ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 6 August 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. It's brought to you by McCafe. Grab yourself a delicious barista made coffee for only $4. Yes, go ahead. If you've got something to finish, I can then jump in afterwards. You're done? Yeah. And I went bleh. And then I thought, did you have something to say or were you just, do you want me to go? Well, I was going to talk about what we'd pre-organized to talk about but knowing you you weren't listening i didn't hear that oh my god you were right here what do you hear when people are talking you know charlie brown i was like going back 30 seconds we said what should we talk about in the intro?

And Anna said, the executive intern, Anya said, we'll talk about Megan Irving House. We said, what a great idea. I was wallowing in self-pity then because I was hungry. Because you were told off because you weren't allowed to go yet. I wasn't allowed to go to breakfast yet. Yeah, right. What have you got to talk about? I was going to say That they're doing

Back to the Future With the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Playing along With the like Musical accompaniment Because I went to The Titanic one

Would you go to that? I would 100% go to this I would go Do you want to go on a date? It's actually so cool What date are we talking? 10th of September I think we could do that

Okay It's a Thursday 7am I might just stay at your house Is that the first Back to the Future? Yeah Because my husband Hasn't seen any of those And I thought we could Start with this Thursday, 7, I'm about to stay at your house. Is that the first Back to the Future? Yeah.

Because my husband hasn't seen any of those, and I thought we could start with that. What? Have they aged well? Yes. Okay. Yes, they have. What's George McFly? Now, is George McFly...

Crispin Glover. Or no, the dad. Yeah, George McFly. Is he a racist or a Scientologist or a... He's a... He's a Trumper. He's something. Oh, he was big. he was a conspiracy theorist a little while ago crispin glove is who you need to look at and just this what wild he didn't really want to be in there because it wasn't artsy enough for him after the

first one yeah he didn't want to come but that's why they kind of had a he was supposed to play a bigger part in the second one but didn't right and then what have you found out about him i know he's a he's a very unusual left field artsy type but okay that's a that's a free plug for the apo apo.co.nz you can go and see back to the future in auckland in concert yeah they play along i saw star wars one it was pretty bloody good yeah the titanic you forget that there right yeah It's seamless. And they just play along. And that's a beautifully scored movie as well, Back to the Future, like Star Wars.

And I haven't seen Titanic, so I can't speak to its musical credentials. Wonderful. So he didn't do the second one because he was like, screw you. Yeah. Okay. Maybe I'm thinking of someone else who was a Trumper or a... Scott Byer? Maybe.

From Charles and Charge? He's a dick. Yeah. Was he Charles and Charge or was he Chachi? I think so. Chachi from Happy Days. I don't know that. He was Bob Loblaw's law blog in Arrested Development.

What? Bob Loblaw's law blog and Arrested Development. What? Bob Loblaw's law blog. Yeah. He was Bob Loblaw, but then he started a law blog because he was a lawyer. He was Charles in Charles in Charge. He was Charles in Charles in Charge. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

Don't look him up. He's just a real penis. He's a pussy. But anyway, how's moving going? Good. Oh, we don't need to talk about that anymore. Well, I haven't actually moved yet. My first day in my new house on Saturday.

Hop to it. You've got your parents up. What are they doing? We're packing. Oh, that's the worst part. Where'd you get boxes from? Have you bought boxes? Oh, and HelloFresh.

HelloFresh boxes are great moving boxes. They're good. Solid boxes. Very, very good. And they've got handles in them. Yeah. Great moving boxes. Really good moving boxes. I can. Very, very good. And they've got handles in them. Yeah. Great moving boxes. Really good moving boxes.

I can't speak for Whoop. That's my Whoop. I can't speak to their moving boxes, but their new TV ad is yuck. What's their new TV ad? I've seen a collective post about that. People are saying I don't like that new ad. Whoop. Oh.

Like it's all whispery and such. Oh, right. It's creepy. And there's a radio one too And it comes on sometimes and it's like You're like ah Feels like something's in the back seat Right okay

Well enjoy the podcast You're allowed to go get breakfast now You've got five minutes until our meeting I've just been messaged Okay I'm gonna go That's one minute to heat my porridge Yeah you didn't hear that Three minutes to eat it And one minute miscellaneous porridge. Yeah, you didn't hear that. Three minutes to eat it and one minute miscellaneous.

One miscellaneous minute and I'm chewing into my miscellaneous minute. No one cares. I'm going to have to use some of my eating time to add to miscellaneousness. Thank you very much, Ash Thomas. Welcome to the show, Fleets, Fauna, Megan. Is Ash short for Ashley? Or is she just Ash very much Ash Thomas. Welcome to the show. Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Is Ash short for Ashley? Or is she just Ash? Ashwin? Ashlander?

Ashlander? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Ashmina? Ashmina. Yes, Ashmina. Ashmina Thomas. Thank you, Ashmina. Coming up on the show, we've actually got your chance to win. It's our game Bluff or Stuff.

And up for grabs is, it looks like a little high heel, doesn't it? It's a fragrance from Carolina Herrera. Fletcher's always like, you say it because I can't say it. You say it because I don't know how to say it. Carolina. I don't know how to say it. So your chance to win, so we'll play Bluff or Stuff in about 10, 15 minutes.

You've got to guess which one of us is actually holding your prize. We're all going to tell you that we are. We're bluffing, two-thirds of us. This will be our third or fourth week. We're great liars. I don't know if that's a great advertisement for the show. Well, it's not a great advertisement to get into relationships with any of us, but for the show. It's great, yeah. It's not a great advertisement to get into relationships with any of us, but for the show.

It's great, yeah. It's great. See, that was a lie. But everybody believed it. The top six is coming up. Yeah, apparently there's going to be a rebooted Australian Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake book. This isn't just because I've done some reprints,

I've done some reissues. Yep. Apparently this is all new cakes. The game's changed, though, since those books came out. The game has stepped up. Like, are they still doing a chip beak for a duck? Like on a duck? I would bloody hope not, Megan. I don't think that's going to fly now.

I would really hope not. So the top six new cakes. The Prime Minister, when she made her piano cake, that was one of the Women's Weekly cookbook cakes, wasn't it? Yes. Alright, the top six is coming up. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Mum has

made news because she has a unique way of waking her daughter up every day. And I think this is also grossing everyone out because COVID. Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that. Oh, immediately. It was just gross. So I was like, eh.

Yeah. Because you're right. That's how, how did you get woken up as a teenager? Just screaming down the hall? Duvet, well, that was stage one. Yeah. Stage two was just curtains open, window open. So the cold air came in and just like ripped the duvet off.

Ruthless. Yeah. I never got woken up. That's if you were really... Weren't moving. That was if you were, you know, really testing it. That's... Oh, you would have...

Nothing's changed. No. You're still... I have to do that to myself every morning. Yeah. I throw the duvet back, I'm like... Get out of bed, Vaughn. Morning, morning.

Get out of bed, you stupid bastard. My mum never said that to me. I don't want anyone thinking I grew up in a verbally abusive household. Verbally. Verbally. No, all of my mum's abuse was all upstairs in the old brain. Psychological. Well, this is from a TV show called Smothered.

Right. It's Smalley Smothered. Right. It's Smally Smothered. So it shows close relationships between mums and daughters. And this one is really something because every morning she licks her daughter awake like a puppy. I'm Marcia. I'm 68 years young and I'm Elena's mum. My relationship with her is unique.

Hey, puppy. In the mornings, I walk in her room, and I just lick her all up. I'm Elena. I'm 21 years old. My mom is definitely my best friend. I love it when my mum licks me. It kind of makes me feel closer to her because we're doing something funny and out of the ordinary. Good morning.

You know, she kept asking me for a puppy and I couldn't get a puppy, so I turned into the doggie. I want them to taste pretty good. Oh, wow. Okay, wow. Can't handle that. But they do it every morning. I want them to taste really good. Wow. Okay, wow. Can't handle that. But they do it every morning and Elena's fine with it

because she wanted a puppy. That would get me out of bed before she came in. That's gross. Yeah, okay. Yeah, if you heard your mum come down the hallway, they're like... You'd be like... I'm up.

I'm up. I'm ready in my uniform, Mum. Somehow I'm already changed. I haven't left my room're like I'm up I'm up I'm up I'm ready in my uniform Somehow I'm already changed I haven't left my room but I'm fed I'm ready to go But isn't that just like the next step up

from kissing your parents on the lips No Why are you looking at me like that Don't you kiss your is it your father-in-law on the lips

Everyone Both families That's weird A peck is a lot better than licking each other awake on the face. Yeah, but I'm saying it goes peck and then like you're supposed to lick. That's a big step up. Gateway contact. That's a big step up.

Just saying, before you know it, they could be licking you awake. Okay. Aren't your parents staying at the moment? Yeah. I woke up by myself this morning. I was going to say you wake up early. You wake up early, you should look them away. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Bluff or Stuff. Bluff or Stuff. We welcome to the show Megan. Good morning. Good morning. All right, so do you know how Bluff or Stuff works? Yes. Oh, we'll run through it anyway.

Just for those that don't know. So we have a prize. One of us is holding the box of Carolyn Herrera. Carolina. Carolina. That's what I said. Oh, you can't see it from here. I thought it was Carolina.

No. No. It's Good Girl the Fragrance. Smells delicious. Megan, you actually personally own this, don't you? Yes. It's a very grown-up fragrance, not too fruity. It's very nice.

It's the smell of Venezuela. As she is a Venezuelan fashion designer. Now, we're all going to tell you that we're holding the prize, but only one of us says you've got to correctly identify to win the prize. Megan, would you like to start? Well, it's a flocked box. A what? It's flocked. It's got, like, furry. I understand you can't feel it. Is that what, it's a flocked box. A what? It's flocked.

It's got like furry. I understand you can't feel it. Is that what it's called? Flocked? No, I thought that was called velvety. I thought it was, yeah, sweaty velvety. Well, you get the drift. It feels fuzzy. I know it feels fuzzy, Megan, because I'm currently rubbing my thumb over your prize.

Okay. Oh, I can tell you it's 2.7 fluid ounces, and I'll just run that through my do-do-do-do-do. Okay. Ooh. I can tell you, it's 2.7 fluid ounces and I'll just run that through my... 80 mils. You'd know that if you were holding the box. Well, yeah,

because I can see that. And do you know it's got the E next to it? When you know when they put the E next to things, that's like approximately A. What? It is.

It's like the big E. No, I didn't think so. I thought that's what the E meant. Or is it the C in supermarket things? You know when they're like, it's roughly that? It's to get them out of, if it's not exactly 80. I can also tell you it's an eau de parfum rather than a toilette.

Yeah, well, that's what it says on the box because I can see it. Eau de parfum, natural spray. Read the barcode then, Megan, if you've got the box. 7, 4, 2, 8, 1, 2, 9. It starts with 8, 4, actually. 8, 4, 1, 1, 0, 6, 2, 8, 1, 2, 9. No, it starts with 8, 4, actually. 8, 4, 1, 1, 0, 6, 1, 8, 1, 8, 9, 6, 1. Bourne, what's the barcode? You're right.

It means estimated. Thank you. The big E, and it has to be a specific font. Yeah, it's as big as the A. How fascinating. Because, you know, when you go to the supermarket and they've got, like, they might be like, it's 500 grams of mince. E.

It could be full rating. I've never seen the E. It could be 510. Yeah, that's the thing. It's a quantity estimate. A quantity estimate. Quantity estimate. Okay, Vaughn, are you holding the box?

No, you're not. Bloody hell. I'll save you the trouble, Megan. I'm holding the box. Do you have any questions for any of us, Megan? How big is the box? It's about the size of... Bigger than my hand.

Like one of those small travel tissue boxes. Oh, yeah, that is actually very good. I can tell you from the... Oh, I hold it on its side. Look. Yeah, I'm imagining. I'm crying in the car, you know. I'll shake it for you, Megan.

That's me shaking it. He just, like, I'm shaking it. I can tell you that this perfume is named after the Cobra Starship song, Good Girls Go Bad. No, it's not. Meester. What happened to Leighton Meester? That's another thing I can Google now.

Okay, Megan, we'd like you to eliminate one of us. What one? How dare you? That is correct. Was it all the Googling? Okay, so Megan. Is it Megan holding your prize or is it me, Fletch, holding your prize? I think it's Fletch.

Are you sure? Yeah. That is correct. Yay! I was holding it. Yay! For the first time in ages. Nailed it.

Congratulations, Megan. You have won. Awesome. Thank you. You're holding it. Oh, yeah. Good girl from Carolina Herrera, New York. It's so good to be bad.

Rawr. Do you know, because it's got that E on it and it's 80 mils, it's got to be within 7% of the volume. So if you measured it, if you poured it all out. No, no, no. This is fascinating stuff. People need to know about the E things when they're buying things because it might not be exactly.

And you know that it has to be within a certain range. If you measured that and it was outside of 7%, you could be like, remove their E, revoke their E, and their E would get revoked. But then you'd think it was 70 mils or 80 mils. Oh, yeah. But it wouldn't be, would it? Actually, less onus on them being honest if they don't have the E.

Keep their E. Make them make a bigger E. Well, none of us can tell the boss to get effed today, can they? Stick the job. Nah. Because Lotto last night was not won. It was $34 million. So that'll jackpot to this Saturday.

Yeah. But there were quite a few Division 1 winners. There was, yeah. So Division 1 is what you need to win to be in with a chance to win Powerball. Yeah. So there were six Division 1 winners but none of those six people had the Powerball which is

a 1 in 8 chance. Right. But obviously makes it exponentially harder to get that all lined up. They don't get as much money now because there's six of them. Yeah, so it's a $1 million first division, but with six of them means they get $166,000 each. You're so close to winning $34 million and you get $160,000.

I mean, that's still great. That's a lot of money, but when you're that close to the big one. It's nothing, is it? So apparently your chances of winning last night were one in 38 million

to win the $34 million. So where do we go to from here? It goes up again. It goes up again. How much is it worth? Because I had a quick Google, but I can't see what it'll be worth next time. Because the lottery store

hasn't opened. Oh, right. Okay. Do they decide that when they open? No, but you know how you can go online and it'll tell you what you're playing for if you buy a ticket for like the next one. Oh, yep. Okay. And I'm guessing we're all waiting to see what it's going to be, but like close to 40? Yeah, so obviously the

largest ever prize was 2016. That was Hibiscus Coast. That was 44.1 million. And I think that was the one that they had to go, right? Yes. There's got to be a winner at 44 or something like that. 45.

I think so. It's been rejigged a couple of times. I remember when the maximum was 30 and then it went up. Yeah. 35 and then 40 and... If I buy two tickets, I know I ask this all the time, but if I buy two tickets, do my odds get better? No.

No. Isn't it each that restarts on every line? You'd have to structure how... You'd have to structure your number choice to change your... I'm not a statistician, but... Yeah. Yeah. Well, I definitely need to statistician, but... Yeah. Yeah. Well, I definitely need to buy a ticket.

I forgot both previous draws. I'm kind of stoked it didn't go because I didn't buy a ticket. I think you'd forgotten. I wasn't in to win. Hillary and Jeremy on Seven Sharps started talking about... Lotto's like, ah, ffff. Dad said the F word! Like, you're not getting the pony!

You knuck. Dad said the F word Why you not getting the pony You narc It's about time there was some positive side effects to the pill So there was a study of more than half a million women This was done in London Women who were on the pill And it is The women who take the pill are less likely to develop serious coronavirus symptoms.

So would still get it, not immune to it, but it would definitely help with the symptoms. Because I know early on they said more men were affected. Yeah. I know in the Chinese stats

they also said more men smoked. So they thought it might have been a smoking... What, like sharing around a ciggy? No, no, no.

If you were a smoker you were more prone to it. Right, okay. So this is the combined oral contraceptive pill. Yeah. Women who take that

are 13% less likely to get serious symptoms. That's quite low. 13, that's still, I guess that's one in 10. 13% less likely. Oh, less likely. Right, okay. I mean, it's a small win.

Yeah. So you'll still get it. On the big list of side effects, it's a small win. It's a small win, but we'll take whatever we can get at this point. But I don't know what would happen if a guy, it's obviously not recommended. I'm reading it. Are you?

If a guy took the pill, what would happen? This is from HowStuffWorks.com. Actual science. Because at the end, they put their sources. Oh, okay. Which must be true. It's not just some Karen on Facebook. That's good. So if a man took one or two birth control pills,

nothing would happen. There is not enough of either hormone, that's estrogen and... Progestin. Progestin. Progestin. Yeah, whatever. Progestin.

That one. Yeah. There's not enough of either of those to throw a man's body out of balance with just a couple of pills. However, if a man took birth control pills on a regular basis over an extended period of time, his breasts might grow larger, his testicles might shrink, which is great news

because mine are starting to sag. Oh, no, not the scrotum. No, it's not going to lift them back up. It's not going to give me a stroke left. You're just going to get small saggy balls. Megan's got a great point, yeah. Plums in a sock, it's going to look like peas in a stock balls. Megan's got a great point. Plums in a sock, it's going to look like peas in a stocking. It's not a testicle augmentation.

Forget about it then. His sex drive and amount of facial hair might decrease. Oh, wow. Okay. Which is probably good. You could take these to lower the sex drive, Fletch. Your facial hair. You always complain about shaving.

You wouldn't have to. Yeah, but then I get little titties. And your ball to penis ratio is out of whack. So it would bring that back into alignment. He asked me once. Higher levels of estrogen may also increase the risk of an enlarged prostate and prostate cancer.

There is an upside. Birth controls may help protect against heart attacks, but that possibility is too iffy for a good reason for a man to start just taking. Yeah, right. Right. Just in case you wanted to, you saw the girlfriend's pill on the bedside table, you saw, I might just have a couple. Why does she

get to have all the pills? Said no man ever. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast, ZM. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. The Australian Woman's Weekly Cake Book. It's a classic.

If you grew up in New Zealand, at some stage you may have had a birthday cake made from the hollowed pages. Well, the Prime Minister famously made the cake, the piano cake, using Whitaker's Sante bars as keys. Somebody messaged in yesterday, or the

other day when we were talking about what you always wanted as a kid but you never got, and their husband had always wanted the train cake. It adorned the cover of the book. It was a cake and then the carriage of the train had lo wanted the train cake. It adorned the cover of the book. It was a cake. And then the carriage of the train had lollies in it. So it's like, you got cake, you got lollies,

you got a choo-choo train. Yeah. What could be better? Well, I didn't read the message out, but for his 30th birthday, she made him the cake with 30 carriages. One for each year of his life. That's love.

It's a dream come true. That is just... You've got to have multiple caketons on the go there. Yeah, wow. But I bet that 30th carriage was. I would have probably eaten the 30th carriage rather. Would that be the moistest? It would be the newest.

Well, it depends which they made it. It depends which way they started. The order in which they made. But, I mean... What an array of lollies. Now, to reissue this book, they're going to have to step up their game because, as you know with kids, your kids' birthday cakes are next level. No. Every year, a cake is commissioned.

Yeah. By a cake artist. And I'm always blown away by them. August SpongeBob SquarePants. Yeah. Cake. It would just look like a SpongeBob model. Your average person isn't opening up a cake book and making that.

I'm sorry. No, no, no. But if you're going to make it at home for 2020, the top six new cakes for the Women's Weekly Cake Book in 2020. Number 19, the COVID-19 banner. You know that yellow and white striped banner that was everywhere? And instead of singing happy birthday at the cake, at the party where there is that cake, you sing,

this is a COVID-19 update. This is a COVID-19 update. And then that, yeah, I know. What was that beeping, guys? Yeah, the noise, yeah. This is a COVID-19 update. Blow out your candles. Number five on the list of the top six new cakes to the Women's Weekly Cake Book in 2020,

a comment section of a Facebook article. Yes. Or just a huge poo emoji. Same thing, pretty much. Same thing, just giant piles of turd. In fact, I've seen a poo emoji cake. It cracked me up. Yeah, same. Way more than I thought seen a poo emoji cake. It cracked me up. Yeah.

Way more than I thought it would. I would be like, yeah. But then I saw it, I was like, ha, ha, ha, ha, we're going to eat it. Number four on the list of the top six cakes of the new Women's Weekly Cakebook. We talked briefly before about the duck. Yes, with the chippy beak.

What was the icing though? It was like a fluffed up buttercream icing. Yeah. With a chippy beak. And the feathers were made of chippies. Well, take the basis of that and you've got 2020's take on it. The Donald Trump cake. Yes.

Put a little bit of an orangey tinge to the cream icing. Yeah. And then the hair can be made out of chips. Chips, yeah, I like that. Because the hair does look a little bit like chips. It does. It's got the wave, it's got the ripply wave. Yeah.

You could make a Trump cake. You could use grain waves. No. No. We're off grain waves. Remember they changed the recipe on us? That's right, yeah.

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Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye be pretty easy to make. It's a long rectangular white cake. Yep. That's a windowsill. Yep. And then on the windowsill, crystals charging in the front. Oh my God. That would be an hilarious cake. I know. The crystals could be like you get those coloured barley sugars. Yep. And then you just like give it a whack, rough up the edges a little bit. There's your crystal. Yeah, good. When's Morgan's birthday? It's been. It's a couple of days before mine. Next year, don't let us forget. And the lead up, we'll make her a crystals charging on a windowsill. Yeah. And a full

moon cake. Number two on the list of the top six new cakes for the Women's Weekly Cake Book in 2020. If you think about it, it was all about what kids were into, right? You had your choo-choo trains. Yep. You had the hickory-dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. Remember the mice on the cake clock?

Well, this is the new craze of the kids. A Roblox cake. Right now, that was the universal shuddering of parents who were like, Roblox. You've explained this game. It's effectively like Minecraft without the building aspect. Right. It's all my kids want to do. It's all they want to do when they get home. They're like, I told Emily I was going to

meet her on Roblox at four o'clock. And every day. That's alright, because then they're not annoying you. Oh yeah, but then you feel guilty because then you're like, oh my god, it's half past six and their eyes are like bleeding. Bleeding and they're like, Roblox! Yeah, it's half past six and their eyes are like... Bleeding. Bleeding. They're like, Roblox. Yeah, it's like Lego men, square Lego men doing mundane tasks.

Like the other day, they're playing Roblox and then he's like, I just earned $14,000 delivering pizzas. I was like, wow. Do you want to like earn five bucks doing some chores around home? Nah. Also, I feel that setting her up for an unrealistic expectation is when she does get a job at Domino's. Yeah.

So I watched her do it. She literally waited until like 200 pizzas were ready and then just went on one mass delivery. That's smart. Yeah, but it's not going to work if you work at Domino's because you're going to get there and the pizza's going to be cold as hell. Well, yeah, and you know, producer Gerald will be running his timer. Oh, he will be.

He should try and get a free pizza. He'll be looking for a free deluxe pizza. And number one on the list of the top six new cakes for the Women's Weekly Cake Book in 2020. It's just a cake that's just the TikTok logo. Oh, yeah. That's definitely happened. That's what my kids want to do when they take a break from Roblox.

Watch TikTok videos. All right, that's today's definitely happened. That's what my kids want to do when they take a break from Roblox. Watch TikTok videos. Alright, that's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. 217 arguments a year happen on this one subject. Right. All over the world. On average. This is from the US, but when I tell you what it is, you'll agree that this is definitely most parts of the world. On average. This is from the US, but when I tell you what it is,

you'll agree that this is definitely most parts of the world. Okay. So everyone is arguing about just generally doing the dishes. Oh, per household. Per household. 207 arguments per household.

I was just like, 217 arguments around the world on a topic that doesn't seem too bad. One every day and a half? That's 18 arguments every month. Wow, okay. I can't break it down

more than that. Does a disagreement count as an argument? Yeah. Oh. Because to me an argument's where you're like yelling.

Oh no, disagreements. Yeah, a disagreement. Easy, easy. Yeah, I don't think I've ever had a screaming match over the dishes. But like disagreements all Yeah, disagreement. Easy. Easy. Yeah, I don't think I've ever had a screaming match over the dishes.

But like disagreements all the time. Passag. Because I got home yesterday and I'd left the, like all the dishwasher was full. So I'd started a pile on the sink. And I was like, well, why don't you be the dishwasher so that you can put the dishes in the dishwasher? I'm always the dishwasher. No, because the cycle's just finished and they're still a bit too wet. Yes.

That's a good one. That's a classic. I was going to, but it is just finished and it was really wet. Yeah. I'm only arguing with myself because I live alone, so. So four times a month, people were arguing about actually emptying the dishwasher as well as who should load it. But on that, why haven't they invented a dishwasher That does a blowy thing in it When it dries

And gets the water out of upside down cups Or the little rim at the top of it My dish drawer that you hate so much After it's finished does like a That's draining the water No it's not It's heating the dishes If you open it too early it'll stop the heating process

All dishwashers have a heater That's how they dry them Yeah you just said that's what you want No they need a blowy thing and if you open it too early, it'll stop the heating process. Yeah, all dishwashers have a heater. That's how they dry them. Yeah, you just said that's what you want. No, they need a blowy thing that blows all the air. But you imagine how noisy that would have to be. Is it a noise in a space thing? Because it would also make the dishwasher bigger because now it's got to have a blowy unit in it.

What do you need a blower in it for? Fisher and Paykel. But I'm just saying they need to invent this stuff. For what? To get the water out of the little tops of the cups or the upside down bowls.

Well, you just, you give it a dab with the tea towel before you unload it. Or maybe it shakes the dishwasher. Yeah. Or it holds everything

where it is and it just flips it upside down for a second. Yes, rotates the entire dish drawer around. I knew when this, I read this, I was like,

we're just going to get heated in studio just talking about dishes. Four fights a month about leaving the dishes in the sink to soak. That is a... Yuck. But sometimes you do have to leave a dish to soak. Like a

roasting dish or something. Maybe, yeah but not a bowl. Yeah. Three arguments a month about leaving the dishes in the sink when the dishwasher is empty. Oh, who does that? There's no excuse there. Sometimes I'll do that, but I'm like, I'm going to put it in later.

Just give me a beat. I'm doing it because I might be coming back for another sandwich. Right, okay. And also I get sick of like when I put stuff in the dishwasher that I've done it wrong. And I'm like, well, do it yourself. If I'm not doing it right, then've done it wrong and I'm like well do it yourself if I'm not doing it right then you do it no you learn to do it better

that's my argument I will this time but I would like to request that you learn to do things better if you don't like the way I do it you just do it yourself just learn to do it better so this is the argument Flesh, Vaughan and Megan the podcast ZM we're joined on the phone by my best friend Ellie good morning do it better. So this is the I.

We're joined on the phone by my best friend, Ellie. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. I'm friends with Ellie too. We went to a concert. Remember that? We did,

but on the scale of best friends, you haven't seen me at my absolute worst like Megan has. Okay, yeah, fair call. Same, same as theirs. We've got Ellie on the phone

because we wanted to talk about something that you did yesterday morning and you sent me a video from a morning rave. Yes. I decided that I am closing in on my mid-30s and I just want to be cool again. Right. As someone who's closed the chapter on their mid-30s,

I can tell you it's definitely not worth it. It's wasted, expended energy trying to be cool again. I know. I was very tired last night. There's no, like, alcohol or anything. No. What's the deal when you get there? So there's a bowl of fruit.

There was a bowl of apples, which I definitely helped myself to. And there was kombucha, which you could also help yourself to, and also coffee. And it was just so wholesome. People were there in their active wear. And there were like some older guys who clearly just don't go out in the evenings. Okay. It was glad.

Because I've seen a few people posting this kind of thing. Is it like a morning fitness thing? I don't know. It's just two hours of non-stop rave music and everybody's sweaty, but you don't have, you know, the typical night of someone spilling their drink over you. But it's dark, eh?

Yeah, completely dark. So it looks like a rave, but you're sober and you're having fruit and coffee, and then afterwards you go to work. Yeah, so instead of getting the Uber home with a kebab all over you, you go to the office. Afterwards I just went up and got some scrambled eggs from the cafe upstairs. Yeah, right, wow.

Oh, I thought they were dishing out scrambled eggs as you left. I'd be like, I'd walk in right as it ended. I'd be like, oh, man, what a rave. How much fun was that? We're about to the scrambled eggs. So what, do you think it helped your day? Like, get you going? Oh, it definitely pumped me up for the morning.

But I tell you what, by 3 o'clock, I was absolutely done. I was so tired. Yeah. I guess it's no different than going to, like, a gym pump class or something. Yeah, totally. At 6 or 7 in the morning, right? Totally. Are people hitting on each other? Is it a good way to meet people?

Nah, nah, because there were definitely some mums and dads there before they went to work. Like dropping kids off early at school. Go to a morning rave. Yeah. What are you, just drop their kids off at 6am? Good luck, the teachers will be here soon. Go play on the jungle gym. They're like, oh, are you dropping your kids off before school care because you've got crazy working hours?

Yeah. Yeah. But it could be a cool thing to do with like a bunch of mates before you all start. No. No. I can't imagine it, no. It's dark, it's loud, there's strangers everywhere. Yeah. I can't imagine it. No. It's dark. It's loud.

There's strangers everywhere. Yeah, it's not my idea. It's not yours, is it either? Absolutely not. But Ali, do you think is this kind of something that is catching on that more and more people are going to? Yeah, I talked to the guy and he said that it sells out like instantly. What?

And like how many people do you reckon were there? There was maybe like 200 people there. But they do it I think like once a month. This was on a Wednesday morning. Wow. Wow. That's cool. I mean I wouldn't do it. And no one, you're telling me

no one was on pingers? Just to confirm. I mean, not that I could see. Right, okay. That would make work interesting, wouldn't it? Rocking the office at nine o'clock. Chewing your face off. Just wanted to... Before we're raving.

All right, thanks, Ellie. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Joined in studio by Kim Crossman. Hello. Good morning. Here to talk about Pretty Depressed, your podcast. It's season two kicking off. But when we last spoke, you were in LA. Yes. So what happens is, yes, I live in LA most

of the time. And then lockdown happened. So I did lockdown over there. And then a couple of jobs that I was working on in New Zealand that was supposed to be later in the year have come, were pushed, brought forward. forward. So I did the whole quarantine. Yes. You still quarantined. Yes. So many questions. Because how do they...

You've been lured into our trap. Because how do they work out what hotel you go to? Because in the city, there's so many hotels around me that are quarantine hotels. And there's like Hotel Sol and that's like five star. I'd be like, I deserve that one. You do. Because you're on the airwaves, you know. I just want a hotel with a bath. My mum did ask

that you could tell them that you're on the telly. I'm like, there is no planet in which I go, oh, I'm on the, they would go, excuse me, I'm on the TV. Excuse me, I'm on the television as a mum. Five stars, please. How quickly would that be all over the internet?

And how quickly would they be like, there is no way you're going to sew now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to humble her. So obviously I didn't do that, just for the record. Nor would I ever. But when you land, they take your temperature and they don't tell you what your temperature is.

But based on your score, your temperature, you're equated a letter of the alphabet. That letter of the alphabet equates to a bus. That bus equates to a hotel. What if I just run? I run a bit hot. Well, that might be concerning. So you would probably go to like C, which is one of the more

intense isolations. So based on your symptoms. So if you were in a hotel and you started to become symptomatic, then they remove you and put you with more. So you're on the bus and you don't know

if you're going to an Auckland Central Hotel or to Rotorua. And I have the world's tiniest bladder. So I'm like, oh my God. So then, yeah, the buses,

once they're full with and ready to go, they all take off. Our bus literally drove about 10 metres and the driver goes, hope you didn't get too comfortable. I was like, okay, so we stopped right at the Novotown.

I was like, weird time for jokes. I feel like we're all masked up. Like, what is our fate? So that is the hotel right smack damn in the middle of the Auckland airport car park. And such a shame because you would think, oh, you could watch the planes coming in and out. No planes. So small. Very few planes. And you were shame because you would think, oh, you could watch the planes coming in and out. No planes.

Very few planes. And you were there for two weeks. Wow. So there's a lot of people escaping isolation and stuff. Well, I'll correct you on that. I don't feel like there's a lot of people. There are some bad apples. Yeah, which is absolutely horrible

and shame on them. But there's thousands of people in isolation. Yeah. Yeah, and I will say, like, just to try and go against the grain, it was really disciplined. It was a well-oiled machine. There were hallway monitors. Like, there was no communicating with other people.

Yeah. So, yeah, just to kind of... No tomfoolery with any other quarantiners? No, actually, they did say you're only allowed a beer or a wine because they had issues with people having too much alcohol and just doing little sex taps, trying to get into other people's minds. Oh, my God. Sex taps.

Just like a sex tap. Hello. We're like, excuse me, I was on the telly. Well, when you guys... Do you want to have sex with me? Well, here's... Okay, so we'll lean into my ego. When you guys went into level one at midnight,

the Ministry of Health was knocking on the doors, arranging times for people to get tested. So at that time, I go to bed early. I'd been asleep for about four hours. I hear a knock, knock, knock. I'm like, absolutely not. I am not opening the door. My ego is like, someone wants to sleep with me.

And then I get a phone call from reception. They're like, Ministry of Health is trying to get in. I was like, someone wants to sleep with me. And then I get a phone call from reception. They're like, Ministry of Health is trying to get in. I was like, shame, Kim. Here I am going, it's obviously someone. It's a booty call. Not today. You need to put a swab in your nose. Your podcast is out today, season two.

Pretty depressed and of course deals with mental health. How did you find two weeks in isolation? Because it is tough, isn't it? Yeah, I will say, again, full credit to Ministry of Health. They did call daily to ask if anyone needed access to a therapist because while I'm being jovial, there were a lot of people who were, you know, had experienced deaths in families or didn't get back in time.

And so there were a lot of people really struggling. So I think that's really cool that they did offer that as a service. Mentally, I was okay because I was coming back for work. And, you know, I've talked a lot about my ego already, but a lot of my validation comes from employment. So when I'm working, I'm usually good. It's those times between jobs or when there's a pandemic

and I don't know if or when I'll ever work again. That is kind of when those nightmare doors open in my brain to kind of spiraling thoughts of panic and financial stress or, yeah, I start not sleeping. So that's kind of where I tend to spiral from those points. And that's the thing you were saying, you were coming back for work. There's so many people who would have been coming back who just had their jobs pulled from underneath them,

who didn't have any way of surviving in a foreign country apart from coming home. And now it's weird hearing stories about people who have said that they might not face any choice but to come back to New Zealand. And because it didn't happen at the very start of it, some people are getting online abuse saying, don't you drag that back here? And it's just... Yeah, it's horrible.

I mean, there are certainly people with jobs who perhaps, you know, I was supposed to do a movie in the States in May and then it got pushed to July and now it doesn't. So, you know, people may have been holding position in other countries as well, waiting for work that now perhaps isn't an option. And expats are often the first to lose their jobs and those sorts of economic shutdowns are overseas. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. Be nice to Kiwis coming home, guys. Yeah, that's basically the message. Yeah, we got through this being kind and looking after each other and staying home and doing our part. And some people didn't have any other choice than to come home now. And it's really hard. I will say it's, you know, I had three flights cancelled to try and get home

and they only give you airline credit, which you can't, you know, activate for 90 days. So people are paying a lot of money to get back. And that can be stressful as well. Right. And so do you think season three could be, do you cover the pandemic much in season two of Pretty Depressed?

I tried to stay away from it a little bit. I guess I'm trying to make more evergreen content and talk about things zoomed out a little bit. But yes, obviously there are elements of talking about the pandemic and how that affects people. I talked to a lot of athletes this season and entrepreneurs as well.

I guess the good thing about my guests is they're usually in an industry that does actually have a lot of highs and lows. So speaking to them and zooming in on how they deal with that kind of applies to tools that we can all apply if this season has been really trepidatious for us as well who's on the podcast this season who would we know so today i launched uh jim jeffries uh who is really hilarious and he's a little controversial he's not an anti-vaxxer so let's just get that out not that kind of controversial i don't want

to i don't want to fall into that category of controversial podcast. We do talk about, you know, drugs and sex and medication. And obviously he gets a lot of misogynistic comments and things. So we dive into that a little bit. And alcoholism, something that he gets kind of coined with a lot. And Frankie Shaw today. And then coming up, we have Alexander Rossi, who's, if anyone's into motorsport, will know him. He won the Indy 500. A guy called Strider, who's a great surfer and surf commentator.

Ashley Tisdale, Maria Foy from New Zealand, Grace Palmer. So, yeah, we've got heaps and more coming out of the woodworks. People are at home and have nothing to do, so they're like, I'd love to talk about my baggage with you, Kim. Know that the offer is out there for anyone who needs to do a deep dive. Those hours a day I was spending on Zoom have all dried up. So, yeah, I've got that time. Yeah, yeah.

That time to have a chat. Well, it's out today. Pretty Depressed, wherever you get your podcasts from. Kim, thanks so much for coming in. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. We would love to talk about proposal whoopsies because a man in South Yorkshire had a romantic proposal

all set up for his girlfriend. So we're talking hundreds of tea lights, balloons, and a bottle of wine set up in their flat. Was this in Rarotonga and then Vaughan turned up? Like your proposal? He didn't turn up at my proposal, thankfully. He was hiding in the sand dunes with his binoculars. You weirdo.

No, I wasn't. I actually wouldn't surprise me. Well, Rarotonga doesn't have sand dunes, so joke's on you. If you knew where it was going down, would you have spied? Oh, hunch. There was one night where we were going out for dinner and Sade was like,

we should go the next couple of stops in the bus stop to see if the Papadopoulos are... And you know, I think that was either that night or the night after that you got engaged. So we totally could have spied on you. You guys are creeps. Oh, she's just as bad as me. I know. We're such a great couple.

We're a couple of nosy parkers. That's what's made your relationship last. Yeah. Creeps. Gossip. Creepy gossips. So he set up this romantic proposal, hundreds of tea lights, a bottle of wine,

and he went round the corner to bring his girlfriend into the flat. It was literally in that moment where they came back and the flat was on fire because of the hundreds of tea lights. Because they don't burn. You've got to be quick with tea lights because they burn very quickly, don't they? Also, they're in like a little tin so the whole thing gets hot because I have had a whoopsie on a flat when I was studying

and put it on the carpet. It just burns a ring in the carpet. You put a tea light on the carpet? No, no, no. Heat transfer though. That's why the bed moved from one side of the room to the other. Is this an O-House? Yeah.

Did you move the bed? Well, I hope they've replaced that carpet because how long ago were you at university? It was flat six in O-House. 35 years ago? Piss off. Flat six in O-House. Give us a report. Do you have a singed ring on your carpet?

And if so, petition the people in charge to replace the carpet because that's old carpet. Yeah. So, because it heats up. And plus, it's only a little bit of tin, so, like, the wax can spill over. And if you put lots of them together, then you get a combined heat.

Yeah, yeah, the combined heat's nuts. So, what, the whole flat burnt down? Just, it looks like one whole room. They said no one was injured and they managed to put it out. But you can see from the firefighters took pictures of the rubble. And there must have been so many tea lights because amongst all the rubble, you can see just heaps of little tin tea light holders. My dude.

So the stories obviously got out that it was a proposal gone wrong. But had he in the end actually proposed? He did propose and she said yes, but I don't know at what point. Like when they got around the corner and saw an inferno and he was like, hey, this is going to be a proposal. Do you want to marry me?

I would have improvised and asked the fire department if I could use the bucket lift and then just got up. Will you marry me? And yelled down at her? And yelled down at her and then just dropped the ring down. Nice. Or bring her, look, I yell down at her and then just drop the ring down.

Nice. Or bring her. Look, I don't know. I've just burnt the house down. I'm trying to think here. You're on the fly. You're just bouncing around. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how the actual thing went down in the end,

but she said yes, so yay. I mean, the house is burnt down. Well, having never proposed to anyone, it must be quite a nerve-wracking experience. Yeah, I don't know. Were you nervous? proposed to anyone, it must be kind of nerve-wracking experience. Yeah, I... Like, nothing went wrong. Were you nervous? I was nervous, sure, yeah.

But nothing went wrong. The most nervous part of it was asking Sade's dad. Right. And I left that to all the week before because he can't keep his mouth shut. Yeah. And he would have been like, my darling, are you engaged yet?

Like, he literally would have done that. That's how he always... Hi, dad. This is the phone call with her. Hi, dad. And he's like, my darling, are you engaged yet? He literally would have done that. That's how he always, hi, Dad. This is the phone call with her. Hi, Dad. And he's like, my darling, and then makes a proclamation every time. That's sweet. My darling. And my darling, are you engaged yet?

That would have ruined it. So that was probably the bit that I was most, but he did well. He did well. Okay. Well, we want to take your calls this morning on 0800-DARLS-AT-M, 9696. When did you have a proposal? Whoopsie. I mean, you don't have to have burnt the house down.

But maybe a proposal didn't go the way you planned. And maybe you know of someone's proposal or you saw one that didn't go to plan. Because maybe people would be reluctant to admit that they messed up a proposal. How long do you have to hang out at the Eiffel Tower to see a no? Oh, to see a no. Oh, to see a no. Because I saw some proposals in a yes. You wouldn't have to be

there long at all to see a proposal. I wonder how long to see a no. Like a... Let's talk about this later. Yeah, that's what I'd say. And then it's a tense wait for the elevator down. A man's proposal did not go to plan, has hundreds of romantic tea-like candles.

The heat combined burnt down his flat. And so... She still said yes, though. Yeah, so there was a happy outcome there. So we want to know from you this morning, when a proposal didn't go to plan, maybe there was a little whoopsie, maybe saw a proposal that didn't go to plan.

Somebody said my partner at the time made it so casual, literally like, oh, I've got something for you, and then pulled out a ring with no question and just showed me it and assumed I understood what was happening and then got mad when I didn't react and then he put the ring on the wrong finger. That is a thing you've got to think about, though, like what hand? got mad when I didn't react and put, and then he put the ring on the wrong finger. Oh.

That is a thing you've got to think about though, like what hand? It's the left ring finger. I don't even know. Yeah, I know. You don't want to be trying to shove it on the thumb. You don't get a shape for, you don't get a size for the thumb. Yeah. Do you?

Somebody else said my husband proposed to me the day before the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final What's wrong? No no I think that's just To give us a time Of when this happened That's obviously How you remember it

We were away And he wrote Will you marry me On the beach in the sand And then went to get me And Came back And half of it was gone

And then a guy Walked up to him On the beach And said Do you know When the rugby's on Mid proposal Get up mate Do you you know when the rugby's on? Mid-proposal. Get up mate, do you know what time the rugby's on?

Wow. Always factor in the high tide. Yeah. Or the incoming tide. And annoying people who don't know when rugby games are on. Keep your text, your calls coming in. Proposals that went wrong. A man in the UK burnt down his flat with tea light candles. Intention

was so good. She said yes, but yeah, their flat's now burnt. You should never light a tea light candle and leave it unattended. Ever. That's what we've learnt. That's what we've learnt. Taya, when did a proposal not go to plan? You saw this happen. Sorry.

What's happening? Me and my partner went to a restaurant, and it's kind of awkward to think about it, really. Like, he proposed to her, and she just went, no! Isn't how it's supposed to be? We're like, oh, awkward. Oh, no. She kind of said no.

Was the restaurant not flash enough? We have, well, I thought it was flash enough. Okay. She wanted maybe a more exotic location. Turns out she wanted to propose to him. Oh. Weird. Okay.

Whipped out the ring, put it on the table, goes, no, it's me. I was supposed to propose. We're like, oh, okay. I mean, at least just say, hey, let's talk about this when we get home. Or just say yes and then be like, here's the ring. I was going to do it to you. Yeah, honey. We're so in tune.

I'll tell you a thing. So you called Charlie. You witnessed a proposal that went wrong? Yeah. I was ice skating in New York, you know, at the Rockefeller Centre, where it's like... Yes. Yes.

And it was all romantic setting, you could. And it was... Everyone kind of noticed what was going on. He got down on one knee on the ice and he even had a rose. It was like perfect. And then he slowly realised that something had gone wrong. He proposed, he said yes

and then he dropped the ring and so it crossed the ice and it actually went down the side of the ice rink and it took staff about another hour to try and... Oh, like the drainage when the ice starts to melt and it runs off the side. Indeed.

Brilliant, Charlie. Thanks. Gemma, a proposal that went wrong? Hi, we went up the top of the hill in Christchurch to a lookout and when we got there, it was covered in scaffolding. Yes, yes, yes. Yes.

Romantic. Nothing says romance like temporary structure support. Yeah, but it still happened and went ahead? Yeah, yeah. We just found a little spot on the side of the hill like next to the scaffolding.

Were the tradies there? Were there like saws and tools and stuff going or was it after? No, no, no. It was later in the evening, so like 8 o'clockclock so there was no one there. You don't want to be wolf-whistled at during your proposal. Yeah, and then I really hope

your honeymoon went to take in the lovely old sights of Europe again full of scaffolding. Yeah. Do you know how Europe... No, that was Rarotonga so it was even better.

I hope you went to the old Hilton then at the half-built resort that never got finished. Full of scaffolding. Near it, near it. Hiya, thanks you called, Gemma. Nicole, when did your proposal not go to plan?

Oh, well, bless the husband. He had planned to do it up in the Blue Mountains in Sydney and unfortunately the weather sort of trashed that plan. It was really bad rain. Okay. So he was like, okay, second option, we'll do the Chinese Gardens in Sydney, in the city. And they were closed for renovations.

So now, by now, he's crapping himself. And he decided we'd just sit down and watch people pass by and do the people watching thing. And he had to ask three times because I took it that he wasn't very clear at asking. And he said I wasn't listening. So third option. He shoved the ring in my face and said, well, how about it? So third location, third ask.

You got it right. So third time's the charm. That's it. Yeah. Were you getting a bit cranky because you were like, why are you dragging me around the city? No, I was wondering why he was so nervous. I wasn't really sure what was going on. He was very quiet and he was not a very quiet person.

So something wasn't right. Wow, Nicole, thanks for your call. Some text messages. I was getting proposed while I was skiing up Mount Aruapaihu. I said yes just as two people stopped and had an in-depth discussion about how you take a shit mid-ski because you're covered in all of this gear and how do you sit down on the toilet

and like when are you going to do yours and I don't need to do mine. I do it before we came. Guys, I'm mid-proposal. Can you? You'd be like, come on. You're killing my man. Go down there.

I'm getting proposed to. Beautiful. You're going to see Mount Taranaki over there and I'm hearing about your pose in the thing. You take your whole pants down. You've got to keep it up off the ground though because it gets wet and then you're involved in that. In 2004, it was a leap year so the girls can do the proposing.

So I proposed to my partner and he said, no, that's my job. So I got excited waiting for a proposal. Next thing, it's 2008 and there's been no proposals. It's another leap year. So I was like, bugger him. And I asked again. And his response was, suppose I can't say no twice. He made her wait four years and then said, suppose I can't say no twice.

Wow. Hey. My partner proposed to me right after we bought the ring together And I was like, huh And paused and started thinking about it And he got really, really nervous And really, really sweaty And I said, of course, literally I was here for it

And he was like, you're going to say no And he was crying My husband had some Dutch courage in him As he tried to propose on a wharf Luckily he gave me the ring before he fell off the side into some shallow water and broke his ribs. A bit too much Dutch courage.

We went out for dinner, a lovely Mexican meal, then went for a walk and that was going to end in a proposal. During the proposal my now wife started crying and wiped her eyes.

Hot sauce in the eyes. Burning, lots of crying and a trip to A&E for an eye flush. Let's play Radio Tinder and meet today's Radio Tinder-er. Radio Tindery. Radio Tindery.

She's been living this single life for 23 years, or you could say her whole life. We've got a cat-loving hockey player who's ready to find her man. She's an emergency department nurse with a big heart and is ready to share it with a determined dude. Meet Sophia. Sophia joins us in studio. Good morning. Good morning. I like how, well, I find it interesting that you just want to determine, dude, that was your one criteria.

Yeah, I kind of wanted someone passionate, someone driven, someone who had goals. That sounds good. And you like cats? And you've not yet found? No, it's been 23 years. Okay. On the hunt. Have not found that person.

Right from birth, on the hunt. Out of the womb. We are. All right. Where is my husband? First words. The hunt begins. So you're an emergency department nurse? What emergency department do you work in?

Are you allowed to say that? I'm not allowed to say that. But you would say all matter of? Yes. Have you ever cut off someone's really expensive jeans or dress no oh no we do have a designated ring cutter though so i know like to cut off rings what like a person or an appliance person and appliance i think so there's one person you're like get steve out of here apparently i've never asked him to come over but apparently that's the thing really imagine that's a thing.

Really? Imagine that's your job. See, if I found out about that, I'd be like, ma'am, we need to cut your wedding ring off. She'd be like, but it's my ankle. I'd be like, we cannot take any risks. Steve, get over here. We're going to cut it off.

Yes, finally, yes. Everybody come and have a look. We're going to cut off her ring. Right, well, that's also great news for a potential boyfriend, because you might, do you, free bandages and stuff? What? I don't think I can say. I mean, I could... Okay, no.

Free bandages. I don't. That's where you went. Great news for a potential boyfriend. Or free plasters. You don't have to buy plasters. Free plasters. Forever.

Okay. Free popsicle sticks. Yes. You can build a... Empty ones. They don't have popsicles on them. You can make your own popsicles Megan use your

imagination please we do get ice pops get ice what about and you play hockey what position

do you play midfield striker oh yeah and so if you don't listen does your coach make you like run around the

field no I did that last night and I felt like I know why coaches do that now

what a mad feeling of power. It's like, go, round the field. And they're like, go. And you're like,

yeah. Okay, well, this isn't about you. I just wanted to let everyone know I'm power tripping. Right,

on hockey. Okay. Coaching eight-year-olds. So do you think, given that you're a nurse, you'd, like, find it hard time-wise

to find the guy? Yeah, I think with shift work and stuff, it's hard to socialise and the unsocial hours with work as well. Yeah. Like just sleeping or working and eating. Yeah. And then the whole cycle begins again the next day. Well, hopefully we can help you with that today.

Hopefully. Okay, well, if you would like to play, guys, Radio Tinder, give us a call. 0800 DALES AT M. Right now, if you can't get through, text in as give us a call. 0800 DALS at M. Right now, if you can't get through, text in as well, 9696

and we're going to come back next and then Sophia is going to, well, I guess, try to match up with some guys. You got some questions ready for these potential suitors? Oh yes, I guess I do.

Good. Alright. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Radio Tinder. Well, it's like Tinder but it's on the radio. Yes, andughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Radio Tinder. Well, it's like Tinder, but it's on the radio. Yes, and in studio is Sophia.

Sophia is a 23-year-old ED nurse. She plays hockey. She's looking for a determined, driven guy. If that sounds like you, you can give us a call. 0800 dial ZM. Who should we rip right into it? Let's start, definitely. She's very nervous.

Regan, good morning. Welcome to Radio Tinder. Morena, how are we going? Good. All right, you've got some questions. Okay, so we'll start off with, do you have any bad habits? Oh, bad habits.

I forgot my laptop for work this morning, so sometimes I'm a bit forgetful. Okay, same, same, okay. That's probably as far as it goes. Okay. What did you get your mum for Mother's Day? Oh, that's a good one. For Mother's Day,

I actually sent her one of those celebration boxes because she is elsewhere in the country. Oh, okay. So she got chocolates and whatnot. And what did you see? Oh, this is just a question for me. It's like being on actual Tinder. The squad are involved.

Was it on time? Did you get it there on time or was it a delayed present? No, it was actually early, which is very good as well. And what about, like, did you Skype her on Mother's Day or, like, call her? Yeah, I always got to call Mum on Mother's Day. How long did that go for? Oh, we actually, Mum's calls can actually go for quite a while, you know.

Sometimes it's quite hard to get away from them. You've got to run through the weather, the pets. Yeah. What your father's been up to, that kind of thing, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Another question, what's your go-to karaoke song? Oh, probably Mr. Brightside, I reckon. Oh, classic.

Oh, absolutely classic. We all know Mr. Brightside, there's a classic karaoke number. What else do I have? I don't think we get that. You can swipe. You can swipe Yeah Yeah Nice

Good work mate Just wait there You've got to go home and get your laptop yet So we'll sort you out with some details later Scott joins us Good morning Scott Welcome to Radio Tinder. What was that? You alright? Scott's

just slowly deflating. Are you there, Scott? Scott. Is he playing with himself? What's Scott up to? Are you there, Scott? Morning! Morning! Hello. Scott, what happened?

Reception. Reception. Oh. Do you want us to come back to you? Can you get to, like, a higher spot? Climb up the hill? Get to higher ground. Go up the mount.

We'll come back to you, Scott. Don't leave. Shane joins us, radio tinder. Good morning, Shane. Good morning. Good morning. All right, we've got some questions. Sophia has some questions for you.

Okay, who in your family are you closest to? Probably mum and dad, my parents. That's the closest. Okay. What, do you play any sports? This will make you all laugh. I used to play, um, like, cross country. What?

You run a cross country, you don't play a cross country. You mean, you like, runner. Were you at Middle Distance, like you were a runner? Oh, he's gone, he's dropped off. He's done a runner. It's because we laughed at him. No, but I was laughing because he thought we'd think that was funny. Because he's a runner. I just laughed at the thought of playing a cross country.

Like, you're running. You're like, come on, guys. Like, I don't know. I was like, that's not. I expected something quite awful. What were you expecting? Like water polo. Like canoe polo.

I was expecting fencing. I don't know why I pictured him as a fencer. I don't know what's happening at the cell phone reception this morning. We lost Watts' face before that was trying to get up a mountain. We could still hear from Scott. Scott, you can call back. Maybe, yeah. And if you do want to play 0800-DARLS-AT-HEM, AJ's called through.

Good morning. Welcome to Radio Tinder, AJ. Good morning. How's it going? Good morning. AJ, is this like the third time you've called for Radio Tinder? Maybe, maybe. Are you still single?

Trying his luck. Still single. Okay, well, hey, this is a thing you've got to try. Sophia, you've got some questions. Okay, what's something you wish you were better at? Maybe a little bit of timekeeping. Okay. Because I'm a supervisor at work,

so I've got to be quite on the ball and it's stressful. So a bit more time keeping would be sweet. Okay. That's not really something someone can buy you, AJ, or bring you back. It's kind of on you, but okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll get there, but...

Yeah. Probably five, ten minutes late. What would you say to the Uber driver when you get in the car? Good question. That's a good question. I always just go for, hey, how's it going, sort of thing. General banter. General.

How's your night? Busy night. Busy night. Busy night. Just started or are your clients still finishing? All these kinds of things. Yeah, right, right, right. Where is somewhere that you've always wanted to go

but waiting for the right person to go with? Oh. Oh. Um. I don't know. I reckon going travelling with someone else I haven't done that yet but I want to give it a go

that'd be pretty cool going with someone else where would you want to go oh probably like Bali or somewhere oh yeah basic

bit of Bali bit of white hashtag Wanderlust bit of travelgram Le Petit Biscuit or whatever that song is. AJ.

AJ, the barley. I think the barley lost you there. Hiya. We'll talk to you next time on Radio Tinder, AJ. See you. Catch you later.

See you, AJ. Thanks, AJ. All right. Ayrton, good morning. Morning. Good morning. All right. Welcome to Radio Tinder.

Some questions now. Where do you put your tomato sauce on the chips? All over or on the side? Definitely on the side. Okay. Are you an all over? I'm a both.

Okay. Depends on how saucy I am. Okay. I'm feeling. Yeah. What do you think is the most important quality in a partner? Probably loyalty. But I also enjoy

banter, gym. Fanta? Banter. Oh! I'm in your rast. Oh, no, wait, did you say

Fanta or Banter? Fanta. Fanta, okay. Fanta. I still hear Banter. All I'm hearing is my friend Fanta. This is blue dress,

white dress. I hear Fanta, you hear Banter. I hear Banter. You hear Fanta. I hear Fanta. Oh, okay. She wanted Fanta. Sorry, Ayrton. Let's go to Connor, who wants to play Radio Tinder. Welcome, Connor23

from Tauranga. Some questions, Sophia? G'day. What is your star sign? Taurus. Oh, okay. I Googled it just before I came in. Is that a good one? Compatible.

Oh, compatible. Yeah. What are you? Pisces, Aries. Right. I'm like on the cusp. Okay. Well, is that a yes or a no?

Oh, another question. Oh, yeah, I can give him the question. Okay. If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Uh, oh, I can give him the question. Okay. If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Or it has to be... I don't know. That's a hard one. That's a hell of a commitment.

Yeah. I mean, that's always a relationship. Because whatever it is, you'll get sick of it. Yeah, you would. You could do a general, like... Because I'd be Maltesers, but I'd last a day. No, see, you've just locked yourself in Maltesers. Probably bacon.

Nothing but bacon. My dude. Salty, yes. Well, at least you wouldn't live that long. Yeah. Wowzers. That's a lot. Yeah, you got a thumbs up.

The star sign and the bacon. It was a star sign and bacon, mate. That's all you need to be. Taurus the bull and pig the food. Brilliant. All right. Thanks, Connor. We'll get you guys in touch.

Connor and Reagan. Reagan. Yeah. I can't believe you did thumbs up to Connor. I mean, bacon. Oh, food. It's hard, though, when you can't see them, though, isn't it? Yeah, you never know if you're going to meet them. You're going to be like, bacon. Oh, food. It's hard, though, when you can't see them, though, isn't it? Yeah, you never know if you're going to meet them.

You're going to be like, oh. I mean, Taurus, bacon, yeah. Like it's a start, isn't it? Yeah. It is. It's a good start. Flesh, fawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

What are you doing? I was trying to find the fact of the day Snapchat filter. Oh, yeah. It was gone. I was playing with it yesterday. Oh, yeah. Yeah, have a go with that. I am loving people sending in fact of the days,

and I think it's kind of like a bit of a ruse. So if they know the answer already. Yeah, right. Like, we've been doing this for a long time. You have to get up pretty early. Are you getting some facts we've already done? All of them. I remember the summer of 2013.

It was a, I don't know, warm one. And that was one of our facts. So all thanks to Save My Bacon, a safe place to borrow money online. It's our 50K fact of the day. That's how much prize money we have to give away. $500 at midday. And then at 4 o'clock, we'll ask a question about this fact. Today's fact of the day is there is a theoretical maximum height that a tree can possibly grow.

So you think about if you had a tree in the perfect conditions, it had all the nutrients it needed in the soil, it had the perfect amount of rain, and this is for any tree. I mean, there's some trees that just won't grow this high. But your big growers, your growers, not your showers, your coldy trees, your redwoods, your American cedar, some oak trees can get monstrously tall. Okay.

However, they will never get taller than 130 metres. Really? They will never get taller than 130 metres. Is that because it hits the glass dome that we're all under? Yes. The flat earth. Yeah. Correct.

George K-O-C-H. I'm always reluctant to say this. Kosh. Kosh? Is it because it's the Kosh brothers, eh? Those political dudes. Yeah, I think it's Kosh. Okay, so let's say Kosh.

You were scared you'd say Kosh. Yeah. George Kosh, he works at a university. He's done a whole lot of research into the theoretical maximum height of a tree. And he said it's definitely not above 130 metres. It's somewhere between 122 and 130 metres. Right. So he's done the...

He's worked it out as to why this is the case. Trees want to grow as tall as they can. Because they want to grow taller than the trees around them so they get all the sun. Yeah. Because that's why these trees like ferns don't need a lot. They'll chill out at the bottom. Yeah, they love chilling out at the bottom. They love chilling out at the bottom. We don't need a lot of sun, man. They're just like,

nah, bro, you grow as tall as you want. I'm cool. I'm just chilling down here, man. No big deal. I'm a fern, man. Hey, I might have some mushrooms next to me. I'm on like every continent in the world, man. Like that's what happens when you're just chill, eh? Like you're just down here and it's chill. Have you been overseas and seen a silver fern in another country?

Yeah. I was like, what the hell? I was like, excuse me, where's the Commerce Commissioner? Are they actually silver ferns? Yeah, but they're all... I thought they were like owls. They're all... They're all slightly different, but they're all ferns.

Yeah, and I thought- We're like, owls, silver ferns, slightly different to other countries. Silver ferns that other countries do have. I thought we were the only ones. Yeah. They've even found evidence that ferns were once in Antarctica. So literally ferns are on every- The silver ferns, that was the first netball team.

In Antarctica. But they got frostbite, so that's why we claimed them. And then the silver ferns Were all penguins Yeah But penguins can't shoot They can defend My god they can defend

Because they Like that Greater water polo though Yeah Have an eye out for the Antarctic Silver ferns in the water polo Games Kind of just gave up on that one.

I was like, do I commit myself to going to a full penguin-based Olympics gag? And then I was just like, it's Thursday. We could be here all day. So back to the fact of the day, they can't grow higher than 130 metres because it gets to a certain height where the leaves at that height, it's... No oxygen. No, no. They carbon dioxide, but...

Oh, yeah. Sure. No, it's... They've got to get water up to them and the water comes from the root system. So the energy that the tree requires to pump the water up is not as much as the leaves use. Right. As the leaves will generate, rather.

So the tree's like, well, there's absolutely no point in growing any taller. They'll grow wider. Okay. Because, you know, at the top of a tree, you know, like,

if you see, like, a pine tree, it gets skinnier at the top. Yeah. That's because all the water's used to feed the lower branches, the earlier branches, and then it gets to the top. There's not much left.

So they don't put too much effort into it. So that's why Christmas trees are like that. That's why trees are shaped. That's why they aren't like a rectangle. They're a triangle. Yeah, and they get skinnier at the top.

You can cut a tree into a shape, but if you just let them grow naturally, they will get skinnier at the top. Interesting. So today's fact of the day,

and I would remember this particular... Ditty. Ditty. Ditty of today's fact. Nothing about the penguins or the silver ferns. The penguins will not be in the questions. Ditty. Ditty. Ditty. Nothing about the penguins or the silver ferns. The penguins will not be in the questions.

Trees cannot grow higher than 130 metres. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, but we brought her back. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Yosemite National Park. Yosemite. I'd say Yosemite. Yosemite.

Yosemite. Because like Yosemite Sam. But it's not spelt the same. It's spelt Y. It's exactly the same as Yosemite Sam, that guy with not spelt the same. It's spelt Y. It's exactly the same as Yosemite Sam, that guy with the big ginger moustache from Bugs Bunny cartoons. They're all like, let the rabbit. So it's spelt Y-O-S-E-M-I-T-E.

Now, if you'd never really heard that said, how would you say that? Yosemite. Yosemite. Well, this is Donald Trump yesterday. When their eyes widen in amazement as old faithful burst into the sky. When they gaze upon Yosemites, Yosemites, towering sequoias. I mean, this is a man that's, what, 72? 70?

Yeah. Who's lived in America his whole life. He's not a great orator. No. I think we've established that. If nothing else, over the last four years of his presidency, I think we've established no great orator. No. I think we've established that. If nothing else, over the last four years of his presidency, I think we've established no fantastic orator. The Daily Show have done several mashups of him mangling the English language.

If you're into it, if it's sort of your vibe, there's a 35-minute interview he did with an Australian reporter. It's on HBO Max, but HBO Max were just like, okay, this is so good, we're putting it for free on YouTube. Yeah. Axion is the company, or the people that put it together, A-X-I-O-N. It's almost like you're

waiting for the laugh track. Like at one stage he's showing them a graph of the deaths around the world from COVID and how badly the States is handling it. And Donald Trump's like, we're not the worst. Look, world, world's doing worse than it. And Donald Trump's like, we're not the worst. Look, world, world's doing worse than us. And this guy's like, you are part of the world figures.

He's like, part of it, but they're doing worse. Like, it's mind blowing. Like, it's like you're watching a comedy. Like, like Veep or something. It's bizarre. Well, yeah. It's something else. This isn't his first time pulling a Megan. Excuse me.

Not being able to say a word. You are famously unable to pronounce the word tarantula. I like my way better. The spider. And sometimes I make mistakes, but with Arkansas, that's how it's spelt. Arkansas. Yeah. But it's spelt Arkansas.

So, I mean. What is it? You've said Arkansas before and you've said Arkansas. Who said Illinois? Illinois. Illinois. Oh, that might have been me. That's all right.

To be fair, they're not in New Zealand. I'm not the president of them. No, that's a huge part of the country. Yeah. The Yosemite National Park. But I thought this morning on the back of this and the fact that, Megan, you can't say tarantula, is there anybody listening now that really struggles

to say a particular word, one word? That word, it's a synonym for often. Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. Do you know what I say wrong? Regularly. It's because I've brought someone to work.

Apparently, I say tangelo wrong. Tangelo. Tangelo. I say tangelo. And it drives my wife nuts. You're just zhuzhing it up a bit. Yeah, I mean, you have to think so too. I've just realised, though, we're asking people to call in

and say the word they can't say. How are they going to tell us? We'll be able to decipher what it means. Like Megan said, right. Oh, right. Synonym for often. I thought that was it. Regularary?

Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. No, that's not right. Regularly.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Regular with a Lee on the end. So say regular. Regularly. We, that's not right. Regularly. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Regular with a Lee on the end. So say regular. Regularly. Wee! Yeah! Take a tiny and then just practice making that small.

Take a pause. Regularly. Okay, now a little bit smaller. Regularly. No, faster. Regular. Regularly. Regularly.

Regularly. Regularly. What is that? Regular. Regularly. Regularly. Regularly. Okay, now tarantula. Tarantler. Wiggler. What is that? Regular. Regularly. Regularly. Okay, now tarantula.

Tarantula. Tarantula. Faster. Tarantula. Tarantula. Tarantula. A little less than the tar. It's more of a tar.

Tarantula. Go again. No, your mouth's going the wrong way. I should be a speech therapist. Except the kids are coming over like no no i don't know how to fix it but no it's going wrong give me your tongue get this bloody thing moving so donald trump uh can't say yosemite yosemite national park yosemite had a couple of goes at it uh it has got us on to talking about those words that you just can't pronounce. Megan, you have the famous...

Tarantula. Tarantula? Regularly. What? You were getting that one pretty good. Regularly. Regularly. Ange, what's the one word that you can't pronounce?

Or is it your younger sister? It's my little sister, yeah. Okay. So microwave, she's always struggled with. She says muggerwave. Muggerwave. That sounds way microwave, she's always struggled with. She says mug-a-wave. Mug-a-wave. That sounds way cuter. It does.

A mug-a-wave. It sounds like a really small microwave specifically designed to heat things in mugs. Yeah. Double mugs. It does. Hey, thanks for your call. Natasha, what's the one word that you can't say?

Specifically, I can't say. I call it pacific. Specifically? I can't say. I call it Pacific. Specifically. That's it. I call it Pacificly, like the ocean. Yeah, but it's specific. You've got to be very Pacific. Specific.

I feel like a lot of people do that. Yeah, yeah. You're not alone on that one. You do. Yeah, you do. Thanks. Welcome to the show, Shay. What's the one word that you have trouble saying?

Okay, I can't say penguin. Oh, Benedict Cumberbatch. Can't say penguin. Penguin, yeah, penguin. If I really think about it, I can say it, but most of the time if you said, how do you say it, I'll say penguin. Like what are those things like on the ice in the chips packets? Yeah, those little cute little guys.

The thing is, Benedict Cumberbatch can't say penguins. Penguins can't say Benedict Cumberbatch. Fairly mutual. It goes both ways there. Thanks, you're cool, Shay. Rose, your daughter has trouble with the word? Yes, she's nine years old and she can't

say spaghetti. She says biscetti. I think it's a classic. Wasn't that's a, wasn't that on an ad as well for spaghetti once? Yeah. She's done it her whole life too. Oh,

bisketty mum. Well, even in an ad, not until you can say it probably. All right, Rose, thanks for your call. Johanna,

Johanna? Johanna. Johanna, yes. What would you have trouble saying? I'm also dobbing in my younger sister. Okay. She can't say deodorant.

How does she say it? Derodirant. Derodirant. Oh, my God. That's great. I like that. We should derodirant. Derodirant, yeah.

Wow. Yeah, she went to boarding school as well, so you know that gets, like, discussed a wee bit in the morning, getting ready, so I'm sure all her friends will know. Oh, she went to boarding school as well, so you know that gets discussed a wee bit in the morning, getting ready, so I'm sure all her friends will know. Oh, brilliant. Thanks for your call. Sandy, what word do you have trouble saying? I have trouble saying the flesh word for chocolate eclairs.

Peripheral. Oh, profiteroles. Yeah, that's the one. Oh, my God, how's that a profiterole? Is there an R? Perfiterole. How is it spelt? I didn't even know how it's spelt. Oh, no. Perfiteroles. Yeah, that's the one. Oh, my God. How's it a profiterole? Is there an R? Profiterole. How is it spelled? I didn't even know how it's spelled.

Oh, no. I had to Google it because I couldn't spell it either. Right. But, I mean, it's not like, unless you're a Flash guy, we're not, like, cranking out profiteroles every day. So you're all right. No, but my kids laugh at me and they make me want to say it, you know, Mum. They're so ruthless of your kids.

Well, next time they want pocket money. No. Oh, no, they're in their 30s, but they still make me, you know. They are very cool. Well, next time they want to be written into the will. Exactly. Brilliant. Sandy, thanks.

You're cool. Jenna, what's the word that you have trouble saying? Okay, so I've had to teach myself to say renovation because I say revereneration. Revereneration. I like yours better. Yeah, that sounds way flasher, doesn't it? But you said it right then, though.

Because I had to think about it. But what about if you say someone's renovating? Because I'm 33 now, I always go, so I'm doing some, I always go. So I'm doing some... I've done it again. Renovation. Yay! Yay!

Do you watch that show on TV, Reveneration Nightmares? I don't, but do you know what? It's the only word that I just get wrong all the time. And as an adult, and I'm a teacher, but I don't use it in teaching. When do we use it in teaching? Yeah. I mean, renovations. Oh, God, you guys.

This is your fault. This is your fault. Gina, amazing. Thanks for your call. No worries. Some text messages. My daughter just stopped saying Instead of saying Ed Sheeran

Every time she'd try to say Ed Sheeran She'd say Ed But she'd say Erin Sheeran Because in mine Instead of working on Sheeran Before it had been finished with Ed She'd say Erin Sheeran I've been saying vanilla like

Villainer Not vanilla, villaner. Oh, okay. Not vanilla, villaner. Vanilla. For 25 years. Villaner. It drives me nuts when people say mount instead of melt. I seem to be surrounded by them.

Oh, no, my ice cream's mounting. Mounting? Mounting. Why are you saying mounting? That's what it's called when something begins to mount. And they'll be like, write it down. And they write down melt, but they're saying mount. Oh, my God.

Mount. I work in IT and I have to say analysis multiple times a day. Now, saying it's fine, but if I see it written down and I have to say it once I've seen it written down, I say analysis, not analysis. Right. I get that. Analysis.

Analysis, yeah. And analysis. And analysis. And analysis. Analysis. That sounds, yeah. Analy- Analy-sis. Analy-sis. Analy-sis. That sounds like something you need to see a doctor for. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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