ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 20th November 2020

Episode Date: November 19, 2020

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Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan, welcome to the show. Did you have a moment where you forgot what our names were? Happy Friday. Well, I have to compliment you on your hair this morning. Yeah. Thank you for your Siri reminder. Now, did you say anything about Megan's hair? No, I haven't yet.

But I knew. I said a reminder, so Siri reminded me. But how did you know she was getting her hair done? She said yesterday. Ah, right. Remember that I'm getting my hair done after the show Compliment Me Tomorrow, and I knew I'd forget, so I said a Siri reminder, and then it came on before.

I was like, Megan, your hair looks lovely. Yeah. It takes something away though when your phone's like, hey, remind Megan. You're like, oh yeah. You asked us. Quick query.

I thought you were moving away from the Bellagio. Bellagio. Bellagio. Nah. You've gone back. I've gone back. What happened? Great, now we've got to do

all the photos again again no it's still it's still the same it's just nah it's different we're going to have to do the photos again

Ross Boss yesterday was like what are you doing with your hair hopefully we'll get rid of the cream she could have said I'm shaving it off and I'm getting a mohawk and I'm making it bright pink what business is it of yours

like god we need to do more photos. I just, I just, if you did get a mohawk, I'd just be like, I just Photoshop it. I'm like, we're not having more photos. The top six is coming up on the show. Yeah, meetings and games. The different sorts of meetings you can have within games. I think it's a fantastic idea.

This is a Kiwi company. Yeah. Isn't it? So it's like you have a, like a, like say we had a Zoom meeting. Yeah. But we were in a game. But we're in a game. So we're playing games and I think it's great for teamwork.

Yeah. Because especially if it's, you know, if it's a game where you've got to work together, if it's a game where you're literally trying to kill other people you work with, perhaps not. It's productive. Although your internet at home would be about kind of indicative of of your general work demeanour. It would be another great excuse to me for me to not come to a meeting. You'd be glitching. Online.

Just not paying attention. Connection with Vaughan has been lost. Yeah, so you've got the top six. Yeah, the top six games. It would be great to have a meeting in. Alright, it's coming up. Four past six. Next on the show if you've got a cat, there's a new app that's out. I tried this yesterday.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, if you've got a cat, there is a new app that you can download. It's called Meow Talk. Okay. So it has been developed by one of the Amazon Alexa engineers. Oh, so this is like a bit more than just someone, it's like a magic eight ball of cat meows. It still feels like that, but yeah, it is.

The goal is that they want to, using artificial intelligence and software, the end goal is to create a collar that you put on your cat that will translate its meows to language, to humour, to English, basically, or whatever language. So if your cat was like, meow, it's like, feed me. Are they just being silly or is this like accurate? That's like 80% of cat meows are feed me.

Pretty much, yeah. No, so they're being silly or is this like accurate? That's like 80% of cat meows I've seen. Pretty much, yeah. No, so they're being 100% serious. So apparently there are 13 phrases in the app's vocabulary, including feed me, I'm angry, and leave me alone. Those are all like, I can work that out though. If they're around your feet, weaving through, trying to trip you over so you drop the food you're carrying and kill you and then eat you, all the food you've been carrying.

And then, like, leave me alone is like a... I don't think I need this. I don't think I need this. And a swipe. Yeah, because I downloaded it yesterday. And because the hard bit is getting your cat to speak. Yeah. So you've got to be like, come on.

Right. But Major Murray Fluffington's very vocal. He's so advanced. He loves a meow. When I get home every day it's always like Meow meow And what does that meow mean? I'm going to get the app out today when I get home

Because I think it does mean I missed you So I did a couple yesterday Here's one, I'll see if I can play I'll just put it up to the speaker This is one here So that's Major Murray Fluffington And that translates to hello there Oh Hello there So that's Major Murray Fluffington And that translates to hello there Oh

Hello there Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequels Hello there And there was another one but it didn't record it properly But it says he was saying I'm resting And he was on his back with his paws in the air Oh my god That's so cute

That's interesting You don't have to put in that, just on his back. That's interesting. The app didn't know that. You don't have to put in that they were on their back when they meowed. So when it comes through and says, like, I'm resting or hello there, it says the app gives you the option to say, is this correct? Right. Like, if it was hungry. Does it make sense?

Yeah, does this make sense? And you go, yes. And then I think it learns, um like the more you do this with your cat wow then i was it pretty accurate the ones that you you felt like the two that i did because he wasn't very meowy wasn't very talkative um so when i get home i might do more but yeah like you say like it seems very magic eight ball because all they ever want is it's a very limited number of possibilities, isn't it? Yeah. But he does these little meows if there's ever a fly that comes in. He's always like...

Oh, like the chirping. Yeah, like the chirping. I want to get that one and see what the app says. Because they do that when they can see a bird out the window sometimes too. They go crazy for that, don't they? They have a little chat to it. So cute. Any one for dogs?

That'd be great. There probably is one. Dog, woof, translate. Yeah, it was on that movie Up. Remember?

He put it around the dog's neck and he was like, squirrel. Yep, a dog translator is a dog to English translator

that allows your dog to communicate with you in a way that's easy. And then, yeah, you translate bark. So it's very similar.

Cool. Although then it's got a couple of stars out of five. It's not very accurate. Oh, there's a dog translator simulator. That's that one. But yeah, I mean, it's been done for dogs too. Good. Next, someone made a hack.

They found a way to hack with an airline, but then they shared it with everyone. Right. And the airline also found out. Oh, they went like that. No, they didn't. Right. Is this a hack that we could use? Not anymore. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.

So a guy in the US, he was flying Spirit Airlines. So Spirit Airlines is like a budget airline where you pay for every single little upgrade. Like Ryanair, if you've ever travelled in, you know, UK or Europe. A bit like Jetstar. Yeah, so you pay for a bag, you pay for any refreshments. Every kind of extra you want to add on, you pay for. And so he was sharing, and he shared this on TikTok, a hack of how you can change it so it says no carry-on bag

to one carry-on bag without paying. Okay. And he even went as far as to show people what app they need to download to do this scan. Then he put it on TikTok TikTok and that's when Spirit Airlines were like, um, hi. Sent him an email and said, you're banned for two years. Oh, wow. Okay.

He maintains that he didn't actually go through with it. So he showed everyone how to put one carry-on bag and then he went back and deleted it and didn't actually go through with it. Right. But they were none too pleased and said, no, it doesn't matter because you showed everyone else how to do it. Yeah. He's got 180,000

plus followers on his TikTok. So they're not stuck. How did he get that many? What else is he doing? I don't know. Rob K all day. So what he does, he just got his boarding pass and it said zero bags and he just photoshopped

to one. He had some sort of app where you could delete the zero and replace it. Just like you would in Word. You just go delete and then you add a one and then you can save it. And then the person at the gate that's loading the passengers just sees that and they're like, oh, well, you've got a carry-on bag. That's fine. Wouldn't you still have to scan the barcode and then the barcode? No, how would that work? If you'd scan the barcode and then the barcode? No, how would that work?

If you'd scan the barcode and it'd be like, beep, beep, you don't have a bag. But maybe it doesn't for them. Maybe it just beeps and says, oh, you're boarding. Yeah, okay. Because what happens with Jets? As Jets, do you get a free carry-on bag or do you have to pay for your carry-on? Well, last club Jetstar representative and big orange flyer. Kia ora, carry on. We'll ask Club Jetstar representative and Big Orange Flyer. Kia ora, good morning.

Hello. Big Orange Flyer. Okay, firstly, Big Orange? Ouch. I didn't say it. I'm curvaceous and ginger. It's related. No, I didn't mean that.

It took him a while, didn't it? I didn't mean that. Okay, okay. You're a big fan of Jetstar. I get it. I didn't even think about that. It're a big fan of Jetstar. I get it. I didn't even think about that. It's absolutely fine. I am so sorry.

I'll see you at HR meeting. Should we schedule that for a ten past nine this morning? Works for me. Okay, great. We'll get that done nice and early so we can enjoy our weekend. So if Jetstar, do you get a free carry-on bag? Could you do this? Yeah, so you get up to seven kilos free.

And that's weighed at the gate. And then if you wanted like ten kilos, you can add that. Are they pretty good at weighing at the gate? Like are they eyeballing everybody? They're like, that's it, you're taking the piss, get on the scales. Because I do that thing where I've got a real heavy bag, but I make out like

it's real light. Yeah. Or some flights flights they'll weigh everyone wow yeah it just you it's just a roll of the dice if you're on that certain i know fly back from queensland at the weekend i know i was sitting on the island i said to show that oh this guy's taking the piss about his size of his carry-on and then it became everyone who had a large bag as they walked past i was like they're taking the piss with that carry-on and i said it really loudly and there was one couple that turned around and they're like, it's actually within the dimensions.

And the woman who was working on the plane said, I don't know if it is, though, to them. You're a nut. Yeah, yeah. Kick them off. Throw their bags out the window. But it's all right if you want a giant bag. Yeah, it is.

No, the key is if you backpack and then a smaller bag. Yeah. But you've got to make it look like you put one on the front and one on the back. And it looks like it's never be seen side on. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. This is a story out of the UK, so maybe they're grubbier than us, but maybe not.

Well, we descended. Most of us came that way. You're like, oh, all the gross habits. The Commonwealth. So the crutch, pun intended, of this underwear story

is that there was a study and it found that... What did I say? The crutch. The crutch. The crotch. It's the O sound, not the U sound. Yeah, yeah. The gooch of this story, the sweaty gooch of this story, 22% of men and 19% of women will wear their underwear twice before washing it.

Oh, what? And there's a smaller number that will go longer still. And that 47% of men and 66% of women will keep their underpants for two to three years. While a further 13% of men and 4% of women will have underpants that last longer than three years. That is manky. I would say two years.

But if you have heaps of pairs. At the moment, I went a little crazy There was like a Christmas And then my birthday's in February This might have been Last Christmas in February I just said Mum's like what do you want

And I was just like undies Knickers These are the undies I like And she went to Farmers And they were having like Some special So she spent all my Christmas allowance on undies

And I got like I think she got me like 10 pears Oh yeah that's good I've got a great rotation policy At the moment. If I go away for the weekend, I just grab them all in case I shit myself five times. This is how I pack for a weekend away.

I always overpack undies. Yeah, I'm like two a day in case something happens. Exactly. Exactly. What's going to happen? You're a grown-ass adult. No, you don't know. You don't know.

I just take, I literally take all, when I go away, I just take all my clean undies with me just in case. Yeah. And then I get home and I'm like, ah, no clean undies because I can't remember which ones are clean and which ones are dirty. So you put them all in the wash? Yeah. Yeah, same.

And then go to like reserve undies for a day and you walk around and you're like, oh, I need to get rid of these. I need to throw these out. You can't because they're the reserve undies for when you overpack for a weekend and you come back and you've got no clean undies. But on the manky end of things, run through those stats again. The mankiest one. How many years? 4% of women

and 13% of men will hold on to old underwear for more than three years. I don't think mine would last that long. I'm like you, I have a lot. I think I've got like 20 pairs. Yeah. The ones I've got at the moment, and this isn't spawn, as I said, birthday paid for. These. The ones I've got at the moment, and this isn't Spawn. As I said, birthday paid for.

These jockey ones are good. Oh, yeah, they make a good knicker, don't they? They make a fantastic knicker. They really do. Now, Producer Jared, when we talked about changing sheets a while ago, which I'm once a week for the sheets. Every weekend I'll change the sheets. Jared, Big Henny Snaps is chuckling in there. What were you with your sheets jared um i was like three weeks i think but i've i've increased

the frequency good man i'm increasing frequency too yeah because of the on-air shaming yeah that's sad because you were both quite disgusting i was every two weeks yes i did twice a week though like last week what What, did you shit the bed? There's no need for that. We're still going to watch our water usage. The charcoal ones looked nicer than the blue ones I had on, so I changed them out. You don't go dark sheets.

Yes you do. You go whatever you want. Okay, you don't. NHR on the phone we have been exposed why am i in hr at quarter past after you i'll be a 10 pass with a jet star incident and you'll be a quarter pass for the bloody and i can get to leave early in the streets you're not not off the hook yet. I didn't get to question producer Jared further. How long would you keep your knickers for? Until, like, I've got a dog and she likes to chew them.

So, yeah. She climbs into my washing basket. You'll be an HR after me. At 25 past. Bring your bloody dog. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. From the triangular ZM think dog, too. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the triangular ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there.

If you go to remotelyhq.com, you will find this is a New Zealand company that have started this. Yeah. Say goodbye to video call fatigue. Remotely is a new fun way to meet with the camera off. Because, you know, like all the Zoom meetings and stuff that were happening, a lot of people still working and doing video conferences. Well, yeah, there was that guy, that news guy,

got caught playing with himself too, didn't he? He thought the camera was off. He thought he was done, yeah. So this is a different sort of remote working. You have the meetings in a virtual space. Yeah. You design your little avatar character, and you get in there, and occasionally it'll, like, recommend that the meeting's been going for so long

it's time for some leisure within the meeting, and then you might get a little tasks and stuff. You could, like, have your meeting around a campfire or a pirate ship or another planet. Remote meeting rooms are a fun social way to be with your team in a unique 3D environment. But what if you're not very good at gaming? No, but it's not really... It's super basic entry-level looking gaming.

Do you think this is just going to make the meeting go on for longer than it needs to? Well, yeah, there's that, isn't it? Possibly. People get sidetracked and you're like, okay, I'm in a hurry. Can we wrap this up? But this startup, this company's raised, isn't it? Possibly. People get sidetracked and you're like, okay, I'm in a hurry. Can we not wrap this up? But this startup, this company's raised $2.5 million.

Wow. To get it going. To get going. Pretty cool. But if you wanted to get in on the meantime, I've got the top six games to have meetings in that already exist where you can chat to people. Okay.

Number six is a game called Fall Guys. And winner of Fall Guys gets the corner office. But Fall Guys is, have you seen or played Fall Guys? Very, very cute game. It's free for download. Basically, the first round starts and there's 100 players. And these are real people from all around the world. Yeah.

And you've got to be the first person to the end of the obstacle course. But the problem is your little character's like, it looks like a tic-t Tac, but a big one, like a minion. Yeah. But it runs and its arms are pretty much useless and you've got to time your jumps and you're a bit uncoordinated and stuff. Oh, I saw someone playing that. Would they have been playing that on the plane? Is it on phones or is it just...

Is it on mobile? Is it a game like that, maybe? I don't know. I don't think so. It sounds maybe a game like that due to its popularity. But yeah, Fall Guys is a great game to play. And yeah, the winner gets the corner office, the person that gets through all the rounds and wins.

Number five on the list of the top six games to have meetings in, Cyberpunk 2077. If it ever comes out, right, guys? Right, Jerry? Yeah. Jerry's the only one that's going to get all six of these references. Oh, great. Hey, if it ever comes out. Is this a game that's not out yet? No, all six of these references. Oh, great. Hey, if it ever comes out.

Is this a game that's not out yet? No, they keep delaying it. Oh, man. Number four on the top six games you can already have meetings in. Call of Duty. I know this one. Nothing boosts morale like storming the beaches of Normandy with no possible outcome in reality.

Steve, how's that report going? I've got the Nazis pinned down. We'll talk about the report in a minute. Steve, this is a meeting, not a game. Number three on the list of the top six games to have meetings in are Mario Kart. Sorry, Susan, stupid idea. You get the blue shell. That was the blue shell you threw.

You guys are like, I'm sorry sorry but you're so out of touch Mario Kart's been around for 20 something years And you don't know a blue shell reference Nah Well I've never played it That's on you I've never played it You've never played Mario Kart?

Nah neither You've never played Mario Kart? I don't want to It's unrealistic There's a mushroom Isn't there a talking mushroom? No it's Toad He's wearing a mushroom hat

Oh okay right I'm just a Spyro girl That was a revelation Everyone was pretty tripped mushroom. Isn't there a talking mushroom? No, it's Toad. He's wearing a mushroom hat. Oh, okay, right. I'm just a Spyro girl. That was a revelation. Everyone was pretty tripped when they were like, Toad's not, like, that's just a hat. Oh, right. Okay, not a mushroom. Why would he wear a hat that big? Save him wearing a helmet when he's driving his go-kart, though. I wouldn't want to be wearing a mushroom if I came off my bicycle.

Go right through, wouldn't it? Just squish. No, but it's not made of mushroom. Oh, okay, right. He could, but it's not made of mushroom. Oh, okay, right. You could have a helmet that looks like a mushroom, like we did in the 80s and 90s with those big yellow ones. You got to pick your neon colour. Number two on the list of the top six games to have meetings in,

Microsoft Flight Simulator. Because you can be like flying, but if you don't like where the meeting's going, you can just crash your plane. Just plummet it into the ocean. Yeah, right. Okay, great. Just make an emergency landing.

And number one on the list of the top six games you could currently have meetings in, Among Us. This is amazing. This game's phenomenal. You play it on the mobile. Your graphics are super basic. You're on a spaceship. One amongst the ten people in your game, or you can have up to three, is called the imposter.

So they're going around trying to sabotage your spaceship and kill you, whereas you're trying to keep the spaceship flying. The whole time you're trying to have your AGM or your weekly staff meeting. Yeah. And the boss is acting kind of sus. Emergency meeting. And then the person who everybody votes,

or gets the most votes for being the imposter Gets ejected into space Eject the boss And you see them floating through space And then it says the boss was not the imposter I'm a bit disruptive in studio this morning I think you mean we've got a special guest in studio I can't even see the producers.

Good. They're distracting. Because they're so good looking. Yeah. Is that another HR? That's 20 past nine. We've got three this morning. Jared's in at 20 past nine.

You have to go in at 9.35. No, they need a break. All the boys on the show are going to HR after the show. Do you want to explain your special guest thing? I'll pop into HR on the way down from the telling off and I'll get from the IT department. Special guest in studio is my PlayStation 5. Oh, my God.

You have a PlayStation 5? Yes. I got it last week but then went away for my anniversary weekend. Were you not allowed to take it away for the anniversary weekend? Did you ask? Shit, I'm not allowed to take it. No, I didn't even ask. Come on, I've been married for 10 years.

I'm slightly clued up to how this works. I mean, I still make dumb mistakes, but not this dumb mistake. So when I got home, I plugged it in and I'm on rural broadband. Now, if you're not familiar with rural broadband, do you guys remember dial-up of the 90s? That. Oh, right. I remember before I lived semi-rurally,

whenever the farmers, it was an election issue, the farmers would be like, we need better broadband. I'd be like, ah, calm down, farmers. Just watch 480p porn. You don't need to be watching it in 1080. That's a trade-off of living in the country. But now I live in the country, I'm like, yeah, I get it. 1080, all the way, baby.

It's a rare treat. But it also means updates take forever. Like on my PS4, when Fortnite had a weekly update, I would make sure it was in rest mode. So it would start updating and it would take a couple of days and then Friday night Fortnite with the lads, it would be ready to go. That is so sad. I can literally download something of two gigs in like a second at my house.

Well, I may need to come to your house after work then because the work Wi-Fi is not as fast as I thought it was for downloading. For downloading all these updates. So Vaughn gets in this morning just before six and blends his PlayStation in and is now downloading all the games, all the updates. Yeah, I had some updates. That's done.

The updates are done. I do have a couple of games that have downloaded, but I'm in the middle of downloading Spider-Man Miles Morales. That one. You've literally taken up one of our big screens with your PlayStation. Yeah.

Oh, look, that one's queued for download. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is a big queue for download. Because that other one was taking. Sackboy Big Adventure. That's a 30 gig file. That's got five hours left. I'm not hanging around that long.

There's 54 minutes on the basic download for that one. I've paused NBA. Right, okay. 2K21. Demon that one. I've paused NBA. Right, okay. 2K21. Demon Souls, I don't know. So that's been paused indefinitely because this is the other thing about being on Rural Brewman. You've got to make some real hard choices of what you actually want to download because it'll be like a week.

But see, Spiderman, I've got that long to go. This is why my Wi-Fi is so slow. I can't get anything to load that I want. You're actually clogging the entire company's My Wi-Fi is so slow. I can't get anything to load that I want. We've all made sacrifices, Megan. You're actually clogging the entire company's internet, downloading updates for your PlayStation.

Yeah. I know this video's playing now, but it's blurry as. Welcome. Now you're experiencing rural broadband. I'm glad we've all seen how much of a pain it is. You can come over after work and get some fibre in you. What? Not at your place.

That means something different at yours, doesn't it? Okay, you know what? You're banned from my place for a week. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. When I went home to Nelson at the weekend, we were hooning around doing different things and I was scanning, being very responsible, scanning the QR, the COVID trace, what is it called?

The COVID tracer app. Yeah. Did you find you were the only one doing that? Yep. That's the South Island situation. What about when you were in Queenstown? Oh, yeah, you could tell the people that were there from Auckland, they were all scanning and using apps, but I think the

South Island have just kind of taken a little bit for granted because they didn't get that second lockdown. But then we all did that after the first. Oh yeah, for sure. We're all like that. That's why Aucklanders are a little bit more like, we don't want another one of those. But yeah, we went to a cafe and literally I was the

only person that scanned and everyone was just looking like, what are you doing? But I said to mum, I was like, have you been doing the scanner? It's very important. And she said, yeah, I'm all over it. Me and your father do it. It's on my phone. I was like, okay.

And I was like, well, do you want to do it there? That's good from them. Yeah, I thought so too. I was like, good on you. And I was like, just show me like what you've got and are you going to scan it here? She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. She opens up her phone. She's got one of those little flap cases that parents love.

Oh, yeah. And it was a little purpley blue icon. Oh, God. And I was like, that doesn't, is that the one you use? And she's like, yeah. You just press that and it comes up with a little box and then you scan the thingy. And I was like, oh. Does she just have a QR reader?

Yeah. So what happens when she scanned it? I don't know. We didn't scan it. I just said that that's not the right. Does it go to a website? Because it's still a QR code. Yeah, it would have to go somewhere.

It would have to read it as something. Oh, now I have to go somewhere. It would have to read it as something. Yeah. Oh, now I want to know. What happens when you just have a QR code reader in your scanner? Something must happen because she's been doing it and she feels like she's been checking in. Oh, bless. Oh, bless.

But did she just Google? What did she Google to even find that? She probably just in the App Store or the Play Store just Googled QR. Scanner. Yeah. I don't even think Play Store just Googled QR. Scanner. Yeah. I don't even think she would have known what QR was. Right. Yeah, because that's what I'm saying.

It would have come up with the squiggly QR barcode. She would have been like, that's it. That's what they look like. That's it. Do you reckon there'd be any parents that just have a gallery camera roll full of photos of the QR code? Probably. They would take a photo of it.

That's better than nothing. Is it though? Because if they're taking the photos, they can, when they, if they, if the news comes out

and it's like they went here, then they can go through there. Because it has the business name and location on it and it has the date and the time. Yeah. Better than nothing.

Yeah, true. Totally. I mean, it's not as efficient as using the app, but it's better than nothing. Because you won't get the notifications

from the Ministry of Health if something does happen. Well, I'm downloading a QR code scan, and when this is downloaded, I'm going to go scan the thing here at work and see what happens. See what happens. I did. You'll be pleased to know I set it up on her phone.

Oh, that's good. This is how easy it is. Has your QR scanner been logging you out lots lately? Yes. It's annoying. No. Fix that. Mine hasn't. I read that there was a thing on the news last night that a lot of people are? Yes. It's annoying. No. Fix that. Mine hasn't.

I read that there was a thing on the news last night that a lot of people are having problems. Put it on the list. Somebody wanted to go to the Adidas store to buy Yeezys, but they couldn't because they weren't allowed in until they scanned and their phone wouldn't scan. Oh, they were so upset that they'd missed out on their Yeezys. Were they?

Okay. Put that on the list to talk to the Prime Minister about next time. Yeezys? No, the glitch with the scanner. Also, who is the COVID voice? Okay. Put that on the list to talk to the Prime Minister about next time. Yeezys. No, the glitch with the scanner. Also, who is the COVID voice? Yeah. And Yeezys. That hunt continues.

Yeah. But we wanted to open up the phone lines now and ask you if you've ever had to deal with, like Megan has, a parent tech whoopsie. And there'll be plenty and plenty coming up because everybody's heading home for Christmas soon. My favourite is when they really believe they've got it down, but it's not working. They really think they've understood what they're supposed to do. Want to know about the tech whoopsies that your parents have had? My mum downloaded a QR code reader rather than the COVID tracer app, believing that she was checking in.

So out of interest, Vaughn and I just went out to the QR code in the iHeartRadio lounge and scanned it, and it just came up with a website link. I'm imagining, yeah, in the right program. It was like a program. Yeah, like in the right program, which is obviously the COVID Tracer app, the coding meant something, but in this it just popped up a code on the screen. She probably just thought, oh, yeah, just popped up a code on the screen. So your mum...

She probably just thought, oh yeah, that's done. That's my receipt. It didn't log it, it just displayed it. So we want to know your parents' tech whoopsies. Emily, what happened? Hello. Hi. So my mum decided to treat herself to a Yui Boom.

Oh, okay. To listen to good old News Talk Z Boom. Oh, okay. To listen to good old Newstalk ZB. Oh my god. Goodness. And I asked her how it was going a few weeks later and she said, oh, I haven't even been able to listen to the radio. I can't work it out. I don't know what's wrong. And then when I tried

to help her, I realised she still had old headphones that, you know, you needed an aux cord for. Yeah. And she was trying to plug in her headphones into her Yui Boom. Because they do have an aux cord thing, don't they? I think they have just like this charging part.

But yeah, so she was trying to listen to her Yui Boom through her headphones. Bless her. But she's all good now. Did you set it up for her? Yep, yep. She's underway. Oh, brilliant.

All right. Emily, thanks for your call. Melissa, what was your parents' tech whoopsie? When my Nana first learned to text, she got a phone. She was really proud. She would put a space between every letter of each word. Oh, that's so cute. When it came to a space

between words, was there a double space? Or was that just the puzzle you had to work out? You really had to try and decipher what she was saying. Yeah, I still remember when you did a double space and you learnt that made a full stop. That was groundbreaking day. Do you remember that day? Yeah, it was good fun.

Good times. Thanks you call, Melissa. Carrie-Anne, what was your mum's tech whoopsie? So mum still thinks to this day that she has to leave a voicemail for us to know that she's called. Oh! That's so cute. And I take it you've shown her that you can see. Yeah, we've told her over and over again.

And the voicemail messages, like, Hi, guys, just letting you know mum's called. We'll ring you again shortly. It costs to check these messages. So, you know, I'm constantly telling you, your name pops up on the screen, mum. We know you've called. Do you just bank up her messages and then when you've got one,

you actually have to check. You have to go through 20 of Mum's? Yeah, totally. Thank you. Brilliant. Carrie-Anne, thanks for your call. Ask some text messages. My parents got a new meat thermometer and they called me and said,

this stupid meat thermometer is stuck on 65 degrees, regardless of if the meat's hot or cold. Can I guess? Yep. Was it a sticker? Yep. They forgot to take the cover sticker off the brand new thermometer. I went around to try to fix it and I just peeled the thermometer up

and turned it on or off or anything. I just assumed it just... That's so funny. Oh, dear. Someone said, I only just caught the end of your conversation. Did you say day tent whoopsies? Tent. Tent whoopsies.

Yeah. Did you say tent whoopsies? I said tech whoopsies. Anyway, they told us their tent whoopsie story. Their dad. They had a pop-up trailer tent and their dad thought he disconnected it from the car and he took off down the road real fast,

but it was like dragging it behind him. I mean, that's a great tent whoopsie, but we're talking about tech whoopsies. I mean, yeah, still great. My father, who lives five hours away, rang me and gave me a blast thing for not texting. I was like, Dad, I've sent you texts. I've sent you photos. Yeah.

Well, I don't know what's bloody wrong. It turned out he'd blocked my number. And this didn't happen once or twice, but three times he rang me up abusing me. But it turns out he'd blocked my number on three separate occasions. How do they do this, eh? I don't know. How do dads get into settings and change stuff accidentally? So if you go into messages, is there an option of being like...

Yeah, but it's pretty hard. Info. It would be pretty hard to accidentally block someone. Yeah. Unless dad's pockets have a very specific way of moving when he puts his phone in there. They may jingle jangle a little bit like that. We last spoke to her in May.

That's going to blow your mind. May? Yeah. I was going to say October. It's just last month. Last month. This year. Rebecca Kyle agreed to be a surrogate for a strange, strangers. Not a strange couple.

I was going to say a stranger. Very strange people. A stranger, but they were a couple. So strangers. People she didn't know. And so we caught up with her about starting that journey. And now she's had the baby, so we thought we'd have a catch up. Good morning, Rebecca. up. Good morning Rebecca.

Hello. Hello. Hi. I can't believe we spoke to you in May. I know I was just listening to that and it does feel like it was a lot sooner than that. Yeah. It takes on a whole new meaning for me now being pregnant and it's not

the walk in the park that you kind of think it is. So doing it for someone else blows my mind even more. You just wait till you give birth. Thanks. I love you've done it multiple times. You're just bloody white. Pregnancy is the easy part.

So how did it all go from pregnancy through to birth? I continued to have a super lucky, fortunate, easy pregnancy. And then last week when I was 38 weeks pregnant, I got diagnosed with preeclampsia. That's what Kim Kardashian had, right?

That's what everyone kept telling me when my feet were really swollen. And I was like, yeah, obviously that's me. So my symptom was my feet swelled up really bad and people kept sending me like the um collages of her feet but she was wearing high heels and stuff I was wearing boot slippers and so that's really common and like an IVF pregnancy basically my body was like what are you doing this isn't my child and kind of started not rejecting it because that's mean but you know um and so I ended up in hospital last Wednesday I had a really mild case I didn't have a lot of the symptoms but they decided to induce me so I got induced last Friday which took two days and then they popped the old waters on Saturday

night it was funny. My husband was at hospital watching the rugby and he joked not to do it till after that and they took him seriously. Ideally, he should have come back with about 20 minutes to go on that game and be like, yeah, just get into it, mate. Well, at least if they hadn't popped my waters, he wouldn't have had to watch it. So after they did that, it moved pretty quickly.

I have the most incredible midwife, and she was able, we were hoping for a home birth, so she was able to facilitate a water birth, and it was super chill. It was really cool. The couple, Tess and Dan, were there. My mum was there. She nips when her daughters are in labour.

And, yeah, it was pretty straightforward, no complications. It did go down for a little bit afterwards, which I haven't really experienced before with my other pregnancies. I lost two litres of blood and had to nip. I was like, that's nothing. And my friend was like, Ruby Crowe, bodies only have like five litres. I was like, oh, cool.

Yeah. But yeah, it was like the most amazing experience. And I'm still, yeah, pretty high from it all. Is it? I mean, this is awesome because you're highlighting fertility struggles and everything for couples in New Zealand. And this might seem like a really silly question, but that seems like such a personal space, given that I'm going to go through it and I know exactly who I want to be there and who I don't. And then you've got this couple that you barely know and her husband watching. Was that weird or had you

got to know them so well? Well, I also had a videographer and a photographer. Wow, okay. I'm really Kimmy Kay-ing it. No, it was like, obviously after two years worth of dealings and communication and all of that stuff, it was a pretty comfortable space. There was one point where I had to hop out of the water

for an exam and they left the room. And when my mum kind of said, do you think that people should come back? And I was like, yeah, whatever. And then she was like, no, Rebecca. And they actually didn't come back into the room and when my mum kind of said, do you think that people should come back? And I was like, yeah, whatever. And then she was like, no, Rebecca. And they actually didn't come back into the room for a while when I was like transitioning. And that made a huge difference. I think I was kind of like

aware they were there and it was kind of hindering things a little bit. So, good old mums know everything. But I think that it is really important. I'm such a chill person. I just closed my eyes when I needed to and it was fine. Well, would you recommend, I mean, it's a personal thing, right? But would you recommend it to others to be a surrogate?

Oh, 100%. It's been the most positive experience. I've already got people messaging me like saying like, oh, you must be so disappointed, like not getting the birth you wanted. And I'm like, not at all. And it annoys me that people are putting deciding if it was traumatic or disappointing because it was amazing

the whole journey from start to go yeah they were like if you hook up like lockdown when I talked to you last time and then being in the hospital for a week

away from my own children which obviously we didn't plan but it was the most incredible like I just and so it starts that they have their baby my husband said when I gave birth

everyone in the room was crying and I was like here's your kid I'm done and I just am so stoked that they have their baby. My husband said when I gave the e-run and the room was crying, and I was like, here's your kid, I'm done. And I just was nothing. So there was no emotional, like, you found it hard to hand him over? Not for me, like, at all. It was the most, like, Tess was in the water with me so that she could do skin-to-skin straight away at that last kind of push.

And, like, it was amazing. And there's been nothing negative about it, and I really hope that we've been able to. There's been like annoyances along the way, like I've been pregnant, but that's fine. So I really hope that people do, have been able to see like the raw kind of real end of it and look into it.

So selfless. So selfless. We were just having a chuckle because in studio, Fletcher's face is just like. And then you were like, oh, she was in the water with me so she could do skin to skin. He was just like, no.

We just put out a video last night. If you want to have a look, it's not glory or grass or anything, but it's really cool just watching the whole labour and just seeing their emotion when they get their little boys a gig. Like, it's,

and it's really cool. Yeah. Rebecca Kyle on Instagram. Incredibly selfless. Yeah. And I'm sure there's lots of couples out there that are very thankful that you've shed a light on this as well.

Thanks for talking to us again. Thanks for having us. I'm currently sitting with an adult nephew on and cabbages in my boobs. The old cabbage. The cabbage is magic. Yeah. Just cabbage on a whole The cabbage is magic. Yeah. Just cabbage on a hole

is a bloody magic little vegetable. Great recipe. Even better on your tits. Well, I haven't tried any on my tits, Rebecca, but I was sure to this weekend.

You should this weekend. I've got a weekend at home. Treat yourself. I've got some time to burn. I've got half a cabbage in the veggie crisper. Oh, actually, cold cabbage.

Oh, yeah, it's great. On a summer's day. Oh, yeah, it's good stuff. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. So, there is a story that has been collated about how much you should spend

on your partner this Christmas based on how long you've been together. Bearing in mind Christmas is, as we just mentioned, 34 days away. This is broken down into four sections. So, mind Christmas is, as we just mentioned, 34 days away. This is broken down into four sections. So fresh AF is one to three months.

It's when you've just started dating and then whoopsies, Christmas is right there. And you're like, what do I get? How do I know if I'm gonna like, not I'm gonna go overboard or I'm gonna go under. Well it's important not to set the bar too high in these first three months

because then, like, in five years, you'll have to buy them a sports car. Oh, you don't have to exponentially increase your plateau. It doesn't get more and more expensive every year. Well, I'm just saying start really small. Okay. Like maybe something handmade, like a seashell Christmas gift card.

Oh, and I see. I think in the early days is when you've got to wow them. Yeah, right. Vaughn's more on the money with this one. So you're more start big and taper off to nothing. Start really thoughtful and moderate price. Yeah. And then move to kitchen utensils.

Just something you heard them want once. Yeah. You've actually just ruined my whole list because you're right on the money. Who knew you would be good at this? I just had a 10-year anniversary last week. I'm reading the code. So fresh AF, one to three months, you know, like in that new arena,

is about $50 to $150 price range. You don't have to break the bank, but you might be meeting the family or extended friends for the first time. You don't want them to judge your crappy Christmas gift. So make it something cool, but not necessarily expensive. Right. Like maybe a vinyl

of their favourite artist or something. I don't know. But it doesn't have to be really expensive, because then you might go the other way and everyone's like, whoa, too soon. Creepy. Right. Yeah. Okay. The. Yeah, okay. The honeymooners are people that have been around for like five months to a year and a half.

They haven't had a major meltdown of any sort yet. They're still like in the honeymoon stage. When does the average person have their first meltdown? Their relationship meltdown? I can't remember. Like after a year. That's a very interesting question when would when was the first serious argument yeah are you doing some googling flitch yeah

no I can't I would have thought it would have been within the year oh no I can't find anything googling. Right. But that would be interesting, yeah. When did you have your first serious? That's a major argument. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So in that time frame, you can spend a little bit more than $150, but the main point is to get something really sentimental in there.

Maybe do a really sentimental thing that you've made and then a $200 gift of something that you know that they want. Right. Because by that stage, you know them and you need to show that you know them. You're a bit more vested, got a vested interest. Is this US dollars? Like, can we be halving this list? Oh, no, it's all relative.

Oh, right, okay. Settled. So you've been together two to three and a half years-ish. What? Nothing. Excuse me, concentrate on the show. I am concentrating on the show. It's been a rough year. So these people are the, you've the show. Sorry, I am concentrating on the show. It's been a rough year.

So these people are the, you've probably been living together, you're eating noodles in your trackies, watching Netflix most of this year. So they're saying spend some cash and go do a little, buy a little trip because you need some good quality time away together where you're not wearing your trackies and watching Netflix. So that's a little bit more expensive, right? Do a little trip, yeah.

And then you're basically married five or up to seven years. Bourne, do you want to step in at this point? What should you be spending? What should you get? I'm past that. I'm like at 16 now, so I don't have to get this one right. I don't feel pressured to get this right. It's something that you've heard them mention

but you do that thing where you're like we're not doing christmas presents this year and then you get them a present because then that's like you get the brownie points for listening and identifying something they want that's very much exactly what it says but but you get double brownie points because um then they feel guilty because they didn't get you and it says vouchers are okay because then you know in the ballpark of what they want yeah you get them a voucher and they can go They feel guilty because they didn't get you one. And it says vouchers are okay. Right, okay. Because then you know in the ballpark of what they want. Yeah. And you get them a voucher and they can do the shopping.

And they can go there and get it themselves. Yeah. Yeah. So something to think about this Christmas. When you actually start your Christmas shopping. Because it's 34 days away. I know. You normally.

I start in October and it hasn't happened this year. It's been something else on. And somebody's messaged a show as well. I believe a podcast listener, Megan. Every Christmas you always have a wrapping theme, I believe a podcast listener, Megan. Every Christmas, you always have a wrapping theme. I haven't even thought about that. Was it last year you ordered their wax stamp?

Yeah, and the black wrapping paper and everyone was like, controversial. I did black on black on black with black string, black ribbon, black stamp. It was very chic. What are you feeling this year? I haven't even thought about it. 2020, just rough sellotape right around. Smeared feces on the outside.

Really sums up this year. Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, a TikToker has, one of her TikToks has gone viral, claiming that Tinder only shows profiles for those that have only been active in the last seven days. Did she do it in that annoying way where she was sitting there like dancing and pointing at different parts of the screen

as the text pops up? Which refutes the claim that some people in relationships make when they get busted on Tinder with the whole, oh no, that's... That's an old profile. I didn't delete it

before we got together. Has it always been like that or is this a new thing? Has it always been if they're active for the last seven days it shows up? I don't know. But this has always been a thing where people get caught on Tinder in relationships. And this is the classic go-to excuse. This TikTok's been viewed 4 million times and it has actually, I guess, forced Tinder to make a statement on a blog post. This is the official word from Tinder.

We prioritise potential matches who are active and active at the same time. We don't want to waste your time showing you profiles of inactive members. So we want you chatting and meeting in real life and there's nothing better than matching and immediately striking up a conversation. So they've basically said that, yeah, you'll only see profiles of active users. Yeah. In the last seven days.

So if there's a boyfriend or a girlfriend or someone that shouldn't be on Tinder. And they're coming up on your. Yes. Then they have been active. Aye, aye, aye. Because I think also have been active. Ay-yi-yi. Because I think also in settings, you can select recently active or not.

So that could also be a thing as well. But yeah, I mean, that's what they wrote on their post. And yeah, obviously people responding to this saying, yeah, this is how my boyfriend got busted. I don't know if you're in the car right now, and this has been a conversation before. You can't quickly turn the radio off because that looks sus. Or if you're not with your partner right now and

you just open to send them a message and you can see the three dots. Because he's writing. Because they're writing a message to you and you're like oh, what do I do? Head this off at the pass or just wait to receive my bollocks again. So I don't know if this is the same for any other dating apps

if they use the same kind of similar thing. Right. But yeah, definitely for Tinder. Ooh. Hmm. Next on the show,

Vaughan, it's your pick for Flashback Friday. This is a Friday tradition. It's got to be at least 10 years old. I've been, I am being bullied.

Bullied. I'm peer pressured even. I've never known you to be peer pressured. Henny said, what did he call you? Big schnapper. Big schnapps Henny. Henny big schnapps.

Henny big schnapps when I caught a big schnapper on the weekend. She caught a big schnapper last weekend when people thought she was trying to fish up a dolphin. How many messages did you get from people saying, why are you catching dolphins? I had five. And it's like, guys, I'm not fishing for dolphins. And if I was, I wouldn't put it on Instagram. Certainly not.

It's important not to put your environmental crimes on the gram. I would definitely reel it in and pat it, but I'd let it go. Is that allowed? No.

Oh, okay. I don't think you'd reel in a dolphin. No, I don't think you could. Not on a 25kg line. Pure muscle. It hit my leg and it smashed me. About 400 I don't think you could. Not on a 25kg line. Pure muscle. It hit my leg and it smashed me.

About 400kgs of absolute pure muscle. What were we talking about? Henny fished up a dolphin. Henny Big Snaps is bullying me. What did you say? You're going to come to my house

and shit in my bed? I think I see kill you. I think kill you. But I could shit in your bed if you'd prefer. Can we keep it classy? I know. She's very angry.

So I feel like if I don't agree to this one that she's so keen on. Well, it's on her if you'd prefer. Can I keep it classy? I know. She's very angry. So I feel like if I don't agree to this one that she's so keen on. Well, it's on her if it flops. It won't. I'll say it. It won't. Okay. Okay.

Otherwise, you're. You've successfully passed the bark anyway, so it's on her. Otherwise, yeah, this bad song choice and that dead dolphin's on you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan, the podcast. Friday Flashback Alright The Friday Flashback today It's not Billy Joel

I'm not letting you play Billy Joel I just played a little bit Uptown Girl Fletch almost Triggered Yeah What happened to you? I hate that song I hate Billy Joel

Did you work in regional radio for a bit too long? Yes. Who hates, first of all, who hates Billy Joel? Me. Many people hate Billy Joel. Billy Joel's a lovely man. And a wonderful musician. It's elevator mall music.

Oh, wow. Absolutely, how dare you chastise the piano man like that. Anyway, it's not. Elton John is a far better piano man. It's not Billy Joel. Elton John, Elton John's a... It's not Billy Joel. Elton John. Elton John's a... He's a rocket man. Yeah.

So this song, let me tell you a little bit about this song. Kanye West assembled this song in a 2006 single, Touch the Sky. This is English football club Arsenal play this song. This was on Bennett Lake Beckham. Now, apparently the Bennett Lake Beckham is the buy-in from the producers. They said this was like an anthem for their generation because of Bennett Lake Beckham, where apparently

girls can play soccer? Okay. News to me. Get out of here. Joe Biden also used this song when he finished all of his speeches in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential campaign. Okay. You may have never heard of the artist, but you will definitely have heard of the song when he finished all of his speeches in the lead up to the 2020 presidential campaign. Okay. You may have never heard of the artist, but you will definitely have heard of the song.

It was on Trolls World Tour recently as well. Do you know the song? You will 100% know the song. Big one from the producers. Originally released in 1970. You've got to

stop playing old shit. From Curtis Mayfield, this is not the nine minute version either, which exists. This is Move On Up for Friday Flashback. Fletch, you can direct

your anger at other producers. I can see someone's getting told off. I can't believe this. Has she gone through? We're not playing this. This is rubbish. No, this is... Bye and bye.

Just move on. No. I'm not happy with this. Are you just going to talk through the whole thing or are you going to turn the mics off? Wow. Fire. Fire.

Bite your lip And take a trip Though there may be a wet road ahead And you cannot slip Just move on up A piece of your mind Into the street boat of beautiful people Where there's only one kind

So hush now, child And don't cry Your folks might understand you By and by Move on up And keep on wishing Remember your dream Is your only scheme

So keep on pushing Take nothing less Than the suffering best Do not obey Loomis people say That you can pass the test Just move on To a greater day With just a little faith

If you put your mind to it, you can surely do it Just move on up Move on up We're moving up Watch out, we're just moving up Well, it's a controversial Friday flashback today. It's been faded out early. It has been faded out early because it's not a hit. Vaughan was peer pressured into this by the producers.

Yeah. I wanted to do Bonnie Tyler holding out for a hero, but then we found out last minute we'd done that. That's a great song. That was in my head when we jumped out of the Hercules this week. Because it's one of those like power pop songs from the 80s, which they always cranked in like an action movie. Well.

You can't be too mean because a lot of people just wanted you to shut up. Yeah, lots of it. That's really, really passionately split there. And you know what? It was Joe Biden's closing speech and that was another passionate split, wasn't it? Yeah, it wasn't it. It wasn't that a passionate split that would have been your worst pick for a while i shan't read one of the texts that came in megan but this uh maybe the third or fourth onto the top nails i'll read it to you afterwards okay oh yeah oh Well, let's still have a joke at me. I'll show you now.

It is in reference to you. Cheeky. Very cheeky. All right. Moving on from that terrible Friday flashback. Oh, my God. I would love to know what you found out years later. Because I went to get my hair done yesterday.

Thanks, everyone, for the compliments today. It looks great. But I went to go and see my hairdresser who is very busy and never keeps up with any news. Now, you're just trying to soften the blow you're about to deliver. Yeah. Literally, she gossips. Hairdressers always know everything because they hairdress. Yeah. But the other thing that they do is they talk and they gossip and they talk about like what's happening and the current events and everything.

No, but we gossip about people we know. Right. Like stuff that's going on around you. But I can't believe what you're about to tell us has never come up. No. In all the hairdressing and makeup time. Because you would think that if somebody was in the week that this was happening, this big news event, somebody would have brought that up.

Surely. Well, we found out that it was six years ago because I knew it was a long time ago. We were talking somehow about Miley Cyrus. First of all, she was confused as to what happened with Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus. And I said, well, there's been a relationship in between. You've completely missed Cody Simpson and all of this. So she was already behind. Yeah, they're not together. So she was already behind.

Right, okay. And that's when she said, and I thought this was a joke, what about Brad and Ange? How are they going? Because he just dumped his latest girlfriend, didn't he? Brad. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, they broke up. What? But 2016, I believe. I was going to say, this isn't like even a 2019. Almost five years ago. Wow. That happened. And that was quite like a high profile messy split too

because didn't- There was an incident on the plane with him and Maddox. That's right. She accused him of abuse, eh? And he, I don't know if this is allegedly or whether he's admitted it, but he had alcohol dependency. Right, yeah.

And they were divorced. And so I was telling her all this and I thought she was joking, but it was blowing her mind. She's like, oh, I just thought they were on again, off again. I thought they were going to get through things. I was like, no, no. It's like when people don't realise celebrities have died. You're like, they've been dead for years. I always forget what celebrities have died.

Yeah. And then it gets sad all over again. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. So I would love to know off the back of this, Brad and Ange have divorced, what you've only just figured out, what you've only just learnt.

Yeah. And maybe it happened years ago. Or whether there was a moment recently when you, yeah, like you say, you just suddenly find out some old news. Yeah. Like that, and you're like, oh. Whereas everyone else new?

Because I would find it so hard, even if we didn't have this, because this job requires us to be all over the news every day, all the time. You know everything that's going on, even if you're not that interested in some things. But I couldn't imagine, say, not doing this job. I'd still want to read the news every day or watch it or listen. I'd still know about Brad and Ange.

But then that's more of a personal thing. There are some people who literally have no idea what's happening in the world. Yeah. And that's fine. But that would be weird even to know. I mean, Brad and Ange, that's not essential knowledge. No. You kind of want to know the state of the world. Maybe not.

But again, that's a personal thing. Some people just love to just completely switch off and only get it, say, at six o'clock or not at all. I had to fill my hairdresser in yesterday and it blew her mind

that Brad and Ange are divorced. That happened in 2016 and she had no idea. Someone else on the text machine said, it was today that I learned that Brad and Ange

are no longer together through you guys. I don't know how you missed that. Well, you're doing at the time. Yeah. Maybe you had a lot on't know how you missed it. Well, you were doing it at the time, yeah. Maybe you had a lot on. Even if you're not really interested, you still see headlines come up, don't you? Yeah, and like you'd be in the supermarket and see like the women's

magazines that are like Brad's new girlfriend. I know, but you can't always trust what they say, can you? Well, yeah, that's also true. So we want to know from you now what you've only just found out or just recently realised after like a long period of time. We'll start with some calls. Rachel, what did you just find out?

Well, it wasn't me. It was my ex-partner. We were talking about Elton John one day and I mentioned that he was gay. And he goes, no, he's not. I said, yeah, yeah, he is. He's gay, completely. Completely.

Completely. Yeah. It took a few better convincing to explain that, yeah, Elton John was gay. Right. So did you show him pictures of his husband? Yeah. Yeah, right. And then did he finally accept it?

Yeah. It took about 20 minutes. I'm always trying to punish. I think it was hilarious. Wow. 28 years old. Because there was a time when he had a wife. Yeah.

Like, Maggie, you see the movies and the documentaries. And even then you were like, Freddie Mercury. You haven't told him about Freddie Mercury, have you? From quite a while. Because Freddie Mercury as well, like, everybody thought he had a girlfriend for a while then. That's true. Thanks, Rachel.

Lily, what have you only just recently found out? Hey, guys. So I only just recently found out that pay-per-view is like pay-per-view and not P-A-P-E-R-view. Pay-per-view. Like you're paying to view a paper. Yeah, it's like pay-per-view. So, yeah. Right.

I found that out because my boyfriend, he was typing it out, and I was like, are you an idiot? Like, it's pay-per-view. And he was like, no, it's pay-per-view. Oh, my God. Wow. I was devastated. So, yeah.

Does it make more sense, though? Yeah. Lily? Sorry? I might have cut out. It makes more sense now, though. I go through a tunnel. She's going through a tunnel.

I go through a tunnel. Which tunnel? I'm in Wellington. It's in the Mount Vic Tunnel. Oh, what a great tunnel. Lovely tunnel. Lovely tunnel. I'm tooting right now we can't hear it

can't hear the tooting this isn't the long weekend group toot though Lily that would have would have thanks you call Renee

what have you only just found out hi like a week ago I only just found out that JB Hi-Fi is not called JB Hi-Five. I don't know, like for 23 years.

When did you not look at the sign when you were going in? Never. Just high five all the time. Never high five. You're like, oh, I might go get a, I don't know, a camera from JB Hi-Five. I must have sounded like an idiot. No, I've't know, a camera from JB High Five. Oh, you know what? Yeah, I must have sounded like an idiot. No, I've heard people call it JB High Five.

Really? I was one of them. No, seriously? I bet you're not the only one. You wouldn't be the only one, no. Renee, thanks for your call. Some text messages. Someone said, I only learned the other day that I've been saying

bi-curiously instead of vi-curiously my whole life. I've been living bi-curiously through you. Which would make sense if your best friend saying bi-curiously instead of vi-curiously my whole life. I've been living bi-curiously through you. Which would make sense if your best friend was bi-curious and they were telling you all about their adventures in the land of bi-curiosity. Someone said, oh, my God, my husband calls it JB high five. You'll have a great night tonight telling him about that. Someone only just learned that narwhals are real creatures.

Oh, yeah, that was me not that long ago. They got horns and they're whales. That's mad. Yeah, that's what somebody said. They thought they were just two whales, what unicorns were to horses. Yeah. Like just a mythical version.

Somebody else said, I just found out yesterday that Hugh Hefner wasn't alive anymore. Hugh Hefner's one of those celebrities I was thinking about that you always forget he's dead and then you get reminded and you're like, oh, that's right. Open Sesame is actually Open Says Me. What? No, it's Open Sesame.

Open Says Me. Open Says Me. Wait, what is it? Maybe they were saying Open Says Me, but it's Open Sesame. But why is it Open Sesame. Wait, what is it? Maybe they were saying Open Sesame, but it's Open Sesame. But why is it Open Sesame? Well, maybe the origins of Open Sesame are Open Sesame. Oh, my goodness. And it was just like lost in translation because that's a very old story.

Yeah. Alibaba or Aladdin's Cave or whatever. Ali Express and the cheap shipping. Yeah. And the wishware shopping list. It is OpenExpress and the cheap shipping. Yeah. And the Wishware shopping list. It is Open Sesame. Yeah. And I don't think it comes from Open Sesame.

Oh, okay. Okay, so they must have been thinking it says Open Sesame, which makes more sense. It has French origin. I saw this online yesterday, and I thought this was a lie, but if you double tap the Apple logo on the back of your phone it takes a screenshot. So it's with the new phones

you have to set it up in accessibility. Ah, so it's not on the old one. And you can set up anything on the new iPhone to double tap the back and it will do something. Oh, that's cool.

So it doesn't have to be screenshot? Nah, it can be anything you want. So on the old one it does nothing? I don't think it does. It might do though

but it's annoying because you accidentally double tap your phone all the time and it takes a screenshot and then people think you're taking a photo up there. Mine's not doing anything.

Because when I saw it, I was like, yeah, okay. Have you set it up? You've got to set it up. You've got to set it up. Put it on my old phone. I think it's the new,

I think it's the new phones that do it. Right, okay. Yeah. So that's not for everybody then, person who bought into that. Somebody said, they recently found out how pineapples grow. Oh, I know.

We've talked about it. On the ground. They grow like a cauliflower and they take three years. One pineapple per plant, right? Yeah, and it takes three years. What are you doing? Double tapping my phone to make it screenshot. Oh, wow.

This is thrilling for everyone else. But I think you were holding it flat. Maybe you're going to be holding it. Yeah. Someone said, oh, my God, is Elton John gay? What? Surprise. Someone said, this adds to the list.

I only just found out Graham Norton was gay. Hello? Hello? Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about a tail, an animal's tail.

I've said, and I'll say it again, if I could have a functioning tail, I would. No, you'd go to sit down places. No, but I could sit down here. Because I would come out of my tailbone and I could just like, it's functional, so I could be like, oh, I'll just sit a little bit forward on the chair and the tail will come out of the side. What function do you want it to serve? All functions.

Like get flies out of your face. Oh, totally. Like a monkey's tail? It would be more like a monkey's tail. Like it would have a gripping ability. Or a tiger's tail.

I could grab, no, because tigers, this is a balanced thing. Like a monkey's is almost like a practical limb. Like it could reach out and grab a cup.

Like I could be sitting here typing and my tail could reach out, grab my coffee cup and I could be like, tap, tap, tap. At all times, never taking my hands off.

Right. Imagine how handy that would be. You're gaming and you've got a spare hand to grab a chip and put it in your mouth. I don't know if a tail could grab a chip. Because it doesn't have the fingers on the end of it, does it? Yeah, you're right. It could grab a packet.

It could grab a filled roll. Or a creamy donut. I will be exclusively eating filled rolls now while I'm gaming with my tail. I always just thought I would 100% be down for it. Like, I've got a wife now. She's not going to leave me because I've got a tail. What sort of monster would leave a man

because he lived his dream of having a fully functional, dexterous tail? I think there would be grounds for divorce. Now, the question is, would I have fur on it? Because a tail that was just skin would look gross. Oh, yeah, that'd look like a big, like that Russian one out of that episode of The Boys in season two. Yes.

It would, so then I'd have to have a fur, I know you know Megan's with us, she remembers that episode. That, I would need some sort of fur on it, but then what kind of fur would I have on it? I'd want a bushy one. That's my big question about having a tail. That would have your beard hair. My beard hair?

That's what I figured. So it'd be a big ginger puby tail. Yeah, and then it kind of, I think it would get to the base. The hair would come right down to the end of the tail, the hilt of the tail, and it would just spread a little. You'd probably have to maintain around the tail, to be honest, with hair. Okay, what's the fact of the day? Well, this is another tail I could add to the list

of possible tails. Okay. The kangaroo tail. Oh, that's a weapon. That's a wacky tail, isn't it? It's a very wacky tail. But if you lift up, today's fact of the day is if you lift up

a kangaroo's tail off the ground, it can't hop. Take that. It can't go forward. Does it push off with the tail? So its legs are very, very powerful. They do most of the positive mechanical work involved in kangaroos' movement. But the tail's role is extremely substantial.

Per kilogram of body mass, kangaroos performed as much positive work with their tail as humans do with one of their legs when walking at speed. Oh, wow. So it's like having, power-wise, it's like having a third leg. So the main kangaroo legs do a lot of the upward motion and the tail is constantly... Springing it

along. Yeah, getting it forward. Wow, okay. And it can even like, when it's off the ground, once they're moving, once they're moving and you see a kangaroo with the tail off the ground, apparently the weight it can generate going forward is quite substantial as well. But could you lift it? Because isn't it like a heavy-ass muscle? If it's your pet kangaroo, I mean, I wouldn't roll up to one of those. You ever see those super-jagged kangaroos?

Oh, that box, yeah. Yeah. Like ripped muscles. Those six-foot-four red kangaroos. And they're like, what up? And they're always like flexing And they've got amazing pecs I must find out what they're doing with those

What sort of protein they're taking But yeah I wouldn't like rock up to one of those in the wild And like grab it's tail and be like Now you try to hop Because it'll turn around and scratch your eyes out But today's fact of the day is if you lift a kangaroo's tail Off the ground it won't be able. But today's fact of the day is if you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground,

it won't be able to start hopping forward. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, we've got two little piggies at our house. We got pigs on Monday. Two coony-coony little coony-coonies. I need to come around and visit. You know what?

Sade said to me yesterday, I love them. They're my favourites. And that's because I didn't know how she'd feel about pigs. But she's on board. That's very clever. She put up a video on her Instagram story and the girls are rubbing their bellies and the pigs are like, yeah, so if you rub their bellies in the right spot, they go flop on their

side and then they go as you scratch them. They're the cutest. They are very, very cute. I've always loved coony coony pigs. So the people who got them off, the lady said, oh, you can teach them to sit. And I like laughed, but it's legit. They're like little snuffly dogs.

They are. And apparently Sade's been doing some online reading. She's turned into a crazy pig lady. That if you treat them like dogs from day one, they'll pretty much behave like dogs when they mature. So even when they're like 200, 300 kgs, you'll be like, come here, sit. And they'll walk up and sit. Because some people let them in their houses, eh? Like, they actually do walk them and treat them like dogs.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not doing that. But they also, pigs are, like, real clever. I remember when we were kids and we had pigs, but we hate them. They always pooped in the same spot. Not so clever, are you now, rash of bacon?

Yum. Clever and delicious. We're not eating our pigs. You may have noticed if you follow me on the gram, we're not eating any of those animals. They're purely decorative. You love them like you love your children. Not all of them, but

some of them would be more delicious than they are. Great, but anyway, not the pigs. They're cool. Yesterday, no, without a word of lie, day one of training, they sat for food. When they said sit, and you like, it's exactly like with a dog, you know, you hold it and you say sit, and then you like go back over them so they go backwards a little bit. It just sat down and then gave it the treat, and then next time it was like sit,

and it just sat without having to do the back thing. I was just like mind-blowing. It's so advanced. Did you put this on Instagram? Sade, send me the video. I can put it on the gram after this. I need to come around and give their little tummies tick-ticks.

Have you ever felt how solid a pig is? Yeah, it's really, because crackling's very tough, isn't it? So it's very much like, they're not soft. It's just there's so much packed in. Yeah, because you see a pig

and you're like, that must be a squishy pig. Yeah, but they see a pig and you're like, that must be a squishy pig. Yeah, but they're not. But they're not. They're like... Like elephant kind of. Like the outside of an elephant is very tough as well. Yeah, but there's a lot packed in that little pig.

It's like a tightly packed situation. You expect it to be squidgy and fatty, but it's not. It's like real hard. I just keep on thinking of meat references, like a rolled roast. Yeah. I know, I thought of a rolled roast when you said that. Really tightly rolled roast.

Sorry, we're not eating the pigs. But pigs can sit. Pigs are trainable. Who knew? Fleece Fauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. Fleece Fauna Megan. No! Great. We've got a meeting after this. I know. It's Friday.

The Lord's Day. I love how you always find these things to be a surprise when they're scheduled in your calendar. Oh, bloody say about that. I probably may have been at this meeting so technically that's my out. Is it scheduled or scheduled? Whatever you want. Put in. Put in the calendar, sure. Put in the calendar.

There is a chair mystery in Queenstown that needs to be solved. This is so weird. My calendar does have that meaning, unfortunately. Do you know there's Aperol Spritz drinks this afternoon at work? Did you even hear me talking? Like, we'd moved on. Hon, I heard you, but did you hear me?

Aperol Spritz. For free at work. Oh, you can't drink. We'll pour you a Fanta. Oh me? Aperol Spritz. For free at work. Oh, you can't drink. Yeah. We'll pour you a Fanta. Oh, thanks. It looks the same. Okay.

It's orange. A Fanta. Yeah. When was the last time you had a Fanta? Side note. I don't want to come back later. Can they just leave a bottle for me? Can we pre...

Oh, my God. You're a princess. Can we pre-drink now rather than later? No. So I had a sip of Fanta recently. Yeah. Yum. Really, really, really,

really good. I don't think I would have had a Fanta for like 10 years. Because you're real mean to yourself and you're like, no, that's not an adult's drink. Dude, because do they do Fanta that's sugar free? Like, because I'll always do like Coke Zero I don't know if it's on the market at the moment.

They have done in the past but I don't know if it's there at the moment. But. Yeah. But. Because I remember mum would always say it's too orange you kids get too hyperactive. Yeah. Orange was a couple when I was a kid. Set me loose. I had Burger Rings and Fanta one day. And that day lasted two weeks. And that's when mum

got that colour free Raro and watered it down to two litres per one litre sachet. Boo. Okay. We're done with the drink chat. What were we talking about? The Queenstown mystery. Oh yeah. Now they've got Fanta in Queenstown. The mystery is, where's the Aperol Spritz?

Which is just grown ups Fanta. I'm so sorry I don't mean to talk over you, but we're very excited about Fanta and Aperol Spritz. Has anybody had? You know where I'm going with this. Yes. Fanta and Aperol Spritz. Oh.

And then some Prosecco. Yeah. Oh, that's what an Aperol Spritz is. I was like, I'm going to try this this weekend. I'm not. You aren't. Momentary lapses. Do you, like, get hungry and you're like, I should eat that,

and then you're like, I can't, I'm pregnant. It's more I see someone's drink and I'm like I haven't tried that and then I'm like no, no. I haven't actually done that. Anyway, carry on. Queenstown. Queenstown, there's a mystery. So police are looking for an elderly couple. Why, you ask? Well it's because

they bought some new Kmart chairs, stools, bar stools. Okay. You probably know the ones I'm talking about. Wooden top, white metal bottom. They bought some of those, but they have been switched out with some cafe bar stools. Well, they came back or they assembled them. Because do you have to assemble them or do you buy them already?

No, you buy them already. You buy them whole. Right. So they are looking for someone because a woman returned with those cafe chairs, with the bar stools from Kmart, in the evening and allegedly switched them out with some stools, some nice looking stools,

at the Jamaica Blue Fine Coffees Cafe, where they have got some nice chic black bar stools. So they kind of look the same So they kind of look the same. They kind of look the same. But I'm guessing they're better quality than a Kmart stool. Do you think she had a set at home, and she had two, and she's like, well, we've got a longer breakfast bench, so I need four.

And so she couldn't find them anywhere, so she's like, what I'll do is I'll buy two that look similar, but obviously, yuck, I don't want them in my house. So I'll take them to a cafe because they won't care and I'll switcheroo them. Is that the vibe? Look at the security cam footage. It's like a really old man.

Yeah. The perfect cover. The perfect, like, this is the kind of shit I'm going to do when I'm like 80. Just run amok. It's a couple because the woman returned to the cafe, told a security guard that she owned the place. It was a nearby security guard. She was like, oh,

I just need to carry these chairs out. Carry the stools out. And you would believe a lovely old lady because they're not going to rip off your stools, are they? I don't think there's any word on how much the stools the cafe had are worth. What a weird story. They look similar

but yeah, better quality. So yeah, they must have decided they didn't like what they... But they also left the Kmart tags on the chairs they returned to the cafe.

So they might have got away with it if they hadn't... Drawn attention to the switch. You said they're old, right? Yeah. You try breaking one of those plastic things

with your hands, it cuts into the little jaunty finger there. And if you're old, you know when you're old and when Nana used to do the gardening, she had to be careful with roses because if she started bleeding, she never stopped. Yeah, fair call.

But the stools they took were from Australia, much more heavy, solid chairs. A quality chair, yeah, right. That's why she needed the security guard to help her. Because they're too heavy. How to make a poor man's Aperol spritz. Oh, my God.

Here's your ingredients. Fanta, Prosecco. Cheap sparkling wine, Fanta, and vodka. Oh, so you don't even use Aperol? No. Wow. Okay, good. Yum, yum, yum. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast If you enjoyed this podcast

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