ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - June 11 2019

Episode Date: June 10, 2019

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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Hello, good morning, welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, one minute past six. Caitlin's mum records NCIS. How does she record it? You know on the TV, like old people have that thing where you record on the TV? What's it called? My Sky. Yeah, or something like that.

Or a VHS. No, it's not like a tape. Yeah, it's like a hard drive. It's like a Sky thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so because every time I go home, especially in winter, I'm like, Dad will go to bed early and we'll be like, should we watch one? And we sit down and we watch NCIS or like CSI.

We love it. It's my favourite time. I love my mum. I can't believe she records all of the CSIs and NCISs. They're classics. Does she teach you a lesson with it or something? Sometimes. You do learn quite a few things.

Isn't there an overarching story through the whole series? No, no, no. Everyone's different. But Horatio, I can't remember which one he's on. We love Horatio. CSI Miami. Yeah, and because he's always, he talks, he's like, and they never knew what would happen next.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! How did you get on to this? Because we talk about Pauly Perrette from NCIS. She was like the gothy lab girl from NCIS. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

She is 50. No, the one with the fringe and the pigtails. Dark hair. She's 50. Isn't that mental? Yeah, because she's come out and said the grey-haired dude off that show. Mark Harmon. Yeah.

I mean, any white, grey-haired dude that leads an NCIS show, you're all picturing one of them. He apparently would hit people. She said she's never going back. She's never going back. Oh, goodness. And then it says, pretty, 50. She had a photo, and I was like, what?

She's 50? Yeah. Unreal. I mean, the abuse is quite serious, but everyone's just, like, what? She's 50? Yeah. Unreal. I mean, the abuse is quite serious, but everyone's just like shook that she's 50. Yeah. Wow. That abuse thing on set is absolutely terrible. Girl, you look good.

Yeah. It's your secret. Yeah. I don't see the sun. Damn, the sun. At it again with the premature ageing and the melanomas. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

Three news stories, three news headlines. Vaughan and Megan, decide which headline we delve into, which story. Headline one, TSA pad down. Headline two, downward lager. And headline three, whose phone's going off? Mine.

Who's messaging you at this time? Caitlin. Oh, it's a group chat going off. Here, guys. And headline three, Florida doormat. I know everyone, but story number three, Florida doormat. I know everyone but story number three, Vaughn. So...

Oh, someone's... You know everyone. A beer yoga, right? Down with lager. Correct. Story number two. What do you do? You drink beer and do yoga.

Yeah. Seems legit. Sounds counterproductive. Intuitive? Counterproductive. Counterproductive. Counterproductive. Intuitive. That wouldctive. Counterproductive. Counterintuitive. Intuitive.

That would be where you went against your intuition. Yeah. And we're not very productive. And intuitive's not the word. Counterproductive. That's what I meant. Story number one. What was your headline?

The pad. TSA pad down. Not a pat down. Have you heard about this, Vaughn? No. So people always film with TSA because they do pretty full-on screenings at airports. Are you going to take your shoes off? Yeah, this Muslim woman, she was asked to remove her pad in her pants.

And we're in the screening area. Yeah, it's going to court. Yeah. It's going to court. Yeah. It's pretty awful. That's that story. Horrible. Oh, well, okay. So that leaves

He Plane 3, Florida doormat. Okay. We go to Florida. Florida man comes home to his house in Florida. Yep. He just done a 10-hour

overnight shift. So a lot of people may be listening now that they're finishing their overnight shift and are heading home. Well, imagine heading home. You pull into your driveway, you get out, and I'm imagining it's a pickup because it's Florida. Yep.

And there waiting on your doormat is a giant alligator. Just nicely tucked in, like really nicely positioned. It looks like he's having a non-eyes. He's having a non-eyes, yeah. Does it say how big? That's massive. It's massive. It looks like a metre and two metres with the tail.

Yeah, it looks like he's just eating someone's cat or something. Yeah, it looks like it's well fed. It looks like there's been no shortage of yums. Isn't it nuts? In Florida, you see them all over like the golf courses and they just, they're everywhere. I would have thought they would have got rid of them. Isn't their nuts in Florida? You see them all over like the golf courses and they just, they're everywhere. I would have thought they would have got rid of them. Isn't their noise really weird?

Like a kind of a, yeah, right. Like a hissy. Can they run fast? Nah. That one's not running fast. They can swim pretty quick. Wasn't it Steve RIP? Wasn't it Steve that said they can go as fast on land

as you can go backwards. Oh, right. So don't go backwards. No, no, no. Like move away from them backwards. They launch out of the water real quick. But once they're on land, like if they're moving, you can walk backwards to the point where you can turn around

and run away. Like don't stop and turn your back on them. Right, right. Or that could be exactly the opposite of the advice he gave. It's one of the two. Turn around and run. It's one of the two. I would hate to think anyone is face-to-face with an alligator.

What did Vaughn say? Backwards, backwards, backwards. You fall over something and you're like, I should have been looking where I was going. That's just a PSA in general life. Don't ever think, what did Vaughn say? Now, what was Vaughn's advice on this topic that he's got absolutely no experience with?

What about zigzagging? That's when you're running away from Roos Bolton and he's shooting arrows at you. Right, okay. Rick on. No, that wasn't Roos Bolton. Who was that? That was a Bolton.

That was the little Bolton. What was his name? That's an old Game of Thrones reference. It seems like so many seasons ago. It does seem like so many years ago that we're all yelling, Zigzag Rickon! Zigzag! Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. This is a good one for Fletch. It's an easy way to extend your life. This is... Oh, God, by how much? Oh, I thought this was a positive story. Oh yeah,

but you don't want to, you see people that are like 95, 100, you're like, no thanks. No, but like,

we're going to look better, aren't we? Because we've looked after ourselves. No, I don't think so. No, I think we're all

going backwards. Right. This is an extensive study. It was done by British researchers. They have said that people who walk briskly are expected to live

years, even decades longer than people who walk slow. I do walk quite fast. People always say what are you in a hurry for? And you're like, oh I've got a busy afternoon, I've got so much to do. I sometimes do have

busy afternoons. Just because I don't have kids. And a cafe, you think that I can't be busy. Like nothing to actually do once you leave here. There's lots of things to do. No real life obligations. You can't sit still. But I walk quite fast, but I've got like short legs.

And I like almost get to a jog walking with you you like to keep up to your pace. I know I always like it when I'm walking with people and they're my pace. I'm like, these are my people. They get it. I get bloody shin splints when I'm walking with you. I'm like ow, ow, they're burning my legs, my legs. What about producer Caitlin? You're having trouble because your boyfriend doesn't

walk as fast as you. Yeah, it's really annoying. We, especially if we go for like, we're going to a cafe or something or a restaurant and so I'm like, I'm hungry. And he's like dawdling and because we hold hands

because I've got a boyfriend, it's for a cat. And I'm literally dragging him and he's just like, no, but I'm enjoying like the atmosphere and I'm like, don't be lame. Just get,

we need to get to where we're going. Yeah, right. It was good while it lasted. Oh no, we need to get to where we're going. Yeah, right. Oh, it was good while it lasted. Oh no, I need to be nicer to him, eh? So this is across all BMIs and all different body fat percentages. So it doesn't matter what your BMI is. If you walk faster, in fact, they say the general pace will show how long you'll live. So if you're really slow, it's not going to last long for you.

Or you can walk really fast and not see the bus coming. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah. If you'd taken it a little bit slower, you would have had a better peripheral vision. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Yesterday in transit at the airport, I sat down and I didn't really see the guy behind me.

I did see he had a T-shirt tucked right in. Oh, okay. But then I was like, that's an unusual move. Like with a belted pant. A T-shirt tucked right in. I don't like doing that. Well, because A, it doesn't look cool and also just feels so restricted.

Yeah, yeah. Did he have a cool belt he wanted everyone to see? Nah, it just looked pretty plain. It's just a dad move he wanted everyone to see? Nah, it just looked pretty plain. It's just a dad move, isn't it, really? Nah, but he wasn't a dad. He was like a hipster. Oh, okay. Yeah, nah, it is a bit of a hipster.

I just can't do it. Nah. Yeah, I reckon it's fine if you're real skinny. What are you? You're real skinny, babe. Nah, I don't know. It's just a bit, I don't know. I just don't like it.

If you're real skinny. T-shirts aren't meant to be tucked in, aren't they? They're meant to just flow free. I don't know if we should really judge., I don't know. I just don't like it. Skinny. T-shirts aren't meant to be tucked in, aren't they? They're meant to just flow free. I don't know if we should really judge. Unless you're a dad going for a holiday. But anyway, so he was behind. That was all I really picked up immediately. Sat behind me.

And then he answered a phone call. And like, we were in those seats where our backs were almost touching. Oh, okay. Back to back. Yeah. And he started talking about how busy he was. And I was like, classic. I'd do that too. Yeah. Wait, so who was

he talking to? Somebody on the phone. Somebody was calling from New Zealand and he was talking to them back home in New Zealand talking about what a busy, how busy he was. Right. Very, very. Very busy. Heavy about, and then he started talking about how he was very busy

despite the fact that he was also not only very busy, but also very, very sick. He'd been very, very sick. He'd made no time for socialising. He'd been bed-based. That sounds like bed, bath and beyond. Bed-based and beyond. He'd been bed-based and beyond.

And he hadn't had a lot of fun because he'd been working, but he'd also been sick, very sick. Coughing sick. Jeez, glass half empty, mate. And I just looked at Sade, who was sitting opposite me, and I just said, let's move. And I picked up. Because he was talking about how sick he was,

and he was right behind me. And so he obviously cottoned on to the fact that I was moving because he was talking about how sick he was, and I didn't want to be sick again. I didn't want to catch it. I feel moving because he was talking about how sick he was. And I didn't want to be sick again. I didn't want to catch it. I feel like I've just been constantly sick this year since my shingles. Really, the immune system took a real hiding since the shingles. I just come down with everything.

So I stood up and moved and I heard, like, he knew I was moving. And it was no coincidence. But were you on the same plane as him? Yes, but I did catch Megan. He'd upgraded to business class. Okay. But do they have separate air con in business class? Oh, no.

If that was the concern, I didn't need to get his sickness. There was a lot of people coughing on the plane. That's a good thing about the business class people. They have to breathe the same air, don't they? Because it all gets recirculated. You're in the fancy seats, but you'll still get my sickness. Take that, rich people. Up there with your comfort and your different menu.

Different menu up there. Different menu. Different menu up there. That's what they don't tell you. Yeah. And also, oh, I need a special announcement in the safety video as to where my life jacket is. It's in the armrest.

Business premium. Not under the seat like everyone else? Nah, if they're so great and rich, let them find their own jacket. Dan Carter has made an announcement. This was on his gram this morning. So this is fresh news that I'll read you exactly what he posted. Excited to share with you guys about a project I've been working on over the past 12 months. A film will be coming out which gives a deep insight into my personal life, my career,

and particularly my challenging road to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. It'll be in cinemas in New Zealand on August 29, and I'll be sure to share the details. Yeah. So it must have been filmed. So is it like a doco? It's been. Oh, I don't know if it's a doco.

It must have been. Yeah, it's got to be. Otherwise we would have heard her being cast as a. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Official title and trailer still to come. That's got to be. Otherwise we would have heard her being cast as a... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Official title and trailer still to come. That's a quick turnaround. Because I saw him downtown the other week,

last week or the week before, he had a neck brace on. Yeah, because he just had a neck operation. Because the team that he's assigned to. Playing for. Playing for. I love it. There's nothing better when you explain sports. assigned to playing for playing for I love it, there's nothing better when you explain sports

said you can't play with your neck like that, whereas if it had been here or Japan apparently he would have been able to play Oh, okay. They're a bit more stringent about people not having bung necks before they take to the field in france apparently

okay which we not that's terrible yeah i know right it's bad enough that the french are like oh no and he can get like a surgery on it yeah and in new zealand or japan they would have been like yeah get out there man bloody get stuck in here right but is this like like what Richie McCall's was like? Like more of a TV, was it a TV movie or was it actually released in? No, that was a docker. No, that had time at the theatre. At the theatre. Like dads love these kind of movies. They're your old mates.

They'd lap this up. So yeah, August 29 is when we'll be able to see it. Are there any big movies coming out in August? Like is he going up against like a big? Because Lion King, that's in a month, July. That's when he wouldn't want to go out against Lion King. Hobbs and Shaw. The Fast and Furious spinoff.

Well, that's actually had a scene cut from it, but it was too violent. Really? The scene where The Rock, The Rock's character, he's Samoan in this, and him and his Samoan mates attack people with traditional Samoan weapons and beat him and his Samoan mates attack people with traditional Samoan weapons and beat the shit out of them apparently.

It was deemed too violent. Too much. Dan Carter, has he said if there'll be any violent scenes or any action like Fast and the Furious will there be some kind of crossover? Car chases.

Here's some of the movies coming out he's going to be up against. Graham Henry chasing Dan Carter through the streets in minis. No. Graham Henry's on

a motorbike. They have to be in Fords, won't they? The one that was on the motorbike. Ford Rangers. Graham Henry.

Tim Tims. No, that was Steve Hansen. Oh, I don't know. He's up against Angry Birds 2. Okay.

Dora in the City of the Lost Gold. Yeah. 47 metres down, which is about big sharks, so I won't be going to watch that because shark movies scare me. It's sounding like it's a good release date at this stage. Yeah. Actually, August looks pretty quiet.

From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Adidas have said they're going to be making some products out of ocean plastics. Are these abundant? An abundant source of plastic. Is this a gimmick? Are they going to do like two pairs or are they actually going to do like a huge run? Actually, you know, make a dent in that ocean plastic?

Well, I don't know. They're just going to start using some of it. And that's the thing. I don't think you can make whole products out of ocean plastics. It gets put in. Something's better than nothing. Exactly. Yeah, I know.

But, you know, a lot of the Southeast Asian countries are sick of us sending all our rubbish there. So what are we going to do with all of our plastic? Because we just normally ship it off, don't we? A lot of it. I think back to the 80s when you just used to burn it. I can't think of anything wrong. Mum and Dad would make a big bonfire in the backyard

and just burn it. Yeah, and you'd burn all your plastics. Yeah, isn't the ozone hole getting smaller? Exactly. So burn it until it gets bigger. And then be like, stop. Yeah. Yep, exactly.

Okay. Oh, that's a terrible idea. Yeah, that's not exactly. And then be like, stop. Yeah. Yep, exactly. Okay. Oh, that's terrible idea. Yeah, that's not exactly what we should be doing. No. And so they're looking at sustainability. They're doing a whole lot with ocean plastics. They've got an app where you run and every K you run is a dollar contributed to an ocean school that cleans up and educates the youth on how to look after the ocean.

Open the app and put it on your car. What a loophole. No, it'll be like Pokemon Go. It'll be like, you're going too fast. I know you're not going for a walk. You're cheating shit. Oh, damn it. So the top six NDS products you can expect to see made from ocean plastic.

Number six, the classic three-stripe pants. But the stripes are each made of plastic bags. Brilliant. They're like folded over and sewn in. Yeah, nice. Quite a lot. And then you get the N from New World on the side. Yeah, yeah. A little bit of yellow from Pack and Save. Yeah, you say, whereabouts did you get that bag

from? The green one from Countdown's thingy. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six Adidas products you can expect to see made of ocean plastic are Adidas slides, which are already made

of rubbery plastic, so chances are there's enough of them in the ocean to just kind of pull them out and give them a scrub and then resell them. Yeah, nice.

Yeah. Good call. The hardest part would be finding like two nines or two elevens to pair up, but it's not impossible.

Number four on the list of the top six Adidas products you can expect to see made of ocean plastic. I had to do some research because I don't know a lot about fashion. Yeah. But some Stan Smiths. Those are the shoe. Yeah. The classic Adidas shoe. Yeah.

Except it's not going to be Stan Smiths. It's going to be Merman Smiths because they came from the ocean like a merman. Okay. It was a long play. Yeah, it was a drawn out long thing for a very simple rhyme. No, if you love silly rhymes, you're going to love this one. Number three on the list of the top six Adidas products you can expect to see made of Ocean Place.

Like a whole range from Shallow McCartney. Stella McCartney makes. That's good from you. Adidas products you can expect to see made of ocean plastic. A whole range from Shella McCartney. Stella McCartney makes Adidas. So Shella McCartney is basically the same range made of ocean plastics but it's still got barnacles on it. Great. Have you ever pulled plastic

out of the ocean or picked it up off the beach and all the barnacles are growing on it? No. No, I haven't. You're like, how long have you been floating there? Yeah. Meow, mate. So sad.

Number two on the list of the top six Adidas products actually makes use of one of their highest paid promotional staff. I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with Ronaldo. So I went for the second,

Messi. This is Lionel Messi, the football player. The This is Lionel Messi, the football player. The beach is no longer Messi and it's a range worn by Lionel Messi of stuff picked up off the beach.

Brilliant. It's called no longer Messi. It'd be comfortable to play football in too, I'd imagine. It'd make scrunchy noises. Yep. And the number one

on today's top six Adidas products you can expect to see made of ocean plastics are in the Yeezy range. Yep. There the number one on today's top six Adidas products you can expect to see made of ocean plastics. In the Yeezy range, there's going to be the Greasy Yeezy. It's Yeezys, but they're made of old butter containers that are still a bit slippery. Brilliant.

It's hard because if you wash out your butter container, there's always a residue. Yeah, yeah, very hard. Very hard to get all the residue out of that. Oh, and why aren't you buying it wrapped in wax paper? Because that stuff's so hard to spread. You've got to have the super semi-soft. Why are you buying it in a plastic container?

Yeah. Just put it in the cupboard. Why waxing one and put it in a cupboard? Oh, but don't put butter in the cupboard. No, but that's it. You put it in a container in a cupboard. It stays room temperature. Stop with your bloody plastic buckets of butter, please. Oh, well, we've just found the cause for the global pollution.

It's my love for soft butter. My big love of soft butter. I need one of those little butter things. That is today's top six. So Facebook and Instagram, you're not allowed, you're allowed male nipples. Yeah. But you're not allowed female nipples. That's correct, yeah.

Unless there's a few exemptions in paintings, photographs and women breastfeeding. Was it Rihanna? She got nips taken down from Instagram? From her Insti. Lots of artists do. They're like, this will be up here for two seconds, enjoy. And then they get asked to take it down

or they get blocked or their account gets suspended. But they are, Facebook is looking at renewing its policy when it comes to female nipples.

So there's been a big free the nipple movement happening, especially in America. And they said they are considering relaxing the no nipple policy. They're still going to have guidelines, they think. Yeah. So they're calling it cultural nudity.

I like, because I saw there was a protest in New York the other week about this, I think outside Facebook's headquarters. So they're free the nipple. Like, I'm all for it. But like, who's got the time to do, you know what I mean? Who's got the time to what? Like, good on these people.

They're passionate and they're protesting. But, like, if someone was like, hey, do you want to go down and protest, like, the nip thing, I'd be like, so much effort. There's very few things that you'd be, like, super passionate about to go and protest. I know, I think it's great that they're doing this. I love when people protest.

They could literally ban cats. And I don't think you'd protest. And that's the one thing that you do love. I've always wanted to go down and... You're just not a protesting type. I'm like, yeah, I'm all for protesting. I'm all for people protesting anything they want to. Oh, so am I. It's great.

As long as there's no violence. Yeah, I'm all for people protesting anything they want to as long as there's no um violence yeah oh I'm the same but it's just like it's I've always wanted to be part of one and like make a placard and but I've never been able to do it but yeah but see that's what I mean it's just like when it comes to it you're like no I've always been busy like I've always had to work or something like when the women's march I was like I'd love to like go down there. But my male boss won't let me. I would love to join you but my master I think

I call him, he said I'm not allowed. My commander. He said sit down woman and I said yes sir. So like maybe next time guys catch you there. Sit down on Vaughan. Yeah, you're not going anywhere.

What woman's March? The one, like, back in the... We weren't working, were we? The one on Saturday, I was working. Oh, you were at the cafe. Well, I was... Well, you're the boss. Yeah, but...

Just tell Mr. Toyboy he has to work. She's a woman. She's toeing the line. Yeah, right. Just tell. Mr. Toyboy has to work. She's a woman. She's toeing the line. Yeah, right. She's a. But have I missed a march? Because, you know, I love a march. I'm an ally.

I'm an ally. Did I miss a march? No, I don't think so. But when was this march? It was last year. Oh. I thought you were saying last Saturday. Yeah, I thought you meant like last Saturday.

Oh, no. Not last Saturday. I felt awfully uninformed there for a moment. No, no, no. Okay. I thought you were saying last Saturday. Yeah, I thought you meant like last Saturday. Oh, no, not last Saturday. I felt awfully uninformed there for a moment. No, no, no. I thought there was a march. I mean, there would have been some sort of march. Let me know when there's another protest. I want to make a sign and I want to yell.

We could have gone down for the teacher's march. Oh, yeah. No, but that was on, well, we were, oh, no, that was lunchtime. We were travelling that day. Yeah, that's it. All right, well, I'm going to find you one. Okay, yeah. I'm going to paint a sign. And you can go make a sign.

And yell some stuff. And do your best. I think maybe I just got some pent up anger. I just need to yell. Yep. Express it. Let it out. Yeah.

That's it. I'll jump on board. Great way to do it. We haven't found anything for Fletch to protest though. Well, you feel passionate about nothing. Well, I know there's a couple of things. Lime scooters have just gone up. We'll talk about this soon on the show.

And if a cafe puts a slice up 50 cents. Oh, well, I know there's a couple of things. Lime scooters have just gone up. We'll talk about this soon on the show. And if a cafe puts a slice up 50 cents, I'm nearly protesting that. Okay, I promise not to put the rocky road up. Yeah, hard to get a hekoi going for 50 cents up on a caramel slice. Yeah, people just don't buy into it, eh? They don't care. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. You know that I am like, I almost went overseas to campaign for the dolphins

after I watched The Cove. Oh, you were not activism. That really got you going, The Cove. You know that I really wanted to go and join the Sea Shepherd. You got shown around and you get a little bit of a tour of the Sea Shepherd. The Bob Barker, oh my God, I'm such a fangirl Well this is terrible news for anyone who's a big fangirl

of Sea Shepherd Japan have announced they will set out on their first commercial whaling expedition in 30 years Wait, 30 years? Oh that's right because weren't they like Scientific research.

Yes, scientific research, yeah. So the IWC, which is the... Is that the International Whaling Commission? IWC. I'd say it would be. I'm going to put $10 on that it is. So they banned it. It's a luxury Swiss watch.

No. International watch company, Schaffhausen. No. The ban was put in place in 1982, but you will realise that Japan was still whaling and they said it was for scientific purposes. However, they were still selling whale meat and people were eating it and stuff.

So it was just a facade. And now they've announced they're just doing it without the facade anymore. They're going straight into commercial whaling. So they're not doing it in Antarctica. They're not doing it in the Northwest Pacific Oceans, which is where their scientific research took place before. And they are looking for Beradeus whales until the end of August and then they're going to hunt Minky whales.

Oh. Because we've got enough of those to go around. It's really sad. until the end of August, and then they're going to hunt minke whales. Oh. Because we've got enough of those to go around. It's sad, isn't it? It's really sad. It's really... You know, we did the whale watching tour in Kaikoura. Oh, what a beautiful big creature. They're so majestic.

Yeah. It's just sad. I don't know how we can't stop this happening. Why? Boycott. Let's boycott Japan. The Norwegians still doing it? They're getting away with it

because they're cute, I think. Are they doing it? Not that the Japanese aren't cute, but you know, the Norwegians, you look at them and they're like, and you're like,

Nothing to see here. But I feel like we've got to a point where we can just be like, stop doing that, please. Like the whole world can just be like, stop doing that, please. Yeah. Like the whole world can just be like, oi, cut it out. You guys tried bacon? Oh, that's yum.

Pretty good alternative. Yeah, let's kill animals on land, not the sea. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, let's. That sounds terrible. But there's heaps of them. Yeah, when you put it like that, right? Yeah.

Yeah. But you're right, yeah, there is heaps of them. That still sounds bad though, doesn't it? Because we made heaps of them. We used to go to Benji's, guys. Oh, God. I'm so close to being a Benji. Chickens, though.

Pretty yum. Yeah, I know. You don't see many of those in the wild. Yeah. Vic, have you ever seen a wild chicken? I'm not just talking about a state highway one rest area chicken. No, I saw it on the side of the road, a chicken. Nah, those are abandoned there.

When are we in Toraro? Yeah, no, but those are just somebody's chickens. They're just ultimately free range. Those are the doctors. And then they pick up a couple of weekend shifts

at the hospital. Dr. Chicken. Oh my God, that's really sad. It's like, Dr. Chicken's late for his shift. I think Dr. Chicken

got eaten. Okay, we're going to need a backup nurse pig. We only say that because we scooted to the hospital and there were literally like chickens. A chicken walked out the door of the hospital. It's like, g'day mate. Like it had just finished a long shift. It's like, bleh.

Bloody hell. Always wear a helmet if you're scootering in Rarotonga. Lots of important messages this break. Lime scooters. Lime scooters. The lime scooter craze. And he was just going too fast, so I jumped out the way. Another day, another lime scooter story.

Lime scooters in the news again today. In fact, you may have seen the story come out yesterday, late yesterday. Cheeky buggers, lime, put their prices up. I would like to point out that I did raise this query last week. You did because we got some limes just to go for a little, we were going to go get coffee in Dunedin when we were there for the bingo trip. So, Vaughn and I scanned in,

old Nan here had to download the app again because she's delayed to that. I don't use it. Why don't you just leave the app on your desk? Because I needed the space. She's running a... What leave the app on your desk? Because I needed the space. She's running a... What have you got on your phone? Millions of photos.

Don't start. I don't need to hear it. Back them up to the iCloud and put them on your laptop. I've got no space left on my iCloud. Oh, my God. How do you deal with those constant reminders? Because Sade's like that as well. And it's like, once a day, it's like, dang, do you want to purchase more storage?

I'm like, just purchase more storage. That's like a dollar a month, Megan. Dang. I'm full. Would you like to purchase more storage? Dang. I'm like, clean it out or purchase more storage. I told you not to start.

Go back to the lime scooters. Well, anyway, so we, well, when we were in Dunedin, we got the limes and you said that's expensive. Yeah, we went down the road and back and it cost like four dollars four or five yeah yours was

close to five because we I just thought it was because we were waiting five minutes for you and we'd already logged in yeah I did not hear

about that that it was expensive you did hear about that yeah but yeah you're right and I've taken a few trips that normally I looked on my app

just before would be about $2.90 and now they're like $3.50 $3.60 so yeah wait so how much that's quite a significant increase so yeah they have increased app just before would be about $2.90 and now they're like $3.50, $3.60. Wait, so how much is that? That's quite a significant increase.

So yeah, they have increased 26%. So it still costs a dollar to log into your Lime, but then it went from $0.30 to $0.38 a minute. So if you're waiting at traffic lights, if you're stuck behind people walking on the footpath, you want to get them out of the way. But they didn't say anything, though, did they? No, and that's what the... No, not the Commerce.

What is it? The Commerce Commission. United Nations. CIA. Go right to the top. FBI. The Illuminati. Oh, what did they say?

Consuming New Zealand. Consuming New Zealand. Jay- top. FBI. The Illuminati. Oh, what did they say? Consumer New Zealand. Jay-Z. Jay-Z. Jay-Z and Consumer New Zealand came out and said there should have been at least an email out to their database, their customers, or at least, you know, some acknowledgement. But they didn't. They didn't say anything.

Interesting timing too because Flamingo is the new scooters that are launching today in Auckland and they are still 30 cents. Oh, are they? 30 cents a minute? As far as we know, Wave is still 30 cents as well. Yeah, I don't know how much. And I'm pretty sure a while ago I saw, you know Onzo,

the people that do the bikes, I'm pretty sure I saw a photo of a warehouse, and I'm pretty sure it was here in New Zealand, and it was full of Onzo scooters, like e-scooters. So surely those are coming out soon. Yeah, interesting to put your price up when there's lots of competition coming out. Yeah, jeez, they're going to be everywhere.

They're a good scooter, the Lime. I haven't tried the other ones. Yeah, so you can't compare. Flamingo might be just as good, plus they're pink, so. They've got to be heavy duty, though. Yeah, that's the thing as good. Plus, they're pink, so. They've got to be heavy duty, though. Yeah, that's the thing. Otherwise, they're not going to stand. Even limes are built quite tough, but they're.

Yeah. I'll always choose a lime that doesn't look like it's been jumped off a car park building. Yeah. You're like, you're a bit battered, mate. Yeah. Stay there. Or you just give the handles a wiggle and they feel a little bit loose. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Someone's had a go on you. Something's come loose here. You've been doing some sick jumps. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So yesterday I had a confrontation. I needed to get petrol. Okay.

And when I got to the petrol station, my dad called. Now, I know that you're not, or like people say, don't get out of the car or don't use your cell phone in the forecourt. Mythbusters have proven this is right. I know, but you still get told off. That's my favourite thing to say to people who say you shouldn't be using your phone in the forecourt.

Yeah. You've seen that episode of Mythbusters, mate. I know, but I don't want to get told off. I don't like confrontation. So I was like, okay, I'm going to talk to my dad on the phone in the forecourt. In your car? In my car.

Okay. It was middle of the day and it wasn't busy. When I pulled in, there was no one there. So I was like, okay, I'll chat to dad. And it would have been about five minutes max. Okay. And a woman came over and banged on my window. Knocked on my window.

Yeah. And I had to open the door because my window doesn't go down. I don't know how it's still going, eh? You didn't tell me that the other day and I put the window down. Did you? And it was like... And it doesn't actually go down.

And then it just went, boom, and dropped like three inches. And I was like, oh dear. So I had to like wriggle it, push it right up as far as I could. And then like, what I imagined happened was I picked the window up and I pushed it in a little bit. So it was actually out of the rail, but it held it up. Right. Because sometimes you're on the motorway and it'll start sliding down.

And you're like, uh oh. So yeah, I opened the door to this woman and she said, excuse me, have you broken down? And I was like, oh, my God, she thinks I've broken down. I was like, no, I haven't. Thank you. I haven't. And she said, oh, do you mind moving out of the way then? And I was like, what?

Well, that's fair enough. You're yakking on the phone and she wants her petrol. So she said, there's a whole queue of people behind you waiting to get into the petrol station. Yeah. And I was like, sorry, I'm just talking to my dad. And she went, okay, well, if you want to talk to your dad, why don't you just pull on over there so the rest of us can maybe get some petrol. Right. And at that point, I was so taken back.

She was all up in my grill. Yeah. I looked around, and there was one other car on the forecourt. Her car? No, and one other. Oh, right, okay. But there's eight pumps. Yeah.

So there was no line behind you? No. Oh, okay, because in my mind, you were on the blower, and there's like a line of cars behind you being like, what's going on here? No, but... No one else there? No.

What about on the five minutes you were on the call? Oh, I don't know. But also... But also, a forecourt doesn't clear in that time. No, no. No. And also, I was like, you have no idea what this conversation is about. Had it been something serious...

Yeah, yeah. ...it wasn't, but she didn't know that. But she's all up in my grill and starts belittling... My dad's still on the phone, by the way. He's just, like, hanging out, listening to this conversation. And she's like, if you can pull up over there. I said, but I haven't got my fuel yet. And she laughed and was like, oh, I'm sorry.

Maybe you should get off your phone and get out there and get some fuel then. Because we're all sitting here waiting for you while you talk on the phone to your daddy. But there's no other, all the pumps are free. No. And then the kicker was, so I was so taken aback. I thought it's one of those moments where someone's yelling at you and afterwards you're like, oh my God, I had so many great calls. I had Lizzo in my head afterwards that I could have said so many things. But I didn't because I was so taken aback.

And that's when she walks off to her car and her pump's not even on the same side as mine. So she wasn't even waiting behind me. She was over on the other side. Because you know how your pump's on different sides. I wasn't even holding up her side of the pump. And then there was six other sides to pick from, right? That too.

And I was like, wow, you really made me sad. Like went out of your way to like like, have a go at me. When she wasn't being affected. Would you have instantly said something, Vaughn, or would you have been taken back as well? I wouldn't have wound down my window. No, but initially she looked friendly. She was like, have you broken down?

I'm like, wound down your window. I'm like, I'm on the phone. Just wound down your window. I'm like, no, I don't know you. You're a stranger. Stranger danger. Stranger danger. I'm like, in South Africa, this know you. You're a stranger. Stranger danger. Stranger danger. I'm like, in South Africa, this is what they do.

And they throw a rat in your car. And then you jump out of your car and they steal your car. Because it was their pet rat. I'm not winding my window down. Sir, why don't you wind it down? Absolutely not. That's what happened to me last time I got breath tested. Sir, we're the police.

You've got to wind it down. I said, how do I know you're the police, though? Give me your badge number. Give me your badge number. Sir, there's cars. There's a truck. There's everything. I'll be like,

I don't trust anybody in 2019, baby. And why are you holding a rat, Mr. Policeman? Ha! Gotcha. And he's like, well done actually,

this was a safety test. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I want to talk about a relationship that everyone thinks is a little bit strange.

Okay. Gwyneth Paltrow, so she has just got him married to Brad Folchuk. He is the producer for Glee, American Horror Story

and some others. Did he do the true stories, the crime stories? No. That was the other guy from Glee. Is his last name Cherry?

Ryan someone, the guy that, one of the other Glee creators. Oh, okay, right, right. Not the same guy. So they're married and they still have. Ryan Murphy. Yes.

I don't think Cherry. Okay, yeah. So they have their own houses. They are close to each other, but they sleep at their own houses for three nights out of four a week. So not only, because we've heard of couples like sleeping in separate beds for whatever reason. Because do you remember ages ago, Producer Caitlin,

before you had a boyfriend? Because you've got a boyfriend now. I've got a, yeah. You said, oh, when I get a boyfriend or a husband, we're going to have separate beds. How's it going? How's that going? We actually sleep quite well together.

I told you that would happen. But I can't imagine sleeping in the same bed as someone. He's only ever allowed to actually sleep quite well together. I told you that would happen. I can't imagine sleeping in the same bed as someone. He's only ever allowed to stay over twice a week. Is that the weekend? No, not the weekend. Someday, yeah. But I like the bed by myself. Rules are made to be broken.

It's what makes it sexy. You hear about couples that do separate beds. Yeah, separate beds. Yeah. Yeah. Separate beds. But do you know anyone who does separate houses? Separate houses. That's what Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter used to do.

They had separate houses, but they're not together anymore. Yeah, but they were weird. But it's up. They might have been other issues. Because of those movies? He lived in the Batcave, didn't he? He lived in the Addams Family house. She was like the Harry Potter woman.

That was all go. So, yeah, they swear by it. She said that she's told her friends that that's what they're doing. Three out of four nights they sleep at their own houses and everyone's like, this is great, sounds ideal, don't change a thing. So it's working for them. So how long have they been married? So they were separate houses from the start, the very start.

A few months. Yeah, separate houses from the start. A few months. Yeah, separate houses from the start. They've never moved in completely together. But I'm guessing they still stay over. That's also a wealthy person's separate mansion. Who's paying two lots of rent? Do you want to sell your mansion now?

It would be hard to have a house later in life if you did get divorced. Because you'd probably have to sell it. Who's got the better house. Just go with the better house. Go and move in with them. Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, yeah, they've both got mansions, so they're probably equally as nice.

But it's interesting. I would like to know if there is an interesting aspect to your relationship. So maybe you sleep in separate houses. I don't know if we're going to find that out. I have to find it weird enough when someone with a very specific dietary lifestyle. Like a vegan and a meat lover. I know, and they cook two different meals all the time.

Can a vegan and a meat lover actually coexist? Happily. I know, oh, she's vegetarian. One of my best mates is pretty much married to a vegetarian. And they just like, yeah, they do. Do they argue though? But you just can't believe that it works. No.

Okay. So, yeah. Does she make it? Do they have to wash out the fry pan? So, I think basically they make meals and then she'll make him meat that will be added at the last, like she'll dish hers up

and then meat gets added in, stirred in to make it feel like it's been there all along. But will she cook that meat or will he have to come in? Sometimes she will. Odd. Which is, yeah.

I'd be like, I'm not touching that meat. And some people are like that. Yeah. But then obviously, right. Co some people are like that. Yeah. But then obviously... Coexisting with a meat eater. Yeah. An omnivore and a vegetarian or a vegan.

Well, can we take some calls in on what people can't believe about your relationship? What's the little different aspect about your relationship? You don't have the stereotypical relationship. Yeah. Something different about your relationship. You don't have the stereotypical relationship. Something different about your relationship. You sleep in separate houses. You have an open relationship. I'll never understand that.

That's good for you. Lots of people do it. Great for you, but I'm way too jealous for that kind of shenanigans. Where are you? Where are you? I'm in the lounge. Was that better than me?

Who are you in the lounge with? No way. The cat? That'd be right. Yeah, not for you, is it? Not for me. Okay, give us a call. 0800 dials at M9696 to text us.

What can't people believe about your relationship? So Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband don't live together and it works for them. They live in completely separate houses. Mount Mansions. Mount Mansions, sorry. So we want to know what people can't believe about your relationship. Maybe it's a little bit different to the reg.

Some text messages in. My dad and step-mom have separate ends of the house. Separate beds, separate bathrooms, everything. Just wings. Is that because they're too stubborn to break up? Like they're sick of each other? No, because it's dad and step-mom, so he's already broken up with one mum.

You just don't want to get up at each other's grill, maybe. Yeah, right. Or you meet in the kitchen for a little chit-chat. My partner works and lives on Waiheke Island Monday to Friday and comes home on the weekend. Oh. It's only a ferry ride. Oh, it depends where they live, I suppose.

Yeah, that's true. Interesting. Madeline, you can answer the question, meat eater versus vegetarian. Yes, my partner and I both, yeah. So he's diehard meat eater and I've been a veggie for like 12 years. So, yeah, we cook side by side every night together. But you don't use the same, like, pots and pans and stuff? We use the same fry pans, but, like, we have a separate spatula each.

All right. And the meat spatula and the tofu spatula. Meat spatula, veggie spatula. And you make it work like it just works. We cook together every night, yeah. Right. So I've learned how to cook chicken in a bag now. I'm pretty good at that.

But other than that, there's nothing else. Why've learned how to cook chicken in a bag now. I'm pretty good at that. But other than that, there's nothing else. Why have you learned to cook chicken in a bag? Because if someone's home late, so if I have to cook meat, then I have to do something that I don't have to touch. So chicken in a bag. So you tip it straight from the tray into the bag. Yeah. And you don't have to touch it at any point.

Yeah. And then I've cooked a meat meal. Isn't that going against your beliefs? It is slightly, but it's what he wants to eat. So as long as I'm not having to eat it, I don't really care. So you're never having sit-down convos where you're like, come on, babe, just try veggie for a week. Stop eating chickens, yeah.

No, because I don't want to be that person to say, oh, you should eat veggie all the time. Also, one more question. What about, like, getting freaky after, like, dinner? Well, yeah, if he's got, like, a mouthful of mints. Toothbrush all the way. No. Sometimes I'll just, just before I get down to business,

I'll have a mouth of spaghetti bolognese. There's nothing worse than kissing someone and a little bit of mints is in your what's up what's up hey thanks you call madeline uh bex what can't people believe about your relationship um we are together for three over three years and we um don't live together right and do you have any do you live in do you have separate places? Yeah, we have, so I live with flatmates and he owns his own home.

But why don't you move in there? Well, we, I mean, the relationship is really good where we don't live together because we get really excited to see each other four nights a week.

Right. But yeah, I mean, free rent or at least cheaper rent if you move in. that would be good. But then I also like to think that or at least cheaper rent, if you move in. That would be good, but then I also like to think that ultimately one day I'll be super independent and own my own house if I ever get. Yeah, girl.

Yeah. I mean, I'm all for that, but. Andy doesn't want you moving in because then if it falls to bits after two years, you'll be entitled to that house. Well, you can be entitled to it without having to live together. Yeah, I was going to say, it doesn't matter. What? Over two years, only de facto.

But harder to prove. No. Like, if your post doesn't go to his house, he could be like, well, she never lived here. It was never really a proper relationship. I don't know. I think I should get some witnesses. Yeah.

Okay, this sounds already very messy. Hey, Bex, thanks for your call. Sam, what can't people believe about your relationship? So they can't believe that we're not on any social media platform. So you have Instagram and Facebook, but you're not friends on them? Correct. And there's no photos, no relationship status, no nothing. Okay, who's hiding something?

No one. You have it, but you're not friends with each other. Yeah. Do you go and look at their, your partner's, like, Instagram? Nope. How do you know they're not liking hot models or something? Does it matter? Well, not really.

No, it doesn't. No, but I just, I'm just, this is just an odd stance to take. Like, why do you, like, not do that? It's just been that way. It just always has. Neither one of us changed it. I like it. But the suspicious, cynical side of me thinks someone's hiding something,

like another partner or... Sam, do you want me to go check his Instagram? I'll check his Instagram for you. No, it's fine. We'll find something. We'll find something. My family's friends with him. We'll make a pro...

You've got somebody else spying on you. Hey, Sam, thanks for your call. Alright, thanks. Some other text messages. Somebody said, my in-laws have been together for 37 years and she's been a vegan the entire

time and he's a meat eater. So, we've just got separate pots and pans. Somebody else said at their house, they're totally gluten free. They've got gluten free chopping boards. Okay. And a gluten free slot in the toaster. Oh yeah, because crumbs in the toaster. Oh right, they're actually right.

The crumbs would fall through. You wouldn't get crumb residue from previous toast on the next time you toast it. You might. Because sometimes, you know when a crumpet tips over and hits the

metal bit, the element? Oh, I hate that. Now we're talking. Cross-contamination. Yeah. Somebody said that they are also not on,

they're not friends with each other on social media. I don't get that one. You've got to run a background check. I can imagine if you were with each other pre-social media. But like you take a selfie together, what do you do with it? Just have it on your phone.

Yeah, how do people know you've gone on holiday together? How do people know to back away from your man? Yeah, you've got to stamp, maybe you've just got to stamp them or mark them in some way. We own them or something. That'd be a tech. Previously with Brianne Clinton. What a great podcast so far, wouldn't you agree, Fletch? Yes.

And it's all thanks to Spark. Get one gig of bonus data with the Spark U25 pack. Now, back to the podcast. Yesterday, we were watching some telly, watching some television, and there was a, shall we say, music video. Okay. Where, what?

No, I'm just interested in what music video this is. I can't even remember what music video it was, but it was topless men in a music video. Okay. And Indy, my oldest daughter, said to me, hey, that guy doesn't even have a belly button. And I said, what do you mean? And she's like, look at it.

Where is the belly button on this guy? She's like, pause it. So we pause. She's like, look. It was like she was doing a TED talk. She walked in front of the TV and it's like the size of her and she's like, as you can see here, if we look where the belly button is usually positioned,

she's like, Dad, show me your belly button. And I pulled up my shirt and she's like, see, you can see your belly button. This guy, no belly button. And I said, it's because he's so ripped. Did you say ripped? I said he's so muscly that his belly button almost sits flat with the stomach. With the ab, I guess.

Is it an ab behind the belly button? Yeah, there's these abs behind there. How does the belly, is there a gap in the abs and the belly button goes through? It's where it's in the gap. It's like in, it's in the, it's at the crossroads of the abs. Let me just Google toned male abs and we're going to have a look. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fletch you.

What, because none of us can lift our shit up and show you. Google. Did you say that? Like, um. Abs. Male abs. Oh, I've got ABS breaking. Oh, yeah, okay.

Anti-lock breaking. So, yeah, no, these guys are like, hmm, this is the abs too defined because you can see most of the belly buttons. Well, here's a good one. Yeah, that's right in the middle. So it goes one, two, three, four. Zac Efron's a good example of like he and some of his photos. But then there's some that he's too ripped.

Zac Efron abs. See the belly button. These guys must not go out at the weekend. Oh, yeah, okay. You can't see Zac Efron's abs. Zac Efron's got a little snail trail usually and that kind of like points to the belly button because These guys must not go out on the weekend, eh? Oh, yeah. Okay. You can't see Zac Efron's abs. Zac Efron's got a little snail trail usually, and that kind of like points to the belly button because it's a little bald spot. But you can still see the belly button.

Well, the abs was flat. Yeah. And like a good set up. Yeah. And you couldn't really see the belly button. And she's like, well, you should pull up your shirt. So I pulled up my shirt, and she's like, see, you can see your belly button. And I said, well, they're so like, there's not an ounce of fat on them.

And so the belly button is tight and then the ab wall behind it is pushing down. So it gives the appearance that it's almost flat. And then she stuck her finger in my belly button, which hurts. Yeah. Unexpectedly, she pulled her finger out and she went to there. And she's like, you've got to have a belly button. You've got to have a belly button.

I like yours, Dad. Yours is better. Yours is nice. Because you can see it. You've got to have a belly button because then you know that, because we've told them before about your belly button, how like when you come out on the umbilical cord. And she's like, you've got to have a belly button

because then you've got to see that you were a baby once. I like this. and I was like after I literally ate of all the things she could have said I ate so much in our week and a week but we went to this Dumplung place

and we ordered so much that people asked us when our other friends were coming it was so busy you ordered before you sat down and we made such an order They sat us at a four person table

Oh yeah And they were very very busy And then we were like Oh no it's just us They took the other two chairs away And like nodded And I was like It was almost like

They were like Thank you for Thank you for paying our mortgage With your insane over ordering of dumplings Yeah Just ate and drank all weekend And then to have my Post-long weekend puku complimented? Yeah.

She's my favourite. Because kids will say anything, you know? They don't have to lie. I know they don't. They don't lie. They'll tell you the brutal honesty. I expected that was going the other way. No.

Yeah. It's good. It's a good thing. So if you're looking down at a little puk-puk today, it's a good thing. Look in you're looking down at a little Puk Puk's today. It's a good thing. Look in the mirror, see a little belly button and say it's good because you know you were a baby once. Yeah. If you don't have a belly button.

I don't know, man. Where'd you come from? No, no, no. Because you hear about some people that they can have the skin removed and they take the belly button. And then sometimes they don't recreate it. That would be weird. You'd want to at least get a fake one. Yeah.

You'd want a fake little belly button. Cosmetic belly button. Take your puku today because it gives your belly button a bit of depth. And you've got to have a bit of depth in your belly button. How long before she changes her opinion on that? I will hopefully never. I'll keep reiterating the importance of being able to just see ones about everyone. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

There is bad news coming for Facebook stalkers. So a media consultant in the UK has noticed this. He may be part of a Facebook trial. I've just tried this on one of your photos, Vaughan, on Facebook. Currently, if I'm scrolling on someone's Facebook profile, like there's a photo of you, Vaughn, double tap, it just zooms in on the photo. Correct.

But for some users, double tapping a photo will like it. Now I need to be in their profile or I can just be in my timeline? I'm assuming either because it will end up being like Instagram. So at this stage, it doesn't look like it's general population. No, I've just got the Zoom on my phone. Yeah, just the Zoom.

But it does look as though that is coming to Facebook. They absolutely need to say something. Yeah, no, there needs to be a public service announcement because you know what it's like if you're Facebook stalking and you might like, you know, you're trying to Zoom or you're trying to... To be fair, I don't tap the screen at all when I'm stalking. I'm very light-headed.

But you have to. You have to... But not like, I wouldn't double tap to Zoom in when you're stalking. That's asking for trouble. You'd use the finger pinch. Yeah. The reverse punch.

But that's the thing. Even a finger pinch could be a double tap. If you get it wrong, there's so much pressure. Don't zoom in then when you're stalking. So what you're saying, a stalking accidental double tap zoom in would lead to a like, and then obviously you're stalking them. And then obviously, especially if you've gone back in photos. Have we established if you unlike that, are they still going to get that notification?

Or if you get to unlike it? If they have notifications on their phone, on their lock screen, then I think they disappear. But there is still a chance they can see it. Because here's a curious situation. Did you notice I've got a new phone case? I did. Got a new phone case. Sade got me this phone case as a surprise while we were away.

It's got VS on the back of it. It's the daily editor. Yeah, the daily editor. We found a store. They do it while you wait. Cute. Then they heat up the letters. I wish I'd seen it happening.

She's got it done. I was like, oh, I wanted to see it. It's got a stamper. Yeah, I think it's a stamper. Right. So this came about because when we're away over the weekend, I was talking to some friends on WhatsApp, and this mate of mine was explaining that he had a frustrating situation with this person he knew.

Yeah. And I was like, well, I've got to know more about this person that he's finding frustrating. So I went to the person's Facebook profile. Yeah. Pretty open page. Yeah. So I was getting a good scroll through.

I was getting a real feel for this person. Yeah. And I went right back up to the top. Yeah. That's the noise I make when I do a one finger. So you were just one finger down, right? And I went, wee, and I was scrolling right back to the top. When I got to the top, after the wee, my phone, this was pre-case,

slipped, and I sent him a friend request. And I was like, oh, no. And then it said friend request sent and it's like, send a message. Yeah, right. Which you can be like,

hey, I've sent you a friend request. We should be pals. And I was like, ah! Resend friend request, like pull it back. What is it?

Cancel friend request. Boom! Press cancel. And I was like, whew! And then I went back into the group chat and I said, oh, so I was like looking at that person you were talking about.

I've accidentally sent them a friend request, but don't worry, I've cancelled it. Yeah. And they're like, does that mean the notification, if it popped up on their screen, would disappear? He would have had to have been like looking at his phone between the time. Yeah, he might have disappeared.

Okay, hopefully that's the case. He or she. He, I'm assuming. Hopefully that's the case. He or she. He, I'm assuming. Hopefully that's the case. Because if you ever had a notification saying, so-and-so has accepted your friend request, and you're looking at me like, I do not recognise, like, who is this person?

But they're pretty sneaky now on Facebook, because it's like, you know, your friend request underneath, it'll be people you know, and it makes it look like they've requested you. You've suggested friends or people you may know, and then you're like, oh, okay, they've added me. And then it's like, send friend requests.

And you're like, oh, I didn't want to have to request their friendship. I thought they'd requested my friendship. I didn't want to be the first person to initiate that. I thought they'd initiated. A real blow to the power play there. Yeah. If you were holding out because you wanted them to request you, but then you get tricked into requesting them.

You're like, ha, they've caved and requested me. Yes, okay, except damn it, I've sent them a friend request. Yeah, that's exactly it. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Coming up on the show, Megan, you've got your new cafe and you get all the- I've got a Google business account so you can see stats. I find this so fascinating because whenever I'm looking for a business

or I'm looking for something, you Google it, don't you? Yeah. And you get all the stats from it. I get stats. Well, there was a curious spike in cafe searches for your new cafe, Megan, on what day? The 28th of May. Oh. Which is a Wednesday.

29th of May. 29th of May. It's a Wednesday. Well, we've got to the bottom of why. It's a huge spike in the stats. Tens of thousands of people were searching your business on this one day. Okay, tens of thousands. Was that for the month was 30?

Yes. Yeah, okay. So it was a few thousand. Yeah. But it was a huge spike on the graph. Huge spike. So we've got to the bottom of what the spike is. And a lot of you are to blame, but it won't surprise you.

Probably not. You know, like clickbait's like, you'll never guess. You will 100%. You'll hear it and you'll be like, that makes perfect sense. We're going to delve into the spike very soon on the show, but right now it is time for... Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about bears.

Okay. Bears. Drinkies or grizzlies? Growlies. Growlies. Growlies, not drinkies. Okay. Bears. Drinkies or grizzlies? Growlies. Growlies. Growlies, not drinkies. Okay. So, well, you don't think that's why some people call the jars that bear comes in growlers, do you?

I don't know. I've never heard anyone call them growler. I've never heard anyone say growler. And the first time I heard it was my mother-in-law said she had to refill her growler. And I had much the same reaction that you did. I was like, what did you just say? My mum calls something else. A growler.

It's one of those bottles that your mum does. Like clamps on. Oh. It's like about that size. Yeah, right. And the lid clamps on, you can go and get it refilled. Never heard that before. Not a flagon.

No. Because that's a flagon. No. Because that's a plastic one. Okay. It's a gorilla. So how many species of bears do you think there are? 42. 78. There's only eight.

Eight. That's what I said, eight. There's only eight species of bear. Now, there are subspecies of those bears, which accounts for more of the bears. But yeah, there's only eight species of bear. The American black bear, the Asian black bear, the brown bear, the giant panda, the sloth bear. Yeah.

Which you might be like, what? No, it's a bear. Right. I don't know. I think it's just lazy. Yep. And that's why it's more like a sloth. It doesn't look anything like a sloth.

A sun bear, a polar bear, and a spectacled bear. And a spectacled bear is called that. You'll be able to guess because the fur around its eyes change. Cute. What are the red pandas that they've got at the zoo? Those aren't. Those are no. What are those?

Those, we've talked about them before. They were pandas before pandas were pandas. They were the original panda, the red panda. But then the black and white panda came and showed its face and everyone was like, well, it's another panda, but then it became the more well-known panda. It looks more like a lemur. The moniker of panda and that became the red panda.

I've Googled sun bear. It looks like it would tear your face off. And all the videos and news stories from a day ago say female singer arrested for keeping sun bear singer who kept sun bear in her house speaks up sun bear taken from condo owner

a woman had a sun bear in her apartment they do look like they'd tear your face off they're massive but they love honey so that's pretty cute They do look like they'd tear your face off. They're massive. But they love honey, so that's pretty cute. I guess so, yeah. Oh, Lord.

Yeah, it's also known as a honey bear because it loves honey cones. This is in Koala Longhaw. A little bit of a Winnie the Pooh. Who's this singer that had a honey bear? Oh, is it in my cage, though? That's not real. No, it's in her apartment. Oh, is that just its sleeping crate? Is it like now?

Is it because they have a sun under their chin? Because, look, it's poking its head out of the window. It's massive. Good Lord. It looks like it's like, keep it down out there, you bloody kids. I'll try to eat some honeycomb and peace up here. And then by the looks of it, the neighbours are like, she's got a bear in her house.

And everyone's like, no, it's just a big rottweiler. That is nuts. But it's not, it's an actual bear. Yeah. What a 10 Rottweiler. That is nuts. But it's not. It's an actual bear. Yeah. What a 10-inch long tongue. The sun bear? Yeah. That'd be to get right into the honeycomb.

The honeycomb. Yeah, right. Sometimes when I'm eating a honeycomb, it's my short tongue that puts me at a disadvantage. Yeah. Yeah. Because you want to get past the way you want to get in. And if they're eating it out of a hive, your 10-inch tongue, get it right in there and get into the hive.

Yeah. But there are other bears, so you might have been thinking, where was grizzly bear? But grizzly bear falls under – I know exactly what you're doing. Grizzly bear falls under the brown bear. It's a subspecies of the species brown bear. Yeah, okay. There's been other bears, but they're extinct now.

Some due to us, some not due to us. But one to look up is the short-faced bear. I'm glad they're not around anymore because they would tear us in half and eat us for fun. Did he say polar bear on your list? Yep. Good. That was one of the eight types of bear.

I thought so, but I wasn't paying attention. Yeah. There is a hybrid between the polar bear and the grizzly bear, but it isn't recognised as its own species. Right. It's also terrifying in appearance. But, you know, they tried to make it work, and from different backgrounds,

a bit of a Romeo and Juliet of the bear world, the grizzly and the polar. So today's fact of the day is there's only eight species of beer. Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. I have a cafe. Do you guys know this? You've gone on about it a bit.

Yeah. Almost as much as producer Caitlin's gone on about having a boyfriend. Soz about it. Yeah. So I just showed Fletch this before because he was the one who helped me set up my Google, my business. Well, when you started, I Googled it and nothing came up. I was like, you've got to get this done.

Like, I don't know much about business or setting up a business, but if a business doesn't have like one of those, if you Google it and nothing comes up, I'm always a bit like, what are you doing? So the business, they'll find it eventually, but if you don't, you have to get them to send you a letter to your physical address so that you can assign yourself as the owner of that business. Yeah.

That's how it works. Right. And then you get like a little dashboard and it has a whole bunch of stats. So you can see every day when people are Googling your business. You can see, yeah. That, all kinds of things. You can see people's reviews, their posts, there's like stats on like what they're searching exactly.

Well, we talked about one of your bad reviews yesterday because you only got two. Yeah, well not bad, there were three out of five. Yeah, well okay. Not like one star. But you showed me the graph of all the days that people Google your business and there was a huge

peak. Like a mountain, like an Everest poking out. Yeah. In the sky. A huge A big old spike on one day. It was double. Now anybody else in business, anybody that tracks anything to see a spike like that would then

try to identify what caused that spike and then to repeat that spike. Because if you could hit that spike every day, that's good business. Well I thought maybe it was a hunch, maybe the power of radio helped your business, Megan. And maybe this was a day that we talked about your business.

May 29th. Because we have talked a bit about and I asked producer Caitlin, I said, what did we do? Did we talk about Megan's Cafe on the 29th of May? We did. From 7.30 well, like 7.40 to about 8 o'clock, we did a phoner. Okay. About what you did

in the name of hotness. Yeah. I remember it. That is correct. Because Megan, what happened at your cafe? Because someone came into the cafe, a guy, and he wanted to get to the bus station

and I had said I would take him. That's what happened. Because he was hot. You came to that conclusion, Fletch. So thus we have drawn a conclusion that hot people are good for business. Yeah, and we've also got thirsty listeners. Yeah, so everyone's thirsty AF, like Googling to be like, okay, who's this?

I need to get to this cafe. And I'd imagine partners started talking about it. And so they wanted to Google the location of your business and distance to the bus station to see exactly how pervy it was. And not that I'm just saying this because I want people to like, thirsty people to come back, but. He's been back. He's been back.

Had he heard? Because you didn't mention any identifying factors other than that he was hot. No. Nothing else, eh? Not on him. I know Megan's told us details. I couldn't track him down on the internet. Yeah, right.

Yeah, right. Okay. So he came back and actually came for a meal by himself. Oh, God. So, yeah, okay. So basically. So I served him and I was so embarrassed and he had like a little smirk on his face

and I'm like thinking to myself, he's definitely 100% heard about it. He's the Moby Dick of Megan's Cafe. You could go to Megan's Cafe every day but never see Moby Dick. But you could go once and stumble across the Great Whale. You could stand in his mouth. That's where I thought that was going.

No, you're thinking you're getting confused of Jonah and the whale. That's right. Where he stands in the mouth of the whale. Okay, so wrong whale. Yeah, yeah, wrong whale. Wrong Jonah. So, yeah, he sat down by himself and the bell went ding to say his food's ready. Andrew just looks at me and is like, you take it.

I was like, I'm not you. Oh my God, he tempted you. Yeah, he was like, go on then if you're going to like talk about this guy, go on, you take it. I was like, no, I can't. Please, can you take it? So who took him the hot guy's food? He had to take the hot guy's food. Oh no, that was entrapment.

He took the guy's food. He took the regular old guy's food. There was was entrapment. He took the guy's food. He took the regular guy's food. There was no entrapment. You're on a shoe walk right into that trap. She just said it. She may have avoided the trap when her husband tried to get her to go to the hot guy, but she just called the hot guy the hot guy. Okay.

Well, he's definitely not going back after he's heard this. That's for sure. Well, he might do. Who doesn't like going somewhere where people think you're hot? Yeah. Have I heard on the radio that people at a cafe thought I was hot?

I'd be back there every day to bathe in the admiration. Right. Yeah, okay. Maybe that's a trouble. But also, somebody... Hey, somebody wants you to remind...

That Spike day, someone messaged in saying that was also the same day that someone text messaged in about your husband being a snack and putting him in the display cabinet. And he's there all the time. So, you know, that's a surefire thing. Back off, thirsty biatches.

And don't go to your cafe. Oh, okay. You're in a hot predicament. Okay, look, but don't touch. Oh, no, now it sounds like I'm putting my husband in. I don't know what the right thing to say is. Play a song. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

I saved this story especially for you, Fletch. There is a cat that has done the first, well, it's the first of its kind. It has had, well, it lost its paws from frostbite. Really sad. How was it outside? How long was it outside? How cold did it get? What did it touch?

Did it climb Everest? Because I always wonder about, like, when I went husky sledding, how do huskies, like, I know they're... They evolved. They evolved, yeah, right. But they can be in the cold. They don't have little boots on or anything. No, they've evolved.

They're just used to it. What are on their... How are their paws different than most other dogs? Because I see some people with those silly little dogs like yours, they put like little mitten booties on them in winter. Yeah, because he gets cold. Have you got... He gets shivery shakes.

He's got socks. Have you not seen Leo's socks? I just don't think you should have a dog if they can't... Because you bend down and he jumps up like, pick me up, it's cold. Okay, he's not a bloody husky. Right. Just wee sausage.

So this cat lost its paws, all four of them, due to frostbite. Didn't he just have nubs? Yeah, a quarter, like not just the paws, so like a quarter of the whole limb was gone. Just had nubs. And it has now been fitted out with artificial limbs. So it is the first bionic cat.

With bionic paws. With bionic paws. Do they look cold? Have you got a photo? Oh, no. It looks terrifying. Remember when someone turned a dead cat into a drone? Oh, God, yes.

It looks like a cat covering one of those MIT robots. You know, who are those people that keep building robots and climb stairs? It actually looks like something from Pet Sematary that's come back to, oh, my God, they're actually pretty cute up close. But, yeah, terrifying from a distance. So it's a ginger cat and it's got, like, grey.

Why don't they make it at least the same colour? It's got grey paws. But they're actually fitted. It's a little, looks like a little plaster paw. And it's got a metal bit that actually goes up into the bone and is like fitted to the cat. Right. It was abandoned. And it had to have all of its paws amputated due to gangrene after suffering punishing frostbite in Siberia.

Where temperatures dropped below 40 degrees below. So it's just some kind of university that's wanting to test us out. So they're like, well, this cat's the perfect kind of, it's much like the story of Robocop. Test. Isn't it, really? You know, down on his luck. Nobody wanted him.

No, his family wanted him back. He was just the perfect candidate for the new technology. Remember? He got shot and he was dying. Yeah, that's right. He was a great cop. And we can save him. for the new technology. Remember? He got shot and he was dying and they're like, he was a great cop and we can save him. He's the perfect candidate for this new

cyborg cop situation. But he was right place, right time for the new technology. Yes, yeah, he was actually. Well, it doesn't say how much it costs,

but it does say that normally cats in Russia are put down if the country had this, but it had a new owner and they were like, there's new technology, let's give it to them.

Let's try it out. Yeah. We can save it with technology. Don't say it, Lorne. I'm not going to say it. It goes without saying. So Alex Murphy, they needed to test

their crime eradicating cyborgs and Alex Murphy was in an armed confrontation with a crime lord, Kurt Smith, who played Red off that 70s show. Is this now the Robocop synopsis? This is the synopsis of Robocop. They can use his body to support their untested Robocop prototype.

Yeah, right. But he turns on his masters, remember? Yeah, because he's got... Because they've got nefarious plans. Yeah. You're coming with me. Because they did a remake a couple of years ago and that was rubbish. No, I liked the remake.

It had the guy in it, the tall guy. The blonde one from The Killing. Yeah. Yeah, that guy. Norwegian, Joel Kinnaman. How did you get Joel Kinnaman out of the tall guy? Well, I knew who he was talking about. I just couldn't remember his name.

Right. I quite liked that sequel. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZDM's Bree and Clint a listen too? liked that sequel.