ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - January 23 2019

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by Spark. Get a new phone from $99 on a Spark prepaid rollover pack. And now on the podcast. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Fletch just needs to get the food out of his mouth real quick. What else have we got to send some shapes. They're embargoed. You can't talk about it until next Monday.

I wasn't going to say the flavour, but also don't send me a delicious new flavour of shapes with an embargo till next Monday. That's a long time to wait. And also, I didn't sign anything. I can say the flavour. Please don't. Please don't say what it is.

They're saying that, but they want me to say it. Why would you send them a week away from an embargo? They're embargoed. I'm not waiting till next Monday to say what flavour this is. This is a real good tease though. Don't wet on air. Stop eating them. They're so good. They are really, really good. I'll give you a clue.

It's something you put on Don't do it. What? They're out in Australia. Really, really good. I'll give you a clue. It's something you put on... Don't do it. What? They're out in Australia. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, Vegemite. They're really young.

Vegemite and cheese. They are really, really good. Are they going to sue me? Are they going to sue me? Are they going to sue me now? No. As you said, you didn't sign anything. It was just a courtesy.

But now that they're out in Australia, in Australia, I mean... I made the mistake of having one. I know. It won everybody over, right? They won everybody. There was reluctance in the room. I'm a Marmite guy, but... Me too. Very... I am, yeah. I'm a Marmite over Vegemite.

Are you being gross? No, I'm just saying that's a fool's choice. Vegemite is the far superior yeast they spread. Vegemite's the Australian one, right? Yeah. Yeah, shame on you. Well, who makes Marmite? A sanitarium.

Yeah, well, if they start paying corporate tax, maybe I'll spread their yeast they spread on my bread. Yeah, right, okay. Oh, no, we're a church. Are you? Are you? Do you have a prayer before work every day? Do you? Probably do, I don't know. Yeah, they might do. Never been to the factory. Knock yourselves out, we're a church. Are you? Are you? Do you have a prayer before work every day? Do you?

Probably do. I don't know. Yeah, they might do. Never been to the factory. Knock yourselves out. But those are good. Yeah, I would stop eating. Yeah, I was going to say,

you've chucked another one in your mouth now. I'm kind of like, can I get on with this thing? Can I do this show? Hey, Anya, how many pages was that Jamie Lee Ross dossier that he's written? That would be five. Boring.

Wait, come on mate, it's 2019 if it can't be said in a paragraph should it be said? I mean that is rich coming from me. Very, very rich. You lot listen up, it's story time. Alright, time for Story Time. Three

news headlines. Vaughan and Megan picked one news headline only. The others are deleted. We never find out about those stories. That's how Story Time works. Headline one, man's new best friend. Headline two, winter festival of snow cancelled due to snow. And headline

three, typo leads to new friends. Typo leads to new friends. Typo leads to new friends? Typo? What, a community of people who appreciate a there there situation? Oh, yeah. Or was it just a huge ducking mistake? Well, you have to find out, won't you? Yeah, okay.

I'm on that one. All right. Well, this story involves two men called Will Novak. One lives in Arizona and one lives in New York. And it was a bachelor party invitation mix-up

that has resulted in a new friendship. Because party planner Devin Ornello was running out of time, so he sent invitations to his brother's bachelor ski getaway via email. Okay. But he made a single typo and ended up sending an invitation to the wrong Will Novak, a total stranger,

which obviously all went out in the email. Yeah. And this Will Novak's like, you've got the wrong Will Novak there. He was like, guys, I live in Arizona. Vermont's a very long way away. I don't know how to ski. All that said, count me in.

I'll be there. I'd love to come. Yeah. And so he ended up going after a little GoFundMe. Yeah. And now he's friends with them. Reached his travel goal. Wait, so people paid money into his GoFundMe. Yeah. And now he's friends with them. Reached his travel goal. Wait, so people paid money into his GoFundMe account so he could go on a ski holiday with strangers?

Across the country, yeah, with strangers. And now he enjoyed the bachelor's weekend with a new group of friends, including the other Will Novak. That's risky. Because you don't, like... We don't know them, do you? No. Might have been a real punish.

I'm assuming once he got their email addresses and started chatting to them, maybe in the group chat. Looked on Facebook. He could stalk them and see if they were. So how did he mess it up? Did he write Will Novak at Gmail or is it supposed to be W Novak? Yeah, there must have been a dot or something. I don't know.

It doesn't go into those details. Because I got added on Facebook to a bridal party chat. Did you see this? No. Was it in last year? Got added to a bridal party chat talking about, like, what clothes we needed to buy for the... Oh, how are you?

They were after another Vaughan Smith. And this was in Australia, and I was clicking on these people. Oh, but not a bridesmaid, like a groomsman. Oh, a bridal party, I see. Right. So that's everybody in the, you knowid like a groomsman. Oh a bridal party I see. Right. That's everybody in the you know yeah groomsman and everything

and yeah they were like oh and Smithy you need to get this that and the other and I was like okay. But who added you like a friend initially? No not my friend it

was just a random I don't know they must have just started typing in Vaughan Smith and they just clicked on me rather than this other guy. Right.

And it was like message request. I was like boom and I guy. Right. And it was like messenger request. You played along, didn't you? I was like, boom, and I did for a while. I was like, oh, okay. And she's like, oh, we're going to get these pants from here because they're cheap and then if they need to be altered, I'll take them here. Yep. Blah, blah, blah. And I was like, okay. And then

after a while I was like, I'm just going to let you know because I've just thought about if this had happened to me and the admin involved and someone catching up late in the game, but you've got the wrong Vaughan Smith. And they're like, piss off, Smithy. Something Smithy would say. Stop being a jerk. And then when they finally believed me, they were like,

I was wondering who those kids were in your profile picture. I was like, those are my kids. And then they were like laughing about it and they're like, alright mate. And I was like, okay, well, good luck with the actual Vaughan Smith. And they said, you're more fun than him. And I was like, okay, well, good luck with the actual Vaughan Smith. And they said, you're more fun than him. And I was like, okay. High praise.

Poor other Vaughan Smith. He wouldn't joke around about a pet. But I must say it was an unusual attire because I was running it past Sade. She's like, oh, that's unusual. What was it? Well, it was a, no, no, no, no. It was a brown pant. Oh, okay.

Like a chocolate. Like a tan. Oh, okay. I like brown pant. Like a tan. Oh, okay. Like a tan pant. Cream or tan? No, tan. More of a tan. Okay.

Which I wasn't like against, but then I can't remember what the bridal parties, the girls' colours were, but then that didn't sit well. That didn't go well. Right. I think it was a blue shirt and tan pants. Oh, no.

Could look okay. Not for a wedding. Yeah, I thought you were going to say white shirt and tan pants. Oh, no. It could look okay. Not for a wedding. Yeah. I thought you were going to say white shirt and tan pants. But it wasn't a beach wedding. Maybe for your Christian commune. Yeah. But not for a wedding.

It would have looked wonderful. But they were going for a boat shoe as well. Right. And a rolled up, you know, like you wear with your rolled up pant. Like a chino. A long rolled up chino. Yeah. Right, okay.

Not for me. I'm glad I wasn't involved. I can't imagine you in a boat shirt. I know, and a rolled-up Chino. And a blue shirt. Not me. Not for me, thanks. Just stick to your AS colour T-shirt.

Yes, please. So Earth would shift on its axis. I know. Just a nice, Helen Stein's $200 for everything suit would be right up my alley, thanks. F.E.M. Megan's mid hiccups. Oh.

Sorry. I want to try a cure. Somebody tell me about this cure. Okay. Okay. I've got to come around and block your ears. Okay. So I need to take my makeup off.

Have you got a drink of water? No. Oh. What? Have you ever drank water? I don't know where my drink bottle is. Oh, that's a real problem. It's real sad.

Have you got a cup? It's my Love Island drink bottle. Have you got a cup? Oh. I'll pour some water over this cup. It's a real ouch It's real sad. That's my Love Island drink bottle. I've got a cup. Oh. I'll pour some water over this cup. It's a real ouchy hiccup too, you know? It sounds deep. Yeah.

Okay. Do I have to take my headphones off? So you have to scald this water. No, that's a whole. Yeah, but for as just for as long as you can. Okay. And I'm taking my headphones off. Yeah, because I've got to put my fingers in your ears.

Oh. What? So somebody messaged in a while ago saying next time Fletch gets the hiccups, you should try this. Okay, well, I'm glad it's Megan, not me. Okay. So where do I start? I'm going to stick my fingers in your ears and then you start.

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Skull Skull Skull Skull Skull Skull Skull Skull Skull You're welcome Okay sweet then How crazy is that? Well I'm glad we stopped the show for that I don't think I had to stand No Was that one? No I coughed

I don't think like It's necessarily that I need to stand behind you That wasn't the crucial part of it But there must be something In the whole Equalising Block the ears And then yeah

The drinking might I don't know Yeah I don't know But it works They're gone Yeah Block the ears Get someone to block your ears

Probably by standing behind you Just because it's easier Than them standing in front of you Yeah and then drink water I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But it works. They're gone. Yeah. Block the ears. Get someone to block your ears. Probably by standing behind you just because it's easier than them standing in front of you. Yeah, and then just scull as much and as long and as hard as you can. Good to know. Yeah, okay. But that's worked this time. On to our other news. In Australia, I just realised I had my fingers in your ears and I was like, are they a bit sticky? And then I was like, I had to smell them.

Don't smell them! Pleasant. Not pleasant, but not horrible. Yeah, right. I'm so creeped out. It's so gross. Yeah, but now I feel like I've got to hold my hands like this because I need to go wash them. But we've got a job to do.

Bring in the hand sanitiser, please. What's wrong with my ears? No, nothing, but they're not my... Does hand sanitiser get rid of wax? Does it feel waxy? No, not wax. Just like... It might be more moisturizer or something than wax.

That's why I bought cleaner, Caitlin. I'm not putting that on my sensitive skin. That's fine, okay? God, my dermatologist would have a nightmare if she's listening. I don't have a dermatologist. I'm not using some rank towel, Caitlin. Get out of here. I'll just hold my fingers like this till I'm done.

A 43-year-old in Australia has lost his job. He's a dermatologist. I'm not using some rank towel, Caden. Get out of here. I'll just hold my fingers like this till I'm done. A 43-year-old in Australia has lost his job. He's a prison officer. And on the way home, he was like into Maccas for a Big Mac, Super Mac, Big Mac combo-y thing. Okay. Mac attack. And he's like, I'll get 24 nuggets as well. I know.

He's not mucking around, right? He's a hungry boy. If I did a combo, I could maybe do six nuggies max, I reckon. Liar. You've got a 10 pack before. Yeah, you could do a combo and a 10 pack. Or maybe I could do a 10, but I'd be quite full. I could not do 24.

And a mack attack. And a mack attack. That's insane. So he pulled up and he's like, yeah, mate, please discount, please. Okay. He's a prison guard, a discount, please. Okay. He's a prison guard, a casual prison guard. Right, so he's got a uniform. Was he in uniform?

He was in uniform. Right. And he had a badge, and they said, oh, we need to see your badge. And he showed them an ID card that said, New South Wales Police External Contractor, because he's a prison guard. Oh, right. And they're like, that's not the usual ones we cite.

And then give the discount. He's like, oh, it's my off-duty badge. Police don't have off-duty badges, do they? No, no. This is the one I use when I'm off-duty. They took a photo of it and the bank card he used to pay and reported it to like the local police. Whereas I just would have been like, sweet, who cares?

I'm not paid enough to really give a rat's if you're getting, what would the discount be? 50% absolute maximum? Absolute maximum. God, I reckon I'd be bulging my police uniform if I got 50% off Maccas. Well, you'd probably get twice as much.

God, we've been to a couple of burglaries and, you know, a hold up. We better get some Maccas because we get 50% off. Yeah, they need to give them 50% off like a healthy place. No, but you'd do lots of running, you'd be running,

chasing down suspects. You'd be like, that's four nuggies down. I think we think that though, but then how many like criminal chases do they actually do in a day? Yeah. They use the car, right?

You just run the criminal over in the car. And that way you can just run him over and then be like, grab your cup out of the cup holder and be like... Job well done. Strap back in. You get puffed and thirsty

if you go out of the car and actually run. Anyway, he's lost his job. Really? He's out of a job now. All because of what he was getting a half price discount. He just asked for a discount.

Make him pay it back and tell him just asked for a discount. Yeah, make him pay it back and tell him not to do it again. Yeah, you'd just be like, oh, you can't do that, mate,

it's cheeky. He had to go to court. Are you kidding? He was given what is called a section 10 non-conviction. So he was found guilty, but it's not like

a long-term conviction, but he lost his job, which I reckon is pretty stank. Oh, that's a bit stank. That's real stank. It's just a discount.

So it was $11 the discount would have entitled him to an $11 discount. And now he's lost his job because he tried his luck on a discount. Oh my God. Do you reckon that was the first time? I reckon he got away with it a few times. Oh, you reckon? I hope so.

Who cares? I kind of hope so. I don't care. It was just a discount. He's just giving it a go. Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister, is in the UK and she has done a wide-ranging interview. Like, they covered a lot of topics. She's popping up everywhere at the moment.

She went to Downing Street. And she had a secret meeting with Meghan Markle too. Apparently, Meghan wanted to thank her and say, you know, pass on my thanks to New Zealand for how great you guys were

when we were there. So she had a secret meeting with her. I saw an interview pop up because she's gone to Davos in Switzerland, the World Economic Forum. She got interviewed

by that guy from CNN, that loud, yelly guy that got, remember he got arrested in the park? With a rope tied around his genitals. What got arrested in the park with a rope tied around his genitals. Richard Crest makes business. With a rope tied around his genitals. And his neck.

And they found drugs on him. She got interviewed by that guy. Hey, what does New Zealand have to offer traders? Richard Crest makes business. Is he still doing interviews? You know, this was like 10 years ago, and he got off, he did some counselling or something. Got off the charges.

Yeah. And so from what I understand, the rope was around the neck when over something came down his back around and was attached to his genitals. Is that correct? And he had a sex toy on him. It's the most bizarre. Imagine. Richard Quest.

Quest. Business. I wonder if Jacinda knows that story sitting in front of him doing an interview. That would be all that I could think about. I know. If there was some weird drop in the ocean chance one day, I did something to be interviewed by him, and he sat down and he was like,

sir, I'd be like, yes, so. I've got a couple of questions first. I've got to ask, dog, what's the logistics of that whole neck over, down, round, down the back, up the butt, round to the genitals? I've got a lot of questions, Richard. It's amazing he survived that. Yeah.

As far as like... Well, as amazing as career survived, but it's also amazing he survived. That's a very dangerous game to play. We need to write that down for next time Jacinda's in here. We always need a list of things we... Off the air, we'll ask her. Okay. I don't think she's going to... Okay, so... time Jacinda's in here. We always need a list of things. Off the air we'll ask her. I don't think she's going to ask him.

What do you do? Okay, so. Anyway, she got interviewed by that guy. And she got interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire from the BBC. Now this covered a lot of topics, but one question in particular was a little bit personal.

I wonder finally if I could ask you, can you imagine asking your partner, Clark Gayford, to marry you? Or will you wait for him to ask you? I would not ask, no. You're a feminist. Absolutely. Oh, absolutely I'm a feminist. But no, I want to put him through the pain and torture

of having to agonise about that question himself. No, that's letting him off the hook. Absolutely not. Okay, fair enough. We await that day. Thank you. Awkward. Oh, I hate it when people say that.

But you're a feminist. Because before I was married, people used to be like, oh, would you ever ask him? I was the same. No, because that's not what I'm into. And they're like, but you're a feminist. Yeah, but why does that mean I have to ask? Yeah, it's like in these people's minds, every feminist is like, all right, John, don't marry me.

Like super aggressive. All that means is that we believe women should have the choice of anything to do with their lives. And I choose not to ask. It was a female asking her, but I still think that, I don't think a single male politician or prime minister would be asked that question. I'm glad you said that, Fletch,

because I also think that, but I didn't want to say it. No, they wouldn't be. Not in a million years. Like if Justin Trudeau was single. Maybe if Justin Trudeau was single. But like, what's that Barnaby Joyce dude? He's with his new, he's having another baby with that.

Oh, yeah. But does he ever get asked if he's going to marry her? People just kind of, like, leave that alone. No, not the press don't ask, but lots of people do. Right. Like, yeah, because he's always marketed himself as, like, a conservative politician, right? So Richard Quest was arrested. Is that what you've been doing?

Yeah. Because I knew there was more to it. New York Central Park, he had a plastic bag with methamphetamine in his pocket. Right. And he had a sex toy

in his shoe. And so he was wearing, I believe, no clothes apart from the shoes with the sex toy concealed and the rope around his neck

connected to his penis and testicles. Because every time I see CNN on at the gym or you're staying so when you're fucking through the channels, he comes up on the screen. I'm like, how did you survive that scandal? It was only 10 years ago too. He's been back on TV for ages.

Like, you can find a tree in your backyard maybe. That's very public. Yeah, true, you've got to go and find the grass in Central Park. And why was the sex toy in a shoe? Keep it warm. And what kind of sex toy can you fit in your shoe? Yeah!

I don't know! Nah you wouldn't be able to fit one of those in there because if like the bowl we put on the end of the stuff it doesn't go all the way in. It depends how big the shoe is I don't know. Yeah! Or it might be like I have a fake compartment on me. It might have been platform shoes.

So many questions. There's been a... ACC's released some information about cost of claims for scooters. Now, this is e-scooters and scooters. Basically, any claim with the word scooter in it. So, I think this could include some standard push scooters. Yeah, which would be a lot of kids, right? Yeah.

A lot of kids have those. And even adults, because my daughter got one for Christmas that's rated for 100 kgs, which means I can ride it. Yeah. And boy, they've got some good bearings in them. They get a roll on those things. Yeah. I had to bail onto the grass going down a little incline

the other day. It was fun, but I could see you could definitely use your bailing if you weren't ready for it. So this is e-scooter and scooter claims. This is since halfway through October last year. So when Lime Scooters launched, basically. Did we have some like stats on bike injuries? But that's the other thing, workplace injuries.

But I mean, the thing about workplace injuries is you're kind of paying, while you're there, you pay tax and ACC to be there. So that covers accidents, right? The thing about Lime Scooters is where does that ACC portion come from? Same for bikes. Yeah, exactly. There's no cost to ride a bike. In fact, Lime Scooters, you're hiring it, so the company's paying tax, I guess.

Every couple of months, there's not bike stats that come out. And gym stats, like everyone hurts themselves at the gym. I just feel like it's a bit of a buzz thing at the moment. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. It's easy clickbait for news places, you know. I'd like to see the actual percentages. Like, so the number of claims.

For example, e-scooter claims in Auckland since midway through October last year, there's been 470 e-scooter claims through ACC. There's been a further 1,100 claims that have got scooter in them, not specifically e-scooter. Right, okay. But, you know, percentage-wise of ACC claims, how does that compare to rugby or gym or anything?

Workplace. Swimming. Yeah. And the total cost to date for e-scooters in Auckland, $219,000. Whoa. But $400,000 for other scooters. So $600,000 in total. And just since October.

Since October in any sort of scooter claim. But we were really excited in the beginning, weren't we? We got a little bit silly. Now we've calmed down, you know? I don't know if we have. I heard someone the other day. They were going down Queen Street, full noise, ding, ding, ding. Just weaving in and out of a packed footpath.

Oh, I'd go on the road down Queen Street. Yeah, I know. Same. I was just like, oh, God. I can see why they're in the news. Yeah, because if you bang into a car, you'll hurt yourself. But if you bang into another person, you're going to hurt a whole lot of other people as well. So in Christchurch, significantly less.

When did they get Lyme? A little bit later after Auckland. I thought to maybe November. Right. So 252 e-scooter claims since October. That totaled 80,000. In Dunedin, 21. But then they got them real late in the piece.

I don't think they got them until December, right? Did they get them in December? Even though this... Early January, December. I think it got December. And plus students haven't moved down yet. Exactly. You wait till March, April, you'll see a real spike there.

Yeah. Although that dude, did you see the dude sitting on a lazy boy driving a lime in Dunedin yesterday? I thought that was quite ingen there. Yeah. Although that dude, did you see the dude sitting on a lazy boy driving a Lime in Dunedin yesterday? I thought that was quite ingenious. Yeah. Looked comfortable. So only $645. Give it time.

Okay, good. Yeah, you're right. Exactly. Give that time. But here's the weird thing. So $645 of 21 claims. 56 claims in Hutt Valley. Okay.

So just over twice. However, the cost is way over twice. $13,000. Oh, in Hutt Valley. So just over twice. However, the cost is way over twice. $13,000 for 56 claims. They're bailing harder in the Hutt. Because it's hillier? Not really. The ground's harder? They're just hard.

No, they're soft. More adventurous. Yeah, maybe they're going a bit more four-wheel drive on it. And the rest of New Zealand is $6,000. So e-scooter claims, there's been 845 e-scooter claims over the entire country since mid-October last year, totaling $322,000 of ACC. There's been 3,326 scooter claims, this is other scooters, totaling $886,000. But again, percentage-wise, it'll be very interesting to compare it to other things

that people do every day. Like you said, like cycling or surfing over summer. How many people try to surf and then crack themselves or face plant it? Yeah. Or just how many old people are falling over in the garden. Yeah. You know, just stuff like that. They do stuff too.

Yeah, exactly. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Kilda, just stuff like that. They do stuff too. Yeah, exactly. Kilda, today's top six. The top six ways to slow people down at pedestrian crossings. Tauranga has taken art, I guess, on board. And their pedestrian crossings now have a 3D look to them. So when you're driving up to them from that perspective in your car, it looks like they sit up.

It looks like one of those, you know that you get those chalk artists? Yeah. That do those perspective. Oh, my God, they're amazing. 3D painting. Are they doing these everywhere or just that one that's in the photo? They're trialling the one first, but they might roll it out. But the trouble is, if you live there, you know that, like once you've driven past it once, you know that it's just painting.

Well, I just worry about all the old people because, you know, there's a high population of old people. Well, they'll get up to it and they're Daihatsu Muras and then they're like, oh, I can't go over that, Ethel. And then they pull like a dangerous U-turn. Yeah.

Because they think there's a floating pedestrian crossing. But it does. It looks like it's floating. Yeah, elevated. So if you hit it too hard, it would just ruin you. Yeah. It's quite cool.

Quite attention grabbing too. So even, I guess, if the locals know that it's not going to stick up and rip the front off your car, it still stands out. Well, it's going to slow down traffic either way because all the tourists will be taking photos of it. So they'll be on the middle of the road. You'll have to stop.

Doing the Beatles thing. Yeah. Walking across pedestrian crossings. Yeah. So the top six other ways to slow people down are pedestrian crossings. Number six, inflatable road spikes. So if you're going too fast,

it just, like, you know, sometimes you're driving down the road and it's like, reduce your speed and it flashes up how fast you're going. Yeah, yep.

So it just reads that and if you're going too fast, it just turns on this air compressor and it blows up inflatable road spikes. But they don't penetrate? They just scare. Okay.

Right. They just scare. So you slow right down and then you're like, oh, they're just fake. Right. If you slow down enough? They just scare. Okay. They just scare. So you slow right down and then you're like oh, they're just fake. If you slow down enough, they deflate. Okay. Just a work in progress idea that one. Number five on the list of the top six ways to slow people down at pedestrian

crossings. Again, like the road spikes, it's a speed measure and if you're going too fast, it just starts lobbing sports balls onto the road. I was guilty of this at our last place. People flew down our road and they were like, kids, ball, it just starts lobbing sports balls onto the road. I was guilty of this at our last place. People flew down our road and I was like, kids, ball, and just throw it over the fence. And like well

ahead of the car, but it would bounce across the road and they'd have to slow down because they didn't want the ball to hit their car. Or they didn't know if there was a kid going to chase the ball. Chase the ball, yeah. Were you worried that they could have like taken evasive action and smashed into a neighbouring house? Nah. There was like a power pole outside our house, so they would have hit that that they could have, like, taken evasive action and smashed into a neighbouring house? Nah. There was, like, a power pole outside our house, so they would have hit that.

That would have saved them a fence. Right. And then on the other side of the road, there was also a power pole, but often a truck parked. So they just would have hit the back of that. They shouldn't have been speeding. True. Someone said, Vaughan Smith, that's some vigilante justice. And they'd say, I'm Batman.

Number four on the list of the top six ways to slow people down, speed activated remote control wheelie bins. So if someone's coming down a road too fast to order a pedestrian crossing and not slowing down, a wheelie bin just wheels itself onto the road. And sacrifices itself.

And if they get hit, it's got some real stinky meat juice in it. And it goes all over the car. It slops on your car and gets in the air vents and stuff. They'll only do it once. Yeah, true. Only do it once. Number three on the top six ways to slow people down at pedestrian crossings, a fake train crossing.

Oh, okay. And so when the pedestrian crossing, when someone wants to press it and they push the button instead of just being like crossing or just having to wait and hope cars stop for you literally the barrier arms go down and it's a big ding ding ding ding ding ding ding like a level crossing just across the road yeah okay seems a bit much maybe a tourist attraction slow them down yeah slow them right down number two on the list of the top six ways to slow people down at pedestrian crossings uh after taurong have taken art on board as a weapon. One of those short distance transmitters,

you know when you're going through tunnels or something and they, what are they called? Like relay things. Oh, yep. They can relay an emergency message. Yeah, yeah. So basically if you're going too fast, it kicks in and it takes over your radio

and it's just someone's mum yelling, slow down, you're going too fast. It's a good idea. When they're getting too close because that still freaks me out because of heard my mum Would just go from Not worrying

To 100% panic mode Like that When I was learning to drive Because they've been In the Waterview Tunnel When they've kicked that in Yeah yeah Because if there's an accident

They take over the radio Like we could be talking now On someone's radio And if there's an accident They'll cut us out Yeah I wondered why We didn't take on

That technology And we just like Take over all the radio stations That's what I was thinking We could just do that Or we push a button And just do that Yeah and we're like take over all the radio stations. That's what I was thinking. We could just do that. Oh, we push a button and just do that. Yeah, and we're just like, you listen to us now. I don't want to. Tough! Tough! But tough! Number one on the list

of the top six ways to slow people down for pedestrian crossings have insanely hot people hired to linger by the pedestrian crossing. Because you slow down to have a wee gander, but also you don't want to run over a hottie. You can call it a perv. A perv. Don't call it a wee gander.

A wee gander. It was like a cute version of a perv. No, it's still creepy. A little gander. A little gandery goo. And you don't want to run over a hottie. Are you checking me out? No, I'm just having a wee gander.

No, I'm just slowing down because this is a pedestrian crossing. Please, cross. No, I'm okay. I weekend. No, I'm just slowing down because this is a pedestrian crossing. Please, cross. No, I'm okay. I said cross. The top six ways to slow people down. That is today's top six. So we would like to talk about what your parents have done to win you over. Because Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, their divorce is finalised.

They've had some struggles with custody. Okay. And, of course Brad had his own issues with alcohol and things like that. Now he went and did some things to get sober. So he's sober now.

You said he was seen out with his new girlfriend drinking sparkly water. She was drinking vodka, he was drinking water. So it seems like he's taking it seriously. But we all read the headlines. There was a bit of custody battle between them. Angelina was supposedly trying to manipulate the media. She wanted

full custody. She was saying he wasn't fit to be a parent. I'd go Brad. Would you go Brad over Angelina? I think he'd be cool. He'd let you do things'd be a bit more chill. It'd be more chill.

I'd go with the one who was looking after the least amount of kids. So you got a bit more attention. Yeah. One on one. There's so many of them. I'd go with the least

because then, yeah, suddenly you get more attention. How many do they have? One, two, three, four, five, six. I can see six in this picture, but I thought it was seven. Okay. Also, just by the way, Knox and Vivian, they're baby twins.

Their little twins are 10. Wow. And Maddox, the oldest, is 17. Jeez. Because she got him during Tomb Raider, right? Yeah. I'm not saying she just found him or purchased him, but she, because he's from Cambodia.

Rescued him. Yeah, she adopted him from Cambodia. Yeah. So it has been revealed now that after that whole battle, Shiloh, their daughter, has asked to move out of Angie's home and she wants to live with Brad. Apparently some of it was because these kids are old enough to read the tabloids now.

So they can see these headlines that people are saying about mum. And so maybe she was like, mum, you're being a bitch. And I want to be with dad. I don't know. Mum, I just read when you were with Billy Bob Thornton, you had a necklace of his blood around your neck. Now that is word. And you kissed your brother like on the mouth at the Oscars in 99.

Now that's also word. The worst about being a celebrity is that they can Google you. Oh, yeah. And if you've done weird stuff in the 90s, they can read about that online now. I'd turn the Wi-Fi off at night. Supervised internet only.

Net nanny, block anything where they search my name. But we all come from parents, families that are together. Our parents are still together. All of us. So we don't know what that's like.

But I knew growing up like friends that had parents that divorced. And it did get quite bitter. And there would be fights and there would be bribes. Yeah, I remember intermediate there was a dude I knew and his parents separated and they moved to different, you know, different houses. Yeah. And the custody deal was dad every second weekend.

Okay. As it often is. Yeah. And, but dad bought little motorbikes. And so the kids wanted to go there every weekend. Because why wouldn't you? Because he had little motorbikes. Yeah.

And when you're a kid. I remember even at that age feeling really sorry for the mum because she was doing all the footwork, all the weekdays, getting them ready for school and then taking them to stuff after school, having to, you know, work part time and not getting to relax with the kids and do the fun stuff on the weekend because it got to the weekend and they were like, Dad's got many motorbikes. See you.

Oh, Dad got all the fun times. Yeah, Dad got the fun stuff. Yeah. And I'm not saying that's the situation for every dad. I'm certainly not generalising that dads just get to do the fun stuff on the weekends. But that's when you go to mum and you'll be like, mum, dad's got bikes. What you got? Mum's like, food in your belly.

And my parents pulled that shit and they weren't even divorced. Yeah. But this guy gets to ride many motorbikes, really. What's on your feet? Shoes? Who bought you those? You? Yeah, sort of.

Do you like food? When you're a teenager, you don't appreciate that. No, no, you certainly don't. But we were wondering this morning on 0800DOLLS.EDM where you can text 9696. If your parents did separate, how did they try to win you over? Like what was the story? Did dad have a strict sort of takeaways

menu? Oh yeah, when you came around, you got to do whatever you wanted, maybe, or got takeaways, or you did get, I don't know. My parents probably stayed together just because they're like, Christ, our daughter's manipulative. It will break us, both of us individually. They had to band together. Even if they didn't love each other, love each other like we can't let them win

but then even when like kids move out of home like i knew um a girl and she went to uni and then her parents would just like try to outdo each other yeah like helping her out like with money and like holidays and stuff it's just so i would have happily taken it yeah yeah i don't know eating rice for the third day in a row with mayonnaise as a condiment. Yeah, I mean, up to the point where you were like, I'll take a bribe. I wouldn't have been complaining. But, yeah, give us a call. 0800-DARLS-ZM.

You can text in as well. 9696. Have your parents separated? How did they try to win your favour, I guess? So we're talking about what your parents have done to win your favour after they've divorced. Because Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie their daughter Shiloh

has decided she's moving out and she's going to live with Brad it's not reported but I'm pretty sure Brad installed a hydra slide into the pool that would win me over

oh yeah because Angelina's got a pool but you're not allowed to run and you're not allowed to run in the pool area she would have lots of rules either that or like no rules and you know sometimes when you've got no rules you're kind allowed to run in the pool area. She would have lots of rules.

Either that or, like, no rules. And, you know, sometimes when you've got no rules, you're kind of a bit like, I need some boundaries. Yeah. Shay, so what happened? How did your parents try to win you over? Yeah, so it didn't actually happen to me. It was actually to my two little brothers.

I'm the oldest out of the three of us. Okay. And when my parents got divorced a couple years ago, when it got to Christmas time, my dad went out and brought them like a PlayStation 3. Okay. And I got to like pick out a game each, and they were super excited for it. Okay.

And then that was like the weekend before Christmas. And then as soon as my mom found out what they got, she went straight down to the mall and got them a brand new Xbox One. Okay. So she had to like one-up the present. Did she buy them more games? Yeah, they got like four or five games. Wait, so what did you get out of this? This seems like the two younger brothers are getting all the goodies.

How did you benefit? Oh, I didn't get anything. I don't get anything anymore. I think you need to get their attention by burning something down. What? I don't think that's going to do anything for you. That's the board, Smith. How to be an anarchist child.

Thanks, you cool, Shay. Liz, how did your parents try to win you over? So, just before I turned, or as I turned 15, Dad bought me a RAV4 to try and offer to teach me to drive, which was great. Okay. Yes, please. And had your parents separated at that stage? Yeah, my parents split when I was eight.

Okay. So, like, long time. I didn't really, like, have much to do with Dad because I had my horses and all that at Mum's. So my mum and stepdad counted with a new horse and a float to tow behind the RAV4. Oh! Wait, was this a brand new RAV4? It was a couple of years old,

but we're still talking like 2005, 2006. Wow, okay. So it was pretty fancy at the time. And did it have a tow bar? Who had to pay for the tow bar? Or did it come with one? My mum and Peter put the tow bar on it Oh my god

You guys have a real juxtaposition here Because without dad's car you can't tow the float Well, I could have always used Like I had cars that were four wheel drives Like real people, there's always four wheel drives around So I could have always used, like, I had cars that were four-wheel drives, like, real people, there's always four-wheel drives around. Yeah, yeah.

I could have towed it without it, but it kind of, yeah, Dad wasn't too impressed because I had no interest in going to see him because all of a sudden I had a new horse

and a float. And the ability to transport said new horse. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, wow. Mum and Peter won. Mum and Peter. Yeah. Damn it, Peter. That, wow. Mum and Peter won.

Damn it, Peter. That's like this Peter guy. Checkmate. Nice. Hey, thanks. You're cool, Liz. Some other text messages in. My parents divorced when I was one.

Dad went to another city for work. When I was 14, he moved back. Yeah. And he got a rural section and said, if you come and live with me, I'll build you a self-contained unit and a horse each. My older sister and I both left with mum. He didn't know us at all. We both were terrified of horses and had no interest in horses. But dad just took a shot. Dad took a shot.

He went after all that time just to be like, come and live with me. Yeah, but you've got to kind of know your kids what you're going to offer them if you really want to suit the deal. Like a pony seems like a pretty good blanket, you know, a blanket for everybody though. Dad bought a slug gun and a go-kart to keep at his house when mum A pony seems like a pretty good blanket, you know, blanket kiss. Not for everybody, though. Not for everybody. Dad bought a slug gun and a go-kart to keep at his house when Mum and Dad separated,

while Mum forced us to go to church on Saturday and Sunday. Oh, I'm sorry. Where would you rather spend your weekends? Saturday and Sunday. I'd be shooting cans with a slug gun. I'd be going to the church of go-karts. Somebody else said, when my parents divorced,

my dad gapped it and we never saw him again. So I guess mum wins by default. Sorry. That's really sad. But then it's cool that they laughed about it and said mum wins because mum provided one thing that you can't buy.

Unconditional love. Yeah. Well, you can buy unconditional love. It's generally by the hour and that's when you're way older. So don't say that can't be done. Yeah, true. FEM.

So there is a new Netflix documentary that you simply must watch. I saw the trailer for this towards the end of our holidays that it was going to be on Netflix soon. I think it's been on for over a week now. This Netflix documentary is called Fire, the greatest party that never happened. And you may remember it was in April, was it April 2017? April May

2017. There was this out of control weekend where thousands of people flocked to the Caribbean for this music festival. And when they got there, nothing that had been promised was happening. And it was just they got stuck there. Chaos ensued.

They were meant to be staying in like glamping tents, villas. There were, instead of that, no villas and emergency hurricane shelter tents. Yeah. Initially, I remember hearing about it because Ja Rule was involved, right? And everyone's like, this festival that Ja Rule's involved in is just not even happening. My first indicator was it's 2017 Ja Rule hasn't been you know relevant for going on 14 years.

They had a load of other acts like Major Lazer Blink 182 Blink 182 pulled out before it happened. To be honest it wasn't really even the music line up

that got people there. It all started with Influencer campaign. Influencing on Instagram yeah and a lot of supermodels and models. Because I remember Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid. Kendall Jenner was the massive one.

They said in this documentary they paid her $250,000 to share one photo of her time in the Caribbean. Where the models went and shot, we're not going to spoil the documentary because it's a hell of a watch and full of twists and turns and you just can't believe it's going to get worse and then it gets worse.

But where the models shot all their, the influencer campaign for the party wasn't even where the, wasn't even the same part of the Caribbean where the fire was. Yeah, I remember seeing like this like real amazingly shot like little Insta video and I think that might've been what the Hadid shared.

Yeah. And it sold out the festival. Yeah. Like straight away. Well, it looked amazing. Also the festival was to support an app this app called Fire

was supposed to be where you could book talent like you could go on there and like Kendall Jenner could say I've got four opening spaces, these are dates, this is how much money I want for them or her agent could do that and then you could go on and be like yeah I want to book her for this and then she approves. It was like this booking thing

and they said to launch this. Uber for bookings. Right. And it said to launch this, we need to have this massive festival so everybody knows about the app. So that's what actually what the festival,

surprise, surprise, the app's not around anymore. And the great thing is that it was marketed to all these rich New Yorkers with way too much money that are used to like, you know,

lavish lifestyles. Yeah. And so when they turn up to a festival and it's just like a disaster site, it's quite funny. It's a great watch. It's an amazing, it's mind blowing. And the guy behind it, just like, wow. Like without giving too much away, just wow.

You know, probably everybody knows of or has in their group of friends, somebody whose confidence has got them everywhere. Outweighs ability. Wildly, wildly. But for some reason, their confidence carries them. They're just like a salesperson and you're like, you know them, so you're wise to their BS. But you see people falling for it all the time and you're like,

this is madness. Well, he is the epitome of that. It's an hour and a half doco. It's incredible. It gave me anxiety as someone who's a very organised traveller. Yeah. My favourite part

watching it was saying to Sade, my wife, imagine if Fletch had bought tickets. Because you like going to festivals when you travel. I was like,

imagine if Fletch had purchased tickets to this. And she's like, oh my God, he would have like murdered somebody. I know. I wish you had

just so we could have seen your meltdown. People were rioting. Like they were looting and it just got crazy. It's an incredible documentary. There's one part of the documentary that when it happened, I was flabbergasted. It's become meme worthy.

You'll see this meme. So you're likely to see a lot of it in the upcoming weeks. So if you haven't or can't watch the documentary, we'll fill in the backstory. There's a guy called Andy King. Now, this guy is in his 50s. Yeah. He's an event producer.

For example, during the thing, he talks about how he had to leave to go to a meeting about Coachella and he had to leave to go to a meeting about the Grammys because he produces massive events. So they brought him on board to do this. Now, when it's all turning into a dumpster fire in the Caribbean, they've got no water because they're on an island with water that you can't drink the water out of the tap.

And they don't have any water for the thousands of people coming in. So they literally ship in truckloads of Evian, am I saying that right? Evian bottled water. However, it gets stuck at customs. The organizer, Billy, asks event producer Andy to sort out what he believes the biggest problem is,

no water to drink. And this is from the documentary Fire, the greatest party that never happened. Billy called and said, Andy, we need you to take one big thing for the team. And I said, oh my gosh, I've been taking something for the team every day. He said, well, you're our wonderful gay leader,

and we need you to go down. Will you *** to fix this water problem? And I said, Billy, what? He said, Andy, if you will go down and ***, who's the head of customs, and get him to clear all of the containers with water, you will save this festival. And I literally drove home, took a shower. clear all of the containers with water, you will save this festival.

And I literally drove home, took a shower. I drank some mouthwash. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm really, and I got into my car to drive across the island to take one for the team. And I got to his office fully prepared to, but he couldn't have been nicer. And he's like, Andy, listen, I will release all the water.

I will let you serve it. But I want to be one of the first people to be paid. And I got back and I had all the water that we needed. Oh my God. Wow. I didn't expect him to be like mouthwash. And then I went down. I expected him to be like,

I went home and I had a hot shower and I mouthwashed. And I was like, what am I doing? How has my life come to this? I'm involved in Coachella and the Grammys. That's your realisation. And then he's like, I mouthwashed and I was getting my car on the way to do it. This horrendous act to free the water up. It is an incredible doco.

You should definitely watch it. It is worth a watch. My dad has taken to sending me emails, which I'm kind of okay with. Okay. But I want to talk about it because he has started just forwarding me emails when he gets things that he thinks are a scam. This is good though, right? So the last one I got from him was from Apple, or it looked like it was from Apple.

And it just said, Hi, Ferret, can you help me? I'm being scammed. I need to do something. Do I need to do something? Or is this, I don't need to reply. So it looked like it was from Apple and it had like all the imagery you'd expect,

but it said, you've been logged out. You need to log in with your Apple ID password. Oh no. And I said, well, is your phone still working? Can you still download apps and stuff? He's like, yeah, it all seems fine. Scam. I was like, no, just leave it, Dad.

Don't post it. Just leave it. But it also helps because he doesn't know what his Apple ID password is anyway, so he can't reply to those things. Because it's in the little notebook of passwords. Yeah, yeah. It sits beside the computer. Yeah.

So that's good, though, that every time he gets an email like that, he... He forwards it on to me and says, am I being scammed or can you fix this for me? I am all for this because I said to my mum, because she once shared the Range Rover with a bow on it, you just had to say what colour Range Rover you wanted to be in the draw to win. Yeah, because it's Range... And there was like 500 of them. Yeah. So you had to get in quick.

Yeah. And I said to her, mum, that's a scam. And I said, mum, just anything like this, just message me. It's always contactable. And just say,

is this legit? And I'll say no, because she did the Qantas one as well. But celebrating something by giving away a million first class tickets around the world or something. Which would literally bankrupt them.

And I said, please tell all your friends, like, I don't mind. This won't take long at all. I can just literally look and be like, no. Yeah. Like, don't share it. Yeah.

I've said to Auntie Marg, I've offered my services personally to Auntie Marg because she's a shocker for this. Or she shares, like, fake news and conspiracy theories or, like, celebrities' quotes that aren't actually, you know, attributed to the celebrity. Sharing a fake celebrity quote, that's not bad, but, you know, giving your login details.

Yeah. The clue is if it's a massive international company that's doing it like your Qantas' or your Mitre 10's and you click on the page and it's only got like 3,000 likes and it's got no blue tick and very little other content, then that's a no-no. That's a big giveaway. Yeah. Yeah. And also,

and also they're not giving away $1,100 gift cards because that's a very expensive promo. Yeah. It's, it's so funny that we have to like look out for them in this way because they're like looking out for you

when you're young, like make sure you call us if you need to be picked up and now I'm like, hey, if someone's asking for your passwords or your bank account or your credit card, just

give me a call. Like they said, don't get into cars with strangers if they have puppies or lollies and now we have to say don't get into cars with strangers if they're going to offer you a Range Rover. Just pick the colour. Exactly. Even if they're in a Range Rover and it's the colour you want, don't get in the car with them. And you don't mind

because it's an ulterior motive because there's more money in the well. Oh, I'm protecting my inheritance. 100%. It is self-protection. There's a new dating trend that I want to talk about called spearfishing. Do you want to take a stab before I explain? Well, I know what it is.

Vaughan doesn't know what it is. I know what it is. Because Megan and I talked about this before you got to work this morning, Vaughan. Because Megan's even guilty of doing this. Yeah, I just realised I've done this. I even think that you do it... You could even say this isn't necessarily a dating term. No.

So what... Hang on. What I know of spearfishing is that you swim underwater with a spear and when you see the fish you want to eat, you shoot it, right? And then you pull it in. Yeah, that's spearfishing. I believe even the Prime Minister's life partner, Clark Gay Ford, does this. Under the ocean.

He loves murdering fish. Huge fan. Any fish of legal size. Vaughn, you'll quite happily eat a hokey or a gurnard. 100%. I'm out of fish. Yeah. I just hate boats.

That's my main problem with fishing. You hate boats. So spearfishing is described as deliberately using your wider social media presence to target or to catch the interest of one particular person. So like throwing your spear into the ocean, the wide ocean, with the intention of only catching one fish. I don't get it. So. Like attention fishing. But only for one person.

Yeah. So it's equivalent to, say you know someone is into something. This is the example I'm thinking of my friend. Say you add someone on Tinder, that you've been talking to on Tinder, or a dating app. You really like them.

Yeah. And you know they follow you, like your story, they're watching your stories or something. Roger. Gotcha. So you know they're into what's, I've got to move away from the example I'm thinking of, so I don't. Why don't you use your example? I just mouthed who I believe Megan was hinting at with that minimal clue, and that's exactly who I thought it was. Megan, why don't you use your example?

Because you've done this. So I just went back in my Instagram, like, years. So this could be a story or a post on Instagram. Okay. So my friend was doing posts anyway, and, like, things that they knew the guy liked, and then they could see it. But me, years ago, I was hanging out. Okay,

so I wanted to make Andrew jealous. We weren't official and I was like, I think we'd had an argument. So I was like, maybe about... You weren't official and you'd had an argument. That's early in the piece to have an argument. Maybe about like, I think I was a bit jealous. Anyway, so we weren't official and I was

like, stuff you. I went out and he wasn't, I think he was away touring was like stuff you I went out and he wasn't I think he was away touring or something so I went out drinkies and I took a picture

with this cute this is with me eh yeah I was there yeah okay I found the picture too I went

I took a picture with this cute guy and like I'm very cuddly with him but the guy was gay but he didn was gay, but he didn't know that. Who didn't know that?

The gay guy didn't know he was gay. Andrew didn't know that. Because occasionally you meet someone and you're like... The guy I was snuggling up to was gay. So it was very innocent on this end, but I knew how it would be taken on the other end. I just wanted to make him jealous. And did that work?

100%. 100%. Hook, line, and sinker. So that counts as spearfishing as well. You know those people that all of a sudden get an interest that's different and you're like, why are you interested in this? And then you learn that they like someone who is interested in that so they're right.

Yeah, because you wanted to... I was a sampler maybe and I wanted to be like... You wanted to be the full pot of paint. If you make them jealous, they're like, realize how much they like you. Or they don't. That doesn't sound crazy. That's the most important thing here, Megan, is you remain completely sane standing.

So stories or posts, how you do this. And you can do it on Facebook too, I guess. So it looks like you're just. Everybody does this. But it's very targeted. Thank you, Fletch. People do it. They do.

Have you done it? No, I can't. I don't think so. You just said everybody does it. People do it. They do. Have you done it? No, I can't. Nah. I don't think so. You just said everybody does it. Okay, I've done it. I've done it. What was the interest? What was the fake interest?

I'm just trying to remember exactly. It's just when you put up you having a good time to make someone jealous. I'm just showing Fletch the photo. Oh, my God. Your face is touching his face. Yeah. I'm always looking like I'm going to give him a kiss.

Yeah, it does look like that. Yeah. He didn't want a kiss from me, but face is touching his face. Yeah, I'm always looking like I'm going to give him a kiss. Yeah, it does look like that. Yeah. He didn't want a kiss from me, but Andrew didn't know that. He probably wanted a kiss from Andrew. Well, anyway, it's got a term. Oh, spearfishing. It's called spearfishing. Reel them in.

Yeah. Well, you don't reel in a spear, do you? No, I think you pull them in. Some spear guns have a little reel on. No, that's a fishing rod. No, it's like a poom, and then you go wee. Okay. Okay, good.

That's a flashed high-end spear gun. Right. Influencers. They're everywhere. Everyone here has influence at some stage or another. Hashtag spawn. Hashtag ad. Hashtag collab.

Yeah. Hashtag ad. Yeah. I prefer collab or spawn. The ones that get you when you're like, I like this photo, and you start reading the caption and then right at the end,

get you again. I sold something. Damn it. I fell for it. Yeah, damn it. I fell for it. Well, we were talking about this because when we mentioned this before,

we watched a fire documentary on Netflix. It's incredible. I know we talked a lot about it before and already today. The whole thing couldn't have happened without hot models posting photos of their hot bodies in a wonderful background, the Caribbean. They went to that island as well in the Caribbean with the pigs.

Oh, the swimming pigs. Yeah, the swimming pigs. Ja Rule, very insistent on going to the island with the swimming pigs. Oh, Ja Rule. Anyway, so you had Kendall Jenner there. You had the Hadids the swimming feet. Oh, jar rule. Anyway, so I mean you had like Kendall Jenner there, you had the Hadids. Yeah.

All these supermodels. Emily, yeah. And so of course they were all on their Instagram at once posting about this new festival that's coming.

Literally, all the photos of them there even though different island completely. Yeah. And then an orange tile all at the same time. It was a really interesting study of social media influencing where the influencers don't actually know too much

about what the end product's going to be. Well, no, because it was a disaster of a festival. It all happens. Yeah. We're all, that's the idea of it. It's the modern take on advertising, social media influencing. My wife's been doing it for a place that delivers all the food you'll need to cook a meal. Yeah.

She got asked to do some for HelloFresh and I was like, free food. Okay, I'm on board. I've been influenced. Well, last night, producer Caitlin was influenced. She was influenced by your wife. Influenced by Sade. Yeah, I've decided that I need to, at 28, learn how to cook and use the oven. Why just now, all of a sudden?

I don't know. I'm just trying to get my life together, Fletch. Oh, okay. Things are changing for me. I'm trying to get things together. Okay. Anyway, moving on. And I just wanted, and I knew that it's, like, really healthy,

and, you know, you get all the ingredients sent to you so you don't have to, like, worry about getting that Kanye pepper stuff and, you know, stuff like that. Kanye pepper. Whatever it's called. I don't know how to say it. The cayenne pepper. That one. But, like, what a choice of spice.

Straight for the cayenne pepper. But that's what makes cooking so hard because I'm like, oh, I don't have Kanye pepper. What am I going to use? I like cayenne pepper. I like Kanye pepper better. And so I was like, I'm going to do this and I'm going to get it for a week and so I can cook my meals and then you have it for the lunch the next day

and then I'm going to lose like 10 kgs, be super healthy and fit. Like just everything's going to be great. They don't promise that. Did Sade put all of that in her post? I don't believe she said lose 10 kgs. So I went on it and I booked it and I was like, okay, cool, I'm going to use Sade's code. And I put it in and it didn't work.

And so I, like, went back and copied it again and I put it in and then I wrote it out and it didn't work. And so I just kind of gave up on that. And I was like, came in this morning and was like, her code didn't work. Hey, just let Sade know her code doesn't work. So I kind of sent him in. I'm like, what are you talking about?

She's like, well, I went to my food bag and I put in Sade's HelloFresh code and it didn't work. And I said, Caitlin, that's the competitor. Yeah. Like tuning into another radio station and being like, hey, so Fletchford and Megan, where are they? Well, they're on another radio station. Well, I wanted them to be here too.

That's not how radio works. Or like, can I have a Big Mac at the Burger King drive-thru? It's just different companies. You are half-influenced. I mean, it's good for the prepared food industry. Delivery prepared food industry.

Great for the prepared food industry. Have you been influenced by other people though? All the time. You're kind of... Target. What does that mean? What does that hand gesture mean? Target.

Gullible? No, not gullible, but like easily influenced. No. Megan's very strong headed. Like you've been hanging out with us for too long. We're super stubborn and getting cynical. Megan, are you going to tell them what

you got influenced by? No, I haven't yet. I'm on the cusp. I'm about to buy it. What are you being influenced by? So, you're going to just be like, where are you going? There's everyone, like all the influencers are doing it and like been posting about it.

Yeah. So I was like, I need this collagen powder too. What's collagen powder do? You mix it with your drink and it helps your hair and skin and makes me look like I'm 10 years younger. No, I don't know if they promised that. You drink it? Yeah.

And it helps your skin and your hair. Is it proven? How do you know if it promised that. You drink it. Yeah. And it helps your skin and your hair. Is it proven? How do you know if it's proven? Is there science to it? Is it a multi-level management? Matilda told me to. Okay, Matilda. She's the queen of the flu.

So as soon as more than two of the people I follow do it, I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. Well, that's how they get you. I know. Yeah. Could we take some calls? Like, who influenced you to buy what? Are we still going?

Yeah. Remember Shakti mats? Yeah. I bought two of those. I don't know why I needed two. I think they had a deal. What, for the whole body? They were like, get two for the person.

Who influenced you to buy a Shakti mat? Everyone was, like, posting about Shakti mats. Millie, clean two for the person. Who influenced you to buy a Shakti mat? Everyone was like posting about Shakti mats. Millie Clean Eating. Millie Alderholmes. NZ, yeah. Millie Alderholmes. She had a Shakti mat. She was like, this is great.

And I was like, I can't. This is great. This is great. Everyone was talking about them. And then I just forget that it's in the cupboard. And now is it rolled up in your cupboard? Yeah, the green one and the orange one. Damn it. I should get that out. Okay the cupboard. And now is it rolled up in your cupboard? Yeah, the green one and the orange one. Damn it.

I should get that out. Okay, I want to take some calls. Who influenced you to buy what? And maybe you regret it, but their influence got you. I can't say that I regret the Shakti, Matt, because I haven't used it. So I just want to put that out there. Have you even tried it once? I tried it on at once and it was like, ouch.

Yeah, you've got to work your way into it. Because it says no T-shirt, but I start with a T-shirt. Yeah. It's hard. It's so sore. It's a bit pokey. All right. 0800DARLSATM9696.

Who influenced you on Instagram or what influenced you? And what was it for? Maybe it was a watch. Maybe you saw a post by Kendall Jenner and you decided to pop it all up and go to the Caribbean for a music festival. Sure. Yeah. Who did the waist trainers?

Kylie. Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner. Fletch, you've been called out for your influencing. We'll try to get this person on the phone next. Oh, God, here we go. What have you been influenced by? Who have you been influenced by on Instagram?

Well, some funny text messages. Let's first of all deal with some in-house situation here. Fletch, you've been influencing. Because I put up the new Dyson at the end of last year, and it's fantastic. He's even going on about it off here. That wasn't a, you know know You weren't lying though That's your honest feelings

On that Dyson No I wouldn't lie But over the summer I got hit up about you Because someone Classically confused The two of us And they're like

About this Dyson I was like what And they're like I've got a big house And it only does half Before the battery runs out And I was like I don't know what

You're talking about And they're like You and your Dyson I was like wrong guy Like I don't I don't have a Dyson I think you're talking about. They're like, you and your Dyson. I was like, wrong guy. Like, I don't have a Dyson. I think you're thinking of Fletch. Well, it's a big house. Recharge it.

Yeah. And I said, you'll have to message Fletch. And they said, can you pass on to him that it doesn't do my whole house? Mate, I've washed my hands of Dyson. I've done that. It's in the past. He's gone. Complain to them, mate.

I've got a free Dyson. Thank you, Dyson, next. They are great They suck So like In a good suck way Good suck Well it's a bad suck way I don't know

Just like Like doesn't pick up everything Like a Yeah You run over something Ages and ages And you don't hear it And as soon as you

Turn the vacuum cleaner off It all comes out again Oh yeah It falls down Well that doesn't happen With us something ages and ages and you don't hear it ching-chang out the tube. And as soon as you turn the vacuum cleaner off it all comes out again. Yeah, it falls down. Well, that doesn't happen with this. You influenced somebody else. They were going travelling over summer and you gave such a passionate plea

about Kmart's packing cubes for the Supermars. Now, that was an unpaid endorsement. No, because I got mine from Kathmandu. Oh, right. But then you said they could get it from Kmart.

I said you can get them everywhere. All kinds of places. They were a great thing on holiday. Quite a few people were messaging in that Millie Elder Holmes has become quite influential. The queen of Instagram.

She said, this person said, Millie influenced me to get a Shark D-Mat. Best purchase ever. My sleep's 100% better. I think it was Millie that influenced me.

Yeah. But why is she using her Shark D-Mat and both of yours are rolled up in the pantry? In the cupboard. It's also weird you keep them in the pantry. It's weird you keep your Shakti mats in the pantry. Rebecca, who were you influenced by?

Hi, I was influenced by Rocky and Ruby or her other name, Rebecca Kyle. She's a mum Instagram. Oh, okay, a mum grammar. A mum, what are they? There's a name for this's a mum Instagram. Oh, okay. A mum grammar. A mum... There's a name for this. A mumfluencer? Is that what it is?

A mum-a-gram. A mum-a-gram. Okay. Okay, and so what was she promoting? Instamum. Yeah, so what did she get you with? Oh, she got me with the O Natural Lube, actually. She's done a whole vlog on that.

Oh, right. And we bought it. Okay, I'm intrigued. It's lube, but on that. Right. We bought it. Okay, I'm intrigued. It's lube, but it's natural what? Ingredients or something? It is natural ingredients. I couldn't tell you what those ingredients were. Coconut oil. Possibly. Okay.

Because we're all about natural Tammies. So like, it's natural. It's got to be natural. And you know, if you're putting it on your body, you don't want chemicals and stuff. No, that's right. So they got me good. So like It's natural It's gotta be natural And you know If you're putting it on your body You don't want like Yeah you don't want chemicals And stuff No that's right So they got me good And then do you

See do you regret the purchase Or will you buy again I'll probably buy again Because we're out I think Oh okay Thanks for that Hello

What's the name of it Because you've influenced Probably people listening I know I know So now you're an influencer Well if you search up O natural It'll be under their lube range And they've got a couple Of different ones because you've influenced probably people listening being like, let's try something. Now you're an influencer. Well, if you search up O-Natural,

it'll be under their lube range and they've got a couple of different ones. Have you got a code like Rebecca20? Swipe up, swipe up. That'd be great. Hey, thanks, Rebecca.

Tim, what were you influenced by? I was influenced into getting into isogenics. Oh, Tim. No, Tim, Tim. Was this by somebody on Instagram? It was an old friend, and it was kind of...

It's always an old friend, isn't it, that pops up? Hey, Tim, how are you, mate? Crikey, I'd like to catch up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, so what's the deal? You guys, you've lost a bit of weight. They're like, well, let me tell you. And then the next minute,

you're buying $700 starter Isagenix pack. Oh, wow. And then at the 20-day mark of the roughly 30 days in a month, they go, so, you know, you interested in reapplying and getting into it? And I was like, oh, I haven't really seen the full month through. Yeah, but if you apply now, then, you know, you can get the code. That's how they get you. Because if you don't know, Isagenix is a multi-level

marketing company, so it's basically, that's a nice way of saying a pyramid scheme. And that was, unless you were in at the ground level super early, you're always going to be not making as much money as the person above you. Yeah. So that's... And if you got someone or two people into it within your first week, you can

get your money back for the month. Yeah, bullshit. Not long term, you can get your money back for the month. You're bullshit. Not long term, you're not going to. But yeah, and that wasn't even a celebrity. So that's just a friend on Instagram. Okay. By the way, that lube is called Bonk Lube, certified

organic lubricant, water-based. I've been influenced. Is it free range? Yeah, it's free range. The lube lives in a paddock right up until the moment where it's turned into lube. Oh, good. I don't do cage lube. Somebody else said, Megan, you influenced me to have shiny Vaseline lips. Right.

You got the Vaseline lips there. That's good. Yeah. Somebody else said, Megan, also also With the Lylash stuff For my lashes Lylash Yeah That's great

It actually does work You see my lashes Fletch You see I tell you what There's two standouts From people we're hearing from Okay

In New Zealand If we're talking about influencers Millie Millie Alderholm I had no idea But I mean I'm not her target And I don't follow her But I had no idea

She was a huge influencer. Yeah. And my turtles. Oh, my turtles. Most of the turtles that are telling me to buy that collagen powder. Well, no, somebody said that they purchased it. And is it good? Okay, so two people said this.

Yeah. They said that they purchased it and have only remembered to take it once. That's the problem, I think. But it does make me look so sophisticated sitting with a collection of Lux Fitness protein and supplements that I was influenced to buy. And somebody else said it does work. They were into it. Are you going to be able to,

how long is it going to take to fix this up, though? Excuse me, I may need a bulk pack, but that's none of your business. It's going to take the combined power of my toodles and Millie Alderholmes to come together. To form my toodles Alderholmes. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. To come together. To form Matoodleys Elder Homes.

Today's fact of the day is about spiky dog collars. You know, like when you, Megan, you might have one on your dog to, like, ironically, to add a threatening component to an otherwise completely unthreatening dog. Yeah, I know. They've got a name, don't they? Like. Okay, what do you got?

I don't know. Spiky collar? I've got the name. Is that part of the fact of the day? This is the origins of the spiky dog collar. Okay. The wolf collar. Okay.

Is that what you heard? The Italians call them rocale or vercale and the Spanish call them calancas. Calancas. Calancas. Okay. So the spiky dog collar that dogs wear to look a bit cool, maybe it's to make intimidating dogs more intimidating. Like when Chihuahuas wear cute little spiky ones.

Yeah, or little non-threatening dogs wear them and you're like, ha ha ha, I get it. Or didn't you wear one to a goth party in the 2000s? It was an emo party. An emo party. I may have. I had a headband like that, but you guys said I looked like the Statue of Liberty, so I never wore it again. Classic us. I don't even remember that.

Neither. I don't ever remember emotionally. Nah, neither. It was such a cute headband. Yeah. It's like someone said, oh, I had that purple, was it purple?

No, orange. No, you were talking about my orange blazer. Orange jacket once. I was like, oh yeah, what happened to that? They said you said I looked like a Jetstar attendant

so I never wore it again. Yeah, I never wear orange because of you guys. Even if they're orange shorts, you're like your Jetstar shorts. You're in the Jetstar track team. I don't know why if they're orange shorts You're like your Jetstar shorts You're in the Jetstar track team I don't know why This is why I wear the same thing every day Don't try these things

So the spiky dog collar A wolf collar It was actually The origins of this Was actually to protect Guardian shepherd dogs From attacks by wolves Wolves would immediately go for the throat, the jugular of the dog,

and if it did get to the point where they were fighting and the wolf got a grip on the throat, the spikes would go through the roof of the mouth of the wolf and through the tongue. They must be bigger spikes. Yeah, the original ones were significantly longer. Whereas now the spikes are more of a stud, isn't it? Yeah, maybe with a little bit of a poke to it.

But these were like nail-length spikes around the neck of the guardian dog so that if the wolves were to bite, it would stab through the roof of the mouth of the wolf and the wolf would take off. Ow! Apparently when they're hurt, they kind of like step back. They don't get like... Is it bears that just keep attacking? Like when they're in attack mode,

they don't feel pain? Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, which is scary, right? Yeah, it is. It's scary because you're like stabbing it and you're like, why won't you stop?

That's why I think you play dead and they're like, well, the fun's over now. Yeah. He's dead. So that's the origins of the spiky dog collar. Next time you see someone

with a spiky dog collar, you can be like, do you know where those are a thing? And you can tell them this great story about evading and protecting their dogs from wolf attacks.

So today's fact of the day is those spiky dog collars are actually called wolf collars and the origins of them were to protect dogs from wolves. Fact of the day, day,

day, day, day. So yesterday I was perusing the internet. Stuffed the website, had a poll. A story initially about cakes. And I was like, you've got me. You've got me, cakes.

Because you know I love cakes of all kinds. And biscuits and lollies. Big fan of cakes. So in this, they had a poll about, you know, what's your favourite cake? And they had heaps of cakes, all the cakes. How many cakes? Surely you don't need to go too far. Oh, look, I've just found the poll.

Okay. Banana, carrot, lemon, orange, add. Orange? Wait, orange cake? Yeah, like a... Yes, to me that's no one's Wait. Orange cake. Yeah, like a... Yes, and to me, that's no one's favourite. Orange cake. That's not a top five cake. Anyway, they wanted options, so they went banana, carrot, lemon, orange, chocolate.

Chocolate mud cake. Interesting definition there between the two of them. Oh my God, another ad. I'm not buying Brancott Estate wine. As principal for interrupting my poll. That's what you do. I find if you're an interruptee ad, sometimes I am so angry at you, I'll boycott.

Because you've been inconvenienced looking at free content. Yeah, and I'm just like, I'm halfway through it and I'm interrupted. Either before or after. Fine. Not halfway between. If it pops up again, I'm going to be wild. I was up to red velvet. Okay. Mar after. Fine. Not halfway between. Yeah. If it pops up again, I'm going to be wild. I was up to red velvet.

Okay. Marble. Yep. Sponge. Fruitcake. Black forest. And Madeira. Where's vanilla?

Madeira's like a heavy sponge, isn't it? Like a- Yeah. You can use it in trifle. Nana used to load that up with raisins. So this comes up this poll yesterday and I'm like,

well, I'm going to click banana because this is obviously the favourite. It's my up with raisins. So this comes up this poll yesterday, and I'm like, well, I'm going to click banana because this is obviously the favourite. It's my favourite with lemon icing, banana cake with lemon icing. I would have picked you for chocolate above banana. I know you like banana, but I would have had it secondary because you're pretty much chocolate everything. Oh, no, love it, love it.

And so I clicked it, and not the favourite. Do you know what the favourite was? I'm going to click on my favourite. I clicked on my favourite too. Is it the same as mine? Yeah, I believe so. Is it 40% of New Zealanders chose carrot cake? Yuck.

I mean, I'll eat it, but it's not the best cake you can have. Also, I have a problem with this because it depends on what cake and where you get it. I can't say no to a carrot cake. Because if I made you a carrot cake, you probably wouldn't want to eat it. Well, yours, you make a sloppy carrot cake. See the dust, you're a runny. There's no in between. And also, carrot cake's a sloppy carrot cake. It's either dusty or runny. Yeah. There's no in between. And also, carrot cake's a lot of oil.

But that's why it's yummy. The name suggests that it's healthy. But it's not. It's a trick. So, Marble Cake got zero. That's just a sponge, isn't it? And orange. You know how we said orange probably shouldn't be in there?

That also received zero. Red Velvet, 1%. That's more of a cupcake flavour, but even then. Yeah. Don't get me started on red velvet. Take a labour. Madeira right down there. Should lamingtons have been in?

No, they're not a cake. Or is that a sponge? But what is a lamington? That's just like a... It's more of a slice. ...slicy, dessert-y. Right, okay. Slicy situation.

Okay, okay. So carrot and a... I personally can't say no to a carrot cake. If I see a carrot cake. Where did banana come in the poll, though? Was it second? Second. Yeah. Yeah carrot and a mocha. I personally can't say no to a carrot cake. If I see a carrot cake. Where did banana come in the poll, though? Was it second? Second. Yeah.

Yeah, and then chocolate third. And then chocolate mud cake fourth. See, they should have combined scores. They should have combined those. But even then, they still would have been third. And then lemon. I'm a big fan of lemon cake. Yeah.

Love a bit of lemon cake. She had the sweet icing. Yeah. And the little... Friends came around and they said, we've made a controversial decision, but we baked a lemon cake to bring. And I said, you've rolled the dice

and it's come up snake eyes, because I love lemon cake. Yeah. And it was a great lemon cake. But a carrot cake can't, oh, you can't beat a carrot cake. With walnuts. And I like a bit of pineapple in there too. I won't say no to pineapple, but it's not a must have. Yeah, okay. Pipitas. I like a pipitas on a carrot cake.

You're getting fancy now. I go for a must have. Yeah, okay. Pipitas. I like a pipitas on a carrot cake. You're getting fancy now. I go for a fancy cake. My wife bought me a cake recently, a slice of carrot cake from my hometown, Morrinsville. She stopped at the wagon wheel.

Not only big ice creams but carrot cake, hashtag not sponsored content. Right. And it was like cake, icing, cake, icing, cake, icing, like layers.

Oh, how tall was this? Quite. Like a foot? Quite tall. Was this cake a foot tall? It was like a half a foot tall. Right. But then that's me.

Now, I try carrot cake everywhere I go. If it's a new cafe and they've got a carrot cake, I try it. I should start like a carrot cake-based TripAdvisor. Right, okay. In fact, that should just be what I review on TripAdvisor, how good their carrot cake was. Just carrot cake. I'd be like, ignore, I don't know anything

about anything other than carrot cake happening here. It was a hot cake. Okay. Now, I need a carrot cake. What a dangerous game

we just played because lots of people are like, getting to work and have to walk past the cafe next door and they're like, grab a carrot,

you treat yourself today. It's Wednesday. No calorie Wednesday. And if there's no carrot cake get another cake