ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - July 16 2019

Episode Date: July 15, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Thank you, Arnie. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Warner Megan. Good morning. Good morning. Seems quite quiet this morning, doesn't it, compared to yesterday's nerve-wracking start to the day? Screaming around. Yeah. Wow. Cricket. What's next? Sports-wise. Black Ferns won the Super Series. Black Ferns won the

Silver Ferns. Silver Ferns are playing, aren't they? Yeah, they just beat Zimbabwe, but we should have beaten them. What? What's their competition? Zimbabwe? No, I'm familiar with Zimbabwe. Previously known as Rhodesia. Is this the World Cup? Yeah. I know, conflict. No, is it? Yeah, it is. I don't feel we've heard enough about that. And I believe it's in England as well. Is this the World Cup? Yeah. No. No, conflict. No, is it?

Yeah, it is. I don't feel we've heard enough about that. And I believe it's in England as well. Is it? Yeah. They should have waited until the cricket had finished. Yeah, give it some cool down. But if we played Zimbabwe, has it just started?

Yes. Yeah. Okay, okay. We're on board with this now. I apologise for my ignorance towards the Netball World Cup. And yes, we beat Zimbabwe. Who do we play next? Come on, Warren.

What about Zawi in the, is it like first round Robins or something? Well, it's early days. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. Yeah, I don't know the structure of this one. Not jumping on the bandwagon until later in the piece. You're not confident enough to get on with it now. I'm just, I just need a little chilling out time. Zara and Van Dyke playing?

She was bloody good. Julie Cooper there in the centre? No, no. Bernice Mini? Oh, you're looking after yourself. Awesome. Is that reference just a check with our millennial? Is that reference lost on you?

I have literally no idea what you're talking about. Bernice Miniene was saying just... You're looking after yourself? Yeah, I'm looking after myself. She sounds very friendly. You don't know who Bernice Mene is?

No. Oh, no. I think that's on you. Yeah, I don't think that's a generational thing. I would have understood if you hadn't got the reference to the TV microwave meals

she used to promote. Healthy choice. Her dad called her and he'd say, you're right, mate, or something to that extent. And she'd be like, you're looking after yourself? And she'd be like, yeah, I'm looking after myself. And then tuck into what looked like an absolutely zero nutrition meal that she'd just microwaved.

It was back in the day before influencers, you see. And no one would call out companies for peddling. It was before HelloFresh and MyFoodBag and all that. Yeah, it was before vegetables. Microwave meals were easy. Back in the day when we only had potatoes, peas and carrots. Nothing, anything else. And they came frozen in cubes.

Yeah, you'd be like, Brock, a what? Holly flat what? Now, of course, God, the world's your oyster. You can have some bok choy if you want. Why stop there? Cut loose. I'm sure there's more. All right, you lot, listen up.

It's story time. All right, story time. Three news headlines. Born and Megan pick one of the following three. Headline one, toilet break explosive. Headline two, residents asked to think twice before flushing. And headline three, principal puckers up to llama. Did he kiss a llama?

Yes. Did the llama, like, go in tongue? I'm not sure if they were. They're quite a tonguey creature. It doesn't look like there was tongue in the photo, but no. Two. Yeah, is that the think twice before flush? Yeah. Yeah.

What? We go now. I was singing that song. What song? Think twice. Yeah. I? We go now. I was singing that song. What song? Think twice. Yeah. I think you're making it up. Are you making it up?

Caitlin knows it. What? What is it, Caitlin? Baby think twice. Are you going to think twice before I touch my body? Oh, no. It's a different song. That's George Michael's faith.

I'm familiar with that. Celine Dion, Think Twice? Yeah. Megan, is that what you're singing? Yes, that's it. Um, excuse me. You don't know Celine Dion? Of course I know Celine Dion.

No. You weren't singing Celine Dion. I was. Well, I've got it here, so let's see how accurate she was. Say it again, do you? Never think twice. No, no. I don't know beyond that.

Get to the meaty bit. It's buffering. You need to like scooch along a bit. I've never heard this song before. I don't know how far to scooch. Are you kidding me? Here we go. I'm imagining this is it.

No. Are you thinking back? Oh, no, you skipped it. Is this it to imagine this is it. No. Are you thinking back? Here we go. Oh, no, you skipped it. Is this it? Is this it? Yeah. I can't believe it.

Didn't you see her in concert? Fletch? I don't know this song. Are you kidding me? You saw her in concert, no? It's very slow. Okay, but you weren't singing this. No, wait.

Wait. It's... Oh, how long? Here we go. Oh, that's not fair. That was a fancy bit. No, you did a great job representing the song. That was a fancy bit.

It's usually just hit hard. That was the fancy bit. Baby, thank twice. Megan, that's not in the song. It is. It's definitely not how you were. Okay, well, yeah. Don't lead us astray next time, please.

We go now to Alabama. Would it be okay if for the rest of story time we did have some Celine Dion in the background? Yeah. Some Celine Dion we all recognise. Okay, sure. We're talking about toilets, but that's okay. Oh, gosh, she's quaint. Well, it's very quiet.

Don't turn it down. What's wrong with you? No, full noise, mate. Oh, hold on, hold on. Dad's had a bit of a whoopsie. Here we go. Who tunes down the volume within YouTube? Who tunes down the volume within YouTube? Who tunes down the volume within YouTube?

It's your laptop. Who's been on my laptop? Which one of you kids has touched the bloody thermostat? It's like Fletch when he gets to the desk each day. Who's played with the settings? Who touched this? Somebody. I'm going to tear into all of them.

You don't touch the volume within YouTube. You touch the volume up here. Yeah. On the keyboard. It's just you. The computer. You don't touch it in bloody YouTube. Every day, Fleet just like, who's touched my settings?

No, people go in and touch my buttons. No, they don't. Log out and log into your own Clinton. The night show. Unbelievable. Cam probably pressing the buttons. You've let Belle off, Scott Free. She's next door.

Oh, she's in the other studio so she can't be here. She can touch her own buttons in there. All right, we go to Alabama. I hope she bloody doesn't. It's a window. Two, three. Oh, God.

All right, Alabama. Toilets and such. Police are asking residents to think twice. Oh, yeah, that's how we got onto that Celine Dion song. They haven't asked residents about the power of love or the power of flush. No, they've asked residents to think twice before flushing their meth down the toilet because...

Alligators. Yes. Get real. According to... Yes. Get real. According to police, alligators are ingesting that meth and becoming agitated. Oh, my God. Alligators on meth. Yes. Oh, my God.

Along with ducks and geese. And ducks. Geese are angry. Yeah, geese on meth. That's not a good combo. Good Lord. Imagine a goose frothing at the mouth coming at you. Ducks and geese. And ducks. Geese are angry. Yeah, geese on meth, that's not a good combo. Good Lord. Imagine a goose frothing at the mouth coming at you. So yeah, police warning at the rise of meth gators.

Oh. Ha, ha, ha. Ha. Don't eat. Don't eat bread. Ha. Don't eat bread. Don't eat any meth, do you?

Ha. Ha. Ha. I just fell in tough times as well. Ha. Don't anybody mess with you. I just fell in tough times as well. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. There is a study that's been released. It's Reuters. That's how you say it, eh? Reuters, the news people.

Yeah. Yep, okay. The health section, so they sound legit, they have said that the number of women who are engaging in adult activities falls off with age. So nearly 4,500 women over the age of 50 were a quarter less sexually active. So once you get to 50,

the amount of women engaging in adult fun times just like dips right off. Right. So what you're saying is cash in now while you can or want to. Cash in now. And use the guilt line of when you turn 50, you might not feel like doing it anymore,

so you have to. Sure, sure. Okay, that's how that works. But they, so there's health reasons. There's lots of reasons, but also lack of communication between healthcare professionals. So they're not talking about how they're feeling and between partners.

So they're just like, oh, I just don't feel like it. I just, so I've got a headache. So they're not telling their partner. But then that's communication. Yeah, but I mean, like, you're not saying, I don't actually feel like it for this reason. Like, maybe we could, I don't know, like communicating between your partner that it's not them

and maybe you can work on it together. But they're also not going to see healthcare professionals to get any help with it. Right. And talk about how they're feeling. So another way for us to look at that is people that aren't 50 or over is that a

quarter of our parents, your parents, are doing it still. Yeah, okay. Think about that when you're home for Christmas. I kind of would like to know that they were happy. You know? I feel bad thinking that like... What a miserable...

You get to an age and you're like, where you start remembering when your parents were your age. Like I can remember when my dad was how old I am now. Yeah. And God, it makes me miserable to think he hasn't had it since then.

Poor old fella. He gets up so early in the morning. He deserves, you know. Right. He's out there working. He's got to have something to come. A hot meal at the end of the day and maybe a bit of hanky-panky.

Well, they just had their Wendy Woo holiday. I'm sure they were. Well, I didn't ask them if they had. He wanted to see the Great Wall of China and a panda and he did that. So there might have been some mucking around afterwards to celebrate. Sort of a bucket list. That's bucket list stuff, seeing the Great Wall of China

in a panda. So who knows? But do you think that men are always sympathetic to the symptoms of menopause? No. Hell no. But I also think men, because we don't have anything like that, it's probably quite hard to compare it. But then it'd be interesting to know the stats of men

over a certain age. Because maybe men want to, but then there's that functionality of not all can. Yeah, right. Because there's medication to assist. Yeah. So it'd be interesting to know the male side of those statistics as well. But that's the thing, there's medication to assist. But yeah, whereas for females, no.

But you said there was, but there can be options, but a lot of them don't want to go to a health professional about it. I don't know if there's things that can help ease the symptoms of menopause. I'm sure that the doctor can... There might be things to help ease the symptoms of menopause, but that might not automatically mean the resulting would make you want to. Communication is key.

If you're not feeling up to it or if you're feeling rough, The resulting would make you want to. Communication is key. If you're not feeling up to it or if you're feeling rough, let someone know, your doctor or your partner. Or an office with a lockable door. Okay. Are you making that? Okay. Pardon me?

What's happening in this office? What? At work. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Sorry, sorry, let me go back. Home office with a local people. Why the office? Make it your own space. Put a dimming switch in.

You're in there by yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, right. Oh, yeah, I got that, but I was just confused with the office. No, heck, sorry, I meant, yeah, home office. Sorry, not office office. Sometimes you just appear at work and we'll be like, where's Vaughn? He's making you porridge.

Yeah, yeah. And that's not a euthymism. No, no, no. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan, the podcast. There was an aggravated robbery in Te Amutu in the Waikato. This led to the police making some arrests in Hamilton. Okay. Afterwards, they obviously got some tips and some clues.

Some clues. I found some clues. With their magnifying glass. We've got enough clues to make an arrest now. So they were armed because the robbery was aggravated. Yeah. So they're like, this calls for the arms, the guns. The guns.

So they trailed them to Hamilton, Greenwood Street, Sunday afternoon. They made the arrest. They made the men get out of the car one by one. Now, the thing they said surprised them the most about this, as previously mentioned, guns were present. So the arms were semi-automatic weapons. The police are armed with full-blown guns, not tasers or pepper spray.

They've got those as well, but these were guns. They just couldn't believe the amount of Joe Publix around that just got their phones out and came and, like, stood beside them filming this arrest. Because, obviously, if it all turns to custard and the men that are getting out of the car, because they don't know what they've got in the car. Yeah, true. They weren't armed during, I can't find anything that says they were armed during the aggravated

robbery. Right. But they, since then, may have had arms. Yeah. If it had all gone down, obviously it's a very dangerous place to be. You know what I'm saying? And it's a complete unknown. You're like, standing there, they could shoot back.

Yeah. They said best to err on the side of caution with these things. Yeah. We don't know what they've got. They are obviously criminals who have committed an aggravated robbery. They might want to go down in a blaze of glory. Yeah. We've got guns.

They might want to go to prison. And like protection, like they've got vests and stuff on and you're just like chilling next to unprotected. Yeah. And they said people came out of a restaurant nearby with their phones out and everybody just kind of came out and were having a bit of a nosy and then everyone got their phones out and started recording,

hoping to, I don't know, hoping to catch us in real action. I would watch, but from afar, from a distance. See, I've done this, so I can't comment. Really, can I? So I've done this exact thing. You saw a... Do you remember that? There was a courier... You were walking to work, eh?

Yeah, the courier van. Someone had nicked a courier van, and they had stopped them on Custom Street, right in the city, just up Queen Street in Auckland. And I saw all that, so I deviated my walk to work slightly, because there were, like, heaps of sirens, and I could hear them on the megaphone like,

get out of the van, put your hands on your head. And in the middle of the road, there was like maybe 10 cops, all semi-automatics. And I was right on the corner just filming because I was like, this is going to be great for my Instagram story. Fletch. And if it gets enough hate on the story, you'd probably put it as its own post.

Maybe, yeah, maybe. As long as no one puts, you wouldn't want to put it up if someone got shot. Well, no, no. If you got shot, you could probably put up the story. I've just been shot. My last, his final upload. And my leg. It looked under control, so I mean, if it looked,

but like you say, you don't know how these works. It's under control until it's not. Exactly. Everything's okay right up until it's not. Exactly. Everything's okay and right up until it's not okay anymore. Yeah, right. But yeah,

there's footage on this news story I'm reading and they've got the guys like down in handcuffs one by one and there's one guy left and look, everyone's just on the side

of the road and they're like, what's going on? Oh my God. Those guys are all face down. At that point, you're like, they're all handcuffed.

Yeah, that's fine. That'll be fine then, surely. Well, no, because there's still one to come out. Because there's four of them there on the ground and they said there's five men arrested. You just don't know, Fletch.

You could have been hurt. So they're just kind of saying probably best just to give them space in the future. Let them do their thing. Now you all want some grammable content. Content is king in this crazy world we live in.

Some influencer walks through with their Steadicam on their gimbal. Drops a drone in. Hey man, hey man. I got this account. I do like influencer stuff. You may have heard of me.

At Drone Guy. Can I pop a drone up and get like a bird's eye view of this whole thing? And can you just hold this branded coconut? Yeah. Is it all right if I just put some skincare on you? Hold on, I'm just getting a bit. Yeah, that's good, man. That's good.

That's good. And can you hold this? Just hold the bottle, yeah. Can you hold the slim tea? Turn the label. It needs to be to the front. Yeah, yeah, there we go. Cheers, man. Can you hold the slim tea? No. Turn the label. There we go. Cheers, man.

Cheers. Yeah, man, I got the shot. Hey, thanks for that. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. There has been an incident where someone has felt quite ripped off. I believe it was someone who is visiting New Zealand.

Oh, this isn't good news. Actually, no, I think it was a Kiwi, but they were going to Rotorua for a holiday and they ordered some takeout. Don't know if that's the place it was from. So I don't know if they're vegetarian or what, some takeout. Don't want us to go to the place it was from. So, I don't know if they're vegetarian

or what, but they decided that garlic stir fry broccoli was what they wanted. Yum, that's a pretty legit stir fry. Yeah.

What have we got in there? We've got some big bits of garlic. Yeah, so there's visible garlic. Yeah. Here's a picture of this stir fry.

Some broccoli, of course. Broccoli's your main ingredient. What else did you have in there? Capsicum. Okay, I could have a bit of that. Some soy sauce, some oyster sauce, some fish sauce.

As far as I can tell, no, that's kind of it. No sauce. I'm just looking at the picture here. What's this do for that good bit of sauciness? So they're vegetarian. It seems to me what's missing. Those look steamed. Even chunks of tofu would be nice in there.

Just something else of any sort. So there's broccoli and capsicum. Well, what's the complaining? It looks nice. So it costs $20. Okay, there's your complaint. See, at the moment, broccoli is super cheap. Because it's a winter vegetable.

It's a brassica. But in summer, you'd probably justify that price. But also, if you look at the container, they say in this photo they haven't eaten anything and it's not even full. A container, I'd say, looks about half full. Right, and very hard. And it's your typical plastic takeout container that you imagine, the one you keep and then you use for lunch. It is $20 and she said, my first thought was, oh, I got a half box of very hard, undercooked and not hot broccoli.

So it wasn't even stir fried if it was super hard. Yeah, nah, it doesn't look like it. Right. So she's feeling pretty ripped off. But then the owner guy, he's made a good point of it. If you're not happy, say something. But then I guess it's a takeaway, so you're home by then, aren't you? But call them.

Yeah, and then they can make it right. And then instead of going online and now it's all in the news. Yeah. This is how I feel now that I own a small business. If you have an issue, they can easily rectify it for you if you're unhappy. But it's easier. To go straight to the media and slam a small business that's probably, you know, just trying to get by. I mean, I do feel a little bit for them.

No, I would never charge $20 for a half a container of broccoli. But do you know what? Maybe the owner wasn't there and wasn't there to oversee the situation. Maybe it was someone who's just working for him, made a whoopsie daisy, would have been easy for her to call and be like, Hey, you've charged me $20 for this broccoli. Have you had any

complaints lately that you had to deal with? No, see none that have actually spoken to us. Oh, but online? Have you had some online? No, but That's good.

I just hope that people don't go back and bitch about it afterwards. I take it so personally. Yeah, I take it personally. I'd actually hunt them down and turn up to their house and say,

oi, we've got to fix this out. Fix this up and then fix your Google review. No, I'd take it personally. I'd actually hunt them down and turn up to their house and say, Oi, we've got to fix this out. Fix this up and then fix your Google review. No, I saw someone on Facebook put up a picture of coming along being like, Oh, it was really yum and great review. And then someone commented and was like, Hmm, am I the only person that went along and thought it was a bit meh? I saw that. So I commented and I was like, what happened?

Give me a rundown. I'd love to fix it for you. But they didn't. Yeah, exactly. Oh, okay, yeah. I was like, oh, that sucks. Yeah. Find their inability to vocalise exactly what they found meh a bit meh.

And what does bit meh mean? Like the food, the service? Was it a bad coffee? So yeah, I can understand how this guy. Now you don't know. No, I know. Oh, that's annoying. But so I can understand how this guy feels. No, I know. Oh, that's annoying. But so I can understand how this guy feels.

At least, you know, at least that person that said it was a bit meh didn't go online. Could probably take $5 off this though. The price, to be honest. $10 of it. It's like a $10 side. It's a $5 side. Yeah. Yeah, there's no meat.

But it's not even that. There's no sauce. There's no oyster sauce. Well, no, it does look like there could be some sauce. No, it's a spoonful of crushed garlic, I think. No, minimal. Really? That's minimal sauce.

No, you've got to have a lot of sauce. More sauce. It's essential a stir fry has a lot of sauce. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Today's Top Six deals with the fact, now this started in Japan, but apparently happens around the world,

but Japan mostly. Okay. People are renting cars, but not to drive them around to get from A to B. One in eight drivers are using their rental cars to sleep, catch up on work, have some alone time, or brush up on their language skills

by listening through the car stereo. Apparently there's these... Like kind of... You've done this in New Zealand, the car hop. Yeah, the city hops in a few cities. Yeah, yeah. So basically, it's like a lime scooter but a car, right? They're just parked in certain parks and you can just use them

to get to another place, return it, put it in that park and you clock out and you pay for the time you had it. Swipe your card on a little sensor. It's $12.50 an hour and then per K. So one of those in Japan is called Times 24. It's got 1.2 million registered users. And they were noticing because they get all the details from people would rent them for a few hours at a time,

but then they would GPS track them to just parks or car park buildings and they wouldn't do a lot of Ks and then they'd just be returned and dropped off. So they looked into it and yeah, people are eating in them, just chilling out. They just want to get away from the world. Yeah, having some alone time. It's like $6 for half an hour.

So they just, you know, it's convenient for them. And apparently this happens at rental places around the world. Rental cars aren't always being rented to be driven. Even in our biggest city, so you could find a little quiet space somewhere. You'd think so. Well, maybe in New Zealand. But maybe in winter, not as much. Yeah, true.

Because it gets a bit, but like in summer, like parks, under trees, anywhere. What about you go to like a matinee at the movies? You end up by yourself in a dark, white spot. I like going when there's no one else there. Got some nibbles. Get some snacks. Okay. But you can't catch up on your work or listen to a language tape over the loudspeakers when you're in there.

So many different things to do. So today's top six are the top six things you can do in rental cars without adding any Ks on the clock. Number six, hide in the boot. You haven't lived until you've taken a nap in a boot and woken up and forgotten how you got there and thought you'd been abducted by yourself. It's true. Yeah, I've hidden in the boot of my car at home.

It was a game of hide and seek. To scare your wife? No, it was a game of hide and seek with the kids. So I put the boot of the car and I was in there for ages. They didn't find me and I'm like, I napped. Yeah. It was a a game of hide and seek with the kids. So I popped the boot of the car and I was in there for ages. They didn't find me and I was like, I napped. Yeah.

It was a nice bit of a long time. And they stopped playing? Yeah, they pretty much stopped playing. And then it was dark and I didn't have my phone so I struggled for ages

to find that latch so you can let yourself out from inside. How long were you in there for? 25 minutes. It was alright. I did win

and I haven't told them where I was hiding so when we play again I'll be able to go back. Yeah, right. You don't tell them. You don't tell them your when we play again, I'll be able to go back. Yeah, right. You don't tell them. You don't tell them your good hiding spots because then they'll just try to hide in the good hiding spots.

Number five on the list of the top six things you can do in rental cars without eating any K's on the clock. Fog up the windows and write on them because your parents wouldn't let you do that growing up. No. You'd be like... Your mum would be like, don't, no, no. And she'd pass you the cloth they always had in the car.

She'd be like, wipe that. The chamois. Yeah, yeah, the chamois. The chamois up the front. Yeah. Wipe that, wipe that. Oh, you're going to leave a bloody mess. And now that you're older, you realise it does leave a bloody mess

and you don't want to make a mess in your own car. So get a rental. Do it in that, yeah. Draw in the windows. Or just leave it outside. Overnight, in a cold night, so it gets yeah. Draw on the windows. Or just leave it outside overnight in a cold night so it gets the foggy on the windows and then knock yourself out. Number four on the list of the top six things you can do in rental

cars without adding any K's on the clock. Rent it, put it on a trailer and get another car to tow it on a road trip. Comfy seats, lovely new car smell, room for everybody, additional boot space and no need to pay for unlimited kilometres option.

Or petrol. Because the car in front is tying you on the trailer. Right. I can't see a problem with it.

Number three on the list of the top six things you can do in a rental car without adding any Ks. Tune all the radio presets to ZM.

Hey, hey. Do the right thing. You always do that when you get in a rental car. You change all the presets. You're like, before we even move, I'm just going to ZM. Hey, hey. Do the right thing. You always do that when you get in a rental car. You change all the presets. Yeah. You're like, before we even move, I'm just going to change that, that, that, that, that. I'm putting them all. I work in radio.

I have to put them all on the same radio station. It's just how it works when you work in radio. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six things you can do in rental cars without adding any Ks on the clock. Get the seat just right for you. Get the seat perfect. Hit you. Get the seat perfect. Hit that sweet spot.

Length. Lumbar support. Height. Headrest. And then just rip out all the wiring so it can never be changed. I don't think you can do that. So forever, that car will be at your perfect settings.

Right. Stuff everyone out. Just rip them all out. That's how it works Now that car will Forever remember Your preferred lumbar position And the number one thing

You can do in a rental car Without adding any K's On the clock Park it under a sprinkler Turn on the wipers And listen to some Coldplay And just cry Oh my god

It's hard to cry When the windscreen wipers Are like Squeak squeak Squeak squeak So you want to be under A lot of rain. Yep.

And then that also hides your tears for passerbys. I'd recommend a golf course or a council property where there is a really great sprinkler. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. We were alerted to this this morning by Intern Anya, who was livid at her sister stealing some spotlight. What's the rundown?

Tell everybody what's happened. Well, she's a doctor. Yes, she's a doctor. A landowner is considerably more successful than I am, which is cool. Oh, hey, how do you measure success? Are you happy? Yep.

Mostly, yeah. God, you've got troubles because your boyfriend likes... Tony Street. Tony Street. That's an issue for another day. Yeah. Life's not great at the moment, is it? I'm on a downward spiral, yeah.

But, so about five years ago, we did a family holiday to the beautiful Akaroa. I've never been. You simply must. This is just outside of Christchurch. I've heard nothing but positive reviews. The French capital of the South Island, if you will. I don't like the French.

Don't go there. Oh, my God. And we did a dolphin swimming. There are dolphins? Yeah, mate. Oh, for crying out loud, we've simply got to go next time. Wow, we've been mucking around. We've wasted too much of our life.

We went there and we swam with dolphins and we saw maybe three of them. It was hunky-dory, great day, five stars on TripAdvisor. Yeah. My parents and my sister and her partner are currently back in Akaroa this weekend. Right. Without me. And you've not been invited. So here's another issue to add to the talk for the counsellor today.

Yeah. And my sister has sent me a Snapchat this morning of the information guide and she is on the front cover with a dolphin for the Eco Seeker Dolphin Tour. She's the poster child. She's the model. And I was on that tour and me bathers and was not on the front cover. And this photo of your sister, how far were you from her when that photo was taken? Like I'm on the other side of the dolphin.

So there may even have been a Photoshop. You may have even been Photoshopped out. I think we have a cropping issue here. Yeah. Were you not smiling or something? Oh, I didn't know that when you told us before. That's extra sting. So what a way to start a Tuesday.

Did you look scared? Yeah, were you smiling? She looks like she's having the time of it. I mean, it's a great photo. I understand why. I'm just a little dark. They were like, hey, sweetie, you smell over here too. Maybe you were blinking.

That's what it would have been. That happens to me. Them. Yeah, because I remember them emailing afterwards and being like, hey, we just want to use it on this wee poster. Is that all right? And she was like, yeah, yeah, always. It's cheeky when businesses do that.

It is cheeky because they would otherwise have to pay somebody so much money. Yeah, yeah. But you kind of flattered. You're like, I must have looked really great swimming with that dolphin. So you're like, yes, but then forget about it. But then now you've been dealt the harsh blow that they didn't really want you at all. Your family, all that tourism place because they've gone there without you. It's a double it.

How do we feel about Akaroa now? We're not so sold on it. I'm kind of ash burdenton for my next holiday. It's a place of heartbreak. I wonder, is there anybody else listening that's been used in a business as advertising? Whether they asked or not. Yeah, so maybe you just suddenly discovered it.

Because you remember our friend Brad, he was supposed to charge for Club Raro for many years and broke up with that girl. He loved it though, didn't he? Well, every time he got a new girlfriend, he took them to Rarotonga. I don't think he's taken his latest girlfriend to Rarotonga. Maybe he's cursed. He's Rarotonga cursed.

He's keyed on to it. But yeah, and then like two girlfriends later when he went back to Rarotonga, him and his ex-girlfriend were still the posted children for Club Raro. Yeah, because you'd go past like a flight centre or any one of these places and there'd be brochures and he'd be in there. Or you'd get an email for grab one and it would be like five nights at Club Rara.

All these years later, they're still being used. And I think they just gave them a drinks voucher, right? Oh my God. No, but at the time you're like, yes. Well, yeah, because how many people are possibly going to see this? I'm a model. This is a great start to my career and I've just got a drink voucher.

I'm all in on this. All right. Well, let's take some calls. 0800-DARZATM-9696. When has a business used you in their advertising? Whether they asked or not, did you become the face of something? Were you on posters? Because imagine if this happened to you when you were overseas.

You'd probably leave and not even think anything of it Until your friends went back Or someone saw you and they're like Hey Oh my god He's still on the website No way He's our fruit bread

He's still in Club Raro That would literally be 10 years ago right Surely that would be 8 or 9 years ago It would have to be 10 years ago Oh my god that's so funny. They really need to update their photos. No, because then they have to pay someone. Oh no, just bust out

the drinks about you. Pray on some other suspecting twenty-somethings at Club Raro. Or at least invite them back. Who blew all their money on that round the Ryland bus trip on a Friday night. Yeah. Alright, 0800-DARLES-NM-9696. When did the company use you in their advertising?

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I want to know when a company has used you in its advertising, whether or not it asked or not. Anya's sister, Intern Anya's sister, is still, to this day, the poster child for dolphin excursion. A dolphin excursion in Akaroa. Yeah. And Anya was it turns out photoshopped or

cropped out of the image for whatever reason. Maybe they just wanted one person in the poster. Feel free to defend yourself Anya. I'm too dark to even talk about this anymore. When did this happen? How long ago did you dolphin swim? Five years ago.

Oh my God. So she's been up there since. What do you mean? She's been the poster child of dolphins since. I guess so, yeah. Yeah. Did she get a free trip

this time around? Did she walk up to the thing point and be like, recognise that mug? I don't know. How about a free dolphin excursion? She doesn walk up to the thing point and be like That's me Recognise that mug? Dunno How about a free dolphin excursion? She doesn't know because Arnie wasn't invited on that family trip That they're currently on

Yeah Let's move on guys Right So where have you been using the company's promotion? Some text messages And the lady I babysat for when I was 14 Asked if I could be in her work brochure I was like okay that, that's all right.

I didn't fully know what it was for. It was for a woman's health and gynecology clinic right next to the high school. So everybody saw it. Oh. Of course, when you're in high school. Yeah. Where's that? Why'd you have to go there for?

My company took photos of me at work. I hate being the center of attention, but my boss made me do it. I said, as long as this is going to be on the down low. And I didn't tell anybody I had done it. Turns out they were for an Instagram ad, and every person I know ended up seeing it, along with 100,000 others, according to Insights. Oh no! And I got a $100

voucher for my troubles. Oh my god. Yeah, you should probably get a bit more than that, hey? Jordan, what did you get used in? A campaign? No, it wasn't me. It was my older brother. Okay.

So this was in Woman's Weekly or one of those shitty magazines in like 1998. Yeah. And so he only found out of this after the fact that he was like 17, 18. Yeah. of this after the fact that he was like 17, 18, but they had taken his photo of when he was like 10 or 11 and used his face as an ad for nits. Oh no. What aspect of nits?

Getting rid of nits, not having nits, or being infested with nits? Well, just all of the above, I think. And he had like this real white boy, shaggy, curly, blonde hair and he just was this face. And he had, like, this real white boy, shaggy, curly blonde hair. And he just was this face. He was, like, the face of this knit ad.

And he had no idea. And then, yeah, they found it somehow in one of Mum's old magazines. And it was like, hey, that's my brother. That's you, bro. And then he was livid. And then he ended up getting some compensation for it. I don't know how much's you, bro. He was livid and then he ended up getting some compensation for it. I don't know how much. So he actually

complained. Hey, you're using I don't have nits. Wow, that's crazy. Tarnishing his 10-year-old image. Thanks, you're cool. Jordan, Rebecca, what were you used in advertising for? There's a couple of things.

One in New Zealand and one international. I was a teacher in China. Okay. For a couple of years. And I'm quite tall and blonde, so I stick out like a sore thumb. Yeah. And without them asking me, they put me as, like, the front of the whole school. Like, this is what all our teachers look like.

If you come to this school, this is what your kid will be taught by. Wow. And so you were in all these brochures and advertising. On, like, the front of, like, when you walk through the gates of the school, this is what your kid will be taught by. Wow. And so you were in all these brochures and advertising? On like the front of like when you walk through the gates of the school, like a blown up version. Oh my God. Nobody needs to see that every time they arrive at work. Get taught by a magical foreign beauty. So tall, so blonde, so magic. And you were saying two things.

So what one is? Yeah, the other one is, so me and my friend went to the Auckland Food Show like two, three years ago, Dana. And we've been used for every type of food show in New Zealand since. Like it came up this year. I always get tagged in it,

but it's of us like stuffing our faces and we're on like everything. Are you taking like a big bite of something? Yeah, like spoon in the mouth. Oh my God. And did they ask you or they just grabbed it? No, I think it must be like part of the ticket. Like if you buy the ticket, you know.

No, that's not it. That's part of the ticket. I'd be straight on the email. I'd be asking for some food vouchers. I mean, keep using the images. Just give me some food vouchers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.

Give me all the tokens. Hey, thanks for your call, Rebecca. Rachel, you were used in some companies advertising. Oh, yeah. I know. Give me all the tokens. Hey, thanks for your call, Rebecca. Rachel, you were used in some companies advertising? Oh, yes. So I got my teeth whitened in Auckland and they asked if I could put my photo on their website. I was like, yeah, that's fine. Before and after result.

And then when my friend, she was living in Germany at the time and she was walking by a shop where she lived, and it was a dental clinic, and then it was a photo of me that they'd just copied and pasted and put on their shop window and said, this is what you can get, the results you can get at our clinic.

Oh, my God. And she was like, is this you? Yeah. That's incredible. So, then, the people you had the photo with, they hadn't sold it to the Germans. The German place had just obviously just Googled it. Yeah, I just copied it.

So I must have had really good looking teeth. Did you? Yeah, I'd be taking that compliment. Yeah, it was a great transformation, obviously. Did you email the Germans and ask for some compensation? Oh, I should have. That was a while ago now, though. So maybe it's gone.

But yeah. Don't bank on it. They still be there. They might just be Faded now They've paid off Their World War I debt So they've probably Got a bit of spare cash

Thanks you Rachel Some messages Yeah well I was used by ZM I called Brian Clint Once To confess

That my dinners Had lately just consisted Of plain bread I shocked him Myself again and again Again and again Promoting the show I mean take it As a compliment Yeah it was obviously just consisted of plain bread. I shocked to hear myself again and again. Again and again. Promoting the show.

Let's see. Yeah. I mean, take it as a compliment. Yeah, it was obviously a funny story. Yeah. Yeah. Laughing with. Yeah, laughing with. Not at.

I'm all over the University of Otago. I did a shoot for free, and they said, oh, we'll just use this in a couple of things, and it's been used for the past five years. That's cheeky. I was kind of okay with it until last week. Someone told me I looked so much older than I did in that picture.

So now I want it gone because it's a reminder of my fading youth. It's tough, eh? Yeah. I sure hope this pre-recorded laughing isn't after something inappropriate to laugh at. But I just want to take a moment to say thanks to Spark for sponsoring the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. You can grab Spark's $29 prepaid rollover packs and get stacks of extra value. Back to the podcast. Well, it's been called arguably one of the greatest cricket games ever.

Here it is, folks. This is the moment. It's Archer to Guptill. Two to win. Guptill's going to push for two. They've got to go. He's got it. England have won the World Cup by the barest of margins.

Absolute ecstasy for England. Agony. Agony for New Zealand. What a day it was yesterday. Did you feel walking around that people were a bit sombre yesterday? I noticed that they were tired. The gym was like empty

for a Monday. I just thought everybody just seemed really tired. Yeah. So I guess a lot of people... And just annoyed because you're like, you're tired and then it wasn't like worth it. It wasn't the result that we wanted. And even people that didn't get up to watch it were just like, oh yeah, I'm tired too. They were like, just catch

you tired. That's why I've come into work late. But you didn't even watch the game. I know, but you know. Well, one of the greatest victories of all time went to England after it was tied at the end of 50 overs. It went to a super over, which again was tied, and England won on boundaries. Well,

you may have heard murmurings of this yesterday, but it turns out that we should have won that initial 50 over game by one run. One run. So explain this to me because this is when it happened, I thought, because I remember a friend of mine told me about this weird rule. Like if you took off a shoe, if you were fielding. A helmet.

If you took off your safety helmet and put it on the ground Yeah And the ball hits that Yes Yeah it's five runs Yeah Is that the rule? Yeah Yeah I thought it was always

Interference from fielders Like if you took off a shoe If you were fielding And the ball hit the shoe And stopped That would be five runs For the other team Because you've used something

That's not on your body To stop the ball That's what I've always been told I don't know If that's actually a thing. Yeah. But regardless of what happened afterwards. So the key moment in the game

was the third to last ball from Trent Bolt. Ben Stokes hit this to Martin Guptill in the field. They ran a single and were coming back for their second run. And as he was sliding in, the ball hit his bat and went for four runs. And they were, England were rewarded

by the umpire, the two runs that they completed and the four runs and the boundary. So that's a total of six. That's right. And because he hadn't

changed line, it was unintentional. He was allowed those runs. What does that mean hasn't changed line? Well, it's like he wasn't running. He didn't run to jump

in the way or chuck his bat to stop the ball. So here's where people are saying they should have only got five runs for it and we would have won. The rules state, in the event of an overthrow, the runs scored are the allowance for the boundary and the runs

completed by the batsmen together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act. So if they had crossed when he threw the ball, he'd be allowed the six runs. But he hadn't. They hadn't crossed. When he threw it, they hadn't. So it doesn't count as a completed run?

No. Wait, Cross the crease or cross each other Running So he hadn't crossed When Martin Guptill threw that ball

Ben Snow There's a screenshot from the footage of them basically Not by a country mile They're at each other's ends about to run So that proves

that they should have only been awarded five runs, not six. Right. How much of a tanty are we going to throw at them? Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. But then, I mean, the umpire, he was the one that was like, it's six. They're supposed to know this. They're supposed to know this. And if they don't, ask. Well, yeah, I'm surprised they didn't go upstairs, just for some clarification.

Like, we heard on the commentary that, oh, they're just discussing this, like, are they going to award all the... That's the moment you ask people. Does anyone know? Maybe we should double check. Would you know all the rules?

Like, there's a lot of rules. No, but double check. Ask, just be like, hang on a minute. Like, this is serious. This is a World Cup final. None of the commentators picked it up at the time.

Nobody said at the time. This wasn't until, like, lunchtime yesterday that people were like, hang on a second. Blew the dust off the old up at the time. Nobody said at the time. This wasn't until like lunchtime yesterday that people were like, hang on a second. Blew the dust off the old cryptic rule book. So what now? Well, it's too late. Who says?

Give it back. You know, I know an engraver. He could probably change it from England to New Zealand. Isn't that just, because then it wouldn't have gone to a Super Bowl, but we would have won by a run and won the World Cup. Oh my God. Devastating, isn't it?

Devastating. It's not really that helpful, though, is it? Yeah, I mean, we could have, in other words, we could have also scored an extra 20 runs and won by 20 runs. Yeah. And not stepped on a boundary line and went catching a six. Yeah, plenty of moments. Plenty of moments.

Yeah, I mean, I couldn't have done any better. So, you know, I'm still proud of them. I think we are as a country. Yeah. Because technically we didn't lose. And that's what we'll always take from it. No, we didn't because there should have been five rounds, not six. Okay, hey, we're not going to go on a podcast.

We're not going to. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Panic at the Disco on ZM, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Who? Fletch. Fletch. Fletch. You're listening to Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Who? Fletch. Fletch. Fletch. You're lost under.

Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Fletch. We're from New Zealand. It sounds like you're saying you're Fletch. Yeah, Fletch. Fletch, Fawn and Megan. I know how to say my own name. Fletch, Fawn and Megan.

I'm beginning to wonder. I've just become lazy. It's fair enough. With articulation. It's overrated. It is. It's overrated. I had my high school reunion on Saturday night.

Saturday night just gone. And the weekend. I would not go to a high school reunion. I'm really surprised you went. That's what I was like joking to people about how much I hate people. Yeah. There and how this took a lot. And how it would be so many like combos, like catch up.

Lots. But I don't care. Actually, I did really well. I talked to lots of, because I could have just stuck with the people I'm still really good friends with and talked to them, but I talked to lots of people. Oh, good on you. I talked to some dudes more on Saturday night than I talked to in the entire time at high school.

Is it because you have a TV show now? So you can be like, I'm real successful. I've got a TV show. It is. Oh, thank you, Sal. Stop that, Sal. Stop that. No.

Because you know I know You don't start Absolutely not Well I'm in a TV show now No That never Ever happens Did you talk to any of them

About your show No Do you know Ursula Carlson I'm doing a TV show with her Don't Don't I would never say that It's not even funny to joke about

I know But that's why it's funny I've traded up posters. Yeah. Is that why this is this? This is a jealousy issue. Is that why you're... Well, you do go on about how funny Ursula is,

but that's fine. You go on about it more than I do. She's always on about it. Yep. Maybe, um... Maybe, just a thought, maybe your show people would like to come to the cafe and hang out.

And maybe like bring Ursula. Yeah, bring Ursula. That's Megan. Yeah. Like three times a week. But how cool did I play it when she came in? Oh, you played it pretty cool. Super.

Yeah, I was like, because she could lose it, but you didn't. So you're at this reunion going around telling everybody. I remember. I was not. We've hit a hot button and we're keeping on. I don't want people to think that. I know. That's not happened.

Not like that. So I'm very much not like that. So I went around and I was talking to lots of people. And I remember everybody. When I was at school, I knew everybody's name. Everybody at school. You went to a tiny school, didn't you? No, there was like how many people?

400 and something. See, mine was like 1, didn't you? No, there was like, how many people? 400 and something? See, mine was like 1,200. Oh, you wouldn't have known everybody. No, you didn't know everybody. Well, you went to that giant school that's got a physiotherapist,

aren't you? What was that? Rangitoto College. How many people go there? Three and a half thousand. That's nuts. They're allowed to rub down students?

That was frowned upon on my day. They're allowed to what? Rub down students. You said they had a physiotherap day. Are they allowed to what? Rub down students. You said they had a physiotherapist. Oh, no, because remember we went to that talent show, and they said, oh, that's the physiotherapist unit. I'm just like.

Yeah, everyone used to just pop in there for a massage. That's crazy. For free? No. Yeah, you had to say ACC. You'd be like, oh, I fell on it weirdly. We weren't even allowed to touch each other at school. It was a rule because you got pregnant.

That's how it works, yeah. So I was going around and catching up with everybody. Some people I haven't seen since high school or like, you know, 15 years and I haven't seen it and just catching up. Did you see any hot ones that blow out? Fletch? What? Nah, the hot people were still hot. Hey, no.

When you see someone who was hot at school and then they're not now, it's great. Isn't it? Don't pretend like that. You don't find joy in that. No, the hot people were still hot.

Because they were hot at high school and everyone was like, they're so great. And now they're not. You're just like, huh. That's really mean. Is it? Maybe it is.

Actually, now I'm saying it out loud. It's one of those things to say to yourself. It's out loud and then, yeah, you're like, okay, I am the bad guy. So I'm talking to everybody. Remember everybody. Looking at the photos, I'm like, I remember this person. They're not here. Remember them.

And then there's this guy at the bar and I was like, what's the deal with the guy at the bar? Because he was just kind of hanging by himself. I'm like, is he just having a couple of drinks? And so I was like, it's Nigel. And I was like, who the bloody hell is Nigel? And they said, remember he started in like sixth form and he rode a motorbike.

I said, I'd remember if I'd remember if a guy started and he rode a motorbike because I'd immediately be like, well there's another person that's cooler than me because I got a motorbike. And I looked at him and someone's like, go and talk to him. I was like, I don't even remember him existing. Do you remember him? And they're like, we'd not really, but then when I talked to him and someone's like, go and talk to him. I was like, I don't even remember him existing. Do you remember him?

And they're like, not really. But then when I talked to him, I remembered him. And I was like, bloody Nigel. And I went around everywhere and I was like, do you remember Nigel? And they're like, yeah, I do. Yeah, he started in sixth form. He rode the motorbike. I'm like, his defining feature was very defining.

He rode a motorbike. You'd remember that. I'd remember someone pulling up on a motorbike. And I went around and I asked more people and more people were like, yeah, I remember Nigel. He rode a motorbike. He started at about six feet. It's this bloody Nigel guy and his motorbike.

And I cannot remember him for the life of me. I was looking at photos of events and I was like, oh, do you remember that? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And someone was like, oh, my God, how do you remember that i was like well obviously i deleted nigel so i've got the spare space but but i can and it's actually driving me a bit crazy that i can't remember nigel did you go and talk to me no because i couldn't remember him you know his name that's enough to be like just at the end i was like i'm and i wanted to go and be like run me where did you come from nigel where did you go where did you come from

i just and i can't and i'm like even now i'm thinking and even in the photos i was like show me him in the photos and they were like he was away on photo day i was like this is all a trick this is all a trick nigel wasn an anomaly. This is all a trick. Are you sure Nigel wasn't just there getting free drinks at a reunion? And because they, he said, maybe. Because then people would go like, oh, hey mate, I'm Nigel. I started, remember I rode the motorbike? Everyone's like, oh yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course, great to see you. This sounds like a great wind up, like invent somebody and tell everyone's in on the story. I know. Except one person. I know it makes me think I'm going crazy. Yeah. Or it's like a glitch in the Matrix or the Truman Show. And that was all running through my head at the same time.

I was like, this is a joke. And you're so good at remembering names. Like, name all the staff at ZM. Line them up. I'll do it. Line them up. I will straight out do it. You couldn't. Line them up. I will straight out do it. You couldn't.

Except Nigel. I could because I've made an effort. Oh, yeah. I walk out, I know everybody's names. When you take biscuits out to the plebs. No, because there was Clara and Carwin, and that was confusing because they're basically the same name, but one of them left.

Right. Which one? Clara. Okay, good. Yeah. Because see you later. See you later. See you later? Clara. Okay, good. Yeah. Because see you later. See you later. See you later.

Clara. Okay. Okay. But you can't remember Nigel. Not for the life of me. Not for the bloody life of me. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. We would love to know right now where you met your significant other. Because a Stanford University study has shown that the majority of people are meeting each other through dating apps or online in other ways. Well, we want to change it up and ask where you met your partner that wasn't online. Yeah. Because this is quite incredible, these stats. So I just showed Fletch the graph, which is quite stunning. It goes real up.

Hey, share the graph. You know I love graphs. I love a stunning graph. So red is met online. Holy. So now you're squinting like you can't see. Holy majoli. Now what's purple there?

Because purple's dropped off significantly. So that's met through friends. Okay. That's a big arch. So that had a boost and then it's gone right down. When did that hit its straps? In the 70s, 80s? 70s and 80s.

That was when... Even in the 90s it was okay, but from 2000 it's just not a thing so much anymore. Down to 20% for meeting through friends. Meeting in a bar and restaurant is second. So that has gone up gradually as well. That's up to 28%. But is that meeting your Tinder date at a bar or a restaurant?

Is that what people are saying? Yeah, I don't know, maybe. You meet people at bars all the time, wouldn't you? Yeah. Okay, so it goes online dating or apps. Yep, online meeting someone and meeting in a bar or restaurant's at 28%. So meeting online is 40%.

Wow, okay. And what's kind of below that? So third would be meet through friends or through co-workers, sorry. So you're meeting them at work. So that's good when one of your friends or co-workers said, I know someone that would be perfect for you. Yeah. Are you being sarcastic?

Oh, yeah, okay, great. No, because I was like, yeah, you never hear that going well. No. Next most popular is really surprising. Meeting through family. Again. So that's like mum being like, I know this lovely boy. Mum's always right though.

Yeah. Is she? Mum's always right. She's going for a lovely boy, but maybe not one that you'd actually find. Like you might want a bad boy. Yeah. Unless mum's like a parole officer. Well, yes. Mum's like, I know a bad boy. Yeah. Unless mum's like a parole officer. Well, yes.

Mum's like, I've got this lovely boy. He's just done six months with Meth Manufacture. He's in a very nice gang. He'll be right up your alley. The other one that's massive. So way, way back in, not way, I'm sorry, 1940. I mean, it was a little while ago. This was right up there with family and

meeting through friends. The other way was meeting in primary or secondary school. So high school sweethearts. So not a thing anymore. It's down to 5%. But there's still 5% would be high school sweethearts. Okay, that's cool. Yeah. The other options are meeting through neighbours, meeting

in church. Meeting through neighbours so it's just the neighbours on the other side of your neighbours. Come through our backyard and meet the other neighbours. Meeting in church and meeting in college. What's meeting in church at? Meeting at church is quite low. It's down to 4%. That's interesting.

When you think about it, even the last like 10 years, if you go back 10 years and you were like, oh yeah, we met on Tinder, which wasn't even a thing then, right? We met online dating, like NZ dating or whatever there was then. Or in a chat room. People would be like, ooh, don't admit that. Or you'd probably even come up with a lie. Yeah.

But now. You don't know who they are. It's scary. My brother met his wife in a WWE chat room. I know. That's the wrestling chat room. And she's really hot. Really, and really like lovely and normal.

And everyone was like, you are being catfished. My parents didn't know how to tell people. Even when they got together and they met Casey and they were like, oh my God, like what does she see in him? Which my parents have never said out loud, but we all know they're thinking it. Because it's full up. Yeah, full up. But it's full up. Yeah.

Full up. It's full up. It's full up. He's batting. He's batting. It's full up. He's batting. Well, all the Smith boys are batting, actually.

It's an absolute anomaly. We don't know. So, but I remember my parents being like, how do we tell people that it was the internet? Because it was back in the day when that was really new. People were so worried about the judgment they'll get with it. Yeah. But now you would definitely be like, hey, we met online or we met through Tinder or whatever.

Yeah, yeah. Everyone would be like, cool. No one cares. What's the new taboo? Is there a new taboo? I don't know. Not that I know of. No.

We met in a public toilet. I think that would be... I don't think it's in Utabu. I don't think that would be new, yeah. Yeah. It was a co-ed public toilet. Right, okay. So we thought this morning we'd ask,

seeing as though everyone's meeting online now, the vast majority, how did you meet your partner that wasn't online? Do you actually have, like, in this day and age, a story that's, like, actually you ran into someone in public and met them, like, and then actually, like, talked to a stranger? Ew.

Weird. I know, isn't that weird to say? Whereas back in, like, 10, 12 years ago, you'd be like, you met someone online? Ew. Whereas we've completely switched around and it's like, have you met someone by talking to them normally? Yeah, because it used to be about the dangers of the strangers on the internet,

but now, like, the internet's full of all of your best friends and real life's where you meet the dangerous strangers. Yeah. So 0800-DARLS-IT-M 9696, how did you meet that wasn't online? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Stanford Uni have done a poll and, well, it's a study actually, and they have found that most people, majority, are meeting online their significant other these days.

You all go crawling back to Tinder and Bumble. You do. It might not even be those. It could be like a common interest group. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, anything online. You might join, like, for example, we've got this podcast fam group on Facebook

and I know there's been a couple of people hook up through there. Has there? Mm. Aw. You can hook up on anything online. The Domino's app. Anything. You've broken him The toilet is here

Holy shit How would it work Run me through your Thorn roses No you just get You just ask for the Hottest delivery driver And then they come to you

And they've got food Oh my god It's match made in heaven. Meat lovers and yeah. You love the meat and here comes the meat with the meat lovers. Oh, good stuff.

Oh, I think that really hurt. I laughed. That took my ribs from me. That you went to the Domino's app. Oh, that is good stuff. So we asked on our Instagram, did you meet your partner online? 72% said no.

That is quite surprising. Are they lying? Because I thought we got past the stigma. But this is also, we didn't ask in the last two years. Like your partner that you've been with short term. Yeah, that's true. Because this is, yeah. So what was the study?

It was 40% of people are meeting online. That's the highest? These days, yeah, 40%. Okay. So we're flipping it round. In this day and age, if it's not online, how have you met your partner? We'll take some calls.

Hannah, how did you meet your partner? I met him at high school, year 11. So you're high school sweethearts. Yeah, so we just celebrated our eight-year anniversary and got engaged. Oh, that's so cute. On the list, that was one of the lowest ones. 5% are high school sweetheart these days. That's pretty good.

See, that's us. Yeah, but it's hard because you get set free from high school and you realise, I'm not saying this is you guys because you obviously found your soulmate, but then there's options aplenty, isn't there? There is. In the outside world, outside of the small group of high school. And when you grow up, sometimes you grow and change and you might not change together.

But eight years going strong. Yeah. Yeah. Good on you guys. Okay, thanks you, Cool Hannah. Cass, how did you meet your boyfriend? Well, I broke up with my long-term boyfriend of three years. It was quite a destructive relationship.

So I left him just before Christmas. And then some of my girlfriends took me out clubbing. And this guy was hitting on me, asking my friends, like, who's the girl in the white dress, which was me. And then he ended up being my New Year's kiss that night. And then we've just been together ever since. And how long ago was that? Two years ago.

Aww. That's really cute. Yeah. It's like a movie. Yeah, I stayed with him. Well, in the club, that was on the list. Megan, what was in the club on the list? In the club.

In the club on New Year's Eve. Would you say a bar or a restaurant? Yeah. So that's the second highest these days. Okay, so under that. All right. I couldn't do that if I was single again because it's too loud. I wouldn't be able to hear anybody saying.

Marius, how did you meet your partner? Morning, guys. Morning. I was with my best mate in Bali. We went there on a boys' trip. First day, we saw this blonde girl on the beach, and we thought, oh, she was really pretty. Yeah.

Second day, saw her again, and same thing. And as we walked off the beach she was there and i asked her do you mind taking a photo she did we started talking she was on her second day in a seven month world trip and um after the week i went came back to new zealand missed her went back to bali again and basically just reunited with her and convinced her to leave her trip come back to new zealand with me on the last day and um three years later we engage two babies and yeah happy wow i love it you're like give up your dreams and move to new zealand give up something you've obviously planned a long time for seven months going going around the world, no easy feat,

but chuck it in and take a chance with me. Oh, most definitely. I think it was the accent. It certainly wasn't. You keep dreaming. That was okay. Nice story. Hey, Murray, thanks so much, mate.

Some text messages. I met my last boyfriend at a D&D night at a tabletop game shop. That's Dungeons & Dragons. Really hard to explain to my parents and aunties and everything where we met since I said D&D and Dad thought that's where you tie someone up and you smack their ass while they're wearing a blindfold. I ended up having to explain the whole game of Dungeons & Dragons to my whole family.

Right. In one sitting. Which they probably ended up thinking was weirder than getting tied up and smacked on the bum, to be honest. It's a lot to explain to people who don't know anything about Dungeons and Dragons. Somebody said, we met at a Mexican restaurant. Oh.

That's love. Instantly, that's love because you know that they love Mexican food. Margaritas. What have you ordered? He asked from another table. What have you ordered? Oh, because he liked the look of what she was eating. Do you know what it was? What? Nachos. Sizzling fajita. Fajitas. What have you ordered? He asked from another table. What have you ordered? Oh, because he liked the look of what she was eating. Do you know what it was?

What? Sizzling fajita. Fajitas. Oh, the sizzling fajita. Yes. And then he's like, I've got to get one of them. And then they started talking, changed numbers. The rest, as they say, is al historiano.

Al historiano. I don't know if that's quite how they say it, but okay. Well, that's close enough. You get the drift. Somebody said, this is going back a bit, but before the internet, we had party lines where you'd ring a number and make a message and then somebody else would ring the number

and listen through to all the messages and like- It was like an 0900 number or something. Yeah, I kind of remember these when I was a kid, the ads for them, but they always looked like dangerous. And we weren't allowed to ring our 900 numbers and I was probably eight. But you'd ring up,

you'd leave a message and you'd listen through to the messages of guys in your area and then you'd be like, beep, like him. And then it would message him and say, you've got a match.

Oh, that's misleading because it's like radio. You know, the voice. We sound so unattractive and then you meet us. And you're like, hello. Yeah. Let's get a sizzling vagina hot plate together.

Yes. That's basically how it happens. I don't like to share my sizzling vaginas though. No, one each. One each. Fact of the day is about why doing this Is called blowing a raspberry Do you know why that's called blowing a raspberry?

Don't you have to be doing it on like the skin? No To do a raspberry? No I thought, but anything just going Is doing a raspberry? No. I thought, but anything just going, is doing a raspberry. Okay.

Did you used to have to blow on raspberries? For some reason? Nope. Any other guesses? I bet you got anything. No, I'm out. You're out. I mean, I could try to come up with something. Do raspberries make a farty noise?

No. Oh. Well, you grow up. I thought it was like cabbages and, you know, they grow and they squeak. Oh, no. You can audibly hear a cabbage growing, can't you? No, there's nothing like that.

It's Cockney rhyming slang. So you know how Cockney rhyming slam, rhyming slam, like they'll say dog and vine, like, means phone. Yeah. But there's like predetermined rhymes for what things mean. Okay. I don't have a huge list of other, because I looked up some of them.

Most of them are like swear words. Oh, right. Okay. So going for a butcher's is like butcher's hook. Go for a look. Okay. So it's turned into going for a butcher's. Okay.

It's because Cockney Rhyming Slam said raspberry tart instead of fart. Like, who did a raspberry tart? Would be for fart. So you would blow out a raspberry tart? Would be for fart. So you would blow out a raspberry. A raspberry. A fart. Yeah.

Which would be like a raspberry tart. So then blowing a raspberry is the shortening of it. Right. So you go, which sounds like a fart. Yeah. Sounds like a fart. And the old thing used to be a raspberry tart. So if you were making one with your mouth,

you're blowing to make a raspberry tart Someone did a fart I know right And we've all just been happily going along with raspberry I've wondered before but been too lazy to look into it And now here we are We know that and it is today's fact of the day That blowing a raspberry comes from the cockney rhyming slang

Of raspberry tart for fart Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yesterday in the afternoon, the girls are away at the moment, having school holidays with the grandparents. So you can find yourself just doing stuff like sitting in the quiet and being like, what do people with our kids do with all this time?

Oh, get very busy. Well, Megan's got a cafe. You literally have nothing else to do. Yeah, I'm brilliant. What's your problem with this? So I said to Sade, should we go for a ramble? A what? A ramble. Not a war. I'veade, should we go for a ramble? A what?

A ramble. Not a walk. What's a ramble? I've always wanted to say go for a ramble. I'll get you the actual definition of a ramble. So like a meander.

It's like a meander. It's a walk for pleasure in the countryside. Wait, so if I didn't, I couldn't do a ramble in the city, in a city, what would that be?

That's just a walk. What if I was in a park? Still a walk? Meander in the park. You'd go for a meander in the city, in a city, what would that be? You'd go for a walk. What if I was in a park? Still a walk? Meander in the park. You'd go for a meander in the park or a dawdle in the park. Okay. But we went for a ramble

just down the side of the road and I lured her out of the house because she's not one for rambling. I lured her out of the house. I said, let's go check on the lambs. Oh, okay. If you go through our place

into the paddock, they don't want you to get too close. But if you come on the roadside for some reason, they don't run away. Can't figure that out. And so we got a little look, and then they did this little lamb skip and jump and a little bit of a wham.

We were like, yes. Anyway, we were here for a ramble. So we rambled on down the road. And I started noticing rubbish. I was like, I'm going to start picking up this rubbish. I just, it blew my mind that people would still, and this is what I wanted to talk about, that people still throw rubbish out the window of a car.

Like, you should see the rubbish on the floor of my car. If I chucked everything that I had in my car out the window, God, it'd be an absolute shambles. But I know as a human that you just drop it in your own car and you pick it up like eight weeks later when someone's like, man, your car's a mess. Or you do it at the servo when you fill up. Yeah, they've got a rubbish bin there.

Yeah, you put it in and while you're waiting for it to fill up, you empty your car into the servo rubbish bin. Yeah. So I was parked at, not parked, but you know how you stop at traffic lights and it was a big traffic light. It takes ages for you to get a green again. The car in front of me, they biffed not one, but two bags out of the window.

Just bags? Or were there things in the bags? No, they'd obviously eaten or had whatever out of the... Makeaways. That's crazy. They chucked the bags out of the window and I was like, we are going to be here a while. I thought about getting out and chucking it back in their window at them but then I was scared. I was too scared.

I've seen someone do that with a cigarette butt at the lights before. I was so proud of the person that did it. This person flicked their cigarette butt. The car next to them opened the passenger's door, got out, picked it up and threw it back in the car and said, no, that's your rubbish. You're taking it with you. And I was like, that's pretty cool. But were they

right next to them? Yeah, they were in the car. You've got to be able to eye out the person to sort out if there is a fight here, am I going to. You've got to be able to eye out the person to sort out if there is a fight here, am I going to win? Yeah. Or be able to lock my door quick enough.

Exactly. If they came after me, I would have been like, and then like I knew that the car wasn't going anywhere quickly. Yeah, you can't escape. Yeah.

Yeah. But that is weird that people are, because old, I mean, is it okay to do an apple core in the countryside if you're driving along?

That's okay, eh? It's biodegradable. Or a banana peel? But not a banana, I don't think it okay to do an apple core in the countryside if you're driving along? That's okay, eh? It's biodegradable. Or a banana peel? But not a banana. I don't think banana peel. See, I eat everything of the apple apart from the stick on the top. So I always give the stick a flick. Right, but that's fine.

But like banana peels, I'm not against banana peels because they break down. But then I got called out by my daughter the other day. I was about to throw a banana peel out the window and she said, with the rat problem, should you be throwing that out the window? What? And I was like, where did that come from? You've got a great point.

Where did that come from? I don't know. Because on the news, they saw one story about, you know how Tatarangi in West Auckland are having like a rat infestation and they were just like fascinated by it and they were like,

well, what do they eat? I was like, well, they eat rubbish and everything. So now they're like, well, anything that's out there that can be eaten could be rat food. Yeah. And so that was where it came from. Yeah, true. Is that a great idea with the rat problem? Maybe you should save the banana peel and put it where it needs to be.

Put it in the compost. In your compost. Yeah, but then you'll have rats in your compost. Put that under the roses, actually. Roses love a little boost of potassium. Don't give them a whole banana. It's too much. But stop chucking your stuff out the potassium. Don't give them a whole banana. It's too much. But stop chucking your stuff out the window. I couldn't, like, stuff that

I didn't find a single piece of fruit. Like, plastic bags and cups and people that had, like, frozen cokes and the cup had gone out the window. You bought it out of convenience. You have to then get rid of it.

Just take it upstairs when you park your car. Or just leave it in the car. Yeah, and even if you've got like a little inch of liquid, it'll just take a month and then it'll make the ring soggy, it'll make the cup soggy. Oh, I won't even take a ring. If it's one of those paper cups these days, it'll take two hours and it'll be in the bottom of your cup holder. And chuck that

out. Flick that out the window and hold on to the cup. Yeah. I don't know, it just blew my mind. Yeah, people are still doing it. I don't think I've ever thrown rubbish out the window, but there was a massive camp. Maybe they need to get that bloody tidy Kiwi back on the telly. Remind everybody.

Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's a birthday today of a mutual friend, James, our old producer. James 2.0. James 1.0. Oh, 1.0. I was like, what's before 2.0? 1.0. 1.0, but you don't call something 1.0 until you've got a 2.0. James 1.0. Oh, 1.0. I was like, what's before 2.0? 1.0.

1.0. But you don't call something 1.0 until you've got a 2.0. Original gangster James. Because if you call it like, this is my wife 1.0, she'll be like, are you planning an upgrade? Well, yeah, of course. So I shouldn't call him husband 2.0? I wouldn't. Oh, no, because he is husband 2.0.

Yeah, that's fine in that case. Yeah, yeah. Because you're acknowledging that there's been one before, but that doesn't mean there'll have to be one after. Yeah, right. But if there is, he'll be 3.0. Yeah. Okay. 1.0.

James 1.0. It's his birthday today. So I just wrote a message on his wall. I didn't even put a photo. Is that a bad friend? Well, it's an interesting move. It's fine though. Yeah, but I like personalised it and said I'm looking

forward to him coming back and hanging out and that sort of stuff. So there was a bit of that. Oh, very personal. And then Fletch and Megan have both posted on his wall on Facebook since the Wish Him a Happy Birthday and both just the most narcissistic posts because... What's not narcissistic posts. What?

It's not narcissistic. The photo you put up, he's tagged in, but he's literally hidden behind you. I know, that's why it's funny. We're on the luge at Rotorua. Yeah. And it literally has a picture of all of us. He's in it, but he's behind me.

His, like, elbow's in it. That's why it's funny. That's a terrible photo of me. So that's behind me. It has like elbows in it. That's why it's funny. That's a terrible photo of me. So that's one aspect. I've got a helmet on and I'm like, got my mouth open. Of narcissism.

That is a terrible photo. Hey, you don't look great in it either, sweetheart. Yeah, something about those helmets. Yeah, they don't. They're not the luge. If you wear a beanie and then you put the helmet

over the top, it sits right over your head. I know, it makes me look like I've got no hair. Yeah. Oh. Makes it look like we've all won a trip on the luge. It's our special day.

So, yeah, he is literally, you can see his ear. Yeah. Happy birthday. That's why it's funny. So what is the etiquette of posting? In your one, though, you've taken a photo where you're wearing a captain's hat, pretending to

drive a boat, but you've obviously just said to James who was driving the boat, stand aside because I want to look like I'm driving this boat. So he's like on the side looking like he doesn't even know if he's in this photo. He looks bored. That's why I like this photo. He's doing like a duck face, like full on model pose. Looks okay.

I mean, best that he can. Thanks. And you posted that photo where it's obvious that you like the picture, but James like not even aware that he's in it. But that's again why it's funny because he looks so terrible in it. And it's his birthday, so I'm trying to bring him down. Or I don't know. I'm just trying to inject some humor into his birthday.

Yeah, right. But it's not narcissistic. It is. Is Yeah, right. But it's not narcissistic. It is. Is it? Did you say it's not narcissistic? Or narcissistic? Narcissistic. It's not narcissistic.

Yeah. It's fledgling narcissism. It's bordering, is it? Mine was just a joke. I look terrible in that picture. That's not narcissistic. How many times, though, have you posted a picture where your friend doesn't look great but you look great?

No, I try and always do one that they look cute. This is Fletcher's bread and butter. You do this all the time. That time you went for a bottomless brunch and like two of the people in the photos' eyes are closed. The eyes closed. But you're in the middle and you look fine. Who's the only one where I look good? I don't even know if you look at anyone else.

No, I don't. You're just like, I look cute. Up it goes. That's it. Now you're in narcissistic. No, I don't. I look cute. Up it goes. That's it. Now you're in narcissistic territory. You're no longer a fledgling. You've grown your wings. You're ready to leave the nest.

So there is a somewhat of an etiquette posting. Well, if it's their birthday and you're doing the birthday picture on someone's Facebook timeline, you've got to do one where they look good. You can look good too, but you can't do one where their eyes are closed or where they look bored. You haven't even put them in the photo, Megan. I know, but that's the joke. He's behind me. So he was losing the luge race and he doesn't even appear in the photo,

but you thought that was fitting for his birthday. Happy birthday, mate. I'm just cutting you down to size here. Just remember your place. That'd be great. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. here. Just remember your place. That'd be great.