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

Episode Date: November 4, 2020

Yummy Yummy!  Top 6: Outrageous Fortune House  Most annoying posts on Social Media  Posh Boiler  Stranger Rings!  Fact of the Day Day Day Day Daaaaay!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today. Megan, you've just been doing what I know you don't like, admin. You've been balls deep in some admin. And yeah, it's good times. This is your pregnancy, maternity leave. Paid parental leave. Paid parental leave, the PPL. And what did Fletch call you? A liberal sponge. A liberal sponge, that's what he said.

Well, I just said when I got a cat and I became a dad, I didn't get any paid parental cat leave. Parental cat leave. I think the difference is you can leave Major Murray Fluffington at home. You can leave a baby at home once he's... No, science has proven that's not good. Really? Not effective. Eventually you can leave them at home, no?

Yeah, when they're about 14. Right. And then they're not really babies anymore. Maybe you can't leave kittens at home either. They'll claw and piss everywhere. Yeah, they will. You've got to train them well. I'm just saying the system's unfair. That also happens when Sade leaves me at home. I'll quorum piss everywhere.

I get very scared when she's not there to tell me everything's going to be all right. You can get some if you have a baby. Absolutely not. No way in hell. Does the baby have to be in his care? Could he donate sperm, have multiple offspring and claim in every one of them? No. Because guys can get every one of them? No. Because guys can get parental leave, eh?

Yeah. Like, you could have got it. You have to be a primary caregiver. Oh, okay, that's not what you would have been, was it? No, I get looked after rather than looking after. Yeah. Everywhere I go, there's got to be a minder. In fact, the government should pay your wife for looking after you.

They should. Absolutely. They should. Thanks for picking up the tab, government. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Morn and Megan. Megan's back. Hello.

Did you miss me? No, you waited too long. That was too long. Yes, we did. I didn't hear it. I was just jiggling my headphones. Bleach did. He was just staring at me for a second.

Did I miss you? Well, I was just thinking of what I'd say. Yes, we did. Well, no, because when we do the fact of the day jingle, it's always a bit less, isn't it? A little hollow. A little hollow. There was something yesterday we were going to do

and we were like, no, we can't do that. Megan's not here. Am I a bad person? That's right, because you've got lots of insight and we just don't care as much, do we? I make an immediate judgment and I won't be swayed. That's my take on the whole thing. So we're like, oh, we'll do that when Megan's back. At least two moments you missed me yesterday.

Yeah. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are we talking to Jack Tame this morning by that email that's popped up on the screen there? Jack Tame.

Has he had any sleep at all? Doesn't look like it. Nah. Have any of these political correspondents? The US election on a knife edge. A few states still counting. Four states looking like it could be Biden and more messaging

from Trump that it's rigged. So that's a good sign. But it wasn't when he was winning. No. It wasn't just until they started counting other votes that came in that then he said it is rigged and we should just have stopped counting when he was in the lead. He literally said that. Go to the Supreme Court to get the votes cut off now.

Let's delve into the latest. What's happened overnight in the US election next. Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast, ZM. Now, overnight, the US election. We will, after 8 o'clock this morning, catch up with TV1 News correspondent Jack Tomei. He's in Washington, D.C. I imagine he's had very little sleep, as have a lot of political reporters and probably Americans. Anxiety riddled with sleep.

Yeah, a lot can't believe it's this close. Yeah. Like, can you even believe it? No. Isn't it just nuts? No, because the polls had Biden ahead, right? I know, how wrong are these polls again? It shouldn't have been this close. Isn't it just nuts? No, because the polls had Biden ahead, right? I know.

How wrong are these polls again? It shouldn't have been this close. But even this year, they were minusing all the, because you know, last time, all the polls had Trump, you know, minus four behind Hillary. And they even took that into account this time and they were like, no, he's still got enough. And it wasn't even that close. How wrong they were like, no, he's still got enough. And it wasn't even that close. How wrong they were.

So at the moment, overnight, Joe Biden holds a narrow lead in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.

So he's still voting to go. 97% in Wisconsin. Michigan has counted 92% of the vote. Nevada, 86. Arizona, 86. And Trump holding a lead in Georgia and North Carolina. So at this stage, it's looking good for Biden.

Did we get Pennsylvania's vote? 79% has counted. Donald Trump is leading Biden, 53.7 to 45. It's, I've, I don't think I've ever looked up Donald Trump's tweets before, but I've just looked them up.

17 hours ago, we're looking really good all over the country. Thank you. And that's all on capital letters. Yep. Then 11 hours ago, I'll be making a statement tonight,

a big win. Some more capital letters. Which by the way, Twitter and Facebook flagged, flagged specially to say this is not... Misinformation. Yeah. We are up big.

They're trying to steal the election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the polls are closed. That's another one that got flagged by both social media services to say this is dubious at best. So that was 11 hours ago. Well, how the tune changed. Two hours ago. Wow. How the tune changed. Two hours ago. Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key states.

In almost all instances, Democrat ran and controlled. Then one by one they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. Very strange. And the pollsters got it completely and historically wrong. How come every time they count mail-in ballot dumps, they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction for the country?

They are finding Biden votes all over the place. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our country. And then seven minutes ago, they are working so hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear. He's misspelt there. They're working hard to make

our 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others. Wow. Well, Biden's come out and said, told supporters to keep the faith. Vote counting will continue. But yeah, well, Trump takes the opposite kind of angle

there. Because mail-in votes historically favour Democrats, right? Yeah. But he can't get his head around that. Also completely legal. There's nothing fraudulent about any of this. It's just like here. They just take several days and they always have to count the special votes. What's his point when he says voting after ballots have closed?

What is he referring to? Just being counted after? No, so when polls close, if you're in line they have to take your vote. Right. That's right, eh? Because they say it's anti-democratic to assume people might have to work all day and then they get there and the line might be long. If you're in line, they'll go out and they'll put a thing saying no more people can join this line. Right. The polls, the people who are running the poll. But I believe if you're in line for the poll, you

can still vote. And that's why he was saying, don't bother, go home. Because he knows that the late voters, the people who might have to work all day, are traditionally more Democratic voters than Republicans. So he was just trying to say it's a wasted vote. You might as well go home. That's what they were saying on the... I just can't even believe it's this close. It is actually shocking. Anyway.

But America loves a drama. They do. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. Well, it seems this year of... Well, it started with the bushfires in Australia. The devastating fires. Yeah. There was the gender reveal fires.

There was a little pandemic. You guys might have heard about this little pandemic. Heard a little bit, yeah. A few other things have happened. It seems Mother Nature's not done with us yet. The Mount Ruapehu Cradle Lake has warmed. And there has been seismic activity. Oh, not now. Not now.

At least it's in the middle of winter. What, so it doesn't ruin ski season? Yeah, yeah. I mean, ski season was a little bit ruined anyway. Yeah. But we did have days, we did have a good period of no lockdown with snow on the mountain that people could enjoy. I'm not a

volcanologist. Aren't you? No. Well, that doesn't stop anybody having their opinion. Yeah, but I feel like you're about to have an opinion. Yeah, but this does happen from time to time without any, you know, eruption or any inconvenience to our lives. This is quite a normal thing.

Don't they have number levels? Have they given it a number so we can panic or not? I don't know. I think Geonet does. Yeah, the GNS scientists. But then would you rather something happen with Mount Ruapehu now and then get 2020 out of the way? Or like kick off 2021?

All you're saying is just get all the bad stuff out of the way. So we kick it off 2021 with What you're saying is just get all the bad stuff out of the way. So we kick it off 2021 with that. Right. Currently at level one, minor volcanic unrest. Right. Apart from Whakaari White Island,

that's at number one as well at the moment. Everything else around New Zealand is zero. No volcanic unrest. Excuse me. It's 22 degrees,

the water. So that's still not that hot if you've got a spa. I could still swim in that. Huh? We could swim in that. No, I think you'd find it the water. So that's still not that hot. If you've got a spa. I could still swim in that. Huh? You could swim in that. No, I think you'd find it to be pretty cold.

Oh, and wildly acidic. It'd melt your knickers off. Yeah, this isn't that warm. This isn't that warm, but oopsie, my undies are gone.

And so have my nips. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Yummy, yummy. Yummy, yummy. It's a segment of the show where we take a look at new food items popping up. And this one, good sound effect.

This one has popped up in McDonald's in Australia, which quite often, like the chocolates, quite often does mean that we could be next. Right, yeah. One of us always goes first. The other seems to follow suit. Well, actually, it kind of depends on the success. If it's a horrendous failure, they don't.

Now, I can't remember. Executive Intern Anya, I'm going to cross to you because I know you love a McFlurry. Australia, that's not an incorrect statement though, is it? No, it doesn't. I definitely, I really like them and I have them like quite often, but I wouldn't say I'm like an ambassador. You are a McFlurry senior correspondent.

We're going to cross now to the McFlurry wall. That's what they were doing all yesterday on the news. CNN, everything had a name, the something wall. Yeah. Now, in Australia, they have launched a donut ball McFlurry.

Do you ever remember that being here? Because I don't. I remember they did American balls, like American donut balls. Yeah, I definitely remember

there was a, I think there was a donut ball stage maybe in the, I want to say the last 18 months. Right. Well, this is a McFlurry.

It's got soft serve, chocolate fudge, and crushed Oreo with four donut balls. And then there's like a chocolate swirl on the top. Thoughts on that? Big fan. Yeah. Wait. This is BS.

I'm not, when you're pregnant you're not allowed soft serve. You could just pick the donut balls out. Yeah. So McFlurry, I'm gonna, as soon as it comes out, I'm having a McFlurry. As soon as it comes out? Your child or this McFlurry?

Are you speaking to the release of this McFlurry to the general public or the child exiting your vagina? The child. Right. So I expect Fletch to refer to your child or another child as that. But I would have thought if you're growing it. Him.

Him. Sorry. Lorenz. Lorenz, yeah. Have you thought about the first food that you're going to have? Eggs benny. Or now it's McFlurry. Or eggs benny followed by breakfast dessert of a McFlurry.

Yeah. Sushi with a raw steak in it. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, we trust him. He's a good man. But when he gets grumpy at us, it's hard. Well, we talked yesterday, Megan, when you were away. He's in the finalists for the TV Personality of the Year. That's so funny.

I know. It's great, isn't it? Well, he was there for us. He was probably the most prolific character. What do they call it? Appointment viewing. Oh, yeah. Where you tune in for something like that one o'clock update during all the lockdowns was, do you know, that was appointment viewing. Yeah. With Dr. Ash. Yeah. But he's not like, this isn't how my dad would tell us off. My dad would yell. Oh, yeah. And like, he'd give us a smack. You would have got a boot, hey?

Yeah. He'd yell. He was a man that, you know, ruled with an iron fist. But Ashley Bloomfield doesn't have that. He's more like a disappointed. Yeah. Like, I don't know if your dad was a bit more chill maybe. Yeah.

So this was what, yesterday? During a press conference. Yeah. And that's right. He's not telling us off but he's very disappointed in us. This is a simple thing to do and if we want an alert level one Christmas break

I think people just need to start improving their efforts in this year and get with the programme. Get with the programme. So is this, what was that in relation to using the QR code? Yeah, and obviously there's some community cases in Christchurch and there has been a massive drop-off of people who are using it.

In Christchurch, 20 people use the app to sign into a supermarket. Are you kidding me? Oh my God. And that was the supermarket that one of the cases visited. Was that pre the weekend though? Yeah, that was when they were looking to make contact with everyone who'd been to the supermarket. They looked into it, right? 20 people, yeah.

But this is the problem is that we think we're safe, but then a community case might happen. But up until that point, no one's been using it. So how do they do contact trace? Yeah, but to be fair, especially in Auckland, we all dropped off using it. So how do they do contact trace? Yeah, but to be fair and especially in Auckland, we all dropped off using it. The whole country dropped off after we went out of that level and then it surprised us

and I feel like people are pretty good with it now in Auckland because we got used to it. Whereas out of Auckland, and I've been travelling out of Auckland, people just don't use it. But they've never had to really, have they? So they haven't gotten that habit. You don't use it. But they've never had to really, have they? So they haven't gotten that habit. You need to be. You don't blame them.

Because if we don't contact trades accurately, that's when we're going to go into some sort of level for Christmas. Yeah. I don't want that. No, neither. You don't want that. And it is super easy. I'm in the habit of doing it now.

You have it on your home screen. Yeah, home screen. Just open it up. You have it on your home screen? Yeah, home screen. You just open it up. It's done. I saw this elderly lady get out her iPhone and do a little scan. And I was like, yes. Well, my mom graded her phone so she could do it. Oh, bless.

Are you sure she needed to do that? I don't know. Is that what she told your dad? Probably. Oh, my gosh. She's still pulling that shit. Fletchvorna Meganan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM.

From the illegal ZM think tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. I bring tidings of great sorrow. West Aucklanders and outrageous fortune fans alike.

The outrageous fortune house that the Wests lived in is going to be torn down and townhouses are going to be built. Now, this is the area of Te Aratu in West Auckland where this is going to happen. This is happening to so many old houses on big sections. Well, you can see they're on huge sections. So it's just a bit of a waste of land, isn't it? Quarter acres.

Well, not really. It depends what you're after. The quarter acre dream used to be the way to go, but high density housing. Too many lawns to mow. Property developers can make more money off selling it as three separate titles rather than the one. The saddest

part about this is that, and this might just be me that thinks this, but the numbers on the postal numbers have already been decided. So all these houses just get like A, Bs and Cs. Why is that so? For example, if your number's like 68 and your neighbour's on one side of 66

and the neighbour's on the other side of 70, and then you build three townhouses, that's 68 A, B and C. What's wrong with that? Well, that annoys me because... Why? You want a new number? 68 A, B and C. What's wrong with that? Well, that annoys me because Why? Because there's 66 So you'd want everyone to You'd want everyone to shuffle down

two. No, I'm just thinking we need a new numbering system. What's wrong with 68 A? Oh, I don't like it. I don't like it when there's like but the neighbour doesn't have it. The neighbour's just 66 There's nothing wrong with this. I don't like it. I've got an A.

I've never liked it. I used to live in a B. I used to live in an A. You see, living in a B's a bit pov. Like at least an A's first. No, at least it's off the road. No, you want to be road frontage. The B's are never worth as much as the A's.

Oh no, I was renting. I know, but even then you want to be road frontage. I'm missing the traffic. Unless it's a really busy road. You shouldn't have accepted that flat with a B. Yuck. In hindsight, but even then, you want to be road fronted. You're pissing the traffic. Unless it's a really busy road. You shouldn't have accepted that flat with a B. Yuck. In hindsight, it was a leaky barn. But see, we're all ready. It's creating a class system as well.

Isn't it? Yeah. Which I'm against. Yeah, right. But anyway, I've got the top six TV houses that we should bust down instead. Also, I just don't think anyone's going to take this sitting down. Shouldn't this be a protected building? It's got cultural significance.

I mean, people would go there all the time, wouldn't they? Like the actual people that own the house would have to shill away bogans all the time. Do you remember when they moved Sir Ed's house? Where did they put Sir Ed and Hillary's house? I remember there was a big... Mount Cook. ...programmarol up the top.

Yeah, if you climb up the top, you get to sleep in Sred's bed. But no one where he lived was inconsequential to his actions but this TV show was like the consistent character. It's not really a house you could pick up and move somewhere to a museum or something is it?

Because it's concrete. It's brick. Yeah brick and tile. It's got a cinder block down the stairs. And part of it is like that It's brick. Yeah, brick and tile. It's got that cinder block down the stairs. And part of it is like the front lawn. Yeah. Hold it down. There's got to be some... We've got pictures. We've got lots of video.

You are throwing culture out the window, my friend. The top six TV houses we should bust down instead is my top six list today. Houses that have been on TV but don't mean anything to anybody. The Bachelor, Bachelorette House. Hey, look, McMansions are a dime a dozen. Well, no, famously they're multi-million per dozen. At least a million dozen.

A dozen, yeah. A dozen. But they don't mean anything to anybody. No, yeah. Oh, so what? Lily got a boob touched in that room. Big deal. Big deal.

Tear it down. Number five on the list of the top six TV houses we should bust down instead of the outrageous Fortune House. Any of the houses from any of the seasons of The Block. I don't care if people are living in them. Well, some of those have already been torn down. Oh, yeah? Which ones got torn down?

Takapuna. Yeah, that's right. The first season, eh? Was that the first season or the second? They're not there anymore. Those are replaced with apartment buildings. Yeah, they got shit canned. But I don't know, do those get picked up and moved? Potentially, yes, it does. Number four on the list of the top six TV

houses you'd bust down and said, Chris Warner's house. He's rich enough to buy another one. Bust that one down. Shortland Street are aching to build some new sets. I'm pretty sure his house is like two walls on wheels. Well, it'll be easy to do then. Number three on the list of the top six TV houses you should bust down instead of the outrageous Fortune House.

That big house that they always film Parliament TV in. What's that called? Government House? Bust it down. Bust it down. Bust it down. Doesn't... Nothing. Number two on the list of the top six TV houses we should bust down instead of the outrageous

fortune house. This one might already be gone. Jason's tinny house. From a short-lived tenure on Havoc and Newsboy. Jason Gunlund ran a tinny house, but it wasn't. I think that's been gentrified now. Yeah. And he's a been gentrified now. Yeah. And there's a family of four in there.

They've probably pulled up their manky carpet and polished up the lovely hardwood floors. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six TV houses that we should bust out

instead of the outrageous fortune house, whatever house Duncan Garner lives in. Although he might live under a bridge. The troll of a man! The troll of a man. The troll of a man.

That's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A big survey's been done of the most annoying posts on social media. Each of these different polls around 26,000 votes. Okay. There is three stats that I want to share with you, but one that immediately I noticed that it's missing is those, although I don't know if it's happened much in 2020,

you know, those, oh, my God, something amazing is happening to me. But I can't share it. You know, the teasing post. Yeah. Is that just because no one's got anything to tease? Not really, no. Only Arbonne sales reps just started an amazing business.

More to come. And then they slide into your DMs. So 29% of people did not like the random quotes or stupid quotes that mean nothing. So Motivation Mondays, you know, Khloe Kardashian's a massive one for this.

Just like tap, tap, tap, tap your way through a million quotes. Right through a story. That's also hinting something about their lives that's going on. Yeah. Which she doesn't want to say. Yeah. So 29% of people think that that is one of the most annoying posts. Are they trying to motivate themselves or are they trying to paint themselves as some

sort of motivator? Yeah. Yeah. It is annoying. Yeah. Keep it to yourself. Shut up. So just save some quotes on your phone or something.

If you know, if you care about motivational quotes. You could change your computer screensaver to a bunch of motivational quotes. You could like screen cap them and then put them in a folder and select that folder as your photo folder for photo displays during screen. And then the rest of us don't have to deal with it. So that's an option. 86% of people say the most annoying thing on social media is relentless, cringy relationship posts.

86? 86%. Wow. Okay, that's quite resounding. Just like a lovey-dovey post with your partner. That's like most of your posts, isn't it? Yeah, but like, that's mean. What is love?

Just remember next time you're posting that, 86% of people don't want to see that. Also, it's my gram. Put up a picture frame in your house of you two. No, you don't want to be those people. You don't want to be people with your house full of photos of yourself. You live there. You know what you look like.

It annoys me when you go round to someone's house and they've got photos of their kids everywhere. My sister's a shocker. Photos of these bloody kids everywhere. She sees them all the time. Yeah, do you not remember what they look like? You know what you look like? You're so mean.

You look in a mirror. You see yourself in like, I see myself when I'm washing the dishes and I look on the side of a pot. I'm like, oh, there I am again. God damn. I don't need photos of myself around the house. It's a lovely photo and they just want to see it all the time. How about as your screen phone background?

Yeah. Wallpaper on your phone. Don't decorate your own house with photos of yourself. Yeah. That's the point there. It's their own house. It's narcissistic is what it is. It's vanity and it's narcissism.

Oh my God. Okay. Well, 86% of people don't like your love and have a post. I don't think Vaughn and I are in a minority here, Megan. Just mute me. I don't care. I'm happy with my post. Last, 95%

of people have voted that the most annoying posts on social media are the fake ones. The overly filtered, the airbrush, the beautiful pictures that show unrealistic beauty standards. But yet, how many people are using these apps

to smooth all the wrinkles, whiten the teeth? Every influencer. And they have so many followers. So, everyone's hate-liking them, obviously. No, they just want to know what filter they're using so they can do it. Yeah. Right.

That's the biggest number. 95% of people hate those. But yet, most people will do it. Uh-huh. And that's probably just what guys tell their partners when their partners are like, why did you like this photo of this girl in this bikini that's obviously touched up?

What? I hate those filtered photos. Absolutely. It was an accident. All right, it's 12 minutes past seven. Someone's kettle, someone's flash minutes past 7. Someone's kettle, someone's flash kettle, Fletch's flash kettle. It's not a flash kettle. It's a

jinky jug. It's a posh boiler. My posh boiler. Your posh boiler is about to be taken down a notch because someone's come out with a cheap posh boiler. Even posher. And even cheaper.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I've just learned this thing, such thing as white tea. I thought white tea was where you just added milk to tea. White tea is just where you put milk in, right?

No, it's not. I'll have tea white. That's what my mum says. Yeah. And that means you put a bit of milk in. No, there's actually white tea. They should be's what my mum says. Yeah. And that means you put a bit of milk in. No, there's actually white tea. Because she's been asking for several styles of tea which feature young or minimally processed leaves of the Camillusinius plant.

Right. Who knew? I just thought it was all the same. Well, Kmart's- Oh, yuck. It looks like wheeze. Kmart's come out with a new kettle and now I'm, for some reason, getting roasted. Well, you own the Breville Smart Kettle.

Well, I'm in no way a paid endorser for Breville. No, no, you paid for this. It's just that I went to Briscoe's and I don't know if you guys know, but they quite often have a sale. Don't try and palm off your posh boiler as I bought it on sale. Well, no, I had to match the toaster because I got a Breville two-slice toaster. Two-slice or four-slice? Two. Smart toaster? Does it have theville two slice toaster. Two slice or four slice? Two.

Smart toaster? Does it have the button you can push where it just pops up to see how well it does? Nah, it's not that. I've seen one of four slice toast before.

I don't need four slice because I don't need one. Major Murray Fluffington's not making toast for breakfast. He might have a couple of slices and a couple of crumpets. But you still got that and then I got the kettle

and it's got all these buttons on it. I can tell you the buttons. For different teas and coffee and stuff. If you want to boil, well, if you want to heat water to green tea temperature, that's apparently 80 degrees. Yep. White tea, which it turns out isn't just ordinary tea with milk in it. Also, why would that be less than 100?

Because then you have to put milk in to make it even colder. That's why I was so confused when I was like, why would you only gate it to 85 degrees if you're going to put milk in it anyway? Yeah. So white tea is 85 degrees. Oolong tea, 90 degrees. I mean, who's drinking enough oolong to warrant its own button? I don't know. Coffee is 95 and to boil it or to make black tea, 100 degrees.

Because when I was looking at the kettles and I saw this, I was like, who knew teas had to be different temperatures? You don't even drink tea. I drink green tea. I use the green tea button quite a lot. So that's the 80 degrees button. Yeah. And it's good because you can drink it quicker

because it's not so hot. But you're still giving it its time to steep. Yeah. What about the keep warm button? What does that do? So if you like boil the jug or whatever, you just press that and it keeps it on that temperature. So you just come back and it will still be warm.

Or you forget about it, leave it on 100 degrees, it boils dry and burns your house down. That's how I like to live life. Right. Every day you could be burning your house down. What's wrong with coming back and being like, oh, that's right, I was going to have a cup of tea, and then you flick the kettle again.

I boil it again. I always boil the jug when I get back to it. I click it back down and it goes... And then I watch the little thing go click, and I'm like, you're hot. You're ready for my cup. And yours is cordless as well. Made of stainless steel.

It was on special and it matched the toaster. So I was like, I'm getting this one. Even if it was half price, I'd be like. I don't think I should be shamed for my kettle. Although this Kmart one is definitely cheaper. So Kmart's undercut you. So they've come out with their own fancy one. It's not as nice as it was.

It's not stainless steel. It's pretty flash. So it does everything yours does. This is unacceptable. Well, to be fair, they didn't have this when I was shopping because I would have looked at that. You would have. It's also way less expensive.

Okay. $69. Oh, nice. Nice. $69 there. It's got, I think it's got all the buttons that yours does too by the looks here I can't read it

yeah right hold on I can zoom in hold on stay with me keep warm keep warm buttons at the other end of the dial

oh that's deal off then green tea white tea oolong tea I don't want to say that they copied but they've almost

done the exact word for word right okay coffee and a black tea and boil but they switched around the order exact word for word. Coffee and a black tea and boil, but they switched around the order there, which I think was their way of trying to get around that. Why does it have a Wi-Fi signal on it?

Does it have Wi-Fi? A kettle with Wi-Fi? Mine doesn't have Wi-Fi. It's got Wi-Fi where it says keep warm. Can you just on your phone be like, oh, actually keep it warm, I'm busy. Wi-Fi, smart, power-based control and see the state through a mobile phone, works with Google Assistant and Alexa. So you'd be like, Alexa, boil the jug.

Oh, what? That's way cooler than yours. That's way cooler than my kettle. Your posh boiler just got made to look like a... A pov boiler. A baby boiler. Right, okay. Wow.

I still don't think we need to Wi-Fi into our home to boil the jug, do we? Imagine coming into the house, or you're on your way home, but you want a cuppa as soon as you step in the door. Nah, because you don't know if there's water in there. Exactly. What if you haven't filled the jug up, and you're technically turning the jug on to burn your house down?

Surely it's got a safety feature. Must do. If you're living with a monster that doesn't refill the jug after they use it. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Apparently there's a sleeping position that is most likely to lead to divorce. They have studied

10,000 people, half women, half men, and they have found there is a common sleeping position of divorced couples. Okay. Does this, thinking back to your first marriage. Oh.

Do you remember? I wasn't a big fan of this. Okay. But maybe, not all the time though. Okay. Sleeping positions, you always change it up, you know. But you always sleep on the same side of the bed, eh? Oh, yeah.

It's not to do with the, it's the cuddling positions when you're in bed. I don't know, because how's about those couples that change up sleeping sides? That's weird, eh? No, that's weird. Like, hey, tonight I'm going to have the right side. Have you ever tried sleeping on the other side? I don't like it. I don't like it. It's so odd.

Yeah. Even when you go away, you're like, well, this is like it. It's so odd. Yeah. Even when you go away, you're like, well, this is my side. Well, yeah, I sleep. When you're looking at the bed, I sleep on the left side. Yeah. We're the same. We're left side sleepers. When you're looking at it.

When you're standing at the foot of the bed, looking at the bed. I sleep on the left too. Like if you were a murderer and you were like walking into their room and you were standing at the end of the bed, I'm on the left. I'm on the left too. I wonder if that says something about our personalities. We're left-side sleepers. Yeah.

What side are the producers? Jared, what side do you sleep on? I'm a left-hand side. You're a left-hand side. Mountie, what side do you sleep on? Left as well. We're all lefties. I think that must have

something to do with our personalities. When executive producer Intern Anya comes back from the toilet during Weez at the moment, she'd be a left hand sleeper? I'd say yes. Yeah, well she'll ruin it for all of us if she sleeps on the right. Yeah, okay. She's kind of the boss of this

Did you sleep by yourself? Yeah, well the cat sleeps on the right-hand side. But when you have sleepovers, if the person stays, do they sleep on the right? Absolutely. Do they ever try to sleep on the left? Do they ever be like, oh, here, that's my side? What side of the bed do you sleep on?

She's back from Wee's. You're back from Wee's. Yeah, hi. You're standing at the foot of the bed, looking at the bed. What side are you sleeping on? Right. Yeah, I knew she was going to be different. Yeah, classic.

We're all left. We're all left. All of us are left. No, but she's the boss of the scenario, you know? Oh my God. Thank you so much, Megan. What an empowering compliment to come back from the toilet from. Wait, the boss of this show or the situation in bed.

I'm consistent. Wow. Wow, Mr. Bun'm consistent. Wow. Wow, Mr. Bun Buns. So it's not so much the side of the bed that you sleep on but the cuddling positions. Okay.

So 86% of people said this is the one that leads to divorce. Are you going to guess or you just want me to straight up hit it? Spooning. It's a type of spooning?

They're the big spoon. No, they're the little spooning. Who? Men. If men are the little spoon, women will leave them. Is that harder because they're more to get the arm around? I don't know. So if the man is the little spoon and the female

predominantly was the big spoon in a relationship, it ended in divorce. Wow. Because he wanted to be a little spoon to other dudes. Everyone loves a little spoon sometimes. You have to switch it up. A, never call it a little spoon. Call it jetpack.

So it's not like emasculating, demasculating. It's not emasculating. Everyone loves little cuds. When I'm sick, maybe, but I'll call it jetpack. It's not. Do you say I need my jetpack? Yeah, I'll need a jetpack. Oh, my God.

I need a jetpack to get myself up out of this sickness. Right, okay. But otherwise, you're not even a little spoon? Never. Really? But it's like back rubs. I don't get them. I only give. But otherwise, you're not even a little spooked. Never. Really? But it's like back rubs. I don't get them. I only give them.

Well, that's not a two-way street. I know it's not. That's not fair. But it's like, yeah. But to be honest, yeah, I think because I can easily put my arm over Sade's shoulder

because she's not as wide as me. Yeah. But when she has to put hers over, she has to go up over the top like a jetpack strap. She probably need a couple of pillows too to get over. And then we jetpack out of there. But the best position on the other end of the spectrum, the most lovable position that won't end in divorce is face to face, not touching. So when you're lying in bed and you're not touching but you're face-to-face.

Because if you can put up with somebody else's hot breath on your face, it must be love. Yeah. Keeping up to date with the news just became a little easier. As it heralds new podcasts, 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. Fletch, Vaughfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM.

This must be an issue for a lot of couples in America at the moment. A celebrity, Lil Wayne, his girlfriend has dumped him after he's been quite publicly endorsing Donald Trump. Did he go on stage and was he the one Donald Trump called? No, no, that was Lil Pump. That's right, he called him Lil Pump. So his girlfriend has said that she is very disappointed in him and it wasn't actually just the Trump support,

but I think that's the straw that broke the camel's back. Right. So because he's a Trump supporter, he's been dumped. Yeah. Amazing. He went full blast endorsing Trump, which did seem odd in the first place. And he's been blasted by like the hip hop community and everything. Yeah.

But he's standing by it. Can you imagine what it's going to be like for a lot of families? Because have they had Thanksgiving yet in America? No, no, no. Thanksgiving. End of November. You've got Thanksgiving coming up and Christmas. There are going to be some arguments in the family.

There already is. You'd be going home to your wife or your girlfriend, your boyfriend or whatever's parents' place. You could be there, and they could have a vastly different view. Yeah. And you're just going to have to bite your tongue. You'd just have to make a rule.

Mind you, people that love arguing about politics don't really care about the rule of don't talk about the politics. No. I just, that politics is one thing, but like, how do you bite your tongue when someone's openly supporting Trump in front of you? That's just like, ugh.

So yeah, that's why they broke up. Right. We want to know this morning, we want to ask the question, have you ever broke it up with someone because of their views? And like, what was it? Like maybe you started dating someone and then they had like way different political views and you're like, I just can't do it. Yeah.

It's over. It's over. Whereas some people could quite happily be like, one could be a Labour voter, one could be a national voter, for example. Well, that happened and this election just gone. In New Zealand there was that couple in Dunedin. That's right and one had the national sign and one had the Labour sign.

But they managed to make it work and just didn't talk too much about it. But I think like you could have, it's just that now politics has got to that point where you just kind of can't loosely stand in the middle anymore. No. Like it's one or the other. It's guns at dawn.

What would happen if you went home and you found out your wife Sade was an ACT voter? Well, the sex appeal of David Seymour has swayed many a woman. Even the hardest left wing of all. You know, he's always drawing them over with that smile and that candour.

Is that what it is? Smile. David Seymour gets the honey. But would that be a deal breaker for you? But you're in already. You're in too deep. I'd be confused. I'd be like, why?

Where did this happen? I'd be very confused. But what about if it was when you met her? Say you met her today and she's like, I'm an ACT voter. And you're like, oh. She's pretty hot. Yeah, that's because that's the other thing. Is she hot enough to be an ACT voter?

Well, no, but that's the thing. Sometimes that is the situation. You're like, I'll ignore it because they're hot. But then when you get to that point in the relationship where their personality's got to do some heavy lifting and it's not just all you look confused there is a point in the relationship fletch where it's not all about physical attraction okay carry on yeah yeah so you'll get to this point where you look at them and even if they're hot you're like oh i'm like there's not a lot else happening here or we're wildly different people and you're just like leth let's just take off our clothes. That's

when maybe you're not compatible personality wise. So I guess we're not just looking for people that have had a different political view but just any kind of view. Any kind of religious views would be. I guess you'd have the views on meat and stuff as well.

That would be a big one. Although you hear about so many couples where they make it work. One eats meat and one doesn't. That would be a big one. Although you hear about so many couples where they make it work. One eats meat and one doesn't. They do a his and hers kitchen. His and hers pan. Yeah. All right, well, give us a call.

0800 DARS at AM. You can text as well, 9696. When did you break up over someone's views? A celebrity has been dumped because he voted for Donald Trump. Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne. His girlfriend was like, no voted for Donald Trump. Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne. His girlfriend was like, no, this is it.

Not happening. It's not happening anymore. We want to know when you've broken up with someone because of their views. And it might not be political. We're hearing from all kinds of viewpoints. Well, this is an interesting view. A few of these ones coming in. My ex believed that when you're in a relationship with someone,

it's okay to sleep with multiple other women. Right. Now that would be a problem. Yes. And then from the other side of it, my partner viewed sleeping with her work mates when a long-term relationship was something that was acceptable. Very different from my personal views. I'm loving... To me, to spell those out at the start looked like we're not actually supposed to sleep with anyone else. It turns out you probably should. Megan, what happened? You broke up with someone because of their views? I was going out with someone for maybe about six months and we were on a really nice road trip to the beach

and then it came out that he was a Trump supporter. Oh, okay. And he also thought that sort of feminine was just a rort and it was just silly. And I come from a family that is just women, really strong women. Right. And I just thought, wow, no.

It sounded like he wanted a way out, to be honest. He was like, well, I've been keeping this under wraps for long enough. It's time to get out of this relationship. There are too many women in this family. I can't do it. Did you call it then or I would have taken him home

to all the women in my family? Oh, I did. Feed him to the lions. They had met him and they actually already didn't like him. They knew. It was also probably the straw that broke the camel's back

because I thought, no, this isn't going to work at all. It did take me a second, though. Is it quite hot? No, no. Okay, well, that just sounds like no great loss. No, it wasn't. It wasn't.

I'm just, yeah, I'm scared of doing that stuff. It took me a second. It's never easy. Megan, thanks for your call. Anonymous, what did you break up over? So I ended my four-year relationship over just different views on a man and woman's role in the relationship. So he was more like 1950s housewife expectations and I'm like, hell no. What?

So he'd be like, you're doing all the cooking and cleaning and you stay at home. Yeah, and mow the lawns too. Wow. Wait, you mow the lawns? Yeah, me mow the lawns. That's not very 1950s. He should mow the lawns.

Nah, totally, totally. The store that broke the camel's back, we discussed kids and he was like, yeah, no, not helping out with that so i was like see you later dude wow so he wanted he wanted them he wanted them but he didn't want to help yeah no maybe changing no bottle oh my god he sounds like a prick yeah yeah well none of us sexy call uh some other, I broke up with someone because he believed it was all good to be in a gang, and I didn't.

Yeah, right. I was like, oh, no, I don't know if those are legal. Like, a lot of the activity that you're getting up to is legal. Yeah. And he was like, oh, well, and we broke up. I was broken up with because I stood up to this guy's dad's horrendous racism and very, very outdated beliefs in general. His dad then told

my ex that I was far too strong-minded for a woman and I'd be nothing but trouble going forward. You don't need those people in your life. Wow. That's some BS. Wow. The podcast ZM. America, the final season. We're joined on the phone by our final season America correspondent

who we've bravely sent to the coal face that is the dumpster fire. The COVID face. I'm America. Jack Tame, hello. Hey, guys. How are you going? Good. More importantly, how are you?

How much sleep have you had, Jack? I'm very concerned. I had about three, just under three hours last night. Oh, my God. Well, there's nothing to keep you up, though, like a self-immolating democracy. Am I right? Yeah.

They're covered in gasoline and just waiting for a box of beaches. So as of this stage, have there been any riots or demonstrations? It doesn't look like it, no. No, to be honest, I'm in D.C. at the moment. Everything's super chill here at the moment. It's like a beautiful day. Everyone's out going for a jog and, you jog and walking the dog and that kind of thing. But I think the time that we might expect to see violence is when there is, you know, when they

call the election, when there's a definitive result and when one side and tens of millions of people feel like it's been stolen from them. And that could happen either way. So yeah, there's still plenty of potential for stuff to go pear-shaped soon. Yeah, neither side knows if they're supposed to be angry yet or not. It's a lot closer than anyone thought, isn't it? It is and it isn't. I mean, I think one of the most likely scenarios yesterday was that we weren't going to have a definitive result last night. Because, you know, even though everyone was kind of going back and forth on states like Florida,

that was kind of already going to be Donald Trump's. I think Trump definitely did better than the polls were expecting. That's true. But I still think, like I said to you guys yesterday, from the information that we have available at the moment, the likeliest scenario is that Joe Biden will be the next president. It's not a guaranteed thing. Donald Trump could absolutely still win,

but the likeliest at the moment is that Biden will win. So his kind of, I guess, play at the moment is he's saying stop counting votes where I'm ahead. Yeah. As soon as I'm behind. Yeah. Start counting the votes again. Yeah.

Well, when he was talking last night, he was saying like, I don't know about this voting happening after the polls close. It's like, no, bro, voting's not happening after the polls close. Counting is happening after the polls close. Like there's a very big difference between those two things. But again, we kind of expected that it might go this way because the states that are going to decide it, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, most of those states,

they had a thing where if you voted early or you sent your vote into a mail voting form before election day itself, they waited until last night to start counting those votes. And those votes take longer to count

than votes that were made on the day. Right. So when you're watching TV last night and all the numbers start coming through and you're like, oh man, Donald Trump's ahead, Donald Trump's ahead,

that's because Donald Trump's voters are way more likely to vote on the day because they're less worried about coronavirus and Joe Biden's voters were way more likely to vote early. Right. So the early votes, and so now they're counting up the early votes

and that's what's giving Biden momentum now. And Trump has spent the last couple of months telling people not to do mail-in voting, but then he's wondering why the mail-in voting is so in favour of Biden. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like I've heard from, you know, from Republicans who said they thought that mail-in ballots would favour Biden three to one. Wow. So that's really significant.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then, of course, yesterday, like people voting in person in a lot of those states, those numbers would have favoured Trump. So it's weird because it's really unlike US elections in the past in that you kind of just get a really warped... Because, you know, if the same number of, you know, like if Trump voters and Biden voters all voted in the same numbers beforehand and, you know, early voting and on the day, then it wouldn't be an issue. But because so many more Biden voters vote early and so many more Trump voters vote late, it just kind of skews the results as it comes in and leads to confusion and then leads to a situation where you have one candidate saying, you know, just chill out and hold your breath for a bit.

And the other candidate being like, this is crazy, it's being stolen from us. Yeah, except Arizona, where he still needs them to count for him, doesn't he? Yeah. On one hand, he's saying, oh, this is rigged, but except in Arizona, keep counting those ones for me. How dare you suggest there's ever, like, flawed logic in something that's on it.

No, I mean, the truth is, like he, you know, like credit to the Trump campaign. He's definitely done way better than a lot of people were expecting. But yeah, you know, it'll be interesting to see where this goes. And your guess is as good as mine. Maybe it'll go to court. I don't know. Maybe it won't. But yeah, Donald Trump's certainly not going to go down without a fight.

Well, there's still a good chance you're going to need that Cameron Bennett bulletproof vest. Yeah. And riot shield. Yeah, yeah. It's still possible. I don't want to – I'm not holding out for that. But, you know, it's absolutely possible.

In fact, you know, over the next days, I guess, we'll find out what sort of tensions there are. Yeah. And remember, if you're running away, run zigzag. It's harder to hit. Oh, yeah. Zigzag. Don't they say that when you're running from a hippo as well, eh?

Because hippos are running real fast, but they can't turn very quickly. I thought that was crocodiles. You should zigzag the crocodiles. No, crocodiles, you should never turn your back on them because they can only go as fast on land as you can go backwards. So zigzag backwards? No, zigzag backwards. More chance of falling, then you'll be in their jaws.

I don't know. Hippos are very fast. They can really move. I don't know if you've even stand a chance. But they can't turn corners. Have you ever seen a cornering hippo? Those things struggle, man. There's a lot of inertia, you know what I'm saying?

Can hippos turn corners? Yeah. Oh, no. Nah, blah, blah. I'm not getting a lot of inertia, you know what I'm saying? Can hippos turn corners? Yeah. I know. Nah, blah, blah. I'm not getting a lot here. It's nearly impossible to castrate a hippo. Did you know that? We're learning.

We're learning a lot about hippos. Jack Tame from Washington, D.C., thank you so much for joining us this morning. We'll let you get back to it. Stay safe. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So, it's time for Stranger Things. Another round of Stranger Rings.

Stranger Rings. Using the Stranger Things theme song. Theme tune. That's why this mistake's been made. Yes. So, basically, we conference two people who, by the way, volunteered their numbers some time ago to be part of an ongoing experiment. And then following, consented to the call being played out.

Yes. It gives me so much anxiety. So we connect them. We don't talk at all. We just sit back and see what happens when two strangers have a conversation. Why do they? I would hang up. Why do people talk to someone they don't know?

A lot of people do hang up when they know what's going on. Right. When they click. There was, last time you may remember, the whole situation as it unfolded. When did we do that? It was on the podcast last week? Yeah.

Last Thursday, if you haven't heard that, the podcast last Thursday's got that. That was... That was a ripper. Pretty full noise, yeah. 23-year-old male answered the phone and so did a 45-year-old female and she was coming up with all sorts of mathematical equations

to make their age gap disappear. Very interesting situation. All right, well, it's time to conference two strangers together. Stranger Brings. Hello. Hello. Hello, who's this? This is Johnny.

I just got a phone call from you. Did you? Who's that? Yeah. Johnny who, sorry? Well, who's that? Well, I just got a no-caller ID call, and then I picked it up, and then it started, like, calling someone else.

Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me. Oh, what? What are you doing? I have no idea who this is. I'm sorry. Who are you? My name's Eva. Eva? Yeah. Where are you? My name's Eva. Eva? Yeah.

Where are you from? Harsher. Yeah, same. Oh, wow. That's really weird. What's your name? Eva. Eva, yeah.

Yeah, no, I literally just had like a no caller ID call and then I call, and then I picked it up, and then it started dialing someone else, so I hung up. Yeah, it sounded like it was, like, a radio station or something. Did you sign up for, like, that ZM thing? Oh, my God, yes. Oh, shit. So I won a prize for figuring that out? Pardon?

Surely I won a prize for that. Oh. So what do you do? Oh, my God. Wait, hold on. No. I didn't actually, like, listen to what we signed up for. I just saw it on the Instagram, like, put your number in.

So I did, but I had no idea what I was actually signing up for. Yeah, neither. Same. I just thought it'd be a bit of a laugh. Mm. All right. Well. Are you single?

Pardon? Are you single? Yeah, why? Oh, just wondering. Cool. Cool. Um. I'll add you.

Hold on one second. Sorry. Oh my god. It's a weird ad to play. I'm trying to go on iHeartRadio right now. Um. Well, you can talk to me. I'm Johnny talking on Facebook. I'm Johnny ****. Talk to me on Facebook.

Give me an ad. Johnny ****? Yeah. Okay. Well, this has been fun. Yeah, it was a bit random. I'll maybe give you an ad, but I've got to go,

but nice to chat to you yeah you too alright see ya bye I don't know if Johnny's getting an ad Johnny's getting a look I'll maybe give you an ad

Johnny's getting his link sent to her friends for discussion if there's a general consensus Johnny might get an ad that's two from two now that have ended in flirting like why that was far less aggressive For discussion, if there's a general consensus, Johnny might get an ad. That's two from two now that have ended in flirting. Like, what?

That was far less aggressive flirting. So, are you single? Yeah. Not like, oh, do you have any pets? Straight for the kill. Yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about one of my favourite animals, the platypus. We've heard lots of things about platypus. They're a crazy old creature, the old platypus. Okay. Mammal that lays eggs. So very rare in the fact that it's a mammal that lays eggs.

It's got a bill like a duck. It's got webbed feet. It can hunt using electroreception, which is like sonar kind of vibe. It reads animals and insects, electrical pulses. And it's a shoe store. Very versatile. Very versatile. It opened that shoe store.

It did, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's the CEO of that shoe store. It's a popular shoe store CEO. Yeah, yeah. Brilliant. And you know what that platypus is out of guts full of, though? People going in and trying on the shoes in its store,

but then they're just ordering them online anyway. Oh, they hate that. They might even shoot you with one of their venomous spurs should they find you doing that. Well, here's the latest news. This is hot off the scientific press. Okay. This has been discovered in the last week.

They also glow. What? Under ultraviolet light, platypus. Platypus. Get out of town. How is that spelled? Poos? No, no, platypus.

Platypus. It's platypus, but I stumbled on it because I was going to say platypi, but then I went back to platypus because remember, platypus is the plural of platypus. But I like platypus. Platypus. Platypus. Oh, platypus.

Also glow green under ultraviolet light. Okay. So the scientists that discovered this recently discovered that flying squirrels glow under ultraviolet light. Oh, all these animals go to a dance party or something. How are they figuring this out? They are hooked for a 90s rave. A 90s rave.

Imagine a 90s rave with squirrels, flying squirrels jumping. Whoa. I don't think I can handle that. From speaker to speaker. And a platypus DJ. Yeah. Glowing green. Wob, wob, wob, wob, wob, wob, wob, wob.

He's got spurs. He's got pointy fingers. He could scratch the disc himself. And then if like a drunk 21-year-old came up to the DJ booth to ask for a request, he could just spike her with the venomous get her. Or him. Guys make requests too.

So sexist of me to assume that guys don't make music requests. So they recently found out that flying squirrels and opossums are biofluorescent. Okay.

That means they can glow under the right light. Possums we have? Opossums. Oh, I thought they were just the same possums. So they just put an O on it. No, our possums have got the attitude that their possums look to have. Their possums are more the ratty nose with the sharp teeth. They look.

Ours are real cute, but obviously bad. Nasty, but cute, but naughty. Very naughty. So they recently found out that those two had bioluminescence. So they were like, well, let's look at other animals that kind of fall under the same umbrella as these. And they were like, what about the old platypus? And they ran a UV light over them,

and they found out they had a glow to them as well. Oh, yeah. so they glow but if you um do happen to be in possession of a platypus yeah and you're going to get out the uv light um you will need to be on a wavelength between 200 and 400 nanometers that's where it sorry that's where it absorbs the UV light. And then if you crank that up to between 500 and 600 nanometers, you'll be able to see it glowing. Huh. Yeah.

It'll be like a green or a greeny blue under the light. So today's fact of the day, platypuses have added another very interesting bow to their, no, what is it? Arrow to their quiver? Yep. And they glow Under UV light Fact of the day

Day Day Day Day ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast Joined in studio by Sarah. She works in our office.

Yep. Yes, I do. There's more to Sarah than office work and chat though. Yep. Isn't there, Sarah? What did you do on Friday night? Well, we actually had a work event on Friday night. I wasn't invited.

Yeah, different work. Wow. Demand to be invited yet not attend every single work function that this company holds. Yeah, and there was a bit of a bar tab, so I was going quite crazy on the Long Island iced teas. Whoa! Just hold his never Long Island iced teas.

Whenever there's a bar tab, it's always house beer and wine only. Yeah. Yeah. It was Long Island iced teas. Every time I ordered one, I was like. Was this a sales event? No, no sales. Every order I was like, who do I think I am?

Yeah. And then I was a bit of a silly girl in my messenger talking to a boy. Are we being a bit flirty? I would say at minimum, yeah. Is this boy, was there previous chat have you had bants going on or like um like i wouldn't say so i'd probably say he didn't know enough enough about me for me to be that flirty like what what are your classes flirty like what was something you were saying i don't even want to talk about it like we need an example message like what was the flirty message you sent? Oh, no.

It was like a, where are you going tonight sort of message. A lot more implicit than that. Right, okay. Definitely there wasn't much to an imagination. But I was cringing over it with Georgia Burt on Monday morning. I was so cringed telling her about all the stuff I'd said to this poor dude. And then as I'm going through the messenger,

reading her what I'd said, I accidentally hit the thumbs up and some of his massive blue thumbs up just pops up into this chat. Oh, God. Which we haven't addressed. We haven't talked since Friday night. And did your flirtatious chat get to the point where he was just like letting you chat and he hadn't really answered or had he always been involved? No, it was pretty mutual. I think I would have got the hint and stopped.

Okay. Who was the last person to say something before the thumbs up? Oh, it was actually him. We said goodnight. So it was okay. Okay. Okay. Right.

And then a couple hours later, I went back to check how that thumbs up had gone down. And then I started a video call by mistake. How do you do that? I don't know. Who does a panic panic? Yeah. You scroll through, right? The thumbs up is at the bottom.

The video button's at the top. Yeah. I think it was my phone. Because you've got to be careful. For my phone, the screen hasn't been right since it got top. Yeah. I think it was my phone. Because you've got to be careful. My phone, the screen hasn't been right since it got replaced. Yeah. And yesterday, my wife and I were doing some snooping. We love, we'd do this as a couple. This is how you bond.

You're both snooping. Okay, Papadopoulos. I've seen you and Mr. Toyboy set apart on set on somebody and rip apart their social media. Don't act like the innocent party over there. So I was like, she's like, give me the phone. I want to look. I was like,

you've got to be so careful with my phone. Like, you might not even be near the like button and it will like it. Oh, okay. So I made her hold it like it was a museum artifact. Yeah. Gently with two fingers and then rest the bottom on her palm while she looked at it. Yeah. She's like, okay, and passed it back. I was like, okay, now we've got to get out of here. And it was like we at it. Yeah. And she was like, okay, and passed it back.

I was like, okay, now we've got to get out of here. And it was like, we're diffusing a bomb. I was like, back, back.

We're safe. We're in the safe zone. Bomb diffused. Because you don't want to get caught snooping and lurking. I know, because if you accidentally

like someone's old Facebook photo when you're stalking them or like Instagram accidentally double tap. because Instagram, when you go, wee, let's go see what 2014

looked like for them. Yeah. Wee. And you'll you go, wee, let's go see what 2014 looked like for them. Yeah. Wee! And you'll be like, wee, wee. Ah! Wee, wee. Turned into a no, no. So, then if you accidentally liked someone's Instagram

and they had notifications, they'd get that you've liked their thing. But if you unliked it, would the notification disappear? That's what I need to know. I think it does. But if they see it, it's still there, isn't it? Yeah. If they were there when you liked it.

Well, does anybody have notifications turned on if they get a like on their Instagram? Do you? Okay. Okay, let's try it. I think you might have to follow me for firstborn. I'll follow you. I'll follow you.

Wow. But how do I see? Are we friends? We must be friends on one of these. I don't know. Oh, shit. Sorry, mate. Yeah, okay.

I'm following you now. Okay, so I'm going to let you turn on your thing. Hold on. Let me just turn it on. What photo of yours should I like? Just go all the way back. Let me know if it looks good. Okay.

Go all the way back. You've got a photo of Kanye West here. Okay. I'm going to double tap that. I can see a notification. But then if I unlike, does the notification disappear? No, it's still there. If I click into it, it probably won't show me which photo.

Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. You I click into it, it probably won't show me which photo. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay, you're on your own, New Zealand. Wow, okay. We can't help you from here. So you can't take back that notification once it's been live? No, not if it's on, yeah, that was on the lock screen and it popped up on the screen.

All right, well, we want to ask now, on 0800-DARLS-AT-M and 9696, when were you caught lurking on social media? Maybe liking a really old photo or an old message? Yeah. And how awkward was it? Because who did you accidentally like? Maybe you were doing that thing where you hate follow someone

and you were laughing at a photo of theirs from 2018 and then you liked it. And then there's no reason you should have liked that photo. No, because they know you're only following them. Yes, exactly. Or maybe it was stalking someone or an ex. 0800 DARS.M. Give us a call now.

9696 to text in. When were you caught lurking on social media? I am here for the awkwardness. We want to know when you've been caught lurking on social media. Maybe you liked an old post. There are so many horrible, horrible stories getting text messaged in. You have to be so careful when you're

doing a stalk. Like, you have to be so careful. I always make other people do it on their phones. So if they get caught... You want to look it up, you look it up on your phone. Tracy, when did you get caught lurking on social media? Oh no, I don't do lurking, but I did catch caught lurking on social media? Oh, no, I don't do lurking, but I did catch someone lurking on my social media.

Oh, okay. So what did they do? It was a few years ago now, and my partner's ex-wife had tagged herself into my Facebook profile picture. So your partner's ex-wife was obviously giving you the once-over, clipped on your profile picture, accidentally clicked tag and added herself.

Tag, yeah. But then when I went, clipped on your profile picture, accidentally clicked tag and added herself. Boom, tag, yeah. But then when I went, so it came up on my notifications that when I went into it, it had gone. But prior to that, I had then screenshot that and sent it to everybody I know.

So you had the evidence. Wow. Yeah. She was like, oh, get away with this. She won't notice. Screenshot. I'll delete. She still won't see. Sorry. You did. She won't notice. Screenshot. I'll delete.

She still won't see. Sorry. You did. Brilliant. All right. Thanks, Nicole Tracy. You can keep your texts coming in. Talking about when you've been caught lurking on social media,

maybe liking an old post, thumbs upping in an old group chat. There are so many of these horrible stories. Oh, so good, though. Coming in. And a lot of them involving ex-partners. Yes. Let's start with anonymous. There are so many of these horrible stories coming in. And a lot of them involving ex-partners. Yes. Let's start with anonymous.

This was an ex-husband's partner? That's correct. Okay. And you caught them lurking on what? Your page? On my Facebook page, yep. Facebook business page. So what did they do?

Did they accidentally? Yeah, I'm a real estate agent and they accidentally clicked on the ad requesting a free property appraisal. A sale's a sale, baby. So you don't think they'd want a free property appraisal? That it was definitely an accident?

Definitely an accident, yeah. It was on one of my listings that if you want a a property appraisal, you know, contact me. And they clicked on the photo and of course it went through the link and the question was asked. So it was quite funny.

Yeah. Wow. Busted. Brilliant. Thanks, Anonymous. Some text messages. My friends and I were looking through past conversations on Messenger that we'd have with our exes

and I accidentally pushed the big thumbs up. No. We broke up five years ago. I absolutely died. He saw it and didn't reply. Left me on scene. I saw him at the pub a few weeks later and I just had to pretend I didn't know him. He knew what was going on there.

There's no reason for you to be in a five-year-old chat. Somebody said this is a game amongst our mates If you're ever looking at a girl's Instagram profile And they're scrolling through old photos You reach over and double tap the screen I do that to Fletch all the time And then I'm going to deal with it Catherine, what happened? This was a little while ago

My friend and I were taking the kids to an indoor playground. Okay. And while we were there, she noticed one of the other mums and she had some gossip for me. So she was telling me the gossip. Can't remember what it was now. Yeah. And she started scrolling through this girl's Facebook page and accidentally played one of her

videos that was on her Facebook page really loudly. And the other girl saw, so she knew that we were lurking and looking at her page. Oh, my God. She caught you in person lurking. That's horrible. That's even worse.

We both went bright red and started laughing, but it was mortifying. Oh, my God. Yeah, I would have wanted to dig a hole and hide from that. Amazing. Catherine, thanks for your call. I was stalking my now ex-husband's Facebook, and boom, liked a photo from way back.

Oh, no, sorry. My now husband's ex is who they were stalking. Liked a photo from way back. Almost died. Quickly unliked it. Told my best friend. She said, quick, block her. So I blocked

her because apparently that would make the notification disappear. Took me ages for me to take her off my block list. Anxiety had me thinking that the minute I unblocked her the notification would pop up once again. But... I don't know if that works. Have you been to the Exxon? No, because then they're just going to send the notification

that you liked an old photo, go, see that you liked it, but then not be able to see it. Go to find your profile and you've blocked them. Yeah, so that's just really pointing to the fact that something's going on. Someone said, I'm a journalist, so I have a burner Instagram page in case we need to look at controversial Insta stories or something like that. Yeah, right. But I accidentally once used my personal Instagram to lurk

and then got called out by the person on their story after we published the article about them. That's my favourite is when like a business, somebody who runs a business like Twitter or Instagram posts something controversial thinking it's on their personal but they accidentally post it to the business. I love that. That is good. I used to stalk this

hot older guy at my work on LinkedIn before I realised that that meant he would have received multiple emails saying I'd viewed his profile because he had a professional page. Yes. I never knew that was a thing. I didn't. Stalking people's.

Until we were coming to ZM and whoever had made contact, I looked them up because I hadn't heard of them. And then when I met them, said, oh, you've looked at my LinkedIn like five or six times. I was like, what does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? How? But I always get that email

that's been like three people have viewed your profile. We'll tell you one of them but if you pay we'll tell you the other two. And I am, every time I'm like damn you LinkedIn,

you almost got me. Because you're such a nosy bugger. I know, so nosy. Zed Eames, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast why not give Zed Eames, Bree and Clint a listen too. I know, so nosy