ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 25th May 2021

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morn and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by five McCafe coffees get one free on the Maccas app. And we mentioned it earlier in the week, or did we mention it yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. The Charlie bit me video, that's going to be sold and deleted. That was the news. And it was going to be turned into a non fungible token. Yeah, $760,000. Cool, just made up money. Wow. Yeah.

So those kids will be like, what, paying for, they'll get houses, I guess now, or they're uni paid for. Yeah. Yeah. And a house. Or their parents will just squirrel it all away and tell them it never happened. I think they're old enough to know that it did now. Well, give it to you on your 21st And then never give it to them And then never give it to them, yeah

Or at least it gives you enough time to gamble it away Or invest it and make way more Yeah, invest wisely in more made up money things Like cryptocurrency Good morning, welcome to the show. Fleets, Fawn and Megan. Three minutes past six. I think it might be time for new headphones.

Yeah, look, mine's bent in the middle. I've noticed every time you take yours off, there's a break. And the wire runs through there, so it's only a matter of time before you're going. Oh, does it? Yeah, yeah, the wire runs up through this middle bit. Oh, I'm getting a zap in the head. Yeah. I have to push mine on my ears sometimes because I'm like, what?

Right. Mine are gone. Oopsie. Very unprofessional. My ear pads are all out. See, that's like, you know, if you were a builder and you had a wobbly hammer. Yeah. You'd go buy a new one.

This is your tools, guys. Get on the tools. It must be a hell of a day when a builder has to buy a new one. This is your tools, guys. Get on the tools. Must be a hell of a day when a builder has to buy a new hammer. Because you're going to have a swing lamp thing. Those go forever. Well, I'd feel like you'd have your favourite brand or hammer, wouldn't you? My dad always had a blue one with

a blue handle. Is that a nice one? Same! Yeah, that one. I don't have a blue handle one. It's a blue handle one. Like a rubbery. Yeah, I think it's yellow writing and it had wings coming out the end. E-S-T-W-I-N-G. Good hammer. Dad had a good hammer too.

We weren't allowed to muck around with that hammer. There was another hammer for mucking around with. Didn't want to ruin Dad's hammer. There's a brand of hammers. There's a brand of tools and hardware called Vaughn. Probably shit house. Probably rust when you leave them out. Yeah.

On the site overnight. Yeah, no, if you leave it at the site overnight, you'd get there in the morning and it wouldn't be there yet. It'd turn up late, you'd be like, where have you been? I've been trying to hammer. I've hurt my hand. It'd be like, bleh. Coming up soon on the show, the top six.

Yeah, a US school photo taker has covered the cleavage. Any cleavage showing in school photos, like if it was a black top with a slight, and not even a lot, they put a black bar across the top to make it look like this person is wearing a straighter cross. And some people are pretty upset about it. I've got the top six other things they should be Photoshopping out of school photos. All right, this is coming up on the show. 11 years ago, this woman married herself.

I've got an update on how that has gone. Oh, God, I hope she hasn't divorced herself. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Oh, I just realised her name's Karen. Karen, 11 years ago, married herself. I feel like we talked about it. Right, 11 years ago. Do you think we would have?

I think so. It feels like something we would have. We're talking about it now. Yeah, so 11 years ago, it's her anniversary, her 11th wedding anniversary. She is still together. With herself? With herself. But she had a wedding anniversary. She is still together. With herself? With herself.

But she had a wedding day. She wanted to commit to herself. She's 51 now and she is still happily committed. But she says she has had a few relationships with other people. Wait, she cheated on herself? She cheated on herself. Or did she have an open... Polygamist.

Yeah, maybe. She's been organized with herself. She's got have an open... Or a polygamist. Yeah, maybe. She polygamised with herself. She's got eight cats, eh? Lots of cats. She definitely sounds like she'd have eight cats. Or she'd be a hoarder. She was like, why not marry the person I love the most in the world? I was 40 and I was ready to settle down.

Oh, now you're narcissistic. I was 40 and I was ready to settle down. I settled down with myself. If she's happy, I'm true. If she's happy, that's great. Yeah, her, we're the judge, right? Exactly. But yeah, she's had a few relationships and she said nothing felt serious enough to divorce herself.

My, oh my. Wow. Okay. I don't, that's, is it, like, would she have, oh, it's not a legal marriage. I was going to say it couldn't be legal. So she doesn't have to get a divorce if she's actually in a relationship. But she's taking it very seriously.

Did she have the big ceremony? Yeah, she had a wedding dress. She had, like, guests. It was small. She had 16 guests. Her dad was there. He walked her down the aisle. Do you think this was just to get her dad off her back?

When are you getting married? No. If your dad's one of the people that are constantly like, when are you getting married? Marrying yourself's not getting them off your back. Where am I getting grandchildren? I'm your own grandchild. That doesn't work either. That's never going to work.

He walked her down the aisle to herself. Yeah, I just want to see it. He walked her down the aisle to... Herself. Yeah, I just want to see it. But yeah, I mean, like, she had herself a honeymoon. And to be fair, you can't laugh because she's had a longer marriage than you have. Yep. Your first one.

I've had two and I have not yet reached that milestone. So there we go. We probably can't judge, can we? We cannot. 11 years going strong. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Hamsters. Which one don't we have in New Zealand?

Hamsters. Or gerbils. Isn't it guinea pigs? We've got guinea pigs, but I think that's it, eh? I feel like we don't have hamsters or gerbils. No. Because I think they were like considered, you know, that really surprised me because we're the country that introduced rabbits to hunt. And then when there was too many of those, introduced stoats to get the rabbits and ferrets to get them and weasels.

You were a bit dumb-dumbs. Just keep going. Yeah. The first thing that comes up when you search NZ hamsters is a news story. Six-year-old seeks answers for New Zealand hamster ban. Six-year-old wants to know why there's no hamsters? Yeah.

And she penned a bilingual letter to the government asking why hamsters are banned from New Zealand. Because they're rubbish. Yeah. Henceforth

is the following thread where people discussed what killed their hamsters because they die very easily. Because I didn't know this year they can get scared to death. Scared to death.

But guinea pigs do too, right? Yes. All in that family. Rabbits even do. Yeah, right. Right. So guinea pigs will live, no, sorry, hamsters will live no longer than three years. 18 months is the average, and then just not a long-time pet.

So another good reason we don't need them. Also not something you'd want to get a kid, right? Because you'd have to be explaining, unless you want to teach them death. coverage and then just not a long time pet not another good reason we don't need them also not something you'd want to get a kid right because you'd have to be explaining unless you want to teach them death yeah unless like grandma's just received a diagnosis a few years so you're like okay we need to teach this kid about death and loss get him a pet oh no it died while you're here um because that was the idea right i? I remember when I learned that. I was young when someone was like, oh, you get kids pets, so when they die, it kind of prepares them for when their grandparents die. I was like, what is wrong with you?

Then he's going to be like, are we going to bury grandma in the backyard with a cross and a shoebox? Yep. Yep. Because she didn't leave us with any money to take care of anything. She didn't get a Cigna pre-plan, funeral plan like Keith Quinn had been telling her for 25 years. So she's going in a hole in the ground. So apparently what kills them is heart disease.

Right. Most of the time. Congestive heart failure means that their heart's not pumping enough. So then when they get a fright, it'll just trigger the heart enough to stop it. Yeah. So somebody asked online, what killed your hamster? And it's the most incredible thread you will ever see online. Please tell me how y'all's hamsters died.

Because these bitches die from anything. Someone. I popped a balloon and it had a heart attack, apparently. Oh my God. I sneezed so hard it died. My mum vacuumed it up by mistake. Oh, my God. Mine drowned in the dog water bowl after it tried to drink out of it

and fell in and then just floated there. Mine always climbed up the side of her cage until one day she fell and broke her neck. My hamster was running around the house in the hamster ball and went down the stairs in it He was a running track star until then I let my hamster run free in the living room And he ran right into the fireplace

Oh my god They're not the smartest are they? Yeah Mine died in three days And the lady at the PetSmart told us it was called wet tail Which means that basically they got diarrhea And shat themselves to death I was playing hide and seek with mine

And yelled out boo And it just died straight on the spot It's own fart scared it And it died My friend took a photo of it with a flash And it died That's what somebody told me about chickens You know how chickens like

when they perch at night and when it gets dark they perch. So in summer they perch later or whatever. And I took a photo of our chickens perch and someone said

don't do that too often the flash can kill them. What? Because they put themselves in like this hypnotic relaxed state and then you like snap them out of it

and it can be too much for them. Oh okay. My hamster was running too fast on the running wheel and just had a heart attack and died. Oh, buddy. My brother and I thought it was doing a dance show, but it turns out it was having a seizure in front

of us and it died. Dance, dance, dance. Yeah. My friend's hamster ran outside into the snow and immediately died. Mine chewed on the wires behind the TV. The TV stopped working and then we could smell something weird. I sneezed two metres away from it and apparently it had a heart attack.

I was holding him above my head singing the circle of life like the Lion King. And he wriggled out of my hands and he fell and he died. Mine disappeared for months and then came out from behind the fridge missing hair, looked up at me, and then just died on the spot. So I survived this wild ordeal that cost a lot of its hair and then it just came out and I was like, hey. When I was five, I tried cleaning his cage with a vacuum and sucked him up. Oh, my God.

Mine shattered its organs out on the kitchen floor and then died. Mine drowned in its own water bowl. They're really not the smartest. Mine exploded after eating a carrot. Someone said mine died a natural death after five years. Y'all's hamsters are defective. And that has had heaps of downvotes. I poked my aunt's hamster with a Capri Sun straw when I was five.

Just like gave him a little poke and it apparently had a stroke and it died. Mine had a tooth grow out of its nose and apparently that killed it. Wow. Yeah. So good. Yeah. Just very easy Easy to kill So that six year old

Or whatever that story Is reported That kid's probably like 16 now That's why Yeah That's why Flesh, Fawn and Megan

The podcast ZM From the yummy ZM think tank This is the top six Hello there In today's top six A school is wearing A bit of heat For Photoshop This is the Top 6. Any girls that were wearing a slight dip down, like the photos they use, the examples, it's not like big busty cleavage like we were talking about yesterday,

that new duct tape trend with the squooshed boobs. It's like just the tiniest bit right at the top. Like no line. Like a straight black bar straight across. They don't want to see the line, do they? No line. And as somebody said, you're not only affecting their photo, and it's not just for protecting them,

you're making them feel uncomfortable and feel like their bodies aren't acceptable in a yearbook. It's not like anything happening here. This is in Florida, too. I would have expected this in some religious middle of America country school or something. Look at this one. So she was wearing this top. And they literally just like must have done that thing, you know, where you can go, I'll have a sample of that color from here.

And then they've just put three lines. So you can still see her lucky horseshoe necklace. Yeah. But you can't see any clavicle. To really hide the chest. Yeah. And none of this, as I've said, none of the photos used gratuitous in any manner. But they've just decided to Photoshop them. Well, if they've got time to Photoshop, those are the top six other things they should be Photoshopping out of school photos.

Number six. That pimple that popped up out of nowhere morning of. Sometimes it wouldn't even be there when you left for school on school photo day with your Dax wax in your hair. And then you'd get to school. You'd go to the bathroom and be like, where did that come from? And it's already got a white head on it.

So you squeeze it in the toilets and then it gets red and then it's bleeding and then it's in the school photo forever. But I tell you what, if this happens to you for school photos, if you're listening now and panic about school photos, you'll never look at them again. I don't even know where they are.

You'll look at them once every couple of years, absolute tops and you won't ever notice. Because everybody else, this is when you'll notice, everybody else also had it. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six other things that should be photoshopped out of school photos. The kid that left the day after the school photos but only started the day before school

photos. Because that's a confusing person to look back on and be like, who the hell was that? I don't remember them. Terry Murphy. That was our guy. Where's Tezza now? Terry, I don't know what Terry Murphy is up to. But what, he just came in for just one term or something?

He came in for a real short term. Oh, Terry. Can you imagine a kid named Terry? I don't know what Terry Murphy's up to. But what, he just came in for just one term or something? He came in for a real short term. Oh. Terry. Can you imagine a kid named Terry? He was a little ginger kid called Terry. And on his first day, the teacher said to him in woodwork, what's your name? And he said, Terry.

And he said, yeah, what's your other name? And he said, Terry. Terry, Terry. And he said, so your name is Terry, Terry. He's like, no, my name's Terry. Terry Murphy. And he said, so your name's Terry, Terry Murphy. And he said, so your name's Terry, Terry Murphy. Is it like a moldy name?

The teacher said that. And he's like, no, it's like Terry, Terry Murphy. And he's like, yeah, so your name is Terry, Terry Murphy. He's doing James, James Bond. Yeah, but James Bond doesn't go James, James Bond. You know, James, James Bond. I'm James, James Bond. Right, okay.

James, James Bond. Well, goodness knows where Terry Murphy is now. I don't know where Terry Murphy is. I looked him up on Facebook a little while ago. I'm just out of interest. Couldn't find him. You're too nosy. Couldn't find him.

Because I've got the feeling I definitely recognise his face. Right, okay. He looked like if Charlie Brown had a really naughty character. Oh, okay. Yeah, right. It'd be Terry, Terry Murphy. Number four on the list of the top six other things you should be photoshopping out of school photos.

If you could photoshop my cheap school shoes that my mum bought me out because she said my feet are growing too fast to get nice expensive shoes. And maybe photoshop on some Doc Martens. That'd be great. Yeah. That'd be great. That's for the kids with some rugged sharks. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The good thing

about a rugged shark in a school photo is it might have taken you from seated position to standing because it might have given you an extra inch and a half of the sole. Yeah, right. And then you were tall enough to stand with the standing kids. Number three on the list of the top six other things that should be photoshopped out of school photos are how far up your school shorty shorts those photos can see.

Girls were always onto it. Legs shut. But if you were a man spreader in the front row and those little shorty shorts, they could see right up into your milky white thighs. Number two on the list of the top six other things that could be photoshopping out of school photos are how closed the eyes are on the class stoner.

Always quite just open a little bit. They could really open those wire up and we could see his beautiful blues. And number one on the list of the top six other things they should be photoshopping out of school photos. Haircuts that felt like a good idea at the time. Like real short-term fad haircuts that were cool for all of two weeks.

90s undercuts. I'm looking at you. Oh, yeah. When it got real undercut. I'm looking at you. Oh, yeah. When it got real undercut. I had one with a bad mullet or a rat's tail. Oh, yeah. You're my intermediate.

The thing about the rat's tail is it's hidden. Yeah. Unless you opted for a flick and a side profile in the class photo. Yeah. And a side glance at the camera.

That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Well, this is dangerous. Afterpay have made it easier now With a virtual card To pay for things A virtual card?

Like you know how you'll use Apple Pay On your phone So pretty much like that You get the app And if you're signed up with them You'll just be able to basically go Boop Okay

Boop Why can't This is just an example of Auckland transport, but around the country, all of these tap on, tap offs, why can't that be in your phone? Well, I know, I think is it London where you can just use your MasterCard or your Visa? To tap to for?

Yeah, for tapping on to transport. I think there are definitely countries that do that. Always got their phones in their hands. And I'm pretty sure it's the same. Is it the same technology? I'm sure your phone can put out a little. But maybe they can. Maybe it isn't that easy.

Maybe it's not that easy. But no matter. Make it that easy. I've been in countries where you can just use your like credit card. Yeah. And then it will work out. Whatever the app on your phone, if Afterpay have figured it out,

I mean, they're making billions of dollars, don't get me wrong, and public transport famously doesn't. It just makes enough money to kind of keep itself going and maybe better itself slightly in the future. But you don't know why that is. It's a big thing to roll out some kind of new system like that. Yeah.

Well, yeah, Afterpay has been available in New Zealand since 2017 in September. And now, so if you don't know how that works, basically you pay 25% upfront and then three more installments over three fortnightly installments. And you don't get pinged as long as you...

Make all the payments. You make all the payments. And then unlike Layby, where you used to have to pay it off and then get your goodies, you get the stuff straight away. Right. So, yeah, basically way easier now. Just go. And then your limit increases depending on how long you've been a customer.

Right. Okay. I'm messaging Auckland City Councillor and friend of the show, Richard Hills, about why Auckland Transport can't have tap on tap off this occurred to me when I was on Waiheke Island and there was a bus

and I said let's get the bus and Shado's like we don't have cards I was like well let's buy cards and she said we don't have time

and then the taxi ride was like $35 when the bus ride would have dropped us off right outside get some cards you gotta get the cards you gotta get them cards

but that's the thing they make it too hard that's my problem what? oh because you gotta get them cards yeah so that's the thing they make it too hard that's my problem what oh they gotta buy the cards yeah yeah yeah no yeah they don't want cash anymore because of the pandemic no one's about cash anymore before the pain to me they growled at you for cash all right no because they but they couldn't they had to wait to take it yeah but you still got a growling they got they reluctantly cash. Well, yeah, because they didn't have enough money for change when you gave them a 50 or a 20. That's why they growled you.

They didn't like notes. No. Correct change only. And then they don't like carrying lots of notes because then they get robbed. Yeah. So it's better that everyone just uses cards. But basically, if people get on to rob them,

they should just shut the doors behind them and then take off real fast so the person rolls down the aisle and then just slam on the brake. Someone grab that criminal. If you were on a bus, you'd step up. If I was a bus driver, I'd be getting paid that much to care. Right. Or take off real fast and then slam the brakes on real fast

so the person is like, boof, smashes their head. And you'd be like, stay seated and remain behind the line. Just badass bus driving lines. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Just badass bus driving lions. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Producer Jared has an origin story and he's even made himself a little intro for his origin story.

Ha, it's in Virginia. Ha, it's in Virginia. It's the national anthem. Oh, God, this song still brings me. That's my iron twitch. That's my national anthem. Oh, God, the sun still brings me. That's my eye twitch. That's my eye twitch. Thanks for that, Jared. PTSD.

The floor is yours. Yeah, so I'm from a different country. Heck, what one? How did this even come up? Yesterday we were just talking about, I think, something to do with early childhood and... Reading. Yeah, it was reading.

Yeah. And then I very casually mentioned that I had a really high reading age at a really young age. We were like, all right then. How high? That's what we said we'd go. Well, year five, I had a reading age of a 16, 17-year-old. So, you know, I've been cool.

So year five was like 10? Yeah, 10-ish, I think. Right. Nine or 10. Right. So what were you reading? Oh, all sorts. Was that that impressive?

I think so. I mean, it's like seven years ahead of your time. That's pretty impressive. How did you get so good at reading? Well,

when we moved here, we lived in a camper van for like a year and a half. And literally, all I could do was read books so i had this pokemon book i read cover to cover multiple times and then i migrated to words uh books without pictures yeah which was a big step for me so you just spent a year and a half in a camper van reading. Yeah. Were you a good reader before that? I was a regular reader. Regular sort of reader.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. And now I read a lot. Your reading got to the point where you were seven years ahead of your... Where do you peak in reading age? Do you know what I mean? Like, you can't always be seven years ahead.

There's got to be a... Yes, you can. There's got to be an Everest where after that the reading age starts coming back down. Is it a compliment to say you have a reading age of 60? Well, yeah, but then I must need glasses to read? Yeah. That's what I'm saying is your reading must start to go downhill

at some stage because you know how there's a peak age for everything? Yeah, right. Your height and your ability like, ability to, like, physically bounce back from exercise and, like, grow muscle and stuff. So there must be a peak reading age. Yeah. I'm going to Google what's the peak reading age. I just get so, like, sidetracked when I'm reading.

I'll just be like, oh, God, I've missed the last two pages because in my mind I'm just thinking about something. I get sidetracked. And you're like, I've read that page. I've read that page, but I didn't. What happened? Yeah, what happened? We had to go back.

Or just anything else. The mind just wanders so easily. Yeah. So I think my reading age would probably be, I don't know, five years below. I do that thing where you just read the same line over and over, like four times, and you're like, this sounds familiar. You guys should really try moving on to the next line. It really advances the story. Nope, that sounds like a nerd talking.

Won't do it. I used to read the dictionary. What? Yeah, I don't know. Why? Because my mum, I used to always be like, I'm bored. She'd be like, read the dictionary. So I did.

That's what they say to just get you out of the house. It's supposed to be such a repulsive thought that you go outside and play, don't you? But that's my, I am such a good speller and I have such a good vocab. Are you though? I don't know you. I've never known you to be like a great speller.

Well, you're hardly correcting her. You're hardly correcting her in chat. It's because we do spoken word. It's not because I never write to you. I don't want to poo-poo on you, but you don't excel at that either. I'm not saying I do. I'm not saying I'm any better, but I've also not said I'm great at it. Well, if it's someone that you read the dictionary a lot, that's what I would expect.

Okay. The age you pick at everything. Seven is learning a new language. Okay. Eight is brain processing power. So that might be 18 rather. See, I'm 39 and mine's gone kaput. I couldn't even read 18.

I read eight. Remembering names. Age 22. Life satisfaction at 23. And that is also when females peak in their attractiveness to men. Muscle strength is 25. Muscle strength is 25. Finding a partner for marriage is 26 is when you peak it.

If you're going to run a marathon, the best time to do it is 28. Who is doing this study? Because this is like saying we're dead once we hit 30. You are. There's things after 30, so hang in there, grandma. Life's not over yet. Bone mass is 30. Best time to play chess, grandma. Life's not over yet. Bone mass is 30. Best time to play chess, 31. Remembering faces is 32.

Remembering names is 22. Remembering faces, 32. Right. That's where you start going, have we met before? You look familiar. Salary for woman peaks at age 39. Making a Nobel Prize winning discovery is age 40.

Oh my God, I've only got six months left. What is your discovery going to be? Well, I don't know yet. I've really got to knuckle down. 43 is when you've got your ability to focus. 48 is when men peak in salary. Arithmetic skills,

50. Oh, okay. Understanding people's emotions, 51. Life satisfaction, you'll remember that was at 23. It happens again at 69. Nice. 71, your vocabulary

peaks. 74, happiness with your body and 82, psychological well-being. 74, happiness with your body. Because you've given up. You've given up. You're just happy that you've got one at that stage. It's saying and you're just like, it's working. But I can get to the dairy

for a milk and a paper and I can get home so you're happy. That is the most depressing stat. So, yeah, while reading wasn't in there, there was a few other things that kind of like point towards it. Yeah, I was just going to say reading that we were talking about was not in there. Yeah. But we had fun. It was a good list, so I had fun.

We had fun. I had fun on the list. We should do one of those tests. We should do a series of tests where we... Why? See, well, because I'll show off over here. Showboat reckons she's fantastic with vocab and...

Excuse me, I excelled in English at school. Reading, writing and arithmetic. I taught you so many words. I reckon my spelling has gone downhill because of auto spelling. 100%. Like, I just like,

if you asked me to spell a word, I'd be like, oh no. Do you ever just chuck in be real lazy and chuck in something and then it doesn't guess

and you're like, oh come on. Yeah, and then you really have to try. Do you know what I mean? Google's the best guesser. Yeah. Like, you can be in like

a word or typing an email and I can, convenience is my one. Can't spell it. Don't care. Because then I just go into Google and have a shot, and it's like, I think you mean convenience. It's like, I do think you mean.

Thank you, Google. You did right. I did mean convenience. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch Vaughan and Megan's Audio Ninja Warrior. Yes, well, we have the Audio Ninja Warrior course ready to go. We give contestants a sound effect. They have to give us that sound effect to move on to the next sound effect.

The fastest to complete the course wins Audio Ninja Warrior. Uh-huh. Who are we going to this morning? Every time we do this, Vaughan draws up a cute little grid with his messy handwriting. I insert table. Caitlin, we're going to start with you. Good morning, Caitlin. Hi.

All right. Okay. Are you ready for Audio Ninja Warrior? Yeah. All right. Okay. Your time starts now. Vel right. Okay, your time starts now. Velcro.

Yes. A dentist's drill. Oh, that's getting deep into a tooth. Yeah. A kitten. Kitten? Yeah. Meow, meow.

Yeah, it's a higher pitch now. Yeah, it is, yeah. A reception bell at an unattended desk. Sounds like the kitten. Sounds like the kitten, you're right. A UFO. That's really good, that's really good, that's really good. And a car's indicator.

Good, yes. Oh, that's good. That was your strongest noise, the car indicator, I think. Yeah. That was really good. Okay, that's a fast time too, Caitlin. That's a pretty bloody good time. It is.

All right, we're going to pop you on hold there and bring Rochelle out of the cone of silence. Good morning, Rochelle. Good morning. What happened to Simon? R.I.P. Simon's gone. It was Simon that died last time. It was a Simon that died last time.

I don't think it was. And he made a bad noise and we laughed and he hung up. Was that? I don't think it was Simon. I don't know. Rochelle, we're happy to have you here, Rochelle. Are you ready? I mean, you know Simon, but. Now, Rochelle, are you happy to have you here, Rochelle. Are you ready? I mean, you know Simon, but...

Now, Rochelle, are you ready for the Audio Ninja Warrior course? I think so. Okay, here we go. Your time starts now. Velcro. I'm just going to pause that. Oh, that was more of a zip. More of a zip than a Velcro.

More of a zip. We do need... We're going to start the timer again, Rochelle. We're going to need more of a tearing sound, I think. That's too much of a zip. More of a zip than a Velcro. More of a zip. We do need, we're going to start the timer again, Rochelle. We're going to need more of a tearing sound, I think. That's too much of a zip. All right, here we go. Go. Yeah, that was quicker.

That was a quick pull of the Velcro. Yeah. A dentist's drill. I'm just going to start things again. What was wrong with that? When it gets deep in the tooth, it goes. That's what the drill sounds like. It's not like the drill was commenting on the state of your mouth.

More after a. Oh, yeah. That was more of a. Okay. All right. We'll start the timer again, Michelle. When you're ready, go. Jesus. That'll do. I you're ready, go. Jesus.

That'll do. I think it's like a possessed drill. Yeah. A kitten. Oh, that's good. That's good. Yes. A reception bell at an unattended desk.

Yes, good. A UFO. I mean, I love it. I mean, we don't know what they sound like, so sure. No, and a car indicator. Yes. Oh, that was a good indicator too. Wow.

Well, after a couple of whoopsie dozies at the start, that was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be. Yeah, that was really good, Rochelle. All right, so. Let's get them both back on the phone. I was going to be. Yeah, that was really good, Rochelle. All right, so. Let's get them both back on the phone. I'm going to lock you in there with Caitlin, Rochelle and Caitlin. Today's second place, 42 seconds and then 26 after the dot. What is that?

2,600ths of a second. Yeah. And the winner today, 38 seconds and 64 hundredths of a second. So there's only like four seconds in it. But today's victor is Caitlin. Congratulations Caitlin. Yes Caitlin.

The winner. You played wonderfully. I think it was the dentist drill that tripped you up there. Yeah, yeah. The Velcro at the start.

The kitten was strong. Two strong kittens. I feel like both aliens were speaking the same language too. Yeah. And the car and the catty you both nailed. Yeah, the good unattended desk bell as well.

Great sound effects all around today. For Audio Ninja Warrior, thanks for playing, team. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Like you said, Fletch, bad news for pyromaniacs. Fireworks are not going to be sold at the warehouse anymore. Would that be the one? Because did supermarkets stop a while ago, most of them? I don't recall supermarkets stopping.

Oh, yeah, no. They don't? Did they volunteer to stop? I think so, yeah. They volunteered not to stop. Yeah, okay. So the warehouse did a survey, and they said that more than half of those surveyed preferred to go to public firework displays than have fireworks at home.

Well, because they, like, I mean, you know, we've all got great memories as kids letting off fireworks and stuff. And we've all got stories of near misses. I think that's the problem is that you've all got stories of like burns and someone chasing you with those rainbow shot ones. Or a buzzy bear going AWOL and getting up Nan's dress. Yeah. I literally saw a TikTok of a dog grabbing one in its mouth and running inside. Oh, my God.

Funny for us, not for the family. Yeah, for sure. Or the dog. Yeah. Well, the dogs seem fine, but they're dangerous. But in terms of, like of a good fireworks display, you'd better just leave it to the professionals when they let them off the Sky Tower or at a beach on a barge.

I'm all for a public display. And the public displays are epic. Yeah. Because then you do your little ones at home and they're like, and you don't have to pay for them. Because even if it's one of those like pay $10 and go in, just sit on the side of the road and watch. You would be that dad.

No, we're not paying $10. You can sit fine from the side of the road. Yeah, exactly. So they said over half surveyed prefer to go to public displays. 28% didn't participate in fireworks at all. And they said it just doesn't hold true to the warehouse values anymore. So who would be left selling them then? We have this wee container.

Yeah. Yeah, we live near. That container that opens up once a year. Bad Boys Fireworks, and they park it up on that big roundabout over here, right? Yeah, there's still places that sell them. Random places. Lots of places sell them.

Yeah, right. But I'm for getting rid of buying them and doing them at home. It's dangerous. Yeah. But I'm for getting rid of buying them and doing them at home. It's dangerous. Yeah. And then your neighbours let off fireworks, it scares your dog. And you can say things like, it was a small percentage that ruined it for everybody.

Even though once upon a time, I was totally that small percentage. Remember when there were skyrockets? Do I what? And we put them on each, like, they land on your neighbour's house. Yeah, the fire service. That was a ride. The fire service loved that. They remember. Yeah. Yeah, it was a wild time. It was just wetter in the 90s.

You just had more like, you didn't have the tinder dry scrub that you have these days. Everything was wet the whole time. Yeah, sure. So yeah, I guess now it's, what, one step closer to being banned, right? Well, yeah. All the places that are selling them are just going to make more money off them

because the warehouse would have been a massive mover of units, right? Oh, yeah, they would have sold so many. Huge amounts of fireworks. All right. Next on RIP. Next on the show and achievement yesterday, I'll tell you what it was. A year in the making.

Megan is sick of hearing about it. I'm so sick of it. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, it happened yesterday. I did it. I did it. One full year of closing all three rings on the Apple Watch every day. I thought I was going to get a special badge for 365 days in a row.

I thought I was getting a badge. I didn't get like a badge. Because it gives you little badges. It's like you've done a week's worth of activity. You did the whole month. Well done. It gives you a little badge. And then it becomes a little bit like a video game

and you're just competing for badges. Well, maybe it's, do you think it's that common that someone's managed to do 365 days? In a row, I don't know. Maybe you should message them and be like, Hey, where's my badge? I didn't do this for my own health. I didn't do this for weight loss

and so that I can eat way more than I needed to. I did this for the badge. How are you going to stop now, though? Because like. Well, this Friday, Megan, I've got a colonoscopy and I don't get to eat for a day beforehand. I have to take some horrendous diuretics to make sure I'm absolutely. Oh, my God.

Are you going to lose a couple of kgs? That's what I'm hoping. And I've said you will be in no state to exercise. Right. Either before or in the morning of, because you will have nothing in your system, and then afterwards you're likely to be pretty, they're going to dope me up and then shove a camera up my bum hole.

And for the backstory, Vaughn specifically organised his colonoscopy after the 365 ring closing days were completed. I was supposed to get it done last week. They said, oh, how are you looking for Friday? Whatever last Friday was, I was like, oh, I'm busy.

How about the following Friday? You're literally putting your body health, your health, ahead of my health. Yeah. One health for another health exactly yeah but yeah so that was what I wanted I wanted to get to 365

and yeah because there's been hangover days and everything like there's been a couple of hangover days but I've dragged my sorry ass out and done exercise

because it's quite addictive for those that don't know there are three rings on the Apple Watch and one of them is standing up every hour of the like waking day

12 hours 12 hours of any given day so if you're not standing up every hour of the waking day. 12 hours? 12 hours of any given day. So if you're not standing up, like you're on the couch watching Netflix for like 5 hours at the weekend What could, do you just have to stand up? It'll be like, stand up! Hey buddy Do you want to stretch those legs God gave you? Do you want to stop being a fatty and get up?

And so you get up and you walk around Just enough to get the thing to be like, yeah that's an hour that's a minute this hour and you're like bye and you sit back down the other rings like how many minutes

of exercise you want to do a day so you set that and then once you've done that that closes and the other one is how many calories burn according to

motion and heart rate cool yeah so that's it's quite addictive it is you can see why

I'm like addicted now to it I'm like I've done it. I'm like, I've done a week. That is a good achievement. So because it started out of lockdown, a group, me and three other mates

said, we'll like have a competition over a month who can like lose the most weight because we all came out of lockdown chubbed.

Like we were just who cares, bag of chips, who cares, loaf of garlic bread and some fortnight with the lads and who cares. It was a big who cares and that's what, you know, people need to get through. Who cares? Loaf of garlic bread and some fortnight with the lads.

Who cares? It was a big who cares? And that's what people need to get through. And then at the end of it, we were like, well, let's do this for a month. And they all dipped out after a couple of weeks. But then once I've done a month, I was like, well. How do I stop? I've got 30.

I could probably get to 100. And then I got to 100. And I was almost like, well, I've got 100. That's almost a third of the year. I'll just keep going. So now I've got to the year. Kind of wish I hadn't lent you my Apple Watch when you was broke just to see you.

It was a week when it broke and I borrowed Fletcher so I could continue. You would have just gone out and bought one. That's how addicted you were to it. Totally. But yeah, 365 days now.

It is a great achievement. Healthy you. Does that mean that you'll both stop talking about your rings every day? No, now we're in a competition on who's, what's that measurement you sent me the other day? Oh, the VO something. Our oxygen absorption

levels. We're in a competition to see who can absorb. I'm not the only one that's over this. You're missing the eye rolls from the producer. They're just jealous because their body doesn't absorb much oxygen. They don't have a high VO2 oxygen rate, do they? What's our VO2? Mine's 59. Oh my god. Am I winning? our VO2? Mine's 59. Oh, my God. Am I winning?

Am I winning? Mine's 56. Yes. I'm winning. Wait, is that better? I don't know. Yeah, I think high is better. High is better.

How did you get to 50? Oh, my God. This is just an insight into the chat that I get. And then what's your resting heart rate? I know both of your resting heart rates. I should have known that. I just watched, sent him a message in the middle of the night. The other night I'd be like I was like hey buddy are you

alive? Your heart rate's at like 30 beats a minute. You're basically a hibernating grizzly bear. Yeah it was like

38 while I was sleeping. What is that called? Like low. That's like a condition. Yeah if I don't turn up to work

you've got the spare keyboard and just come in like um. You need to do that cleanse of his computer. Yeah just the

whole house. I'm just going to walk in and just chuck a Molotov cocktail. No I won't be. I'm just saying go via a counter just chuck a Molotov cocktail. No, I won't be. I'm just saying go via a counter and get that defibrillator they have on the wall and just wake me up for work.

I was just going to pull the lamp you've got beside your bed. I was just going to rip the wires out and give you a jab. It's only 12 volts, mate. That'll just tickle my tongue like one of those batteries. Not if you put it on the balls. That'll wake you right up. Trust me, I've been there. I can just imagine the St. John's ambulance

rolling up and they're like, tickle his balls. So this is your chance to get rid of something that your ex gave you. You're like, I don't need this. I don't want this. It's a constant reminder of them. Yeah. I don't need this. I don't want this. Just reminds me of the end. It's a constant reminder of them. Yeah.

I don't need it. And then we obviously put the details of the item out there. And then if you want that, you exchange for it. Like an old school radio buy-sell exchange. Fly from Executive Intern Anya. Fly. These exchange people will be posting at their own expense of successful. Oh, shit.

She doesn't want to be on one news for a contestant not getting their prize. She's putting the details out there from the start. It's good to be clear. It's good to be clear, isn't it? It's good, yeah. No one's been lit up the garden path. Clarity. Molly joins us.

Good morning, Molly. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Now, you can see this item on our Instagram story, FBMZM, but what did an ex give you that you would like

to get rid of and exchange? Well, I've been trying to get rid of it for actually quite a few years now. Really? What other avenues of getting rid of this have you tried?

I've tried Trade Me, Design a Wardrobe. I even tried when I was living overseas on eBay and I feel like it's just been a bit of a mare to get rid of. It sounds cursed. It's not cursed. It's also not fake

by the way. It's not Bali-esque. I have a receipt. Oh, you've got the receipt. And packaging. You will include the receipt. You can get the packaging in Bali. You will include receipt if successfully exchanged. Yes, I will.

Now, okay, so this is a Tiffany & Co. bracelet. How much is it worth? I think at the time when it was purchased about five years ago, it was like $920. Okay, $920. Real pearls? Real pearls, real silver, real Tiffany & Co. Right.

Did you bite the pearls? No. Is that something you do? You test the pearls' hardness because they're supposed to be pretty hard. Oh, okay, right. Okay. So, Molly, is there anything you'd like to exchange in particular for this or are you open

to any kind of exchange? Definitely open to anything. Hopefully, yeah, something good I can actually use because it's a really nice bracelet to be fair. It's just,

it's not my style and it's, you know, attached to like not nice memory. Right. It's got to go. I'm just looking at what you can reuse pearls for.

If there's a person out there that's a jewellery maker, you could make, like, pearl earrings and stuff with these pearls. And they're, like, legit pearls. What kind of stuff are you into, Molly, that you might want to acquire something in the field of? Yeah, I am pretty open to anything, to be honest. I don't know. Like a mountain bike?

What about a sea? Okay, maybe not a bike. Okay, what about a sea kayak? A kayak could be fun. Oh, okay. Now, Megan had the offer earlier of her old engagement ring. Did you want that? Interesting.

Is it a diamond? It's also cursed. Yeah, it is cursed. Do you want something of similar value? Yeah, I'd say so. Okay. One of my best friends was helping me try to sell it, and we were kind of like, whatever,

we were trying to get money or something, we were like, if we can get an experience or, you know, go out to dinner or something, go on a trip. Wait, so that could be something. Something definitely of value. There might be somebody listening who owns an experience. Yeah. Or, you know, can get you an experience.

So they would ring up and say, hey, you can have this in exchange for this bracelet. Yeah. Do you think maybe that, what kind of value would you put on this? Because you said you tried to sell it and you couldn't. So maybe you're aiming too high here. Well, we have dropped the price quite significantly trying to sell it and you couldn't. So maybe you're aiming too high here. Well, we have dropped the price quite significantly trying to sell it, but I've nearly sold it a couple of times, but it always just falls through right

at the end. Right, so how much would you be happy with, value-wise? Kind of like around $400-$500, I'd say. Okay, Molly, well this is what we do now. We open up the phone lines, the text machine. 0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696. Do you have something that you could exchange for the nearly $1,000 Tiffany & Co. bracelet? Pearl bracelet.

Given to her by an ex that she doesn't want anymore. It's called X-Change. Please warn, Amigans. X-Change. Well, this is where you unload, offload the gifts given to you by an ex. Maybe they've got bad memories attached. You offer it up

and see what you can exchange it for. That's how exchange works. Watch out, Trade Me. We should actually be clipping the ticket here. Take a little cut. So Molly called up. She's on hold now. I'll bring Molly in now.

Molly, we've got a handful of offers for you now. That's very exciting to hear. You are offering a $1,000, nearly $1,000 Tiffany & Co bracelet. And first up is Michael. Welcome to Exchange, Michael. Hey there, how's it going? Good.

Now, what would you like to exchange with Molly for? I got a PS4 with a couple controllers and a heap of games. Ooh, okay I mean, so did you get a PS5 Michael? Nah, not yet but hopefully. Okay. Do you have a special someone in your life

you'd like to gift this bracelet to? Or do you fancy yourself an appeal bracelet? Yeah, well, no, I'm still my partner, but I'm sure she'd be keen to get rid of the PS4 as well, to be fair. Yeah, right. Okay, so it'd be win-win for her. Would you tell her it's a secondhand one, Michael?

I don't know. Maybe. Okay, Molly, how does a PS4 sound? Well, I'm not too much of a gamer, so I think that one might be a no for me. Oh, that's a pass. Oh, that's a pass. I'm sorry. I play the sound effect.

No, don't play the sound effect. We don't need the sound effect. We all just established it was a no. You don't need to play that irritating buzzer. Vaughn loves sound effects on radio shows. We don't need them. They've got a time and a place. Have you got a sound effect for Yes prepared?

Yeah, I do. Absolutely. It'll be that ding that he always has for Yes. How will we know if we don't have sound effects? I don't know. The words coming out of our mouths. The people listening don't understand. They need an audio representation.

Thank you, Michael. Justine, good morning. Good morning. Now, what would you like to bring to exchange for Molly's Tiffany & Co bracelet? Well, we have a lovely batch in Ha-Hei. It's practically right on the water, and Ha-Hei is a magical place.

There's lots of walks up to the park, over to Cathedral Cove. There's hot water beach, a short drive away. It's a lovely winter destination, or she could go when it's a little bit warmer again in spring or summer. We've never been invited, Justine. Two things. Why haven't we been invited?

Surely you'd be using it in the warmer months. How often are you getting up there? Oh, we try and get up there every couple of months. Okay, so you do two nights. We do a weekend, Justine. Yeah, normally a long weekend. So we go Friday after school and then come back on Sunday, but we try and go long weekends

as well and obviously in school holidays. Molly, how's that sounding? It actually sounds very nice. Okay, so whereabouts in New Zealand are you, Molly? Is that like an achievable weekend away? Yeah, I'm in Auckland. Oh, okay.

So that's a maybe at the moment? That's a maybe. What's your sound effect for maybe, Fletch? When have I? Well, proving we don't need them. Also, if that goes through, we should clip the ticket and get our own weekend Oh absolutely I'm not going with you guys I want my own weekend

Patricia what would you like to offer for exchange Patricia Good morning Patricia It's a mug that says you're terrific With two little tea bags I'm sorry what it's a mug That says you're terrific with two little tea bags. I'm sorry, what? It's a mug that says you're terrific, or tea-rific.

And there's two little sort of like character tea bags. Two little character tea bags. It was given to me by Nick. I love that. Molly, your thoughts on this cup? As amazing as that sounds, I'm going to have to pass.

Pass on the cup. For the listeners listening, she said no. Was it a no? That's a no. She said no. She said pass. And then you played the buzzer. It was an unnecessary sound effect.

Thank you, Patricia. Good morning, Bridget. Hi, how are you? Good. Now, you're our last offer this morning for exchange. What would you like to exchange for the bracelet? I have a brand new Huffer Down

V-Size 12 in khaki green. Oh! Can't be the half a puffer. Why don't you want it, Bridget? Because I brought it and then I got a, so I had a breast reduction and then I put it back on and it doesn't fit.

Too big. Oh, wow. Okay. Wow. But what's the value on that? Um, so it's not as much as yours. So it's like, I think I paid $299 for it. Okay.

That's right. But a pearl bracelet's not going to keep you warm in the depths of winter, is it? No. No, no. Very practical. Molly, how does that sound, Molly? If you had asked me a week ago, I probably would have been a bit more interested, but I actually am currently wearing a green puffer jacket that I bought two days ago.

Is that a no? That's a no. That's a no. It's a no. Okay. We knew it was a no. We didn't need that. The buzzer clarifies to everybody listening that it's a hard no and we're not progressing with Bridget.

So, Molly, I mean, there's no pressure, but will you be taking Justine's offer or will you be back to the drawing board? I've been consulting with the girls on this one. Okay. So we're going to go for a girls weekend away and I'm going to swap. Oh yes!

Yes! We didn't need the ding because we all knew that it was a yes. As long as that's alright with Justine, you're still happy with the trade? Yeah, absolutely. Why not? I mean, it's a little bit crazy, but if I don't like the bracelet myself, I've got two daughters. They're 13 and 15.

Yes, Justine. One of them are bound to love it. Justine. I tell you what, Molly, there might be a bomb, though. You're not reckless, are you? No, definitely not. Okay, good. Just double-checking there.

I can send you a list of instructions. Oh, yeah. We'll need that, too, for our weekend, Justine. Justine checking there. I can send you a list of instructions. Oh, yeah. We'll need that too for our weekend, Justin. Molly's behaviour does not fall back upon us. Thank you, Justin. Fantastic.

First round of Exchange. Happy parties all around. Fantastic. Enjoy, guys. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Yesterday, it was Georgia's birthday. If you follow Georgia on Instagram, you'll be very well aware because she reposted every

Instagram story that mentioned her on her birthday. That's just what you do. If you had friends, you'd do that too. She walked in and she's on her phone and you were like, let the reposting begin. No, she warned me. She's like, I'm just going to warn you that I'm going to start reposting

birthday stories. I was like, but you were doing it. She did it yesterday on Sunday, the day before her birthday. So she made it a two-day event, which, again, I don't know what it's like to have a whole lot of people think you're really great. Like, I don't know what it's like to have friends who genuinely post heartfelt messages about you. Like, probably the nicest person here at ZM and you're really great. I don't know what it's like to have friends who genuinely post heartfelt messages about you.

She is probably the nicest person here at ZM and you're just a prick. Well, I mean, that depends where you look at it, where you stand from, I guess. Because there's probably somebody here who thinks I'm the nicest person. No, I think I can pretty much guarantee there's no one.

Pretty sure. Somebody would be out there thinking that he's the nicest guy there. Yeah, but they don't. Somebody. I mean, this story probably is an example of why you're not the nicest guy. I didn't know. This really, like, people afterwards are like, you should not have done that. I was like, what?

So I misread the room. Classic. There was a birthday cake for Georgia. It was a birthday macaron. Yeah, like two big birthday macarons With some donuts around it And like a lemon meringue slice and stuff Don't recall getting a birthday cake at work this year No

I didn't get one for my birthday last time Because you're not liked in the office Like you're liked Or they assumed my day would be so full of love That I didn't need to have cake. Sure. I'll take from this what I need. And so the birthday candle was lit and Georgia was kind of like

appreciated in the situation and I just blew out a candle. I think she was taking the time to make a wish. Yeah. Nope. And I was like blew it out and then she looked at me like, and then someone relit it and I blew it out again. Now, that's funny. That's funny stuff.

When you say that happened at a kid's birthday party, I always crack up. Unless it's my kids and I'm like, why are you dancing and ruining this Christmas birthday party to the kid that blew out my kid's candles because it's their goddamn birthday. But when it's somebody else, it's fine. Yeah.

And so I did it twice. And then I'm on the third time. Georgia got to blow it out, which was lucky because I did So I did it twice And then I'm on the third time Georgia got to blow it out Which was lucky Because I did want to blow it out Three times in a row And then afterwards Yeah people were like

Don't Don't do that to Georgia I was like What is going on here I'm the nicest guy in the room Turns out you're not No No

No Oh well Oh But Yeah and then people were like Oh, that was a birthday power move. But I videoed the whole thing and tagged her in so she reposted it. So now I think now we're even and I'm back to being the nicest guy in the room. Yeah, well, it's content, isn't it?

You've given her content. Yeah, I gave her some great content. And is there a better birthday gift than content? Someone posting on Instagram about you? Not really, no. Content is king. Yeah. I almost hit a swear word then.

I felt myself, I felt, I skipped a syllable and put the you sound in and I almost said it. Alright, well from the nicest guy in the world, Vaughan Smith, in the room. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Skip it or stream it. So, skip it or stream it. We have a bunch of shows that we've put on our Insta story, whether you have seen it, whether you'd skip it, whether you'd stream it, and just shows that people are watching at the moment. We're watching at the moment. Yeah, maybe a chance to pick up a new show.

So, we'll start with my suggestion, which I know that a lot of people have been already binging a lot. I may be a little bit late to the party, but The Bold Type. Now, this is season four already. We're up to season four. It's been put on Netflix, which I think is why it's on the radar of a lot of people at the moment. But season five is about to come out. The Bold Type is about three girls, women,

who are working at a women's magazine. Hence, The Bold Type as a letter font. But I feel they're double meaning because I feel like these women are also The Bold Type. I literally had no idea why it was called The Bold Type. So yeah, they're basically working on this women's magazine and navigating life as females, leaning on each other, drama ensues. But my husband watched and he was like,

everyone's very agreeable on this show. There's a lot of, like, amicable. What do you mean, hot? No, like, there's not a lot of... That's what he meant. I mean, Megan missed it. The boss is very agreeable. The boyfriends are very agreeable.

What do you mean, with their points? Yeah. So you don't think it's reflecting of real life when your boss... No, but it's very progressive, which I appreciate about it. And it's got good fashion. Right. Yeah. Right.

But yeah, it's definitely like a chick series to watch. I don't think it's up your alley, Fletch. No. But the Bold Type's on Netflix. And yeah, season five's about to watch. I don't think it's up your alley, Fletch, but The Bold Type's on Netflix, and yeah, season five's about to drop. So how many people would skip it or stream it? Let me

get to The Bold Type. 41% said skip it. Oh, ouch. Okay. 59% said stream it. That's good. Majority. All right, next on the list.

Next on the list is Anya, producer Anya's pick, Mayor of East Town. Yeah, this is on Neon, and I believe the last episode is this week, or this coming Monday, Sunday? Yes, Monday, I believe. This next coming Monday. Last night's was bananas.

I've been reading so much about this show and I'm going to wait until it's all out and then just do it all in like one or two days. Is it like a thriller or a murder mystery or a... Yeah, it's like crime thriller. Okay, and Kate Winslet apparently is amazing. She's phenomenal in it. I've never seen her act like this before.

Is this the first season? Yeah. You've seen her act in Titanic. What about everything she's been in? She's so like, she's such a bad B in this. Oh, really? So she the bad guy? Nah.

Spoiler alert. You'll see. So if she was this character in the Titanic, she just would have slid him off the door. Is that what you're saying? She would have kicked him off. She loved him. She would have pulled him up onto the door.

Let's not start that again. Let's not start that again. Let's not start that again. So we asked if you would skip it or stream it. The mayor of Easttown, 49% said skip it. 51% said stream it. That's so close. Sharon messaged us saying, only 51%. This is madness.

Best show around at the moment and everyone at work loves it like I do. She cannot believe it was so close. Well, I wonder if people vote, because, you know, like, when you're finding a show to watch, it's the all in the picture and the font that gets me sometimes. I wonder if people are just like, oh, no, I wouldn't watch that. The sell of it. You can't vote unless you're like, you've seen it, right? On all the streaming apps, you're like, hover over it, and it gives you a little, like, taste.

All right, next on the list. It is Vaughn's pick, Love, Death and Robots. What's that about? Love, Death and Robots. Sounds nerdy. It was this series. Well, not everybody's super agreeable on it. It was a series from a few years ago and each episode,

last season had like 20 episodes, but this season's only got 10, I think, or eight. I pretty much watched it all in one go. But every episode is short. It's a completely different story by different animators. And it's just kind of like short Black Mirror episodes that are animated. It's always kind of about the future.

Oh, it sounded lame until you said Black Mirror. There's totally Black Mirror-esque. Yeah, Black Mirror-esque vibes to it. 70% skipped it. Oof. 30% streamed it. Yeah. Ali said series one

was absolutely amazing. Series two had 10 least episodes. Some I found questionable. Some of the episodes are pretty brutal. A few were spectacular and worth it.

Yeah. Okay. I just like all different sorts of animation. So yeah. Alright, next on the list. Start up. This is Flet on the list. Start Up.

This is Fletcher's pick. Well, and this is a weird one. This is another one of those shows that has been around since, so I believe it came out 2016 to 2018, three seasons. And now that it's on Netflix, everyone's like,

oh my God, this is amazing. It's like eight out of 10 on IMDb, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's got Martin Freeman in it, the British actor from originally The Office. The Office, and yeah, he's been in Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. So he's obviously playing an American FBI agent. It's about cryptocurrency.

How's his American accent going? It was questionable in Black Panther. It's questionable. Okay. Yeah, it's basically like ties in like a desperate banker, a Haitian-American ganglord and a hacker. And they're forced to work together. That sounds kind of cool.

I've got a great comment. It is like I watched the first episode. I was like, oh, yeah, I'm into this. And I've like seen like four or five now. And I'm like, I've got to binge this all. Okay. Amazing show. Well, 54% of people agreed with you saying stream it.

And 46% said skip it. Yeah, it's a good show. These, 54% of people agreed with you saying stream it, and 46% said skip it. Yeah, it's a good show. These are all pretty close. Yeah. Last on the list is Ted Lasso. Lasso. Yeah. Lasso.

Lasso. This is your pick for. Yeah. Jason Sudeikis plays an American football coach who gets approached to go and coach Richmond FC, a football club that a woman just won off her husband in the divorce proceedings. He's like forever the optimist.

He doesn't know anything about football, but he knows heaps about people and knows their success is like happiness and working together as a team. And it's like goofy and funny and insanely wholesome. And then there's like sad moments. A bit like Schitt's Creek? Yeah, it's kind of that wholesome sort of television.

There is Schitt's Creek-esque vibes to it. Right. That's Apple TV. And also, again, that's a 60% skip for one of your picks. Yeah. I mean, there's no accounting for taste. People are morons. I've said it all along.

Don't trust idiots. Our Lumi said it didn't though,'t trust idiots. Ella messaged in though and she supports it. She said this is a seriously good watch. Hilarious and surprisingly pulls on the heartstrings. Highly recommend this. And Jason Sudeikis is just funny.

He's very funny. I definitely want to watch that. It does look good. Yeah. It's got a bit of English soccer hooliganism to it as well. Alright, there we go. Skip it or stream it.

Maybe some new watching options. It's always looking for something. Yeah, I know. You do that thing where you spend a whole night looking for the next thing you're going to watch. Yeah. And not end up watching anything. Yeah. Yeah.

Just a whole bunch of trailers. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about dandelions. Are they the ones that you blow and then all the things go bloop? They yellow and then when the petals die,

the seed bits are the ones that you... Is it why they're called dandelions? Because I've never actually considered why that is. Yep. And it's what they're called around and the different names for them. But dandelion is... It's a corruption of the French dentelion, which means lion's tooth. Because it was a colour of a lion, but the pointy yellow bit looked like teeth.

So they said, well, it's yellow and it looks a bit like teeth, so it must be a lion's tooth. But that's not what the French actually call them. The French call them ficellite. Ficellite. Because it was a known medical side effect. Well, not a side effect. You made the tea out of the root for the very purpose of flushing yourself out. It's a horrendous diuretic.

Is it? Yeah, you make a tea from, that's the easiest way to do it, apparently just eating it plain is pretty gross, but will have the same effect. You can make like a beverage out of it and it is called pisselet, which actually translates to piss the bed.

It sounds like you're saying like pisselet. Pisselet. Pisselet. The English folk name for them is the pisser beds. Actually, right. The English folk name for them is the Pissabeds. Like actually? Yep. There's a folk name for them. So the English have got heaps of names for them.

They're called like blow balls because, you know, when they turn into the white and you blow them, the seeds go everywhere. If you really want to freak your dad out when he's like made his lawn absolutely perfect, a nice guy can get one and just like linger over him and be like, and he'll be like, get out of the lawn! Because those things root down they've got a big long tap root

very hard to get out of the lawn once they're in there weeds, yeah, if he's got his lawn looking all nice. I'm going to do that when I come around to yours next I've already got plenty just got to keep them mowed so they don't grow up through so yeah, they've got puffballs pear bed, wetter bed swine snout

and pisser bed is the nickname for them. Wow, okay. In English, that's also derived from the French word pisserlet, which is because you could make a tear

out of them, there's a diuretic. Other places call them in Swedish, they're named after the bugs that are usually in there. Lots of places, they're called something like

milky, because you know, if you cut the stem, they've got that white stuff. And then, by the way, that's good on a wart. Any sort of wart. Yeah. Cut that all south so you can see that same milky, sticky, latex-y stuff. Put that on the wart and it'll disappear.

The Danes, they're called pissekant, which Which again is Dog Dog wheeze Because it's found On the side of pavement And people often thought That if a dog Wheezed on the side Of the pavement It would make it

Sprout up Yeah right So I'm in the Humble dandelion Really wearing it there Everyone's Saying that But today's

Fact of the day Is the French call The dandelion Pissecante Because it is a You can make a tea that's a powerful diuretic. Fact of the day, day,

day, day, day. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Now, I don't believe a damn thing I see on TikTok. You don't believe a damn thing? You're very cynical. But these are clever kids. All right. These are.

Thanks, Dad. No, what's the word I'm after? These are conniving. They know how to get them likes. Yeah, right. And I'm after. These are conniving. They know how to get them likes. Yeah, right. And I'm cynical. So when I see somebody who's like, this has happened, and I know that they just know the ingredients to a spicy

story. Yeah. And so I'm always like, until I see proof of receipt, and I see that this person actually exists, I'm always a little bit sceptical about it. Anytime I see someone pranking someone, I'm like, they knew that was coming actually exists. I'm always a little bit skeptical about it. Anytime I see someone pranking someone, I'm like, they knew that was coming. They knew that was coming. Most people aren't good enough actors.

Nah. Yeah. So this happened in Canada. Ferrera Rocher is the TikTok user, and she's got a lawsuit incoming from the people at Ferrera Rocher. She sells Pandora. Oh, yeah. Who do rings? Yeah, that who rings.

Pandora bracelet and necklace charms and stuff are probably the most well-known of the Pandora catalogue. But Pandora do rings as well. And this has been viewed and liked and commented on over two million times. And this person that works in a Pandora store is basically saying if your boyfriend's name is Jake and he lives in MTL, he

just bought two rings for his girlfriend and his side piece, here are the rings and took a photo of one as a heart shaped ruby stone and a silver band and the other is a classic clear diamond saying you deserved better and then he said do you want, so she said to him, do you want gift receipts?

And he said, yeah, I'll have gift receipts because I'm giving these to two different people and they might want to exchange them. Right. Yeah. So she is assuming that though. She doesn't know for sure. How does she know his name?

They must've got talking. Because on a gift receipt, do you have to put a, I don't know, a name of a person maybe? Unless he went in. She said, oh, what know his name? They must have got talking. Because on a gift receipt, do you have to put a... I don't know. I don't know. A name of a person maybe? Unless he went in, she said, oh, what's your name? He might have gone in in his work uniform and left his name badge on. And this is the other thing that makes me go, hmm.

I actually quit Pandora last week and I wanted for my last shift to expose this cheater. So you think it's BS? I just, it's a perfect storm. You say that, but then, Carl Wayne at the social media desk, I believe you had an early retail career at a jeweler's. I did. That shall not be named.

Okay. And you saw something like this. Yeah. So I would often, around Christmas or whatever, have guys come in. They want to just, they want what I know about jeweler. And they're just like, here's some money, choose something, right?

Oh, wow. Did that happen often? All the time. Really? So they're like, I don't know, like you just find my girlfriend something nice. Yeah, basically. Because what you like might not be. That's absolutely high praise that they, you know,

looked at you and thought, here's someone that knows high fashion. What are you trying to say? Or high jewellery. High jewellery fashion. Current trends, et cetera. Yeah, a lot of tradies on Christmas Eve would come in and be like, here's the money, give me diamonds.

I don't care what it is. Wow. More than the last minute. But you had what? Someone come in and they bought for their girlfriend and for someone else. So he told me that he was buying for his wife and his daughter. Now, how he described his daughter, I was like, okay, she isn't that young. Yeah.

And I got a necklace, two necklaces or something like that. And then I was also working Boxing Day. Yeah. A woman came in with the exact same necklace to exchange it and she was not young enough to be his daughter. So that was a mistress. A slightly younger

side piece. Yeah. Do you believe this? Vaughn? Cynical Vaughn? Do you believe this? I don't believe it. God damn. Wow, thanks. No, I believe that. So you've seen it in the flesh. Yeah, it was very awkward because my name was obviously on my name tag

and also on the gift receipt. So she was like, oh, so you dealt with my partner. Yeah, your dad. Yeah, yeah. I was like, yeah. Your daddy. So the two necklaces that he bought weren't the same? No.

Okay, right, right. Because I say this isn't the wife that came back in. No. I reckon if you worked in retail or... I reckon florists would get this. Yes. Valentine's Day, two bunches of flowers to different people. And then sending them, yes, sending them to two different addresses.

Yeah. Who would be that lazy? Go to different florists, right? But obviously like this TikTok and Harwin's example. Yeah. Very lazy. They just go go to different florists, right? But obviously, like, this TikTok and Carwen's example, very lazy. They just go to one place for the two different women. I'm pretty sure you stand at the door of a Pascoe's, you can see a Michael Hill.

Like, these things are never by themselves. Yeah, yeah. But he would never have thought that that would be a problem, that they were going to come back and that Carwen was going to put two and two together. But even still like... Did these people not watch Love Actually? If you're going to do jewellery, you've got to be a bit more clever about it.

Severus Snape. Okay, can we, I reckon, open up the phone lines. Because I reckon if you were in retail, you'd see this all the time. Or like hospo. Like people that bring dates. Like maybe they bring their wife to the restaurant and then later they bring them no one's doing that

are they? No one is doing that. There was somebody wasn't there that feels like a while ago somebody told us that they're their partner it wasn't you guys

when you were in the cafe eh? No. Somebody said that yeah they noticed this guy had bought it he had a definitely it was his wife and then he started

bringing somebody else in on the regular. Oh wow okay. Yeah. Alright well crazy. I want to open up the phone lines.

0800 dials at M this morning. 9696 you can text us. Have you spotted a cheater at work? We're talking about at your line of work you have seen someone cheating on their partner basically busted them. Yeah. Or have the evidence to prove it. There are some great

stories coming through. I work in a surgery. Okay. One guy had his wife listed for medical decisions but to call his girlfriend when he woke up. I bet if the wife

found out about that it'd change to a do not resuscitate. Yeah. Whiskey. Yeah. Someone said, I used to have to spot check

emails flagged for suspicious words at the big company I worked for. Oh, yeah. Stumbled across more than one person using their work email to plan salacious rendezvous. Oh, wow. I worked for a power company and we found a cheater as they had one of those new power meters installed so it records power used down to the hour. Right. And there was weird spikes. The husband was going home during lunch break doing the deed with another woman and then having a shower

so the meter showed a pop and the hot water being used. I would have just been like, must be the router. Must be the router. Yeah. Sometimes they just over hate. And use more power. Yeah. The PlayStation doing an automatic router. Yeah. Sometimes they just over hate and use more power. Yeah.

The PlayStation doing an automatic download. Yeah. An update. Mel, when did you spot a cheater at work? So I used to own a coffee shop. Yeah. And what used to happen, we had this regular customer who used to come daily. She would come in the morning for one coffee order with one man and then she'd come back at Smoko for a separate coffee order with another man.

And were you just like, who are these people? Like, were they all over each other each time or? Yeah, so what they used to do, they used to go and sit down in the car park. So we used to spy and we also had cameras outside. So we used to watch from inside to see what was going on. Yeah, we saw them hook up a few times, both men. And we were just like, what is going on? Oh, my God, that would be the best drama at work.

Like every day you'd be like, okay, let's see what happens today. She wasn't wearing a ring. Oh, yeah, it was a daily thing. Was she wearing a ring? Like was she married to either one of them? No, not that we know of, no ring. And then obviously we tried to stalk them all on Facebook to figure out what was going on.

And then she had kids to someone, not one of the guys, someone else. So yeah, I don't know. We still don't know the answer. She's double dating maybe. Just, you know, just keeping both of them on simmer just to see which one she likes better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think so.

But I would have done a different coffee shop altogether for the other person. That's lazy. I mean, come on, it is. It's very lazy. That's good coffee. Mel, thanks for your call. Abby, when did you spot a cheetah at work? I used to work on a liveaboard dive boat,

so we used to go to sea for a week at a time. Okay. And we had a man and his partner came on board for the week and thought nothing of it. And when we got back to shore, apparently his wife had phoned the office asking if he had been on board. And we couldn't tell her for privacy. But, yeah, I believe the office told her what she needed to know

without really telling her anything specific. Yes, he's on the boat with his, I'm assuming, wife or girlfriend? Female friend. Wow. Wow. Busted as well. Brilliant. Abby, thanks.

You call some messages in. My wife's just messaged saying they're listening at the vets. Oh, yeah. Which is good because here's a story about how some vets busted a cheetah. Yeah. At the vet clinic I worked at, we removed some woman's panties from a dog's intestine. But when we showed it to the owner's wife,

she said, I have never owned panties like that. And their dog never left the section. I was going to say, it might have been like hopping over the neighbor's fence. Nope, wasn't the situation. There was a huge barney outside shortly after. Oh, no. That's good stuff.

What a way to find out. I'm a delivery driver that does work for florists. Valentine's Day is the best. This year I did flower deliveries to a guy's wife and his two bits on the side. I live in a small town so I actually knew all four of them by name. That's a fun little thing to have under my hat. Oh my gosh. Who hits the balls to be... Who's doing it in a small town? Come on. I'm a hairdresser.

We had a guy who was bringing in his girlfriend and his bit on the side too to get their hair done. He ended up leaving his girlfriend for the bit on the side. Oh, wow. Okay. This is good. Yeah. This is probably...

I know. I'm going to finish. I'm going to do this one. I'm going to finish with my favorite. So this is my second favorite. Okay. I dropped my husband at the airport. We watched a couple in the car in front of us give a very passionate farewell.

He went into the airport door. She drove off. He waited two minutes, walked straight back out as another car pulled up and gave another woman a very passionate greeting. Oh, my God. So he was like, I'm going to town for business. Oh, my God. Here it is.

But you're in the same city. Okay. Yep. I work at a storage facility. You know one of those lock-up situations where you hire a roller door? Yeah. Well, what's behind the roller door is what you're hiring. The roller door comes with a unit.

And a man hired a small unit. And him and this lady kept meeting there. We put a camera under when they weren't in there. We put a camera under the door to see what was in there. They had a bed set up with bedding and a pillow and a chair as well. We googled him and he was a high

profile lawyer. And that was not his wife that was coming and meeting him at the storage unit. Imagine you're dating, like you hook up with a high profiled lawyer, he's got like his name on one of those big signs at the law firm or whatever and you're like, where are we going to meet for a sexy rendezvous? And he's got like a, his name on one of those big signs at the law firm or whatever, and you're like,

where are we going to meet for a sexy rendezvous? And he's like, storage king. Beg your pardon, beg your pardon, beg your pardon, that didn't sound like you said Sky City Grand.

One more time. Storage king. Unit 4472. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so they were meeting there and rolling the door down, fucking the light on. They had a bed in there.

Oh, wow. And then frantically get down to business. And then all the time he's probably writing enough to like files stored there. Yeah. That's probably where he keeps all his case files and tax files. That is scandalous. I love all these stories. where he keeps all his case files and tax files. That is scandalous. I love all these stories.

It's got to be like doing it in the garage. The cold. Yeah, hideous. Concrete floor. I'm going to hate her for winter. Oh, you're definitely going to need a little bar heater. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast,

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