ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 22nd June 2020

Episode Date: June 21, 2020

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Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Morning. You've got a puffer jacket on this morning. Yes. Little nips. Bit nips.

It's inappropriate to comment on her nipples at this time of day. Nippy. It's nippy. I can see Vaughn's. It must be nippy. It's inappropriate for you to comment on his nips. I thought we were all just doing around the table comment on nips. I can see now that you've pulled your shirt back. I can't see yours because they're tiny.

Can you not nip shame me at this time of the morning? Better than big nips. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's true. I don't have dinner plates. Nah. None of this is anything wrong.

None of this is anything wrong. That's my personal ranking. Yeah. People are there who prefer a large nip. Yeah, sure. Well, this is a great start to the show. Yeah. Coming up, the top six and another season of The Bachelorette announced yesterday. Yeah!

Wow! Didn't they struggle to find dudes in the first one? That's what I thought. And then all the dudes in the last season did such a great job of making it look like you won't be made to look like a fool on television that they're opening the casting again.

They'll just get some of them back, won't they? For another round. Yes, go again. With like a moustache or a disguise. Perhaps. Perhaps. But also on a budget because the economic situation is not great. Yeah, well I wonder

if they'll even be in that mansion. No. There'll be no money for that. There'll be significantly downsized. So the top six budget cuts. Noticeable budget cuts for the next season of The Bachelorette. Alright, I want to talk next about the Prime Minister's birthday cake

she made for Niamh next. Yeah. Fleshfawn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Happy birthday to Niamh Te Aroha Arden Gayford, too. I remember when she was born, a couple of days before my birthday. I was like, you better not be on my birthday. It's your birthday tomorrow.

Pretty close. Stealing my thunder. Yeah. I remember when her existence was announced. So do I. Get them going. She can't be pregnant and run a country. That's what we're all worried about. She can't give birth and run a country. That's what we're all worried about.

She can't give birth and run a country. She can't have a baby and run a country. She can't have a toddler and run a country. Turns out she can. Yeah. I remember last year for the first birthday, she made a rabbit cake and it looked good. Right.

Okay. She's done it again and she's made a birthday cake from the Australian Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake book, which I remember. Everybody remembers. I saw UK media sharing this because they love a Jacinda story, don't they? Yeah. The UK media. And people were commenting on that and it's just weird. She, yeah, chose a piano cake for Niamh.

So were the fingers, the keys of the piano, they look like those Whitaker's Sante white chocolate bars, and I got real triggered because I love those. Haven't had one of those in a while. Yeah, I think that's what they were. Ah, because we always just went for a Kit Kat. Yeah, we would. I did wonder how, what are the black keys? But you can't get a white Kit Kat. Yeah, we would. I did wonder what are the black keys.

But you can't get a white Kit Kat. Is it licorice maybe? Licorice. I was thinking licorice. You can get a white Kit Kat. In New Zealand. They do the special Kit Kats. Oh, the cookies and cream one you can get.

Yeah. Well, you know, you don't want speckles on your piano keys. But what was Jacinda's black keys? Licorice. I think licorice. She doesn't specify. But I think too much effort went into the Sante keys and not enough into maintaining the square appeal of the back of a piano. Well, she does say it was propped up, doesn't she, by a jar or something.

Cake making lesson number two, don't focus on making the cake look in proportion with little to no attention on structural integrity. Yeah. There's a jar of lentils propping this thing up. See, she, that's the problem. She's too busy running the country. She hasn't had time to watch that. What's that cake show that's on sometimes after the news? Cake Makers. Yeah.

Is it? It gets pretty full on. They have to use like bits of wood in there. Oh yeah. You've got to, if you're gonna make a sort of a high cake, it's got to have some structural integrity to it. You were just saying before you never had an Australian Woman's Weekly birthday cake. I don't think so.

Because if everyone goes on about it, I don't think mum, like we'd always get like, because mum's a good baker. Mum listens, your mum listens to the show in the morning. Maybe if she could let us know. Only if dad hasn't, no, because sometimes dad puts it on national radio. Oh, right. No, he won't be able to. I reckon she probably did. You've just absolutely overlooked. Yeah, this is another class that I overlooked.

I don't stitch up with your mum who did a great job, but you're playing the impoverished child. I just know, but I don't remember having a themed, like, a piano cake or a rabbit cake. I think I remember a caterpillar. Yeah, there was a caterpillar cake. I think I had a caterpillar. Yeah, there was a caterpillar cake. Oh, it wasn't there.

I think I had a caterpillar. Oh, yeah, and it was like a log, right? Was it like a chocolate log? Yeah. A sponge log. Dolly Varden? No. That was the one with the doll jammed in the middle

and the cake was like its big dress. But obviously to get around Dolly Parton suing them, they called it the Dolly Varden. Yeah, none of my Barbies looked good enough to chuck in a cake. They were haircuts. There was a cricket bat. Oh, a of my Barbies looked good enough to chuck in a cake. They all wear haircuts. Cricket bat. Cricket field. The choo-choo train.

Of course that had the popcorn smoke coming out. I think I had the train. That was bougie because that had like a... I don't think that smoked. That had carriages and everything. Yeah, right. That was the hickory dickory dock. The clock. And of course the most abhorrent of all of the Australian Women's Weekly Cake Books, the duck.

The rubber ducky that had potato chips as bait. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Like, gross. And popcorn stuck to it. When I was a kid, that was amongst the grossest things I could imagine having for a birthday cake. But also... No, you're right. Nothing fancy for me.

Just round cakes. Round cakes or square cakes. It's good to know we made the cut and they're not listening to national radio today. Morning, Bev. Wow. Always a good cake, but no, it was never a novelty cake. The Australian woman's weekly birthday cakes

were always very heavy on the licorice too. Like if you ever needed a black line, they were like, put licorice on it. No kid wants licorice on their cake. Are people, are parents like, is Jacinda making this from an old,

like it's not a new, have they done a new edition of this or are these just left over from like the 80s and 90s? It was launched in 1980 and it was relaunched in 2011

and it sold more than a million copies in that time. Wow. So hence, there's a lot of those recipe books out there. Yeah.

And the 1980 edition was the one that everybody knew in New Zealand, the traditional one with a messy table with a train cake in the middle. How many years is she going to get away with making Niva a cake from this book? She's still got a few years in her to get through some of them. You know what I'd like to see is, you know, like cakes have changed. Yeah. We just order a cake now. Yeah.

And I'd like to see those like full noise professional cake makers take a shot at like reinvigorating some of the classics. Yeah. Like you imagine like they do the train, but they do them like, that would be a good series. Like a 16 carriage like overlander. Yeah. Like a Kiwi Rail diesel.

Yeah, the Transalpine. Yeah. That'd be nice. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. The state of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, 25 new corona cases in the last few days. And they have been blamed, these cases,

on people who knew that they were infected but continued to work and socialize now i don't know if you've got if you guys have friends in melbourne but um i just see them on the gram in the stories just and like we are like life is normal no not the people i know oh no don't throw the people i know under this but people just socialising. Like, life is just basically normal there. Like, we have been carrying on with for the last couple of weeks. And it's not over there, is it? Because they haven't ever really got back down to zero or no cases.

What are you thinking? So, the government there, the local government, has offered a $1,500 payout if you're sick so you stay home. So do they not have... I need to go home. I need that $1,500. Do they not have any way of, like, prosecuting them if they go out when they're sick?

I guess how would you do that? Well, you'd have to catch them and... Yeah and it'd be difficult to prove, I guess. They've gone the other way and they're paying them to stay home. But I guess the other thing is that people might not have enough sick leave. Same as here. Right. You might be sick and you're like, well, the idea is you're meant to stay home, but you might have five days, you might have used them, you might have no days.

I heard about that in the UK, that some people were sick and their bosses were like, well, you've used up all your sick days, come to work. And then reinfect kind of everyone all over again. That was, yeah, I knew people in the UK who had that. Yeah. They just said, oh yeah,

I'm pretty sure I've had it. Oh, did you get tested? Nah, nah. Like we were just really sick and then just went back. I was like, what? Well, so that's the idea is you'll be able to use this money to stay home

and obviously get by because you won't be getting your pay from work. But, I mean, everyone's just going to stay home sick now, aren't they? Sick. Does it say that you have to get tested? Well, like, not from what I've read. They don't care if you've got it or not, right? They just don't want any sickness anywhere. Yeah, right.

So you just have a common cold. Yeah, well, that was what we kind of agreed to hear. You'd have cold parties with your friends. Like, check your box parties. And then you all get paid out. So they're from midnight that has just been restricting parties to five and public gatherings to ten. So if you have a gathering at your house, five, public ten.

So they're kind of going backwards. Wow. But I think there'll be lots of this for places that don't take it seriously. Yeah. Like America's infection rates are going nuts again. And then did you see that Trump rally? Granted, half the seats were empty, but there was a lot of people there

and they believe masks are, you know, it's their freedom being encroached on if you're asked to wear a mask. It's become political. Like, if you're a lefty, you wear a mask. If you're a righty, you don't. You don't. Well.

Take it on the chin, I guess. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The SPCA, this is Renwick SPCA. During lockdown and level three, they had to find different ways to rehome pets. They had a lot of pets coming in from people who lost their jobs. Right. That needed to find a new home for their pets.

Maybe they couldn't afford to take care of them. And so they adopted a method, a blind date method. So people will go online and you get a photo and a profile of the pet. And then you apply to adopt it. You go through an application process. And then once you've been background checked and everything, you have a blind date with the pet before the adoption's finalised.

So rather than like going there and seeing all of the animals and playing with them all and like picking the cute one. Picking the cutest, the one that's more affectionate or friendly. Yeah. The one that's not hiding under a box in the corner or is scared of people. They've had a very successful rate of adoptions doing it this way, so they reckon they're going to continue, now that people can go there,

they're going to continue with the blind date process. See, I'd still want a cute one. Yeah. They're all cute. Are they? Yeah. They, I don't know how to put this lightly. There might be a yuck one and I don't want it.

Well, I guess you're not going to apply to, you're not going to apply for that one. Do you know what I mean? I might want a cat. They're not going to go, this is your. Do you get to at least say like, I want a kitten? Yeah. Okay. You get to say that you want a cat or a dog.

Oh, so you get to put forward your criteria? Yeah. Oh, okay. You're presented with a... But then what if it turns up and it's like real shy and it doesn't like you? Well, then you don't go through with the adoption. That's what the blind date's for. Oh, but imagine saying no to a little kitten.

Yeah, that's why it goes well for them is because people can't get one and be like... Do you have one that's a little less, should we say a little less manky? Do you know what I mean? No, that's mean. Yeah, because we've got two cats. We've adopted them from, one was from the SPCA, but another one was just, Vets had one that had been bought in. And they turned out okay.

Okay. You love both your cats. I know, I was being sarcastic. I don't really love any of the indoor animals. They inconvenience me. I'm an outdoor animals guy. Fluffy sheep. I like the sheep.

Fluffy cows. The cows. The outdoor stuff. Yeah. Not so much the indoor. Cats are good, though. They're for the mice and the rats. Keep those under control.

Right, so dogs have got no time for them. And those pesky native birds. Those numbers have been blossoming, and thank God the cats are keeping those numbers down. Andrew is from Malaysia, and he has done something that's gone viral during lockdown. Him and his girlfriend of eight years

said they're very close, but they do things every now and then to spice things up and show each other that they love each other. Nice. And so this is something, it wasn't even his girlfriend's birthday. He was just like she needs a bit of cheering up, we're on lockdown you know. So

she spends a lot of time on it's called Taobao, which is, I guess, like Amazon. Okay. It has lots of random things on there, and she had a huge wish list. So, I mean, do you know what a wish list is, Fletch? Yeah, but I don't use it.

I don't, yeah. You just constantly have things. I just put heaps of stuff on my wish list, and I'm like, one day if it goes on special, I'll be like, okay, yeah. Yeah, okay. So she had heaps of stuff on her wish list. Now, he said she would know if he logged in and looked at it.

Right. So every day when she went on it, he would just look over her shoulder and add things to his own list that she had on her wish list. Right. and add things to his own list that she had on her wish list. Right. So he eventually collected everything she had on her wish list and bought it for her as a surprise. What had he done wrong? I just told you they're in lockdown.

You're in love. He was trying to spice it up. He said all of their friends know that they do these cute things for each other. But she got seven huge packages, 800 litres of parcels. It doesn't say how much he spent, but there is a flat lane. 800 litres with all liquid parcels. It came on a big truck and she got seven huge boxes, just like phone cases, like heaps of...

There's an electric toothbrush. Just a bunch of shit she doesn't need. Pretty much. You're such a buzzkill. Why do they need to spend that insane amount of money to get their happiness? Why couldn't they have like set up a little picnic on the floor in the lounge or something? They'd probably do that as well. It's rubbing their wealth in people's faces in a time when a lot of people are struggling.

But if you're going to take anything out of this, it is a good idea if you're looking for a gift for your partner. Great idea. If you can somehow get onto their wish list.

Yeah, it's literally a birthday wish, birthday list. And if you can just look over their shoulder and be like, okay, that's what they want. Then, yeah,

it's a great idea. I mean, the girls in the producer's booth actually gasp. Like, what a great idea. It made me and the girls in the producer's booth actually gasp. Like what a great idea. You don't need to buy it all. Just one or two things off the list. So will you be kind of

hinting to Mr. Toyboy that this is where your wish list is? I'll just point my phone in his direction as I scroll through my wish list. I'll be like, I'll be like, oh, COVID. Get it tested. Fletchfawn and Megan, the podcast.

ZM. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Today's Top Six. The Top Six are budget downgrades on The Bachelorette in post-COVID times. Looking to make TV productions cheaper. They're going to be making some cuts to the next season of The Bachelorette, which-COVID times. Looking to make TV productions cheaper. They're going to be making some cuts to the next season of The Bachelorette, which you can apply to be on now.

So, guys and girls. Yep. Okay. They're looking for the girl. They're looking for both aspects of the show. To be The Bachelorette. I doubt they'll be going to Argentina this time. Oh, no.

Oh, no. I wouldn't be going anywhere near South America, to be totally honest. But the top six are budget downgrades on The Bachelorette. Number six, one of the hopefuls, one of the lads, was just that homeless guy that stayed at that hotel for free for two weeks. He saw another cue and now he's on The Bachelorette. I would love that. You know what?

That guy's my hero. Yeah. I know, I can't be angry at him. No. Number five on the list of the top six budget downgrades On the Bachelorette And post-COVID times You know how they take

Helicopter rides on the dates Yeah Yeah Maybe to a destination Now it's just that one In the mall That you pay like a dollar And it goes up and down

A couple of times They're often painted Like Westpac helicopters Yeah And I remember Going on one of those As a caddy And it was like

The coolest thing Oh yeah I felt like it was so high. Yeah, but you go past them now and you're like, that's so lame. And there's some kid in there enjoying it and you're like, enjoy it, kid. The magic dies when you get to my age. Yeah.

Mum, my man says magic dies. Number four on the list of the top six budget downgrades for the bachelorette in post-COVID times. Their picnics will literally be a picnic bar. Oh, and they have it. Yeah. They are yummy, though. They are pretty good.

Yeah. They're an ugly bar, aren't they? She's not pretty. They're pretty good. Yeah. Number three on the list of the budget downgrades on The Bachelorette in post-COVID times. Roses. Yikes. Those are expensive.

Instead, to show the person they'll be going on to the next episode of The Bachelorette, you'll be handing out Anzac Day poppies. Gold coin donation, though. Yeah. So if they want to go through, they can get a little one, but they can't keep it and use it next time.

That's not how Anzac Day poppies work. Number two on the list of the top six budget downgrades on The Bachelorette and Post-COVID times. Cocktail parties at the mansion. Ooh, that was expensive. How about tea parties in the tree hut? That's imaginary tea, by the way, with the teddies and a little wee table. So drink some water on the way, because

cute though, you'll be thirsty. And number one on the list of the top six budget downgrades for The Bachelorette and Post-COVID times. They had two bachelorete in post-COVID times. They had two bachelorettes last time. That proved to be very expensive. So this time they're only having half a bachelorette. That's someone that's kind of seeing someone,

but you know, they're open to the possibilities. But you know, they're not really. They just like that douchebag and they keep going back to him time and time again. Have they said if they'll do two again this time? Well, that was like a big twist last time. It can't become the default, can it? Yeah, but you don't want to be halfway through the show and you're waiting for the new Bachelorette to come in.

No, absolutely not on this budget, mate. Yeah, she won't be happening. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Trade me interactions are always a strange thing, eh? Because you've got to talk so much to a stranger. You've got to arrange, pick up or drop off or postage. And you don't know what you're walking into

because when they put up whatever's for sale, they don't necessarily put up pictures of their house. Yeah. And then you go around there and you're like, oh, God. What am I doing? When we bought the chickens, our chickens, when we bought our chickens. Oh, my God, fathers.

Like, I thought this is, like, where people go missing. And then he had all these pigs too. Yeah. I was like, they'll eat. They'll chew right through a human bone, won't they? I'm toast. Oh, I thought you said that to him. I was going to be like, what did he say?

Your chickens were fine. The chickens are great. Yeah. Chickens are fine. Wonderful chickens. I was going to be like, what did he say? Your chickens were fine. The chickens are great. Yeah. Chickens are fine. Wonderful chickens. I just, I don't, I'm just trying to think even the last time. Oh, I think I had some extra bathroom tiles. You know, when the Renos happened, I had all these tiles.

So I was like, well, I'll put them on trade me. Oh, you got mosaic builders, did you? No, the lady, she was lovely. She just came around. But I've always wondered, she was like, bought them all. And she's like, yeah, I'm, the lady, she was lovely. She just came around. But I've always wondered. She was like, bought them all. And she's like, yeah, I'm just going to tile my bathroom myself. I'm just going to look it up on YouTube.

And I was like, I would not trust myself. But I always wondered how she got on. Well, you had her number, didn't you? You should just text her. What an email. That was like three years ago. Just curious how you got on. How did she know she had enough?

I don't know. Imagine getting halfway through and not having enough. And not having enough. It would be so expensive to match the tiles, to go searching for those tiles. I always wondered.

Now I need to know how she got on. I know, but she was lovely. But other than that, I don't like trade me because I just don't. It's weird talking to other people. Yeah. It's just odd.

I don't want to. So this is an interaction that happened in Auckland. This, they got the seller to drop off. I think it was a cabinet or something. Right. But the seller was doing the delivery. So that was nice.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So they brought over the unit and left their car door open, it sounds like. So took the unit in, exchanged, see you later, drove off. Yeah. Now, that's when, well, it actually wasn't until the next day that the buyer realised that Kat was missing. Oh, no.

So the buyer called the person who had dropped off the unit and was like, hey, you haven't seen my Kat, have you? And that's when the person who had dropped off the unit and was like, hey, you haven't seen my cat, have you? And that's when the person who had dropped off the unit said, oh, yeah, so we drove off and we heard like a meow and then heard another meow and realised there was a cat in our car. So we just pulled over and let it out. We thought like it would make its way home. Cats do that, don't they?

It doesn't say how far away they were. Even they're not homing pigeons don't they? It doesn't say how far away they were. But they're not homing pigeons. Yeah, like, I don't know how far away they were when they let the cat out. Yeah. But the buyer was like, oh, okay, well, my cat's missing now. And several days went by, and then the cat did, in fact, make its way home.

Oh, so they were right then. Yeah. Like, several days later. And also, they just pulled over, like, oh, there's a cat in our car. Like it must have come from that person's house. Didn't even think to call them. Yeah, yeah. You could just call them and be like, hey, I'm going to have to quickly come back because I've got your cat.

That's a dick move. Like it wouldn't have taken much to drive back. Yeah. Like that's on you. You left your door open. And the cat just hopped in. Like, I'll come for a ride. Like fair enough, pull up outside and then let it out.

Yeah. But not like... Yeah, then you wouldn't even have to say anything. Yeah, not halfway home. Yeah. Again, this is why you don't do pick-ups. You do a drive-by pussy. Or drop-ups.

Drive-by pussy, yeah. Just try to slow down. Just have a little... Out you continue on. Yeah, well, this. Meow. Meow. Yeah, well, this is why it's hard talking to strangers. But not just Trade Me, like buy, sell, swap accounts. Or Facebook Marketplace.

Facebook Marketplace. We'd love to know this morning when you had a weird interaction on one of these sites. Let's be honest, it's mostly Trade Me Weirdos, isn't it? But you can't say that because you're a Trade Me Weirdo. You're on there, you're doing the interaction. Yeah, this is why I do postage only. Someone might

call up and be like, I went up to this guy's apartment and he like opened the door just a crack. What do you want? See, again, this wouldn't happen. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. It just wouldn't happen.

Like, if someone was coming down, I'd just go down and meet them. Yeah, right. I'd just be like, it's on the front doorstep. Take it.

Just leave it there. Leave it there. Yeah. The Facebook marketplace, that's taken off. I've never done that. Yeah, that's pretty false. Well, you know why

it's taken off is because you don't get the... They don't get the fees. They don't get the fees. You don't lose the commish that you have to pay Trade Me. Yeah. Because you're the guy that made the... He asked me if I was putting the jug on and I said no. And he's like, oh, you chuck it on then.

Like, he came to pick up a keg because he wanted to turn it into a fuel tank for his hot rod. Yeah. But then he wanted a cup of tea for free. Pretty sure you should have taken that back to Liquorland. No, we didn't know where it came from. Someone turned up at the party with a keg and then left and we were like, where does it go? And there was no way

of, no one said, I don't know, man. It was a real mystery. So you made money off of it and sold it. Yeah. Did you make a cup of tea? It was a lemon and vodka keg too. It was a real, not like a keg of beer. Where that went? A KGB or something. Tasted a lot like a cheap KGB. Yeah. Did you a lot like a cheap KGB.

Yeah. Did you make him a cup of tea? No. Oh, okay, good. I was like, we don't even have tea. Right. We're talking about your weird interactions with Buy, Sell, Swap, Trade Me, Facebook Marketplace after someone doing a delivery dropped off a unit and then drove away with the family cat in the car, unbeknownst to them. Didn't take it back when they realised the cat was in the car.

Just let it out. Open the door and let it out. It'll make its way home. I mean, technically they weren't wrong. It did two days later. A few days later. Yeah. But again, this is why you don't do pickups.

No, you don't interact. But maybe you like weird interactions. Maybe that's your thing. Yeah, maybe. I dig it. Aidan, what happened? Hey, so I was selling some computer monitors on Facebook Marketplace, and I was getting a couple of messages,

and then my phone just started buzzing. I got about seven messages from this one guy saying, oh, I'm super keen to pick it up. Oh, yeah, okay, no problem. I was out getting the haircuts. I said, I'll message you back soon. Then I forget about it, maybe two hours later, he sends me three selfies of himself. What kind of selfies?

Like, it was like a front, like a picture of his face, like a front on, then a left side and a right side. Oh, okay. Like profiles. Like profiles. Yeah. And then I go, oh, dude, like, I'm still busy. Like, can you calm down?

Then he proceeds to send me more photos and more messages. So I just ended up saying, you're messed up and blocked him. And did you end up getting rid of the monitors? Did you sell the monitors? Yeah, yeah. I got them later. There was a couple of weirdos still after that, but yeah. Wow.

What do they want? What are they doing? This is why I don't know. Like, the Facebook marketplace, there's no, like, you know, there's no fees and stuff, but it's just something, I don't know, having your profile attached to that and your messenger, it's like at least with the number you can block them, can't you? Yeah. Oh, for sure.

I don't know, just a bit weird. Alright, eight things you call are some text messages. Somebody said, I. I don't know, just a bit weird. All right, anything you call, ask some text messages. Somebody said, I had a great trading experience. Sold a garden ornament for 150 bucks. The guy paid

but never came to pick it up. I reminded him about it twice and then I've just given up. So wait, you paid for it? Yeah. And you've still got it? And then just didn't show up.

What kind of garden gnome's $150? No, not a garden gnome, a garden ornament. I like how you only thought of a garden ornamentome, a garden ornament. I like how you only thought of a garden ornament could be a gnome. Sinead,

you had to trade me a weird exchange? Yeah, so I contacted a woman about getting a warming mat for your plants and she was like, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait. Sinead, Sinead. So is this like for tropical plants that you put a warming mat under it or something? Yeah, so that they grow better. Like if you don't have a greenhouse or something. No, I don't have a greenhouse.

What temperature does it sit at? Because if it can get too hot, it would... Roast them. Well, I don't know. I haven't had one before and I was like, hey, that looks great. I want one of those. Is this why my plants keep dying? Yeah.

Because I don't have a warming mat? Should I get a warming mat? I don't know. I don't know if you've got any tropical plants. I think you're just over-watering them. Yeah, because they're tropical. Have you been to the tropics? You're trying to make it a rainforest.

Yeah. Anyway. Okay, so you go to pick up this mat. Well, I was trying to, and I sent her this thing and said, hey, what's your account number? I'll transfer it through. And she responds and goes, oh, nah, just grab me a pack of ciggies from the dairy

and a bottle of Sprite. I was like, I'm not really comfortable with that. Can I just pay you? Nah, nah, nah. I want the ciggies. And I was like, no. That's how much does a warm-up usually cost? Was a pack of ciggies doing you a favour or her?

She was asking for 25, and I ended up going to Bunnings and buying one because... You didn't want to have to buy ciggies. Yeah, get a brand new one. Also, that sounds like she was on home detention and you were the only one that could go to the dairy. Yeah, it was my thought as well. She had a warming mat for her plants. Are you saying that home detention people wouldn She had a warming mat for her plants.

Are you saying that home detention people wouldn't have a warming mat for their plants? No, I guess she's just trying to make the house lovely when you're at home all the time. Sinead, thanks for your call. Mandy, you were the bad trader. Yes, I was. So what did you do? I got two kittens through my daughter. I told my husband that they were in a bloody pasted bag on the side of the road.

Right. So I kept them, and after about two weeks, they were just, they were naughty. They attacked the Christmas tree. Just, it went down. Mandy, that's what cats do. That's what cats do. Oh, no. Especially kittens.

I know. Yeah. I tried to tell them, but anyway, I grew quite a cat, got pressured. Now, look, cats, if you keep attacking the Christmas tree, I'm going to have to get rid of you. You're gone. That's pretty much what my husband had told them, so they sort of didn't really care. Right. So I posted them on Trade Me For Free.

This lovely lady from Wellington said, yeah, I'll take them. She travelled all the way down from Wellington and got them. And I just I'd grown so attached to them that I couldn't stop crying for about a week. So my husband had to contact her and ask her

to bring them back. And she brought them back the next day. She brought them back. Where were you? Because I think you hit a button just as you told us whereabouts you are. She was in Wellington. Whereabouts are you? Took it all.

Oh, my God. That's a huge drive. I know. It was a four and a half hour drive and the lovely lady brought them back. Basically didn't stop the car, threw them out the door

and left. I would have seen you come and get them. Yeah. I would have said you come and get them. Yeah, I would have made you come and get them. I would have just ignored your phone call, to be honest. I know. I know, look, I felt so bad, so I cried for another day for her, but I got my cat. Little bugger.

So tell us, have you still got the cats? I still had the cats up until about a year ago, so yeah. Did you sell them to somebody on Wellington again? No, I did not. No, I actually lived in Raglan, and there was something going on with cats for this weirdo person was grabbing them and stuffing them in freezers and that sort of shit,

so I don't want to know. What? No, I ended up, yes, I ended up having them for about eight years and I don't like to talk about it because I still get choked up. Oh! Get in the swimming with some cats! You know, it sounds like you need some more cats.

Mandy, you need another cat! Also sounds like Raglan could have a serial murderer in about two years. Yeah. Because isn't that the first step for mammals? Yeah. Mandy, thanks for your call. Nikki, you had a bad trader turn up at your place. Yes, so I posted on Facebook Marketplace saying I had an office cabinet for sale. And within probably three minutes, I got a text. And I hadn't put my number on or anything saying, hey, really interested in the cabinet.

And I was like, oh, okay. And they replied saying, can you send me photos ASAP? Like, I need pictures now. And I was like, yep, of course. Like, I'll take some pictures. And then I get a call saying like, hi, could you tell me more about the cabinet? And I was like, yep, I'm just measuring it for you now.

And he goes, well, can you just tell me, will it fit a body in it? And I was like, what kind of body? And he goes, a human body, like someone standing. And I was like, depends on how tall they are, I guess. And he goes, well, you know, an average-sized person. Could they stand inside the cabinet? Was he a magician?

Well, that's what I was thinking. I was thinking maybe that's the kind of girl he's going for, you know, trying to be nice. And he goes, is it soundproof? And I was like, I don't think so. And anyway, so then he said, okay, well, can you send me pictures ASAP? So he hangs up the phone straight away. And I was like, yep, of course, I'll send you pictures now.

And sent him through the pictures and he goes, no, that's not going to work for me. And then I replied saying, okay, and that was it. Very, very odd. You don't think it was a prank call? No, no, like it was, like he was very interested, like wanted to know the dimensions,

like, and he seemed really serious when I was on the phone to him. Yeah, right. Like he needed to know, but he, I don't know, it was just very weird. Yeah, maybe I'm not.

He kept saying, you know, body, can a human body fit in there? Yeah. And I was like, Maybe it's a kink I've never heard of when you get into a filing cabinet and your wife comes over and you surprise her.

Maybe, yeah. A filing cabinet. The top drawer goes out, your head pops out, you're like, did that work? Shroom, shuts. Bottom one comes out, your foot comes out, it's like, this is my foot. Shroom, shuts.

That is hot. I mean, actually, now that you're thinking about it. Yes, I am. Nikki, thanks for your call. Again, another reason I won't ever be using Facebook Marketplace or doing pickups on Trade Me. Some other text messages. We sold two kids scooters for $6 on Trade Me.

Left them on the front porch and said, just put the money in the mailbox. Came home to find a dollar coin. I text the buyer saying, there's only a dollar in there. They said, oh, well, we put six in there. It was a $5 note and a $1. I guess someone just stole the five. I'm like, well, why would they have left the one?

Don't know, but definitely put the money in there. They said it wasn't like fast because, you know, not much money, but at the same time, just weird. Yeah. I sold an iPod Classic in 2017. Created off, all was fine. Then the new owner felt the need to text me to tell me how great it was

and how he was listening to it while he was having some bevvies. And I became the person he'd text when he was drunk listening to music. Oh my god. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Bluff or Stuff. We have an Escafe Dolce Gusto to give away, which we've been trying to give away for weeks.

God, they've got some free press out of this, haven't they? I know. Unbelievable. So basically, one of us is going to be holding it, but we're all going to tell you we're holding it. You need to decide who actually has it in their hands to win it. Would this be the sixth time?

Yeah, I reckon. Fifth? Fifth or the seventh time trying to give this away? Whatever one's easier to say. We're all terrible liars or maybe we're all great liars. Amy, good morning. Good morning. Right, so we're all going to tell

you we're holding this and you've got to correctly identify who is holding it to win. Vaughn, would you like to start, seeing as you're holding it? Yeah, yeah, well, I've got this in my hot little hands. First of all, have you got any questions about the coffee machine? What colour is the box? Well, I can answer that because I'm holding it. Oh, sorry.

The box is predominantly white. The features on it, the coffee machine's black, and there's an orange stripe around the bottom, but, you know, it's a white box. You can see that because you're literally sitting next to me. Is it heavy? Yeah, it is heavy. Yeah, it is.

Nah. How would you know? Because I'm trying to lift it up so Vaughn can see the colour. Only for these two babies with poor bicep strength. It's quite heavy. Yeah. I would estimate maybe 5kgs. I'm holding it.

I'd say 4. I'd say 7. 3.5, 4. I'd say 7. Let me drop it. Can we get some scales? Let me drop it. Don't bang your hand on the desk.

Okay, mate. Okay. Don't fart. If you were holding the box, could you do this? Well, that's your Tupperware container. If I do that on the box, it sounds like this. Oh, no. That's the Tupperware.

That's your Tupperware container that you ate. Is it, Amy? You're sloppy. What were you eating this morning? Oats or yogurt? No, it was oats. Did old granddad make you an easy yogurt? It was some of the yogurt.

Do you know how many messages I had from people over the weekend? God, I know. I heard about it. How dare you slander easy yo. No, that's too late. That's the sound of a box. All right, Amy. That's not a box. We'd like you now to eliminate one of us.

Who do you think is definitely not holding it? I think that Bourne's definitely not holding it? I think that Vaughn's definitely not holding it. Well, you would be... That is correct. Correct. All right. Okay, so now you need to eliminate one more. Who do you think is holding the coffee machine?

I am holding it, Amy. Oh, my God. Amy, who's holding it? I think Megan is holding it. Hers definitely sounded more cardboardy. That is correct. Finally! Finally!

I tried to do that as like serious as I could. I am holding it, Amy. Trust me. Amy, congratulations. God, we've been wanting to give this thing away for weeks. Thanks, guys. Fantastic. Probably've been wanting to give this thing away for weeks. Thanks, guys. Fantastic. Probably make shit house coffee.

I don't know. No, I've got one. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. She's a snob. She's a coffee snob, so that does speak volumes. We're going to talk about cushioning. It's a new dating term.

It's pretty ruthless. But if you've done this or you've been on the receiving end of it, we'd love to hear from you. We can keep it anonymous if you've done this. I don't think anyone's going to admit to doing this if they're currently doing it. I feel like you could accidentally slip into it a little bit. Before you realise it, you're like, oh, okay. Right.

So cushioning is when you are dating one person seriously and you have multiple backups on the side. So you have a serious relationship, but you've also got people that you're like talking to as your backups. I don't think we accidentally slip into that. No, I was just thinking, because like now you kind of date lots of people. Like if you're on Tinder or whatever, you go on dates with lots of people. You're kind of juggling a few balls.

Yeah, and then what if one of them starts to turn more serious and then you end up spending a lot of time with them? Before you know it, you're like, oh, we're actually quite serious. That's just not getting locked down with. No, but this also affects people or means people could be in a serious relationship for like a couple of years, but they've got backups. Yeah, I was trying to like make it sound okay so that people would feel comfortable calling in.

No, yeah. But no, it's like boyfriends and girlfriends have been together for a couple of years, but then have. But it doesn't mean that you are cheating on your partner. No, you're not hooking up with the other people. It just means that you're keeping some friendships that are options, right? You're like stringing them along. Yeah. But you're not doing anything with those people.

So technically they're just friends. Yeah, but like... But that's cushioning. It would include like flirting, right? It's more like a safety net. Like flirting. Yeah. It more like a safety net. Like flirting. Yeah. It's like a safety net.

No, it sounds more official than that. The people hanging on. It sounds like you've, do you know what I mean? It sounds like it's more official. Like you've got it, you're in a relationship, but you know that if it fell to bits, then that person you'd be straight in there just being like, what up?

Yeah. People still say, what up? No. Guys, it's been a while. It was 2004. It was all like, what up? Back then. I'm imagining that the cushions don't know they're cushions, right?

Well, I would think they're more of a throw pillow. Yeah. What? Or a decorative European pillow. So we asked on our Instagram in a poll this very question. Have you been in a relationship or are you in one, but have a backup boyfriend or girlfriend? Yeah.

7% of people said yep. 7%? Really? Juicy. And that's like, because this was only put up quite recently, that's still 4,000, a sample of 4,000 people. What's 7% of 4,000 born? You're good at that kind of thing?

So for every 1,000, it would be 70. You don't need a show worth all of those. That's a lot. That's a lot. 320. 320 people said yes. Yeah. Wow.

Isn't that insane? Wow. Somebody said, someone messaged, I'm a cushion. You definitely know you're a cushion. So they know they're a cushion. They know that. I'm just waiting in the wings. You're better than that.

So say don't wait around for someone that might never be there. Yeah. Don't be a cushion. You're not their number one. Find someone else. Find someone else to be your number one. Don't be a cushion. Be a beanbag.

That sounds worse. That does sound worse. Oh, no. Why are you kidding me? I'd always sit be a beanbag. That sounds worse. That does sound worse. Oh, no. Why are you kidding me? I'd always sit in a beanbag over a... It's got to be a full beanbag. Oh, yeah.

Nothing worse than slumping into an empty beanbag and you're... Oh, hitting the floor. And you've got to roll out of it. Yeah. That's always degrading when you've got to roll out

of a beanbag. Yeah. So we want to ask now, is there anybody listening that... Is cushioning. Is cushioning. Is cushioning. Maybe you're in a relationship or you have been, but you had backups.

Or maybe you know you're the cushion. Yeah. I'm so intrigued by this. I just don't know if anyone in a relationship currently would ring up and admit, saying, yeah, I'm in a relationship, but I've also got this backup. You can be anonymous. Then technically you're not cheating. You're just saying that if I. Then technically is that, like, you're not cheating. You're just saying that

if I wasn't in a relationship, this would be my next relationship. But then if I was with a guy and I found out about the cushions... You'd be pissed. You'd be throwing the cushions out. Yeah. Yeah.

Even though they're not, like, technically cheating. Well, it's basically asking if you've got a back-up boyfriend or girlfriend waiting in the wings. Yeah. Like the subs bench in the All Blacks. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, imagine being just the bench warmer the whole time. I know. We're talking about cushioning, the new dating term where you're dating one person seriously, but you have multiple backups on the go. They're the cushions. They're the cushions. Fletch, an offer for you to be somebody's cushion.

Oh, okay. As a backup. They said, yeah, if you want to be a cushion. Right. That's on the table. Sounds fun. How's this? I'm in a relationship, have been for two years,

and me and the lads have a Friday night piss up every week, and there's this chick who always comes, and she's always telling me she's next when I break up with my girlfriend, so I guess she's my pillow. Couple of questions. What's she doing coming to the lads? Yeah. Piss up.

Because if she's there, surely... She'll tell the girls. Well, no. Girls are allowed to come now, so why wouldn't you take your partner? Oh, yeah, true. And if the partner eventually goes and finds out this girl's been going all along. There'll be trouble. There'll be trouble.

There'll be trouble. Unless the partner is going to another. Unless she goes on Friday nights to another social event that turns out to be an all dudes event as well. And she's telling other guys the same thing. Well, a lot of people are doing this. We're going to hear from the cushions. And the cushionies. The cushioners. The cushioners next. hear from the cushions and the cushionies. The cushioners.

The cushioners next. Hearing from the cushions this morning. And the cushioners. We're talking cushioning. It's where you date one person seriously and then you have multiple backups on the side. Just think how something falls through. And Anonymous, your partner was cushioning. So we were together for many years like 14 years and um i always felt like he was

christian because um he was always on tinder and all these dating sites like keeping his options open and that was never an issue for you or it was did he no it wasn't it was an issue for me but um you know i kept on thinking like you just said earlier, oh, they're just friends, you know, nothing's going to happen. And I don't think anything really did happen, but I'm a strong believer that's, like, really bad cushioning because, you know, you're trying to get married and all that and he's busy cushioning on the dating sites.

So, yeah. Yeah, no, man. I don't think you go on dating sites when you're in a relationship, especially if, you know, you're thinking marriage and stuff. Yeah. Definitely not. After 14 years, eh? Definitely not.

So, yeah, we broke up because of this. So we broke up just before COVID because, you know, I found out that he was still on the dating sites and I just don't think that's a good go. You know, it's not right. Only recently. Oh, you're better than that. Good riddance. I'm better than that that's a good go. You know, it's not right. Only recently. Oh, you're better than that. Good riddance.

I'm better than that. Yeah. Anonymous. He was definitely cushioning it off. He was. Anonymous. Thank you for sharing. Another anonymous.

You married your cushion. Yeah. So I was in a relationship for seven years with a girl. And I ended up meeting this other girl while we were playing rugby in Australia. And I was like, okay, I kind of really liked her. So we started to talk for probably six or seven months. And then I ended up leaving who I was with, marrying my wife now. And we have a baby together.

Wow. Okay, so you had the backup cushion. Yes. When you were talking for six months, was it like flirtatious? It was, we established early on that how we felt about each other. And then after that, we were like, okay, we've said it once. We know how we feel. If it ever happens, it happens.

Right. And then it got to a point where I was like, well, I know what my life has been like for the last seven years as a fish skill. How will I go not ever knowing with this other girl? And it's worked out really well. So, yeah. Cool. Wow.

Yeah. And now you live somewhere with a rooster. Yeah. Yeah. Anonymous. Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing. Ask some text messages.

Somebody said, I've cushioned and been a Kushner Wait, is that the same thing? Anyway, they meant both sides of it And basically until the person says What are we? And you establish an actual relationship You know Yeah

Until it's established It's not a bad thing But then once you've had the chat It's just emotionally cheating basically, isn't it? Yeah. To have other people lined up. And that's what somebody said. Is it lining someone up and just biding the time

or is it just beginning to dissolve the current relationship that you're in, which is what it sounded like just now? If you're looking for outs, isn't that a big sign? Yeah. I just feel if you're that into that person that you're with, you're not looking for outs. You don't have backups. Somebody else said,

I always find it easier to keep my cushions well separated. For example, in different countries. Oh, yeah, right. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Somebody said that they had this and then their cushion wanted to be FWD. And I said, do you mean front wheel drive? And they said, sorry, I meant B, friends with benefits.

And then, yeah, it was a slippery slope before the cushion became the main bed. Yeah, right. People are doing it, lining up. Safety net. If it doesn't work out Now At the weekend I started watching a new show

On Netflix Vaughn this isn't new Well it's new to me Oh Vaughn Have you guys seen Money Heist? Have you seen You haven't seen Money Heist I think you'll like it

It always pops up on my thing We're like I don't know what's Money Heist It's there Like a lot of tension A lot of You don't know what's happening. It's there, like a lot of tension. A lot of tension. You don't know what's happening. It's kind of like Ocean's Eleven meets the original Ocean's Eleven.

You know, the first one when it came out, everyone's like, well, that was pretty cool, man. And that and first season of Prison Break, but it's Spanish. So you know how it is. And I could have listened with English dub over, but I like the sexy Spanish accent

and I don't mind reading subtitles so boom I get too distracted with subtitles because I when I see a show on Netflix

it has dub over it just it does my head and I can't do it you'd rather watch the original with subtitles yeah I'd rather watch yeah

plus I know like six Spanish words so I'm like I know that word it's a great. They said breakfast. They said beer. I don't want to be Mr. Smug cultured over here. But when I was looking, I went into the Netflix top ten.

Yeah. Because I thought that would be an indication of something people are watching and maybe is good and you'd read a bit more about it. Yeah. Now Marcella's number ten. I just finished the latest season of that. It's a great show. Recommended to me by my friend Megan.

Years ago. But it's also like there's Smallfoots number one, which I've heard is a pretty cute animated one, that sexy 365 Days. Oh, yeah. That was number one for like the last week in New Zealand. Yeah. Like a Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Yeah. It was number one for like the last week in New Zealand. Yeah. Like a Fifty Shades of Grey movie.

Yeah. Okay. It's so intense it made E.L. James blush. The Nun's in there. So, you know, like there's a horror, Crazy Rich Asians, Get Hard. There's, you know, there's a few. It's an old movie. Yeah.

Is it new to Netflix? It must be new to Netflix. Oh, The Sinner is number four. Yeah. The new season of The Sinner. So I thought, how corruptible is this chart? How does it work? And how often does it update? Is it every day that it searches for new information?

And I did, you know me, minor amount of research. Yeah. I Googled it and then got distracted by something else and chased that rabbit rather than staying on task. It's why I was never a successful greyhound. Yeah. And from what I could see, it updates daily. Right.

And it takes the previous day's viewing into account. And I thought, well, then that's easily corruptible. Okay. If enough people get on board with watching a certain thing at a certain time, then surely that would reflect in the chart. Yes. But then you don't know that they're not, they could be handpicking this chart.

Exactly. We don't know that. They could be fudging the chart. They could be fudging it and putting their new Netflix content in there. But in New Zealand, how many people need to watch it for it to register the top 10? Because one of those things in the top 10 is like, don't get me wrong, you know I'm a super huge Keanu fan,

but number two is Replicas, this Keanu Reeves movie, and it doesn't look, it looks like a budget version of iRobot, and iRobot was made in 2006. It's definitely the kind of movie you'd put on for a Netflix and chill and hope that you started, like, making out at least 10 minutes in so you didn't have to watch it again. Yeah, that could be. It's that kind of movie.

That could be the thing. And TV series, like, the whole season has to, like, when they dump a new season, I'm imagining people binge it, so that counts towards it, but there's series on there with heaps of episodes that people will be watching that isn't in the top ten. Like, I would have thought Friends would have been in the top ten. It was last week I saw it. Last week it was. But you're right, though,

because the top ten chart on Netflix is there's always rubbish in there, and you're like, what is going on? Do you judge New Zealand when you see that list? Yeah, I do. How's that number one? Yeah. Or even in the top ten. So what's your social experience? Do you think we should try and rig this?

Well, given that now there's nothing to watch on TV on Wednesday nights, that's just coinciding. With the fact that your TV show, have you been paying attention? It's been indefinitely postponed. Oops. I thought Wednesday night, yeah, that's kind of like a night where people could watch something. And from what I could also see, you don't have to watch the whole movie.

Right. You only have to watch a portion of the movie. So even if it's terrible, if we could get everybody to agree on Wednesday night to watch a movie at some stage after work, before bedtime, in that window before the day ticks over, will it be in the top ten the next day? You can watch it any time. We could be encouraging people to watch it in the morning. 100%.

You can watch it in transit. You could watch it. You could leave it on and leave the room. Go to work. Yeah, but if that's not something you can do or if that's the other thing, we need to select a movie. Do we select a movie that the whole family can enjoy? So then you can watch it after work with kids,

if you've got kids, or as a flat or whatever. But I think we should choose a movie that is in the Netflix library but isn't something that people... It has no business being in the charts at this time of year because it's not new. Yes, exactly. It's been there forever. Yeah, they haven't just added it.

A Christmas movie. Or like a real obscure movie. Christmas, there's mid, it's like, when's, midwinter Christmas now, right? Like the end of June, the year's almost over. And I don't want to speak for everybody, but I don't think we've enjoyed the first half of this year so much. No.

I don't think it'll go down in history as the happiest year of all time. No. So it might be time to let's fast forward to Christmas. And what a nice, warm feeling that'll give us if we can all get something to number one. The people's number one. The people's number one. We all agreed upon.

Felt pretty good last time. So we need something to watch then. Well, that's why I'm thinking, given that this will need to be everybody getting on board, we need to take a movie suggestion from people who are listening to the show. Okay. Okay, well.

And then when we agree to it, nobody watch it until Wednesday. Because I know once we agree on it, everyone's going to get a little bit excited. And start watching it early. We can't go too early. We can't go too soon. We've got to concentrate our efforts. Okay, well, should we take some suggestions now?

Let's just take a sample of the people. What movie on Netflix should we try to get to number one on the charts on Wednesday? I'll 800 dials at him. Somebody just messaged in Shrek and I've searched. Yeah. Is that?

There's no Shrek. There's Shrek the third, Shrek forever after, Shrek swamp stories and Shrek the halls, but no Shrek. Yeah. See, that's the thing. No original Shrek. We need to check what's on Netflix, what's available on Netflix. That's madness.

Okay. Well, if you've got a suggestion, maybe you've seen an absolute classic of a movie on Netflix, it would be perfect for this. 0800-DARLS.M, you can text through 9696, and let's get our planning going for this social experiment. I'm on board. This is great. I love fudging a chart.

Well, we've decided on Wednesday night, we are going to run a social experiment in New Zealand. We need your help. Yeah. After watching the Netflix charts fluctuate over weeks and weeks since their launch. Yeah, and kind of wondering how it all works. Because some of it feels hand-picked sometimes. Yeah.

Doesn't it? But some of it also is just people have terrible taste. Yeah, some of it you're like, how did you get into the top 10 apparent TV series about werewolves? Yeah. So we want to see if this chart is corruptible. Now, we have some... God, this song still gives me... I know.

It gives me... We have some experience corrupting charts. If it's corruptible... It is our democratic right to corrupt it. It is. Because, you know, we make the system more robust for the future going forward. Exactly. The 16th of May, 2013, we got a song from what? It's 1979, wasn't it?

Yeah. To number one on the iTunes chart. And then I believe number five on the actual New Zealand chart. Didn't we get a shout out from the band too? And the band said thank you. Yep. It's good times. And I believe Ross Boss joins us in now.

Ross, that was actually the change. You know who didn't say thank you was the music industry itself. Making a mockery of their chart. But I guess that is radio, right? Making a mockery of charts for ages. Vote now for the ZM chart later on tonight. We listen to all your votes. That song didn't

miskept Lorde's song out of the top five that week. Surprising she's your friend then. I don't think she knows. She would have found the gear in there. Wait! Wait! This song does. You know, just by playing she knows. She would have found the gear in there. It was a producer that took most coverings with it.

This song does. You know, just by playing that you're now going to get tagged in Africa things all the time. Still do, still do. But, yeah,

that did lead to some change. Yeah, the industry didn't like you making a mockery of their system, basically, because the chart is about new stuff,

not bringing back something from ages ago. So they did wholesale changes to how that's all calculated and upped the amount and I think they even put in rules that you can't do exactly what you've done. But have Netflix

done that? I don't believe so. They just shot themselves in the foot because now they have to buy more of their own singles to get to number one. I'm going to say that was Fletch. Carl Peter Fletcher who said that, not me. So, yeah, we want to see if we can corrupt the Netflix chart, the top ten. Yeah. And we need your suggestions for a movie that we could all watch on Wednesday.

Obviously, the thing is it's got to be on Netflix. We're getting suggestions through and we're just searching. So many of your suggestions aren't on They're not on Netflix Daniel, good morning, what's your suggestion? I was thinking either Love Actually or New Year's Eve Oh, New Year's Eve looks terrible, Daniel Love Actually is not on Netflix

Because I watch it every Christmas And I always search on Netflix It's not on Netflix, sadly You have to go down to United Video, don't you, Aunty? Pick up a DVD copy I watch it every Christmas and I always search on Netflix. It's not on Netflix, sadly. You have to go down to United Video. Don't you, auntie? Pick up a DVD copy. United Video.

Whoa. Play it one more time now. And then it was Video Easy. How did Video Easy go? Video Easy. Video Easy. Video. Trifecta, what was Civic Videos? Civic Video.

I don't think they had one. Whoa. Whoa. Okay, Daniel, thanks for your suggestions. This is an original jingle. Amy, what's your suggestion for a movie we can all watch on Wednesday night? Apex. It's family friendly and everyone can watch it.

I remember crying as a kid to that. It was real emotional because you thought he'd die, didn't you? And then he... Oh, spoiler alert. I don't actually remember. Is that on Netflix? No, it's not. It's not, Amy.

Thank you though, Amy. Tess, what movie do you think we should all watch? Elf. The Christmas movie with Will Ferrell. Like we said before, it could be a good mid-Christmas celebration. God, that movie's great, isn't it? It's on Netflix.

For some reason, on my Netflix, it says we stopped at minute 49 of 96. We must have done a half watch last Christmas. Of Elf. Any others, Tess? No, that sounds like a pretty good movie. You're just doubling down on Elf. Any others, Tess? No, that sounds like pretty good movies. You're just doubling down

on Elf. That's actually a great suggestion because it's old. Yep. It's Christmas movies and you wouldn't expect that to be in the top 10

if you saw that. And it's an enjoyable watch so it's not like we're asking you to punish yourself for 96 minutes. Mandy, any ideas? Yeah,

I would have said Elf as well. That's a classic family movie. Oh, okay. It's the only world-class movie you can put on with your family where you don't have to turn it off for embarrassment after a couple of minutes. Brilliant. Alright, Mandy, great suggestion. Maddie, what movie do you

think we should all watch as a country on Wednesday? The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Oh, that's a great movie. But is it on there, though? No. It's not on there. Oh, it's not. Sorry, Maddie.

All right, Maddie, what about Alf? Would you like Alf? Yes. Okay. We've got the tick of approval there from Maddie. Thanks, Maddie. Hard to please Maddie. That's what they call him.

Somebody else texting in, Despicable Me. Is that on there? You do love a minion. I love minions. It would have to be the original where he tries to steal the moon. The original's on there. Despicable Me. I love it. It's a good movie.

People texting in Shrek. Yeah, but there's no Shrek. There's no Shrek. And lots of texts for Shrek. So maybe we could chuck another Shrek. Oh, there's Shrek the Third. Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After are in there. Shrek the Third was pretty good.

Now, somebody's texting Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Is that on Netflix? Yes. Oh, that's such a good movie. Because that would be a weird one if you were in the top ten and people didn't know this was happening. They'd be like, what's Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants in the top ten for? Champagne Bidil there. There is Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants in the top ten for? So... Champagne Bedil there.

There is Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Yeah, no Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. How does that work? How do you know about the pants if you don't have the first movie to learn about the pants? You've got to learn about the pants. They fit all of them and they're in drastically different body shapes.

Yeah, crazy. Blake Lively and America Ferreira sharing a pair of pants. Jeans, no less. Exactly. I'm imagining that must have been very, you know, elastic-y jeans. Spandex-y jeans? What do you call it? Lycra jeans?

What's the stuff in... Okay, well, I think what we'll do now is let's take a few of these movie suggestions and run a poll and see what one we... What the people want. What the people want. And then tomorrow we can announce that movie and then get everybody jazzed up for maybe some viewing parties, a synchronised watching.

Yeah. Because we've got to think about things like when's the best time. Yes. Because, you know, people watch Shortland Street, don't they? We can do it ourselves. So we don't want to... Obviously, yes. It the best time. Yes. Because, you know, people watch Shortland Street, don't they? We can do it after Shortland. So we don't want to... Obviously, yes. It's still on.

It's doing well for itself. It's still doing well. So we don't want to, you know, we want to make it... Maybe we do it after that. Or we need to check TV listings. Netflix is so stingy on details. I had a quick look at, like, when is the peak time? Or, like, what is the most watched?

And they're very hushush hush on their numbers. Yeah, right. I think nobody's watching it. Really? We're just brought into the hype. Alright, well yeah Wednesday

mark it in your diaries and your online calendars. I've got here Set a phone reminder. Netspeed they say at what hour most people

watch Netflix because they can tell because of the internet. It'll be really late. Be like after eight, won't it? Oh no, this is just how to

get a few Netflix. Okay, Netflix won't buffer. Well, we'll do some research and we'll get back to you with the details. But yeah,

keep Wednesday night free for a absolute classic movie. Communal viewing. Yes. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about retronyms.

Do you know what a retronym is? An antonym or a synonym? No. Like a thing that goes... That's a metronome. No, okay, yep. Not a retronym. A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates from the original version with a more recent one.

That's hard to follow. Let me give you an example. Okay. Before the invention of non-steam powered trains, steam engines were just called steam engines. Were just called trains or engines. Right. But when the diesel came about

it needed a new name. But it wasn't new so that do you know what I mean? That's the retro. An old thing gets a new name. The old thing gets a new name and it only needs a new name because a newer thing's been invented. Yeah right. For example or happens. Yep. Another good

example is the first world War, World War I. It was known as the Great War until World War II happened and it was a greater war. And they were like, well, this is technically the Second World War. So I guess if we're going to call this the Second World War, that's got to be renamed as World War I or the First World War. So that's a retro. That's a retronym.

Okay. Snail mail because it was just mail. Yeah. And it existed just mail. Yeah. And it existed as mail for a long, long time. Until email came, and it was the faster way of doing it, and everyone started calling it snail mail. And email kind of almost took mail away from it. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Megan's just sneezing. Classical music is another example. Because that was just music. That was the only music. That was the only music. When that was happening, when Beethoven sat down and he was like, right, time to write some classical music.

That's exactly how he did it. Except he didn't say classical music. He just said it's time to write some music because that was the genre. That was music at the time. And I didn't know this one, but forward slash. Forward slash was only ever called slash. But then when backslash came around. Where did we get a backslash?

Apparently it was used as a path separator in MS-DOS because in programming slash or forward slash as it's now known already had a purpose. So they did backslash. And they said, well, this is backslash. And they said, well, if that's going to be called backslash, you just can't call that slash. It's got to be called forward slash.

Backslash is so aesthetically displeasing. I don't know where it is on your keyboard. Your keyboard's different to mine. Below the backspace or the delete. Oh, yeah, there it is, yep. And basically anything with analog in front of it, analog watch, analog clock. Because it just used to be clock or watch.

Because that just used to be a clock or a watch. Oh, wow. But then when digital came around and it had a name, they needed a way of differentiating the two. Black and white photos, for example. Yeah. They were just photos before somebody worked out how to do color photos. Or aren't we learning?

Yeah. Field hockey is another one. Because that just used to be hockey. Yeah, right. And then they started playing it on ice. And air hockey. And he's like, yes, and air. And you're saying I just used to be hockey. Yeah, right. And then they started playing it on ice. And air hockey. And he's like, yes, and air. And you're saying I'm going to play hockey,

it's confusing. Ice, air, or field. Yeah, man. So they suddenly call it field. Huh. Neat. So today's fact of the day is a retronym is where something old gets a new name because a newer thing also has its name.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. There's bad news for certain guys on dating apps. There's been a, I don't know why this is very specific. Right. I don't know why this study was done, but it's been done. They asked a bunch of women who were on dating apps between 18 and 24 to rate pictures of guys. Some were holding confident poses and were alone in their dating

picture. And then there were ones that held cats. Okay. And the men who held cats were less likely to get a swipe right. And they say it's because it made them appear

less masculine and less dateable. Really? Interesting. But what if you saw a really hot guy on Tinder and he was holding a cat?

I mean, you're allergic to cats. I'm allergic to cats. So that's an interesting one. I'm not a cat. I mean, they're cute and stuff but I'm not fond.

But what if it was like Harry Styles holding a cat? How have you found dating app responses since Major Murray Fluffington came into your life? I haven't. I'm not on.

Have you changed your profile picture? I don't have. You're like a bottom trawler out there, right? You've got a drift net. You're just dragging it through the ocean. You're getting Maui dolphins. We should do this test. You should change it to Ewan Murray.

It's the salmon doing out there. See what happens. You and months, months. What is the salmon doing out there? How'd you catch the salmon? That's a fresh wood of fish. What are you talking about? I don't know.

You and your little puss puss in your profile picture. Don't they have salmon in the Atlantic? Just as I said it, I was like, no, they're not. What am I talking about? Trout. That's, yeah. Salmon. So don't hold a cat in your profile. No. It could be something to do with posture. Data, yeah. Salmon? But then... So don't hold a cat in your profile. No.

It could be something to do with posture. Data, though. You look like a James Bond villain. Yeah, look at that. He's like... Oh, actually, that's a fair call. In the photo where he's not holding a cat, he does look better. No, he looks crazy.

Yeah. It could be to do with posture because they're standing up better. But you think when you're holding a cat, you kind of hunch over the cat and give it a pat, pat, pat. But also that cat's not cute. If he was holding a cute cat, he might be fine. No. That seemed cute enough, didn't it? Eh, not cute enough.

You are a cat snob. I'm a cat snob. And they rated higher in neuroticism. What's that? Neurotic. Who, cat people? Into themselves, yeah. No, neurotic.

Neuroses is like, well, I'm imagining in the youth. Fletch? It's been there. Neurotic is like where is like, well, I'm imagining in the youth. Fletch? It's been there, like, neurotic is like where you overthink things, worry things. It's like any sort of. So, Fletch. What have you got there? You've Googled it. I've Googled it, yeah.

Definition. Well, we'll wait. Neurotic means you're affected by neurosis. A word has been used since to describe mental, emotional, or physical reactions that are drastic or irrational. So, fledge. Holy shit. That has never been a more fitting description.

Guys, I am cute. So, a cat owner is known to be more neurotic, or is that just the opinion that people have when they... You do a lot in just a few seconds when you swipe someone, eh? Yeah. Like, a lot goes through your mind when you just say yes or no. Yeah. Subconsciously, a lot goes on.

Do you ever, like, make a decision and then look back and break down every bit that leads you to that decision? And as you say, you make it like that, but then when you evaluate it, you're like, the old computer upstairs is sure firing. Yeah. And then you hear the fan and your brain goes. That means you're overheating.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast. We've decided on Wednesday we're going to try a social experiment and we need your help for this on Wednesday night. Yeah. We're going to watch a movie on Netflix. All of us. All of you. You're invited.

Somebody said but I don't have Netflix and I said they do a 7 day free trial trial for something, you know. Yeah, so get on board. Sign up. Yeah. Create an email. Sign up. Or just use your email if you haven't already used it for a free trial. And Wednesday night, we're going to watch a movie. We don't know what movie yet.

And we've asked, we've kind of whittled it down to four of the most popular messages that we got in. We couldn't find, for example, if you go to our Instagram, you can vote. Despicable Me, we could get the original one. But Shrek, it didn't have Shrek 1, which would have been an absolute sitter. Yeah, it would have been. For a bit of nostalgia, but the best we could do is Shrek the third.

Okay. And then Elf and Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. So you can vote for two. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, two. Two. Again, another one where we couldn't get the third. Okay. And then Elf and Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. So you can vote for two. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, two. Two. Again, another one where we couldn't get the original. And I don't think we want all those people jumping in not knowing how the pants happened, as we mentioned.

But, I mean, heck. They'll say, what happened in number one that enabled these pants to... My pick personally would be Elf and then Despicable Me. That's how the voting is also being reflected. So the reason we're doing this is because we're on Netflix and we see the top 10. It's all over the place.

And there's always weird stuff in there. So we want to see if we can rig the chart and get one of these movies into the top 10. Number one, baby. Can it be fudged? Can it be? From what I can? Number one, baby. Can it be fudged? Can it be? From what I can see and read, probably. Okay.

But it all needs to happen on Wednesday. Yep, and we've decided we're going to call it charty party. Yeah, the charty party. We're all going to have a charty party. On Wednesday night. Because we want to get this into the charts. Yeah. On Wednesday.

So vote now, FBMZM, on our Instagram for which movie you'd like the nation to watch. Yep. On Wednesday night. And let's see if we can get this to number one. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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