ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan’s Podcast - 9th June 2021

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. You would have seen the news last night, the global transnational drug bust with the app that was developed by the FBI. We talk about this in the podcast today. You dumb idiots. And that's why Megan's not here today. She's been arrested.

Yeah. But we're hoping she'll be bailed out by Thursday. Look, to me, it doesn't matter if she's not bailed out by Thursday. That's certainly none of my concern. You'd like people to take their time with the legal system? She's a criminal now. If she's done the crime, she'll do the time. And that's right.

We should take our time with our judicial system. We shouldn't rush anything. This is where shortcuts happen. Maybe she'll be back Friday then. Yeah. If she's bailed. Well, I wasn't thinking one more day. One more day and the judicial system will sort her out.

But you're not with us today. But we do have an awards on Thursday night. And Vaughn and I have, you just caught us mid discussing what we're wearing. I don't know, nor do I care. But I need to know what you're wearing so you don't look more formal than me, or if you're less formal, I'll also go less formal. That's why I'm asking. Like jeans and shirt or suit?

Beef eater. A guard of the Tower of London, I want to go as a beef eater. I don't think you're thinking through the heat issue there. No, it'll be cold. It'll be cold, right. It'll be cold. At one stage, there'll be an outside part of it. Because I've got the issue where I've got three suits of different sizes.

Yeah, gotcha. And the suit that's most closest to me at the moment is a little snug. But doable. Right. But snug. Right. Well, I've got a swipe card to TVNZ, so we can just go and raid whatever news radio

there's a similar size to at the moment. Simon Dallow's very tall. Very tall. Very tall. Jeremy Wells, tall and slender. Very, yep. I'm not going to say you're Andrew Saville, because he's not as tall.

He's not as tall as me, though. He's a shorter, stouter fellow. What about the wither guy? Dan. Tiny. Tiny, really? No off me, though. He's a shorter, stouter fellow. What about the wither guy? Dan. Tiny. Tiny. No offense. You're not squeezing into Dan's suits.

Renee's got the same height as you, though. You and Renee could share a couple of very similar shoulders. Do a Harry Styles and wear one of Renee's wither dresses. Yes. Why not be brave? Chris Chang. You're not going to fit Changy's suits. Matty McClain.

He's smaller than me, too. Is he smaller than Renee No he's the same size You might go John Campbell Oh actually yeah Maybe go John Campbell Got the three piece there Without the tie Yeah I don't know

John Campbell I don't know if I'd suit a three piece Um Okay so track pants Yes Sounds good to me Thank you Rachel Who's wearing a top bun today A top knot ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fleshform and Megan. The podcast. Thank you, Rachel.

Who's wearing a top bun today? A top knot. A top knot. Yeah, yeah. Is that not a bun? Is that not a bun? I thought it was a bun. No, I think a bun's a bit more put into the prep of a bun versus a messy top knot. Okay, we were just discussing that.

I said the top knot's doing the Lord's work. Amen. In the kitchen. She said it is. It is. So there you go. No Megan in the Lord's work. Amen. In the kitchen. She said it is. It is. There you go. No Megan today. She's away.

She was so closely tied to the Comacheros. Who? Megan. Caught up in this international drug stick. That's why she's away. Awaiting trial. Currently sat in remand prison. I told her, I wonder where they got that jet ski from, didn't I?

Well, it turns out it was methamphetamine money. It was drug money. Yes. And here's the twist. They're both in prison. You have inherited baby Bastion. It's like one of those rom-coms. An odd couple situation.

A man and a baby that he is unable to breastfeed. So we're hoping that Megan will get bail on Friday and be back on the show. But who knows with these international drug stings. I've been caught up in my fair share. If I'll tell you one thing, unpredictable. This drug bust story is absolutely wild. This will be a movie one day. I love the drug bust stories.

Soon on the show, we need to delve into what happened. Yes. Because basically the FBI invented this app. And that's why all of this went down yesterday. Well done, FBI. Wild. Coming up on the show, The Box returns this morning. And it's back at 7.

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which is in cinemas July 8th. I solved the puzzle that was in there yesterday at 8. That was the number 7. It was like a jigsaw puzzle. Number 7 was revealed when we did that. So we seven it was like a jigsaw puzzle number seven was revealed when we did that so we know it's a four letter word and one of the one of the letter words one of the letter numbers is seven so what is seven on the keypad it's hold now don't tell me because i want to know if i can still remember it from my days of of texting on a nokia 3310. It's one of the ones with four. Yeah.

The one with four Q. So P, Q, R, S. Yes. So there's a P, Q, an R or an S in that four-letter word. One of those four. Is that what you'd say by that clue, seven? Yes. Or is that just a clue for a clue? If seven's there but it's not one of the four,

shitty clue. Yeah, you'd say it would be. All right. Well, your chance to win that $20,000 cash, you've just got to give us that four-digit pin with a seven in it. It also spells a four-letter word. So that is coming up at seven, your next shot. The top six is coming up. seven, your next shot. The top six is coming up.

Apparently, Qantas, we talked about Qantas yesterday saying that they'd been finding snakes and scorpions in their tyre wells of their parked up aircraft that are currently not being used. Well, apparently now, Qantas staff have gang connections. Well, there was a report that there could be up to 150 staff with criminal connections. Yeah. But then how does that...

Like, you know, they get some drugs on a plane, they've still got to get through the end bit. The end bit? They've still got to get through the sniffer dogs and... Yeah. Who knows? Crazy. Okay. Well, the top six dealing with this... The top six signs that your Qantas in-flight staff are connected.

Okay. To a gang. It's coming up next on the show, though. Executive intern Anja's had a dream last night. She's woken up and she's sad about it. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Well, yesterday, exciting news. Lord, not the Lord above, but our Lorde with an E, teased some new music saying this year. With cover art? Yes. Of presumably a album? Or is this the single, do you think? Solar Power, it said on it. Well, I don't know.

Either that or she's, because it's been a while, she hasn't released any new music. Maybe she's an influencer for solar panels. Maybe she's, oh my gosh, I'd feel an influencer for solar panels. Well, it's the future, isn't it? Yeah. All about that. What else is my roof doing? Collecting leaves?

Exactly. Stopping a jerk roof. Yeah, make some power. Get yourself covered in solar panels and create some power, please. Solar power, it's a young lass jumping over the camera, but we don't know what it's going to sound like. At a beach, was it a New Zealand beach? It could be.

It's hard to tell. Beaches tend to be sandy world over. And then just the, what was the caption? Patience is a virtue, like sometime this year. Yep, it'll be around. That's exciting. Of course, last week we broke the news that she's in lineups for concerts. Yeah, what was that, a Spanish one?

Is it Primavera or something like that? Yeah. Next year. That's happening. 2022. So that would kind of say that she's got some new music coming. Yeah. And now we know.

So I guess we all went to bed last night. With Lorde on the mind. With Lorde on the mind. And so did you, Executive Intern, aren't you? Because you had a dream last night about Lorde. I did, yep. We met at a bar in the bathroom. Whoa.

Yeah. Is this a – what nature of dream was this? Friendly. Oh, you didn't – did you kiss in the dream? No, we didn't kiss. No, okay. No, we met Hotel Ponsonby, if anyone was wondering. What's Hotel Ponsonby?

It's a new bar. Well, I imagine she goes there quite a bit. What did it used to be called? You've got to tell me what it was called in the early 2000s if you want me to have any knowledge of... I don't know, Grandad. I wasn't alive then. Let me look it up and I'll tell you what it was called.

Anyway, so we met in the bathrooms there, really hit it off, and exchanged phone numbers. Okay. Now, this morning when I woke up, about 15 minutes after my alarm had gone off, I was browsing the webs and I saw a review on Instagram of some onion rings. Now, I don't know if you know, my friend Lord, pretty into the old onion rings game. She was running the onion rings. Onion rings worldwide. She was running the Onion Rings. Onion Rings worldwide.

Yeah. And I genuinely this morning went to send that photo to Lord and then realised she doesn't know I exist. Oh, chum. Oh, so you had 15 minutes this morning of real life when you actually thought you were best friends with her. Yes. Wow. A blissful 15 minutes. She were best friends with her. Yes. Wow. A blissful Christmas.

She's going to love this. Yeah. Pretty much. And then just need to wipe my tears with some onion rings. Right. Don't do that.

No. Grease all over the face. Very greasy. Hotel Ponsonby used to be the Belgian beer cafe. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the old post office. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When dinosaurs roamed. Yeah. Maybe. Before that it was empty for a while, wasn't it? Well, it actually used to be a post office, back in the day. Yeah, it was. It. Old post office. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When dinosaurs roamed, maybe. Before that, it was empty for a while, wasn't it? Well, it actually used to be a post office, didn't it, back in the day? Yeah, yeah, it was.

It was. Yeah, post office. Three lamps there. Oh, that was a fun history lesson. It's important to know. Well, I would never have known. Okay, well, so just back to just having plain friends then. Back to plebism, I guess.

What? I don't know. Is that a word? Being a pleb. Oh, right. You're a pleb. But are your friends? You're also just calling, now you're calling your friends plebs.

Yeah, none of them have got Grammys. Right. Raph, I thought Jared had at least two Grammys from his work on a Food Fighters album or something. I don't know. Look, I started the joke without having an end to it. That's pretty much the theme of the show. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Well, a Palmerston North woman had a shock at the weekend.

She went to Kmart to buy some pants, Anko brand pants. That's the Kmart brand. Yeah, she got home and then I don't know if she was like, I might wash these. And she checked the pockets. Or maybe she put them on and then put her hand in her pockets. And this is what she found, Vaughn. Can you see that?

What's that? Some kind of weird bug. Oh, it looks like a larvae. It looks like it's not quite a caterpillar, but not yet a moth. Well, kind of cricket looking, but it's got this weird tail and it's, so it's dead. It's long dead.

It's like so dead, it's like a, just almost a shell of itself. Yeah, right. But she, so she put it on Vic Deals, as you do when you find out some kind of weird species in your. Vic Deals,

but she was in Palmerston North. All encompassing. She just saw that. Close enough. She just saw that. Close enough. She just saw an audience. An audience, a big audience. Yeah, gotcha. And said, what's this? And people are like, I don't know.

And a lot of people saying maybe send that to, what's the MPI? Yeah, right. I always see things, I'm like, what if MPI had liked that? Like I'll see weird stuff that I've never seen before, so I assume nobody's seen before. I said, I should bag that and send it to MPI. But then, do you reckon they just get, open up the mail, and someone's like, what's a spider?

And they just send a spider in a jar or a bag or... Right? Or what's worse, they open the package, it says, what's this spider? But it's empty. You're like, ah, where's the spider? Somewhere in the mail sorting facility. It's small, though, because there they have, it's compared to You're like, ah, where's the spider? Somewhere in the mail sorting facility. It's small though

because there they have compared it to one of those pens, one of those rubbish pens we have here at work. Those are terrible pens. Yeah, so it's quite tiny but it almost looks like it's a bit of like

flower or... It looks like a tiny Pokemon Kakuna. So they've asked the woman to send it to the lab in Christchurch for identification. Right.

So who knows? But I mean, where do came up pants get made? Like Southeast Asia, like Bali or China? That's a very good question. Anko Pants Factory. I'll Google that. I'll let you know. No, that has not told me anything.

That second mentioned the baby factory. They don't want anything to do with that. Where is Anko manufactured? Both appliances are made in China and now barely available in store thanks to the popularity and supply problems thanks to coronavirus. Okay, so that was a problem that Australia was having with Anko products last year. They couldn't get their hands on them quick enough.

Right. Well, yeah, so you'd say China or Southeast Asia. So who knows? But it's dead and we'll keep you posted when those lab results come back. Oh, you know us. Because, you know. You know why it's called ANCO? A-N-K-O, no.

It's an evolution of the existing ANCO products, like ampersand C-O. Yeah. Home and co, kids and co, clothing and co, and active and co. That was there, so it was always ANCO. Right. So they just made And Co Into the word And Co

Right And that all encompasses Everything that Kmart makes now Okay And they changed it to K Because of Kmart Rather than C A-N-C-O

Clever Hey we're all learning Aren't we And we're all better off for it Drop that spicy Knowledge bomb on your auntie Next time she brings you Something from Kmart

Yes And she'll be like Look at you. Did you learn that at school? 7.23, coming up, your chance to win cash. $20,000 at 7 and 8 this morning. And all you've got to do is guess the four-digit code for the box in studio.

Get inside, and that cash is yours. Listen out for the Activator just before 7. All thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow. But next on the show. And Anom. Anom. The app that we hadn't heard of this time yesterday, but was all through the news and was part of this transnational sting

that the New Zealand police and the FBI were involved in yesterday. I think it's just called international, isn't it? No, transnational. What? I'm going to Google the difference between international and transnational as well. I thought you said trans-Tasman or trans-Atlantic. I thought it was just international. Transnational is extending or operating across national borders.

Oh. Well, you're right then. Transnational versus international. Oh, here we go. This has been Googled hundreds of times. As objectives, the difference between international and transnational is that international is of or having to do more than one nation, while transnational is between or beyond national boundary. Like a few, like a handful.

Yeah. Okay, well, this is a wild story. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Yesterday, when was it? Yesterday morning? Yeah. Not quite 24 hours ago, maybe like 7.30 or something, we heard that there was this big transnational police operation happening.

And arrests and raids happening across New Zealand, around the world. And as the day went on, details unfolded. Last night the news had the haul, the police had got some of the vehicles and this massive stash of cash that my kids were like, I've never seen so much money in my life. And I said, and you never will. It's weird when even like you get a $20 note or something, like, cause I never use cash,

but to see like piles of cash. Fifties, hundreds. Who uses all that cash? Oh, criminals. It was wild. Drug dealers. And even like, what are those people thinking driving around in flash cars?

Like the cars they seized. If you're like a sketchy looking drug dealer gang kind of member driving around in like a Bentley. Yeah, like a $200,000 car. I mean, get a Toyota Corolla. A sensible, a nice sensible car. Wagon. Yeah, no one's going to think you're making money. No. Get a nice sensible A sensible car No one's gonna Wagon Yeah no one's gonna think You're making money

No Get a nice sensible wagon That'll go forever And that can also Transport all that money And drugs This is a wild story I think this will be

A movie one day Here's hoping It's gotta be Because apparently So this app That they used Anom Yes

Was used by criminals But it was actually Invented and planted By the FBI. So an Australian computed a good dude and an American computed a good dude were having a drink and they basically came up with this app. The phones that the apps were on were not standard phones.

They didn't do anything apart from this app, which apparently made it super believable to, as it started, an initial Australian drug trafficker, who they gave the phone to, or people who planted in the gang, gave him the phone and said, this is a secure thing. It's like WhatsApp, basically. You know, WhatsApp's

encrypted end-to-end, so this is WhatsApp for criminals. So, you can use this, and no one will be able to trace you. This guy's like, well, okay, but I need other people to use the phones. So you can use this and no one will be able to trace you. This guy's like, well, okay, but I need other people to use the phones. So throughout, through him specifically, they started distributing these phones that had this app on that did nothing apart from, they believed,

end-to-end encryption that they could have contacts for. Yeah. The FBI was monitoring everything the entire time. The stats are absolutely insane. So around the world, there were 12,000 of these encrypted devices. With a nom on it. Used by 300 criminal syndicates. Syndicates.

Yeah. In 100 countries. And the FBI was looking at all of them, millions of messages. Yeah. All of it. Yeah. That is just nuts. So 57 of them were being used in New Zealand.

And the monitoring of the messages sent through it, they were all for criminal needs. No one was like, hey, hey hon, milk on the way home, we're out. Can you pick up a loaf of bread for the kids?

Or want to come around and watch a rugby this weekend. Or they might have been, come around and watch rugby this weekend, but bring that $200,000 you owe our gang. So in Australia, 224 arrests. In New Zealand, what, 35? But there were more happening.

Yeah. It's kind of unfolding and more people connected were getting picked up. $3.7 million in New Zealand alone was seized. 14 vehicles were seized, including a couple of very nice looking Ford Rangers. I know. I saw those on the news. I was like, those are nice. Got an aftermarket kit on them.

Around, well, if you've got all this drug money, you can afford that. You might as well get the aftermarket. Around the world. These stats are insane. 9,000 police were raiding all over the world yesterday at the same time. 800 arrests worldwide.

Eight tons of cocaine. 250 worldwide. Eight tons of cocaine. 250 guns. Eight tons of cocaine? Yes, 250 guns. $48 million in various worldwide currencies and cryptocurrency was seized yesterday. And yeah, 12,000 devices, 300 criminal syndicates in 100 countries.

The best part about seizing cryptocurrencies is it would have been worth like $8 million and then $100 million and then two cents 300 criminal syndicates in 100 countries the best part about seizing cryptocurrencies is it would have been worth like 8 million dollars and then 100 million dollars and then 2 cents and then 50 million dollars and then nothing

and then 16 dollars it would have been bouncing all around the place who gets the money like is that like free is it like the free parking of Monopoly it goes into the middle

and we the taxpayer gets it the next person to land on it yeah like they can upgrade a hospital now or give the nurses just give the nurses I reckon. The next person to land on it gets it. Yeah, like they can upgrade a hospital now? Or give the nurses, just give the nurses a pay rise. I reckon just put it straight to the nurses.

Just give it straight to the nurses. And cash. Just divvy it up at all the staff rooms. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Yeah. Just put it in an envelope, every nurse's name on the front. Give each of the DHBs a Ford Ranger.

Yeah. A C's catamaran. Yeah. For C, ambulances. Yeah. Boat ambulances. I'd like to see a Ford Ranger as an ambulance. You could just put the person straight on the back.

Whiz them through traffic. But yeah, lots of C's. It's insane. And more and more details are coming out about it. Yeah. It'll be a movie one day. Gotta be. Yeah.

You just don't see this kind of Huge scale International International thing happening Yeah Especially all at the same time Yeah Do you think they had to wait To go on American time? You know

You ought to know Like actually know That seven works for us best So we'll go at seven Which Or lunchtime It would have been Their lunchtime

Our seven Because all of our mid Yeah like our mid 6am 5am raids Would have been Lunchtime in America. Yeah, I know.

And you wouldn't want someone else tipping off. Do they get the call on winter? Yeah, well, I'm sure. Okay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, last night, you may have noticed this around 10, 10 p.m. New Zealand time, a lot of websites hit and were down. Trade Me was one of them.

A lot of some people, because, you know, when you ever list something, they're always like, oh, you make it close between like 7 and 9 or 10. Yeah. They're the most popular times. Everyone's sat on their phone looking at their Trade Me purchases. Before they go to sleep. And that's kind of the big time to buy and sell. Well, it was down.

TVNZ On Demand. A lot of news sites in Australia. Amazon, CNN, Reddit, BuzzFeed, The New York Times, PayPal, and Twitch. Spotify as well. Around 10 last night. And this was because Fastly was down, which is a thing, a thingy, a server, networks. Fastly. Something, yeah.

They provide content to all of those sites and services, and they went down. Do they have a power cut at their warehouse? I don't know. They must have restarted. But at 10 past 11 last night, they were back up, so left a few people on the lurch. Right.

Last night. But that's why. But all back to normal. Didn't notice. You didn't notice at all. Can't say I noticed. Can't say. You know, I was in bed.

Yeah, me too. I was asleep. I was well asleep. I was well asleep. So it didn't affect me. If you'd all just gone to bed early, this wouldn't have been a problem. Yeah.

If you were in bed early, not up all night looking at your trade me's and your twitches and listening to the music, you wouldn't have ever noticed. Maybe they should start switching the internet off at nine o'clock. Like a worldwide dad. Mum and dad. That's it. Wi-Fi's off.

You kids are taking a piss. Do you have to turn off the Wi-Fi for your kids? Is that like... Because could you imagine if that was a thing? Like, I mean, we had like the dial-up internet. Yeah. But could you imagine if mum or dad, like as a punishment,

turned off the router or changed the password? That would be horrible. Um, yeah. You don't do that for your kids? I just say get off your computers and they get off their computers. Are they going to sneak their phones when they get phones? Yeah, when they get phones and stuff, sure. But then they'll just go on data, right?

Yeah, I guess so. And then they'll run their data out and then they'll be like, but I can't call you if I get in. Or I can't message you if I'm in a predicament. And I'll be like, God damn it. And I'll buy them more data and then they'll do the same thing the next night. Yeah, you can't win. Or I'll do it like, ugh.

Imagine worse than data, you only had minutes. So you had to call. You had to call someone. Oh, yeah, no, you wouldn't want to talk to someone. I'd be like, ugh. Well, imagine worse than data. You only had minutes. So you had to call. You had to call someone. Oh, yeah, no. You wouldn't want to talk to someone. Oh, God, someone's calling. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. From the dusty ZM think tank, this is the top six. Urgent review has been called for. An urgent review of security at Australia's airports following a report that a motorcycle gang affiliates are working at Qantas' Sydney airport operations and may have recruited criminals to the airline to help import narcotics. There could be up to 150 employees embroiled in this gang infiltration at the airline. The BBC reporting this and also 60 Minutes? Yeah.

Wow, that's crazy. Throughout the ranks. But then, even if you got it on a Qantas plane, say, for example, it was coming here, you had some people working in baggage or whatever, you've still got to get it through our customs, don't you? The drugs dogs.

I don't know how they get in and out of behind the customs. Like surely all the cargo gets looked at as well. Or maybe randomly searched. At what stage though? I mean that's why they want people working in the airports, right? Because they know the processes. And where the weaknesses were. I wonder if any of them

got arrested yesterday. Perhaps. Well the top six signs your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections is today's top six. And number six, they're hiding an ankle monitor underneath their

uniform issue stockings. So they always wear stockings. Yeah. If you can look down and there's a big bulge and it's got a little red flashing light on it,

they probably are being monitored. I actually haven't seen him for a while, but there was a guy at my gym for a while in the afternoons with an ankle bracelet on.

Really? It wasn't just an Apple watch on the ankle. He was getting a bit of calorie ratings there. No, it was a big fat like ankle monitor. Wow. But are you like allowed to leave your house to go to the gym or something? Uh, it might've been a curfewed one where it hits seven o'clock and that's got to be talking to the base.

Yeah, right. And they've had installed at the house to say, yeah, they're here. It's wild. And I just like look at him and I'm like, is it what are you a bit of a white collar? Did you do a bit of fraud? Or is it just a, are you a recidivist drink driver? Like I'm trying to figure him out. I don't know what he's done.

I'll just go up and ask him. Absolutely not. You should be able to scan a QR code with your phone On the outside of their ankle To see what they've done Number five on the list of the top six signs Your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections The flight attendant is wearing sharkies And seems intent on you being too intimidated

To ask for anything You're like, Bing, can I Please get, I go, don't worry Don't worry about it Sorry to have bothered you. Are you looking at me? Can't see through your sharkies. God damn it, sharkies are intimidating.

Number four on the list of the top six signs your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections are their uniform scarf. You know how Qantas wears that scarf. Yep. It's covering a very aggressive swear word throat tattoo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just poking up the top.

Yeah, you can just see like the top of an F, the top of a U, the top of a C. Yeah. You can't see the last letter, but you're assuming you've worked it out. Number three on the list

of the top six signs your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections. The plane has one of those window-mounted police radar detectors. Yes. Slow down, slow down. Everybody play it cool. Everybody play it cool. mounted police radar detectors. Yes. Yeah. Slow down.

Slow down. Everybody play it cool. Everybody play it cool. Number two on the list of the top six signs your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections. The plane just has to make a quick stop off

at a sketchy neighbourhood to drop something off and pick something up. It'll just be real quick. Yeah. We'll just be real quick. We'll be real quick. And number one on the list

of the top six signs your Qantas flight attendant has gang connections are when you ask for a Coke, they say, okay, Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, or, you know, Coke Coke. Coke Coke. Yeah. Because the last one's not complimentary. No. But we do take credit card. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. Oh, what's in the box? The box is in studio and it is your chance, it was revealed yesterday, to win $20,000 all thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow in cinemas July 8 and streaming on Disney Plus with premiere access July 9. Conditions apply. Yesterday we had the clue, it was a puzzle, you put this together Vaughan. Yeah, which microphone do you want me on, this one? Check, check, yeah I. It was a puzzle. You put this together, Vaughan. Yeah.

Which microphone do you want me on? This one? Check, check. Yeah, I'll go on this one. You go on the box, Mike. Yeah, I did. I spent ages at work, and people were like, are you okay? Is everything okay at home?

You're at work way longer than usual. You were finishing the puzzle. I was scared to go home. I wasn't. I was just absolutely puzzling, and it was a seven. It was a seven. So we know from the clues so far that we need a four-digit PIN that is a four-letter word, and there is a seven in there,

which is P-Q-R-S on the keypad. Yes. So it will have a P, Q, an R, or an S in there. And $20,000 could be yours, Zane, if you tell us what that number is. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You've had just a couple of minutes there on hold to think about how you'll spend $20,000?

Yeah, no, pretty sure it'll be 50-50 savings and go and buy something, I guess. Yeah, good. That's good. That's good. It's semi-sensible. Semi-sensible, but you're still having fun. Yeah, exactly.

Of course. All right, well, Zane, we need that four-digit pin. Sensible Semi-sensible But you're still having fun Yeah exactly Of course Alright well Zane we need that Four digit pen Okay So the word is Past And the pen is

Seven two Seven eight Past P-A-S-T Yeah Okay I thought you said Passer

Yeah no Passer When he said Seven eight on the end It would be seven seven On the end Okay So seven two Seven eight Yep That's it That's how we go No, no, no. A pass. When he said 7-8 on the end, it would be 7-7 on the end. So 7-2-7-8.

Yep, that's it. That's how we go. 7-2-7-8. No. Oh, bad luck. Zane, it's not. It's not 7-2-7-8. Pass.

It is not. Add that to the list. You can go to ZM Online and see the guesses that have been made that were wrong. And we're going to give you another chance at 8 o'clock and then again at 12. And then this afternoon with Brian Clint at 4 and 5. But, Zane, it's not all bad news. You've got a double pass to go and see Black Widow. Oh, great.

Sounds good. Thank you. All right. All yours. So every wrong guess as well gets a double pass to Marvel Studios Black Widow. Well, that's our segment. I hope I'm not the only one. It's a segment where

you ring up. Well, we ask you, we asked on Instagram in this situation, said, do you have a habit or something you do that you think nobody else does? You think maybe you're alone in this? Maybe you don't do it in front of people anymore because they think it's weird. Now, normally, there's always been at least one. Sometimes many people relate. You might think you're alone and we might be like, oh, that's unusual, but then heaps of people.

Today, though, Emily joins us and I don't know if we're going to find another person that does this. Emily, good morning. Good morning. Emily, I'm absolutely in the dark about what you do, so please lay it on us. Sometimes I sleep on top of my bed with a blanket so that I don't have to make my bed in the morning. So you sleep on top of, this is how I understood your message into us, you make your bed perfectly. Yes.

And you'll sleep on top of that because you don't want to wreck it. Yes. Mess it up. That is madness, Emily. That is mad. So you sleep on top of the duvet. What's under the duvet?

Like it's made with sheets and everything. Right, okay. This isn't a thing in winter, right? It'd be too cold to do this in winter. I'm a cold sleeper anyway, so I like it when it's cold. Right. So,

is it because you don't have the time or you CBF making the bed in the morning? Sometimes. But why don't you just get into bed then? Sometimes I just find it more comfortable to sleep on top of my bed with my blanket. What kind of blanket are you rocking? It's fluffy.

So it's like a foam ink blanket. But it's not like a duvet. Like I've got my heavy duvet on at the moment. No. And that's just, you get under that and it's just like. My wife will do this, but it's not because she doesn't want to make the bed. It's because she finds the duvet that I like might be too hot for her. So she'll sleep on top.

So sometimes she'll sleep on top. Yeah, but she's. And just under the blanket. She regulates by rather than kicking the duvet off. Yep. Because that's what I do. If it's too hot, I'll kick that down to the end.

She'll sleep on top with the blanket. Yeah, but she's not sleeping on a perfectly made bed. That's crazy because wouldn't you in the morning, you'd have to straighten the bed out anyway. Yeah, but it's better than making my bed in the morning. Really? When you go to the office straightening it out, you might as well be flicking the sheet a couple of times

and pulling a duvet out. How often, okay, so you say you do this sometime. How often When you go to the office training at 8, you might as well be flicking the sheet a couple of times and pulling a duvet out. How often, okay, so you say you do this sometime. How often have you done this lately? For at least the last week. That is so crazy. When did this start? What were the origins of this? You're like, I can't be bothered

making this again tomorrow, so I'm just going to sleep on top. I think one night, it was really late at night, and I just passed out on top of my bed with my tomorrow, so I'm just going to sleep on top. I think one night, it was, like, really late at night, and I just, like, passed out on top of my bed with my blanket, and then I just, like, found that I had much better sleep sleeping on top of my bed. Right. Do you need a mattress topper?

Is that what it was? I had one. Oh, one of them too. Jesus. Oh, my God. How tall is your bed? Okay, so this is the part where we say, okay, well, is Emily alone? Is she the only one in the country that does this?

Who sleeps on top of her bed to avoid having to make it. It's not because of the heat because, as she says, it's winter now and she's doing it. So do you do this? Do you do this in any other aspect of your life? Do you eat off paper plates so you don't have to wash dishes or anything like that? Definitely not, no. Oh yeah, God forbid. All right, well, is Emily alone?

Do you do this or do you know someone that does? Sleep on their bed without messing it up? Yeah. And just use a blanket because you can't be bothered making your bed every morning.

Oh. Weird. 0800-DARLES-AT-HEM 9696 to text them. We'll come back next and see if we can find anybody. Well, Emily thinks she might be the only one that sleeps on a perfectly made bed on top with an additional blanket to save herself

the time of having to make the bed. Now, Emily, you've been doing this a lot lately, even though it's winter. Yes. You'll be happy to make the bed. Now, Emily, you've been doing this a lot lately, even though it's winter. Yes. You'll be happy to know, Emily, you are not the only one that does this. God, no. There are so many text messages.

Lots of people saying, I don't do this, my lazy-ass teenager does. Lots of teenagers do it. Oh, really? Rather than making the bed in the morning, they just fold the blanket they've been sleeping under to the end. I just love being enclosed in my sheets and du morning. They just fold the blanket they've been sleeping under to the end. I just love being enclosed

in my sheets and duvet. I just love it. It's like a comfort thing, I think. Well, Emily, we've got Colleen. Colleen, good morning. You do this. Yes, yes, I do. Oddly enough, when Emily said it,

I was like really surprised that somebody else did it. But I definitely do. And it's really not a temperature thing. Honestly, I'm surprised that more people don't come forward and talk about this. But if you've got depression, it's really difficult sometimes to get up in the morning and do things. So if you have the energy one day to make the bed, sometimes you just curl up in blankets on top rather than make it again. Yeah, right.

So it's made in the morning. It's done. It's one job that you don't have to find the energy to do. Exactly. And then that's also a really good excuse to get lots of comfy little pillows and really cute little curl blankets. You make a nest. You're basically making a nest on the bed.

In the bed. Amazing. Thank you for sharing, Colleen. Aya. Hi. Did I say that right? Aya. Aya.

Aya. Aya. Okay. I would have got an A-H, not a U-H in the phonetic spelling there. You do this? Yeah, I used to do it all of last year while I was at my university walk. So was it the fact that you just didn't want to make the bed every morning? Yeah, part of, yeah.

That was mostly the reason. Okay. Okay. Because people did message in that they have had to have inspections wherever they were. Like, there's a few people texting in from the military. Oh, yeah. Saying their beds had to be perfectly made.

So, that was the reason they did it, is they could jump out of bed, put the blanket in, like, their footlocker at the end of their bed. Yeah. And the bed would be perfectly made like that. And they'd be ready to go. Well, to save yourself, like, okay, yeah, right. The time of making it. Yeah, right. And the beard would be perfectly made like that. And they'd be ready to go. Okay, yeah, right. The time of making it. Yeah, right.

And, you know, people have said there have been places where there's been a beard inspection. So they've done this purely to save on the time for the inspection in the morning. Okay. But not uni halls. They don't run an inspection at the uni halls. No, you don't get inspections in uni halls, do you?

No, not really. I just couldn't be bothered making it while I was there. That also seems to be the other thing. Laziness prevails. Yeah, brilliant. Thanks for your call. Jalyn, you do this as well? Yes, me and my sister do.

But it's only when we have friends over and we don't want to make our bed because we get quite grumpy when the blankets are getting kicked off. So we just sleep on top of blankets and stuff with our friends. Okay, so that's just a sleepover. That's a sleepover. See, I'll have a mid-afternoon nap on top of the bed,

and I'll do that in summer. And I put my hands together over my chest, and apparently it looks like I'm dead. Like I'm in a coffin. That's what I look like when I have my afternoon naps on top of the bed. I look like I'm in state and people are going to, like, file past. One last visit. Emily, is this nice to hear that you're not alone?

It is nice. I thought I would be the only one. So many texts as well. No. It's crazy. My 10-year-old does this every night. He also uses paper plates and disposable cutlery to dodge doing dishes. He also puts handy towels under his plate so he doesn't have to wipe the table down

afterwards. Here's the thing, he's a 10-year-old very reliant on you for these resources. Cut them out of their lives. It seems very wasteful to be giving them that much disposable cutlery. Somebody said, if I'm going away, the last night before I go away, I'll always sleep on top

of the bed because in the morning before I leave the house, I'll go away on holiday or whatever. The last thing I feel like doing is making my bed. Oh, yeah. Someone said, I love a freshly made bed. One time I washed the sheets and got the bed so perfect I slept on the floor that night so I didn't disturb the bed. What's the point? That's what the bed's there for.

That's what the bed is there for. Sheets day, clean sheets day. There's nothing better than slipping in there. Especially if you've dried them, but then given them like five minutes in the dryer just to make them fluff out with that warmth. Anyway, you're definitely not alone. Emily, you're definitely not alone.

Thank you. You don't need to live in shame anymore. Gosh, no. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. There's been a study done And it turns out Safety is sexy

Oh you are Rocketing up the charts of sexiness then So there was a study done And it talked about Driving safety habits I was going to say because bad boys have always Famously had the sex appeal That the

The local OSH regulator, Occupational Safety and Health Inspector, hasn't had. No. Half of American drivers would not date somebody who they consider to be an unsafe driver. Right. So if you're going on a date with someone and they're all over the show, maybe they're speeding, erratic, bad with following distances,

on their phone, they say they wouldn't, yeah, they wouldn't be keen to date them. They wouldn't go further. 18% say they've ended things with a partner because of their driving habits. Wow. That's huge, eh?

To end a relationship because they're that terrible at driving. The survey of drivers revealed 78% agree that the way a person drives says a lot about their personality. True, like courtesy to other drivers? Yep. Yeah. Always on your phone. What does it say about people breaking up with people who are a pain in the ass

when they're a passenger in the car? Because my wife's only, Shardé's only getting worse at being a passenger. She's like, oh, like that. But why doesn't she just drive then? She's exactly. She's entering full-blown mum territory. Like, well, you know when your mum was teaching you to drive

when you were a teenager and that white-knuckle gripping of those things and, oh, this corner goes longer than it feels and slow down. Well, if I ever go home and drive mum around, she'll always be like, it's 50 here. Yeah. The speed limit's 70 along here and it's like you're doing 75. Does she make some outdated speed reference?

Like, my mum will be like, what's the hurry, Possum Bourne? I'm like, mum, Possum Bourne's been dead for nearly 20 years. Is it rally car driver? Yeah. We need a more modern take on it. Yeah. Like, what's the hurry, Lewis Hamilton? Formula One, 60 Formula One driver.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, three out of four people that were studied believe that the way a person takes care of their car also says a lot about what that driver's really like. Messy, like your car, for example, musty. Musty because it's got a rain leak somewhere. No, it doesn't have a rain leak somewhere. It's got hay everywhere. It's messy.

It's actually not bad at the moment on the inside. The outside's a shambles. It's absolutely shambolic. Yeah. The underside of your car's falling away. Because that retread that came off on the motorway that time and it went underneath and it ripped off most of the front bumper,

the bumper's still there, but it's paper thin and I'll drive over those little things that are like a stop when you hit these because you're going too far into the car park. It'll just fold over those, but then when I drive back out, reverse out of them, it goes and like drags it a whole lot and then something's on the ground a bit.

It says a lot about you, doesn't it? I'll take that. All right, well, with Megan away, caught up in this worldwide sting, we're hoping she gets bail in a couple of days. Who knows? Who knows? ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. I'm trying something new.

I've decided to change up deodorants. Anti-perspirant deodorants. What's made you change? Because you've been a Rexona? Yeah, I've been a Rexona man for a long time. I wasn't getting the anti-perspirant-ness of it anymore. I've never... This could be controversial because I know it's a big deodorant, Rexona,

and don't they sponsor the All Blacks and people? Yeah. And people famously that don't sponsor animals because you can't deodorize animals. Yeah, I've never been a fan of the Rexona smellies. Right. Whenever I've borrowed yours in the past, I'm always like. Oh, God, you bitch and whinge. I'm a bitch and whinge.

I borrowed some smellies, I forgot mine. Yeah, I'd rather smell probably like BO than Rexona. So I'm not even going for an aerosol anymore. What? Madness. You'll remember ages ago we were talking about that dollar shave club and how I was about to cancel it because I've got all these razors and I don't get through the razors quick enough. Somebody messaged me saying, before you do, next time you get a box, add on their

deodorant. It's like this deodorant stick. It's not a roll-on. It's that next stuff. What are you in the 80s or something? So it's like this. You twist the stick. It's like lip balm. You twist it. Yeah, like a deodorant stick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Deodorant stick. What do you call that stuff? I mean, deodorant stick sounds

beautifully, but it's kind of like waxy but not waxy. Whenever I was in America pre-pandemic, remember the days when we could travel? And whenever you went into a supermarket or a drugstore, they're big on stick deodorants over there. Huge. I like it.

Nah. I like it a lot. I like it better than spray. But it doesn't have the wetness of a roll-on. I was going to say, it's better than a roll-on because you can put a T-shirt on straight away and it's not wet. The roll-on's wet. This isn't wet. And it's better than because I'm getting better like a speed stick. It's called a speed stick. That's what the deodorant sticks are called.

And so I used the one that came with the Dollar Shave Club and that was good. But then I've just decided, well now that I'm on the speed stick, while I'm doing this, I'm really, you know, like 40s on the horizon. I've just decided to really take some major changes in my life. Yeah. Like deodorant. So you're trialing them all.

Yeah. I've got one. I got a new one yesterday because that one ran out. I had another one. I can't remember the name of it. But I didn't like that as much. So at the moment, the Dollar Shave Club one's out. I had another one. I can't remember the name of it, but I didn't like that as much as, so at the moment, the Dollar Shave Club one's winning.

Okay. But I've got one now called Schmitz. Schmitz. Schmitz. And I got it because that's almost my name. Schmitz. Yeah, right. Schmitz.

And it's, this one smells like lime. It's, it's a lime. Oh, okay. Smell one. So you smell like citrusy and fresh. Cause I don't like the, what I don't like about most male deodorants is they just, I don't know, they just smell all meh.

Musty. Yeah, I'm not a fan of. And not like fresh. This is fresh and lime. Whereas I use the Nivea in the blue can, the dry, I think that is. That's your smell. Because every now and then I'll smell somebody else wearing that and I'll be like, Fletch is here. But he's not. But you not. It's just mine. You wore it forever. You couldn't try my

deodorant. I tried it. I didn't like it. You didn't like it. I didn't like it. Okay. Well, that's good. That's mine. That's yours. And that's the other thing. I don't want people to already get us confused. I don't need to smell like you as well. Yeah. So then people who are visually impaired, they'll smell. Yeah, but I wouldn't want you using my idea.

It'd be too much. No. But I'll get compliments on that one. That's my favourite one. I could never change from that. Yeah. Never. Okay, so you're stuck on that for life.

Now I'm trialling these different ones, and now I'm on these speed sticks, these deodorant sticks. I'm going to go through the whole lot of them. I don't plan to settle until I find a favourite. Are you going to shake up anything else in your life? Look, this is one change that's big enough. What about your soap? Toothpaste. Now, we don't have a specific soap.

You just go any time. We'll just go all over the place. You know, I love that one that really tingles. But Sade doesn't like it. Because it tingles your balls. Oh, my God. It's wild. What was that one again?

We've talked about this heaps. I don't know. Was it tingles your balls. Oh, my God. It's wild. What was that one again? We talked about this heaps. I don't know. Was it like a tea tree and something? Wasn't it lime? A tingly lime? It was wild, man. It was like you washed and then you just waited for it. And then, yeah, there it was.

Your whole body lit up like a Christmas tree. I don't think that a tingly body wash that tingles your balls and the he um, the hain is a good thing. Speak for yourself. Speak for yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed my shower time. Sometimes you've got to feel alive. I've never enjoyed being clean more. Yeah. Than when you're tingling. Yeah. Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Carween at the social media desk. You've been going to a chiropractor. I sure have. What's wrong? What's happened? What's pulled? What's triggered? What's compressed? What's slipped? Even out of a line spine. You know, it's from sitting at a desk all day causes some back issues. You should try standing. This desk is quite low. I'm not sure that would make it better. We can chuck a couple of

apple boxes or apple crates on top of that and get that right up. I see people doing those standing desks, and I wouldn't like that, standing all day. Yeah, but you don't sit all day. Yeah, I do. Look, I'm sitting now. Yeah, but that's not all day. It's all day to me.

It's a few hours. It's your entire work day, but that's not the average person's entire work day. I'd be all about a standing desk. I think if I had an office job, I'd have a Swiss ball for my call. I'd be a Swiss ball person in the office. You'd be a Swiss ball

punisher. And then I'd go reheat my tuna and rice in the microwave. Ah, yeah. The office will always love a tuna. So,

what are you doing at the Cairo? Yeah, so, at the Cairo that I go to, you have to get into a pair of shorts and a gown. Wait, is it shorts you bring from home

or is it Cairo provided shorts? They provide them. Ooh, yuck. Have other people slipped into those? You keep your undies on? Obviously. Okay, just checking, just checking. Who do you take me for?

No, I know, I wondered if it was a chiropractor policy. They're like, here are your chiropractor shorts, but keep your undies on. Do they stipulate that? Do they say keep your undies on? No. There are people wearing their shorts without undies on. Guarantee it.

Because people need to be told. People are dum-dums. They need to be told. It's like the average person's not going to go try on togs and take off their undies to try on their togs, are they? But people do. That's why they need a sign saying if you're trying on these togs or undies, leave your current undies on.

Well, maybe they did tell other people. They just didn't tell me because I didn't look like I would do that. You don't look. You don't come across like a full naked person wearing somebody else's shorts, like from the lost property at PE. So I was in the changing room and getting undressed and I was like, you know what? I don't want to take my sneakers off to take off my jeans.

I'm going to leave them on. You can't take jeans off without taking sneakers off. I was wearing wide jeans. I felt like I could. Yeah, right. Okay. Turns out I hadn't locked the door properly. So as there's only two changing rooms, they're quite busy.

And someone swung open the door as I was standing there, hopping around, trying to get my shoes from stuck in between my jeans. So before when I said you could never get your jeans off without taking your shoes off and you said I had a wide pant on, you already knew the end of the story was going to agree and prove me right, but you stuck to your guns. I kind of admire it. No, I eventually got them off through my jeans.

Yeah. It was just after someone swung in and exposed me to the whole room. Oh, no. Right. So everyone in the chiropractor office saw what was happening. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, no wonder that woman's got a sore back. She tries to take her pants off without removing her shoes first.

She's making everything far more stressful on her back than she needs to be. Yeah. How's the back? It's getting better. Is it? Because you're hunched. It's this desk. Oh, my God.

Look at your posture. Look at your hunch. Thank you you're hunched. It's this desk. Oh my God, look at your posture. Look at your hunch. Thank you so much, guys. Sit up straight now. Do you want us to be those people that constantly remind you of your posture now? No.

Okay. Tough, it's happening. And a constant reminder to everybody, everybody listening, take your shoes off before you try to get your pants off over them,

regardless of how wide a fit the jean is. Even if they're shorts. Sometimes it'll be hopping around. Sometimes I think, here's a challenge. I reckon I could get my shoes through this. Oh, no.

Do you never do that? Well, when I was a kid, maybe I thought this will save me some time. It never saves time. Nah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Oh, what's in the box? Well, let's recap because right now we have $20,000 up for grabs. Yesterday, the box revealing that inside, $20,000 cash.

This is all thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow in cinemas July 8 and streaming on Disney+, with premiere access July 9. Conditions apply now. We know that the four-digit pin that we need is also a four letter word and it has a seven in it because yesterday Vaughan you completed the incredibly cryptic puzzle, sellotaping it all together. Yeah, I went through an entire roll of

sellotape. Seven. So we know there's a seven in there and we know it's a four digit pin that is also a four letter word. Now the guesses that we've had that are incorrect, you can go to ZM online and see all of them that have been made. Carissa joins us. Good morning, Carissa. Hi, good morning.

Alright, so you've been on hold there. Have you just had a quick think about what you're going to do with $20,000 if you win? I've got some bills to pay and we need a new car, so yeah. Lovely, sensible car for them. Lovely, sensible yeah. Yes. I can spin it pretty easily. You've got a lovely, sensible car for that matter. Yeah.

Lovely, sensible. Lovely, sensible. Pay the bills, put a bit in the bank. All right, well, Carissa, we need a four-digit pin from you. I'm going to try 7464. What does that spell? It spells ring. Ring.

Now, I've just got a bit of interest in the background of why you've chosen ring as your four-letter word. Well, it's got the number seven in it and love being the four-letter word. Ring is a symbol of love. Okay. Very interesting. All right, let's put that in. Okay. Seven, four, six, four.

It is not. Never mind. No, it's not that. It didn't spring to life and open for us. It's not that, Carissa. That's all good, thank you. All right, but we will add that four-digit pin and that word to ZM Online's list of incorrect guesses.

Do have a double pass for Marvel Studios' Black Widow for you so you can see it in cinemas. Well done. Awesome, thank you. All right, and another chance coming up at midday. We'll give you chances at four and five. So seven, eight, midday, four o'clock and five o'clock. Your chances to win all the details at ZM Online.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, a man has documented his date on TikTok. This has gone viral because he drove 90 minutes. His backstory, he hadn't been on a date for like two years. This was his first date in two years. One year of it, let's say, was pandemic related. Yeah, and maybe before that there was a long-term serious breakup. So he's like, you know what?

I'm fine. I'm going to get back on the dating bandwagon. I'm going to get on Tinder. And he meets somebody. He chats to them. And they're like, well, let's have a date. But she was 90 miles away. So he is in Edinburgh in Scotland. And he traveled 90 miles to Aberdeen for his first date in two years.

And this was all on TikTok. He documented this. Is it bad? Everything I see on TikTok, I assume, is just people trying to get cut through on TikTok. Like it's a lie. Yeah, I'm very cynical as well. When I see something like, did this even happen?

Yeah, people are like, I know what I'll do. I'll trick people. I think this did happen, though. So he booked a first-class train ticket. He arrived at the restaurant 20 minutes early. And then after waiting for 35 minutes, I realised that his date wasn't turning up. And then he travelled all the way back to Edinburgh from Aberdeen.

Did he hear from her again, or that was that? Out in Dungeon, message saying, sorry about that, I fell off a horse no it's just the story just goes into a lot of yeah responses but yeah just got

basically just got ghosted oh never heard from her again and all these people are just like oh dude

oh I guess because it was his first date in two years yeah and he was really looking forward to it wasn't he

yeah but then again like documented it all on TikTok. Did he eat? By himself. Yeah. Okay, cool. What did he have? Because now I'm interested in the menu. It doesn't go into that. You just would though. You just order something. Yeah, I hate it. You've gone all that way. I'd actually like to go to a restaurant

and eat by myself. Why don't you? It's just an opportunity I get too often. I have enjoyed it when I've been like away with work or doing something and eating by often. I have enjoyed it when I've been like away with work or doing something and eating by myself. I quite like it. Right. It's because you don't have screaming kids.

Well, no, it's not even the kids. It's just, I don't know. There's something about doing, it's like going to the movies by yourself. So if you get stood up, just pretend you were never meant to be there with somebody else anyway and just do it by yourself. But what if you did that thing where- Unless it's tandem biking. That's a bit sad. You could tell them there was a

booking error. Yeah, or you get to the restaurant and you say, oh yeah, they're coming soon. And then they put a glass of water down. Yeah. And then you have to go, oh, they never turn up. Then I'd order two dishes and eat theirs as well. And it was under the guise of somebody else turning up. But they were never coming. I just wanted two meals.

No, people would look. It would be horrible. Have a little candle at dinner by myself. I just wanted two meals. No, people would look. It would be horrible. Have a little candle at dinner by myself, treat myself to two mains. I'm not against eating by yourself or going to the movies by yourself, but not when you're ordering two mains and it looks like you're waiting. And you're constantly looking.

That'd be him. I'd be looking around for them as well and then I'd finish mine and then just put the plate on top of mine and finish theirs as well. So I thought we could ask this morning and I would love to know, have you ever been stood up on a date?

Like, this guy went 90 miles on a train, but have you ever, like, because, you know, if you're in, like, a town in New Zealand, and you put your Tinder or Bumble or whatever radius on, like, Max K's, you're going to get people from the other town over, right? So there'd be people driving all the time for dates. But has anybody ever been stood up? When they got there? Or you planned to meet and it was a weekend away

the first time you met and then they just didn't show up. So they freaked out maybe? Surely, yeah, you freaked out or they had a girlfriend already or

boyfriend. Thought about that. Yeah. I don't know, but yeah, 0800-DARLS-IT-M I'd love to hear some stories. Has this ever happened to you

or you know of it happening? Has this ever happened to you? Or you know of it happening? Have you ever been stood up? So a guy has gone viral on TikTok because he took a train 90 minutes for a Tinder date and she didn't show up. So he had to eat at the restaurant himself and then he just trained home. Doesn't sound that bad. So, well, he got dinner out of it, I guess. Got a meal.

Lovely first class train ticket too. That's not skimping on economy. He probably got to put his feet up. Yeah. Bit of leg room. Maybe Wi-Fi. So we want to know when you've been stood up on a date. Maybe you've organised a date on Tinder, Bumble, whatever,

and you've gone and they just, maybe they just, because I guess it is nerve wracking. Yeah. You know, you're meeting a stranger. You've maybe only chatted a little bit. And then last minute you're like, nah, can't do this I'll just block them and never talk to them again We asked this on Instagram and got some replies

Somebody said, I'll leave all of these people anonymous We met through Tinder offered me a trip to Queenstown, then didn't show up. Now at what stage did they not show up? I'd love to know Like, did they not show up to the airport yet you could still go to Queenstown.

Or did they say, I'll meet you in Queenstown. So you got to Queenstown. Then they didn't show up. But if they've paid for it, then who cares? Sailor V. Yeah. You're in Queenstown. Would have gone to Queenstown.

Yeah. Drove to Tauranga from Hamilton to meet a guy I'd been speaking to. And he stood me up. So that's a trip over the Kaimo Ranges. Oh, what a waste. Just go get a Copenhagen cone. I'd probably call it quits. Yeah, yeah. Maybe some fish and chips on the beach Ranges. Oh, what a waste. Just go get a Copenhagen cone and call it quits. Yeah, yeah.

Maybe some fish and chips on the beach. Yep. Just eat it by yourself. Not sad at all. Not sad at all. I tell you what, if you eat fish and chips down on that beach, I tell you, you'll have lots of friends. Seagulls.

Seagulls. But friends. Is that sad though? This is my love life. Seagulls and fish and chips. Yeah. No? That sounds great again.

Kate messaged saying, I got stood up at a restaurant. I stayed and had the best solo four-course dinner complete with matching wines. Oh, yum. There you go. Yeah, do it. Not all is lost. Treat yourself.

All right, let's take some calls. Anonymous. Oh, you okay? Yeah, just choked there on some mandarin juice. Anonymous. Hello. Hello. You got stood up on a date. Oh, you okay? Yeah, just choked there on some mandarin juice. Anonymous? Hello? Hello. You got stood up on a date.

I got stood up on a date once, and I had an hour drive into the city to take the date. And when I realised that I had been stood up, I had to do the smoke bomb out of there because it was my favourite bar in the city and pretend like I hadn't been stood up, which was, you know, stink, but okay. But then I got outside and realised I'd left my sunnies inside.

So then I threw the walk of shame back in, get the sunnies, and he's like, hey, yeah, you know what. I reckon bar staff would see the most awkward first dates and stand-ups all the time. Yeah, that was a shining moment in my day. Yeah. Yeah. And did you ever, like, hit them up and say,

why did you stand me up? I drove all that way. No, I just didn't bother. Like, why waste any more of my time eating a G? I just want to know, though. Me too. I want to know, like, what happened. I'd ask for a rebate of petrol.

Yes, but also, someone who leaves you alone in a bar without any notification is probably just going to ghost you anyway. Yes, that's true. I also will point you out, Anonymous, you can apply to get a refund for the date. This is not the segment of the show, though. Okay. That could be open to a petrol rebate. Oh, yes, that's true.

Just thinking about that refunds your date on the show. Thank you for your call, Anonymous. And when you ring us back, lie and say you lost your sunnies and add that to the total as well. Why not? I won't remember. No, defraud the system. That'll eat into our budget. I won't stand for fraud on the show. Molly joins us. Molly, you

got stood up on a date. Yes, I did. My date was my first date trying it out again back with my ex trying to get back together after being together for two years and then split for a month. I didn't want to break up and so he said,

okay, we'll go on a date. We'll try things again. Turns out he never wanted to try things again. He just wanted to embarrass me. So he left me in the cafe for an hour and kept texting saying, I'm almost there. Oh, this traffic. Oh, I got hit by a cat or like just random stuff. Oh, no.

He probably meant to write car, got hit by a car, but it all occurred to him. Yeah, probably. That happens. Yeah, he never wanted to get back together. He just wanted to embarrass me. That is so. Was that the lesson you needed in this relationship though?

Absolutely. Yeah, good, good, good. Yeah, good. It might have cost you two hours, but it sounds like it was a sound investment to save you

the rest of your life. Exactly. From then on, I definitely didn't want to get back to them. Good. All right, Molly, thanks for sharing

us some messages in. Somebody else messaged back to us when we asked on Instagram and said, I waited at dinner for 35 minutes. I text the guy.

He said, I've been stopped by the police, so I'm just going to go home. But I was already at the restaurant. What a lame excuse. Yeah. That's not real, right?

That's a terrible excuse. Why did the police stop, put them off so badly that they decided to go home? Yeah. Unless it was a drink driving stop and they'd been caught drink driving so they had no choice but to be taken home and wait their date in court.

Someone said, I booked a table at a classy restaurant for dinner with my partner at the time who had been with for nearly two years. I was going to propose and she never showed up. I didn't even hear from her again. And I found out from a mutual friend that she had ditched the dinner date

to be with some other guy that she'd been seeing for a few months. It was a pretty painful experience, but in the end it worked out because now I'm with the girl of my dreams. Oh, that's nice. And do you think he used that ring on her? I mean, you've already paid for it.

Yeah. Definitely, you know, it seems a waste. Flesh fawner Megan, the podcast, ZM. Just a quick update. Guy who was going to propose to her partner of two years in the fancy restaurant, she never showed up. We just talked about it just moments ago. And you said,

would he have pocketed the ring and used it for the now, the woman he's with, who he describes as the girl of his dreams. He's replied on text, BTW, which is that Korean pop, K-pop band.

Yeah, BTW. BTW said, no, I flushed the ring in the restaurant toilet that night before leaving no at least sell it but I want to know

how why did you flush it at the restaurant because you said you found out through a mutual friend who I'm guessing but she didn't show up

was later but you don't flush a ring something may have happened to your betrothed well you imagine she's like oh sorry

traffic I had a traffic accident yeah yeah I got sideswiped by a locking truck yeah I passed that What happened to your betrothed? Well, you imagine she's like, oh, sorry, traffic. I had a traffic accident. Yeah, yeah. It's like, um. I got sideswiped by a locking truck. Yeah. I passed that because of Final Destination. I didn't want to be stuck behind it.

But it turned out being in front of it was just as bad. It sounds like there was an inkling. So, flushed. Here's the thing. Here's my advice. Yep. And I believe this is sage advice. Okay.

If you've got an inkling, don't propose. But it makes it better. That's just my, what? It doesn't. It won't. Right, okay. Let me tell you. You won't fix an inkling with a proposal.

Or a baby. Yeah, no, famously they don't work either. All right, it's time for fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Happy International Rose Day. Oh, happy International Rose Day. Yeah, yeah. Now, there's different Rose Days around the world.

New Zealand Rose Day is Friday the 5th of February. American National Rosé Day is the 12th of June, but it is today that is recognised as International Rosé Day. Why does Rosé need so many days of different territories? Because people like Rosé. They do. And mostly it's summer

in all of these territories, right? We have ours in summer. Yeah, and America has theirs in summer. And coincidentally, we have the next day off. That's a public holiday, so you can get a little craze on some rose. I love a froze. Is it Froze Day as well, or does it have its own day?

That would be for international. Well, I don't know. Give that a quick Google. It might be a different day for international Froze Day. But today's fact of the day, I just thought I'd spit a few facts about Rose.

Step six. That's in New Zealand, is it? Oh, no, that's Frozen Yogurt Day. That's International Frozen Yogurt Day. We can't have

International Frozen Yogurt Day after International Rose Day the very next day. Because if you've gone overboard on Rose, you're not, what, really?

Frozen Yogurt? It would make me feel like everything in my stomach was curdling. I'd go a Frozen Yog over a frosé. I'm not a huge rosé person, but I know... No, that's Feb 6th. This is International...

It's Waitangi Day. Frog Day. Frog Day? Frosé... No, the frozen day. I don't think there is a frosé day. Well, let's... I really disagree.

There should be a day. Today's fact of the day about rosé, I've got a few of them, but it was the first wine ever created. 7,000 BC. Really? Rosé was the first wine ever created. Red wine and white wines came a few thousand years later, but Rosé technically the first wine was a Rosé.

Wow. Yeah. Rosé gets its pink color from the fact that the skin is left to sit intact with the crushed grape for a while. The longer it sits, the darker the pink colour will be. The skin is removed either after a few hours or up to three days later. Yeah, right. Whereas other wines remove their skin quicker.

So 700 BC. 7,000 BC. 7,000 BC. 7,000 BC. 7,000 BC. The Egyptians. When were people bringing red wine and white wine to like a BYO? Like later. A few thousand years later.

So still BC. Okay. Before Christmas. Okay. BYO BC. BYO BC. Okay, good. Definitely.

And another thing about rosé, it's not meant to be aged. So if you're like, oh, that was a great vintage for rosé, it's not meant to be aged. So if you're like, oh, that was a great vintage for rosé from 2004. You don't know anything. It's probably gone, yeah. Okay. It should be consumed within two to three years of its initial release. Okay.

So there you go. That's just some rosé facts. Yeah, imagine being sick. Because I don't have anything. Like, I've got a couple of bottles of wine, but I just, I don't even look at the dates. I'm not like, that's from ages ago. I just, I don't even look at the dates. I'm not like, that's from ages ago. Right. Because those ones are real expensive at the supermarket. Yeah.

Just get the $16 to $18 ones that are down from $26. Yeah. And that's always a good vintage to me. Yeah. Don't get me wrong, it would have been nice to raid Hitler's Eagle Nest at the end of World War II and grab yourself a couple of bottles of Hitler vintage. Yeah, right.

But those guys were just happy that the war was over and they drank it all, not knowing that they were possibly sitting on a fairly sound investment. If they could just get those home without drinking them. Yeah, right. I've got a red wine from each of the years my daughters were born. Okay. Like a nice red wine. Like a cask

from a 2012 and 2014 okay I know in a bottle okay in a bottle and one in a tetra pack was a yeah

cardboard box great full of wine without the silver thing to use as a pillow after you've drunk it all are you going to open it at their 21st or something

something like that okay and look it's pure coincidence we just happened to have two nice bottles of red wine and I was checking them once. I was like, oh my God, we should tell people going ahead we bought these to celebrate the birth of our beautiful children.

And Sade's like, why does everything need to be a lie with you? Why does everything need to be a story and a lie and fabrication? And I said, well, it's just like that time that I rescued those animals using my helicopter license. It's just what I do. It's what you do, yeah. And then she called me out for that being a lie too, but she wasn't even there, so she wouldn't even know.

Don't ask anybody else because nobody else was there. I did it all by myself. So today's fact of the day is it is International Rose Day. So please have a glass and shit chin chin. Fact of the day day day day day so this is a report out of australia and I think because we're neighbours and we're very similar cultures, aren't we? We're very similar people, ways of living. I wonder if this would be the same here.

This is a report. I mean, there are differences. They call a chilli bin an esky, for example. Yeah, and they're more arrogant, aren't they? They're more arrogant. Yeah, there's not as much tall poppy. Yeah, we're a bit more low. There's a bit, but we're a bit more play it down,

a bit more play it up. Well, this is a bit more low. I think there's a bit, but we're a bit more play it down, a bit more play it up. Well, this is a report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Dating and romance scams cause the second most financial harm. $38.9 million were lost to dating and romance scams in the last year. The most money, though, was lost to investment scams. $328 million. That's insane, right? Investment scams.

Now, this is the most amazing part for people listening. You would think, who would lose out the most to romance scams? Old people. Old people, like boomers, older than boomers. Boomer boomers.

Yeah. But, and that sucks because they're preying on people who have maybe Lost the loved one That they've had their whole life Yeah Exactly

Insecure people And they're cheating them Out of like their retirement Yeah And money that they need To retire on And often through technology That they're not overly familiar with

Yeah But In Australia Young people Between 25 and 34 Lost the most money To romance scams online. Isn't that insane?

So there are several ways. So they lost $7.3 million last year in Australia. And how much was the total for romance scams? 38. And they lost seven of it. Yep. So, I mean, there's still like, obviously there's a lot of older people still losing money.

Yeah, yeah. But you'd say that would be your Gen Xers and Millennials, right? No, Gen Zers and Millennials. Yeah. Between them. I don't have another breakdown. So a lot of the scams are for crypto, like investment. Like they'll meet you on a dating app and be like, you should invest in this, cryptocurrency.

Oh, so that falls under a romance scam rather than an investment scam. Because they're like, oh, you on a dating app and be like you should invest in this cryptocurrency. So that falls under a romance scam rather than an investment scam because they're like oh you should try this even if it's like a hundred bucks you just have to scam a lot of people out of a hundred bucks and you've made a lot of money another one is celebrity endorsement scams

where they use an image and personal characteristics of a celeb to get you investing or buying something. That's not something I would have thought that age group would have fallen for. Again, an older in demographic. Same. But yeah, be careful out there. If there's, you know, someone hot on a dating app

offering you cryptocurrency or anything to buy or just stay clear. But also, again, another reason to feel sorry for hot people. Yeah. You know, they've got it pretty rough out there. They do, they do. Because they're hot, but their tastes maybe lean towards someone who's not as hot or maybe they don't see themselves as hot and they match with you on a dating app and they're like,

hey, handsome, and you're like, oh, here we go. The scam is back. And they're like, no, I'm just hot. I think you're attractive. Yeah, all right. Take my money and get out of here. Imagine how many people have been blocked because people are like, no, you're scamming me. Too hot.

You're too hot for me. Yeah. God, thank God I got hooked up before this online thing. Oh, you mentioned me out there? People would have thought I was catfish. It would have been nice. They'd be like, you can't really look like that. You can't want me.

Oh, my God. Look at you. Have you looked in a mirror lately? I'd be like, I do. look like that You can't want me Look at you Oh my god look at you Have you looked in a mirror lately I'd be like I do Yeah I'm just Yeah

I just It's charity Yeah Yeah Makes me feel a bit better Us tens have to You know lower ourselves Yeah yeah yeah

To get a six or a seven We do what we can Yeah You know Every point below me That you are Yup That's the equivalent

Of a month's worth of charity You know Yeah Exactly So a ten like me A few six, you've done a year of charity. Well, hey, millions of dollars in Australia lost out, and young people are falling for it, so be careful. Don't give anybody online money, okay?

That's the rule. Good rule. Unless they're hot. Oh, no, wait, this is how this starts, right? Or unless you're buying something, then you have to give them money, otherwise they won't send you the thing you're buying. But no, that's the thing. Okay, you stay offline as well.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Now you've got sore hands today because you've touched something hot. Haven't you, dum-dum? So, yes, I was yesterday. I was 40. How old am I? 41. 41 years old when I learnt that you cannot microwave

beeswax. What are these? Beeswax paper? Beeswax wraps. Beeswax wraps. Yes. Because, you know, if I reheat something, I would previously always use glad wrap.

And then that's bad. What? In the microwave. You know, if you cover it like a soup or something. What do you mean? No. Otherwise it explodes. You don't have a glad wrap in the microwave either. Yes, you do. No.. Otherwise it explodes. You don't have a Gladwrap in the microwave either.

Yes, you do. No. Yes, you can. You can use a paper towel. Nah. You pop a paper towel over the top. Gladwrap's fine. Just quick check.

Do you think microwaving Gladwrap's fine? Where across the board do we sit on microwaving Gladwrap? Nah. On top of food. Nah. It's fine to cover a thing. Is it? It can be.

I'm not microwaving. I'm not. No. What are you talking about? It can be glad wrap. I'm not microwaving glad wrap. I've never microwaved glad wrap. That seems like madness.

Don't you have to leave a hole? Yeah, you have to puncture it with a fork. Yeah, but so the USDA. You're putting microwave. You're putting plastic into a microwave. And you double fold it over so that when it expands, it's not too tight. So you've got to leave a bit of loose, flappy

bit of Glad Wrap. And you can poke a hole in it as well. Wait, so this isn't something that's been in the fridge with Glad Wrap over it. If it was out of a can, for example, because you said so. You would especially get some Glad Wrap out. Maybe, if I was going to put it in the fridge. But that's why I got these beeswax paper wrap things.

For the environment. But just, I have Googled the USDA, what's that, the US Department of Agriculture? I don't know. Why are they in charge of plastic wrap? Well, they don't want it all on their farms. They say it is safe to go in the microwave, as long as it's labelled microwave safe. And that the plastic doesn't touch the food. Is it labelled microwave safe?

The one you get? Yeah, it is. It is. It's just Glad Wrap. It's fine. I've used it for years in the microwave to cover food bowls. This is a thing. But anyway, I'm like, well, that's bad because dolphins eat it and choke on it

when you flush it down the toilet and it goes to the sea. I'm assuming that's how it works. That's how you get rid of all your Glad Wrap. And so I'm like, well, I'm going to be environmentally conscious and buy one of these. Beeswax wraps. Beeswax wraps. And those are amazing. The kids have got them for school.

I have to wash them. But you can't wash them with really hot water because it washes the wax off. Yeah. It slowly deteriorates the wax. A warm water. Warm, not too soapy. Yeah. And I love the smell of them.

They're cool and they fold and they go over the bowl like really tight and nice. Yeah. And so I was like, well, I had some leftovers and I was like, well, I'll just chuck it in the microwave. What could go wrong? Well, everything. Because I took off the wax paper, and then all over my hands got covered in wax, and literally had to spend, like, five minutes

scraping it all off my fingers. Was it as bad as that time you got waxed all over your hands from that kinky candle play? Because remember you... That hasn't happened. No, you did. You were dripping onto your own nipples for the enjoyment of the crowd.

I would never waste one of my nice Akoya candles on that. Oh, not Akoya. A national candle. One of those ones, the long, thin, white ones, purely for a power cut. A national candle. No, I'm not into that. You might be, but I'm not. I'm not wasting my pine Christmas

Koya candle on that shenanigans. Right. Listen, there's a little aisle up a French pair and just drip a bit on the nip. Why not? Live a little, right? Yeah, live a little. It's Friday night, baby. If a Koya want to be dragged into that. It's Friday night and I'm feeling right. I'm gonna get the candle light and I'm gonna drip it I'm going to get the candle light and I'm going to drop it on my nip.

Okay. Now be careful with your acquaier. Light, wait until a little bit of wax is ready and then tip on the nip because the glass container can get very hot to the touch. Maybe get an oven mitt if you've got a real full acquaier and you want to get that wax all over your nip. Again, that's not for everybody.

Somebody's skin's too sensitive. Anyway, so I end up with all this wax get that wax all over your nip. Again, that's not for everybody. Somebody skins too sensitive. I don't know what you're into. Anyway, so I end up with all this wax and not only all over my hands, but it's also in my food. I can see it stripped down from the wrapper because it's melted. Right, so you can see it in this, but in the Gladwrap it was just silently raining toxic chemicals

onto your food for hundreds of years. Mate, I've been fine using Gladwrap in the microwave for years. How do you know you're fine? You don't know what's happening on the inside. I'm fine at the moment. I'm living a great life. I'm happy. Right.

Until I one day drop dead of plastic poisoning. I don't know. And they cut you open and they're like, oh, yes, this will be it. And it's just this entire roll of Glad Wrap somehow reformed in your stomach with the cardboard inside and everything. But I had to chuck out that beeswax wrap because it had gone all manky. Yeah. Basically, the microwave had melted all the wax out of it.

Yeah, gotcha, gotcha. So I was like, well, this is gone. So those can't be microwaved. That's interesting to know. I didn't know that. I didn't know that you couldn't microwave those. I would have thought you could, but you can't because it drips in your food. Yeah.

So there you go. I've done that and learnt the hard way so you don't have to. Right. So I'm going back to plastic. No. Go back. Just put a saucer on top of it. Put an upside down.

If it's a bowl, put an upside down saucer on top. A plate. Okay. And it'll kind of let it out because it'll be like bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble. But it'll stop it from exploding all over the top. Or just a paper towel. Paper towel. Paper towel's the way to go.

Paper towel over the top. Is that when the paper towels catch on. Paper towel's the way to go. Paper towel over the top. Is that when the paper towels catch on fire? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's in the oven. That's the oven.