Yeah. So the money spent on candy alone is $3 billion. $3 billion spent on candy. $3.3 billion is spent3 billion. Wow. $3 billion spent on candy. $3.3 billion is spent on costumes. A lot of junk candy, though, eh?

Not the good stuff. Not the good candy, no. Yeah. And it all has to be wrapped now, too, obviously, because it's got to be. Well, yeah, you can't be fingering a bucket full of. We're just thinking about all those wrappers. Loose lollies.

Yeah, you want an individual wrap, you know? Yeah. And then $3. billion dollars Is spent on decorations It's just like That's so much rubbish Do you know what I love That's the other thing Yeah

A lot of it would just be One year use So much rubbish Plastic shit When are we getting The good pumpkins You know like The Halloween looking pumpkins

Was that Tony Street I saw carving a Like a American orange pumpkin No it must be a fake pumpkin. Yeah, she's stolen off a child. Are you making that up? Streetie, no.

Streetie just, no. Yeah, she punched the child. She punched the kid and took the pumpkin. They're not for eating. They're yucky to eat. No, I know, but they, like, I've never seen them here. I saw a friend in Australia posting a big thing of them. Yeah.

Like, and they were cheap too. Because our pumpkins have that, like, yuck, grey outside. The crown and a big thing of them. Yeah. And they were cheap too. Because our pumpkins have that like yuck grey outside. The crown and it's real waxy. Yeah. Don't try and carve one of those. Carving a crown? Those things are made of concrete. And you put the knife on it and you slip.

It was like, never waiting to happen. And then it doesn't look as good. I mean, unless it's night time and it's dark and you can see the orange glow. Yeah. Pumpkins are rubbish.

And the crown's so thick. Massive studies being done into social media during the COVID pandemic. This was 18 to 77 year olds. And they looked into the different social media platforms and how it affected their

wellbeing. So they had a certain amount of wellbeing parameters. And they had a certain amount of well-being parameters. And they looked at how each one affected them, whether it was positive or negative. There is one that's come out across the board negative. If you had to have a guess. Twitter or Facebook? Facebook. Yeah.

It's come off across the board actively or passively using Facebook is pretty negative. It leaves you feeling sad, angry, anxious. Okay. If you are an active user, but even if you're using Facebook passively, it's associated with greater use of upward social comparisons and then obviously having a negative effect on you. I thought its negative effect would have been it seems to be the home of misinformation. Not comparing yourself to people who seemingly have it all or have it better than you. I thought its negative effect would have been it seems to be the home of misinformation. Not comparing yourself to people who seemingly

have it all or have it better than you. I would have thought that's Instagram. That's Instagram in my mind. So Instagram, since you brought it up, was where people turned to for social support. So like you're not seeing your friends. So seeing them online was the next best thing.

So it had an increased social support um but in turn had a higher negative effect because although you're reaching out and kind of like in touch with your friends that was where you compared yourself and everything looked better for your friends than it felt for you which is and we all know surely we all know now that that's not a thing, right? But you forget. That's a thing even not in a pandemic, but I guess it would make it even worse.

TikTok, interestingly, across the board, passively, actively, was pretty neutral. They couldn't find it having any effects on your well-being. Because it's so feel-good, there's lots of funny. But it would depend on your algorithm, right? Yeah. Because mine is a lot of animals. You know what I mean? Yeah, but that's cute and feel-good too, right? Yeah, yeah. So I guess, yeah,

it totally depends on what you're looking at on TikTok. Are you watching TikToks? Yeah, I just opened up TikTok to see if it made me feel happier. What comes up in your algorithm? Vanessa Hudgens just popped up, so I felt significantly happier. I wondered why you were with us. I wondered why you were vacant. No, I never use

TikTok. My kids use TikTok so it's always just like dancing and Roblox and yeah, the algorithm is very confused. It's so weird when you look at someone else's TikTok. You're like, wow, this comes up for you. You guys send TikToks in the group chat and so I click

on it, it'll open TikTok and it's obviously so wildly different to what they've been watching. It's very confusing for the algorithm who's using this TikTok account. Yeah. Then we go to Twitter, which is the weirdest result. So Twitter we generally say is a pretty negative place.

Yeah. But in a pandemic it turns out that's really good for your well-being because people who are passively using Twitter seem to have positive effects on their well-being because they look at it and they go, well, that's really awful. My life's not that bad. So they're seeing all the negativity in their Twitter feed

and being like, oh, okay. You're still getting all that negativity every day. If you curate your Twitter feed, though, I've kind of gone back on it a little bit. Yeah, and I deleted everybody that, and even now if someone pops up that hasn't tweeted for a while and it's something I'm just like, eh, and I unfollow. Yeah.

It's mostly comedians and a bit of news. Oh, yeah. And the news is negative but shit, that's the news, isn't it? Yeah. It's, that's the world.

Yeah. That's fucking, that's absolutely fucking. But yeah, if you unfollow those sorts of people but that's, that's really interesting.

Yeah. So keep it in mind when you're scrolling. Maybe lay off Facebook a little bit. And yeah, shut up. Or just delete it. Did you see the story last night on Sunday about the Facebook,

the people who had worked there? And this poor dude who had done – We've read an article once on their content moderators, eh? Jesus. The people that contract to Facebook to sort out all the bad videos and content. And they don't have like a department. So there's not like within the moderators, there's not somebody who's been trained or specializes in violent videos

or sexual assault videos. It just comes one after the next and they don't know what they're about to get. And they all like have PTSD and stuff. Yeah, yeah. This guy was like breaking down talking about it and he was just like the sort of dude you'd expect to love violent video games and action movies. He's like, but I know those are fake and I knew what I was watching was real. It was horrible.

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The top six reasons it's better to holiday with your grandparents than your friends. It's apparently UK Gen... Is it Gen Zers? Gen Zers. Millennials. They'd rather holiday with their grandparents. One-fifth of them would rather holiday with grandparents and friends. All right. From the first class ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Harder. Ha. Harder. 39% of Gen Z Brits said they were planning a holiday with their grandparents in the next year. So that's two-fifths. And a quarter of them say they're more likely to go away with their family now.

Apparently multi-generational family breaks are on the top of their agenda. Why, so they can tell you how much weight you put on over summer? Not all of them. But it seems that this is This is for Mostly for trips

Within the UK Right Oh okay So yeah And then they've listed Their hot spots And Cornwall Is that like

Whenever I think of British beaches They're always like Oh what lovely beach And it's like stony Stones yeah Yeah So man if you guys like rocks

You should try sand. It's just... So I've got the top six reasons it's better to go on holiday with your grandparents than your friends. Okay. Number six. It's obvious they'll pay for everything. Yes. 100% they will.

Yeah, they hate when you pay for things. I don't mind letting my parents pay, but letting your grandparents pay feels wrong. Just because it could be like a month's worth of their home. Yeah. Yeah, and you've robbed them of that. Yeah. They're renting their rest home. They're getting the pension and stuff.

Yeah, but let's also not forget, they bought houses for like a dollar. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah. And then recently sold them for $8 million. Yeah. Yeah. That's actual facts. Yeah.

$1 housing. Yeah. That's how they got ahead. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six reasons it's better to holiday with grandparents and friends. Megan, you just touched on this before. Obviously, we've got different sorts of grandparents. Because they don't judge you for having second desserts.

In fact, they say, why don't you grab a couple to go? Yeah. You're fading away. Yeah. My Nana was always like, well, you're not here very often, so you might as well have three pieces of that. Yeah. Take two while you go as well. Number four on the

list of the top six reasons it's better to holiday with grandparents than friends. If you do catch up with some friends, the grandparents can look after the drunk friends when you drop them back off at the room because they're already in bed, but they can't sleep. I assume they've got a radio under their pillow and they're listening to talk back

and they can make sure your friend doesn't choke on their own vomit. Yeah. Thanks, Nan. Number three on the list of the top six reasons it's better to holiday with your grandparents than your friends. They'll do the laundry because they love seeing what laundry facilities are like. Like, I'm going for a walk down to the machine.

They'll do it, but you might have to pop down and show them how it works because they only really know how to use one washing machine and that's the washing machine they've had for like 40 years. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six reasons it's better to holiday with your grandparents than your friends. You can take their car and save on gas.

That's just good thinking. They're ticking up some miles. It might be like a very small car. It will be. Grandparents do tend to... They like to downsize and have something economical. Yeah.

Well, it makes perfect sense. And number one on the list of the top six reasons it's better to holiday with grandparents than friends. They're the best and you won't have them forever and I bet as much as you'd love it,

they'll love it way more. Oh, shit, Vaughn. But he got one there. That is today's top six ZM's Fleshborn and Megan Play ZM ZM's $50,000 Secret Sound Season 10 Wow, the jackpot is now $50,000 cash

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boing boing boing in a way when you get them out of the dishwasher and if there's more than one they just touch each other and then it's like entangled Yeah, they're a pain in the ass because they're always boing, boing, boing in her way when you, like, get them out of the dishwasher. And if there's more than one, they just touch each other and then it's, like, entangled. Yeah. For a protein shake. I put water in mine and then I put my water after it's shooken up because the water, the hot water dissolves it. Wait. No, that's how my mum used to make raro. What?

Wait, no, you put hot water in a protein. Yeah. Yeah, no, just, like, a little bit so it melts it and you shake it. And then you put the water and then you put some ice in it and then you shake it up again. How good is ice in a protein? Dude, oh, my God. I'm going to try that today.

I feel like you've revolutionized my life. You just need hot water and shake it and you're all good. But I'll tell you what, though. That's not a bad guess. Thanks. It I'll tell you one though, that is that's not a bad guess. Thanks. It just came to you. Yeah, just last night I was watching the video, me and my partner were sitting on the couch and I was

like trying to do everything. I was like, what the hell is this sound? And then I just thought of that, but like, I know it's not a very big sound, but I was like, oh, I'll just give it a go anyway. Now, is there a protein shaker in the video? The videos that's been released? Yeah, on the couch behind.

Like, when she first opens the door, you can see the lid of it on the couch. Just casually there? So she was trying to hide the shaker, you reckon? I don't know if she was trying to hide it or she was just trying to fill space. So, I don't know. There did seem to be a lot of space filling, didn't there, Alice? So much stuff in there, oh my god. Alright, well.

Siobhan, we've had a lot of chat about this. Was I filling the space? I can tell you. For $15,000, a life-changing amount of money. Siobhan. Yeah? That is not the secret. Siobhan. Yeah?

That is not the secret sound. Oh, my God. You should have seen my partner's face just then. My stomach dropped. I was looking at me like, get out. You did not just guess that. That was a good guess. All right, but it was filling the space.

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the wholesome starchy content. That was probably the highlight of my weekend when scrolling through what was otherwise pretty dumb news. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan. This is great news. This is good stuff. This happened here in Aotearoa, New Zealand. And it is that we have a big old spud. The biggest spud.

This was the most ridiculous news story I saw over the weekend, but I was here for it. I love it. So good. So the current world record for the biggest potato in the world is 4.99 kilograms. And that is a notten shire in the uk right however this monster potato that has been named doug because it got dug up weighs 7.9 kilograms a whopping three extra

kilograms now is this some kind of weird amalgamation of all like three or four potatoes? No, it's one big spud Colin and Donna Colin found this when he was sorting out the garden To do some spring planting Yeah And he hit it and he was like what the hell is this? So he started digging around it

And his wife Donna said it must be one of those large white kumara that we grew. Oh yeah. And then he gave a, where the fork hit it, he gave it a little taste and he said, you're not going to believe this Donna.

It's a bloody spud. And so he dug around it and pulled it out and yeah, he said it's about the size of a fat Christmas turkey and weighed just about 8kgs. It's a real ugly looking thing though,

isn't it? I want to be a bitch to peel. That was the minute I saw it. I was like, how would you go about peeling this? You'd have to cut it into bits. But they haven't peeled it. They took it down to Wrightson's and chucked it on the scales

and took a photo of it on the scales and read and filled out the 128-page Guinness World Record paperwork. I couldn't believe that either. That's what they said. It's a 128-page application guide on the Guinness World Record website. Oh, God. CBF doing that. And completed that.

And they've been told they probably won't hear back for 12 weeks or so. So do they have to keep the potato? Well, it's double-bagged and it's in the back of the fridge. Double-bagged. But what happens when you put a's in the back of the fridge. Double bagged. But what happens when you put a potato in the fridge? Are they vacuum packed or something? No, no, it's just double plastic bagged in the back of the fridge because it's cold.

Potatoes do keep for a while. You know how you buy potatoes in the supermarket? Yeah. You're like, when were these dug up? And how are they not gone soggy? Because the minute you get them home, you've got a couple weeks tops. Yeah, they keep them at the perfect temperature. And so, yeah, it doesn't lose water weight.

For 12 weeks? Well, hopefully it's not 12 weeks. They need a fast track. Otherwise, I call big spudder or international spudder involved. Because do they need to have someone official to see the weight? I guess that's what they have to do, right? Like the police minister, Andrew Costa, could he sign a piece? Like a justice of the peace?

Wouldn't that be a nice thing for him to deal with? You get a justice of the peace down there? Yeah. Get bloody Andrew Costa involved could he sign a piece? Like a justice of the peace? Wouldn't that be a nice thing for him to deal with? You get a justice of the peace down there? Yeah. Get bloody Andrew Costa involved. Yeah. He's sick of all the bad news. Yeah. The police minister.

Yeah. Everybody does a little photo op. Yeah. They sign a thing to say it's a big spud. Say it's official. And then it gets in there and like, it's three kgs heavier than the current record. Then what do,

because this is, it's a real gnarly, naughty looking thing, isn't it? Yeah, bumpy. Do they have to determine if that's one potato or is it classed as a whole potato? Cluster. If it's a cluster kind of growing. There's no growth marks together. Like if you look at, I've got a photo here from a different angle, it's lumpy and bumpy,

but the skin is in one. It's like they've melted in, it's like a bag of Maltesers you leave in the sun. It's a mutant. It will melt it into one. Yeah, it's a mutant tape. There's no doubt about it. Do you reckon it would taste good? I reckon it would be a bit yuck. I reckon any potato is good fried, Megan. I reckon it'd be good fried. Oh my god.

How long you could get a French fry out of this thing. God. You could pull it out of there. The takeaways, you'd be like look how the potato from the... This must have been a huge potato. Yeah. Which is pull it out of the takeaways and you'd be like look how the potato from the this must have been a huge potato. Yeah.

Which is what everybody says when they get a long chip. Snake it out and they're like how big must this potato have been? Yeah.

And this might not have even been right down the longest bit. If I worked in a if I worked in a I don't know how chips are made. Yeah.

Well I mean I know they made a potato and it pushed through a machine and stuff, but I don't know if the people working in it get to, like, align the potatoes to get the longest chips possible. But if I worked in that factory, that would be my game. Yeah. You'd probably press the big red stop button and say, look how big this potato is. Look at this massive potato.

And then you'd get it at just the right angle and you'd get it manually pushing and then you'd take your hands off because of safety. Yeah. And then it would push it and you'd just pull out the long fry and you'd be like, you know, one day someone's going to have this and they're going to pull it out and they're going to be like, look how long this is. And it might take four dips in tomato sauce.

Anyway, everybody, back to work. We've got fries to make, baby. All right, next on the show, you may find this hard to believe because today is the 1st of November. We are 53 days away from Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Ho, ho, ho, ho.

53 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds till Christmas. And today, the 1st of November. And this is the segment of the show where each year we take a look at Christmas penetration and it creeps in. Yeah. Well, pre-COVID, it would creep in quite early. Oh, mate, pre-COVID we'd almost be there. And we've got stats going back, like, what, years?

Five years ago. Yeah. We were at 97% Christmas penetration. Whoa. Because we were starting to get the early Santa parades. Yeah, that's true. R.I.P. And then as soon as we had 100% Christmas penetration, we'd play Mariah Carey's Christmas song.

And it was for years. As soon as the big Santa adorned that building on Queen Street in Auckland. Which was normally the first or second weekend in November. November, yeah. But now that's in some quarry in Wanaka. It is. See, that just sums up. That sums it up.

Life at the moment, doesn't it? The Santa's in bits on the floor of a quarry in Wanaka. Yeah. We're all, you know, metaphorically speaking, we're all in bits on the floor of a quarry in Wanaka. We are. We are. Except we're not in Wanaka. That'd be nice, wouldn't it, we're all in bits on the floor of Aquarian Wanaka. We are. We are. Except we're not in Wanaka.

It would be nice, wouldn't it, being in Wanaka? With rats gnawing at our fiberglass face. Rabbits, too. Yeah. Because it's central Otago. We've got a massive rabbit problem. Making home in our fiberglass gooch. Rabbits.

Rabbits humping in our wiggly finger. Yeah. Having their little babies in our Santa face. Metaphors. All right, let's see. Let's see where Christmas is poking its head up. Well, well, well. Look who's decided to emerge from the shadows.

It's the cookie time Christmas buckets. Oh, yum. Starting to make Their appearances Chocolate apricot Or your cranberry I have any of them I'm a traditional

I reckon they should do A mixed bucket I'll go out and say it Oh controversial Mixed buckets You don't know What you're really gonna get If you're not paying

Too close your attention Yeah But anyway Morgan's going out there And she's saying Hi guys Tokoroa tonight I'm selling Come down Taste some samples closer attention. Yeah. But anyway, Morgan's going out there and she's saying, hi, guys. Tokoroa tonight.

I'm selling. Come down. Taste some samples. Gravy cookie deals. God, if anyone's going to go for a free sample, it's Tokoroa. The forestry town love a free sample. Delicious. And then, yeah, so that's about to start happening. Hello, everybody.

This came to us as a message of verbal Christmas penetration. I was at the Rickerton Market on Sunday and I heard a store owner wish someone a Merry Christmas. Oh, too early. I thought it was lovely, yet premature. Yeah, very premature. You can't say that until you've seen it. No, but if you're not going to see them again between now and next year. Merry Christmas?

Fair call, maybe. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Now, I want to bring one to the table. I, on my journeys to work, have noticed that Queen Street have put up their neon Christmas lights. And the trees, they drape these neon and they're shaped like Christmas trees and baubles. Lovely. Yeah. I don't want to negative Nellie that, but why did they bother? I don't know.

It's quiet in Auckland Central at the moment. Were they lit? Yeah, they were lit. Do they make you feel... I just thought, well, that's early. I thought, that's early. I've gone early, that's what he said.

I've got an international report here from Danielle. She's in New Zealand and currently living in France. Is she trying to get home? Is she in the MIQ wait list? No. No? Okay. This store is like a cross

between Farmers and Kmart if I was comparing it to New Zealand. Christmas on the other side of the world is amazing. Most towns have their own Christmas market. The stores are stocked like there's lots of decorations

and cheer around. Thought I'd share. Look at the prolific red and white. There's some stripes. Yeah, that's Christmas. She's all go in France. I'm down for that.

Rach messaged in saying, Christmas at Selwyn Community Pharmacy in Lincoln. The stand is surely worth a whole percentage point by itself. It is impressive. It is impressive. It's got Santas aplenty around there, but it is nothing compared to Christmas penetration on the Gold Coast. Olivia said banners have just popped up. You know those little banners where it would usually be like

Gold Coast! Sunny as you like! Yeah, that's an ad for Christmas, isn't it? Yeah, that says have a Merry Christmas from the Gold Coast. Goodness me. Cute. And I've noticed every supermarket I've been into lately is more and more in stalls of Christmas. Yeah.

The end of aisles are all Christmas stuff. Yeah. Christmas displays. Yeah. Heather said, I caught them in the act. This is Christmas penetration alert at Mount Eden countdown. This was taken over the weekend. It's Halloween.

Look, they've got the tree up, but you can see the box of decorations beside the tree. Oh, they're putting up the tree. It is early. She caught them in the act. Are you putting up your tree today? First of November. It's going up today, baby. It's tree day.

Yeah. It's tree day. What else did I have to report? I've been screencapping on my phone when people have sent it to me. No, that's a funny joke about. Could you have maybe prepared the screenshots before? Ew. Ew, okay.

Ew. He said, I feel like I've slipped from last year's diamond level Christmas penetration with my free Mercedes Benz. Okay. That's an Arbonne joke there. Yeah, it's good. That's good.

That's an Arbonne joke. Because of COVID lockdowns here in Australia, I feel like I've slipped from the top five. So here we go. I hope this will get me back in there.

Giant ball balls at his local mall. Oh yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good. I believe he lives north of Sydney. Lovely. Giant Boballs at his local mall. Yeah, that's good. I believe he lives north of Sydney. In Newcastle, I believe, from previous. Well, I had to fill out that rental of that Mercedes Benz for six months for him because he was one of my top sellers.

And finally, Jozelle reports that Nichols and Cromwell have bajillion Santas. Oh, wow. Look at all these Santas for sale. Wow. So many Santas. Oh, wow. Look at all these Santas for sale. Wow. So many Santas. Well, 53 days away from Christmas, and with all that in mind... Dasher, dancer, get your reins on. Christmas penetration is at...

60%. Oh. Oh. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And if you see any Christmas creeping in, screenshot it, send it to us, FBMZM on Facebook or Insta. Next on the show, TikTok is testing a new feature. Some people could make some money.

Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. TikTok is experimenting with a new tool. So you have to have over 100,000 followers to take part in this. So it is so that people can tip creators directly on their profiles. And first question, I'm sure, is are TikTok taking anything from this? And no, they aren't. Really? Not even like a little cut? Apparently not.

So yeah, you can tip them directly. You're like, ha ha, great video, a dollar. Okay. So yeah, you have to have 100,000 followers at least. Okay. You must meet an age requirement. I guess it's 18 or 15 or I don't know. And agree to TikTok's tip terms.

And then, yeah, you can get the tool. Is this going to mean everyone's just going to be begging for money now? Yep. Yep. But then that's like Patreon. Is it Patreon? And I totally get it because people are creating content and a lot of people with Patreon are like putting their own money into it and people really enjoy the content and they pay for other things.

So why not, why not pay for that? You can, can you already tip and donate on YouTube as well? Like a lot of sites do or you gift coins or whatever. So you can tip them five, 10 or 15 and then the creator can choose a custom amount. So it might be like a minimum of a dollar.

Right. You definitely put a minimum on there cause you might get more tips, right? Yeah. Yeah, but if everyone's just hucking your dollar, you'd be like, am I not worth a dollar fifty? You've got a hundred thousand. Yeah, but then if a hundred thousand people gave you a dollar, that's a lot of money.

And they're making money anyway. This isn't. Can you get taxed for that? I'd like to know. This just sounds like another way a gang's going to launder their money for that? I'd like to know I'd like to see how that comes This just sounds like Another way a gang's gonna Launder their money Yeah I was gonna say

Because you gotta have The bank account That receives it Set up in the Caymans Yeah But then how would you get it From the Caymans there? I'm gonna need to talk

To my accountant How do tips work in America? Are they taxed? No Tips are cash It's generally cash Unless they add it To the credit card

Then it would have to go Through the tax system. But if it was just like actual cash in a jar, you'd just lie about how much you got. What? I'm saying hypothetically. Yeah, yeah, right. I would never deal in cash because I find it so hard

because I wake up every day, I'm like, can't wait to pay some tax today. Keep this society going. And when I'm paid in cash, I find it so hard to keep a track. Yeah. Of making sure that that percentage goes to the coffers. I think you've done enough to get the IRD off your case. On my case or off my case?

Do I need to keep going? Yeah, you've covered your tracks. Yeah. But then what happens, like, even now with, like, YouTube earnings, if you're a New Zealander? You definitely get taxed, right? It goes into your bank account. Does it?

I don't know. It has to go somewhere. I don't know. And then you have to- Is it just on you to declare it? It would 100% be on you to declare it. Yeah, right. Because I'd imagine there'd be some people out there that are like, free money.

Those people are always the ones that are, when the IRD come they're like, what? Who are you? Why do I have to pay you? Ed, what's Ed? ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. Just got a very specific list of some items that you probably definitely owned in 2006. Although, could have stemmed a little bit longer

because you've bought them and so, you know, you're wearing them past 2006. Right. You stumbled across this list and found it very confronting. Yeah. There's something on there I still have and I'm going to throw it out when I get home. So this is mostly female stuff though, isn't it? Yeah, mostly. Vore and I won't be targeted.

I'm not saying you can't wear them if you're not a female. But the first one is actually we need to bring producer Anya on board because she also feels quite targeted by this list. Good morning. Good morning. First of all a YSL arty ring.

So this looks like a blue stone it's a big chunky gold ring. All the rage in 2006. And while most people probably didn't buy a YSL one because it's expensive

you definitely probably got a knock off from like Debra or something. Okay. What was it? Gold with a blue ring? A gold with a blue stone. Blue stone. A big old ring.

Was that you, Anya? Yeah, I think it was an Equip purchase. Okay. Oh, okay. Not a YSL one? No, no, no. I just decided to save money that month. A faux fur vest.

Yep. You just, it's not like too cold outside, but it's cold enough to wear a vest to make a statement. Wait, but you've got that. I don't have a fur vest. I have fur jackets. Fur jackets, yeah. With like specifically no sleeves.

So it was the vest that was the thing. Yeah. Okay. I don't actually know if I ever had a vest. Vests were very popular in the mid-2000s. I had a party vest. You did have a party vest. They weren't popular, though.

You had one. No, no, no, no, no, no. I feel real bad for calling it your party vest. It's very popular. Every time we went out, we were like, you bringing PV? Yeah, PV meant it was going to be good times. Yeah, party vest, yeah. Party vest.

It's going to get loose. An envelope clutch. So this is just a clutch that looks like an envelope, which I still have two of at home. That's what you're throwing out when you get home. Do you have any envelope clutches? Nah, I think they got culled a while ago. Oh, shit.

Sorry. Sorry to throw shade. A bodycon peplum dress. What language are you speaking now? Let me show you. Bodycon plim plim. I had almost this exact dress in this colour. How would you describe that dress?

Well, everyone knows, anyone who would wear it would know what a peplum is. It has like a little skirt bit around the waist. But it was a fake skirt. How do you describe these trends to guys? It was a fake fr It has like a little skirt bit around the waist. But it was a fake skirt. How do you describe these trends to guys? It was a fake frill. A fake little frill around the waist. I don't know how to describe it to guys. You know the lizard on Jurassic Park that gets the guy off Seinfeld

when he goes... One of those flappy things that it pops out except around the waist. Right, okay. It's not a skirt. It's just there for decoration. Yeah. Okay. And bodycon means tight fletch.

Right. Okay. So a tight, flappy lizard dress. Jeffrey Campbell liter boots. These are those huge boots that had the plaques. Everyone knew you had those. I had those and I had the tall ones that went like laced right up to your knees. Yes.

Yeah, cool. Don't call me. The short woman who worked in breakfast radio loved those. I feel so targeted. A donut bun. So these are things that. Don't you have a donut bun now? No, they call them cronuts.

No, this is just a messy bun. So this was to make a very specific like bun in your hair that looks like a donut. Oh, I remember that. And there was all those tutorials about how you'd get a sock and you'd cut the end off the sock and you'd roll the sock up and then you'd put your hair through it or something. And then once we moved on from the sock, you could actually just buy little donuts that you could roll into your hair.

Outrageous. But why wouldn't people do that anymore? A lot of these things you're saying, I'm like, why people could do it anymore? We're more into like, I've haphazardly put on my hair. Oh, you're trying to look like a hot mess.

It's like a messy bun, yeah. Yeah, right, gotcha. A sass and bite harness dress. I don't know what to talk about now. People used to wear harnesses, do you remember? I think even guys

used to wear harnesses. I've never worn a harness. Your harness is leather though. No, I've never worn a harness either. You had to order your harness in from that, especially when it came to Brunei And it's an attachment with the leash.

No. And that's why you've got that hook in your ceiling of your arm and you had to get a special resource consent to drill into the concrete. This is not a thing. Different kind of harness. Different harness, yeah. Well, because Fletcher's has got clamps where the nipples are. Oh, my God.

I do not have. You do. Why are you so red? Oh, piss off. Right. A MAC lipstick in the shade Saint Germain. Saint Germain's very bright pink. It's bright baby pink.

This was Anya. Was this you in 2006? Yes, and it was so unflattering because it's baby pink and it makes your teeth look so yellow. And so whenever I look back at photos from that time, I'm like, Jesus, it's like I was drinking eight coffees a day. And you were smoking heaps of dairies back then, though. Absolutely.

Accompany that with everyone doing orange tans. It just wasn't a good vibe. Yeah. Yeah. What else is on the list from 2006? Disco pants, which is skin-tight metallic pants. I'm so happy to say I never had those. called our friend

Laura disco pants in Parliament? That's right. I had sequin pants and you called them my disco pants? Yeah. Yeah.

Jesus. Old disco pants. I wore sequin pants with those boots. I'm so ashamed. And a cyber shot camera which we all talked to the club.

You know a lot of And you had to make a decision. Do I want lots of photos at a medium quality or do I want less photos at a higher quality? Because you didn't have much room on the memory stick.

No. You know this Christmas it'll be mum and dad's pulling out the Sony Cybershot because they can't let go. Yeah. Oh, my mum gets out the tablet now because the screen's bigger

so she can see what she's taking a photo of. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. We have some tips for your dating profile for summer. Lucille from Bumble, good morning. Good morning, thank you for having me. So it's summer around the corner and possibly some freedoms with everybody being

double vaccinated. We wanted to know what makes a good Bumble profile? Yeah, like if I have a picture of me holding a giant fish, is that good? Well, if it is an exceptional fish, you know, then it's okay. Yeah. But generally it's not, so I would avoid. Yeah.

I would avoid too many group photos. Group photos are okay because they're great at showing your social, they're good at showing you out with your friends, but they shouldn't be all your photos. If you've got too many group photos, you're making me work too hard to work out which one you are. So not too many group photos. What if I've got group photos,

but all my friends are real horrendous looking? So, like, I look hot by comparison. Well, the problem is they probably won't assume you're the hot one. No, I'll put a circle. I'll put a circle around my face being like, this is me. But make sure you can still see how horrendous everybody else looks. But that's a really good point. That's okay then.

Yeah, some people do use just group photos and you're just like, who is the person in this? Like, who are they? It's of the same person that I don't want to work out who you are. And then sunglasses. Way too many people put on photos of them with sunglasses and I can't see their face. Yeah.

So that's another one. Yeah. What's under there? What's under those sunglasses? Is there a certain time of the year or holiday season where people get dumped or ghosted the most? I would say not necessarily, but definitely going into summer, a lot of people are excited about dating

so they're probably dating it at higher frequency which might mean that there's more incidents of ghosting and we do see around winter time people are more interested in settling down for a relationship but I think coming out of lockdown and going into summer

single for summer so I think we'll be seeing lots of dates happening as lockdown lifts in the next couple of weeks and months Single for summer. and kind of just absolutely crack the dating market. I mean, for your own personal selfish reasons, if nothing else. Well, I mean, I could. It hasn't worked for me yet. There's such a thing as too much information sometimes. Yeah. Definitely there are things that, you know, if you fill out your bio,

you're more likely to get a match if you include information about yourself. Your bio and your profile, rather, is essentially just information. So if you're using all your photos, if you're filling out your bio, if you're adding badges on there, all those things are going to get you more matches. So I might know how to make a good profile for myself. I don't necessarily have made me more successful in finding a match. Yeah.

Well, all amazing tips, Lucille from Bumble, thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thanks so much for having me. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. ZM's $50,000 Secret Sound. Season 10. It's all thanks to Neon Season 10 of Secret Sound

Watch TV series and movies Handpicked for Kiwis By Kiwis on Neon Elisha, good morning Oh, good morning Alright, well You're good, mate Good, you've done the hard bit

You've got through Holy crap, I am Holy And now All you need to do is identify this secret sound to win $50,000 cash. Okay. Okay. Cool.

All right. So my guess is the sound of a baby kicking in the womb coming out of a Doppler. That's the thing that scans the heartbeat, right? This is a hell of a way for SoundCab to tell us what she's expecting. Have we had

an ultrasound guess? We have had a heartbeat as an ultrasound, yes, but we're going with a baby kicking in a womb. Yes. Okay. That's fine. Have you seen the TikTok clue?

I was just going to give an insight into what it sounds like because it goes, That's a heartbeat. And then when they kick around, it goes. Does it sound like that? Well, it could be a section of it. Yeah, okay. Now, is that in the video? Elisha? Like, where do you see that in the video?

This could be awkward. I thought I saw it on the chair to the right, but I'm not completely sure. It was a little bit hidden. You thought you saw what, the machine? Yeah, like a little black Doppler-looking thing. Okay. Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. I'm not sure. Elisha, 50K would be a life-changing amount of money. What would you do with it? So this is actually my sister's guess. So I'd probably split it with her. And I'd probably shout all the boys' moco at Freestyle Roofing. Yeah, I happen to hear it.

Well, Elisha, let's lock in your guess of baby kicking in a womb. Yes. Okay. That is not the secret sound. Okay. Yeah, so you're not shouting anybody. No. In fact, maybe they should shout you.

Yeah, we do. All right, 11 o'clock is your next guess. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. So this was a national survey done in Australians over financial situations. So the biggest glaring stat in here is that 52% of Australians don't know how much their partner is worth. So that includes income, but it also includes whether they've got debt,

savings. Or a big inheritance. That. You know, here to a small fortune. Did you say here? An air. You did say here to a small fortune. An air. You're a large rabbit to a small fortune. Did you say hair? An ear. You did say hair to a small fortune. An ear. You're a

large rabbit to a small fortune. You're a large rabbit and you are getting a lot of carrots. Yeah. So that's over half. Don't know what their partners worth. Those would be people in a relationship early stages, surely. But that's all relationships. Yeah.

Also, 20% of guys have been broken up with due to financial issues, whereas 5% of women have been. Issues, when you say it like that, it makes it sound like someone got into the bad cryptocurrency. Well, it doesn't specify. It could be like they got into the relationship, found out how much they were worth and decided it wasn't enough.

But if you did, say you had heaps of savings or whatever, because, I don't know, one of your parents or your parents died or something and you've got all this money. Yeah. How soon would you tell someone? Because if you told someone, oh, yeah, I've just got a million dollars in the bank or all these houses, do you think that would influence them?

You'd want to wait until they showed a genuine interest, right? So you're going... 100%. Like on a few dates before you tell them that. I'm never telling them that. It's your escape plan. Yes, mate. Absolute escape.

I just don't know how you get on in a relationship, a serious relationship, without just finding out anyway, you know? But then there would be people you that may get together with someone and they might know their partners got a huge student loan or a debt because you're not gonna go and tell someone that straight out straight away are you because once you're in a defector or married that's your the tears We asked on Instagram Do you care about how much money your partner earns? 77% said nah, don't care

Whereas 23% do But do you think those 23% do because it's not enough Or it's more than them and it's issues Or they just care that their partner wants to make money Or does make enough money. Is earning money. Because there are those guys out there where their partner earns more

and they feel like... I don't get it. Emasculated or... We've talked about it before. I don't get it. Like, who cares where the money's going? Who cares? Yeah.

But then they... Feel like they should be the provider. Yeah. And they can't deal with that. In a relationship, just someone provide. Who cares? It's a crime that I'm this good looking and still working. Isn't it?

I should be being taken care of. Okay, yeah. I should be sat on like a comfortable cushion and Sade's like, right, I'm off to work. I'm like, see you soon, daddy. Or some shit like that. I don't know how it works. But, like, you know, come on,'m off to work. I'm like, see you soon, daddy. Or some shit like that. I don't know how it works. Like, you know, come on!

Look at this guy! My looks are starting to fade! I think you'd be great with a sugar daddy. I could just imagine you sitting at home playing Xbox Fortnite all day while sugar daddy's at work. Somehow I've ended up a sugar mama. That was never the...

Because Andrew doesn't work, so I'm the. Well, he's a stay-at-home dad. Yeah. That's a job, Megan. That's a job, Megan. How dare you say it's not a job? Wow, did you just hear that? Wow, did you hear that?

When I'm at home all day cleaning the house, this isn't a job to you? Did you just hear that? Wow, you just, wow. Wow, yeah. You're exhausted. What have you been doing all day? I've been at work. Yeah, you go play silly buggers with your mates at this job you do in the morning, all right?

And I'll just stay here and keep the fort. But I'd love to know this morning, when did money cause the breakup? Yeah. Or like fights over this kind of stuff? And maybe was there like, did they have like a hidden? Hidden debt. Yeah.

Or hidden millions. That sounds better. Maybe they were hiding money during the relationship. It's like a bit of a getaway fund. And always giving you really bad presents. You're like, hey. Well, that sounded very personal, didn't it? You've got millions.

Where's all my presents? Maybe they had gold bars. We're all saying maybes. Why not? Maybe they had a huge inheritance and they didn't tell you. Maybe you were dating a Scottish duck and he had a tank full of money. That he liked to dive into. And it was his name Scrooge.

Yep. I get that now. All right. Well, 0800 DALS at M. We want to take your calls. You can text in as well. 9696. When did money cause the breakup?

Either hidden or debts or whatever. Let us know the goss. So we would like to know when money has caused the breakup? Either hidden or debts or whatever. Let us know the goss. So we would like to know when money has caused the breakup. Apparently 52% of Australians don't know how much their partner's worth. Whether it's debt, whether it's income, whether it's savings, they've got no idea.

And maybe that leads to breakups. Yeah. Now, some wild stories coming through. We're going to start with Anonymous. Now, you're still together, Anonymous, so you haven't broken up. Sure. Right. Despite the family wanting you to. Yeah. So my husband's parents passed away pretty recently and my husband came into a substantial amount of money. But he had two trustees of it who really didn't like me or really trying to push me out the door

and force my husband not to use any of his resources on me. Yeah. How much money did he get? How much is he worth? He's got over $7 million. Oh! Who are the trustees? Are they other members of the family,

or are they independent? They were his godparents, so they're not the trustees anymore because he's just turned 30, so we finally have some financial freedom. But you've been with him for how long? 10 years. So you're obviously not with him for the money.

The money came after you'd already been with him for nine or so years. I actually thought that he was worse off than I was. Right, wow. Whoa. Yeah. It's not like they can say you're a gold digger or anything. Definitely not.

Definitely not. He actually tried to trick me into thinking that he lived in some dodgy part of town before I first met his parents and I turned up at a mansion. Just to make sure you were into him. I kind of like that. Yeah, because I'm guessing, yeah. You passed the test.

Yeah, definitely did. So yeah, I found out how much we had sitting in the accounts when we were negotiating our prenups this year. Wow. But you've been married for 10 years? No, we've been together for 10 years. We only got married this year. Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Right.

Yeah. Oh, Halloween. Wow, what's that like when you print that receipt out of the ATM and it's got heaps of zeros? Oh, God. Honestly, it's just kind of surreal. I never thought in my life that I would never have to struggle. Wow.

Yeah, that's... Megan's just in her head doing all the shopping already. She's just like, I could buy so many shoes. You don't have to look at the price of anything. That's amazing. Anonymous, thank you so much for sharing this morning. Another anonymous has called up. Anonymous, when did money cause the breakup?

Is this Matt? Yeah. Yeah. So I was with my partner for about four months and I always had a quaint of, you know, stroller and items,

that sort of stuff, but I never really showed it off too much. Yeah. And she always thought I was doing something dodgy because I had, I always had heaps of cash

and that sort of stuff. Yeah. But in reality, I've just been, just been a day trader and an investor for quite a long time and we ended up breaking up and then after the breakup

I started showing off all my jewellery and that sort of stuff and then she found out that she asked me what I was from and that's when I came out and told her about all my stuff and then she's like oh, you know, she wanted to try again, sort of come back. But how much money, like, is it rude to ask, like, how much money were you worth? Did you have?

At the time, it was about $1.2 million. Jesus. Wow. I need to get into some day trading. Are you anonymous because it was day trading and you weren't doing the tax stuff right? Is that why you've chosen to be anonymous? Yeah, no, I still avoid the tax four years later. How old were you when you had $1.4 million?

22. Jeez. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. 2017, so it's a bit worth a bit more than that now. Oh, wow, okay. Yeah.

I just, being worth that much at 22, I wouldn't have anything left. That's probably why you're not worth that much now. Yeah. Anonymous, thanks for sharing some messages in. When did money cause the breakup? When I lived in Australia, I met my ex-boyfriend who was also a Kiwi.

When we were together Debt collectors Were trying to get A hold of him Because he owed $40,000 It was a major red flag Lots of other issues too But I guess it was

That really sealed the deal On the end of our relationship Somebody else said I was Okay this is the other side of it I was with a guy Who said he was doing like trading and investing and working hard but no he's a drug dealer that's why he was always dealing in cash

and always had plenty of it oh yeah so there was money but that was also the reason that we broke up yeah my ex earned twice as much as me uh and the final straw was when he forgot to get me a Christmas present um I nagged him to get me one after I got him one and he finally bought me a perfume, but they said, and then said to me, that was actually $20 more than you spent on me. So if you can transfer the difference, that'd be great.

And I was like. Oh no, no, no, no. I was with someone who earned about half my salary. He'd get jealous and angry if I purchased something he couldn't afford or if I wanted a more expensive version of like ice cream or whatever and I'd offer to buy him it but he'd refuse. Oh, no, just let Sugar Mama buy the ice cream. Yeah, I'll have a chocolate dip with a flake, Sugar Mama.

Drove me insane because it was such a It was such a problem for him It wasn't a problem for me It was just his attitude Towards it that became the problem Yeah it wasn't a problem for her She just got the money Yeah But then he left me by the way

Oh Really So Obviously couldn't live with that Goodness me CDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan Fact of the day Day

Day Day Day Day, day, day, day, day. Today's what? Nothing. Oh, you took another breath like you were going to say something. No, it's all good. Okay, cool.

Today's fact of the day is the guy that invented Celsius, the temperature range measurement field, never got to use it. Oh, that's sad. Never got to use it. He was what, just stuck in Fahrenheit? Never saw a thermometer with, yeah. He never saw a thermometer with the scale named in his honour.

Anders Celsius was his name. Oh, was it? Yep, he was Swedish. He came from a family of some pretty clever cookies. He was the son of Nils Celsius, the nephew of a botanist called Olaf Celsius, the grandson of mathematician Magnus Celsius, which could be one of the coolest names I've ever heard.

Magnus Celsius. He sounds like a wizard. Yeah. And his other granddad was Anders Spool. Yeah, that sounds cool. Okay. So, yeah, he did lots of things in his life. He made 316 observations of Aurora Borealis.

Oh, yeah, okay. That's the northern lights. Yeah. He made the observation through continual measurements that much of Scandinavia was rising above sea level, which is weird, right? But apparently since the last ice age, that's been rising, which I've also just learnt for the first time today. But he made the wrong assumption.

He thought that the water was evaporating. Oh, right. He thought the sea water was evaporating, but it wasn't apparently. The land itself is rising. But when he said, I wish to propose a new temperature scale, he proposed the Celsius scale. And when he put it down, his thermometer was calibrated so zero was the boiling point of water

and 100 was the boiling point of water and 100 was the freezing point of water. So it was almost like a reverse scale. Right. He then caught tuberculosis and died. Oh, goodness. But someone took his scale, Carl Linnears, and he said, you know what, this is a great scale, except I believe he's got it around the wrong way.

Oh, yeah. We should have zero as the temperature of the freezing point of water. Yeah. And we should have 100 as the boiling point of water. Okay. As this is a scale that everybody can do, and they can work out how warm things are because those are two very tangible universal points.

So, yeah, he just switched it around, and then it became, you know, the go-to on thermometers. But Anders Celsius never got to see it happen because he's dead. Oh. Because of TB. Because of T-B-U-L-S-A-S. So today's fact of the day is Anders Celsius, who invented the Celsius temperature scale,

the grandson of Magnus Celsius, mathematician and wizard, never got to see his temperature scale on a thermometer. Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. Fletch, Vaughn and Megan, it's 19 minutes away from nine. You are a missing cube, Fletch. We're all just saying if we were cars. We haven't decided what Vaughn is yet.

I'd be fun, but I'm not getting a lot of, I wouldn't be practical. And really loud. Yeah, loud. I think you'd be a, but I'm not getting a lot of, I wouldn't be practical. And really loud. Yeah, loud. I think you'd be a rad four if you were a car. I'd take it. Yeah. I'd take it. It's not obnoxious enough.

Carwin tried to, who tried to claim they were a Ferrari and immediately was shot down. No, you're a Volkswagen Golf. You seem like a good idea, but you're expensive. Oh, my God, you said I seem like a good idea. Yeah. I mean, for anybody who doesn't have a clue. Right.

That's not what we're here to talk about. But it was fun. It was fun. This kind of blows my mind. Brits would rather clean the house than have sex. What? There's been have sex. What? There's been a study. What's wrong with British people?

Well, for stress relief, more than a quarter of Brits surveyed said that they find that cleaning their house was their go-to method to relieve stress. Right. Working out took the top spot, apparently. But only 17% of people would choose sexual relations with their partner to help de-stress and or relax. That's that mindful meditation thing, right? A lot of people get it from cleaning and mundane tasks. I don't get that. I think sex with me can be quite a mundane task.

You don't have to think too much about it. Go through the motions. End up daydreaming. You know what's going to happen. You can daydream about something else. You know what's going to happen. It's fairly predictable stuff. Maybe a couple of kisses around the face area.

Maybe a hand on the breast. Then pretty quickly get that. The hands are all grabby I wouldn't call them caressing or loving they're grabby they're pokey

and then the spray and white comes out it's tough it doesn't last particularly long it's pretty quick quick to get it done no

sex with me is more mundane more predictable and quicker than housework so I don't know why anybody would choose to do the vacuuming. Maybe you need to move to Britain.

Yeah. You'd fit in there. Yeah, but then people are saying exercise. And, oh, yeah, no, no one works up a sweat. It's not that. It doesn't last long enough. It's more like, well, number four on their list is meditation. It's probably more like a meditation.

Okay. Reading. At 9%, people found reading a good way to relax. Okay. It's ironic because some people, when they've had sex with me, have been reading at the time. Oh, my God. Like, do you mind if I finish this chapter?

You can get started. You carry on. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Merriam-Webster Dictionary have added some words. It's that time of the year. Are they new words or just new combinations? They're more new combinations, eh? Some of them are abbreviations, yeah, and combinations,

but there's a couple of new words. So there's, well, I mean, there's 450 new words that have been added, but I's a couple of new words. Okay. Well, I mean, there's 450 new words that have been added, but I've only got a few. And the abbreviations TBH and FTW are now in the dictionary. For the win. For the win, yeah. And dad bod, I thought we added that.

Yeah, that seems like five years too late. Maybe that was in your Collins, but not your medium. Yeah, right. Am I right? Written all together as A-M-I-R-I-T-E. So consistently, inconsistently spelt wrong. Right, okay. It's chucked all together as one word.

That's been added. Right. Also, COVID related. Super spreader. Long COVID and vaccine passport have made the list. Okay. There is something I want to bring up. I've never eaten this before, but fluffernutter has been added. That sounds rude, doesn't it? This is a sandwich.

It's peanut butter and that marshmallow cream, marshmallow fluff. I've had that marshmallow spread. It's peanut butter and that marshmallow cream. Marshmallow fluff. I've had that marshmallow spread. It's delicious. Real yum. They call it fluff, right? It's your sugary fluff. It's so yum. It's a fluff-anada. It's obviously popular enough to have been added. That would be amazing. Yeah. Imagine that with

almond butter. I mean, that's gonna be... What was that double crunch almond butter I had recently? Yeah. Picks. Was it picks that did the double crunch almond butter. I mean, that's going to get me. What was that double crunch almond butter I had recently? Yeah. Picks. Was it picks that did the double crunch almond butter? They're almond butters best. Just that peanut butter.

Nom, nom, nom. Nom, nom, nom. Yeah. Will you zhuzhen it up now? And then almost if you added like a chocolate spread as well. Imagine that with a chocolate. Sir, this was a break about words. Sir, please remain on track.

You've been sullied, sir. And then like a nice biscuity crumble inside, and then you just got a small sandwich. Yeah, okay, okay. Ma'am, ma'am, we're talking about words. Ma'am, you weren't taking us off track, ma'am. This was supposed to be the Monday where I started eating right again. Ma'am's out the window, sir and ma'am. You're supposed to be the Monday where I started eating right again.

Man's out the window, sir and ma'am. You're to blame, the both of you. Haven't you just been ordering online alcohol? Yes, I have, sir. I said eating properly, not drinking properly. Don't be a madman, sir. Ma'am, don't look at me like that. I don't need your judgment on a Monday.

Leave me alone. Any other words on the list or are those the main big ones? Those are the main big ones. There's Voterama, which came from the US election. What does Voterama mean? Voterama. Was it a... It was the guy that played Fez

on that 70s show, wasn't he? Sure. Voterama. What was Voterama? Man! It's a tough time for me. But I'm glad you're laughing.