ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 24th May 2021

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleach, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's Thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app another year. Well, actually, I say another Eurovision, but last year it was postponed. Yeah. Because of coronavirus, but there has been another Eurovision. And I don't get it. It always looks lame, doesn't it?

Is that the joke? Yeah, that's what I'm... It's always a bit kitschy and camp and a bit weird, isn't it is it is that the joke like yeah that's always a bit kitschy and camp and a bit weird every now and then it'll give you an abba yeah italy uh won this year's eurovision right and the dude was not snorting coke no no he was very clear on and there's further proof to say he wasn't because there was a photo of like a photo or a video of him like with his head right by the table when they turned to the Italian team but also his band mate gives him a nudge like oi cameras are on you

so he said he said he wasn't and then there was another photo from another angle that showed he wasn't he was just like hanging his head in shame or they'd done some of the explanation for it but they promised they promised it wasn't. Right, so they were a rock band, an Italian rock band that won this year.

And Australia does it every year, right? Australia got in, yeah. It's very weird. Yeah. I don't get it. I'm not. I liked the Will Ferrell movie about it, Story of Fire. I still haven't seen that.

It's so good. It's so good. I know the song, Fire. Yeah, I still haven't seen that. It's so good. It's so good. I know the song, though. Yeah, yeah, ding dong. Yeah, yeah. That's what I saw a lot of on the internet at the weekend. Yeah. Just play, yeah, ding dong!

ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fleece, Fawn and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleece, Fawn and Megan.

Happy Monday. Happy Monday. I'm pretty excited. We've got a guest on the show after 8 o'clock. Should I say, because technically it could be a spoiler if you're not up to date, the latest person sent home on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under. Right. When would that have been available to see?

Saturday. Oh, no. I watched it super quick. If people are super fans, they will have watched it, right? Okay, well, this is your warning. Anita Wiglet joins us on the show. One of the Kiwis. Can't see at home.

And I picked her for top four, which is really upsetting. Yeah, people upset online. Yeah. Joining us in studio. Probably because it was costing them a fortune to keep her housed. The production company just wants to keep costs down, send her home. Yeah. All right, and after 8 o'clock this morning on the show,

we're doing Add to Cart today. Fantastic. We don't have the envelope in here. I bet you they've forgotten. We're left on a Friday. It's travel week 2.0. That's this week. You could be winging your way to one of the very few destinations

internationally available to us at the moment. Aussie or Rarotonga. Yeah, or maybe it's within New Zealand. I don't know. Yeah. That's Travel Week. Well, 8 o'clock, we'll give you the very first item in the card. You've got to be listening throughout the day.

Get all of the items and call through with Bree and Clint this afternoon to win every single item in that card. The top six is coming up. Yeah, it's finally RIP to IE. Internet Explorer will be shutting down. Following the likes of its predecessors, Netscape Navigator. I remember that. Firefox.

Is that still a thing? Yeah, Firefox is still around. A lot of people's preferred browser, that one. Mine's, I just use Google Chrome. Yeah, I use Chrome as well. But I know Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer will be joining the ranks of deceased browsers. So I've got the top six memories of Internet Explorer.

All right, coming up in the top six. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM. I knew this was going to get chucked to me to discuss. Pre-show, there was a meeting. You know, here's what we'll talk about on the show. This story came up. A few people had it in there. I'd be more than happy

to lead the discussion. Would you like to? Yeah. I don't think Megan wants to. Shockingly, shockingly, I was taken aback

because 20% of this translates to one in five. Women. One in five women. Oh yeah, shit, no. Men. I don't have the exact figures but I imagine it's single digits. Yeah, it would, absolutely. 20 in five women. Oh, yeah, shit, no. Men, I don't have the exact figures, but I imagine it's single digits.

Yeah, it would, absolutely. 20% of women have never masturbated, and many say they simply don't know how and wouldn't. How about that? Mind-blowing. Did you also know that May is international masturbation, Mike? I did because our friend of the show and one of my very good friends, Morgan. Oh, I thought Morgan was just getting into getting off.

Yeah, no, she's been all about May as being the month of. Okay. Well, you can't tell someone how to please you if you don't know how to please yourself. As the old saying goes, that's what my grandma is. Young Lord. I remember my first Wathers original. It was given to me as I received some W Wethers original. It was given to me as I received some Wether inappropriate sex advice from my great-grandmother.

Tell us another story, Dorothy. Yeah, well, that's it. You've got to know what, yeah. For some reason I'm doing a shaka, bro. For some reason you've got to know what you like. You've got to tell someone what you like. Some reason you've got to know what you like. You've got to tell someone what you like. Yeah. You've got to know.

It's good to talk about because there's a lot of stigma around females doing it. There's lots of depictions of guys doing it, and you talk about it all the time. But for women, and in many countries and stuff, it's very taboo. Oh, wildly taboo. You get in trouble. No, you're right. It is good to talk about.

Yeah. I was watching The Bold Type on Netflix. And is it true that in some countries... What's The Bold Type? It's a, like, girly series. Oh. Is it true that in some countries adult fun toys are, like, illegal? Yes.

What? Yes. No, you'd be able to loophole that so easy. Say it's a face massager. Oh yeah, but then you can't get a Satisfyer Pro 2. That's pretty obvious. But if you've got one of those neck massagers that's just

like the size of a toilet roll but they're like spiky to rub on your neck or hit the pressure points. Because I think she's a Persian character and she gets detained for having multiple AFTs in her luggage. Really? That sounds like a man rule, right?

Oh, yeah. This is from a 2018 article. Yeah, we'll take care of this. You're not allowed to buy those. We'll stop buying them when you 100% take care of it. Yeah, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives. The Maldives? Did you take your Satisfyer Pro 2 to the Maldives on honeymoon?

I did not. Imagine Megan hitting the headlines for getting locked up in the Maldives on her honeymoon. Just because you had a Satisfyer. They are illegal. You wouldn't take your adult fun toy on your honeymoon. Yes, you would. Why not?

Oh, gross. There's lipstick on the side of my coffee cup I know, I did not Thanks for the heads up We were on air when we saw it I was about to sip it I think that's mine too Because I had that cup on Friday Gross, let's see through the dishwasher

Good to know the dishwasher gets rid of lipstick Go and make another coffee Have you read the other... No, the other countries. Oh, yeah. You know, the Arab Emirates. It's not surprising. It's not surprising, any of this, is it?

No. Okay, so Thailand. Yeah. Taking them into Thailand, they fall into the category of obscene goods and on the country's list of prohibited items. They could take criminal action against you, but they probably just want

a thousand baht or something. You're bribing your way to this. So you're not allowed to take them into Thailand, but the things you can see in Thailand are... Exactly. Oh, you're far worse.

Far worse. Yeah. Vietnam, Malaysia, India, these are all ones that could stop you at the airport on the way in. That is... Who knew that?

Yeah. That's crazy. Not me. Okay, well, you've been warned when the way in. That is, who knew that? Yeah. That's crazy. Not me. Okay, well, you've been warned when the bubbles open up or when travel opens up. Celebrate your freedom in New Zealand. Yeah. Maybe that should be the next time.

Do something new in New Zealand. Yeah. Put it somewhere new in New Zealand. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A sleepover at a zoo. Sounds like fun. I know Kelly Tartan's do a sleepover. Well, they used to, didn't they?

Yeah, you'd be able to sleep under the little... Do they turn off the conveyor belt or do you go to sleep by the turtles and wake up by the sharks? Yeah, I reckon it'd be quite... I get motion sickness if I was constantly in... Would you even notice? I reckon... Probably not.

And you've never been to Kelly Tilden's when it's quiet. Oh, yeah. I bet that that thing that you stand on makes a noise. Because whenever you go to Kelly Tilden's, it's always full of kids

being like... Times 100. But if it was quiet, it's probably like... So I don't think they must turn that off. It'd be pretty cool doing that, though.

But you can have a sleepover. Well, there is a 600- acre zoo. So it's more of like a wildlife safari park. Whipsnade's Lookout Lodge is inside Whipsnade's Zoo. Excuse me. And you can stay over in these cute

little cabins. It's not cheap. £300 a night. Wow. Okay. The idea is that it feels like you're staying in a wildlife park. Well, you are in a wildlife park, but more like in the wild because you can hear the animals and they walk around and stuff. However, in the Europe zone, this is where the lodgings are. This is where you stay.

And there's boars in there as well. And there's animals that wouldn't be considered extremely dangerous. However, it's only one fence away from where the bears live. No. Okay. The bears are Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella in an adjacent area. There is a fence separating them. However, a tree came down, meaning the bears

could escape. They climbed up the tree and plopped over the other side. Two of them, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. While these people are sleeping at the zoo overnight. It's a big area. It's not like the tree fell right beside the cabins. Yeah, right. And rather than try to

usher them back or say, stay in your room, we've just got to sort out this, they shot them. They shot them dead. Which, if I was going to stay at a place, I would imagine significantly more traumatic to see a dead bear than to have seen one wandered past or to open the curtains and there's one standing on the other side of the... Yeah, why don't they tranquilise them?

In their cabins, just say, keep the doors shut and we'll sort it, right? Yeah. Hi, guys. How do you sort roaming beers? A tranquiliser. They might not have had a tranquiliser, though. I feel like a zoo needs to have one. It surprised me.

It was like Harambe as well, right? They were like, oh, yeah, we weren't sure that the tranquiliser would work in time or, you know, that we could get it there in time. But a gun we had on us. Yeah. So they shot them dead. Oh, my God. So it didn't work out well.

No. Another reason why it'd be better to stay at Cali Tarleton's because if a shark gets out of the tank, it's just going to be like, put me back in. Put me back. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM.

How many margaritas did Shadow have in front of her? One jug, eh? No, I think she had two. She had two jugs. No, she would have been. When you say jugs, though, in that place, like. They were little jugs. I had two.

Three? You know you had strawberry and you had mango. Did you get a blender? Vaughn's just going through the bills. He did? I completely forgot. We went to a dinner on Friday and it was one bill per table. Yeah.

So somebody just put it on their credit card and sent the photo of the receipt to the group. Yeah. That's a great idea. Who was the big dog that put it on the credit card?

Daddy James. Daddy James. But do you know, I wish I'd done this because he's got the ear points. He's got the ear points from the whole dinner. But you would have

put that air points up against stressing out about when someone hasn't paid you back yet. No, he wouldn't have said that. I know, James hasn't mentioned anything. I said, I'll do it,

but then the maths looked too hard at the time because of margarita jugs. You know that Fletch would have sent an invoice to everyone. He would have woken up at 5am the next day

and invoiced everyone professionally. Absolutely, I would have. But this is what got us onto it because I said when I transferred the money on Saturday morning, in the reference field to our friend James, I didn't put anything. I'm growing up now. You wouldn't have put anything silly?

I didn't put money for strippers, drugs money. Put it on, yeah. Yeah, hostage money. I didn't put anything silly. I'm mature now, guys. Well, no, because we heard that you shouldn't do that because it affects when people go to the bank for things.

They look through and they're like, why is there sexual favours and drugs? Yep. But I feel like the banks know that's just a bit of some shenanigans. But every now and then there's a story saying, hey, you're going to need to buy a house one day and you shouldn't do that. Yeah. Because it's going to be an awkward conversation. But it's not really.

You just say to the person, oh, that's my dickhead mate. Yeah. It's obviously $29.99. Like, what drugs are $29.99? Yeah. That was like three margarita jugs. Calm down. That's all fun and games.

But there's a story from the BNZ and they've said that they are cracking down on abusive references. So they reckon that every month there's around 2,000 messages that they deem as problematic abuse in the reference field. In the reference. Yeah. So people are paying someone and literally writing swear words, abuse, all kinds of things. Who is paying to, like, are they owing these people money

and they're like an ex? What's the minimal amount you can transfer? One cent. Like one cent. You can transfer one cent. So this is the thing. People are transferring one cent to be a dick. And I was like, why would you do that?

Because I'd just take the one cent and be like, huh, whatever. Yeah. But people are skirting around being blocked on phones. Like you can block someone if they abuse you by text. Yeah. But they get around it by sending one cent to their bank account. They might somehow they've got their bank account and send the abuse and the reference.

Well, I guess if it's like an ex-partner, you'd have their bank details because you've transferred money in the past. Or you might have an automatic payment set up if it's like an ex-partner, you'd have their bank details because you've transferred money in the past. Or you might have an automatic payment set up if it's like someone that you owe alimony to. Is that the New Zealand term for it? No, it's not. That's American, eh? So, yeah, they reckon around 20 transactions

a month are for very small amounts of few cents. And these are the people that are trying to skirt being blocked on social media or, you know, on the phone. Yeah. And that's their way around it. And that are the people that are trying to skirt being blocked on social media or, you know, on the phone. Yeah. And that's their way around it. And that's like abusive people. Yeah. So they've said they're going to terminate people's accounts. This is

a BNZ. They've said, we see you and we're going to put a stop to it. And anyone who is using bank systems to abuse and harass people, they're going to terminate the accounts of anyone caught using the reference field to send abusive messages. Good on them. Well, that's awesome that they're going to do that.

Yeah. Who knew that was happening 2,000 times a month? Only with the BNZ. That's one bank. Yeah. Wow. Did Shada have a chicken taco and a prawn taco or just a chicken taco?

You guys ordered like 18 tacos. To me, that was me. I ordered every taco option there was. Because I was like, apart from vegetarian, I already know what dust tastes like. Going out with you is always a ride, eh? You get to see everything on the menu. I know, I think everyone else on the table who hadn't been out with

Vaud and Sade just looked down the end of the table and it was full of food. Honestly, you're just like, where do they put it? When we go out to eat, we eat. I know you do. You should have seen that we went out for breakfast because I left my car here at work and had to come back in yesterday.

When we got breakfast, it was the two kids and me and Sade. And the lady said, when are your guests arriving? I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. It's all for us. It's all for us. She's like, you need a takeaway box? I was like, you wildly underestimate the Smiths. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan,

the podcast. A internet legend is going to be removed from YouTube because Charlie bit my finger. Ouch, Charlie. Stop, Charlie. Charlie. Charlie bit me.

And that really hurt, Charlie, and it's still hurting. Why was that so massive? Also, if you want to feel old, Google this story and see what those kids look like now. Yeah, 14 years ago was it? And they're like adults now? Yeah, they're like teenagers. One of them's in prison.

One of them is not in prison. Because that is an NFT. That's the latest piece of internet art to become an NFT, a non-fungible token, which just means there's one of them, it's unique, and now someone owns it. And no one else will own it. No one else can own it, but... Goddamn non-fungible tokens have got to be the most confusing thing of 2021.

I need someone to explain NFTs. You know, Nyan Cat has been sold as an NFT. Yeah, anything that's digital, right, can be uploaded. Yeah. And so it's one of a kind. It's got a digital fingerprint. But where's it stored? Like on a hard drive in the sky?

Like in a cloud? But anyone can get to it or just you because you own it? No, anybody can get to it, but you own it. I saw an explanation that it'd be like you buying the Mona Lisa and then getting put in a broom cupboard

at the Louvre. And you're like, cool, I'll come and pick it up. And they're like, oh no, you can't take it. It's got to stay here. But I own it. But the guy's like, cool, I'll come and pick it up. And they're like, oh, no, you can't take it. It's got to stay here. But I own it. But the guy's like, yes, you own it. And if anyone asks, I'll be sure to tell them.

Okay. So what's the point then? But you own it though. Cool. You can say, you know, Charlie bit me. And you'll be like, of course I know that. I own that. I own that.

Okay. It's an NFT. But wouldn't there be like other versions on YouTube? You know Charlie bit me And you were like Of course I know that I own that I own that Okay It's an NFT But won't there be like Other versions on YouTube Like Won't people have like Yeah but they don't own them Okay

Yeah that's what I don't understand About digital things Like you can literally Like Save that photo To your hard drive And you can save that video And then you've got it

Yeah but you don't own it Yeah but I've got one You've got one But you don't own it But Yeah, but I've got one. You've got one, but you don't own it. But is it like you've got a print of the Mona Lisa, but you don't own the Mona Lisa? Exactly. You've got it on a T-shirt, but you don't own the Mona Lisa. You don't have the original.

But that works for art. It doesn't work for... It works for physical art, right? But these are part of a blockchain, the NFT. Yeah. So if you could be like, I own the Mona Lisa again, for example, and they were like, oh, where's the blockchain? And you'd be like, hmm.

And you don't have it because you can't prove that you have it. And if you do have it, it's like on your hard drive. But that's not. This is just rich people flexing, right? Yeah, that's weird. Like it's rich people spending a lot. Like these NFTs are selling for ridiculous amounts. Or it's people making themselves rich.

Yeah. By inventing money. Or anyone, there's been so many of stories like these recently. Anyone that has a meme or the rights to any kind of video or whatever. Yeah. Is selling their stuff. Yeah. Famous ones like Nyan Cat's been sold.

Remember the cat and the rainbow coming out the back? And it was like the little digital man. Who's buying that? That's been sold. Remember the cat and the rainbow coming out the back? And it was like the little digital. Who's buying that? That's an NFT. Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. But non-fungible just means that it's unique and can't be easily replaced with something else.

Because then it's like crypto, that's a blockchain too, eh? Yep. And that's not going well the last few days. Cryptocurrency. You got those people at work that go on about crypto. Tesla said they're not accepting crypto

to buy Teslas and China just said they're cracking down on crypto. You can't use crypto in China. Well, yeah, because they don't want their financial systems ruined. No, because they're kind of

in charge at the moment, aren't they? Yeah. So, that is your latest chat from the ASB Businesses. chat from the ASB businesses mention the ASB businesses it was just three people

just kind of having a shot one of them's got the definition of NFT open in front of him but he still can't put it into words understandable by anybody yeah good stuff Fletch, Vaughan and Megan

the podcast ZM from the panoramic ZM think tank this is the top six. Hello there, welcome to the top six. Thank you. 2022 will be the death of Internet Explorer. Microsoft.

Who's still using that? Like boomers, because it comes on their Microsoft tablet? Maybe. Not too many people are. And I've just actually delved into Internet Explorer first graced our screens with Windows 95. 1995 Internet Explorer 1 and update to Internet Explorer 2. And then I looked down through and Internet Explorer received updates

every year. Because they've got a new browser now, don't they? Oh, do they? I haven't come across that. It's got a stupid name. What is it called? What? What? Say it.

It's not a swear word, is it? Don't be scared. What? Thaddeus. Okay. I'm not saying it. Oh. Oh, I see.

I think I'm picking up what you're putting down. Yeah. But there's been other... I'm just looking at this list of other internet browsers. Netscape. Netscape Navigator. Netscape Communicator. There was one called Opera.

Look a little bit more recently. 2007 saw Flock and Conqueror. Sea Monkey. Mozilla Firefox is and Conqueror. Sea Monkey. Mozilla Firefox is still going by the looks of things. Chrome's in there as well. And then there's all this other stuff about programming, and I don't understand a word of it. So I've got the top six memories of Internet Explorer RIP.

Number six on the list. The top six memories of Internet Explorer. Before emails were autosaved while you were writing them, an Internet Explorer crash could mean you could lose that beautiful piece of prose that you were writing to somebody at any minute. Yeah. And it happens sometimes. You'd write a long one and then you'd be like,

well, now I'm going to write all of my emails if they're long. A love email. Yeah. I'm going to write it in Word and then copy it. Copy it last minute. Just before I send it because my heart's been broken too many times. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six memories of Internet Explorer.

Just, I mean, could you imagine what a Vaughan Smith love email would have been like in the 2000s? Pretty good. Early 2000s. Yeah. Very poetic. Yeah, beautiful. Long. Yeah.

Drawn out. Descriptive. Shakespearean,, very poetic. Yeah, beautiful. Long. Yep. Drawn out. Descriptive. Shakespearean, some would say. Yeah, yeah. Number five on the list of the top six memories of Internet Explorer, when you used Internet Explorer to download a better browser. Yes. That was a real kick in the teeth to Internet Explorer.

Yeah. I need one last favour. I'm downloading Firefox. Why would you use me to do this? Just do what you're told And number four on the list of the top six memories Of Internet Explorer When you used it for the first time Instead of Netscape Navigator

Remember Netscape Navigator Because it had the direct link to the Netscape mail Yeah right And you could have your mail Oh the good old days Number three on the list of the top six memories of Internet Explorer. When you accidentally clicked it, when you were meaning to click Google Chrome and it was at that exact moment that you deleted it from your desktop or your taskbar,

so you never accidentally clicked it again. Yeah. And since then it's just been rotting in the applications folder, waiting to be used again until you really needed space for some more photos off your phone. So you deleted it. Number two on the list of the top six memories of Internet Explorer. When it opened 1,000 little pop-up windows that said, Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.

We're sorry for any inconvenience. But it would be like... Opening thousands of them. And at the bottom it would say, please tell Microsoft about this problem. Send error report or don't send. And you'd be like, this is crazy. How can this be happening?

Don't send. Yeah. Don't let Microsoft know that this is happening. And number one on the list of the top six memories of Internet Explorer, when it jammed just as you were about to see some nakedness and then your parents came into the room and you couldn't alt tab away from it

because it had locked the whole computer so you just turned the monitor off. Turn the screen off. Turn the screen off. I'm done. I'm done with the computer. Happy timing, mum and dad. You've just walked in.

Just done with this. I can still hear it going at the base. Nope. It's shutting down. Why are you not wearing any pants? Pants are optional. I don't know. I was living in bloody Nazi Germany

where I had to wear pants all the time. Well, if you're done, I'll just jump on the computer. No, you won't. It's broken. And then you just yoink it out straight at the wall. Yeah.

Causing a massive amounts of problem. Next time it starts up, it says, computer did not shut down properly. Do you want to restore Windows? You'll be like, no, no. Absolutely not.

That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Anniversaries. There's been a couple onM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Anniversaries. There's been a couple on the show. Both our, two of our producers have had anniversaries recently. Milestones. But off the ends of the scale, really.

Five years for producer Anya and Mr. Bonbons. I don't see anything on that finger, girl. Don't start that. Get out of my... But five years, that's a great start that. Get out of it. But five years, that's a great time. Denny's at, Denny's is at, what time was Denny's? 2 a.m.? Mr. Bun Buns is behind you.

Morning, Mr. Bun Buns. Hello. Happy five-year anniversary. Thank you. Now, I saw on the Instagram story you guys had your first date at Denny's. We did, yep. And you went there at the weekend. Yep, yep, we did five years ago in Christchurch, 3am after town.

And so we replicated it after town on the weekend. But you're five years older, so I'm imagining it took a bit more time to recover the next day. It certainly did. I'm telling you what. What, did you eat the same thing at Denny's that you ate all those years ago? A skillet? No, no, no.

We didn't get mains. We got dessert. So yeah, we both had desserts. I can't remember what dessert we had five years ago. You can't get a skillet? No, no, no. We didn't get mains. We got desserts. So yeah, we both had desserts. I can't remember what dessert we had five years ago. You can't get a skillet post-town. Shut your mouth, woman. Tell me I can't have a skillet post-town. That is a, you load your stomach up with absorbent skillet

and you'll feel a whole lot better in the morning. Yeah, not a post-town. Old skillet, pre-town. You're paying $10 for drinks. You want to hit those on an empty stomach and do your eating later in the piece. So how did you spend your anniversary day? How romantic was it? Two hungover POSs.

We slept until like 10. Then we went and got some spring rolls. We came back, went back to bed. Breakfast spring rolls? Brunch spring rolls, if you will. Okay. And then went and got pizza at, what, seven o'clock? And then called it

a night. Sounds like a lot of couch and Netflix on this anniversary. Yeah, there was a lot of naps as well. Yeah, okay. You don't do presents or anything like that? No, we normally try and do, like, an experience together. Yeah. So we've said that in a few weeks we'll go away or something. Maybe.

That sounds like a CBF. So that's the most booming thing ever. We don't do gifts anymore at our age. We're about experiences. So compare that to the other anniversary. Producer Jared celebrating a six

month anniversary. Don't laugh. Well, you're setting the bar too high, Jared, at six months. Yeah. Exponentially, if you're going to end up five years, it's going to be an expensive ordeal. Yeah, potentially. But look, I just had so much love overflowing that I just felt I had to give it up.

It's so cute. Now, what did you do with this overflowing, gushing love that you have? I got her a $10 bouquet of sunflowers. Oh, okay. Don't say how much they were. Just say. A expensive Mecca gift card, and we went out for a fancy dinner. Ooh.

Ooh la la. Yeah. Dude, what did she get yeah um she got me some bookends some what book ends book they hold your books up i know what bookends are jared i'm just wondering how sexy they can be which flesh books are um a binding of paper that you want to tell a story from start to end. I understand. And when you have multiple of these books, you'll put them on a shelf. But what were these books? Well, I've got a Kindle. That would look ridiculous.

You wouldn't even see the Kindle. It'd be a very thin book. No, yeah, it would be. Were they Star Wars bookends or something? No, they were just like Kmart bookends, but we spent the whole of last weekend trying to find them and we couldn't. And I was real upset about it. Are you aware of the availability online store on their website thingy?

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of online shopping. I love that you were devastated when you couldn't find your bookends. Yeah, well, none of my books were standing up, Megan. Oh, my God. How floppy are your books? And easy to please man. Yeah, and then I bought myself a new D&D book as well. Right, Megan. Oh, my God. How floppy are your books? An easy to please man. Yeah. And then I bought myself a new D&D book as well. Right.

Okay. Well, lucky you've got bookends to keep your D&D book from falling over. We wanted to talk about the difference between... You can get a bookend to slip your D&D book over as well. We wanted to talk about the difference here between the anniversaries. Here we've got a long-term relationship where they're just like hung over CBF on the couch on a Sunday and the other one

where they put a lot of love and effort into finding gifts and discounted flowers and bookends. For a six-month anniversary. Yes. Yes. So how has the romance changed?

Give us your earliest memory of your anniversary and then how it is now. Maybe you're still really romantic. Maybe it's... I feel like you guys go quite all out still. Well, I was going to say, we're not a very good example

because we're pretty like, you know, we're pretty mushy. We still do cards. We don't do presents, but we do like mushy things for each other. Flowers and... Let's not go into those mushy details. Okay.

What about you, Smithy? I can't remember the first ones it was a long time ago probably probably pretty heavy but i still turned on we went to queensland last year for our 10th that was your 10th though yeah and i feel like your wife organized all of that uh fecal and she also didn't get what she wanted. She wanted to go to Maldives. I'm sorry. I didn't cause the pandemic. Oh, that was a good escape for you.

100%. There was no way I was paying for Maldives at all. She was never going there. At all. No way. Oh, God. When we go there, it'll be very heavily hashtagged ad. There'll be a thousand posts.

All will be leading with ad. I'm not even going to lie to you. I wouldn't have paid for this. So give us a call. 0800DARLS.M. Text in as well. 9696. How has the romance changed? Give us your early anniversaries versus your ones now. We're talking about how the romance has changed. Two of our producers had

anniversaries. One was a five year, one was a six month. And whoo wee. One was full of romance, one was a six-month, and woo-wee. One was full of romance, one was... A lot of couching Netflix. Yes, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, how has the romance changed? And Abby joins us.

How has yours changed, Abby? Hiya. So the first couple were obviously like big flowers, watches. We went to Rarotonga one year. Ooh, okay. We've just celebrated our seventh anniversary and we celebrated it by having takeaway curry and watching Kung Fu Panda on the couch. Oh, my God, that sounds great.

What kind of curry did you get? I got the standard Dalmakne and my partner, classic white boy, got a butter chicken. Ah, yes, butter chicken. Wow. Yes, butter chicken. That's my absolute go-to. See, that sounds like a great night. They should just rename the butter chicken the white boy. Yeah.

They really should. They really should. Abby, thanks for your call. Kelly, how has the romance changed? Hi. First wedding anniversary, we did a weekend in Paris. Wow. Yeah. so good.

You mean like living in the UK, right? 100% living in London. I was going to say, like, that's a big flex, flying from New Zealand to Paris on the weekend. Like, you land and literally have to fly back. If only, if only. And then wedding anniversary was in March and not sure

that we did anything. You can't recall. I did not even remember. No, nothing. Didn't even take you to the local pylon and we're like a bit like the Eiffel Tower.

Yeah. Wow. Not even a glass of bubbles. And I bought some garlic bread. But that doesn't bother you, obviously. Or it does. Nah, not at all.

Nah. Nah. Not bothered. Okay, alright. We're good. Yeah, good, good. Alright, Kelly, thanks. You're happy, yeah. No, I'm not bothered. Okay, all right. We're good. Yeah, good, good. All right, Kelly thinks he calls some text messages. We used to go for dinners and gifts,

and now one of us usually says, oh, shit, our anniversary was yesterday, or last week, for 15 years together. But that means you're happy, right? You're content? Yeah, totally. Busy getting on with life? You don't pin it all on one day, do you?

Anniversary difference, year one, day in bed. Spent the day in bed. Oh, hot. And year 10, cleaning the house. That's good, though. Yeah. Hope you cleaned the bed, did the sheets maybe, washed the sheets. We used to go out for a meal and exchange gifts,

but now I don't get acknowledged. And I still have to give him a gift. That's horrible. That's horrible. Today is our one year anniversary. Every month, if we're in the same bed, I usually roll over and say, look at that. You've put up with me for another month. And today was no exception to the tradition.

One year. Our first year, we had a romantic getaway weekend with flowers and presents and everything for our 10-year anniversary. We blobbed on the couch and Netflixed all day. No presents. Again, that sounds great. Second year anniversary, we went on a romantic getaway to Rota Vegas.

Went on the luge, did all sorts of activities. Went out for dinner every night. Stayed in a lakeside retreat for the whole weekend. Private spa. Yeah. Next year is our six year anniversary And I have said Can we stay at a hotel And as yet have not heard a response

So there you go That may not happen Someone said I got taken out for breakfast two weeks ago And I wondered what it was for Now I realise it was for. Oh my gosh. Now I realise it was our anniversary. Wow. Have you had silent

treatment ever since? Don't know. I also don't know if that's a guy or a girl that messaged that in. They just got taken out for breakfast. Yeah, I'd be like all about that. Great breakfast. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The that. Great purpose. Well, in the US, the White House, the Biden administration is working with dating apps. And I don't know if we'll see this rollout here in New Zealand as more and more of us get vaccinated, but they are teaming up with apps, dating apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match

and Bumble to give users badges that show they've been vaccinated. Right. And also the ability to filter dates. You know how you can like set age filters, like you want someone between whatever age and interest and stuff. You could also, you'll also be able to filter out people that aren't vaccinated. That's good.

Because in America, there's like, you're allowed outside. My kink is people who are vaccinated. Yeah. And also giving people like premium app usage. Yeah, access, like extra super likes or swipes or whatever, depending on the app, if they're vaccinated. Right. To encourage it, yeah. To encourage it, yeah.

To encourage it, yeah. That's good. But if you were single, would you, if that was an option on a dating app and it was like, are you vax or not? You'd be like, yeah, why not, right? Yeah. Because it'd be a bit of a red flag if they were an anti-vaxxer. Yeah.

But also like if they're not yet vaccinated, you don't want to be necessarily hanging out with someone and you don't know where they've been. Yeah. It's not going to lead to like bullying or anything, is it? Well, it's going to certainly lead to a class system, yes. Yeah. Right.

Because you don't need to bully people who are not yet vaccinated. Oh, sorry. I thought you were asking me if I wanted to start bullying people who were anti-vaxxers. I was like, okay, I'll get warmed up. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. But there's like, yeah, I mean, there's those that are anti-vaxxers. I was like, okay, I'll get warmed up. But there's like, yeah, I mean, there's those that are anti-vaxx and there's those that have not yet been vaccinated. So there was a research release on Friday shows that 77% of New Zealanders

aged over 16 say they're likely to get a vaccination compared to 69% in March. Oh, that's good. So it's gone up a bit there. I think because we're seeing old people over 65s have been vaccinated in New Zealand and they're just like, oh, yep, that's good. So it's gone up a bit there. I think because we're seeing old people, over 65 have been vaccinated in New Zealand and they're just like, oh yep, I'm sweet. And also countries like Israel and the UK that have all been

using Pfizer, they're just seeing their death rates plummet and people over 65 that are getting it aren't dying or getting it as serious. Five states in the US reported for the first time in forever, no COVID related deaths. Yeah.

Like California, I think is quite vaccinated. Yeah. And that's doing really well. Their rates are up there. But then in the same story that said about this research that was released on Friday, John Key, ex prime minister John Key said he was out playing golf with like a group of four people and vaccinations came up and he was like, the minute I can, I'm going to get mine.

And this other guy was like, yeah, I'm keen as well. And these other two people that like well-off, educated people were like, I'm not rushing into it. I'm hesitant about it. He's just like, what? So he's like, don't pinhole, pigeonhole. What's a pinhole? That's a little hole in something. A pigeonhole. That's a pinhole? That's a little hole in something.

A pigeonhole. That's where you put someone in a pigeonhole. That anti-vaxxers are all like hippies with hemp pants and dreadlocks. Because it's certainly not the case. Yeah, right. It's certainly not the case of that 23% of people that make up the other part of that survey that weren't going to. And apparently,

so I'd heard the ad and it said everybody over 16 and I thought, what about the under 16s? Because they can get COVID. And in this report, it also says 56% of caregivers, so just over half, were likely to allow

their 12 to 15 year olds to be vaccinated. And they said, that's the problematic figure. Yeah, right. It was only half of parents with 12 or 15-year-olds or caregivers have said, yeah, I'd be... Well, if you tell those caregivers those kids have got to stay home

until they get a vaccine, they'll pretty smartly do it, won't they? If they remember any of the lockdowns. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, a news story in Australia has caught my eye because, you know, I love the self-serve checkout because I don't have to talk to people and do that. Hey, hey. Until it's like flashing lights, unknown thing in the baggage area,

and then you have to wait ages for someone to come over. The other day I got a message. It was like, I forget what it was called, but I'd taken too long. What? What were you doing? What had taken too long? Did you stop and use your phone or something? Yeah, I did. I was just messaging, because it was during the day and no one was around, so I was messaging

a friend and then it was... It's like, are you still there? No, but it tells on you, it narks on you because it thinks that you're doing something nefarious. Like, I don't know, stealing something. And so, but they had to put in their supervisor access code and stuff. But yeah, so that's like another, I didn't know that was a thing, but it is.

But this news story in Australia talks about Coles, which is one of the big supermarket chains over there. What's the one that Countdown owns? Woolworths. Woolworths. So it's not Woolworths. So I don't know if these will come to New Zealand, but these are self-serve checkouts with a conveyor belt.

So it's not like the little ones. Oh, I just want to play a check out on this. Who's loading the conveyor belt? Well, you are. But you're scanning the items. You're doing everything. This is a two-person gig. Well, yeah.

I mean, this is you and your partner shopping. This is going to be easy for the solo shopper such as yourself. You can just go and play checkouts. a two-person gig. Well, yeah, I mean, this is you and your partner shopping. This is going to not be easy for the solo shopper such as yourself. You can just go and play checkouts. You can play checkouts. I'll be like, how was your day? That sounds so fun. Yeah.

Does the conveyor, do you have to flick that little... Sad reflection of my life. You have to flick that little steel thing across to stop the conveyor belt running indefinitely? The sensor probably just stops when the food gets there. But yeah, so it's like

they're replacing the human with a machine now at their checkouts. Not all of them, but some of them. Wow. I hope you're going to get more supervisors because one's not going to be enough for all the machines. They'll need more. But I'm all for this.

Because they'll be dealing with a whole bunch of people who think they can do it but can't. Because my problem is sometimes, like, my supermarkets just put up a 12 items or less at the big area with all the self-serves. And I always have a massive basket, but I'll just go there anyway. I thought that was an unwritten rule

rather than, like, a set in stone, you've only got 12 items. Because I take a trolley in there. Yeah, I've taken, like, the half trolley. I'll never take a full trolley. Yeah, no, half trolley's okay. Half trolley only. But, yeah, I mean, if half trolley. I've never taken the full trolley. Yeah, no, half trolley's okay. The half trolley only. Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, if this is happening in Aussie, surely only a matter of time before it's happening here, right? Yeah. The other day I went and there were no half trolleys. Do you have to slum it with a full trolley? Well, I didn't want to take a full trolley, but so then I was keeping an eye out for all the half trolleys. Yeah.

And I couldn't see any half trolleys in the store. Where were they? Maintenance day? That was what I got to at the end of it. I was like, maybe they come and they do maintenance? Give them a wash? Why didn't you ask them? Because how often do they have to wash?

Well, this is me asking now. It's too late. I've never thought about maintenance of a trolley. Yeah, because, and then do they just do all the half trolleys in one day? Is there a half trolley maintenance specialist? I don't know. Or the cleaning equipment, you set it to half trolley, so you do all the half trolleys at once, and Is there a half trolley maintenance specialist? I don't know. Or the cleaning equipment, you set it to half trolley so you do all the half trolleys

at once and then you set it to full trolley and that's when you do all the full trolleys. Maybe they do do frequent maintenance days because you very rarely get a woggy wheel

on one anymore. I know, they've really got on top of their woggy wheels but I also wonder if it's just a higher quality trolley. Yeah, maybe. Huh.

But if anybody knows, if anybody works in the trolley maintenance industry, if you Huh. But if anybody knows, if anybody works in the trolley maintenance industry, if you could just let me know, that'd be great because they would need to be cleaned every now and then. They would, yeah.

Oh, yeah, they're manky. Much more than a wipe down. Yeah, someone leaves a lettuce leaf in the bottom and then it's out in the rain in a car park for, you know, 25 minutes. That's turning into

a big green sludge pile. So, bit of a clean needed. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Refund your date. a claim needed. It's time to refund a date. Or not.

Or not. We haven't put it through the date. Refund a 6,000 yet. No. We don't have the answer. Let's hear the plight though. Good morning, Gabby. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good. Good, thank you. And you think you went on a date so bad that it needs refunding. Well, yeah. He was a bit of an athlete, so I was kind of stoked.

And naturally, he cycled to my house, and we did live on opposite sides of town, so nice. Oh, I don't know. So he's burned some calories on the way to the date. Yeah, he might be closing his rings on the Apple Watch. Could be stinky. Yeah, was he sweaty by his rings on the Apple Watch. Could be stinky. Yeah, was he sweaty by the time he got there?

He turned up in his full bike gear, like Lycra, and I thought, okay, see how this goes. So you could see the outline of the whole situation. Well, he did get changed, thankfully, because we were going to the markets, like the farmer's markets over the hill. Gotcha. I obviously drove because we weren't doubling on his bike.

But we went over there and he was obviously hungry from his big tour de my house. Tour de my house. And so they do awesome pies at some markets and obviously it wasn't card and I had some, and I thought, oh, here you go. Like, here's a 50. You can go buy a pie. Expecting to sort of put him to give the change back. Yeah.

But he just grabbed the pie, pocketed the cash. You know, me being the most awkward person about money, I kind of just thought he'd be like, oh, and like later when we sit down, here's your change. But no, we were on the date for like two hours and just never brought it up. And then it got too awkward for me to bring it up like after the date. But what if it was a genuine mistake from him? He just kind of was...

No, it wasn't. Well, that's what I thought it must have been because he was like a nice guy. But then when you dig your hands into your pocket, like after the date, he must have thought, oh, that's the change from that bike. Yeah, yeah, I should have given that to the person that gave me $50. But he probably didn't want to bike all the way across town to give you $45. Well, I had to drop him home at the end anyway. Where'd the bike go?

I don't know He took it apart and put it in the back Oh my god It sounds like $50 well spent To never see this guy again to be totally honest Aside from that though Was it a good date? Were you like this could be good

If it wasn't for the $50? No Yeah no The tone of that arm set it all You're like, this could be good if it wasn't for the $50? No. Okay. No. Yeah, no. Well, I mean, the tone of that arm said it all. Yeah. All right, Vaughn, you're going to feed that.

Yeah, I'll punch some holes in the paper, and we feed this into the date refund of $6,000. Your date refund request has been... Approved. Yes, approved. Approved. Is it just the $50? Yeah.

That's yes. There we go. Congratulations, Gabby. You got it just the $50? Yeah. That's yes. There we go. Congratulations, Gabby. You got it back in the end. Unreal. Thanks, guys. And if you'd like us to refund your bad date, a date so bad you think it deserves a refund,

just go to ZM online and register your details. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Since I've had my son, that feels so weird to say. Since I've had my son, people ask a lot like what has changed for me? And I'm like, nothing's changed. Nothing's changed. Are you sure about that? What's changed?

Oh, I mean like about you. About me, about me. I thought you were saying about. My life's changed, obviously. I was going to say like your life is way different. You get way less sleep. There's poos everywhere. But what going to say, like, your life is way different. Yeah. You get way less sleep. Yeah. There's poos everywhere.

But what are you if not your life? What? What? Well, you're saying what's changed? You're saying nothing's changed, but you're saying everything's changed. Shit, dude. What are you if you're not your mind? Have you had two coffees?

Have you had two coffees? You all right? Yeah. Do you have some special brownies or something? Oh, my God. I just ate them. They were in the fridge. I just ate them.

I just ate them. Those are for later. Yeah. What do you mean that you haven't changed? No, I don't think I've changed. But everything's changed. No, but I mean my life has changed. Yeah.

But I don't think I've changed much as a person. But you would, wouldn't you? Because your life's changed. Because your life's changed. Because your life's changed. You've changed. But I mean, I'm not any different. You're still Jenny from the block,

is what you're saying. But I've been fooled by the rocks that you've got. So anyway, I don't think much has changed, but I went to my nephew's sports game. He's 10 and they're playing rugby. Why do you do that? Why would you go to a nephew's sports game? That's 10 and they're playing rugby. Why do you do that?

Why would you go to a nephew's sports game? That's what a waste of time. I'm just going to let you say that because most people will be siding with me being like, what's wrong with Blitch? As we mentioned last week, my parents wouldn't even come to my sports game. They had the pack and save Saturday morning shopping to do. No, why wouldn't I go?

Great time to go shopping. Why wouldn't I go? You go to your own kids' games. You don't go to a nephew's games. You know it's a weekend and you can do anything. Yeah. Wow. I mean, I wouldn't go to my...

No, exactly. But I've got my own kids. But even if you... You've got your own kid now, Megan. It's the ultimate out to not have to go to these things. But I like going. I like going. If you didn't have kids, you wouldn't go, Vaughn, to a nephew now, Megan. It's the ultimate out to not have to go to these things. But I like going. I like going.

If you didn't have kids, you wouldn't go, Vaughn, to a nephew's sports game. If I lived in the same city as my niece, I'd go to her netball games. Really? Yeah. Absolutely. Hideous. No way. Okay. If you lived in the same, it'd even be a better excuse not to go.

Yeah. This is not the talking point. So I went along and it's a bunch of, I don't know if they're all different ages. They have to abide by a weight or whatever. But he's 10 and they're all young boys playing rugby. And I, so they're tackling each other. I didn't realise they could tackle. I thought they were still doing like touch each other and then put the ball down.

Megan, we've got to make the All Blacks of the future. These kids are tackling each other. And all I can see when I'm looking at them is my son. And so one of them gets tackled. That 10-year-old's yours is like six, four months old. Bastion won't be doing rugby. No, so. We know he won't be doing rugby.

So one of them got high tackled because they're still learning and stuff, but one of them got tackled around the neck. And they blew the whistle and penalty. I don't know. They were like, don't do that. But the little boy started crying. Now, on the sideline.

They got penalised. No, the one that got tackled around the neck. He started crying. And there were a couple of people being like, battle scars, mate. Come on. Come on. Back to it. You're all right, mate.

Yeah. And I was like. No, but that's the deal with kids. When they start crying, you Come on. Come on, back to it. You're all right, mate. Like parents. Yeah, and I was like, where's his mum? No, but that's the deal with kids. When they start crying, you can't make a big deal out of it. Otherwise, it's the end. So I started crying. What is crying? And I was like, where is his mum?

He needs a cuddle. Where is his mum? She's having a durry and a bear. She's like, you're not coming out, boy. Get out of there. And so I started, it looked like he needed a cuddle. I wasn't going to run on and give him a cuddle, but I was like, are you okay?

I don't know this child, but he was crying and it hurt, obviously. And at this point, my husband's like, can you please stop asking a strange kid if he needs a cuddle? He's like, you need to tone it down. He's trying not to cry. You're making it worse. Can you please stop yelling at the children? And so every time there's a it. He's like, you need to tone it down. He's trying not to cry. You're making it worse.

Can you please stop yelling at the children? And so every time there's a tackle, I was like, watch out for his face. Calm down. Don't hurt him. Andrew's like, you need to stop. You need to rein it in. Yeah. But I was so, these little boys are like tackling each other hard out.

Yeah, but that's physical pain. When Bastion's being picked on at musical theatre for not being able to hit the high notes, those are the scars that last forever. That's where my mother-in-law said, what would you do if Bastion wants to play? And I was like, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not.

They might touch the moneymaker. No, no, no, I swear that. Fleshforn and Megan, no, I swear that. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. I'd like to talk about this stat right now. 16% of weddings ruin friendships. So 16% of people who are married have had a friendship ruined.

Right. Due to like wedding drama. Bridezillas. Do you think that's high? Is that high or low, that stat? 16% of all weddings. To be honest, I would have thought it'd be more than that because I've had experience with that.

I've had two weddings though. So I've had more chances. But how many friends have you had to take a percentage? Because you've got what, five friends? I don't think I want to. But the percentage isn't 16% of people leave your wedding Not being friends with you anymore Because if you had 100 guests that's 16 people you don't speak to anymore

It's that 16% of weddings End a friendship So there's somebody at the end of that wedding That But how many friendships Have you lost because of weddings Because of weddings Two I reckon Friendships have you lost because of weddings? Because of weddings?

Two, I reckon. Wow. You're the common denominator there. I mean, I'm no statistics expert. I am familiar with the term common denominator. I'm not statistics NZ, but you seem like a problem. I don't know what it is about weddings because I know some people, oh, I've got to keep it vague.

Is it that you're crazy? No. There's some people going through weddings at the moment and it's just like a switch gets flicked and people get crazy. Too much pressure.

It's the pressure from everywhere. It's external pressures from people who are coming. It's the expectation, right? The bride's expectation. Totally. The family's expectation

and when they don't line up. How many times do you see a story online like, oh, the bride wants me to spend this much on a dress or this much on flights and a hen's night or, you know, they want me to lose weight or they want this and that. It's almost like when you ask someone to be your bridesmaid, you need to be like, here's the bridesmaid package.

You will be required to do this. This is what I ask. And then they can say yes or no. Yeah. Yeah, man. Because brides can also ask a lot of the what the head bridesmaid, the maid of honour. Like a lot of organising, they might ask too much. Yeah. That can stress

the friendship. I like to think I wasn't a bridezilla. I was pretty chill. Second time round. Pass over to Vaughn there. First time round. Absol a bridezilla I was pretty chill second time around pass over to Vaughn there first time around absolute bridezilla we'll just reserve comment on that just to keep this friendship kind of bridezilla slash bride kong just yeah chaos okay I think it was when you were on the roof um hanging onto the antenna throwing um planes at us yeah. I was like, ah, more of a bright pong. Bright thru up there.

Yeah. Right. But I would love to know right now, just to make me feel better if only, when did a wedding ruin your friendship? Well, yeah, if it's 16% of friendships are ruined, if weddings are ruined that much. I honestly thought it would be higher because it always goes down.

Directly related to something wedding related, right? Yeah. Either the lead up to the wedding. Not just someone that you're not friends with anymore. Yeah, but it had to be to do. Yeah, okay. And I'd love to hear from guys too because I feel like we're trending towards this as females, right? No, it's 100% more female friendship loss than...

Well, if it's ever happened to a guy, I'd love to hear about it. Sure. All right, well, 0800DARLS.M. Give us a call. That's the number. You can text as well, 9696. When did a wedding ruin your friendship?

Give us a call. We want to talk about when a wedding ruined your relationship. 16% of... A friendship. Yes, sorry, a friendship. Well, that's a relationship. Well, weddings,

the stat for actual weddings, the divorce stat's much higher, isn't it? Yeah. Like 40-something, 50% nearly. Yeah. But yeah,'s a relationship. Well, weddings, the stat for actual weddings, the divorce stat's much higher, isn't it? Like 40-something, 50% nearly. Yeah. But yeah, just the friendship. When did the stress or events of the lead-up or the wedding ruin that friendship? It happens every time.

Lots of drama. Sarah, good morning. Morning. Okay, so what happened? Basically, my new friend of only a couple of months Asked me to be bridesmaid And her maid of honour Who's a friend of nine years

Who's her best friend Basically made her life hell Because she didn't like me Right, so she was already Oh, right, she just didn't like you full stop. She didn't like the fact that you were a bridesmaid because she was maid of honour. She was head bridesmaid, right? Yeah, but you were like the new friend.

You don't know her as well as I do. She wanted to pee on you. So who, what friendship ended because of that? The maid of honour and the bride. So they're not friends anymore after being friends for nine years. Yeah, nah.

When did it bust up, pre-wedding, post-wedding? Pre-wedding and basically wedding day. Oh, so she was still there for the wedding day? Yeah, reluctantly. Did she make a scene on the wedding day? Oh, she made several scenes. Oh, no. Wow.

I mean, it's not your day, right? Like, just fun. She even wouldn't have the hen's party. She wouldn't even throw one if I was invited. Oh, my God. She really hates you, doesn't she? Yep. Brilliant. Sarah, wow.

Thanks for sharing. Laura. Lara. Lara. Lara. When did a friendship, when did a wedding ruin your friendship? Well, I was made to a friend's wedding. I didn't know her very well, but I was made to a Nirvana.

And I was trying to do IVF to have a baby at the same time. And she informed me that I had to stop all my IVF because she didn't want me pregnant at her wedding. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Oh my God. It's a pretty nasty thing to do. That's not something if you're trying you just postpone, eh? Yeah, no, I mean you've obviously been trying

for a while and it's a big life event for you, but if you can hold for me that'd be great. Yeah, and was that it for you? You just cancelled the friendship? I still carried through because she didn't have anyone else. So I still carried through and did the wedding for her because I didn't want to let it down completely. And yeah. You didn't cancel your IVF though, did you? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Good, good,

good. Uh, Lara, thanks for your call. Some text messages. I was asked by the groom to be a bridesmaid. I should have known because it felt like a weird setup, and it turns out it was because she had no friends because she was a crazy B word. I did my duties, but I couldn't stand back and watch him marry her. He asked me why I wasn't happy for him, so I told him about how awful she was. I didn't end up attending the wedding and lost my friend for two years.

He divorced her though and we've become friends again. He's now married to a wonderful lady and he's been with her for ten years. Oh nice, okay. And people assumed I was jealous because he was getting married but it wasn't at all that. It was the fact that he was marrying the absolute wrong person. Somebody

said my maid of honour told me the day before that her passport had expired And she couldn't afford to get an emergency one done To get to our Rarotongan wedding She was blaming her ex-husband Because this was his fault For not reminding her to check it He was already in Rarotonga with us

We've been best friends since we were 14 I was devastated And our friendship is no longer Yeah, that's on you. You've got to take some personal responsibility for that. I'm getting married in February next year, and we decided to have no kids at the wedding. So I lost most of my best friends who were meant to be my bridesmaid.

Oh, my best friend who was meant to be my bridesmaid because she was going to have a five-month-old, and she said she couldn't leave her newborn at home, so they had to come. And we didn't get a say as bride and groom. It was coming regardless. So it sounds like that's happened pretty well pre-wedding too. February next year and it's already been sorted out.

Would the baby even be born yet? It's more than five months till February. Yeah. I'm so glad I'm not getting married again anytime soon anyway. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Hopefully this one goes okay. Yeah.

My husband's family, who I got along with so well, four months before the wedding, it went really, really sour. And more than 30 members of his family refused to come. So barely had any family there. And nearly a year on,

he barely talks to his family. How bad was that? What happened? I don't know. That's a coup. Yeah, that's a coup. Yeah, that's a coup. That's a majority family coup. Yeah, you've got a Frank Bananarama situation going on here.

They're trying to take over Fiji. Oh, Lord. My wedding ruined a friendship with one of my bridesmaids. She was super jealous and threw out the invite and the dress while she was living with us. Oh, weird. Wow. This is giving me so much anxiety.

These people. Yeah. Drama. My best friend stopped talking to me and blocked me on socials. Oh weird Wow This is giving me So much anxiety These people Yeah Drama My best friend Stopped talking to me And blocked me on socials Found out months later From mutual friends

It was because I got Married before her Oh come on Why do you care I don't know What's happening there Yeah well My best friend

All through school Was a loose unit And got in all sorts Of trouble My family Her family were Jehovah Witness. Final weeks of year 13, all of a sudden she was getting married.

She asked me to be her maid of honour. Year 13, so what's that, like 17, 18? Yeah. To be a maid of honour, we were all super excited. Her family told her I wasn't allowed. I was never to interact with her again and we haven't spoken since. She got married and moved to Gore. Never seen again.

Like excommunicated. No got married and moved to Gore. Never seen again. Like excommunicated. No one will find you in Gore. Good lord. Yeah. We need follow-ups to a lot of those stories. We do, we do. Flesh, Fawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

This fact comes to us from Popular Science, a website that's been around for ages, ages and ages. How do I know? Because this article was dated April 1st, 2002. Oh, okay. This is when this was published. And some April Fool's prank either. Okay.

It was 2002. And the question was, why don't my palms or the soles of my feet tan? Oh, yeah. They can burn though, right? They can get burnt. Sunburn. Because if you ever fall on the... Bottom of your feet.

Yeah, bottom of your feet. Back of your knees. Yeah. Right up there for painful parts of you. Oh, yeah. Body to get sunburned. Like bottom of your feet. Yeah, bottom of your feet, back of your knees. Right up there for painful parts of you. Body to get sunburned. But your hands and your palms and your soles are always lighter. And it's because of the thick layer of dead skin

on the top. Yeah. It's the same reason you can callus and eventually it'll just dry out and kind of fall off. I've got a few calluses from all my manual labor. Yeah, you are. A lot of people don't know this. Fletch finishes here and straight away goes and joins a road gang.

Road, yeah. I mostly stand around in the high biz doing nothing. Yeah. Because we like to watch. Yeah. But yeah, I'll get on the end of a shovel. You'll get on a shove. Love being on the end of a shovel.

That's why you're always racing away from here and you're like, busy, busy. Bus like, busy, busy. I know. Busy, busy, busy. Busy, busy. But the calluses aren't from the minimal shovel work. It's from turning the stop-go sign that really gets you calloused up. Yeah, yeah.

No, actually, on my calluses, look, Megan, see? And that's from weights at the gym bra. But generally, you have pretty, like, nice hands. Thank you. You should get some pretty untouched. You should get some weightlifting gloves. No. FTs are pretty serious.

Well, remember last week, producer Jared said I could be a hand model. Yeah. You do have nice hands. I'll give you that. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Well, there's a layer of skin on our hands and soles

won't tan as well as other areas of your body because there's an epidermal layer of our skin and that produces melanin, which causes you to be coloured. It also protects you against UV rays. Right. So there's just less of those and a thicker layer above that on the hands and the feet because we use them so much. Yeah, right.

They're the surface of our bodies that are touching things the most. And when you think about that, it's like when you think about having a tongue in your mouth and how you're not choking on it, it freaks you out because it's taking up too much space. So you just choked on it? Yeah. But many of them thought about someone else's tongue.

I was like, what? What are you talking about? No, if they can choke you with their tongue, they've got a very long tongue. Your own tongue? Yeah, your own tongue's in your mouth. I can't try. That's the second time in a week you've brought up the tongue.

The tongue of the mouth freaks me out. But now that you've thought about how often your palms and the soles of your feet are the things that touch most often, you'll be unable to not think about that for a little while. So yeah, the UV light gets in, but there's not a lot of melanin

underneath, which means that it won't get darker like the rest of your skin will in a tan. So today's fact of the day is that your soles and your palms don't tan because of the thick layer of dead skin on top and the lack of melanin underneath.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We've been teasing it all morning, but last spoiler alert, if you're not up to date with RuPaul Drag Race Down Under, I'm about to tell you who got eliminated. In studio with us is Anita Wiglet. Hi, good morning. Thank you for having me.

Of course, I'm fizzing. I've binged 13 seasons, maybe 14 with the All Stars and everything on my maternity leave, so I'm very much obsessed. I'm gagged that you got eliminated because, okay, where shall I start? What is RuPaul like? Okay, so RuPaul, so you know when you see RuPaul on TV and she's so beautiful and you're like, surely there must be some filters going on and stuff like that?

Yeah. There absolutely are. No, I'm kidding. She is so stunningly beautiful and so professional and nice. It was just the best experience. Do you get to spend much time with her? To be honest, sadly, no. It's mainly only on camera because Ru's so busy.

So Ru would go back to the hotel and would do like conference calls and plan for what, season 25 million in the US, I think it is now. Yeah, yeah. So RuPaul was there. Unlike the, because what, it was a few weeks ago, the Australia, the rumour was that RuPaul wasn't even there. I can neither confirm nor deny. She was there. I got to see her for nose at one point.

It was an interesting experience. Right. So how long does it take you to get ready? Because on the show, it's like, yeah, you're done. Completely honestly, well, I'm a natural beauty, so not long at all. Maybe like five minutes to some tinted moisturiser and lip gloss. It takes me about, gosh, probably about an hour and a half,

but with the size of my nose, about an hour spent on that canvas. I need help with contouring. Absolutely need it. Oh, you look gorgeous enough. Stop. How hard is the show? Because you hear queens talk about it all the time. You watch it.

The challenges are pretty demanding. How hard is it being on there? The show is so, it's so hard. And I wasn't anticipating it to be that hard. It's sort of, everything is so rushed. Snatch Game, for example, I thought Rue would say like, ask us a question, then there'd be a five-minute pause, and then we'd be like, think of an answer.

It was like five seconds. It was intense. So the whole Snatch Game was filmed within probably an hour. It was just so fast-paced. And then as soon as you finish that, it's like, okay, everybody, get into your runway looks now. Like, oh, gosh. So when you go on the show, do they give you a heads up

on what the challenges are going to be? No. So we're given sort of what the runway looks are, but not the order of what they'll be in. And then we just turn up on day one. And as soon as Rue says what it is, that's when we find out. Because I guess with Snatch Game, that's good because you know it's going to happen. Yeah, for sure. And had you prepped anyone else other than?

I had, other than the Queen favorite I'm just surprised I haven't been taken out by the Royal family I'm gonna change my drag name to Diana car crash my other character was the British drag queen Danny LaRue who was really big in the 1960s. But luckily

I was really hoping to do the queen. I was so worried someone else was going to do it but I managed to be the old lady of my dreams. It's so good. Do you agree

with the critiques on your dress? Because you did it as an idea that's been done before but i wouldn't say that standing up on the stage your dress was the worst oh thank you that's very kind of you to to give me an ego boost and my dress was basically hideous but um no no honestly wasn't thank you it was it was hard because uh my only critique was that we've seen these materials used before but first of all why are they in the dumpster to be used? And then second of all, so art,

there's some great things on Twitter at the moment. So art, art, scarlet, kita and electro all use materials that have been used many times before as well. So it was sort of a bit like, oh, clutching at straws. And your girl, Kita Main, just put balls on her head. She's used to it to be fair it's not the first time she's had blue balls that's for sure oh my gosh well I'm I've got a million questions but I'm very happy that you're in studio with us

thank you so much for coming in um I'm really upset that you got eliminated do you agree with Art Simone coming back oh such a good question like question. Like what, out of nowhere, why? I know, at the time I really did. I thought Art's such a powerhouse in drag in Australia and it made sense that she came back to kind of show more that she had to give. But why did she get that opportunity? I know, now I've been reading all the things like, why didn't Jojo come back?

Because she had no, very minimal opportunity. And I thought, oh, maybe it's right. But hey, I don't write this stuff. And final question, have you maybe it's right. But hey, I don't write this stuff. And final question, have you had the call about all stars? I haven't yet, but I'm waiting for it. So if we can manifest that and put it to the universe, I would love that.

Well, thank you so much. Again, gutted that you're eliminated. You were one of my favourites. Thanks so much for coming in and eating all of it. You're one of my favourites too. Thank you so much for having me. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. Study Finds is a website that just conducts Well, you're one of my favourites too. Thank you so much for having me. Study Finds is a website that just conducts heaps of like surveys. You just go on and you type in a little bit about yourself.

Yep. What gender you identify as. If you don't identify as one, that's not a problem. This one did require you to identify as male because they asked about hairstyles and found that 20% of males want to bring back the mullet to not just being sort of like a novelty hairdo, but actually being an acceptable full-time,

around-the-clock hairdo. This obviously isn't like New Zealand specific because I would almost say one in five men in New Zealand currently have a mullet, and there's a whole lot of other ones that want one but their wives won't let them. Yeah.

Wives or partners are like you don't want to do that. I think some people can pull it off. Like there's the gross mullets but then there's the fashionable mullets. You know what I mean?

No. Some people are. Who? I can't name them but I've seen some and I'm like okay you actually look good. Damien McKenzie

who plays for the Chiefs. His looked great. His looked great the last couple of games and I'm like, okay, you actually look good. Damien McKenzie, who plays for the Chiefs. His looked great. His looked great. The last couple of games and he's flicking his hair. Sorry, Damien. Beautiful. Colin DeGrom, the cricket player, what's his name? Colin DeGrom.

DeGrom. DeGrom. Yeah. His looks good. No, see, his looks bogus. But that's the thing. Why half-ass it? Don't try to make it a fashion statement. Embrace it for what it is. But that's the thing. Why half-ass it? Don't try to make it

a fashion statement. Embrace it for what it is. But why? An absolute party head. Why, why? I don't know. And I'm not begrudging guys having long hair.

I'm just thinking you do one or the other. I think overseas a lot of it was lockdown, right? Where guys just let it grow out. No, but isn't this... Lockdown was a time where everyone got to try a little bit of something, right? Everyone got to try

to grow the beard out at a longer than usual length. You're talking like that's how their hair naturally grows. There's definitely some cutting involved. They have to cut the front. So don't say they're just letting it grow out. It's a purposeful thing and I just don't understand. You're not on board

at all. One in five wants it, Megan. Okay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan the podcast. There is a fashion trend and I don't want to like dictate what women are wearing but this is a trend that women are wearing and people are commenting a lot on it

and that is because they're not wearing much. It is a, they're calling it a duct tape trend. Duct tape. Duct tape. Yeah, it's not a good, see like, you know, say for example, the whole world's been in lockdown, we know this, and then baggy jeans,

looser jeans are in. I get that. We've had a whole year of lockdown. Yeah. And you know, there's been a bit of tubs going on and we've added a bit of tubs. Whereas this trend, this is not a trend you want

after a lockdown. Mm-mm. When the world's been in lockdown for a year. That's a very good point. So it's basically, and they're not putting duct tape on their boobs,

but it's something akin to, so it's like a thin piece of material over the boobs, so you get under boob, over boob, side boob, and pretty much just a tape over the nips.

Now, that's not just bikinis because Addison Rae wore this to the MTV Awards this year in May. You're not a fan, Vaughn? Sounds terrible. This isn't a new trend, though. Hasn't this been around for like it comes and goes? The Fifth Element, do you remember that movie? No.

Are you talking about boob tubes? Because this is less than a boob tube. And it's more squeezy, right? Like, it's real. Well, you need it to stay up. Yeah. You need it to stay on. You guys were saying before, oh, squished boobs are in fashion.

But I always thought squished boobs, like, extreme cleavage has always been in fashion. These are boobs under serious duress. The boob can't breathe. Help me. But, I mean, yeah. It's not for me. They can wear what they like. Cardi B's done it.

No, it's not for me. Addison Rae's done it. Kylie Jenner's a big, big fan of it. I mean, you don't have to worry about me turning up to work with duct tape on my boobies. Well, if it's literal actual duct tape, I'm too hairy. It would be a nightmare. To be fair, Fletcher Fletch is a great candidate. Tiny nuts.

And you've shaved. You could use electrical tape. You wouldn't even need the thick duct tape. It would be great. No, I reckon there'd still be a millimetre of areola sticking out. You could have masking tape. That's hot though. That's just a little tease.

Leave the rest of the imagination.