ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 6th July 2021

Episode Date: July 5, 2021

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Play! The names Fletch, Warren and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Warren and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app, buy five McCafe coffees and get one free. Got a new show. Jared put me onto this. He's like, I think you'll like this show.

So I started watching it and oh, I do. What's it called? Big Timber. Big Timber. Is it about big trees? Yeah. And cutting down big trees and hauling them out of, it's set in Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Okay, 5.6 out of 10 on IMDb. Google users, 91% like the show. Yeah, it's like a reality show where they're getting something. So you think of your gold rushes or your deadliest catch. Right. This one's about the timber industry. Logger and sawmill owner Kevin and his crew go to extremes for the sake of the family sawmill and their way of life.

But like extreme fishing, you're like, oh, there's a bit of like, what fish is it going to be? Whoa, it's this. But like, it's just trees. They're just there. So you'll watch them every time they've got this big, what's that thing they call Rapunzel called? A yarder.

Yarder. Rapunzel. Rapunzel is what they call their tower. So there's this tower thing right on the back of a truck. Yeah. And they plant it in. And they still haven't explained what happens, but there's like six cables that go out from Rapunzel in different directions.

Yeah. Okay. And they've got to be anchored into the ground on something because then this flying fox goes down it. They tie it around a tree and then this Rapunzel crane yanks it straight back up, yanks up the trees because it's such rough terrain. So they don't cut it. They cut it down.

Right. They're clearing the ones that the last guy cut down because he was just cutting them down willy-nilly but didn't clean them. So now they're yanking them back up. So every time they connect the choker, it's a, is this one going to get up? And then it's all that, like, this one is a history channel. No, not every time.

There's a history channel discovery Nat Geo thing where it's like, atmospheric build that every one of these shows ever has had. Yeah. I don't know if I'm, if you're hooking me in. It's for me. Maybe I'm not the target audience. Chainsaws? Meh. Big trucks. I'm like a kid.

Big trucks, diggers. Duggos. Big sawmill things that cut like perfectly flat pieces of wood on the first flick through. And Fletch is just looking at the show, but he stumbled across an article called What Happened to Hogan's Heroes?

What happened to the cast of Hogan's Heroes? John Banner who played Sergeant Hans Schultz. Hogan! What happened

to him? He'd be dead wouldn't he? He's dead. What about? I'm watching it on Netflix. Okay.

It's on Netflix. Yeah. But it's got those classic like it's got those classic Like It's got these big rough cuts Of where it goes to the ads Where it would have gone

To the ads When it was on the History Channel And then a little Little mini It's not been too bad On Recap so far But Jared's ahead of me So he said

Then it gets Recap heavy Like you know Your air crash investigations And stuff Well I am going to need A new show I've nearly finished SWAT on Netflix

I've been binging that It's so bad But it's so great Just lots of Explosions andinging that. It's so bad, but it's so great. Just lots of explosions and gunfights. It's great. I just watched that Zac Efron doco. Mainly because it was Zac Efron. Did it make you like him more or less?

About the same. Okay. I've always been a bit of a fan. What's the deal of this show? He does like, he goes around the world. He goes to Iceland for one of the episodes and looks at like environmentalism and like sustainability and stuff like that. Did he go on his private jet?

No. He does get topless at one point. Actually a couple of points I think. Yeah right. Because t-shirts are bad for the environment. No he's going swimming. Oh yeah don't swim in a t-shirt. Could drag you down. Thank you Rachel. Thank you, Rachel. Good morning.

Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Where? Vaughan? Fletch and Megan at the moment. Vaughan's making a coffee. Unbelievable. That is the biggest cup I've ever seen. At glacial pace, in walks Vaughan Smith.

With a huge flamingo cup. Yeah, it's a flamingo cup day. Flamingo cup's the biggest cup in the kitchen. It's also one of the nicest cups to drink out of, but it's a three teaspoons of coffee cup. Yeah, she's a big one. Do you need that this morning, do you? Yeah, I just felt like I saw it and I was like, yes, yes.

You don't have to fill it to the top. Today's the day. Beep, beep. I mean, if you don't want a three-teaspoon coffee. I think you've got to fill everything you ever drink out of it has to be filled to the top. That's why they invented short glasses. Yeah, well, that's true. Coming up on the show, before 7 o'clock on the show, we've got a chance for you to win a Fussy Cat prize pack.

Plus, if you can guess correctly, $2,000 cash. Go to our Facebook page now. At the top, you will find a picture of the Fussy Cat kibble. It's a bowl of kibble. Yeah. You've got to tell us how many pieces are in that bowl. Now, we'll tell you higher or lower. If you get it correct, $2,000.

So I think it's going to take a few days for us to nail this. But in the meantime, you can check that out. if you get it correct, $2,000. So I think it's going to take a few days for us to nail this. But in the meantime, you can check that out and we'll play the activator and give you the chance to win that $2,000 cash before seven on the show. The top six is coming up. The top six reasons my mates that smoke weed would never have gone to the Olympics. This is US Sprinter.

Oh, yeah, bit of drama. She was recently dealing with the passing of her mother and one way she coped was to smoke marijuana and now can't go to the Olympics This is US sprinter. Oh, yeah. She was recently dealing with the passing of her mother, and one way she coped was to smoke marijuana, and now can't go to the Olympics, when she had a super strong chance of placing. But those are the rules, aren't they? If you were going to the Olympics,

wouldn't you be super careful about everything you ate and drank? She did say she knew the rules, and she made the choice anyway. But, yeah, it doesn't seem fair. Seems like a stupid rule. I would never have thought that would have been an enhancer. No. No! But they're saying it doesn't. How does that enhance your aerobic abilities? Wouldn't it lessen your

desire to even get to the start line? You'd be like, oh, I'll do it tomorrow. 100%. So Sha'Carri Richardson is kind of the person that everybody's talking about at the moment. I saw a good meme yesterday. Oh, yeah? That a Canadian forest literally caught fire just because of how hot it was.

Yeah. And the Gulf of Mexico's on fire because of a burst pipeline. But the only person getting in trouble for sparking up is an Olympic athlete who's really done nothing illegal. Yeah. All right. Five past six. Next on the show. Four-day working week.

I mean, we don't have it, but it's working well for some people. Okay. That made me think of what day I'd choose to have off if I had a four day week. Friday. Monday. Or would you go Wednesday? No, you wouldn't go Wednesday. No.

Okay. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. The world's largest four-day working week trial has proven so far to be an overwhelming success. Is this in Japan? No. So I was reading in Japan the government there wants companies to start looking at this because you know how they work like insane hours in Japan?

Yeah. Like crazy hours, like 70 something a week. Is that right? 70? That's a lot. Because normally it's 40, isn't it? Yeah. So do you work, how many hours do you work on a four-day week?

35 or 36 hours. Yeah, good. So you've done a few extra on the other days that you work. Yeah. And this is done in Iceland. So there was 1% of the entire population, but it's not a huge population. It's a small, is it 350,000 people live there?

Yeah. But they did it over a few years as well. And apparently productivity has gone through the roof and wellbeing has increased. So they took away a day. I like Iceland. They always do cool stuff. Remember when they were like,

the European banks are like, oh, hey, Iceland, you're in $2 billion debt. And they're like a day. I like Iceland. They always do cool stuff. Remember when they were like, the European banks were like, oh, hey Iceland, you're in $2 billion debt. And they're like, no we're not. They just wrote it all off. Canceled it. I mean, you can do that in a country with $350,000. Yeah. It was good stuff. Don't they have like, they're really sustainable and stuff as well. Well, and they've got

that app as well that you, if you're going to hook up with someone, you just check that they're not your cousin. Yeah, that's a thing. That they're dating at. Oh, that's not a joke? Straight up. It'll tell you when you're like, I'm so-and-so, I'm so-and-so. You put two things and they're like too closely related.

Well, because, yeah, that's like the size of a city here, right? Yeah, they call it the new incest prevention app. Debatedly handy new byproduct of a large online genealogical database about the inhabitants of Iceland. It's translated the apps called The Book of Icelanders.

So you can check that it's not someone you know. Although, wouldn't you know, right? Because of Christmas and family gatherings. Okay, so I've finally found a city close to 300,000 in population. Okay. Christchurch, 381. So that's like the entire population of Iceland.

There's more people in Christchurch than there is in Iceland. Yeah. That's nuts. But 1%, I mean. Does Christchurch have this app? It's called the What School Did You Go To app. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People always come and go,

are you from one of the original five families? It's that app. Are you a descendant of a huge land grabber? Sure am. So yeah, work-life balance and stress were reduced. Burnout was reduced as well. And productivity went through the roof, even though they took away a day.

Wow, okay. So they're looking to implement it for good. Did they take away the same day for everybody? It doesn't say. I was trying to find out if it was a Monday. I think you could choose. Right. I think you just.

Because you'd go Monday, right? And then Tuesday would be the new Monday, but it wouldn't matter because tomorrow's Wednesday. Yeah. And you're halfway through. And you're halfway through the week. And you've only worked one day. Exactly.

Oh, so good. Yeah. But then some people might just take a midweek, like a Wednesday, and then break it up. Apparently, it used to be a six-day working week for factory workers. Oh, really? And you got Sunday off because of Christians. Oh, yeah. But then it got to the point where, in America, there was a large Jewish population, and their

Sabbath is Saturday. So they wouldn't work from Sunday on Friday until Sunday on Saturday. So they were like, well, can we have the Saturday off? And then the people who already weren't working Sunday was like, well, I'm not working if they're not working. And that's how the weekend was born, the five-day work week. So you're saying I could make up a religion that doesn't want me working any day of the week? Is it the Muslim faith that Friday's their holy day? Right.

We can't leave them out. That's a huge portion of the world's population. Take off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I think so. Yeah. And then my new religion, you can't work on a Monday. Oh, my gosh. Oh.

So brilliant. Done. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday it is. Sounds great. And you know what? In a couple of years, I reckon I'll be sick of Tuesday. ZDM's Fletch, Ron it is. Sounds great. And you know what? In a couple of years, I reckon I'll be sick of Tuesday. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan.

Psychologists from the State University of New York have done this study and I'm not sure why. They were curious maybe, but they wanted to know how heterosexual men perceived women with nipple erections. Sometimes when a university study comes out

or a study comes out, I'm like, what? Like, how did they get comes out, I'm like, what? Like, how did they get to that? They were like, why? It's very specific. It's society, right? Yeah. But Vaughan, there are more important things at the moment to worry about.

Oh, yeah, totally. But that's why people who study social sciences, like they are really shown up as the bottom of the sciences really, aren't they? At a time like this. Yeah. Like, you know, the medical sciences are like, how can we invent a more effective respirator?

And the biological sciences are like, how can we, you know, stop this virus? Yeah. I don't know what science covers vaccines. Chemistry science. Yeah. Scientists are like, you know, we've got to invent a vaccine. Social scientists are like,

now what do guys think of girls with arachnids? Yeah. Where is science too? So this study to stop any kind of bias, they didn't show their, and like facial expressions, they didn't show their heads. Okay.

So they're walking around with a box on their head with their pointy naps. No, just their bodies were shown to heterosexual men and they measured the emotional and psychological response from them. Okay. Any ideas? Question, question. So a lady comes out.

A lady? A lady. A lady. And how did they make her... How did they do that? She walked through that... It's photos. A chiller.

She walked through the chiller and they had liquor land. Photos. I thought there was an actual live model. No, who knows? Okay, now I'm with you, Fletch. I think there should have been a live model. There should have been a live model. They come out of the chiller, the Liquor King chiller.

Yeah. And yeah, okay. Yeah, no, photos. So the men look at these photos. Yeah. And they had sexy emotions. It literally says sexy emotions here. Was one of the responses.

Hey, we all saw the Spice Girls wannabe video as a 16 year old. Was that your awakening? And was it just like, what the fuck? What's going on? And Jennifer Aniston on Friends in like the late 90s. She went through a big... It's those singlet tops in the 90s.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She went through a big nipple erection stuff phrase. You know, that was quite an awakening. So, yeah, they measured the response from heterosexual men and they found that men perceived women with nipple erections as more deserving of altruism. That's like giving and being cared for. Yeah, right.

Especially if that altruism involved greater interaction with that woman. That's men on a whole though. And this is my favourite bit. And they expected these same women to behave more altruistically towards them. They've already given you the gift of nipples. What more do you want, sir? This is a lot, just seeing

aroused nipples. That's a lot that goes through men's mind. I would have thought you'd just be like, hot. Well, I think your reaction is hot until you answer a series of questions afterwards and then they draw the more intelligent conclusion.

Yeah. Because they're social scientists. Yeah. Versus men who are still just like, hot. They also believed that women with erect nipples should be included in their social groups. Meanwhile, they did the same test on heterosexual women. With men who have erect nipples or women?

No, women. It was the exact opposite. They did not want to be altruistic towards them and they did not want to include them in their social groups. Because of their pointiness? Wow. As a person that often wears a white shirt here and goes from the studio,

which could be warm through the producers booth, there's always a change of temperature out into the lounge on the way to the bathroom and it's a cold tiled area. from the studio, which could be warm, through the producers. But there's always a change of temperature out into the lounge, out here on the way to the bathroom, and it's a cold, tiled area. I'll get a cold air, and then my nipples get erect. I always feel like I'm being treated a little bit differently. I wouldn't say altruistically. Is he, Megan? Is he? I don't think so.

Well, no, because I go to the bathroom, I shut the thing, and I warm them down in there. Okay. So by the time I get back, you guys can't see them. I can't have that sort of work environment. Next on the show, it's the top six, and there is some controversy ahead of the Olympics. Yeah, the top six reasons none of my mates that smoked weed

would be going to the Olympics. This is after Sha'Carri Richardson has been banned from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. From the oily ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Today's top six deals with the story that Shakara Richardson, an American track and field sprinter,

won't be participating in the 100 metre sprints at the Tokyo Olympics after failing a marijuana drug test. This is how impressive she is. In 2019, when she was a freshman at the Louisiana State University, she ran 100 meters in 10.75 seconds, making her one of the 10 fastest women of all time at 19 years of age. Wow. 2021, so in April this year, she ran a personal best of 10.72

seconds, so she's the sixth fastest woman of all time and the fourth fastest American woman in history. But she's been caught smoking marijuana. So then it came out that she had tested positive for THC following the 100

metre final at the US trials for the Olympics. She said she'd been dealing with the emotional pain and learning the death of her biological mother, as well as just trying to cope with the pressure that she'd found piled on her as everyone started labelling her America's best hope of a medal in the sprints. By the way, one of the fastest women, how tall do you think she is? This is a trick question. She's either going to be real tall or real short.

Well, you would imagine as a sprinter, you're normally quite tall. She's five foot one. Wow. Oh, wow. She's five foot one. She has a motor. He's shorter than me, and I struggle to keep up with Fletch When he walks fast When he walks, yeah

My legs take two steps to your one Well, we need to get Shikari down here She'll be able to keep up with Fletch's bloody giant steps She's a little Sonic the Hedgehog She'll run rings around me So because she smoked weed Yeah That is a banned substance

Yes The THC Yes And I'm googling Now, people are saying that they can't see why it is Neither Like, it's not a steroid It's not a growth hormone And I'm Googling. Now, people are saying that they can't see why it is. Neither. Like, it's not a steroid. It's not a growth hormone.

It's not known for increasing athletic prowess. Typically, it just relaxes people. WADA, the World Anti-Doping Association, their book on banned substances is something like 168 pages long. And the big thing to come out of this is a lot of people are just saying it needs updating

it needs simplifying. Because you always hear about athletes who are like I just had a steak. I didn't do anything I just had a steak. They hid the pills

in my steak like I was a dog. They were giving the meat steroids that's why. And they're just like Duh! Yeah they're like

an absolute beefcake. Absolute monsters. But no I feel really like, duh. Yeah, they're like an absolute beefcake. Absolute monsters. But no, I feel really sorry for her. Yeah, same. Because, yeah, she's... Yeah, but in saying that, if you're going to the Olympics... Yeah, I know. You know you've got to watch everything you put in your body.

I know. Rules are rules. I know. But I've got the top six reasons none of my mates who smoked would ever be going to the Olympics. Because that's the amazing thing. If she smokes weed and she's still one of the six fastest women in history, let her go. And I'm still for, this is what I need.

I'm for a multitude of Olympics. Paralympics, very important. Ordinary person Olympics, very important. Just like me, put me out there for 100. Just to show you how fast they are. Okay. Because I'm not fast. The Gay Olympics? Well, no, gay people can compete at the Ordinary Olympics.

There's absolutely no physical difference. There's the games. They've got their own games. Do they? I think Cher did an opening. You would have loved it. I would have basically died for it. No, you know about this.

We watched videos last time it was on. It was absolutely amazing. Okay. So there's the gay games. Yeah. Ordinary person games. Par it was on. It was absolutely amazing. Okay. So, okay. So there's the gay games. Yeah. Ordinary person games. Paralympics, very, very important.

Yep. I want steroid Olympics. Yep. Where you can just absolutely like take all of the drugs. I want to see someone run 100 meters in five seconds. I want to see the mushroom Olympics. That'd be great. Well, that's under drugs Olympics.

You can do mushrooms if you want. Anything, okay. But they're not allowed to throw a javelin. Okay. And in fact, you're tested. And if you are straight, you're evicted. If you're not on drugs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You think I was talking about the gay games here? Yeah, yeah. I was like, how are you going to test that? Kiss this guy. Oh, God damn it. Imagine the controversy. They've got me. And Robot Olympics.

Because I want to know how close robots are to being better than us at all these sorts of things. Those Boston Dynamics robots are very scary. I know, but we need to see them coming. But then you're giving them incentive to do better. Yeah, true. I'm incentivizing it. No, because the robots that win, we shoot them. I'll tell you what the robots aren't going to be good at.

Swimming. Oh, because they'll fizzle out. Yeah, suck it. Yeah, take that. Oh, what's that youizzle out. Yeah, suck it. Yeah, take that. Oh, what's that you got? Condensation. This is stink for you. So the top six reasons none of my mates who smoke weed would have gone to the Olympics.

Number six. Once one of them spent 30 minutes looking for sunglasses that he was wearing. Not, not. The sunglasses weren't on his head. He was wearing them. Yeah, I've done that. Not on drugs. Yeah. 30 minutes though. No Yeah, I've done that. Not on drugs. Yeah.

30 minutes though. No, it was more like 10. Everyone in the lounge was like, he knows he's wearing them, right? I'm like, he doesn't. Just let him find out. It's important we let them learn by themselves. Much like a Boston Dynamics robot.

He'll figure it out. Number five on the list of the top six reasons none of my mates who smoke weed would be going to the Olympics are because once we had to walk 300 metres to get takeaways and one of them needed to sit down two times. They're not winning a

100 metre sprint at all. They couldn't even walk 300 metres and there was like, it wasn't like a chance of a medal, it was guaranteed fries at the end. And they still needed a couple of sit downs. Number four on the list of the top six reasons none of my mates who smoked weed would be going to the Olympics are because once one of them forgot to get a warrant of fitness

for three years. They forgot for three years. They kept saying, I forgot, you don't have a warrant. They're like, ah, shit, I keep forgetting. I'm like, this ran out like three years ago. Yeah. God. This is more just saying a lot about Hamilton

than it is about anything else. That's a fair call. Number three on the list of the top six reasons none of my mates have smoked. Where do we go to the Olympics? One of them has four unfinished university degrees. So finishing is a bit of an issue. Just stop 10 metres from the end of the race. And be like, I'm done.

I want to do something else now. You're close. Just finish that one. No, I don't want to. I want to throw a shot put. Finish running. I don't want to do something else now you're close just finish that one no I don't want to I want to throw a shot put finish running I don't want to just all you've got to do

is cross the line you're almost there I want to throw a javelin it was a shot put a minute ago don't give him a javelin now I want to throw a discus

just oh my god number two on the list of the top six reasons none of my mates who smoke weed would be going to the Olympics. Number two, one of them once wore a poncho for a whole week

without taking it off, which we worked out at the end of seven days meant they hadn't showered. Yeah. They went poncho week. I don't know. Hideous. I don't know.

It was a cold flat, but I don't know. Number one on the list of the top six reasons none of my mates who smoked weed would be going to the Olympics because one of them still lives with their mum now. Like now. Like at the moment. She'd probably be happy for him to go to the Olympics. It might get him out of the house. Yeah.

For a couple of weeks. Like she'd probably roll the dice on him getting COVID too. Give me some sweat relief if he was in a managed isolation facility for two weeks, even if it was Jetpack. That's today's top six. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. You know when your phone gets to the point where it'll charge in five minutes, but that means it also lasts about five minutes?

Yeah. But it's real convenient when it fully charges in five minutes. Well, now it charged. There's new technology that will allow it to charge in five minutes, but last the whole time. The whole time like it's a fresh newbie. Wow. Because there's different sorts

of charges now. There's like a different amp rating for different things and it'll charge your phone way quicker. That took me a while to work out because I just thought you plug them in, they're all the same. You know you might get like a $1, $2, $3 shop charger. I mean you're probably rolling

the dice that's going to set fire to your house. Are they not all the same? No, so it's the amps in them or the voltage or something. And it's only on some phones that this happens. This doesn't happen on all phones. Some phones aren't capable of charging faster. Like the most expensive iPhone charger, the big

it's like the actual plug into the wall thing is like 60, 70 bucks. Yeah. But it charges, I can get half my iPhone charged in like 20 minutes. Wow. Now, oh, what one are you on? She's still got a button.

I was waiting for that. What one are you on? Shut up, Dick. Let's see if this works. What is that, an iPhone? Six. Eight. Six.

Don't phone shame me. Hold on, that's only one digit. Are you sure you've got that right? iPhone. Shouldn't that be? Do you mean iPhone X because that's Roman numeral for ten, not eight? Eight. Eight?

It's an eight. What one's that? I'm just looking at the numbers here. It's still going to take a day to charge. And then it'll last 20 minutes. It takes like five hours. It's not a day. That's insane.

I always just charge mine overnight. Yeah, same. And the thing I've got that holds it in my car that makes me look like an Uber driver. Yeah. That charges as well. That's why people are always opening your passenger door saying, are you the driver? Driver for car farce.

And I say, what's your startup code? Because that's the other one. Is that Ola? Ola, yeah. You have to give them a code. I don't like that. Same code every time. Shut my ass.

Is it? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So you just remember your specific startup code. Startup code. But that's a broad. When are we getting this? Five minute smartphone charging. You can have it right now if you believe in yourself. No, I didn't see that. But that's a... When are we getting this? Five minute smartphone

charging? You can have it right now if you believe in yourself. No, you can't. I don't think that's how electricity works. You believe in yourself, anything's possible. Don't be a hater. Don't be a disbeliever.

If you want to charge your phone in five minutes, I saw someone charging their phone, and I know this charge your phone in five minutes I saw someone charging their phone And I know this isn't new technology But I saw someone charging their phone off a solar panel Oh okay So was that taking forever? No it was actually like new solar technology So it was like as quick as from the wall

But you had to unfold it So to be like right if you were going like hiking or camping And you had to unfold it. So to be like, right, if you were going like hiking or camping and you had no other way, but literally like, they were like, fold, fold, fold, fold. And it was this big thing and then they were like, charging my phone in the wild. I was like, you've got a huge solar panel with you too.

And they didn't say how much the solar panel weighed. Yeah, right. Okay. They look heavy. Counties Monaco police are warning people that this is happening in Auckland, but it could be happening elsewhere in the country because... Panic! No!

No, but seriously, like, this is something that could happen to me. I never really thought about it. But thieves are stealing handbags from cars. So when you are reversing out or you're just leaving a petrol station, people will park behind you. They get out of the passenger side, run up to your car, open the door, grab your bag, kind of before you even know what's happening. Yeah, right.

And they're doing this in like malls and stuff. Malls and car parks. Yeah, and your car, my car locks when it gets to 30 Ks. And if you don't have an automatic lock, would you even lock your car door? You know, it's not like you start driving and you lock your door. I go, boom. Do you actually lock it? I pop it down with my elbow.

But my central locking is broken. So the back doors are probably still open and the passenger's doors may be open. Yeah. Right, and so they're grabbing the bag and shopping or whatever's on the passenger seat. And boosting. Wow. And you imagine that would happen so fast.

You'd be like, what just happened? And they're gone. And if you'd just got in your car from the mall, wouldn't everything be in your handbag? Yeah. Your phone. I'd get like a couple of half-wrapped Tammys. Some nail scissors, Panadol.

What else is in there? Some mints out of the bag. Mints? Oh, mint. Mint. Do you have your handbag here? No. It's not in my backpack.

Honestly, there's stuff in there that's, oh, like a million lip balms. But then our backpacks are kind of like our handbags. Well, no, but mine's just for work. It's just got my laptop in. Antihistamine. You must have a pocket with all this just shit. Oh, yeah, I've got some panties in there. Some panties and some Neuros.

Oh, I thought you said panties. I was like, what? Fletcher always carries a spare pair of panties. He never knows when he's going to soil himself. Well, you know, because I had that incident on the Lime Scooter in Prague with the Camp Lobacter, and ever since, a spare pair of underwear. I've got a coffee sachet. I've got a small whiskey.

Nice. A postcard from Hobbiton. Okay. By the way, I still haven't replied. That makes me feel terrible. Okay, we'll do that. My asthma inhaler. Okay.

I've got a Prezi card. Okay. I've got some antibiotics from, like, last year. These air plugs, I always steal these at TVNZ. They've got a bigzi card. Okay. I've got some antibiotics from like last year. These earplugs, I always steal these at TVNZ. They've got a big dispenser thing on the wall. If you guys want any of these, let me know. I'll grab some because they just sit around. I don't even know who you are.

Oh, I've got some morning sickness spray. I've got a cable tie. Are you just trying to... This just shows I haven't emptied out my bag. And you're trying to put people off stealing from you because none of this is great so far. None of this. I've got a Rebel sports receipt.

At the social media desk, Carwain, you've actually experienced this. Somebody tried to enter your car. Yeah, so my friend and I were driving in Christchurch when I lived there. Crimeschurch? Do people still call it that? No. Did they ever call it that? No, locals were calling it Crimeschurch.

I did get the warning that that was like where all the crime happened when I moved there. Right. And someone, yeah, they tried to open our door as we sat in traffic and like come in and we were so terrified. My friend just boosted even though it was a red light. Was the door locked? Wow, that's very Cape Town, isn't it?

Very, very, very... Yeah, yeah. Wow, all right, well... They probably just wanted to know what school you went to. I wasn't even from Christchurch, so. They would have blown their minds. In Auckland, there have been 25 incidences of this happening. So just if you're getting into your car in a mall or car park, lock the door.

Botany and pop the toy toy is a word to it. When you said it's happened, I thought it was one of those things that had happened once. And we just decided. We're panicking. That it made a great panic headline and a bit of clickbait. So the media were like sinking their teeth into it. Well, still that. But 25 times, that's...

That's a lot. That's a few. Lock your doors. Be careful. What about... Look. Always, if you've got a cigarette lighter, always just keep popping it until it's hot.

So if someone tries to break it, you can grab it and just... Burn them. Give them a burn. Burn them. And then you can say to the police you're looking for a criminal with a burn mark.

A coiled burn mark in the centre of their forehead. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Generation X. Before that they didn't have letters. It was just boomers.

Boomers. Yep. Before that the silent generation or the great generation. Oldie timers. Oldie timers. Yep.

Before that cowboys. Before that knights in armour. Yep. Before that timers. Before that, cowboys. Before that, knights in armour. Before that, cavemen. Yeah. Toga wearing Jesus, guys. It was cavemen and then toga wearing Jesus, guys. And then cowboys.

Big beards. Big beards, shirts. Big beards, shirts. Then telescope generation where they looked through telescopes. Yep. Pirates. Pirate Generation. Pirate Generation.

Yep. Soul Traders. Yep. Cowboys. And then Boomers. Oldie times. Boomers. Yes.

And then Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z. I'm actually looking at a chart that would have told me the exact ones I'm after. Lost Generation, Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y millennials, Gen Z, and now we have a name for the next one, Generation Alpha. The Alphas. Now, this would be your two daughters, right? My children will be in Gen Alphas.

It's the first one entirely born in this century. And in a connected world? Because Gen Z generally accepted the end of the 90s to 2012 about. Right, okay. Gee, there is some crossover as always with these generations, but Generation Alpha, the early 2010s to the mid-2020s. So this is the primary aged kids right down to like the babies

that are going to be born over the next few years. Fashions are alpha. That's cute. I'm trying to think of a smart-ass comment here. This is the thing, you've carefully got to tiptoe around it to insult you but not

your child. Too much time's passed. You missed it. Yeah, I feel like I missed my window. You certainly have missed your window there. I put some hours into this this afternoon. Get a ready list. Vaughan will come back in the group chat at 5 o'clock.

Thought of a joke. I've got it. I've got it. I've got 10 to roll with. I've got 10 to go on from here. So this would be, I mean, obviously you're Gen Z. Yes. This would be the most connect, born into absolute connectivity.

iPads. 100%. Internet, phones, everything. The great example of this with my kids is we were making fun of Shadow's dad. Now that's something every generation can enjoy. Yeah. Because he puts a dust sheet over his TV

every night. Every night. What? Are you kidding me? He puts a dust sheet rather than dust the television. He puts a dust sheet over his TV.

What is a dust sheet? It's just a sheet. Like a bed sheet. A bed sheet. Or like plastic. No, no, no. Like a bed sheet. Why does the TV

get special treatment? Because he doesn't want dust on the screen. Why doesn't he just wipe it? But he doesn't want dust on the screen. Why doesn't he just wipe it? But he doesn't want to wipe it because that risks scratching and these screens aren't meant to be touched. Now, apparently this has been since CRT TVs. Even as rough as this.

So imagine this is good stuff. There's three generations. There's Sade's mum, Sade, and Indy. Three generations of women ripping him for putting a sheet over his TV. It was beautiful to see these generations working. Come together. And combo.

Yep. And just going at him for the sheet on the TV and Sade said, he's always done this and you know, another thing he used to have was a tape rewinder.

He used to have a specific machine to rewind VHSs because he thought it would take the life out of the VHS machine if you'd around them in there. So he bought a specific device to do this and Indy's like, what's that? What are you talking about?

And I was like, tapes. And she's like, I've got no idea. And that occurred to me. She's familiar with discs because she's seen games come on discs and we used to have some dvds when she was real young yeah but then i she said what's that and i had to try to explain to her a tape like a vhs she's like well why do you keep calling them vhs's i was like never questioned it i said the vcr video cassette recorder vhHS, video home system, maybe.

But then it's not the system. It's just the cassette was the VHS, right? Yeah. I'm not wrong about that. Am I? Yeah. No. It's a video home system.

Yeah. It's a video home system. Yeah. But it wasn't the system. It was just the tape. So anyway, she's like, what? And she's like, how many videos fit on it? I was like, one.

She's like, what? And I was, she's like, how many videos fit on it? I was like, one. She's like, what do you mean? I was like, well, you never, you could make your own at home, tape it off the TV. She's like, what? Why don't you just watch it on demand? Watch it on YouTube. I was like, there was no YouTube. There was no internet.

Early enough, there was like, the computers were just like a black screen with green writing. And she was just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And it just was a lot. But she'll never. Generation Alphas will never know slow internet. They'll never know life without the internet. No, we live in rural, so they're very familiar with the ADSL videos.

Right, okay. But they won't know dial-up. No. But there must be some that are still on dial-up. But yeah, it's just that. So who's their beef going to be with, do you think? Because, you know, at the moment it's millennials against. Gen Zers.

Gen Zers. They'll be like, oh, Gen Zers is so lame. And it's boomers against everyone, isn't it? Yeah, it's boomers against the world. That's because their back's on the wall and there's no one behind them anymore. They're the next cab to leave the rank. The cab being life and the rank being not being alive anymore.

So that is just them versus the world. Today is getting off so scot-free, and I've said it a lot, Gen X. They're just getting through this. They didn't grow up in any, like, end of the war time when everything was, they had the sweet spot. They had plastic bags. Yeah, they did. They were there for the start of plastic bags.

Housing. We could blame them for climate change. And they would go, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. No, remember, it's not our fault. It's their business. Take some responsibility, Jenny. Keep your head down. Well, good for you. You look happy and healthy. Naughty. Take some responsibility, Janet. Keep your head down.

Well, there are parents out there that are calling for one of the world's biggest companies, Amazon, to change the name of its home smart speaker, Alexa. Oh, yeah. In fact, I'd like to know, now, if your name is Alexa and you're listening, could you give us a quick call? I would like to know the opinion of an Alexa. Alexa, call ZM now. Especially if you're... People hate.

Okay, so this is the reason parents have an issue with Amazon. Because you want to hear from Alexa to see if this happens to them. Yeah. Even like what it's like being yelled at now. Because I remember watching Schitt's Creek, what, last year. And it would always come on because I've got Alexa right under the TV. Right. And it would just start talking.

Even if it said Alexis. Yeah. Really? Yeah. A couple of times it would. So, yeah, parents are asking Amazon to consider a name change because in this story that I'm referring to, UK parents have revealed that their daughter's name, Alexa,

has resulted in harassment and bullying at school because kids would be like, Alexa, do this. Oh, that's tough. Alexa, what's the weather doing today? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you, do this. Oh, that's tough. And tease her. Alexa, what's the weather doing today? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can see how. I did, when that came out, I was like, that's too common a name. I feel like it had to be like something random.

Yeah, like Apple called theirs Suri. No one's called Suri apart from Tom Cruise's daughter. Suri. Yeah, I mean, she's the only one that's going to have an issue with that. But I thought that was quite random. Right, well, Alexa's mother has referred to her as Heather. So I think they've changed the kid's name. To Heather!

The kids changed their name. And so they refer to her as Heather now, not Alexa. Because, yeah, it's synonymous with calling out commands. And so she's being teased at school. It's not good, is it? Oh, that's not good. Teasing's never good. And we're certainly not condoning it.

But, yeah, you can imagine it would be an easy, it would be a gimme, wouldn't it? Yeah. And the kids would have come first, right? Because Alexa's what? So 2015, Alexa came out. Okay. And that year, 6,050 baby girls in the United States were named Alexa.

Or the rate being 311 per 100,000 babies born. Has it gone down? Yes. So this was from 2018. It had declined in popularity by 33% already. And they said it was a very sharp drop off. Yeah, because that's quite a popular name. It's timeless.

It was like Adolf in the 1920s, you know, ripper of a name. Yeah, did you see a sharp decline on the graph there? Bit of a drop. Yeah, bit of a drop in the 30s

into the 40s and ever since. Failed to bounce back. Yeah. And they said Siri at the same time, the name was at about 120 female babies

per 100,000. Oh no, sorry, no, that's all up. So six per 100,000 versus 300 per 100,000. Oh, no, sorry. No, that's all up. So six per 100,000 versus 300 per 100,000 for Alexa. So Alexa is a significantly more popular name. And it has lots of spin-offs like Alexi, Lexi, Alexis. You know?

Oh, my God. So many spin-offs. So many. And that would be, you know, like that would set it off as well. You'd go Lexi, though. But does Lexi set it off? I don't know. And who's sexy talking their Amazon robot like that?

Like, Lexi, can you look for a meatloaf recipe? Like, that's a bit like, Lexi, what day is next Tuesday? ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. A poll has been done of the most annoying mispronounced words. Top 10. And performance isn't on there at all.

And that grinds my gears. How did they do this list? Did they survey a whole lot of people? Yeah. And 61% said they found it annoying when other people said words wrong, but 65% were too embarrassed to correct them. Do you correct people? Yeah. And 61% said they found it annoying when other people said words wrong, but 65% were too embarrassed to correct them. Do you correct people? Depends how well you know them, right?

If I knew them well, I might. Yeah, if it was you, I'd be like, ha-ha, you're saying it wrong, dick. But if you don't, then you're just like, oh, don't say anything. 35% said they can't resist correcting their friends and family. So here is the top 10 most irritating mispronunciations. Now this is going to be... That's one. This is going to be awkward if we've been saying some of these wrong.

I think I've got at least two. Okay. All right. Hit us. The first one is... I want to say it right. Triathlon. Triathlon. Triathlon. Not triathlon. Is that what people say? Triathlon want to say it right. Triathlon. Triathlon.

Triathlon. Not triathlon. Is that what people say? Triathlon. I say triathlon. Triathlon is what people say. It's chucking an extra syllable in there and an A in the middle of it. Oh, there's not an R.

There's not an R. So it's triathlon. Yeah. Triathlon. Triathlon. It's too difficult. Triathlon. Well, it's not really difficult, is it?

We've just said it both ways. Triathlon. So triathlon is wrong and it's commonly mispronounced. Triathlon. Yeah. it's not really difficult, is it? We've just said it both ways. Triathlon. So triathlon is wrong and it's commonly mispronounced. Triathlon. Yeah. Go right. Yep. Okay.

No way. Number nine. Accessory. Accessory. How do people say that wrong? Accessory. Accessory. No one says it.

I've never heard of it. Accessory. No. Number eight. February. February. February. How do you say that wrong? People say February. February. February. February February February How do you say that right?

People say February February February Library No that's wrong Because there's an R After the B February

February But no one sees it It's like library Yeah Library They don't go to the library They don't go somewhere To the library

Actually neither of those Are on the list But commonly mispronounced No Damn it Et cetera Et cetera Actually, neither of those are on the list, but commonly mispronounced. X, no, damn it, et cetera. Et cetera. Because there's no X, eh? It's et cetera.

Et cetera. Et cetera. Et cetera. Like when you write E-C-T. Yeah. E-C-T, E-C-T. There's no X. We just often say et cetera. Et cetera.

Et cetera. It's a Kiwi language though, isn't it? This next one, I didn't even know that the word was this. Tender hooks. Oh, you were talking about that. I know this has been a fact of the day, right? Sometimes I don't listen. You go on and on.

I'm like, oh, yeah. Tender hooks. Tender hooks. Because what's its origins? Tender hooks. Butchery. Yeah, because that's tender, mate. Yeah.

Tenderhooks. That's commonly mispronounced to be tenderhooks. So, oh, we're on tenderhooks here. No, you're not. You're on tenderhooks. Tenderhooks. Number six, nuclear. Nuclear.

Yeah, nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. So it's nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear So it's nuclear Nuclear Nuclear Nuclear Yeah

Number five Arctic No did I say that right? Yes Arctic The Arctic Because you know Americans say Antarctica

Antarctica Antarctica Yeah that grinds me And we're like Antarctica I want to go see the penguins In Antarctica Antarctica What is right out of those two? Are we right or are they right? Because that that grinds me. And we're like, Antarctica. I want to go see the penguins in Antarctica. Antarctica. What is right out of those two?

Are we right or are they right? Because that really grinds me. And Antarctica. Antarctica. I think we're- Antarctica. They're just hitting different bits. We're both saying it the same.

No one's chucking an extra letter in there, but they're like Antarctica because they- Okay. Yeah. So number four, specially instead of especially. People are just dropping the Especially Especially I especially like to

Is um Pacifically on there? Can you just shush Please we're at number four Number three Espresso Instead of expresso There's no X in that

Espresso Espresso Can I have an expresso? Can I have an expresso? Can I have an expresso? How many times would people say that at the cafe when you own that?

It's so annoying. Espresso. Would it be at least a couple of times a day? Easily. Yeah. I don't think anyone ever said it right.

Espresso. Espresso. Probably instead of probably is number two. That is a Kiwi institution. We know it's probably. We're just like. Say probably.

I only say probably sometimes. Say I love saying probably. Probably. P-R-O-L-L-Y. It's actually a Kiwi institution. We know it's probably. We just say prolly. I always say prolly sometimes. I love saying prolly. Prolly, P-R-O-L-L-Y. Prolly. Prolly. I probably just, yeah. Prolly. And number one, pacifically instead of specifically.

Yeah. I feel like that's just a fun one. I pacifically wanted to do that instead of specifically. Specifically. We know there's an S. It's just more fun that way. God, that whole list had me on tenderhooks the whole time. Someone said they want to

arks, guys. Arks. Arks is on the list. Arks. This is a crazy story. A wife travelled a lot for work and so on this particular day, it was no different. Woke up early to catch an early

morning flight. Didn't want to wake her husband, so she gave him a wee kiss and said, I love you. And then he went back to sleep. She went to the airport. Catches the flight and then that night after a busy day doing whatever she's doing, she sends her a message and says, love you, good night. Didn't get a response back.

So she's like, oh, must have gone to sleep or something or watching TV, I don't know. But went back the next day and said she felt a warm flutter coming around the corner to like come to her house as you do when you're getting home after you've been away. Pulls into the drive and noticed that her husband's car's not there. So she's like, okay, must be at the gym or something. Got home, went inside, was exhausted, got a packet of chips from the pantry and flopped onto the couch,

looked up and noticed that the TV... He's dead! Oh. The TV's not there. She's like, that's weird. And then when she looked around, she realised that the dining room table had gone as well. And she's like, oh my God, we've been burgled.

Yep. Someone's broken in. I don't know why they want the dining room table. gone as well. And she's like, oh my God, we've been burgled. Someone's broken in. I don't know why they want the dining room table. It might have been fancy. So she went to her bedroom to see if her jewellery had gone, but it was all there. Her jewellery, her expensive perfumes were there. So she picked up the phone to call her husband to see what's going on.

And it goes straight to Aunt's phone. It turns out that he had had enough of the relationship and had just absolutely ghosted. Now, hold on. The dining room table's a two-man lift. Someone had helped him ghost. Even if it was light, they're very awkwardly sized. Yeah, unless it was just a round little table

and he could have grabbed it. Well, let him have it then. To his, I mean, he did leave a note. Oh, okay, what did the note say? He left a note and it just said that he didn't want to be married anymore and he wanted different things

and he hoped I would have a happy life. Wow, like couldn't even have a conversation face to face. Like wasn't picking up her calls, didn't text back. And how long, so they were married. How long were they, does it say how long they were together?

It doesn't. But yeah, they were married and they were living together. So it's at least got to be a few years. And he's had enough. And then just literally ghost. She said she had no idea. There was no prepping for this. Like she literally kissed him and said love you when she left to go to the airport. And that's it.

He's a ghost. He's gone in the night. That's so cowardly. At least he left a note. Because when some people ghost out of a relationship, they're just gone. Yeah. No, no. At least you know that that's.

You've got a bit of closure. He doesn't want to be with you anymore. Like he hasn't I mean it's not as if he got kidnapped because the TV went. He's not really sending mixed messages. He took the TV and he left a note. Did she end up finishing the chips?

No word on the chips. I hope so. He left her the chips though. That's a respectful departure. I'd take all the snacks, probably. I just find this so fascinating, this story. At least, like, at least have a phone call. I mean, it would suck to be dumped over a phone call,

but at least it's better than that. At least you can have a conversation. And a half-empty house. Being ghosted by someone you've been on, like, two dates with, something. But being ghosted by somebody who you've been on like two dates with something, but being ghosted by somebody. Your husband. Who you've established a relationship with. Even if it's a few months,

like people ghost after a few months and they're just like, and you have this really good connection and then all of a sudden they're gone and people are like, well, what's happened? What did I do? You need to learn to read connections better.

If you think it was going swimmingly. Well, I just love to take some calls on this. Like if you're listening, have you ever been ghosted out of a relationship? Or do you know of this happening to someone? Yeah. Like here in New Zealand? And like a serious relationship. Oh, yeah.

You'd expect better. This woman was married to this man. Yeah. And they did eventually get a letter from the lawyer being like, so can you sign this? Yeah. Madness. Men, eh?

Oh, my God. I've had enough. Yeah. Men, eh? I'm not willing to say that just in case some woman messaged in. I'm angry at men, but I can't get enough. You like those bad boys, don't you? I'm furious at men, but I'll go back for more.

I hate them, but I want them. All right, well, 0800DARLSATM9696. Are you saying that this, do you think we'll only hear from women that men have ghosted? No, I was saying I'm not willing to say it's only men. Okay. Because I think women probably have done it too. Open up to the phone lines, 0800DARLSATM. Give us a call now.

You can text as well, 9696. Have you been ghosted out of a relationship or do you know of someone that's just ghosted and they've never heard from them? We're talking about when you've been ghosted in a relationship. A woman was ghosted by her husband. He literally just took off, took the TV and the dining table and she had no idea.

Yeah. Chris, your dad got ghosted. He did indeed. I was down at university, and he gave me a call one day and said he was worried about mum. Had I heard from her or seen her or anything like that? And I said no. It turned out it was October, and I said,

oh, did my brothers just graduate school? And he said, oh, yeah, that was like a couple of days ago. I'm like, I'm really sorry, Dad. I think my mind might have left you. And she did. What? So she just hung around until your younger brother? Hung around until my brother's graduated school,

and she disappeared for about two years, three years. Did she keep in contact with you, though? Nope. No one? Off the grid, completely. And then so she reappeared two years later. Where was she? Was she in, like, a hippie commune somewhere?

Yeah, close to it. But yeah, I think she went off the rails. Just couldn't do with life and just decided to went. I'm out. Wow. That's great. All right, Chris. So she literally hung in there.

My dad was just blown away. He just had no idea whatsoever. You know, came home. He's like, boys are graduating. We're going to go move down, you know, a beach, a batch, something like that. Yeah. And he just went, oh, my God. Yeah.

Wow. Chris, thank you for sharing. A lot of stories and a lot of texts coming through. My friend and her five-year-old went to visit her mum for the afternoon, got back to no furniture and a letter with the instructions on how she could get money from WINS with all the application forms and stuff. Married for years with a child and he just upped and ghosted.

Wow. Wow. Wow. I had a boyfriend that I was staying for five years and then one day I just stopped hearing from him. I tried to track him down but just couldn't even find any trace of him online.

Five years and just ghosted. How do you just... These conversations are too hard for people, obviously. But also for five years, what? You never met any friends or family or, you know, find no trace of them online means that they've got no, you know, mutual connection. Talking about if you've ever been ghosted at the end of a relationship. Serious relationship.

It was the middle of a relationship. It was. You ended up by ghosting it. Some amazing stories and texts coming through. Anonymous, you were ghosted after how long? This week? Yeah. Hi, first of all, long time listener, first time caller.

Hey! Welcome, welcome Anonymous, welcome. You're like, finally I can tell the story. Exactly. So we've been dating for around about two, two and a half years, I can't quite remember now. And we decided that we would live together over summer.

And I went home for Christmas. And we kind of had like a little tuffle over the phone. And then he just stopped talking to me. And then you never saw him again? I saw him maybe like once or twice passing in the street, but we never like talked about breaking up nope that's after two and a half years yeah yeah it was all very very strange wow if you don't mind then you can tell tell me to bugger off what was the argument on the phone about uh i think he was talking about one of his friends that was like like, really in love with his girlfriend and how he, like,

couldn't understand how someone could be that in love. And I was like, oh, okay. Hi, I'm here. Oh. That was a little warning sign. That was a red flag. Yeah. Anonymous thinks you're cool.

Rayno, what happened? Hey, how's it? So, yeah, my father-in-law was married for about 30 years. Yeah. Lost their one son, unfortunately. And about eight months later, his wife decided she's had enough, left him a little note, said she's going to the mall, and took the spare cash, took the car, and just disappeared.

And he's never seen her since? No, so she did make contact about probably three, four years later. But in that time, he had met someone else and got married again. Yeah. That lasted about two and a half, three years. And she did the exact same thing to him,

left him a little note, took the cash, and disappeared out of town. Oh, my God. You shouldn't took the cat and disappeared out of town. Oh my God. He shouldn't have told her what the first woman did. It was a great idea. She's like, I'll do that one day.

Amazing. Rayno, thanks for your call. Some other text messages. This one, an Instagram response. Someone said, yeah, got ghosted. After a little while,

found out he went to China. I contacted him. He said, you can only email me. No other forms of communication. Okay. So I don't know what the deal was.

I have been ghosted to end a relationship. We've been together four months. Everything was wonderful. He was hugely involved with my family. He went to work for the week. He worked away and I just never heard from him again. A few weeks later, I reached out in the hope of a reply and eventually got one saying he was falling in love

and he got scared. And then he blocked me and I found out a few weeks later, I reached out in the hope of a reply and eventually got one saying he was falling in love and he got scared. And then he blocked me and I found out a few weeks later that he was actually seeing another girl the whole time. Oh, so when he said I was falling in love, it was with someone else. Someone said, I'm going through this at the moment. After six and a half years together, we were talking about firewood

and then he walked out the yard and got in his ute and left and I thought he was going to go split wood and I just haven't heard from him since. Oh my god, when was that? Wait, did he come back and get his stuff? Whoa, he got his ute? Is he dead in a ditch somewhere?

Did he crash? How do you know that that person isn't dead? You just need closure, right? Just say, I don't, I'm not here anymore. Tell them to message in more details. I need to know more. Have they, like, gone to the police and done a missing person? My parents were married for over 20 years.

My mum and I went away on a girls' weekend, and we came back and Dad had moved all of his stuff out but left the wedding ring behind, and that was that. Dad went ghost. Wow. Some people are really shirking these conversations, aren't they? Yeah. Someone messaged in saying, yeah, some of these people are definitely dead.

Look, if you file a missing persons report, if someone just leaves and... My mum ghosted my dad after 30 years Of marriage She just took off one weekend and we all had no idea where she went Then the first time anybody heard from her Was when she asked dad for a divorce We think she's lesbian because she's moved in with a lady And they've shared a room for 10 years But denies it and still won't contact us

But she's ghosted us kids and her family And everybody Wow, wild I can't call but my boyfriend Of three years didn't answer any of my calls us kids and her family and everybody. Wow. Wild. I can't call, but my boyfriend of three years didn't answer any of my calls or messages the minute New Zealand went into lockdown for no apparent reason, and I just have no idea from him.

It was a tough time. There was a lot of emotion at that time. He was like, this is my moment. He's like, this is a government-sanctioned breakup. Three years. Like, you'd be living together, right? Maybe not, though. But maybe that's the sign, right? Maybe not, though.

But maybe that's the sign, right? I'm going to admit to doing this, but I didn't think it was bad, okay? Okay. Your Honour, around half of Kiwis aged between 18 to 39 have admitted anyway that they have... Which means there's at least another 20% that won't admit it. Yeah. Because they think it's a trap.

Sounds like it's a trap. Yeah. Have checked in on a partner or ex-partner online without their consent, which they are calling this cyber stalking. Without their consent! It's not like you're going to go, hey. If someone, what do you text them? Be like, hey,

I was just thinking about you and I'm about to give your Instagram a thorough going over. Yeah, if it's on public, then you have every right to go through someone's Instagram, right? If you're friends with them. Yeah. Even if you're not, if it's an open public profile on Instagram, it's fair game. Have at.

Or is it not? Apparently, this is cyber stalking and it's problematic. The normalisation of this bad behaviour is alarming, says the senior director at Norton LifeLock. Everything's problematic. Lighting a stack of tyres on fire, problematic for the environment. You know, everything's... You can't do anything these days.

It's not like the good old days. They're saying it's evolving into the fact that it's just expected, but I think that's a savvy thing, right? We know if we're going to put stuff online, we have to be aware that people are going to look at it. Yeah. And that's why you get told to lock down your Facebook so that people can't cyberstalk you.

And anything you put on the gram, you expect people to be able to see. If you were going to talk to someone on a dating app, and you want to meet them, that's something you do, right? Go to their gram. To see that they're legit, to see what kind of person they are. If they don't want you to do it. It's making a general inquiry. If they don't want you to do it, it's private.

And if they've got a public gram, that's your consent, right? Or if their new partner makes them delete you as a friend, then that's your consent. Right? Or if their new partner makes them delete you as a friend, then that's just a challenge. That's just like, okay, new guy, I'll find a way around this security. You know? Yeah, right. I'm going to see what's happening.

I mean, if you took it a step further and remembered your ex's password and then went into that, that's a crime. That's actually illegal. You're not allowed to access someone else's email. You know, doing a light. I mean, when you say cybersalk, it makes it sound bad. So how many people admitted this

in New Zealand? Half. Half of 18 to 39 year olds. So that's a very specific age and when you get over 40, it starts to decline. Only 18% of people would admit as stalkers. They don't know how. That's exactly what I thought. God damn it.

Can you update your profile picture? You know, if you're trying to stab a gawk at someone and their profile picture is some blurry thing from 2012, you're making this hard. Do you remember when you could put in someone's phone number and it would bring up their profile? Yeah. They took that away.

And then they were like, this isn't a good idea. For this exact reason. Producers, how do we feel about this? Have we all participated in this? Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Do you think it's stalking or is that a bit harsh? It's not stalking.

That belittles the actual problem of stalking. Well, yeah, it did actually say, and people obviously have a problem with doing it in person. If you're doing it online, it's fine, but they said they would do it in person. You're not going to like go and... But what's the in-person equivalent? Like go around to their house and like...

Peeping through the window. Yeah. It's not even comparable. No. No, because they haven't put those pictures out there. Okay, what about if you knew where they worked and you did a walk-by? That's weird.

That's weird as well, right? Yeah. Why did your face then agree with what you just said? Your face said, no, that's not weird. If you know there's someone hot working somewhere and you do a walk-by, don't claim you've never done that. Don't claim. You went out of your way to go to their workplace.

Oh, don't. Not for. Excuse me. When are we talking? What time period are we talking? Like, no, but when I was single. That's just like, that's just perusing them. See, I think how many people are lying.

I'm fine with that. Okay. I thought you were talking about like going and like walking past an ex's workplace. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, no, that's creepy as all hell. No. I don't know if you just go in there and you happen to be there. That's fine. But don't go out of your way to do that. That's weird. like, you know, that's creepy as all hell. I don't know if you just go in there

and you happen to be there, that's fine, but don't go out of your way to do that, that's weird. Okay, Executive Intern Anya, what do we feel about this?

Are you part of the 50% of New Zealanders that have stalked, cyber stalked somebody? Absolutely. Yeah. On a daily basis. You ever can't find

anything on the usual so you hit up LinkedIn. Yeah, and then they can see that you've seen and they don't pay what's on your account. Only if they've got hit up LinkedIn. Yeah, and then they can see that you've seen and they don't pay whatsoever. Only if they've got

a professional account. Yeah, only rich people on LinkedIn. I don't know who's paying for that LinkedIn professional account. I have actually

been in the room when Vaughan was hit up about stalking someone on LinkedIn. And they said, I noticed you viewed my profile and that's when

Vaughan learnt about. I was like, how does that work? And they told me. So do you not know when they have a professional account? No you can't tell from the outside if they've got a professional account. But then LinkedIn is such a

little tease. Every now and then LinkedIn will send me, it's a dirty little tease LinkedIn will send me a notification saying 16 people viewed your profile and you click on there and it's like here's two of them. I'm keeping the rest a secret unless you pay for me.

And I'm like, I'm not paying for you. Tell me who those 14 people were. How many people pay just because they want to see? I bet lots of them. Okay. And Producer Jared,

you would have cyber stalked back in the day? Nah. Never? Nah, not once. Are you lying? Yeah. 100%. Yeah. I think that's the thing. The other 50% in the

survey are lying. 100%. Yeah. Especially if you were back in your single days, if you were chatting to someone on Tinder, wouldn't you check up on Instagram and make sure they're legit, right? Yeah, but I'm not very good at finding people, so I would just legit be like, hey, what's your Instagram?

But then at least they know what about checking up on an ex to making sure they're not living their best life without you nah neither nah neither although your ex does have some great photos in the snow yeah I see that you like them I see that you like them

look at this LinkedIn's giving me a little bit more of a taste this month of who's been Eloise Braithwaite. I don't even know who you are, but you've looked at my profile. Stop stalking me. Nikki Perry. Stop stalking me. Leave me alone. Takeshi Suzuki.

Oh, I like your last name. Next on the show. Stop stalking me. A mum is in trouble for a lunchbox edition. This is probably the most Kiwi thing that could happen. ZDM's Fletch, Ronan Megan. Every now and then I think a mum will just throw a cat amongst the pigeons. And I personally love watching the scattering, the shitting, the feathers, the kerfuffle. A mother has put on

an Instagram story her child's lunchbox. I just wouldn't. There's so many things I'm like, I'm not putting that up. I'm not putting that up because everyone

will have something to say. Oh, yeah. I would never put a picture of the lunchbox up just because I feel like everyone would come for me. Crackers. Okay, this is what's in the lunchbox.

Cheese. Is that alright? Not the problem. Apple slices. Not the problem. Pre-sliced. Yeah, pre-sliced apples. I've got a problem with that. Just get your kids to eat an apple. You're going to grow up as an adult.

You're not going to know how to attack an apple. Eat the whole core too. Maybe they can have a couple of slices at. Yeah, eat the whole core too. Yeah. Eat everything. No, but then maybe they can have a couple of slices at play lunch and then the rest at lunch. No, it goes brown. It goes brown by lunchtime. Yeah, it'll go brown.

It'll go brown by like morning tea. I'm going to need a refrigerated airtight unit. Is that what they call the first one, morning tea? I don't know. Playtime. Or is it called playtime? Morning playtime. Recess, but that's American.

Don't call it recess. So apple slices, crackers, cheese. Eyebrows may have been raised at what looks to be a chocolate muffin with chocolate icing and gummy bears as decorations. Oh, yum. Don't cast judgment. If that was in my lunchbox as a kid, I would nom that up at morning interval. But I've heard from parents who have said that, like,

a chocolate muffin has got them a letter home from school, been like, hi there. Hi there, we're the school. Please send chocolate muffins. Someplace once, Indy got asked not to take them more than twice a week. What? Chocolate muffins. That would have as much sugar on it, and it is like a blueberry muffin.

And then there's a moogert in there. That's like a sucky pouch. So far this is fine. It'll be warm by lunchtime. So far this lunchbox is fine. And then rounding out the ingredients in the lunchbox, a zero alcohol Pals. This is Pals' attempt to still be drank

Dry July During dry July There's quite a few of those drinks That are doing the dry July Zero alcohol Yeah But it still looks like a Powell Just aesthetically that pale purple

Goes really well with the moogert It adds a bit of colour to the lunchbox There's no alcohol in it This mum knew right There's no alcohol in it. This mum knew, right? There's no alcohol in it. I honestly think it's a piss take anyway because if you look, it takes up so much of the lunchbox. There's no like sandwich or something like the main part

of the lunch. I think this was for a lol. Right. But of course, now it's in the media. Of course, how dare she? How dare she? So yeah, there was a bit of a social media set too and there's stories about it and blah, blah, blah. There is the law that you're not allowed to market

zero alcohol things to children, right? Or to people underage. Yeah. Do you remember the supermarkets were asking for ID for that alcohol-free wine, the sparkling fruit grape juice? Oh, yeah, yeah. And people were like, that's so stupid. Well, that's grape juice.

That's sparkling grape juice. It's not marketed as 0% wine. It's just sparkling grape juice. But it'd be a bit of a backlash. Yeah, she... Well, it's great marketing for pals, isn't it? You've got to get them young. Hook them in. Hook them in.

A representative for Pals confirmed the person had not been asked to or paid for the promotion of the product. Okay, so it wasn't a sneaky influence. It doesn't condone this behaviour. Okay. But it has been touched with the person in question to reiterate that the Pals Zero alcohol can only be sold and consumed by those over 18,

like all products in the Zero alcohol category. They don't condone that behaviour. They're more than happy for white girls to get absolutely plastered every weekend. And just we on a footpath. Just white girls. Thank you. White girls. Honorary white girls such as yourself.

Thank you. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about horses. Oh, by the way, the world's largest horse died. Big Jack. Now, this wasn't when it was standing on its hind legs. This was like standing, standing.

Massive horse. How tall? Taller than me? Big Jack, big horse. Big Jake. Big Jake, not Jack. He stood 20.3 hands tall. It annoys me how they measure horses in hands.

Or 6'10". Is that the measurement of horse hands? Is that head or body? 6 foot 10. 6 foot 10. It's gotta be the top of the head. It's massive, isn't it? It weighed 1.3 tons, according to the Guinness World Records.

The tallest living horse when he was measured in 2010 held that until his death in 2021. God, this is an updated Wikipedia page. It was born in 2001 where he was very heavy from birth. God, I'll give you this horse's whole bloody history. But he's dead now.

R.I.P. Big Jake. The big ass horse. Very big horse. But today's fact of the day about horses isn't about how big they are. It's how much booze they can drink. Okay. Today's fact of the day is horses can't get drunk off beer

because they can't process it. No, they process it so super quickly, their liver turns alcohol into energy, into carbohydrates to be used for energy quicker than they could drink it. Oh, wow. So even if they just like guzzled it. So would that mean if you were before a horse race? Yeah.

And you gave like... No, it wouldn't be enough. Right. So the average horse needs a calorie intake of about 17,000 calories a day just to maintain their weight. How good would that be? That would be amazing. You could just eat anything.

Even if only half of it was grass. The rest of it could be junk food. So if they can hit 17,000 calories a day to maintain that... Because what's the average human's calories a day is like a couple of thousand, right? A couple of thousand is like considered the healthy one for a human adult

if you're just maintaining. So if your beer's like 160 calories for a bottle of beer, some of the heavier, darker beers can get up higher, but you wouldn't even touch the sides. Yeah. So they could drink a whole ton of them, but even then,

they would get the calories out of it. They wouldn't get drunk because their liver just... Apparently, naturally produces large amounts of alcohol dihydrogenase. Nailed it. Dihydrogenase, which is like mayonnaise. What does that do? It's like horse mayonnaise.

It's horse mayonnaise. Yeah, okay. And that breaks down the products of fermentation, which is how beer is done, because their large intestine... How did someone find this out? They're like, hey, we should see if this horse will drink this beer. Horses will drink beer. They love the smell and they love the taste of it because it's barley and hops

and that's the main ingredient in horse feed. What about a wine? Would a horse like a good Pinot Noir? Chardy. A central Otago Pinot? Will horses, do you want me to Google will horses drink wine? Will horses drink wine? What's their preference?

I reckon shardy. A buttery shard. Is wine good for horses? The reality is you'll go broke buying beer or wine for a horse. Yeah, same buy. Same buy. They'll drink it and not be able to get drunk off it. Wow.

Okay, will a horse drink bourbon? Because rye bourbon's right. Yeah, right. What does a horse's neck taste like? Bourbon and ginger. What? Oh, no, that's the name of a cocktail. Oh, yeah, there's...

Ooh, yummy. Bourbon and horse is a natural fit. Okay, apparently you can... Okay. Not recommend it, but they'll drink it. Good stuff. Good on you horses Well we're certainly

Not recommending Feeding alcohol Is that why The horse walked Into the bar And the bartender Says why the long face He's like well I've been here

And I've spent $10,000 And I can't even Get my buzz on It's very depressing That's exactly Where the joke comes from Pour it straight down 100%

So today's Fact of the day Is a horse can't Get drunk off beer Fact of the day is a horse can't get drunk off beer. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. CDM's Fletchborn and Megan. Oh, how very formal.

A friend of mine has started a little business. She bought one of these like little vinyl printers. They've got a name. Vinyl printers. Yeah. It's got a name. To make like vinyl stickers. Like sign writing.

No, like sign writing. Like a miniature sign writing printer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. It's got a name. Because that's the stuff. When you see like a ute or a plumber's van and it's got the logo on it. It's in vinyl. It's been cut out of the vinyl, yeah.

And they stick it on. Yeah. Right. So a little one. And it was just initially did the calculations to do like all the stuff for their wedding. Cheaper to buy the, what were they? Printer. What, like on their little?

Place things and like table settings and like the signs for the wedding and all that stuff can get expensive. They had an idea of what they wanted, so they bought this Cricut. That's what it's called. A Cricut. Cricut? Someone recently said Cricut. Oh, I've seen it on TikTok.

They're not that expensive. They're just little ones. Yeah, yeah. A little one. Like this standard size of an A4 paper printer, right? Yeah, yeah. Cricut. Yeah, Cricut.

Oh, yeah. They're warehouse stationary, $400. $399. Yeah, cry cut. Oh, yeah, there are. Warehouse stationery, $400. $399. Yeah. So how much is that? There's no ink. It's just cutting vinyl. How much would the vinyl?

I don't know. It still works out cheaper. But then enjoyed it and getting to know how to work. And decided to make some little bits and pieces for friends. Okay. Like in the pantry, like a sticker for your jar. Flour. Just in case.

Okay. Self-raising flour. Differentiate your flours, your white powders. Yeah, then you could have one of those perfect pantries with all the same containers and labels. Oh, girlfriend. Okay, so it's $15. For a roll of vinyl15 for a vinyl roll.

That's really good. So making them, got a little bit of grout, started an Instagram account, which I should say because they're my friend. My Little Vinyl is the Instagram account. Oh, that's cute. My Little Vinyl, and they print little vinyl stuff. And it was all going swimmingly. Like name things and wedding bits and pieces.

It's all going well. Guys, it's all going well. Oh, these jars look really cool. I know. What's human? What's the butt? I feel like there's a butt coming. Here's the butt. Oh, the big butt's coming.

Okay. Here comes the big butt. Oh, your mention of their Instagram just got them two follows. That's me being 103, now it's 105. That's old school. 110. That's old school radio influencing. The word of mouth. It's radio working in your witness again.

Oh, I could label my coat hangers like blue t-shirt. T-shirt, t-shirt, t-shirt, t-shirt. This is cool because I got those bridal coat hangers as well, but they can print them for you. Yeah, they can do that. She can do anything.

That's a great idea. Why haven't let me get to the butt? Okay, because I've got a big butt coming. What's the big butt? The big butt coming is somebody said to her, you should put this on Facebook Marketplace. Okay. I've never used it.

Didn't your friend get scammed on? Yeah, she bought a Nintendo Switch, but the Nintendo Switch didn't exist. The money's gone. But didn't you pay on pickup? No, she paid bank transfer. No, no, no. Because that's the idea about you search. It's within your vicinity, so you can pick it up.

Yeah, I mean, this information's helpful to her now. I've got plenty more information that's great hindsight information. It's stupid scamming, though, because to have a bank account, you've got to have a name and address and ID associated with that. So you're not getting away with that. Although the police probably aren't going to follow that up, are they?

No. But you can report them to the bank and... Yeah, right. So this Facebook marketplace, she said, absolute nightmare. Really? How bad?

I've done this because I've never used Facebook Marketplace and I didn't know. But I've clicked when you go to Facebook Marketplace and it's like an auto response comes up, is this still available? And so you're like, well, that's going to save me typing anything. Click. And people are like, yes.

And some listings are like, do not ask me if this is still available or be deleted when it's not available. Do not ask. I'm like, oh, that's very aggressive. Why? Well, now I know why. Because that's just all the button anybody presses. So, and

this is one of her Facebook Marketplace interactions. Yep. Hi, is this still available? Yes, it is. And then the person says, cool, can you send me the address and is it the whole three for $10, which is a great deal. Yep. And so... Instantly, $10 isn't worth my, what is about to be this Instantly, $10 isn't worth what

is about to be this. The first message reply, I was like, this is already why I would have charged more than $10. Can I come and grab these items today? Yes, of course you can. Anytime, just let me know when I can expect you. They said after 4pm. Great, see you then. And then the next message comes just after

4pm. Can you come out? I am here, please. Outside their house? Yeah, because they have the address to come and pick up the thing. And she said, you might be at then and then the next message comes just after 4 p.m can you come out i am here please outside their house yeah okay well they gave that the address to come and pick up the thing and she said you might be at the wrong house and he's like no i'm at the same address you gave me and she said i'm literally at my front door and you're not here and then 30 minutes later are you still coming he said i think i was come to same address you gave i'm going back i need to go i can't wait anymore i'm sorry i'm sorry she says i'm sorry what i don't understand you coming to get these gels or not no i was there i couldn't

find anyone she said i was literally standing in my driveway you went to the wrong house and then look at how many replies she got people just literally clicking is this still available wow okay that's horrible horrible he must have been in a different city, right? Like the same street and number, but in a different city? But no, that's the idea of Facebook Marketplace, is that it's around you. Oh, right, okay. Unless he was once in her neighbourhood and then never changed the settings.

This is why I don't... Admin central. I would like to know, because this is the new place that people go to sell things, because Trade Me charges you a success fee, right? Yeah, and Marketplace doesn't. Marketplace is free, but look, you're paying in other things, such as the existence of your soul.

I would like to know about people's nightmarish situations on Facebook Marketplace this morning. Yeah, right. How many times you've opened up? Because does it open up in a separate chat window or does it just interrupt Messenger with hundreds of is this still available, is this still available, is this still available?

I feel like you're going to be opening up a can of worms here. I think these people need to vent. They need to vent before they explode. A friend of mine just started a web business. Somebody said, hey, you should try selling these on Facebook Marketplace to local people. Worst suggestion ever. It's been nothing but a nightmare since.

It's insanity. It sounds worse than Trade Me. Because Trade Me, if I ever sell anything, I'll go through, you might have some crap, I'll be like, I'll just sell this on Trade Me and then quickly regret it. I don't do any pickups. And even when people, it says no pickups, people always ask, hey, I'm in the city, can I come and get it?

No, I don't want to see people. Yeah, no. It's not happening. You've misread this entire situation. Absolutely. I want nothing to do with this whatsoever. So we want to talk about your nightmares with Facebook Marketplace. Jess, what happened? So we sold my partner's

truck recently and it had stopped running. It wasn't good. Well, we had to sell it as is, whereas, which we put in the listing. And then, like your nightmare born, it is a new conversation every time someone messages you. Oh, no. Your whole messenger shows up. And I'm quite an OCD person, so as you can imagine, that was stressful.

But, yeah, people, they were offering, like, half our asking price. They were offering cash, and we were just like, no, like read the ad and then one guy was like, yep, I want to come and get it, can I drive it away? And I was like, no, it's not running, that's why we're selling it. And he's like, okay, well, I need to get a tow truck, so can I come tomorrow and I don't finish work till four and can I do this and can I do that? And I was like, oh my God. And then eventually we did find someone who knew what they were talking about and it was awesome and he was really good to deal with but initially it's just, I don't know if it's worth it.

If you're not selling a big item like a truck, I just wouldn't bother. If you're selling something worth $10, it just does not sound like it's worth life admin. No, it's not. I tried to sell a high chair and it sat on there for over a month because no one, and then I had people that were like, yep, I'll be there at four.

And then no one would turn up. Oh, my God. Yeah. It was nightmarish. Don't do it. Another 10 would not recommend. Brilliant. Jess, thanks for your call.

Ivy, what happened to you on Facebook Marketplace? Yeah, so over lockdown, my housemate was trying to sell, like, tie-dye clothes and stuff, and she was selling tie-dye socks. Okay. And some guy messaged and was like, are they used? And she was like, no. And he was like, ah, dang, I was looking for used socks. So then I messaged him and was like, hell, I'll wear them.

Like, these are, I'll wear used socks and sell them. And he was willing to pay, like, 50 bucks for a pair of used socks. Now, how much was she selling them for brand new? I think they were like 15 bucks or something. So if you're buying that and then wearing them for a day, you're making a $35 profit. Okay, I'm interested. But am I sexy enough that people would want my used socks?

They don't need to know how sexy you are. They could think I'm a hot girl. Yeah. Yeah. He'd be fine. Wait, so were socks sent? I think this could be a reason to justify a morning brunch, Vaughn, as a tax expense. A new sock business.

To go odd. I thought you meant to walk to brunch and to stink up these socks. That too. I'd put on the sock and then over the sock I'd put a plastic bag so your foot really sweated so you only had to wear it for half a day. Now you're making $70 a day in socks. Sounds good, sounds good. I'm not here to kink shame, but like bleh.

Did Ivy ever send the socks? Yeah, did you ever make the money? No, I didn't. He chickened out, but I was going to wear like multiple pairs a day too. I'd even think about that. I'd really want to stink them going to wear multiple pairs a day too. I didn't even think about that. Wear multiple pairs. Brilliant. Ivy, thanks for your call. Some text messages in. Lots of Facebook

marketplace mares. Had a friend list a free couch on marketplace. Someone messaged and said I'd be keen for the couch. They gave them the address and said I'll be home later on today. When they were still out, they got a message saying, thanks, got the couch. They weren't home. They got home. Their couch was still there. So whose couch

did these people take? Wow.