ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 28th September 2020

Episode Date: September 28, 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fletchvorner Megan pod. Oh, did my voice just break there? You're gonna start getting hair on your body Okay, and I have to start having funny feelings, okay, right hormones are gonna be racing. Okay, well, I'm gonna get hungry a lot I need a whole bag of farm back Becky's. Yeah after school. Yeah The podcast thanks to McCafe coffee for great tasting barista-made coffee on the go. Behind the scenes, the CEO just walked in, Bogsy. I think he was showing someone around. And luckily today, I have my Bogsy CEO mug with his face on it.

And I said, did you see any brown nose? Yeah, we share that mug around. And you were like, oh, look, I've got my Bogsy mug. I've got you. I've got the mug with your face on it, boss. My favourite. Did you see? Bloody loved it.

He was showing someone around. He loved it. And they were like. And then brown nose number two comes in. I was like, I'm drinking from an iHeartRadio cup. That's company synergy. Yeah, and he loved that too. He loves it.

And then Megan got fired because she didn't have a cup. My tea, I haven't even put. Look, my tea bag. It's still dry. Rubbish employee. Rubbish. A dry old bag. That is you to a tea. ZM.

Hit music. Lives here. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. This is a nasty stat. Apparently 12% of adults still don't wash their hands after using a public toilet still still even after corona even after covert oh come on people a public toilet and you're not washing your hands i mean like you should always wash your hands but that's even gross it's always

gross in a public toilet where there's no soap so you've just got to go water only even then after then you spine out for any sort of soap or hand sanitizer or anything i saw a rogue liquid everywhere just freaks me out yeah i saw a man the other day it was like i knew we were all screwed when we had to explain how to wash hands to adults to adults yeah sorry hold on can i just bounce back you said rogue liquid everywhere yeah you, you know how some people splash when they wash their hands and then there's water on the ground. You're like, is it water? And then there's splashes on the window, on the mirror.

Oh, there's always mirror splashes from the flood. I'm like, oh, that's from someone else. Oh, yuck. That's yuck, yeah. Or the gunky puddle under the soap dispenser where somebody's pumped but missed. Yeah. It's all sy but missed. Yeah. Like maybe they thought they just.

It's all syrupy. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, gross. You're talking about teaching people to wash their hands though. Yeah. There is a plus side in the study. They found that people actually wash their hands for 19 seconds now, whereas the average

before COVID was 12 seconds. So is it 20 seconds they say to wash your hands? Yeah, and remember there were all those songs. The whole hand. The singing happy birthday to yourself in your head, that kind of thing. So we have actually started washing our hands longer, just not 12% dope when they're coming out of the public toilet. Because I hit some stats a few weeks ago that our influenza rates in New Zealand,

obviously also because people aren't coming in from overseas, but they're way down because our health and hygiene is a lot better too yeah but then people are more likely to wash their hands after using a computer going to the supermarket or playing with their pets than they are when they use a public toilet yeah what is wrong with people I don't know I think I don't know. It's so grim. Well, I think I speak on behalf of everybody, about everybody else when I say people are nasty. People are nasty. People are straight nasty. Are you guys finding, though, that since COVID that you are more of a germaphobe in public?

Yeah. Like with... Oh, I've been off the elevator escalator handrails for a very long time. I don't touch those. Yeah. I know you never have. Those are gross. And my children get on and then I'm like, I'll just hold on to you.

You don't touch that. I have a little hand sanitizer in my car now. And when I go anywhere, I get back in the car and I hand sanitize. So I think it has made me a little bit germy. Yeah, so before COVID, you wouldn't have even had that in your car. No. Do you have it hanging from you?'t have even had that in your car. No. Do you have it hanging from your... I saw the other day someone had it hanging from the rear view mirror like an air freshener.

And it was one of those squeezy ones so they could just give themselves a little... Oh, okay. It's just sitting in a perfect little posse on my door. Oh, okay. Because I was thinking that's a good idea because, you know, the air fresheners, they lose scent. But for some reason, we're happy to leave them hanging there. Yeah. Sort of decorative.

But then this one serves a dual purpose. Yeah. So wash your hands. Please. Filthy animals. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Science whilst having their hands full with a range of current issues

that the human race is facing. Yep. Yeah I wasn't going to say the name. I was just going to. You don't want to give it the power. Nah. Yeah. I wasn't going to say the name. I was just going to... You don't want to give it the power. Nah. I'm not saying the C word anymore. Just like the president of the USA. Man.

Oh, no, I'm not denying that it exists. No, I mean we don't say his name. Oh, right. I thought like the bad guy out of Harry Potter. Yeah. Weasley was his name. He was a true villain. Well, there's been a study at the Center for Nutrition,

Exercise and Metabolism at the Center for Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism at the University of Bath where they sat down two groups of young healthy men aged between 22 and 37 and said, all right, you lot, eat pizza until you're comfortably full, and you lot eat pizza until you could not take another bite. Humans, it turns out, can eat about twice as much once they get to like content if they push themselves they can eat that again we all know that yeah you're like i could stop now but the reason they use pizza is if you've ever used like a calorie counting app and you put in

pizza you'd be like that can't be right for one slice no that can't be right. For one slice? No, that can't be right. It's always so high in calories. Yeah. So on average, they were knocking off 3,000 calories of pizza in one sitting. One and a half large pizzas. What? One and a half? I believe this entirely. If there's a pizza in front of me, I'll just keep eating it until it's gone. Yeah, I could easily do that too.

Oh, one and a half pizzas? Oh, nah. Four pieces. Half a pizza. Nah. Nah, I could eat a whole pizza. Oh, nah. Four pieces. Half a pizza. Nah. Nah, I could eat a whole pizza. Those are rookie numbers, baby. Yeah.

Some individuals consumed up to two and a half large pizzas, and that was the people that said they actually couldn't eat anymore. If you ever did a Pizza Hut all-you-can-eat, you weren't leaving until you were in double digits. Good Lord. Yeah, you weren't leaving on one pizza. You weren't even leaving on one and a half. You were just smashing it, and then you'd go out for some more and only vegetarian was left.

And you're like, I'll wait. I'll wait. I'll give this a chance to settle. Waiting is bad because your brain tells you you're full after a wee while, doesn't it? Whereas if you go fast and hard, you get more in. Yeah, you can fill it up before that happens. Before your brain's like, stop eating, mate. You're full.

So they looked at pizza and they looked at metabolic,ocrine appetite and mood responses to it and they found that blood sugar levels were no higher than after a normal meal for the people that ate all they could eat until they couldn't eat anymore so their yeah their glucose levels were only as high as those that were eating a normal um meal right and insulin in the blood was 50 higher than normal and lipids which are like important things that if you've got if they're too high right um it's bad yeah it's bad fat and everything can get into the bloodstream more likely uh they're only slightly higher despite consuming twice as much fat so kind of like basically what i'm getting out of this is if you're going to eat pizza, eat it, you know? Smash it. Don't nibble at it.

Don't have a half. Don't stop. When you're like, okay, smash it. There's going to be bugger all difference. Is that something we've developed over time, just our body's resistance to eating a ton of pizza? Evolutionary. Yeah. I mean, local. Of course, there was the African tribes at the birth of humanity that used to hunt pizzas across the great plains of Africa.

Yeah. And they'd go days without. And then, of course, if they took down a giant pizza with spears, it was at that stage they would gorge. And that's why we do fasting. Yeah. Because our ancestors would sometimes go, and as horrendous as this is to hear, three or four days without pizza.

Wow. Until a big capture. That's incredible. And then they gorge themselves. Yes, that's kind of almost how we're meant to function. There's been an interview with a guy, it looks like Michelle, but it's Dutch, so it's probably more...

Michelle. Michelle. Or Miguel. Miguel de Court, who is a vocal coach, a choir conductor, and also a speech therapist. And he's talked about the aging of the human voice. Because recently I heard a podcast with Tom Hanks. Yeah.

And I was like, man, Tom Hanks, it sounds like coronavirus has changed Tom Hanks' voice. Because, you know, he had COVID-19. I was like, it's changed his voice. But he is also, he just turned 64 this year, and that is within the age bracket of when your voice ages. Your voice pretty much

sounds the same until you get into your 60s. And then somewhere between 60s and 70s for the average person, your voice ages. I'm just trying to think of my mum's. I'm just trying to think of my mum's voice has changed, because she's, something. I'm just trying to think of my mum's voice has changed because she's, I mean, I don't want to say my mum's age, but she's got a gold card now. Right.

Yeah, I don't think my mum has. Well, she may have lost her higher notes because apparently one of the major changes for women going through menopause is they lose their ability to hit the higher notes and their voice sounds. Do you think when I'm back home I should do something so she yells at me again like, call? No, but it'll be like, Right.

So there's a whole lot of reasons for it. Vocal cords get saggy. Yeah, basically. Like the rest of your body. Like your breasts. Gravity. Yeah. And your muscle mass.

Like when you get older, it becomes harder to have that muscle mass. You just lose it and that's just part of getting older and your vocal cords are muscles. So they become looser and you lose that, that, that tightness. Do you think I could go to Thailand for a vocal cord surgery? Yeah. Just a Titan of my vocal cords. I think by that stage,

at that stage, it's probably more pressing areas. Yeah. You go there for the vocal cords, but then you end up getting everything else. You can get like a 10 for 1 deal while I'm there. Another thing that can affect their voice if people make them sound older

is they start to produce excess mucus. So their voices, yeah, can have a slightly more ruffly. Gutter. Yeah, yeah. So you said the female The female voice goes lower Is that the same for the male voice as well? Yeah but more A different sort of lower

That'll be like a second puberty for you Hopefully Yeah But it also just sounds croakier And it's not like puberty was high pitched To a normal speaking voice This goes lower and more Right

Husky Yeah husky because of the looseness of your vocal cords. That's why those men that sound like they've had a diet of ciggies and whiskey their whole life, when they get old, they go real low and gravelly, don't they? Yeah. Some of those old actors. Yeah, yeah.

Like, do you guys know Sam Elliott? You know the actor? He was Bradley Cooper's older brother in When a Star is Born. Oh, yeah. And he's always had that most amazing, he's hitting that age now where his is going to go down again. So what's it going to sound like next time? Yeah, right.

But yeah, if your parents are kind of in their 60s to 70s range and they've started to sound old, that's because that's kind of the period of your life where that happens. Yeah, so I mean, maybe don't hit them up and say hat you, saggy vocal cords. You sound old. You're starting to sound as old as you look. Not a good thing to say.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top 6. Hello! Happy Daylight Savings. Happy Daylight Savings. Happy Daylight Savings. Happy Daylight Savings.

It's the summer one. It's the one where it's not as much fun because you lose an hour's sleep. Yep. But the promise of what's to come makes it okay. Exactly. It's the sweetener. It's weird because like now there's only one clock I have to change because I don't have a car.

It's the one in the kitchen. And I reckon the last Daylight Savings took me three months. Does anyone do the clock on their microwave anymore? No, mine's 00 or 12. All the time. All the time. I flick it on and off at lunchtime. And then it's nice.

And then it's right. So do that, the oven. Yeah. And every Daylight Savings gets fun trying to find the big oven switch. Yeah. Because it's nice And then it's right So do that The oven Yeah And every Daylight Savings It's fun trying to find The big oven switch Yeah Because it's hidden

So you don't accidentally Turn the oven off Mine's behind these spices The oregano Is it labelled Hob or stove? No but it's a real Big fat one

It's a big ass one Yeah And you go Chonk But that's what I want All light switches to be Like the oven on off I don't know

It'd be such a rigmarole Turning your light off. I'm going to message right now my friend who's an electrician and say why are the electric stove switches so booty?

I think they're so booty to stand out and so you know what am I doing here and it's a big booty switch. Okay. There's no other reason why. How should I word the question?

Why? And I think it's only old oven switches too. No, because it's a new oven switch. I? Why? And I think it's only old oven switches too. No, because it's a new oven switch. I've got an old one and it's only little. Oh, really? Well, maybe it was just people chose them. You could choose your size.

Why are oven power switches so fat and big? Yeah. Okay, stand by. Okay. Wait with bated breath. Today's top six is the top six ways to remember what to do for daylight savings. Okay. Because you know there's the old spring forth and fall back yeah which is the american name for autumn yes yes but i've got

ways to remember this particular one our number six on the list of the top six ways to remember what to do in this daylight savings uh forward pass on the springtime grass oh yeah okay you want to do a forward pass no you don't but you'll get away with it on the springtime grass. Oh, yeah, okay. You don't want to do a forward pass. No, you don't, but you'll get away with it on the springtime grass. Oh, okay. Because the ref will be so much like, look at this lush grass. Yeah, and then you would say that in autumn and you'd be wrong, so you know that's not forward. Yes, it's not the autumn grass.

Okay, not as catchy, but okay. Yes. Number five on the list of the top six ways to remember what to do in this daylight savings. Spring on your best foot. And what foot do you put forward? Your best foot. Which one's that?

Well, it doesn't matter. Spring on your best foot. But if you're going to hop. Oh, you go forward though. Spring. Yeah. On your best foot. And where do you put your best foot?

Forward. Forward. So you go forward and spring Okay See, it makes you think about it Again, not as catchy Just because the best one was taken Doesn't mean we should give up

Okay We should keep looking Number four on the list of the top six ways To remember what to do for this daylight savings Susan Pring isn't backwards about coming forwards Susan Pring, otherwise known as S Pring Spring Oh my god, these are getting worse She isn't backwards about coming forwards. Susan Pring, otherwise known as S Pring, springeth. Oh, my God. These are getting worse.

She isn't backwards about going forwards. Spring forwards. All thanks to Susan and the Pring family. Number three on the list of the top six ways to remember what to do for this daylight savings. You thrust into the best part of the year. Yeah, I like that one. Yeah, give it to spring. And which way do you thrust, Fletch?

Oh, my God, I've just Facebooked. There's a lot of Susan Prings. Oh, cute. What way do you thrust? Forward. Forward. Yeah. You push it back.

I mean, you could. You can push backwards on it, but it's not a thrust. You've got to thrust forward. You're giving it to spring. Yeah, right, okay. Giving it to spring. Yeah. It's very aggressive.

That's how to remember clocks forward. Give it to spring. Yeah. Well, spring. Going thrusting it forward into spring. Number two on the list of the top six ways to remember what to do for this daylight savings. Two steps forward, one step back for spring. So technically, you're still one ahead.

Oh, my God. That's confusing. Springing forward two steps, and then you've kind of gone off balance a bit, so you step back a little bit, but you're still forward. Positive one. One hour. Yeah. And number one on the list are the top six ways to remember what to do

for this daylight savings. Let's skip forward an hour and get one hour closer to summer drinking. Oh yeah, that's a good one to remember. You're like, okay, it's five o'clock somewhere. Now, is this a daylight savings where the sexy firemen

come over and fix your smoke alarm? They should come both. They should come both. But if anything, they'll be sexier at the next daylight saving because they've had all summer to get a tan and work out where they might have put on some comfy pounds over winter. But when do I ring 111? Well, no, you ring and you say it's for your grandma, and you give them your address,

and then when they turn up, say, Grandma's just popped out. I'm here watering her plants. Can firemen come over and check your fire alarm? They do it topless. They do it topless. They do it topless. Like the calendar. It's just like the calendar. This is a great reason to go visit the grandies.

Yeah. Yeah. Organise their batteries, get them changed for them, and then just coincide it with a visit from yours truly. Haven't heard back from the electrician, so I'll have to get you posted on that. I just think it was just a choice. I think it's a, yeah. A choice for a big bossy club.

So you don't accidentally turn it off. Yeah, I think so. In the middle of a roast, maybe. Oh my God, disastrous. Imagine that, yeah. What a horrible outcome. That is today's top six. I know how to find out if someone's checking you out.

Or keen. Are they going, Hubba hubba! And their eyes are like, And their tongue rolls out on the floor and their heart beats out of their chest. In a cartoon, yes. Okay.

No, this is some psychologists have said you can adapt this if you're going on a date or you can look for it. Okay. Right. It's called mirroring. Mirroring. Mirroring. Mirroring. It's when someone non-consciously mimics your postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, other behaviours

Do you notice this? If you were sitting on a communal couch or a couch with friends As someone crosses their legs, you just do it? The same? Have you noticed that? No Are you into them? I don't know

But then, if you were blocking them off with your body posture That means you might subconsciously not like them Yeah If you are blocking them off with your body posture, that means you might subconsciously not like them. Yeah. But I'm trying to think of like what kind of thing they would mimic. So if you're on a date, like if you crossed your arms, then that would be a negative thing on your behalf. Yeah, that's blocking them. But if their legs were a certain way, you might mirror that.

Or like if you touched your face and then suddenly they touch their face. Or if they've got an accent and you can't help it, you just start doing it back to them. Oh my God, have you ever done that when you hear someone's accent and then you just, and you don't mean to, you just like mimic them back? The worst is when you're talking to an Australian and they go, yeah, and you're like, yeah. What?

It's kind of rude. Yeah, basically if you go on a date and you can use this and it's not only like romantically, if someone thinks favorably towards you, they a date and you can use this and it's not only like romantically if someone thinks favorably towards you they start mimicking you. So if you went on like a job interview and you're halfway through the interview and then the interviewer starts

kind of mimicking your actions and stuff they're thinking like favorably towards you. Huh. Okay. Good to know. And again, yeah, if they were arms folded and legs away from you it's not a good sign negative yeah i always it's when someone's talking to you and they point their feet away

you're like oh they don't want to talk to you anymore they want out that's the one body language i always remember or if you're talking to someone like at a party and stuff and they've just walked away from you that's also a sign they don't want to talk to me they don't want to talk to you no but what are you this is what you're saying psychologists have discovered. What do people who read an article on Facebook think? Because that's where I'm taking all my medical advice from in 2020. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah.

Yeah. That's why I'm not going near 5G towers. This is all a conspiracy, man. I'm certainly not vaccinating and I don't believe in COVID. After all this year's been. Yep. Yep. Why not? ZM's been. Yep, yep. Why not? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

I hope I'm not the only one. Oh, beautiful. Vaughan Smith on Sam Smith. Thank you. Really zhushed that up. Smith on Smith. Smith and Smith repair. Smith and Smith replace. Smith and Smith replace.

Laura joins us. Good morning, Laura. Morning, guys. Morning. Now, in this segment, we're going to search New Zealand to see if you are alone in something that you do. I'm so glad. I'm so happy about this. Now, what do you do that you think is a little weird?

Well, I've been kind of told it's a little weird. I eat the skin or the batter off the chicken nuggets first before I eat the inside bit of the chicken nuggets. So do you nibble it off or you peel it off? I'm a peeler. I peel the skinny bit off of it first and I eat that first. And then it's just to like make it go a bit slower.

But you're not chucking out the skin, eh? Because that's the best bit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's the best bit. I want to savour it. Right, are you dipping the skin? Go a bit slower. Just do it to go a bit slower.

Just eat slower. Take little nibbles. Or just buy more nugs. That's what I do. I don't have a budget like you, Fletch. I need to take some time for my nuggets. My money bag's over

here with his 20-pack. Splash out on the 20-pack. But do you dip the skin that you peel off into the sauce? No. That is in a league of its own, so I eat that on its own, but the middle

bit I will dip in the sauce. Megan, you're very quiet. Well, we're going to maybe try and find some people next that do this too, but I can already tell you, you're not the only one. Really? Alright, well, Laura, wait there.

0800 DALSATM is our number and you can message as well, 9696. Do you peel the skin off the nuggies? And are we accepting other battered items like fish or crab sticks? We'll hear them out. 0800 DALSATM is the number number you can text as well nine six nine six i hope i'm not the only one

again beautiful harmonizing there with uh sam smith vaughn smith uh and laura joined us just moments ago uh the odd well some people would say oh you would say normal laura, the odd, well, some people would say, oh, you would say normal, Laura. The odd habit of peeling off batter from the nugs, from nuggies, and eating the batter separately and then dipping the bare naked nug into the sauce and then eating it. Yeah, absolutely. Some would say revolutionary. Now, interesting, straight up, you are not alone, by a long shot. Somebody else even

takes your technique of the skin then the dip with only the nugget part as the skin's better on its own and carries enough flavour. Yeah. The sauce can dull it down. That's getting very culinary sounding when really it's just you eating sauce with some nasty chicken.

Yeah, because when you think about it, all the spices and stuff are in the batter. They're not in the chicken, are they? Yeah. So, yeah, you're right. Exactly. I guess you're making that go further. Well, let's meet some other New Zealanders, Laura.

Like yourself, Josh, you also peel the batter off nugs. Yeah, so, you know, I'm like her. I ate the skin first, but I only just started doing this because I saw my mate doing it. And I was like, what are you doing? Like, it looked a bit weird. And then I was like, I'll give it a go. But now I don't even eat the chicken. Like, I just eat the skin first.

And then I just won't. Like, sometimes I'll, like, go and dunk the rest of the nugget in this dipping sauce. But, like, it's just, yeah, depends on how I feel. I just go for the skin now, though. I could do that for like a quarter pack. I could just eat the skin and I'd be so happy. It's so good. Yeah, of all the, because it's just the spices, isn't it?

And the batter. Josh, thanks. I'm pretty sure nutritionalists wouldn't like this. Nutritionists. No, probably not. That's right. There's no Alan nutritionalist. Molly, good morning.

Hi. Now, you do this too. Yeah. Also, obviously, I'm vegetarian, so I eat vegan nuggets. But yeah, I also do this. You do it on your vegan nuggies? Yeah. I mean, they're the same kind of thing, just not meat.

What is it? Peel it off. What is it that's in it if it's not meat? Tofu? Corn stuff? Corn? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

So what you're telling me is you don't know what you're eating. I mean, it's not meat that's all that matters. Yeah, that's true. Well, cardboard's not meat. Doesn't that stuff kind of need the outside to flavor the whole thing? Do you still eat that? Has it still got any flavor? Well, yeah, you could say the same about the meat ones, though, right?

They don't really have flavour on the inside. That's why you dip, hey? It's all in the sauce, really. Very good. Thank you, Molly. Who else have we got? Cara, your flatmate does this. Yes, it is so disgusting.

What would you say, disgusting? Well, Megan has outed herself as a nugget peeler as well. I didn't realise it was weird. Oh, I just, I honestly avoid getting takeaways with her. I can't stand people like picking at their food and no. I saw people that eat a muffin by pulling a muffin apart. Oh, I see. I'm a muffin puller.

Yeah, now I feel attacked. I'm a muffin puller. Yeah, now I feel attacked. I'm a muffin puller. It makes it last longer. Eat the muffin. It's too big to just put in your mouth. Put it in your mouth. Savor it. Bite off the muffin.

Little bit by little bit. Cut it in half then and attack it that way. Rip it to shreds. Thanks for your call, Cara. Laura, is this making you feel good that you're not alone? Yeah, absolutely. I'm also a muffin peeler, so I'm feeling a little bit attacked, but, you know. Why don't we could hang out?

We eat our food the same. I tell you who else would love to hang out? Pigeons. They're always looking for another chum to join their gross group of people who cook things to bits before they eat them. Text messages in. Somebody said they skin anything that can be skinned. Fish fingers, chicken tenders, Savoy sausages. I skin those,

but I don't eat the skin. I peel it off and then get rid of it. Get rid of it? Yeah. No, yeah. Yeah, right. My kids peel them

but eat the skin as well. Oh, no. I'm like, don't eat it if you're peeling it off. That's nasty. My ex did this and that's the reason he is my ex.

My daughter does this too. She saw the Jamie Oliver chicken nugget expose a few years ago. She only eats the nugget skin now. Because she's not eating the nugget, it doesn't mean that baby chickens were turned into it.

Yeah, true. Laura, there we go. Not alone. Yeah, I'm feeling really good, guys. And in my mind, very normal, Laura. Yeah, exactly. Didn't Courtney Kardashian, she did the like Kit Kat thing and yet she was,

I was feeling a different reaction than what she got. She ate the Kit Kat the wrong way, didn't she? She bit into it. Oh no. Without breaking off the fingers. No, no, no.

That's not okay. That's jail time. Basically what I'm saying, I'm just a Kardashian, that's all. It's fine. Yeah, sure. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. You know how we feel targeted by seagulls that they always want to steal your chippies? Yes. Another study, I say another, because remember when we learnt that if you stare at seagulls, like eyeball them, they're less likely to eat your food? Do you remember? I don't.

So if you're at the beach this summer and you've got chippies, just eyeball the seagulls. Seagulls. Seaguy. And they are less likely, probably still will. But apparently they want our food more if it's touched by us, if we're eating it. Really?

They think highly of humans when it comes to food taste. But they take cues from humans. So when we're eating, that's an apparently important way for them to find food. Because in the UK, in what do you call non-urban areas? Rural. Like outside the cities. Rural.

Rural. The numbers of seagulls are declining, but in urban centres they're growing because they're learning their main food sources from humans and rubbish they just eat rubbish and stuff and we wait we're positively terrible at wasting food i saw a seagull devour a dead pigeon once and it was horrifying it was like a movie like a horror movie that's how the next pandemic starts do you think that um a researcher was

having fish and chips or a picnic at the park and a seagull was overly annoying and they were like, okay, that's it. I'm going back to uni. You're getting researched. I'm getting research on you. Well, I can tell you the test. It doesn't sound too scientific. So the researcher, they put down, they call it flapjacks.

What's a flapjacks? Like pancakes. Pancakes. Oh, pancakes. Yep. They put down two identical like flap. Oh, pancakes. They put down two identical flat pancakes. Yeah. And they stepped back and then they went forward and picked up one of the pancakes for 20 seconds

and put it back down again. And the seagull went and ate that one every time. Is it because there's something like, do we put a human smell on it or something? Or they know that if we're eating it, it's not poisonous. So we're like seagulls guinea pigs. Yeah, but if we pick it up, they're like, oh, okay, and he's picked it up,

that must be good to go. Yeah. Right. And then gets in there and eats it. Maybe. That's why you don't even give them one chip at the beach. Otherwise, they tell all their friends

who've got little walkie-talkies. Yeah. And before you know it, you've got 400 seagulls around you and you haven't even got through your fish. Ah! Ah!

Roger. Ah! You didn't say Roger. Ah! Chips over here. Ah! Roger. Flesh, fauna, Megan.

The podcast. ZM. Good morning. Now, what's this? Day 11 for you? Yes. Day 11. God,

I can't even tell now. Of 14, right? We're still running a 14-day quarantine? Yes, so technically you get out the time that you land, right? And so I got in Thursday night, Thursday night at like 5.30. So I could get actually

out this Thursday night, but I'm stupid and I'm going to stay an extra night because I'm going to do the radio show from here and it's just too hard to pick up all the studio and stuff. So I'm actually, I'm opting to stay one more night

in quarantine, which is great. Wow, because you've got to do 15 days. You are crazy. Yeah yeah i love it that much how how have you been handling it because i've been watching your stories and it would be hard not to go a little bit crazy i have been pleasantly surprised and i don't know if it's just the incredible treatment you get at rich's and this is like a one-off. Yeah. But I've got space. Like, I've got a seriously decent large room. I've got access to the courtyard whenever I want.

The food has been good. You know, like, the food's been pretty damn good. Probably the worst part was when I got this prawn laksa and the prawns looked quite translucent, so I thought I was going to get sick. But then apparently they're just baby shrimp and that's what they're meant to look like. Yeah, they're meant to look like that's when you know they're cocked. You know they're cocked when they go translucent.

Yeah, well I didn't and so I panicked and so I was just getting ready to go and sit on the toilet all day. And you were fine. I was fine. That's pretty bougie though because a lot of people are complaining about the food and you've got like like, a porn relaxer. Guys, I've had everything.

I had a roast on Sunday. I get lamingtons for treats. But then I get, like, a real bougie quinoa salad, and I've had, like, lots of leafy greens. So I can't complain. That's pretty good. Now, have you – we did hear from somebody else In isolation That some people Would try knocking on the walls Or the doors

Have you had any of that? Like for some Guys trying it on For a bit of a Some fun? Oh like Oh like a little hey Coming here

Yeah No I did hear The first night The couple In the room next door Were let's just say Having a really good time. I think they were wanting to...

Really? Yeah, yeah. So that was only the first night, though. So I can only assume that... They're sick of each other now. Yeah, yeah. It was like the first night. It was all exciting.

So that's all I've heard through my walls. But I am still yet to communicate with... You sound like you're really listening out. Flesh, there's nothing else to do. I don't know if that's a defence. I don't know if that's going to fly in a court of law. Your Honour, there was nothing else to do. I decided to be a peeping Tom.

Do you know what's really tricky? And actually just two army guys walked around outside. So like sometimes you just be chilling by the window and then you look down and they're just staring up. They're quite good looking, I'm not going to lie. This is the problem. I think it's only a matter of time before some hot army guy meets up with some hot girl in isolation. On the balcony. They're like, yoo-hoo.

It's like a fairy tale waiting to happen. I can just see it. A fairy tale that can wait 14 days until the end of quarantine. Because I think that's what happens. Isn't that what happened in Melbourne? Yeah, the security guards were sleeping with everybody who had the COVID. Yeah, so we don't want that again, guys. We really don't.

And to be fair, I can't even get out on my balcony. So it's a bit of a tease. So I get out here and I'm like, woohoo, there's a door and it's locked. But it's quite a nice balcony overlooking the lake and the racecourse. But I just can't go. But that's all right. Oh, the racecourse. Everyone always says the lovely view of the race course.

I think that's when you're booking the hotel, it says race course view. If you love watching horses run around in circles, this is the hotel for you. Hey, well, PJ, not long now, only a few days in isolation. It's great to have you back in New Zealand, and you have freedom on Friday. Thank you for chatting to me, guys. Miss you.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Born's a rural baby. You and I would say we're city babies. I'm a city. I was a Miramar. Oh, an official city baby. A Miramar baby. A Miramar baby.

Wellington by the airport there. Maybe that's where I get my love of aviation. That smelling Avgas as a baby. Because I like peaches because my mum ate lots of peaches when she was pregnant with me. And you like aeroplanes because your mum huffed aviation fuel. Yeah, I mean, not willingly. No, no, she just walked to work. Yeah, just living by the airport there.

What do I like? But I've always... From Nelson, a little city. Just a little city. Yeah, but I mean... Penshawn for marijuana. We were city and town babies, but yeah, Vaughn, you were rural. You were a rural baby. I was a little city. Yeah, but I mean... My penchant for marijuana. We were city and town babies, but yeah, Vaughn, you were rural. You were a rural baby.

I was a rural baby. Our studies looked into the difference between the rural and the city babies. Where though? Here in Aotearoa? Is this worldwide? Is it the UK? Well, the study was done in Washington State University. Okay.

But I think it would apply anywhere. So, they have found that rural babies and urban babies act very differently One of them is not so positive So rural babies display negative emotions much like anger or frustration A lot more than those babies that were raised in cities You miss your cows Yeah Do you think it's because you feel more agitated in the city?

It's in the city, yeah. When they move to the city. It's frustrating. Everything moves at a snail's pace. It's caught in traffic. You just can't pass people. Oh, yeah, right. I got so fed up the other day.

I went out and in. But you should be used to getting stuck behind a tractor going 20k's. You can get past them because there's nothing in front of them. Yeah, right. You wouldn't nudge over a little bit and you give them a toot-toot and he gives you a wave-wave. Okay. And they've found something about the mothers as well.

For urban mums, they seem to be better at recognising when their babies need or want something. Do you find, like, if you need or want something, Christine was like, oh, shut up. Yeah. I need this. You don't need it, you want it. And you don't get everything you want.

So guess what? You're not getting it. Ruthless. And on the other side of things, urban babies are calm, at least fussy, and not as bothered by rules. You really hate rules. That's probably the bus fumes, though. Some of them are stupid. Some rules are very stupid.

They're a rule for rules' sake. Yeah, right. But you're right, though. Growing up rurally, it's probably quite cash. And then you move to the city and there's rules everywhere. Yeah. Did you notice a big shock when you moved away? I guess even moving to a big town from a small town, it's quite a shock. Yeah moved away from or not real i guess and even moving to a big town from a

small town it's quite a shock yeah yeah definitely definitely like yeah like you want to go somewhere and you start driving and then everybody else is going there too and there's traffic everywhere i mean there's a lot more conveniences yeah like if you don't have something to eat you can get somebody to eat whereas if you really you don't have anything to eat you can get something to eat whereas if you're rural and you don't have anything to eat you're just gonna go hungry yeah you have to like actually plan shopping yeah because you can't just go to the store nah downstairs i can literally go to a dairy under my apartment i know well we could go to a dairy but it was the thing strapped onto the side of the cow shed and it just literally had dairy in it and a big vat. Oh, right, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Drink some thick milk. Chew on her.

You're really selling this rural lifestyle. Yeah, nah, good fun. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. Slide into the DMs. All right. I don't particularly

like this segment because... It's personal. It's personal. You particularly don't particularly like this segment because... It's personal. It's personal. You particularly don't like it because you're a dark horse. I just like being nosy in other people's lives, so just not mine. You're a deviant. So we asked you on Instagram to slide into our DMs with your questions.

And we've got a few questions here. Let's start, shall we? What's the weirdest thing a listener has ever said to you? Remember when that listener said, I didn't know you were Maori? I didn't know you were a Maori. To you. Yeah, and I was like, a Māori.

And she's like, yeah. And I was like... Christchurch. I'm not. It's summer. I'm just really tanned. I've probably gone a bit too hard in the sun. Yeah. In the fake tan.

Well, no, there was no fake tan. It was just skin damage and UV. A lot of it. But you were with me and we always remember that, eh? Yeah, it was just weird. Like, that's a weird thing to say to someone. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Usually I get, I thought you'd be shorter. I don't know why. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. But the weirdest thing be shorter. I don't know why. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. But the weirdest thing. No, I don't.

Because you're quite six foot two, eh? Yeah. Yeah. Someone just asked me recently if I wasn't using it, could they have my vibrator? That's right. Megan sent that to the group chat saying, how do I respond to this? Someone saying, oh, you talked about one you got and you've never taken it out of the box because you haven't needed to. Was that the Womanizer?

Yeah. Oh, no, the Satisfyer Pro. I don't know where the Womanizer is. The one you gave me. Have you not got the Satisfyer Pro 2 out yet? Nah. What's wrong with you? Everyone raves about the Satisfyer Pro 2. Surely just to put the curiosity to the bed. I honestly... And it's as great

as everybody talks about. I'm very time poor, and two, when I am not time poor, I'm very... Who's too time poor for an O? A big O. No, excuse me. Especially with the Satisfyer Pro.

It'll make you have twice as many at half the time. I have my own Satisfyer Pro at home. Is this a thing with Mr. Toyboy where you don't want to have him relegated? No, he won't get relegated. He won't be. It's a co-worker.

It's a, right. Yeah. But it is weird that the entire world is talking about the Satisfyer Pro 2 and has been forever. Yeah. And you've got one and you're not like. I don't know how many times I have to tell you this. Hey, I am very satisfied. I don't know how many times I have to tell you this I'm very satisfied I don't need that

Maybe you don't know true satisfaction and you've got to just know for sure I'm honestly fine I'm real good I'm slightly disappointed It's like if Vaughn and I got you a present for example

a panini press and you left it in the box, we'd be you a present, for example, a panini press, and you left it in the box, we'd be very upset. I have a use for a panini press. Like literally, I could have a twisted sandwich. I have less use for a panini press. You just said, quote, I'm time poor. You could put the panini in, leave the thing down, get it done, and be back in time before that little light goes on saying your panini's done. It blows my mind.

But that is weird that a listener asked you that. Yeah. Everybody was like talking about a chocolate flavor and you had a box of it at your home, but you're like, no, I'm not going to touch that. Weird. I'm sure you'd just be interested. Also, what did you say to the listener? I didn't reply because I didn't know what to say.

Yeah, that's weird. Yeah. That's sick. Yeah. Okay. Next question. Vaughn, I was just wondering what do you love most about your girls? Um.

That I have to know. I was going to say that they're blood related to you. That I'm obliged to. Um. I don't know. That's a very interesting question. I don't know. Everything. What very interesting question. I don't know. Everything. What a loophole question.

Yeah. I love everything about them. They're very woke. And, oh, that's not for me to answer. Yeah, I don't know. That's a hard thing to. They're both quite different, aren't they? Yeah, yeah.

They're both quite different. Yeah. I would say their attitudes, because their attitudes are different, but one's very caring attitude and one will-suffer-no-fools attitude. So I'll let you work out which is which. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, next question.

Bit of a naughty one for you. Who gets laid the most? Fletch. Ooh. Fletch. Megan's too time poor, apparently. Oh, my God. She's too busy with the panini place.

Do you know what? I'm going to next time, I'm going to literally, I'm going to fire off texts to you on the group chat every time shit gets real. No, I don't want to know about that. I just want to know that this thing that you've been seeing, that the world... I'm telling you.

Let's not go back to this. Okay. Let's go back to Fletch, who gets more than all of us. Next question, next question. Where's the first place you guys are going to travel when the borders are open? Oh, anywhere that we can. It's going to be interesting though, isn't it?

To see where we will be able to travel to. I'd quite like to go back to Fiji because when I was there, there was a tropical cyclone. Yeah. That's right. You and Mr. Toiba got boarded up, didn't you? They put the boards over the window. Yeah, and I didn't swim in the ocean, so I'd like to give that a go. You went to a tropical island

and didn't go in the sea. I don't know. I wouldn't be in a sea. No. I don't know. Yeah, one of the islands, I'd say. I wouldn't be in a huge rush to go to Australia. No. I was meant to go to, like, around August, September, go to South America. But see, like, what's it going to be like travelling to countries like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When everyone's been decimated by the virus and all these countries are poor and there's jobs. Until there's a vaccine, I don't know if countries like that will be able to be travelled to. Even if you do, you'd have to go. You'd have to quarantine quite a lot to get there. All right, next question. Fletch, this one's for you. If you could invite anyone over for Taco Tuesday,

I would love to know who it would be. Anyone in the world? For hard-shell mince taco Tuesday. Ugh. Soft shell only. I don't actually know who I'd invite. What, like a famous person? Anyone. What do you mean? Well, who would you invite?

Someone you want to hook up with? Beyonce. Oprah. Michelle Obama. Those, oh, just all powerful women. See, I feel like Oprah and Beyonce would smash some tacos, but I feel like Michelle Obama would be, wouldn feel like Oprah and Beyonce would smash some tacos, but I feel like Michelle Obama wouldn't. Nah, she'd smash some tacos. Nah, she'd smash some tacos.

And they wouldn't judge me for my hard shell mince ones. I think they would. I think they would. Those are three wealthy women. They don't eat stale tortillas. No. Baked into a hard half shell. You didn't answer.

I don't know. Show your point. I don't know because I don't want to make any i don't want to join us i want the jonas brothers coming over for tacos you can talk about cats we've met once and talked about cats that's what about him coming up you literally not look up to anyone well no because i don't want to meet celebrities because then they'll disappoint you well then just pick a hot person. And hope that it ends in a hookup, right? Oh, Harry Styles.

The Weeknd. Oh, I could go on forever. God, that's a good party. Who else? Nick Jonas. You probably wouldn't need your Satisfyer 2 if they came over, would you? God, you'd be time poor, though.

Have to get out the panini press. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. You have your time poor though Have to get out the panini press We have an anonymous email From someone who wants to know if they are a bad person They've got themselves into a sticky situation Bit of a pickle Bit of a pickle So I'll read you this email Hi guys I have a super awkward situation that I need

some help with as I'm totally torn on what to do. I've recently made friends with this guy and we really hit it off. We've only hung out a few times but when we do I can definitely see us being mates in the future. On the weekend he introduced me to his partner of three years. The problem is, I slept with him last year. His boyfriend pretended we didn't know each other and had never met, and when my friend went to the bathroom, his boyfriend said to me, if you ever tell him what happened, I'll deny it and say you're just jealous of our relationship.

I don't know what to do. I don't want to keep a secret from my new mate, but I also don't want to lose him if he thinks I'm lying to get with him. Am I a bad person I also don't want to lose him if he thinks I'm lying to get with him. Am I a bad person if I don't tell him? Please help. Don't tell him. This is some gay drama.

I don't tell, I just don't think. Do you need to tell him? I wouldn't tell him. It's just drama, isn't it? Is this a new friend? Yeah. I'd just not be friends with them. But no, they sound like they've really hit it off and they're like good mates. And you know how hard it is to get an adult friend, to make adult friends.

Yeah, it's really hard. And from that, what the boyfriend said, if you ever tell him, I'll deny it. So just don't, he's not going to say anything. Too much drama and a new friendship. Nah. Not worth it. Not worth it. Not worth it for Vaughn Smith.

Nah. I also think. Not worth it. Not worth it for Vaughan Smith. Nah. I also think. I've got enough friends. Isn't that on the boyfriend, like if you ever get found out, isn't that on the boyfriend to say something? But you knew and you didn't say anything either. So you can't be trusted either. No, but you just didn't want to, you didn't want to ruin their relationship.

You've got an excuse. What's the boyfriend's excuse? You can just pretend you forgot. I'd be like, hey, Hey look I sleep with tons of people I'm like One of however many Yeah Don't even worry about it

Well you could just I reckon you could Talk your way out of it And just be like I really I really didn't want To cause drama I didn't feel like

It was my place to say I feel like the new friend Would be easily forgiven Whereas the boyfriend Not so much Exactly But also Oh no

Because I was going to say Maybe they had an open relationship But then the boyfriend Is saying No much. Exactly. But also, oh no, because I was going to say maybe they had an open relationship, but then the boyfriend is saying, no, don't you dare tell him. So that wasn't open. It was no permission. You don't react like that if it's... Yeah. But also, why is he so worried?

Like, they weren't, at least they were together. So like, they sit with him last year. They might have been on a break. They might be one of those people that does not stick to the strict Vaughan Smith guidelines of if you go on a break, you have to restart the counter. Yeah, but the boyfriend sounds like he's you know, he said if you tell him, I'll

deny it. So he obviously didn't have permission. It was a cheat. Uh oh. That is, what a situation to be in. Because I just wouldn't say anything. Yeah, just stop being friends with them. You don't start a friendship off with this much

drama. It's not a good sign of things to come. No, hell no. But it's, yeah, it's not on you to say anything. I don't think you're a bad person. But then what if he does say something and the boyfriend's like it didn't happen. I'd be like well actually, he's got a mole

on his penis. I'll describe his penis in depth. I don't know, could you remember a penis from a year ago? No, I couldn't do a police sketch of a penis. I'd have trouble describing my own. I don't know the right words. You couldn't describe your own penis

to a police sketch artist. How would I go about? They have like a real distinguishing feature. Or just like when you see an assailant. Nice. That'd be terrible. You're like, well, we'll start with the hair. Okay.

He's got some. Wait a minute. Are we talking assailant or penis now? Please don't describe your penis. Somewhere in this situation. Right. Okay. So is he a bad person for not saying anything? I feel like we've got lost somewhere in this situation. Okay. So is he a bad person for not saying anything?

Not telling the new best friend that he's asleep with his boyfriend. That the boyfriend's a bad person for cheating on their partner. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, he's without a reason. For not saying anything. Yeah. Okay, so what should this guy do? Maybe you've been in this situation and you've had that awkward little moment where do you tell someone or do you not?

Yeah. 0800 dials at M96 to text in. Is he a bad person for not telling his friend that he's asleep with his boyfriend? Am I a bad person? Okay, so we had some email correspondence from someone who's in a pickle. New friend.

He's made a new friend who he's just met the boyfriend of and it turns out that he has slept with his friend's boyfriend. Now, he's been told by the boyfriend, do not tell under any circumstances, but now he feels bad. Is he a bad person for not telling his new friend that he's slept with his boyfriend? Because unlike Vaughn,

he couldn't just get rid of this new friend. He's made a new friend. And they really hit it off. Yeah, and it's hard to make adult friends. So, you know, you want to cherish the friendship. And there's a high chance that he could sleep with him later on. I guess so. Matt, what do you think?

Is he a bad person? Hey, guys. I reckon he's a bad person if he tells his mate. I think it's not really his place to stay, and he should just stay out of the business. I mean,'s not really his place to stay and he should risk, he should just stay out of the business. I mean, the boyfriend might be

waiting to tell him in his own time or he might really urge him. I do kind of agree with you. He's waiting to tell him in his own time like when he gets caught

doing it. Yeah, I mean, that could happen. It's the boyfriend's responsibility, I think. Because you don't want

to meddle in their relationship. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of agree with you, Matt. Yeah, I don't want to rock the boat and I feel like Just wait for it to relationship. Yeah. I kind of agree with you, Matt. I don't want to rock the boat. Just wait for it to happen. And if he does find out, I feel like you could be

forgiven. Because we all understand what it would be like to be in that awkward position. Thank you, Matt. Belle, what do you think? Is he a bad person? Good morning. I don't think he's a bad person, but I do think he should tell his friends. I don't think he's a bad friend if he does end up sitting on that massive secret, because it's only going to be a matter of time before it's locked out after a few venos.

I wonder if he could blackmail the cheetah into telling the boyfriend, so he doesn't have to. Yeah, but then how long until the boyfriend tells that he's being blackmailed by you? And he's going to out you, isn't he? He's going to say it was you. Yeah, I don't know. Horrible situation. Belle, thanks for your call.

Anonymous, you've been in a similar situation. Yeah, I have actually. So I ended up giving the guy an ultimatum. And I basically said, like, if you don't tell her, I'm going to. And he didn't say anything. So I did actually have to end up telling her. And it was pretty tricky. Like, she didn't really believe me at first.

And we did kind of, we lost contact for a little bit. The friendship was, you know, a little bit damaged from it. But, you know, it all worked out in the end. She saw the light and she actually ended up dumping him. And now we're back to being best mates. So it all kind of worked out. There you go. There you go.

So that can have a happy ending. Yeah. All right, Anonymous, thanks for your call. Some more text messages on the thing. What, just all over, just he's a bad person? He's not a bad person? No, no, no, no. He's not a bad person. Even people who said, like our last caller, that he hasn't done it or not done it yet.

He's in the contemplation phase. Yeah. And when you're weighing it all up, you're not a bad person. Except more people are leaning towards telling him. Yeah, that's, yeah. And doing it while you're new rather than doing it when you're down the track. You can be like, okay, I've been trying to think where I met your boyfriend last. When I met him, I was like, where do I know that guy from?

Oh, that's right. And this is going to be really hard to tell you, um i have slept with him when you two are supposedly together and then you get to find out whether or not and you say well i didn't know he had a boyfriend he certainly didn't tell me and then just say look i've just spent um half a day with a police sketch artist yeah this is his penis um so you know that's proof so you can compare that later on yeah um But I didn't see it in both forms. Mostly one of the two primary forms was where I spent most of my time looking at it. Yeah, right. Okay.

So maybe I made the judgment on that one. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day how genetically engineered cats were proposed as nuclear warning devices. Indeed. You look very confused. So how the cats... warning devices. Meow. Meow. Indeed. Meow. You look very confused. So how are the cats? No, it's totally all right that you're confused.

This came from the Human Interference Task Force. We have talked about these guys before. Okay. They were, you know, the trefoil. We talked about it. That's the nuclear dangerous sign. It indicates that there's nuclear waste. And they said it wasn't enough.

So they put a skull and crossbones, a guy running towards the door and wiggly lines coming off the trafoil. Well, it was the Human Interference Task Force that kind of settled on that being fairly, even if you don't understand English, Spanish, Chinese, any language. You see that sign, you know you're scared. Yeah. This is because there is a depository of nuclear. It's not nuclear material, but it's stuff used around nuclear material. Sort of been radioactive. Yeah.

You know in Chernobyl, everything that was used to clean up the nuclear material then became nuclear itself? Yeah. it was used to clean up the nuclear material, but then became nuclear itself. Yep. Like all the clothes and everything that was around now emits nuclear energy. So that means that anything used, boots, gloves, anything, is going to be nuclear. Yeah. So they buried them under this mountain, deep, deep, deep below this mountain, in a salt cave, which I didn't know this, but salt expands and it takes up, it ends up just taking up the space.

So all these will just be entombed in salt one day. So don't go there for your cerebos. Easy pour. Table salt. No. But the Human Interference Task Force were faced with the problem that had to communicate up to 10,000 years when these things still would have been nuclear that this is not a safe place to be. Right.

It had to cover that the dangerous material was stored there and you weren't to go there and you couldn't live by it, you couldn't set up a settlement on it, you couldn't take water from the area. So they have to communicate this for even in 10,000 years when there could be aliens visiting.

Correct. Right. It has to be how is it going to go? All the people that you think about, you couldn't use a language because would you be able to read the languages that were used even a thousand years ago? You think about Latin and all the languages, and even English has changed heaps. Oh, wait, do I have Google Translate app on my phone?

No, because we don't know what is going to happen to society. It could have absolutely had a meltdown. It all could have failed. Robots could have revolted and then killed heaps of people, but then we beat them last minute and we start to rebuild. Nature takes over. Oh, God. So there was a lot to think about of how to do it.

And one particular idea brought to us by Francois Bastide and Paulo Fabry was called Raycats. Raycats, okay. And they identified the fact that throughout human history cats have kind of always been there. Yep. Even the oldest paintings like cave paintings, there's cats. There's cats, yeah.

There's domesticated cats. One of the first sort of like universally domesticated creatures. Along with dogs. So they said that you should genetically engineer a cat. Because this is the thing. They only had to come up with the idea. They didn't have to do it. Okay.

Genetically engineer a cat that when it started detecting radiation, it would change color. Whoa. It's easy to think that, isn't it? But it's another thing to do that. Now, they said people were like, well, won't people forget? And they said no, because if this is decided upon, we put folklore in place.

Things like you think about like the folklore around religion, like for thousands of years, or you can't do that. Why? Right. Because that's what we've always been told. Right. And there's always like stories with morals and everything.

And they said, if it's going to be essential, everybody's going to buy into the Ray cat solution. And like, even now it might seem ridiculous, but we've got to start the stories about Ray cats, about how if they start changing color, you shouldn't go near them.

Well, this seems dangerous because what if they start worshipping these ray cats in the future? Like there's some kind of God. And we just started it all from a made up story. Well, that is one of the dangers, but at least no one's face is going to fall off because they started eating something grown in above the ground of a nuclear waste. So it didn't win. Right. Boo, in the 80s. However, it had a bit of a resurgence in 2015 and somebody actually wrote a song.

To begin the folklore of Raycats. I wouldn't be here without it. Don't change colour, kitty Keep your colour, kitty Stay that pretty grey Don't change colour, kitty Keep your colour, kitty Keep sickness away Don't change colour, kitty

Keep your colour, kitty Please, cos if you do Or glow your luminescent eyes You're all gonna have to move Okay. Oh my god. I've listened to this song a few times, and I've just found myself with, don't change, Kelly Kitty, Kelly Kitty, don't change.

Damn it! It's in there. It's in there. Right. So that's the start. That's Emperor X's proposal to start the Raycat revolution. So today's fact of the day. We certainly went down a road there.

We went on a big journey. In 1984, when asked to solve a solution of how to tell future generations some tens of thousands of years away that there's nuclear waste in the area, someone proposed genetically engineered cancer would start glowing if they were anywhere near it. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. So if you like to dance in sync with other people, that sounds stupid, but this could be why TikTok dances are so massive.

Right. You do them at home when you're watching someone else, or you learn them, or you do them in a little group and you film yourselves. Well, you love dancing when you go out to da club. Yeah. That's exactly it. When you go to da club or to a concert and you're dancing with other people, synchronized dancing can strengthen your social connections. This is why I don't have friends then, like you say. Because I don't like dancing.

Well, we tried to get you to do a TikTok and you won't. I don't like dancing. But it's real simple. Not rhythmically. I'm rhythmically challenged. That's the easiest TikTok dance to do. Support New Zealand Made. Yes.

So musical performances and everything, when you get together in a group of people and you bond over music and the dancing, it basically strengthens your connections with those around you. What about getting really drunk at a concert? Yeah. And kind of dancing. Does that count?

No, because you bump into people around you. There's no synchronicity. Yeah, true. Okay. So around you. There's no synchronicity. Yeah, true. Okay. So when you synchronize your movements, it gives us a feeling of harmony and affiliation. Do you think people that do like synchronized swimming and dancing, do you think that they have bigger social friend groups or bonds?

Have you seen how many people Paris Goebbels hangs out with? So many. All of them. All of them. So that's what I need to Maybe you should take up synchronised swimming. I've always wondered when they go under the water, how do they know

they can't hear the music? They tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. What under the pool is their tap? I've been doing lanes when synchronised You've been doing synchronised swimming. I've been doing lanes and all you hear is just tap, tapized swimming. Well, I've been doing synchronized. No, I've been doing lanes and all you hear is just tap, tap, tap. Because I think they put a pole in

and the teacher taps it. I think that's how they do it. No, that was when you were swimming in the dolphin training pool at SeaWorld. That's how they train the dolphins too. Yeah, right. Okay. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap means fish.

Do a flip. Well, you're good at swimming. Maybe this is your calling. And you don't have to to talk to them too much. Yeah. Because you're on the water all the time. And you're graceful. And you're beautiful.

How great would it be to have dolphin friends? That would be so great. That would be so great, right? Except they'd be like, let's dive to the bottom of the sea. And you'd be like, sorry, guys. Can't make it. My air pressure won't let me. Oh, left out again.

Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So we've probably all got photos with our ex, if you haven't already deleted it from your Facebook page, because it was a part of your life. Yeah, I've only had current wife as girlfriend in time of social media. Because you went and had to deal with it. When you started, was it end of Bebo into Facebook?

No, it was like pre even Bebo. Like, I don't even know if I had a MySpace account. Wow, okay. Wow. 2004. Wow. It was a different time. We used to type each other letters on an old typewriter

and then wait for the Pony Express to pass through town. Or pigeon them over to her house. Oh, well, if you were rich, you could afford a pigeon. It would suck if you went travelling and you're in these amazing places. Oh, yeah. But you're with your douchebag ex. Well, there's someone on Twitter who could actually fix this problem for you.

She is going to use her photo shopping skills. Yep. And for $15, you can have her Photoshop the other person out of these photos. And it sounds like she'll do it, I mean, worldwide. You just message her on Twitter. My wife's done this for a friend of hers before. Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Photoshopped out. It was like somebody when they were in Europe with their partner, but they broke up before they came back, and they had all these amazing, like, your leading tower of Pisa, your Eiffel Tower, where the Berlin Wall was. Like, they had all these photos, but they were in all of them, and she's like, well, and she just took them out of a heap of them.

She should do this on Twitter, because they started charging $10, but then did a post and said, due to the amount of messages I'm getting, I'm raising the price to $15. Yeah. If you messaged me before this, it will still be $10. Pyramids, I remember, was her favorite because it was really easy to replace sand with sand

and blue sky. Yeah. Beside the pyramid. She's like, oh, this is a piece of cake. Yeah. The top half of them is blue sky and the bottom half is a sand dune. Now, so I would maybe give a little warning here. If you are happily married or happily in a relationship and you are taking photos with your partner or husband or wife.

Leave a little space. Yeah, leave a little space. Don't put your arm around them. Maybe stand in front of them so that they can be easily photoshopped out if worse comes to worst. Yeah. Do you think that's a good idea? There's a guy on the beach. He paid the $10 to get her to do it.

There's the initial photo. And when she was photoshopped out, he's got a funny lean on. Yeah, that could take care of that. How good is that photoshop though? Yeah, she's really good. She's left two shadows there. If she was a true professional, she'd take out that shadow. Oh, yeah, yeah, there.

Oh, she has. Yeah, okay. I don't want my $15 back. It's a very faint shadow though. And to be fair, I didn't look at it, and I was... What? And I knew that she'd been edited out. Yeah, I was just going to freak out her grandkids one day

when they're like, is that the ghost of grandfather? No, that was the guy that grandma used to bang before she married granddad. Imagine knowing that. Sade should do this as a job, though, because imagine all the photos. I thought you said Sade should do this as a job though because imagine all the photos. I thought you said Sade should bang on the toes.

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