ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - May 30 2018

Episode Date: May 29, 2018

Producer Caitlin had an online shopping blunder, Swipemares and how bad did your argument get over heating your flat?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the Fletch, Vaughn and Megan podcast, thanks to Sparks. Shoot incredible videos in super slow-mo with the Samsung Galaxy S9. Ten out of ten. Of course she does. Thanks, Anya. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. You look funny with your big, willy, fluffy hat. Do I look cute? Real cute.

Real cute. Pom-pom hat. Do you make a pom-pom? Your puffer jacket. I have made cute Pom-pom hat Do you ever make a pom-pom? Your papa jacket I have made a pom-pom You've made Yeah good fun making a pom-pom I think we made them in school

You ever make a pom-pom? No I haven't Do you know how to make Do you know how to make a pom-pom? No It's pretty fun You get A circle of cardboard

You put a hole in the middle Okay And then you Oh do you like thread it round and round? You go through, through, through, through as many times as you can until the hole in the middle is completely full of wool. And then the circle's covered, eh?

Everything's covered and then you go around the outside cutting the the outside around. I mean, this is great crafts on the radio. This is what crafts only work on morning television shows. And you cut around and it fluffs out and goes to a pom-pom. And then what happens to the cardboard? You just pull it out.

It's not still in there. I just checked. No, no, no. Cardboard's gone. That's why you shouldn't be rough with your pom-poms. No. If you've got a beanie with a pom-pom. I mean, that's homemade pom-poms.

Industrial pom-poms could be completely different. Your pom-pom's probably from Jaina. Probably. It's a Janie's pom-poms could be completely different. Your pom-pom's probably from Jaina. Probably. It's a Janie's pom-pom. There'll certainly be some beanies with some pom-poms around this morning because it's another cold start. Minus 4.2 in Alexandria. That's the lowest.

Wellington, though, again, the capital, the windiest, but also the warmest this morning. It's subtropical down there. Man, it's hard to drag your ass out of bed when it's so cold. I know, when it's this cold. Imagine what Megan just told me before her flat that she's moved into. It has underfloor heating. Yeah, but she's too cheap to turn it on.

And a heated towel rail and a heat pump, but I'm still just rocking around with the puppy jacket on. See, the heated towel rail is the last thing you turn on. We've got heated towel rails. I never turn them on. Same. Waste of time. It's got it, but I can't afford to run it.

That's so New Zealand, eh? It's the power. It'll go through the roof. Well, it will if your roof's uninsulated. Yeah. It'll literally go straight out your roof. Yeah. All right.

Double date this morning. 8 o'clock. We'll play. It was an insulation joke. We're just going to slide over that dead joke. It was an insulation joke. Insulation in New Zealand is a very serious issue. The houses aren't sufficiently insulated.

I don't think you're allowed to just sass a senior announcer like that. It turned on you. That was a lot of sass. Did you hear that? I believe you over that. It was sering political commentary on the current state of New Zealand insulation. And I saw that

side eye from you. Millennials always dishing out a side eye, aren't they? Alright you lot, listen up, it's story time. Three news headlines for three stories I've found online. Interesting, weird, quirky news stories.

Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines. Headline one, world record price set for two melons. Headline two, truck touches up intersection. I don't know, I'm sorry. Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing at this? It's very funny. Okay, and headline three, locals fed up with tourists.

That one's not funny. Oh, no, that's not funny. It always annoys me. Two's funny. Truck touches up. Yes. Intersection. Yeah.

I've forgotten both the other ones. The tourists. World record price for melons. Okay. Truck touches price for melons. Okay. Truck touches up intersection. Yeah. And headline three, locals fed up with tourists. Locals fed up with tourists.

Okay. Two or three for me. Morno? Three. Okay. To rob you of the joy. Primarily. What is today?

Wednesday. Yep. This is becoming a bit of a crabby day for me. Why? Because last Wednesday I was in a bit of a crabby as well. Oh, you're in a crabby. Why? No, no, I'm not in a crabby.

I'm not in a crabby. No, I'm not in a crabby, but I could just feel myself going down that path. Like, you were, like, really tickled by two, so immediately I was like, no, three. I don't know why. I'm not happy that it happened. I'm not happy that I did it. Right. Right. Okay.

We go to America now in North Carolina, a neighborhood there fed up with tourists using their street as a shortcut to the beach. Now, Cedar Avenue is a street in a little neighborhood, Cedar Landing, and also Creek Estates. It's the area. It's a town of about 1900 people

so when it I mean I'm guessing this will be similar to your little beach communities that you have here in New Zealand yeah Whangamata

yeah Papamoa during you know during the winter and during the weeks hardly anyone around pretty quiet and then you get to

a long weekend like this weekend and up far north and it just swells people just turn up well anyway there's a road there one of the roads in in this tiny town is used by uh people to shortcut between major freeways into states state highways we call them okay so we've had enough because it just gets

crazy at long weekends so they all got together and voted to make this tiny little road in their town a toll road. And for $5, you can take that shortcut. Otherwise, you'll be taking the freeway. How much time is it saving you? It doesn't say in this report. It doesn't say in the news story. But enough that every weekend people would basically be bumper to bumper taking the shortcut. Have they had a weekend yet where it's...

Have they had a collecting weekend? How much money they got? There's a sign in this saying that it's closed to through traffic. Friday to Saturday for $5. It's a private toll road. So who decided this? Because technically they didn't build that road. They don't own it.

That's a rate payers collector. No, they all got together with the county. So it's like a local county council. They got together. They all voted unanimously to pass this. So who gets that money? The council. The council.

Right. And do they not have to pay it? Yes, they're in a locals exemption. Locals are exempt, yeah. And I don't know if they've got like a toll box or if it's electronic e-tags. I don't know if they've got like a toll box or if it's electronic e-tags. I don't know if they're that far advanced. That's the thing to install those e-reading, where it reads your number plates and then bills you.

That's not cheap. No, they've probably got a toll. So yeah, they probably do shifts. But they go and sit in a box with a barrier arm. One on each end. And now they've got to staff the toll booth. They probably didn't think about that. But then $5 per car.

Yeah. That's what literally it could just be paying the wages of the person that sits in there. Yeah, just a couple of cars. But I'm imagining the idea is it's $5 and that's enough to put people off. Yeah. Because it's a tiny road.

I wonder how stringent their accounting department is because if someone pulled up and they were like, I don't have $5, but here's a chocolate bar. Or a bottle of wine. Definitely a bottle of wine. I had this bottle of wine lying around. Will this be all right? It certainly will be.

Here's two beers. A premium chocolate bar. Tube of Pringles? What's premium? Two tubes of Pringles. Just a nice one. Like a Turkish delight. Oh. How many person would have said that?. Yeah, right. Like a Turkish delight. Oh.

The only person that would have said that. One of those crafty, one of those... More gold. No. Because this is the thing about those premium chocolate bars. Yeah. They're so much smaller than the standard chocolate bar. Those nice ones, don't get me wrong, they are delicious.

Yeah. Those Whittaker's ones are the flash ones that say things like Garner on them and Sea Salt. Duncan Garner's got a chocolate bar. He does. Yeah, I thought that was a weird association to make, given that now Whittaker's is so trusted, but Duncan Garner's just a raving lunatic. But they went with it. 70% Duncan Garner, apparently.

Right. But they're smaller. There's a lot less to those bars. They get you with the nice wrapper. Let me speak from experience. Not as much chocolate. Sometimes it's best just to go cheap and nasty. Will you be road tripping this

long weekend? Are you going away? Yes. What will your road trip lolly of choice be? I don't really do road trip lollies. It's not long enough. Oh, are you kidding? I could easily eat a couple of bags on the way to Raglan. What's that, an hour?

Two hours. Two hours? Yeah. Oh, easily. And if there's traffic. And a chocolate bar. Yeah. And a tube of Pringles.

See, that's good. I like the tube of Pringles because they fit in the drinks holder. Right. Yes. I wonder how many accidents have been caused. But then it's also dangerous getting your hand stuck in a Pringles tube while you're trying to drive. And then you try and grab the steering wheel and you've got a Pringles hand.

It's like having no hand at all. Yeah, pretty much. It's a long limb. You've voided your hand, really, haven't you? F.M. Meth. And that might have sounded like I said math in a Kiwi accent. Meth.

But meth and math, both terrifying for different reasons. Math because it's confusing. Meth because it's poison. meth because it's poison. Yeah, both scare me. Yes, terrifying things. But yesterday the report came out from Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister,

Sir Peter Gluckman, and he said after extensive looking into it, if your house has only had meth smoked in it, it's not the end of the world. If it only had meth smoked in it, it's not the end of the world. If it's had meth manufactured in it,

then that's probably not good. Then you're going to need to strip the house and get new walls, maybe even tear it down if it's really bad. But because people that had meth smoked in their house, some people were having to get them stripped out completely, weren't they? Well, yeah, there was a big sort of panic that if meth had been smoked in there

and it tested positive for meth at a very low level, that carpet needed to be replaced, walls needed to be torn down, jib needed to be redone, plastered, wallpapered, etc., etc. But what they're saying is that a good scrub, a good bit of a wash down, would reduce those levels to being unharmful to the next residents. Well, that's great for all the homeowners that have stripped their houses. Yes, spent tens of thousands of dollars. Because they thought they had to. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's what you want to hear, eh? When you just spent tens of thousands of dollars. But then there's meth insurance. Oh, I see. There's meth insurance that if you've got a rental and meth is smoked in there, but I guess that'll be changing now

because insurance don't like paying out when they don't need to. So maybe rather than paying for a refitting of carpets and walls, jib and stuff, they'll just send someone in and give it a good scrubbed out. Significantly cheaper than them. Because I heard some people have to pay, in some instances,

have been made to take a meth test, or the house was, when they moved out as part of their flatting agreement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to get your bond back and everything. Yeah, it's pretty common practice nowadays. These people have been paying like $200

to get someone in to test it. Yeah. And now it turns out, well. And there's those meth monitors. Yeah. That are plugged into rentals and connected to the internet and used next to no data. And it goes off. But it goes, yeah, it sends an alert to the landlord or to the people who monitor it,

like a security system. Right. Saying that it's detected meth in the house. Now, that was only smoking meth levels not, I love how they call them clandestine labs, but not manufacturing meth levels. But it would still, wouldn't

it still make a reading if they were making meth? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd probably, because it beep, beep, beep if it detects meth. It's probably like, whoa, shit, yeah, we got it, we got it, we're manufacturing. I'll probably just do

that thing I do if I was making meth when I make crumpets I just cover up the smoke detector. Yeah. Just cover it up with a tea towel.

Not a tampon. A pad. A sanitary pad over it. Over it, yeah. A tampon would work too. Tape that in place. Depends how big the sensor is, Megan.

Yeah. It's a heavy tampon. Pull the pad big the sensor is, Megan. Yeah. It's heavy. You need to buy an extra large tampon. Yeah. Pull the part on the side a little bit. Unroll it. Yeah, you could. Yeah. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith.

Hello and welcome to The Top Six. Today's Top Six, the Jetstar cocktails for kids. A grandmother is complaining that on a flight to Bali, her 12-year-old grandson was given a double gin and squash. There was some sort of ordering error. Yep. I don't know at the time if he sculled the whole thing or grandma had a sip and a smell.

Anya on the news desk was saying there was, what was it? There was turbulence. Is that right? Yeah, apparently there was a bit of turbulence so they had to pop down to the galley and then reassess and then head back. So he got the drink from the wrong one. Yeah.

So they thought it was the lemonade, which is what he ordered. You could have just given it a sniff, right? Yeah. Or the kid would have tried it and been like, oh, yuck. A gin and squash doesn't taste like lemonade. He could have said, Nana, this is not lemonade. Yeah, this is orange juicy stuff for a start, but then it's also got a tang.

Yeah. It's weird. I don't know. People just love to complain about airlines, don't they? She said it's not about the money But she wants a free trip Yeah, how about some free trips somewhere Which is weirdly late to be complaining about it as well

Six months after it happened At the same time you can't give alcohol to a 12 year old Can you? So, I mean Can you? I got a shandy at the You know, my granddad used to mix us a shandy Yeah, but that's not on an airline, is it?

With, you know, a fella, you're on an airline after a couple of gangy shandies. This kid would have got to Bali and just been high as a kite. He would have loved the family holiday. Nicest thing in Australia, not just drinking bintang in Bali. Yeah, yes. So the top six Jetstar cocktails for kids. Number six, a Sesame Street Singapore sling. Brilliant.

Same colour as, well, kind of the same colour as Elmo. More of an abacadabra sort of colour, isn't it? The Singapore sling. It's a pink. You've got to be careful. A peeling pink. Drinking in the air. They say two in the air is worth one on the ground. Those Singapore slings knocked you for six, didn't they?

Well, those and the sleeping pills you gave me. I roofed myself. You took sleeping pills and I did say... I tell you, there's nothing like waking up at your own bed and being like, I thought I was on a plane. How did I get here? And then slowly, like, the foggy memory of you just barrelling through an airport,

just being like, I've got to get to somewhere safe. Customs are like, where have you been, sir? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Are you carrying drugs? No, they're in the system. Like Charlie Brown's teacher. I did say only one sleeping pill and don't use alcohol. My words.

All on me. Be responsible. Number five on the list of the top six Jetstar cocktails for kids. Peppa Pigna Colada. Anybody? Don't mind if I do. Some of these companies are going to want to cut,

I think, if you're using the trade marks. Yeah, I know. Yeah, got to maybe... We'll work on those. Yeah. But Peppa Pigna Colada comes with a little bit

of crispy bacon across the top of the glass. Well, yum. It still retains its pineapple-y, creamy coconut-ness. Do you have that after your cocktail or before? Up to you. Okay.

I might save it till the end. I'm not the Peppa Pig Nicolata, please. You can drink it how you want. Do what you want. Next on the list, number four on the Jetstar Cocktails for Kids is My Little Pony Friendship is Mojito. Oh, I'm down for that. Okay, that's what I'm getting.

And it comes in a range of colours. Just like you can get an Apple Dash and now that's a little bit of an Apple Jack. Sorry, a Rainbow Dash has kind of got sort of a traffic light vibe to it. Do they have enough in that little trolley that they wheel down to make all this? Well, yeah, they give a little shape. Okay. A little. Right.

Because normally they just get a tiny little stupid can. Yeah. Well, yeah, Yeah. Sounds good. Is there a slushie machine on board too in the galley? Yes, there is. Oh, it's a blended margarita. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a blended margarita. Kind of gives it that, you know, kids love slushies. Yeah. And sometimes when you're a kid, booze tastes funny.

So you've got to disguise it as a slushie. Those would go really good with the in-flight tacos. They would. Yeah. I haven't got onto the in-flight menu yet, but tacos would definitely make it. Wouldn't that be nice? Just get on an airline. They're like, today we've got sizzling fajita platters.

Surely that's easy enough to do. No, then put the sizzling fajita platter down on your tray table and melt through. You hit turbulence and you get a face full of sizzling hot plate. But you know how they bring around like a bread bin? Like a bread basket? Just have like the

fudgetas in the bread basket. In the what? Like lay the... It's not too much to ask. Chuck on, fush, sizzling

fajita platter. God, if we were in charge of in-flight catering, we'd bankrupt an airline. Oh, easy. Easy. Number two on the list of the top

six jets are cocktails for kids is the SpongeBob SquarePants Sangria. Brilliant. Is it bad that I want all of these drinks? I know. Honestly, when it was coming on the list, I was like, how hard would these be to sort of make? And you could decorate the glass. I'm imagining the

sangria. I don't know how. Maybe with pineapple juice, maybe make it yellow like SpongeBob, but then put little decorations on the glass to make it look. If you've got a short glass for the sangria, a short, wide glass, and put eyes on it and square pants. Done. Done. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. And the number one on today's top six of the Jetstar Cocktails for Kids is the R2-D2 Tequila Sunrise. R2-D2 Tequila Sunrise. Yep, I like it. There we go. Got it on the second go. And this will be quite hard to say when you're a drunk kid too. Yeah.

Can I have a R2-D2 Keeler Sunrise, please? You said it, so you're not too drunk to receive one. Yes, you may. That's today's top six. A, well, an ex-employee of the Automobile Association has lost their job

and the reason being they took $56,000 worth of bribes. So what? So people could pass their license? Yeah, he apparently processed paperwork and took money from people who wanted to sit their practical driver's license test. So, you know, for various things. Apparently he took bribes, not just always like make this happen,

jump the queue. And the prices varied for different things. So $550 apparently meant you didn't even have to turn up for the test. So wait, there's set prices? Well, I mean, you've got to keep your bribes in order. I suppose it was price on inquiry. Did he have a website? I don't believe

so, no. Did you pay tax on these bribes? But you could save yourself $150 if you turned up to the test. And if you wanted a truck license, that was between $1,500 and $2,500. And they'd just give it to you? Yep. So there would be people

out there on the roads that didn't turn up to a driver's test that have a license because of this guy. Yes. But surely they've now gone through all of those. Correct. And they're on their way through the list of people that this, and you know, there'll be people out there who legitimately did get their license.

So some of the cash was passed on to corrupt testing officers. So he was like running a ring. Oh, right. Yeah, of corruption. Now, this was in Meadowlands Branch in East Auckland. Okay. So if you got your license there legitimately, you're probably going to get a phone call.

And it'll sound like one of those fake phone calls, you know, when you get called by an important government department or something. Yeah. It'll be one of those. But, you know, the 107 bribes that they've confirmed. Wow. Because, by the way,

this money was going straight into his personal bank account. Oh, no. So there's a trail. You know your basic bribes. Yeah, right. You can't have a trail. It's got to be cash money. Yeah.

And it's, you know, unmarked small bills. Always follow the money. Yeah. Always. $56,176 over 107 bribes. For the further 49 occasions, bribes are taken for an undisclosed amount of money. Right. So that's maybe, so 49 were cash maybe.

Right, okay. And that's a bit harder to trace. But then most of those will be pretty easy to trace Who has put that money into his account So match that up with those licenses Okay, cool When I first read the story I was like, you know what I could see myself falling into a trap like that

No But now that I've read more details I would like to think I'd be a little bit smarter about it But I mean, no I wouldn't be bribed in the first place But then Like that's very out there, bribery. But this has ever been our life in a lot of countries.

Yeah, yeah. Well, my father-in-law lives in Thailand. He moved back there. He's Thai. I always say that in case people think I've got a creepy white father-in-law who lives in Thailand. He's allowed to. He's got his mum's where she gets her Asian heritage from.

But no, he's from Thailand. So he's got a reason to move back. I'm not saying he's not creepy, but he's not white. But he was saying you get pulled over in Thailand and they're like, oh, we've got to take your license to the police department, to the home base for the police. Or you could just slip us some money because when you come in, you're going to have to pay this release fee for your license.

And you can't drive without your license on you. Right. So if they take your license, they could literally get another cop to pull you over on the way home. Which they totally would. Which they totally would. Yeah. And get them to ticket you again.

Or you could just pay them the bribe to keep your license and keep driving. And you could have done nothing wrong to have them take your license. Oh, yeah. They say it's for an investigative. There might be a slight glitch or they might have a suspicion. Yeah, yeah, that's... Lots of scams like that overseas. Lots of that sort of bribery.

But in New Zealand, you know, we pride ourselves. Yeah, that list comes out. We're always up there for the least corrupt countries in the world. Well, at least you've got this guy. Well, yeah, I've caught him. And hopefully the people that have bribed their way into a licence are kind of weeding themselves out by hopefully crashing into inanimate objects. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not other people. Like, oh, but what can they crash into that's not going to... Because I was going to say crash into those green power boxes, but that would mean someone would be without power. That's an inconvenience. A tree.

Yeah, it is. A tree, yeah. But then, you know what, then the ecosystem suffering. I hope they crash lightly into a tree. Enough to stop their car, but not kill them.

Yeah. Put the shits up them, yes, but not into the tree because we need that tree doing the conversion from carbon dioxide back to oxygen. So I was asked to help Caitlin with some online shopping

the other day. So Caitlin's been looking at this pair of shoes or like a pair of shoes similar to this for a wee while. Okay. Are these for a special occasion, Caitlin? No, I just need some more like casual like wearing around. Okay. Are these for a special occasion, Caitlin? No, I just need some more like casual like wearing around. Okay. So Caitlin asked me

a question of what size shoe she is. How old are you? What size am I? How old are you? No, because I get confused between the US and the UK. Yeah, but everybody knows. Do you know who's got the best shoe sizing and the UK? Yeah. Yeah, but everybody knows... And New Zealand.

Do you know who's got the best shoe sizing in the world? The Japanese. Because it's just your centimetres. Of your foot? Of your foot from front to end. But then why isn't the US... But why doesn't... If everybody used the same one, we'd always know, wouldn't we? Yeah.

Because the UK is one below the US for men. Is it one below? Like I'm a US 12, so I'm a UK 11. And then I'm a 40-something Europe, whatever that is. Yeah, that's annoying because that's Jandals. We're not by Jandals. They're always in the Europe size. Like 45, 46.

I'm all for everybody getting on board with the Japanese. We'll just do the Japanese measurement. But then how... 29 and a half. Is that what yours is? Yeah. I'd be bigger than that then. I'd be like 30 something.

Oh, okay, show off. But I just... No, you would be, but you'd know. Like, it's your size. So I'm like USA, UK 7, like Europe 39. But then everybody makes

it slightly different sizing. Sometimes in some shoes I'm an 11, but then in some shoes I'm a 12. No, that's not a thing. Because it makes it a width of the foot thing.

I don't find width is taken into account enough. I've got a big wide foot. No, you can't get shoes that have a wide fit. You've got a girthy one, don't you? I've got a big old girthy one.

Spent so much time on bare feet as a kid. But I don't do online shopping. I'll just go to the shoe shop, try them on and then voila. When you go into a shoe shop you have to be like,

I'm a size. No, I'm like, look at my foot. You know that you can look in your current shoes and there's an indicator of what size you have on. Yeah, but I don't know if it's, I get confused. Oh my God, Caitlin. You don't know if it's right. Mum, help me.

So what happened when you ordered these shoes? So I ordered them so excited. Ordered them from overseas and it took like a week to get here. So yeah, we established she's a US 9. I'm a 9. I've got big feet. That's not that big. Okay.

What are you trying to allude to? Because guys say that. You've got big feet because you've got a big wing. If I was a guy, I would. But what does it mean if you're a female?

Big nungs. Big nungs. Yeah, I don't know if that's scientific. Yeah, okay. Anyway, my flatmate messaged me.

He was like, your shoes are here. So excited. Went home yesterday. Was like, going to wear them tonight. Like going out for dinner. And I opened them and I'm like, man, these look quite big. And then I put them on. I was like, these are almost like two sizes too big.

Can I get away with it? It looks like clown feet. And then Ali was like, Caitlin, show me the order. And she was like, these are men's shoes. You ordered men's shoes. You ordered a size nine men's shoes. What kind of shoes? US men's nine.

Are they unisexual shoes? No, I wouldn't have thought so. No. Aren't they pink? No, these ones are white. Oh, okay. What brand are they? They don't, I don't imagine.

They're free period. I don't imagine. Free period. Ooh, okay. What brand are they? Um... They don't... I don't imagine... Oh my god, you don't even know. Free Peri. I don't imagine... Free Peri? Ooh la la! Yeah, is that really nice? I don't even know who that is. What size are they? They're size of male 9. You're not like them. Oh, I won't fit them because I'm a 12. Vaughan, you'd be struggling to fit a 9. No, I wouldn't fit a 9. Yeah.

Fred Peri Kingston leather size... See, my receipt says size 9, so I didn't know you'd choose a men or a... Caitlin, you're name. Caitlin, you're about to get told off. Why? I've just seen how much these cost. No, you got them on sale, didn't you? Yeah. For how much?

Caitlin, you got them on sale, didn't you? Megan, I can hear you winking. They were like... You know you can wink without making a sound. I know, but she wasn't looking. Everything's got to be obvious. No, they're leather, and I will use them. And they'll last for ages.

Will they? Are you going to use them? Because they're the wrong size. Yeah, but that's why I need your hummigan, because I can see them back, eh? But you know that women and men's sizes US are different. Yes. Now.

Now. But then why... My name's Caitlin. Surely they were like... I don't know. There's quite a well-known figure with the name Caitlin that probably still fits men's shoes. Oh, true.

Or she's true. It's not surprising. The more obvious, you could have been buying them for your boyfriend. People should know my name is Caitlin Mara. I don't have a boyfriend. It's a well-known case. It's a well-known case. It's a well-known case. Maybe it's not known enough in the United States.

Yeah, well, they know now. So off the back of hot mess Caitlin's way, ordering Opsa Daisy, I'd like to take some calls on when you've had an ordering mix-up. Oh, my favourite is when this happens, when someone sees something they love online and they get it and it's miniature. Miniature.

Always check the measurements. Yeah. Yeah. And check that it's in centimetres or millimetres. Yeah, yeah. Not millimetres or

inches. I think if we take your calls now and your texts we're going to make Caitlin feel better about ourselves. 0800 07 9696 When have you had

an ordering whoopsie online? Fletch Vaughn And Megan The Podcast So Caitlin wanted to buy some shoes online She came to me with a bit of help over shoe sizing But somehow still managed to order a size

Two sizes too big A pair of shoes Because US men's and women are completely different aren't they? So she ordered a US men's nine. Instead of a woman's nine? Yeah. And what would the difference in size? It's two sizes, isn't it?

Just two completely different things. No, like two sizes too big. Oh, right. So she can't wear them. Why are we doing different sizes between the genders as well? Why isn't there one size? Does Europe do the same size men and women? I think so.

This is why the Japanese have got it sorted. It's a centimetre based thing. And then you just buy your centimetres. Yeah. You're right. Okay. Because I'm a 39 Europe and you're a 45. So that would be.

Something like that. Yeah. The same sizing for across the board, I think. But again, if I'm buying something online, I'm always so paranoid. I'll check sizes. I'll check the shoe size. I'll check everything. Unlike Caitlin. So we want to know when you've made an order in Whoopsie online, I'm always so paranoid. I'll check sizes. I'll check the shoe size. I'll check everything. Unlike Caitlin. So we want to know, when you've made an ordering

whoopsie online, how bad did it get? Somebody said, I ordered a ball gown online for a ball. And a wedding dress arrived. I could have got away with it if it wasn't for the two metre long train that was behind the dress. So surely you could just snip that off.

Nah. Get mum's good sewing scissors out. You know the ones you weren't you could just snip that off. Nah. Get mum's good sewing scissors out, you know, the ones you weren't allowed to cut cardboard with as a kid. How wedding dress-y is it, was it? It's got a two-man train. I'm feeling it's quite wedding dress-y. Even without the train, people are going to be like,

is that a wedding dress? Yeah. Claire, what was your ordering whoopsie? Hi, so I was on Wish and I was looking at... Can I just stop? Can I just ask about Wish? Because I always get targeted

advertising on Facebook for Wish. Don't buy clothes. What? Don't buy clothes. Don't buy clothes. Okay. Because they were trying to sell me $2 crack pipes the other day.

How weird was that? And why are you targeted? I don't know. I feel objectified. Right, so you're on Wish. And why are you targeted? I don't know. I feel objectified. Right. So you're on Wish. And I was looking for nice, warm winter jerseys because they look really comfortable. And so I see one that I like, and it said, I typed in adult clothing.

And so I found one I like, and I was like, oh, yeah, I'll get 4XL because it will be bigger and nicer and warmer for the winter. Yep. So I waited four weeks, four whole weeks for it to rise. Mm-hmm. And it comes, and it's a baby top, 4XL. It's for a baby. What baby needs a 4XL? Yeah, because they just go on, like, age sizing, don't they, babies?

Yeah, that's deceptive. And I was sitting there like, like, one thought in my head, I was laughing so hard, and then the other one, I was like, um... Damn you, Wish. Insulted. This $3 sweatshirt that I paid no postage for

is not good. Thanks, Claire. Keenan, what was your online order stuff up? Hey, how's it going? Good, mate, good. So I ordered, well, I was ordering a bunch of stuff off a website, and I ordered like a $15 pack of socks,

and when that package arrived, the socks weren't there, but I had an $80 pair of Nike Air Jordan track pants instead. Oh, that's a score. That's a score. That's a win. Yeah, so I was just like, well, I'll hang on to these. Yeah. And get some more socks. Now, being a guy, Keenan, how

big are your feet? I'm about a size 10 or 11. Maybe a bit too big for these shoes. Could we find a buyer for your shoes, Caitlin? No, I want the shoes. What if you could sell them for more than you paid for them and then you could buy more online? Admin. You can't fit these shoes, Caitlin. Can for them, and then you could buy more online. But I just need someone to talk to me.

You can't fit these shoes, Caitlin. No, but can't you, don't you do swap seats, return, and they give you another pair? To America. Oh, it's too hard. Is it? No, we can do it. Mum's going to kill me.

Mum's going to kill me. Wow, thanks, Keenan. Some of the text messages in. I ordered three pairs of size nine shoes. Yep. However, nine pairs of size three shoes turned up. I didn't even know this was possible. I would have sold those online.

What is a size three? Like a kid's shoe? It's got to be right. But you'd turn around and sell them online, wouldn't you? And then buy some more from another site. I don't know what you'd do. I've done this exact same thing as Caitlin Reid, the shoes. I bought a men's seven online instead of a woman's.

But boy, did I fly off the handle when they arrived, only to realise that I was the one that had made the mistake. Similar to Caitlin. That's always good. Flying off the handle, then realising you're in the era. I'm a guy. I wear size 12 US men's, but when I buy high heels,

it's an 11 or 12 US woman's. Okay, so that's the difference. And does it slowly catch up? Because by the sounds of that, you've got a US man's 12, but high heels is almost a 12. So you're saying heels would be a 12 as well? Maybe a 12 or a 13. I don't you hit... So you're saying heels, I'd be a 12 as well. Maybe a 12 or a 13.

I don't know. But that's interesting. Is it not an exact, you know, does it not stay the same? Right. Again, let's go to the Japanese way.

That sounds really simple. Everyone does centimeters. Centimeters. Easy. Easy. It's a great, it's a great... Leave it to the Japanese

to come up with a top-notch system for shoe sizing. Well done. And those Dombrie lunch boxes. Oh my God. Bento boxes. You get a bit of everything. You sure do.

And tempura veggies. FBM. Video footage has emerged. This happened in Florida, in the States, but it's grim. A woman is seen to be sitting on the stairs of a pool. It looks to be a pool at a hotel or resort. I saw this. This is disgusting.

So she's sitting on the stairs of the pool, the steps. Of the hotel swimming pool. Yes. Shaving her legs with a disposable razor in the pool. Wait, wait, wait. Is it lathered? Like, is she going to have... No, no lathering. Just say lathering.

She's gone dry. But then not dry because she keeps dipping the shaver in the water and shaking it off to get all the stubble off. Because, you know, when you're having a shave as a full head shaver, you have to give it a rinse. Otherwise it can get clogged.

Well, I mean, guys, people that shave, women that shave their legs as well, no, you've got to have a good lather. A good, you've got to use a good gel or a cream. You're lifting your skin. And you're getting bumps.

You've got to find what's right for you. Yeah. Oh, it's actually making me feel really ill. But not at a public pool. Come on. That's disgusting. Remember when I did a short stint at aqua aerobics after my hip surgery?

Yeah. Very short because you go to public pools and you see like hairs floating on top of the pool. Or you see like a rope plaster. I can't do it. And a plaster doesn't sink, but it doesn't float. It kind of bobs in the water. Kind of in between. And you're like, ugh.

And you try to go around it, but when you're swimming, it kind of drags it into you. And you're like, no! It's like a mobile shower curtain. I try not to think about it too much because I'll do a lot of swimming, but the thing that grosses me out the most if I'm doing lanes is when you come over and you put your arm into the water and you just feel like a long, dangly hair. Go between your fingers. You grab either side of your fingers and it's all up your hand and your arm

and you're like. Yeah. Well, imagine this would be, have you ever been on a push bike and been going really fast and you've gone through a, I would call them a cloud of gnats or like little flies. Little midges. Sandflies. Sandflies. Oh, midges. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. And you're on your bike and you go through and you're like swimming in this pool with these stubbly bits would be like swimming through a flock of gnats would they

would they sink no they'd float no they'd definitely float I mean she's paying for it now though to be honest this woman like she's gone viral

this video's gone everywhere unfairly shamed or rightfully called out for a disgusting act? Rightfully shamed. You're supposed to not leave any part of you behind in a pool. No.

I mean, stubble. Anything. Or she's left a stubble of bits and pieces. Because what if you've got a mouth full of water? On the story, one of the comments is, you know how you accidentally

get a bit of water in your mouth and you spit it out? That's gross enough, but imagine if somebody else's stubbly hair bits were in there. And given that she's doing it by the stairs,

people are walking down through her cloud of cloud of stubble on the way into the pool. America. Her. Scissors, fish, wool, and me. Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe.

Swipe Mears. Oh, it's time for Swipe Mears. And for those that maybe are new to the show, haven't heard Swipe Mears before, we delve into somebody's bad first date on a dating app. It could be Tinder, Grindr, Bumble happen. And just a slight correction, they maybe didn't even get to the first date. Well, you're that... The swipe is made and after that, the nightmare may begin.

Sometimes that happens. Tiara, good morning. Good morning. All right, so start from the start. What happened? So we went on our date. So I met him through Tinder. And he was like a French guy.

Ooh la la. Yeah. And the date went really well. Okay. And then I got home and he had sent me a Snapchat. And he was like, the date went really well. Can I get a picture of your toes? And I was just kind of like,

not thinking much of it at the time. And I was like, oh, okay. So I took a picture of my toes. Like at this stage, I'm thinking, I'm getting free shoes, maybe. No, because then you want the whole measurements. Did you not even ask any questions just straight to

toe photo? Yeah. I was just kind of like, oh, all right, maybe. I just, like, nothing really went through my mind of what was going to happen next. Okay. I was just kind of like, all right. So I took a picture of my toes. And then he goes, wow, your toes are really beautiful. I just want to lick them.

And I was like, what? To be honest, when he asked for a picture of the toes, I was assuming this was very quick, going to be happening very soon after. Yeah, and I was just kind of like, I'd rather you not. So it's a bit weird.

And the thing is, my toes aren't even that great because I'm a dancer and I've done ballet for 10 years so my toes are like square looking. Maybe he likes a mangled toe.

Maybe he likes a squishy tomato toe. Yeah, I've got mangled toes and I was like this dude is desperate or something to say that I've got beautiful toes.

He went in hot like you had it was it a good date? Would you have gone on another date if he hadn't, you know, touched on the toe thing? Well, I don't know. He was very sexual on the date.

Like, he said my name, like, it kind of, like, intrigued me, like, how he said my name. Like, he'd be like, Tiara. Tiara. He'd be like, it's just Tiara. Hello. He was Frenching it up, but he had an excuse. He was French. Yeah, well, I was just kind of like,

the last message I sent was, suck your own toes, I'm out. Brilliant. I love it. I did not think you said suck there for a moment. Wow. Wow. But having dealt lightly with the foot fetish community, they're out there.

Who, you have? Do you remember James, our old producer, James producer one, before he left to the UK, he was approached by a foot fetisher. Yeah, someone wanted a picture of his foot in exchange for a Visa Prezi card. And so times were tough and he was saving, so

he sent the photos and a Visa Prezi card arrived but it had no credit on it. It was just a blank one. And now unfortunately his feet are on websites all over the world, and men and maybe women play with themselves. Yeah, to the thought of the stinky feet. And it wasn't a good... I mean, I can say this now because he's living in the UK, James.

He's not going to hear about this. He's not going to hear this, but not hot feet. I didn't think there's a sexy foot. Oh, age to their own. Beauty is in the eye of the toe sucker or whatever the original saying was. Maybe this is something I could get into. Oh, no, you're very niche because you've got the webbed toes.

No, but maybe people would get off on that. Yeah, maybe people like that. Do you still have his number, Tiara? Megan just said Prezi card and as an opportunist. And I'm in. And she'll take the compliment. Hey, Tiara, thanks for sharing. We're going to hook you up with a Swipe Mears prize pack.

Well done. Thank you so much. 10 to 8, we'll play Double Date soon. We'll spin up a birthday month so we've got $200,000 up for grabs. And now Swipe Mears, we just heard about

a first date going well, but then afterwards, requests for photos of feet and then what the man would do to those feet. And we mentioned before, old producer James, he was approached by someone on Instagram that wanted pictures of his feet.

Yeah. And Hannah actually called. You've had an experience with a foot fetisher, foot fetishy as well. Yes, well actually, me and one of my girlfriends didn't, like, so what happened is we all, all of our girlfriends at high school used the same

driving instructor. He was actually really cheap at the time, and we thought, oh, that's a bit random, but anyway, one day when we all came together at the end, we were like, oh, that's kind of weird. So with some of the girls, he, like, got us to take our shoes off and would show us, like, ballet stretches, like, and, like, he just goes us to take our shoes off and would show us like ballet stretches.

To make your foot nice and supple to use the clutch. Yeah, I don't know what. And then like some of them he would take photos and some of them they were going to be a nurse.

He was showing all these different exercises. But one girl was really, he, so one of my girlfriends had quite unique looking feet. Yeah. And with her, he got her to sit in the back seat and like hold the

gear stick with her foot and move it into gear. Did she ask questions? That is terrible. What are you doing? I feel like he should be on a watch list. I know. He just kind of

she just thought it was like yeah, I guess at the time she didn't really think anything of it. I'm still going on about it. I bring it up whenever possible. He's really taking advantage. So he was using that to see all of these girls' feet? Yeah, there was honestly,

there was probably about 10 girls he went through. And that's what you know of. I know that we know of it, but me and my other girlfriend were really offended because he didn't ask to look at our feet. Oh, ouch. Do you not have nice feet? Do you get the foot fetish thing, Hannah?

Do I what? Do you get the whole thing? Oh, no. It's so weird. That's frigging ugly. I know. I don't. I'm indifferent about feet, but some people are really creeped out by feet and some people

are really into it. Do you think there's like someone who has this interest, shall we say, in feet that can explain it to us? Like what it is about feet that they're really into? Like why they like it? Thanks Hannah. What?

If like Foot Fetishes is listening now. Yeah. And it can explain what it is. Yeah, why they like feet so much. It doesn't have to be dirty.

Maybe they're just fascinated. People are more likely to ring up and say, yeah, this guy wanted to kiss my. Maybe they're just fascinated. People are more likely to ring up and say, yeah, this guy wanted to kiss my feet or look at my feet, but I don't think anyone's going to ring up

and say... Well, you don't think foot fetishists listen to the show? I'm just saying that I think it's... They can be anonymous if they feel like they need to.

Well, yeah, I'd love to talk... Because I'd love to know the thinking behind it. Like, what is attractive about a foot? Is it the toe? Is it the... I don't know.

The toe knuckle. The top of the foot, the bottom of the foot, the whole situation. If there is somebody listening right now that finds feet attractive... Don't judge. Like, each to their own. I'll not judge you at all. I just want to ask some questions about why. And yeah, because I've got questions.

Unless you're a driving instructor taking high school girls for driving and asking I just want to ask some questions about why. Yeah, because I've got questions. Unless you're a driving instructor taking high school girls for driving and asking to see their feet, then I think I will judge. But if you're purely into consensual foot stuff, I'd love to hear from you. 0800 DALESATM. I predicted I didn't think we'd get a foot fetisher to open up. Someone who would want to talk about it. I didn't either, to be honest foot fetisher to open up. Someone who would want to talk about it. I didn't either to be honest when we chucked it

out there. It's a unusual one because it's something we don't understand but we've also said it's nothing to be ashamed of. This happened in a swipe meal. We just talked to a girl who went on a date and the date went well. She went home. He asked for a photo of her feet.

Like straight up. I feel like there should have been a bit, like maybe another day. I would never know how to photograph my feet in a sexy manner. Like what angle do you want here, champ? Do you want a profile? Do you want a straight on?

Do you want a sort of a three quarter tilt and underneath? Producer, have you found someone that we can talk to about a foot fetishist? Yes, but please can we keep their name anonymous? Well, we don't know it, so let's... You're the only one that knows their name, so you don't.

As long as you don't say it, Caitlin. Well, it just says anonymous. Good morning, anonymous. Hey, yeah. Good morning, guys. Now, you find feet attractive. No, my boyfriend finds my foot really

attractive. Oh, so it's your boyfriend? Yes, my boyfriend. Could you explain, like, why he finds it attractive? That's our question, I guess, is, like, why? I don't know. I have no idea. But the thing is, I am an Asian, and I like five, my size is a five, you know.

A small foot. A small foot, okay. Yeah. And I just don't get it. Like every time we're together at home and I was like wearing my, especially cold weather. So I was just like, I got a sack on. And then all of a sudden, like, sit next to me and I'm trying to massage my foot.

He's like, we'll just take these socks off. Really? And then he undresses your foot. He takes the sock off in a sexy manner. Yeah, and he's, like, trying to, like, start it to, like, all over. Like, oh, my God, what's going on? Was it weird the first time when a guy was like, I like your feet?

Actually, it was like the first time. I was like, oh my God, please no. I don't like guys touching my feet at all. Like, no. Wow. All right. Well, Anonymous caller, thank you for sharing. Thank you, Anonymous.

That's a bit of a popular theme through the text messages we've received. Right. People saying their current partner is really into feet. And at the start, they didn't like it. Someone said, I distinctly remember the first time he was just playing with my feet and then he sucked on my toes. And I looked down. I looked down and he was looking at me like, is this okay? And I was like, this is weird.

But now it's kind of okay. I mean, I'm not opposed to like that but do you need to let her wash it? Oh, most definitely. Shower? Most definitely. Clean it first? I knew a guy, someone messaged and he loved talking about how much he licked his wife's toes

and one time I was talking to the wife and I brought up how he mentioned that he's really into her feet. And she said, oh, as he told you, he drinks from my shoes every now and then. Now, there's a bit of a tradition of a shoeie where you drink from a shoe, but not for any sort of sexual. Yeah, but you can put that down to being a drunk student, can't you? Well, do you need to check that they have athlete's foot? Like, they're okay first?

Would there be a turn off? Athlete's foot? Oh, most definitely. Just even some slight tinnier. What if they put Gran's Remedy in their shoe and then they like drink out of it? At least they're trying their best. Oh, yeah, no, I see what you're saying. Coldest night of the year so far

in 2018 and tensions are rising. Things are getting heated in flats and households around the country because it does get cold and we are a nation of poorly insulated houses. So you need the odd sneaky flat heater when the flatmates aren't looking.

Well, most flats don't have like a heat pump or any like main way to heat the whole house. Soundkeeper Gary's got it sorted because you know, if you've got a fan heater in your room, but they might walk past the door and they'll hear the fan. He's got one of those old club rooms heaters, you know, if you've got a fan heater in your room, they might walk past the door and they'll hear the fan. He's got one of those old club rooms heaters, you know,

the ones with like a glowing bar in the middle that they hang in the club rooms. Yeah, but isn't that run on gas? He'll gas himself. No, it's just a solid thing and it gets really hot and it radiates the heat downwards. I would say a very ineffective way to heat one's entire house, but he sent me a photo of him just sitting in front of one the other

day and claimed it. They'll chew your power. I remember. But silent if you wanted to have it in your room but also a fire risk.

I knew some students in one of those shoebox apartments in Auckland they'd just have the oven on and leave the door down. That's what I do.

I leave the oven on instead of closing it. Not if you've got a gas oven. Is it? No. Do I know if it's gas?

You'll have to light the pilot light. Oh, no. Mine's not gas. Okay, good. That's all right. Those are also the same people in summer that just leave the fridge and freezer open to cool the house. I don't do that. It's really inefficient.

That's silly. But that's after you've finished cooking. You'll just leave it open so that the hot air wafts out of the oven. You are your mother's daughter. Your mum collects the water that misses her body in the shower. She showers amongst buckets to then water the plants so that none of that water goes to waste. We are eco-friendly.

She's going to break something. She'll put her foot in a bucket one day and have a tumble. And then we won't be laughing. Well, we aren't. Producer Caitlin, things got a bit heated in your flat last night. Well, they didn't get heated because it was cold when I got home because there was no heater in the lounge. Lots of good temperature puns.

Lots of good temperature puns. Someone stole the flat heater in their room. Well, it wasn't in the lounge where it usually is. What kind of heater is it? Just a little shitty fan one. Oh, okay. That's not an appropriate word. Sorry.

Language. Sorry. We've got a damp house and it's cold. Damp, okay. It's okay because I just have my electric blanket on. If I go out, I'll put the electric blanket on and come home. These are all fire risks. Yeah.

This is the main thing I'm hearing from a lot of this. Everybody's running the risk of burning their house down. Intern Anya, didn't you move out of your last flat because of power politics? Yeah. I used to love leaving the heat pump on all day when no one was home. Oh, that would drive me crazy.

If someone's at home, leave the heat pump on. Be warm. If you can afford to be warm, be warm. But if no one's home, who are you warming? Yeah, just turn it on when you get home. Then you've got like 10 minutes of coldness before the heat pump kicks in. So you'd had enough, so you had to leave. Oh, yeah, multiple conversations about it.

Well, they were all young gnats. Mum and Dad probably paid the power bill, didn't they? Why are you waving your hand in front of you? Oh, a different flat. Not there. Definitely not them. Ah. How many flats have you moved out of that you've played with young Nats?

Is it the way the ones that stole your tupperware? Or your Sistema? Don't talk about that either. Rich get richer stealing other people's tupperware. She's shutting me down on a lot of these points. Why? You don't want to talk about your personal details, but you want to talk about other people's. I'll talk about my Sistemas. I love my Sistemas.

Good New Zealand companies. Don't throw them in the deep end. So this is what I wanted to talk about this morning. I love Mr. Steamers. Good New Zealand companies. Don't throw them in the deep end. So this is what I wanted to talk about this morning. I wanted to take your calls and text messages. How heated are the arguments getting over heating in the flat or the house where you're living? Now that it's freezing cold, do you have like, you know, that flatmate that's telling everybody off for using heaters? Because what are you supposed to do? Just all freeze?

Or do you all get the same heater and you all, like, at the same time, three, two, one, turn it on and then turn it off? Everybody, yeah, has to stand in a... It's one of those oscillating heaters and everyone sits in a semicircle around it and everyone has to get the same amount of blow. Although maybe for a while nobody was caring about the power and then you got the first bill and then everyone's cracking down.

I reckon the first big power bill of winter's yet to come. Yeah. Because it hasn't been too cold yet. Not yet. It'll be the next one. It's snap. Yeah, next time will be the rude awakening. Yeah.

Okay, so 0800DARLS.M We want to hear from you now. 9696 to text. How heated are the arguments getting? Overheating. The coldest night of the year. Currently the coldest temperature in New Zealand 9696 to text how heated are the arguments getting overheating the coldest night of the year currently the coldest temperature in New Zealand minus 4.1 in Alex central Otago Invis

bottom of the south it's freezing at the moment the highest temp in the country 9.7 in Wellington which is also the windiest place so that's what we're dealing with so it might be warmer but then you take into account the windiest place. Right. So that's what we're dealing with. So it might be warmer, but then you take into account the wind chill factor

is probably on par with everybody else. So we want to know now that it is getting freezing cold and not even officially winter yet, just a few days away, how bad the arguments are getting over power at your flat or your house? And just the rules in place, if there's any hard and fast rules,

like this text message and my boyfriend has a rule that the heat pump only goes on in the morning if you can see your breath. Inside. Inside. Now, how grim is that? We've all lived in flats. I've lived in so many flats where you'd wake up in the morning and be like, yep, she's

a cold one. I know. But how bad is that? Like, other places in the world, that's not a thing. Like, we're just used to that being a thing in New Zealand. Yeah. That's so bad, eh, that we can do that in a house. We'll just whack a house up.

Shall we insulate it? Oh! I mean, it's not cold now. It's summer, though. It'll be right. Stacey, this was your friend's place. How bad did the arguments get over power? It got pretty bad.

It went on for quite a while before they figured it out, How bad did the arguments get over power? The sun! I've got it! No, it isn't the sun's fault. It moves further away in winter and it makes it colder, so you've got to have a fan under your bed. But you can't deny walking into someone's room when it's like 23 balmy degrees and the rest of the house is five. And their bed looks like a hovercraft.

You can't deny that you're running a heater under there. You're not going to get away with that. Especially the noise like this. Yeah. Also, how long before she sets fire to that bed as well with that heater under the bed? Yeah, that's dangerous. It's waiting to happen, isn't it?

Thanks, Stacey. Hope, this was your flatmate? Yeah, so when we were at uni in Dunedin, we had such a Nazi flatmate for power bills. Yeah. So every time someone had a heater turned on in their room, they had to write down the watts of the heater and how many minutes they would have it on for each day.

We used to have to hand in a sheet at the end of the month with all our totals added up and then the power bill would be worked out based on how many watts your heater was based off and how many minutes you'd had your heater turned on for. Oh God. Was she doing accounting? No, not accounting, teaching.

Oh, okay. Wow. Super bad on not wanting to pay on the power bills. Right. And so did you, like, was it a trust system? Could you just lie and say I didn't use that many? I definitely lied. Yeah.

I was not paying any more than I needed to when I was on a student budget. It's like when you have to fill out a timesheet at work. They want to know what you do. You just lie, don't you? Yeah. And how do you trust her working? Like, she's definitely paying less than the rest of you. For sure.

Oh yeah, the person in charge of the bill is always skimming. Thanks, you call Hope. Hi Jack, how bad did it get in your flat? Hey, would you like

to call me by my proper name? Oh, sorry. Premium Gay Jack joins us this morning. I apologise. There's actually been correspondence to the show that the official term

is Gold Star Gay Jack. No, I don't like it. Okay, okay, okay. Far be it from me to tell you what you should. I have another bone to pick with you as well, Vaughan, but I'll let that one for another day. Oh. Oh, Ben, he's in trouble.

This is not how this relationship works. I am the one. Okay, no, go on. When did tensions rise over the power bill? So I came home the other night, and, you know, we have, like, a central heating. Everyone's got, like, a little vent in their room, and it pumps the house up to, like, 25 degrees.

Yeah. Oh, my God. My rule is it's not allowed to go over 24, but I come home last night, it's on, like, 32, which is outrageous. Ridiculous. Wow. So I come in, and I'm like, who put this heater on 32? And then one of the girls were like, hey, it was really cold.

And then I noticed a little glow of a heater switch coming from her room. And I went, no, we're not doing this today. We are not doing this today, guys. That goes up to $7 an hour on the power. So we had this screaming, raging argument. And then, you know, we get over it. Ten minutes later, the police show up with a little knock on the door. Well, the neighbors called the police?

Yeah, because they thought we were having, like, a domestic. Over a heater. We can't have a domestic because I'm gay, so that doesn't work with a guy and a girl. And also, we're just having a rage over the heater. But so then someone put the central heating to 32 and they had a heater going in their room. That's like $8 an hour.

Rage away. That's ridiculous. That's cool on a really, really bad day. But $8 an hour is outrageous. Also, also, was she wearing like a singlet and shorts? Absolutely she was. See, that's the other problem I've got. Like, wear some pants.

I'm wearing a puffer jacket inside my house at the moment. Purely to avoid that power bill. Thanks, Jack. Some other text messages in. We had a major disagreement last year about the heaters. It took a couple of weeks to resolve. And in the end, I won and everyone got heaters. But then the bill came in $400 more than the previous month.

Guess who froze all winter and tossed the heaters away? Wow. Wouldn't that kind of be unexpected, though, if everyone's running a little heater? Well, it's good now because a lot of places do smart meters. So I can sign up or use an app and you get an email every day and it tells you how much you're using. I think I used $6 yesterday.

Unbelievable. $6 what? Yeah, I've got that app too. Is that bad? It's a high grade. That's high for me. Really? I would be using that an hour, I reckon. Easy. Well, you've got like a whole family. Oh, yeah, that's a great excuse.

They're not home all the time. I'm looking to be warm. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Our Fact of the Day pub quiz, just before we get into Fact of the Day, is back tomorrow. No, yes, tomorrow. I was like, yep, no, it is tomorrow.

Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night in Auckland is our first round. Is it next to, yeah, tomorrow. Tomorrow night. It's happening tomorrow night. Tomorrow night in Auckland is our first round. Yeah, tomorrow. Yeah. Have we shut registrations? Can people still register? Because we did have a lot.

We've got $1,000 prize money. Do we have room for more, Caitlin, more registrations, or are we pretty much chock-a-block full? Oh, you'd need to do it, like, first thing this morning, because I think we've called most of the teams. Right. So we've got a lot of teams, though? We've got a lot of teams. Okay, well, I mean, if you want to try and squeeze in

ZM Online to register we're going to announce more. Yeah, if you've got a cool name maybe. Not like the person as a name but if you've got a cool team name. If you've got a cool team name. Do you think that'll help you? It'll be a standout.

I don't know. Okay. I mean it's out of the draw but you know. Sure, right. Okay. But this is the first one in Auckland. There will be more in Auckland

and then we'll be taking them around the country as well. Yeah, we'll announce those as they happen. Today's fact of the day is about a 27-year-old named Rob Willis. He had been saving up and then I'd imagine he ticked a fair bit of it up too, but he bought himself a BMW M3. For the car fans listening, a Yars Marina Blue BMW M3.

Okay. I don't know what Yars Marina means. Yars. It's almost like what I would say if I'd been stranded at sea and we were floating and I was like, oh, Yars Marina. It's like a sky blue. Oh, is that what it is? Pistily sky blue. So the Yars Marina is all to do with the blue.

Yeah. Okay. I thought it was something to do with the model of it. Right. Okay, so a blue BMW M3. He bought himself that. Kind of a car that he'd been looking, you know, wanting to it. Right. Okay, so a blue BMW M3. He bought himself that. Kind of a car that he'd been looking, you know, wanting to have.

Okay. And he got it in a bit of a steal because they said it's an X-Demo. Okay. So he's like, well, okay, that's cool. X-Demo's been serviced and everything. Sweet as. Purchased it.

Now, he noticed almost immediately that the car didn't drive as well as he'd hoped. The brakes squeaked. He pushed his foot on any more than you know, he just sometimes put your foot on the brake and it's almost just to let the person behind you know

hey, I'm thinking about slowing down. But any harder than that and it squeaked. And when he turned, it would often clunk. Now he thought, this is not what Rob paid all this money for. Yeah. He was then deciding what to do, sitting at home with his girlfriend, and she said, hey, Top Gear's on. And he's like, okay.

And they said, oh, my God, tonight they're reviewing the BMW M3. And he sits down and sees his exact car, same number plate, being thrashed by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear. Oh, my God. To which he is like, curious. Knees drifting. Have you watched Top Gear? Not really, but I know they race cars and they thrash them.

Even if you don't like cars that much, it's a really well put together show. My favourite ones are where they race a car versus a train versus a way of getting public transport to some place. So he's watching the Jeremy Clarkson do the track test of the BMW M3

in Yars Marina Blue. The number plate's the same. He's like, well, this is all too much of a coincidence. This can't be the situation. And the next morning, because they trashed them, the next morning he rings the BMW dealership, and he's like, hey, I've just been watching Top Gear. And I think the reason my car is not great

is that it was used on Top Gear. And the guy's like, oh, my God, bring it in. So they brought it in, tested it, looked into it, and surely enough, it was the exact model that thrashed around on Top Gear. That's not an ex-demonstrator. That's an ex-thrashed on TV model. This is where we lead to fact of the day, and I didn't know this, but I found it very, very interesting.

Top Gear got that last in the line. Whenever a new car is released, and you know how you'll see the press do reviews of it yep it's the exact same model of the car goes to all the different press outlets right so their driving person can drive it and yeah thrash it because um i don't know if you've ever been in charge of a car that you've got no emotional attachment to and you don't pay anything for but you don't really treat it like you would if you'd purchased it. Oh, yeah, rental cars.

I'm always like, I wonder what it's like to drive to Hamilton in first gear. Just because it's not my car. I've always wondered what it's like to go through Mary Mary at 80 k's an hour but just have the engine absolutely screaming. Why not try it today with a rental? I'm joking, obviously. And, yeah, so they found it out and they said, oh, these ones should actually never go back on the road.

A lot of these ones get treated so poorly by the press who review them that they never actually make it back on the road. Because I imagine an ex-demonstrator, and most of the time it probably is, it's been the one at the showroom that people take and then they buy. For the test drive. Yeah, right, yeah.

But just occasionally it gets on Top Gear. Right. And gets thrashed around. So today's fact of the day is a man who bought what he believed to be a new BMW, then saw it being absolutely thrashed on an episode of Top Gear. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. You will have seen by now this amazing footage from France. We talked about it yesterday of a Mali citizen who lives in France now, scaling the side of a building.

The Spider-Man guy, they've called him. They've given him French citizenship. He's a 22-year-old. He got an award, didn't he, for his bravery as well? He did a bravery award. Yep, he scaled up the side of the building and saved this kid that was hanging over the side of a balcony. Well, more details have come in because my immediate thought was

because in the video you can see a guy on the next balcony and I thought maybe that was the kid's dad who was kind of holding him there. Also, I feel like the time that the Spider-Man got to the kid, that guy could have probably pulled him in. So they've talked to this guy as well and found out more details. I'll tell you about why this guy didn't reach around first

and grab the kid. I feel like he's been overshadowed and needs an award as well. Well, he was holding the kid. Yeah. He held the kid's hands on the railing. Because by the time he kind of got out and put his hands to hold the kid there, he saw the

guy coming up the side of the building. Right. And he said that he was worried at the configuration of reaching around the barrier that was separating them. Yeah, right. And he was reaching onto his weaker side, that if he pried the kid's hands off and tried to swing him around up onto theirs,

he could let him go in and fill a crowd full of people, four stories up, the kid could fall and die. And then you're the bad guy. He's like, well, I'm just going to hold on to him because I can guarantee I'm going to be able to hold his hands on this bar while this guy climbs up and rescues him. Right. But he's not the father.

Right. So where was the father? Well, I'll tell you, first of all, that child didn't start on the fourth floor. He started on the fifth floor and fell from the fifth floor to the fourth floor. Wait, he managed to just hang on to the railing? Yes. They don't even know how old the four-year-old. He's four.

How would you know it's a four-year-old to do that? I guess you just start falling and you've got an automatic reflex to put out your... Hold on. Yeah, right. So the neighbour said that he was actually bleeding from the feet. Right. And the toes, and he'd lost the nail. Now, he doesn't say if it's a toenail or a fingernail.

Right. But that's maybe from grabbing on and stopping himself from falling. Okay. He had been outside on the balcony upstairs and had fallen down to the fourth floor. So again, the question is asked, where was the dad? Yep. Well, the dad was out playing Pokemon Go.

The dad sounds like a real stand-up sort. He's out on bail. People are still playing this? Yeah, I know. That's the amazing thing to me. So, he was not even in the... Nope. Oh, my God. Can't confirm whether or not the kid had been locked in the balcony. Right.

Or if the door had been left open so the kid could come in and inside and outside. Oh, no. A four-year-old, unattended, climbed over, fell. The dad had just decided to pop out for something to eat. Yeah. Not taking the kid, of course. And then when he was out, got distracted by Pokemon Go. Okay.

I mean, this could have been understandable at the height of the craze, but not now. Yeah, maybe slightly more understandable, not more forgivable. No. I mean, my daughter was four when it came out. She loved going Pokemon-ing. Yeah, take the kid. Yeah. Take the kid.

Get them to chuck the Pokeball on the screen and you're all good. But didn't. Yeah, take the kid. Take the kid, get them to chuck the poker ball on the screen and you're all go. But didn't. Yeah, right. And is now due to appear back in court to, I imagine, lose the custody of his child completely. Yeah, and I'm imagining that'll be some jail time, won't it? For like negligence.

Yeah, that's what he's facing. Negligence charges that could have led to death. Quite easily could have led to death too. If that kid hadn't grabbed. Oh, it's freaky. It that could have led to death. Quite easily could have led to death too. Right. If that kid hadn't grabbed. Oh, it's freaky. It's just freaky to watch. It's incredible footage though.

Yeah. Wish I had that set up of body strength. Yeah, because I could imagine me doing that. It would just be a video of me floundering on the first floor like that. I got to the first floor. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out ZDM online. I got into the first floor, man.