ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 30th November 2021

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafé, Barista Mate Coffee Available, Drive Thru and McDelivery at Level 3, and also Dine In at Level 2. Yesterday I got a phone call from Carl Fletcher.

Do you know how Megan answered the phone when I called her? Hello? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Because you only ever call me when I was like, what's happened to Vaughn? That was my first thought. What's happened to Vaughn?

Vaughn's dead. He's in a crash. He's been in a crash. These things happen. Yeah, but you never answer your phone. That's why I was very hesitant to call you. You never call me. So I was like, what?

That's why I answered. Uh-oh. Well, podcast listeners yesterday would have heard us rag on you for the fact that you needed a customs number. A client code. A client code. This is what they do now, I've since found out. Because that's why I was calling Megan, because I also need a code for importing goods into the country.

Now, so a couple of badass importers. So you said initially yesterday it's because you import a lot. You buy a lot of online stuff. This is what happens now. I've since found out. If your goods are over a certain amount of level depending on what the goods are Bust it!

You need this number. You did know this. I danced around the truth when I talked to you about it. I messaged Vaughan and I said, well, Megan must have been buying something over a certain amount of money for Mr. Toyboy's birthday present. Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to buy a ceiling fan. That's, I mean...

Like a roof-mounted... I'm just trying to buy a birthday present. That's for the ceiling, yeah. And so this is the thing now. You fill out this form, you put all your details in and you give them your passport, copy your passport, and then they give you a number. So in the future, if there's anything that overseas websites haven't charged you GST for.

Or even if they have, you still need to do the client code because then they need to know whether they're going to invoice you the GST or send it back to the place you bought it. That's right, yeah. So even if you pay GST on like Amazon or whatever, they'll just, yeah. God, they must be absolutely punished at the moment these poor people working in like courier companies and freighting the fact that the courier companies need brokers to sort out this arm of the the business means that they must get snowed under with it also good for like our country i mean i don't like paying extra but like at least they're like getting monies from all these overseas companies. Yeah.

Which will be good for us. They're not getting when you buy. Exactly. Yeah. Overseas rather than. But they didn't ping me for the other two things. So. Good.

Suck it, customs. Suck it. So you bought a ceiling fan. Yeah. That exceeded the value. Of ceiling fans. Yeah. What did Megan buy?

I'm not telling you because it's a Megan buy? I'm not telling you because it's a birthday present. How much money did you spend? It's a birthday present. I'm not telling you. I am not telling you. Did you get Andrew? Did you get Andrew?

What about Christmas? What did you get for Christmas? What did I get him for Christmas? I'm not telling you. That means it's expensive. Did you get Andrew? Oh, wait, you said, what about Christmas? What did you get for Christmas? What did I get him for Christmas? Yeah. I'm not telling you. Oh, my God. That means it's expensive to sell. It's a Louis Vuitton butt plug, isn't it? It's a Louis Vuitton butt plug, and she won't tell us.

It's bedazzled. No, it's nothing Louis Vuitton. It's made of Italian marble. Jesus. Is it an Italian marble butt plug? No. It is, isn't it? Do you know how much a Louis Vuitton Italian marble butt plug would cost?

I have got no idea. I'm imagining it would exceed the New Zealand customs dollar value though. Definitely. What was it? I'm not telling you. I guess we'll all have to see on Boxing Day when Andrew puts up his post of what fashion item Megan purchased him this year. It's going to be a Gucci bum bag. It's not Gucci. It is going to be a Gucci bum bag.

It's not Gucci. There's a Gucci store on Queen Street. We spin two wheels. One is Italian fashion houses. Yeah. And the other is weird item of clothing. Yeah. Because last year, what was it?

Valentino sandals. It's a man satchel, isn't it? It's not a man satchel. But don't buy anything that can be bought from a market. Have you been to the Avondale markets? Granted, it's been a long time because of COVID. Yeah. Oh, good stuff.

Hey, you're not wearing your swan dry top today. I know, it's dirty. And on sale for only $30. I'm definitely getting some more. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleech, Vaughan and Megan.

It's two minutes past six. Happy Tuesday. Thank you. November 30. Is it the Thank you. November 30. Is it the last day of November? Yep. December tomorrow. Summer tomorrow.

Yes. Calendar summer. It's not the Equinox yet. Ah, calm down. I don't even know what that is every time you say that. It's just the first of December summer. Yeah, I know, but it's not fair to say whether you're talking about summer. Bloody, bloody, bloody,

bloody. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, sad news. If you stay awake and coherent and you're in Auckland on New Year's Eve,

the grand fireworks display of the Sky Tower has been cancelled this year in an effort to stop people unnecessarily congregating in their thousands, apparently. Oh, that just sounds like we're saving some money. Queenstown cancelled their little New Year's. Did they?

Oh, patronising? Their little New Year's thing. Their little New Year's celebration. I saw their fireworks last year. It was the celebration. It was good fun. Yeah. Oh, that's sad.

I think Queenstown's cancelled. It's. It was good fun. Yeah. Oh, that's sad. I think Queensland's cancelled. It's like public gathering thing. Right. So you don't get that many people congregating. Yeah. Yeah, she was pretty jam-packed. It's probably good for the environment though because you see the smoke

that stuff makes afterwards. It's all natural smoke. Yeah, it's natural smoke. It's natural fire smoke. Yeah. The trees really like it. Yeah. Because they can turn it into oxygen for us.

But I've got the top six other things we can throw off the Sky Tower. All right. Top six. To celebrate instead. All right, that's coming up next though. Australia could be introducing a new law that affects social media. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Australia. They are introducing

legislation that will make legislation that will make social media platforms responsible for the comments on their page. So say they post something about someone and people write derogatory comments,

defamatory comments. Well, there's already, in New Zealand you've got a, or anywhere you've got a responsibility to take down defamatory comments. Yeah. It's like people who run community pages don't know that because they're the administration, if they ignore defamatory comments or slander or illegal activity, they actually have bare responsibility. But not all bullying falls under defamatory.

No. No. Yeah, you can make nasty comments that aren't necessarily defaming someone. Because it could be true. So it's going to introduce a complaints mechanism. So if someone thinks they're being defamed, bullied, attacked on SoshMed, they will be able to ask the platform to take it down. Right.

If they don't take it down, they can then take them to court and they could force the social media platform to provide the details of the person who made the comments. Right. Because do we have cyber bullying laws? Yeah, we've got the Digital Harms Communication Act. Right. Because I was thinking, so say there's someone well-known to everyone. Is it Simon Dallow? Okay, something happens to do with Simon Dallow.

This is a hypothetical situation. Yeah, hypothetical. And a post gets put up and then lots of people decide that they're going to put in their thoughts and opinions on Simon. Yeah. Is that allowed? He's taller than you think. Could he then say this is bullying and get them to take them all down?

Yeah, because that's someone's opinion on him. It's not necessarily fact. Because that happens all the time, right? Yeah, it does. Like on newspaper comments online. Newspapers are online now.

Yeah. Well, they shouldn't be calling themselves newspapers anymore. The paper's gone. There's a line on, yeah. Just news. Institutes online. Yeah, news sites. People make

Pretty derogatory comments On there So do they not have Because we've got I've just googled The 2015 Harmful digital Communications acts

It's an offence To send messages And post material Online that deliberately Cause serious Emotional distress If found guilty You can be imprisoned

For up to two years And fined $50,000 For individuals There was a story Yesterday about somebody who had nude photos of them put online and the person who did it got, what did they get? Therapy. Yeah.

They got some form of therapy and the victim in the situation got nothing. Yeah, right. That's nuts. So we do have that law, but this is making the social media platforms responsible directly. Which I kind of like that. So they can be taken to court.

Yeah, I like that. Because they, exactly, they're more than happy to, you know, have advertisers on there paying through the nose for things, but also don't seem to want to bear responsibility that much. Australia's had a couple of shots at the old social media, right, this year? Because was it earlier this year that, well, they got Google to pay for news. That's right. Yeah, it was paying for the news.

And I know New Zealand news organisations are wanting something similar as well. Yeah. If it's only fair. So, yeah, ScoMo said, look, this doesn't happen in the real world, so it can't happen online either. He said there's no place for this in our country.

So, yeah, taking a stand. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Well, in the UK over the weekend and into this week, a giant storm. You may have seen this on the news. Storm Arwen. Yeah. Crazy winds, et cetera.

Yeah. In Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales, there's a pub. It's 528 metres above sea level, the highest in the UK. 520? Like, that's nothing. 28 metres. 500 metres above sea level, the highest in the UK. 520? Like, that's nothing. 28 metres. 500 metres above sea level. I don't know if they're saying that's the highest pub in the UK.

It wouldn't be the highest point in the UK. No, no, no, definitely not the highest. No, definitely not the highest. So the storm hit, and they got five foot of snow. At 500 metres above sea level. That would be like five foot of snow. And how high above sea level is Taupo? Like probably that.

Because I know Ohakune can sit around 900 metres above sea level. The elevation of Taupo is 360 metres. A little bit higher. Try Turangi. This could be a new game show. Elevation above sea level. No, try National Park. National Park will be higher.

National Park's going to be above 500. It's 825 metres. Yeah, we need to find some sort of middle ground. What about Time Happy? No, Time Happy's elevation. What are you talking about? What about Time doing No Time happy Elevation What are you What are you talking about How do you know

How elevated things are I have absolutely No idea I think I googled Oh Who Have you done it 500

Oh hang on Time happy 500 metres above sea level I wouldn't have guessed Well done Time happy And you said Don't even bother

With time happy So 5 foot of snow At the big gumboot So they got five foot of snow at the Big Gumboot. So they got five foot of snow at this pub in Yorkshire. It snowed in the snowplough. Police couldn't get to the snowplough, and that left everybody at the pub stuck. And the news story I'm reading has them stuck three days

in the pub with an Oasis Covers band. So they'd all gone to the pub to see Noasis. Noasis. Noasis, the Oasis Covers band. Of course they had. So imagine Ty Happy, but it's in Yorkshire, and there's an Oasis Covers band. Five foot of snow at the gumbo.

Yeah, and they're snowed in. They spent three nights there. Except Oasis Cover Band in New Zealand would be called Broasis. Yes. I think one day might be fun because there's alcohol and a band. Maybe you could join in. You know, if anybody knows how to play this song on the guitar, the minute the guitar turns up, they sort of can't help but start strumming it.

How many times do you think this song started with people being like, Stop! No! Well, staff at the pub prepared a karaoke evening to keep the spirits high. They've also organised a quiz and they've shown films

on a projector and they made lunch for everybody. Oh that's cool. So and apparently they've all formed a bit of a friendship. Oh that's cute.

They've been through something haven't they? Yeah and they've also been Is there any relationships happening? Well it just seems they've been sleeping on makeshift beds

beside the bar. Right. And yeah apparently it's minus 10 in an arctic blast. There was some sexual activity there.

Panky panky. It was called blow aces. Wow. Look at you you've got to try these things and what a time to try it. From the underground ZM Think Tank this is the top six.

Hello there. COVID-19 restrictions have snuffed out Auckland's traditional New Year's fireworks. Snuffed out. Do you think this is... Money. It's a money thing? Because they haven't been open for like, which I totally get. We need to ask Kim.com if he wants to pay for it again.

Remember Kim.com pay for it, right? And then they raided the Crisco Christmas hamper mansion. Yeah. And he hid in the panic room afterwards. Yeah. Everyone was like, I'll give him a break. He paid for the fireworks. But to say people are congruent, it's not like people stand at the base of the Skytower

and look up. Yeah, they do. Do they? Have you not been there? What a stupid. I've literally been standing at the base of the Skytower looking up one Yeah, they do. Do they? Have you not been there? What a stupid... I've literally been standing at the base of the Sky Tower looking up one year. Yeah, but by accident, right?

No. Why didn't you go to... When have you... You've never been in Auckland for New Year's? Never. Have you not? Have you not seen the viaduct? It's packed.

But I have said... But yeah, but go to the viaduct or go somewhere else. Yeah, but that's congregating. It's an excuse. Auckland City absolutely gets packed because people go to watch. Families, but that's congregating. At Auckland City. It's an excuse. Absolutely gets packed because people go to watch. Families. Wear a mask and watch from a distance. I always thought the best place to watch would

be, yeah, Mount Eden or in Devonport. Yes. Yeah. That sweet little secret picnic area at the end of Devonport. It's not secret. Everyone goes there. I've been there too. Absolutely everyone congregates there too. I didn't do all the day on a date there.

Did you? You didn't see the traffic at Devonport? No, no, no, not Devonport. Run in the corner. Run in the corner. I don't want to give too many details. It's a secret spot. Not only are the Sky Tower cancelling fireworks,

but also Wanaka and Queenstown, they're festivities for New Year's. I'm guessing the same situation, a money thing, and they don't want people congregating. I didn't know that the Auckland fireworks often led the televised, around the world televised New Year's celebrations. It's the first one. It's the first major city.

Maybe someone's got a Roman candle. We can just stand on the. I know. I know. The bush is on fire. What a great start to international celebrations. So I've got the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead.

And I wrote this on A4 paper. Usually I put it in a word document. Did your hand get sore? No. That's a lot of writing. Yeah, it is a little bit of writing. Number six on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks.

Watermelons. My God, you could go somewhere. Rope it off. Yeah, whenever I've been at the Sky Tower, I'm always like, it would be cool

to chuck stuff off here. Yeah. Is that so bad, because people would die if you hit them. Have you watched that, those Australian guys that got access to that?

No. Oh, not the dam, the basketball, he spins it and it goes out like that. Oh, not the dam, the basketball. He spins it and it goes out like that. Yeah, and I've seen people throw a Swiss ball off a dam. That was pretty cool.

No, these are guys in Australia that got this massive tower. I don't know if they leased it or what it ever was. And they hoist things up and then drop them. Oh, wow. The watermelon episode

is pretty fantastic. Okay. Other good ones, they dropped like an anvil into a car. It went through it. Wow. Number five on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks. Glitter.

Environmentally friendly glitter. Thank you. You'd be finding that for years. Yeah. Decades. Decades. Someone will, like, in ten years will be like, oh, yep, there it is still. Still got glitter.

Number four on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks for New Year's, paper planes. Oh, yeah. And see how it flies. So good. Take it down, and then it just catches a bit of wind and take off. That would be fun. That would be fun.

Number three on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks. Feathers. Yeah. They kind of float down. They're natural. Like, what happens to all the feathers of the chickens that end up in the hot rotisserie chickens

at the supermarket? Pillow. Pillows. They're in your pillow. Okay, well, we're going to need a whole lot of old pillows, please. We need all the feathers we can get. Number two on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks.

Water bombs. Oh, yeah. I think water bombs would be fun. And everybody's at the bottom, and if you get hit by a water bomb, you're out. But if you keep dodging the water bombs, it's the last of like a squid game situation. Put Fletch down the bottom with a helmet on it and with a target on it. Yeah. We've got to hit you.

Yeah. Okay. And then someone fills up a condom on the garden hose and it's like. And I die. We threw a condom full of water off the top of the farmer's building in Hamilton when we were young. Yeah. And it was only like three, maybe four storeys.

Yeah. And we filled it up off the fire hose on the top of the... Of course you did. How did we get away with it? Yeah, it was a car park. Oh, right. The top of it was a car park. How did we get away with it?

I've got no idea. Yeah. But we filled it up way too full and then threw it and it like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, because water went to each end of the condom and it started spinning violently. And I was like, man, that did not hit anybody. And it hit a parked car and set the alarm off and we ran.

It was very silly, Hamilton. And number one on the list of the top six things we can throw off the Sky Tower instead of fireworks. Bouncy balls. How much fun would it be to tip a chilli bin of bouncy balls off the edge of the Sky Tower and just watch them bounce off all the buildings.

That'd be great. When there's an apocalypse and I'm the last surviving human, I'm doing that. You know the elevator won't be working. I'm climbing up the stairs. It'll be worth it.

I'll pack a lunch. But the lunch will just be what I can scavenge from the local supermarkets in my little backpack. Okay. You're presumptuous thinking you'll be the last human. It's when you're a wild, narcissistic personality. Tendencies were also doubled up. Egocentric. Thought patterns.

These sorts of things happen all the time. Yeah. That is today's top six. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. I love it when you read these things and it's like, you've been gross. No, not you. I'm about to read you something that I've read.

You've been gross your whole life and you didn't even know it. I feel bad talking about this now because you guys can't participate. But apparently you're supposed to be cleaning your hairbrushes. Like rinsing them. Yeah, like cleaning them. And that could be why your hair gets greasy because you're constantly brushing your hair and they're getting dirty and they're getting oily

and I guess dirt from your dirty hair. And then when you wash it and you brush your hair again with a dirty hairbrush, you're putting it back into your hair. Which I never thought about. You haired people are gross. So you'd never do that? I've never washed my hairbrush. But do you ever look at your hairbrush and think, well, that looks a bit manky?

Okay, wow. I have this horrible habit of just leaving all my hair in the hairbrush. Ooh, that's the worst. I know. And it really grosses my husband out. So every now and then I'll pull out this big clump of hair. And then behind it, I'm like, oh, that's a bit dirty. Yeah, those white bits are dandruff, hun.

Heads and shoulders. Just like fluff and... Yeah. Yeah. So this came from TikTok. A woman was like, maybe I need to wash my hairbrushes, soak them for an hour and the water was yuck afterwards. So everyone's like, um, didn't know that was supposed to be done.

So how long should you be doing it? Like once a month or something? Yeah. Or just, I don't know. I've never washed my hairbrush. Why were you playing with a hairbrush? You'd forgotten. Well, I've got daughters and a wife wife Who have long hair And they wash their hair

And then they had Brushed their hair And then the hairbrush Was sitting there And I picked it up And then I started Like It's one of those

It's got a curve to it And it's got Plastic bits on the end Of the The Plastic dots Yeah To make it softer

On the scalp I guess And I just kind of Slowly softly Ran it over my head And it was very nice It was like Like a massage was like a tickle. Yeah, like a tickle massage on the head. Like those

metal prong things that you get? Yeah. Those are amazing. Those head massagers. Those were called orgasmatrons. Were they? Yeah, because there was two types. There was the standard one that came for the whole family called the head massager, and then if it came in a red sort of like suede-y, velvety bag,

it was called the orgasmatron. Right, but same thing. Yeah, just with a slightly more sexy marketing. Right. Have you ever asked to brush your day's hair? I was like, just because you don't have any, you're like, what's this like? I remember what it was like to brush my hair. So you've never done it?

This is very offensive. I've brushed the girl's hair. Oh, right. Like washed and then like brushed all the knots and stuff. But like why does it get to a point where it's weird and you can't brush Sade's hair? I've never, even if I had hair, I wouldn't brush her hair. Why? Because I said to my husband the other day, can you brush my hair?

And he was like, no, I'm not that serial killer kind of stuff. How lazy are you? No, I was like knotty at the back and I was like, that would be good if you brush my hair. He was like, absolutely not. You're not a horse. Do it yourself. It's like naughty at the back And I was like that would be cute if you brush my hair I was like absolutely not You're not a horse It's like Norman Bates Bates Motel Come and brush mother's hair

Netflix have released The list of their 10 most popular films This is original Netflix films Right And it's done by how many hours people have spent watching them.

So this doesn't mean people watch the entire film. Yeah, because there's some of these on this list and I'm like, oh no. Give that two minutes

and then press stop. Yes. So I'll go through the 10 of them. The Old Guard is number 10. That was the Charlize Theron. Oh, that was pretty good. That was a good action movie. Yeah, she was pretty good. She's an immortal. Good action movie.

Yeah, she was kick-ass. Turn that on. Let it happen. Army of the Dead is in at nine. That was where Las Vegas was overrun with zombies and they had to get back in to get the gold out of the Las Vegas safe. Did you watch that? Yeah.

Did you like it? It was silly, but it was fine. It was very easy to watch, much like The Old Guard. With a very low bar for Netflix movies. But sometimes you just want a mindless action. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Number eight is Enola Holmes.

That was the Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes movie. Oh, okay. Seven, Spencer Confidential, the Mark Wahlberg movie. That had 197 million hours. What was that one about? I think I watched that.

Was it where he got out of prison? Just, I can't remember. It was so long ago. I think he was in prison at some stage. I haven't watched that one. Another action search. Yeah. Who else was in it?

It was Mark Wahlberg and... That was a good movie. Someone else. It was like the two of them, right? I don't know. No answers on that one? No answers on that one. Number six was Six Underground.

That was the heist movie as well. Post Malone was in it. Post Malone was in it. For like five minutes and Alan Arkin was in it. He's a great actor. Alan Arkin? Yeah. From MASH.

I don't know. That Alan... Oh no, that's Alan Alda. Just old white guys in it. Yeah. He's a great actor. Alan Arkin. Yeah. From MASH. I don't know. That Alan. Oh, no. That's Alan Alda. That's a different one. Just old white guys called Alan. Yeah. I get them all confused.

Six Underground was number six. That was Ryan Reynolds. That had a pretty all-star cast. Yeah. Number five, The Kissing Booth 2. I love those movies. Well, who's in them? What's the story with The Kissing Booth?

What's her name? You'll recognise her. The kissing booth, she has a crush on this guy at high school and then they have a kissing booth. The kissing booth too has 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Well, just go into it with an open mind, okay?

Who is it? Name some of those cast members. I don't even know them. Nobody knows them. Joey King. You know Joey King. I'm not. You know Joey King. I'm not confident I know Joey King. Number four is The Irishman. That was Martin Scorsese. Oh, yeah.

Robert De Niro. I remember starting that and then pausing it to see how long it was, and it was real long. Three hours, isn't it? I was like, not today, and then never got back to it. Okay. Number three was the Chris Hemsworth movie Extraction. Oh, I like that.

Is this why he's in Europe at the moment? Are they filming the sequel in Europe? Yeah, they are. Because that was, up until recently, one of the most watched things on Netflix. It was, yeah. Movies. Movie-wise. Red Notice is number two.

This is the new Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds movie. I watched it because it's Ryan Reynolds. Did you watch it all the way through? Yeah, I did. Okay, you're the only person I know so far that's watched it all the way through. Really?

Three people that I know who have watched it have turned it off. Is it terrible? At the end, there's too many twists. Too many twists. I feel like we ended up back where we started. But Ryan Reynolds, so, you know, I had to watch it. That was kind of like... A drawcard. Ryan Reynolds So you know I had to watch it That was That's kind of like

That's what everybody's saying Right Ryan Reynolds and The Rock That's got 35% On Rotten Tomatoes Oh yeah It's atrocious

6.4 out of 10 On IMDB And number one At 282 million hours Spent watching Bird Box That was the Sandra Bullock That was actually really good The number one

Aliens Demons Whatever they were Could only get you If you saw them So that's why They were blindfolded Yeah yeah Right That was actually really good. Aliens, demons, whatever they were, could only get you if you saw them. So that's why they were blindfolded everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Right.

I haven't watched it. That was actually a pretty good movie. Was that the premise, if you saw them? Yeah. If you didn't see them, they couldn't hurt you. Okay. Yeah. Man, Netflix need to spend some money on making good movies,

because that list of top ten. Do they? Literally, their tenth one has been, people have spent 186 million hours watching it. I also feel like Red Notice has been unavoidable. If you go onto Netflix, it's been at the top, even if they can kind of control what you watch to an extent. But if they paid heaps of money for Ryan Reynolds,

I'm sure they want to get their money's worth. Oh, absolutely. ZM's Flesh Warner Megan. Keeping up to date with the news just became a little easier. As at Herald's new podcast, the front page is your short, sharp daily news podcast.

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Yummy, yummy. Well, it's time for Yummy, Yummy, a segment of the show where we take a look at new food trends. And today it is not a nourish bowl. I don't believe the nourish bowl is a new phenomenon, but I'm more than happy to discuss it at more length. It's more the fact that you said you had a nourish bowl for dinner. I didn't have a nourish bowl. It's what posh white people call a salad. It's not a posh.

It's not a salad. It's different to a salad. It's a salad with rice. I'd never put rice in salad. And you white people call a salad. It's not a posh. It's not a salad. It's different to a salad. It's a salad with rice. I'd never put rice in salad. And you put it in a bowl. I also wouldn't put edamame beans in a salad. Yeah, well, stop calling it a nourish bowl. Just say you had chicken last night for dinner.

It was a bowl of nourishment. Well, the new food. You'd also have salad on. I believe you'd have salad on a flat plate, not in a bowl. Oh, not in a bowl. That's what makes it a nourish bowl? Okay. I believe you'd have a salad on a flat plate, not in a bowl. Oh, not in a bowl. That's what makes it a nourish bowl? Okay.

A new food item coming to us from Australia, which normally means we get it, like any of the chocolates and treats normally do come here. McDonald's have launched a limited edition chocolate soft serve ice cream, and it tastes just like a yoghurt. Do you remember the chocolate yoghurts? Like a dairy milk, like a like a yoghurt. Do you remember the chocolate yoghurts? Like a dairy milk, like a dairy chocolate yoghurt. What? In the pottle.

You remember those? We were allowed them growing up. I was not allowed. We were allowed them sometimes, but they weren't the main yoghurt. We were allowed yoghurts, not dairy foods. I like that the parents were like, you're not allowed that chocolate yoghurt. It's got too much sugar. We'll get you a strawberry one, and there's just as much. And here's some Raro for your drink bottle.

Yes. So yeah, apparently looking at the colour, it's more of a, it's a caramel colour. Not a solid like chocolate colour, right? Yeah, but it's soft serve, so it's not going to be like you know, dark chocolate. So they've advertised it. Oh, I remember yogos.

I've found the yogo. I remember them. I never had one, but I remember them. So somebody posted on TikTok, McDonald's, they went to the drive-thru with a sign saying that they're currently trialing the new chocolate soft serve. So whether that rolls out to here, a place would need two soft serve machines, right? Yeah.

I don't know how many taps or how it works with a soft serve machine. Maybe someone could let us know. Do you remember there was that at, where was it that you could go chocolate on one side, vanilla on the other, and then in the middle it would do you a swirl of both. Like all the yogurt stores. Yeah. But that would require them to have like the machine that had empty taps, right? Otherwise, they're going to need another machine.

Look, let's face it, it's probably broken anyway. That's what they say. It's not working. Or it's in the freezing process. Right. So this had been noticed at a McDonald's in Sydney's CBD on Saturday. So fingers crossed that rolls out because with summer coming, just love another soft serve.

Sort of a nourish cone. You could call it a nourish cone. Yeah, absolutely. Getting nourishment. If you want to. A cone for. Yeah. A nourish dessert.

A nourish cone. Next on the show. I had to hide from somebody yesterday. I hid and they were like hello And I just Okay stayed quiet I'll tell you why next ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan We've had a big pink skip at our house

For a little while All the big rubbish bins Did you see the truck Were you there when the truck dropped it off That's pretty cool when that happens. I'm always, when I see that, I was like, oh, I wonder if they'll tip over. What? Because it's real heavy.

But it's empty. Yeah, but when they're full, when you see them taking it away, I'm always like, oh. I didn't see. Okay. Because I hid. Right. What? I saw the truck coming down the driveway to pick up the skip.

Very full skip. And the reason it's full is that we've had bathroom renovations done and everything got put in there. But Sade's also taken it upon herself to just chuck out some other stuff that's too big for the bin. Have you thrown out all of your plates because all you use are bowls? Yeah, for our nourishment. For our nourishment, all we use is a series of different sized bowls.

This will be referenced in every break. You don't do plates anymore. No, no, no. We're primarily a bowl family now because our nourishment must come from a bowl. Yeah, so if you've just joined us this morning, Vaughn only eats nourishment bowls. Also, I think it wouldn't be a bad thing if everybody, if dinner plates had more of a pronounced bowl-like edge. I'll give you that. Because then you wouldn't chase things off the side of your plate.

Yeah, I don't mind bowls, but I'll just call them a bowl. Right. And I'll say I'm having a salad or chicken in a bowl. I'm not going to flash it up. Yeah, but if you're having all of that with some rice and some other wholesome fresh ingredients, you could save yourself the words used to explain that by just calling it a nourish bowl. Okay, yeah. So I wasn't in the calling it a nourish bowl. Okay, yeah. So, I wasn't in the middle of the nourish bowl, but I saw the truck coming down, and I

was like, I didn't want to be here when he came to pick up the skip, because it's full beyond the line that says, don't fill beyond this line. But they don't care about that, do they? It's indictory, isn't it? I feel like it depends on who you drive around. Yeah, and I don't want to have to be there, and he's like, hey, you need to get rid of some of the stuff

So then I have to pick what to take out It would be the burnable stuff But So when he came down the driveway I was like oh no and I was the only one home Shout out gonna get the girls from school Oh no and I hid Right

And then he took ages to turn around Because he was in a truck So I was hiding the whole time But I didn't want to get out of my hiding spot Because the minute I did I bet he would have finished And he would have looked And he would have seen me

And so I was like hiding And then he was like I hear hello And I'm I didn't say that to myself I was just giving that sort of Where were you hiding? Scene setting

I'm on the floor in the pantry. Because there were snacks. He couldn't have come in to your house to find you. Okay. No. Bold move. If he did, knock, knock, knock. Anyone home? Hello? I'm coming in. Hello? He was like, hello?

And I was like, no, I can't go out there. I don't want to have to pick anything up. Skip. Or, and I would totally have been like, my wife's got a little crazy with what she's chucked in the skip. Right. It was literally our old pink washing basket. Granted, it's had it. Yeah.

But I would have just like smashed it up and put it in the recycling bin. But she was like, ah, chuck it in the skip. She wasn't there to deal with the guilt of the skip. Yeah, right. So I hid from my shame. And I listened to a man say hello a few times. And then listened to him be like, oh, God. And he put the cover over it.

And he was like, and he just got the cover on. Because you'd filled it over the line. Because it had been overfilled from the line. Yeah. Full over the line. And I hid. Yeah. And I expected when I heard the truck leave to look out and see some stuff that had been

taken out and just put beside where the skip was. That's what I would have done. He managed to get it all. He got it all. Oh, what a great man. He got it all. And then when I saw the truck leave, I was like, that's a win. Yeah.

That's a win for me. I hid from my guilt. In your own home. In my own home. Welcome to my life when anyone knocks on the door and you have to be aware of your shadow because if they see your shadow moving. You've got a window beside your door.

Do you ever, like, peek or are you worried they'll see the peek? No, you don't peek. I have a peek. You never peek. And it depends on where you are in the house. Either you've got to stand right where the door is and not move to the side glass panels or you've got enough time to run away. And then she gets a card to call from the courier.

She's like, oh, now I have to go to the depot. Yeah. Just answer your door. No, it's scary. Why don't you get one of those cameras with the ring cameras and you just look on your phone and then you'd be able to see who's there. Oh, my God, that's amazing.

And if it's a courier, you can talk to them and be like, hey, mate, just leave it there. I'm two minutes away. They don't know where you are. Oh, my God. But you've given them, just leave it there. I'm two minutes away. They don't know where you are. Oh my God. But you've given them permission to leave. Okay.

If I was trying to recruit for my church, knocking on doors, I'd dress up as a courier. You'd be like, hello, it's Lauren here from Courier, the Church of Couriers. Yellow polo shirt. Yeah. The Church of sub-60. Yeah.

And you're holding a box and they're like, but what's in the box? It's God. And then I open the box and I'll be like, I can't see God. Trust me, he's there. He's everywhere. Now, can I get you signed up for the church? That's just a tip. Yeah.

From me to people struggling to recruit for their denomination. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. A study has found that maybe it's not food that is a problem when it comes to weight. New Zealand, are we still number three in the world obesity statistics? We're yo-yo? We yo-yo. We yo-yo up the world stats. It might not actually be

the food, but it could be the alcohol. Apparently, there are there's an extra day in the week of calories just due to how much alcohol we're consuming. So people will consume a whole day's worth of calories.

Calories and booze. A week. Do you know, it's the sugar that gets you, isn't it? In the, like your mixes. Yeah. So if you can cut down in oil, you can use soda water, or if you're getting RTDs, get ones that are lower calories. But even when you're like, the spirits taste so like strong,

it can't be that much sugar in them, but there are. You know, the darker spirits do have a lot of calories. So in the UK, they are considering putting labels on alcohol that shows how much calories is in each thing you drink. I kind of like when, is it overseas? I know Sydney on their menus has like, have to put an America that next to each thing that you

order, it says how many calories and it's quite confronting, eh? It is. When you're like, I'll just get a burger combo and you're like, 2,000 calories? You're like, ugh. They must have that, that's conversion American calories. The American calories are very strong at the moment. Yes, a half that for New Zealand calories I think so

Some RTDs already like Powell's I think Have the little thing on the side It's like 33 calories I think it's per 100ml or per can Which is it? There's a different one I don't have a can next to me But I know it's something like that

Which is kind of I guess gives you an idea, right? Yeah. But then you do, you have a whole box and then times that by And then if you're sitting down to like, you're at a barbie in the summer and you're like confronted by that that's not what you want to see. It's the cheese that'll get you. Yeah.

Yeah. Not cheese flavoured alcohol, I was just thinking there's always like cheese around. There's always cheeses and there's always snacks. Yeah. You get a bit of that, some chips. Everything in moderation though, eh? Yeah, people say that, but we're yet to figure that out. Balance life up with a nourishment bowl. Nourish bowl. Your healthy days.

Have your beverage with your nourish bowl. Oh, I did last night. I had a drink with my nourish bowl. Right. I was nourished last night. I had a drink with my nourish bowl. Right. I was nourished, refreshed. I felt good. Ah, we've had correspondence from someone who wants to know

if they're a bad person or not. It starts with, hey guys, I need to know if I'm being crazy. I have been with my partner for seven years and really early on like a year in, he cheated on me

with one of his childhood besties. That son of a gun. But they've been together now seven years. Okay, so they got over it and moved on. Yeah, he was so remorseful. We did a lot of work to save our relationship. We went to counselling and have a way better communication now so I genuinely don't think he'll ever do it again.

Here comes the problem. The thing is, I've just noticed that he's following her on Instagram and has liked her three recent posts. Wow, I'm so glad you're here, Megan, to provide some advice on this. Am I a bad person for asking him to unfollow her? Childhood friends.

How am I? Does she say, like, do they still keep in contact, like, in terms of, like, hanging out? Or it doesn't seem like it, right? It doesn't seem like it. Not that she knows. Hmm. Yeah, and I need to know, is the childhood friend in another city? Like, but then what is he thinking?

Okay, well, let's just. He's not. Let's put you in this situation. So. You'd instantly make your husband unfollow her. So here's the difference. Okay. I wouldn't ask him to unfollow her.

I would ask him about it. I'd be like, what's the deal here? Right. Explain. Why do you feel the need? That's loaded. Yeah, but it doesn't make me sound as crazy being like, unfollow her. You asked for the explanation.

What's the explanation? And then let him talk his way out of it. Or dig himself a hole. You mean dig himself a huge hole. But like, what is he thinking? Like, is this... Yeah. You can also like, you can look her up on

Instagram. Don't follow her and don't like the posts, you egg. Like, come on. It was six years ago. Seven. Well, since they cheated. Yeah. Since he hooked up with her. Yeah. It's a long time. That's loaded. He scratched a long time. That's loaded.

He's scratched in it. She's moved on. He's with her. No, but it looks like he's scratching it again. Thank you, Ward. Sounds like he's got chicken pox. That's what I want to know. Like, what's the deal?

Are you keeping in contact? Like, please explain your actions. Please explain. So she's saying, is she a bad person? And this is what we need your help with now, dear listener. Is she a bad person? For asking him to unfollow her. I wouldn't ask him to unfollow her.

Maybe you've been in this situation with like previous, I don't know, exes. Yeah. Or their friendships with their exes. Also, it's hard to not sound crazy when you've gone and looked and seen that he's liked it. Yeah, you've done some background research. Yeah, because odds are she's not following her. No.

Unless she is, to keep an eye on it. Well, that's even worse. Gotta try and come off not crazy. Alright. Alright, well, 0800DARLS.M is the number. Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696. We need your help. Is she a bad person for asking her partner to unfollow a girl

that he cheated on her with six years ago? But they're childhood friends, and it was so long ago. Mm. All right. No comment, you're right. Tell us what you think. Right now, we need to know if Anonymous is a bad person. We've had correspondence from someone whose partner cheated on them seven years ago.

They've worked on their relationship, but now he is following and liking the childhood friend again that he cheated with. Is she a bad person for asking him to unfollow her? But they're childhood friends on one hand, but then and it was six years ago that the cheating happened. What's more important? Which relationship's more important? Yeah. Okay, so message is in. Somebody said

when I met my husband, he was still Facebook friends with some of his ex-girlfriends and he had his ex before me all over his Facebook photos. I asked him what was going on, and within minutes, she was gone, as were the other ladies. This is a completely different situation. You've just asked him to erase existence people prior to you.

That's good that he did. I mean, he's obviously like, well, I don't need these photos and memories. Yeah. People saying no, not a bad person. How would he feel if the boot was on the other foot? Yeah. People saying no, not a bad person. How would he feel if the boot was on the other foot? Yeah. That's often a way to approach these things. Someone says she's not a bad person.

She's not demanding he unfollows all females. Just the one that he cheated with. Yeah, exactly. How unreasonable. Am I a bad person? So correspondence from anonymous. They've been with their partner for seven years. Really early on, he cheated on me with one of his childhood besties.

They've worked on their relationship. It's been all good ever since. But just recently, she's noticed that he's following her on Instagram and has liked her three recent posts. So wants to know if she's a bad person for asking him to unfollow her. Hmm. Bullshit! Show some respect and loyalty to who you're with,

not with who you were with. Yeah, good call. Don't assume their tone, thank you. You're making them sound very angry. I feel like that was an angry tone. Do you think it's a little disrespectful? Very disrespectful. She's a bad person. Bottom line is that he cheated with her

so there's total disrespect shown towards her and their relationship. If this is the other way around, I don't believe he would tolerate this. I have a similar issue and it challenges the trust in more ways than one. Okay. Anonymous, what do you think? Is she a bad person?

I don't think she's a bad person at all. I've been in a similar experience, and yeah, it didn't go any well. So what happened in your situation? So I found out that my ex was stalking her on Instagram, following. I asked him not to follow her anymore, so he deleted his Instagram instead of unfollowing her.

A year later, he left me for her. Oh, okay. So I think our listener that's messaging should be worried. Yes, definitely. Yeah, because what's the attraction? Why does he need to follow her? Sneaky. So, okay, so she's not a bad person.

Anonymous, thank you for your call. Nikki, what do you reckon? Is she a bad person? Oh, no, I don't think she's a bad person at all. I mean, I haven't gone through it myself with anybody, but, yeah, I agree with you, Megan. I think he should not, you know think he should explain why he's doing it and he probably should take it on himself to unfollow him.

Would you be able to keep your cool, Nikki, if you were in this situation? Oh, probably not. I said before on my text, I'd probably open a can of Whip-Ass on him. I know, we can talk about this calmly on the radio, but put me in that situation. I can't guarantee. Megan comes home with a flamethrower. Yeah.

Delete. What are you buying this flamethrower for? Long story. But my partner's about to be set on fire. Some messages in. 100% ask him why he thinks he needs to be following her and if he thinks they're both strong enough to squash any feelings that could

arise again and ask him if he realises he could be leading this woman on and be potentially ruining three people's lives in the process. Yeah. Yeah, because how does he know she doesn't have feelings for him even if he doesn't? Then that's not fair on her either. It's definitely a huge red flag when it's seven years in.

The seven year itch. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay, so. It's definitely a huge red flag when it's seven years in. The seven year itch. Oh yeah. Mmm. Yeah. Okay, so. It doesn't matter that they were childhood friends. He's 100% crossing a line.

He cheated on her with said person. Okay, so you need to, this, you need to go home and put the foot down. Me? No.

Oh, you. I was like, no, I'm not. Am I? Do you know something I don't know? No, I was talking to our listener that messaged in. Right.

I think that would be the overwhelming response, wouldn't it? Yes, wildly overwhelming. Have the conversation. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. Well, I hope you're both happy. Sade thinks I'm mocking her nourish bowls, and now she said there's no more nourish bowls. No, we're

mocking you. Because you said you had a nourish bowl for dinner. You said you had a nourish bowl for dinner. That's what it was called. She's backed it up. Tell Sade she's forgotten her Hamilton roots. Yeah. You had chicken on rice. You had chicken and salad. There was other stuff in there. I like the nourish bowl.

You've cost me the nourish bowl. You had chicken salad with rice. No, it wasn't mixed like a salad. Everything was sitting there. You had a poke bowl. You had a deconstructed chicken. You had a Don Marie. It wasn't Don Marie because it wasn't Japanese,

and it wasn't poke because it wasn't raw fish. Calm down. There's a best name for it. It's a bowl of nourishment. You've changed. Hey, you on the phone. I bet I can guess your mum's name. In fact, if you can't guess Holly's mum's name,

it could be because of the nourish bowls. Because you've changed. Oh, my gosh. I hope not. Holly, good morning. Good morning. Now, Holly Vaughan will have five questions to ask you about your mum and then have 15 seconds to try and guess her name.

If you can do that, $100 cash is yours. Wait. Hi, Holly. Hello. I will remind you again, if during the brainstorm process I say your mum's name, try to keep it cool. Yeah, don't say. Don't give it away.

A couple ago, the contestant gave it away in the middle. They were new to the game. Don't be hard on them. Yeah, okay. It's all right. First question. How old is your mum? Rude question to ask.

I know, but it's essential. I hope she's not listening. She is 58, I think. Sorry, mum. But it is an important question because it gives you that kind of error. The error. The error of the name. 20, 21. Minus era of the name. 2021.

Minus. 58. 58. Yeah, a few Sharons, Karens. Right about 1963, is that what we're thinking? Early 60s? Yeah. Early 60s.

So you've got your Karens. I've only got Karen on the list once and I immediately regretted it. Yeah. So that's always where we start. We start with a Karen and then we'll dance around with a Margaret. Margaret. Oh, what was that noise? You shush.

No clues from you. Thank you. It was a sneeze. Oh, was it a – did you sneeze? No, no. Oh, okay. I was about to – Holly.

Gesundheit. I'm not going to Gesundheit now Got an Ann Got a Vicky Got a Mary Okay, next question What kind of car does your mother drive? She has got a Maroon Hyundai Tucson

That's what executive intern Anya drives Hyundai Tucson. That's what executive intern Anya drives. Any, like, vibe on a year there on the Tucson? It's relatively new, I would say. Oh, okay, so it's a new. Have you put down Anna for producer Anya? Well, I've got an Ann, but I'll put down an Anna. Okay.

Definitely put down an Anna. A Barbera? Could you imagine a Barbera driving a Tucson? Absolutely. You can imagine I'll put down an Anna. Okay. Definitely put down an Anna. A Barbera? Could you imagine a Barbera driving a Tucson? Absolutely. You can imagine a Kim. A Barb's. Yep. Kim driving a Tucson. Yeah.

A Helen? Would a Helen drive a Tucson? Or more of a Daihatsu or a Toyota? Nah, Helen could drive a Tucson. Okay, yeah. Helen might be on her third Tucson. Yeah. Helen likes...

I love the brand. I can't let it go. You know what? I just love the last Tucson. But the miles, the Ks are getting up. You've got to keep on top of these things. Yeah. I'll trade it in.

I'll get a deal. Maybe an ex-demo. Yeah. Maybe a different colour. Mums love an ex-demo. They save themselves a bit of money there. Julie, you've got a Lisa. What about like a Susan?

I feel like you're going too young there, maybe. Oh, no, maybe not. No. Okay. Tanya. I get a Tans down there. What are your mum's siblings' names? She's got a sister called Donella.

Oh, shit. Donella. Yep. Doneella. Yep. Danella. Not a Daniella. Danella. Donella. Donella.

D-O-N-E-L-L-A. Yep, that's right. Danella. You never know. It could just be like Kim and Danella. I know. They could have gone. What about Donnie and Marie?

Have you got a Marie? I've got a Mary. Oh, okay. Maybe Danella's the youngest and they thought they'd zhuzh it up at the end. Because they were like, Donna, Donna, it's not quite there. Yeah. Give it a little bit of that. Danella.

Give it a little bit of flavour. Yeah. I've got a Wendy in there, don't you? Of course you do. Wendy and Danella. But maybe they're taking these names and then Allering them. Yeah, or... Like a Wendy-ella or a...

Yeah. A Wendy-ena? Yeah, or a Helena. Um, Wendy-ette? Wendy-ette. Okay. Chucking a couple on there. All right, how many more?

One more question? Donella. I'm just writing that in my form. Where does mum get her news from? I want to say Facebook. Oh. Okay. Reliable source.

Lynn. Classic Lynn move there. Okay. Imagine she'd post on a few Facebook pages maybe She's not afraid to get in there and have a chat on the community page Do they have a No you wouldn't go Donella and Diane would you Why not

Pauline Get her Pauline and yep And Alison Okay And finally Mum's favourite summer getaway. Where does mum like to get away to in the summer? Could be a day trip. Could be a couple of weeks.

Could be a few days. My brother lives in Timaru, so I'd say she'd want to go down there Okay She'd have to get the Tucson on the ferry Oh, I'd say she'd be a bit of a She'd fly Would she fly? Yeah, she'd fly

Oh, I don't know That depends on the Yeah, but she might like to have the Tucson Yeah I'm going to put Caroline because of Caroline Bay Okay Timaru Okay Oh, I don't need to write Bay Too slow. Yeah. I'm going to put Caroline because of Caroline Bay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Oh, I don't need to write Bay. I just need to write Caroline. Got an Ann. Got an Anna. See, I think if I say Ann and it's Annette, is that covered? No. No. You've got to say Annette.

I think you've got to say Annette, but she goes for an Ann for sure. No, nobody goes for Annette. I'm going to leave that up to say Annette. I think you've got to say... She's Annette, but she goes for an Ann for sure. No, nobody goes for... I'll leave that up to Holly. Okay. All right. What else did I want to put on here? Janine. How about a Jillian?

I'd check a Jillian on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kath. Kath, I've got a Kath. Okay. I'm going to I'm gonna go Kath Lane Alright well those are

No Donella and Kathleen Yeah Kathleen That's different Okay well Holly Vaughn now has 15 seconds To read out your mum's name If you hear your mum's name

Yell out stop That's my mum's name Vaughn Your time starts Wait one more One more One more I'm more, one more. I'm going to go with Bronwyn.

You know why? Your time starts now. Karen, Margaret, Vicky, Anne, Mary, Anna, Kim, Barbara, Helen, Julie, Lisa, Tanya, Jan, Wendy, Christine, Lynn, Tracy, Pauline, Alison, Elizabeth, Caroline, Janine, Jillian, Kathleen, Heather, Sally, Bronwyn. That's all I had on my list. Oh. It was the nourish bowl. The nourish bowl has malnourished your brain. The nourishment's flying straight through me.

Holly, what's your mum's name? Jeanette. Who? Jeanette. Jeanette. How do Jeanette. Jeanette. How do you spell Jeanette? J-E-N-E-T-T-E. You didn't yell.

You said Annette. You didn't say. I said Jan. And you said Annette. Jeanette isn't short for Jan. Should it get called Jan? Nah, just Jeanette. Okay.

I'll accept that then. Oh, babes, you said Annette. Annette. If I'd said those like Annette. Annette. If I'd said those like Jan-annette, Annette. Jan-annette. Janette. And she would have been confused. Well, unfortunately.

Oh, no. Holly, thank you for playing, but Vaughan's luck has run out today. I bet I can guess your mum's name. A rare failure in these dark times. In these pandemic times. In these pandemic times. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. You've heard of FOMO. Have you

heard of FOMN? FOMN. It's not actually as fun as FOMO to say. I used to go to FOMN parties at the Outback. F-O-M-N. F-O-M-N. Yeah. Fear of Missing-N. Yeah. Fear of missing. Fear of missing.

Nutella. Oh. Constant. No, it's notification. Fear of missing nourish bowls. Fear of. We're going to get it into every single break today. Fear of missing nourishment.

Notifications is what it is. You have a fear of missing them. Yeah. Notifications is what it is. You have a fear of missing them. Yeah, so, but, excuse me, you pick up your phone every time there's a song playing. Yeah, because I'm bored. I'm just killing time until the voice break. I'm prepping for the next break. I'm like, where are we taking this?

What's happening? What's happening on the show afterwards? I'm replying to work emails. You're doing the word find. You tell them you're bored. You can tell them that. Oh, no, I'm not. Phil, he's not.

Oh, Phil, Phil. Oh, he's not. Okay, don't worry. I hope that's not you defensive for everything. Like, are you cheating on me? Oh, no, I'm not. Oh, I'm not. Was that not believable?

No, not really. Are you the perpetrator? No, I'm not. I actually, I've turned off for like the last year and a half of being very minimalist on notifications. Right. A lot of them are turned off. You've Marie Kondo'd them.

Yeah, because it's constantly, Facebook's always like, hey, come back, come back to us. You want to see this? And you just get all these rubbish notifications, all the news apps, I've turned them off. Yeah, I get all these things and I just ignore them. I go home and then, like, you get busy and I forget where my phone even is. But a lot of people, it seems, get phony.

And as soon as their screen is out of sight or flipped over or whatever and they can't see the notifications, they get anxiety and worry that they're missing something or something exciting or something important or urgent, the anxiety pulls them back to the phone. How long do you reckon? Do you go home and just leave it? If you're outside, do you take it in your pocket?

Well, I listen to podcasts. Oh, okay. But it can just be in there for hours. Yeah. Because I've got it set up so that you don't hear the notifications if you're listening to something. Right. But you also wear a watch.

So then if you do get a notification, you can just be like, oh, yeah. I don't know. Sometimes if you're doing things, you don't really feel that. Do it sort of like this. Right. A little notification buzz. Just unplug, man. But, yeah, a lot of people are suffering from anxiety when they,

apart from their phone, can't see their screen at all times. And then we all get our daily screen time notification on Monday. Oh, mine was yuck this week. How did that happen? You are yuck. It's judgment. Well, how did it happen? I don't know.

How much was it up? It was up. I don't know. I didn't see the percentage. I think even it was like, this is how much yuck. But it was like, what was it, five hours you said a day? Yeah, yeah, five hours a day. That's not much.

It was still yuck. Mine's three hours a day. Do you remember, Carl, when at the social media desk at the peak of pandemic initially, wasn't it like 18 hours a day? Was it 18? What was your record? I can't hear you. Why can't I hear you?

Is everyone's gone? Why did everyone leave you? Why are you in there by yourself? Babes. Where have the other two gone? I need to know. Come in here and tell us. Because I need to know how your hours are going.

I need to know how your hours are going. I can't believe they just ditched you. I can't believe that. Where are they? In the toilet. Yeah. What was your daily FaceTime? About nine hours.

Nine hours a day. But that's your job. You can say it's your job. But it was down this week to seven. Hey! Does that count when you're, like, streaming video? Because you watch a lot of, like, Netflix, right? Yeah, my phone, yeah.

Okay. But I've stopped doing that lately, so that's probably why it's down. Right. Okay, so you're still watching a screen, just not that one. Yeah, a bigger screen. You're watching shows on the screens they were meant to be viewed on yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah nice good good zdm's fledge one and megan at least you think you're funny they're just ripping the shit out of me again.

I don't know. It's not worthy for the radio. That was one of those laughs that hurts. It happens off air too. Right now it's time for. I'm dizzy. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yesterday, as I lay my head upon my needs-to-be-replaced memory foam pillow. Why does it need to be replaced?

I don't know. It's old. Okay. It's not as perhaps memory-rific or foamalicious as it once was. Do they get dementia too? Memory-rific. Yeah, they do. They lose their memory. And this was a nap.

Okay. So I had those silicon ear plugs in that you gave me. Those are pretty good for a daytime nap. Block out some noise. And your mask. I have my creepy bird mask on to block out the light. And just as I lay down and I shut my eyes underneath the bird mask, I thought to myself, why are they called the Philippines?

Of course. Quite often when I'm going to sleep, I wonder why places are called places. But why is it called the Philippines? What led you to that? I don't know. It must mean something in their language, like islands or something. It doesn't!

Okay. So immediately off came the bird mask, out came the silicon airplanes, and I needed an answer. Okay. Why are the Philippines called the Philippines? Right. Many islands, right?

Many islands. Yeah, many islands. To describe where they are, if you know where China is and you know where Australia is, it's kind of in the middle. It's beside Indonesia. It's across from Malaysia. It's an archipelago of 7,640 islands.

So it's called the Philippines. Is it because of Philip? Yes. Is it? The Spanish King Philip II is why it is called the Philippines. Huh. How crazy is that?

So it was named after Spanish people and that, my friends, leads me further because I didn't nap for another 40 minutes because I went down a wormhole. Yeah. Is why there is a lot of Spanish influence in the Philippines. Oh, I didn't know that. Filipino food.

Filipino place names. Yes, Spanish architecture. I love, but that's like, yeah, because they did so much traveling in those, you know, those years when they were conquering everything. Yes, the Spanish. The buildings, the Spanish buildings, like all through the Caribbean and Central America and stuff are amazing. Yeah, yeah. Much influence.

Through the Americas, you kind of expect. But in the Philippines, you might be like, what's going on here? Well, it was Spanish got into like the spice trade and it was quite a crucial part of that whole trade route. And prior to being called the Philippines, to the best of my extent of the research I did, was that it didn't have one big collective name. It was like a series of islands and

individual villages that traded with each other and would fight and everything, but it didn't have a collective name. And so they went to Philippines. So they went to Philippines, Las Elas Filipinas, which means the Isle of Prince Philip. The Isle of Pains. So then I was like, okay, so it's named after Philip,

King Philip II of Spain. Why are people from the Philippines called Filipinos with an F? Oh, yeah. Why are they called that? And that is because Philip in Spanish is Felipe, which is spelt with an F. Oh, wow. Filipinos. Filipinos.

So they're the- Better than being called Phils. Yes. Yeah. Or imagine if they're just called the Philippines the Phils. They could be called the Phillies. Phillies, yeah, yeah. That'd be cool because Phillies, you think of like a horse, a bit of a rambunctious horse.

So yeah, that led me into a little bit of a semi-deep dive. And did you get a nap kit? Yeah, I was much shorter than I needed because of this whole Filipino. Well, your mind gets racing with all that Spanish culture and not history. Doesn't it? Doesn't it just? And that's why if you know anybody who is Filipino, they might have Spanish names.

Because it became like the, I still have to try that Filipino meatloaf. Yes. Oh, yes. FFS. I've been meaning to do that forever. F-ing Filipino meatloaf. F-F-M.

No, because you'd say, oh, I don't know if you got F or to do that forever. F-ing Filipino meatloaf. F-F-M. No, because you'd say p. Oh, I don't know if you go F-P on that one. So today's fact of the day is the Philippines is named after a Spanish king from the 1500s called Philip. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Someone has taken to Reddit to ask if they're being a dick in this scenario. So basically they invited their girlfriend to move in this scenario. So basically, they invited their girlfriend to move in.

Okay. So this is a few weeks in to living together. She didn't like Raven, who was the three-year-old cat that was there before her. Okay. And one day,

they said they got home and the cat was missing. And they couldn't find Raven. Raven is the indoor cat. And then... Oh, I'm just imagining if I came home and someone had kicked out Murray. Yeah. But that's...

He's an inside cat. You'd kick him out of an apartment, right? Because they know... That'd be some serious questions. So they then confronted the girlfriend and were like, do you know where Raven is? And she admitted she had kicked Raven out.

An inside cat. An inside cat. They were furious. They said they had no, she had no right to kick them out and told her that since she thought she had the power to kick the cat out, I wanted her out of my house by the end of the month.

So how long had they been going out? They must have been going out at least a while before she moved in, right? Two years. And then moved in for a few weeks. So she would have stayed at his place enough to know that the cat doesn't get kicked out, right? Or maybe not. She stayed at the place enough to know she didn't like the cat and let the cat out oh my god also um a lot of people are commenting um this is not

a safe place for a cat to be out during halloween season because it was a black cat lots of people were superstitious he's like she's lucky she survived so i she came back. He went around the neighbourhood and found Raven. Raven! Raven! He gave her to the end of the month. Are they still together? It doesn't sound like it.

To get out of the house. I'm breaking up with you but I'll let you have enough time to find another place. I know the rental market's hard at the moment. Yeah. Apparently she cried and said she had nowhere to go, but he stuck to his guns. So it's over.

I'd love to know if anybody listening now has had that situation where you and a new partner didn't work out because they didn't gel with your pets. Like the dog didn't like them or they didn't like the dog or the cats? It's weird when people don't like, when dogs don't like people.

Because you're like, what's going on? Yeah, what does this dog know? Because, yeah, give them a few pets, you can win them over, right? Yeah. But what does the dog know about you? Sometimes dogs just don't like people. They can sense, they just got a sense about these people. Maybe they're doing you a favour.

Yeah. It's never happened to me. Right. You just seem to collect pets. Animals wise. Yeah, you collect them after you get together. But yeah, is there anybody listening now? I'd love to take some calls.

0800 dials at M9696 to text in. When did it not work out with you and your partner because of pets? And maybe that led to a breakup or something having to give. Because if you met someone and they were amazing and they didn't like your cat or your dog and they were like, it's me or the dog. But they

pet their cat while they were on the toilet, for example. That's weird. What's wrong with that? No, that's weird. No, shut them out. Murray always comes in when I'm on the toilet and I just give him a pet. No. Does he sit on your lap? No. Oh, shit, no. No, no.

He'll just come in and just be like, meow. And you'll be like, hello. And I'll be like, pat, pat, pat. Because I live alone, so the door's always open. He thinks you're going to die on the toilet. He's coming in and he's like, well, if you die on the toilet, I'll be here to eat your eyes. I'll be here to eat the door.

I need to eat you. I'm going to need to eat you until I can raise the alarm. Yeah, yeah. This is why you have a spare key to my house. Yeah. In case I don't turn up to work and the cat's eating me. Oh, God. I don't want to.

That's a lot, though. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. No, it's just the thought I'm going to turn up. You're going to be naked on the floor because you died on the toilet and the cat's going to have eaten you a bit. I'm just going to shut the door and be like, I didn't find him. He's not in there.

Ten minutes away from nine. Well, a man has dumped his girlfriend after she let the cat out. An indoor cat. Yeah. She kicked it outside. She doesn't like the cat. We want to know when a new relationship didn't work out because of an animal. Maybe the animal didn't like your new partner.

There's some horrendous stories coming in. Okay. So we might err on the side of just the more light stories. Oh, God. Not like bad, bad. Yeah, bad, bad. Oh, that's sad. Bad, bad.

It's horrible that people could treat animals in such a manner. Oh, my God. I'm sure when they're so fluffy. All the fluff. What about the cats without the fluff? Oh, I don't like those. I'd let one of those cats out. So I don't know where it's gone.

Don't be fluffist. Oh, my God, am I fluffist? You are. I'm a fluffist. As a bald man, you should be open to bald cats. Yeah. It's just the fact that people think they look nice.

Not bald guys. Cats. Both. I find both repulsive. Yuck, don't touch it. Long term relationship with children. Got a second dog. Long story short, he said the new dog goes

or I go. It was a very tough decision. Unfortunately, the husband stayed. But a new dog, that's easier to get rid of than like a dog that's been around for two years, right? You wouldn't do that because you've grown attached to it. But a new dog. Well, he obviously didn't. Right, okay. He obviously didn't.

My dog kept barking at my friend of nine years. He liked him the first visit or two, then bit him and then just hated him. It turns out that friend had slept with my partner at the time. My dog knew it! That instinct. Wow.

How? You cheater. The dog knew. I was talking about a relationship that ended because she booted the cat out. And if that's ever happened to you, if a relationship's ended because of a pet. An animal, yeah. Some messages. And my sister's a vet.

And when she was younger, she had seven hamsters that lived in her bedroom. When she moved out, the hamsters went to, yeah, I know, just the smell of mine, went to. And then the boyfriend refused to sleep over as the hamsters would run... Yeah, I know. Just the smell alone. Went to... And then the boyfriend refused to sleep over as the hamsters would run in their wheels at night time, making sleep almost impossible. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, wheel. Oh, what a weird pet. I was dating this dude who was obsessed,

and I mean obsessed, with his dog. He treated this thing like a princess, fed it human home-cooked meals. He would cry because he loved it so much. Sometimes you just look at the dog and start weeping. He loved it so much. Okay, there's some problems now. Don't get me wrong.

I love dogs, but this dog was badly trained and really annoying. And I had to pretend like I liked this dog because I liked the dude. But then when we ended things, I was really relieved because I never had to see that dog again. I bet it was one of those silly little dogs you've got. Excuse me? Like a beige one or something. No, I imagine it's a big do silly little dogs you've got. Excuse me? Like a beige one or something. No, I imagine it's a big doofus retriever or something.

No, because he said skinny and they don't. I was imagining. Greyhound. Yeah, or one of those little versions of those that Kylie Jenner's got. Or a chihuahua and it was all shaky. It was all like. When my partner first moved in, my cat peed on everything he owned. Wow, that cat hated that new partner.

Is that what they do? They're not like marking territory? Maybe they are. The smell's a difference. Maybe they could smell another animal on their clothes, like a dog. We didn't break up, but it did cause arguments, which always resulted in him being told, well, the cat was here first. Yeah.

Nine years later, they're still not friends. And sometimes I wonder if I should have taken the cat's advice. Because what if when you met Mr. Toyboy, because you're allergic to cats, Megan. Yeah. He had like a cat and then he was like, what's the cat or me? You just take antihistamines, eh? Every day though?

God, that would be such a punish. Because I get asthma too around cats so it would have been like really awful. I can't wait till one day you get home and he's got a cat. He's allergic too.

That's how I knew he was the one. We're both allergic. ZDM's Fleshborn and Megan.