ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - September 18 2018

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This is the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, thanks to Spark. You can stay connected with free Wi-Fi a gig a day on the $19 Spark prepaid rollover pack. Enjoy. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. Good morning. Watching the news last night, it's hard to think global warming's not a thing, eh? Oh, yeah.

Definitely some climate change happening in two very large countries. Because what was the death toll of the one in Southeast Asia was getting up there? It made landfall in mainland China. Made a mess of the Philippines. Images from that were crazy. Yeah. And then the other one

in America. They reckon some of that land will never be rebuilt on again. Why? Because it's flooded? Just unstabilised. So much water

went through it that it's changed. And like alligators and stuff. Don't forget about those. Yeah, they're always hiding. You think you've got all like alligators and stuff. Don't forget about those. Yeah, they're always hiding. You think you've got all the alligators and then you hear a noise in the tree,

you look up, couple more up there. Oh, God. Alligators everywhere. Love a bit of water. All right, coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, the top six places

this missing lotto ticket could be. There is an unclaimed lotto, a winning lotto ticket out there in the world. I haven't bought one for ages, but when I do, they're on my phone. I use the app because I don't want to lose the ticket. I'd be paranoid. Yeah. Yeah.

Or you get them printed at the supermarket now on the actual, like, till receipt. If you've got them on your phone. No. Oh, right, yeah. You swipe those little cards. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. You put it on your groceries. And then it just prints out as

part of the docket. But doesn't the lady have to come over and, like, put in her thing? Or that's if you look young. Oh, yeah, right, okay. Or maybe, actually. No, but it's like buying booze. They've got to come over regardless. Give it the old boop, boop. But then you, so it's on your receipt.

Exactly. And we all know what happens to receipt paper if it's left on the dashboard. Faded. Oh, yeah, or you sit on, because I've got some. Gone. Actually, I've got to claim back that taxi, but I've sat on the receipt and it's gone black. Oh, no. Because my bottom is quite hot, it turns out.

I've got to claim back parking, too. Did you know, Ross, did I tell you guys Ross Boss's credit card bounced? Did it? Oh, it worked for my parking. Son of a bitch. You used it all. You pushed it over the limit. I used it all.

I mean, it might have been the parking or the spending spree I did afterwards. I'm not sure. That would have done it. I love how many people have a picture of Ross's credit card, the Boss's credit card. He thinks he gives it to us and then we hand it back, but we all take photos of that, mate. James is like, I've got a photo, the front and back. Just whips it out.

Just like, okay, this is safe. Drag that into some photo editing, pull that signature right off, slap that on anything. And now we've got a mortgage Ross boss's name. Yeah. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

Three news headlines for three stories that I found interesting, quirky, unusual news stories. Vaughan and Megan pick one of the following three headlines.

Headline one, couple decide to look the part for upcoming court appearance. Headline two, students given prickly reminder. And headline three, winner of bookshop

raffle surprised. One or two sounds good. Pricklies. What was the prickly one? I think I'm mixing headlines. Students given prickly reminder. Is it about a hedgehog?

No. Cactus. It may feature cactus and succulents. It may feature a succulent. Well, it may feature... Well, you know houseplants are so hot right now. Yes, they are. And what was story one? Couple decide to look the part for upcoming court appearance.

I kind of like that. I think I want that. I'll go with that. I want one. You want story number one? Yeah. I'll go with that. I want one. You want story number one? Okay, all right. Sorry, story three. Oh, yeah, no one wanted you.

I feel like we didn't even want to hear you again. All right, we go now to Mass. What would that be? Massachusetts? Yep. Massachusetts in America, where a couple had an upcoming court appearance. Well, for?

I don't know, because this only details their arrest. Oh, okay. Pre their court appearance. Right. So they decided that they needed to look the part because it's a known thing. If you look smart in court and you don't look, you know, raggedy, you're probably going to get a better sentence, aren't you?

If you're attractive, if you're dressed well. Blonde, blue-eyed people that are wearing a suit are always given better sentences, aren't they? It's just a fact. Well, a couple thought, well, we've got to look the part for our upcoming court appearance. And so they decided to go to Walmart and steal some clothes. Like a nice suit.

Or as much of a suit as you can get at Walmart. I don't know what they're... I reckon you could get a whole three piece and a gun and a giant bag of Cheezels. For after court. Yeah, a celebration.

Bang, bang, bang, Cheezels. Yum, yum. Officers responded to the incident in progress around 10 o'clock. They encountered the couple just as they were leaving

the store, opened a handbag that she was holding, handed over clothes that she'd attempted to steal. There were also some shoes, stuff in the pants waistline, and other stolen items were also recovered in the car. So they must

have gone on a bit of a spree to look the part. Well, they had the idea. Yeah, so they were both arrested on shoplifting charges. It doesn't say what they were appearing in court for. But I guess they'll just do both at the same time. Do they do that?

I don't know if they do. I think you have to do two separate. Oh, they're there. I know. Just get it done. Just get it done. Do a combo. Yeah, court combo. Court appearance combo. All about saving the taxpayer money, basically. If your kids are off to school today and you're dealing cocaine around the house,

always check their bags. You're talking to the vast majority of the audience now, Vaughan. I know, yeah. All cocaine-dealing parents. Yep. Well, one 13-year-old boy took balloons full of cocaine to school on Friday. They were orange balloons. And from what I can see, they've got a picture of the evidence bag.

It looks like they say Freedom Skies on them. Oh, okay. These balloons. This isn't in New Zealand, is it? No, no, no. This was just out of San Francisco in the States. Yep. So he took them to a school where he must have been at the upper age range,

this 13-year-old. Right. Because much younger children found them. Okay. And were like, balloons. So I don't know if he took them to school knowing what they were, freaked out, chucked them in the playground. Yeah.

Right. Dropped them. Or was trying to sell them, freaked out, dropped them, threw them, discarded them because he thought he was going to get caught, what the story was. But younger kids found them, threw them, discarded them because he thought he was going to get caught, what the story was. But younger kids found them all like balloons. And one of them tried to undo the knots so they could blow up the balloons and rip the balloon and got a face full of white powder.

How old were they? It doesn't say their age. It just says younger. So they were messing around with the balloons and then they had the white powder on them when they went into class. So they were messing around with the balloons and then they had the white powder on them when they went into class. And the teacher's like, what's this? And they're like, oh, we found these balloons with flour in them.

The teacher was like, oh, okay. Probably had the kids paying attention. What next? What next? I've got my worksheet. That mid-afternoon slump after lunchtime, you're a bit tired from running around. Get over the afternoon slump with a little afternoon bump. So when the teacher actually thought,

that's actually a bit suspicious, I wonder what the deal is. Yeah. They called local authorities, and they have those drug testing kits. Yeah. On the spot tested it, worked out it was cocaine. Jeez.

Traced it back. Anyway, ended up finding out which kid bought the balloons to school. Yeah. Because he had traces of cocaine on him. Yeah. Then the canine unit went to his house

and found more cocaine. Oh my God. But no more was found at the school apart from the additional, apart from the initial balloons that they found. And now what?

Dad's in prison. Yeah, dad's in big trouble. And thankfully, none of the 13 kids they said were exposed to it. Right. In one form or another.

They said all of them had tested negative and were fine and had no. Yeah, right. No problems, which is good. Given that they were young. Had just come face to face with cocaine in their balloon. The teachers definitely sold a balloon for lunchtime, didn't they? They were like, how many balloons did the kids have? When I was talking about the afternoon slump and the bump,

I was referring to the teachers. Kids are sweet. They get to go home. The teachers have got to set up for the next day. Get yourself through. Put a little music on the classroom speakers. Party on. Clean up your classroom pretty quick.

I always wondered what they do when you went home for the day. They say work, but... Marking. Marking. Marking. Yeah. Is that right? Well, I used to be right on your team, you know this, but I've seen the teachers now.

I know, I can't just... Oh, I know. Yeah, no, I'm just obviously kidding around. Yeah, I know. I've been riddled with guilt, this guilt. What, what, what? For all the years of... That you've hassled teachers for their holidays.

A light ribbing with the teachers. But now I don't. You're not even joking. I'm not even going to weigh in with a joke about... Well, I've already joked about the fact they're doing cocaine and they don't think they are. I don't think I also need to call it... You can't vouch for all of them.

Oh, no, I can't. You're dead right. I mean, no, actually, I don't think they could afford it. That's why they want the pay increase. Right. Okay, now you're back in there with your light ribbon. Better quality of drugs, and they deserve it. Where is Silverdale's missing lotto ticket?

It's a $7.2 million lotto ticket. It was drawn last week. Yeah. And it's yet to be claimed. They haven't even heard from the person and usually even before it's claimed, they'll hear from them and be like I've got all the numbers, what do I do? Help! I'm freaking out

don't say my name. Everyone's already trying to scab money off me. Yeah. I think they're on to me. They know I've got money and I'm becoming paranoid. So where could it be? The top six places to check, even if you didn't go to Silverdale, Parkinson's, even if you've never been to Silverdale,

even if you've never heard of Silverdale. Check. Check because somehow you may have come into possession of this ticket. Right. The top six places it could be are number six, in that reusable shopping bag. Always finding stuff in a reusable shopping bag. I keep forgetting mine.

But I'm going to end up with 8,000 reusable bags now that my supermarket's. Yeah. Oh, because every time you go and you forget it, you've got to buy a new one. Oh, I'll buy a new one. And then in my mind, I'm like, well, that's all right, because I need lots. Yeah. Because I've only just started collecting them. But you.

So annoying. But you keep forgetting them. Yeah. Well, you wait till you start finding things. And then one, like, you'll till you start finding things and then one, like you'll pull one out and you'll be like, I haven't used this one for a while. And you bought something and it just was at the bottom when you put it away.

Oh, a salami stick. Yeah. It's always something little and light like a salami stick. It's not going to keep well though, is it? Sneak in there. Ours was a box of jelly crystals. Oh, okay. And I don't even remember buying jelly

or when we had jelly or what we would have purchased jelly for. The last thing I can remember buying jelly for was when I made that Moana birthday cake. Was it blue jelly? Yeah. Oh, okay. But that's also my favourite flavoured jelly. That and green. Yum, green.

No, raspberry, red. No, the purple one. You're a raspberry fiend. What's purple? Grape. No, isn't it like... Blackberry or blackcurrant or something? Yummy.

No, green. Green or blue? It all just tastes like sugar. It's all yum. Yum, yum. Sugar with flavour. Yeah, true. Number five on the list of the top six places the Silverdale Lotta Ticket could be

are that weird tray in your car. Not the ash tray. Above that. Just like an empty hole. Yeah. What is that for? It's where you sit things until they roll around too much car. Not the ashtray above that. Just like an empty hole? Yeah! What is that for? The place where you sit things until they roll around too much and make an annoying noise and you're like, get out of there and you flick them on the floor. Is that for people that want two car

stereos? Like, why is that hole always there? You don't need it. It's for your stuff. And practically too small for stuff. Yeah. It's where my garage door opener goes. Yeah, but then it's too big for that because it slops around. Why don't you put that on the sun visor?

It doesn't have a clip. You should get a clip. Game changer. Absolute game changer. The old clip on the... Apart from when you do clip a garage door opener on that, it just gives it a little extra... You don't always allow for it.

You flick it down and you crack yourself on the head with it. Just that little corner of it. Those little problems. Number four on the list of the top, definitely. I'd rather click my head every now and then and have to get out of the car. Number four on the list of the top six places the winning lottery ticket could be

under that weird bottom piece of hard plastic, like cardboard on the bottom of your purse or bag or satchel. Oh, yeah. You know, is it just there to keep the shape of the base? God, that thing's annoying. There's so much stuff gets under there. And then when you do have a bit of a bag clean out,

there's so much, like, dust and sand and... Yeah, it's yucky. When did you go to the desert, bag? Oh, you're so full of sand. You've never been to the beach. And when your lid falls off your lippy and it collects all the Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I hate that, eh?

Yeah, I hate that. My wife will chuck one of those lint rollers in her bag. Oh, that's a good idea. No, no, by accident. Oh. Just to take with her and then she'll pull it out and it'll be covered in all sorts of specks of hard leftover stuff. Number three on the list of the top six places

That lotto ticket could be In your wash day jeans The ones you don't wear Unless all your others Are in the wash Yeah The unpopular ones You look at it

And you're like Okay Would a lotto ticket Survive a wash? It's plasticky right? A Well it depends Nah

Nah I don't think it would But you're right It is It's a bit of a hard Plasticky Yeah But it still wouldn't Survive a wash Nah No Number three Nah, I don't think it would. But you're right, it is. It's a bit of a hard, plasticky. Yeah. But it still wouldn't survive a wash.

Nah. No. Number three. Sorry, number two on the list of the top six places the winning lotto could be. That pile of stuff on the bench that's mostly unopened bills, notes to yourself and a half-written shopping list you forgot to take with you last time. You know, beside the fruit bowl. Yeah.

Yeah. That. Have a skiff around on that. It might have slipped into some layer of that. Probably between two leaves of the same pad. Yeah. That you write notes on. And the number one place to load a ticket could be on the top of the fridge. You were going to stick it to the

fridge, but there were no fridge magnets, so you just popped it on top of the fridge and said to yourself, don't forget you put that on top of the fridge. And you forgot you put it on top of the fridge. That to yourself don't forget you put that on top of the fridge and you forgot you put it on top of the fridge that's the next top six I don't think I'd like to be in local politics

I don't think I just don't think I'd want to be in politics people just whinge to you all the time I know I argue with you all the time

you have to deal with people and they can be the worst you can never please everyone can you no

no but that's the idea yeah you try real hard and people are still mean to you I'd be like stuff you then I'm not doing this with people and they can be the worst. You can never please everyone, can you? No. No, but that's the idea. Yeah, you try real hard and people are still mean to you. I'd be like, stuff you then. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm trying my best. I don't want to play anymore. This game sucks.

Well, there's one mayor and he's just won his fifth term. Wow. Fifth term. So people like him. People like this mayor. What about Tim Shadbolt? Oh, yeah. He's been mayor for a long time. Yeah.

He loves it. But they're not without the headaches and you hear about it every now and then. Does he get headaches? No, no, no. Oh, no, I thought you were thinking he gets headaches. Oh, I'm sure he gets bloody headaches. I'm sure he gets headaches. If you're a mayor, you would.

You'd just be like, oh. I think what you're saying is he doesn't please everyone. No, no, no. Even though he's been mayor for ages, he still can't please everyone. We laugh because he's funny. But people who take local matters seriously, not always laughing. Well, this dog, I think it would be very hard to be mad at this mayor. Max is his name. A dog, did you say?

This dog? Yeah. Oh, God. He is a golden retriever, and he has just won his fifth mayoral stint. Okay. His fifth term as a mayor. Where is this? Idle Wild in California. So a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah. Is there nothing to do? Because the dog's not getting anything done. He's cleaning up all the bones. Excuse me. Here he is riding on the back of a pickup truck. Mayor Max. I don't know if this was in a parade or what the story was.

But this is a family tradition because he was, before he was mayor, his uncle was mayor. Also called Max. So I'm guessing the owner does all the mayoral work like the actual. I think the dog's purely just to look at and pat and be like, who's a good boy? And it's hard to be angry. I think the councillors just do all the work and the voting and stuff.

Right. Yeah, and spread it amongst themselves more than have one person. Yeah, but then there was that cat in Alaska that was a mare, but you wouldn't want a cat to be a mare. Dogs are pretty chill. And dogs like empathise with people better

than cats do. Yeah, but the cat would be like, yep, no, that sounds good. Change my mind. Tear the town down. I hate everything. You're going to pay your rates and you're giving it a pat

and it's purring and then it turns on you. Scratches your face. Scratches, rips up your rates and is like, oh, you didn't pay your rates. Give us more rates. Can't trust cats.

So that could be the answer to two solutions, I think. Right. Having a cute dog. Yeah. And golden retrievers are a great people-pleasing dog. But you're only going to,

it's five terms. How long do golden retrievers last? great people-pleasing dog. But you're only going to, it's five terms. How long do golden retrievers last? They must have really short terms. I mean, I guess mares die, don't they, during the job sometimes? It's just life, isn't it? Yeah. Getting a new one. It's been a while since a mare died.

In office. That's what, I can't think of one. But it used to be like prime ministers would die while they were being prime ministers. Yeah, but we live longer now, don't we? Yeah, we do. Yeah. Well, let's just hope that Max lives.

Lives long and prosper. Yeah. Mayor Max II. We could be looking at Mayor Max III. It'd be great if it just became a family tradition. So this is technically what we would call a swipe mayor. A girl's Bumble date has gone viral after she shared it on Twitter. So she's from California.

I was going to say, what part of the world? Cali. And so she met this guy on Bumble and they decided to go for a drink on Friday. So they went to just a casual restaurant. And she starts it by introducing the guy. So he's 38 years old. She's 28 but I obviously

thought that that wasn't an issue for either of them. His name's Brandon and she shared a picture from his profile as well. Oh okay. So we all know who this guy is. What does he look like? Is he a bit of a cutie? He's got... Not your cup of tea? Not my cup of tea. He's, I think he's got a beard. He's just not really my

cup of tea, I don't know. Okay, ooh, she's really I feel like she's having a go at you, Javon. No! She said beard and then was like, ugh. Oh, no, beards aren't for everybody. Some woman can't handle a real man. I've seen his whole face, but the picture of this story has just got his like the top of his... Let me see. Oh,, the picture, I've seen his whole face, but the picture of this story has just got his, like, the top of his.

Let me see. Oh, there we go. I've got his whole picture. You show me. Show me what you've got going on there. Oh, yeah, no. That's very beardy. That's not a real beard.

That's like Viking-level beard. That's not for everybody. Yeah, and it's not kept like yours is. Yeah, okay. He looks a little bit like, he's not as gingery as the guy off Game of Thrones. The wildling from North of the Wall. That's who I thought he looked like. He's got that level of Scandinavian look to him.

Yeah. Okay. Not like hot Swedish dude who's playing beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics. Scandinavian. Not the Danish, not the Finnish. God, you know your men, don't you? I do, I know my men of the world. I the Danish, not the Finnish. God, you know your men, don't you? I do, I know my men of the world.

I know my men of the world. I'm an atlas of hot dudes. You know hot men, yeah. So, her and Brandon decide to go on a date. She said they sat down for drinks. The whole way to the bar

he talked about bad dates he'd had. So, I shared a few as well. Okay. Just like common ground. We sat down and he continued to shit all over the girls my age and our expectations of men. talked about bad dates he'd had. So I shared a few as well. Okay. Just like common ground. We sat down and he continued to shit all over the girls my age and our expectations of men. That would have really just done it for me.

I would have been like, no, we're eating out. You're on a date. Like, don't go on and be all negative and just go on and on about, you know. You're pretty much generalising the person you're sitting in front of in a negative way right from the get-go. And if all your experiences with people on dates have been negative, then it might be time to look in the mirror and see the common denominator of negative dating. It's you.

So if that didn't get me, this next thing is an absolute deal-breaker for, I think, all of us. He was completely rude to our waitress because she didn't walk over to our table fast enough when he finished his first beer so he proceeded to throw his menu on the floor like a baby and then spoke to her in a disgustingly sarcastic and degrading tone. Oh I would have left.

Yeah that would have been it for me. He then asked her if he was being an arsehole and I said yes. If you have to ask, it's like, is that racist? It's like, am I being an asshole?

You know. So he told her to lighten up and a bunch of other irrelevant nonsense. Oh dear. So she stuck in there because three beers later and a steak dinner later,

he asked if he could use the restroom. He goes off to the toilet and she's like, this is great because I can use my phone for five minutes without him being like,

you're on your phone, millennials. So she was like, this is great because I can use my phone for five minutes without him being like, you're on your phone, millennials. So she was like, that's cool. Then she waited and waited and No, he didn't. He didn't come back and she knew he wasn't coming back because he sent her a message. A text message from the toilet

or maybe from his car that said, thanks for dinner. Hard no. Welcome to Cali, fatty. Oh! He said hard no? I saw his picture. He's lucky if he's a four. His hot to arsehole ratio is out of whack.

Yeah, yeah, you're very true, yes. So hot enough to be that much of an arsehole? No, no, not at all. She just wrote back, are you serious? And she sat and waited for a response and then realised that she then needed to pay the bill. Because he had ghosted. For all the beers and the steak dinners.

Oh my God. I'm now thinking at this point, he does this to get free dinners. Maybe. He's just having a laugh, eh? Maybe. Getting some free dinners. But good on him for putting his photo out there. Yeah.

So his name's Brandon and there's a picture out there now, and yeah. Avoid him. Avoid at all costs. So yeah, swipe beers happen all over the world. FVM, the podcast. FVM. So this metal objects and strawberries situation that's happening in Australia is continuing. They, Australia's launched a nationwide probe

into finding out how they've gotten in there. Because this kind of happened over the weekend, eh? Because we were away on our tram and I got back home and I said to the girls,

hey, how was the weekend? Like Nana's been here and Indy's like, people are putting needles in strawberries. I was like, what? We saw it on the, I saw it on the news. Indy's like, people are putting needles in strawberries. I was like, what? We saw it on the news. And I was like,

oh, that's why we don't watch the news. Because now they're freaking out about strawberries. I love strawberries and we're not buying strawberries at the moment

anyway because it's a bit out of season. They have been creeping in though the last few weeks. Little creep. Are those strawberries we have,

are they Australian strawberries? Yeah, because it's upper Queensland and stuff. It's got the climate that can grow them almost year round. So they are sewing needles that have been found in strawberries. So we're talking like the needles that you used to use in sewing at school to

hold on your seam before running the sewing machine over it. Those are pins. Yeah. But they look, the pictures I've seen, they look quite small, like a needle, like small needles. Yeah, but it's quite thick, like for a needle. Like it's a sewing machine kind of deal. But so a man was taken to hospital. A nine-year-old boy spat at a needle. He was eating a strawberry at school.

But apparently, I didn't realise, needles and the strawberries have been found in all six Australian states. And the growers are now using metal detectors. So, where is this coming from? Is it multiple people? Is it copycats? Is this ISIS? Is this their new thing? Oh yeah, needles.

So, yeah. They're in a bit of a frenzy at the moment. So I heard nine confirmed cases in Australia. And supermarkets here say they don't have any affected batches. And they are, is it true that they're not stocking Australian strawberries? In New Zealand supermarkets? Yeah, I think so.

I think they've stopped stocking them. But it goes beyond it right now. What was found in a banana yesterday? So there was also a needle in a banana that was found and everyone was like, oh God, it's moving on to bananas.

It has been, that source has been found to be a 62-year-old who's believed to have mental health issues. Did he stick it in his own banana? He was seen putting the metal in the fruit at the supermarket. Oh, so he just didn't be like, hey, there's a nail in my banana.

No. He was putting them in. He was putting them in. Jeez, okay. Is there any chance that's what's happened with the other? I don't know. Do they have any idea on how it's getting in there? I heard that they'd kind of put out a reward for information.

But it's happened all over the country. Like it's not just one place. So that's why it's so odd. All six states. So why we have to run metal detectors over our food now? No, that's what they're literally doing. The growers are doing it, putting metal detectors over the strawberries. Over the conveyor belt of strawberries.

They're just, oh my God. But then surely it's not happening at the packing factories. Well, that's, I guess, what they need to find out. If it's happening when they're packing. Well, it's got to be happening somewhere along the product. If it's happening at the supermarket. Yeah, if it's not. Or it could be happening at the supermarket.

Like, what's stopping someone just walking up and... Well, the supermarkets would have footage. Like, the guy putting the metal rod in the banana. Yeah, true. They had him on camera. So, surely if they're like, oh, there's a pin in my strawberry and this is where it came from, they check the security camera.

It didn't happen at the supermarket. And how is it happening at all six states if it's happening at the supermarket? It makes way more sense for it to be happening at that end of things. It's crazy. So I have Googled, so just to put people's minds at rest in New Zealand,

all the supermarket chains have said they're not stocking the Australian strawberries. They do say, cut up your strawberries too before you eat them and you'll be fine. So I guess if you cut them in half. Slice them up. Not slice down the middle, but like in half. Or maybe slice them in half both ways.

What's worse though? A needle in a strawberry or a seed in a mandarin? Nothing's worse than getting a mandarin. Well, you can swallow a seed and you're fine. Can you? You'll be like. Yeah, okay. So a seed is pretty bad. I don't know if it beats a needle though. Can you? You'd be like... Yeah, okay. That's pretty bad.

I don't know if it beats a needle, though. Maybe just. F.M. Do you know there's a little trick that thousands of men are apparently doing to attract women? Oh, no. I thought it was like a secret that I might be using.

Oh, right, okay. Why do you need to attract women? I was going to say, that's why I was like, oh, don't worry, because those days are done. Although I did trim my chest hair last night. You did?

Look at that. Oh, just because it was getting a little bouché, and we are in spring now. Yeah, heating up. You don't want to heat up, Megan. Yeah, you don't want to overheat. I thought it was like a special occasion this weekend we didn't know about. Share.

I'm going to share. That's purely coincidental. Are you going to be exposing your chest? Are we going on Friday night or Saturday night? Friday night. It is Friday night.

Yeah. Okay. I didn't know if we had Friday night or Saturday night. Okay. I need to get glammed. She's in the country already. What are you wearing?

Yeah, she's in the country. Yeah, didn't she call it beautiful? Good. It's a beautiful country. What are you just going to wear that? I'm just going to wear this. Okay. Oh, you're not exposing your chest in any way.

Oh, maybe. Maybe I'll go for like a full-blown jumpsuit that like buttons up at the belly button. Whack. Yeah. So this is a track that guys are apparently swearing by. It kind of makes sense, but I'll tell you. Okay. So a guy has said that, well, actually it was the wife that dobbed in a guy, heavily tattooed, like quite a manly dude. And he wears Katy Perry perfume.

Okay. I'm not against that. Female perfume. He goes to work and women are like, oh my god, you smell so great. The trouble is then they're like, what are you wearing? And he's like, ah, Katy Perry. But you could just say, oh, I don't know, just some fragrance. So the idea is that you're attracting

women with what they like as opposed to what a man would normally wear, which would be more of a musky situation. I've heard of this theory for a long time and it works both ways. Like, woman can have a manly scent, and a man might notice it. But then there's also this problem of woman wearing, like, Caitlin. We were playing Fortnite one day, and she's like,

I've just put on men's deodorant, and I'm turning myself on. She was distracted by herself. You're not supposed to tell people that. Oh, what happens on the battle bus stays on the battle bus. Yes. No, I accidentally, like, I didn't realize it was men's perfume, but I, like happens on the battle bus stays on the battle bus. Yes. No, I accidentally, like, I didn't realise it was men's perfume, but I, like,

sprayed a little bit and I was like, mmm. I know, that's the thing. Yeah, true. She's so good. But then she got really aggressive.

She played a great game in Fortnite. Right. Would this work for you if you went out on a date with a guy and he was wearing, like, a feminine...

No, you know that I love, like, Vaughn started wearing a new perfume the other day and I was like, Vaughn, get know that I love like Vaughn started wearing a new perfume the other day and I was like, what is that? I smell it this morning again too. I know, I don't like it. Because it's like, oh that smells good. Oh yuck. Yuck, it's Vaughn.

Yeah. It's really good though. It is a good fragrance. I will wear that one this year. Yeah. But my thing is like, we go, okay, what is that? It smells really nice. Yeah. Nice,

but not like, ugh. Yeah. Right. What's this? She's so aroused, she's turned her own microphone off. You know,

like, there's a difference between smelling nice and smelling like, oh, yeah, that's good. Right.

Okay. Yeah, like, it wouldn't attract me to them more. Yeah. So maybe they're just getting compliments because the girls are like, oh,

you smell nice. Yeah, what's that? What's your gun on there? it's kind of pretty. I could wear it. So maybe so maybe they're just getting compliments because the girls are like, oh, you smell nice. Yeah, what's that? What's going on there? It's kind of pretty. I could wear it. So maybe it's a good idea to wear around the office where you don't need to pick up, but you want to impress. But if you want to break the ice with some girls, it could be a good talker.

I don't know. We need to try it. We need some guys that are willing to try wearing female perfume. Well, we've got the studio fart neutraliser. Yeah, no, but that's become synonymous with farts now. That's ruined. And it smells like a toilet. No, I think that's because it's mixed with farts.

Because it's like lavender scented. Anything smells like a toilet. It's because all of our nannas only had glades and you grind it and drop a big deuce and then nanna'd spray it with lavender and now lavender got ruined for everybody. Yeah. It's like when you go for a massage and they're like, would you like this oil? It's lavender. And you're like, got ruined for everybody. Yeah. It's like when you go for a massage

and they're like, would you like this oil? It's lavender. And you're like, no, thank you. Yeah. Don't want to be rubbed down with the toilet stink. But that's what's happened with that. Yeah.

So that's become synonymous with it. But yeah, give it a go. Give it a go. Wearing the other person's perfume. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. 97 days until Christmas. We're in double digits now. And daylight savings not this weekend, but next.

Next weekend. Oh, it is coming around so fast. Yeah. We just got to save the date for the staff Christmas party. Have you included that in Christmas penetration? No, I haven't included this personal work Christmas party save the date invitation. No. But 97 days away from Christmas and there's a couple of big ticket items.

So let's get into this. Let's start by pointing a finger. That was good. Nothing for anyone listening, but we all pointed a finger. Bunnings. Christmas lights are on display at Bunnings. Well, you've got to get your set up early. Thanks to Caitlin who popped along to Bunnings and presumably spent way too long there,

as we all do when we go to any major hardware store, and got caught up in the Christmas light section. Light up kiwis, light up Christmas trees. What looks to be a giant light up penguin, which would be a cute addition to the lawn. Are they all solar now? Like, I'm into getting some solar Christmas lights this year. Yeah, I'm feeling that. I'm feeling that technology.

Or maybe a Tesla battery powered. Yeah. You know, it stalls up during the day and slowly releases all night. Yeah. So Bunnings Christmas lights, the exterior Christmas lights display is out and it is happening. Oh, madness. So that's a big ticket item.

This one, I got sent this so many times. Farmer's Facebook page has said, do you love Christmas? If you don't, then stop reading. We're excited to share our 2018 Christmas themes with you. Have a sneak peek today and shop our wide range of decorations. Christmas. There's good decorations.

Yeah, they're like quite posh, eh? There's some posh ones. Like mid-posh. Mid-posh. Yeah. Because they're not like specialist store posh. Yeah. Yeah, but like posh.

Mid-posh. Mid-posh. Good call. Christmas trees and lights with our special introductory online offer, half-price Christmas shop. So you can buy Christmas stuff now. Yeah. That's insane.

And so many. But that's half-price. I'm sitting here like, who would get in this earlier? Who cares that much? I would. I started my Christmas shopping. Mm-hmm. I know.

You're all like, shut up, Megan. That prepared. Spread it out. What have you purchased? I can't tell you. But for who? Who have you bought for? My best friend, Ellie. Me? Me?

What do you get the guy that has everything? Nothing. Because we just got paid on Friday, and we get paid monthly. So that means we've got October, November, December. Three pays till Christmas. And if you get paid like twice a month, you could have six or seven. Crazy.

See, spread it out. So that's Bunnings and Farmers, but I don't think that's the biggest indicator that it's Christmas time. It was 97 days away from it. I spotted this myself yesterday, so thanks to me for sending this in. Christmas mince tarts at Countdown. Christmas mince tarts! Oh, only $3.79.

Yeah, not bad, not bad. I've still got some from last year. I sent this to the producers and like the tiniest corner of it, you can see some shapes for sale. Producer James is like, how much are them shapes? I think they're $2. Also, that giant pile has been eaten away at. I know.

How many people are buying those and just eating them before Christmas? I like to think they started out flat across the top and down, and there's already massive holes of people who have picked up. But it doesn't end there. Somebody said Spotlight's really stepped it up. Now they've got two full aisles and a full-blown Christmas display at the Te Rapa Spotlight in Hamilton. Okay.

So while Spotlight's always pretty quick to get on Christmas, they've really stepped it up. And some international reports, David Jones in Sydney has started stocking Christmas puddings. Okay. Puddings. This is even a bit too much for me. The puddings, the outdoor lights, the Christmas tarts.

Yep. And Farmer's Half Price Christmas Sale in September. 97 days away from Christmas with some big benchmark Christmas spottings. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Right now, Christmas penetration is at... 42%. Ooh, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. F.E.M.

We want to talk this morning about Richard Gere. So Richard Gere, you remember him from Pretty Woman. He's... He's both an officer and a gentleman. Yes. He's 69 years old. And he is about to be a dad again. So his wife,

they've confirmed that they're expecting a baby. She's 35. He's 69. No problems with that here. But it's interesting because he does have one child already, Homer. Now Homer...

Homer? Yeah. What? Homer James Jigme? Jigme? J-I-G-M-E. Jigme. Yeah.

So after the Simpsons, Homer was a no-go, right? Yeah. That's a no-go name. Like after World War II. Head off. Yeah. Off the table. So his son Homer, when his new child is born, will be 19 years old.

I wouldn't even expect him to be older than that. Because what's Richard Gere? 69. He was 50 when he had his first child. That's good maths from you. Just a bit of quick maths there. What's the average age of a male? Like male dad?

A male? Oh, I don't know. Early 30s. Late 20s. No, I mean like when you die. Because he's having a baby when he's 69. Mid 70s, isn't it? How old is he going to be at his 21st? Dead. Or 90.

Okay. Yeah, he will be. He'll be 90. Wow. Okay. And it's fine for her because she's only 35 now. Yeah. But that's crazy, isn't it?

Yeah. Well, they're both happy about it. In fact, she just had her bump. Well, of course he's bloody happy about it. Yeah, she's a babe. She's a babe. Extremely hot. She's just had her bump blessed by the Dalai Lama.

So she, oh, okay. Does she have, does he have kids to anyone else? Only to. Just Homer. Just Homer to another. Okay, right. Not to this woman, obviously. Right, have kids to anyone else? Just Homer. Just Homer to another, not to this woman, obviously. Right, to another one. Okay. But I guess on the back of this, I'd like to know the biggest age gap between siblings.

I mean, they're only half siblings. I can guarantee they'll be bigger than 19 years. Really? Do you think so? Like you had a brother or a sister that was like as old as a dad. Wouldn't that be weird? You're like, hey bro. He's like, hello.

Hello. Remember my ex-husband, he had a half brother who was just born when we were together, so he would have been 24 when his brother was born. So it was a 24 year gap. Yeah, yeah. A 100%. And it's always,

I shouldn't say always, I would guess the majority of the time, it's guys who had kids young, who then in midlife separate, get a younger partner who maybe doesn't have kids. And wants them. And then she wants them

and he's like, sure, I remember that being a breeze. Because he's getting old and crazy. And has them with the second person and then there's a massive gap. Yeah, because biologically it's difficult for a woman to have that big a gap. More than 20 years or something. So, we've already beaten Richard Gere in studio. Okay.

24 years then is what you need to be. I like that. That's going to be a bit tougher to beat. Do you know of or do you have a sibling age gap that's pretty big?

And like, how is that? How do you, like, because I mean, what? Kind of treated it like his nephew a wee bit.

Yeah, because you would feel more like a nephew. They'd feel more like an uncle than they did a brother. Yeah, 100%. Yeah.

Or a sister. Okay, well 0800 DALS at M, 9696 what's the biggest sibling age gap? We're talking about age gaps between siblings. Richard Gere's son Homer and his upcoming baby are going to have a 19 year age gap, but as

we've been learning, nothing. That is nothing. Wow. It was four years between my older brother and my younger sister. Yeah. And sometimes that felt like a generation gap. Yeah. Like he had left home, but she was still, you know, just starting high school. It was, even that was crazy enough.

But imagine being born and as soon as you can like recall anything, your older siblings have got a full-blown family of their own. It's crazy. We're hearing about some massive gaps. Lexi, what's your sibling age gap? I've got a few siblings, but I'm the oldest and the youngest one is now five and I'm 29. So 24 years.

24 years. Wow. And same mum and dad? No. My parents split up when And same mum and dad? No. Parents split up when I was young and so now gone on separate families. Right, okay. Because we are hearing from people with age gaps that big that are like, same mum and dad. Yeah, that's

crazy. Yeah, I think mum and dad must have short memories, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we can do this again? Oh, that was fun. We should do that again now that we're 20 years older. So does that feel like you are the older sister or does it feel more like you're an auntie? Well, yeah, auntie, sister, like surrogate mother. It all kind of merges into one.

That's what we're hearing from a lot of people who have younger siblings is they also play the role of parents sometimes. Yeah. It's quite nice. Do you have kids? Having, like, younger ones, because I don't know any different.

So, you know, you've got cool little things to play with that aren't your own. You can give it back. You don't have any kids of your own? No. Was having kids that young around, like, good contraception to make sure you played safe? Yep.

Another five of them, and it's like feeding time at the zoo. Like, I don't want to open my own zoo. Brilliant, Lexi, thanks for your call. Emily, what is, this is your best friend that's got a big sibling age gap. Yeah, so when we were younger, I went to one of her birthday

parties and that's when I first met her sisters. But I didn't know that was, her sisters at the time was pretty awkward. But they were all late 40s and early 50s. And she was 10 to 11 at the time. Oh, my God. Wow.

So what do you reckon was, what was the biggest age gap then? It was about 38-ish years. Same parents, different parents? Different dad, but same mum. Mum! Mum, that's the first one we've had where mum's done the hard yards. Done the rigid gear? Yeah.

Wow. Wow. That's crazy, isn't it? And did they feel like sisters, or were they more just like really old people at this party? Well, yeah, it was a lot of older people, but they all had kids that were like late teenagers and one of them had a child that was 20. So she had a niece that was 10 years older than her? Yeah. Did they say like, oh, this is my sister's birthday party?

Well, yeah, it was just very, very awkward at first. And so I just thought they were kind of relatives. And she was like, no, these are my three sisters. So, yeah. Wow, that's crazy. All right, Emily, thanks for your call. Alina, what's the biggest age between siblings that you've seen? So not a personal sibling, but I looked after a little boy who was three

and his dad was 79. He had a sister that was 50. Oh, you win. You win. Wow. Wow. So poor dad was quite often tired and the little boy loved all the energy from our centre,

so it was quite a good balance there. But yeah, not many other children in the family anyway. He wasn't too tired when he was 76 to be pregnanting someone, was he? Wow. Holy moly. Do you think he was just like, I don't need to bother with protection, I'm so old, it probably doesn't work now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, just dust comes out. Dad's got good swimmers. Wow. That is insane. Have we managed to, Alina, thanks for calling. I think that's the biggest gap. That is insane. Somebody else said, I always thought my situation was different

because I'm 50 and I've got a 14-year-old sister. My mum was 58 when she had her. Okay. I'm just, I can't do the maths. I was banking on you doing it. Yeah, no shortage of it. And lots of people beating the Richard Gere age gap. And lots of people with the same parents as well.

How do you know if it's really Renee? How do you know if it's really her? Good morning, Renee. Morning. Oh, how did that feel to have your name sung terribly? It was the best. I wish I could record it. Do you know, I'm proud that we went, Renee.

We could have gone, Renee. But we all just went, Renee. Yeah. Renee. We're in sync. We practiced that. We're in sync. Okay, so Renee, we're going to see right now if anybody listening to ZM knows you.

Yeah. So we're going to ask you a few questions. Whereabouts do you live? Hamilton. Oh, city of the future. River City. Foggy City. Bourne's hometown.

Great place. Close to Marinsville. What's that? Close to Marinsville. I thought you said I'm from Marinsville and I was like, oh, Renee, we probably know each other. Okay. The other one. What?

The other one, but I'm not going to give too many clues. Are you from Te Arawa? Okay. The other one. What? The other one, but I'm not going to give too many clues. Are you from Te Arawa? No. Cambridge? No. Matamata?

Yeah. Yuck. Okay. That's just a town rivalry. So have you always lived in the Waikato, Renee? Yes. Okay.

What do you do for a job? I'm a travel agent. Oh, okay. In Hamilton? Yes. Okay. So you send do for a job? I'm a travel agent. Oh, okay. In Hamilton? Yes. Okay. So you send a lot of dairy farmers away in sort of May, June, July? Yeah, when the payout's good.

Yeah, payout's good. They don't have to milk cows. They're off overseas for a six-week stint. Like Vaughan's mum and dad. You haven't booked them a holiday, have you? I don't think I have. No. No, they still stick with the local travel agent.

They don't like going too far. They don't like going to town. Ironically, they don't like travelling. Do they have travel agents in Morrinsville? Do they? Is that the Wild West? Cute. Travel agents.

Yeah, that is pretty cute. So there's just one. Renee, do you have any hobbies? In the same building. Do you have any hobbies? Do you do like any sports or anything? Yeah, netball. Okay.

But a netty? Who do you play netty for? Fraser Tech. Fraser Tech. Fraser Tech. Okay. I used to be terrified to play hockey against Fraser Tech. Did we ask what high school you went to?

The only one in Matamata. Matamata College. My mother went to that school, and I'll tell you who else did. Crusher Collins. Did she? Yeah. Crusher Collins. My mum, I think she was like the year above my mum or something.

Right. Okay, well, if you're listening and you think you know Renee, now is the time to call 0800-DARLS-AT-M. What we know so far is she's originally from Matamata. She lives in Hamilton, plays Nebel for Fraser Tech, and is a travel agent. Who are you a travel agent for, Renee? I always say.

House of travel. House of travel. House of travel. My house of travel, Milford's my favourite because their initials are Hot Milf. I'd always really tickle my fancy when I saw House of Travel, Milford, written down in acronym form, Hot Milf. Hot Milf. Okay, all right.

Well, people are calling through. So if you think you know, have we asked enough questions? I mean, if people are calling through, let's see. You've only lived in the Waikato, haven't you? You haven't, like, did you study anywhere? No, I've done a bit of travelling, but only ever lived here. Okay, did you study anywhere? Yeah, Wintec.

Wintec, okay. Have you worked anywhere other than House of Travel? No, I've been there for seven years now, even since I left here. Oh, wow, okay. Okay, all right. Well, let's see if anybody listening knows you, Renee. Jo, good morning.

Hello. How do you know Renee? I work with Renee. Oh, Joji! Hey! Like, in the same office? Yeah. She was so excited

when it was you. It's like, like she hadn't seen you since yesterday. Exactly. I'll see you soon. I'm driving. She's driving in, Jo.

She's not too far off. She'll be at work any minute. Yeah, I'm a bit late. So I do. Okay, well, we're all having fun. All right. That's how you know that it's really Renee. That's how you know that it's really her.

Well, Renee, one for one. Excellent. Rachel, good morning. Good morning. How do you know Renee? She's engaged to somebody that I know. Yes. Renee, are you engaged to somebody?

I am, yes. And how would that somebody know Rachel? Is this a smart? Hi, Renee-nay. So this is your future mother-in-law? I knew you'd be listening. I couldn't believe it was you. That's so awesome.

Oh, that's so cute. You call her Renee-nay. I know. That's real cute. Mother-in-law relationship. Rachel, is Renee-nay. I know. Renee-nay. That's real cute. Mother-in-law relationship. Rachel, is Renee going to be a great daughter-in-law? She's going to be awesome. So much fun.

Oh, that's nice. You're not worried she's stealing away your little boy? Not at all. No, she can. Daughter-in-law. Oh, that's a good line. That's a great line. I thought you were going to say she can have him. Sometimes. Yeah, yeah. Well, she can. Oh, that's a good line. That's a great line. I thought you were going to say she can have him.

Sometimes. Yeah, yeah. Well, that works. That's a win. That's how you know that it's really her. That's how you know that it's really her. Thanks, Rachel. All right.

There's more people think they know you, Renee. Emma, how do you know Renee? I went to a school with Renee and we worked for the same company. Emma Jade! Wait, so you both went to Meta Meta College? Yeah. And now you both

work for House of Travel? Yeah, I'm in Meta Meta. So you work at Hot Met? Hot Met. I was. So you work at Hot Met. Hot Met. I was hoping you'd work for Hot Melf, but no, obviously not. Not to be, not to be. Well, that's a win, isn't it?

Yeah. That's how you know that it's really Renee. That's how you know that it's really her. That's fantastic. Do you have better sales than her, Renee? She's only just started. So she's dealing with horse money. Oh, yeah.

A lot of money. They'd probably go first class, wouldn't they? Oh, sometimes they would. Yeah, probably. Oh, okay. All right, we've got someone else. Courtney, good morning. Good morning.

How do you know Renee? At college, we got cute little matching bracelets that had Maycourt on it. Come on, May! Do you still have the bracelets? I do, yeah. It's in my jewelry box. Renee, do you still have yours? Yep.

They say Maycourt. Maycourt. Are you sure you've still got it, Renee? You didn't sound sure. Somewhere. Are you there? Yeah. Do you still have, Renee? You didn't sound sure. Somewhere. Are you there? Yeah. Do you still have the bracelet?

You didn't sound sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. It's engraved with nay courts on it. Oh. That's so cute. Well, there's a winner. That's how you know that it's really Renee. That's how you know that it's really her.

I love how excited she gets when there's anyone she knows. I know. Renee, so many, a lot of people are calling through. They all say they know you. Shauna, how do you know Renee? She's booked my trip to America. Oh, yeah, she's going to Kentucky. Yeah.

Oh, my God, you're the best. Thank you. I'm so excited. You're the best. Thank you. I'm so excited. Did she do a good job, Shauna? Yeah, she's been amazing. And when do you leave, Shauna? In 72 days. Yes, the countdown is on.

I love that you're counting down. Yes, definitely. Oh, that's a winner, isn't it? Again. That's great. That's how you know that it's really Renee. That's how you know that it's really her. Easy. Renee, you're well connected.

You sounded excited to see everybody. Everybody liked you. Yeah. What skeletons are in your closet? You can't have it perfect, can you, Bourne? No, no, I can't. In my mind, nothing's allowed to be perfect. Renee, I think a successful round of How Do You Know?

Fantastic. Thank you so much. No, that was heaps of fun. It's made my morning. Get out there and sell some trips, kiddo. Oh, well. Sell some... We're selling experiences, kiddo. Oh, wow. Sell some... We're selling experiences,

not trips. We're selling lifetime bucket list tickets. Memories. Memories. You'd be the shittest boss. Get out there. Don't give away too many

House of Travel pens, guys. We're selling pens this month. Right? We've been told by head officer, rein it in with the pen giveaway. There is a new trend online. It's an extension of a pre-existing trend, unboxing.

We all know, like, someone gets a new iPhone or Samsung or whatever, they unbox it and you're like, ooh. Or like toys. Kids love watching toys be unboxed. Don't your kids watch the Kinder Surprise being open? Oh, they used to. Yeah, those were massive like a year or two years ago.

They've moved on now. They just watch families' vlogs. So the heaps of the families that started out doing that, like Ryan did Ryan's toy review and he'd open toys and play with them and talk about the toys. Now it's more just his mum and dad just film everything that happens in their life

and chuck together. Some of them are doing a video a day, some of these families and they are making bank offer because they're getting 15 million plus views

on these videos. Like every day for a video? Yeah. Oh, that'd be their full-time job. Oh, why not? Heaps of them have. They were always moving into like new houses.

Yeah, it's insane. But what's interesting to, I mean, I don't know because one and they were always moving into like new houses yeah it's insane but what's interesting to I mean I don't know because one day they were like this family's got like eight kids

that's quite interesting I suppose watching the mum juggle the eight kids and the mum never loses her rag on camera of course she doesn't

so that's what our daughter said the mum never yells I'm like yeah well good for that mum get out of your room no I didn't I didn't yell yells. I'm like, yeah, well, good for that mum. Go to your room! No, I didn't yell at them. I was like, well, there's a lot of their day that's not on camera.

I'd imagine she's given them all a good barrel. Oh, you can imagine if the dad ever edited the mum in yelling, he'd be on the couch for the night. That'd change the game. So over the past couple of months, some YouTubers have been uploading videos from the dark web. Now, the dark web,

I don't know too much. Is that a bad place? No, it's not because last time we talked about the dark web and we said it was bad, we had some people message in saying it's actually not.

It's everything. There's good and there's bad. Right. So why does it need to be in the dark? Because it's secret. The dark's more to do

with not everybody can access it. You kind of have to know. And also people there want their anonymity, don't they? They are really big on privacy. But don't get me wrong, there's some real bad stuff on there. Oh, it can be illicit.

There are drugs and some bad stuff on there. Yeah, but somebody was saying there's also journalism that doesn't answer to anybody. And there's a whole lot of interesting stuff on there as well. Right.

So how do you even get onto that? I don't know something about onions something about onions are you joking nah something about onions oh that because can you just go to your onion browser yes i know there's an onion bro yeah is that what it is you can you not just go on like your normal browser and now you can't just go like dub.darkweb.com Cool stuff. So YouTubers have been uploading videos from something that started in the dark web. Now on the dark web, you can sign up for a mystery box.

So you can pay anything, anywhere between $100 and $1,000 for this mystery box. It's untraceable. You pay in cryptocurrency. No, this is a bad idea. Oh, no. You wanted to do this before when cryptocurrency was worth something.

I'm guessing you have to give them your address because you've got to, or you could give them a PO box or a pickup at the supermarket or whatever. I just want to get this thing to work. And the idea is you film yourself, whether or not you cover your face or not, you film yourself opening this box from the dark web.

Now, YouTubers have filmed themselves pulling everything from bloodied screwdrivers to tattered children's backpacks to all kinds of grim and gruesome stuff. Oh, that's scowey. Yeah, and that's the idea is one box had nothing in it. So I guess... There's the anticipation. There's the anticipation.

There's the anticipation, the disappointment, all kinds of creepy and gruesome stuff. Anything could be in this box and you pay for it. This is going to make it to a scary movie. This is the start of a scary movie.

I know, it does sound like it. It already feels like the marketing for a scary movie. I would put a key in there. And a map. To nowhere. Oh, I wouldn't even put a map in there. I just think I'd put a,

probably just like a, No, the key would drive you nuts though. I know, but that would be the thing, right? They open it. Maybe one small clue. One person opened a box from a stranger. It said, you shouldn't accept packages from strangers.

Good luck. That'd be enough for me. And others have put in like audio files, like I can see you. And it just plays on loop, like from a USB stick or something. That's creepy.

One seller advises on the package to wear gloves when opening this. Like that kind of stuff. It's weird. And then so people are filming this

just for their reactions just like an unboxing. Like that's what we're doing for entertainment now. I want one of you guys to get one and then I'll watch you. I don't want one myself.

I don't want one. No, I don one and then I'll watch you. I don't want one myself. I don't want one. No, I don't want one either. I'll just order something cheap online if I'm that desperate for mail. I know, that's what part of the fun is when you're ordering online, right? Just opening the parcel. Watch other people do it. That's the idea. So you don't have to.

Well, we can reveal our next Fact of the Day pub quiz. We'll be on the north shore of Auckland, Takapuna, at the Elephant Wrestler. So it's not going to be this Thursday, but next, the 27th of September, $1,000 for the winning team. Register ZM online, and register.

We'll get back to you if we select your team, because it depends how many entries we get. Yeah. You know, there's only X amount of tables and $1,000 for the winning team. Great pub quiz in the Naki last week in New Plymouth Thursday night. Good times. She was a tight competition

that one. Yeah. Emma's packed in there. Had a lot of participants. Feeling it for the people in the Nook which was a small part around the corner. They seemed to dominate the bottom half of the competition. Yeah. Aunty had a couple of wines too. You had a couple of wines didn't you half of the table. Yeah. Auntie had a couple of wines too. You had a couple of wines, didn't you? It was nice. Yeah. Caitlin had a few wines.

Fletcher's mum called her out on it. I know. She was like, I don't know how she's going to get on the tramp tomorrow. She's had at least two or three wines. No, but I was just having a good time. It's because I was doing marking. I think she's worried that I wasn't concentrating. But I was. You know how I'm a stickler for marking.

You are, you are. All right, well, register online. It's time for... Fact of the Day! Day, day, bringing you facts about New Zealand trailblazing woman to celebrate 125 years of the female right to vote, the suffragette movement in New Zealand. I loved yesterday's Fact of the Day about the first female firefighter in the Commonwealth.

In the British Commonwealth. Great fact. Yeah. Well, this whole... I just want to talk a bit more about trailblazers because there's videos to go with it. There's sort of stories about 125 trailblazers, but there's videos to go with a lot of them as

well and some of the stories, they've kind of put together animation and professionals on that trailblazer subject refer to the trailblazer and what they did. Some of them are amazing so I'd recommend going and watching them. Kind of like if you've seen the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. I've got that book for my daughters.

It's the most beautifully put together book. It's like art and the story of an important woman. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is about, it's another New Zealand first. It's about the first ever New Zealand female detective. Oh, okay. Do we want to guess a year? This is a fun game.

Oh, yeah, because when... It was the 70s yesterday, right? Yeah, the firefighter was the 70s. Okay. So first female detective. 60s. Yeah, 65. When she became?

Detective. The first ever detective? Yeah. It was earlier than that. It was in the late 50s. Oh, okay. Yeah, 1958. Nora Crawford became the first woman in New Zealand

to reach the rank of detective. Okay. She did a whole lot of stuff before she did this. She did herd testing, which you guys might know, but dairy farmers every, like, month or... Yeah, they test the herd, bro, for, like... Yeah. Cow, two plus two.

For, like, worms and... Cow, moo, check. And mould and... All that. Mould. It's not a block of cheese yet, Megan. No, it's to do with the cow, how much milk it produces. Oh, yeah.

It might have good milk. Yeah. Average milk, all that sort of stuff. So she did that throughout. And then her neighbour was like, you know what, Nora? I reckon you'd make an okay detective. An okay cop. Yeah.

And she's like, not me, not a woman. Okay. And then thought on it and got into it. And she, yeah, she rose through the police ranks. She said she found it pretty hard, obviously, at the time. It was significantly, you know, considered a male duty. She also became a police officer in the early 1940s. And when there was a lot of American servicemen in Auckland

where she was a cop, a police officer and she had to deal with a woman who were offering their services to visiting servicemen and that kind of became a bit of a speciality investigating illegal bookmakers patrolling parks and cinemas

but today's fact of the day is New Zealand's first ever female detective once stopped an aggressive screaming screaming, violent woman prisoner in the backseat of a police car where no one else could by tickling her feet. They didn't know what to do. Then no one could get near this woman. She was out of control, as all stories point towards.

She was fighting, biting, spitting and everything. And she just reached in and tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. Brilliant. And I don't in and tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. Brilliant. And I don't know if she gathered the control by the woman lost her ability to fight because she was being tickled or she just really enjoyed a soft foot tickle. It's hard to be angry and fighty when you're being tickled. When you're being tickled.

Well, unless you're being tickled against your will and you hate being tickled. My wife hates being tickled. So if you can get her, pin her down and tickle her. She's just like fighting with everything to not be tickled, but not on the feet. That was enough to subdue. She went on to, she was designated an escort and a bodyguard

for Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and the Queen of Thailand in 1962. And in 1969, she joined the Central Intelligence Bureau Fraud Squad and kind of served through that until she retired. Get it, girl. And she passed away in 1997. Oh, wow, okay. After a long and illustrious career with the New Zealand Police Force, rising to the rank of detective.

So today's fact of the day is New Zealand's first female detective, Nora Crawford, once subdued a violent, screaming woman prisoner in the backseat of a police car by tickling her feet. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We've been saying two celebrities' names wrong. So it started with Ariana Grande. So we've all said Ariana Grande. Grande like the cup at Starbucks.

That's been the joke. It is, it is. Yeah, and she said a few weeks ago that it's actually Grandy. That's how her granddad always pronounced it and that's how she wants to pronounce it now because he's passed away and she wants to carry it on.

So Ariana Grandy. Eh. Is that how you're supposed to say it? I'm still saying Grandy. Yeah, it doesn't have the thing over the E, Grandy. But Grandy kind of needs an I before the E or a Y after the E. Yeah. So jumping on the bandwagon was Chrissy Teigen.

She said, I would also like to let you know that you've been saying my name wrong. I have given up a long time ago, but my last name is Tygan, not Tegan. So that's a spelling issue. We've all been led astray by the spelling there. But it's too late. I said this before, it's too late. You can't even yourself call yourself Chrissy Tegan and then say

five years later, oh, by the way, everyone go back to... Well, because she gave up correcting everyone. So she's like, I'm Chrissy Tegan. But now she's like, well actually, no, it's not right. It's Tygen. But that's a spelling thing. I don't know. Both of these

easy mistakes to make. I was wondering if anybody listening's just given up correcting people on names being mispronounced. Oh, when you've got a hard to pronounce name? Oh, well, it's only hard for people that don't know it. You've just kind of given up and if anybody just kind of gives it a shot, you're like, you let it

pass. Well, if you were waiting for someone to call out your name, you're not going to be like, actually it's this. You're just going to be like, okay I just want my fish and chips. That's what I get with Vaghan Vaghorn also. I'm like, yeah, cheers. But if they say, is it Vaghan? I'll be like, no, it's vorn.

But not too many people say, is it vorkan? They just go vorkan. I'm like, yeah, okay, see you later. Yeah, I just want my order. I'm leaving. I'm not going to bother. Well, that just serves you right for having a G in the middle of your name. It's a silly place for a G.

It's a really silly place. Whereas Megan, you and I, people just know. Although my new last name, everyone says Pappas. Like it's Papa, Pappas, but it's not. It's Pappas. And it drives me nuts because I've only just got the name. So it's a new one for me. Okay, well 0800-DARLS-IT-M, you can text 9696.

When have you given up correcting your name? Yeah. ZAM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. All right, it's 12 minutes to nine. We want to know if people, you've just given up correcting people when it comes to your name. Because Chrissy Teigen has said that that's how you say her name. It's Chrissy Teigen.

It's like Ariana Grande all over again. Okay, Vaughan, I've got one for you. Line 10, look at the screen, line 10. Oh, nadarare. Nadarare. They're not Oh, Nadarade. Nadarade. They're not responding, so you're wrong. Am I close? That's pronounced Nadade.

I was close. You were close, yeah. The R roll. Wait, how's it spelt? N-D-A-R-E. We would have got that right. N-G or N-elt? N-D-A-R-E. We would have got that right. N-G or N-D? N-D.

See, Caitlin put N-D on. That's why I was like na-da-da-da. Oh, Caitlin. Otherwise, you would have said na-da-da-da. I would have got na-da-da-da right. Caitlin? Well, you're actually saying na, like N-A, but it's na. Na-da-da-da.

Don't say it like that. I'm sorry. So how often do you have to correct people every day? Oh, like I've just given up. But I've had it all. I've had like nga iti, nga iti, nga iri, nga iri. Yeah, to be honest, at a quick look, I probably would have said nga iri. Yeah.

The worst one I've had was when I was in Australia and they pronounced it Nicarag. Oh, no, come on. Australia. You're in Australia there, aren't you? Nicarag. Wow. I've even had the N word.

Yeah, right. Yeah. God. Some people, eh? They still need correcting. Okay, hey, thanks. You called. Wait there.

Line. Megan, you can do line six. Line. Kathy. Yes, hello. Why is that hard? I was like, what's the trick? Kathy?

It's not a trick. I was working at a job in London and it was a temp job. Yeah. And when I turned up, they thought my name was Kathy. And I said, no, it's Kathy. And they didn't hear me properly. So anyway, I thought, oh, well, it's just a short a temp job. And when I turned up, they thought my name was Cassie. And I said, no, it's Cassie. And they didn't hear me properly. So anyway, I thought, oh, well, it's just a short-term job. I'll go with Cassie.

So for the next couple of weeks, I was Cassie. And I was quite happy with that. The job turned into a longer job. And then they offered me a permanent position. And I had to turn them down because it was too late for me to turn around and say, actually, my name's not Cassie, it's Kathy. They put you the contract. Brilliant.

Yes, I was like, oh no, sorry, I'm going to, you know, look for something else. Wow, that's a lot of effort, just find a new job. When have you given up correcting people on how to pronounce your name? Because Chrissy Teigen has said her name's not Teigen anymore, it's Teigen.

Although that's what we've been calling her forever. Ariana Grande is now Grande. Grande, not Grandy. No. Grandy, not Grande. Oh, God. So they've just given up correcting people. But it's not even hard names. Someone called Nicole messaged in saying, my name's Nicole. You'd think it'd be easy,

but the amount of times I get Nicola is astounding. I get emails it'd be easy, but the amount of times I get Nicola is astounding. I get emails where Nicole is spelt in the most unusual way and Nicole is written in my email address and on my signature. Leticia says I have a lot of problems. L-E-T-I-T-I-A. Leticia. I mean, that would be my guess.

Yeah. Leticia. Letitia. Letitia. Letia. Letities. Leticia. Yeah. Latidia. Latidia. Latia. Latidies. Latish. It's just people being stupid.

That would be my nickname if that was my name. Latidies. It sounds French. It does. It sounds exotic. Very. Latidies. Latidies.

But that's the thing. You have this name and you become like a mega celeb, famous. Yeah. It will be hard. Luckily that's not happening to most of us. No. Could you imagine LaTitties being on Ellen? We've got LaTitties coming on.

Oh yeah, what would LaTitties be? LaTitties went viral for something I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Viral video and Ellen's got her in. Yeah. And then calls her LaTitties. My name is Kane. I never got called Kanye.

But in the last 10 years, Kanye. So K-A-Y-N-E. But his is K-A-N-Y-E, isn't it? And so now everyone just calls him Kanye. Yeah. Well, everyone used to call Kanye Kane. Yeah. Kane West.

My mum called him Kane West. I don't know a lot about this Kane West. My mum called him Kane West. I don't know a lot about this Kane West, but it sounds like he's got trouble. Okay, Vaughan, I've got a name for you on line nine. Line nine. Oh, Zildjian. Yes. Did you get it?

Zildjian. Is that right? Yep, that's right. Because of the symbols. That's right. The drum symbols. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Because of the symbols. That's right. The drum symbols. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

So it's spelled Z-I-L-D-J-I-A-N? That's correct. Zildjian. So what do you get instead of Zildjian? Since I was about 12, 13, it's been Zilly. Zilly. Oh, I kind of like that. Zilly. Makes it easier for everybody. Yeah. It's awkward Zilly. Zilly. Oh, I kind of like that. Zilly.

Makes it easier for everybody. Yeah. But do you like that nickname, though? Yeah, yeah, I do. I like the nickname, but even with the nickname, you'd think it would make it easier, but I've been called Illy, Tilly, Villy,

Dilly. Dilly. Dilly. You don't want to be Dilly. Nah. My wife thought my name was Silly for the first six weeks we dated. Silly. Dilly. Dilly. Dilly. You don't want to be Dilly. Nah. My wife thought my name was Silly for the first six weeks we dated. Silly. Silly.

Yeah. Wow. That's a bit cute. I can see how you just give up. Zilly, thanks for your call, mate. Okay, cheers, guys. Megan, line seven. Nyantra?

Oh, my God, you got it. Yeah. Nyantra, well done. Niantra, that's quite pretty. Oh, thank you. No, well, just in school, I was just always struggling with the name, and then there was, like, Nitro, Nitrogen, the entry. And one time I fell in class and it became Niagara.

Oh, Niagara Falls, I like that. I like that a lot. Wow. And so, but still you're always correcting people every day? Well, then out of high school, I just went on to use my middle name, which is Ravisha, and it was still hard. And then now I'm just Rav. R-A-V.

Rav. Easy. But Ravisha's not that hard. Like, come on. I know. I know. Come on, people. Yeah, yeah.

So Rav was easier, and then I married my my husband and his last name's Hockard. Oh, okay. And his first name is Vibulon. Wow. A mouthful in that household. Hey, thanks for your call. Awesome, thank you. We've heard from Devon.

When I worked in a call centre, I'd get Kevin. Stevan, which isn't even a name. It's like Steven, but it was Stevan. I got Joe and I got Tim. I never corrected them until awkwardly they'd say, sorry, what was your name again? And I'd say Devin, D-E-V-I-N, spell it out for them a second time. I wouldn't have thought that was a name you could mess up.

I can see Devin and Kevin, but not just Devin. Adriana, people call me Adrian, Adrienne, and Adriana. Always get it wrong. Lots of people messaging in names that I wouldn't even attempt to say now. But Jasmine's, hearing from Jasmine's. How do you say Jasmine wrong? Jasmine. Jasmine, maybe.

Jasmine. Maybe they go for a super soft J. Yeah. Yasmin, bleef. So there we go. Just give up. And give them a nickname, I think is what we learn from this. Yeah.

All right. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out FBM ZM on Facebook.