ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch Vaughan & Megan Podcast - March 18th 2020

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista-made coffee for only $4. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Thanks, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. It's two minutes past six. Megan has got out the puffer jacket for the first time in 2020. It was cold. I left my house and I was like, oh. So I put my puffy on. I left the house and the little thermometer in the car said 15 degrees.

Well, you don't ever trust the thermometer in the car. No, this is the weird thing. And I'm driving and it goes down to 14 degrees. And then where your motorway joins with my motorway, eight. Why? What happened? Are you getting a bit of country padding out there? It's a bloody ice quince. where your motorway joins with my motorway. Eight. Huh. Why? What happened? Are you getting a bit of country padding out there?

It's a bloody ice queen here. Yeah, and then it climbs back up again. Did you leave your fridge open? I wanted to discuss it with you, and then I forgot when I arrived, but now that it's been brought up. We're in a little gully or something. Who knows?

We're right by the water. We're right by the microclimate. It's a pretty cold little gully. Yeah. Or it could be something coming from the by the water. What a cold little microclimate. What a cold little gully. Yeah. Or it could be something coming from the Air Force Base. What? Chemtrails. Chemtrails.

Mind control. Mind control or, yeah, I don't know. This is why it always happens in a cool story, man. Man. They want to control us all with their fluoride and their not rotting teeth, man. We don't need any of that kind of carry on at the moment. Nah. No.

Let's give the conspiracy stuff a break. Yeah. Hey, let's get back into it when we've taken care of this corona thing. Let's go crazy on it. Just for now, let's just calm down. Let's never start doing dumb stuff like that again. Probably a good time to take a break from it and never go back to it. Yes.

All right, coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, hey, bad news. The Bunnings sausage sizzle is off. The current climate, corona, COVID-19, whatever you want to call it, has meant that the humble, yet, ranging in price. Is that the thing that's never consistent? They set their own price. Does it depend on the charity organisation?

Yes, and the quality of snossage. Well, I don't mind if I'm getting a few onions. Oh, yeah, I'd pay extra for the onions and the mustard. And a quality sauce. But no one's really going any more bourgeois than a pre-cooked Hallers, are they? It's over. Yeah, it's done.

Current climate is gone. So the top six ways you can hope to recreate the Bunnings sausage sizzle at home. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines,

four interesting, odd, quirky, unusual news stories, and then Vaughan and Megan must decide which headline and which story we delve into. Headline one, The Great Escape. Headline two, Woman Forced to Use Inflatable Lobster. And headline three, TikTok is slammed for coronavirus challenge. Very hard to find news stories at the moment that are not... In any way, coronavirus.

...coronavirus related. That TikTok challenge was Corona related, right? It was, yes. Influencer decided to start a stupid TikTok challenge where you go on an airplane and you lick the toilet seat. Feral. Smart. Absolutely feral.

Clever. Frigging idiot. Good lord. Yes, I don't do that. Inflatable lobster. And what was the other one? Story two was woman forced to use inflatable lobster and headline one was the great escape.

Great escape. Lobster. You like the lobster? Yeah, I think lobster. You did give a little chortle. You did go... I did. Inflatable lobster.

It made me laugh. I imagine she ate it by mistake, but... I'm thinking more pool-sized, like one of those giant ones. Yes, we go now to a German spa where a writer has gone viral on Twitter after sharing her story. She was left humiliated after sharing her experience or after the experience. She was locked out of a fire

escape, fully naked at the spa. So I don't know, she must have, I don't know how this happened. Maybe she thought I could just whip down to the spa in the nude. Things got worse though. She posted a series of tweets describing the nightmare scenario.

She was at the area and basically the only thing around was the inflatable lobster at the pool. And so she had to grab that. There were two unmarked doors at the end of the corridor and she took the wrong one.

Not the door to the sauna, but the door to the fire escape. And then clicked. Yes, and it trapped and shut her behind. And so basically, yes, the inflatable lobster in the pool was the only thing she could get to cover herself to then ask for help. I'm sure he won't mind me saying, but over the summer break, a funny story from her friend Josh Thompson.

He thought he was going to the toilet in a hotel and he was naked, but he walked into the hallway and the door shut behind him. This is my worst nightmare. And so he's naked in the hallway, drunk, quite drunk, and there's no staff on the reception desk. So he hides in the janitor's cupboard and sleeps. For how long? Or passes out till the morning, till someone comes on.

And then he uses, he takes the head off the mop and uses it to cover himself as he seeks assistance to get a swipe card back into the room. Oh my God. And I don't know why I find it so visually pleasing to imagine him stumbling across this situation. What did he snuggle up to in the closet? I think he just plopped on the floor. Just sat on the floor. Imagine the cleaner opens the door, gets to work.

You're getting a knife hole. Yeah, he used the mop head to cover himself when he eventually went down to get let back into his room. Good times. Good times. Good times because it's not you.

Good times. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Mismatched sexual libido is what I want to talk about now. And apparently it is very, very common in relationships.

Because you're two random people. You're never going to want to maybe, like, right now, let's do it. And the other person's like, yes. You know, like, someone's got to be the instigator. Apart from gay dudes. Yeah. Gay dudes that I know. Do go on. It's just, just Well you think about

Guys are pretty keen Yeah Like The stereotype is I've got a headache Or I'm not feeling like it But guys are like I've got a headache

And the only solution is sex Like It's the end game For everything for guys Guys are keen all the time Yes But then that's not always true Because you hear of some women

That are like Well my boyfriend can't keep up. Yeah. True. There are gay men stuck in a woman's body. Do tell me more about these gay men. Unstoppable, insatiable sex drives. Are they just non-stop doing it?

Yeah, like just, I just love it. Wild. They love it. Right, okay. Any time of the day. Okay. Can't be stopped. That's just my experience with gay men. Right, okay. Is that just the day. Okay. Can't be stopped. That's just my experience with gay men.

Right, okay. Is that just the gay men that you know? Yes. But they are particularly deviant. Right. And they're like, okay. They won't admit it publicly, but they're very deviant. Right.

They're happy to talk about it to me. Oh, right. A close personal friend. A close personal friend. Okay. I was going to, libido is an interesting word, right? It sounds Spanish. Libido.

I've Googled the origin. Save yourself no hassle. Have you? Okay, good. It's Latino. Latino. It's Latin. The Latino.

It literally meant desire and lust. Right. Oh, okay. So now it's like, it's a bit more about the drive for it, isn't it? Yeah. So what they're saying, if you feel like you're mismatched, that's completely normal. And there is three ways that you can work on getting sexual balance.

Bringing a gay guy. Number one. I mean, don't rush into that decision. Sure. The first one is to talk about it. Communication is key, obviously. You need to make it clear that maybe you are out for it more often or that's the way you feel.

And then you can talk about the tensions and why maybe the other person doesn't feel like doing it as often, how you can work to get around that. Why don't you just get a constant smirk on your face? I don't. I'm truly grown up here. I don just got a constant smirk on your face. I don't. I'm truly grown up here. I don't have a constant smirk on my face. A good lover

is interested in understanding what they like and what they don't like and why they don't particularly want it at that time. Right. That's why I've got the suggestion box in the bedroom. For some feedback before you leave feedback That could be a good idea It could be right

It's not anonymous though It's not like the one at the gym It's not anonymous They know it's coming from you Sometimes writing it down Is there a sexual recommendation box at your gym? Yes, absolutely Put it in your calendar Lots of people say this Lots of sex experts Yes, absolutely. Okay.

Put it in your calendar. Lots of people say this. Lots of sex experts say that you should schedule it. It doesn't sound sexy, does it? No, it doesn't. Tonight, 6 o'clock, after dinner or pre-dinner, sexy times. It's like the chicken takes a bit longer to cook. Yeah, I know. Schedule's already out by 15 minutes.

But it says here, scheduling sex is a beautiful way to get the ball rolling and spontaneity can come later. Right. Okay. Right. You should just, yeah, okay. I don't want to comment on any of these. Introducing pleasure into your whole day.

So while the actual act only lasts, however long it lasts for you. Why'd you look at Vaughan when you said that? I don't last for a long time. Famously what, two and a half minutes or something like that? Jesus, no one's keeping that close, are they? We're just going by what the suggestion box says. Right, right. But if that's the only thing you're focused on,

you're missing out on a lot of other pleasure because it only lasts two minutes. So build up to it. The foreplay is not just when you're there and like having a pash beforehand. Send her a sexy photo from work. Yeah, send her... Go to the...

Now's not the time for a sexy photo in the toilet at work. No, just write her a sexy photo from work. Yeah, send her, go to the No, don't. Now's not the time for a sexy photo in the toilet at work. No, you just write her a sexy message. Can we? No, but I'm with Vaughn. She'll get that photo and she'll Yeah, and she'll get the photo and be like, well, it's Corona climate. He's in a toilet. It's yuck. Just send a

sexy text though. Because the kids, the kids have constantly Oh, what's dad saying? Well, she can't read thankfully. It's Indy that would translate it for her. So yeah, we don't do that.

Okay. As much anymore. Oh, well, I'm out. You're trying. I appreciate that. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. And as more people

work from home, there is a warning about a certain software, Zoom. Now, this is like a video conferencing thing. I think they use it at work in the big boardroom. Around the country, you can Zoom in. They say Zoom in.

I've heard of it, but I've never. You've never Zoomed in? No, I've never Zoomed in. Well, you don't need to Zoom in, do you? Really? No, no need to Zoom. You don't Zoom in for a big meeting? No.

No. I've never been asked to. Right. Maybe I should. I'm pretty sure you have had the chance at home to Zoom in to the odd company thing. Oh, like an announcement and stuff? Oh, yeah, there might be an awards or a presentation. You can Zoom in.

But, like, you probably wouldn't have noticed. But you can, you can zoom in. But on the back that a lot of people and companies are now asking their workers to work from home, Zoom's share price has gone up like 20%. Has jumped recently and just in recent weeks alone. A flood of new users and people are saying, well, you might just want to be a little careful

because they've got a shaky privacy policy, apparently. Really? But it's not that that they're warning people about. So the Zoom might be aware that the company's running some sort of internal awards program. Ooh. I know Susan from Accounts

did some great work. Ooh. The feature that people want you to be drawn to or to be pointed out is attention tracking. Now, if this is turned on by the chat administrator, it allows the software will track you and will know if you have clicked away from the active Zoom window.

So say, for example, you're in a boring meeting and you're like, I'm just going to go on Facebook. But I'm on the webcam, it looks like I'm listening and involved. If you click away for more than 30 seconds a little timer will come up next to your name and basically knock on you.

So it'll be Vaughan Smith, 32 seconds, not paying attention. Maybe more than 32 seconds. Well, yeah, but it starts at 30. So it gives you 30 seconds of click away, not paying attention, and then it will narc on you. And this is especially for, because a lot of people might be Zooming in for lectures as well and classes.

So that would be an easy one just to look like you're there and just be doing something completely different. Can you split the screen? Can I have like the conference bizzo on one side and a shopping website on the other side? No, no, because you're not active in the window. So as soon as you click out of the window onto another window, you're not active in that.

But you know, sometimes you can be in an active window, but you can scroll in the one that's not highlighted. No, I know if you can can you i think i did i did i just learned like i did it the other day i did not know that was possible right just go on your phone oh you're right it is possible i'm active in that window yeah but then you can go to the one next door really okay so just go to an online what an online shopping site and view all and just... And go skinny and make it skinny. They're like, what are you doing with the eyes? You're like, I'm scanning through this document. This meeting takes all of my senses.

We're going to take a break from Corona, COVID-19 related chat next and have some fun with names. Now, last time I checked, everybody had one. Everybody does have a name. Yes, how are we going have some fun with names Now last time I checked Everybody had one Everybody does have a name Yes How are we going to have fun with names? I found a website Okay

It's actually Time Magazine Yeah They've got something on their website And it's to do with Your name And it's popularity Right Okay

Yeah We can play it with everybody Alright We'll delve into that next What's that sound? Sad Hams $100,000 secret sound With Save My Bacon

It's all thanks to Save My Bacon Making borrowing better for financially responsible Kiwis Soundkeeper Gary, good morning Good morning guys You, like Megan today, have pulled out a winter item of clothing. Feeling the chill today? Got the hoodie on underneath. Noticeable this morning. I went, wow,

when we first started this competition, we were so, right in the middle of summer. Yep. And this morning I've realised, wow, no, we've gone a long way here now. Do you have Soundkeeper Gary pants or just shorts for that outfit? No, just shorts because it is the same clothes every day. So ventilation is important.

Yeah, true. Keeping it clean. You don't want it musty. Because when we started, I was also just thinking about it because I looked outside, it's dark. Not officially sunrise for another 18 minutes. Daylight savings a couple of weeks away. All right, well, $100,000 is our jackpot.

Lewis, good morning. Morning, how are you? Good, mate, good. All right, well, you've done the hard work, you've got through. Now, you just have to tell us what this sound is. And if you can do that right now, $100,000 is yours. So, from what I've gathered from the clues i think it's the sound of an apple being dropped and hitting the ground okay many apples in the clue video yes many apples

a lot of people have made apple guesses since that video they've uh talked about biting apples ripping stickers off apples but i don't think we've ever had an apple being dropped so what part of that is explained? Because, I mean, we can probably agree there's three parts to the sound. How does that work in with the apple dropping, Lewis? So you've got Beyonce holding the mic doing a mic drop. Yeah. So obviously it's got nothing to do with bees and honey.

Yeah. And then you've got the Lion King clue where the baboon's pointing at the ground. Sorry, I don't know his name. Rafiki. Rafiki. Rafiki, that's it. And then you've got in the video, Gary saying, ooh, dirty. And then you've got the dirty dancing as well.

Okay. At the same time, the apple comes from the Adam's apple, you know, in the picture of Patrick Swayze. Right. Okay, he does have an Adam's apple prominently. Yeah, and then the, say, my bacon clue where the apple and the icon. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. But how does that work with the actual sound, the three parts of the sound? You just think it's just dropping because like what's that is that the apple it could be well i don't know how it's been recorded it could be recorded at a very fast paced high volume and replay it in a very slow kind of way so the initial contact and then they splat onto the ground you know what i Okay. So you release it and it drops through. A lot of thought has gone into this, Lewis. It has a bit,

especially when you look at the B99, the Brooklyn. Brooklyn's actually in New York, which is also known as the Big Apple. So I'm confident of the object. It's more the action taken. Wow. Well, Lewis. the object it's more the action taken but um wow well lewis listening mate doesn't like an awkward silence they're all so impatient this year lewis that is not the secret sound not a a problem, mate. Back to the drawing board.

Yeah, yeah. Wow, okay. You get a lot of workings to rub out on that last drawing board. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. To talk to us this morning about relationships while we're in self-isolation, we have relationship expert on the phone with us, Margot Regan. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you? Very well. Good. Now, this is something around the world. China's, when China was told, everyone was told to isolate, divorce rates have been reported to have spiked. And if you can't leave the house

and you're stuck with your partner, that is obviously a stressful time for relationships when you take everything else into account. So we were after some tips on your relationships and the other side of any sort of self-isolation. Yeah, for sure. I would imagine it's very difficult for people that are living in small quarters, you know,

and coupled on top of that, the stresses that people are going through as well with jobs and insecurity. I think the number one tip for me would be to make sure that you're looking after yourself, that you've got those protective factors in place, that you're taking, you know, you're eating as well as you can, that you're getting enough sleep and that you're trying, you know, maybe using some meditation or whatever it is that you can do, whatever your coping strategies are to manage stress.

Right. Is it a good time to kind of like work out, how do you work out what works for you for a coping strategy? Because obviously when you're in this situation, it might be too late because you're already quite anxious and not, you know, not thinking straight. So how do you work out what works for you? There's two things I do with people. One is when you've had a stressful experience in the past,

what has been your go-to? So somebody would say to me, I know it's difficult that we can't physically be in close proximity, but we can still talk to people over the phone or in Facebook messaging or connect with other people, communication. Also, people have learned tools like CBT, self-talk. What's the meaning making? What are the stories that I tell myself? Because it's very easy to catastrophize the situation that we're in at the moment.

What is our language? Are we reassuring ourselves that it will be okay that we'll get through it? And techniques like mindfulness, meditation are really powerful. Because that's something I've heard is that if you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is you think about what you're grateful for and thankful for, that's a way better way to start the day than dragging your heels into work feeling miserable about it. I mean, obviously, now that I've said it out loud, that sounds very obvious. Yeah, no, absolutely.

I'm a big fan of gratitude. You know, one of the things I do with couples when they come in to me for a session is appreciation dialogue. So I get couples facing one another, looking into each other's eyes and asking, you know, what is it that you appreciate about your partner? What are the characteristic traits and behaviors? You know, we can, particularly in times of conflict and when things get really stressful, you know, we're all in this heightened state of alertness. We're like an overly sensitive smoke alarm at the moment. Any little thing is sending us into reaction, into fight, flight or freeze. in a state of alertness. We're like an overly sensitive smoke alarm at the moment.

Any little thing is sending us into reaction, into fight, flight or freeze. We're getting defensive. You know? What about, I'm a big fan of a drink. Yeah. Is that like a really bad idea

at the moment? Bourne's trying to say, can I call that my self-care? Can I call that my therapy? My self-care. Right, I'll see you kids later. I'm going to take my Dr. Jameson's here and disappear for a little bit for the therapy.

But, I mean, obviously it's not a healthy thing to do is to rely on it. Yeah, as a coping mechanism or as a coping strategy, if that's the way, you know, if that's your go-to in times of stress or in times of anything really, if it's used as a mood-altering drug to change state, I would be looking for some alternatives, like the meditation, like self-talk. Right, okay. Okay. But more of that, a little less of the old clinkety-drinkety situation. Right.

Yeah. Have you so far been asked by anybody? Because I heard there's thousands of people in self-isolation around New Zealand. Have you heard from anybody in self-isolation looking for help yet? Do you know what? Not yet. There has been an increase in people contacting me. I'm only available for Skype sessions.

But as of yet, I haven't actually been in contact with anybody in self-isolation looking for therapy for that. Right, okay. But it feels like it's a matter of time. All right. Well, your relationship, your website rather, relationshipcounselingtherapy.com if you'd like to reach out. Margot Regan, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us this morning.

Really appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Great to talk with you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There's something that we're sharing with our partner that maybe we should not be. I'd say I do this. Right.

I'd say you probably do this, Vaughan. A lot of couples would do this. All right. Maybe we shouldn't be. We'll delve into that soon. I'd say you probably do this, Bourne. A lot of couples would do this. All right. Maybe we shouldn't be. We'll delve into that soon. Thanks to Save My Bacon making borrowing better for financially responsible Kiwis. Soundkeeper Gary, good morning.

Good morning, guys. All right, so... The secret... The old secret sound. I'm thinking we should probably do a clue today at some point, I should mention. Really? Okay. Not now, because... The nation needs a clue.

Yeah, I'm feeling like people need a clue, so we might do one this afternoon. I've got to think of one. Okay. All right. Now, this is a sound... that is driving us all crazy. Aaron gets his shot this morning.

Good morning, Aaron. Yeah, how you going? Good, mate, good. Now, what do you think the secret sound is? I think it's the paper in an Air Force machine being refilled and then ripping the paper off. How annoying is that

when they get to the end and they have to refill it before you can... It takes two seconds. Oh, there's a retailer in the house. It takes two seconds. I just pop it open, pull the spool out, pop the other

one in and we're away laughing. I was reading an article just before, just a little sidetrack, that not having paywave is becoming a health issue and that hopefully the banks will get forced to... Yeah, might get...

Because the reason a lot of places don't have it is it's so expensive for businesses. So maybe the banks will be forced to give it to retailers for like, I don't know, like FBOS. But is it the banks that charge for it? Yeah, the banks. Oh, I thought it was like some overlord of paywavs. I don't know. Sir Overlord. Is it the banks that charge for it? Yeah, the banks. Oh, I thought it was like some... Overlord of...

Paywaves. Paywaves. I don't know. Sir Overlord. Right. Okay, well, either way, let's get back to the secret sound. I just got excited because, you know, when an FPOS thing has no paywave... Don't look at me.

They charge too much money for it. Aaron, did you see a FPOS machine in the Clue video? Yeah, I did. Yeah. By their barista? Yes. I ask her when, can I do it? I like to change the F-Post. Don't you like to play shops?

Aaron, he likes to change the F-Post machine paper. That actually went Now that you say that Because that could be a tearing at the end Couldn't it? Yeah And Aaron

How confident are you? I don't really want to get too pumped up Because you're probably going to tell me That it's not it But no I'm pretty confident. Okay, good. Well, Aaron,

you're right. I am going to tell you it's wrong. I just jumped a little bit. I was like, what? Okay, all right. No worries. Sorry, mate. Yeah, that was very noughts.

So if you're in a relationship and you've shared your, essentially the keys to your digital life, your passwords for everything. The pin for your phone. The pin for your phone. The pin for your EFOS card. Anything. If you share all that with your partner, apparently it is not very good.

The experts are saying it is like handing over the keys to your digital life. No, because if you don't hand them over, then you're hiding something. Yeah. Well, 70% of people that participated in this study admitted to sharing passwords, pins, or fingerprints with their significant other. I said fingerprints, and they were like, hang on, that just means on your phone, right? Yeah.

So who would have that? Well, and that means you would allow their fingerprint to unlock your phone. But also people would add their partner's face profile to their facial unlock too. Oh, right, yeah. That's something you could do. I'm on my husband's facial unlock.

Yeah. But then even... So like, but nothing to hide. Who cares? Yeah. And you kind of are... I consider it... But if he dies

in mysterious circumstances, you want to be able to get into his phone to go into that vault with all those pictures of you and delete them out. Get them out. I'm getting more nervous

about those. Then they won't get rid of it. You keep on talking about it. You were the one that told us about your vault of photos. Yeah. The vault. The vault. Yeah, so, but like you're in a couple,

so I feel like you share everything. You share, we share money. It's all one, so you both need access to all of it. But not fried chicken, as we learnt yesterday. You'll share everything, but when he buys fried chicken and you want to buy it, you're like, no. No, he won't share his chicken. So 70% of couples doing that, that's a lot.

Yeah. Makes me wonder what those other 30% of people are doing. Or what they're hiding. Or what they're hiding. Are they early on in the relationship? Maybe. Are you, Shalane knows all your, what about in the producers booth? Executive intern Anya?

Yeah, we share everything. Yeah, but nothing to hide. Mountie? Yeah, I have nothing to hide. Okay. And you know his pin? Have you ever gone on and just for a look? Yeah, he gets better Snapchat filters than I do.

What? What does he pay for some sort of premium service? No, mine are just always different to his. So are you telling him when you're going on a Snapchat? I see you, girl. I see you. I'm just checking you're not here for the filters, but you are on a 17-day strict with someone,

so who's that? All right, so we want to take some calls this morning. 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696. When did you regret sharing your password with your partner? Because it's all good when it's happy days. That's what I had not considered. As if it all goes badly. You'd have to change your password fairly smartly.

But also maybe you haven't been doing anything bad, but they've got the wrong end of the stick on something. And maybe you've regretted them. I think my ex-husband's still got the password to my Facebook. I might change that. You think about like exes, especially here's my ex-husband. So we were like

everything was together. Dude, we know him. He's forgotten it by now. He would have. He would have. No idea. He's pretty forgotten about you to be honest.

Right. La la land over there. Alright. 080099666. When have you regretted sharing a password or a pin to your phone with a partner? And maybe an ex now. So a study has found that 70% of people in relationships are happy to give their pin number, their fingerprint, or their password to their partner.

So it's completely open. Yep. Access all areas. Access granted. But we want to know when you have regretted giving access all areas to your partner and it's maybe come back to bite you in the ass because maybe it doesn't last forever and then they've got all your passwords

and you don't change them. And what a task it is. Yeah. To go then they've got all your passwords and you don't change them. And what a task it is. Yeah. To go about resetting all of your passwords. Bridget, what happened? Morning, guys. Morning. So I have, my partner has my,

or his facial recognition on my phone to open it up. And I mustn't have closed down my emails tab and when it went home he saw that my um booking confirmation for an empire motel was there um and he's like what are you doing booking motel and uh you can't really lie about that because it just looks dodgy so yeah and and what was it it was it were you booking like a secret weekend away? Yeah, just a bit of a surprise for him. Oh, and so he ruined the surprise. Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

But then it's important that you ask to make sure your partner's not cheating on you. Should you find mysterious hotel charges on your credit card. And then you've got to cancel your weekend away with the person you were cheating on and say, yeah, I was going to take you all along. But that's what it would have sounded like as well, wouldn't it? You're going to be able to win. Bridget, thanks for sharing some text messages. Of when you shared the password and it all went bad.

My wife has my bank account password and every time I go to the pub, she'll be watching the charges actively roll in. Oh, no. That's when you get money out at the start of the night and then they can't track you. Daily Girl for three years bought us new iPhones, linked passwords and fingerprints. Three months later

she cleaned out my bank account and ghosted. Three years! What? No. But then would you I can track them down, right? I mean that's stealing but at the same time she had the password so you wouldn't be able to you'd let her in. So they wouldn't pay out or anything, would they?

Stacey, when did you regret giving someone your password? Hello? Hi. When did you regret? It actually wasn't me. It was my son. His girlfriend had access to his phone. Oh, okay.

And we've got a home, like a group WhatsApp group, a home team WhatsApp group. Okay. And I jokingly sent a message to my son saying, oh, you know, make sure, you know, your girlfriends are pretty because if we have ugly grandkids, I'm going to have to make them wear Spider-Man outfits. And she went on his phone and read it in the middle of the night and he woke up because he got a phone thrown at his head

because apparently I'd called her and her future children ugly. Oh, dear. Wow. How did that end up? Yeah. Are they still together? Oh, they split up. Oh, okay.

All right. No, they split up. They split up. But, yeah, I've been caught out. Yeah, she really did catch me. And my son said, she wants you to apologise. I said, no, she shouldn't have read your messages. That was a joke between mother, son and ugly grandchildren.

Thanks, Stacey. Anonymous, what happened when you shared your password? You regretted it? Yeah, so you guys read out my text message. We dated for about three years. You're the guy, she cleaned your bank out. Yeah, she did. Oh, my God.

Yeah, she gapped it overseas to an Asian country and then took us about six months to track it down and got all my money back. Oh, so you did get it back? Yeah, I did get it back. So did you have to get the police involved or was this just... Yeah, the police, a bunch of lawyers, and I think it actually cost me more in terms

of the lawyer fees. It's a principle, though. It's a principle. I'd rather spend more money spilling her out of money. So even though she had all the passwords and everything, you still managed to get it back? Yeah, yeah, correct, yeah, because it was... Yeah, I think it

was in terms of, like, the evidence behind it was pretty straightforward. Yeah, right. Yeah. But they did, at any stage, did they say, well, you gave her the password. It's kind of, you know, on you. Yeah, that was what they were like pulling me up against. But the fact that it was on my phone bank account was in my name and everything.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It wasn't a joint. And she still took it. Yeah, exactly. Fair call. Yeah. It wasn't a joint. And she still took it. Yeah, exactly. Fair call. Anonymous, thank you. And ran away with it too.

I regret giving my phone password to my now ex as when I was drunk, she took my phone and read through my messages. But then that sounds like maybe you had some bad messages. Something dodgy in there, yeah. Somebody else said that my ex knew my Norton security password And used my lost And used the lost my phone function

To track me And take photos And then try to blackmail me with photos Well then you go to prison for that Yeah that's What a digital Digital Harm

Digital communications And blackmail Yeah Oh yeah blackmail That's That was right Blackmail was around Before phones

Yeah Famously Fact of the day is next ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast It's time for Fact of the day Day

Day Day Day Day, day, day. Deep underground in the Scottish Highlands lives a complex of disused oil storage tanks built during World War II. Two. Damn it. World War II.

One, two. Located near a town called Invergordon. Okay. They are called the Inchendown Oil Tanks and they were used to store British oil in bomb-proof environments for World War II.

Right. Obviously, if you had a huge amount of flammable liquid that could be a bomb dropped on them and the explosion could be caused,

then exponentially that explosion would be somewhat larger than it would have been. You need to hide it from the Germans. The Germans! Yeah.

So they put it quite far north. What are they called? Inch and down oil tanks. Is it because they're inching down into the ground slowly? Inching on down, inching on down. Is it so heavy? No, I think it's... Oh, wow.

I just had a little Google. Oh, you've had a little Google? Yeah. Well, I can tell you, or should I tell you before I tell you about what I want to tell you? I'll tell you the size. So the tank, twice as long as a soccer field. So how long is a soccer field? About the same as a rugby field.

It's 100 metres? 100 metres. And 44 feet tall. So divide that by three. Over 10 metres tall. 12 metres tall. So that's a big old oil tank. Yeah, so a football pitch is flexible in size.

Well, that's not acceptable. No, we're not. 90 to 120 metres. Right, okay. So let's say about a hundy. So she's a big old dog. She's like an underground cathedral. Well, today's in 2014.

That was 12 years after they were decommissioned and completely emptied. Yeah. An acoustic engineering professor called Trevor Cox said he got lowered in there, by the way. He got very mucky. I hope he wasn't wearing his nice clothes. Yeah. And he tested it and found out that it is the largest man-made structure that is

capable of creating the longest echo in the world inside a man-made structure. Please tell me you have a sound of that. I do have the sound. Not the sound of the echo that was created that lasted, by the way, at the, he fired a blank from a gun. Yeah. And his sound recording equipment captured echoes for the following 112 seconds.

Wow. An echo of some part. So it's the longest echo inside a man-made object. However, after that, a guy called Matt Gray, who's got a YouTube channel, took some interesting musical instruments down there. Of course he did. And he thought he'd give that a go.

So this is in the Inchendown tanks, and he is blowing a kazoo. You ready? It went all the way down is blowing a kazoo. You ready? It went all the way down there with a kazoo. Oh, he took some other instruments too. Okay. Wow. This is going round. You can just hear that, eh?

This is still the... So no other noise has been created in that... That's ridiculous. ...echo chamber apart from the kazoo. Unfortunately for everyone else in the hotel this morning, I tried to learn how to play Frere Jacques on a recorder. So here he is on the recorder. Wow.

Eerie, eh? No, I can't hear that one. So he gives up. So, yeah. Wow, that sound after he plays it. I know. Any video game players are imagining now the Halo, the video game Halo had this beautiful sung intro

and it was in like an echo chamber where they recorded it. So everybody just now wants to hear the Halo theme down there. I can guarantee that the gamers want that so badly. But so today's fact of the day is the longest echo in a man-made structure stands at 112 seconds in the inching down oil tanks. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Yesterday, leaving work, as briefly mentioned before, popped into the downstairs locker rooms, you'd call them, eh? Because there's showers and changing rooms. Yeah, people park their bikes there. Lockers. Yeah, so they can ride into work or go to the gym and then shower and then pop up to work. Firstly, I was surprised by how many bikes there were.

Oh, yes. A lot of people are working from home at the moment, but not the cyclists. They're still, like, the car park was pretty empty, but the bikes, still lots of bikes. And people use the showers because there's a gym, there's a big Les Mills over the road. Yep. So maybe they go before work and they come and use the showers. Well, I went in and I used the bathroom in there and I came out to use the sink to wash my hands for two full verses of Happy Birthday.

Yep. And the hottest water I could handle. And one of the sinks had something in it. And there was a gentleman in there. He was ironing because there's an iron situation. And he said, oh,

he indicated to use the other sink. Right. And I was like, what's this? He's like, my bike shorts. Now. Oh. Okay. He was post-workout because he was getting into office attire and he was ironing a shirt.

Are we washing our sweaty balls? Essentially. I do not think that that is hygienic. Now, especially. Yeah. I was very. Or even pre all of thisienic, now especially. Yeah, I was very... Or even pre all of this. Oh, pre, of course.

No. Even more so, not now. Is he drying them at his desk to then wear them home? I don't know, because my thoughts are, surely if you'd gone to the gym, you just, speaking from my own experience, you just shove your dirty clothes in the bag and then you put them in the washing machine when you get home.

Yeah. But then he must be wanting to use them on the ride home. But then surely for the ride home at the end of the day, you leave them in your bag and you put on a slightly sweaty pair of bike shorts and you just wash them. Or bring two pairs. Yeah. One there, one home.

Which then made me think, how dirty are they that they require to wash? Like what's happened to them? Gooch juice. Or maybe a little all over that little shard. But then again, don't use the sink because that's what everyone's. I know. I know.

I was like, and I said, I was like, yuck. How did that go down? What was his response? Yeah. Well, I just went back to ironing. There was no real buy into the yuck. How did that go down? What was his response? Yeah. Well, I just went back to ironing. There was no real buy-in to the yuck. Right. Okay.

And I was like, how far do I push this? And I washed my hands. Yeah, right. Humming happy birthday. And then I was out. What are those toilets like? Because I'm scared. I don't like public toilets, but public toilets in a basement is even worse.

The weird part about it is there's like eight showers and one toilet. There's only one toilet. There's only one toilet. There's no urinals. Yeah, right, okay. But the cool part about it is there's a door in there, and if you open it, you can get into under the building. Oh, God. I've been in there every now and then.

For what? Why? There might be monsters in there. That's so weird. What if I found someone in there? Were there monsters? What if you found someone in there? Yeah, monsters? What if you found someone in there? Yeah, I know.

I'd freak out if I turned the corner and there was someone in there. I'd be like, ah! And then I'd have a great story to tell. But as of yet, it's just a boring story about you opening a door. There's a water blaster in there. Is there? Yeah. Oh, who's got a boring story now?

Fair call. So, you know, I love watching those water blaster videos that come up on Facebook of someone doing their whole driveway and they just do it bit by bit. And their time lapse. Oh, my God, it's so satisfying to watch. Well, you pricked his interest. What's in there for me?

What's in the basement for me? Makeup. There's a... There's a Mac makeup counter. There's a... Yes. How to lure Megan to a van or a basement. And someone that used to work at Farmer's is in there.

It's a whole Farmer's. There's a whole Farmer's makeup section in there. With red dot specials and everything. And waving in your face with the latest perfume by Rihanna. I'm like, what are you guys all doing down here? This seems like a very inefficient business model. And you're their best customer. We've been waiting.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, this morning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what do they call them? Foreign Affairs and Trade. MFAT. MFAT. Hey, M bubbly. M, we love you just the way you are.

Yeah, M-perfect. M-chunky. Yeah. Oh, hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. M-thick. M-thick. With two Cs.

Yeah. So this morning, M-thick, M-fat. I mean, it's a serious matter. Let's be serious for a second. They have asked Kiwis that are living overseas, especially those in London, they are saying if you need to come home because of the current situation in the world,

you need to do that now slash ASAP because the flights, the number of flights are diminishing by the day, the number of options for you to get home. So you're either going to have to stay in England or wherever you are in the world and do your OE in London or whatever or tough it up there. If you want to

go into self-isolation with the 7 South Africans and 14 Australians that are living in that three bedroom flat in London that you are loving, stay there by all means. Or weigh it up, would it be better to be stuck at home in isolation with your parents? With mum and dad's cooking and... Exactly. Because you know they're prepared.

So I was talking to a friend of the show, Zach, this morning. I was like, well, what are you going to do? And he's like, well, I don't know. Maybe I do have to come home. Because I guess you've got to weigh it up. Don't you stay there? Is that all Zach sent to you this morning?

Oh, you know what he's like. He did ask me to show you some photos. He wants me to see the photos. Can I see the photos? Well, you said he's in isolation. He wants photos. Oh, he wants photos of me. Can I see the photos? Well, you said he's in isolation. He wants photos. He wants photos of me. Yeah, because you know he's got a crush on you.

Can I see the photos that he sent? If you want. Why? You're asking. It's always very full frontal with Zach. He said he sent them to our old producer, James1. Oh, yeah, James1.9. Yeah, didn't give anything back.

Sometimes it's definitely not a morning. Why don't we talk about that? It's not a morning. Jesus Christ! I had to hide from your phone. Jesus. You're lucky that's all that came out my mouth. It's like he's sitting into a doctor to be like, is this normal?

Yeah. Yeah, like it's real. There's nothing erotic about his moods. It's just like a drawing, like a real life drawing. Love awake. But he does this to all of his friends and we're all just like, cool. We don't ask for it. We never ask for it.

Cool, man. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine. Anyway, it's lightening the mood In this side I'm not laughing at his penis I just want that noted To the situation

So a Wellington hotel Is trying to help out Where they can Wellington Park Hotel Blue hyperlink Click on that Just trying to see some photos It's not that place we say

That's getting condemned And pulled down That has to be pulled down That has to be pulled down. That has to be pulled down. Has to be pulled down or fully restructured by 2027. And you can hear the wind coming through the windows. Not that place. This is actually something quite cool that they're doing.

It's stepped up to offer locals, you know, if you get there and your trip's been cancelled and a whole lot of things are changing and the chaos. A whole bunch of people had to get off the cruise ship, didn't they, in Wellington? That's right. Yeah. They're offering people the rate of paying what they can afford

for a three-night stay. Which is great. It never works for those restaurants that pop up. They never last. But I guess the hotels, I guess, struggling to fill rooms and you'd rather get a little something, wouldn't you? Exactly, they've probably got the empty rooms and they want to keep the people on their payroll.

So any money coming in is better than no money coming in. So yeah, good to see them stepping up. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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