ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - November 07 2018

Episode Date: November 6, 2018

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Hello there and welcome to the Fletchvorn and Megan podcast. Thanks to Spark, where you can get a new Nokia on a prepaid rollover pack starting from $19. Now, on with the podcast. Zedium. Zedium's Fletchvorn and Megan. Thanks, Anya. Welcome to the show. Fletchvorn and Megan, I actually lime-scooted to work this morning. Did you?

Yeah, I was a couple of minutes late, so I was like, any excuse? Make it up with a little bit of a zip. You do most mornings, eh, as long as there's one available? Sometimes. I would like to put my hand up to be a representative at this micro-mobility summit. Okay. That sounds like my sort of summit. Where you just scoot around.

Well, I imagine you arrive on a lime scooter and you step off and you wave to the awaiting international journalists. And then you walk in. It's like a UN summit, but about scooters. Two great videos. Relime scooters. The guy with the fireworks. Yes.

Making it look like he's rocket powering. Yeah, brilliant. And also the guy that tried to do a rail. Was he wearing a suit? Yeah, yeah. He was like a businessman, yeah. Yeah, tried to do a rail. Was he wearing a suit? Yeah. He was like a businessman, yeah. Yeah, tried to do a rail and ate it. Really ate it.

Like, actually, like, probably nearly killed himself. A proper ate it. Or broke his neck. Yeah. Yeah. That actually looked just really painful. A very sore coccyx. Yeah.

It's the tailbone. So much fun, though, aren't they? They are a bit neat. But I am seeing a couple more people in my timeline with injuries from them, but they know that they're to blame. Well, exactly. It's your fault, isn't it? Scooters don't kill people.

People kill people. The top six is coming up. Just adjust because scooters, the gun's there. Yeah, I would love to try one of these. Yeah. A double brown sausage. This is double brown. They're cheap beer.

The beer that you buy by the slab. Yeah. Mostly. Double brown flavoured sausages down south. A butcher way down south has made a double brown sausage. So more about how he did that and the top six other boozy sausages that sound pretty good. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

All right, it's time for story time. I've got three news headlines for three interesting, unusual, weird news stories that I've found. Vaughan and Megan decide which headline out of the three. The others, we don't find out about. That's just the harsh reality of life sometimes. And story time, it's just how it works. It's like you're picking a favourite child.

It's why parents don't do it because when you pick a favourite, the other ones disappear. Exactly. What are you looking for? Like a tissue or a paper towel. I've had a light spill. There was a look of worry in your eye. Like, oh no, it wasn't like petrified.

Use that spreadsheet there. I don't know what that's for. When I spilled my coffee and dropped my phone in your eye. Oh no, it wasn't petrified. Use that spreadsheet there. I don't know what that's for. When I spilled my coffee and dropped my phone in it yesterday. There's a little green towel out there on the spray and wipe bottle. No, that's full. That's like a full spray and wipe towel. It's like a microfiber towel. You don't use... Do you ever get

told off when you're a kid, like your mum had a cloth for wiping the glass and a cloth for dusting and have you ever used the dusting cloth on the glass, Jesus, it was the end of the bloody world. Oh, no, mum didn't have separate microfiber. Was Bev a pledge user? Oh, maybe. No, I don't know.

I don't know if we had. Ray didn't use pledge. Mum, oh, mum loved a pledge. Lemon pledge? Lemon pledge sometimes, or just plain pledge. Right. You just don't see people using pledge much anymore. No, I've got pledge because I've got some wood surfaces. I've got wood surfaces too, but I don't use pledge. Oh, you should.

It's a lovely finish. I don't find dust is a huge problem. Yeah, right. Anyway. We did grow up rurally though. Dust is more of an issue in the rural dust bowls. Yeah, right. Headline one, university porn star lecture raises eyebrows.

Headline two, man has unusual way of asking parents for money. And headline three, fancy 800 flatmates. Question mark? What? Fancy 800 flatmates. Question mark? That's not on the headline. There is a question mark, but I made the question mark sound like it was something.

Yeah, well, no, you got to the end of it and you realised you'd not structured the sentence to sound like a question, so you actually vocalised question mark. Fancy 800 flatmates? Fancy 800 flatmates. Question mark? Did a professor accidentally play porn to a packed lecture hall? No. Oh, I was Googling.

That's happened. That happened, though. Oh, yeah, wow. No, it's not that. No, this is actually a porn star that a university paid to give a lecture. About porn? Yeah, just about feelings and stuff. And I don't know, Vaughn.

Okay. I mean, if you want that story, we can go into it. No, you pretty much gave it to us. Thank you. That's pretty much it. I think I like the... Is that story three? Oh, I was going to say two.

The asking parents for money. Did he rob them? How many flatmates? Not going to 800 flatmates. Fancy 800 flatmates. Question mark. You're not allowed to Google. This is against...

Are you moving into some sort of animal enclosure with 800 flatmates? No. It's not like you have to live in a paddock with a sheep. No. You're going to live in Sheppard. No. Let's 800 flatmates? No. Okay. It's not like you have to live in a paddock with a sheep. No. Like you're going to live in Sheppard.

No. Oh, yeah. Let's go flatmates. Then fancy 800 flatmates. Oh, now. Okay. Are you sure? Oh, have you got that?

Now I'm doubting myself. Well, have you found that cool story? No, I haven't. Is that going to be animals? Yeah, no. 800 flatmates. No, he said it's not an animal related story. Right.

Okay. Well, we go now to san francisco yep uh where a company uh says its apartment co living will be the largest in the world now a lot of us have stayed at university halls yeah or have uh been in large flats yeah what's the most amount of people you've lived with six i was seven other people because of rumors seven other people. Seven other people? No, do you remember? Because there's six bedrooms in that place.

Oh, yeah, that's right. But that was spread over three levels. You all had your own bathroom. It was fine. Very luxurious. And people were never home. I was picturing a Dunedin flat situation when you said seven other people. Well, residents of a new building coming to San Jose

will be able to ask nearly 800 of their roommates if they'd like to borrow some sugar because they will be part of a dorm-style apartment complex open in 2021, which is one of many that are planned around the world. Sounds like military barracks. So the new building will be the largest co-living space of its kind in the world, featuring up to 790 bedroom-only units with shared common areas like kitchens, living rooms, and in some cases, bathrooms. There'll be four kitchens and living rooms on each floor. Oh, okay. To be shared between 12 to 18 people. Oh, yeah.

I thought you were going to say four kitchens in total for 800 people. For 800 people, four kitchens, did you say? Per floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And most rent will be

between 800 to 2,500, which is a month. They pay monthly rent. They pay monthly in America. That's a lot. Yeah, that's not cheap. It feels like the human equivalent of caged chickens. Yeah, I know, cheap. It feels like the human equivalent of caged chickens.

Yeah, I know. But apparently this is like a trend that is kind of emerging. Is that cheaper than the standard? Yeah, it is. Yeah, because it's quite expensive to live. But they'd have to have cleaners, right? You'd have to have part of your rent would cover a cleaner because you would never know who left skitties in the toilet

or hair in the shower or hair in the shower or messy in the kitchen. You have one of those like chore wheels, but no one's doing the chores. No one's doing the chores. You'd have to have some communal cleaners. It'd be like chore bloody wheel of fortune. Bad luck, Stephen. You're cleaning every one of these bathrooms.

You poor sod. But yeah, similar problems to New Zealand with housing. There's shortages. This would be single people, couples at the most. You couldn't move a family into a room. I don't know. No, probably not. No, it would be single or couples.

It would be same. But yeah, same kind of problem, though. Rent's out of control. Right. Crazy. Why not? I don't know. I probably couldn't do that, to be honest.

Oh, no. It's the other people involved. You'd be right out. Too many people. I mean, even on your floor if there's like even if you have to say

12 to 18 people sharing a kitchen. You feel put out if you have to say hello to your neighbours. So I don't think you're going to be able to live communally with that many people, no.

It's weird when I see my neighbours because I never really see anyone. What do you mean it's weird? I don't know. You just, I don't know. You don't see many people. You get a fright and then you don't know what to do.

It's like, hey. Hello there. When I sleep, you're through the wall sleeping. But I don't like seeing your face. It's weird, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I like when there's a wall between us.

FM. There's been a break-in in Queenstown and the Queenstown Police Facebook page, as per usual, quick. They have used social media to their advantage a lot. Oh, they were early on the social. They really were. They had some famous cases there. Yeah, they did.

Some LOLs, but also some solving. Yeah, also a lot of drunk Australians on their Facebook page over the winter season. Yeah. And I guess that's the thing, because it's such a... What's the term I'm after here? They're changing. The population's often changing. Seasonal?

I wouldn't say transient. Well, it does have a large transient population. Yeah, but does it come and go and everything? Yeah. So maybe people who have come and gone would know who the person was. Yeah. So it's good that it's on social media rather than just, you know, posted in the local paper. So this one, though, they're looking for a burglar. A burglar. and was. So it's good that it's on social media rather than just, you know, posted in the local paper.

So this one, though, they're looking for a burglar. A burglar. A burglar who has broken into the Harbour Fish Store in Frankton and dismantled a safe. Not a very good safe if it can be dismantled, in my opinion. Okay. It's the mark of a good safe as if it can't be dismantled. A fish store. What are they, stealing some gurnard or something? Yeah, yeah, some hokey fillets.

Yeah. Very expensive fish. Yeah, it's not cheap, is it? Yeah. Because you want to do the whole eating healthy thing and you go to the supermarket and fish is... And then you've got a friend on Facebook that's like, I never buy fish from these places.

Get out there and catch it in the ocean yourself. It's like, that's all very well and good. Yeah. You inherited your father's electrician little business and now you've got a boat and stuff. Electrical business. Electrician. Electrician.

Also, that's not anyone specific. That's just a random trade that I decided to pick out of the air. Right. Not all of us can, and I get seasick. Do you know, I see a lot of people. And for the fishing, you've got to sit still, and that's when I get the sickest. I know, yeah, and I just.

Just the rocking, and I'm like. In the city, even, a lot of people just fish off the wharf. Yeah, but I don't want to eat that manky in a harbour fish. Yuck. Why are they manky? Well, because it's been breathing in all the fumes from the ferry. Or the runoff, like when it's, when the storm, when it rains and all the storm

wash off and chubba chub sticks and stuff. Yeah, you're eating your snapper and you're like yeah, fair call. It tastes like a chubba chub stick

and it is because it ate a chubba chub stick. And I'd probably catch like a real little one and be like well I don't know and just put it in the pan. And then you're like

you run to size and then you go and throw it back and it's already dead. And you're like well that's not done anything is it? Yeah, exactly.

You might as well just buy a $7 fillet from the supermarket. I've not given a snapper once. I tried to fillet it with the sharpest knife I've had, and I absolutely made a bloody mess of it. You better just to cook it whole then. Yeah. I actually dig a whole cook. I thought it used to freak me out, but nah, when you've done it right. Bones. Yuck.

You've got to pick around the bones. Suck it off the bones. Right. So this guy who did not steal fish, but indeed stole cash that people had paid for fish with, has been described by the Queenstown police as having well-sculpted brows. Okay. Wouldn't that be nice? You're wanted for a little bit Of B&E and burglary

And the police are like We're looking for a A person Who Stole from the fish store Well sculpted brows Better than the usual like Bushy

Stocky build Stocky yeah Stocky build Bushy brows They're like the Criminals Of You know

If the police Call you fat In the description Like you're proper fat Because there's like three words to use before fat. There's like medium build, which is normal. Yeah. And then there's like stocky. Yeah.

And then there's like overweight. I don't know if they use overweight. Slash stocky. Large. Chunky. They use large. Chunky. They should though because they should use harsh.

If it's skinny, call them bony. Because then they'll ring up and they'll be like, it's Steve here. You call me bony, you bitch. And they're like, run a trace. And, oh, did I call you bony? Did I? Sorry, I meant to call you skeletal.

Skinny, have a pie. Skinny people love being told that. How much longer do you need? Ten seconds. Ten seconds. Keep them on, Bourne. Keep them on. Oh, what did you have for lunch?

Dust, you skinny. You don't even feel. What size jeans are you? We got them. Okay, see you, mate. Sorry about all the body shaming. But we're going to catch you for the crimes now. Like, also I feel that, you know when you ring someone, it's caller ID, right?

Like, why do they need to keep them on the line for 30 seconds? Is that just a movie thing? Oh, because they're running a trace. Yeah, but how long does a trace, like, straight away they should know, right? Well, no, because they can withhold their number. Criminals always dial 0197 before they call the police. Always. 0197.

Hello? Did it come up private? Yes. Right, okay. Hello? Did it come up private? Yes. Okay, we can begin negotiations. Just want to make sure that worked. So yeah, they've described this criminal in Queensland

as having well-sculpted eyebrows and there is a shot. Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah, you'd rate them. To me, a little because it's a guy. It's,

when you pictured a guy, right? When I said well-sculpted eyebrows. Because when I was reading the story and I said to my wife, check this out, well sculpted brows. And my wife said, what was she doing? Oh, right.

And assumed it was a female only description. Right. But no, this male. But then too thin for me. Are they quite thin? They're quite like straight across. Okay. You know when people in the 90s would bugger up doing their eyebrows

and they'd go like straight across rather than follow the sculpted curve. I mean, you know what your eyebrows were like in the early 2000s. Thank you. What everyone's was like. I know, yeah, it was a bit more straight across, wasn't it? And just really thin. Even Jennifer Aniston's were like that. What's going to be the next eyebrow trend, do you reckon?

Well, we've had like overly sculpted. Yeah. Like really sculpted. That was like early 2000s. Now there's like bushy and non-plucked. We're going to do fades like I've got. Like non-plucked, like Fletcher's. Yeah, I'm bushy.

I really like. Fade to white. Fade to nothing. Fade to blonde. I fade. Because I really like the bushy eyebrowers. Yeah, I'm bushy. I really like Fade to white. Fade to nothing. Fade to blonde. I fade. Because I really like the bushy eyebrow look. Yeah. It's the big natural brows. I mean, I'm not talking that guy off American Pie. I'm not talking Eugene Levy.

Slugs on woman's eye. Fletch. Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. Sam. Apparently, Instagram testing a new feature. Developers have found this and you, the writing or the code, whatever they call it. Algorithms? Yeah, whatever.

I don't know. When I don't know a computer thing, I just say algorithm. Go back to what you see in movies and stuff. The code. The developer code. Apparently, testing out, and it doesn't mean it'll happen, but it's looking like it will. Testing out school stories.

So, you know, you have a story at the moment. Yeah. But it looks as though they're going to, for school and uni, you could post your own story. And it would go to a collective. Yeah, but that would be moderated. Snapchat used to do that whole, was it Snapchat that did your country? Yeah. And you could add to your story and add to New Zealand's story

and then someone would pick what ones went on the New Zealand story. They did it for events and stuff like Coachella. But they stopped. I'm not a huge Snapchat user anymore, but I haven't seen like country ones for a while. No, that was a while ago. But yeah, apparently, yeah, schools looks as though your school or your uni could have this. And I don't know if that'll

mean workplaces as well. I mean, maybe. Inevitability, right? Yeah. That's the next step. But yeah, again, like, it'll have to, by the looks of it, it will be moderated. Oh, it'd have to be moderated. Because you couldn't have a, imagine a school one where, I don't know, someone's boobs are on there. Yeah, someone's boobs

are on there or someone's hanging by their undies on a coat hook. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's all on a school story and everyone sees it. What, so schools have to employ like a social media manager? I don't know, maybe, yeah. Maybe they pick if they'll have a story. And then is that going to be like, is that going to be cool?

Are people going to want to get on there or are you going to be like, do you think it would be cool to be on the school story? Oh, I see what you're saying is because it's associated to school, is it going to be cool? Yeah. Because you know how when it's in your city, you're like, oh, I want to get on the city or I want to get on the Coachella one.

But like, will it be the same desire when it's your school? Probably not. Because what happens at school? I'm just trying to think. When I was at school, nothing would have been particularly interesting. It would have been particularly interesting. Sports day or something. Yeah, like American colleges I could see it working because they get

so much into, there's the marching bands, there's the football teams, the baseball teams, the hockey teams, the basketball teams. But I remember we got to go, have to go watch the rugby, the school rugby team play and we'd all just be like, oh, it's cold. Yeah. Like, I don't care, I'd rather do maths or something. Oh yeah. Take it to a university level, like the Otago one would just be couch fires.

Well, no, apparently in the last year the couch fires have been down in numbers. I think it's the security cameras everywhere. Interesting blip. Yeah. Interesting blip on the radar. And that guy's probably been going in and stealing their picture. We've talked about the ebbs and flows of the couch burning. It's because when you burn a whole lot of couches,

then new couches come in and they're not yet ready to be burnt because they're not in bad enough state yet. True. So next year, year after, we're likely to see that go straight back up. The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Hello there. It is today's Top Six that we pay homage to Daniel Butler, a butcher from just near Gore, Riversdale Meats.

Okay. Boys, I've got a machine at home to make a sausage. My mother-in-law bought me this old... How do you have a machine at home to make... It's like this really cool old cast iron one that you pack the sausage meat in the top and then you like crank down this lever and it squeezes it out. But I've got to get the skin. You've got to get the sausage. You've got to get the haystack.

You've got to get the connies. You've got to get the sausage connies. Yeah. Yeah, right. But edible connies. Don't use sausage skin as condoms. That's my safe sex tip for the day. Okay.

It's a good one. But he decided that he was going to put double brown in the sausages as a sort of a beer flavouring. Okay. He always, when he's out duck shooting, he said they always pour beer on the barbecue before they put the sausages on, gives them a bit of flavour. Yeah.

Great theory. We've done that before. That's a good one. Don't they put a bit of yeast extract in a lot of sausages anyway? For a bit of... So that's like a yeasty... Bit of pow.

Stock situation. So he decided to mix double browning with the sausage mix, and he said it's going a real treat. The Dobro. Which is the nickname for double brown. Yeah, the bogans are loving it. Lapping it up. So here's six other boozy sausages

that I thought sound pretty good. From my own invention, if I was a butcher. Number six, the Madurian pineapple sausage. It's a taste of the tropics. Would that be like, what meat? I was a butcher. Number six, the Madurian pineapple sausage. Yum. It's a taste of the tropics. Would that be like what meat? Pork. Chicken?

Oh, yeah, okay. Because you know how you go like a... Coconut, pork and... Yeah, yeah, pork always goes really well with tropical flavours. Yeah, there's like pork, coconut, pineapple. Yeah. Okay, now I want a pork, coconut, pineapple sausage. I want to try it.

Yeah. Sounds really good, eh? Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six other boozy sausages that sound pretty good, the bourbon and coke sausage.

Because not all bogans like beer. Yeah, true. So you best to give them a bourbon option as well. Yeah. And what meat would you have with that one?

Beef? Beef, I reckon, yeah. Because you can do like a bourbon cola like sticky sauce, right? Yeah, you can. A lot of ribs have a bourbon sauce. Or like a bourbon goat. You could even do pork, like sticky sauce, right? Yeah, you can. Yeah, like a lot of ribs have a bourbon sauce.

Or like a bourbon goat. You could even do pork, like a pulled pork. Yeah, and the Coke caramelises because it's got so much sugar in it. You could do a pork there as well, actually. Okay, two pork sausages. Two lots of pork sausages. Those sound pretty good. This next one's definitely a beef sausage.

Number four on the list of the other six boozy sausages that sound pretty good. A Guinness and potato sausage. A thick hearty sausage. Like almost a stew in a sausage. And the good thing is it looks the same coming out as it went going in. So think about anything with Guinness in it. But that would definitely be beef. A hearty beef.

This next one, probably a chicken sausage. Okay. And the top six boozy sausages that sound pretty good. Number three, an Aperol spritz sausage. Ew. You the top six, Bersie sausages that sound pretty good. Number three, an Aperol Spritz sausage. Oh. You know, summer equals sausages and Aperol Spritz is going to be the drink of summer. Definitely more of a

Pimms than an Aperol Spritz. I had it as a backup. A Pimms sausage. Good, good. Again, probably chicken as well, right? Both of those are lighter flavour. Yeah. A bit more sweeter. Yeah, so you'd probably go with the chicken. This next one, open for debate, but I'm thinking pork. Number two on the list of the top six of the boozy sausages that sound good.

A sauvblanc and fennel sausage. Oh, since you've got the fennel in there. See, I don't know a lot about fennel, but I know it sounds fancy. No, I always put fennel with my pork. Do you put pork? Fennel seeds on your pork. I thought fennel was a bulb. It is. So you grate the bulb, eh? seeds on your pork. I thought fennel was a bulb. It is.

So you grate the bulb, eh? I know I like the taste of fennel. Or do you slice it? Yeah, and cook it like a cabbage. Okay. Or have it fresh. I like where we're going with this. Fennel.

And with the sauvignon blanc. Sauvignon blanc. What is that? Sauvignon blanc. Sauvignon blanc. That's right. Because if you're going to say sav, you just say Sav. Yeah. But if you're going to say Blanc, you've got to say Sauvignon

in front of it. That's right. That's why. That sounded a bit unbalanced and weird. And the number one in today's top six other boozy sausages that sound pretty good. A wine and double cheese sizzler. Because you have a wine and cheese evening, right? Yep. I love it. It's just wine. Just any wine.

It's just a goon. The wine and cheese. It probably would Yeah. I love it. It's just wine. Just any wine. It's just a goon. The wine and cheese. It probably would be like a house medium white. Yeah. Dry. One of those. Country box. Yeah, yeah.

The country goon there. Just pour that straight into the sizzler mix. Get some double cheese in there and away we go. So that is today's top six. I have some not so great news for people who love energy drinks. Oh, Ross Boss loves an energy drink,

doesn't he? Oh yeah, he does too. He's a V. Loves it. He'd have one every day. But then that, he's not even the worst offenders.

No. Like you talk to people and they'll have one for breakfast before six. Those big, big cans, eh? People might have a few of those a day.

So a study has been done in LA, and they have found that energy drinks can narrow blood vessels and restrict blood flow to organs. My kidney. They can have negative effects on the stomach nerve and give you heart problems. Okay. So this study, I'm going to attempt to get a little bit scientific.

It needed to test the function of endothelium. I think that was how you say it. So that's a layer of cells that lines the surface of blood vessels. Okay. So that needs to obviously protect the blood vessels. Yeah. Does that deteriorate, you know, old mates get the red lines on their face? Maybe.

You know, old boys. Nannies have them, eh know, old mates get the red lines on their face? Maybe. You know, old boys. You're like, nannies have them, eh, in old boys. Yeah. Does that just deteriorate? Because the body, that's when you get old, eh? Your body just, everything starts falling to bits. Well, endothelial. Can you fix that at the Casey Clinic?

Yeah. Well, that's the thing we don't know because the influencers aren't old enough. They're all getting facials at the Casey Clinic at the moment. But then when the influencers, in like 50 years, when they're all that old. We'll know. We'll know. So endothelial dysfunction has been shown to be an indicator of heart attacks because the arteries

can't dilate fully. So in this test, they got healthy people that didn't smoke. They gave them energy drinks and then 90 minutes later, they did another test and they found that it measured their overall blood vessel health and the

90 minutes between not having a drink and having an energy drink, well 90 minutes after, the diameter of the blood vessels on average had been cut by half. Jeez. So yeah, there's lots of effects that they have listed

like irregular heartbeats, seizures, nausea, lots of problems that can... Well, I remember at uni, when you left everything to the last minute and you had to do it all overnight and you'd end up drinking like four of them over the space of like 12 hours and then you'd be like, I've got a sore stomach.

But those are healthy people and that's the effect they have after 90 minutes. Like, if you're a regular... Is it one of those cases, though, you know those people that, like, hammer their bodies their entire lives, and they live to, like, 80, 85? And maybe their body just builds up a real...

Yeah, their body's, like, literally just indestructible due to fragile... Because you say have some germs, and your body... Yeah, develops the immunity to them. Yeah. Have a few energy drinks, and your body's stronger. Start immunity to them. Yeah. Have a few energy drinks and your body is stronger. Stardom young. Spice Girls announced yesterday

that they're going to be doing some shows in the UK. Yeah, six of them. No other world dates, though. Not yet. You know, it was 20 years ago that Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls. It was 1998 when she left the Spice Girls. I know, that blew my mind.

I felt like that was more of a year 2000 thing. Oh, God. Why'd you say that? Like, she's like, Q, Y2K didn't happen. Time to leave the Spice Girls. But yeah, she left. And then they released an album, and then they kind of stopped in the end of 99.

Oh, wow. They all did some solo stuff. Right. So it took everybody back, really. Well, I saw Adele posted a photo yesterday. She was excited With all her posters in her room When you saw that

Were you like That's right Adele's actually a lot younger than we were Yeah I know Because she always Her albums are her age At the time aren't they What was her last one

25 Yeah So what is she now 27 Maybe yeah I know she always thinks she's older And it's because she talks like that. You know, that's someone off EastEnders,

some middle-aged woman who... Oh, she's 30 now. Is she? Yeah. Five years since that album. Yeah. Suckery blue. Where has the time gone?

Oh, it's fine. It's fine. So she's 30. Yeah, because she speaks like someone off... Hey, what you doing over there? It's an old person's accent. So you always expected her to be a little bit older, but she threw it back and now everyone's freaking out.

And I saw some people saying that, you know, they were worried they were going to miss out on tickets because they're doing what, six shows on the other side of the world. Yeah. Oh, you are never getting a ticket to a show in any of those. In the UK. They're going to sell out in a second. Have you seen people on my timeline are looking at tickets over in the UK?

People are going to go over to the UK to watch the Spice Girls. Yeah, wow. That's insane. That is insane. They're going to add, they'll have to add more. Yeah, surely. Like you'd do a couple of huge Wembley shows, wouldn't you? Yeah.

But people were freaking out they're going to miss out. They said, you know, I haven't had these sorts of worries since I was 11. It got me thinking about what you worry about when you are 11. What was your main concern? And about that intermediate, because that's kind of 11, that's your first year of intermediate, right? It's probably how do I get lollies? Like that was literally...

If you were going to get lollies. Yeah, if I was going to get lollies. Yeah, if I was going to get lollies or not. I don't remember having any big like Oh, I did. I had braces when I was 11

which was quite young but I had like full silver big old school braces. Oh, train tracks. And I hadn't kissed a boy yet

so I was like real worried and all my friends used to be like oh, if you kiss them now though they're going to get stuck their tongue might get stuck. Their tongue might get stuck

or your lip might get stuck. Because the urban myth was that if two people with braces kissed you, you'd get stuck together. I don't know. Did that ever actually happen? No, not to me. It'd be like weird.

I'd kiss anyone. Because even without braces, in the early stages, I was known to clash teeth. I don't know why, how. Have you ever banged teeth with someone when you're kissing? Oh, wowza. That hurts. It's likeed teeth With someone when you're kissing Oh wowza

That hurts It's like electric shock Yeah you're like Close to your brain So even with Chick braces on the front of that Yeah right My biggest concern was

Because I went to A rural primary school And then went to a town Intermediate Yeah We lived like 10km's Out of town That if I missed the bus

I didn't know How I was going to get home Because mum was just like No you don't miss the bus Because I'm not know how I was going to get home. Because mum was just like, no, you don't miss the bus because I'm not coming to get you. Even though she totally would have. I'm 100%. She just really didn't want to do it. Like, looking back on it, but she was so

like, no nonsense that she didn't make idle threats. Like, that felt very real at the time. Right. I was like, how do I get home? Because I'd have to walk. Because I don't have a bike here. Yeah. Do I have to borrow somebody's bike? Do you think one of my town friends would let me borrow their bikes?

One of your town friends. Yeah. No, that was a thing country kids. You had your town friends and your country friends. Oh. Yeah. The town friends. You always wanted to stay at the town friends house because there was so much more to do.

They were literally five minutes away. No, I know. Like now as an adult, it's ridiculous. Like, I drive further to work every morning than it would have been to my parents to drive me to school or, like, pick me up. But, like, that was considered just two vastly different worlds as an 11-year-old. I guess also I was scared of, like, not being allowed to go to things because my parents didn't really like us going because you know you get up to nonsense.

Yeah. And my parents also didn't like looking after other people's kids because they couldn't smack them so they didn't know how to deal with them.

So that would be a fear as well I guess. Yeah, right. Having to ask my parents if I could have a friend over which seems like

a weird fear but I was 11. Who did you always ask? Your mum or your dad? I'd ask mum and she'd be like, ask your father. And I was like, that means no. Dad had nothing to do with it.

Dad wanted absolutely nothing to do with anybody else's kids. So you'd always ask mum. But I was wondering this morning on i800dials.com, you can text 9696. What was your biggest worry when you were 11? If you can even remember. Yeah, if you can. But some things would stick with you, I reckon.

Okay. Yeah. 0800DARZATM9696. What was your biggest fear when you were 11? These are beautiful. This is a beautiful insight into the minds of 11-year-olds some time ago. We want to know what your biggest worry was when you were 11. So the reason we're talking about this is

the Spice Girls are doing a reunion tour and everyone's freaking out they're not going to get tickets and somebody summed it up saying I haven't felt this level of Spice Girls anxiety since I was 11. So we want to know when you were 11, what was your biggest worry? What did you have to worry about?

Some text messages in on the subject. I was a little bit chubby. So my biggest worry was contemplating whether I exercise to get rock hard abs or just carried on getting fat so that my skin would be tight and it wouldn't stretch any further. But it's just what happens when you're a kid.

You grow into your weight, don't you? Yeah. Who's worrying about that when they're 11? I mean, no, but that's the thing now more than ever. I'd say that's a very big worry for kids of that age. I don't even remember worrying about that at school. Do you? Yeah, I did.

Did you? Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Were you a chubby kid? I got called chubby at the pool. I still remember the, I can picture the people in the pool that called me chubby when I was 13. Oh yeah, I still remember them too.

I know, and then they say it and you're just looking at them and it's like, they weren't an oil painter. Do you remember their names? 100%. Me too. And what are they,

are they chubby now? Yes, they are. They were chubby at the time, but they're chubbier now. I remember it so clearly. You remember, that's the thing. You say these things and I'm sure I said things at school to people

that were throwaway comments at the time that they still remember me saying. Yeah. God. Terrible, isn't it? Isn't it? Terrible. Jess, what was your biggest worry when you were 11?

I, you know, how you try to be cool and ask to get a boyfriend that intermediate. I was going to shave my legs at that time. So I thought, right, school gala is coming up. So I thought I'd shave my legs for this boy to impress him. Yeah. And I ended up shaving my legs and ripping them to shreds.

Yeah. We all did that the first time. So I had plastered all of my legs and went to the guy room and mum was like, why have you got plastered all of your legs? And I was like, oh, I couldn't even tell her and I said,

oh, I shaved my legs and I just got absolutely, it pulled off. Do mums give leg shaving lessons? Is that a thing? My mum was kind of strict in that kind of thing so we didn't actually have to shave our legs until about 13, 16.

Yeah, I was the same. Isn't it like the longer you leave it the better it is otherwise you get the regrowth? Nah. It's different for different people. I was a business boy. I remember a boy said to me, you'd be so much hotter if you shaved your legs at about 10 or 11

I went home and tried to shave them and mum told me off, she's like don't do that for a boy It's good advice It's great advice Thanks for your call, Amy Amy, what was your biggest problem when you were 11, your biggest worry I was the shortest in the class

so I was always worried I was never going to get taller. Did you get a bit taller? I did. I wasn't the shortest for my whole high school career, but yeah, in intermediate, I was always the shortest. I went to school, I remember going to school with people who were so tall, like intermediate and high school, and then they kind of stopped at like, I don't know,

like 14, 15, Everyone else got bigger. Remember that picture I showed you? I was like a head and shoulders above everyone else. And now you're head and shoulders below. Yeah. And you have to use head and shoulders because you've got dandruff. Excuse me. Times are tough.

Times are tough. Some text messages in. My biggest fear at 11 was that mum would want to use the phone while I was having a deep and meaningful on MSN, meaning that I had to hang up the dial-up connection. Yeah. Had to do a bit of a beep. Mum, you're ruining my life.

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Beep, beep. Beep, beep. Beep, beep. Beep, beep. My parents divorced when I was 11. But I was still more worried about where I was going to get my lollies from. Again, I had that same problem. It's like, where are my next lollies coming from? No, you just get double lollies. Yeah, it's like being a drug addict.

It's like, where am I getting my drugs from? My biggest fear at 11 was I was going to be asked to complete a long division in front of the class. Had some sleepless nights about that at 11. That's the thing, there'd been a lot of pressure on long division but now calculators. Everything's calculators. Exactly. Even like scientists and people who work. They've got time to sit down at their long desk. No exactly.

Just whip out the old calculator. Here's the last thing we went to the bank and the person behind the counter got out long division. Yeah. Never. Ever. Never. Somebody else said I am 11 currently and my biggest fear is still missing the bus. And having no battery on my phone to call mum at the end of the day because you've run your battery out. But that's new school.

Old school Vaughan wouldn't have had a phone. Landline. I'd have to go into the school office and be like, excuse me, can I use the landline to call my mum please? What about Jacinda? Why? What's happened? Could Jacinda's family given you a ride home from the town? I'm sure they would have

if I'd asked but it would have been weird She's very lovely. Hi. In 25 years your daughter's going to be Prime Minister. Weird thing to say,

I know. But, because she's like 12 at the moment but can I have a ride home? Who are you? I'm Vaughan Smith. I'm going to be claiming

a lot about how much I know your daughter in 25 years. Sort that out. That'd be really great. My biggest worry was that the weather wasn't going to be nice on the weekend, so I wasn't going to be able to go to Pony Club. That's worrying about the weather. Welcome to this adult life, eh? Somebody said, I can't believe no one's mentioned the M word, Mufti Day.

Oh, we did. Oh, I hated that. In studio, Mufti Day. Oh, we did. Oh, I hated that. In studio, Mufti Day. Because you were like, oh my God, my clothes aren't cold enough. I know. Yeah. Because you'd go to school,

the first Mufti Day, as a country kid that went from country school to town school, you'd get to Mufti Day and everyone would be wearing starter jackets and hats and I'm just like, what's going on? These kids are wearing clothes that cost more than

$20. Mum said this doesn't happen. I would beg my mum to take me shopping. The anxiety pre-Mafia Day was real. I know, but the school needed to do it because they wanted to raise money, didn't they? Then you forgot your coin. You had to ask your rich family if they could split their $2.

What about the kid that arrived, like their parents dropped them off at school and drove away real quick and they were in uniform on Mufti Day? My heart bleeds for them. I made fun of them as soon as the rest of the crowd was doing it. Because I'm a sheep. How much is Mufti Day now? Because it must be $10 with inflation and stuff. It's one of those things that can't move past gold coins, right?

You can't move Mufti Day past a gold coin. Don't they take EFTPOS? No one's got coins. Like a paywave Mufti. Yeah, like a paywave. The school's like, Mufti's gotta be $3 now

because paywave charges. It has been announced that students will not be allowed to wear watches to their NCEA exams this year to prevent cheating. What about, I guess you mean smart watches, right? Or any watch.

Any watch. Because they're saying any watch now can... What if you've got an analogue that you inherited from your grandfather with a leather strap? I don't know. No, apparently all watches because all watches because people are like bing! Hey Siri, I am in so much trouble.

Oh, look, my actual Siri came on. I'm in so much trouble. Call a bomb threat to the following number. And then you say the skill reception number and you call it a bomb threat. Pretty much. So NZQA have banned watches from the exam room because the digital watches can store information and share emails.

Okay. That is what they've said. So you can just like tap up your email that you sent to yourself with all the answers on it. Pretty much. So I just searched watch ban exams. Massey University banned watches and exams in 2015. How would you think about it?

Like when did the first Apple smartwatch come out? Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. The Samsung ones. The smartwatches. They've been out for that long. And it's happened all over the world. England has banned it in their big exams like NCEA. So has NCEA started or is it study break for NCEA?

I'm sure. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know man and they've also said that clocks are in each exam room so you don't need to worry about not being able

to see the time yeah I remember a clock in the exam because remember when you were like shitting yourself because you'd either finished earlier

you didn't know what you were doing and you were sitting there looking around and you could hear the clock yeah and you'd be like horrible that's the sound

of impending doom. So they start today. NCEA exams start today. Wednesday the 7th of November. Let's see what's on today. This will be good fun. Leave your time pieces at home. Oh, don't take them.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. This is something that I get all the time and just a wee public service announcement. Don't do this to women because we don't actually like it when people go TikTok, TikTok,

or like getting on. I felt bad the other day. Yeah. And I hope, I meant to say, I meant to message you and say, I hope this wasn't a problem. I don't remember it. Ages ago,

it came up on Facebook memories before I had kids but when Shade was pregnant with Indy so I'm talking like seven years ago it was a kid in a Halloween costume

and we'd been talking about kids in Halloween costumes we must have been at the time and you put up this kid dressed as like Audrey Hepburn

and you were like your kid might dress as Star Wars but mine will be Audrey Hepburn and it was like seven years later and I said

how's this going? But I didn't mean you having a kid. I meant more your dog being dressed as Audrey Hepburn. Oh, no, I didn't even consider that. I get much worse on it. Because afterwards, Sade was like, you know, you don't say that. And I was like, what do you mean? And then she said, and I was like, oh, I didn't mean it that way.

No, I get literally tick-tock, tick-tock. People say tick-tock, tick-tock. Who has said that to you? I'd rather not say. Family. I was going to say. Family is the worst. Family are the worst. Family are the worst.

Because they don't feel like they need to put a filter on, do they? No. They just say it. And they're like, well, I can say it to you because we're related. So you would have people that aren't family as well saying, when are you having babies? Yeah. When are you planning on having kids? It's like, well, first of all, are you?

You're with someone for long enough. They're like, when are you going to get married? Then you get married. It's like, when are you having kids? You have a kid. They're like, when are you having to get married? Then you get married. It's like, when are you having kids? You have a kid. They're like, when are you having another kid? You have another kid. They're like, anymore.

Yeah. I keep getting, when are you getting a second cat? And I've had enough. One's enough. But people understand, right, that sometimes it's the assumption that people might be struggling behind closed doors. A hundred percent. Issues.

Or they just don't want them. Or they just don't. Because I know a couple of women who have that too. They just don't want to have children and then they get judged, they're selfish, blah, blah, blah. But there is a story out today, because it's always assumed that it's women,

you know, guys can have them at any age, but women have to get cracking. Well, look at those, who are those male celebrities that are still dads? Well, George Clooney had twins at 50-something. Yeah. So it says here that men should start a family before the age of 35 to avoid risks to their unborn babies.

So a study tracked 40 million babies that found the risk of birth complications start to increase when fathers are in their mid-30s and then significantly from 45. Ah, okay. So I guess it's always been assumed that women struggle and then if there's defects, it's the woman's fault. But it's both now.

This is a study published by the British Medical Journal that show men should also take some responsibility. So TikTok, TikTok to you too. Here comes the TikToks. Isn't that interesting? I just googled famous old men who became fathers. Yeah. And they gave me the 10 oldest celebrities to become fathers

which is what I probably should have googled, not 10 old men to become fathers. Robert De Niro in 2011 when he was 68 had a daughter. Charlie Chaplin, you know the old goofy silent actor? He was 73 when he had his youngest son. In 1962 when he was 73. Steve Martin, the comedian, had his first child when he was 67.

Had never had a child before that. Clint Eastwood was 66. Could you imagine these kids 21st? Oh, Dad can't be here. Because he's dead. Because otherwise he would have been 100. Do you know, because Meghan Markle's 37 or 38, and technically

her pregnancy is called a geriatric pregnancy because she's over 35. Isn't that crazy? I'd be like Oh man Do you have to call it that? Is there another word We could call it A mature

Yeah A mature pregnancy Again It's not cheap To get the black eyed peas It probably doesn't cost As much as you think Don't get Fletch started. Don't get Fletch started in here. Again, it's not cheap to get the black-eyed peas. It probably doesn't cost as much as you think, but it's not cheap to get the black-eyed peas. Let's sing an intro. No, it's not.

Yeah, sure. Yesterday after the show, Fletch was filling out a form for somebody. You are the form go-to person. But yeah, and I was doing a form. Well, it's actually for me. For the witness form. No, it's for me because I have to get a thing in my passport because I've got two passports.

Do you need a witness? No. Can I get a witness? Just myself. What do you mean you have to get a passport? So you can't leave the country on, so I've got a British passport. I can't leave the country on my British passport.

Why not? And then, it's just some visa. You have to get it linked and it costs $150. Don't even get me started on that. It's an electronic record. It's not even a sticker on your passport. So. $150.

It's an admin fee. It's an admin fee. Admin. Life admin. Yeah. So we got talking about these, and he said, well, at least I've got rid of bloody departure cards. And Megan and I were like, oh, yep, just going about our business, and Fletch is talking

to himself. Rambling and being angry at something. I'm not rambling. I'm trying to make the world a better place. He said, you know, I've got rid of those. You know what they need to bloody do? Give me more room for form. Give me more room on forms to write things sometimes.

I'm like, what are you talking about? What was it? You had to write your address. So, for example, when I went to Australia, they're like, give us your address you're staying. And it's like two tiny lines. You've got to do, and they've got big numbers and big streets, and you've got to do the state and the postcode, and there's not enough room.

I'm a big capital letter writer. Even if I was writing little letters, it's too little. Well, do you know, more room is needed on forms. I'm with you on that one because I've been called up. I just wrote the hotel. They're like, where's this? And I said, I don't know. Like, there's not enough room to write the whole address.

I'm sure you're going to find me. Yeah. It's that hotel. Yeah, exactly. Track me down. You'll be able to work it out. I can kind of get that. I noticed this with my daughter's name on her passport.

Her name's Indiana Harper. So you put both of those on there. That's quite a lengthy amount. And sometimes you've got to just go over the end. I don't like when you're allocated a certain amount of boxes. I don't like when they make you write a letter per box. Because an I doesn't take up much. No, exactly.

So I could put that in between. In two boxes, I could do two boxes, three letters. But there's definitely people who have longer names than Indiana Harper. Oh, for sure. You see. Like, what about Prince Harry? He's got like a million middle names. He just puts Prince Harry, doesn't he?

He's fine, yeah. You know me. And then in brackets, you know me. But do you know, like those passport forms, I think they have a computer that scans those and takes the letters off and digitises them. Right, right. So that's why they're going to be one box.

That's why they say one box. But it's just those forms where it's like, they're so, like when you check into a hotel and they give you like a massive space for your first name and last name. Yeah. And then they're like, what's your email address? And it's an inch long.

Yes. Give me more box. Because often your email address is. It's not, it's not, it's not enough. I've never heard that before. No, not from address is It's not enough. Not from him. It's not enough. But that's the thing because usually it's your first name, your last name and then your company name. Because I always

write my company one because I don't want to add my personal email. And they were always like, hey, come and stay again. Here's a special and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, not for me. So you whack the junk filter on it. But then, yeah, there's never enough room for your first name, your last name and your company name. Who's the idiot who's making...

Oh. He says the I word. Who's this person that's like, okay, I don't know, someone's job. Like Kevin's like, okay, it's my job to make this form. Okay, this is how much space I'm going to leave for an email address. Could I myself write my email address in there? No, I couldn't. No, it's just kevinatme.com.

It's heaps of room for Kevin's email. He's not worried about anyone else. Well, I tell you, I'm... Kevin knows 90% of the people are writing fake emails in there because they don't want to be signed up for some sort of customer reward situation. I know I don't do that when I go into hotels and motels now. And they're like, write your email address. I'm like, no, I don't have one.

They're like, you don't have one? I go into hotels and motels now. And they're like, write your email address. I'm like, no, I don't have one. They're like, you don't have one? I'm like, no, I refuse to. I'm from 1987. I'm a time traveler. Even if you tick the box, I don't want to sign up to your shit. But you just unsubscribe. You just unsubscribe. No, it's a principle.

I tick no in the box. We went to Dubai, what was it, three years ago? Yep. I'm still getting Dubai emails. You know why? No, no, unsubscribe, unsubscribe. Here's a tip for young players. You got those because we signed up for the free Wi-Fi at the mall, didn't you?

The shopping mall. Do you remember that? It's like always enter bob at hotmail.com. Poor old Bob. It's an email that works and I use it every time. But Bob, poor old Bob, he got in early on the Hotmail buzz. He got his name in Hotmail. That's everybody's dream.

No one's using Hotmail anymore. Oh, true. Bob's given up. Bob logs in and there's 4,000 emails from sign-ups because everyone's using Bob at Hotmail.com. Or Bob at Gmail.com. I know. He probably moved to Gmail to get away from the Hotmail situation

and now he's getting dragged into it at Gmail as well. He's like, Bob can't catch a break. Damn. I want to talk about some correspondence to the show. I've had an email. I will keep it anonymous, but it's from a female. Okay. Who would like the help from the people rather than us, probably.

Yeah. I'll read you what she's written to me, and then we can have a wee chat about what we think okay okay hi Fletch Fawn and Megan alright

don't I don't need you to comment every time I say something just let me get to the end okay is that in the letter or is that you saying that no no that's me saying that

I was going to say because if she wrote that in the letter that's very intuitive that she knew that I was going to say I I was wondering if you could put a question

to the people because I really sure we've got some time just after eight. Because I really don't know what to do. You shouldn't have said anything. You wouldn't have done this otherwise. I'll try to stop. I've been good friends with this guy for five years since uni.

And we have had a drunken pash. Now I'm really confused. Should I date my friend or is that just a bad idea? I'm pretty sure he's keen, but I don't want to ruin the friendship. Please help. That's Vaughn rubbing his hands together. Do I speak? You can speak now.

Permission to speak. Permission to speak. Give it a go. What have you got to lose? A friendship. Eh. What? This always ends up.

Plenty more friends in the sea. You can make it really awkward, couldn't you? I think, like, if you've been friends for that long, you'd know if there was a spark the whole time, wouldn't you? And if there has been... But then you hear of some people that do, like, have this. They're friends with someone for a couple of years. Yeah.

I mean, I know it's a bit of a rom-com thing as well. I can't believe that you're platonic friends for that long and you've never been like... Initial attraction's a lot on physical attractiveness, right? Initial attraction. True, and then once you get to know someone... And that's what the difference is between lusting for someone and loving someone is that you lust for the hot bod.

Trust me, this is the thing that happens to me all the time. I heard my tone and I was like, he sounds like he knows what he's talking about so I needed to take the piss out of myself. That's the sort of ship

I'm running here, by the way. I take the mick out of other people but myself too. But then when you love someone it's that you love all of them.

So then if you get to know someone and you get to know all their personality about it and you start loving them for that and then you can find the attractiveness in them. So then if you get to know someone and you get to know all their personality about it and you start loving them for that and then you can find the attractiveness in them. But how many times, like, maybe it's

more of a girl thing, but there's an average looking guy, maybe a five or a six, you get to know them. Oh, nah. No, because then you get to know them and you're like, two or three. Ouch. No, I'm kidding. No, you get to know them and then they've got a really awesome personality

so it pushes them up to like a seven or an eight. Thank you. I actually do really like them. Maybe jump to the example of Fletch too early. I don't know how you were going to end it. Into Narnia, didn't you, your current boyfriend. Yeah. It makes it sound like she's got another one in the wings.

This week's one, yeah. Weren't you friends before you started going out? Yeah, so when we met, I had a boyfriend, and then we broke up maybe a month later. Me and Andy became besties. And both of us have said now, in hindsight, we never even thought about it. Never considered it.

Yeah, and then it was sort of a similar situation. Yeah, it was a big night and then, hey-ho. What did you bond over when you became besties and stuff? What were you bonding over? So we were flatting and we lived with a vegan and just an absolute tight ass

and we decided we didn't want to do shared flat meals with them because we didn't want to do either of those things. So you bonded over meat eating and splurging. Yeah. So yeah, we just started doing

supermarket trips together and then just, yeah. So yeah, we just started doing supermarket trips together and then just, yeah. So you never, when you first met him, you were never like, hey. Never. And he was never like that for me. Yeah, we joke about it all the time. And then you just randomly pashed your friend one night. Yeah, after karaoke. That's so weird

to me. Oh, what song was it? Taylor Swift, Love Story. Oh, there we go. Looking it in, my man. That's so beautiful. That is weird song was it? Taylor Swift, Love Story. Oh, there we go. Looking it in, my man. That's so beautiful. That is weird though, eh? Because you're together now, but at the time you didn't think like that. Were you worried about ruining the friendship then? 100%, yeah.

And especially because we lived together as well. It was like, oh, I don't know. You leave the flat, you've got to get your bond back off the next person that moves in. But, it's a good foundation for a relationship, a solid friendship. Yeah, see, to me when people get together and they're not friends beforehand, I find that really weird. I'm like, how do you know what you're getting into?

Because that's the thing. If you're friends beforehand, you know the real them, not the front they're putting on to try to get you in bed and that sort of stuff, right? Exactly. You know this person as a person, not as someone who's constantly trying to impress you. Yeah. Okay.

Well, so what do you reckon? We'll take some calls on this and see what people think. Yeah. Because maybe you've been in this situation and you did hook up with a best friend and it ruined it. Yeah. Or maybe it went the other way and you ended up being in a successful relationship for a while.

It's just a risk you've got to take for love, eh, Fletch? Risk it for the biscuit. Okay, that's less poetic. A good biscuit like a squiggle. Love can be whatever biscuit you want it to be. Ginger nut. Yuck. Shortbread.

Listen to this. Yuck. A buttery shortbread. I want a buttery, dusty love. You can be any biscuit you want. All right, 0800DARLS.M, what should she do? Should she take it further with her best friend? Have you been in this situation?

So we've had correspondence from a female who has been friends with this guy for five years since uni. They've had a drunken pash and now she's worried. Should she date them because he's her friend? Yep. Is it a good idea? Will she lose the friendship? Date or not date? So what do you think?

Have you been in this situation?. So what do you think? Have you been in this situation? Rose, what do you think? My partner and I, we've actually been best friends since primary school. He was my first boyfriend and my mum said I wasn't allowed to date so I went back to school and broke up with him the next day.

And then, so fast forward, how long have you been together? We've been together four years, coming up four years now. And so before you actually made it official, had you been best friends? Yeah, we were best friends for about 10 years. Wow. So you would be on the pro side. You think it's worth risking the friendship?

It is, yeah, it is. Because at the end of the day, he knows me almost better than anyone. And I know him. And there's like, there is no secrets, there's no barriers there. And that makes for a really awesome relationship. Was there that moment though where you were like, oh, should I risk this? Yeah, like there were moments in the past where I didn't want to risk it. But then it got to a point where I saw how amazing he truly is

and how much I was like, you know what, I'm just going to do it. Wow. And then we both decided, yep, we're all in. Okay, that's us. And then happily together to this day. Yes. Okay, Rose, for the pro, thank you so much. Okay, that's us. And then happily together to this day. Yes. Okay, Rose, for the pro, thank you so much. Abigail, what do you think?

Should she date him or not date him? Yeah, absolutely. Similar situation. We met at uni. We were friends for four years. And then one day he just kind of said to me, hey, you know, have you ever thought about maybe dating or something along those lines?

And I kind of went, well, no, because it just ruined the friendship. We've been friends for so long. And actually it turned out that he was right. We've been dating for three years and now we're getting married in two months. I definitely would. And if they're both willing to, you know, talk about it and just kind of be like, right, okay, so this is, you know, it's going to work. Because essentially dating your best friend and he knows me so well.

And, you know, it's just like Rose said, I know, you know, I know him so well. And it's just, it's amazing. Well, you end up, your partner ends up being your best friend anyway. So you're just done it the other way around. Best friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So. It's just weird that it was right under your nose the whole time.

It was right there. That's what all our friends kept saying. Like all our uni friends said that to us. They were like, it was right under your nose, Abigail, for like was right there. That's what all our friends kept saying. All our uni friends said that to us. They were like, it was right under your nose, Abigail, for like four years. And I'm like, well, you know what? I wasn't paying attention. I was trying to get through uni. It was hard.

Fair enough. It's like when you're looking for the butter in the fridge. It's always right in front of the shelf. You're always like, where's the butter? Abigail, thanks for your call. Some other text messages in. Totally go for it. Can't recommend it enough.

That's what happened to me and my best friend. And I've just found you already know them when you start dating. Yeah, right. So they're not lying to impress you or, you know, it's a relationship built on pretty solid foundations rather than hooking up for the first time and then trying to start a relationship from there. You can always find another best friend.

But, you know, if they are your love, it's hard to find. You only zing once. Love advice from Hotel Transylvania. Okay. Adam Sandler plays Dracula. You'll zing. So somebody else said, started as friends. We were dating each other's friends.

I didn't think he was hideous, but I didn't want to jump him either. Now we've been together for eight years after we had been friends for so long. Married for five and one mini. I assume they mean a mini human, not like a mini Cooper. Might be a mini Cooper. How proud is the moment is when we bought a mini Cooper together. Or a mini horse.

But either way, it'll go great or it'll crash and burn. So why not give it a go? Would you say most people messaging him would say just give it a go? I would say the majority of which, yeah, would definitely say give it a go. The old Instagram crowd's a little bit of a different situation, though, because we're running an Instapoll at FBMZM and the stories. It was just in favour of Yars to dating your best friend. Huh, okay.

Pretty split. Maybe like, yeah, at the time when i last looked it was just over 50 maybe like 55 saying yes to it okay 45 being like and there i knew and there that's probably because people are like instantly thinking about who their best friend is like no yeah just no yeah yeah no not them but then like like we heard like they were right under their noses the whole time. The whole time. So maybe, maybe just give it a think. All right.

Vaughn's right under your nose the whole time. I'm right here. I'm right here. It's been a long time. I'm right here. I mean he's tried. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about a man, a man called Daniel Roofly.

You won't know who Daniel Roofly is. I don't even know if you'll be familiar with why his name is important but why he got to do something that's pretty cool. There was a bridge in Washington DC called the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, named after a president. It was

built in 1961 and in 2006 it was planned to be demolished as Washington had expanded never-endingly. And this was like a bottleneck for traffic. So they needed a bigger bridge. They're like, we need a bigger bridge. And there's no better place to build a bridge over this river.

Let's demolish this bridge and build a new bridge in its place. Good idea. So they said, we're going to bust it down. Now, how are we going to decide who gets to push the button to cause the detonation is we're going to find the person that has been stuck in traffic the longest due to this bridge's bottleneck. So they did a survey. They asked people to say how long they've been commuting through there,

how long on average they were stuck. And that's when they found local commuter Daniel Roofly, who won a contest, won the contest, because he was the driver that had suffered the most over the years from the bridge's congestion issue. Okay. He spent two and a half years of his life stuck in traffic at that bottleneck of that bridge.

Jeez, how old was he? You'd rather they didn't work that out. Yeah, I know. That's depressing, right? Well, you think about how many, like, for people that commute in traffic every day, add it up. Like, it's pretty scary, isn't it?

Well, it just adds so much to the work day. Yeah. Like, if you spend an hour in the morning, hour at night. Yeah. You know, time set by five, time set by a year, by 10, by 20.

Yeah. Depressing, isn't it? Do you think driving to work in the morning, just recently, by 20. You're depressing, isn't it? You're stuck in the car now. Do you think driving to work in the morning just recently, since maybe the petrol's gone up, that there's more cars on the road early? I think lots of people are driving earlier now. They go early to work rather than get stuck in traffic

and start burning through gas. That's an interesting theory. I have noticed an increase in traffic. Yeah, it's really busy now. Huh. Now, that's not good for radio because we quite like you guys to be stuck in your car. So you can listen to us.

In fact, we could just start causing some congestion. Yes. Yeah, just shut some motorways and stuff. See that? The fund is to have a breakdown. Breakdown. I was thinking rubbish trucks, like unnamed, unmarked rubbish trucks. Okay.

Wouldn't it be great for the radio station if every time they got to the front of the traffic jam, there was a big ZM like, causing the trouble. People would soon hate you, Megan. Yeah, that's true. They certainly would. So, I heard recently that

how long it takes you to get to work, you work it out as a percentage of your entire workday. So, if it takes you an hour to get to work, and then an hour to get home from work every single day, apparently it's pretty much the equivalent. It plays the same thing to your morale for work as actually having to work 10-hour days rather than 8-hour days. Oh, right. Okay.

You start to resent your work because you feel like you're working two hours for nothing because you're… In traffic, yeah. Yeah, travelling in traffic. Yeah, public transport, eh? I want to give you a quick solution here. This feels like we're working towards a solution, but I don't have one. Yeah, yeah. I'd say public transport. The good thing about, like, buses and some,

I'm not saying everywhere, but some buses have got, um, USB charging points. So you can watch Netflix. Yeah, 100%. That's got to be better than getting angry at the person who just cut into you when you're in the T2 lane when you shouldn't be, right? Or that person on the motorway that is just reading a book

or watching Netflix. Yeah. While they're driving. It's safer to let a professional drive you in a chauffeured vehicle as you watch Netflix. What are you looking out the window with that look for? It looked like Internanya's boyfriend has purple hair in the light. He does look violet.

Has he dyed his hair purple? He certainly hasn't told me about it. If he has, he better not. Looking up early this morning. He looks purple. Violet. You know, like Nana's perm? Like a middle-aged bogan woman.

He was wearing his purple bucket hat and it rained and the purple got into his hair. Go on. He does love bucket hats. He doesn't wear bucket hats. Strikes me as a bucket hat guy. I don't know why he has never worn a bucket hat. He looks like a bucket hat guy.

He looks like a sensible cat. Is that offensive? No. It's neither offensive nor complimentary. It's just a neutral observation. Anyway. So today's fact of the day is a man who spent two and a half years

of his life stuck in traffic because of a bridge. Got to blow up that bridge. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. In my left hand, I hold a hooded sweatshirt. Okay. A hooded sweatshirt. This has been my hoodie of late. This is a good hoodie. Comfy.

Warming. Light, too, for the spring months. It's like a good weight. Yeah. It's like a good weight. It's like you can wear it indoor and you're not going to get too sweaty. Now, one of the things that I like about this hoodie is it had drawstrings on it. Had, post tense.

Yesterday, after the show, Caitlin grabbed me by the drawstrings. And what can only be described as a very aggressive move to a superior. To a superior. I said, let go of me. I won't stand for this. It'll be up to HR unless you release my drawstrings. Maybe that's what you heard.

I heard, go, go, go! So, it's really a mixture of the two. And she let it go. I then, I vocalised to the group. I hated when you got a sweatshirt

and a weird school hoodie at school and someone would just walk up to you and be like, hey, grab one, rip and either it would just go in the little aglet or they'd pull it so hard it would come all the way out and then you'd be stuck without a drawstring

on your hoodie and I don't put it on and pull it real tight but I like the ability to adjust. And so I said that and I said, oh, it was the one thing that I felt victimised at school. I opened up. I shed an insecurity. Oh, my God.

That's what happened. I opened up to the group. I felt safe amongst friends. Not two minutes later, Caitlin grabs at the strings again and grabs one, looks me right in the eye and then just pulls it right the way out. I could not believe it. Now, if that had happened the first time, I would have been like,

I used to hate when that happened. But you remember I just fully opened up to the group and bared my soul. I bared my soul to the group. And then she took what I described as victimization and threw it back in my face. Yeah. And then she laughed in my face about it all. I felt very, I believe there's some audio of how,

just how emotionally distraught I was. Right, okay. Would you like to play this as like evidence? Jesus! The one thing, one thing I said I hated. Why don't you pull the string out, you ****? Okay. You did actually, after that, get quite angry.

Very angry. If that's the one thing that's plagued your soul all these years, consider yourself lucky. One of the many, but I won't be telling you the others. Not after I let you have a peek at the weakness and you will exploit it. It's hard when the string comes out because on these shorts that I'm wearing, it went like halfway around. I had to like really. But I've told you you can't wear your togs to work, mate.

This is a professional work environment. I wear what I want. People wear hooded sweatshirts. I will wear what I want, Vaughn. If you're comfortable in Speedos, that's fine. I got it back in. But you can get like a knitting needle as well. Or what are your bobby pins?

Safety pin. Safety pin. How does the safety pin thing work? So you put it on the end and then you just have to inch it through. It's really annoying. That does sound annoying. Yeah. I'm sorry I can't help otherwise.

So many people messaged me and was like, just get them to put a safety pin on it. Thread it through. It's no big deal. I shouldn't have to. Caitlin should have to. It was probably the most get him to put a safety pin on it. Thread it through. It's no big deal. I shouldn't have to. Caitlin should have to. It was probably the most satisfying thing I've ever done in my life. And just a look on your face.

Because, Vaughn, you annoy me every single minute of the day. And that was the best thing to just annoy you on. But she has never said to me, there was this one thing that happened to me once. Oh, you're so dramatic. That stayed with me and scarred me and then I have almost immediately done that exact thing to her. She's never ever confided in you with any

detail of your life and you've never exploited it. I've never ever been like, oh man, I wish I had a boyfriend and never ever have you been like, Caitlin's so desperate for a boyfriend. You've never exploited any detail that she's ever given you you invited you invited that you want i'm i'm helping i want to put the string back into your hoodie so i can

take it out again when you leave i thought you were gonna say put it back in to repair our friendship but you said put it back in there Bourne, I'm sorry. Well, that hurts my feelings. No, you apologise. I'm sorry. We can't all look like somebody's cool auntie in a denim jacket, Kate. Bourne. With a high pony. Bourne.

My hair is greasy. I had to put it in a pony. At least I've got hair. Okay. Now you've attacked genetics. I'm so sorry. That is on par with racism. Bourne. I'm so sorry. That is on par with racism. Vaughn, I'm so sorry.