ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 25th June 2021

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Play. Women's Fleetspawn and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fleetspawn and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Buy five McCafe coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. What are the plans for the weekend? Well, more interesting, what are your plans for the weekend? Oh, nothing. Oh, yeah, right. What does that mean?

Nobody believes that. Going to the Lion King. Yes, same days. And can you feel Is it a sing along Are we like down On sing alongs I'm not confident enough

In my Swahili Did you see The amazing thing They did on the Sky Tower No They put someone You know the ring Where the Orbit restaurant is

You walk around The one above that They've obviously put A safety rope on them But it's like the opening You know I don't know what character it is. The monkey.

I don't know. And then they zoom out and they're going, ah, is there anything? What kind of animal was it? I don't know. A monkey. It's a helicopter zoom out. It's like a bird. It zooms out on the whole thing.

And one of the characters, Rafiki. Rafiki. A monkey. I don't know. Yeah, but it was amazing. I think they were doing it as publicity. Right.. Rafiki. A monkey. I don't know. It was amazing. I think they were doing it as publicity. It was incredible. It's worth a Google though. But you were going along to that?

Yes. Okay, good. I want to see this video you're talking about now. The family. Rafiki soars to new heights as the Lion King opens in Auckland. It's Rafiki. You're like the only person who's like, I don't know which character it is. What animal was it? I don't know what animal it was.

You made me watch this only a couple of years ago, The Lion King. You didn't even say what animal it was. I don't do animated things in musicals, do I? No. This is actually like right in the corner of things you don't do. Animation or musicals and heartfelt. Yeah, exactly. So I won't be going. you don't do, animation or musicals, and heartfelt. Yeah, exactly. So I won't be going.

You don't do it. But you'll be one of the only people that doesn't want to go to see The Lion King. Oh, my gosh. They have snacks, though, eh? They've already sold 110,000 tickets. Yeah, it's huge. It's gangbusters.

Yeah, it's amazing. So, yeah, enjoy that. Play. ZM. F, yeah, enjoy that. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleeche Vaughan and Megan, happy Friday. Yay!

Good morning, everyone, but Jamie Spears. Stuck you, Rachel. Oh, my God. That was absolutely, I'm sure you're going to touch on this in the latest entertainment news segment today. But yeah, that Jamie, Britney Spears testimony was wild. It was all true. All the rumours. In fact, it was like worse than the conspiracies.

I didn't think that would happen, but what a wild ride. What's Christina Aguilera's hot take on all this? Why? Because she was, like, alum at the time. Yeah, yeah, she was totally, you were either team Christina or team Brittany, right? Or team both, but, you know. I don't know if she had a lot of folks. Brittany was, like,

the wholesome, all-American girl, and Christina was a bit more rough around the edges. Yeah. Just wanted to know what her hot take is on that. A lot of celebs have been saying. Yeah. I will actually look up Christina for you and see if she's had anything to say. Because there was lots of celebrities weighing in yesterday and

tweeting and, oh, what did Timby say? Or are you going to tease that? I'll tell you in the latest. Good tease. And then was everyone happy with what he said? Oh God, probably not Probably not, no Coming up on the show today, The Box

$20,000 cash is up for grabs at 7 o'clock this morning All thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow You've just got to work out the four digit pin to get into The Box Yeah, we know there's a seven All the closer guesses that we've had are at ZM Online Yep The top six on the way Yeah, Netflix know there's a seven. All the closer guesses that we've had are at ZM Online. Yep. The top six on the way.

Yeah, Netflix has picked up the show Sexy Beasts. No, no, wait. What's it called? Yeah, Sexy Beasts. Sexy Beasts. That's right. And basically, these people get into

a prosthetic makeup of an animal of their choosing. Yeah, a bit like Masked Singer. Yeah. But masked dating. Yeah. And so you don't know what they look like when you establish the initial sort of impressions in the first date.

Some of them are really scowey. Yeah, it's, oh. I'm not a fan. People dressed up in like puppety outfits. Yeah. It's the crap out of me. So they've just got masks on, like the bottom half is just dressed in suits and stuff. Yeah, bottom half's normal.

But like the full mask, you couldn't actually work out their face. No. There's no way you'd work out what they look like. No. So I've got the top six sexiest beasts to go on the show as. Right, okay. You know, animals that will get people really like, being like, ooh. Those furries that like the show.

You know those people that like furries? I feel like there's enough for furries. Yeah. Like out there-wise. Yeah. I'm not furry kink shaming. No. people that like furries? I feel like there's enough for furries. Yeah. Like out there wise. Yeah. I'm not furry kink shaming. No. At all.

No, but I feel like. You do you. They've got a lot. They've got a lot to. Well, they've got a lot of cereal mascots. Yeah. Cereal mascots. Sports mascots.

Yeah. The whole world's there for them really. Yeah. Those giant, giant teddy bears that you see at like the warehouse. That you can easily just like make a small incision in and climb in yourself and act like a teddy bear. I did not think that was where that was going. They could totally do that. Yeah. Next on the show.

This is what you need on a Friday when you've had a long week. Work-life balance. Is it overrated? ZM's Fletch Warner-Megan. This study was done after the controversy over that financial giant Goldman Sachs. Everyone was like working 100 hour work weeks.

Oh, the interns. Exhausted. Yeah. Everybody. So, this study looked into work-life balance and how much you need and how much relaxing after work and de-stressing is required. And they've actually found that too much of a good thing can be bad for your career.

Even relaxing after work can be a bad thing. So they said a little bit of stress is good and if you're not stressed, you're probably not doing your job very well. I don't know who did this study. Isn't it Goldman Sachs' lawyers? Yeah, it really does sound like it's the workplace that have commissioned this. Yeah.

This is a professor said if you have too much work-life balance, that means you're not focusing enough on work. A little bit of stress is probably a good thing, but if it's too much, then the pressure becomes daunting and you can't do anything. And it does vary from person to person, obviously. When they did the study, they looked at analysts

because they have a reputation for being aggressive, career-orientated people. Right. So they can handle more. Right. Those are the people that look at the share markets and stuff. Did you say an analyst? Analyst.

Yeah. Is that what you said? An analyst. The guy at Banger's Bingo last night who had his work laptop out. Oh, yeah. He was doing some work. He was an analyst. At Banger's.

Oh, was he? He was an analyst. Oh, okay. Oh, mate. I know. I was like, what's going on here? He's like, mate, I just got to get, I'm waiting for an email and then I've got to send an email and then I'm done.

Yeah, but he's probably looking after your KiwiSaver. Do you reckon? Bro, yeah, I'd want him working. Well, shit. I don't after your KiwiSaver. Do you reckon? I'd want him working. Well, shit. I don't want him shutting his laptop then. But that's good work-life balance, though, because he still went. And then he shut his laptop and had a great night. So there was balance.

It didn't ruin his evening plans. But probably couldn't stop thinking about the analysing. The laptop was shut. The analysing was done. Right. And, yeah, it's saying that it's bad for your career, of course, because you're not working 100 hours. Like, you're going to get a promotion, right,

if you're working 100 hours a week, but then you're going to burn out, you know. And then America, like, and this is from America, this study. They don't have, like, we have, it's law, you get four weeks holiday. Yeah. A year. That's crazy.

They don't have that day mandated holiday. They don't have it. Isn't that just insane? Like, they'll have the long weekends like Thanksgiving and Christmas. But if they want to take time. That's why they always go like full on travelling and stuff on those long weekends. Yeah. Madness.

But if they want to take time off, what do they do? Just have to take unpaid leave, right? And some workplaces do give you paid leave. I think it might be part of your package. Yeah. But yeah, I think the thing is you don't want to be seen to be going on holiday

in the middle of the year or in summer because you're lazy. You're not good at your job. That's lazy. I mean, I've got friends that are just absolute workaholics.

I can't relate. We leave here at anywhere between 9.30 and 11 every day. There's certainly no overworking here. No, I'm not risking that. I'm absolutely not.

Ben, you're already tapped out of this break. You're not reading the paper. I just realised I haven't got my word wheel today. All right, next day gets me through. ANZ must be the official bank of the New Zealand Olympic team Yep Because they have a way of supporting our Olympians If you go to supportband.anz.co.nz

You can download an app You can select the members of the Olympic squad that you want to support. And then apparently you'll be able to never miss a moment of their daily schedules, medal alerts, live updates, live streams, and lots more. And in that app, you can also send your support by selecting an Olympian and then tapping the silver fern. And that will send a message to the band that the ANZ have given New Zealand Olympians, and that band will vibrate. Okay, so the New Zealand Olympians are wearing a wristband that looks a bit like a Fitbit.

Okay, and it vibrates. Black with the silver fern on it. Right. And you tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, and then they feel a vibration of support. Does it do anything else? Megan, it just vibrates. So you're just going to wear this

bracelet that's vibrating all the time and you're like, cool. Do we have any poofs in our team? Is anybody else thinking what I'm thinking? Because I'd be like, I'm just going for a training run, I need your support. And then... We're not allowed to hook up with all the other hot Olympians this time around. Well, no, and they're not giving out any Connie's until after the event.

Yeah. It's not like the sex fest that was previous Olympic Games. Oh, do you remember the sex fest at Rio de Janeiro? Well, I mean, I wasn't there. I don't remember it personally, but I remember hearing about it. It was reported on. At dinner the other night, talking to a friend who was at the Olympics, and he was like, do you remember that

was it from a country? I think it was maybe an Eastern European country, and they were a swimmer maybe and a rower, and they kicked out their roommate so that they could hook up with a hot athlete from another country. Before or after their event? maybe a rower, and they kicked out their roommate so that they could hook up with a hot athlete from another country. And then that was...

Before or after their event? And then at the event, everybody was yelling out slut, slut, in another language because my friend was like, what are they saying? And they were like, you're kidding. No, it was outrageous. And I was like, and then he showed me the news story and I was like, I think she might have been Brazilian.

It was a Brazilian athlete maybe. And they kicked out a roommate so that they could hook up with this rower all night or some hot athlete. Oh my God, that's terrible. And then the whole crowd was chanting that. I was like, you are kidding. Would that have been different if it was a guy? Absolutely, it wouldn't have happened. Good Lord.

Yeah, that's so bad, eh? That is so terrible. But yeah, that happened. Wow. Yeah, I'd imagine at least that? That is so terrible. But yeah, that happened. Wow. Yeah, I'd imagine at least that won't be a problem this Olympic Games. Yeah. Because these bands that vibrate, no one's going to wear them during their event, right? You're not going to.

No, it's just annoying. It's unnecessary. They're not wearing them. Maybe in a social media video, they'll put them on. Yeah. Because it's going to get to a point, you'll be initially like, oh, people are thinking of me. And then you're just going to be like, this is annoying'll put them on. Yeah. Because it's going to get to a point you'll be initially like, oh, people are thinking of me, and then you're just going to be like, this is annoying.

This is annoying. And then you take it off and you'll have phantom vibrations and you'll think people are supporting you, but you didn't get a medal, so we've already forgotten about you. Imagine if ANZ are responsible for keeping our entire Olympic team awake 24 hours a day. Oh, my God, because they can't figure out how to turn them off and they're just on the bedside table just being like.

Yeah. We're thinking of you. And they're just on the bedside table just being like... Yeah. We're thinking of you. And they're like, why didn't you get a medal? Oh, that effing thing kept vibrating all night. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the panoramic ZM think tank, this is the top six. Sexy Beasts, not the year 2000 British crime movie starring Ray Winston and Sir Ben Kingsley. Never heard of it.

Haven't you? No. It's a wild ride. It's actually quite a good movie. Okay. Ian McShane's in it as well. It's got old British dudes, and all of them have got the most amazing voices. Okay.

So there'll be a scene where it's like, let's got like old British dudes with like, and all of them have got the most amazing voices. Okay. So like there'll be a scene where it's like, let's not do things wrong here. And then it'll go to another guy and he's like, I told you, let's not do things wrong here. And it's just got all these

like really deep, awesome old British dudes voices. This is a dating show. This is a dating show and it's not new. No, that's right. I don't know

because it's, it's been picked up. The BBC did one. Yeah, it's been, that's right. I don't know because it's BBC did one. Yeah, it's been picked up by Netflix and I don't know if it's the same one so this has introduced the show to the US but it seems to have really blown up internationally on Netflix. Netflix do this all the time. They pick up shows and everyone's like, oh my god, that Netflix

show is so great. Whereas they're like actually it was a BBC original production. Yeah, so it. Whereas they're like, actually, it was a BBC original production. Yeah. So, it's basically, these people get dressed up as a beast. The prosthetic makeup's phenomenal. Like, you can't see what their faces look like.

No. You can hear their voices. Yeah, that one looks like a dolphin. Some kind of weird looking dolphin with a blowhole. Yeah, she's got a blowhole on her head. I don't know technically if that's where the blowhole would go. So the idea is that you date these people and you have to like figure out their personality or something. Yeah, you go on a first date actually not knowing what they look like. So it's like a super blind date.

God. But there's all sorts of like animal costumes. There's a chance to be catfish though, isn't there? It's a real like Sweet Tooth. If you've watched Sweet Tooth. Oh, I love Sweet Tooth. It's a hybrid human animals. It's really like that. But there's other things as well. There's like

devils and demons and dinosaurs and aliens and dragons. Okay, well the show's on Netflix. Well I've got the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts. Animals that people can't say no to. Number six on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts.

The naked mole rat. Described as a penis with a face. Oh yeah, that's hideous. And legs. If you've not seen the naked mole rat, give that a bit of a Google today. It's yucky. It's like the rat version of those cats with no hair. Oh, it's yuck.

People with cats with no hair always think that their cats with no hair are really cute. They're like, it's such a beautiful cat. I'm wondering, Chinese crested? Is that them? No, that's the dog. Oh, those are the ugly dogs. Those are the hairless, ugly dogs. It's like a swinx cat or something. Oh, that looks like a penis with two teeth. Yeah, it does.

If you thought a penis couldn't get grosser, they gave it teeth. Number five on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts. The proboscis monkey. Oh, okay. It's basically a monkey with a penis for a nose. Megan's furiously gurgling. No, not all of them in today's top six will be.

The lead in with the first two. It's got this like boing, this big nose. Oh, it does have a big peen nose. And I think that's like socially, that's one of the animals most similar to humans. Oh, okay. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts, the dung beetle. Everyone loves a dung beetle.

Love a dungy. They roll little balls of dung. Maybe if you dress up as it, you can take your own ball of dung beetle. Everyone loves a dung beetle. Love a dungy. They roll little balls of dung. Maybe if you dress up as it, you can take your own ball of dung with you. They're kind of cute. They're an amazing beetle. See, they're cute in that size. They're not cute if they were human-sized. They'd be absolutely terrifying.

I can't wait for the New Zealand version of this show where it's just a look-sharp mask. A novelty mask in the $1, $2, $3 shop. Next up, we've got from New Zealand, an Italian plumber. Because you know how they look sharp, get around copyright by calling Mario the Italian plumber. Or like calling the Hobbits

like small hairy footed man. Or Borat, international reporter. Number three on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts. An oxolotl. Just when you think a penis couldn't get grosser, they gave it gills and made it slightly transparent. Number two on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts. Who can say no to a cockroach?

Oh, God. The little scuttling, unpredictable, yucky, where'd you come from? That's gross cockroach. And number one on the list of the top six sexiest animals to dress as for sexy beasts. If you could go on the show as this and still get a date at the end of it,

you know your personality is great. The blobfish. Yeah. You know the blobfish? It's like, yeah. I'd just say on that dating show, I'd say yes to the blobfish because I reckon they'd absolutely put the hottest person in the blobfish? It's like... I'd just say on that dating show, I'd say yes to the blobfish because I reckon they'd absolutely put the hottest person in the blobfish.

I just know the producers will be like, let's put the hot one in here because they'll say no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's make the hot person the ugliest thing. And then do they bring up the screens and you see their genitals? That's naked attraction. Oh, okay. Imagine.

Okay, so naked attraction meets sexy beast. You have to have the naked body of an animal behind the screen. What animal are you going for? Tiger. Or no, is that throwing me off? No, but wait, can you still see their actual genitals? No, they've got animal prosthetic genitals attached. Oh, boo.

No, see, I think you should be able to see the human genitals on the... Furry head. You're a freak, man. You're a freak. Okay. I'm not here to kink shame you, but I didn't know this about you. Wow. That's interesting. That is today's Top 6.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Well, yesterday, another fantastic evening of bangers bingo Out west And so I drove out there in one of the company vehicles It's always cute when you drive Well I kept to the speed limit because of the last time Remember the GPS narked on me

That's right Did you experience traffic? Yes Horrible I can't imagine you in traffic. Horrible. I was like, why is it not moving? And then all of a sudden it would move, and I'd be like, well, why did that happen?

Because people were merging? This seems ridiculous. Why didn't they add an extra lane? You should come further out west and head back into town and rush our traffic, because you've got your God-honest God honest hard working QMU residents like me who have to give way to assholes from Riverhead

like Megan like Megan excuse me it's not my fault that intersection sucks well stop merging it's a giveaway

assholes like you you pull out and then they toot because they speed up behind your ass you're damn right just live in the city my mate the Ford Ranger

this morning ugh QMU assholes there will literally by this time of day there will literally be You're going to change your ass. Yeah, damn right. Oh, God. Just live in the city. My mate in the Ford Ranger this morning. Ugh. Cue you, assholes. There will literally, by this time of day, there will literally be people who are experiencing what we're describing. Like, right now. Yeah. Right now.

Just let someone in. No, don't let someone in. Just one. Find another way to go to work. Boat. Boat into work. Go through Coatesville. Go through Coatesville.

That road's our fault. Hey, drive back up to the roundabout. I like that everyone thinks they need the right of way. Like they're as part of the problem as anyone. Share the road. You wouldn't say that if you were coming from Cumeo. It was something I saw in traffic. This guy next to me in his car had a bed, like quite a dark bed,

and he had little like trimmy scissors, you know like surgical scissors, stainless steel, quite sharp pointed scissors. And he was trimming his beard. Like barber's scissors. He was trimming his beard. He was literally doing with the scissors what they were described for but you were like are you guys familiar with surgery?

Have you guys heard of surgery? So yeah, like beard, like actual... Trimmers. Like trimmers, like clippers. Yeah. And he's just like giving a snip, snip, snip, snip, snip. But where was the hair going? Like what I'm imagining on his lap.

Ew. Yeah. But also like it was bumper to bumper traffic and it would like stop, start, stop, start. So like I was like, oh my god, he's going to stab himself in the throat. You're worried about him getting rear-ended and he's going to... I didn't even think about the hair going on

because I thought, well, I'll just get out and like brush it off or vacuum his car later. But I was like, oh, like that's some creepy... I was like, oh, this is some Final Destination stuff. Yeah. Right. Also, like bold, like trimming your own beard with scissors is risky. You get an uneven beard.

I feel like you need to concentrate and stand in the mirror. 100%. And you've got to be straight onto the mirror so you can go, like, little bit, little bit, little bit. And you've got to be able to, like, even doing that, you're going to get a crooked, no guarantee of a straight beard. Mirror was a using. Rear view or, or like down from the. It must have been rear view, but some cars do. They shouldn't, but some cars have the little mirror on the driver's side flap.

That always blows. I have that. That's for your lippy. No, you should. Not all your driver. This is the problem with these Riverhead, entitled Riverhead MFs, pulling out of the Riverhead Coatesville Highway. Pulling out of the Riverhead Coatesville Highway. Pulling out of the Riverhead Coatesville Highway.

I live in Camion. Let me through. You and your Coatesville bloody wannabe West Aucklanders. That is a mini highway. There's lots of people coming from that road. It's a 60-kilometre speed. It's the stupidest road in New Zealand. Because Vaughan got a speeding ticket on that road recently.

My wife and I both got a speeding ticket on the same day from the same speed camera hours apart. And everyone in Remy knows where that speed camera is. Yeah, but it's because they're dum-dums. Right. Are we done here? Okay. I'll take you to the intersection and you can, being

a fastidious, I can't even, I'm so close to saying the F word. Road code, Noah. You'll know that giveaway, Fastidious. You'll know that the giveaway is from Riverhead. And people stop and let them in. Okay, okay.

So why would they be there all day? They're worried about the Riverhead woke brigade. Let's move on. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Eating. You You gotta do it Is someone stalling for time? It's recommended that you eat And you drink

And water Mostly Do you know I was listening to a podcast With Rob McElhenney Who created Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Smartless podcast Oh that's such a great podcast And they were complimenting his white teeth And he said the dentist said I got white teeth with Rob McElhinney who created Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Smartless podcast Smartless was the podcast

Oh that's such a great podcast And they were complimenting his white teeth and he said the dentist said I got white teeth because I don't drink coffee And I was like

Yeah you get stained quite badly from coffee Yeah but I didn't know it was like it was like the main cause I think if you smoke Coffee and red wine or something

Yeah so red wine and coffee stained teeth Yeah right That badly that he said the dentist said the main reason is And you love both of those It's my favourite Red wine or something. Yeah, so red wine and coffee, stained teeth. Yeah, right. That badly. That he said the dentist said the main reason is. And you love both of those. Those are my favourites.

Yeah, well. Yeah. Stained teeth for me. Well, a study has claimed that if you want to live a long and healthy, but not necessarily happy life, because no one should be telling you how to eat. These bloody nutritionists. Fruit for lunch. Vegetables for dinner, and no potato chips.

That is both potato chips in crisp and cooked form. It's a real attack on big potato. It really is. I, for one, won't have it. So what, you're having a good breakfast with your grains or whatever, and then lunch is just fruit. No, no, no, no. Not just fruit, but it is what you have.

When you have your fruit is lunchtime. Right. Because then you've got a chance to burn it all. Burn the sugar off in the afternoon. You don't go fruit heavy at dinner, which I never would. Maybe an apple pie for pud. Does that count as fruit? Oh, I like some raspberries and yogurt and raspberries sometimes.

Oh, pud. Yum. Okay. I like fruit salad. I like guava. Guava. Guava. Where are you getting guava?

Tinned guava. Okay, fresh raspberries. No, remember in Fiji you could get that guava juice in a tin. And beach camaraderie. And you're like, oh, no, no. We don't have any. And you're like, you lazy son of a bitch. It's right behind you.

And they'll be like, oh, no. They just don't want any. And you're like, you lazy son of a bitch. It's right behind you. And they'll be like, oh, no, Bradford. They just don't want to deal with you. It's like, oh, I'm sorry. I want to spend my money here. So, yeah, you have a high quantity of vegetables. I mean, you can have vegetables any time. But if you're looking to spread these out, later in the day, it's absolutely fine to have the vegetables because they don't have the sugars

that you'll carry with you. That size because I'm sure there was a news story like a few months ago saying it didn't matter when you ate your food it was more the total

calorie take for the day. No one knows what the hell's going on there. Nobody knows what's going on. Wait, what do I do? I'm sorry researchers at China's

Harbin Medical University. Megan's just totally dispelled all your work by some other study she said where it only counts for total calorie count, so stick it. Yeah. It's like, are we pro-coffee this week? I think so, eh?

Very pro-coffee. Except it'll stain your teeth. Oh, yeah. But you'll live. I didn't want that to come across like anti-coffee. That was also, I'm very pro-coffee. Just brush your teeth more often, right? Actually, speaking of, it's time for our second coffee of the day.

Vaughan and I always go for our second coffee of the day during the sad break. We'll be back next. It's a seven o'clock coffee trip. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. I am the box. But it's time for the box. Now, the box was indicating yesterday that we may get a clue this morning,

which would be exciting. Shannon joins us. Good morning, Shannon. Good morning, guys. All right, $20,000 could be yours. We just need... Well, let's hope so. We need from you a four-digit pin.

Now, we know there is a seven in there, and that it spells a four-letter word. So what are you thinking? Okay, so I haven't been too hot on the clues, but I've just, I don't know, I've got a funny feeling that no one's guessed this yet, and it's along the spider theme, and it has a seven in it, so let's see.

Okay, let's do it. What is the four-letter word? Okay, it's webs, like as in spiderwebs. Because she is the Black Widow. Yeah, okay. Yes, and her past comes back and it's quite all over the show. So I was thinking... Web to wee...

Web to weave. Okay. Weave to web. Weave to web. So 9327. Is that right? 9327? Yeah.

Okay, 9327.-2-7. I'm about to press enter. Oh, no! It's not webs. Damn it. Shannon, unfortunately, it's not webs, but we do have for you a double pass to Marvel Studios' Black Widow. It's in cinemas July 8th and streaming on Disney+,

with premiere access July 9th. Conditions apply. So we'll hook you up at Double Pass. Thank you, Shannon. Thanks, guys. Love you, guys. Thank you. Fletchmore to Megan.

I've been listening and heard you need some help. Well, the box is feeling very generous today. So I'm going to show you right now exactly what the code is. To see it, open your eyes, it might help, and text BLACK to 9696. Open your eyes and text BLACK to 9696. Okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this.

I'm going to text it. See what it says. Open your eyes. 9696. I'm going to text... I'm going to show you the code. Black. Okay, it's sending.

Great stuff. You've texted about the clue. The code is in the Black Widow movie trailer, and you can watch it here. Some people have said that. The trailer was there. This link opens the page at ZM Online. You can watch the trailer.

And so the word is in there. The code is in this trailer somewhere. Oh, my God. Okay. Okay, well, it is all on. You can do that in your own time. Wait, is it going to be the thing or are you going to see the word? I don't know. I don't know.

I'd imagine you'd see the thing, right? People have been scouring the trailer. We've had multiple callers who have said this was in the trailer. People have gone really deep on that. So watch the trailer. Your next shot at the $20,000 cash with the box is coming up at 8 o'clock this morning. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Received a message en route to work.

Mayday, mayday, it said. We have an emergency. And then the SOS emoji three times. Oh, and then just left us hanging. I was like, what's happening? And I slowed down because I was like, this sounds like there's been a studio fire and I should turn around, go home,

and get straight back into bed. Yeah, the rest of us were at work when this message was sent. I know, this is the danger of getting to work too early. What if something happens? Yeah. But no, it was not. Executive intern Anya had a pants split. She had a...

And I assumed automatically it was a gooch split. When I've had jeans finally give way, it's often in the gooch area due to acidic gooch, which is a recognised real problem. Oh, it is, yeah. The gene industry every year tries to... Well, they cover it up because they want to sell new genes. Yeah.

But you're of the conspiracy that the gene industry is purposely making the Gooch a weak point. Yeah, because I've had to have my Gooch strengthened twice in my favourite genes. You've had Gooch reinforcement. Yeah, and it's an issue the industry are hiding. Because they want more jean sales. It wasn't the gooch.

We cross live now to the producer to hear exactly the location of the split. It was the thigh. The inner thigh? Inner thigh. How did you feel when that happened? Vulnerable. Yeah.

Exposed. Yeah, I put my leg out the car and it just hit a... How did you feel when that happened? Vulnerable. Exposed. Yeah, I put my leg out the car and I just heard a... So, yeah, and then I looked down and I saw my gaping thigh peeking out. Hello, good morning. Happy Friday. What about when you hear a rip but you can't find the hole? That's the worst. You run your hands over every seam.

You're like, where have you ripped? That always happens when I try on clothes and I just slowly put them back. You hear the stitching. Yeah. You're like, oh. Of course I'm not buying this. It sounds poorly made. Never mind I'm trying to squeeze into a medium.

Who would have thought that a $20 shirt wouldn't stand the roughness I'm putting it through? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's not ideal. Are these cheap jeans? No, no, they were about $100. And also the issue is it's a horizontal tier. Oh, and it's not on seam. Oh, is it not on seam?

No, it's because I'm thick with three Cs and the thighs rub together. No, I feel like that would be a seam thing. No, it's a cry for help from the jeans. And the issue is if I move too much, it's all over. I think there is structural weakness in the fabric. Thank you, Megan. I agree. To go horizontally.

It sounds like what they need to do with these jeans is just run a zigzag with the sewing machine through. Just as like a strengthening. That'd be wonderful. Is that what you do for an initial strengthening? A zigzag that holds it together? Yep. Just crisscross with a sewing machine just to strengthen the jean fabric. Do you want me to get the

Bernini out and sort your jeans out? I'll put a little patch on the inside. Sounds like you need new jeans. I think we're too far gone. It's whisper thin down there. There's not much left to wear. Ah, your face. Whisper thin. Wait, so you don't have emergency pants, obviously.

You're just still rocking. In case I shit myself. Yeah, she's not a six-year-old. She's not a six-year-old who started school and is nervous about asking the teacher to go poo-poo. Excuse me. Anya, is this the first time you've split your pants and last time did you have a change of pants?

Okay, yes, but we were travelling for work so I had spare pants in my suitcase. You didn't tell us about that until today. Otherwise this would have happened. I wanted to give you a warning in case you came in and saw my gaping thigh. So no emergency pants. My boyfriend's already

on the way in. Sans spare pants. Oh, so no emergency pants. My boyfriend's already on the way in. Sans spare pants. Oh, you caught him too late. I've got a meeting after the show. Let's just hope that he holds together. I said you should use duct tape. Oh, that's chic. Yeah, but just do it anyway.

Oh, God. No, but then if I take my jumper off and wrap around, we thought maybe that could be a good solution. Everyone would think you get your period. It's not year seven, Bourne! Jesus! It might just be warm. Are we not at a disco? Are we not at the school disco?

No. Right. Well, we want to know when you've had this sort of pants emergency. When you've had a pants emergency. Just to make you feel better, Executive Intern Anya. People can say, yeah, this happened to me. Maybe you did shit yourself. That happens.

It does. Yeah. To the best of us. Yeah. And you didn't have a spack up pair of pants. No. It's always great to have a back up pair of pants. Yeah.

So whenever you had a pants emergency, we want to take your calls this morning. 0800-9666. And extra points as well if you were somewhere Like you couldn't get a spare pair of pants Or you were at an event Oh god Be thankful you're not at an event I was worried that was going to happen with my suit pants

A few weeks ago I was like these are tight So I did a sit down test in the chair And I was like oh yeah that's good And they withstood the night That's good That's really puttingstood the night? They withstood the night. That's good. That's really putting your faith in cotton, eh? It really is. Alright, so...

Cotton, do your stuff. 0800 DANCE at em, you can text 9696 whenever you had a pants emergency or a split. We want to know when you've had a pants-based emergency and I tell you what, you should feel really good reading these. Have you seen all the text messages?

Yeah. A lot of support there. A lot of people. Tyler, when did you have a pants emergency? Well, I was, you know, hard at work. Busy working away. Bent over to pick something up. And, you know, dreaded moment. You hear the split.

So I sheepishly stood up and indeed there was just a split straight across the thigh, like in turn Anya. And my boss just continued to point out for the rest of my shift to every customer that came in that I had split my pants. What a dick! I just had to like shuffle around the whole day and try not to expose the gaping thigh. What a dick.

Not a cool move. Not a cool move. No. Especially if you were like, you know, not like out and about with it. If you were trying to keep it on the down low. I would have got a sticker or some duct tape on that. Yeah, yeah. So it was kind of like inner thigh creeping around the back.

And so I just tried to squeeze the thighs together and like penguin waddle around it. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, Tyler, thanks for your call. Renee, when did you have a pants emergency? So I was at work and it was a rainy day, had just gone toilet and bent down to get my umbrella and my pants slipped right up the crack.

Oh, no. So visible from the back. I was in the inner thigh right up the crack. Oh, no. So visible from the back. It was in the inner thigh, right up the crack along the sleeve. What do you do for work? I'm a primary school teacher. Oh, no. Kids don't care about that sort of thing. They definitely wouldn't, like, go on and on and on and on about it.

Was this... Yeah, I completely died and ran to the office and had to call my mum to bring new pants. Oh, my God, you got your mum to bring new pants. Oh, my God. You got your mum to bring new pants to school. Like a kid. That's so cute. That is brilliant.

Mum, I need to put on my pants. Amazing, Renee. Thanks for your call. Matt, when did you have a pants emergency? This was recently, a couple of months ago. I had to go to Wellington for work and forgot to take enough underwear. So I thought, I'll just buy some down there, you know? Bought the wrong size, so I spent two days

commando and went to a prominent meeting with the government department as I sat down in their boardroom on their large recliner chairs. My twig and berries ripped straight through my pants and were sitting on the chair.

Oh my God. I was meeting with the CEO, so as I sat down, I went Did he see your twig and berries? No, no, thankfully not. I was under the desk, but I sat there for an hour

with them sitting on the office chair. Wow, that's a power move. How do you get out? I was under the desk, but I sat there for an hour with them sitting on the office chair. Wow. That's a power move, that, eh? But how do you get out? You're like, everyone else leave the room before me. So I leaned over and grabbed my bag and rested it on my legs as I stood up, and I was able to maneuver myself back into place and quickly exit the building.

What? That's like a scene out of a movie, eh? That's amazing. Do you often go commando, out of a movie, eh? That's amazing. Do you often go commando? Or is it just one time? No. Not anymore. I didn't have any underwear.

I was like, ah, crap. All right. That's amazing. Matt, thanks for you calling some text messages. So many text messages. I was waitressing

and I shit myself. I mean, that's good to know the person bringing your food out. Yes, I was waitressing and shit myself.. I mean, that's good to know the person bringing your food out. Yes, I was waitressing and shit myself. Had to go to the bathroom and wash my jeans in the sink. I wore wet jeans for the rest of my shift. No!

Go home! You shouldn't be handling food to people if you're in the sort of Oh, there's so much wrong with that. Situation where your stomach's like, I'm emptying. There's no explanation how we got to that point. Were they not well? Hey, look, we're bullshit ourselves.

Let's calm down. Let's not take the high road here, okay? There was no denial from you two either on that one. Well, I mean, everyone knows the time I shit myself and you two. Yeah, I was on a lime scooter in Prague. And it was food poisoning. I was young and I fell off my skates. I don't think I've ever probably shit myself.

There's definitely been a shart. Okay. But there's never been a full shirt. Yep. Some of the, I spilled a whole bottle of vape juice all over my pants. Okay. So you smell like apple cinnamon or something. Yeah.

Now, apparently we should ask G-Rad, the show vapist. G-Rad? That's what this person's called him, G-Rad the Vapist. Apparently, even if it's a nice smelling vape juice, it's horrible. Oh, it's so bad. It is terrible. It's just like, it's like syrup concentrate. But it stinks as well

It's like thrifty, I ate that as a kid Thank god you're not putting it in your lungs or anything Yeah And it's kind of like an oil stain So it's real hard to get out Have you seen the front page of the paper today, Jared? You're getting 10 year olds addicted Not me

You're yum smelling apple cinnamon vape This 10 year old does look pretty cool, though. I'm like, damn, save some cool for the rest of us, 10-year-old. She's doing the trick. She's doing the dragon one, where you look like you're a dragon that's just come out of a cave, and you're like, you're going to absolute hell for that. I've got a nearly 10-year-old. Yeah.

If she looks cooler than me, I'm taking her vape pen. Isn't that nuts that you've got a nearly 10-year-old? Could you imagine her vaping? Oh, my God. No. Nah, because she's a nerd. Yeah, she is a nerd. Thank God.

But it's always the nerds that end up vaping. I know. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. Are they most complained about? If you don't know, there is an Advertising Standards Authority in New Zealand. It was set up

to kind of say, you can't do that. There was a whole lot of guidelines about advertising. Megan knows. She's been stung by them before. A couple of times. Not hashtagging ad, hashtagging ad. When she actually purchased something. Yeah.

And then said, I actually like this thing that I've purchased. Yeah. And people are like, she didn't hashtag ad. And Megan's like, well, I purchased it with money. And I'm just saying that I happen to like this thing that I've purchased. I think they should hand over who complained about you. Yeah, and then you can go around and- They don't.

See, that's rough, eh? Yeah. An anonymous complaint. You're allowed to anonymously complain about you. Yeah, and then you can go around and... They don't. See, that's rough, eh? Yeah. An anonymous complaint. You're allowed to anonymously complain about people. Yeah. So that's in the social media sphere and space, but they also deal with TV ads, radio ads, print ads, billboards, anything that's in advertising.

Yeah. And there's rules you've got to adhere to with the advertising authority. So they receive complaints about ads from people who think that these ads have broken rules. Or they're misleading maybe. Yeah. You know what, I'm going to be surprised if it's not in next year.

Have you seen the ad for the ute? Is it an Isuzu ute? I think I know the one. And it ends with bastard. Yes. And every time it's on, because it's talking about this guy who's owned this Isuzu ute? I think I know the one. And it ends with bastard. Yes. And every time it's on, because it's talking about this guy who's owned this Isuzu D-Max and he's fanging around. Right.

And he's like, he's trashed it. And he's like, I don't know about the reason. He's like a farmer bloke. And he gets a new one. And he's like, you know what I say, share the love. Because he traded in his old one so somebody else can own a D-Max. And he's bought a new one. And then at the end, he's a good bastard.

And every time it's on, my kids are like, I know, I was like, are they trying to be the new bugger? Because remember, that was a big thing. The Toyota ad with the dog, literally a dog's animated mouth going bugger, when it jumped on, when it jumped on the Uber Mist, was famously complained

about. But this one just drops a big fat, thick, purposeful bastard at the end. Where is that word on the list of offensive words from the... It's gotta be above bugger. It's definitely worse than bugger, yeah. It'd be less, I reckon.

You think bugger is more offensive than bastard? Well, it used to be, but now maybe not. I don't know. I don't think any word's offensive. No, neither. I'm the wrong person to ask. Yeah. I can't wait till the C words normalise for advertising. Imagine that.

Yeah. When the warehouse is having their next big sale and they're like, all right, get on down. Well, that's with the Isuzu. You could call them a GC rather than a good bastard. And they just sting a whole lot more. Anyway, the ad. It's number 28 on the list. A good bastard. And they just sting a whole lot more. Anyway, the ad, somebody... It's number 28 on the list.

That's bastard. Bastard. Where's Bugger? Bugger's not on there. Because I reckon on this show we could easily get to, like we could say 30 to 20 and there would be no problem. Oh, we could probably say to 10, I reckon. Ooh, I don't know.

There's actually some on there I wouldn't want to say, like slurring words and stuff. Yeah, racist and homophobic. Before when I said words don't know. There's actually some on there I wouldn't want to say, like slurring words and stuff. Yeah, racist and homophobic. Before when I said words don't offend me, I obviously wasn't a racist or homophobic. I think we could get 23 at a stretch. Really? What's 22?

Well, I don't want to say it because it's in Māori and I'm not sure what it means. Is there a Māori swear word in the top 25? I don't know what that means either, but I'm not going to say it. Parky, parky, parky. But yeah, you're right. Dental pie, New Zealand.

Yeah. I don't want to say it in case it's, you know, very offensive. It's very offensive. But that's nice. Yeah. The official language of New Zealand. Number 17 and 16. There's a few that are in another language.

It's very good on us. That's good for having diversity in our list of offensive words. Yeah. That's good. Gosh, you know, we're proud. So some of the other most complained about ads, there was because it was an election year. Yep.

There was like election ones. There was a National Party Facebook ad. Just anything with the Green Party. Anything with David Seymour on TV should be banned. Yeah. He's offensive. He's offensive. Receive complaints looking at him.

The new conservative party. There was one I don't remember seeing. This was a TV ad called Spend My Super, which had babies moving along a conveyor belt in a factory. Someone felt that really offensive. That was not upheld, meaning that was ridiculous. That's just quite funny. There was a few ads regarding the Drug Foundation's pro-choice

for the cannabis referendum. And then there was a Say Nope to Dope ad that had a picture of a dope shop with children passing by on the footpath and all this like... Scare-mongering. Yeah, scare-mongering about that. The Ministry of Health, there was a TV ad about well-known New Zealanders saying about the importance of uniting against COVID-19. People complained about that. Oh, anti-vaxxers. Anti-vaxxers and people who believed that COVID-19 was made up.

There was an ASB Bank ad showing a mixed-race couple arriving to view a house. Now, this is the Ben character. Oh, yeah. Ben from ASB. They're using him all as ASB. And his girlfriend in the first ads were like he was too tall for a doorway so they cut his head hole in. And then she got cold feet.

Why were people complaining about that? Because they're viewing an open home and a neighbour begins playing bagpipes loudly while wearing a Scottish kilt. Complains were that this was culturally insensitive to Scottish people and promoted racism against mixed race couples.

Why is it promoting that this was culturally insensitive to Scottish people and promoted racism against mixed-race couples. Okay. Why is it promoting racism against mixed-race couples? Because you wouldn't want them, so you're driving them out. Yes. Right. Oh. The person next door was like, I don't want a mixed-race couple,

which would never have crossed my mind in a million years. And then Scottish people are like, we're not racist. We're not trying to drive out the mixed race. I would have never even thought about that. Wow. But the ad campaign that received the most complaints, two of them tallied up, the most of them, was the government ad for keeping it real online.

These are the ads about how to deal with your children. So the porn one. And the actors knock on the door and they're like, your son was just watching it. Yeah, that went huge around the world. Justine Smith is the mum in that. Comedian Justine Smith. She's been around for ages.

She's done a couple of episodes of Have You Been Paying Attention? I asked her about the ad and she said of all the work she's done, that has become what she is most recognised for. Because I was like, what about the kid? Because we talked about the kid once and his mum messaged in saying, he did the ad and he was stoked to do the ad and stuff. And she's like, oh, I just get recognised all the time

as the mum that opens the door to the porn stars. I'm like, of all the things that she's done. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. This is a Kiwi study done about Kiwi employees by a pet insurance provider. They have said that Kiwi employees by a pet insurance provider.

They have said that Kiwi workers who are able to bring their dogs to work would turn down a better job if it meant they could bring their dogs along with them. So if they got a better offer for like a higher paid job, but they weren't able to take their dog, and they could take it to their other job. That's madness. Like take the pay rise and then get a doggy daycare or something. It doesn't work

when everyone brings their dogs to work. It works when there's a schedule. I've got no problem with dogs at work. Well, people bring their dogs to work here and it's cute sometimes. If everyone brought their dogs to work, it'd be effing chaos. And like it's cute because. Yeah, but you can't, if everyone brought their dogs to work, it'd be effing chaos. And like, it's cute because it happens occasionally.

Yeah. Like, you're like, oh, there's a dog here. It's a novelty. Yeah. But if they were just like, everyone's dog's here all the time. Who brought their dog all the time and it just pooed everywhere

and it was a little stupid thing. Everyone's just like, this has to stop. Well, I'm not going to name them. It's Megan, isn't it? Um, excuse me. Doesn't your dog famously shit on the floor every single time it's been here? Um, a couple of times. It has poo stop. Well, I'm not going to name them. It's Megan, isn't it? Um, excuse me? Doesn't your dog famously shit on the floor every single time it's been here? Um, a couple of times.

It is poached. No, who? No, I know who you're talking about, but I'm not going to name them. Oh, put it in chat. No, I don't think they work here anymore in this building. But yeah, they brought their dog all the time.

But I'm all for cute dogs, but just not stupid little ones. I know, but that's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? But also, um, pay rise. Come on, think about it, people. Yeah. Does it say what the pay rise would be or would it be, you know, minimal?

Well, 89% considered the ability to bring the dog to work as an employment perk over like a pay rise. Right. That's nuts. But we did a poll to ask people what they thought about bringing their dogs to work. Dogs at work, yay or nay? 76% said yay. Well, it's been known to like boost productivity, right?

And mood. But again, I think we're thinking of the novelty times when a dog comes in and you're like, yay. Yeah, not every day. Not every day. And everyone's dogs all at once. And you know I love dogs. And you know I love dogs the best.

I love dogs, but yeah. And their dog wouldn't do anything wrong. And then their dog. Like poop on the floor, Megan. And then their dog bites somebody. Yeah, but they don't, they poop. That's just what happens. Can't be angry at him for pooping.

A pig would be cuter to bring to work. Oh, you should definitely bring your coon. That too big now. Definitely wouldn't make a mess. When they, oh yeah, that eat and like have a root around, if they could smell something, they'd definitely be like all for trying to find it to eat it. Imagine if they got into the work fridge.

That's probably the clean out it needs. Yeah. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Soon on the show, we're going to talk about ballsy pickup moves. The maneuvers. Yeah, the ones that you were just like, maybe you were on the receiving end and you were like,

I admire the guts that it took. Yeah. The gumption. The gumption. The boldness. The bold. The bold and the gumptious. Because we learned a little something last night about somebody on the show.

And they're bold pickup moves of the past. No, don't worry, Fletch. It's not you. We're not going to be delving into your misadventures. I could just go and ask for somebody's number. There's no way. I don't have the balls to do that. Rumor has it you don't even need to ask for anything.

Okay, you stop it. Just a knowing look. It's time for the box. Katie joins us. Good morning, Katie. Good morning. Alright, so 7 o'clock we had the clue that the

it's in the trailer for the Black Widow. The word is in the trailer. Literally. Well, we don't know if it's literally there or if it's in the trailer for the Black Widow. The word is in the trailer. Literally. Well, we don't know if it's literally there or if it's like. Is your interpretation of it literally? I'm hoping he's being basic as, yep. Okay. Okay.

So walk us through. You've watched the trailer. It's a four letter word. Uh-huh. It has the number seven in it. Uh-huh. So he says this game is rather hard. It's a four letter word. Uh-huh. It has the number seven in it. Uh-huh. So he says this game is rather hard. It's coming soon.

Yeah. And this clue will make you think. I think the word is this. This. And nobody's tried this yet. No one has tried this yet. And is this in the trailer? A hundred percent. It says this July. So it's coming soon. He put this. Ah, so it's coming soon. All right.

This clue will make you think. Okay, well. He's giving it to us. He's giving it to me, hopefully. To confirm, what is your four-digit pin and number form then? So 8447. 8447. Okay, here we go.

8447. Okay, here we go. 8 4 4 7 It's not. Bad luck. It's not. All right, well, Katie, back to the drawing board. It's in the trailer somewhere. We do have a double passo to Marvel Studios' Black Widow.

It's in cinemas July 8th and streaming on Disney+, with premiere access July 9th. Conditions apply, and your next shot is coming up with Georgia at midday. Brian Clint as well with chances at four and five. Well, it's a Friday tradition where you each week take a turn at picking a song. It's got to be at least 10 years old. And one of the members of this band in the news this week, sadly. Very sad news.

The lead singer of this band, Mark Hoppus, has said that he has cancer. He's receiving chemotherapy treatment. He put on Twitter and Instagram that he's scared. For the past three months, I've been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. I have cancer. It sucks. I'm scared, but at the same time, I'm blessed with incredible doctors and a family and friends to get me

through this. Did I say it was stage four? Oh, really? I don't know if it was stage four, but also don't know what kind of cancer it is, where it is. 49 years old. Yeah, that's...

And like Megan said, are we ever... Has this band been to New Zealand? Yeah, they played Big Day Out in 2000 and... I saw them at Big Day Out. Phenomenal. But, yeah, I don't know if we're ever going to see them again, because Travis Barker doesn't like planes. Right. That's right, because he was in a plane crash That cost one of his best friends their life

Fair enough And now yeah, Mark's undergoing cancer treatment Perhaps, fingers crossed Fingers crossed, one day Maybe Travis could take a boat Or we could go there A P&O, yeah, it'll take it forever though I don't know if Cruz, I don't know if P&O's going to be

Bouncing back from this whole COVID thing Super quick P&O, yeah, it'll take it forever though, won't it? Well, I don't know if Cruise, I don't know if P&O is going to be, yeah, bouncing back from this whole COVID thing super quick. So this song is from 1999. It was from the album Enema of the State. That was the album with the hot nurse on the cover. That's right. Revisiting. Fashion's changed a little bit.

It has. It charted really well around the world. Well, not in Australia. In Australia, it only got to number 42. Oh. It went platinum in the United Kingdom. It's a song that was just like, I was 17 when the song came out. And I remember being like, oh, this sums it all up. It was quite a revolutionary album, wasn't it?

It was just like... Like it kind of paved the way for this genre, you'd say, right? Super easy to digest punk pop. There'd been sort of like the 90s punk of Green Day and earlier Blink-182 albums, and then this album kind of mainstreamed it and changed what the early 2000s was going to look like. It's got a hell of a music video where the three lads never put on a shred of clothing. Today's Friday flashback

from April 99. Blink-182's What's My Age Again. ZM. Outro Music But later on, on the drive home I called her mom from a pay phone I said I was the cops and your husband's in jail His state looks down on sodomy And that's about the time that's been shown up on me Nobody loves you when you're 23

And I still wanna lose my bank account What the hell is call ID? My friends say I should have my age What's my age again? And that's about the time she walked away from me Nobody likes you when you're 23 And you still act like you're a freshman, yeah What the hell is wrong with me? My friends say I should have aged That's about the time that she is wrong with me? My friends say I should have my age What's wrong with you? Thoughts about the time that she broke up with me

But would she take herself so seriously? Many years ahead to fall in line Why would you wish that on me? I'll never want to have my age What's my age again? What's my age again. Watch my age again. It's Blank182.

I'm ZDM. Watch my age again. It's today's Friday Flashback. The sad news that Mark Hoppus announced that he's going through chemotherapy. He has cancer. Yeah. 40, how old did you say he was? 49. 49.

49. I was getting confused with Gunther because we had that news at the summer. Oh, yeah, Gunther. He's stage four prostate cancer. Mark Hoppus hasn't revealed what stage or what type of cancer. No, so hopefully with chemo, he'll get through that. They were writing two and a half minute songs back when no one else was writing two and a half minute songs. It's like they predicted Spotify.

Yeah. Blink182. And I remember being 17 and the song says, no one likes you when you're 23. And I'm like, I'm not looking forward to 23. And now here we are. Here we are. 39.

Feedback Pretty Across the board Pretty great Yeah Apart from someone said SHIT Boring

Couldn't hear the lyrics Do better I am sorry Sorry that three chord Punk pop Isn't for you There's a generation Of people who would disagree

Yeah Banger Banger Absolutely banger Bit cool from you That's what somebody said Bit cool from you Oh yeah

Because you don't, yeah, right. I'm usually pretty cool. I'm a cool dude. I don't know. I don't know what you say there. Yeah, no. I'm a cool dude. Someone said nostalgia kit.

And someone said, was that song an American Pie? Or does it just remind me of American Pie? It was that era. It might have been. I think it was an American Pie. The original American Pie soundtrack was like an insanely 1999 soundtrack. But it was the same

year it came out that year. 1999, okay. Yes, they did. There was a Blink-182 song on there. Silly radio. Was it great? No, this is a stupid list. We can find the album. Yeah, we can find the album.

Yeah, we'll find it later. That's maybe something we can take a look at. Mutt. Blank 182 Mutt was on there. Oh, okay, yeah. It just came out at the same time as American Pie, so that's maybe, you listen to it on the way to the cinema. Maybe Cinema 3.

When three cinemas in one place was worth putting in the title of the cinemas. We've got three cinemas. We're Cinema 3. Last night at... Cool. How many cinemas were you at in your local cinema? I don't know. We had like...

State four screen cinema. I think we had like five. We had five maybe. Five. Yeah. Okay. No, it was Top Town Cinema 5 or 4 or something. Am I Village...

Did Village... Did Village used to have naming rights to cinemas? And I feel like it was Village 8. Hamilton's Village 8. Right in the heart of Hamilton. You had 8? Yeah. Suck it.

And we had Rialto at the other end of the mall. You had 8 back in the day. Yeah, I think so. Oh, wow. Hamilton really was the city of the future in the 90s, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. Something happened. Yeah, piracy.

So we want to talk about your ballsy pickup manoeuvres. Maybe you've been impressed by someone's bravado in their approach. Yeah, maybe you've been on the receiving end of one of these raising pickups. Yeah, because we got talking about it last night. We won't give the actual origin story. The person on the show with the actual origin story has requested that that doesn't make broadcast.

They don't even wish to be identified to the story, but they're laughing like muttly at the moment. So we'll go to the one that is fit for broadcast. Because producer Jared was a real... Oh, yeah, he just admitted... ...pon Juan in a previous life before he got the MIDI. Just admitted this over dinner last night, producer Jared. Yeah, I went through a BK drive-through one time

and thought the girl in the car behind me was kind of cute, so I gave the BK worker my number and got them to hand it to the girl in the car behind me when we, like, moved forward. And did you watch? Did they actually do it? Did you not hear this story, Anya? Yeah, wow.

Holy. Do you think that's creepy or? Because obviously Jared's looking in his rearview mirror and he's like, she is hot. This is on. She's not looking forward at your car. But she can't even see you. She can't even see you.

Creepy eyes gazing back. Yeah, fair. You just think that's creepy? Because I thought it was a bit creepy too. Yeah, like if you can get picked up in a BK drive-thru, you are doing well, sister. Yeah. And so I said at this stage

I was like well there's no way she messaged you back She did She did She did Do you think she asked the person At the drive through was this guy hot or a creep Nah see what happened was You know when you order too much food and then you have to wait

I had to wait And she ended up pulling up next to me. Did she have to wait too? Yeah. Oh, no. So she looked at me, and then I saw her get her phone out and text me. And she was like, hey, Jared, I can't remember her name. It started with an R.

My name is blah, blah, blah. I'm real sorry. This is really, really cute. Raquel. But I've got a boyfriend. Oh. That's okay. That's okay. Wait, she still texts you? Yeah. That wasn't a swing and a miss. That's really cute. Raquel. I've got a boyfriend. Oh! That's okay, that's okay.

Wait, she still texts you? That wasn't a swing and a miss. That's really sweet. And then we ended up talking, like, via text while we were waiting for our food. Oh, chip away. Yeah, I was like, what did you order? And she was like, oh, stuff. But that meant she thought you were cute, though, because if she didn't, I don't think

she would have texted. She'd just be like, eh. Blocked your number. Yeah, fair. You would have seen her pick up her phone. Hello, Spark? Yeah, just be like, eh. Blocked your number. Yeah, fair. You would have seen her pick up her phone, hello, Spark? Yeah, I need this number blocked. I think I would have been like 22, 23.

So this is before I matured and realised this is probably not a good thing to do. It's a bit creepy, yeah. It's so brazen. It is, it's bold and that's what got us talking. We wanted to take some calls this morning. Have you been on the end of a ballsy pick-up line or move? There really is a fine line, isn't there, of creepy and...

Yeah. Like, a lot of people wouldn't have to break that. It depends completely on whether you're attracted to the other person as to whether it's creepy or not. Oh, yeah, hot people

will get away with this. Imagine, like, you just had a note from someone and they're like, I think you're cute. Text me. Would you text them?

Like, does the curiosity get the better of you? Well, you used to be able to go on Facebook and search by people's phone numbers. Yeah. But you can't do that anymore. How dare they take that away? Yeah, they did take away that feature so that when someone texts us abuse, we can find out exactly who they are. Look at their profile picture. Judge Ben!

And be like, oh yeah, I'm really going to respect your opinion. We never did that. Never. Wouldn't have dreamt of it. But, yeah, these bold manoeuvres. Yeah. Have you been on the end of a ballsy pick-up move?

0800-DARZATEM. We want to hear. You can text as well, 9696. Maybe just locked eyes. Oh, romantic. Ooh. Mmm. And then they just like walked up.

There's no way. Is that what you do? Would you just be able to walk up to a stranger and ask for their number? I don't think you would. I did it to a lifeguard at a pool when I was younger.

How did that go? Good, actually. We hooked up for a while until he cheated on me. So yeah, that evening. Because you couldn't swim because you kept turning up to the pole

in the floaty rings I'm here for our date I stand shallow I don't stand shallow I know not to go down there at the end because you were busy mate right

maybe later on you can help me out of the pool. This isn't happening. This isn't. All right, 0800DARLS.M, give us a call, 9696 to text. Wow. Wow.

The text machine's just, like, updating there. There's two more. Another one. Three more. Like, I did not know we were on this day, Friday the 25th of June 2021, we would be getting so many responses to the bold pickup lines or just someone's boldness in asking you out. Yeah, because I just couldn't do it.

There's no way. Because I guess you're scared of the rejection or that they're not into you and you're just like, oh, yeah, I was only joking anyway. Yeah. What about if we had a couple of vinos into the old maybe

Dutch courage or I was in a foreign country yeah rules don't apply because like do you think also part of it is like in New Zealand

it's so small everyone knows everyone and they'd be like oh my friend rejected you that time yeah yeah and you'd be like oh

yeah so have you been on the end of a bold pick up move producer Jared did this in the drive through as a young man in his 20 early 20s Yeah. So have you been on the end of a bold pack-up move? Producer Jared did this in the drive-through as a young man in his early 20s. A note to the car behind him. Sarah, what happened? I went to an All Blacks,

I think it must be the World Cup parade 30 years back now, and wrote my song over on a piano school and threw it to one of the All Blacks who actually rang me back and called me back later that night when you caught up. Oh, caught up. Wait, hang on.

You wrote your name on a tennis ball and threw it at an All Black. That is wild. Did they see who it came from? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I caught their attention and threw the tennis ball. Oh. Oh, my girl. Caught up.

That was wink, wink, wink. Yeah, just a little wink, wink. Wink, wink. Yeah. Oh, my's it. Just a little wink, wink. Wink, wink. Yes! Oh, my God. That is so involved. Off air, we're going to ask for all that. Yeah, we're going to ask for all that.

Just wait there. Not for public. There's going to be some perk to getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning. And the perk today will be what all black was that? Good catch, though, because they were all on the back of Ford Utes, I believe. They were, yeah. Fantastic. Which they had to hold on to for occupational safety and health reasons.

Hayley, you were on the end of a ballsy pickup move. I was the ballsy one. You were? Okay, so what happened? We were at the bar and I was walking around and we made eye contact. And I got intercepted on the way there by some dodgy guy who started chatting me up. And so this guy started laughing at me me so I went up and kissed him. Wait, so you were creepy to get

out of the creepy guy conversation you creepy pashed someone? 100%. You are creep to creep. I like this. This is fighting fire with fire. Did you end up with this guy? We've been together for 21 years. Oh! Wow, and do you just tell people that story?

What a great story. And are they just like, wow. Yeah, I just think it's fantastic. That is so great. Amazing. Hayley, thank you for sharing. Nikki, were you on the end of a ballsy pickup move? No, very similar story.

I was the ballsy one as well. Okay. Oh, there's women. Wait a minute. Oh, my love all these women. So I was at Hogmanay. Wait a minute. Oh, my God. You fell down the stairs. You were rolling down the stairs.

Your phone went all garbled. Let's go again. So we were in Scotland. I was at Hogmanay at the New Year's celebration. And then so I was getting hit on by this creepy, yeah, getting hit on by this creepy Canadian dude. So I was like, I'm going into a bar. Made eye contact with this one guy.

Went over, grabbed his face, snogged him. Five years later, he moved to New Zealand and we're expecting our first baby. Oh, my God. Ten points to Gryffindor. Can I just say that guys would not be able to do this? No. No, as a guy, if you grab a woman's face and kiss them, no. That's a no-no.

That's a big no. Wow. That's a great story. Again, very much the same. No. As a guy, if you grab a woman's face and kiss them, no. No. That's a no-no. That's a big no. Wow. That's a great story. Again, very much the same. Yeah. Yeah, that's incredible. Nikki, thank you for sharing some text messages. I got a note from one of the teachers at preschool drop-off one morning.

I was like, uh-oh, what's this? And I opened it up. But it turns out it was from a dad that went to the preschool. Oh, okay. Who had asked and worked and asked the teachers and I wasn't with my partner anymore. So he'd pass the note through the teacher. Which was pretty, but no word on the word.

But no word if that ended well. Yeah. Did we find out which All Black? Yeah. Did you get there? Don't say, don't say. Don't say. Oh, you got it.

We did find out. Is that something to look forward to? Were they a forward or a back? No, no, no, no, no. We'll close it because people will be a forward or a back? No, no, no, no. No more closing. People will be a forward or a back. People are detectives out there. They'll... Yeah.

Okay. Somebody said this bold... It was a good one. I don't know what that means. Don't say it was a good one because it's like... I mean, that's everybody's taste varies. It was a good one. I'm going to go walk out while you read out some...

Yeah, everyone's taste varies. I don't know. I want to find out at the same time. No one will find out. Don't you find out now. No, he's going to... I don't know. I want to find out at the same time. No one will find out. Don't you find out now. I don't want to go on until I've found out. Was it a good one? No, you've got to turn the microphone off and tell us.

It was a good one. I can't go on until we find out. Turn the microphone off and tell us. Oh, okay. Some music. Okay. Interesting. Okay. Interesting. Okay.

Yeah. That's flustered you, isn't it? No, no, no. I was just doing some maths. A guy at the gym held his phone up to me with a Google search and said Amazonian goddess. And he was like, is this you? And that was his. Oh, no.

Punch him in the face. That's a terrible pickup line. Throw a kettlebell at him. Gross. I think I vombed a little. This was my bold move. I once convinced somebody I was the Pink Power Ranger because I had the same name.

But I had the same name as the character, not the actress. Oh, right. He wasn't the smartest crown on the box, but he was a pretty hot colour. I love that. That's great. Somebody else said,

this is the absolute key to it. You've just got to shoot your shot. Be bold. It works at least 50% of the time, and you just can't get discouraged by when it doesn't work. I just couldn't handle it. And that text comes to us from prison I assume.

I had someone in the lane next to me on the motorway hold up their phone number against the window while doing 100km an hour. Oh my god. Was this pre-printed laminated or they wrote it out? No, maybe they wrote it out on the go. I just pointed at my wedding rings and he took the number down and kept driving. He definitely had that number pre-prepared.

Yeah. 100%. I had a bunch of roses sent to me at work with a note that said, you don't know me, but I think you're beautiful. Just one question. Where do you hide your wings? Because you're an angel or you're a quarter pack?

Yeah, quarter pack or like an auntie's liner. Who knows? I'm just thinking of things with wings. A sparrow. Panty liner. Yeah. Are you calling me a panty liner? They fold around the crotch of the panties.

What's wrong with you? Why would you ask a woman if she's a panty liner? We have adhesive bits. Yeah. Oh, that'd be right. A drink as a pickup. That was just given a drink. Again, that was 17 years ago.

Oh, yep. Oh, and they've just split up. Oh, okay. So it didn't work. But also, don't accept drinks from strangers. It's been a hard and fast rule for a long time. Unless it's a sealed bottle. Unless you see it opened.

I have the same rules as music festivals for accepting free drinks. And I have the same rule as drinking from those beach huts on Bali or Thailand at a full moon party. You'll always boil. You need to see the bottle opened. Oh, I think you're going to boil your rum and coke for at least five minutes. Always boil your rum and coke. Before drinking five minutes. Always boil your rum and coke. Before drinking it at a bar.

It's not potable. Well, you've got to boil away the drugs and the bacteria. Yeah. The Campylobacter. The E. coli. The Giardia. And the GHB.

Absolutely. A stranger asked me if I slept on my stomach. And when I said no, he asked if he could sleep on my stomach. That's so weird. There's a difference between like

a bold pickup line and just a creepy one. That's weird. If I sleep on my stomach, he'd have to sleep on my back. I wouldn't like that. It might be like a way to do that. He meant just like rest his head

as more of a pillow. Right. My brother's a nude and once famously text the girl, can I hack your sexual mainframe? It didn't work. It didn't work. Of course it didn't. Flesh, fauna, Megan.

The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about a train. Okay. In Sweden. train in Sweden. There is an iron ore line in Sweden. Yeah.

It's at the top of the line. Iron mine. Okay. This is all rhyming. The top of the line on the iron ore line is an iron mine. Now, the trains all the way back down, it's predominantly downhill. Oh, yeah. All the way down.

They're so loaded up. These trains are so loaded up. There's 68 cars. Yeah. And they weigh 8,600 tons. Each carriage? No, the whole train. What the train's towing.

Okay. And when they're going downhill, it's pushing downhill, and they've got the train so that it actually generates power while it's going downhill. Right. Do you know what I mean? The wheels turning are generating power. Yep.

They only use one-fifth of the power they regenerate, that they generate, on braking, meaning that there's four-fifths of that power, and it's enough power when the trains are empty to get the trains all the way back up the hill. Okay. You following me? Yeah.

This is like one of those exam questions that you have to read like five times. It's energy neutral. Yeah. It's energy neutral. I just don't know if we were as wowed by that as you thought we were going to be. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm not, yeah, it is.

They come down the hill. Yeah. And they're generating power. Yeah, we get that. Now they're using a fifth of that to not just like scream wildly out of control because they're fully laden with iron ore, which is very heavy.

Absolutely. And then when they get to the bottom, the other four-fifths pump the train all the way back up the hill. It's 398... Because it's going downhill. It's 498km long. It's 400km long. That's not impressing you anymore.

It's like when you ride a bike and you go downhill, you're not using energy. You use it to go up the hill. No, but it would be like going down a hill on a bike and that downhill is generating enough power to get you back up the hill doing nothing. Power, like an e-bike. Okay. And then there's a hill.

Cool. And when you get to the bottom, the power you generate from coming down that hill powers you up the next hill. Awesome. Entirely. Yeah. We'll just leave it there, I think. I did my best.

That's amazing. It is amazing. Yeah, no, it is. That's amazing. So cool. Cool, man. Okay. Well, today's fact of the day was...

No, I really liked your train fact. It was really good. It was good. If we could figure out more ways of doing this, we could balance out a bit of power. Totally. Okay, cool. Whatever.

Today's fact of the day is there's a train in Sweden that generates enough power when it comes down the hill to power the empty train back up the hill. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Skip It or Stream It Skip It or Stream It we look at shows that we're kind of watching at the moment

we put it on Instagram saying Pol have you watched these? Would you skip it or stream it? Would you recommend it? Did you not get through it? What were your thoughts? I wonder if some people who haven't, because when I did this, there were some shows I haven't seen,

so I just skipped past the poll. I didn't answer that. I didn't answer, but I wonder if some people look at the, because you know when you look at your streaming, whatever you're streaming on, you're like, I don't like that artwork, I'm not watching that. Right. And do you know that a lot of these streaming services tailor their artwork to you and your demo and what you watch?

And my tile for a show would be different than yours. I've seen that on other people's. I'm like, oh, that looks different on yours. Yeah, they might show a big hot man action figure for you. So you're like, I want to watch that because he's hot. Whereas they might show you something else for someone else. I didn't know that.

Yeah, they do. It's real weird. You don't get the hot man figure. That sucks. Do I not get the hot man figure? Well, you can ask for the hot man. Maybe you just need a bigger bowl of font and a hot man figure.

I don't ask them. They don't get me in. Yeah. All right. Well, what's our first show up? Our first show is on Netflix and it's Sweet Tooth. So nature made everyone sick.

Excuse me? Are you a doctor? And then a miracle happened. They called them hybrids. Your kind. I've just finished this last weekend. Loved it. It's so good And it's shot here in New Zealand

Shot in New Zealand Shot right here Like you recognise Port Quinzeau Yeah and you recognise Parts of the west coast And it's so beautifully done And the Northern Club

Just down the road from here Because it's got vines Growing over it already So it already looks Semi post-apocalyptic And the green screen And some stuff around it You're all good

I think it's got 98% Of rotten tomatoes I only just watched that episode that you spoiled for me the other day. What? It's a bit close to the bone with the current pandemic. I mean, luckily we're not burning people in houses. Spoiler alert.

So good and shot in New Zealand. That should be reason enough to watch. Somebody accidentally pressed skip and then they sent us a message saying, I meant to press stream. So good. And it looks like it would be a kid's show, but I got scared and I'm 23.

So 54% of people said, stream it. Yes. Okay, good, good. What's our next show? And not all the hybrid animals are cute. Some of them are, but yeah. The next one is Limetown.

What do you want from me? You can't scare me. You can't scare me! Oh, that sounds aggressive. Oh, don't it? It sounds scummy. So this is based on a podcast. Is that right?

That's had comparisons to Serial. Oh, really? Okay. Right. But it's Jessica Biel plays a character who's trying to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee. Wait, is that real? No, it's fiction. No, no, no, it's fiction.

I think it was like a dramatized podcast. I think we would have heard if 300 people disappeared from a... Well, I thought maybe back in the day. Yeah, maybe true. But 66% of people said to... Skip it. Skip it. Oh, boo.

Ruthless. Ruthless, okay. Ruthless. Next is Disney Plus' Loki. Oh, okay. Which has. Next is Disney Plus' Loki. Oh, okay. Which has just had episode three this week. They're teasing us. And Loki is bisexual?

That's the big news this week. Apparently, I haven't seen the episode, but apparently there's some reference to his sexual endeavors in the past. I don't think that's a spoiler. I just think it's just a random. Yeah, because my wife said it to me a couple of weeks ago, and I was like, she's like, have they covered that yet? I was like, no, they haven't covered that yet.

Looking forward to see how they do cover it. Does he hook up with a dude? I think it's just a comment. I threw it away. That's baiting. That's by baiting. He hooks up with Owen Wilson and afterwards Owen Wilson's like, wow. So what was the verdict on that one? 62% of people said stream it! Stream it. Yeah, good. It kind of carries on. It's kind of getting us ready for the next chapter of the MCU. Yeah, I'm hearing good things about that. This is going to be good.

Next up is a show written by New Zealander Rose Muthufayo. And Alice Sneddon also worked on this. It's a TV show called Starstruck. Okay, what's the verdict on that? The verdict... I think this might be one of those cases where people just haven't seen it yet and didn't know what to do, so they pressed it

because 56% of people said... Skip it. Boo, I'm hearing only amazing things about this. Me too. I'm seeing write-ups everywhere saying it's an incredibly funny comedy. It's TVNZ right on demand. Yeah.

This is definitely on my list of things to watch. Someone said this is so good. Whoever's saying Skip It obviously hasn't seen it because you wouldn't skip it if you'd seen it. Everyone's saying Skip It's a bad New Zealander. I wonder if we need to say that. Don't vote if you haven't seen it. Just go to the next slide and don't vote.

Okay, well, next up, last one. Is a Netflix series called Lupin. Stream it! 55% of people said stream it. So the second season's just come out. It's French. So you can either watch it with dubbed over English or just with subtitles. Second season, I haven't seen yet, but it's on my list because I love the first season.

It's amazing. Okay. It's like a French crime-sol solving con man. You love your crime You bloody love crime solving. Yeah it's so good. I think everyone loves this show that's seen it. Okay. And that's a 55% stream it. So there you go with a cold

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