ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - April 12 2019

Episode Date: April 11, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Friday. This is the last. No, it's not. Because technically Monday's a weekday. I'm just thinking this is the last weekday before Game of Thrones. Oh, yeah, because a lot of people will have to go to work on Monday. The whole... I tell you what, you're going to have to stay offline. Stay off the internet that afternoon.

From lunchtime. Yeah, lunchtime. About one o'clock here in New Zealand time we get that. And we've got a long weekend too next week. Easter next Thursday. Yay. Yes. All right.

On the show today, maths. Married at first sight. W, next Thursday. Yay. Yes. All right. On the show today, maths. Married at first sight. Wrapped up. And you've been all over the season, haven't you? Sure have. And last night was a jewel, say. It was lit. Innes.

I saw, when I was on my way to bed, I saw Innes crying on the telly. Yeah, it was really weird. She recognised what a see you next Tuesday she's been, isn't she? Yeah, because for like 10 weeks we've been like, no, Innes, we don't like you. And then last night she started crying and everyone was like, aww, Innes. No, but when did she jump to, um... Nah, I've been at a party where the bitch starts

crying. You've got to stay strong. No, but she defended Elizabeth too and it was like, aww, okay. Yeah. She is one of the longest serving queens. I can see why she defended her. So joining us on the phone this morning from Married at First Sight. Mal, Melissa. What's he laughing?

He's just going to remember Dracula. Yeah. All right, you lot. Listen up. It's story time. All right. Three news headlines for story time. All right, three news headlines for story time. As always, unusual, quirky, odd news stories. I want to make and pick one of the following three headlines.

Headline one, photo shoot from the grave. Headline two, identical twins living in hell. Or identical twin, I should say, living in hell. And headline three, YouTuber jumps a shark. I do think a twin living in hell interests me. Okay. YouTuber jumps a shark. So jumping

the shark means you've like... It's based off an episode of a TV show called Happy Days. Did you know the origin of the phrase jumping a shark? Literally at the end of one of the origin of the phrase happy? Jumping the shark? Literally at the end of one of the seasons, the Fonz, the cool guy in the leather jacket like you're wearing today, Megan, he jumps a shark in a tank on his motorbike. And everyone's like, well, what do you do now?

What do you do after that? And so jumping the shark became a phrase for when you've done something so extravagant, people are like, well, you've kind of jumped the shark. Yeah, like there's no way you can go to next. Oh. Yeah've kind of jumped the shark. Yeah, like there's nowhere you can go to next. Oh. Yeah, kind of thing. Okay. Yeah.

Do we want that one? What was story number one? Photo shoot from the grave. Oh. Oh. YouTuber jumps the shark. Which YouTuber though? I don't know.

Some Logan Paul, is it? I don't know this YouTuber. Is the photo shoot to do with someone who took photos next to their father's grave? Yes. Naked? But dug him up. Yeah. Oh, wait, is that him?

Wait, is the naked person their father? No, they're the naked person. The father is the skeleton next to him. Yeah. Why are they naked? That's visual. Well, I mean, he's dead, so he's naked. Oh, I don't know.

It's a skeleton. Yeah, but has the skeleton got a suit on? No. Then he's naked. He's naked. A naked skeleton. Yeah. All right.

Well, you want the YouTuber jumps the shark? Yes. We go to the UK now, and Chris Monroe is the man behind popular channel skeleton. Yeah. All right. Well, you want the YouTuber jumps the shark? Yes. We go to the UK now and Chris Munro is the man behind popular channel Prank Invasion. Prank Invasion.

Prank Owl Invasion. I don't know how many... Why is he on Owl Invasion? That should be Invasion. I don't know. Anyway, he has posted a video. I'm going to show you the video.

I'm just going to explain what you're seeing there, Megan. Born? Someone having a massive pash with somebody. That's a guy and a girl pashing. Oh, she doesn't look too happy, does she? She tried to stop. He grabbed her head and kissed her again. And they're back at it.

They're back at it. But neither party looks begrudgingly there. That's because they're brother and sister. What? Yeah. Okay, well, he seemed into it. She didn't. Makes me a little bit sick.

I know, yeah. That's why. Yeah. Why? Because he wanted hits. Why did he do that? What's his explanation? Yeah, I don't know

There's so many things in life where you're just like What would my mum and dad say? It's had 3.2 million views So apparently he said that She is my real half-sister But she's not full blood But she is half Still, not wrong

Still related to you Apparently She's DNA full blood, but she is half. Still, not wrong. Not right. He's still related to you. Yeah, I know. Apparently. She had DNA. Apparently he says in the video, you asked for this. Like, before they kiss, he's like, you asked for this. Who did?

My viewers want this. And people are like, mate, I've been following you for ages and I've scrolled through all your videos. I've never seen. Anyone ask for that. Yeah. Anybody ask you To pass your sister Why is she on board?

I don't know So this is a 5 minute 46 second long video I'm 2 minutes into it No passing of sister Oh the sister's just appeared At 2 minutes 20

Weird Yeah They're talking And then yeah They just get into it That's weird A lot of YouTubers Go down this way

Don't they Like they They have these Huge followings And they just feel This constant I guess you've got to Do the next big thing

I don't even know What to say I know It's just weird I mean yeah We're getting ready For Game of Thrones Maybe

Is that it? I don't know. Yeah. She looks like she's not into it. And halfway through, she's like, I shouldn't have done this. She should have stuck with her gut on that one. Yeah, yeah. Always trust your gut.

Always trust your gut. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Should I be kissing my brother on a video when he's got 3.79 million YouTube subscribers? Oh, my God. No, I shouldn't. You can't go back from that. You think about how much money would he have made just from that video alone?

Well, I hope she got a cut. Kissing his sister. I hope she got a cut, because that would literally be thousands, right? If you're getting millions of views. Yeah. Tens of thousands of dollars? Yeah.

Just for kissing your sister? Oh, yuck. I wouldn't kiss my brother for tens of thousands. I don't think I'd do it for a million. Maybe a billion. Maybe a billion. Maybe a billion. Everything's got a price. Everything's got a price.

He does a lot of kissing. I'm just looking at his other videos. Now he's passing, like, rogue random people's mums in car parks. Is this his thing? Kissing. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what's going on with this world,

but I'm... How much closer are we to Mars? I'll go to Mars. The past few weeks, we just need to sit down and look at ourselves. Yeah. Maybe we send them to Mars. Why, you, mate, I tell you, there's some Martians up there that you can kiss for great amounts of hits.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. If you like to watch sport Sport And you've been using your parents SkyGuy account Are you just talking about me? Yeah I'm basically targeting you with this one Right Then the fan pass option is becoming a little bit more

Achievable If you haven't heard Sky Were literally hemorrhaging people Who were subscribed to Sky TV. And the old CEO's gone and this new guy's come in and his name's Martin and he's like, why is that? Why is that? Why is that? It seems like he's just kind of

questioning everything they've been doing. Rather than when they started questioning this a few years ago when people started like unsubscribing in their tens of thousands. It's been so expensive for so long. Because I remember I used to get, if you wanted to watch like a cricket match, it was like $10 and you could do it on Apple TV, literally just pay and it would stream on Apple TV. Yeah.

And it was amazing. And then they were like, then they put it up to like $100 a month. So yeah, it was $100 a month for FanPass. That's just your online version. That's gone back down now to $59 a month. Wow. See, that's a bit better. A bit better. But you've got to be, to me, you've got to be watching a lot down now to $59 a month. See, that's a bit better. But to me, you've got to be watching

a lot of sport for $60 a month because Netflix, what's Netflix? It's a comparative entertainment option online. What's Netflix? $30 a month? No, it's $13, $14, isn't it? Yeah, $14 for multiple screens. And there's endless amount of stuff on there, not just sport.

But if you pay for six months at a time, it goes down to $39 a month. And I mean, I'm not a huge sports watcher. I understand some people would rather watch sports all weekend than scripted drama or Netflix or crime documentaries. Documentaries? Yep. And this is basically because Sparks come in

with a Spark Sport package, which if you go through Spark, you can stream things. They've already got the Formula One, English Premier League later this year, and the Rugby World Cup for 2019. That's right. That's later this year, isn't it, in Japan? It's weird because that's why with this Israel Folau thing,

people are like, that's a World Cup year. I was like, is it? And I feel like we just had one. Yeah. But yeah, later on this year is the World Cup. So, they're trying to make that

cheaper and more affordable to people. Probably still a bit more than what I'd pay. Yeah, I'll just keep using mum and dad's. Mum and dad's one. Yeah. Happily, bleeding them out

soon as they're paying for the sports package on their sky. Yeah, I mean, I could probably chip in some, but... I mean, you're not paying... They haven't asked. You're leeching of your parents' Netflix.

Yeah, the whole family is. It's not just me. It's my brother too. But that's why they can never watch anything. All the screens are taken up. You get a nasty text if one of the screens, they can't watch it. So I just text back and be like, well, you can always update. Didn't you ask her the other day when she was in

making a casserole if you could add another account yeah no I asked her if she sees the payments going out because I thought I'd just add it

while she wasn't looking and she's like no I do see them also how my parents are a couple of years off but Sade's dad's up at the moment

at our house and he was talking about his pension last night it's so weird now that our parents are getting to the age where they talk about their pension yeah it's when you're a kid if you heard about the pension last night. It's so weird now that our parents, they get into the age where they talk about their pension.

Yeah. It's when you're a kid, if you heard about the pension, you're like, oh. Oh, I feel so old. No, they're your parents, and you're like, oh, you're old. But then you're next, aren't you?

It's depressing, actually. More depressing than the fact is, when we get there, there's probably not going to be a pension. Because they won't be able to afford to have everybody on the pension. So, yeah. Shit, I'm sorry, guys. I not going to be a pension because they won't be able to afford to have everybody on the pension. So, yeah.

Shit, I'm sorry, guys. I really took this down a dark path of a bleak future financially for everybody. Sorry, sorry. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Our World. It's a documentary on Netflix. It has caused some animal lovers

some distress. Oh, it's a hard watch when those walruses are, like, tumbling off the cliff, splatting at the bottom, splattering. That's episode two, and that is the one that everyone's brought to the attention of Netflix, and they're like, hey, this is really full on, this is making me mad, sad, horrendous, why aren't they stepping in, they should have helped the walruses.

The bit on the walruses was horrendous to watch, everyone's tagging in Netflix being like, where was the warning? You said the crew watching this on the boat or making this were upset as well. Oh, you can watch the, there's, Netflix have released the footage. I think it's on their Facebook account

and their YouTube account. They show what the crew were going through filming the walruses. Yeah. The wal-ry? Wal-ruses. Wal-ruses. Yeah. The walri? Walruses? Walruses.

Walri. Well, yeah, I don't think they expected the response they got because maybe it was animals and I don't know, but we definitely don't want to see animals hurt themselves or get hurt. And the reason they're up there on these cliffs is because the sea ice has melted. And that's how it falls. And that's where they would rest. They would go fishing.

They would come up. They would rest, go back down, come back up. But due to the climate change and global warming, the sea ice melts really quickly at the end of winter, and they don't have anywhere to rest. So they go onto these islands. There's limited room. They have to make room for the other war rye.

They go up a cliff. They can't come down the cliff. They fall off the cliff. Now the plural of walrus is walruses. Is it? Walruses? I'm willing to spearhead the change. To Woolrye. I prefer Woolrye to be honest.

Or Woolroo. Woolra. Woolra. So Netflix has responded, Netflix US, they put out a tweet and it says, as you make your way through our planet, here are some moments animal lovers may want to skip. They have actually listed in each episode, and I can tell you Frozen World, episode two is the one that has the most parts to skip.

Episode one is probably the best. It has 30 seconds out of the whole episode. Yeah, episode one's kind of like the overview and it's a little bit more cute. But then nature documentaries shouldn't be overly comfortable to watch. It is, it's nature. And we've got to come to terms

with the fact we're kind of ruining our planet. But everyone says, well that's nice now but it's a little bit too late because we've watched the whole season because you sold it to us as really amazing footage. We've made our way through it and we've seen all the nasty bits now. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there and welcome to today's Top Six,

the Top Six Black Hole Photo Facts. I'm still saying it looks like an out of focus burger ring. So, I'm learning a lot about it. It's not a photo in any sense of previously what we'd consider photos. Okay, what is it then? A drawing. I'll tell you soon in the top six. Right.

It's not a draw. Wow. No, it's not a drawing. Because how many billion million years away is it? It's a billion million. That's today's number six. Okay. The photo of the black hole is not what it looked like today.

Yeah. It's what it looked like 55 million years ago. Oh, so it could be bigger because of all the eaten stuff. It's 55 million light years away from Earth. That's how far. Oh, no. Well, we're not going to get any good warning if it's sw million light years away from Earth. That's how far. Oh, no. Well, we're not going to get any good warning if it's swallowing us up. Well, it's travelling at the speed.

It could expand or travel at the speed of light. No, it couldn't expand at the speed of light. Oh, God. A light can't escape it. Right. I wonder if we would get any sort of warning. By the tsunami siren goes off. Or that new text alert thing we've got.

Just heads up. Civil defence. No use panicking. Black hole will swallow us imminently. What would you do? Okay, I'll just sit down. Enjoy a warped perception of time as we're swallowed up by a gravity smasher. Well, if it happened today, I'd be upset because you're saving me

a donut and some rocky road at your cafe tomorrow. Be happy with that to at your cafe tomorrow. That's cute. Be happy with that to be your last meal. You're eating the Rocky Road and you're like, this is delicious. That's when it hits. And you get stuck in some sort of infinite time loop where all you're doing is for the rest of eternity

and you probably wouldn't even recognise it because your brain wouldn't have the capacity to process it. You're stuck in an infinite loop of... There's definitely worse things you could be doing. I'd be more than happy to be stuck in an infinite loop eating rocky road. What if you had at that moment... Because you never put on the weight because you're eating it. Oh, my God.

But then time went... Okay, good. What if you had like Campylobacter and you're just eternally like... I'm on a lime scooter shitting myself a frog. Yeah. You could be. That's when the black hole could have hit. And all this is just an astral projection.

I hate this because it makes me feel so insignificant. I know. I don't like that. That's what freaks me out. Because when we come to work, when I leave home, you can see all the stars on a clear night. And I look up and I'm like, wow. Wow, that's beautiful. Oh my god,

there's aliens out there somewhere. I didn't do anything wrong. Quick, get in my car where the stars can't see me. Take Trump and leave me. Examine him. So it's 55 million light years away from Earth. And a light year is 9.46 trillion kilometres.

So times that by 55 million. How many new engines are you going to need And a light year is 9.46 trillion kilometres. Wow. So times that by 55 million. How many new engines are you going to need for that? Oh, you'll need to stop at Zed for a top up. Yeah. It's just too hard to fathom. You know, like if you say 50 football fields. It's unfathomable.

But like that's like infinity and beyond football fields. Yeah. And that's why we're not ready to go into space. Yeah. We're still measuring everything beyond football fields. Yeah. And that's why we're not ready to go into space. Yeah. We're still measuring everything in football fields. We're not ready for the scale of which you described. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six black hole facts.

The black hole in M87, that's the galaxy, isn't the closest black hole to Earth. Oh, okay. Which is a bit freaky, but it's the galaxy, isn't the closest black hole to Earth. Oh, okay. Which is a bit freaky, but it's the biggest, which made it the easiest for the Event Horizon Telescope to photograph. What happened to the Gobble Telescope? Gobble is not called that, is it? What is it called?

The Hubble. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is that still going? No, but that doesn't have the – That's old as... Like, a Venn Horizon telescope's, like, breaking, leading technology. Right. So that's...

Yeah, nah. Gobble's no good for... It remains in operation. Yeah, yeah, but it's just like a star and galaxy. Oh, yeah, yeah. It doesn't have a very good zoom. Remember how bad zooms used to be on Sony Cybershots? For those...

Yes! And then they get real wobbly. Yeah. For those new to the show, Megan once called it the Gobble Telescope. No, but now I just always remember it as the Gobble. I know it's the Gobble Telescope. I know, but once you did actually believe it was called the Gobble Telescope. Gobble Telescope.

It was pretty great. Because you were telling us about this gobbled satellite. I think she called it the Gobble Satellite. And we didn't know what she was talking about. And eventually, through a game of kind of like charades except it's not hand gestures it's just like a dumb explanation

we finally got there. Yeah. Didn't we? We did well. Hubble. It's been up there for 28 years. Hubble.

Yeah. Yeah, see, like imagine how shit cameras were 28 years ago. Yeah. I know, rubbish. Yeah, like you see photos of you as a kid

and you're like, ooh, out of focus. Yeah. That's what's honing around up there. Yeah. Get a new one up there. How much do they cost? Can't be much.

I'll chip in for a good little, to get some more sweet space photos. Number four on the list of the top six facts about the black hole and the photo of it. The black hole is really, really, really, really big. Really big. Our sun would be an insignificant dot next to it. Although gravity would pull the sunlight into it

and we wouldn't be able to see the sun anymore. I've got to imagine if it pulled the sun in, it'd be a great promo for Game of Thrones on Monday. Winter's coming. Winter's coming. No, mate, because if it's got to the sun, it's too close and it'll get us. Oh, right, okay. It'll get us as well.

So the scientists who are trying to work out the size of it, they say it's about the size of Neptune's orbit around the sun. And you know how far away Neptune is? Bloody miles, mate. Neptune takes 200 years to get around the sun, and it's honking. So that's how big the black hole is. Interesting.

Crazy, eh? See, I can't put that into football fields for you, mate. The Event Horizon Telescope is the telescope that took the photo. Now, this is from eight different stations, I believe, that were photographing the same area. Eight of the observation stations each took one petted byte of information. So that's eight million gigabytes. I'm so lost, Vaughn.

I'm so lost. I known. I'm so lost. I know, but this is just, this is why this is, you thought it looked like a blurry burger ring. Yeah. But listen to all this stuff. I know. It's so much, because I was the same the first I saw it. I was like, eh, a bit blurry.

But all of this stuff's gone into it. Number two on the list of today's top six facts about the black hole. One of the most crucial members of the team that assembled the photo was a 29-year-old post-doctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysicists, and her name is Dr. Catherine Bowman. I saw, I read about her yesterday.

What were the Bowmans just saying about millennials? Yeah. Lazy. Oh, was that what they were saying? Yeah. And she's a woman. Yes. She's, yes. She spent six years writing an algorithm that, you might remember I said 8 million megabytes of data.

Her algorithm took that, took all that information and made that photo out of it. Wow. She said literally there is an infinite number of possible images that could have been made from that data. But she wrote the algorithm that gave us that data of the black hole. Wow.

When I was 29, I was flirting with a boy 10 years younger than me in a boy band. I had other things on my mind. Who knows Catherine's not doing that in her spare time. Yeah, that's true. Who knows Megan could be writing algorithm in her spare time as well.

Spoiler alert, I'm not. And today's number one fact about the things I've learned about the black hole from reading articles is someone asked if there was any planets by the black hole. And scientists have said if there are planets by the black hole, they are travelling at the speed of light. Oh, wow. Okay. Jesus.

How does a planet travel at the speed of light? Oh, wow. Okay. Jesus. How does a planet travel at the speed of light? I don't know, man. That was pretty much what the side answer said. If we were travelling at the speed of light, would it just be like night, day, night, day, night, day?

Nah, because it wouldn't be, it doesn't necessarily mean we're spinning at the speed of light or going around the sun at the speed of light. It just means we're travelling through space. Ah, right.

Because you know the sun's not sitting still and we're just going around the day because that's what I was always doing as a kid, but now it's, it just means we're travelling through space. Oh, right. Because you know the sun's not sitting still and we're just going around today. Because that's what I was always doing as a kid. But now it's going through space and we're like hooning around it. It's like, hold on. And we're like, zoom, zoom, zoom. One day we will.

And then winter truly will be coming. That is today's Top 6. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Marlo is changing his dress. Marlo. Marlo. Marlo's changing its recipe. Marlo. Marlo.

Marlo. Can I have a Marlo? Man. Man. Where's my Marlo? So Marlo's changing its recipe. Okay. Because you remember Marlo's been one of those ones for many years.

It's been sneaking under the radar of exactly how bad it is for you. At one stage, what was his star rating? It had a four and a half star house rating. Considering it's mostly sugar, that is mind-blowing that even was a thing. Yeah, like we love it, but you know that it's sweet. It's not good for you. It's not four and a half stars good for you.

Oh, no. And then they're like, you can't have four and a half stars anymore. But it was four when you make it with trim milk. Ah. What? I don't think milk makes that much of a difference, does it? So Milo's changing the recipe.

Milo changed the recipe a few years ago, and you'll remember the absolute kerfuffle that came as a result of that. No, well, they're changing it again. Here we go. 30% less sugar. They're replacing the cane sugar with stevia sweetener. Uh-oh. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no. When is this happening? Has it happened already? Well, they've got all the... Yes. I don't know if it's on the stores yet. Is it going to be in addition to their normal Milo or...

No, no, no. This is the way forward. I think this is Milo Milo. Okay. Milo across the board. They're not think this is Milo Milo. Okay. Milo across the board. They're not doing like a low sugar Milo. Okay. Because I still don't think it technically probably would be low in sugar.

They're getting rid of 30% of the sugar. Right. 30% less sugar. But Stevia doesn't taste too bad if it is mixed with sugar. Oh, right. It's when it's just by itself. That's the key to Stevia, is it? Horrible. Apparently, I was reading an article it's just by itself. That's the key to stevia, is it? It's horrible.

Apparently, I was reading an article once that if you mix stevia with actual sugar, a little bit of sugar, it's a lot more palatable than if it's just by itself. It's very bitter. Yeah. It leaves a... In your mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the good news is the skinny kid on the front of the Milo who's cooking the soccer ball,

he's looking very healthy. Was it yesterday that James had Milo on his riceys? That was my breakfast growing up was rice bubbles and Milo. That was Fletcher's recommendation, putting the Milo on. And how was it? How was that then? Maybe a bit of sugar goes a bit better, I think. I mean, they're pretty much the same thing

No that's what we had when we were in all our coca pops Milo and sugar Yeah no we never got coca pops We never got coca pops Sugar on the riceys

Yeah Which you normally do with cornflakes And then what was that rip off Milo Was it bornvita Oh yeah Was that a thing

It was just brewed lightly because bornvita is actually It's it's own thing No and it was actually okay Yeah No but you like Vegemite. Nesquik was your absolute champion of your chocolate drinks

because it didn't even muck around trying to make itself sound like it had malt in it. Nesquik was like, hey, look, I'm a hyped up rabbit. I'm going to have gout, type 2 diabetes at a very early age, but crikey, I'm going to have rotten teeth and a fun time in the meantime. I'm Nesquik, baby. It tasted great on rice bubbles, though. Nesquik was just a champion drink.

Yeah. Champion. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Megan, describe your shoes. Adidas Sheltos. The classic Adidas shoe. The black stripes.

Yep. Yeah. Have you got a breakdancing competition after work? Don't be a dick? In the 1980s. There's such a dead thing to say. What a breakdance. Why are those holes in your jeans? Did you buy them like that?

Like I'm in a run DMCD. Oh, okay. See, she said nice things about my Timberlands at the start of the week and I couldn't do it. What's wrong with me? You're going to rap battle with him after the show. I'm a monster. No, I'm doing a remix with Nelly Furtado.

It's Timbaland. So these shoes, though, are a little bit bigger than what you'd normally buy. Yeah, because you were tripped over before. I was like, what's wrong with Eminem? So I have bought a bigger pair of shoes. It's weird how your body just knows how long your foot is when you walk. Do you know what I mean?

You're aware that your foot is part of your body. You know how high you need to lift your foot so you don't skim it on the ground. But when your shoe's a little bit too big, your brain hasn't calculated for that extra. So I've been tripping up a little bit. But I got such a good deal on these shoes.

I bought them a little bit too big. Because they're only $35. $35? I'd red rack it. I'd red racked. Yeah, right. But they were, yeah, they were the only size available. So what size are you normally?

39. It's like an eight. These are eight and a half. Oh, so you're half a half. You'd be surprised how much a half makes a difference. They do look a little bit bigger on you, though. I have to do the laces real tight because otherwise my heel slips out. But they look good.

Oh, but come on. Just get a proper size. I know they're $35. Why? You should have put a bunny in them. Why don't you pack a little in the toe? Oh, yeah, like a little sock or something. Oh, yeah, but wouldn't that hurt my toes?

I don't know. Or can you pack it in the heel? It's not that much of a deal. Like, I just trip up every now and then. And going upstairs. Oh, I mean, you could break your neck and fall down the stairs, but sure. It was worth it. You'd be like, now, any final words?

They were only $35. any final words you know I cannot resist a good bargain well and that's the thing that's what I the question I wanted to ask this morning if anybody is listening you've just found such a deal such a bargain what did you buy even though it didn't fit and maybe it was gold gold white clothes like oh we've all done that. It's a whole wardrobe. Not quite a 32, but I will be soon. And they're great jeans. They're on special.

I'll buy them. Or, you know, you find a jacket or a top that you love. It's a little bit tight, but you're like, you know what? It's on special. I'll buy it. I had this jumpsuit that was my goal jumpsuit. And I put it, when I lost weight for the wedding, it fit. And I was like, one day I'm going to wear this.

And then I went on honeymoon and now it doesn't fit. And now it's not even that cool anymore. So I'm like, I'm going to have to get rid of it. It's been in my cupboard for like two, almost three years. It's never been worn. Okay, so give us a call. 0800 dial ZM 9696. What did you buy even though it didn't fit? Give us a call.

ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. So Megan, you got a bargain on some shoes, $35, but they didn't have your size, so you went half a size up. And now you're tripping over everywhere. Just keep skimming my feet. Better than half a size down? Yeah. Because then your foot would be in constant pain.

Yeah. But then half a size down might stretch to half a size. Well, if Because then your foot would be in constant pain. But then half a size down might stretch to half a size. Well, if you trip down the stairs, we know why. We want to know what you bought, even though it didn't fit. You're just like, well, I'll make this work. We'll jam it in. I usually fit in a larger and extra large T-shirt, depending on material.

Okay. So I decided when I was buying a shirt off AliExpress the sizing's all weird. I got a 3XL. Yeah. Hoping it would be big enough. Yeah. Still wasn't big enough. Really?

Fit like a wetsuit. Goodness me. Do they not have measurements on there? They do. That's why I don't like buying clothes online. It's a weird one

buying off AliExpress. Yeah. Especially. Carly, what did you buy even though it didn't fit? Mine wasn't clothing. Right. I got really excited in a furniture sale. Okay.

And I bought the most beautiful, like, dark wood dining table. Oh, okay. Didn't come with the chairs, but it was okay. Okay. Can work with that later. But I'm flapping and it doesn't fit in my house. You don't even have your own place. Oh, my God.

Yeah, I don't have my own house. Where is his table then? It's kind of still, like, flat-packed now in my parents' attic. It's an investment piece for later. I know, I know. I'm still stoked about it. It's going to be beautiful. But then when you move into a new flat, is it even going to be like, you know, fashionable? Don't go there,

please. And what do you do about chairs? How big is your parents' attic that this thing won't fit in your house, but it fits in their attic? Flat packed. Still. Yeah. I'm imagining a very large attic. Yeah, like at least wide. Hey, thanks for your call, Carly.

Rebecca, what did you buy and it didn't fit? My car. It didn't fit in the garage? No, no, not the car's problem. My problem. I bought it for the Japanese import, and the driver's seat doesn't go back far enough for a New Zealander. So I'm 1.56m, and my leg, it was an impulse purchase,

because I desperately needed a new car. Yeah. And I was really into my fitness, so I thought, oh, I've got a Jack Russell that I wanted to go running with, and I've got a Honda Fit now. So that didn't work, because I'm now fit again. Right. Caitlin drives a Honda Fit,. So that didn't work because I'm now fat again. But, um. Right. My leg is fat.

Caitlin drives a Honda Fit and she's like 5'10". Let's go to Caitlin. She's taller. So my foot is at a constant right angle and it's so uncomfortable that I've actually even worn a hole through the floor. Wait, Caitlin, you've got your Honda Fit. Is there a lever to pull the seat back?

Yeah. But it doesn't go back far enough. Is there something blocking? Is there like a coin or the seat back? Yeah. But it doesn't go back far enough. Is there something blocking? Is there like a coin or a rock or something in the... Because I didn't think of that. You're the one that bought a car that the seat doesn't go back. Sorry, I'm asking questions about why it doesn't. We just can't tell you, because you know these people in Japan where this car was built,

manufactured for presumably, who are over 1.50m. That's quite short. Maybe I'm taller than that then. I don't know. It's been a while since I measured myself. I'm not taller than you. What part of the country do you live in? I'm in Auckland.

Okay, we'll be around this afternoon. Don't worry. We're always asking Nivor to come round and fix something. No, I don't want to fix it. I just want to look at it. Unlike you, I feel like there's something not right here. There's something amiss. It should go back.

You know what? I'm outside the car now, and I've just tried to put the seat back further, and it will not go. Did you put, look under the seat? Is there anything? Someone like hot riveted a thing through there to stop it from back further and it will not go. Did you put, look under the seat? Is there anything? Someone like hot riveted a thing through there to stop it from moving. I won't even believe them.

It won't go back any further. This sounds like your dad trying to talk to your, like, tell you how to change things. Is there anything stuck in the rails where it slides back in? No, Fletch, because I did have it valeted recently, but you wouldn't know to look at it. You're getting there, mate. No, have you ever taken it to a Honda dealer and been like, hey, the seat doesn't go back far enough? Oh, yes, and they told me they could extend it for like hundreds of dollars.

No, no, no, I'm just wondering if they're like, oh, no, what you got here is a rock. And there's got to be a solution. Does the chair look like it goes back to the end of the tracks? It is on the end of the tracks. Oh, okay. Something's amiss. That's weird, like it was put in wrong or something.

Okay, well, we believe you. No, I believe you now, Rebecca, but yeah, I mean, that's terrible, isn't it? I don't know what to say. I'm lost. Honda had a massive oversight. Rebecca, thank you. AJ, what did you buy even though it didn't fit? Oh, I bought some Timberlands. My brother

went over to Thailand and I was like, oh, do you mind just packing us up some Timberlands? Are these actually Timberlands? Yeah, sure, I'm travelling internationally. I'd love to buy you the biggest, heaviest boot on the market. Are they Timberlands or Rimbolands? No, they were they Timberlands or Rimberlands?

No, they were legit Timberlands. It took them forever to find them. Okay. And it's like, this is what they've got. And it was like, I think it was like a size too small. Because my feet are notoriously big. So it's really hard to find shoes even in New Zealand. And I was like, oh, it should be fine.

You know, they'll stretch. They'll be good as new once I've been in them for about a year. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't make it to a year. Hey, but you still saved that money, didn't you? Oh, mate, what a bargain. Did you?

AJ, thanks for your calls and text messages. Somebody said, I bought a brand new Ford Ranger. Got very excited. Yeah. Never thought about the fact that it wouldn't fit in the garage. Oh. What do you do then?

I mean, you can park it outside. You don't have to get a new garage. You don't want to build a carport. Yeah. Don't want to build

a carport. I bought size five heels. Stunning shoes. Yeah. But they were on special. I'm a size six or seven. Oof. I wore them for a day and that was it.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's what they write at the end of their text. So I'm imagining that was like a painful laugh. Yeah. I spent close to $150 US on a Victoria's Secret Dream Angel bra. Oh my God. One of the last ones left slightly too small. I thought gold weight bra.

Two years later, still doesn't fit. It was so stunning and so expensive but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. What would you do to wear it? Just spill out a little bit. Yeah, well, also it cuts off your circulation around your back a little bit. Pain is beating. Yeah, my arm muffins. Just tuck those in. You're like,

take them down. Quick, look at me on the victory secret bra board. Quick. It's hurting. Oh, my legs have gone numb. I'm going to fall over. You're going, take them down. Quick, look at me on the Victoria's Secret prayer board. Quick. It's hurting. Oh, my legs have gone numb. I'm going to fall over. You're going to have to get me out of this. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. The Woman in the World Summit. This is the 10th annual, so this happens every year and Oprah was there. Okay. Where did it happen? Does it happen in the same place

every year or? Where did it happen? Just wherever it's got a big hotel convention centre probably. Right. Could we have it here one day? Sure. I don't see why not.

That'd be great. So Oprah was there among many other amazing women. Just reflecting on how incredible Oprah is when you think about it. She was an African-American woman. She's been famous for years. And like hugely outspoken and and defied all the odds. A powerful woman. Powerful woman.

And she got up on stage and has heaped praise on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. And as Tina pointed out in her excellent Times op-ed piece, we have only to look at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response to last month's massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand. I've never seen such leadership. The Prime Minister is a woman who has the courage of her convictions, and she set a global standard in leadership with her response.

The answer, she said, lies in our humanity. We each hold the power in our words, in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness, she said. So women across the country then showed their solidarity by wearing headscarves to emulate the hijab that Ms. Adarn chose to mourn in. And the Arab community felt their benevolence. Fifty murders that could have brought even more destruction instead led to a portrait of the prime minister displayed across Dubai's tallest building with the word peace shining above it in English as well as in Arabic.

Jacinda Ardern projected peace and goodness and the Arab world projected it right back for all of us to take in. And suddenly we saw that the other didn't seem that much different from us. You can always count on Oprah to say just the right things, eh? God, how would you feel if like Oprah was talking about you? Hee hee hee. I know she was talking about Jacinda the whole time but I kind of felt like it was us two at the same time.

I was like, oh my gosh, she's talking about us. Yeah, but like couldn't have said it better, eh? That's why she's Oprah. She's very good at saying things. Welcome one, welcome all to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by Spark. Get four gigs of bonus data on Spark's $49 prepaid value pack.

Now, on with the podcast. This looks really good. This is what I'm about to talk about. Well, there's been backlash. But there's been some heat thrown at a Kiwi mum who shared a photo of her daughter's seventh birthday party. Yep. It included Kentucky Fried Chicken, cheeseburgers, Thai food, pizza. What else we got here?

You got all your KFC sides. You've got some Macca's burgers, lots of fizzy potato and gravy. There's a couple of coleslaw's there though, so hold your judgment. When I saw this photo, I was like, this is a birthday party I would love to go to. I'd love any of this catering at anything I attended. It looks amazing. I'd be all for it. And we don't know how this family eats the other 364 days of the year.

That's what I was going to say. It could have been put out there as like, this is a treat. Yeah. Like if the, you know, the rock, he puts photos up of his cheat meals. Oh yeah.

Cause he's always training. And if you just saw that photo and then assumed that's how he ate every day, you'd also say to him, you're not eating well. No. Cause she's worn it because she's saying, well, this people are saying this is not healthy.

Slammed. She thought it was an impressive image, and it was. But people are saying it's a children's diabetes birthday party. But there's not one child eating all that. No, there's not. That's the thing. I don't know how many people there are. You go to kids' birthday parties, and the kids only eat one or two slices,

and then their parents finish off the pizzas and stuff. It's the best thing about hosting a kids' party is you've got leftovers for a few days. All the food. Afterwards, because one of them finishes eating and they're like, I'm finished. And they start playing and all the other kids are like, I'm finished too. And you're like, you're not though, are you? I am. I'm so full.

I'm so full. Can I hop down? You're like, okay, whatever. First kid ruined it, not mine. Wouldn't let mine leave, but I'm fine. Get out and ruin it. I feel like kids' birthday parties have gone next level from like when we had a seventh birthday party.

You know, bowls of chips and that was it. But now it's like bouncy castles. It's every parent trying to outdo every other parent. No, I was saying, I haven't been to a kid's birthday party that's had a feed like this. It's all like children's grazing platters. That's what's in at the moment. Yeah, the mums are like, oh, get a couple of pretzels

because you'll need something in that. Oh, sausage roll. No, you're... Are these... Is the pastry in the sausage roll gluten-, you're, are these, is the pastry in the sausage roll gluten free? No,

it's Alison Hulse. I don't know, what does she do? Oh, just leave that one, don't, don't. Pick and choose,

pick and choose, pick and choose. Oh my God. But, yeah, it looks like a great spread. Yeah. Like,

you'd be stoked if your work on Friday was like, hey, we're putting on after work drinks and here's the accompanying snack table. You'd be like, oh, we're putting on after work drinks and here's the accompanying snack table.

You'd be like, oh, someone's been reading me mind. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Joining us on the phone, our buddy now, Mal from Married at First Sight Australia. Good morning, Mal. Hi, guys. How are you? This is exciting. We're good.

Oh, my God. Last night. Okay. Can we talk about Mike to start with? Because you let him is exciting. Very good. Oh, my God. Last night. Okay. Can we talk about Mike to start with? Because you let him have it. Yeah. Oh, I tell you what, Mike. Oh, my gosh.

And that went on for so much longer than what was shown, obviously. Because, you know, they can only put so much in an episode. But I couldn't believe him. I was just. I'm just gonna put it out there what he actually said so then you can um you can explain to us so he actually said a group of women aren't as good at coping under pressure as men are yes so like obviously i feel like there was 12 12 women in this season that were such big personalities,

very opinionated, and you know what? Not everyone's going to get along, I guess. But, you know, like, the guys are quite or whatever. And for him, then he turns around and he literally makes that statement that generally women cannot cope like men can. Is he serious? Like, turn it up. So what did you say?

There was a lot more of him talking or you ripping him to shreds? Well, yeah, there was a lot. There was back and forth. There was back and forth. And he just wouldn't listen to anybody else's thoughts or opinions, whatever he believes. That's fact. Did all your best burns make the edit though?

Because I'd be really annoyed if I was you and you had a couple of real sizzlers, but they didn't make the cut. Yeah, I had some really good one-liners that weren't in there, which is upsetting. God damn it. I just want to do the one-liners and just put a video out. Hello, these were really good. I feel like, is there a sense of, because Mike was like, I just want to say something here.

I almost felt like the room was like, oh, like, here we go again. Absolutely. If you just scan around the room of everybody's face when he was talking and when he did that, it was, oh, because he was doing it the whole time about so much as well. Now, you did mention that this season's had a lot of anger and a lot of the infidelity and stuff. Producers have actually come out and said,

we probably can't afford to keep doing this season after season because eventually the train wreck does become a bit hard to watch. Would you agree? Was it quite harrowing to be a part of? Was there straining to your very being, I suppose? I was not prepared for, obviously, what was going to go on this season. Obviously, we all thought, you know, we're marrying a stranger and that's hard enough as it is trying to get that to work.

And then you're in this kind of environment that is just, it ended up being quite toxic at times because everyone was, it was just mental. And I don't even know what they're going to do next season. I actually think it will have to be, you marry a sibling, but you don't know at the time. They've jumped the shark. Where do they go to?

Where do you go to? What about the Cyrel? I actually really like Cyrel. I think she's got her own issues that she needs to work through, but I don't feel like Martha was, I don't think Martha and Jace are very kind people. And I was always on the side of Cy Rau. It's quite

bad how bad their arguments got. Yeah. Physical. Yeah. But actually, I because I just kind of, I like everybody because I just like everybody. And I really enjoy that all of us are so different

and I kind of, you know, I find it quite amusing and fun and interesting when we all are so different and have different thoughts and opinions. But obviously there are some people that are just never going to get along in this world. And maybe, and then putting him into the Married at First Sight experiment, well, then, you know, that just turns crazy. I don't like to see wine being thrown in any social occasion because I think that's a waste.

It's a waste of wine really, isn't it? Yeah. You know, you just go back to when Cyrel, you know, kind of grabbed her and smashed the fruit bowl and then it turned into the wine overhead. And I just, it was just, you had to laugh at one point going, we're at a dinner party, like quite a, you know, this dressy dinner party.

We're all sitting there and then there's wine. It was just, you can't script this stuff. It's crazy. So from the start, because I always like to guess who's going to stay together, was there a couple that you really thought were going to go the whole way and then they just didn't? Who was your money on at the start?

So right at the beginning, so Matt and Lauren, I thought, we're going to. And then that kind of just changed in, you know, in that week. All of a sudden, yeah. Yes, all of a sudden. So, yes, I did think that Mike and Heidi would because they were so, if you saw them, they were just always on top of each other. Well, I mean, I think Jules and Cam, obviously,

they were meant to be all along. Also, do you have any more wedding details for Jules and Cam? Because is it true that you're going to be a bridesmaid? Yes, I'm so excited about that. So Heidi and I, we're going to be bridesmaids. And yeah, the wedding's this year. Very excited. I was going to say, do you have any say on your bridesmaid's dress?

Now, this is something I think we need to discuss. Yeah, we haven't done that part yet, but, yeah, we'll see. I think as a bride's arrangement, you kind of just got to go with what the bride says, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so I'm really excited.

So I'm going to be organising the hen's knot. Oh, God. There's that. I can't wait. It's definitely going to be penis strollers, of course. Of course. Of course it will be. And what about strippers?

Strippers, of course. And it was really funny because when that was announced, you know, when she asked us at the dinner party and then we were speaking about it, I got contacted by so many strippers wanting to strip. I was like, well, I'm going to have to hold some auditions, guys.

Just send me some videos on Instagram. Yeah. Well, that's going to happen, so yeah, it will be great. Dino could make an appearance, as you... Oh, God. Oh, my God, no.

I mean, yeah, I could get Dino and Bronson to do a duo act, couldn't I? Yeah. That'd be great. Well, Mel, we love you. All the best for the future. Thanks so much for coming back and having a chat with us. And, yeah, good luck for the wedding. Pass on our best wishes.

I will do. Love you guys. Oh, mwah. Thank you. Thank you. Friday Flashback. It's a good one today. It's a banger.

It's a sing-along. Oh, don't spoil it. You just looked up there. This is from 2009. It's from the very, very start of 2009. Probably, I still would say the most successful singer

from one of these reality shows. Do you reckon? Yeah, I'd say so. Stood the test of time, still puts out bangers. Ben Lammers. No. Don't be mean to Ben. No, I wasn't being mean to Ben. But, yeah, you're going to sing along to this. This is for everyone on Israel Folau's No Don't be mean to Ben No I wasn't being mean to Ben But Yeah

You're going to sing along to this This is for everyone On Israel Folau's list I think today Right okay Yeah This is Kelly Clarkson My life would suck without you

Yes Way to kick off Friday Jams Our Friday flashback Kelly Clarkson On CDM Our Friday flashback, Kelly Clarkson on ZM. Like how much you wanted anyone but me Said you'd never come back, but here you are again Cause we belong together now Forever united here somehow

You got a piece of me And I see My life One second stuck without you Maybe I was stupid For telling you goodbye Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye. Maybe I was wrong for trying to pick a fight. I know that I'm nothing without you Cause we belong together now Forever in the light

And here somehow You got a piece of me And honestly My life was stuck in the river Being with you is so dysfunctional I really shouldn't miss you But I can't let you go Oh yeah

Cause we belong together now Forever united here somehow You got a piece of me And I'm the same My life What's up Is stuck without you. Cause we belong together, together, together.

Forever united here, so now, yeah. You got a piece of me And honestly My life What's up, what's up With all of you Kelly Clarkson on ZM. It's Megan's Flashback Friday kicking off Friday Jams.

Yeah, good, good. Love a bit of KJ. You're puffed. That was so good. I enjoyed it. Not my favourite Kelly Clarkson song, but it's good. I'll give you that. I'll give you that.

It's got every Kelly Clarkson song. It's good. They can't all be your favourite. And you really think you can hit the notes, but then you go into it and you're like, no. Oh, you really appreciate what that ex-Red Bull girl can do, can't you? Is she an ex-Red Bull girl? Uh-huh.

Was she? Yeah, we interviewed her once, and we talked about being a Red Bull girl. She said she used to do, like, summers down by the lakes and stuff. Did well. And she was like, we interviewed her once and we talked about being a Red Bull girl. She said she used to do like summers down by the lakes and stuff. Did well. And she was like, it was sweet. You just gave out all the Red Bull and then you just go and hang out in the mini. Yeah.

And I was like, yeah, my wife's a Red Bull girl. That's exactly what she used to do too. Just go and give it all away and then just chill out in the mini. Yeah. Julian Assange has been arrested today. You've probably heard that name. WikiLeaks. Co-founder of WikiLeaks.

I don't honestly know much about that. They leaked a whole lot of government papers. And didn't they leak some stuff that helped Trump as well? Because that's when everyone was a bit like, okay, mate, you've gone too far now. I'm confused. Do we like Julian or do we not like Julian? I don't think we like him, do we?

But then he leaked stuff that like... No, but I think initially we liked him. Right. Because we were like, wow, what do you mean? Countries are doing things and not telling us? That's so bad. But then we're like, oh, yeah, come on guys. Well, he's been...

The US want to extradite him for sexual charges, don't they? And conspiracy. Sexual assault and conspiracy. Yeah. So he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court. And now he'll be extradited to the US to face conspiracy charges in one of the largest leaks of government secrets, etc. etc. through WikiLeaks.

But he was just like staying in the Ecuadorian embassy. Correct. In 2012, he went into the Ecuadorian embassy in London and lived there till now. So seven years. I knew he was in Ecuador. I thought he was in like a hotel or something. No, no, no.

He was in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. So he was confined to one house. And looking by the footage that came out, it looks like they've had enough because I think they let the police in. Because judging by movies, you're not allowed to go into an embassy, eh? It's their like, isn't it their...

Unless you're a citizen. It's like going to their country, isn't it? Is that a thing? Yeah, it's some weird thing like that. Is there diplomatic immunity on that? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know enough about it.

They're going by spy movies in homeland. Yeah, like they always run for their embassy and they get there and they turn around and they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Home base, got there. Well, the 47-year-old Australian was 40 when he went in to the Ecuadorian embassy. And I don't know, he was like, hey, just really quickly, I don't speak Spanish, but the Ecuadorians speak Spanish. I was on the money there. Was that a Portuguese?

Hey, I don't speak Spanish. Oh, we'll get our English guy. Oh, no, you'll do. Can I come in? I'm in a bit of spot of bother and I need to bunker down in an embassy. And they're like, how long do you want to stay for? He's like, a couple of weeks. He looks like the skinny, white, pale version of Saddam Hussein when they catch him.

Because he's got a big beard. Dad dragged him out of the spider hole. Isn't he like dating Pamela Anderson? What? What? From inside the Ecuadorian embassy. She was going to visit him and stuff. Did I dream that?

Have you dreamed that? That's one of the best dreams I have ever... You know when someone's like, I want to tell you about my dream and it's a boring dream. But if you dreamt that, that's amazing. Well, no, seven hours ago, Pamela Anderson melts down over Twitter

over Julian Assange's arrest. There you go. What? Isn't that weird? Holy moly. She's been going to visit him and stuff. How that connection was made. He's like, yay, Pamela Anderson's coming to visit.

This is weird, but cool. Wow. Okay, same. Imagine there's like a 47-year-old's like, dream. Yeah. Hey, someone wants permission to come and visit. Who is it? It's Pamela Anderson.

Okay. Oh, Pamela. I'm being catfished. Baywatch. Yep. Barbed wire, the movie? I'd like to see the Snapchat so I know she's real. Am I being catfished?

Inside the Ecuadorian embassy? So he was inside for seven years. Wow. He didn't step foot off that property for seven years because if he had, he would have been, like, arrested. Like, you think about it, he outed secrets about Americans, the British, the French, like, everybody. They would have all had someone watching that embassy for him leaving.

Yeah. Even in disguise, they could have snapped them up. Yeah. So it got me thinking, maybe not seven years, but what's the longest time you've spent inside? Because remember when you had chicken pox? Oh yeah, I don't think I was five or six days I didn't leave the house.

Because I took things around to you that you needed. Yeah. And I think you ordered groceries online and I picked them up and brought them to your house. I think you just got them and I paid you back. Yeah. I'm not going out in public. It was just like soup and I was like,. I think you just got them and I paid you back. Yeah. Because I was like, I'm not going out in public. It was just like soup. And I was like, yeah, you were good.

And you were just like an absolute mess. So I was like, that's cool. Met you at the door and you're like. Don't get out of chicken pox. You looked a bit like Julian Assange too. See the pajamas. Does like surgery count? Because remember when I had my hip surgery, I don't think I left the house.

Like literally went out the door for a week. Because it was too much effort. It's crazy. Even when I'm sick, I need to go and sit outside during the day just because it's just like being inside drives me crazy.

Or on a Sunday, you're like, oh, I've been in my pajamas all day and I have not walked outside. So if I open the ranch like today, do you want to take calls

from people that haven't left the house for ages? Are you taking home detention or prison? Does that count? Or no? Yeah. No. Not prison. Oh, not prison. That's cheating. Yeah. haven't left the house for ages are you taking um home detention or prison does that count or no yeah no not prison that's cheating yeah even home detention you can leave the house you know you can you can go out to the edge of there or like some people get your work i told you the person at my

gym has a monitoring bro but no that might be different that might be monitoring not home detention i don't know what's going on there, but there's a bulge in his sock. That might just be an old Fitbit. Like a 90s one, it's so big. Like a camera. Okay, 0800-Diles-at-M, 9696. What's the longest time you've spent inside your house?

Maybe it was sick, or maybe you just got lazy. Now it would be even easier with Uber Eats and supermarket delivery and Netflix. Easy than ever. Sounds like a dream. So when was the longest time you spent inside? We want to know the

longest time you spent inside. Julian Assange has been arrested this morning. Taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. We don't know if we like Julian Assange. Someone took particular issue with the fact that we were dilly-dallying on the Assange issue.

I'm willing to say I'm on the fence because I don't know enough. It's important these days if you don't know enough to shut your mouth. Just shut your mouth. That's where I'm at. Trump said he doesn't know anything about WikiLeaks. He does. He's talked about how great they are before. I know, yeah, I know. People have pointed that out, but he doesn't apparently know nothing about WikiLeaks today. Okay. It's a about how great they are before. I know, yeah, I know. But people have pointed that out,

but he doesn't apparently know nothing about Wikileaks today. Okay. It's a day-by-day thing. It's a day-by-day thing, yeah. But some would say that they helped him get elected. Oh. So that might be a reason not to like, I don't look, I don't eat. He's got a cat and it's wearing a tie.

It was in the window of the Ecuadorian embassy. I mean, that's points for Julian Assange. Do you know, so someone messaged in, if you're not a citizen of that country's embassy they're not required to keep you on premises You know we were talking before about you

running onto an embassy It's got to be your embassy So if we were in somewhere overseas and we ran onto the New Zealand embassy we could go na na na na na

Can't touch us Maybe Someone said they learnt this from an episode of The Simpsons You know when The Simpsons go to Australia

and they want to spank Bart and then they run to the US embassy And they said then they looked further into it and they learnt this from an episode of The Simpsons. You know when The Simpsons go to Australia and they want to spank Bart and then they run to the UBC embassy. And they said then they looked further into it and they learnt this. Right. But Ecuador,

so they had no reason to keep them apart from the fact that they're very welcoming. Right. Right. And they probably had some secrets

to share with them. Yeah, probably. That helped them just get their bananas around the world. So what was the longest time you spent inside? Because Julian Lasange,

Lasagne. Did you say it was Lasange? Julia Assange, lasagna. Did you say his name? Julian Assange. Lasagna. Also on Julian Assange, he was born Julian Hawkins. And he was born in Queensland. Yep. Jace Hawkins from Jason PJ is also a Hawkins from Queensland.

Don't bring him into it. No, but we haven't decided if Assange is good or bad. I bet you've already messaged him. No, I'm going to, though. Yeah, you cousins of Julie and Lassange. Yeah, they do have a similar look. Boo, good morning. Good morning.

Hey, Boo. Now, what was the longest you spent inside? I spent three weeks inside my house. Wow. I went away for, like, a family holiday, and we stayed in this, like, real rough place, like motel thingy. And I got scabies. Yeah, I don't know if you remember, I was at high school and so I had to be off school because I was obviously contagious and my whole family was contagious.

Yeah. So we had to stay inside for like three weeks straight. Isn't that, don't you have to wash all your sheets and put a cream on you and burn the house down? A burrowing mite that burrows into your skin. I hope you gave that motel a one star on TripAdvisor. Yeah, we did. My mum rang up and complained and stuff, but it was pretty yucky.

Isn't that one of those ones that's like when you get a coli they want to know where you got it from so they can kind of shut them down. Boo, thanks you. Katie, how long did you spend inside? I spent just two weeks inside in the same room at YKF. In hospital?

Yeah. They don't have Netflix in hospital, do they? No, the Wi-Fi's pretty good these days, though. So you could take your own device. Yeah, take your lappy or something. Right. Yeah, I was just playing like relaxation tunes on my phone, buzzing out. Hey, just if we're talking about it, what's your relaxation app of choice?

Do you have one? Vaughn's into this one. That's my vibe. I'm into Calm. Yeah, Calm's pretty good. Calm's a pretty great... I always hear they're advertised. Did you give into that in ClickOn?

Does it play rain and stuff? So Sade did it. Oh, yeah. My wife did it. And you can have Stephen Fry read you books. There's David Walliams, you know. Oh, yeah, from Little Britain. He reads books for kids.

Matthew McConaughey's got one. He's got a very... Does he just go, All right, all right, all right. He's like, I'm gonna sleep. I'm gonna sleep. I'm gonna very... Does he just go, all right, all right, all right. He's like, I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep.

All right, all right, all right. Hey, thanks. You killed Katie. Another Katie. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? How long?

Good, thanks. How long did you have to spend inside? So it was about two or three weeks. Right. I was four years old, or three or four years old. My dad is a hunter. He hunts deer. And we live on a farm and the helicopter would come in and pick them up from outside the house.

And I was just so scared of the helicopter that I decided I wouldn't be leaving the house. So I stayed inside for a couple of weeks. And if I had to leave, mum would have to carry me to the car and take me to town and then come back and I'd get carried out again. Because you were too scared of the helicopter coming back. Yeah.

And so after that, I would hear, you know, you can hear the choppers coming from a long way away and if I heard it coming and I was outside, the only safe place

was under the tram on a little plastic chair that used to stay out there for me so that if I heard a chopper coming, I could run under the tramp. The trampoline would definitely protect you. Yeah, I know. That bouncy mat, impenetrable to the blade. I used to say, oh, helicopter, helicopter, under the tramp, and I'd quickly run and get under the tramp.

What was it about them you're scared? Did you see one crash once or something? No, I don't know. I think it might have just been the sound and, like, you know, when they land really close to the house. Yeah. Being a little girl, it was quite daunting. But now I'm the polar opposite, and I go hunting with my dad in the helicopter.

Right. You've got over your fear. Katie, thanks for your call. Ask some text messages. I was inside once for six months due to my allergies while we tried to work out how to control them. Couldn't go outside. Wow, that must have been pretty bad.

Must have been a pretty sterile environment inside. I spent three months inside with glandular fever when I was 16. Didn't have the energy to leave the house. Yeah. Gland knocks everyone out. I know that as soon as Julian Assange was leaving the embassy, he was going to be arrested, and he would have known that. But six years? I'd go crazy.

Because one of the possible crimes has a maximum sentence of five years. So he's pretty much done his time. One year, but... But then in America, if there's more than one crime, it goes on top. Yeah, yeah, it starts adding up. Somebody else said, I was inside for over a month, but half of that was in an induced coma. Lots of people making stuck for an insane amount of inside for a...

I was quarantined in my house for three weeks straight after exiting hospital for the original strain of the swine flu back in 09. Oh, that's OG flu. That is OG flu. I mean, prior to that, you had your Spanish, you had your avian. What was Tamiflu? That was for the OG flu. I mean, prior to that, you had your Spanish. You had your avian. What was Tamiflu?

That was for the bird flu. Tamiflu was the vaccination against. So when mum would go out to the supermarket and get those masks, just in case we were all going to die. Stuck up on the Tamiflu. And now everyone just wants measles, so. Go figure. No, you can't win.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about fonts. Yesterday we were talking about fonts that businesses choose. Fletcher's particularly... Papyrus. Papyrus? No, it's papyrus. We were calling it papyrus,'s particularly... Papyrus. Papyrus? No, it's papyrus. We were calling it papyrus,

but it's papyrus. Papyrus. Well, papyrus is one of our lead facts for the font facts. Oh, because you know I hate Comic Sans. It's what got me going. For the Friday font fact of the day, the man who invented the papyrus font,

Chris Costello, was 23 years old when he invented and sold papyrus for $2,500. $2,500? To Microsoft. To Microsoft. To Microsoft. Microsoft gave him one of the richest companies in the world. But how much do fonts go for?

I've never sold one. You can actually buy them on, there are heaps of font websites. You can get heaps of free ones. But if you created one. Free fonts? Maybe like you might sell them online for 20, 30 bucks. No.

But yeah, if you're selling to someone that's going to use it for their operating system or their software, then you'd expect more than $2,500. Yes, you would expect a lot more than that. But then maybe not. You're a poor student. You decide, oh, it's a pretty shitty average font.

It's like the person that sold the Nike swoosh. Did the Nike swoosh, the marketing student or design student, do the Nike swoosh for next to nothing? Sold it? So when I started looking into facts about fonts, I quickly stumbled across Helvetica, because there's a documentary about it. So when I started looking into facts about fonts, I quickly stumbled across Helvetica because there's a documentary about it. Did you know Helvetica is the Latin word for Switzerland? No.

And it was invented in Switzerland. So that's why it's used. One man actually documented his day of trying to spend a day without interacting with Helvetica, the font. Very, very difficult. Impossible. Very, very difficult. And Ariel is basically just a copy with Helvetica, the font. Very, very difficult. Impossible. Very, very difficult. And Ariel is basically just a copy of Helvetica.

Right. They're almost identical. Almost identical. Also, some companies, very synonymous with fonts. Yeah. Ikea used to use Futura. Oh, yeah. For the Ikea.

And they changed to Vedana in 2009. And there was outrage amongst the graphic design community. Right. And the Nazis, they were a big fan of a font no longer used. Much like the name Adolf, they ruined a font as well.

Fractur was what it was called. Right. Yeah, it was like kind of a gothic-y sort of text is the one that you might be able to compare that to. Right. So today's fact of the day, well, there's been many, just a mull over there on your Friday

if you're opening up Microsoft Word and changing fonts, is that Chris Costello, the man that invented papyrus, sold it for $2,500 when he was 23 years old. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Joined in studio by special guests Eden and CJ who are the winners of Heartbreak Island. Season two.

What was that noise? Thank you. Don't shame my congratulations noise. Sorry. I shouldn't noise shame you. I shouldn't noise shame you. The only problem with this is that now everyone knows you've got $100,000.

Yeah, it can be kind of tricky going out and stuff as well, celebrating. Everyone will be like, oh, your shout, your shout. Yeah. It's actually a lot of money for like a New Zealand TV show prize, right? It is a lot of money. Yeah, it's huge. Like that's massive, 50K each.

Yeah. I reckon it'd take you a long time to save that much money as well. Yeah. Literally, like especially with our spending. Well, people do the block and they like dedicate eight years of their life to it they $10,000 and you didn't have to like renovate a house do that's a way better use of time to money pay off so do you know what you're going to do with the prize money, first of all? I think we definitely want to go travelling together, I think.

Oh, cute. Yeah. Definitely a little bit of travel, but we'll probably hold on to it for a bit. Just be smart, maybe invest down the track, but definitely, yeah. Spend a little as well, go shopping, maybe. I can see this problem's started already.

You said, hold on to it, invest it. She's like, travel and spend it. It's how we balance each other out. Somewhere down the middle or just doing exactly what she says. So how was the experience overall? I want to talk about your baby in a minute. Oh, God.

My baby. Your baby coconut. The baby coconut, yeah, yeah. Our little family. Your little family. Yeah, so the experience, yeah, as a whole was just amazing. Like, you can't really put any words to explain it. It definitely is challenging as well to go through everything mentally,

physically, emotionally. It was quite draining. So to come on the other side of it and be crowned the winners is just an unreal feeling. Because that's the hard, like, I watch it and I'm like, you guys are on an island. You're doing a few challenges. Like, it looks like the dream, but everyone's like, it's really hard emotionally, always on these reality shows.

What's the most draining thing for you emotionally then? I think for me, like, not having, we didn't have the time. I never knew what the time was. So you start going crazy after a while. You're like, oh my God, like, you don't wake up the same time. You're not eating at the same time. I never knew what the time was. So you start going crazy after a while. You're like, oh my God, like you don't wake up at the same time. You're not eating at the same time. Your whole life's just different.

So that kind of puts a strain on you emotionally. You don't have any family or friends really to talk to about anything either. You didn't have the time? No. We didn't have watches or anything. We didn't know. We weren't allowed the watches, clocks or anything.

Like a casino or a mall. They don't put the time up so you get lost and you spend more. Except on an island you can tell when the sun's up. Not like in a casino. Yeah, right. Are you allowed your phones? Do you have no communication with?

No phones, no communication. For how long no phones? Maybe like five weeks, five, six weeks. So how do you take photos? It depends however long you're there. So we had someone doing a bit of social media taking photos for us, but we weren't allowed phones or any contact to the outside world. What if there was a tsunami coming?

What if there was a tsunami coming? I hope they tell you. That would be up to them if they want to tell us or not. We've just had a tsunami warning. Should we tell them? Hell of a mid-season twist. Yeah, they'll put it as a challenge.

Yeah. Right this. If you live, you get to go through it all next week. Great stuff. So how long ago did it finish filming? It was end of last year. And so you two have kind of been an item since? Yeah, we've been trying to hide it.

It's been pretty tough. We've been spending a lot of time indoors in summer, which isn't the best, but it was definitely worth it in the end. Yeah, we had to keep our relationship very secret because we couldn't give anything away. But you're not even from the same, you're not living in the same parts of New Zealand, right?

No. Yeah, so I'm in Pawanui. He was in Christchurch. So, yeah. Yeah, every second week. Is someone moving soon? Yeah, well, we're both moving to Auckland. So, we're Yeah, every second week. Is someone moving soon? Yeah, well, we're both moving to Auckland,

so we're kind of meeting in kind of the middle. She's like 10% her way, maybe even 90% my way. And the good news is like an Auckland rent deposit will probably be most of that $100,000.

Yeah, yeah. It was four weeks in advance. In a bond, yeah. But yeah, you've made it out the other side. There was some rocky patches. Do you still talk about the Ruby situation? Or nah, we don't bring that up?

I bring it up every day. I was going to say. Every day it's so hard to let go for a girl. Like every time he looks at another girl, I'm like, CJ, remember Ruby? Yeah, definitely was in the dog box for a bit. Yeah, definitely. he just looked at Megan we just here we go

sorry sorry I'll turn this way he just looked at me as if to say why the hell did you bring that up he looked at me in a very sexy manner

well congratulations and I guess good luck with everyone who has any need for any money that's close to you because you're going to hear about it but yeah all the best for any money that's close to you because you're going to hear about it.

But yeah, all the best for the future, both of you. Thank you so much. Quitting your job. It's normally something you'd just, you'd do at the last minute, right? You'd be like three weeks notice or whatever it is. You'd do it then. Stuff you, I'm out of here. Yeah.

You never give notice that you're quitting your job. Otherwise, they move you along or they treat you differently. Some workplaces. I'm generalising here. Oh, no, it's happened to you, that's why. That's true. Okay, I'm speaking from experience. Well, so IBM have revealed that obviously a business wants to keep their employees.

They want to keep them happy. They want to keep them happy. They want to keep them working. But they've got new— There's a good balance between keeping them happy but also not paying them too much. Well, that's true. They want to keep their employees from quitting, and they're using artificial intelligence to do it.

Now, the CEO in a recent interview has said that thanks to artificial intelligence and programs that they're using they can now predict with 95% accuracy which employees are likely to leave in the next six months. How? Well, they're calling it a proactive retention

tool and apparently analyzes thousands of pieces of data and then nudges... Well, it's just scanning their emails, isn't it? And they're emailing other people at work being like, man, this sucks. Are you quitting in six months? I'm quitting in three months. Yeah, how many negative words

are in there? Yeah. Working hours. You know, you joke about that. Negative words, searches, behaviours, everything they're doing on their computers,

I'm imagining, is analysed. And apparently it will then tell managers, oh, you might want to talk to Megan. She keeps going to the jobs website every day.

Yeah. You know, that kind of thing. And the ones she's saving to her watch list, she's getting significantly less fussy about where she will work. So she's obviously not having a good time here. Isn't that creepy? Yeah, that is creepy. What's like that article about,

was it Maccas that had just bought like a big data company to like kind of second guess? What do they need data for? Yum. Like people. No, they like just to work out what you want before you even know it. And analyze what everyone else buys

when they buy that thing. And I was reading the article a few weeks. It's quite fascinating. But we'll not be generalized by what I want to eat. Thank you. I just like to mix it up now. Just to throw them off the seat. But you're right. People who leave social media because they don't want to be, thank you. I'd just like to mix it up now. Just to throw them off the seat. But you're right,

I don't see yummy. People who leave social media because they don't want to be part of the big machine. Apparently once you've had it, they'll just be able to work out what you're doing even if you leave. From the connections you made

when you were on Facebook, for example, or Twitter, the connections you made and those sorts of people and who you aligned with when you were there and how they changed. And apparently they'll be able to work out what you're doing

even if you've deleted your account. Oh, that's scary. Oh, I'm going to go nuts now just to throw them off the scent. I'm going to do weird stuff. No, but they probably knew you'd do that anyway. Yeah. Oh, that was in the algorithm. But earlier than what we thought though.

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