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ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fletch Warner Megan. The podcast.
Thanks, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch Warner Megan. One minute past six.
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
A little bit. I'm a little bit emotionally drained. Why?
For this morning's show. I'm going to talk about it before seven.
I've got a new Netflix show.
Oh, is it a true crime?
No.
Because have we all seen, over the break, did we all see Don't F with Cats?
Yes.
How messed up was that?
That was something.
I couldn't stop.
I just binged the hell out of that.
I couldn't stop.
I watched that all on a plane, on a flight,
and landed and was just like,
wow.
It's a lot, eh?
You don't trust, I don't trust anybody.
Yeah.
No, this isn't true crime.
I've already finished what Bourne's talking about
and it's intense.
I wasn't expecting it to be.
Am I going to like this?
I don't know, no.
I know, I don't think so.
I don't know.
You could watch it and I think you'd find enjoyment out of it,
but at the end you'll do that thing where you go, meh.
And not feel emotion either way.
I feel emotion.
We'll see.
It would truly show you have no heart if you didn't feel something.
Well, always looking for something new to watch.
We can talk about this on the show before seven.
Also on the show coming up today, we met another Bachelorette contestant.
We've been meeting these guys all this week.
This one's got a little French background.
Ooh.
Oui, oui, oui.
Bonjour.
I did French my first year of high school, but it's all gone.
Je m'appelle Carl.
I was going to say Je m'appelle as my name is, right?
And I remember supermarket.
What's that?
I think it's supermarché because it's real like supermarkets.
I was like, oh, my God, I'll always remember that.
It's a supermarket made of paper mache.
It's a supermarché mache. It's a super mache.
It might not even be that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
And, of course, petit fermet.
That's Little Farmer.
It is, yes.
I've got that time.
What's that, yogurt?
Yo play?
No, petit miam.
Petit miam.
That means little yum, right? Oh, yeah, that's right.
All right, you lot, listen up.
It's story time.
Story time, three news headlines.
Vaughan and Megan, you've got to pick only one of the following three headlines.
Hang on.
That was a big pause.
I had story time up in the tab, but then I went to the movies.
We still want to go to the movies to check out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We still want to go to the movies after the show.
We go to the movies to see 1917.
And, yeah.
Great movie.
So I wanted to go see 1917 on the big screen,
but Dr. Doolittle was on the extreme screen.
IMAX.
No IMAX for 1917 in the morning.
What's the extreme screen?
That's Hoyts.
Hoyts.
I've checked both options.
Well, I've checked both because I want to see them.
Sylvia Park.
I want to go to Sylvia Park.
Well, no, but I just wanted to see if it was on the big screen.
I feel like this is an off-show chat.
If we're branching out, check Reading at New Lynn.
Hey.
Because they've got the VMAX.
They've got a big-ass screen.
I want to see war movies have to be on a big screen.
He's not wrong. I saw it on a small screen. I want to see war movies have to be on a big screen, Megan. He's not wrong.
I saw it on a small screen, and I don't think it matters.
It's still good.
It'll engross you either way.
Okay, well, we'll go to the one just by work.
But maybe have this discussion after story time.
Be a cool Megan.
It doesn't involve anyone else, does it?
No, someone might have some sort of insight to offer.
To an extreme screen or a big screen.
Headline one, monkeys terrorise village.
Headline two,
Kansas man's
unique custody battle.
And headline three,
drivers unsecure load.
I'll go.
We've got a 10-10
on the Titan
at New Lynn.
What's a Titan?
The Titan's their version
of the massive screen.
Oh God,
that's okay.
And then I'm halfway home.
You could probably Uber back to your house. Absolutely not. We'll go to the massive screen. Oh God, that's okay. And then I'm halfway home. You could probably Uber back to your house.
Absolutely not.
We'll go to the small screen by work.
Oh my God.
What are the three stories he just said?
What?
You're going to have to pick.
Oh yeah, no, no, no.
The three stories were
Mysterious Doctor Can Talk To Animals.
No, that's Doctor.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
are back doing a movie together.
And Three Women Take Down Inappropriately Sexual News Boss. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back doing a movie together and three women take down
inappropriately sexual news boss
I want to see that one
Those are just the three movies that are being advertised
to me on the side of the cinema page
I don't know, whatever, you pick
Unsecure load?
Wait, I've forgotten the other one
Kansas man's unique custody battle
Drivers unsecure load or monkeys terrorise village Are they fighting over the custody battle? Are they fighting over the custody battle?
Are they fighting over a pet?
They're fighting over the monkeys that are fighting over the village.
I'd assume it's children.
But that's not really what the story goes into.
What do you want, Vaughn?
Monkeys.
I want to know about the custody battle.
Okay.
I know I can find the monkey stuff on my own time.
Okay.
That's against the rules.
Not a problem.
If it's about children, I don't know why it's a strange custody battle.
Well, we go now to America where a man during a custody battle has requested trial by combat with Japanese swords
to settle a custody battle with his ex-wife.
Does she get to pick a champion?
If it's trial by combat, I believe she's also allowed to choose a champion.
He has also said she can pick someone or her lawyer,
who he also doesn't like by the sounds of it,
is more than welcome to meet him on the battlefield.
But how do you win?
Well, so he's asked that his ex-wife and her attorney meet on the field of battle where
he will rend their souls from their corporal bodies.
So kill them.
Basically, yeah.
He claims in court documents that his ex-wife has destroyed him legally.
So he's asked the Iowa District Court to give him 12 weeks lead time
to source or forge a katana sword.
He's going to make his own sword!
Yes.
Give the man what he wants.
He's obviously serious.
Now, to this day, trial by combat has never been explicitly banned
or restricted as a right in these United States,
according to court records. What? So it was used as recently as 18 right in these United States, according to court records.
So it was used as recently as 1818 in British court.
As recently as 202 years ago.
Oh, you know, this thing's used all the time.
Just 202 years ago, they cranked it out.
Yeah.
So he is meeting absurdity with his own absurdity.
That's what he's saying because he's frustrated
with his wife and
her returnee.
But yeah, it's ongoing. The judge
hasn't ruled yet.
Just googling who the world's best swordsman
is currently.
They've just given me some really old one.
Who is the best swordsman to ever
live? Miyamoto Musashi
is a given.
Right.
He fought 60 duels in trial by combat and never lost a single one.
Right.
But he's dead now.
He just died of old age, sword-related death.
Right.
That's 200 years ago.
The wife's attorney fired back.
He's argued that a duel could end in death.
Such ramifications probably outweigh
those of property tax and custody issues.
Yeah, right.
It's a fair point. I mean, he sounds like a
reasonable man. Yeah. Her husband.
He does, yeah, surely.
But yeah, it's ongoing.
Good lord. Ongoing.
The judge has yet to rule, so we'll stay.
They loved each other once.
I know.
And they would have been one of those couples that was like burning hot.
Yeah.
Because it's always there where they turn.
They're very passionate people.
Yeah.
And the passion goes from love to sword fighting to death.
Flesh, fauna, Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
A man purchased a set of drawers on Trade Me.
It was like...
Like bedroom drawers.
Yeah, I don't know why you'd...
Like...
I'm just trying to think.
Oh, God, I've got to get these clothes off the floor.
That's why I'm trying to think of the thought process of going into being like,
I'm going to buy a set of drawers on Trade Me.
Well, like you move house and you've got like an extra room or something.
You're like, I need a set of drawers in here.
Mm, okay. Or you're I need a set of drawers in here. Okay.
Or you're upgrading your old set of drawers.
God, I just hate to go around and pick up those drawers
off whoever I brought them off.
That's why I would never do this.
It gets worse because you had to go and pick them up west of Huntley.
Okay.
You've been west of Huntley?
What?
No, what's there?
So there's this option.
Or is that that bridge you can go over?
There's a bridge by that intersection with all the fast food.
Yeah.
Does that mean you have to go through like...
That's where I would, from the description I believe,
I would go over that bridge.
The bridge that you always look at and you're like,
oh, you know how you see the big smokestacks?
Yep.
And you're like, never been on that side of the river.
I'd imagine when you head out that way, music starts playing ominously.
Oh, it's exactly where I thought it was.
Yeah, so...
What, like... What, like...
Slow, like...
Or...
No, that sounds...
No, that's too happy.
I think it's more
just of a...
It's very ominous.
I don't know.
I've never been out there.
It could be lovely.
Oh, no, so this is
a back way to Raglan.
Oh, okay, right.
And there's an old mine there.
It's the old coal mine.
Really, I'm creeped out.
And it like collapsed
and filled up with water
and now it's a lake.
Oh, pretty.
But yeah, it's out there.
It's quite a mysterious area
because it was obviously
thriving at one stage
with the mining and everything.
That spooky music
is still playing in my head.
Yeah.
I'm not sure I'm describing it.
Or let me show you this.
When you search Rotowaro,
which is what it's called,
this is one of the, because of the old train lines out there,
to get the coal, there's an old, what looks to be like a passenger carriage out there.
That's what you find when you Google Maps it.
We're going to see that on Fletcher's Instagram story soon.
You'll go walkies out there.
Why would I do that?
Because you love all that stuff.
I love abandoned train carriages.
For the grant.
Yeah, you went in some abandoned tunnel?
Maybe.
So it depends how intense that music is when I turn off this intersection.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I might have to do a Yui.
No, just get some chicken nuggets at that McDonald's and tune really loudly so that you don't hear the music.
So he buys a set of drawers.
Yeah.
For $60.
Okay.
He gets it home.
Do we know what the drawers
look like?
Nah.
Are they wooden?
I haven't seen a photo
of the drawers.
It's just described
as a chest of drawers.
Okay.
It's already sounding
too hard, Baskets.
$60.
You have to go pick it up.
West of Huntley.
West of Huntley.
Like, no thanks.
Like, I'll just go to Kmart
or something.
There's creepy music playing.
He is pulling the, getting the liners out of the chest of drawers when he gets them home.
Because he's like, oh, I don't think this has probably been cleaned out.
Under that, he sees a little bag.
Oh, God.
And he pulls it out and there are dozens of $100 notes.
He counts it up.
There's $5,000 cash.
No, you can't keep that.
What's that? Absolutely you can.
You have just purchased... Who has $5,000
in an envelope hidden in there?
Either an old doomsday prepper
or someone who's dealing in.
Sure.
The one thing we all know gets
doubt in cash because the IRD doesn't have a code.
Or it was just some savings.
Somebody's savings.
Yeah, okay.
If it's somebody's savings.
Yeah, because when I first saw it,
I was like, I'd keep that and keep it on the down low.
But now you've put it into point.
It might be an old person's savings.
Yeah.
It might be somebody's savings.
Or you've just taken money
and not returned it from a drug dealer.
It would really depend on how that pickup went
and how I judge that situation if I kept the money.
Well, if they're a jerk, you can take it.
Yeah, yeah.
If they didn't help me tie down the set of drawers on the trailer,
then I'd keep it.
But if they were super sweet and lovely, I'd give it back.
Right.
Well, they've also talked to the guy who had the money returned.
Oh, yeah.
And he said, very, very grateful.
Oh, that's nice.
What a good guy.
Set a great example.
He's got two daughters, the guy that returned the money.
And he said, I wanted to set a good example for my daughters.
And this guy's like, what a good dad.
Yeah.
And it was cash that he had saved and he put it there for a rainy day,
but then forgot about it.
Oh.
How do you forget about $5,000?
This is a different generation, though, because I would never have $5,000 just sitting there that I'd forget about $5,000? This is a different generation though,
because I would never have $5,000 just sitting there that I'd forget about.
No.
That would be spent on a holiday.
Like $2 when, like at the end of summer,
you put back on your jeans for winter and that little coin pocket's got like a,
you're like, what's that?
Oh my God.
Yes.
Hey!
$2!
Oh my God, you've got two dollars in your pants.
Yeah.
And that little pocket at the top.
Where'd that come from?
Wait, so you were saying you find two dollars in your shorts
and then you put your hand in and there was two dollars in your shorts.
Okay, let's try this.
And then you reach into your back pocket and you find ten grand.
I'll try the other one.
Can't know that one.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Celeste Barber is an Australian comedian.
She's massive on Instagram.
She's the one who does the little videos to take the piss out of a lot of models and famous people.
Yeah.
All in good fun.
But she became kind of an unintended heroine of the Australian bushfires
because initially she started a fundraiser to raise
$30,000 for her family
who were in Eden,
which was massively affected.
A lot of the pictures
of Eden were the pictures where the sky
just looked bright red at
3pm in the afternoon. So her
family was affected. So the initial
target was $30,000.
She ended up raising $51 million.
So she's got 6.7 million followers.
I don't know how many she had before these efforts.
About the same?
Yeah, she had quite a few.
So 1.3 million people donated.
Initially, she intended this to be like a local thing
to help out her local community.
It went nationwide, like nationwide
and because of who she is,
it went international. And so a lot of people
overseas used her as a way to
donate to Australia.
Now, that seems like
that's awesome. $51 million.
But then you've all of a sudden got
$51 million you have to sort out.
And suddenly everyone has an opinion
on who it should go to
and what's happening with the money.
So she's had a lot of comments and concern from people who have donated.
Right.
Arguing on where the money should go now.
Now, once she has kind of put it forward to GoFundMe,
it doesn't have a lot to, I mean, she doesn't have a lot to do with it.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of strings attached with getting that money
to where it needs to be.
So the upset comes from people who want to know exactly
where their money's going and when it's going to go to the charities.
Because there's holdup as well, because PayPal is involved.
It can take up to 90 days for them to give the money on.
That's crazy.
90 days.
Because I saw she's not making any comment to like media.
It's all through her Instagram.
She's been meeting, hasn't she, with like Facebook and PayPal.
She said she's been meeting with fancy people at all these places
to try and get the ball rolling and get, you know, like.
The money fast-tracked.
Yes.
So she said it seems
with raising an F-tonne
of money comes an F-tonne of people telling you
what you should do with it. That was on her Instagram
but yeah, she's not commenting. But it is
going to the RFS.
Right, the Rural Fire Service.
And they, she says it's going to be
their responsibility to divvy up where they
see fit because obviously they're going to know
who needs it most in what areas and they're going to divvy it up. see fit because obviously they're going to know who needs it most in what areas
and they're going to divvy it up.
But yeah, PayPal and everyone are working with her to get it fast-tracked
so it can be released sooner.
90 days is a long, that's three months.
That's a long time.
And they need the money now, don't they?
Yeah, exactly.
But $51 million, I don't think anyone can scoff at that effort.
So Jeff Bezos, is he the richest man in the world or second?
It's always him and Bill Gates.
He's obviously the founder of Amazon, CEO.
He donated $690,000.
Nice, but people have done the maths.
That's how much he makes in five minutes.
And then they worked it out.
It was like the average person giving 0.something percent of their
yearly salary as a donation.
But it's still
something. I know.
I mean he doesn't have to.
He doesn't know. We can't
scoff at people for trying to do something.
But this is a man that makes
$215 million a day
$78.5
billion a year.
Yeah.
And he gave $690,000.
Still a lot of money though.
Still a lot of money.
But yeah, I mean, yeah.
Kylie Jenner gave him $1 million,
but that was only after she was like
caught out wearing mink.
Wasn't she wearing mink slippers or something
after she said,
oh my God, I feel so sorry for the wildlife.
Everyone's like, but you're wearing mink slippers. And after she said, oh my God, I feel so sorry for the wildlife. Everyone's like, um, but you're wearing mink slippers.
And then suddenly there was a million dollar donation.
Oh yeah, great.
Okay.
We forgot about the mink slippers.
Yeah.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
A Netflix show called Chair is being watched in the Smith household currently.
Megan, you actually were one of the people that recommended it,
that have mentioned that you really enjoyed it.
I didn't expect you to watch it or enjoy it as much as you have.
Oh, it's, maybe I was just in a bit of a state.
So it's about.
I was really tired yesterday, maybe it got in.
Right, so it's about cheerleading.
Yeah, here's the trailer.
People from all over the country come here to cheer for Monica.
My goal was to be the best cheer program in the country.
We only compete once for two minutes and 15 seconds in Daytona.
That may be your last time in your career.
We have kids that come from broken home or troubled past.
If I wouldn't have came here, I'd be sitting in a jail cell right now.
Your own brother is turning on you, jumping you.
They were trying to beat him into a man.
They would make me feel like I was not a part of the family.
Those are my kids.
I'll bite tooth and nail for them.
Okay, that sounds full on.
I'm a bit emotional just listening back to those stories.
But it's about cheerleading.
It's about more than that.
It's a Texas town, and the population, to compare it to a New Zealand-sized town,
would be about Timaru.
Oh, really?
Okay, right.
That's the population size.
It's in Texas.
It's just 40 miles out of Dallas.
Yeah, that's in Texas.
Yeah.
So, or Austin, one of the two big cities.
So it's just out of a big town.
And it's this community college.
And it's their cheerleading program,
which defies all the odds every year
and like wins competitions and everything,
despite being small and a community college.
And it's just about the story
of the kids in the cheer squad.
And you can't not.
Because you hear there,
they don't all have,
because they say a lot of cheerleaders have the,
they grow up,
it's a sport that wealthy people do well in
because their parents can afford to send them anywhere to do it.
But these kids,
there's some kids in there that have grown up with nothing.
Yeah.
But cheer was what they love doing.
Yeah.
And then yeah,
every now and then they'll throw you one of the kids backstories.
Okay.
And it's the backstories.
When these...
From the outside, they do look like wealthy, spoiled children.
Yeah.
They've come from nothing.
You're like, okay.
But then you get the backstories
and you're not quite expecting to be hit with what you're hit with.
Right.
And it's really emotional.
Yeah.
And did you cry a lot as well?
At the end.
You haven't got to the end yet.
Wait, but you said you haven't finished it and you cried.
I've only watched two episodes.
Oh, yeah.
No, the back stories.
I think I cried once in each episode because of the back stories.
They're kind of drip feeding you the back stories.
You meet the kids and you're like, these are amazing.
They're practicing nonstop.
Yeah, right.
I know.
I understand what it takes.
Well, I don't personally, but I understand what it takes to be the best at something
is that you've got to be pushed and everything.
But I also don't like seeing young people like pushed too hard.
Yeah, right.
I find that quite hard to watch.
Have you heard Jerry's backstory?
Oh, Jerry, get me.
Get me.
Get me.
Get me.
Jerry.
I had to put my visor up like that and shout, I see you crying, and I said, a little bit.
A little bit.
I think the visor's the giveaway.
Yeah, yeah.
I put my...
You could have just pretended to go to the toilet or something.
No, because then I would have missed it.
Oh, right.
I would have missed it.
I wanted it.
I wanted to know what happened.
I needed to know what happened.
Right, okay. I want Jerry to being Jerry. So it's know what happened I needed to know what happened right
I want Jerry
to being Jerry
so it's called
Chair
and Madison
was that the other
back story
yeah
that we talked about
yeah
oh my god
okay so it comes
with a good recommendation
you'll hate it Fletch
I think you'll hate it
will I hate it
I'll give it a try
it's a wonderfully
told story though
I think you'll appreciate
the way it's all put together
wait till the end Wait till the end.
Wait till the end.
All right, cheer on Netflix.
Fletchborn and Megan's Community Notices.
Hello and welcome to Community Notices for the year 2020.
Oh, wow.
We haven't resolved any of the previous community issues.
And the last community notices continues to exist.
Great.
And there's a new rule this year.
Okay, what's that? Only one poo story per community notices.
Okay.
Because it's...
They're dominated, aren't they?
They are.
I mean, we're simply reading what we're sent.
Yeah, but there's always some story about a poo.
So, this is not a poo start to it.
Great.
But on the Matamata Notice Board,
Hemi Patterson has written,
to the person slash persons committing the thefts around town,
look, it doesn't bother me when you nick my shoes.
It's a good excuse for me to upgrade.
And it doesn't bother me when you break into my car.
You missed the $50 in coins
sitting in an open compartment, by the way.
Don't know why you didn't want those. And I don't mind
if you snoop around my yard at night,
but for F's sake, stay off
my new lawn.
He's got a picture there and the grass
is lovely. You know when you're growing a new bit of lawn
and you don't mow it for a long time and it
looks lush and green and new.
And he's got it to that point and it looks beautiful.
He's done a great job cultivating that lawn.
Your dad's got a good lawn, Megan.
Oh, my God.
He'll be so stoked you've said that.
Every time we go around, if we're in Nelson, I'm always like,
good lawn.
Well, he waters even when there's restrictions.
Just waits till the night time when I can see.
He doesn't give up.
It's hardly the perfect crime because everyone else's lawn
is tender brown
and his is green.
It's obvious.
Even if you don't see
the hose going,
you'll be like,
oh, it must have rained
just on my lawn.
It's an ecosystem.
What do you call it?
He should just get
a sign maker.
He should get a little sign
made up saying
this lawn is watered
by a bore,
like a well.
Which is a lie,
but people will believe
there's a well
put together.
Prove it.
Yeah. And then just put a fake little hole on the ground.
I'll leave the rest up to him.
Hemi goes on to say, if I
catch you on my grass, you'll be getting hog
died and you'll be begging for me to call the 5-0.
Not a problem, but this
new lawn, because it's showing
they'll put a scuff on it.
Because you don't walk on a new lawn because it's not established they'll put a scuff on it because you don't walk on a new lawn.
Oh, yeah, no.
It's not established.
It could damage the roots.
Yeah.
I'm with, couldn't be more on board with that.
Yeah, no.
Let's go down to Christchurch, to the Christchurch buy, sell, and trade page.
Matt has listed a laptop for $200.
Oh.
Looks like a really nice laptop.
Matt writes, I bought this for the ex-girlfriend to look for work,
but she was lazy and didn't want to work,
so the laptop never got touched.
It is as new.
It's all the good stuff
because she was very fussy
and demanding about
what she wanted of a laptop.
Quad core,
one terabyte hard drive,
touchscreen,
selling cheap
to celebrate her departure.
Wow, he just wants it gone.
He wants a little bit of his cash back.
Get a bit more of that money back.
It's a brand new laptop.
200 is what it's got to list it as.
Yeah, right.
For a brand new laptop.
Just to...
She wanted one.
Ben writes on the Tuturangi page,
does anyone have any baby dolls they don't want anymore?
They don't have to be in perfect condition as they'll be used for this.
Let me show you.
Oh, God.
What's this?
He's making planters.
Pot plant holders.
Pots.
So he counts the head of the baby doll and then fills it with soil.
Yeah.
And puts succulents in there.
That is terrifying.
It's creepy, right?
And that other one there, that's a full body one.
He's cut the stomach open and it's like...
That's the scariest thing I've ever seen.
Imagine like walking home and it's dark.
Yeah.
Who's playing these?
Dry boy.
I don't know.
I think these people would.
Really?
I don't know.
The sort of people you have a potluck dinner with once.
Yeah.
That's whose...
And you have stories about it for life.
Buying and selling those.
To the you know you're from Waiuku when,
Steve writes,
to the Muppet that attempted to break into my car parked in Waiuku today,
did you not see the pit bull inside or were you trying to steal her?
I'll keep what's left of your finger on ice overnight in case you want it back
and you can PM me.
So there's someone out there with a missing finger.
Yes.
There's a bullseye trying to break into a car with a pit bull in there.
Yeah, I'll be like, next car.
The window would be down so the dog would have some breathing.
Maybe they tried to reach into the lock and the dog was just like, rawr.
Wow.
Or they tried to grab the dog because as I say, it could have been a dog theft.
Yeah.
And finally today, let's go to the official Lower Hutt Community Notice Board.
Atars writes on there, to the person who lives on the corner of Tarangi Road on Moiroa, right side of Tarangi,
I just seen one grown-ass human take a shit on your lawn. She was wearing a cowboy hat and so was her partner
who thought he was hiding her from sight, but I seen it all.
Wow.
A female wearing a cowboy hat who was shielded by her partner.
Yeah.
Somebody said, did you get a photo?
And she said, no, because I was driving
and I wasn't looking at my phone
while I was driving. But broad daylight and on a busy road, hiding behind her partner,
a couple of cowboys laying down the law in Lower Hutt. If you see anything on your local
Facebook page, screen cap it and send it to us, FEMZM on Facebook.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
There is a debate raging after a handful of mums in Taupo.
They were, well, they were swimming at a public spa thermal park.
And the debate started after they saw someone wearing what they said was inappropriate togs, a G-string, in front of a family.
I have seen a lot of those this summer season.
They seem to be the tog du jour, don't they?
In fash, bit of butt showing, and then like really high,
you pull them up really high.
I find they don't hide enough at the front for me to pull that off.
Oh, yeah, no.
I thought you meant.
We've all had a rogue ball at the front of our G-string togs.
Everything was rogue. It was juststring tops. Everything was rogue.
It was just a disaster.
It was rogue everything.
So, yeah, she posted about this,
and she said, one of the mums,
I actually expected that most people would agree with me,
especially parents of young and impressionable children.
I obviously struck a nerve with a lot of people,
but I never intended to belittle anyone.
My opinion regarding G-strings in public hasn't changed.
I don't have to prove I'm hot by prancing around in public
wearing a G-string.
I don't have to prove I'm hot.
Because the post got deleted, didn't it?
It's been taken down.
Yeah, it's been taken down,
but not before people screenshot that.
So, okay.
Why do people care what other people wear?
Well, you've got children born, so her problem was impressionable children.
If you were at a pool and there was people wearing G-strings, how would you feel about
it in front of your kids?
I don't care.
So, you know how I feel because I grew up,
I'm like in an atrocious family.
You grew up at a nudist park.
I've seen everything.
People get freaked out about having to explain things to their kids.
But it's a bum.
Yeah.
People get freaked out about their kids seeing gay couples.
Granted, that's on the decline, thankfully.
Yeah.
But, like, you just explained that that's what happens when people love each other.
Yeah.
And it can be a man and a man or a woman and a woman
or a man or a woman or...
And having to explain things to your kids is part of parenting.
Yeah.
Why can I see that woman's bum?
Well, that's just the kind of togs they're choosing to wear.
But it's so strange to me because when I was young, really young,
I just saw everyone naked.
And so you're like, oh, that's their boobs and that's their –
And it's not like you –
It's so normal.
It's not like you turned out some weird kind of –
I'm not a weird perv.
Perv, because you're not.
You're not at all.
It's so...
Or are you?
Do you go home and...
And I still see, like, my family,
we, like, shower and then someone will be in the bathroom
brushing their teeth, like...
Yeah, that's weird.
I still wear that to my bathroom.
But that's so normal to me.
Yeah, right.
And so if I saw someone's, a lot of butt cheek at the pool,
I'm just like, oh, that's their butt.
Like, I don't know.
It's so strange to me that people find it that offensive
and that it's a problem to kids
because, yeah, when I was really young,
grew up seeing everyone naked.
Do you remember having it explained to you
or did you ever question your parents
or you were going from such an age
that it was just what you were used to?
It was just what I was used to.
Right, right.
Yeah, sometimes it was like, sometimes people are to. It was just what I was used to. Right, right. Yeah.
Sometimes it was like, sometimes people are not wearing their clothes and sometimes they are.
And I mean, I knew that if you're going to the supermarket or if you're going out somewhere
you put clothes on.
Yeah.
Or if you're at a barbecue, like barbecuing food in the kitchen.
That's for safety.
Splatters.
Yeah.
And hygiene and stuff.
But like, it just wasn't a thing.
It's like, it's so weird.
Mm.
But, yeah, let's, um.
Let's not care.
About a little butt cheek.
Yeah.
We've all got them.
Yeah, we do.
All different shapes and sizes.
From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six.
Colgate are releasing a vegan toothpaste.
You might be thinking, was it not already vegan?
But it was not.
I was shocked.
Clever from them too because they're pretty much saying,
yeah, all those other ones.
Yeah, calling out themselves and others
but also offering an alternative to their non-vegan toothpaste.
Is this New Zealand or overseas?
Smile for Good is in Europe at the moment.
It's vegan friendly and comes in a recyclable tube,
as most toothpaste tubes are not recyclable.
They're made out of plastic and aluminium in close proximity,
making them difficult to recycle.
This is made out of the same plastic as milk jugs,
so that it's recyclable.
So what's in toothpaste that's not vegan?
Because I just sort of thought it's just chemicals.
Glycerin.
Oh, right, okay. Glycerin. Is that's not vegan? Because I just sort of thought it's just chemicals. Glycerin. Oh, right, okay.
Glycerin.
Is that what makes it?
Glycerin is the stuff made of like hoofs and bones and ligaments.
What's the difference between glycerin and gelatin?
Gelatin and glycerin.
It's the same thing.
Not glycerine, which is an explosive, I believe.
So, yeah, it's derived from animal fat.
And they're saying, well, we're using a plant-sourced glycerin as an alternative. Explosive, I believe. So yeah, it's derived from animal fat.
And they're saying, well, we're using a plant-sourced glycerin as an alternative.
I got given some natural toothpaste once.
I think we just got scented.
And so they don't have all the foaming agents that are in normal.
And it's horrible to use because it doesn't foam up in your mouth.
It's just like having a big liquidy soup in your mouth. Even if you get it wet beforehand.
Yeah, even if you wet it, it's like really weird.
And it makes you realise like how...
How chemically the other one's nothing.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
I want to get used to it, but it's really not a great mouthfeel.
No.
What about the charcoal stuff?
No, but apparently that's bad for you because it's taking off your enamel. It's like scratching
off your enamel for your teeth. That's what I've
read, but I mean, I'm not a toothpaste maker
or a dentist, so maybe don't listen to me.
Are you not? You're not a toothpaste maker?
No, I'm not. The butcher, the baker, the
toothpaste maker. Yeah.
So they've released, you know,
this one, but what else is in toothpaste
that makes it non-vegan? That is today's
top six. Okay. And coming in at number know, this one. But what else is in toothpaste that makes it non-vegan? That is today's top six.
Okay.
And coming in at number six, antlers.
Antlers are in a lot of this stuff.
You're not joking, are you?
What?
Are you joking?
I'm sure there's been a toothpaste with an antler in it.
Remember when...
God, I don't know.
Is Deer Velvet still heavily advertised to the older generation?
I don't know.
The retirees?
Do you remember when Deer Velvet...
Yeah, that was a thing.
It was a big thing.
Yep.
Is that
the furry bits
of an antler?
Yeah.
Deer Velvet.
How was that helping
your body?
It was super rich
and I don't know.
I remember the infomercial.
Who was taking it?
Was it Meadsie?
Heaps of people.
Heaps of people.
Celebrities were.
He was a spokesperson
for the Antlers.
Number five on the list of the top six things in toothpaste
that aren't vegan are beaver anal
gland juice.
Vanilla. That's vanilla.
If there's any hint of vanilla
flavouring to your toothpaste, it's been
okay.
Number four
on the list of the top six things in toothpaste
that aren't vegan are honey wax.
Like, you know the wax and honey?
Yeah.
Multiple uses.
It can be used like glycerin is a bonding agent.
And those bees are slaves.
Yeah, they are.
That's not vegan at all.
By the way, that glycerin stuff that we keep referring to is apparently,
I looked up things that you should watch for
if you're becoming a vegan.
Okay.
And this was pretty much
the number one thing
because it's really
everything that's like
gummy lollies.
Oh.
I couldn't be vegan
because I love gummy lollies.
There's so much in that
that people were like
it's not even vegetarian.
Oh really?
Because it's straight up
animal bits.
Oh okay.
Animal bits being made into yummy gummy lollies.
It's so hard to be an eco-warrior.
And that's like worms.
That's the sour worms.
Sour worms, yep.
That's your jet planes.
Fruit jubes.
Jubes.
Yep.
Everything.
The dinosaur, don't chop the dinosaur, daddy.
Yeah, those yum licorices.
Yeah.
Because ordinary licorices. Yeah. Because ordinary licorices.
Yeah.
The red licorice.
Strawberries.
The strawberry things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Strawberries with the red bottom and the green top.
It's everywhere.
It's everywhere.
Number three on the list of the top six things in toothpaste is...
Now I want lollies.
Can we get lollies at our movie date?
Is 10am too early for lollies?
Well, no.
What does it say in the rule book?
There are no rules.
Yeah.
Not a rule book.
Yeah.
Unless like Jenny Craig's got a rule book, then I'm imagining it would be in her rule book.
Number three on the list of the top six things in toothpaste that aren't vegan are horse hair.
Okay.
Number two.
Can you be a vegan and play like the violin with like,
because don't they have like.
They don't make them out of horse hair.
Oh, they don't.
Was it cat guts?
What?
What?
It was cat guts and horse hair, wasn't it?
It's not how they make strings.
It's all synthetic.
I know it is now, but back in the day, wasn't it?
Oh, not that year.
Cat guts, violin.
Cat guts, violin, strings.
Thank you.
I think cat gut is a type of cord that was prepared from a natural fibre
found in the walls of animal intestines.
Good Lord.
Cat gut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines,
but occasionally use a cat's.
Oh, my God, that's terrible.
Yeah, so back in the old days, they'd make a gut string.
Oh, there's a video.
You can watch a 642 video on YouTube about how to make them.
Absolutely not.
I'll pass at this stage, but I might come back to you later.
Number two on the list of the top six things in toothpaste that aren't vegan.
Lamb chops.
And number one.
That's what you're trying to get out of your teeth.
On the list.
Oh, yeah.
A rib.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
How good are ribs and chops?
Number one on the list Are the top six things
In toothpaste
That aren't vegan
Rissoles
Rissoles
Are found in toothpaste
Your mum's rissoles
Which are lovely
Jesus
She needs to make year round
Not just in summer
For the bar of food
Are you just hungry
I am now
For rissoles
That is today's top six
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan
The podcast
New Zealand
Has been named The fifth Fifth best country in the world for...
Door opening sounds.
Dating.
I got sick of waiting for you to guess.
We didn't even give us a chance.
That's what the door sound was for. Then I got signed track waiting for you to guess. We didn't even give us a chance. That's what the door sound was for.
Then I got sidetracked by door sounds.
For dating, what, like on apps and stuff?
So seniordatingadvice.co.uk are the ones who did this survey.
They surveyed 60 countries.
Yep.
16,000 people.
Okay.
And so the main reason New Zealand is as high as we are is
you're more likely to find
a date in person than online.
Old fashioned dating is very
prominent in New Zealand still, they've found.
So the...
What do they mean by people will meet
on an app or
and then meet each other or do they mean
they'll just meet out? No, you'll just meet outside
of a dating app. Right.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
But the five attributes which they rated these countries on were friendliness,
fun, sexiness.
We're fifth.
That means we're fifth sexiest.
Didn't when we were away in the last couple of weeks,
wasn't the New Zealand accent voted number one?
Oh, am I?
It was.
I mean.
Google it.
I'm pretty sure that happened when we were away.
Wait, number one sexiest. Yeah, sexiest accent. What were we in the past? We were like three or something, weren am I? It was. I mean. Google it. I'm pretty sure that happened when we were away. Like number one sexiest.
Yeah, sexiest accent.
What were we in the past?
We were like three or something, weren't we?
We've been up there.
We've gone up to number one.
But there's nothing like going away from New Zealand and coming back to realise like how.
Do you think?
How.
Who is rated the sexiest in the world?
Who are some sexy Kiwis that are doing it for it?
KJ Appa is like probably helping at the moment.
But then he puts on an American accent.
No, but when he does interviews, he's Kiwi.
Quaint, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
So sexiness, trustworthiness and approachability are the five criteria.
Right, and New Zealand had that.
We're fifth.
Right.
Who's above us?
Australia is number four.
Okay.
Australia is number four. Australia is number four.
Third is Spain.
Second
is Italy and the number one
country to go dating in,
best for dating, is
Brazil. Come to
Brazil. They are the sexiest, they are the
friendliest, fun, trustworthyest
and approachable.
I don't know.
Have you been to Brazil?
I've seen enough, you know, movies.
Recreations of historical events in South America.
No, Brazil's not safe and fun all the time.
Well, we should cross to our South American correspondent,
Carl Fletcher.
I certainly have been there, and I felt safe.
Brazil?
Yeah, Brazil.
Right. Yeah, I didn't feel unsafe.
Were they sexy?
They're certainly sexy. I mean, I wasn't
arguing that point. What a stupid question.
Are Brazilians sexy? Of course.
Was that your main reason for going back there?
What do I mean going back? No, I've only been
once. I've only been once. Okay, well how was your experience?
Well, it was lovely. I got to see that
big Jesus statue. Christ the Redeemer.
Christ the Redeemer. Lovely beach, the Rio Beach.
It's lovely, lovely country.
And then the dating
scene? Wouldn't know.
Are they still like skating
on the dating of the Olympics
when the Olympics were there in 2016?
What do you mean?
Because that would have made dating quite hot.
Oh yeah, no, I just think
generally they're very...
Dancing, I'd imagine a date would include a samba.
I don't know if that's...
A tango.
Would there be tangoing?
I don't know.
Or have I gone too stereotypical?
Yeah, you've gone very stereotypical.
Right.
Because I'd be scared to date over there because I can't tango, I can't mamba.
Yeah, right, okay.
I can't salsa.
Can't do any kind of sexy dance.
Flamenco.
Yeah, no, I'd stand out on the dance floor as the guy just awkwardly standing there holding
his drink with both hands.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
We want to know this morning when someone got your details in a creepy fashion and you
can text us in.
Because this is it.
Like, I wouldn't have thought this happens anymore. Like, I wouldn't have thought this happens anymore.
No, I wouldn't have thought that.
Because this story that you've found is creepy.
Yeah. Or you can
call us. I know at $100.00, we'll text
9696 with your stories of how someone got your details.
Because this story comes from America.
This has been in
court, so it happened a little while ago.
But she's suing American Airlines,
a passenger called Ashley. She was just getting on at
San Diego to travel to Chicago
when she got a text message from a number she didn't know saying hello
and how are you doing? And then, by the way, I must tell you, you're gorgeous.
Thank you, says Ashley. Who is this? How did you get my number?
Can I ask, at this stage
what would you say if you were single and got that
text message, Megan? I would have
said, don't look at me like I would have been like
oh my god, thank you.
I would have been like, who is this?
I would have been like, oh my god, thank you, but who is this?
Yeah. Thank you.
Are you hot before I get angry
at the help? Yeah, I definitely would
have been like, yes, now I'm angry.
So then it said, you guess.
Oh, no.
That's creepy.
That's creepy.
I just saw you at the airport.
So she said she didn't reply.
And then it said, I saw you at the airport again.
You're looking very gorgeous.
Is this another text?
In the grey top today.
Yes.
Onwards.
Onwards.
No.
She was wearing the grey shirt at the time Looking around Trying to find out
Who's texting her
See at that point
I think it was a friend
Being a dick
Yeah
Because no one's that creepy
100 text messages
Came in as part of this
And she said
It got to the point
Where she knew
That they were also
On the plane
The person was saying
I can get you better tickets
I can get you better seats
I see you back there
I can get you better seats
So she's like They they're on the plane.
And obviously working or part of the airline in some capacity,
they can get better seats.
Yeah.
They said, you better tell me if you want these seats
because the phones aren't going to work once we're airborne, blah, blah, blah.
And they said, you're telling me I get,
because they said you gave me your number.
She's like, when did I give you my number?
And then they said, truth be told, I got it from your bag tag.
So this is where you write on your suitcase, your name, your address,
your number in case your suitcase get lost and then it's super easy to track you down.
So they were an airline employee.
Checking her out?
Who must have been at some part of the check-in.
Wow.
Phrase. Phr Wow. Phrase.
Phrase?
Phrase.
So they got the number,
maybe just took a photo of it on their phone,
so it was quick.
They didn't need to hold the bag
so it didn't look suspicious.
And then they started messaging her.
And that's when she said,
that's not okay.
And then the text messages just kept coming.
Is this season three of you?
It could be.
And she said to one of the flight attendants,
this is the situation, explained it, was very worried, felt threatened,
was in tears.
The flight attendant moved to a completely different part of the plane
and then reported the person.
And apparently as they got off the aircraft,
what looked like security guards were accompanying this person.
Now, that's when the flight attendant said to Ashley,
the passenger who'd been receiving all this,
this isn't the first time he's done this.
There shouldn't have been a second time.
No.
American Airlines have said the person is no longer an employee.
Shouldn't have been after the first time.
And they're going to have to pay out for this guy who's a creep.
Yeah.
It's not their fault he's a creep.
Although if they'd known about the first time,
then fair enough, they should have taken action and got rid of him.
He should have known he was going to get in trouble
because if you're not getting any reception back from the person and then
he reveals how he got her number
But he's obviously deluded. Yeah, right.
And he has this big thing in his mind that
oh wow, that's creepy. Yeah.
So you want to see if this has
happened to anyone? Yeah. How did someone
get your contact details?
Like what was the
Like maybe, yeah, you in
the course of having your number
in some database or something or someone's work,
they've got it out of there and hit you up.
Yeah.
But you just can't get away with that.
No.
And I just don't think you're ever going to get a good reception
from someone.
No.
Because you're going to creep about it.
Maybe people have been hit up and they've gone on a date with someone.
I don't know.
They got your details.
Imagine finding out like months down the track if you'd been dating
and everything was going well and they're like, okay, funny story.
I simply must tell you how I got your details.
And then they tell you and you're like, oh, that's not good.
Yeah.
Okay, well, has this ever happened to you?
Or maybe you know of it happening to someone.
Has anyone ever got your personal details and hit you up?
0800DARLS.M, you can text us 9696.
We're talking in America,
American Airlines being sued by a passenger
whose number was acquired by a member of the staff
and she was messaged.
Yeah.
Sort of relentlessly.
Creepily.
Made her feel very unsafe. You would be amazed
how much this happens here. Amazed. I went
to prison for visits and a guard got my number and started texting
me. It was very creepy because you have to sign in. Yeah, right.
But they said they lodged a complaint and that person no longer works there. Because I was thinking
you've got to be careful who you give your number to
and, like, you know, just be a little bit cautious.
But, like, in those circumstances, you've got no choice.
You know, you've got to put your trust in the security guards and the powers.
You should be able to trust them.
Yeah.
Let's take some calls.
Stephanie, what happened?
Oh, hi, guys.
This is so weird.
Welcome to the show.
I always hear you say this to other people, like, in my car,
but I'm never, like, on the radio.
It's you.
It's your time, Stephanie.
It's your time, Stephanie.
This is all about you right now.
So I'm a nursing student and happened way back, like,
in my first semester kind of thing.
But we obviously have our names on our name badges
and we've got our first and our last but
here's this, I was looking
after this lady, she was lovely but
her grandson was
ended up not being. Oh no.
And managed
like completely unbeknownst to me
managed to track me down on Facebook
and because obviously
my number and I didn't even realise
was attached to everything
and posted it about this party
that I was going to and then ended up
sitting in there and I was just like
this is really like
eerie. Yeah.
It kind of got to the fact that I was like asking
around and people were just like oh like I thought
you knew him and then I was
like oh.
He went to this party and didn't know anyone.
Well, I think he knew one person,
but it was like such a loose connection that it was just weird.
That is creepy.
It's like that weird uncle that you see at a...
Yeah, oh, creepy.
Oh, God.
And so did you have to, did it end there?
Did you say, I don't want anything to do with you?
Yeah, well, I had to get, like, one of my friends,
and I was just like, because she was just like,
oh, you've got to do it really nicely,
because it could kind of blow up in your face
if he's acting like this,
and you haven't really done anything.
Yeah, good call, good call.
But yeah, now I don't have my name.
I just have, like, a nickname on my badge.
Yeah, it should have been, yeah. Yeah, like,, your friend was right and it has to be handled well.
But at the same time, it's not up to you to handle it well
if you've been doing it wrong in the first place.
Stephanie, thanks. You're cool.
Joyce, what happened?
How did someone get your number?
So I run and I had to go to a specific shop
to get fitted for new shoes.
And so I went in with my partner and the guy met my partner and blah, blah, blah.
And then so he said, I need to book in with the psychiatrist in store.
So I went, I booked in, they put your number in a manual book, like just writing it down.
Right.
And then I went in for that.
And then after that appointment, I got this random text saying, hey, how are you?
And when I asked who it was, they're like, oh, don't tell your boyfriend.
And then.
Wow.
And then eventually down the track, he was like, oh, well, I thought you were single.
Oh, no.
Don't tell your boyfriend.
He knew very well.
He knew.
Joyce, thanks for your call.
Anonymous, what happened?
So I took my car into a car dealership for your service.
Yeah.
And you know how you give them a number to call you at the end of the day
when your car's finished?
Yeah.
So he took very good care of me and being very nice.
Yeah, he was all right.
And then at the end of the day he ended up texting me
finding me on Facebook stalking me and finding me on Instagram and messaging me
oh my god and then because obviously it's such a small place that I live in I always see him
around all the time now oh no and if he turns out as I stalked him back he actually has a girlfriend
plot twist wow So he turns out as well, I stalked him back. He actually has a girlfriend. Oh!
Plot twist.
Wow.
Thanks, Anonymous.
This is something I said.
I was at New World and I said my number out loud to get the club card.
Oh, okay.
I was signing up for a club card. The guy in the line behind me wrote it down and started texting me.
Creepy at first, but we've actually been dating for two years now.
Well, we asked for success stories.
So it's okay when they're hot and creepy, is it?
Is that how this works?
Apparently.
That's the rule.
It becomes more sweet.
Right.
If they're hot.
Yeah, okay.
Somebody said, I had a beard dropped off to me
And the truck driver
That dropped it off
Took my number
From the delivery sheet
And texted me
Asking me to be his princess
So that was scary
Because he knew exactly
Where I lived
Oh yeah
And had my number
Lots of
Oh man
Crazy stories like that
Somebody else said
That they were getting
Their car serviced
And the guy
Because they were replacing the,
you know when the boot goes up and it goes psss and holds it up?
Yep.
One of those things.
Like a strut.
A gas strut.
A gas strut.
Needed replacing.
And he was very nice but super shy.
Couldn't look me in the eye.
And then at the end of the day,
I started getting text messages from him
because my number was associated to my account.
Oh, yeah.
At that mechanics.
And then when I ignored them, they got really abusive.
So the shy little person that couldn't look me in the eye later became creepy.
See, that's the thing.
It's creepy because you don't know what's going to happen
if you don't reciprocate the feelings.
Yeah.
So I think we can safely say,
if you are thinking about getting someone's number from the customer database,
don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't.
And lots of people have lost their jobs too, by the way.
Oh, really?
Lots of people have messaged in saying that when this happened,
they told the business that they got the database from.
They said, oh, somebody at your work's got my number,
and they laid them off, which is fair enough.
The person that did it?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were meaning the person who dropped them in.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
That's good.
That's good.
No, no, no, no, no.
The person who used it.
Okay.
A misappropriate.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
I didn't think this was a big deal, but apparently it is.
It needs to be talked about.
It is because if this was a woman, we're all for equal rights on the show, Bourne,
and if this was a woman getting targeted for her body,
everyone would be upset.
We'd say something.
Yeah, so we want to stand up for you.
We want you to stand up for yourself.
I don't care.
I don't care about your chicken legs.
I don't need to draw any more attention to it.
And you say that and then you laugh.
We may have...
And you guys say it more you laugh. We may have.
And you guys say it more than anybody.
We may have encouraged this.
Yeah, you've stoked the fire.
You lit the fire and you stoked the fire.
But now you're like, oh, no, everything's caught on fire.
Well, yeah, that's just what you do on radio, isn't it?
That's what you two do to me all the time. Push people to breaking point.
Take the piss out of me all the time.
About something.
And nickname my husband Toyboy so that now that's literally what he gets called all the time.
And people give me crap all the time.
But he legally changed.
Because you lit the fire.
He legally changed his name to Mr. Toyboy.
Yeah, but I mean, regardless.
Yeah.
That's just because everyone calls him that, so you know.
Right.
Yeah.
It's a hot brand.
Yeah, it's a hot brand.
It's welcome. Everyone's trying to get on board hot brand. Yeah, it's a hot brand. It's welcome.
Everyone's trying to get on board with it.
Well, let's be honest.
Yeah, everybody wants a toy boy these days.
It drives customers to the cafe, doesn't it?
Oh, does it what?
And Megan doesn't get there till after work,
so if you want to un-interrupted perv.
Born.
Beaufort and Co.
You're welcome.
Yeah.
He's only being nice to you because you're paying him.
Just saying. Who? He's not flirting. Just to you because you're paying him. Just saying.
Who?
He's not flirting.
Just to people, like, he's not flirting back.
I thought you were specifically talking to me that he's only being nice to me because I'm paying him.
I'm like, I'm not paying him, am I?
With your patronage.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, with patronage.
Okay.
What were we talking about?
Oh, your legs.
Back to your legs.
My legs, yeah.
A photo was put up of us with Lizzo.
Yeah. And we were standing. Also, a photo was put up of us with Lizzo. Yeah.
And we were standing.
By the way, she's hilarious.
You might have, if you heard our interview yesterday,
she's amazing.
She's awesome.
Played FOMO last night.
If you want to see the interview,
Facebook page, Instagram, FEMZM.
But the photo that was put up.
I was wearing shorts.
Yeah.
And shoes.
I don't know if that made it look worse or what.
Because I've got long feet.
Okay.
I'm like a size 11 and a half, sometimes a 12.
You know that pair of shoes?
You are not 11 and a half, 12.
Don't add an inch.
That pair of shoes that I bought, that was an 11, won't even go near me.
Yeah, but that brand, you always have to go up a size.
No, but this is them and this is an 11 and a half.
Yeah, but you always have to go up.
29 and a half centimetres. Now, the Japanese know how to measure a foot. Right. They go in centimetres. No, but this is them and this is an 11 and a half. Yeah, but you always have to go up and... 29 and a half centimetres.
Now, the Japanese
know how to measure a foot.
Right.
They go in centimetres.
Yeah, right.
So there's no confusion.
Yeah.
But everybody else,
it changes.
Yeah, it does.
It wanders.
Not the Japanese.
They're onto something there.
But anyway...
Yeah, not a US 12.
Just stop trying to up you.
You're a 12, aren't you?
I'm a 12.
Yeah, you're like...
Yeah, it's impossible
for me to be a US 12
if you are.
Why? Because you're an 11. What, centimetre? 29.5 centimetres. 29 and a half. Okay, it's impossible for me to be US 12 if you are. Why?
Because you're an 11.
He's made a 29.5 centimeter.
29 and a half.
Okay, it does say it's 11.5.
He's 11 and a half.
And I've got a wider foot, and it's all about girth.
Mine's wide as well.
I don't know why we wouldn't have a competition on who's got the most clown-looking feet when they wear chucks.
Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
But, yeah, I don't know if that was it.
It doesn't bother me though because I've known I've got small, it's a genetic thing.
Well, your dad has the same.
I come from a long line of men who have had skinny lower half of leg.
But yeah, people were like, it became the focal point of the photo.
Somebody commented saying, I can't stop looking at Vaughan's skinny legs.
And then somebody commented on that saying, I can't unsee it
now that you've mentioned it. Is it a
optical illusion? Are you leaning
forward a little bit? Like...
I don't... I have to have a look at the
photo. Maybe a little bit.
Because then like your front, the
top half of your body is more
towards the camera. Somebody asked if you'd
if we'd photoshopped your legs
for that photo.
No.
Megan.
But it does because it's a really white wall behind it
and my legs are only on the surface.
I touch the white wall.
Oh, no, no, no.
I've got skinny legs.
They're all right.
That is true.
You're skipping leg day, bruh.
No, I don't even do leg day.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
You're skipping it.
Don't skip leg day.
Even when I was going to the gym heaps. No, it's not. It's just what they are. It's what's what I mean. You're skipping it. Don't skip leg day. Even when I was going to the gym heaps
nah, it's not. It's just what they are.
It's what they are, mum. And I'm fine with it.
I don't mind.
People are like, skip leg day. It's like, no,
I've done that and it didn't change anything.
You should just wear like big socks and then
put some chicken fillies in there. In the back.
Like calf implants. Well, no, that
wouldn't help because it's the skinny ankle.
Like that would look ridiculous. Okay. I wouldn't help because it's the skinny ankle like that would look ridiculous
okay
I didn't seriously consider it
but somebody said once
oh you know they do calf implants
and I was like
someone said that to you
yeah I know
because I was having a conversation
about skinny legs
they just didn't come out of nowhere
with it
that would have been
a little much
road yeah
like this
but I said
have you thought about
how ridiculous that would look
given how skinny my ankle is?
Yeah.
Because then it would go wide
and then it would probably
even only make it look
more like a chicken.
Yeah.
Like, I don't even think
they could handcuff your ankles
because you just slide them right off.
No, because the foot's wide.
No, because he's got
an 11 and a half size foot.
And a girthy foot.
Ah, right.
So it's your wide foot
that stops you being
detained by the ankles.
Yeah.
I'm just looking at that photo now.
We all look a little top heavy.
You bitch.
Great, I love this.
That was a terrible photo.
That was it.
It's a terrible photo. I blame
Anya, who on her second or third
day of the job took a terrible photo
because she was too afraid to ask Lizzo to take another photo.
What do you say to Lizzo?
Hey, Lizzo, smile.
Like, she gets it.
No, you don't tell her to smile.
You don't tell her to do anything.
You just retake the photo.
Just say I'm going to take it from another angle because of an excuse.
And then you just.
Because these guys look terrible.
It sounds like you guys are trying to put your top-heavy issues onto me,
and I don't.
Can we all just call it off?
Me top-heavy, you bitches.
I think it's more of our expressions that would have warranted a retake of the photo.
You can take as many photos as you want.
Do we have that many wrinkles, or is it the lighting?
Look, I'm not a magician, Megan.
Okay?
Well, we can't go back and take that photo, can we?
No.
At least you know we put up the photos we hate as well.
At the start.
Exactly.
It's all up there.
Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
Today's fact of the day came about in an organic manner.
Last night we've talked about this.
We were watching the TV show Chair,
which is a Netflix series about this chair team.
And you cried a couple of times.
I cried a couple of times.
That's good.
And that's okay.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
It's an indication it's a good watch.
Yeah, it is.
It's an emotional watch. I'm going to watch it and see if I cry. You're going to bad thing. It's an indication it's a good watch. Oh, is it? Yeah, it is. It's an emotional watch.
I'm going to watch it and see if I cry.
You're going to hate it.
It's too emotional for you.
Too much drama.
No, but I think he'll really like some of the characters.
I'm right here.
Very big characters.
I'm right here.
I don't know.
Shush, we're talking about you, not to you.
Yeah, but I feel like he'll be just like,
oh, so much drama.
This is too much.
He loves a bit of drama.
I'm right here. He thrives on it. I'm right here. You can talk to me. He's an idiot, isn't he, this is too much. He loves a bit of drama. I'm right here.
He thrives on it.
I'm right here, you can talk to me.
He's such an idiot, isn't he?
Moron.
Yeah.
So emotionally stunted.
He wants to get involved in conversations that he's not part of.
Yeah.
He's in the room, but we don't need him to be a part of it.
It's set in Texas.
This Netflix show is set in Texas.
And I said, and I don't know because we haven't watched it all.
Okay.
I bet at some stage in this, that song Deep in the Heart of Texas will be in it.
Deep in the heart of Texas.
I can't remember.
It might have been.
Because Texans love that song.
Okay.
That's like the Texas song.
If you don't know what song I'm talking about, 1941, this is the.
The stars at night. I mean mean you could have
Cued it up to this
I don't know
Deep in the heart of Texas
It does make you want to do
That stompy walk
Yeah and wear a big hat
It's wide and high
Deep in the heart of Texas
Now the clapping
Is what I want to talk about
Because I looked up the song
Because I don't think my wife Knew what the song was So I looked it up And I was like the clapping How do you know what the clapping is what I want to talk about because I looked up the song because I don't think my wife
knew what the song was.
Yep.
So I looked it up
and I was like the clapping.
What the song is.
How do I know that song?
I know that song.
Movies and TV shows.
Yeah, right.
That's why I said
whenever there's something
about Texas,
it's always
Be a fan
of the heart of Texas.
Oh, this isn't going to be
one of those
Friends theme song
how many claps thing,
is it? Oh, no, no. Oh, good. Maybe this inspired the one of those Friends theme song, how many claps thing, is it?
Oh, no, no.
Oh, good.
Maybe this inspired the claps.
That's four.
I can't remember what we settled on there.
I think it's four.
The song came out in 1941.
So it's older than I thought.
And in 1942, it had five different versions of the same song
in the Billboard charts.
You imagine if a song got released.
Yeah.
And there were five versions of it in the top 100. Ed Sheer if a song got released and there were five versions
of it in the top 100.
Ed Sheeran's like, here's my song, and then he's like,
and then I've done one with a flute.
No, he wasn't in the next one.
Someone else covered it.
Different covers.
Did Polly...
Dolly Parton...
Did Polly Darton...
She was the ripple
of Dolly Parden.
Jolly Parden.
Did she do one?
I feel like she sung one.
She's 100% she will have sung it at some stage,
but I can't see here that she's released an official single version of it.
But it was so popular.
It was everywhere in the world.
And you think 1942, World War.
Everyone's involved in the war by this time.
America's involved.
England's been at war for years.
The BBC banned the song being played on air during working hours.
This is today's fact of the day.
Due to the fact that wartime factory workers couldn't resist clapping
and they would neglect their tools and a central wartime building whenever the song came on.
Wow.
So they're all riveting things together and drilling and putting tanks
and planes together and then that song comes on
and they're deep in the heart of...
But could they not afford them a couple of claps to keep them happy?
They couldn't afford them.
Even for morale.
I would have thought that's why outside of working hours.
Yep.
A-okay.
Yeah, right.
In the midst of working hours, which I don't have the official working hours,
but imagine wartime you'd stretch your working hours, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
You'd be doing a longer day.
Say so.
It was necessary.
But they banned it on the BBC because of the fact that nobody could resist.
Clapping.
The clapping along to the clapping part. Wow.
There is quite a few clapping parts too.
Well literally every
line
ends with the clapping.
Do you think if we played the Friends
theme song, if you had a
drill or a hammer, would you
put it down and clap? I've been
holding things and they come and I put it under my arm
to do the clap.
Yeah.
Be irresistible.
Yeah.
Okay.
But luckily,
when that came out in the 1990s,
we weren't,
everyone wasn't
at war.
No.
In the midst of a world war
building bombers
at breakneck speed,
et cetera.
So today's fact of the day
is the Clap Along Classic
in the heart of Texas
was banned during work hours in World War II
because everybody just couldn't resist clapping.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
We are getting The Bachelor at New Zealand the 27th of January.
So all this week we've been meeting some of The Bachelors that are going to be on the show.
You can see The Bachelors, the profiles and all the info ZM online. But this morning I would like to introduce Logan. Good morning.
Hey guys. How's it going? Good, thank you, Logan. Logan, morning I would like to introduce Logan. Good morning. Hey guys. How's it going?
Good, thank you, Logan.
Logan, I was just briefly chatting to Logan.
Okay. And he said
he started life in France.
Yeah, that's right. Started life in France.
Been in New Zealand about 20 years.
On and off now. Right. Sort of
grown up all over the place. Do you still know some
French? Do you still know some?
Yeah, I'm fluent in French, mate. it say something oh yeah the language of love oh yes i feel like this is going
to do you well on the show yes yeah hopefully it will jupail for sage at the nail pass yeah okay
yeah hopefully hopefully putting a difference for me so french was your first language then you
uh french was my first language yeah i speak was my first language, yeah, but I speak a bit of English now.
Do you speak anything else?
A little bit.
You speak it perfectly.
As I've been saying, I speak a little bit of French.
Je ne sais quoi.
Okay, so where else have you lived?
What a mystery.
What an international man of mystery.
Yeah, not too bad, right?
So I've lived in Jersey in the UK.
I lived in Malawi in Africa. I lived in Scotland, right? So I've lived in Jersey in the UK, lived in Malawi in Africa, lived in Scotland,
Aussie, taught English in South
Korea, lived in the US for a couple years as well
in my 20s. Good lord.
Yeah, so very mixed.
Does that make you a hard man to
tie down though?
Yeah, apparently.
Apparently, yeah, this one's still single, right?
But like, are you keen to stay in one
place now? Yeah, New Zealand time. New Zealand time, this is where I want to be, this's why I'm still single, right? But, like, are you keen to stay in one place now? Yeah, New Zealand time.
Yeah.
New Zealand time.
This is where I want to be.
This is where I want to settle down, raise a family,
do all that good stuff.
Nice.
Absolutely.
Ryan, Malawi piqued my interest.
What took you to Africa?
So that was when I was quite young growing up.
So my dad teaches psychology,
so we sort of moved around early on because of his job.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, some of the other places was just when I was
setting out and doing my own thing in life.
Doing travelling.
Amazing.
Tattoos on your arms.
What have we got there?
I can see a rose.
Yeah, so I've got quite a few roses as well,
so I'm pretty much perfect for the show.
Yeah, she's waiting for a rose for you.
I bought my own.
Yeah, don't worry about that.
See you next week.
So what does it signify for you?
The tattoos.
Yeah.
All the roses.
The roses I just love for my family, love for my friends, love for life.
Nice.
Tell us about the show.
Was there any drama?
I know you can't give anything away, but we have heard that the guys can be just as bitchy.
There was definitely a little bit of drama.
Yeah, I had beef with a couple of the boys as well.
Really?
Because I was going to say you seem like quite a casual,
like more of a lover than a fighter.
Oh, I'm definitely more of a lover, yeah.
But you've got to stick up for yourself sometimes.
Yeah, right.
People talk shit about you.
And yeah, I don't think any of the boys in the house
had a problem doing that.
Right.
I can't wait to see this.
Now, you lived at the mansion?
Yep, lived at the mansion.
You lived at the mansion
and we're having a pool party at the mansion.
What filtration system are we running on the pool?
Is it chlorine?
Is it a mineral?
Is it salt?
I've got no idea, to be fair.
When you jumped in, what could you taste?
Did your eyes get stingy?
Did your eyes get stingy?
Did you open your eyes under water?
Yeah, yeah.
I think they can see.
Do I get an invite to the pool party?
Sure.
Okay, cool.
If you want to come.
You're not contractually obliged to have to come.
And I don't know if he's in charge of invites, but yeah, sure.
Yeah.
I can dish these.
Yeah, easy.
Yeah, sounds good.
Okay, because I'm sure we'll have...
Well, I won't be in the pool, so there'll be room.
Yeah.
Because I'm going to be dealing with the filtration.
Right, okay, yeah.
Make sure the pH levels are fine.
Yeah.
What we need to add,
what we need to take out.
That's the only reason you're lingering in the pool.
Actually, that just looks even more creepier
if you're just like,
I'm just here for the pH.
Because I'm going to be in a gym that is overall.
Yeah.
I'm just here to monitor the pH.
I don't know if you've wheezed.
That's what I'm saying.
All right, well, best of luck. We look forward to seeing you on The Bachelorette. Cool, awesome. I'm't know if you've wheezed. That's what I'll say. All right, well, best of luck.
We look forward
to seeing you
on The Bachelorette.
Cool,
awesome.
I'm excited.
Thanks, guys.
Flesh,
Fawn and Megan,
the podcast,
ZM.
We know that exercise
can help
your mental health,
releases endorphins,
makes you feel good.
Yep.
But up until now,
it doesn't seem like
there's been
like a definition
of which kind of training.
So between strength and cardio.
I just thought any exercise would have been pretty good for you, right?
Well, no, of course, any would be.
But there is one that if you add to your weekly exercise plan, that can help you a lot.
So studies being done on people who suffer from depression
and they split them into groups,
one doing like aerobic exercise and the other doing strength.
Now, when I say strength,
that doesn't necessarily mean lifting weights.
That means lunges and squats as well.
So anything that's like directly, you know, that's not aerobic.
Yeah, okay.
So the, and I've also found that the vast majority of the population
are doing no strength training.
So mostly cardio.
Okay.
So the ones that added at least one strength training session
to their workout per week,
it reduced the likelihood of feelings of depression.
Even just one workout in a week?
You only have to, they say, add one strength training session to your weekly.
Right.
So even if you're more of a cardio person, even if you're just doing some lunges, some
squats, even some push-ups, that would help.
The strength training really helps your mental health.
But they've also said that combining the two
is the best thing for mental health.
But if you're just doing cardio,
add some strength training.
It can make you feel better.
Yeah, but it's when you can't be bothered.
Like, that's the hard bit, isn't it?
When you can't be bothered,
I find you do the weights, don't you?
Because you're like, I can't be bothered running.
Well, yeah, that's true. But I'm just saying, even when you can't be bothered. No, that's the weights, don't you? Because you're like, I can't be bothered running. Well, yeah, that's true.
But I'm just saying even when you do the weights by pulling into the car park
and waiting in the car and then driving out.
That's the weights.
I waited for a car park.
I didn't have time.
I ran out of time.
I tried.
Yeah, that's when you wait for longer than a minute
because it's a plural of a minute.
So it's weights.
So you haven't waited.
You've done the weights.
Right.
But then it's hard to watch a Netflix show when you're doing the weights.
Because sometimes I'm like, I really want to watch a show,
so you just go on the treadmill.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, this is the one you go on when you just cross trainer.
The cross trainer.
That's the one you go on when you don't really want to be there,
but you want to watch your Netflix show because they've got faster Wi-Fi
than you do at home.
Yeah.
And you can watch it in like a high definition.
At least you're doing something.
Like 100%.
If you're watching
a Netflix show
for half an hour
and you're doing
half an hour
on the cross train
that's great.
100%.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Totally.
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