ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 5th June 2020

Episode Date: June 4, 2020

How to Sneakily use someones Netflix  Top 6: Fieldays  I Know I'm Not the Only One  Megan's going to a party...  Sara Chatwin talks Coping with Redundancy  Vaughan's got something big and fun  Countdown Missed ConnectionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista-made coffee for only $4. ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Five minutes past six. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. It was a short week this week, right? Yeah, didn't feel it, did it? A lot happening. We made it.

Here we are on Friday. Why are you looking at temperatures? Well, when I just always pull up the temperatures. You do. At 6 o'clock. Just to see how cold she is. You're the mum and dad of the show. I'm the mum and dad. You're a regular Renee Wright over there.

I am. Coldest place at the moment Tiano minus 2.8 That's good. And the warmest place right now Kaitai

13.5 degrees Barmy The tropical north. The tropical north. The winterless north. Yeah. But otherwise yeah just your standard

standard sort of start to the day How's the cats? Most June temperatures. We've covered the weather. How's the cats? Most June temperatures. We've covered the weather. The cats are great. The cats great. And how's someone I can't remember?

That's how the standard mum and dad chat goes, isn't it? Do you remember Beryl? Yeah. She lived two streets down from Joan. Yeah, she's died. She's died. Oh, that's terrible. I don't remember Beryl.

What would I remember her for? Well, remember she was with Gary with the diggers. I do remember a digger. No, I think you're thinking of Brian with the diggers. Now, Brian, they couldn't be more different.

Chalk and cheese, those two. That's the situation how you work out who Beryl is. But anyway, she's dead. The top six coming up before seven. Yeah's the situation, how you work out who Beryl is. But anyway, she's dead. The top six coming up before seven. Yeah, the field days. Oh, love the field days. Cancelled?

Well, moved online. Yes, moved online. There was plans to put them later in the year, but the organisers have said, no, we do it at this time of year because it's the easiest time of the year for farmers to find time to come to the National Agricultural Field Days at Mystery Creek in Hamilton. But they're going to be online for some of the sales and stuff

because a lot of places that sell to the agricultural sector do a huge amount of their business over field days. Yeah. So the top six things you'll have to do to make the field days feel legit. Online. Yeah, because it's going to be online, so you're going to have to be at home. All right, it's coming up. Next, a woman's got a genius trick

on how to get free Netflix. Sounds like a way to save some money. Yeah. All right, it's next. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. So this is a cheeky trick to get some free Netflix. It is from a woman who used her ex's Netflix account. Okay.

So they've broken up and then obviously she knew the password and stuff. Okay. And had an account. Yeah. So what she did was change, you know how when there's multiple account settings on a Netflix profile, you can change your picture and the name. Yes. I've got like the purple superhero chick.

Right. But she... So then what do you and Mr. Toyboy watch? Do you watch it under your profile or does he have one? Yeah, just under my profile. Okay. Yeah, because we use my parents. It's like family Netflix. That's right. Account. It's a family Netflix account.'s right. Account. Yeah. It's a family Netflix account.

Excuse me. My niece is on it. And my brother's on it. Your parents pay for it. Yeah. Right. But we're all on it. If I heard my father-in-law, who is bludgeoning off my Netflix account still, despite having

more money than I'll ever hope to, if I ever heard him refer to it as the family Netflix account, I'd have him. I'd have him for to it as the family Netflix account, I'd have him. I'd have him for it. I'd say, no, that's my Netflix account. We were all in, like, agreeance. And then everyone set up a profile. It's just because we don't pay for it.

It's very cheeky. At the teat. Yeah. So she changed that little square in the profile picture to be like a cog. Okay. Like a settings cog. Okay. And then changed the name to settings.

Oh, wow. So it went two months. Wow, that is genius. The ex and his brother were just like, oh, Netflix have got a new settings thing. And like didn't need to change anything, never went into it. Yeah, right. We're just like, oh, okay, it's there.

So all you would need to get free Netflix is just a moment of time with anyone's Netflix account to set up a settings profile. So the ex's brother said, my brother's ex has been stealing our Netflix

for the past two months by disguising her account as settings. And honestly, I'm not even mad. I'm just really disappointed in myself for actually believing that an account named settings would legitimately account as settings. And honestly, I'm not even mad. I'm just really disappointed in myself for actually believing that an account named settings

would legitimately be Netflix settings. Especially because every now and again when you log in, you'd see it right next to your name. You'd be like, oh, okay. You'd just figure that. Yeah. But then there's no guarantee it would be on the side. It could be in the middle, right?

You know, like if you've got multiple accounts, they're all lined up. Yeah. It could just be randomly in the middle of all the accounts settings. No but if they just had two accounts it'd be on the right. Steve's Netflix settings. And maybe it adds them in order. Left to

right I don't know because I've only got one but yeah. That's clever. That is good stuff. You can't even be mad can you? Nah. It's genius. But they said it took two months to figure it out. I would just, I would never have looked at that. Unless you'd reached your max accounts, you probably wouldn't notice, would you? No.

What do you mean? I only get X amount of accounts. Because how many do you get? Three or four. Depends how much you pay. Yeah. Right. Genius.

So smart. Very smart. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Google have released their most commonly misspelt words in... Genius. So smart. Very smart. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Google have released their most commonly misspelt words in searches. You know when you just take a shot because Google's like the best spell check ever. Have you? Like my spelling's got pretty bad. So now I go to Google and I'm like, well, how do I spell this?

And you just type it in and it autocorrects for you. It says, did you mean how is their thing better than actual spellcheck in like word or your phone's like no idea yeah

yeah are your phones really bad for spellcheck hey terrible terrible like camouflage the other day

yeah I was trying to work out where the U went oh yeah it goes before the G it goes before the G because otherwise it's camouflage camouflage the other day. Yeah. I was trying to work out where the U went. Oh, yeah. It goes before the G. It goes before the G because otherwise it's camouflage. Camouflage. Yeah.

Camouflage or whatever. And my phone was like, no suggestions. I know. I was like, don't give up. I've got no idea. You're connected to the internet. If I can look at it and read the word even though it's not spelt right, then you can guess what it is.

Surely you can work this out. But then you put it in Google and it was like, did you mean? Or we instead searched for because we're not a moron. I think there's just better algorithm or something.

So they've released, they're 11. I don't know why they've gone for 11. Okay. But I like it. Yeah. Misspelt words.

Is one of them diarrhea? Yep. Yeah. Misspelled words. Is one of them diarrhea? Yep. Yes! Yes, it is. Because I was like, you'd Google. But it ends in an R-E-A, right? But you're like, no, there's two spellings. Diarrhea and diahoreal.

That one's difficult. Diahoreal. Right. Which one did you have? Neither. Right. Like, did you have? Neither. Right. Like, that's something you'd Google, and then you'd be like, I don't know.

Okay, if you can guess a word higher on the list than Megan's, you win Family Feud. No. One of them we've actually dealt with. Camouflage. No. No, no, no. I'm sure we were here the other day and I spelt it wrong.

And there was a roasting. Of course there was. Someone did something wrong, set on them. Do you want to have a guess at any words? No, I can't think of anything. Okay, well, 11 is maneuver. Oh, yep. Because there's, yeah, right.

Maneuver-y. There's an O-U and an R. Mane, yeah, right. Maneuver-y. There's an O-U and an R. Maneuver-y. Maneuver-y. It's a French. Bureaucracy is 10. Oh, yeah. That's a hard one.

These are all ones with, like, sneaky U's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The bloody sneaky U. You're like, where does it go? Bureaucracy gets me because it's got that repetitive R sound. Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy.

Have I done it yet? Number nine, unnecessary. I'm guessing that's a double C, double S situation there. And a double N at the start. Conscience. Oh, yeah. Is eight. Embarrassed is seven.

I'm guessing that's how many R's, how many S's. Definitely. Oh yeah, I always spelt that wrong for ages. Yeah. Definitely. I like Tilly. Most people have got to spell it defiantly. Yeah. If you misspell definitely, chances are, if it auto-corrects, it'll

auto-correct it defiantly. Yeah. Then is number five, diarrhea. Number four, potato. What? People must chuck an E on the end. Oh, okay, right. Because singular potato, no E. Potatoes, E-S.

E-S, yeah. So maybe they just think it's got an E on the end. Right. Questionnaire. Double N in there. Yep, there is a sneaky double N. Zucchini. Oh, okay.

Do you know what I always, it's not on the list, I'm surprised. Vacuum. I always, because there's two Cs. Is it both? I think so. Is it W? Two Ws. No.

Two U's. Two U's. A double U. Oh, no, I spelled it wrong. B-A-C-U-U-M. Vacuum. Vacuum. Hey, hey, buddy.

Vacuum. Zucchini is two, and number one is separate. That's the one I spelled wrong the other day. Oh, yeah. I spelled separate the other day and Megan, you corrected me. I did. You were like separate. Separate.

And you were doing separate. I've always remembered how to spell words because I say them, I learn them like separate. Yeah, it's weird when you take that into the spoken word though. Yeah. Megan's like, where is the potato? Potato. Potato. My guilty conscience.

Flesh fauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. Great news for travellers domestically. It looks like Jetstar Are relaunching soon I thought they'd already started Flying domestically But no I have absolutely no idea

Who's flying anywhere I just see a plane going over the city I'm just like Whoa My mum's gonna take a flight in three weeks She's coming up Is she? Yeah

Ray Ray's visiting. She's an anxious flyer at the best of times, so I don't know how this is going to go, but she's doing it. Right. Because level one, when level one gets back, there'll be no social distancing on planes, right? Yeah. So which of which would be great, and obviously great because it makes things cheaper.

A Jetstar spokesman said yesterday, spokeswoman said, we're monitoring demand on New Zealand domestic routes. How late were they for their press conference? Working through the New Zealand in-flight requirements and we will have an update soon. It doesn't say how late they were to the press conference. And then when they turned up, she was like,

where did I put my bag? Oh, that's right. I didn't bring one because it was extra money. That's right. That's right. I didn't bring my hand it was extra money. That's right. That's right. I didn't bring my handbag. But if you go to the website, and this will be great, because when are school holidays coming up?

In July? The first week or second week of July? I don't know because school holidays were all out of culture because they were a bit earlier this time. Right. But I don't know if the next one's changing or not. If you go to GSR's website, from the 1st of July, you can book flights. Good.

That's good. How much? Well, I just went Auckland to Christchurch, EG, and there's days where it's 80, 49, 44, 39, one that's 188. New Zealand needs a bit of competition. Yeah. So it's great news for domestic travellers. Right.

Level one next week. We should launch a fake airline. A fake airline. Why? Scare the competition into dropping their prices. We need to have planes. We can't just be like, no, we're coming. Yeah, but that's also

A big It's a lot of effort To go to To buy some planes Just to Shock No we get Big cardboard cutouts

Of what planes look like From the sky Okay And we just park them In a paddock Right And we're like Those are our planes

Ready to go And they fly over For a look And they're like Oh yeah shit yeah They've got heaps down there They've got two dimensional planes But they're just cardboard Yeah look and they're like, oh yeah, shit, yeah. They've got heaps down there. You've got two-dimensional planes. But they're just cardboard.

Yeah, right. They can't tell because it looks legit. Oh, yeah, right. It's like, you know, that chalk art on sidewalks. Yeah, it looks legit. It looks legit, but it's not. And then they freak out and they're like, $1 fares.

And then we buy those dollar fares. Yes, and we on-sell them to pay for the cardboard boxes. It's a ridiculous plan, Vaughan. It'll never work. It's genius. Is it? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There are huge benefits to having older friends.

This study has been done and it says that if you have older friends, they can help you kind of try on certain life experiences before you get there. So whether it's watching them retire, I don't know, buying a house, could be anything. Right, so they're like the crash test

dummies for your life. No, like they do it and then you like learn from their experience. So when it's your turn to do whatever it is, you don't have as much anxiety and you can kind of move through future stages without too much fear. Huh.

Yeah. There are benefits. So that's for having older friends. Right. But there is also benefits in having much younger friends as well because they can give you permission to tap into like fun stuff that you think you're too old or might not have the energy for anymore. The energy. That's what it scares. Right.

I've got obviously lots of young friends because my husband is 10 years younger than me. Lots of friends in their early 20s. Right. So that's why you have younger friends. Why do you have younger friends? No, nothing. Too tired to even argue today. Right.

But it's helping you. This is roast Megan. It's more fun. No, everyone always says you look like you're so young and they're like, what cream do you use on your face? Well, it is just your young friends keeping you young. Is that a fact? Is that like if you've got younger friends,

it also keeps you young? Yeah, you're tapping into your youthful side. Right. I guess. Yep. Wow. Do people actually ask you what cream you use? Yeah. What cream do you use? Like everything.

Literally. Right. I use oils. Just cake it on. Yeah, right. I use face masks. I use, I bought a little exfoliating thing. Like everything.

If it's out there, I've used it. Right. Okay. Give it all a go. Yeah. But you still haven't tried Botox, eh? No. Do you think you will?

Because it's kind of lost that whole stigma now, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. But I don't like needles. Right. So I don't know. I never say never, but nah. What would be your trigger? Would you do Botox?

No. Because it's not just a female thing. No, I know. I know some guys that do it. But it's not for me. I need more on thing. No, I know. I know some guys that do it. But it's not for me. Oh, I need more on that. I don't know. I just think it's just what happens, isn't it?

I don't know. I'm okay with it. I'm actually quite fine with growing old. If one day like a goat or a cow says to me, Wait, where are you that your goat or cows are talking to you? Well, that's the thing. If they say, oh, you're looking a bit wrinkly, I'll be like, well, two things to do here. Botox, but also, dementia's

obviously here. Just trying to go inside and have a sit down. Fletchvorner Megan, the podcast, ZM. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. The Field Days, the National Agricultural Field Days.

Farmer's Christmas. Yeah, we went last year, didn't we? It was great fun. Great times. Went in a welly-wopter. Yeah, we did. Went in a welly-wopter and looked down. A little trip around in a welly-wopter.

Got stuck in some lovely traffic. Yes. What would the field days be without it? Well, it's all going to be online this year. There'll still be specials and stuff. Here's hoping for some big ones. This guy's got his eye on a trailer. Of course you do.

I know, because I was talking to Dad about trailers, and he's like, well, just wait for the field days. This was, of course, pre-COVID. Yeah, right. Get a field day special. Yeah, well, just wait for the field days. This was, of course, pre-COVID. Yeah, right. Get a field day special. Yeah, well, hopefully I can still get a field day special.

What was that thing I saw that I thought would be cool? It was like a sand dune buggy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Imagine if I had one of those. Where?

You live in the city. Yeah, but I'd just take it to the sand dunes. God, it looks so much fun. There were so many great toys there. Oh, many toys. Yeah.

That's the danger. So many toys. How about that log splitter? I'd have one of those. That's the danger. So many toys. How about that log splitter? I'd have one of those. It'd be great. In your apartment. Well, I wouldn't obviously use it in the...

God, there was just so many toys. Yes. Big grunty toys. Big toys. Loved it. Motorbikes. Yep.

Lots of tractors. Oosh. Just doesn't get me jazzed, you know? Ah. Well, these are the top six things you'll have to do to make the online field days feel legit. Yeah, because it's not happening.

No. This year. Number six, bite into a crazy hot sausage and bread and have to go... Do I spit it out? Do I ride this out? Do I spit it back into, on top of the sausage and the bread? Was this cooked in the fires of Mordor?

There's nothing quite like it. And then because you're going, and it's always cold and foggy in Hamilton, you literally look like you're just vaping everywhere. Number five on the list of the top six things you have to do to make the online field days feel legit. Wear your muddy gummies while you're browsing tractors

that you can't afford online. Yeah, right. So, like, be sat inside in muddy gummies. Probably get told off by mum. Unless you're on the lino. Then you'll still get told off, but it's an easier claim. You got told off the other day for wearing muddy shoes and hair. Yeah, and then I did the same thing yesterday.

Oh, my God. You just want everyone to know you've got a little farm left. We need one of those signs up like those cafes have. Muddy boots. No muddy boots in here, workers. Yeah, you need to take your shoes off at the studio door, please. Nah. Number three, number four, actually,

on the list of the top six things you have to do to make the online field days feel legit. Get all the pens you've got in your house and write little brand names on them and then put them in jars around the house and walk around the house with a plastic bag picking up all the sample pens. Yeah, there was so much free stuff last year. I got so much free stuff. Pens.

So many pens. And like little samples of things. Yep. So many little samples. A little yogurt sample, didn't we? That was fun. That was a yum little yogurt sample. Yum yogurt.

That made me want to do poos though. It was like all your favourite things in one place many little samples. A little yogurt sample, didn't we? That was fun. That was a yum little yogurt sample. Yum yogurt. That made me want to do poos, though. It was like all your favourite things in one place. Free samples, toys. It was great. It was good times. Loved it. Number three on the list of the top six things you have to do to make the online field days feel legit.

Go outside, start the lawnmower or whatever you've got around that's got an engine. Yep. And then crank that up, right up. Yep. And then just leave that outside and walk inside and start browsing the specials because there's always the sound of an engine being rung out in the background at the field days. Yeah. It could be a chainsaw.

It could be a tractor. It could be a mower. It could be a welly-wopter. It could be an old vintage car. Yeah. Some weird old steam engine that some guy's restored that doesn't do anything except go... And he's like, it's 110 years old! And you're like, okay.

Whatever you... All good, man. So you got to do that for a little bit of the audio accompaniment. Number two on the list of the top six things you have to do to make the online field days feel legit. Ask your dad or an old mate that you know to bitch and moan about the prices and say, I thought these were supposed to be on special. That's what they always do.

They always do that, yeah. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six things you'll have to do to make the online field days feel legit. Go and buy a bag of sheep pellet fertilizer and sprinkle it around because you'll need that authentic smell of animal shit just ruminating

through your house to give it the official sensory experience. That is the Field Days. That is today's Top 6. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast I hope I'm not the only one the field days. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. I hope I'm not the

only one. It's not getting any better that. You just sound like Sam. I don't hear a difference. We're both Smiths. Yeah, the talent doesn't go all over the Smith tree though, does it? It does.

Does it? Top to bottom. Right. Lauren, good morning. We've dropped her. Or pick her up. Don't drop Lauren. And be more careful with your Lauren next time, please. I don't know if it was my fat fingers that just dropped Lauren or what's happening.

She's back. We're back. Good morning, Lauren. Did you just take the heat for that? Are you okay? Yeah, that's always somebody else's fault. I was going to blame Jared, actually. He's right there.

He's fiddling with the phones. Good morning, Lauren. Oh, good morning, everybody. How was being dropped? Oh, fine. All right. I want you to know that was nothing personal. Now, this segment, we want to delve into something that you do

where you believe you're the only one. You think you're alone in this habit. Yeah, I've never met anyone else who does it, and I'm actually really hoping that someone else will ring in and tell me that I'm not the only one. Okay, so what do you do? What do you do? I have to wear my socks inside out.

That is so, like, why? Because, have you ever noticed that, like, the inside of your sock has, like, a weird seam along it? It does. Yep, yep. It does, you're right. Along the toes. It touches my toes all day in my shoes.

It drives me nuts. And so I just wear my socks inside out. Do you know, every now and then I've accidentally chucked a sock on inside out and I've been like, that's been a comfortable sock. And then when I take it off, I'm like,

oh, it was inside out. And that's why. You might be onto something. I'm absolutely onto something. And people are like, why have you got your socks inside out? And I can only buy certain socks

without patterns. If you buy socks with patterns, like you wear them inside out, it looks real stupid. Super obvious. So I'm a big fan of the ankles like the little socket. The anklet socks.

Yeah, yeah. Bulk buy from Kmart. Just the black ones. Oh, you do the black. Okay, the black Kmart ones. There's not really a seam. I wouldn't. Mine has a seam on the top.

But it's not annoying that that would. You put that on inside out. You put that back on inside out and pop it in the old shur. Oh, yeah. But see, my problem is I can't do it because...

I don't notice a difference at all. You've not walked around on it. You can hardly even try it out. No, I've got one of each. I should walk on it. I just don't think you notice enough that... You know what I mean? I think there could be a difference.

I think I just have extra sensitive toes. That's got to be it. What else could it be? You notice the seams. Yeah. It really bothers me. It makes sense what you're saying. They should make them like that.

Yeah, but then they look silly. Yeah, but then they look silly, yeah. But no one can see them because they're in your shoes. Yeah. That's a great point. What about like T-shirts? Like if a seam rubs up against you? Yeah, the tags and stuff really bother me as well.

I think they're just a bit, yeah. Who is it that has a massive internal tag on their clothes? Zara. Well, I don't wear Zara, so I don't. Oh, Cotton On. The kids' pajamas from Cotton On have these like 12-inch long bloody, it's almost like a receipt inside a t-shirt. Yeah, no, same with the underwear.

If you buy undies from Cotton On, the tag is bigger than the undies. Yeah. Are you kidding? Yeah, you guys cut it off. It goes down your butt crack. I'm just counting the, Tommy Hilfiger's terrible for it. Look at these. Oh, okay, mate, we don't all wear Tommy Hilfiger.

No, look, there's sex labels. My God, there's sex labels. My God, there's sex labels. My Gucci t-shirt had like one million labels. I'm just saying. My God. I'm just saying there were like seven labels. My Italian fashion house Versace t-shirt. It's not.

It's just a t-shirt. Calm down. But it's got like seven labels. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. Old Uncle Scrooge over here. No, you're wearing a tummy helping intention. Yeah. Okay, I'm just saying there's a lot of labels inside. So I'm feeling your pain

there, Lauren. Now this is what this is where we need to find out if you're alone in this. Yes. If anybody else wears their socks inside out. To avoid that the same unsightly seam over the toe. And then we'll see at the end of this, Lauren. We'll come back next if you are the only one in New Zealand that does this. Surely not. Someone please ring in.

Smith, are you ready for your little Smith bit? Smith duet. I wasn't. You just said duet. I wasn't. You just didn't work. I panicked. Let's just leave it to the pro. Now, we just heard from Lauren moments ago. Lauren, you wear your socks inside out.

Yes, I do. So that the seam doesn't rub against the toes. And now Megan's become... Especially wearing shoes. Yeah, Megan's become very aware of the seam now. So I think you've given her a complex. Yeah. I feel like I can feel the seam rubbing on the shoe now. Yeah, and then pushing against your toe.

It's a scam. Yeah, right. How long are your toenails? Me personally? Yeah. I would say a healthy, normal manicured length Right, okay Okay, so they're not sticking out

Somebody said maybe you don't have enough toenail For what? But the seam is along the top Yeah, I know, they're saying roll it across the top of the toenail by the sounds of things Roll it slightly more on top of the toenail Look, look, look, I'm on your side Right, well, are you the only one that does this, Lauren?

Karen, you do this too. Yes, I do. Right, and because of the same reason, you can't deal with the seam on your toes. Yeah, as well as I'm a diabetic, so I turn them inside out to protect my feet. I'm not sure. Could you explain that? What do you mean to protect my feet. I'm not sure. Could you explain that?

What do you mean to protect your feet? Would the seam possibly damage your feet? The seam, yeah. Right. They do. The seams are really thick and everything, and I can end up with pressure points from them. Oh, right.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right, Karen, thank you. Wait there one second. We've got Rhonda. Good, right. Okay. So, yeah. Okay. All right. Karen, thank you. Wait there one second. We've got Rhonda. Good morning, Rhonda. There's someone in your house that does the socks inside out.

Is it you? Rhonda. Rhonda. Help me, Rhonda. I knew you were going to sing that. Rhonda. Rhonda. Rhonda.

Is her name even Rhonda? Rhonda. Rhonda. Rhonda. Is her name even Rhonda? Rhonda. If you can hear us, can you just answer? My God. Like, literally, you might want to check that. That's bizarre. Make sure Rhonda's okay. Executive Internet is perplexed as to why she's not speaking up.

Some text messages. No, she's gone. My granddad has always done this for the same reason. When we were kids, he tried to convince us and convert us to inside out sock wearers. Somebody else said, yep, the socks I wear with my work boots, my safety work boots,

because they're a steel cap, have to be inside out. Otherwise, I can feel the seam pushing on my toes all day. But there's no giving a steel cap boot, is there? That's very rigid. Absolutely not. Oh, hang on. apparently Rhonda's here. Rhonda! Hello, how are you? Come on, Rhonda.

Sorry about that. No, it's alright, Rhonda. It's just one of those days, isn't it? You know, driving and calling not ideal. Safely though, Rhonda, of course. Yeah, absolutely. Rhonda, who does this in your house? Inside Out sock wearer. My five-year does this in your house, inside out sock wearer?

My five-year-old daughter. Oh. I don't know why. Yeah? Yeah. Ever since she was conscious enough to know that, you know, she was putting her own socks and stuff on, she has to have them inside out.

And does she complain? She does complain at the scene. There's, wow, quite a few text messages in say their kids do this. Yeah. Kids caught on. Do you think as adults we become a bit more resilient to the same? No, I just think when we were kids, if we'd worn our socks and sat out, mum and dad were illegally allowed to smack us.

Yeah. Yeah. But it doesn't matter which ones they are. Short, long, they're always better. Yeah. But it just does. If there's writing on the socks, it's the wrong way, isn't it? That's where you go

for a plain sock. You only see it for a second and then it's in your shoe. How much do parents love socks? They're always worried you were mistreating your socks. Like my parents were. Don't walk out there in socks. Because they get holes in them and they have to buy new ones. You weren't even allowed to walk to the garage in socks

to get, like, when she was like, go get the chicken out buy new ones. You weren't even allowed to walk to the garage in socks when she was like, go get the chicken out of the freezer. You weren't to go in your socks because there was like two metres of concrete that would absolutely destroy a sock apparently. What, you had a whole chicken in the garage? Right. Two massive chest freezers. Full of chickens.

Did those chickens come from your land? Well, no, my grandparents used to have chickens. Right, okay. I'll tell you about the fun games we used to play the day we killed all the chickens. Chickens come from your land? Well, no, my grandparents used to have chickens. Right, okay. I'll tell you about the fun games we used to play the day we killed all the chickens. Jayden, you do this as well? Inside out sock wearer? Yes, yep.

Okay, Lauren, does this bring you joy to hear so many other inside out sock wearers? I think I'm so weird and I'm just like, come on guys, I'm trying to explain the whole theme thing and they're like, oh, it just doesn't bother me. It bothers me, okay? I'm important too. Right, Jayden, is this music to your ears?

Oh, that is awesome, mate, because all my friends have been calling me weird, and now I can just go back to them and be like, nah, not the only one. Yeah, that's what this segment's about. That's what this segment's about. Bringing New Zealanders together. And showing them that they're not weird. I love it. And lots more text messages as well, Lauren and Jaden.

Just so many. Oh, yeah, heaps. Does there have to be a seam there? I hope more people do it. Where else on the sock would a seam go better, though? And it would have to be a bigger seam. That's the end. That's the minimal seam.

The back of the ankle. Oh, God, no. That would be horrible. No, no, no, no, no. Achilles. Up against the Achilles. Oh, no. That would be awful.

Yeah. Someone said, I'm a podiatrist. Socks inside out help reduce the chance of getting bunions. Who knew? Really? Yep. Bunions. Somebody said, you can actually buy socks with the seam made on the outside.

First time I saw them, I said, these socks are inside out, but then realised they weren't. And I was like, oh, okay. And they said, yeah, those are socks for people who don't like the seams touching their toes. Wow. So there's even socks for these people. Okay.

These people. I'm sorry. There's even socks for these freaks. Hey, thanks for calling in, Lauren. Oh, no. She's not still there, is she? Yeah, she is. Oh, God.

No, you know I'm only kidding around. All right. Hey, thanks for calling in Lauren. Oh, no, she's not still there, is she? Yeah, she is. Oh, God. No, you know I'm only kidding around. All right, next on the show. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. So it takes apparently four years for you to consider someone a best friend. This is a new poll that's been done with 2,000 people. So apparently there's four, you must go through at least four different personal experiences

with someone before you can qualify them as a best friend. Right, so surely we must be at that level, Megan, you and I. Yeah. She's still holding out, Vaughn.

She is. We're all BFFs. When you say best friends, now I consider I have a best friend level. That's a level of, Vaughn. She is. We're all BFFs. When you say best friends, now I consider I have a best friend level. That's a level of best friendship. Okay. Now, I don't have one singular best friend.

Is it like the fire service arrow levels? Yes. Okay, great. Yeah. Wait, acquaintance? Right. Something else, something else. Am I like scorching hot about to combust?

You're a tinder dry Northland drought Okay So here's Like the top three things You should have gone through To qualify someone As a best friend

Okay A traumatic experience Have we been through A traumatic experience When I hurt my knee And you laughed That was traumatic for me And here we are

Best friend And here we are Best friend Does that count as Fletcher and I's Traumatic experience as well? Dealing with you afterwards? Or does it have to be a reciprocated traumatic experience?

We were in that plane crash. Remember? Yeah, we were. Oceanic, flight 815. We were, oh, I don't know what happened, but crash landed on an island. Polar bear, smoke monster. Don't bring up lost. That's my traumatic experience.

Yeah, the season finale of that shit house show after six years of solid investment. That was our traumatic experience. A vacation. We've all done a vacation together. A road trip. Yes. Yeah, so that's the top three.

Oh, so we're best friends. And there's also, this is the top three things you'd be willing to do for your best friend. Okay. Yeah, so that's the top three. Oh, so we're best friends. And there's also, this is the top three things you'd be willing to do for your best friend. Okay. Yeah. Keep their secrets. Yeah, I mean, do you want me to prove? I can say a secret of yours now.

Next one, travel across the country. We've done that. That's what the road trip was. Oh, you mean you'd be willing to travel across the country for them? Oh. That's what that means. Why would be willing to travel across the country for them? Oh. That's what that means. Why would I have to travel across the country? You...

No, remember you travelled across the world for me. You came back for my wedding. You were like somewhere over... That's right. When Megan can't short my world holiday by a week. That's right. So I had to come back for a bloody wedding. And we travelled for your first wedding. You did. We travelled to Nelson for it. Okay, so so far, we are

better friends. We're better friends to you than you are to us. Have you taken that into consideration? You've never asked me. I'd be willing. I wouldn't want to burden you with travel. That's the kind of friend I am. And the last one is bail them out of jail. How much?

I would bail you out of jail just for the absolute roasting. I'd be like alright, call me anytime. If it's like 2 o'clock in the morning and I answer the phone like, hello, what's wrong? I'm in jail, I'd be like, oh here we go! Here we go baby! I've got a plan for this. I'd probably

rather call you than my husband. You'd get less of a grumbling. Yeah. So that says we're best friends. Sure. Okay. I mean, just by default, because I wouldn't have gone on holiday with you

had I not been forced to work with you. Valid point. Actually, to be fair, we've gone away on holiday together when it wasn't work. But we haven't gone away with Megan on a leisurely. God, no, because that's too painful. Yeah, she usually starts the holiday with,

see you suckers never. That's how she says. Does a Waiheke weekend count? No, but you didn't stay in Waiheke. Yes, I did. You came back. I stayed first night. Oh, okay.

But not the whole weekend, so they're half friends. Half best friends. So you're down a level. Okay. But not the whole weekend, so they're half friends. Half best friends. So you're down a level. Okay. On the fire arrow. Yeah, there's been a... There's been a bit of rain. But it's still dry under there. Yeah, it's like March.

That's your friendship level. Okay. On the fire arrow. Right. Yeah. So am I in the yellow? Orange. You're green or blue?

Okay. No, she's orange. Then yellow. Then red. the yellow? Orange. You're green or blue? Okay. No, she's orange. Orange, okay. Then yellow. Then red. Then blue. What's less of a fire danger? Yeah, blue.

Blue's got to be the lowest setting. I mean, I don't know if it's got a blue. Green was the lowest setting. But if there was a green and a blue, because a green forest can still catch fire, but the sea can't. The blue one suggests it's like wet. Yeah, it's too wet.

It's too wet to burn. Just search fire arrows. You can buy arrows that you set on fire. What? And then shoot out of a bow and arrow. Where from?

See, this is why we're best friends. We want to shoot firing arrows. Green is above blue. It's less than blue. It goes green, blue, yellow,

orange, red. Blue can't burn Who do I write to? Is that our guy? Yeah It's just me and me arrow Yeah ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast

Vaughan's pick for Friday Flashback Coming up after the news at 8 o'clock Oh yes, that's right I have to confirm Which one of two possibles I'm going to do. Age-old tradition, picking a song at least 10 years old. It's got to be a banger. All right, it's coming up.

Now, this afternoon, before the show started, we were talking about the day's plans post-show. Yep. And Megan said, this afternoon, let's recreate it. Oh, what are you guys doing later on? I don't know why I'm doing that. It's my voice. Hey, what are you guys doing later on?

What do you guys got planned for later on? That's how Vaughn talks when he's not on the radio. That's how he talks. Your imitation of Vaughn was also very close to your own voice. How rude. Unbelievable. Unbelievably rude. So rude.

So what's everyone got going on later on after the show? That's exactly how you said it. Yeah. Fletch, you never told us. Yeah, you never said. I don't have plans, actually. 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. Join me, Damien Venuto, every weekday morning as I chat with journalists and newsmakers

going behind the headlines to break down what you need to know on the biggest news stories of the day. Listen to The Front Page at nzherald.co.nz slash podcasts and follow us on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. You rolled your eyes. Your big towel. But before the rolling of the eyes towel, there was another towel who got that little twist in the corner of his mouth. I do have plans, but I'm not telling you.

Devious. That's what they... Devious man. So what if... So while I'll be doing something very wholesome and sweet Fletch will be taking away someone's wholesomeness and sweetness And a sullying And an act of sully This afternoon I said I have to go to a birthday party

It's a one year birthday party For? For Ivy Pappas Who is? My sister-in-law's dog what kind of dog is Ivy Pappas um what's the rolly dog

Sharpay it's she is part Sharpay and part something else but she's like tan brown you don't even know your own niece dog I can't remember

breed I can't remember part I can't remember. Part sharp eyes. When she's little, she's really rolly. For someone that, like, you don't like going to a lot of events, I guess you have to because this is, do you have to go to this? Are you under jury? Is all the family going?

I'm not sure if everyone's going. But Leo is obviously like cousins and good friends. So Leo's going. Your dog's going. Yeah. Do you have to buy presents? Yeah. We're going to get her a present, a box of goodies today.

Doesn't your sister-in-law have children? Yeah. I thought you knocked this nonsense on the head once you've gone. No, Ivy's like the new child. She's new to the family. So everyone's like fussing over her. Don't think like this is weird. She's getting a birthday cake Like a cupcake

You're gonna drive all the way across town To go to a dog's birthday party Dude we have had like no fun Over the past few weeks This is like Yeah but now you could do anything else But it's sweet She'll get so excited

We'll give her a cupcake And she'll be like And smash it down A cupcake I think it's cute Leo just had his like birthday party We'll give her a pup cake and she'll be like, and smash it down. A pup cake. I think it's cute. Leo just had his birthday party. He had a hat and a little pin that said birthday boy.

We went. Are you surprised? You call him googly-eyed. He is a little bit. So, yeah, that's what I'll be doing this afternoon. Going to a dog's birthday party. Everyone has. Okay, one of my cows is turning two next month.

That's a fact. If you invited me... Humphrey's turning two. ...to come and celebrate Humphrey's second birthday, I would totally be... I'd bring a hat. What do cows like to eat for, like, treats?

Hay and molasses. We'll make them a hay and molasses cake. Can you eat a molasses cake? You could eat a molasses cake. Aw. You try stopping them. They're obese,

so they probably should eat... They are a little fat, a little bit fat. Yeah. Okay, so they probably should. They are a little bit fat. Okay, so no other treats aside from a second birthday. Right. I'd be there. It's ridiculous, Megan. We don't know when the goats' birthdays are. Now I feel

guilty I'm a bad parent. Either everyone gets a party or no one gets a party. So the parties are off. I'll send you pictures from the party this afternoon. Cool. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Joining us on the show again,

our friend Sarah Chadwin. Good morning. Nice to be someone's friend. Thank you and good morning. What have you put? Have you put some people off lately? Haven't you? Well, you know, lockdown does this,

you know. We've distanced ourselves. Yeah. Well, we thought it would be good to have someone on the show who has some knowledge, so a clinical psychologist, to talk about anxiety surrounding people losing their jobs. Or even just fearing losing their jobs, because there's a lot of that at the moment, isn't there?

Yeah, there is. I mean, you know, lockdown set upon us very quickly and we had fears in and around that. And I mean, who knew what was going to happen? And so a lot of people who may have not experienced anxiety were feeling fears. And, you know, the job situation was shut down. So people were looking at their futures a little differently. So there was that.

And then we come out of it to the new normal and we're almost back to normal. Some of us don't necessarily want to be back to normal because we quite liked it. Others really want to be back, you know, pre-COVID. So there's a lot of stuff going on in people's minds. And I think when you have a lot of stuff going on in your head, it can become very blurry, very fuzzy, very scary. A lot of people during that COVID period and during that lockdown

thought about the jobs, the job loss, and were scared by it. But a lot of people experienced an interesting kind of a thing called not post-traumatic stress, but post-traumatic growth. They actually took the time to sit down and go, okay, what am I good at? What else could I do? I mean, you know, I'm a broadcaster, you know, on this radio station now, but hey, I could be a really good landscape gardener if I put my mind to it. I mean, people were looking outside the square, you know? And that was really neat for people to actually channel

or to break that negativity and think in and around what they could do and to think about the great qualities they have as opposed to thinking about, you know, the negative stuff. I'm losing my job. Oh, woe is me. I can't do anything else. I'm stuck.

I won't have money. I can't. To kind of break that and go, okay, well, this is reality. Yeah. I have to acknowledge it. I have to acknowledge my fears. But what else could I do? Because we're all, I mean, there are so many things

about each and every one of us that are so great. We're not that good with acknowledging our greatness because we're a little shy. We like to knock those tall poppies. I don't. I like to see greatness and I like to celebrate when people have done something amazing. New Zealanders tend to be a little bit like, oh, how have they got there? What have they done to do that? Don't question it.

Just back yourself. Just back yourself. Just back yourself and like yourself and do things that enable you to like yourself. For example, I mean, the Prime Minister went on and on about it. She's not the only one because I've been doing it for years and people have been getting sick of me saying be kind. But being kind is such a cool thing because when you're kind to somebody, they go, thank you, and they smile and they're happy. And that vibe comes to you and you go, oh, that made that person feel nice. What do I do? I smile on back and I feel good about myself. So be kind, be courteous, help people, listen to people, understand people. If you invest in those kind of positive behaviours, the only thing you get back is a

positive feeling for yourself. So it's a win-win. So when you start doing, engaging in those kind of positive behaviours, when you start thinking positively about what you bring to the table, like, you know, you've all got great eyes. You guys have got great voices. You're very funny. You entertain people. You were here for people, you know, during COVID. I love you guys. There you go. All of that positivity. Think about it. Think of what you bring to the table. Back yourself and know that you've got a lot to give. So, you know, in this motley little crew that I'm sitting with today, there are some really good characteristics. That's what I'm saying. So understand that. Acknowledge it. Back yourself. And for people who feel like they're losing their jobs,

well, don't. Don't do that. Just think around the situation. Make sure that you're healthy. Talk to people, unleash a few of those fears, write things down, look at options, think about what else you could do. But if you are in a job right now and you're going, gee, I don't know when the hammer's going to come down or when that guillotine's going to come and cut my head off, talk to your boss. Go and have a conversation. You will be the best judge of whether you have a relationship that enables you to do that. If you do, talk. If you feel that your boss is a really nice person or your next, the person above you is somebody that you can talk to and get honest with, be honest.

I believe in that because they might give you an honest, positive answer or they might say, well, listen, the reality is that you might lose your job, which means go at it with, you know, all your neurons firing and find out and look at other options and feel through how you could put yourself in another context and what you can do if you didn't have

that job. I need you around me at all times. Well actually, I do love you guys. I do think that in New Zealand we're a little bit reticent to back ourselves and to like ourselves. Like ourselves New Zealand.

Look at what we've just been through and look at how we owned it. Look at our country. We are awesome. Believe it, New Zealand. We live in a great country and we have to acknowledge that we're great people. We just need to really own it, back ourselves and keep positive. It's important. Sarah Chatwin, thank you so much.

You've left me with such a positive vibe, as always. It's my pleasure. Thanks for coming in. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Friday Flashback. But it's time for Friday Flashback. Vaughan, it's your pick this week. It's got to be at least 10 years old.

Got to be a banger. I want to take you back to the year 1993. If I may. This song that I want to play you got to number two in the charts in New Zealand. And it was held from number one by UB40's I Can't Help Falling In Love With You. That's a jam though. And then when it thought I'm going to have a go at this, the number one spot, the song you make the whole world smile with your little button nose.

The Red Nose Day fundraiser song. Bitch. No, I'm like, what are you about to play? That stopped it from getting to number one and then it went back to I Can't Help Falling In Love With You by UB40. Oh, pipped at the post. With You by UB40. Oh, pipped at the post. You know what he's playing. Yeah,

you're going to be crappy. Number one in Austria, number one in Belgium, number one in Denmark, number one in the Eurochart Hot 100, Germany, Iceland, Ireland,

the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland. It was certified Platinum here in New Zealand Selling over 10,000 copies

Look at me So agitated Do you know what song It is yet? No Oh okay You haven't seen it yet I can tell you

The woman that wrote The song and the leader Of this Sim pack Okay Has written So many amazing Big songs

And she was Worked with And friends with Jimmy Iovine. Oh, yeah, right. Beats by Dre guy, who also put together all the music in the 90s. Just legendary. So without further ado, I'm glad you're on board. I can't believe we're playing it. We're not mucking around. I think it just kind of like sums up this week.

It's been a crazy old week. Yes, it does. What is going on? Because it's Friday Flashback. Today is the Four Non Blondes. The song is called What's Up? But you probably know it as What's Going On? Sing along.

All right, it's your Friday flashback. Is it in? 25 years and my life is still Trying to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination I realized quickly when I knew I should That the world was made up of this grub of a man For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out what's in my head And I, I am feeling a little peculiar Until I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a dip and I can't feel high And I scream from the top of my lungs What's going on? And I said hey hey

I said hey what's going on and I said hey hey I said hey what's going on

Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh And I try Oh my God, do I try I try all the time. In this institution.

And I pray. Oh my God, do I pray. I pray for a single day. For evolution Into a quest of times when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out, thoughts in my head And I, I am feeling a little confused Into a wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high

And I scream from the top of my lungs, what's going on? And I say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey I said, hey, what's going on? And I said hey, hey, hey I said hey, what's going on? And I said hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I said hey What's going on Ooh Ooh

Ooh Ooh Ooh 25 years and my life is still Time to get that Rebicule of home ZM Vaughan's pick for Friday Flashback

God, I hate this song Would you say people are divided after this week's Friday flashback pick? I would say 60, 70% positive. Oh, okay. But some people really didn't enjoy it. Fantastic song to sum up the week. Yeah, which is why you picked it, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Someone said, my mother and I have just bonded. Had they not previously bonded? I don't know what the relationship was like before that song. Had they had a falling out? And now they're back together. You're welcome. You're welcome. Vaughan Smith and his Friday flashback pics, healing family wounds.

Sure. All right. Celia joins us from the office. Good morning, Celia. Good morning. The last time we spoke to you during lockdown, you had a date on, was it Zoom? Yes. A Zoom date?

Yeah, Zoom date. It's a long time ago now. How did that all go? Yeah, that was good. But it's fizzled out now, so. Right, hasn't evolved into. No, no, no. Did it just get too much effort?

Yeah, just, you know, you know. It can't progress at that point. Yeah. Other than talking screens. Yeah. So it's not that Zoom date that we want to talk about. It's another awkward encounter that you've had. Yes.

So. This. So. This awkward laugh. Well, because of lockdown, I had about like four months not seeing my ex. And then last weekend, went out to a BYO, walked right into the restaurant. Who do I see sitting at the table behind us? My ex.

Oh, no. Behind you. Oh, and the thing is at first I didn't even see him. I saw his friends and I was like, oh, his friends are here.

Okay, just going to make sure they don't see me and then I was trying to point out to my friends who his friends were, turn around

and then I see him and I'm like, oh. Oh no. Did you stay? Luckily, they only had about 30 minutes left

on their booking. Don't worry, we're going to be 30 minutes left on their booking. We're going to be 30 minutes left on our booking. They're so ruthless BYOs with that get out of here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And so did you have to talk to him? I did a little bit at the end just to be polite,

but it was just awkward. Because then you're sitting there the whole time and even if your back's to them, you can feel the energy. And you're very aware of everything you're doing. the whole time and even if your back's to them, you can feel the energy and you're very aware of everything you're doing. It's like sit up straight. Yeah, like, I look hot.

Put on some lippy because I just want him to like want me, but I don't want him. Yeah, exactly. But there was no one there with him of a romantic nature? No, just friends. All guys. Were you like, ha ha? No, just friends. All guys. Were you like, ha ha?

Well, I was in the same. I was with all my friends as well. So it was kind of nice. I had like a backing if anything happened. Like a West Side Story. Musical showdown. It's always awkward seeing your ex in the wild. So we'd love to take some calls this morning

of when that's been you and what happened. Oh yeah, when you ran into them and you couldn't like... You didn't message him later or he didn't message you and be like,

lovely to see you. No. No. Okay, no. No, it's quite good. But I like those stories where you're already in the restaurant,

you can't escape him. He's right there in front of you. But the restaurant's good because you both had like padding from other people, but, like, singular encounters in the supermarket.

Oh, yeah. You're like, oh, yeah. You have to talk or you just... Because did you ever... I know your ex-husband lives overseas now, but did you ever run into him in the wild? And was it awkward? Yep.

I ran into him... Me and my husband now were having a dinner and we ran into him and that was, they introduced themselves to each other. That was fun. That was real fun. Wow. Very awkward.

And then did he still stay and eat at the restaurant? No. Or did he just leave? No, he just left. So he hadn't eaten? No. I don't know if he, I don't know what had happened, whether his friends weren't there or he just decided,

nope, not for me. We're eating somewhere else tonight. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Celia from the office went to a BYO and there was her ex behind them. Couldn't escape. Couldn't escape. Do you talk to them?

Do you not? It's so awkward. Right, so we want to know when you've had an awkward encounter with an ex in the wild. Sarah, what happened? Hi, guys. How are you going?

Good, good. So I was driving past my ex's house where I used to live and I saw the neighbours outside, which obviously I'd become family with over the years. And so I tweeted and I waved and then I looked over and my ex and his new girlfriend

were standing there and they thought I was tweeting it there. Well, at least you were friendly, you know? Yeah. Wow, she's really friendly now. Yeah, she got over that fast. Yeah, the new girlfriend was probably like, who's that?

Did they wave back? No, I think they were just like, I think my ex was just mortified, just didn't really know what to do. I would have been mortified as well. Thanks for your call, Sarah. Anonymous, you had an awkward encounter with an ex in the wild? Yeah, I did. He is a police officer and he breath-tested me,

but he pulled me out of the main breath-testing line and made me pull over to a separate area and made me breath-test. Wow. What did you, who broke up with who? I broke up with him and it was the most awkward count to ten I've ever, ever had. And was he real, like, snarky when he said count to ten? He was a little bit, but then also overly happy when I passed. I was just like, you shouldn't be surprised by that. Yeah.

I thought the start of that story sounded like it could have been a bit sexy. Like, it could have been you. Oh, yeah. Whatever's sexy and recumbling. He, like, pulled me out of the line. like it could have been a bit sexy. Like, could have been you. Oh, yeah. A bit of rekindling. Whatever's sexy and rekindling. Pulled me out of the line. Puts the handcuffs on. Yeah.

No, not sometimes. No. Took me into the booze bus. If the booze bus is a rockin'. Made me blow on it for 10 seconds. No, keep blowing, keep blowing. I'm talking about the test. Thanks, Nicole.

Anonymous, ask some text messages. I went to the local pub with my new boyfriend and there were four of my exes in the pub at that one time. But that's a small town in New Zealand. That's a small town. Yeah. Top pub, middle pub, bottom pub. You've got to pick your pubs.

Yeah. And then chances are there'll be somebody in there that you've... Yeah. I bumped into an ex and his girlfriend at a cafe. We used to go to an arremuera. He had been having an affair with her for seven years. What? If someone...

Whoa. If that happened in your cafe, Megan, and someone came up and said, what would you recommend throwing at an ex? What cabinet food would you recommend? A scone. Oh, I was thinking the cutlery holders. Are we going for food? Jesus, I wasn't

going to kill the guy. I just wanted to like embarrass him. Oh, yeah, right. A bagel is probably the hardest bread item, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

A scone would bounce off though and probably leave like a raisin on it. Or a bit of that would be pretty sweet. Dry, you know, hard cheese. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. My last relationship did not end well. I never saw him, which was great, until I was doing a random casual shift at a bar and he rocked up. But I talked to the bouncers about it and they loved me,

so they didn't let him in. But I saw him gesticulating to the bouncer that it wasn't going well. Anonymous, you had a family holiday run-in with an ex. Oh, super awkward. Okay. So I went out with this guy for quite a lot, like it was a significant relationship. And then he had five, ten years later, I can't remember how many, but yeah, family trip to Fiji.

Yeah. And he was on the same flight with his new family. And we zigzagged each other through the waiting queue the whole time. And he completely banged me all the way. Well, I just pretended you didn't exist. Oh, I thought you meant you were avoiding each other, zigzagging each other. But you meant in that, like, little lane thing where you're lining up. You literally would be passing each other, like, every five minutes.

Yeah, facing each other. Like, talking to each other because they're just little kids and they talk to each other. And I was like trying to make eye contact to get the awkwardness out the way and he was just, and I broke up with him, I'll have you know. Oh, right, okay. Yeah, which is why he was so awkward and didn't want to talk to you. Yeah, brilliant. Anonymous, thanks for your call.

At a wedding, I was seated between my current and my ex watching another ex get married. It was a lot. Small town New Zealand or just New Zealand. The bride or whoever is the partner in that marriage was like, did that on purpose.

Yeah. Also, I feel like- Sat you there on purpose. That's the kind of wedding you need to have a talk to the best man just to make sure there's no inappropriate ex jokes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Because they're all there. Because they're all there. And then you say to your current girlfriend, must be a different one. Wouldn't be me. And then your ex on the other side is like,

no, that is him. Prepare yourself. That's the sort of guy you're with now. I was out in another city, got back to my car with my date, and randomly there was someone leaning against my car, and it was my ex waiting for his new girlfriend. He saw my car and was just like, that's my girlfriend's car. Not thinking, that's my ex-girlfriend's car.

Oh, wow. That was a whole awkward situation. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about an Aussie dog. Okay. Aussies love dog stories. Have you ever seen Red Dog?

Nah, but I've heard of it, yeah. It'll destroy you. Okay. It's like... What's the synopsis? What's the synopsis? Hero dog. Okay. What is he?

Put out a fire or something? He says he's going to destroy Fletch. No, I think even this one would... No, Marley and me got me real upset, but that was in the plane, and that always messes with my emotions, being 30,000 feet high for some reason. High on sleeping pills and a few G&Ts.

Yeah. That's the only way to make them cry. A G&T and a Zoppy. Altitude. Mood-altering substance and booze. Yeah. So this story's about Gunner, an Australian dog. Okay.

This was during World War II. There were some Japanese air raids on the northern parts of Australia. Oh, yeah. In Darwin. there were some Japanese air raids on the northern parts of Australia in Darwin and on the first ever attack when they were looking through the ruins of a mess hut where the soldiers stationed their eight, they heard a whimpering

and they found a dog. Now the dog had a broken leg and so one person took it upon themselves to take it to a field hospital and the medical officer said we can't treat a patient that doesn't have a name and an Australian military number. Oh, okay.

So the guy who took the dog there said his name's Gunner and his patient number is 0000. Because he knew that the first one was 001. There was no 00. So he just put it through and they plastered the dog's leg. And he became like a little bit of a mascot for the airbase there in Darwin. Now, it was a week later that Gunner showed everybody his special skills. He started getting agitated. He started barking and like jumping on them.

He could hear the Japanese coming. He could hear the Japanese coming. Before any of the radar, any of the sonar that they had based on the thing, anybody else, he could hear a Japanese plane coming. So he became agitated, jumping and whining and barking. And then a little while later, the planes appear on the horizon and start bombing the town. Now, two days later, Gunner starts jumping and whimpering again.

And then not long after, the Japanese planes arrived again. However, it wasn't just that he could hear planes coming. He knew the difference between the planes that took off from that base when they were coming back into land and when Japanese air attacks were going to happen because he could hear the difference between the two planes. Wow. He slept under a,

the guy who raised the alarm, he slept under his bunk. Right. And when he would wake up in the night and be agitated, they knew to get ready for an incoming air raid and they were always one step ahead. How much warning would he give them? Well, he could hear them,

they reckon it was about six minutes before they saw them or heard them that he would start becoming agitated. Wow. And he became one of the lads. He'd watch the outdoor movies with them. Yeah. He would even go in the planes with some of the pilots. That's pretty cute.

For little short-term missions. Yeah. And he even showered with them, which is a weird detail. I don't know why they included that. I wouldn't have put that bit in. I don't know. Yeah, he slept under that guy's bum. So he's one of the last.

He watched the outdoor movies with us. He'd occasionally go out with a pilot. Oh, yeah, we used to get naked and wash with a dog. But anyway. You know I shower with the dog. It's not that weird. Oh, that is weird.

Don't say that again. Yeah, it's way weirder when you do it because they didn't have an Animates down the road with one of those $10 washing machines. Yeah. They didn't have like a special dog bathing thing. This was the only option they had for washing anything. But does your dog just sit on the floor of the shower

looking up at you with its big googly eyes like, well, no wonder it's got big googly eyes that'll go for anything like that animal that size looking up at anybody naked it'll be an eye-opening experience god it's friday i really had a guts full of you today. A bloody guts full. Here's the thing. 18 months later, when the guy who kind of was in charge of Gunner got reposted to Melbourne, Gunner stayed in Darwin and he lost contact with him and no one knows what happened to Gunner. Why did you have to finish it with that?

It's a great mystery of Australian military history. Gunner's fate is undocumented. There should be a movie about that. Yeah. It would be a great movie. Yeah, it would be a great movie. So today's fact of the day is in Northern Australia during World War II, they had a dog that could hear a Japanese air raid

before anybody knew it was on the horizon. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We're doing some arbouring. Is that what an arbourist does? An arbourist is a person that does. The verb would be arbouring. Is that what an arbourist does? An arbourist is a person that does. The verb would be arbouring. Why don't you just say I've been cutting down trees.

I've been cutting down branches off trees. You're a sound flash. You're not a trained arbourist. Arbourists would be like, no, you're not. They wouldn't be allowed to take the shortcuts with safety that I have this week. Otherwise they would get in trouble with Osh. Ladders and chainsaws and such. Yeah.

But today is the fun day. It's the payoff for all, like, the hard work through the week. Right. Because today, I get to hire a chipper. I'm seriously contemplating just going home with you. Are you? When you leave work. You say that to all the boys.

You said you had heaps on today. Just so that I, well, no, this is old council plans. Just to play with the chipper. Yeah. I've never done it. I've seen a chipper at work. Like when we moved into our place, the trees were out of control. So we got professionals in to give them a good.

But now I'm just doing a bit more. And you just put the branches in and it just mulches. This is how you two die this weekend. What is that movie Fargo where they feed them in the wood chipper? Good lord. I've only got a three-inch chipper. Well, that's not very big. No, it's the girth.

Oh, it's all about the girth. It's a three-inch wide chipper. How long is it? Because I ran. I thought you meant the whole thing was epic. You're putting sticks in there. I have to cut everything into toothpick sized sticks and then put it through the chipper. It's all one could afford is a micro chipper.

It's just a beaver inside a box going, eating the wood. No, that's how wide the widest branch can be all right oh the hole's only three inches wide yeah i wanted the six inch chipper but there's only two of them in auckland and i had to go pick it up from the shore i'm like nah mate three no but most of the branches i've been cutting off will fit through there i wanted to put logs in there well there's a lot really long branches okay that will be fun to put through there. What do you do with the chips? Well, that's, I'm going to make mulch.

Cool. You put it in your mulch pile and then you put it in your garden. Hold a bit of moisture in there. Cool, bro. Cool story, bro. Sounds awesome. See, I'm. Stop the weeds. I'll come over if I can put some branches in, but I'm not cleaning up and wheelbarrowing mulch and stuff.

No. So this is the plan. Yeah. There's going to be an area where I store the mulch, doing most of the mulching there. Yeah. But then there's going to be another area, and I'll be running a trailer behind the right-on lawnmower.

So it's like, you know when you're a kid and you'd be playing trains and you'd be like, fill it up with that and take that to the next station? Yeah. It's like grown-ups versions of that. Of trains. Yeah, right. Stop under the mulcher and then. what's that and take that to the next station it's like grown ups versions of that of trains yeah right stop under the mulcher and then

until the trailer's full and then you're like drive it and then you pull the lever and the trailer goes up and you dump it it's like on the sandpit and then you put the trailer back

and you come get another load of mulch so you're just like a little kid playing trucks yeah but a big kid playing lawnmowers and mulches and could lose an arm.

Yeah. You'd never be allowed to play with a mulcher if you're a kid. No. No way. That would just be poor parenting. How long do you have this hired for? Four hours. Are you going to, once you've done everything, all your work,

are you going to start putting things in there that you see, like how fun would it be to mulch different things? Like will it mulch? You can start a YouTube channel. Yeah. Vaughan Smith's Will It Mulch? Yes. Is this a higher place to know about this?

Just give it a wash afterwards. That will be the last thing I put through it. Water. Or water mulch. I don't know if you have to. I don't know. I'm going to get the. I think you have to clean it.

Yeah, there'll be a chat. There'll be lots of this. You know, mate, when you go pick it up. You know, mate, you used one of these before? Oh, yeah, mate, but you haven't. Have you not picked it up yet? If you're working... You just had a chat about stupid stuff you're going to put through it.

You haven't even picked it up yet. I'm just going to say, if you work at, like, what is it, Kenworth's or High Equip or Higher Pool, and a bearded man comes in with a beanie... No, we don't play enough Bruce Springsteen to be played at a Higher Pool. Really? What do you do for a job?

Working radio. Bloody Bruce Springsteen playing in the boss? Nah. So you think you're safe, are you? Yeah. Okay, well, there you go. I think you'll get away with not getting a lecture of what you can and can't mulch. Okay.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Ponsonby Countdown. Oh, that's a flash one. Last Monday. Well, it's reasonably new, isn't it? Yes. It's reasonably new, isn't it?

Your father doesn't like it. The parking's too close. The parking spots are all too close to each other. It's worried. This car's going to get hit with a trolley. Every time we go there, we have to park right in the corner. Oh, he won't go near it. Do your parents do that?

My parents always park miles away in their creepy car. Mine do because the parking's cheaper or free just outside the city boundary. Mum's worried someone's going to put their trolley or their car door into her old car. Oh, yeah. It might be old, but I'm trying to keep it nice. Yeah, yeah. It keeps the resale nice. Yeah, yeah. Keeps the resale up. Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, Ponsonby Countdown last Monday. These details are important. Sue me for looking after my things. That's what my mum said once. Sue me for looking after stuff. We should do things your parents always say. Let's do that next week. Oh, lols.

Lols at parents. Okay. So Ponsonby Countdown last Monday. Louis went there doing his shopping, doing his thing. He caught the eye

of one Jamie. So we don't know we don't know anything other than they had a wee chat. What were the names again? Louis. Yep.

And Jamie. So do we know... She told me her name was Jamie. Oh, right, okay. Because I was just going to say unisexual names. Yeah, no, you're right. It could have been a guy and a guy. Right.

Did Jamie have a name badge on? Did Jamie work there? No. Okay. So she caught my eye. This is from Louis. She caught my eye because she smiled at me and we ended up having a chat.

What? How hot are either of these people that they can pull this sort of thing off? Yeah. Because if I did that, it'd be creepy. It would be. Hello. Just smiling at another human's weird, eh? Yeah. My name's Jamie. Hello, Jamie. My name's Louis. Well, the chat got far enough that they

exchanged names. Yeah, right. He said, she told me her name was Jamie and we ended up going our separate ways. Because I've had like idle chat, but never enough to be like, this is my name, you know. Yeah. And he said, I was trying to not look too keen at the time. So I didn't ask for her number,

but I regretted it as soon as I left. So driving home, he was like, oh my God, what have I done? I've missed an opportunity. So he went back to Ponsonby Countdown. Yeah. And has put, you know, the bulletin board and people write notes and you walk past sometimes and you're like, huh. It's normally like, I've got a trailer loaded with firewood

or does anybody want to learn how to speak Japanese? I've got a piano. Help your child get NCEA level two maths. Yeah. So Louis went get NCEA level two maths. Yeah. So, Louis went back and left a card, one of those cards on the bulletin board, and said, Jamie, this is Louis. We met on Monday.

Text me. And then added his phone number. And now it's been picked up in the media. His phone number hasn't been shared. Right, okay. But as of yet, Louis hasn't heard from Jamie. So, Jamie, Louis. God, I from Jamie. So Jamie, Louie. God, I hope Jamie doesn't have a boyfriend already.

Jamie's going to be in big trouble. And what started out as a harmless, I mean, she didn't really do anything wrong at the supermarket, saying your name. No, she didn't give him the number or anything. They must have just chatted. Oh, God, we really need to follow up on this. I know.

This is a love story. We needed this horrible time of 2020. They chatted long enough. There was some sort of like connection, even if it was just like a friendship one. Yeah. But yeah. Opportunities are like sunrises.

Are you reading a quote? Yep. I found on therandomvibes.com. Okay. Quotes, memes and sayings. Okay. 50 plus best opportunities about missed opportunities

in life, love and relationship. Okay. So this is number 10 there. Other ones didn't really fit. Okay. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you look directly into them, you'll burn your eyes.

No. Opportunities are like sunrises. Very hard to get a decent photograph of. No. Opportunities are like sunrises very hard to get a decent photograph of no opportunities are like sunrises if you wait too long you miss them

oh that's about like you're in bed you're like I'll get up and watch a sunrise and you're like dilly dally

and then you miss it yeah or you like look out the window and you're like come and look it looks beautiful come and come and look

and come and look and then they finally get there and you're like oh it looked better like two minutes ago. Don't worry about it. You've missed all the deep rich oranges. Why did you come when I called? That's a good one.

All right, well, I'm excited to see developments in this. Yeah, Jamie, Louis just wants you to give him a chance. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. And music lives here.

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