ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 27th July 2021

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

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Play! The Ends, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today. Well, show's done. We record this, despite it being at the start of the podcast, at the end of the show. Yeah, a bit of behind the scenes structure. A bit of civil engineering structure chat there. People might wonder, do we do this at like 5.35am or something? No.

No, heavens no. It's currently 9.21am, Tuesday the 27th of July, 2021. We're going magnet fishing. I don't know if I'm going to come. I knew you would have. No, I want to. I've got wet weather gear and gumboots. I've got to fall.

I'm going to look like a Bering Sea crab fisherman out there as I'm throwing my magnet into Auckland Harbour. I'm keen to hear the results, but I don't want anyone to see me doing it. You can tell me what you find. I will. I'll send you photos. I have just learnt that gold, silver, copper and titanium

aren't magnetic in any form. Apparently a mix of gold and titanium can be magnetic. Really? But it has to be mixed just right. What's a gun made out of? Would you be able to get a gun? Yeah, guns, knives. What are guns made out of?

Metal. Like steel. Aluminium, steel. Not aluminium. Aluminium doesn't, you can't get that on a magnet, can you? Aluminium, no. Not aluminium, because these drink bottles are aluminium and it won't stick to that.

Okay, here's my money. Here's my predictions. It gets stuck on something and you can't get it out and you have to cut the rope off. It'd be hard, Boylton. I don't know the strength rating of the rope. What if it clings to something that's stuck down there? And you're trying to like, you're just, because that's really strong.

That's a good call. That's a good call. I'll just keep pulling. Okay. I wanted to send Jared down with a little scuba mask. Yes. We'll go in. I've got the wet weather gear.

Depending how deep it is, I'll trudge in. I cannot wait to see how this goes. Maybe I should go. It's quite... I just feel like you're going to get told off by someone. You can sit... We can drive in the car right to it. Yeah, right.

Okay. And then just have a throw. Because you're not allowed to, like, fish there, right? No, you're allowed to fish at the spot you're going to. Oh, okay. Yeah. You're going to go just under the harbour bridge. Yeah.

But also, I don't feel like many people would accidentally drop stuff there. They would. I would go to, like, the marina and, around Rich People Marina where they drop things like metal Rolex. Yeah. Yes. And I'm like, yeah, Rolex. It's Rolex time, baby. Or a tag, ho-ay-ah.

Yeah. That's down there they could never find. Or just like a super yacht anchor that you un-anchor and the boat sails away and crashes. I feel like that's how today's going. I won't be able to pull up an anchor. But I hadn't thought about anchors. I could get caught on an anchor. Yeah.

But then I have an anchor. Or the internet cable that comes into New Zealand. I had worried about that too, so I've got to do a little bit of research as to where that lands. We'll update you tomorrow. Yeah. ZM's Fleetspawn and Megan. Thank you, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleetspawn and Megan. Good morning.

Welcome to the show, Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Morning. You got your big rug on? Yeah, it's cold. No, I don't want to take it off. My big cuddly jacket. It's like I'm still in bed.

Got my duvet on. Wearing a duvet. Yeah. It's a hot plane. Thanks. I drove to work with little to no lights today. You'd be surprised how often I see that in the motorway in the morning. People driving without lights on.

Well, yeah, people might think I've just got my park lights on, but that's the only lights apart from I could high beam. Wait, you don't have your headlights. The low beams, they're gone. That's it, the normal beams. Yeah. After driving yesterday in that heavy... This is the only thing I can put it down to. Okay. Is that the normal beams? Yeah. Oh, yeah. After driving yesterday in that heavy... This is the only thing I can put it down to.

Okay. I checked the fuse. The fuse is all good. By the way... Oh, my God. Can you just get another car? If you pop the little... It's in the works.

If you pop the fuse thing off, and you're like, uh-oh, which one's the headlight one? Look underneath the lid of the fuse box, and there's a little diagram of what fuses are what. Oh, right, yeah. And that's how little diagram of what fuses are what. Yeah. And as I checked in, they're all good. But so I've learned from some fellow in Turkey on YouTube how to replace the bulb.

So that's me on the way home today. I've got to stop it. So you were driving your car yesterday. It was so wet that the water got in and burnt the headlights out. I don't know. But I had headlights the day before. Right. And now I don't. And that's the only But I had headlights the day before. Right. And now I don't.

That's the only major thing that's happened in between. Okay, why didn't you just drive with full beam rather than people do not like that. People do not like that. No.

I tried it. I was on full beam and people were flashing so I'd go to like low beam and then there's nothing and they'd be like I can imagine they're in their car

and they'd be like oh shit. Oh my god, how is your car still holding together? It's an absolute piece of engineering. You've got your money's worth out of that car. Oh, yeah.

The old Honda Accord. Yeah. Jeez. Okay, we'll sort that out today, please. Doing my best. Why don't you get a ticket or something? Or just crash. Yeah.

Just disappear into a ditch. Or ask the fellow West Aucklanders, the young couple that won $17 million in a lotto. Maybe they could buy a new Honda Accord. I think they'd love to. The top six dealing with this huge lotto and for this anonymous young couple. Yeah, the top six purchases for a young West Auckland couple

with $17 million in their back pocket. Also coming up on the show before seven, our giant super sticky grid is in studio. This is all thanks to super sticky post-it notes. We've got this big grid in studio. If you get through when the activator plays before seven, you just pick a spot. We'll peel off the super sticky post-it note and underneath, a cash amount maybe. If not, we'll go to the next caller. But there's cash dotted

all over the board. I'll see your chance to win soon. Next, Dubai. It's home of expensive cars that the cops drive and now something very strange they're doing to get a bit of rain. They have those firemen on those

jet ski shoes. It's a crazy country. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Megan. Dubai has like Lamborghinis for cop cars, eh, sometimes. Oh, it's a mad place. And those, I'm trying to remember the name of those things. You plug them onto the back of a jet ski and then you can surf on them. I've done it.

It's horrible. Water iron, man. Yeah. And they've iron, man. Yeah. And they've got firemen. Yeah, they've got water up from under you. Yeah, their firemen have those so they can plug in next to the marina and put out all those. Oh, marina fires and stuff.

You know all those buildings by the marina that catch fire every year? That are made of polystyrene. Flyboards. Flyboards, yes. So what, do they go up and then shoot their hands on the fire? No, they have a hose. Ah. They have a separate hose.

Well, that's not as cool. No, yeah. Divert power to hands. And they'd be shooting the... Yeah. But it's a crazy place. We went there for a week and did a week of shows. Yeah.

It's just nuts. 2015, right? The money you see driving around and walking around, it's just insane. Well, if you read this headline, you'd be like, what? That's just as crazy. Dubai are creating fake rain. Because at this time of the year, it can get up to 50 degrees. Yeah, right.

Average is around 41 degrees. When were we there? It was hot. It was like 40 degrees, right? Yeah, but it wasn't summer. It wasn't hot. It was their winter, and it was insanely hot. Yeah was like 43, right? Yeah, but it wasn't summer. It wasn't hot. It was their winter and it was like insanely hot. Yeah.

So they have funded, they've put $15 million, 15, into creating, they've done nine different rain enhancing techniques, but they've favoured the ones that don't involve chemicals. So what they do is they send up drones. These drones zap the clouds with an electric charge and it charges the droplets in the clouds. So the idea is they, or this

is a scientist is saying, what we are trying to do is make the droplets inside the clouds big enough so that when they fall out of the cloud they survive down to the surface. So they're making rain. Yeah. That's nuts. Because I'd heard of that way of, I think it's like silver-eyed dyed or something. Like a fertilizer.

You get up on a plane and fertilize the clouds. Yeah. Well, effectively. And it makes the water stick to it. And then it becomes so heavy that it's got to fall. Right. But so that now it's so it's statically charging them so that the water droplets start to stick together. And it worked too because there's a video of July 15.

Usually at this time of the year, they don't get any rain. And 41 degrees is the average. But they had a serious heavy downpour in the city after the drones went up and they've been mazat. How? That's sci-fi stuff, eh? That's nuts. So it's not like, it's not in the investigative stage.

They're doing it and it's raining. Did they tell people, hey guys, we're going to send the drones up today. There'll be some showers at three o'clock. No, you'd hope so because it wasn't like, it was like a heavy, heavy rain in the desert. Yeah, right. Right, yeah. Okay. I'm just reading an article that talks about how they don't like to do it with chemicals

anymore because it's chemicals. Because it's chemicals. Yeah. It can lead to acidification with chemicals anymore because it's chemicals. Because it's chemicals. It can lead to acidification of the oceans. Like acid rain. But I want to know how much voltage these little drones have to have. Can I see my drone up with a nine-volt battery on the back? I also like that the drones have, like, grumpy eyes.

You know, like they're, like, serious. They mean business. That just looks like a standard. That's a stock image, right? That's a stock image of a drone. That's not one of the drones. Well, I don't have like a charge. They haven't gone into details with it.

But I mean, they have drones that like have flamethrowers on them. Yeah. And can wash buildings. So like, yeah, drones are up there at that kind of capability. You don't want to get those two drones confused, do you? No. Send up the building cleaning drone. Send it on fire. God damn it, wrong drone.

Wrong drone. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Oh, Ipsos is an international market research company. Okay. I just thought I'd better check who ran this. Okay, you've got a list, a study. You don't want to be spreading study facts and then find out the Nazi party was...

You know, you're like, here's some interesting facts. And then you get to the bottom and you see it was released by the Nazi party. You get a little hot under the collar. You play the next song, Fletch, I've just spread Nazi propaganda. You've checked your sources. So this

was a study. The question was, what would you say are the three most important issues facing New Zealand today? And then there was a range of issues. Oh, housing is at number one. Absolute number one. Housing and the price of housing is at 53%. What did they say yesterday on the news? It's the biggest industry in New Zealand.

Yeah. Above anything. Above dairy, above farming, and what do they call that, agriculture? I'm just saying, what's that thing? No, well, yeah, if you break it down, it's bigger than dairy. Yeah, 100%.

And then there's the whole agriculture. The whole agriculture, the whole building, sector, everything. Very scary way to power your economy. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So, yeah, housing and the price of housing, 53% considered that. Okay. Yes. Yeah. So yeah,

housing and the price of housing, 53% considered that. Okay. Which is massive. It's like nearly twice its nearest competitor which is healthcare

and hospitals and inflation and the cost of living. That's 27%. So those are your three biggest issues facing New Zealanders at the moment.

Poverty and inequality and the economy coming next. Crime and law and order are next. And 21% people worried about crime and law and order are next. And 21% of people worried about crime and law and order. Obviously, big fans of the series and want to make sure it's going to continue to be coming back.

Climate change slips in next at 18%. Yeah. I would have thought with the eight 100-year floods we've had in one year alone, might have been slightly higher on the list. Yeah. Drug and alcohol abuse at 14%. Slightly ahead of public transport.

Oh, okay. Which is neck and neck. And if you are abusing alcohol, you should take public transport. Not take your own transport. Absolutely, yeah. And infrastructure, environmental pollution, water concerns, unemployment at 11%. Okay. Right down the list, racism and race relations.

Just ahead of education. Now, education could probably take care of a lot of that. It could do, yeah. Some of these things need to work together. Yeah. Household and personal debt at 8%, which ironically is a very low interest rate for personal debt. It is, yes.

Immigration and petrol prices are at 7%. Taxes at 6%. Issues facing Māori at 5%. Population and overpopulation, 3%. And 2% of people worried about terrorism. Oh, yeah. So those are the big issues. Does that kind of sit with where your worries are, Megan?

Yeah, well, I would have just said that all of those are a big deal. It's hard to be a politician. Yeah. Because they're like, these are all your issues. Okay, when do I start? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where do we start? We should start at the low one.

We'll tick off a couple of easy ones. Yeah, but choose the easy ones. Even the low ones. What's an easy one? Even the low ones. Nothing on that list is easy. Oh, God. Right, guys.

2% terrorism. I reckon we'll take care of that. Knock that one in half. From the vulnerable ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Welcome to the Top Six. A West Auckland couple winning $17 million. And a young couple.

Yeah. I don't, if I ever won Lotto, I would be like, you're not saying anything. I don't want them to know I'm young. I don't want them to know I'm a couple. I don't want them, like, you know, people come out and would be like, you're not saying anything. I don't want them to know I'm young. I don't want them to know I'm a couple. I don't want them, like, you know, people come out and they're like, we just, we just, we work at the local supermarket or the local bakery. Yeah. This is great for us.

No, shut up. Lotto want you to say all that. Could you just lie to Lotto and be like, I work at the bakery down the road. Do you know all I'd say? What? It was my first time buying a ticket. I just had a spare 20 bucks. No, I'd say this is my fourth time winning.

Oh, yeah. Because I also hate those people. Yeah. Oh, this is... What are the chances? Why does everyone come out of the woodwork? Oh, yeah. Good fun, though.

Messing with everybody. Oh. No, no. I don't want them to come out of the woodwork. They're asking for money. No, because they'd be asking you for money, wouldn't they? No. So I've got the top six things that this young West Auckland couple

will be spending their $17 million on. Because, you know. How young are they? Like, they could be 18. I know. Because I was like, if they were to say young, I would have been with them. Would they call us a young couple?

No. Because I am a young couple. You're a middle-aged couple. No, no, no. No, I wouldn't say young couple. Ouch. I mean, your husband is, but not you. I'm imagining high school sweethearts together,

mostly for the admin of a teenage pregnancy. Okay, right. I imagine like 20. It's West Auckland, but I'm allowed to say that because I live there. Yeah, okay. I live in outer West Auckland now, so I look down on these middle-aged. Oh, It's West Auckland But I'm allowed to say that Because I live there Yeah okay I live in outer West Auckland now So I look down on these Middle West

Oh whatever West Auckland I'm in North West North West But I have lived deep In the heart of Texas You literally drove to work This morning in a Honda Record

With no headlights Yeah please Give me some money Please Please Top six things The West Auckland couple Will spend their 17 million dollars

On number six Woodstock bourbons. Full sugar. Because now that they're rich, they don't need to watch their figure. So they've been drinking that sugar-free Woodstock bourbons. Does anybody else have a headache? I haven't. I don't think I've ever had one.

See, I would blame the amount that I drank, but I drank a four-pack. And then I had a headache. Ohpack. And you get a headache. Oh, really? I had a headache. Lightweight. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what they're sweetening it with.

Number five on the list of the top six things the West Auckland couple will be spending their $17 million on are new Ugg boots. Actual Ugg boot brand. Oh, yeah. Number one shoe version. Yeah. Or Kmart ones. Yeah, no, no, no. Kmart slippers. Oh, yeah.

Top of the line. They might go for an Emu even. Oh. Which is that bougie Australian brand too. Yeah, right. Lovely. It's not Ugg though, is it? Four-lined boot.

Not a synthetic wool. Mm. Mm. Number four on the list of the top six things the West Auckland couple will be spending their $17 million on. Matching hold-ins. And I can tell you the hold-ins that I've just looked on Trade Me and I searched hold-in.

And then I organised by most expensive. How much do you think the most expensive hold-in is? Do they sell them new anymore? No. They don't, hey? No, because they stopped making them. Has that made the price go up? Oh, collectors.

Yeah, they're collectors. Oh, I believe so. Nearly. The most expensive one? There is a 2018. $90,000. Huh?? Oh, collectors. Yeah, they're collectors. Oh, I believe so. Nearly. The most expensive one? There is a 2018. 90,000. Huh? 90,000.

Sweet child. Do the laces up on your rug boot sweater because they're about to be blown off. Oh. A 2018 Holden GTSR sedan auto. This has currently got 8,000 kilometres on the clock. Oh, okay. It's in Queenstown. Yeah.

$329,000. What? Are you kidding me? And up north in Whangarei, a 2017... Is it got a bootload of meth in it? Or gold? A 2017 Holden HSV Maloo,

which is like their posh utes. It's got 4,000 Ks on the clock. $319,000. So should I hold on to my 86 Barina or it'd be like a collector's item now? I don't know if it would. There's like one, two, three, four, five more that are over $250,000. And then the next ones are all like $230,000, $229,000. That's the thing though, you find a cashed out Bogan that's just one lotto.

They could buy all of these. They could. They could could buy all of these. They could. They could buy absolutely all of these. A $200,000 Holden from the year 2000. Wow. Lord, you could buy like 1,400. What's that one you've got? A Great Wall.

Seng Yong. A Great Wall. A Mahindra. You could buy a couple of Mahindras for the amount of money. Number three on the list of the top six things that West Auckland couple will be spending their $17 million on. They've got Holden, so they might as well put a sound system on them. Oh, yeah. Now, I did Google it, and I can't find the name of that sound system that had the little green alien.

Fusion. Fusion! Fusion sound system. Fusion sound system yeah fusion sound system now if you're not familiar with the early 2000s everywhere brand sweep of the sound system world that was fusion sound systems they had these little inflatable green aliens that were everywhere for a while they became synonymous with a sound system that could really make your car go because people used to keep the loudspeakers on the inside of their car but now they put them on sound system that could really make your car go boom, boom, boom.

Because people used to keep the loudspeakers on the inside of their car. But now they put them on the outside of the car for some reason and drive around. Does my head in. Why do they do it? We'll never know. Number two on the list of the top six things the West Auckland couple could spend their $17

million on, the Warriors. Oh, they could buy the Warriors? They could buy the Warriors. The whole Warriors. How much is the Warriors? I don't know what the Warriors franchise is currently valued at. Are they losing as per? Yep.

And they just lost Roger Tuivasi's shirt. Oh, yeah. I think he's got it. Oh, no, no. I've gone to the... I was like, $4.7 billion. That's the Golden State Warriors, the NBA team. Oh, yeah.

No, you're not buying them. Which might be worth a smidge more. And number one on the list of the top six things the West Auckland couple will be spending their $17 million on, a fancy meal and a night out at a local restaurant they love called McDonald's where they'll have the mega share meal.

Oh, yes. Where's my tab with the Mega Share Meal? I want to tell you what's in the Mega Share Meal. It's everything. How do you tell if a Westie's won Lotto? Yeah, they go through the drive-thru in a really loud Holden with the Fusion sound system cranking, and they're like, yeah, we'll have the Mega Share Meal.

No questions asked. Two Big Macs, two McChickens, two cheeseburgers, four medium fries, four medium soft drinks, and four regular sundaes. Baby. That is today's top six. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Just been furiously arguing here at work

because Jared, his producer Jared has listed hot dogs as his number one. His number one food of all time. His number one snack. Like that is outrageous. Of all time. He's allowed to choose his favorite. No, but hot dogs are great, yes, but they're not number one. Of all the foods in the world, madness.

Absolute madness. But you think you know someone. You argue tacos. Oh, tacos. Which I'm all for. Enchiladas, burritos, way better than a hot dog. You get more variety and more in them. Yeah.

I do feel a lot of pressure to pick a number one food. Like it's the only thing I'm going to eat forever. I'll probably need a couple of hours to pick a number one food. Yeah. Just run through a little, you know, one of those grids. You say top five. If you're fairly sure it's going to be one of your top five, this is also an approach to like hot celebrities.

You say, oh yeah, they're definitely top five. You don't have a specific top five because you're on the fly. Or maybe you say 10 because you feel like they might not be directly in the top five. Anyway, so there's been a study into some hot dog stats. Half of Americans think a hot dog falls into the sandwich bracket. It is so. But we talked about this. No, we talked about remember the diagram.

The square diagram. A sandwich has to fill the top. We've talked about this. Carbohydrates depending on where they fall have to be top and bottom. Yeah. So a sandwich has to be top and a bottom. Yeah. Otherwise if it's like a hot dog, it's more of a taco because

it's a U shape. Yeah, yeah. It's a carby taco. Otherwise, if it's like a hot dog, it's more of a taco because it's a U shape. Yeah, yeah. It's a carby taco. Anyway, they talked about the construction of the hot dogs. 75% of people put the condiments in the bun, then add the hot dog on top. I think that's what I do. I don't eat a lot of hot dogs. It's too bready for my liking.

I hate nothing. Beets are good. You put it on first because you don't want to risk it slopping off when you bite it. Yep, 100%. And then like if it's cheese, it like melts better if it's underneath. To me, it's a, oh, I don't mind the cheese on top, but I'll put cheese on top and cheese on the bottom. But like the

mustard in the sauce underneath because of the moustache. Yeah, right. Then I get it in, I get it too much in the moustache and people without a moustache just might get it smeared on the upper lip. So one in three people are the people that put it underneath say it's because of the mess. Yeah, right. Other people just say it just keeps it in there better.

Well, the key is to give the little sauce at the end a twist. A rotate. I've seen people do that too. You put it on top and then you twist the... Twist and rotate and then it goes a 360 degree... It ruins your perfect squiggle of sauce. You do like a little. If you're doing it for

looks. Ketchup was the overwhelmingly popular American choice for condiment. Way ahead of mustard, whereas mustard is always available. So I thought mustard would have been higher, but 63% of people said ketchup was their favourite. 27% said mustard.

See, I feel we should be more relating it to the bread and sausage. The New Zealand go-to. The butters. If you have onions, you put those on first. I'd put my sauce on under the sauce as well.

Because you don't want it going everywhere. But I like when you bite the sauce, you get the hit of sauce first. Rather than like the sauce is hidden underneath. How are you tasting though? Because it would be on your tongue. The top of your mouth doesn't have taste buds. No, but like it's kind of like hidden amongst everything else

if you put the sauce underneath. Well, I mean just wait half a second and then you'll taste the sauce. Like what's your problem? I wouldn't even say it's a half a second. I'd say it's at the same time. I'd say the time it takes to work around the sausage to the bottom of your mouth onto your tongue would be the same time that it would squeeze a bit out when you've bitten it if it's hidden under the sausage. Well, you can have your sausage however you like it.

That's how I like mine. They then asked further questions that identified if people prefer hot dogs over burgers, they're more likely to be picky eaters, single taskers and extroverts. How deep did it go? Like this is quite a deep look into what you prefer.

No, most people prefer a burger though, right? You go burger over hot dog every single time. Burger eaters consider themselves funnier. They think they get more laughs than their hot dog counterparts. Burger fans think they have an open

mind and they think they're responsible. Whereas only 46% of people who prefer hot dogs could fall into the same. It's true. It's accurate. Hot dog eaters don't want to talk about money, politics, or religion at family get-togethers. This is American, so it's not surprising.

Imagine you start answering a quiz because you think it's going to be a light jaunt into how you like your hot dog, and then it starts asking you what you don't like to talk to your family about. Do you think you're funnier than people who eat burgers? Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. I'm trying to pour the perfect drop of water because I've got a coffee ring on the desk.

Oh, I did that actually this morning. Wipe up. But I need like the perfect... Oh, you've got a paper towel. I've got a paper towel. Now I can afford... Now I'm going to put water on the paper towel. Well, you can clean the desk later, please.

The listeners are waiting. Oh, no. They just... They can't listen to me speak knowing I'll be looking at the entire time at a coffee ring. It's gone now, guys, so you'll be able to hear the professionalism in this next delivery of information.

There's been a study. It's NetSafe. NetSafe are doing their Net Safety Week. Because I walked out outside of our studios here and they were having a conference. Was that who was having the conference? They were having a white plastic chairs route and and they were having a conference. Was that who was having the conference? They were having a white plastic chairs route and they were all having a conference

about not being scammed by online things and being safe and stuff. They were having a conference about how to not be scammed. I don't know what. They're the people that should be conferencing us on not how to be scammed. I don't want them to have to learn.

They should already know. I don't know what it was about, but they were tea and biscuits. They had the big, they were gearing up. What do they call those big urns full of water that constantly keep it boiled? Oh, yeah. I don't know, just a catering big thing of water.

Yeah, like a zip. A zip, yeah. It's like a zip, but it's not wall mounted. It's full of coffee. Yeah. No, it's full of hot water. They can't put coffee in there. There's an element.

They expose the coffee to the element. I'd like to see them do it. They'd be burning. Yeah. Anyway, imagine if they did that. I couldn't take advice from people about net safety if they put coffee straight on an element in the big mobile urn. Anyway, kind of fake news is the big thing about net safety.

There's been different themes throughout. And there's been a study done, a survey done of New Zealanders. 16% of New Zealanders, 16%, one six, thought it was already illegal to knowingly share fake news. Oh, okay, no. So they thought, no, it's not. It's not. It's very much frowned upon.

And social media places, if it is identified as fake news and you try to share the link, will be like, you haven't read this. Yeah. And certain things tagged with certain hashtags automatically grab their attention as well. But people think it should

be a crime. 66% of New Zealanders think it should be a crime to spread fake news and three quarters think it should be illegal to create a fake profile online to misrepresent yourself. That should 100% be illegal. Because then you to create a fake profile online to misrepresent yourself. Oh, yeah, right. That should 100% be illegal.

Because then you could create a fake profile and share whatever fake stuff you wanted. Yeah. I was just more thinking create a fake profile so you could look at things that, you know, like maybe a little bit of background research on a possible future partner. Oh, yeah, right.

Okay. So you could stalk someone. So you could stalk someone. The only reason for a fake profile is like dodgy partner. Oh, yeah, right. Okay. So you could stalk someone. Lightly stalk someone. The only reason for a fake profile is like dodgy dealings. Yeah, yeah. Things that you probably shouldn't be doing. Shenanigans. Yeah.

60% think there should be a nationwide filter keeping illegal content out of New Zealand. And 66% of people surveyed thought resources for fighting cybercrime should be doubled. Yeah, wow. Given that it's so more prevalent now than it ever has been. Yeah. And has, you know, the people fighting against it,

has that increased as much? Yeah. I was reading in the UK one in seven scams, only one in seven get a conviction. Oh, wow. Wow, what? So like people that are scammed online, and what were the stats here of people that were scammed?

It was like thousands a year, like millions of dollars. Is it just too hard to track them down? Well, yeah, they just don't know where they're coming from. Oh, great. Did you know this was something that the People Survey did not? It is illegal online to download an app onto your partner's phone without their knowledge in order to track them. Right.

And I didn't know this was illegal. It's illegal to out someone's sexuality online without their permission. Oh, wow. That's good. That's good. I didn't know this was illegal. It's illegal to out someone's sexuality online without their permission. Oh, wow. That's good. That's good. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah.

Okay, well, happy Net Safety Week, guys. Be safe, please. Be safe on the net. I got messages. Maybe just for this week, don't send anyone your genitals. Why not? What's Net Safety Week? I mean, I'm not.

I don't want to. I'm meaning for everyone else. I'm grandstanding for everyone who wants to. Unless it's, you know, two-way consensual permissive genital sending. Sure. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Over the last year, New Zealand put on 300, oh no, sorry, 3 million collective kilograms.

The hell? Here's why, I'm a silver liners guy, here's why this isn't so bad. Okay. Children are growing. That's why, yeah. Oh. They put. Here's why this isn't so bad. Okay. Children are growing. That's why, yeah. Oh. They put on weight. They're getting bigger.

Done. And there's four and a half million New Zealanders. Yep. And it's only three million kgs. So there's less than a kg per person. Yeah, that's actually not when you think there's four and a half million. I fluctuate that much depending on how much water I drink. And if I'm rich, hey.

And it's big bones to weigh. They don't get any bigger I think they're rich That excuse is absolutely stretched as far as it's going to stretch So like, I don't I honestly, when I first saw it It shocked me, but now I'm like Actually that's not bad

Aye Unless It's counting all the old people that died. So, like, you think about the babies that are born. Yeah. They weigh way less than the old people that have died. Right. And then old people died.

You know what I'm saying? So, are they treating this like they're literally just weighing all of us and we've gained – because, yeah, if you're counting old people that are no longer here, that's a whole body. I think it's just taken generically across the board from like doctors and everything. But I know airlines do that survey every now, they have to redo it, right?

Do you remember in New Zealand was weighing people? Was it? Hilary Bowery. That's right, earlier this year. Yeah, yeah. She said it was all like private and everything, but it didn't feel great before getting on the plane. But they have to.

They have to like update it as to what the average weight of the New Zealander is because that's how they stack the planes and the luggage allowance and everything. They work out the takeoff weights. And if they're under and everyone on the plane's like over, that can lead to problems. So of the people who had reported in this to putting on weight. Oh, wait, hang on a sec. Did they ask people to be honest?

Like, did they say, did they call people? Were they asking people's weights? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's more than that. It's four million then, isn't it? Oh, right. You're saying everyone downplayed it a little bit.

Everyone like shaved off a couple. So the person, people who reported putting on weight said they gained an average of five and a half kgs. In the last year? Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.

So. Because I definitely put on some, but then I lost some. Yeah. So do I have to say now? Because I'm kind of zero. So I went up and then down. No, I was pregnant. So piss went up and then down. Now I was pregnant so piss off. You lost weight in one day.

You lost a lot of weight in one day. You just hang up on that person when they call. Yeah, hi, we're from Exercise NZ. We're doing a survey on how much weight you've put up over the last year. Just a minute. How many people started crying on the phone? Smash, smash, smash.

Sorry, you've got me mid-eating a pack of biscuits. Yeah. I'm screaming. It's the sourdough's fault. I wish I'd never got that starter. The ancient way of baking bread has cost me my waistline. So, yeah. You know what?

I don't think it's that bad. No. I think it's less than a cagey a person. If we spread it out, there might be some upers, there might be some downers. Yeah. Let's average it out. I mean, yeah, collectively, we've dealt with a lot too.

Yeah. Can't be judged. Yeah, nah. Are we still the third fattest nation though? Oh, we are. Good. Okay. Yep.

That's a bronze. And speaking of the Olympics. Headed to our middle tally. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Olympics. Headed to our middle tally. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Olympics. The 412th Olympics. The Olympiad. They always say, when they say the number, they always say Olympiad afterwards.

Lots of stuff happening today. But before that, we'll just recap where we're at. We got our first medal yesterday. Oh, yeah. In the Trier. Do you see him on the news? Hayden. Hayden Wild. Absolutely. Good bit of sportsmanship Oh, yeah. In the Trier. Do you see him on the news? Hayden. Hayden Wild.

Absolutely. Legend. Good bit of sportsmanship afterwards, too, because that Norwegian chap at Istanbul. What an absolute rookie era wearing all white.

I know Norway's got some. White and red. Is that Norway? Yeah, it's red and blue and white, isn't it? The cross? Who's the sexy beach volleyball squad with the blue and yellow? That's Sweden. Ah, that's red and blue and white, isn't it? The cross? Who's the sexy beach volleyball squad with the blue and yellow?

That's Sweden. Ah, that's Sweden. Sweden's blue and yellow. They're not being sexualised. Worn, thank you very much. We were literally just talking about the handball team and their small uniforms. I didn't say males or females.

I said there's a nation on a whole. They're a sexy nation. You said who's the sexy volleyball team? Oh, I've got the Norway flag here. It's white, blue and red. But anyway, the guy that won the triathlon was wearing mostly all white. And you can see his blue knickers. Because he got all sweaty.

Because it's like 40 degrees over there. At least he was wearing undies. I know. And like, I don't know if white undies would have cut it. Because he was sweated through those too. Yeah. Imagine you're winning the triathlon and everyone can see you. Bits and pieces.

Yeah, you're batting. Now the skateboard, the surfing happened. So there's a typhoon apparently that's meant to hit today. And that's caused a few of the events of surfing was brought forward. Yeah, the surfing wasn't great waves. I only know that because the commentator was like, not great conditions. I was like, oh, okay, yeah, it looked like boogie boarding weather to me.

So rowing and the archery, could you imagine archery in a typhoon? That's been moved. But event organisers are saying it's unlikely to cause much disruption and the forecast is typhoon has been downgraded. Right. Okay, well, that's good.

And the skateboarding happening, someone absolutely smashed their genies on a bar. But also, I've noticed a few of those skateboarders aren't wearing helmets. I don't want to sound like a safety dad over here. You do sound like a safety dad. Let's get some helmets on some heads. There's a box that gets worn in cricket.

There's like a known injury that happens. But you can't see the box in cricket, Megan. Whereas if you wear a helmet, it's uncool, isn't it? No, I'm meaning like when you hit a bar. No, she meant an actual box for skateboarding. Oh, right. In case you land on a bar. You hit your genies.

To protect it. No, I'd probably just push it on with such force it would suction it and get it off of me. And you'd get one of those blood blisters. Yes. Imagine that. Ouch. Other things, the Black Sticks won last night. I don't want to jinx it, but I think the female, our female hockey team, the Black Sticks,

might win the gold medal. Really? Jinx it? Don't say that. Beat Argentina, who are number two in the world. Beat Japan. Came back to win against Japan. That was a late night.

I watched a little bit of a recap online this morning. Yep. That's good stuff. I don't want to jinx it, but I think they're going to win. Okay. People in action today. Eyes to the pool for Erica Fairweather, who's 17, from Kavanaugh College, representing Dunedin and New Zealand beautifully.

And the whole school was watching it yesterday. How cool was that? She's a legend. She's back in the pool today for the 200-meter freestyle. And so she came eighth in the medal race yesterday. Yeah. And beat her personal. Did she beat her personal time?

Yes. Yes. Isn't that amazing? We've got two triathletes going at it today. Ainsley and Nicole are the New Zealand triathletes. That starts the earliest at 9.30. All Blacks 7. Some more All Blacks 7s on today.

As I said, Erica Fairweather in the pool. The Black Sticks men are playing hockey this afternoon. Court to three. Then we've got some sailors. Maloney and Meech. And Sam Meech. I'm guessing he's the Mee sailors, Maloney and Meech, and Sam Meech. I'm guessing he's the Meech from Maloney and Meech,

so he's doing a back-to-back. Okay. No, that can't be the same Meech. That's only 10 minutes apart. He wouldn't have time to get out of the boat and get into another boat. Well, he might just stay

in the same boat. He just kicks one guy out and he turns around and goes back. Yeah, he pushes him out. Maybe. Boxing. David Nayeka. Sorry, I mispronounced that.

He's got boxing today. Some more boats. You've got your Burling and Tuke combo. God, they're just everywhere they're sailing, aren't they? Those two. And Josh Jr. as well, sailing. Maybe they'll fish a few plastic bottles out while they're there. They love doing that.

Keeping the oceans clean as well. Love an ocean. Luca Jones is back in the kayak today. That's when the news is on, so hopefully they do one of those things where they interrupt the news. I bet they will. I hope they do. I hope they do. Oh, that'll be something new for Simon Dallow.

What? To do something new? He did a live cross yesterday and he nailed it, didn't he? He's a professional. He's a professional. The Football Ferns play tonight and Zach Reid is doing the 800 metre freestyle at like 20 past 11 tonight. I'll be asleep. I'll be asleep.

Yeah, me too. But you can probably watch us do the 800 metre freestyle. They're so quick. Yeah. You can watch a highlight of that in the morning. So Kiwis are out there chasing the glory, chasing the gold. And one medal for us so far. And it's a bronze.

Also, there's three-on-three basketball today. We don't have a team in it, but what is it, like half court? Sounds like a radio station promotion outside a fast food outlet. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. This was raised on the New Zealand subreddit. And it's absolutely, everyone's split on it. But what are your thoughts on putting late night bag drops in a neighbour's unfilled bin? Or putting rubbish in your neighbour's bin?

So late night's a dangerous game. Why? Because they might have another bag to put in it in the morning. If you're going to fill it up. No. They might have another bag to put it in the morning. I cannot believe how divided people are over this. Yeah. Like, it is,

we've run our own poll on our Instagram, FEMZM. It's what? 59? 51% said yes, it's okay, and 49% said no. I don't know. Because what do we all think? It's okay, right?

I think it's okay. I think it's like you're a rate payer, right? Or you're renting. Like all these bins are provided by the councils, right? No. No. Not always. Our bins, we have to pay for our rubbish bins.

Yeah. Is that a West Auckland thing? It's a Northwest thing. Yeah. Really? Like because in the city, everyone gets a bin and you just fill it up. So if yours is filled and the neighbours put theirs. Really? Well, because in the city, everyone gets a bin and you just fill it up. So if yours is filled and the neighbours put theirs... Really?

Well, I want a rates rebate. Right, that's it, council. If your neighbour's bin's half empty, why not put some in there? It's all going to go to the same place. Who cares? Actually, I never thought about it because we have like a medium-sized bin that you pay, you know, for a different amount for different sizes. Yeah.

But if we had filled it up and you go and chuck it in someone's big bin, they might get quite annoyed because they're paying less. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm like, it's when you're walking with your dog as well and you get like a poo bag and I'm like, is it okay to put it in their bin if bins are out that day? If the bins haven't been picked up yet, but don't put it in an empty bin. It's such a douchebag thing to do because then that person is going to, they might have it

by their house, they might be a clean bin person and you've got to stick a gum poo in there. Yeah. But like if you've had like a big night and then someone's got their recycling out and you're like, it's not full and you know it's about to be picked up. Oh, we've all done that. You've got to put stuff in there, right? Do it, yeah.

I wouldn't care if someone did that to my bins. I'm done with them. They're out there ready to be picked up. If there's space, we can have that. Who's still rocking, what parts of the country are still rocking recycling that was just those little tubs? Oh, a few, a few places.

They were awful. You had to precariously balance all your bottles on the top. Yeah. But now we're recycling so much, most places have a little wheelie bin. Yeah. I mean, as long as you're putting, some Yeah. I mean, as long as you're putting some of the concerns were as long as

you're putting the right thing in the bin, so like you're not putting rubbish in the recycling bin, that would cause it to not get picked up. That's a problem. And also, if you're putting something in somebody else's bin, there's a bin etiquette to it of like, it's got to be in a bag, it's got to be tied up, it can't be juicy.

Oh yeah, because you don't want to juice someone else's bin. You can't juicy up somebody else's bin. Yeah. It's got to be contained in a bag or something. You can't make it overflow. No, the lid's still got to be able to shut. Yeah. Because when the lid's not shut

that's when the guy driving the truck gives it a second look. And he won't pick it up. Yeah, he might not pick it up if there's something. Yeah. Somebody said lots of parts of Wellington still got the small tub for glass and there's a wheelie, but you can only put plastic and paper in the wheelie. Oh, that's ridiculous. Glasses in its own little tub.

Edmund Cetra. The thing with the lid should have glass in it. Yeah. The glass should be lidded. Just get the whole thing in the bin, Wellington. Sort it out. Yeah. One bin.

One bin to rule them all. Yeah, but then they've got to sort it at the other end, don't they? It's a problem. Yeah. That's a lot of admin. Saving this planet's not going to be easy. It's not easy, is it, saving the planet? It really isn't.

ZM's Flesh Warner Megan. Play ZM. Is itch Warner Megan play ZM this is so brutal so brutal there's a girl on TikTok and she has been absolutely roasted

I'll let her explain the story when you're absolutely done with the whole dating thing so tonight is been the last straw. I've had a date planned for the last week and arranged to go bowling. He was coming to pick me up. He was a little bit late, so I waited outside.

He says, right, I'm pulling up. You've got to get in my car. And he speeds off. Speeds off. Off he goes. Leaves you there. No explanation, no nothing. Imagine how you'd feel after that.

I didn't know she was trying to get in the car. I thought he just tried to drive by. I was like, not for me. I didn't know that he stopped and she went to get in the car. And he's like, vroom. You just go on the date, right? Like, yeah, just go bowling. Can you just, like, put yourself in that scenario?

I know. Like, you, I would, there's no way I'd go on TikTok and be like, this happened to me. She had a wee giggle. I think maybe she's ready to laugh about it. Maybe. Because when that happened, like, wouldn't you just want to cry and hide? Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. That is so ruthless. Who was that person? I'll tell you about the first date I went on, guys. I took a girl to a wood-fired pizza place. Oh, here we go. At least she went. She did.

She went. She sat through it. Yeah. She didn't come back, though, did she? Somebody just messaged in. Text to the studio. Girls need to try being an ugly guy. That's pretty standard.

What? Oh, no. Oh, no. That's so sad. I've never done that to a guy. Just want to put it out there. What, really? They just walk away or just not, like, go and meet them and then just turn around?

No way. I don't know. Also, you're going on a date with someone, like, you've seen their photos, right? But are they, like, heavily misrepresented themselves? Or used old photos? The person, you know, might not be after too much. How much different can they really look?

You know, like, you're still getting a vague idea, even if they have done good lighting and stuff. And even if they're not, like, you get there and you're like, oh, maybe not. I've changed my mind. You're still going to just have a drink, right? Or go for dinner in there, or bowling. Well, if you've been having chat with're still going to just have a drink, right? Or go for dinner or bowling. If you're having a chat with them, you can

struggle through a chat, right? But we all know that personality brings people up several notches in the hotness scale anyway. I couldn't imagine doing that to someone. Or just being on the receiving end of that. It's so brutal. So brutal. I mean, the texts have already started coming in, but I thought

we could see how brutal people were on first date. Yeah, how savage was someone on a first date? Maybe you were on the reset. No one's going to call up and say, oh, yeah, I went to pick someone up and kept driving. Ghosted them. I mean, unless, is it fair if somebody catfished you? Yes.

That you keep driving? Is that acceptable? Yes. But I mean, how bad are you being catfished? Is it just like a good photo or? I don't know. I just, this is so brutal. Like one of your Facetune specials?

I can't, excuse me, I don't use Facetune. But catfishing is like they never want to meet up. No, yeah. They've always got excuses to not meet up. So 0800DARLS.M, we want to take your calls now. You can text as well. 9696. How savage was someone on the first date?

Has this happened to you? Someone's just turned around and left. Or you've heard of this happening. Give us a call. So a woman on TikTok has recounted her date that, well,

it didn't really happen because he drove off. She went to get in the car. Yeah, when he saw her. We want to know how savage someone has been on a first date. Did she get her hand on the door handle? That's hard because then she'd be like, whoa, we're moving.

And she might have thought he was doing that funny thing where you're like, jump in, and then you pull forward a metre and they have to keep going for it. We want to know how savage someone has been on a first date. We got some responses on Instagram. We asked. Fruity Lynn said, they sat a seat away

from me in the cinema. They left a buffer. No! They left a buffer. That's... They left a buffer. See, okay, so if the movies were empty

and you're going with a friend, you'd leave a buffer. Yeah. Like if we were going, we'd leave a buffer, right? No, we sat beside each other the last time. No, but they were bigger seats.

Oh, they were bigger seats. Oh, they were small seats. Yes, normal seats. And there was room, I'd probably leave a buffer. Yeah, what if you were with your wife? This is obviously pre... No, we'd sit next to each other. You'd sit next to...

Of course you would. If I was going with my friend, I'd sit next to each other. If the whole movie cinema was empty and normal seats... Yeah, because then how are we like... Oh, no, but if it's empty, you can talk across the gap. This way you can spread out. No, I'd absolutely sit beside her. If it's non-allocated seating

and it's an empty cinema, you spread out, baby. Yeah. Make the most of that space. Ash messaged on Instagram as well saying, first day was he told me he was taking me out

for dinner. When he picked me up, we ended up going through a drive-thru and then just back home again and I can tell that wasn't his initial plan. No, okay.

Hey, you still got dinner though. No. Hey, you still got dinner though. Yeah. I hope you got large fries. Kept telling me how hot my best friend at the time was. Oh, yep. And Monty Fittimont said on their first date, someone completely took for granted

a wood-fired pizza. That's a guy who's playing my tune. Yeah, right. Okay, some text messages in as well. On savage first dates. This one, like, shocks me, but doesn't surprise me. Well, it does. Yeah.

But that's maybe a good reflection upon who I surround myself with. On a first date with a guy, it was all going well. Conversation kind of got to our families and backgrounds. He found out I was a Maldi and then stood up, walked out and excused himself. The date was going great. Excused himself from the date. That's madness. And the only thing was that

the only thing that had changed is he had found out my ethnicity. But like chatting to her on the dating app, he was all about it. Loved the photos. Obviously wanted to go on a date and then wouldn't. Yeah. That's really wild. Yeah.

Crazy. Emma, what happened? What was your savage first date? So I turned up on the date and the guy gave me this real, like, pathetic handshake. And then he said that he was going to go grab a drink from the bar. And I never saw him.

He ghosted you after a pathetic handshake? Yeah. It was real, like, weak. You know, like, this is a real pathetic handshake. It was like touching of the fingertip. Did he miss? Because, you know, sometimes I go in for a handshake and you miss and then they just grab the end of your fingers and they're like, no.

No, no. He kind of like was like looking away, but like going through the motions. And I was like, what's up? And then he said he was going to go grab a drink from the bar and I never saw him. Oh, my God. And how long did you leave it when you were at the bar? Were you like, okay, he's definitely not coming back?

Um, because like the bar was away from me so I couldn't see it. So it was probably about 15 minutes. I just assumed that, um, oh this guy may be a lion or something. And then I was like, okay he's not coming back. And you never heard from him again? No, no. It was really strange.

Oh my god, savage. So for anybody going on a date with Emma, good hard handshake. Yeah, get a good hard handshake. Thanks Emma. Uh, Andrew, it was really strange. Oh, my God, savage. For anybody going on a date with Emma, good hard handshake. Yeah, get a good hard handshake. Thanks, Emma. Andrew, you had a savage first date. Yeah, yeah, I can talk about it now because it's 21 years later. Wait, Andrew, there was still a crack in your voice there, buddy. Hey, come on.

Hey, yeah, so I invested a good three, four weeks in talking on the phone, you know, hours long and everything, and we decided we'd meet up for the first time and go to the movie. And I even wore my brand-new USA hoodie back in the day. Oh, yeah, Russell Athletics, baby. What colour was it? It was dark blue. Oh, yeah, Navy safe.

How could you not like that? Yeah, exactly, right? So How could you not like that? Yeah, exactly, right? So we sat down at the movie, and I thought, you know, this is going really good. I'm pulling out the good jokes, and she's kind of laughing, and I'm like, this is cool. And then she was like, hey, I need something else other than just a popcorn and drink. She was like, do you want a choc top? And I was like, this girl's for me.

I love me a choc top. And I was like, orange choc chips. And she was like, that's my fave too. And I was like, this is awesome for me. I love me a choc top. And I was like, orange choc chip. And she was like, that's my fave too. And I was like, this is awesome. This is meant to be. And yeah, basically by the time the trailers were over, I was like, well, she's going to miss some of the movie. And probably with about 15 minutes of movie left to go and about 10 text messages,

I realised that she's not coming back. Oh, Andrew. Andrew, that's heartbreaking. You wore your new hoodie and everything. She still didn't come back. She's gone. How do we know she wasn't abducted, Andrew? Like, this is one of those cases where I'm confused. Did you ever hear from

her ever again? Never, never. No text back, no nothing, but I um see her two years later um in the supermarket with a little baby in the pram uh so she made someone happy that's your baby no they didn't get to that but i don't know i thought that was tradition before the chalk top you always what what if i'm on top What if her card declined and she felt so embarrassed she had to leave? Well, it couldn't have hurt any more than it hurt me at the time, Fletch. Andrew, sweet, sweet Andrew.

What about now, Andrew? Are you loved up? I've never had a chocked up since. Go! ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. We are joined on the phone by the author of 138 Dates, Rebecca Campbell. Good morning.

Good morning. My first question is, are you bankrupt? It depends in what way. No, no, I'm not. I'm very happy and not bankrupt, thank you. Okay, because if you're paying for all of those, I would be. Yeah. It's a lot of energy, isn't it?

So, like, you had a business, and you hadn't had a date for 10 years, and you decided to just really crack into it. And what was the idea? Just go on as many dates as you could possibly handle? Sure, yeah. I mean, like you said, I hadn't been on a date in 10 years. I just really focused on

work and I had some grief in my past and I just got stuck. And then I was like, I woke up, it was Christmas morning. I was in fun that I remember being in a garage of some friends of my parents and it was Christmas. And I was just like, I'd always imagined I was going to have a family, kids running around at Christmas. And that obviously wasn't going in that direction. I was 34 and a half. So I was like, right, I need to do something. The idea was just, okay, if I put myself out there one date every week for a year, you know, I'll learn a whole lot. And hopefully I'll find the one, you know, 152 is pretty, I was like, that's better chances than the bachelorette. Yeah. So you developed some, like, tips to help yourself.

Like, you had a dating sales funnel. So how you funneled down guys to get to the one that you were going to go on a date with. Can you talk us through that? Sure. I mean, I learned so much as I started because I started with knowing nothing. And then I kind of worked out quite quickly,

you know, I'm a sick. The second date was pretty bad. And I was quickly, you know, I'm a sick, the second date was pretty bad. And I was like, you know, I can't waste. It was kind of awkward for both of us. And I was like, I could have probably come up with a better filtering system so that I don't have this kind of experience again. And so that, you know, of my 52 dates I'm going to go on, they're the kind of all the best shots possible.

And so I started with just eHarmony and then I added Tinder and classes and asking friends and so on. And then I built a bit of a formula where during the week I would message people. On Sunday, I would set up screening calls, like phone calls. Like job interviews, like a job interview. Kind of. But they didn't know it. And then screening calls is a great way to, you know,

work out whether your values are aligned and whether you can have something to talk about. And then I'd try to choose one or two to go on a date with every week. So you actually talk to them on the phone? Yes. Oh. So 138 dates. But how many people began the funnel?

The pre-filtration process? I don't know. Probably thousands. I don't know how many I am messaging and stuff. Would a guy on Tinder holding a large fish get into the funnel? No. No. Right, so the fish was in. I kind of learned how to filter those. I was like, no guys

with, you know, sitting next to sports cars or with their shirts off or anything like that. And they were going to look like nice, genuine people. Okay. I love your tips for your guidelines for phone calls as well. One of them is

leave a space, leave a pause in the conversation and see how they go about filling it, whether they need to or... Yeah, important because you don't want

to end up at dinner or having a drink with someone there's nothing to talk about and that's really awkward and you've got to work so hard to fill the space. And they're probably not a good match.

So it was a bunch of things I learned to ask on those calls. I just panic and think you had a terrible phone provider that cut the line. What are your other guidelines for the phone calls? Because I think these could work for dates as well, like physical dates. Oh, sure. I mean, I think one thing that I did learn was like I wanted to find someone who had similar values to me. And so I found the best diagnostic question for that

was to ask why do they do what they do for a living? So, you know, it's not really like what you do, but it's like, why do you do it? Have you thought about it? And are you passionate about something? My husband in the end who I met was a teacher and he talked a beautiful story about why he became a teacher and what he was passionate about, you know, instilling in kids.

And it was like, oh, this is a really good person. And, you know, he's thought about what he's doing and, yeah. Wow. At what stage of the year, like what number date was your husband? He was 138. That's awesome. The idea was when you found the one, like what number date was your husband? He was 138. That's why the idea was when you found the one, you stopped. Yes, you found the one, I found the one.

I knew straight away when I found him that he was the one. I mean, there was so much that I learnt. I'd say it was a lot about becoming the right person, not just finding the right person. It was probably 50-50. It was a massive amount of personal growth that I documented through that time. Are you worried about

the ego you've given this man? You've written a book literally about how he was the end of the game. He was. He's happy with the book, I guess. I bet he is. Because Fletch always jokes about how you waste money on a date that doesn't go anywhere, but you're just talking about

personal growth within yourself as well. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I definitely, I don't know if I'd met Rod before, you know, during the process before I'd kind of become someone who, I spent like early on, I spent a lot of time second guessing what men would want and trying to kind of change myself, you know, or act like in a particular way or talk down what I was doing for work or, you know, all that kind of stuff because you're not sure what people want. And then, you know, through the process, I just became like I was exhausted and everything, but I also just became really comfortable with myself.

And so, you know, when we met, I was really authentic and we had quite a deep conversation. He was really himself and, you know, we really connected. But had I not gone through that I don't know I don't know if he would have been someone that might have you know I probably would have still found him attractive but he might have been one of the people that disappeared on me I don't know you always think it's gonna be something groundbreaking the way to find love but like just be yourself and put yourself out there is what you're saying, right? Yes, but I'd say that's easier to say than it is to do. I kind of figured that out much earlier than I was able to do it.

It's a process. It's not just like knowing to be yourself. Percentage-wise, Rebecca, what do you reckon like dates, how percentage of dates that were douchebags? I mean, the screening course is a really good way to get, you know, to filter out douchebags. There was a lot on the screening calls that were not, like. Rebecca, what about, like, it's quite well known that young people

don't like answering the phone. They're scared of phone calls. They don't like talking on the phone. Is there another way around that? You know, I mean, maybe Zoom. I don't know. But I think if you're looking for a hookup, then sure, just go and meet someone.

But if you're looking for an emotional relationship and you're looking for someone else who's looking for an emotional relationship, you know, a serious relationship, and if you're, you know, talking to someone online and you want to find a serious relationship, then if they want a serious relationship, they're going to be willing to talk to you on the phone.

So if they're not willing to talk to you on the phone, they're probably not the right, you know, the right match. Yeah. Well, it's called 138 Dates, the true story of one woman's search for everything. Thanks so much for talking to us, Rebecca. Thanks so much, guys. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan.

The story about what I want to talk about, there's some way of cleaning your dishwasher. You know, you get those little videos on the side. Restart. No, it's gone to the next video. Stupid pop-up videos. Now I'm angry. I really want to know what was in that little Pyrex though.

She put the Pyrex in, jug side, like not upside down, but right side up. But there was something in the Pyrex that was going to clean the dishwasher. Yeah, right. We can research that later, maybe. No, I'm done with it now. On to the next thing.

Apparently, engagement watches are a new thing. So this isn't where you propose to someone. Instead of giving them a ring, you give them a watch. So there's been a 42% increase. This is from a 2021 wedding report. In searches for couple engagement and wedding watches. So couple watches, engagement watches, wedding watches.

Is that because the watches are cheaper? Nah, because some people want really bougie watches. A lot of them said, yeah, instead of an engagement ring, I'd have a Rolex. And like, I mean... How much of the Rolex? Well, I just did a wee shop in Google. The cheapest one I can find is 7,100,

but then the most expensive one that pops up here is 135,000. So. Whoa, for a watch. And you can't even go to Thailand at the moment because of the pandemic just to get one that looks like a proper one. Yeah. A rip-off one. They're so expensive.

But it's like anything I see, I just think it's a rip- off if I see someone wearing it. Yeah. It's so funny. There's a photo of a guy who got proposed to by his girlfriend. So she took charge there and proposed to him with an engagement watch. And he's like holding up his wrist. Like, you know, when you get engaged and you show your ring and the guy's like sitting there, he's holding up his wrist. Yeah. Like this this is my watch. And she's, like, got her hand on her shoulder. Yeah. It's just a weird dynamic shift that you're not used to seeing in photos.

And so, yeah, she proposed to him and he got the engagement watch. But then somebody else got proposed to him and they got, like, an engagement G-shock. Now. It's got to be, like, a forever watch. Because you couldn't get a smart watch Because they date Like obviously

They get outdated Like after a few years Yeah you gotta get Like a classy timepiece Don't you Yeah like a metal one That you can kind of Have forever

And just get fixed You see movie stars In like magazines Leonardo DiCaprio Does he do watches What's the one he does I can't even pronounce it Tag Heuer

Tag Heuer Tag Heuer Right okay Tag Heuer. Tag Heuer. Tag Heuer. Right, okay. Tag Heuer. Have you never watched Yachting? There's one here called a Frédéric Constant. And that's a same-sex couple got each other matching engagement watches. Okay.

And they're quite like, yeah, like a classy timepiece. Because I got Andrew an engagement watch after he proposed to me. Right. And that's because I felt bad because guys don't get engagement rings. And I was like, well, that's not fair. Was he sulking? No, no, no. I didn't do anything.

So I did like a little faux proposal and gave him an engagement watch. Because I was like, well, that's only fair. Right. Yeah, that's as yuck as I imagined it. I need another book. Give me that book bag. I need to re-throw it. Oh, man. It is as yuck as I imagined it. I need another book. Give me that book bag. I need to re-throw it. Go again.

It is as yuck as I imagined. You're such a dick. I set up a little fake proposal. Dave Mizwatch. I said a faux proposal, not a fake one. A faux proposal? A faux-posal? A faux-posal.

Oh, that's what they're now called when people redo their proposal for photo purposes. A faux-posal. So we're asking our Instagram, what do you think of engagement watches? Rachel replied, some replies before we get to the votes. Rachel said, I got a ring. He got an engagement mountain bike. I like that. That's cool.

I like how practical that is. But does that mean he has to have that forever? He can't upgrade his mountain bike. But I like that. Or does he slowly upgrade it? As a couple, you've spent so much on the ring. Like, it's only fair that they would get something, right? Because, like, otherwise, what do they get?

Claire, with a very similar story to yours, no mention of a faux proposal. I bought my husband an engagement watch. He proposed with a ring, and I thought he should get a nice piece of jewellery to commemorate our relationship as well. Yeah. So I got him a nice watch.

Okay. Yeah. Gosh, all these progressive women. Aren't we great? Getting out there. Well, it's vinegar in the jug. That's what somebody just messaged in. They said that pop-up video the other day.

Yeah, right. It's white vinegar in the jug. Poll results. What? The poll results. Oh, my God. Have you put vinegar in a jug to clean your dishwasher? No. pole results what? the pole results for the oh my god have you put vinegar in a jug to clean

your dishwasher? no engagement watches would you do it yeah or nah 85% of people said nah they're thinking

in lieu of a ring right? because the photo we did have a male and female both wearing watches so the females still want the rings

I still want a ring you can give me a watch as well or maybe they were just imagining how yuck that faux prose was that you did. I would throw the book at you, but there's buttons in front of you and I'm not sure what they'll hit.

They do nothing. Throw the book. ZDM, Splash, Vaughn and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, tay. Today's fact of the day, and for the rest of the Olympic Games, Olympic fact of the day. Oh, good. And I learned this last week, or week before last.

No, last week, and have you been paying attention? We had special guests, Eric Murray and Barbara Kendall Murray and Barbara Kendall, both of which have won gold medals. Barbara bought her gold medal in and I said, she said, oh yeah, this is the 92, this is the one I won in 92. Oh wow. And I said, no, this is a silver medal. And she said, it's not. It's a gold medal. It's just been touched by so

many people they've rubbed the gold plate off. What? I'd be taking it back for a, Can they re-dip it? Like a re-posing? A re-dip. I don't know if you could take it into like Pasco's or Michael Hill and be like, can I get a re-dip? Oh, that would be so annoying. So, yeah,

the front, there's two parts to the metal she had specifically, had a silver back that was the majority of the metal. It was larger. And on the front, it had like a coin, like a big coin stuck to it. That's the gold part.

Yeah. The back part, which provided most of the weight and the oomph of the metal, was silver, but gold-plated. And she just said it's been touched so much over the 29 years? Yeah. Since 1992? That people have rubbed the gold plating off.

Wouldn't you put it in a case or lock it away? But she's just wearing it out all the time. See, I'd be wearing it. She got a bronze too. Now, I'd be taking the bronze out and showing people, but the gold would probably be staying at home. Less impressive. I think Matty McLean was standing it on Celebrity Treasure Island.

Well, he's not here to prove himself to Barbara. No. No. But it is today's fact of the day. Since 1912, gold medals have mostly been made of silver at the Olympic Games. You're lying too. Now, you may remember, because these games were delayed a year because of COVID, and now massive restrictions due to COVID,

but you may remember in the lead up too, Japan was asking everybody for all of their old electronics that may contain gold because they wanted to make all the medals from recycled electronics. Well, they did that. So 80,000 tons. So every ton is a thousand. So 80,000 times a thousand. That's a lot.

Are you saying there could be some gold in my blender? Eight million kilograms? Some gold in my microwave? Nah, mostly things with screens. Oh. Like old phones and stuff. Okay. So they were recycled, melted down and made into the medals for the Tokyo Olympics.

Yep. The gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics weighs 556 grams. Is it block of butter? Six grams of which is gold. Oh, okay, right. So 550 grams of other junk. So cheap. So, but if it was pure gold at 556 grams,

each medal would cost $32,000 just in gold alone, not the manufacturing or anything of that taken into consideration. Okay. Probably a good thing because you wouldn't want to be an Olympic athlete and then you get down on your luck and you have to sell your gold medal to cash converters. Melt it down. I'd take a chunk out and get a tooth.

That'd be cool. And then melt the rest out and sell it. So today's fact of the day is since 1912, the Olympics gold medal has not been a purely gold medal. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan Now Depends Depends

The adult nappies people I didn't buy Depends They were hefty liners This is post pregnancypregnancy. No, this is, that's postpartum pads. It's just a thing, isn't it? It's often not spoken about. It's not.

It's not, because I was unaware. Yeah, it feels like that should be one of the things. Yeah, and you said, you were like, don't the hospital give you stuff? And I was like, they give you a couple, but like. Whenever I go to a public hospital, I help myself to a lot of stuff. I'm like, taxpayer, taxpayer, coming through, taxpayer, coming through.

They love that. Now, I don't know if depends, and the reason they conducted some research, I don't know if it was because they were finding more online orders than in-store, because what did you, did you buy? So I did have to go and buy some hefty pads, but I went to the self-serve checkout because I was embarrassed. And I went to the very corner one,

and then I tried to like hide them with my other groceries. And just hope like hell that somebody put the correct weight into the system. Oh my God. And then it's like bing, bing, bing. Well, no, they researched, and they found that 89% of people would opt to spend more money online so that they wouldn't feel embarrassed buying it in person. So even if it was cheaper in the supermarket or the pharmacy or wherever,

people would much rather do it online, even with self-serve checkouts. Yeah, I get that. Isn't that nuts? Weird. So just over half, 51% of people that they talk to, say the items they purchase in-store that embarrass them, including period cups, laxatives, incontinence products, and condoms and lube.

I was even embarrassed to buy pregnancy tests at the supermarket. I don't know why. I don't know if it was embarrassment or I didn't want anyone judging me. Do you think Women's Day are going to be there? No, no. Because I used to linger in that area. Four across. What radio announcer was seen buying pregnancy tests this week?

And then I'd quickly swipe it off and race off and then at the checkout, yeah, I'd hide again. But where else would you buy it? Yeah, I don't know. Like pharmacy? But that would be, you've got to talk to the person. Self-serve checkouts are the greatest invention for embarrassing things. Yeah.

Because what did you have to do before that? Put it in a big pile of, like, your weekly shopping. Nah. Just hope they didn't see. No shame. Why are people embarrassed buying condoms? I don't know. It's just anything to do, like, it's a personal product.

Yeah. I don't know. Right. Why are you embarrassed buying pregnancy tests? I'm more embarrassed if you go to the supermarket and you buy the little lube because if you work it out, price per 100 grams, you're getting ripped off. Go for the big lube. That's just a price per 100 grams.

You've got to buy that. No, but if you're buying the big lube, everyone's like, okay. Like, what are you doing? Well, no, I'm just planning ahead for the next five years. Well, you never know when the next lockdown is. A litre of lube is a good bulk buy investment. Absolutely. 12 pack of toilet paper.

Does it expire? Big tub of ass. It could do you for a lifetime. I know. I don't know. Maybe it does expire. I don't know. But I thought, if you're listening,

is there anything that, as an adult adult you're still embarrassed to buy? Because I know even people buying too much junk food might be embarrassed by it. Yeah. Because you definitely get judged. But I just feel like at the South Sea Checkout, I mean, people can still see. They could still look. Yeah. But they're not really looking, are they?

There's not a person there that can judge you. There's a corner one and you block it off and then you buy lots of other things, boxes, like cereal, and you cover it up. And you hide it. So 0800 DALS at M, what are you still embarrassed to buy at the supermarket or the store as an adult? Is there an item like this? And do you cover it up with other purchases?

You can text in as well, 9696. Give us a call. And we want to know what as an adult you're still embarrassed to buy at the supermarket or the store if there's items that you're like

oh I'm going to have to hide this with something else yeah yeah some text messages in someone said if I'm going to

buy something embarrassing for example I don't find it embarrassing but if I'm going to buy something embarrassing like lubricant, I'll also buy something like a roll of duct tape.

Why? Just to really throw a spanner in the works. And some cucumber, some telegraphed cucumbers. Yeah. Somebody said, if someone's going to sell lube to a middle-aged dude in their teens, they're probably going to feel awkward enough about it. Might as well give them a good story to tell. Yeah.

Guy can't be bought a bottle of lube and a duct tape in their teens, they're probably going to feel awkward enough about it. Might as well give them a good story to tell. Yeah. God, this guy came to me with a bottle of lube and a duct tape and a bloody telegraph cucumber as well. I don't know what's happening. Well, he was just having a salad and fixing a leak.

Yeah. And then later on just having some adult fun times. That might be to do with fixing the leak as well. Yeah. Somebody else said, I'm a dietician,

so I'm always terrified of running into a client at the supermarket while buying junk food, so I do specific trips that are just super quick. Yes, because the Lees Mills I go to is right next to the Countdown. Yeah. And sometimes you'll go after the gym, but you'll also see the personal trainers, and you'll be like, ha, big block of Whittakers. Ha.

But then also, they're looking at your trolley. They've totally earned it. What have you got in there? No, you just hide them under a packet of salad. Those big bags of salad. Yeah, the Whittaker's under the salad.

No, actually, you put all your junk food on the bottom and then you get a cabbage and you pull all the leaves off one by one. Like a modern day hungy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then it also just hides it, keeps it cool. It's a miracle, the old cabbage. Like, I, I, I study. Beep, boop. R It's a miracle, the old cabbage. I was like, where is the statistic?

89% of people would rather buy something online that's more expensive than going into a store and buying that embarrassing item. Like things like sanitary products. Incontinence pads. Yep, lube, Connie's. Yeah, fungus cream. I reckon a box of Connie's on the South Slope checkout wouldn't weigh much.

It'd be like... Oh, and then you'd have to sit there waiting for the operator. We've heard from the other side of the transaction. Someone said, my boyfriend when he was 15 used to hold his finger over the barcode of the condoms when he worked in New World Corore, so they would have to do a price check every time

just so all the attention got. Oh, that is evil. No, no. That's also a surefire way to ensure your employer will not get further condom sales. That's so evil. That's evil.

So we want to know from you what items you're still embarrassed to buy, even as a grown adult. My husband bought a do-it-yourself wart remover. Oh, okay. He was so embarrassed by it, he went to self-serve, but then the self-serve was really busy, so he let people go ahead of him. Okay.

So that when he got in there, he could scan it. There wasn't people beside him. And put it down without everybody seeing what he was getting. Now you just look dodgy. Yeah. Like if I saw someone doing that, I'd be like, what are was getting. Now you just look dodgy. Yeah. Like if I saw someone doing that, I'd be like, what are they doing? Okay, I'm watching them. Yeah, yeah.

My local checkout operator was the second person to know about my third pregnancy. I took one test, didn't believe it, so I raced back and got another. As I put the test on the conveyor belt, she looked up, realised I'd been there an hour before and said, oh, you are having another one. Don't say anything. Jasmine, what are you still embarrassed to buy as an adult? Foot fungal cream, the athlete's foot. Oh, yeah.

Don't be embarrassed. Don't be embarrassed. What brand do you use? Oh, God, I don't even know the brand, but I just cringe every time I go there because I just feel like they just think I'm dirty and gross. It's not even for me, it's for my son. Lamisil. Lamisil.

Ah, Lamisil. Lamisil's the good one. No, that's the one. That's the one. Sounds like he needs some jandals at the pool or the changing sheds. Let those feet breathe in winter. We all put on a thick sock, don't we, and a waterproof shoe, but that often can lead to a little athlete spot.

Yeah, so do you have to hide that with other stuff? No, I do the staff check out. The SWIFT quickly swipe it in, swipe it out. Nice, Jasmine. Thanks for your call. Candice, what are you still ashamed to buy at the supermarket? Well, I wasn't very much ashamed. It was sort of embarrassing.

My judge felt judged because, like yourself, I went through a very difficult time falling pregnant and going through IVF. So it was that dreaded pregnancy test. So I'd buy a bottle of wine with it to commiserate potential no pregnancy. So yeah, I felt quite judged with a pregnancy test and a bottle of wine. I feel like that's obvious. Yeah, you wouldn't say anything. You I feel like that's obvious. Yeah,

you wouldn't say anything. You just let that one go. Yeah, you know what the wine is for. Yeah. No, I feel you, Candice.

Brilliant. Candice, sexy you call? Some other text messages. I used to work at Foursquare and it was policy that you would say good luck when people bought a lotto ticket.

Oh yeah. But when a guy once bought a lotto ticket, condoms and lubricant and I handed him the lotto ticket and the thing yeah. But when a guy once bought a lotto ticket, condoms and lubricant, and I handed him the lotto ticket, and the thing, and I said, good luck. And he said, thanks.

Really awkwardly. Didn't think about it. Did not think about it. My mum asked my dad to buy tampons for her on the way home from work. It was so embarrassing, he stole them. Oh, my God. I bought them all the time.

Who gives a... That just makes you... Oh, my God. Oh, no, there's a caring partner. Yeah. How embarrassing that you care for your partner and you're going to pick up something that's going to make their life a little bit easier.

He's starting. I was at Countdown and I was purchasing something that's with the lubricants and was like an adult fun toy. About as wild as adult fun toys get at the supermarket. Oh, yep. Yeah. I did not know they sold those there.

Yeah, they sell them in little sachets. No, there was some real controversy about that. I believe some of the religious groups were upset that they were very close to the shampoo. They're like, oh, beautiful little angels are putting them on their finger and then pushing the button and they vibrate. So I went to purchase one of these at Countdown and it said it would be cheaper if I had a one card and I didn't. So I was like, I'll use the temporary paper one cards you can get.

So I got myself it and I scanned it and the big red light started flashing. Had they won a prize? So I panicked. I panicked and I just went to the next self-serve and I was like, full price? And I like, tap, tap, gone. They tapped and gapped. Yeah.

And the red light was still flashing for somebody who had a price check or a card check on that certain item at the self-serve checkout.