ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 11th June 2021

Episode Date: June 10, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fletch Vaughan and Megan... Oh, McDonald's don't want to be associated with that. That was a mandarin, I just had a mandarin and that's, I think, reflux. A little citrusy burp. I want to say welcome to the Fletch Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. Gerard, I don't know if you want to beep out the burp so it's not as disgusting.

You don't beep a burp. I don't know if people wanted to hear that. No, you don't beep a burp. Because it will you want to beep out the burp so it's not as disgusting. You don't beep a burp. I don't know if people wanted to hear that. No, you don't beep a burp. Because it will just draw more attention to the burp. It was just a little burp. This is the Best of the Week podcast. We did touch this week on the fact that when we went to the Radio Awards, Vaughn, you wore a suit with cufflinks. Correct.

And Freemason cufflinks. Yeah. My friend Kim is wicked. You know Kim. She was in my bridal partylinks. Yeah. My friend Kim is wicked. You know Kim. She was in my bridal party with you. Kim, she's a wicked thrift shopper. And one time she found these cufflinks with the Freemason logo on it, which is like a square and a compass-y, scribe-y thing.

And she's like, I know who will like these. Vaughn. Of course he will. Yeah. She gave them to me, and I was just saying that I wore my Freemason cufflinks, and I've worn them to weddings before and said to old mates, oh, look, Freemason cufflinks,

and they'd be like, you don't wear those, unless you're a Freemason. And I'm like, well, well, joke's on you, because I am. Where did you get them from? Thrift shops. So they were even saying, like, old boys have told me before,

when a Freemason dies, you don't just give all their stuff to the thrift shop It should be returned to the Masonic Lodge Right, so to become a Freemason The applicant has to be an adult male And must believe in the existence of a supreme being And in the immortality of the soul The teachings of Freemasonry

And join morality Charity and obedience To the law of the land Sounds boring, I don and obedience to the law of the land. Sounds boring. I don't want to be one anyway. But it's all like secret handshakes and white undies. We're talking about this carween at the social media desk whose granddad was a Freemason.

Goodness me. When he died, they found his Freemason box, but he wouldn't tell you anything about it, right? What's a Freemason box? You keep all your garbs and all your Freemason secrets. but he wouldn't tell you anything about it, right? What's a Freemason box? So you keep all your garbs and all your Freemason secrets. Like a bougie suitcase. It was locked and stuff. But what secrets

do they have? We just don't know. We don't know. And it was one of the things that my mum asked him before he passed away. Wouldn't tell us. Wouldn't tell us anything. He literally was taking that to the grave. Because I saw on the news or something recently they've made a push for

younger members and they're also talking more about what they do for society because everyone just thinks it's the secret society where they go in a room and circle jerk or something and wait, what? I know, right? And they need members. Is that why girls can't join? Is there a membership?

Okay, well that's good. Because in a circle jerk you've got to be doing to the person next to you what they're doing to you, and you get into a rhythm. Someone's going to go to jerk you and... Oh, horrible. Okay, that was beeped for a reason. That was beeped because you crossed a line there. I mean, we were all visualizing it.

Someone just Verbally Yeah Expressed Right So I don't know what goes on inside there But that's the whole thing There's like a Netflix documentary And your grandad wouldn't tell his daughter about it As he was

On his deathbed It sounds bizarre doesn't it Yeah but they I mean They do do charitable stuff But like why the secrets Why the closed doors Yeah something's going on

Like if you want to be in a cool little boys only club That's cool but just say We just don't like girls in here or oh the guy that started that had a bitchy wife so we all need to get away from our unhappy marriages i don't know just be honest about it yeah yeah yeah if you just want time out have some time out yeah it's an important part of a relationship having time apart doing look at me marriage counseling the free places are you trying to cover up the fact that you've joined? I wouldn't be against joining, but I can't keep my mouth shut. So they wouldn't want me.

You're a wild gossip. No, you're more of an RSA guy. 100% on it. 100%. You love the RSA. I love it. Cheap beers. Long yarns.

Good buffets. And a slight musty smell. ZM. Head music. Lives here. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast. Buffets. And a slight musty smell. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Jared's got his purple Powerade.

We're all a bit dusty this morning after the industry radio school ball last night. Why don't they do these things on a Friday? Because they know what the industry's like and the bar tab's a little bit smaller. Just a little bit smaller. And the venues are cheaper on a Thursday. That's 100% it. Bloody tight-ass radio. Proud of you two for dressing up, though.

You did well. Thank you. You both look very dapper. Thank you. We were just happy that you got bail in time. Oh, yeah. After you were arrested in this giant... I was surprised to see you socialising after. I've had a lot of concern about my drug... What was it? Incarceration or something?

Your involvement in an international transnational drug bust. Yeah. I'm just pleased it wasn't like... But you're out. ...excruciating diarrhoea for once. No, you also had that in prison. Oh, okay. That was the story.

Yeah. But all charges are dropped. They have no evidence on you. None. They actually had that in prison. That was the story. But all charges are dropped. They have no evidence on you. They actually had the wrong Megan. So, God, thank goodness. I'm back. You're back in time to party with us last night. Executive Inton, aren't you probably the worst for wear

this morning? Apart from producer Jared with his purple Powerade. Somebody crawled to the toilet at 3am, didn't they? Yeah. But I'm't they? Yeah. But I'm full of beans now. I'm feeling really reinvigorated. It's the worst when you have a little sleepy

and then get up and... Yeah, because I think I was half sleeping being like, oh, I need a spew for like 30 minutes. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, that's not good.

Yeah. You know it's on the horizon. But you don't want to have to get up to deal with it. Yeah, but I feel a million bucks now. Okay, good. You're ready to go. What? Are we having a pie? I thought you asked if I was high.

Say Ford Smith. Are you high? No. Now I've got to ask. But yes, we should do pies. Yeah, it's a good idea. Excellent. Alright, well coming up on, we should do, guys. We could hit the Uber Eats or something. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's a good idea. Excellent. Excellent, excellent. All right, well,

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What do you spin your fingers around for? You keep talking, I'm doing a behind the scenes. It's very distracting when I'm talking and you're spinning your fingers like, like, big. I was like, just keep going. He's trying to do charades. Well, no, because I thought he was saying, I don't know, I might have agreed to a different top six.

And you were like, hold on, that's not right. No, you carry on. Anna and I are just doing charades. So we've got the top six reasons we're seeing a property price spike. Yeah. In Palmerston North. Next is a stat. It was talked about before.

I can't remember it. About childless adults. I remember this. 37 childless adults. I remember this. 37% from memory. Yeah. Of people without children have said something about not having children. They've got an opinion. Yeah.

Okay, well, let's talk about that next. The others had an opinion too, but this is like an interesting opinion. All right, fire up the Uber Eats. Let's get this show on the road. Fleshforn and Megan The podcast ZM ZM Jesus

Fletch Vaughan and Megan It's not gonna happen now I've got It's a bit croaky this morning The show Thanks to McCafe Buy five McCafe coffees Get one free on the Mac

Is that Would you get somebody From the show's sponsor McCafe To take a few steps next door And get us some hash browns. Oh, you're talking about? Delivered, yeah.

Probably next door to see the non-cafe. It's the non-cafe part. The non-fan cafe. Goodness. You're right, mate. Got a bit of blockage. 37. This is the stat that we're going to talk about.

37%. Is Mike Hosking at work today? I don't know. I saw him and Kate cuddled up on the couch. His Katie would get him to work. He loves his Katie. My Katie. Always his my Katie.

But she always pops a photo up on Instagram of her being in the elevator first thing in the morning. She works early. Yeah. Oh, you'd never know. But God, sort yourself out, please. Can you gargle some warm water? A little bit of salt in it. Is that what I need?

Apparently. I was just wondering if hers at work. Anyway, carry on. Okay. He could pop out and get us something to eat.. Is that what I need? Apparently. I was just wondering if he was at work. Anyway, carry on. Okay. He could pop out and get us something to eat. Who was that? Oh, my God. We're professionals.

Okay. 37%. Hey, at least we're at work. A lot of brand new shows either aren't here or they're pre-recorded. They're lying. They're saying they're here. They're not. Look, it's 10.6.

You sound bloody chipper, don't they? And 07, 8 seconds. Yeah. Also, I could have pre-recorded that, but you would have had to have timed it perfectly. I would have had to time it perfectly. I don't know if you've got that in you. No.

But then if we were pre-recorded, Fletch would have edited out me being like, piss bum, poo poo, diddle butt. See? Do you actually still want to talk about this, Dad? Yeah, sorry, go ahead. No, I mean, I don't mind. I'm not attached to it.

You're very naughty. It could have been worse. Piss who, mum? I was going to say the F word. Okay. 37% of childless adults don't want children is the stat we want to talk about. So if they don't have them, they don't want them. Yeah.

So stop asking. Oh, God, yeah. In general, if you're taking this shot, you've got a 37% chance of asking someone that does not want to have children and is probably sick of explaining. I think from the moment you get married and you detest this, Megan, especially, you know, if you're struggling, it's a real kick in the gut. Totally.

And if you take into account people who want children and are trying and then you take into account the people who just don't want children, that's like a high percentage of you're going to offend someone.

And a lot of women are saying they get treated like they're nasty spinsters if they're like, no, I just don't want kids. Also, what do you reckon the main reasons are? So 64%.

Yes. Financial. It was too expensive. That was why they didn't want to. 43% financial precarity. Yep. And 40% cited a lack of paid family leave as a reason. We get it pretty good in New Zealand.

Whereas in America, it's a real struggle. They can't afford to. Yeah. Wow. I thought with like this generation, I thought maybe it was more like there's enough children in the world. Yeah.

You know, like. Nope, still money. Money's the main reason. But that's a high stat. 37% don't want kids. What's your main reason, Fletch? Well, you know when your baby cries and it's like 3 in the morning? That.

That. That would be it. That would be the reason. That's a number one. That's a pretty good reason. Number one. Number two, how much money have you spent on this thing? Yeah, it's a lot.

It is a lot. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. Chipping into my shoe. Yeah, you're Yeah, but you're still leeching. Chipping into my shoe. Yeah, you're nearly 40 and you're still leeching of your parents. Excuse me. That's a fair call.

When did they last fill up the car? That's for me to know and you to not. See, it doesn't stop. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. After the radio awards last night, we partook in our tradition of going for wings. Yeah. Hot wings.

You didn't get any white stains on your shirt, did you? Well, I put a napkin like I was five-year-old. Like a bib. With a bib. Because I didn't want any sauce on the white shirt. Yeah. I got one dot on the breast area and then I got a little bit on my pants. But even for me, that was pretty good.

That was good, yeah. I like that you didn't want to use a bib or a napkin. You were like, I'm going to try. Yeah. You did almost sit in that hot sauce. I know. Yeah, that was close. It fell between my legs and then I nearly sat on it.

But then afterwards, Megan was headed off home and we were going to put an appearance in at an after party. Yeah, because you didn't want to have a big night. I'm driving and also I'm breastfeeding. Yeah, apparently like if you have burbs, it goes into the milk. Yeah. Who even knew that? I mean, I don't know if you know radio people, but like if you're at that party sober, it's... It's going to be horrible.

I was drunk and it was unbearable. God, yeah. people in this industry. And I'm one of them. Punishes a lot of us. And so Megan's like, I'll give you guys a ride. And I was like, I'm just going to go to the bathroom. I'll meet you outside. And then you guys were

gone for ages. What kind sentiment. I'll give you a ride. It was just down the road. It was walking distance. It was walking distance because I walked. How long ago? And got punished on the walk. How long ago was it that we talked about my friend James losing his car in the car park at the airport? Yeah, that was two weeks.

A week, yeah. You were here? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so. It's fresh in your mind. You didn't grab your little ticket from the casino to know where you were parked. Oh, no, you knew of the floor, right?

You just didn't know where on that floor. But, like, knowing the P2, that's still a were parked. Oh no, you knew of the floor, right? You just didn't know where on that floor. But like knowing the P2, that's a still large area. Oh my God. And so we'd use that machine. It's like, find your car. So you type in the license plate

and then it brings up three cars that aren't your car. No, really? So I was like, well this obviously works because I think every car park has a camera. Just so if you leave

your kids in there, Sky City keep an eye on them for you Bastion did it right though that was his first casino sleepover and then so we end up wandering around for five minutes and I'm like oh I could have walked there by now five minutes

then they make it out and I'm like oh all good there's no room for you Vaughn I'm like what it's a roomy Sanyong is that what it'm like, what? It's a roomy Ssangyong. Is that what it is, a Ssangyong? Yeah. It's a roomy Ssangyong. The largest ottoman of all time

is taking up two of the three back seats. I forgot that I'd collected an ottoman. Freedom was having a sale and I got this ottoman. But Freedom famously never have the things on them. No, yes. You have to order it and then wait eight months for it to get sent from Palmerston North. I waited ages for it and then they gave me the wrong colour.

So that's why it's still in my car. Oh, my God. So Megan's like, I'll give you a ride. We finally find your car. And I was like, I'll sit in the boot. And I said to Jared, let's sit in the boot. I had no, the Ssangyong's not packing in the boots. Nah, there's no room for me in the boot.

There's no room for me in the boot. No room. So anyway, Jared and I walked. It was fine. I drove Fletch down, but I got punished the whole way. Well, I did the front seat. It was fine. Carwin was squished up against the ottoman.

Every time you went around a corner, he squished Carwin. He rolled on it. Yeah, rolled. Gave him the smash. It was like a giant boulder. Yeah. You're welcome. You made it there, okay?

Vaughn had to walk. You got there in style. Thank you, Megan. Next on the show, it's the top six. Vaughan, have you decided? Is that next? It is, yeah. You'll have two songs to do this.

The top six. Good morning to the Manawatu and Palmerston North specifically. Is it all right if I call that the capital of the Manawatu? Absolutely. The capital of the Manawatu, Palmerston North. The top six reasons property prices are skyrocketing there. Yeah, it's gone up, what, 44% or something? Yeah.

Well, take that, John Cleese. He said mean things that time, yeah. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. From the vulnerable ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Palmerston North, a very good morning to you. Good morning, honey. You're looking lovely this morning.

And you're looking 44% more expensive. Yeah. Two. Year on year, right? Yeah, so house prices in Palmerston North, 44% up. 158,000 from the same time last year. So the median house price was $390,000. And at the moment it's $548,000.

So over half a mil. You can read more about this at oneroof.co.nz. That's the company's property arm. And what a fascinating website. If you're looking for a place or you just like some property info. That's called Company Synergy there. That's us helping them out.

And if you wanted to drive to Palmerston North, you could learn all about what car to take in Driven, the company's vehicle arm. Yes. What's left for me to tease? Are we still on that job one? Grab one. Yes, there'll be some activities there that you could do.

And that is the company's deals. And if you die there, you can take out a funeral notice in the herald.co.nz. Yes. That is company synergy. Send that to Bogsy. He'll bloody love that. He will love that. He can use it as an example for other radio stations how to use company synergy.

Yeah. Fantastic. And trying to think of some more. Yeah. I don't have any. Okay. Well, why don't you tell us about Palmerston North and the top six. It would be my absolute pleasure.

The top six reasons, Palmerston North, the property prices are going up and it's the place to be. Number six, everything's being sent from Palmerston North. Do they want some equipment? Literally, we were just talking about

the giant ottoman in Megan's car. I remember going to Freedom Furniture and they're like, oh yeah, and I was like, oh, so can we just get the trailer and take this?

And they're like, oh no, it gets sent from Palmerston North. I was like, Palmerston North? Where do you get your bloody mum cardies from? Easy Buy or Posty Plus? Don't they have a big warehouse

there? Posty Plus was based in Palmerston North. Yeah. They had a huge dusty cupboard. That's where you got those $10 sandals from that you're always prancing around in. Oh Christ, you're winding me up. I'm not biting. I'm not. Her Posty Scuffs.

Her Posty Scuffs. They're not from Posty. Kendall Jenner was wearing them. No, she wasn't, Christ. Her scuffs. You're winding me up. I'm not biting. I'm not. Her postie scuffs. Her postie scuffs. They're not from Postie. Kendall Jenner was wearing them. No, she wasn't, Megan. She absolutely was. Okay, anyway, whatever. Now, you're confusing Kendall Jenner with Kris Jenner.

Number five on the list of the top six resins, Palmerston North's property prices are going up, and it is the place to be as it's June sunlight hours. 79 hours sunlight. That is of the entire month. There are 720 hours in a month, meaning that's just a smidge over 10% of total hours. Oh, goodness. Okay.

And then, okay, so let's run some more numbers. Half that because I don't know if you guys know about night time. Yeah. There's no sunlight hours there. So still, 20% of the time you'll see sun. Yeah, right. Wild. Wild.

I had no idea. Number four on the list of the top six reasons Palmerston North's a place to be and property prices are popping, the Manawatu turbos and those green buckets that their fans wear on their heads in the crowd. I do love that they wear the green buckets. It's so good. It's got to be New Zealand rugby's best local gag, right? I'd say so, yeah. As a Waikato lad, we used to take cowbells to rugby games,

but those were annoying. They were the Vuvuzelas of the 1990s. They're not 80 cents at the warehouse, are they? No. But these guys are rocking green buckets on their head, and it's great. Love it. And I's great. Love it. And I can't see the origins.

Where did the origin come from? It's not like all the Manawatu bucket heads. Number three on the list of the top six reasons Palmerston North's the place to be in property prices are popping, the New Zealand Rugby Museum. Who knew? I didn't know. If old shirts are your thing,

if you like an old pair of boots. Who's that? You can see that guy's stapled testicles. Buck Shelford. Yeah, remember, the gun stapled his testicles and kept playing. They don't make rugby players like that anymore, eh? Nah. Let's rip open Bowdoin Barrett's ball sack.

Staple it back up. See how he's going to do it. God, bloody Hannah will be rubbing it with bio oil. Put it on the gram. This helps the scars. You took the scars. Bodie's sack got torn open at the end. Facetious when you're hungover.

No, I really, actually, they're two very genuinely nice people. But I was just trying to think of an All Black and he popped into my head. Yeah. I could have gone for another

modern All Black. Zinzan Brook. No, that's not. No, he's not. He's not. He's not. I'm not great with the modern All Blacks.

Number two on the list, speaking of our famous sports people, of the top six reasons Palmerston North is the place to be and it's popping off. Check out this list

of notable people from Palmerston North. John Clark, who gave us Fred Dagg. Oh, yeah. He's originally from Palmerston North. Shane Cortez. Oh, yeah. Actor, singer, dancer and available for your corporate function. Is he in a real estate now as well, I believe?

Yeah. Oh, the old birds that love Buying a house off Shane I'm like Oh give us a twirl In the kitchen Shane He's in real estate He's a real estate auctioneer

Yeah Correct Yeah Tuckapuna Brendan Hartley Who's a racing driver He's from Palmerston North Grant Robertson

The Minister of Finance And the Deputy PM He's from Palmerston North. Ross Taylor. Oh, Cricketer, yeah, right. Legendary cricketer. He's from there. And Simon Van Veldhoven,

who is not only a track racing cyclist, but an America's Cup sailor. Okay. So there you go. Those are some famous people. And number one on the list of the top six reasons Palmerston North is the place to be in property prices are poppin' vet students with access to horse tranquilizers.

Yeah. Nothing beats a night out in the square on the horse tranks. I don't know. I don't. Yeah, I don't know. I've never taken horse tranquilizers. Yeah, I can't imagine you'd be awake, would you? And I believe they're a suppository.

Oh, okay. Wow. Well, there is a form of horse tranquilizer they're a suppository. Oh, okay, wow. Well, there is a form of horse tranquilizer that's a suppository. Yeah, right. I only know that because my grandparents are the horse stud. I thought your school holidays must have been riveting, eh? They were wild. If you weren't washing a horse's penis, you were helping them put a big red pill up a horse's bum.

Okay. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There is a cafe that is annoyed because someone has brought along a teabag. Now, they've gone toe to toe with this. But basically, if you are going to a cafe and you bring your own tea bag, what do you expect?

Hot water. No, listen to what I said and appreciate the double meaning of what I just said. Hot water. So this, you want hot water to make your tea, but you're going to find yourself in hot water.

Okay, cute. Get the knockout water dessert! Should I actually kick that glass? You were a little hard on me. That was a bit... Bloody careful. So this happened in Ireland, and the cafe owner is very upset.

Two people came in, and they gave a one-star review that they only ordered hot water and sugar to go with their teabags. So what was the one-star review? Did they not receive the... I ordered one hot water and sugar and they wouldn't serve me again as I used my own teabag. Right.

The bar was virtually empty and they weren't under any pressure with only two bars left working. As a local woman, I find it utterly disgraceful that they would begrudge a 2p. That's like nothing. Five cents? Yeah, because it might as well be alcohol. So did they have to pay for the hot water?

2p? 2p. Like five cents, Not even 5 cents. Yeah. I guess maybe, it doesn't say whether it was a takeaway cup or like. And then they had the audacity to give them a one star review. I could see why the owner would be pissed. They didn't order anything else.

So when you had your cafe, would people do this? God, I'm so triggered. We never cared if people brought it if they were, like, you know, dining with other people and they're buying food and whatever. If they had a teabag that we didn't sell and they wanted that. It's not a problem. Kind of rude, though. Like, if you go to a cafe, everyone has the different teas, right?

You've got your green teas, your peppermint teas. But if they're spending, are you going to begrudge one teabag? Exactly. If they're buying, like, a $20 breakfast. Yeah, no, your peppermint teas. But if they're spending, are you going to begrudge one tea bag? Exactly. If they're buying like a $20 breakfast. Yeah, no, I probably wouldn't care. The thing, the problem I have with this is that they let them sit there and they let them do it and everything. But then they gave them a one-star review.

Yeah, and they're also taking up. Oh, it messes with your Google review. They're taking up a table too that you can't then sell for someone having like, you know, a brunch or something. Yeah. So obviously the staff was very upset. The owner was very upset, especially

they say because they opened in November 2019 they've been closed for 13 months due to the pandemic. Oh my God. Oh yeah, right. So they open up finally and then they get a one star review. That's another thing to take into account. This person, it's probably like the first time they've been to a cafe for ages. Support your local business.

Yeah, and they're like, one star. Yeah. They went on to say this reviewer is an arsehole. Who uses reviews like this as cudgel? What's that? Oh, it sounds like an Irish term. I hope it's not offensive because I just said it on the radio. Wait, how do you spell it?

C-U-D-G-E-L. Cudgel. Cudgel. I've heard the word. A short, thick stick used as a weapon. A cudgel. So they're using it like a weapon. Oh, right.

This review's been wielded like a weapon. It's like when you get, you always say you never give an Uber driver less than a five star. Nah. Unless they're really bad. Because it affects the rating so much. Even that Uber driver that drove up on the curb that time in Sydney, I just still gave five stars. Well, everyone's hustling the side jobs.

But Uber star ratings more, like you don't get to pick. It just gets assigned to you. But it's a certain thing if it drops below a certain mark, they're scrapped, right? Yeah, yeah. And I don't think you can remove one-star reviews off your Google reviews. Because you got some. You were saying you did get some when you had the cafe. What did you get yours for?

Only a couple. But I remember one that I actually went toe-to-toe with because their problem was that they came at 1.30 and we would close at 2.30. and there was no food in the cabinet. And I explained that we'd had a busy day because when you make everything fresh, unless you get in early, you can't help if the food sells out. So tough, yeah.

Kind of. But they left a one-star review. But there was no food to review. But also said great coffee, but I was pissed I couldn't get a brownie with it. Oh, my God. People, eh? I don't know how you did that. People.

Dealing with people. Well, you know, you sound frustrated and got angst going on. I can say that coming up on the show, stress relievers. Oh, okay. The Adult Toy Megastore has released its list of stress relievers. Yeah, now, so this list,

there's some interesting stats. That's great because... It's geographical stats. Yeah. It's good data. There's infographics. It's a hat tip. So coming up, the regions in New Zealand that have purchased the most adult fun toys.

The biggest growth too. Yes. Okay. They've really embraced it. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Adult Toy Megastore have sent us an email with some very interesting stats about who's buying sex toys. Well, we're at adult fun toys. Let some very interesting stats about who's buying sex toys.

Well, we're adult fun toys. Let's call them that. Sex toys, sex toys. Charge your sex toys. Okay. Because you want to use them and the battery will be flat. Sex toys, sex toys. Charge your sex toys.

The increase in sales after lockdown is phenomenal. Yes. Some of these stats, like, wow. I want a tree shelf sale. We can't go to Bali anymore, so why not buy the Satisfyer Pro 2? What were you doing in Bali? Excuse me, sir. I must ask. What were you doing in Bali?

I was meaning we cannot spend money on overseas travel. Right. For example, Bali. You're right. Or Fiji or wherever. Okay. So people are spending their money on cars and kitchens and toys. You can't go to the Greek islands, so why not hit another G-spot?

Yeah. Toy purchases by age. This is very interesting. 13% of people purchasing adult fun toys, Gen Zs. And that's the lowest age group. That's the lowest purchasing demographic. Wow. 18 to 24.

Well, yeah, because you don't want to meet people and talk to them. What? No, the lowest. Oh, the lowest? The lowest. The lowest. This is what blew my mind. I thought Gen Z, like 18 to 24, I thought people would have been snaffling them up.

Yeah, right. Like a pig in a trough. Yeah, right. But no, 18 to 24, maybe not. Maybe they're getting it the old-fashioned way. Yeah. Boomers were next. They're just ahead of Gen Z.

So more boomers are buying sex toys than Gen Zs. Then the 14% 65 plus. Yeah, right. They're ahead of those frigid Gen Zs. Your man's getting off. Carwen at the social media desk raises a very good point. What did you say? I'm throwing you under the bus here.

No, I just said that they're too expensive. Yeah, I was going to say they're quite expensive. You're 18 to 24. Yeah, you don't have that kind of money to be a couple of hundred bucks on this. The Satisfy Pro 2 is pretty spinny. Nan's on the bloody what do they call it? Superannuation. She's buying them. Yeah, but she's got a lot

of retirement savings. Right, all those capital gains she made from it. Exactly. She's spending them. Yeah, but she's got a lot of retirement savings. Right, all those capital gains she made from it. Yeah, exactly. She's spending it all. But next, Xennials, 35 to 44. The Xennials, they're at 15%. This is all kind of relatively close. You remember Gen Z was down the bottom on 13%.

Gen X, 15%. They're next up, 45 to 54. A whopping nearly twice the amount of other people from 25 to 34. The Millennials, the Gen Ys, they're the big buyers. Okay. So they're buying twice as many as what other age groups are buying. So you get it.

And since COVID lockdown restrictions eased in New Zealand, adult toy sales have been up 48.5%. Since lockdown eased? Yeah. So since we can go out again. I'm saying like probably since a year ago. Right. There's also been a 233% increase in lubricant

sales. That's good. That's good. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah. I mean, you want to make it easy. Hell yes. Yeah, definitely. You ever put a sleeping bag back in the bag? I was not sure where that was going. I mean, where it ended wasn't great, but...

I certainly, yeah. I don't roll it up, I just... Well, you just shove it in. That's what I'm saying. It's easier if you hit this with technique. Everything's easier if there's a bit of pre-planning and a bit of technique. Oh, my God.

There's also been a 428% increase in realistic realistic penis replicants of sales. That's interesting. What? Why'd you point at me? Is that the thing where you make a cast? No, you can't.

That is an example, but this is just ones that look like, yeah. You know, you'll be like, on the show. Bourne Smith. Bourne Smith. You. Okay. Apologise.

Dad had some drinkies last night. And he is being naughty. You know the ones. I cannot actually believe he just did that. I cannot believe he just did that. I cannot believe you just did that. If you go into someone's house and you see some rings on the shower, you're like, it's stuck on a rope.

I don't see a... I don't see a caddy with suction cups on it. What has been stuck to the side of the shower? Reign it in. That's where I hang my loofah. Let's go now to the biggest of the shower. Right now. That's where I hang my loofah. Let's go now to the biggest buyers by region. Yes.

This is fascinating. Number 10, Wellington. And so this is directly in Paris compared to the year before. Okay. These are the biggest growers and not showers. 10's Wellington, 9 was Palmerston North, 8 was Christchurch, 7 New Plymouth, 6 Auckland. The top five, Queenstown's stepping up.

Lower Hutt, blowing Upper Hutt out of the water. And be like, we're the Hutt. We're the captain now. We are the vibe. We have the lower vibe. Yeah, we're the suction cup, the shower. Number three is Tauranga. Big increase in Tauranga.

And that marries up to the, you know, the 65 plus purchases there. A lot of retirees exploring there. God, you're going to have to be really careful going around to Nan's house. You don't want to go on that top or bottom drawer. No, stay out of her drawers. Stay out of her drawers. You don't want to get found in there. Oh, there's going to be people finding Nanas in possessions.

God, yeah. Yeah. Her old wedding ring, the Bible, and a Satisfyer Pro 2. That's Nan's top drawer. Number two, Cambridge. Okay. The leafy Waikato town of Cambridge. Yeah, wow.

The horse people. Yeah. And number one, how specific is this? Number one, the area that has purchased more in the last 12 months than the 12 months preceding, Havelock North. Not just Hastings or Hicks Bay or Napier Hastings. It's specifically the Havelock North suburb. Judging by these stats, pretty much every single person

would have an adult fun toy. Yeah. Really, just judging by population. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Population-wise, Havelock North must have, like, gone in for, I don't know, gone in for a bulk discount or something. Are they super chill people? Super chill.

Now, Havelock North have got a webcam. You know the webcams you can look at, like, the beaches and stuff in the cities? Yeah. Yeah. We've got an audio feed into Havelock North, have we? There it is. There it is. There it is. Just a hum over the city.

Sort of a... It's harmonised. Has everybody harmonised this? I tell you what, this will get you to sleep too. It would affect everybody's TV reception. They've stopped because we've talked about it. Someone's actually messaged in questioning your budgeting

here, Carween. You said that it was too expensive and you fell into the lowest purchasing demographic. Someone said $58 for the Satisfyer Pro 2, best money you'll ever spend

and less than a drunken night out with more pleasure. That's on sale though, isn't it? Yeah, that's good down in price. That's what blows my mind. Everyone talks? Yeah, that's good down in price That's what blows my mind Everyone talks about how they're only like 60 bucks

Or are they the best on the market? We're late So you work out your budget And go to one of those budgeting places, can't one? I'll get up to it Yeah Go on one of those TV shows Go to sorted.org.nz

Hiya, what are your savings plans? I want to be able to buy a Satisfyer Pro 2 by the end of the year. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Oh, what's in the box? Well, in studio is a giant black box. There is a digital keypad on it. And Megan, while you're away,

while you're arrested with this drug cartel arrest, she's since been bailed. Allegedly. You mean bailed. Allegedly. No evidence. Allegedly. Charges dropped.

Charges dropped. The box revealed that inside there is $20,000 cash. Now, the clues so far... That's nothing for Megan and her drug buddies. I saw the footage on the news, so bags of cash. The clues so far are the box likes four-letter words. So we're thinking the four-digit pin will spell a word using the numbers. And it's kind of like the old Nokia 3310.

Each number is assigned two or three, four letters. Or like working out an 0800 number. We solved the puzzle and it's a big seven. So we assumed the seven key PQRNS somewhere in the code. Hayley joins us. Good morning, Hayley. Hi, how you doing? Good, good.

All right, so you've been on hold there waiting. Have you thought about how you're going to spend this $20,000 cash? If you win? I think I'll probably fix my car. Okay. I don't know what happened to it. I hit a bit of a curb and damaged the front. Oh, I hate it when curbs just jump out at you, eh?

Yeah. Just unbolt that part. That's what I've done for my bit when I hit the curb. Just take that bit off. All right. Unnecessary. Hayley, which four-digit pin would you like us to try? So I want to try 4766, which spells iron.

As in like Iron Man? Yeah, as in like Iron Man. Okay, who's worked with Black Widow on the MCU? Yep, here we go. So 4766. Oh. Never mind. Never mind.

Okay. Short and sweet. Hayley, unfortunately, no, you have not opened the box. You don't get $20,000. but we do have for you a double pass to Marvel Studios' Black Widow, which is in cinemas July 8. It'll be streaming as well. Disney Plus with Premier Access July 9. Conditions apply.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Now, the other day, websites, there was Spotify, Reddit, The Guardian, New York Times, the BBC. Here in New Zealand, Trade Me and a few others were taken down. Yeah, people were like trying to buy stuff and sell stuff and it all just went down. Yeah. So Fastly, it was everybody who was using a cloud computing service provider called Fastly. Now, Fastly is what is considered a content delivery network, a CDN.

Now, I know nothing about this. This is all news and all these words are news to me. So far, though. So I can't get into the specifics of what's happened, but I've read an article about it. Okay, so far I'm following along. Okay. So Nick, who works at Fastly,

and he's not just any old Joe Bloggs who works there, he's the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure. Okay. Now, he said this global outage was triggered by an undiscovered bug and a software update that was actually introduced and put into the system on May the 12th. Right. But it wasn't until a customer of Fastly made a completely valid change.

He said it was not hacking or anything. It was a valid change and it was just a one in a million situation where that just freaked everything out and caused a crash. So one person, one person made a change. Logging onto the site

and apparently for them it would have felt like he hasn't said where they worked but imagine it's someone at the Guardian so they're doing something to their website yep

and they're just like oh yeah okay that's all done save changes click and it just went gone and then

it was almost instantaneous the whole thing was just like no do it like that and just fell straight over wow yeah wow immediately 85% of their network just returned errors,

and then websites just dropped. Wow. And so all over the world, just because one person made a valid change, one person created all this chaos. Yeah. I love that. I really love that. Yeah.

They would have clicked a thing, and it just would have happened immediately. And most of it was down for like an hour, right? Yeah. I think Trade Me was up after about 11 o'clock. Within an hour, 95% of the network was back operating as usual. He said it was really obvious. The minute they ran like a diagnostic thing, it was like, this shouldn't happen. They isolated it and it was back.

And he's like, wow. I would love to take calls this morning on when you were the one person that was responsible for so much disruption. Because it's like when you're in like a line of traffic for an hour and then you get to the one little crash and you're like oh, you've done this. And everyone eyeballs you. Yeah, oh my

God, I couldn't look at people if that was me. But then the people who have caused, you might have had like a nose to tail, but it's everyone stopping for a gawk that's caused the real traffic. Exactly, yeah. Or you accidentally crash into a power pole and you knock out power to the entire town. That's one person causing the disruption. Or maybe you took something down online, like similar.

Took down a whole company. Took down a whole country. 0800-DARZENM Want to take some calls now You can text as well 9696 When were you the one person Responsible for a huge disruption?

One man it turns out Is responsible for taking down A lot of the world's websites Just purely by a bug A mistake Just something that he clicked And a bug A one in a million thing brought down even websites here

like Trade Me or the big news sites around the world for like an hour. We want to know when were you the one person responsible for big disruption? I just thought of another one. What? You know when you're waiting on the plane and you're like, oh, we meant to take off

like 10 minutes ago. And then like one person gets on, you're like, who are you? Oh, yeah. And they've been asking for them. Yeah. So like, if you're Mr. Smith, could you bing bong? Because, you know, we might have missed you.

Did you sneak on? I had my name called at the airport yesterday. I had some of that. Of course you did. Yeah, I know you did. Of course you did. Just waiting on a passenger, Vaughan Smith. I'll be like, that's my brother, Jed.

There we go. All right, that's my private jet. There we go. Alright, let's take some calls. Teresa, when were you the one person responsible for disruption? Good morning, guys. I was responsible for stopping the northbound traffic on the Harbour Bridge one late Friday evening when my car broke down.

It was a breakdown. Now, was it a breakdown or was it a run out of petrol? No, it wasn't a run out of petrol. It was the alternator had gone and the light had come on earlier on in the day. Yeah. And I ignored it being female thinking it's still working, it's okay. I don't know if that's a female thing. I ignore all the lights too.

I ignored it until it went crack. Exactly. So, apparently the car had just been running out. It's charged for the whole day. And it was about six o'clock on a Friday evening. I was heading northbound over the bridge. On the inside of the actual bridge, not the clip-ons on the inside. I was nose to tail and everything just stopped. Oh no. And did you do that thing where you just like slumped in your seat and hid so people didn't give you the evils?

Yeah. And I've got a personalised plate on my car. So everyone would, yeah, they remembered me. A few people had driven past from work the next day and said, was that you? And I said, yeah. Also, the cars were nose to tail, so they couldn't get out from behind me. I had to wait there for the police to come, and they had to stop all of the lanes going over,

because once they pushed me over the top of the bridge, they had to move me right over to the left-hand side so I could park up at the police station at the bottom. I'd just die. Also, remember that truck driver that crashed into the bridge and caused disruption for literally weeks? Yeah, he was worse than you. Yeah.

But that was the wind blew the truck over into the thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't him. It was the wind. Yeah, but kind of was. It was the curtain you. Yeah. But that was the wind blew the truck into the thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't him. It was the wind. Yeah, but it was. It was the curtain side of the truck. Stacey, when were you the one person causing all the disruption?

I worked in a preschool and I accidentally left the hot tap on after I'd been to the toilet and it set off all the fire alarms and it was like one o'clock in the afternoon and they had to rip all babies and freaks out of bed. Evacuate fire, things arrived. Was it the steam or something rising in the bathroom? Have you ever been in a hotel and they're like, don't have a long steamy shower otherwise the fire brigade will get called.

You're like, don't tell me what to do. I'm in a hotel, I will have a long... That's a flawed system. Yeah, exactly. If you know that this is a problem, deal with it. Yeah. Because I was planning

on having a full steam. Yeah, just put a flannel over the sensor. Yeah. Actually, a pad. A pad, yeah, right. Sanitary pad.

Over the... Thing will work? Well, I mean, let's not advise people to do that. Danielle, when were you the one person that caused disruption? So, I mean, let's not advise people to do that. Danielle, when were you the one person that caused disruption? So I was unfortunately that one person that held up a plane.

Ah, right. Yep. You're about to get told off by Fletch. Yeah, because I'd give you this look if you got on. But you wouldn't be looking at the passengers, your eyes would be on the ground. Yeah, so I was in Nelson one year for Christmas and I got my boarding times muddled up.

Okay. I slept in thinking that my, you know, my plane, I had to check in at eight. I got a funny message at 7.30 being like, your plane is now boarding. And I was about 10 minutes away from the airport. And I had a call from the flight attendant like, are you still coming to your

flight? And I was like, yeah, I'll be there in five minutes. We had car trouble and I was on the plane. And they waited? They waited for me. Oh no. There's a plane every hour or half. Get on the next one. Oh, the next one wasn't due for another three days.

Good Lord. I would have absolutely ripped you the e-boys. You wouldn't have got a cookie, I'll tell you that much, Danielle. I would have asked the flight attendant as a punishment not to give you a cookie. Not to give you a cookie. Or to give you cassava chips. Thanks, you called, Danielle, some text messages. Some text messages are really, like, putting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people out.

Someone said, I accidentally cut through some gas mains. An entire neighborhood didn't have gas. It was a new neighborhood. Everybody used gas for water and heating. So it was the middle of winter too, so everybody. You'd be hated. I stopped the ride in Disneyland because I forgot to close the little gate on the spinning teacup.

Instead of restarting the ride, they cut it short and made everybody get off. If looks could have killed, I'd be dead a million times. My brother calls a fire alarm to go off at this huge summer camp by spraying deodorant. Apparently the particles in the deodorant were enough to think it was on fire. Yeah, right. We all got delayed and emergency services had to check the entire campground. Everybody was out there. When I was in the UK, I encouraged my small class of 20 to protest the war in Iraq.

It was kind of about like we were learning about social issues, which may have led to the entire school, 1,700 students, standing across the street in a paddock with little to no idea as to why they were there, but they just wanted to get out of class. BBC One showed up, filmed the thing, and everybody had to have a letter sent home about what had happened, and it was

a whole big deal, and I got called to the principal's office. Oopsy-daisy. Yeah, just so many people. I kept running my toast through the conveyor belt toaster at a hotel. Oh, see, I reckon two times, Max, through the conveyor belt toaster at a hotel. Oh, I see. I reckon two times, Max, for the conveyor belt toaster. Slowly two times.

Full heat, slow chain, two times. But you've always got to do it two times. Those machines at the hotel buffets are amazing, eh? But dumb because they look cool and it's cool because it's a conveyor belt, but it's never just one time through and it's cooked. You've always got to put it through twice. Yeah, you do. Anyway, I put

I was putting my toast through over and over and over again and it caused the jam up with the bagel and the whole thing caught on fire. And the whole hotel had to be evacuated and it was like early in the morning so maybe we were going to get evacuated in like their undies and robes and... Oh my god.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. I love body language stuff. I'm, like, so into it. I'm always looking for eye twitches and stuff, being like, you're lying. But this is how to tell if your date actually likes you. Okay. Or what if you had, like, an office crush or something and you're talking to them?

Like, these are four signals that someone likes you. Okay. Four things to look out for. Arm positioning is apparently one. This can be a key indication of how they're feeling, whether they're on guard or relaxed. You're closed off. You've got your arms folded.

You just crossed your arms so you don't like me. You're closing yourself off. We're getting down to brass tacks of emotion and he's shut the doors. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've shut the doors. Yeah, I don't want you to. Babies, emotion, what else?

You cross your arms. That's it um like when the ird wants hats they just keep on coming yeah what about what did i tell you last year i idea i'm not paying yeah you see previously not cross one hand on phone, hands in pockets and crossed arms. Not good. Oh, literally. Your arms are crossed and your hands are in your pockets. Wow. Not good. Mirroring.

So if someone is returning your body language back to you, if they mirror you, mirror your stance. They want to impress you. So if you were sitting at a bar and say you're on a couch or something and you've got your leg crossed over and they mirror that, they're into it. But then what if you've got your hands in your pockets and then they've got

their hands in their pockets? Well, you're both not enjoying that date by the sounds of it. Or it's like when someone does an accent to you and you accidentally do the accent back. I always do that with Australians. That's so bad, eh? You're so bad. Yeah. You're an Australian. Yeah, thanks.

Like I do when my sister-in-law's Australian and whenever I talk, I'm like, oh yeah. And she's like, don't. I'm like, I'm not even learning to take the piss. Another sign that your date or someone is into you.

This is a big one for you, Fletch, because you walk so fast. I do, I'm a galloper. Brisk walker. So compatible couples, they will match strides. Oh, okay. Just naturally they'll fall in stride with each other. Because it's so awkward when you're walking with someone and they're a slow walkie.

Just like... Like someone's into you, but it's just like they're running to keep up. Yeah, well, if you're into me, keep up. And laughter. So if someone is laughing at you, you know you're not funny or you said something that is not funny and they're cracking up. I think that's an obvious one. Right, that's like flirtatious stuff, right?

Yeah. Yeah, into you. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A little bit dusty this morning because last night, I guess our version of our scoreball, our formal. The radio formal. The radio formal, New Zealand Radio Awards. And we went to the awards and then afterwards,

it's a bit of a show tradition to have dinner afterwards. Yeah. Hot wings and drinks at Andy's, which is a restaurant inside Sky City, which is where the awards have been held for the last few times. So we get there and we take a lovely photo of the team. In front of a grey curtain. Yep.

And I'm like, I'm going to post this on Instagram. I just chucked it up. I didn't even filter it because we all looked beautiful. Natural beauties. Yep. There's no argument for that. There's no argument there. Not arguing against that. There's no argument there. Not arguing.

Put it up on Instagram. This is the first exhibit in this Instagram trial. Now you can see this photo, the raw photo, untouched, with natural beauty on my Instagram,

FletchNZ. You're making it sound like I've touched it up. I haven't touched it up. Wow. Then, oh, the airdrop happens at the table. And Megan gets the airdrop.

Because I was like, I want to put up a photo of us too. We all look great. So Megan Louise Pappas. Blue tick. On Instagram. She's got a blue tick. Yeah, that's my handle. I mean, this should say something.

She's got a blue tick. She then, I catch her at the corner of my eye spending 10 minutes on this photo. Going through Instagram presets presets that it looks like she's bought from like an Instagram influencer you know how these people sell their presets for like 30 bucks what are you talking about not exactly yes exactly yes explain this together you can how do they do this do they just play with like light balance and stuff yeah they do every now and then on your TV, you accidentally get into the settings.

You're like, you know what? I probably could make it look better than the factory settings. And you're like bright up, contrast up. You know how you go to people's like feeds and you can see how they all have like a certain colour or hue or like it's all stylised. They're usually using presets

so they can put the same thing on each photo. And so Megan's purchased these from, who did you buy them from? I didn't buy them from an influencer. It's like, I think it's a Parker Arrow preset. Who are these influencers that do it? I don't know. They sell their presets. But couldn't you just look at it and be like,

I could do that or you can't do that? I mean, you could try. This is well out of my area of expertise. You could to-do with the settings and then save as a setting. It's, yeah. So I see Megan selecting. And what was it called? Tell Vaughn what it was called.

No, I don't. This filter's got a name. There's no one on my side in here. I feel attacked. The filter is called. Fashion Blogger. One. It's called Fashion Blogger One.

Well, there's six of them. One, two, three, four. Fashion Blogger Two One. It's called fashion blogger one. There's six of them. One, two, three, four. Fashion blogger two, three, four. And she selects fashion blogger two and uploads this photo to her Instagram without the natural beauty. We all look, she's brown faced me. People have been messaging in saying you've overdone the tan. You know that you have a natural tan anyway. But it's July.

It's June, Megan. Not July. June. I did get a DM from someone this morning saying, did someone tell Fletch that more is less or is he trying to look younger? Exactly. Wait, so what are they accusing Fletch of?

Fake tan. They are saying I have bronzed up for the awards night when in natural fact, natural actual fact, I'm just gone as a white ghost. There's a little bit of shadow, I think. But I mean, we all have tans. But why does Fletch look so much browner than the rest of us? No, because he's got a natural hue.

But it hasn't browned me. Yeah, but you're very white. Beg your pardon? I take umbrage with that good say. But if you look at my Instagram post compared to yours. Jared does have a lovely tan, but I just thought, to be fair, I didn't look at you. I was looking at myself. Somebody said, I thought this was a photo with The Rock.

Wait, you've missed the absolute crucial sentence. What? What did you just say? I wasn't looking at you. I was looking at myself. Yeah, that's how everybody approaches an Instagram photo. Because I must say, even the one you put on yours, not the best photo of the group. No, I did ask the group, though.

No, the one you put up of the group, Jared's not even looking at the camera. The one Megan put up is the best photo of everybody. No, I didn't look the best in that one, though. And Vaughn's smiling. The one you put up, Vaughn wasn't smiling. Yeah. Well, anyway, I just think before you brownface your friends and get cancelled, you should maybe check with them, Megan.

Maybe you should check with them that they're actually happy with the photo. Looking at the camera. I'm not apologising for that. It's just the way you look. There is a difference in those two photos. Yeah, like a really horrific, bad, like I got caught in a spray tan booth difference is what. Carwin's going to do a side-by-side of the natural photo

and then the photo as run through the fashion blogger too. See, I just think be natural. It's just a colour thing. I didn't touch up your wrinkles or anything like that. Oh my God, why would you say that to him? Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Oh, what's in the box? Well, it's in studio, the box. We know that there is $20,000 cash inside and we need a four-digit pin to get in. Vaughan, you solved the puzzle earlier this week. Seven. That revealed the number seven, which on the keypad. P-Q-R-S.

Now, joining us is Sarah. Good morning, Sarah. Hello. How are we? Good. $20,000. What would you do with that? I think possibly travel around New Zealand.

That would be lovely. Oh. Is there any parts of New Zealand you haven't been to, Sarah? There's actually quite a bit of New Zealand I haven't been to, sadly. Okay, well, that would be good then. That's like so many of us, you know? Yeah. We're forced to now, aren't we?

Well, all thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow in cinemas July 8 and streaming on Disney+, with premiere access July 9. Conditions apply. The $20,000 is yours, Sarah. If you can get in with this code, what do you want us to try? I'm thinking 7826, which is Stan. Stan. Oh, Stan Lee.

He's the creator of lots of Marvel characters, and of course Black Widow is a Marvel character. Stan. 7826 to confirm. Mm-hmm. Oh. Fucking knows. Not really.

Not really. Okay, all right. That's a good one. Yeah, unfortunately, Sarah, you don't get the $20,000, but every incorrect guest does get a double pass to Marvel Studios' Black Widow. Awesome.

All yours, well done. And I hope you get to see some of New Zealand. Thank you very much Get out there, do something new New Zealand You'll just be paying for that yourself Yeah Sorry about that Friday Flashback

Well Megan it's your pick Why the big sigh? Because it's always a 50-50 with you Isn't it? Okay, mate. This is described as what? What were you going to say?

Well, how you described it before, somebody messaged saying you can just say gay anthem. Oh, okay. Because how you described it was also the hallmarks of a gay anthem. A dance pop self-empowerment anthem. Oh, yeah, it sounds like a gay anthem. It sounds totally like a gay anthem. Is Kelly Rowland involved? No.

Because I thought it might have been Dance Floor Commander once. She wanted to write an anthem, didn't want it to be cheesy. This is a clue. The lyrics, like a firefly, like the 4th of July, was supposed to be like a firefly, which would completely change the song. Catherine. It is Catherine. You've. Catherine. It is Catherine.

You've nailed it. It is Catherine. From 2010. This is what we need today. A little bit hungover. A bit dusty. Katy Perry, Firework, your Friday flashback on set in. Drifting through the wind Wanting to start again Do you ever feel Fist of paper thin

Like a house of cards One blow from caving in Do you ever feel Already buried deep Six feet under screens And no one seems to hear a thing Do you know that there's Still a chance for you

Cause there's a spark in you You just gotta ignite The light You know that there's still a chance for you. Cause there's a spark in you. You just gotta ignite the light. And let it shine. Just own the night. Like the 4th of July. Cause baby you're a firework. Come on show them what you're worth Make them go ah, ah, ah

As you shoot across the sky Baby you're a firework Come on let your colors burst Make them grow. You're gonna leave them all in there. You don't have to feel like a wasted space. You're original, cannot be replaced. If you only knew what the future holds.

After a hurricane comes a rainbow. Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed. So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road. Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow. And when it's time you know, you just gotta ignite the light and let it shine. Just own the night like the 4th of July. Cause baby, you're a firework. Come on, show them why you're worth.

Make them go ah,, oh, oh. As you shoot across the sky. Baby, you're a firework. Come on, let your colors burst. Make them go, oh, oh, oh. You're gonna leave them all in awe. Boom, boom, boom Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon It's always been inside of you, you, you

And now it's time to let it through Cause baby, you're a firework Come on, show them what you're a firework Come on show them what you're worth Make them go ah, ah, ah As you shoot across the sky Cause baby you're a firework Come on let your colors burst Make them go ah, ah, ah.

You're gonna leave them all in awe, awe, awe. Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon. Boom, boom, boom. Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon. It's Katy Perry, your Friday flashback. I cannot believe that is 11 years old. Crazy. 11 years old.

Feedback just quickly. How was that received by the listening public, Vaughn? How fragile are you? Come on! She's not hungover like we are. I just saw an older man running and it looked like his footsteps were in tune to the song I love it when that happens Someone said not groundbreaking

5 out of 10 That's 50% though Excuse It's because Vaughn hits the old ones So I can't do two old ones in a row I always pick all the good ones No you don't So Megan's left with the old ones, so I can't do two old ones in a row because Fletch has absolute conniption. I always pick all the good ones. No, you don't. So Megan's left with the dud ones,

but I guess someone's got to do the dud ones. Well, take that as a loss this week, Megan. I might pick next week and I'll bring it back up to standard. This morning we arrived at work and there was a scene outside. There was a pile of clothing. It wasn't a pile. It was a scattering. A strewning. Yeah, a pile of clothing. It wasn't a pile, it was a scattering. A strewning. Yeah, a strewning. Of belongings.

There was a half a Dyson vacuum, one of the real new flash ones, but not the one with the sucky end, the stick thing. The stick end. And that was smashed open. There were clothes, plastic, smashed all over the footpath in the road.

And we gathered around like CSI investigators. They're like, what's happened here? Jono was there. All the brick-and-mortar guys were like, what's happened here? And what we could deduct was that the hotel and apartment building over the road and above where the clothes were strewn, all we could deduct is that somebody in anger had hiffed through someone's clothes

and stuff out the window over the balcony. I've always wanted to do that. Like in a movie. It's a movie thing. Like, oh, you cheated on me. How angry do you have to be to chuck a Dyson? I mean, those were a thousand bucks. Just take it and keep it.

Yeah. It must be satisfying. I've never done it. I wouldn't do it. But like, I'd imagine there's people out there who have had enough of their partners and thrown like a PlayStation in anger. I'd imagine opening the door and just, whoop! Because they're about the right size and weight where you could throw it. Yeah.

Because that's the other thing. Throwing things that don't weigh anything, you put all this effort and anger, and your anger's just like flutter, flutter, flutter. And some clothes, yeah. Too heavy, you drag them and you try to throw them, but you're like putting your back out doing it or whatever. Or you could rip a T-shirt. You could rip their clothes or cut them.

Just the right weight just to open a door and just huff something in anger. Chef's kiss. Onto the road or into a swimming pool. Yeah. That'd be great. It'd feel good. By and into a swimming pool. Yeah. That'd be great. It'd feel good. By and to a swimming pool, splash.

You've got an added splash. Especially if it's also from a higher story. Yeah. Yeah! I hope we see them come out and get their stuff. Because I need to know what happened. I need to know who cheated. Because it's definitely cheating.

Anna went out there to the cafe. Was there still stuff on the road? No, it's gone. Okay. There's there to the cafe. Was there still stuff on the road? No, it's gone. Okay, there's been a tidy up. Someone finally got home. Yeah, or people just started stealing it all. Yeah, true. There might have been a bit of a clean up there.

But we are one of those this morning, complete this sentence, I'm so sorry I was so angry that I dot, dot, dot. Because later on you might have looked back on it and been like, oh, I regret that. That was a momentary. We want to hear those moments when you were just so enraged and angry, you ruined something.

You threw the dice. Maybe you damaged some property. Or like you're so frustrated with like a printer not working or something not working and you just fiddle smash it. Or your phone. You know where you something not working and you just fiddle smash it. Or your phone. You know where you're already late and you're stuck in traffic and you get really wound up about traffic and I know someone that was like

punching the inside of their car and they broke a part of their car off. Oh wow, okay. I mean they had a lot going on, it wasn't just traffic. I don't want to delve too much into their breakdown but alright, it happens. The documentary Till the Lights Go Out, that's on Monday night, TV all right, it happens. There are documentary till the lights go out. That's on Monday night, TVNZ2, 8.30.

Don't forget, watch out for the little ZM keyword that pops up during the doco. Text that to 9696 in the draw to win $660 cash. Gotcha. We're talking about what you've done in a moment of anger. Yeah. Maybe it was a therapeutic throwing of something. Not at someone.

Don't want any stories of violence. No, not at all. Unless it's against inanimate objects. Yes. Maybe just relieving that frustration. Because it was violence against an inanimate object, the Dyson, that we arrived to work this morning to find on the road from the apartment above with clothes and other bits of items.

Strewing across the road. Got to be cheating. God, I must find out the story behind this. Yeah. So we want to know, when you've done this, complete the sentence. Yeah, I'm sorry I was so angry there. Yeah. Dot, dot, dot.

I've got some Instagram responses from people saying, I'm so sorry, I keyed a car once. You actually did it. You always think about it, but you never do it. I know because I wouldn't like the sound. I couldn't key someone's car. Even the feeling of it. I'd much rather throw a brick through someone's window. Because, you know, that sound is like nails on a chalkboard

or a bleh, yuck, horrible sound. A key, keying a car. Set it on fire, that's a nicer sound too, but. It's relaxing. My mum got frustrated at warehouse stationary website trying to order photos. Classic boomer getting some photos printed. Stormed off and kicked the doorframe,

broke her toe and ended up with a moon boot for three weeks. Mum. So they kicked doors, they kicked back. Jess, what happened? Jess. Hi. Yeah, I was at a friend's house, and I got so frustrated. We got into an argument and had a glass dish of potato salad homemade,

and I just threw it on the ground, and it shattered everywhere on a wooden floor. Don't throw the potato salad. Now I want potato salad. Don't throw the potato salad! Now I want potato salad! Run me through this potato salad. Did it have egg in it? Yeah, it had the goods. Of course it did.

Oh, it was good. And then did you just storm off? Or were you like, oh, God, no. I stormed off. I drove away. I was so angry. Got the kids in the car. And I was like, no, we're going, we're going.

What was the root of the car. And I was just like, no, we're going, we're going. What was the root of the argument? Well, the argument was based off, to be honest, my son's birthday party and then her son's birthday party. I didn't invite her to my son's party. Because I just felt bad. And my kid was turning, what, eight?

And she had a one-year-old. Oh, yeah, they don't even know what's going on. Yeah, this is a weird thing. Nah, nah. She also had a five-year-old, four-year-old girl, I think it was at the time. But I was trying to keep it to my son's age, kids. Yeah, yeah, totally.

It's his party. And so the potato salad went on the floor. And again, RIP the potato salad. I know. Thanks, you're cool, Jessica. Nicola, what happened? So I found out that my ex-husband had been cheating on me and he had a little studio out the front of our house where he'd invited someone over. So I got a bit angry and took a pair of scissors out and cut up the leather couch in the studio.

Oh my god, you must have, the casting couch was cut to pieces. He'd invited someone over to his little studio. Yep, yep. Right on the property. He's terrible at having an affair, by the way. When I was in hospital and I just had our baby. I would have set that thing on fire. It got worse.

It got worse. What a dick. Thanks for sharing, Nicola. Anonymous, what happened? Oh, well, I had a disagreement with my partner at the time. Yep. And I was sitting in the front seat of the car, had been out for dinner, had a nice set of stilettos on,

and he wasn't listening to me. So I started to kind of snap my feet, and he still wasn't listening to me. So I put my foot up on his dashboard, and we continued to argue, and I kicked his windscreen, put my stiletto through his windscreen, pulled it out, and there was like this nice little hole in his windscreen. Oh my God, you must have a ferocious boot on you. A good boot, yeah.

Yeah, wow. And a good stiletto. Yeah, were the stilettos okay? Oh, the stilettos were fine. He was so angry, though. Yeah, I bet he was listening to you then. You get free windshield replacement with most car insurance companies. I think that's for stone chips, not stilettos.

You have to check. That was a stone. Thanks, you call anonymous. The stone seems to have come from inside the car. Look, I don't know how these things work. And be square. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm sorry I was so angry that I threw the iron down the driveway at you. Your mum gifted me that iron so I could iron your crinkly clothes for you. The only part that I'm actually sorry about is the fact that the iron broke and it was a good iron. So they're not regretting throwing the iron at somebody. I'm sorry that I threw a full open Coke can at you. Oh, that's a lie. Well. You got the can to dodge and the mess to clean up. I was so angry

I kicked a cheese and coleslaw roll across a crowded room. So I'd love to see that because the coleslaw is shredded. It's going everywhere. It's raining cabbage and carrot up in this bitch. There would have to be a drop kick too, right? Yeah, punt, drop it and boof it.

There's so many people just like lashing out. I love these stories. It's so good. Oh my God. I was playing adult mixed social netball. I was goalkeeper against a tall goal shoot. They got every goal in and we were not winning. I got so angry.

I knocked onto him so hard he smashed his head against the pole and had to be assisted off. I got so angry I knocked onto him so hard he smashed his head against the pole and had to be assisted off. I denied any wrongdoing. I was clearly in the wrong and I'd pushed him. Oh my god. Don't do that. It's ferocious. It's ferocious. I hate it when you get a tall

opponent too because there's nothing you can do about it. They just take the ball over your head. Well there is. You can smash their head into a pole. Not recommended though. I'm so sorry. You can smash their head into a pole. Not recommended, though. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry that I was so angry I slammed the car door forgetting that I had a drink in the inside of the car door and it just absolutely coated the car.

A partner threw clothes out of the car window for 30 kilometres. So the clothes weren't just thrown out the door into my pile. They were strewn. It's like a fun scavenger hunt, though, eh? Yeah. Find your clothes again. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Okay

I've just actually googled this And Carween Carwin On the social media desk Do you want to tell everybody your fact? This is Carwin I won't lie to you. I've Googled it.

I've got some more information, but I just really liked how Carwin told us this story. Because you were struggling last minute to find a fact of the day. I completely forgot. I completely forgot, and I'll be honest with you. It happens every day at this time, but it still surprises me. I mean, the rest of us... This is the life I live.

Yeah, we all had our big New Zealand Radio Awards last night. The rest of us sent through the prep for the show the night before. You somehow forgot. I went home and slept. Yeah, that'll be why I didn't do it. That's why you haven't got a fact of the day ready. But no, Karween has... Being the Karween that she is, has come to the rescue.

Tell them your fact of the day. Tell them your fact of the day. It's legit. Yeah, well, I'm not lying to you. I wouldn't. I would hope not. So the woman who invented, co-invented, I guess, the basis of Wi-Fi

that we use today, like secure Wi-Fi. She was also the first person to act out an orgasm on screen. In a movie. Right. Okay, so she was an actress slash IT professional inventor. What's the crossover here?

No, I don't think she... She was just an actress and it was during the war and they needed some new radio signal stuff. I don't know much about war. It was the basis for Wi-Fi. Yeah. Oh, right. The way that they connected the two ends of...

It was like early cellular technology. They could connect two devices. Because previously that all communications had been via radio or by underwater cable. What was her background? Like before she was an actress, did she study science or something? She was an actress. She was born in Vienna in 1914.

How did she just stumble upon the Wi-Fi set? You can't just get someone on Shortland Street and say invent some technology. So when she first, it was a movie called Ecstasy in 1933. She was a frustrated bride who found fulfillment in an affair with a younger man. She appeared completely naked and performs what is believed to be the first on-screen

female orgasm. Right, okay. Wow. Yeah, and she said later about her performance that her movements in the love scene were prompted by the director shouting instructions and sticking her with a safety pin. Wow. Yeah. We've come a long way on set,

haven't we? Yes. You wouldn't dare. No. You wouldn't dare do that. So that was before the war, but then in the war, she had an idea for the US Navy, and it is now considered the birth of modern wireless communication. Wow.

So if your Wi-Fi drops off because you turn the microwave on, it's her fault. This is her drawing of the 1941 patent. What the hell? That she developed with an American composer. She was the brains behind it. She was obviously very smart. Yeah, super smart.

Wow. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. From the social media, it smart. Wow, okay. Yeah. So there you go. From the social media desk, from Karween herself, just a fact on hand, and it checks out. Today's fact of the day is the woman behind the idea and premise and the patent that gave us Wi-Fi

was also the first female to act out an orgasm on screen. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So, look, we had a big night last night. We've got like three voice breaks to go and then it's home time. To be fair, that's good because it says 8.47 and I wouldn't be able to work that out that quick i reckon push on till midday what you're on your own george is here she's ready to go um so you remember was it a week or two

ago hold on what you gotta if you're gonna talk about that you turn the thing out oh my god now you may proceed to talk about eclipses. This break is going to be painful. So the lunar eclipse, when was that? A week or two ago. Yeah. They said... Blood moon, super blood moon, eclipse.

And the... What are the ones that do the horrors? Astronomers. Astronomers. Astrologers. Astrologers. Are you Pisces? Are you Aquarius?

Yeah. And they were the ones that were like, this day when there's a solar eclipse is bad news for couples. Bad news. Breakups. And don't charge your crystals. Yeah. They said don't charge your crystals.

Arguments and... Chaotic energy. Yeah. You don't want chaotic energy. Right. So when are you charging your crystals? I haven't been relying on them too heavily lately. I'm trying to wean myself off.

Right. You know, I became a crystal holic there for a while. Every night I was rubbing it on my face. And, you know, like, it's all good. Don't get me wrong. But you don't want to become reliant on crystals. No, true. Well, apparently last night, still to do with the solar eclipse

and the way that the stars, moons, planets are. I'm really wise. I don't believe this shit at all for a second. Apparently the super blood moon that caused... Can you not hear that? Oh, this website was playing ads. That's so dead. Nah, sorry, I couldn't hear that.

The super blood moon that caused the relationship chaos apparently last night was responsible for a bit of action with couples. The other way around. Blood moon eclipse, bad. This one, because what kind of eclipse was it last night? A total eclipse of the heart. It was a total eclipse of the heart, yeah.

But it was the other way around, right? Yeah, it was. Like we got, no, last time we got in between the sun and the moon. This time the moon got in between the sun and us. Yeah, so apparently a lot of couples getting down and dirty. Why? Do these astrologers explain themselves? It might be a king tide.

They're definitely a king tide. You get horny when you see that. There was chaotic energy with the super blood moon, and this one's what, like kinky energy? Horny energy. Horndog energy. It's horned up energy. So I'm just putting it out there.

I'm just saying be aware that, you know, you may get home from work today and there could still be some energy. Yeah. Well, I drive home over the land bridge on the northwestern motorway, and if there's a king tide, watch out. By the time I get home, I've had a lot of time to think about that King Tide and I'm ready to go. Yeah.

And that's how the moons affect our love lives. Yeah. King Tides. You two did have a sleepover last night. Yeah. Well, he was in the spare room. Do you have an argument? Out.

We had a lover's tiff. A lover's tiff. I said, I have got a new bed because I'm a sleep influencer now. And Vaughan just said, no, I'll stay in the spare room. I said, well, it's your loss. You said plenty of room. I am sleeping on a sealy cloud here.

That's what I said. But he still wouldn't stay the night. But that's all right. I stayed the night this morning. And when I got up, I said, are you joining me for a shower? You said, I don't shower before work. I said, I've always found that weird because the shower gets me going in the morning. Yeah, no, I shower when I get up.

Both for a rigorous work day ahead and lovemaking. Nothing like a 4 a.m. shower. The juice is flowing. The show is coming off the rails. Well, I've never given... We just had a fight. We rolled up two newspapers and made a fight. And I said to Ingenani, you can have a free hit,

but once you swing, it's on. She took one hit. Well, she swung once. Are you all right? I think she got hit half a dozen times. What? You're already vulnies. Why would you allow that?

I thought it would be really therapeutic. It wasn't, was it? It was for me. You bloody kids. Can you crawl out of the studio? Please return to do a voice break. Sorry. Also, I'll be taking you to HR.

For swinging first. So last night, we're all a bit bony and hungover this morning, a bit dusty. We head out. I actually feel great. What's wrong with you? I'm invigorated by life. I'm proud of myself. I've got a bit of a hoarse voice, but I'm really proud of my pacing last night.

It's like I'm mature. I didn't go crazy. I mean, it's taken a while, but you're there. It's taken a while, but I'm there. So anyway, so last night was our school formal, our radio awards ball. And I was getting ready. And Vaughan messaged me saying, I'm leaving my house now. And I know that he's not lying now because he sends the share's location on the maps

because quite often you'd be like, I'm leaving now, you're in the shower. So I ask Vaughn to share location so I know he's not full of it. So I can precisely be ready for his arrival, which takes you about half an hour to get to mine. So Vaughn messages half an hour and I'm just, I've ironed my

shirt, my suit, and I'm putting that on and then I go to do up my pants and then I'm like I need my belt so I go to my I've got a belt hanger in my wardrobe

how many belts are on it? four now you've got you've got your Avril Lavigne skater belt which is way too long and pink and black checks

and you pull it through and then just let it hang down to sort of mid thigh yes yeah I've got four of those okay different colours they're all like belts that go with jeans and then just let it hang down to sort of mid-thigh. Yes, yeah, I've got four of those. Okay. No, they're all like belts that go with jeans, and then I have a dress belt, a really nice dress belt,

that I think I got for your wedding. It was real expensive and really nice, and it always looks good. It says genuine leather on the inside. Piss off, it's really nice. And I go to get it, and it's not there. And I'm like, and then I just in that second I have this half memory

of me saying to one of my friends yeah you can borrow my dress belt because I needed one I don't know why and now I don't have it and they didn't return it

I have been betrayed by a friend have you done investigations? and my memory well no because I haven't had the time so today I am going to send a message on Facebook to every friend that is a male and ask if I... That has a similar waist size.

That has a similar waist. So I will discount... Don't waste your time on those skinny binnies or those chubby checkers. Yeah, okay. That one went over your head. What? He said, don't ask any skinny binnies. Oh, ouch.

Oh, no, I didn't mean that. Bitch. I mean like really small and stature people. Yeah, that's how I took that. But then I also said, don't worry about the chubby checkers. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So you're perfectly average and forgettable to me.

I hate that because when I borrow something of someone, I will make sure that I get it back to them. You have a responsibility. You've always had a strict borrowing policy when the DVDs were a thing. If you lent someone your DVDs, you had an Excel spreadsheet on who had what. I had a notebook once. This is not like you. You're usually pretty good at the follower.

I know. And because I never wear a suit or dress pants, it could have been gone for a year or two. Maybe they assumed that you would just ask for it back when you needed it. No. But they are using this belt all the time. Were they at your house and they were like, I don't have a belt? Maybe.

Or they said, can I borrow one? It'll be Simon. It'll be Simon. Have you actually had a good look? Yeah, I have had a good look. There's literally only a couple of places it could be. It's not there. Okay.

I'm absolutely betrayed by a friend and my memory. Of who you lent it to. Of who I lent it to. It's gone, sweetheart. It's gone. Yeah, so I had to go and I rushed. I ran down the road to a store and I found a belt. Where did you get your belt from?

I don't want to say because it's free publicity. There's no judgement here. Oh, right. No, it's Barker's. Oh, yeah, they do a good accessory. They do a great accessory. Yeah, yeah. And then the guy was like,

oh, there's only one computer. And this old lady was like, I popped into Barker's. Trying to find her husband a top. I was like, I am in a rush. And she was like, I think it was a blue one, medium. And they're in the computer

like tap, tap, tap. Oh, God. Like, I'm in a rush. Me. Because I went to Barker's yesterday to get some cufflinks. I had some at home. Did you wear cufflinks? Yeah, my Freemason ones.

Because you're a Freemason. I'm a Freemason. Yeah, you're a Beyonce. I went to get some cufflinks and they only had ones with Dean Barker's face on it. I was like, Barker's. Barker's, okay, stop it. Stop trying to miniature Dean Barker's.

Stop trying to pry Dean into everything. Mandy Barker's were sold out. Oh, yeah, right. I would have gone to Mandy's. Barker's Cordial. They had a couple of those. Different people. Yeah, are they?

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