ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 11th April 2022

Episode Date: April 10, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Try their refreshing McCafe iced coffee available now at Macca's. So yesterday for the first time, Aaron and I went for a little walk in the Riverhead Forest. Vaughan, that's out your way. Have you been? I've not been to the Riverhead Forest.
Starting point is 00:00:24 This is a giant, like, is it a pine forest? Massive pine forest and there's heaps. Are you hunting for psychedelics? Someone was. Yeah, Tony. Someone was.
Starting point is 00:00:33 People go into the Riverhead Forest looking for mushies. There are mushrooms like lining the pathways and I went, there was like, okay, side story. There was a woman there
Starting point is 00:00:42 and her husband and they had bags and they were collecting these mushrooms and then I said to Aaron, I was like, what do you reckon those mushrooms are? And then he was like, okay, side story. There was a woman there and her husband and they had bags and they were collecting these mushrooms. And then I said to Aaron, I was like, what do you reckon those mushrooms are?
Starting point is 00:00:48 And then he was like, I don't know. And as we saw them at the end of the walk, I said, what kind of mushrooms? She said, they are wild mushrooms and they taste amazing.
Starting point is 00:00:57 And she's gone to her car. I was like. What? That was her accent. I love it. I don't know. She was like sort of Eastern European or something.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Where is the mushrooms Yeah They're wild mushrooms You inspire us To be creative darling Yes You've really got to Back yourself
Starting point is 00:01:11 If you're going to Forage mushrooms I know Some of them look dodgy Some of them were like Those ones that were like Orangey red With like white dots
Starting point is 00:01:18 Like a cartoon I love those mushrooms Don't eat them You don't eat them Don't eat them I know you love Looking at them Yes I love the look of them I imagine there you don't eat them. You don't eat them. Oh, my God, don't eat them. Don't eat them. I know you love looking at them. Yes.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Yeah, I love the look of them. I imagine there's a smurf living in there. Because I imagine the red means danger, right? Yeah, yeah, that's usually the thing. The nature technique. The raspberries, delicious. Yeah. Cherry's delicious.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Dangerously moorish. Yeah. Oh, there he is. Anyway, so we went in for this walk, and this is the first time that we've been into this forest, but it's very pathed out. Right. And we got there and I was like,
Starting point is 00:01:49 Aaron's got a backpack on. And we were going, we were like, what do we do? Like 60, 90 minutes maybe. Okay. And then I was like,
Starting point is 00:01:56 what do you got in your backpack? It looks heavy. And Aaron had packed like not only two bottles of water, he had packed a leather belt in case one of us fell and we had to like- Tourniquet. Tourniquet. Literally he used the word. What?
Starting point is 00:02:11 He was like, leather will do anything. He said, if you're bleeding and I need to stop the blood, I can do that. You're going for a walk in the forest at the back of your house. I know. Honestly. Like 90 minutes. We didn't even go for a hike. People get lost in there.
Starting point is 00:02:23 He had a safety blanket, one of those tinfoil blankets. Yeah, of course he People get lost in there He had a safety blanket One of those tinfoil blankets Yeah of course he did In there He had a Like a knife You know like a With all the bits and bobs in it This is over
Starting point is 00:02:33 He had like bandages He had So much stuff Always back to bed He was like Only a fool Goes into the bush Unprepared
Starting point is 00:02:43 You're not going into the bush You're going into a wolf. No, people get lost in there all the time. It's massive and there's, as you said, just a multitude of paths. Yeah, but it's not 1,800 metres above sea level. He had to walk this whole thing with this massive backpack on his back just in case I had lost my limb and he had to get the leather belt out and stop the bleeding.
Starting point is 00:03:06 I mean, bless. And the day that this happens and I fall down a cliffside and He won't have it. I'll be grateful. Because you mocked him so relentlessly for it, he finally decides to leave it. He just wouldn't hear a bar of him mocking. I was like, this is OTT. He's got one of those warmth blankets.
Starting point is 00:03:21 It's chilly. It's getting to a chilly time of the year. It wasn't even chilly yesterday. You're not going to be out there. Only a fool goes into the bush unprepared, apparently. The bush, yes, absolutely. If you're going into the mountains in our rugged back country, absolutely. But you were going for a walk in a little forest. How was the walk then?
Starting point is 00:03:41 We got very lost, though, because it's not signposted at all. And it's a shared track with mountain bikers and stuff. So you're constantly like I don't like those shared paths because all of a sudden you just hear
Starting point is 00:03:50 and it's a mountain biker going full tilt around a corner. Yeah but I mean there was no signs nothing to follow so we just kind of kept going up
Starting point is 00:03:59 and then we'd find like a mountain bike path down and then up and down and up and down. It was a bloody good walk but no harm was done. Yeah. And so the belt remained in the backpack. For next time.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Happy Monday. Short week. Short week. Short week. Short little week. Short little week.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Couple of short little weeks, actually. Yeah. A chubby little week. Because there'll be Easter Monday next Monday. A chode of a week. A chode of a week? Yeah, it's wide and short. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:34 Well, no, technically it's not a chode, is it? Because the weekend's not as wide. Oh, no, it is because it's quarter. No, the weekend is. It's not as long or wide. It's square. Four days a week. Technically, if you're going Sunday to Sunday. No, the weekend is. It's not as long or wide. It's square. Four days of work, then four days of weekend.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Technically, if you're going Sunday to Sunday. Now, who's going Sunday to Sunday? Get up to play. The week starts on Monday. It doesn't. None of this, the week starts on Sunday. Oh, I would count it as, you start counting when the work week starts
Starting point is 00:05:00 and you finish counting when the weekend ends. So it's four by four. Right. Okay. So it's a chody week. A couple of chody weeks. Happy chody week. The long weekend group tote, that means. This Thursday, eight o'clock. Join us
Starting point is 00:05:17 for that. Secret Sound continues. $100,000. Seven o'clock, eight o'clock, your next chance is to get in. The top six is on the way. There's another shortage. Oh, this one will really hit home for everybody listening. It's a butler shortage. Not at my house.
Starting point is 00:05:38 You've still got your butler? Full staff. Full staff at my house. I didn't spend years mentally tormenting my staff to have them walk away. No. They actually had Stockholm Syndrome. Also, you hide their passports in your safe, so they can't leave. You think they've got passports?
Starting point is 00:05:54 I burnt those the minute they got here. They're not going anywhere. So this is apparently like luxury lodges and hotels that employ butlers. Imagine. Imagine. Imagine being employ butlers. Imagine. Imagine. Imagine a butler. Yeah. I would feel so bad.
Starting point is 00:06:11 I don't have those at the Holiday Inn, do they? Yeah, but I can't get a... Oh, no, don't worry about it. I'll get it. I'll get it. Actually, no, no,
Starting point is 00:06:17 you sit down. You have the bath. You come here. Just chill out. Do you want a beer? If I'm getting a beer, do you want a beer? I'll get you a beer.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Yeah, it's not really, it's not very Kiwi, is it? But that's the thing, it's for overseas tourists mostly, isn't it? Right, well, there's a butler shortage. Yeah, that's why most of them have left. Top six solutions to the butler shortage. All right, coming up on the show next, though. Oh, we're going to start cute.
Starting point is 00:06:36 A doggy is in a bit of trouble with the law. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Sometimes I wish so deeply where this was on TV right now and people could see the image. I encourage you to Google it after I share this story with you. There's a guy in the UK,
Starting point is 00:06:59 sorry, in Germany, actually, and he received a speeding fine in the mail. Okay. He was like, God, that's terrible. And he opened it up only to find the photo. You know how they snap a pic of you? Have you ever had a speeding ticket where they snap a picture of you? Well, I think in New Zealand, is it true if you request,
Starting point is 00:07:20 you have to pay the moolah? Oh, really? Oh. I've requested pictures once, and I got sent them and very swiftly paid the fine. Oh, when? Oh, I've requested pictures once and I got sent them and very swiftly paid the fine. Oh, when? Oh, when did I drive in a bus lane? Oh, I want proof.
Starting point is 00:07:31 And you're like, here you go. And then you are like, oh, you got a photo with your parking, that was a parking ticket. You look like a burglar. That was a parking ticket, yeah. I looked like I was thieving. He had a big box in a hoodie,
Starting point is 00:07:42 just like. It was raining too and I was like nipping back to my car because I'd been in a loading zone. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Classic. Well, this guy, I think obviously in Germany that just comes with a photo
Starting point is 00:07:51 as proof of the ticket. But it's not a photo of him. There's the steering wheel, the little steering wheel popping out at the top of the photo and then it's a dog, like a little tiny little puppy sitting behind the wheel just sort of looking straight forward. He's on the owner's lap while the owner's driving. The owner's reclined and sitting back.
Starting point is 00:08:12 No, so what happened was like the guy was driving along and to be fair, he was speeding. And apparently the dog usually has its own little seatbelt. Right. Of course it does. What would you call it? It's not like a Pomeranian. It looks like that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:29 It's like a small little silly dog. Yeah. And then apparently the dog like jumped, he didn't have it in the little seatbelt on this very day, jumped on his lap for all of three seconds and that just happened to be the moment that he got snapped. Because it looks like the dog's driving. It looks like the dog's driving
Starting point is 00:08:42 because his little paws are up on the wheel. Like this. And he's just looking dead for it. Unfortunately, he did have to pay the 50 euros. Pretty worth for the photo. How fast was he going? That's quite a cheap speeding fine. Oh, it was only like less than 10 over. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Okay. So I've Googled and you can request a speed camera photo for free online. It's free. Can't you? I swear it used to be. I think when it used to be, because didn't they used to actually be camera rolls in there? Well, definitely.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Back in the day? Like film. Like I don't think they've always been digital. And now I remember when they installed digital ones and they're like, good luck, because we can take thousands of things now. Yeah, yeah, because they'd only ever deal out the top percentage of them, eh? But digital ones and they're like, good luck because we can take thousands of things out. Yeah, yeah, because they'd only ever deal out the top percentage of them,
Starting point is 00:09:28 eh? But then digital, they're like, I can do this all day, baby. Yeah. Well, this one, I would frame this. I would get a print on a T-shirt. It's so stupid. You can't even see the driver's face. Ten past six.
Starting point is 00:09:41 I made something yesterday. I've crafted. I have something yesterday. I've crafted. I have lathe'd. Oh, no. You know what you lathe'd last time? Oh, no, this is slightly more practical. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Yesterday, I returned to the lathe after a wee lathe break.
Starting point is 00:10:03 I think when I hurt my back, I stopped lathing. Right. The lathe I got for my birthday from my friends. And I tried to make, I tried to finish making this wooden goblet that I was making. Oh, okay. Like a drinking cup. Yeah. Oh.
Starting point is 00:10:18 But I had a disaster and the top chipped off, so I had to make it a shorter. Oh, it's a champagne. Yeah. Oh, it's weird. Is it like an egg cup? Yes. Like a little. It does look like an egg cup.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Eggs and soldiers. Here's a picture of it. It's because the base was supposed to be for a taller top. So it's got this like. It looks like a shot glass. It's a chody. It's like a bloody door handle. It does look like a.
Starting point is 00:10:43 I can make door handles. It does. It's a chody little cup's like a bloody door handle. It does look like a, I can make door handles. It does. It's a chody little cup because it was supposed to be taller on the top, but the top chipped off, so I just had to, I had to retcon. It would be a,
Starting point is 00:10:53 that's, no one's ever put a handle on a shot glass. Yeah, it's got a, this is a shot glass bottom with a good weight on the bottom. You're not going to knock this over. It's classy.
Starting point is 00:11:02 There's nothing about that that's dainty, Fletch. And then, that's thick. It's classy. There's nothing about that that's dainty, Fletch. And then... That's thick. It's thick. It's thick. After I did that, I was on a roll, so I was like, I'm going to give this a go.
Starting point is 00:11:12 And I made a rolling pin. I made Sharts a rolling pin for all those pastries she's always making. Did she want a rolling pin? She hadn't mentioned it. Ooh. Yeah, sorry. This is my first rolling pin. The handles, no, the handles are the same length.
Starting point is 00:11:28 You just can't see the entire handle because it's hidden, but it's on an angle. I took a lot of time to make the handles almost identical. The rolling bit's good, isn't it? It's thick. The handles are, yeah. But then I was like, how long? This is the sort of thing you probably need
Starting point is 00:11:43 to look into before you just start with a huge piece of wood spinning at 3,000 RPM and you start putting a chisel against it. Like, I didn't know how long rolling pins were. I don't know. Because I just kind of, like, had this bit of wood, so I put my hands on the side and I was like, I'm going to imagine the rolling part's got to be quite big. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:02 I don't think there's a hard and fast rule about the length of a rolling pin. You're so close to having... It's got to be able to fit in the drawer. Yeah. Mine doesn't. We haven't seen if this fits in the drawer. I have to have mine in the little pantry. Because I've got a giant long one.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Yeah, you want a big long one, eh? It's a long one. But it's got these coloured things you can put on the end. So you can have the same thickness when you roll stuff. Far apart. I know. It's pretty bougie. What do you mean,
Starting point is 00:12:28 I don't understand? It's pretty bougie. Oh, wait, so it lifts effectively like a jack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's got these like wheels that go on the end. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:36 I see what you mean. I got it at like students. That's flash. One of those places. But that's how I always know you made a homemade pizza is one part of the crust
Starting point is 00:12:44 is like thick and one part of the crust is like thick and one part is like super thin. One's so thin it's like you can see through it. Yeah. And it's cooked and it's crisp and it goes. Not in my house. You're an even roller. Yeah, three mils.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Three mils. Wow. Three mils though. I don't have a rolling pin. I'm going to make you a rolling pin. Make Hayley a rolling pin. I've just got to wait for the tree we cut down at your place last week. I thought that would be a nice pin. I'm going to make your rolling pin. Make Hayley a rolling pin. I've just got to wait for the tree we cut down at your place last week.
Starting point is 00:13:06 I thought that would be a nice touch. I took some wood and I'm going to make it. Oh, right. But there's a really long one so I'm going to make the longest rolling pin
Starting point is 00:13:13 I can on my lathe. Yeah. I'll have to get a custom made draw for it. That's what I had in mind. I wonder if that is going to fit in our draw. It's a girthy boy.
Starting point is 00:13:21 You'll need to do that thing in the, what do you call it? I call it an implement drawer. Yeah. Utensil. Utensil drawer. Implements?
Starting point is 00:13:29 Implements. And then you, well you push, you put your hand and you push everything to the side so you can fit in like a, because it can't sit on top.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Usually it's like the soup ladle or one of the biggest spoons or the potato masher. Always the masher or the ladle. That stupid son of a bitch. Those guys have to
Starting point is 00:13:42 top and tail in a drawer. Yeah. Yes. Because they take up so many ladle that way, potato masher this way to top and tail in a drawer. Yeah. Because they take up so many. Ladle that way, potato masher this way. So that might need a drawer clear before I pop that in. You're so close to being one of those old mates in a market selling wooden spoons. So there's a guy, someone sent me a photo at Queenstown, the Queenstown markets.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Yeah. There's a guy called Vaughn and it's like Vaughn's Wooden Goods. Oh, he's taken, you can't overtake him. And somebody said, we thought it might have been you. I was like, yeah, because I make all my stuff in Auckland and then fly to Queenstown to sell it. I mean, you've got to go where the people with the money are. Of course.
Starting point is 00:14:12 But then they went up and looked and they were like, oh, hi, and had a quick look and walked away. And then this grumpy old bugger said, it wasn't even worth getting out of bed this morning. That's me. That's you. It might just be me. It does sound like you.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Yeah. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Good news and bad news. Is this good, good, bad, good? No, just good and bad. Okay. Do you want the good or the bad?
Starting point is 00:14:35 Yeah, you always start with the bad. The bad news is New Zealand's average life expectancy has dropped. It dropped in 2021. Oh. It went up in 2028. Yeah, but it's still higher than it was pre-pandemic. Wow. Why?
Starting point is 00:14:51 Good old us. Do they know why? Not as old as we were us. I guess we let COVID in, didn't we? Yeah, we let COVID in. The gangs spread it around, remember? And then it was all over. I thought you meant the gangs were going around
Starting point is 00:15:05 like executing old people. How old are you? We don't know. 82. Sorry, mate. So this comes from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Colorado who studied life expectancy
Starting point is 00:15:16 with the US and other nations around the world. And yeah, so along with Norway and South Korea, New Zealand was only one of three countries to gain life expectancy since 2019. So that's why there's good and bad news. Like we dipped a little, but we're still up. So we gained it and then we've dipped a bit, but we're still up.
Starting point is 00:15:38 The average New Zealander is expected to live to be 81.99. So let's round up. Does it have the gender breakdown? 82. It does not. Oh. Which would you just assume like normally would be women.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Females higher than males. But then I was wondering if one in particular had dropped away in 2021, dragging the overall average down. Well, men fear worse from COVID. They do. Don't they? More mortalities? Is that right?
Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah, yeah. Well, that's, I mean, it's, you know, they suffer from colds and flus worse than ladies. That's why I had my balls. They genuinely do. I had my balls removed at the weekend. Oh, did you? That's the major difference.
Starting point is 00:16:18 COVID precaution. Yeah, COVID precaution for COVID. I don't want long COVID, so that's all. Yeah, right. No, no, no, no. I can't see any use of them. Chop them off. You should do the same fledge.
Starting point is 00:16:25 82 though. That's 50 years away for me. I'm not going to have the KiwiSaver left over. Oh, mine's going to run out within the first year at this rate. Do they just give it to you all
Starting point is 00:16:35 when you get to 65 and then you just... You can lump some of it or drip it. Because that'd be me. I'd just be like, oh God, let's go on a cruise. Yeah, let's go on a holiday
Starting point is 00:16:43 and then it'll all be gone. Live on a cruise ship and then when it's done wrap yourself in a carpet and huck yourself off the boat. Yeah, I'm just be like, oh God, let's go on a cruise. Yeah, let's go on a holiday. And then it'll all be gone. Live on a cruise ship and then when it's done, wrap yourself in a carpet and huck yourself off the back. Yeah, I'm out of there. How will you get over the railings in a carpet? Easy. Well, you just have to run at it, hobble at it. Hold the edges. Yeah, hold the edges so it doesn't
Starting point is 00:16:58 unravel. This is my idea. And feel free to use this if you want to roll yourself up in a rug and huck yourself off the back of a cruise ship. I don't want to take Velcro strips. Oh, yeah, nice. That's a my idea. And feel free to use this if you want to roll yourself up in a rug and huck yourself off the back of a cruise ship. I don't want to take Velcro strips. Oh, yeah, nice. That's a great idea. So then, you know, there's some Velcro,
Starting point is 00:17:11 and then you roll around and it holds the rug shut. Now, if you picture I'm like this, and then I just take a one-way rug. Because you won't be able to see. All you've got to do is get more than 50% of your total body weight over the rail. No, do you know what's going to happen? You know how on cruise ships there's the top deck and the bottom one's longer? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:32 So you're going to flip because when you're in the tube of the ride, you can't see. No. So you'll just be like that and you'll just hit the rail at the waist. You'll have to be airlifted to Florida. Oh, no. And you'll end up, yeah, just in a hospital. You'll still be alive even in a hospital. Will they winch me off?
Starting point is 00:17:48 Yeah. Okay, that's when I have my back at night in my pocket. I undo the back and I cut myself. Cut the rope. Yeah. Or you could just spread out your KiwiSaver money. This isn't a KiwiSaver issue. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:00 This is just once I've done what I want to do. Right, okay. Yeah. I want to leave a little something behind now. You're already whinging about your back pain now. Yeah, I know. I'm under halfway. Just under halfway.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Oh, God. That's depressing. That's depressing. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Yum. A study out of America has said that two-thirds of young adults, and actually you brought up the other day that you had to fill in a form
Starting point is 00:18:32 and the only option was young adult or middle-aged. Yeah. So this includes you. You're a young adult. Fantastic. This pertains to you. Two-thirds of young adults dread doing laundry, citing it as the worst chore.
Starting point is 00:18:45 The worst of all the chores. Laundry. I don't mind that. That would be my probably most favourite. I think it's because it's never ending, right? It's every single day. Yes. I mean, more so if you've got kids.
Starting point is 00:19:02 If you've got kids, it's every day. Multiple times a day. I do it maybe a couple times a week. Yeah, I wear a t-shirt. Do you wear like three? Do you get stinky sitting there? Well, this is why I buy lots of socks and undies. Yeah, I got a hell of a lot.
Starting point is 00:19:13 Because then you don't have to do as much. Well, yeah, two-thirds as well say that they avoid wearing their favourite clothes because they don't want to have to wash them and potentially ruin them. Because I don't mind doing laundry. I actually enjoy it. So satisfying. You know that first time you have to wash a sweatshirt? And you're like, goodbye. You're like, goodbye, you'll never be this new.
Starting point is 00:19:33 You'll never be the same. And I've tried every trick in the book with clothes. I've shrunk so many clothes. I enjoy doing laundry, but I'm not very good at it. I can't get stains out. I always shrink things. And then you always have to I enjoy doing laundry, but I'm not very good at it. I can't get stains out. I can't. I always shrink things. And then you always have to buy a bottle of hair conditioner.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Have you ever done that? No. So. A fabric softener. No, hair conditioner. If you shrink something, like a jumper in the wash, and it gets a little bit tight, a little short in the arms, you soak it in hair conditioner,
Starting point is 00:20:04 and it relaxes the fibers of the fabric. Like shampoo. Yeah, and then you can gently And it relaxes the fibres of the fabric Like shampoo Yeah and then you can like Gently like pull it out a little bit Without stretching Without stretching Huh Relaxes the fibres of the fabric
Starting point is 00:20:13 Relaxes the fibres Really? Yeah Yeah Because I love I love the washing part I love separating It's always your socks and your undies
Starting point is 00:20:20 Go together And you give them a little bit of a hotter wash Yeah Then it's like t-shirts Or light cottons. And then maybe a pair of pants might end up in their shorts, perhaps. Yeah. But not a heavy track pant.
Starting point is 00:20:31 And then I do a heavy wash of like your sweatshirts, your jeans, your denim. And then I hang them all out separately. With same color pegs. Yep. And you're not a monster that puts towels in with t-shirts. Are you kidding me? Who was I raised by? No, sir.
Starting point is 00:20:48 I know. It's terrible. Yeah. I don't think I ever did that. You know when you first leave home? Yeah. I think my mum gave me sort of a crash course in laundry. She's like, here's the one thing you don't want to do.
Starting point is 00:21:00 You don't want to put your towels in with anything because it's just going to ruin everything. And so I never did, but I know I had flatmates all the way through. Towel, tea towels, undies. Yeah, everything of theirs went in one wash. This is madness. It's not the worst chore. The windows. Doing the windows or
Starting point is 00:21:15 like dusting and skirting boards. Fly poo off the ceiling. That's the worst. Those little brown dots. You use exit mould. No. The easiest. Don't use exit mould. Baby wipes. ceiling oh yeah the worst yeah you use those little brown dots you use sugar exit mold no the easiest exit mold baby wipes oh really baby wipes are good for fly poos oh because they're gentle on the paint yes but they um they dissolve it there's something in it yeah right oh my god when we sold our house we had you maybe left the ceiling a little bit and there was some fly poos
Starting point is 00:21:46 and then you know how you can't paint over it? Why can't you paint over it? It bleeds through. Oh, does it? It's magic. So you've got to clean it. At our place, when we did our ceilings like years of fly poo, it had never been cleaned. They had to oil paint it. Yes. To seal it in.
Starting point is 00:22:01 But what if the flies start breaking out? They start hatching. No, it's not eggs, it's poopsies. It, to seal it in. Effectively seal it in. But what if the flies start breaking out? They start hatching. No, it's not eggs. It's poopsies. It's poopsies. Okay, I'll feel. The eggs don't come out of the poops. They come out of when they lay the eggs in like meat.
Starting point is 00:22:15 So the maggots have got something to eat when they hatch. Well, I, in the last house, this is just before, this is like a week before open home started. And I was like, oh, do you know what I'm going to do? Do you know what would be good on this? It's a bit of sugar scope and a bit of scouring. And then so I sugar scoped and scoured the ceiling. And I did it so, I stripped all the
Starting point is 00:22:33 paint, but we had to paint all the ceilings. We had to like quickly paint the ceilings. You could be very gentle with them. You could be gentle. Baby wipes. See, that job's worse. Way worse than doing laundry. I don't like folding laundry because I can't. Yeah, but you've got the retail fold. I've never learned the retail fold.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Oh, my God. You've just got to get your fingers involved. Oh, my God. Every time I'm in a store and I pack up a T-shirt and then I can't put it down the right way, I'm just like, I need to leave the store now. No, they prefer you to leave it than fold it. Manky, eh?
Starting point is 00:23:00 Yeah, yeah. I'll pass that to me. Like folding a T-shirt in the middle so there's the split up the middle. No. No, good. I'll teach you the T-shirt fold. From the bustling ZM think tank,
Starting point is 00:23:11 this is the top six. Well, hello. Is that how a butler talks? Good morning, ma'am. No? No. Don't they say master? Hello, master. Hello, master.
Starting point is 00:23:25 Hello, master. You rang. Master, master, master. Who's that lurch? You rang. Adam's family had lurch. Not monsters. I'm going to get corrected on that by someone who's a big fan of 1960s
Starting point is 00:23:41 black and white monster-based television. So Queenstown has a shortage. It's what they have described as an unusual staff and quandary. It can't find any trained butlers. I didn't even know, in all seriousness, that butlers were a thing in New Zealand. This must be like high-end accommodation. The Carlin Hotel opened last week in Queenstown.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Chuck that a Google. We're both there. Everyone's having a Google. The Carlin Hotel opened last week in Queenstown. Chuck, go to Google. All everyone's having to Google. It's been a challenging few years. Constant price increases for building supplies and its chief executive, Kevin Carlin of Carlin Hotel said we have
Starting point is 00:24:19 department managers all aboard but again bartenders, food service, housekeepers and butlers. Oh my god, look, there's a butler there. He's sexy. So I just Googled Carlin Hotel on hotels.com. Prices from $2,270 a night. Oh my God, we should go. We should go.
Starting point is 00:24:36 I mean, unless it's going to be $200 or something for the weekend. Or they get a special. Yeah, you're getting a special. I don't know if I'll be staying here. Getting a booking.com ticket. Looks lovely, though. Where's this, in Queenstown? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Show me whereabouts. Whereabouts in Queenstown is it? It's up on the hill. It's up on the hill. It's up on the hill, ladies and gents. It's overlooking the lake. Lake Wakatipu.
Starting point is 00:24:54 It's beautiful, guys. It looks amazing. You get your own private little spa on the deck. I think I know that one. Yeah, right. You see it, when you're up on
Starting point is 00:25:02 the skyline luge, it's to your left. That part of Queenstown. Yeah, right. Up the back of you're up on the skyline luge, it's to your left. That part of Queenstown. Yeah, right. Up the back of town. Oh, there's a butler. Look. In one of the photos.
Starting point is 00:25:12 In the Eagle's Nest suite. Oh. I don't like it when people call luxury accommodation the Eagle's Nest because Hitler had an Eagle's Nest. Yeah, he did. Yeah. As part of staying there, you can hire a Maserati. Is it included in the $2,200 or on top?
Starting point is 00:25:26 No, no, no, additional. I'd be like, yeah, come on. You'd drive it downtown, you wouldn't be able to get a car. Oh, my God. Yeah, but look, this butler, he's got a cheese board. And there's all kinds of stuff on there. So it's really hard to find a butler in New Zealand, Kevin Carlin goes on to say.
Starting point is 00:25:42 We don't have a butler school like they do in China or America or Europe. Oh, okay. See, Kevin sounds posh, but then he said China or America or Europe. He should have said China, America or Europe. Comma, comma, comma. Yeah, he's misused the common use. He might as well have said, how to find a butler don't have it in China
Starting point is 00:25:59 and America and Europe and me. Well, you're not getting an invite to the hotel, are you? I was just munging him down because he seems wealthy. I would love a stay at the Carlin. It looks lovely, doesn't it? Okay, but can't you just hire a Darrow Aussie who's over for the ski season? They don't want that Darrow.
Starting point is 00:26:17 They walk in, they'll be like, how's it going? Seawards, you guys want some shoes? I had a Nibble on the way up. We've got a Maserati if you want it. The Maser? You want to go for a Mas? I've got a Mazzotti downstairs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Don't do any doughies though, because I did and I got told off. I told them to stick their job up their ass. So in a while I just came to say, I hate your cheese. Top six ways to solve the butler shortage. That's today's top six. Number six.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Get my mum to shame the wealthy into doing their own shit. They'll be like, ding dong, she was sick of hidden. Yes. Could we have a cheese board, please? What did your last life die of?
Starting point is 00:26:54 Slam. Oh, yeah. We're a little pickish. Well, there's an apple. Have an apple. We don't want an apple. You can't be that pickish. Bam.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Slams the door. She'd put them in their place Absolutely Absolutely Can we have a little Pretty dinner snack You'll ruin your appetite And I've made schnitzel With a nice coating
Starting point is 00:27:17 Rich people might actually Pay extra to be treated like that I know some Do you know what I mean I might be able to make a fortune Humiliating rich people Who get off on get humiliated. Calling them,
Starting point is 00:27:26 you povo. Yeah, you think you're better than me? Yeah. Number five on the list is the top six ways to solve the butler shortage. Make them use
Starting point is 00:27:34 their kids as butlers. Oh, okay. So the kids will grow up with a healthy disdain for the super wealthy and they'll end up eating them. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Eat the rich. When everyone says eat the rich, everyone says Eat the rich I'm like How rich we talking? Yeah, we don't want gout Yeah Oh yeah
Starting point is 00:27:49 You don't want to get that You know Oh, ah All the rich food I've been eating It's important If you're eating the rich Just have some veggies in there
Starting point is 00:27:58 A lot of greens And some acid Some lemon To cut through the richness Yes You know what I mean? Some vinegar Some cilantro Some sort of cooling things To cut through the richness you know what I mean some vinegar, some cilantro some sort of cooling things to cut through the richness
Starting point is 00:28:08 and some greens, so that's people who vote for the greens they're not rich exactly why you need it to make you appreciate some poor greens and some nice thick riches number four on the list of the top six ways to solve the butler shortage, robot butlers oh yeah
Starting point is 00:28:23 I'm talking them Boston Dynamic freaky ass running cheater things. Did you see they had those, China's got the robot dogs out patrolling their lockdown? Yeah. It's real dystopian. 360 cameras on them, mate. So someone's just sitting there watching. I think it reports them.
Starting point is 00:28:39 It's got the facial recognition software in it as well. Turn on you. That was literally an episode of Black Mirror, right? It really was, yeah. It was. Where they got chased down by the robot dogs for being where they shouldn't have been. Number three on the list of the top six ways
Starting point is 00:28:53 to solve the butler shortage is make it not a shortage. Tipping isn't a thing here and neither should butlers be. So you might get some room service, but you're not getting a butler. Number two on the list of the top six ways to solve the butler shortage. Take turns being butler. Okay. Like the husband's the butler.
Starting point is 00:29:11 Oh, yeah. And then the wife or the wife and the wife or the husband and the husband. I'm not here to force my heteronormative. Well, look at this bedroom. It's great for a role play, isn't it? A butler role play. Oh, yeah, but you still got to go and stay in this fancy place. You could F word the butler.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Yes. You could. Yeah. Can I get a cheese board? In the Maserati. You get more than the cheese board. Oh, yeah. And then you could, like,
Starting point is 00:29:35 play Batman and Alfred. There was some stuff going on in that Batcave. Oh, without a doubt. Yeah. Like, Catwoman seemed like an inconvenience at times, really. Yeah, she was a bit.
Starting point is 00:29:43 She was a bit. She's absolutely killing our vibe. Absolutely. And number one on the list of the top six ways to solve the butler shortage, BYO butlers. If you're rich enough for a holiday butler, you must have one at home. And they want a holiday too, so it would be nice if you took them on holiday. Well, you've got to shout them a flight.
Starting point is 00:30:00 Or they have to pay for their own flight. No, they can drive down and meet you there. No. They can drive to Maserati. But what if they're in Australia? Then you'll get on the ferry. Fly the private jet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:13 But sit where you can't be seen, like in the broom cupboard. I'm assuming private jets have broom cupboards. You've got to put your broom somewhere. We're going to put your broom. Everywhere you're going to be, if you're going to have a broom, you've got to have a cupboard for it. That is today's top six. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play
Starting point is 00:30:26 ZM. Wow. We're prepping the garage and the whole house basically for renovations by getting rid of everything we don't need. Okay. I'm talking side tables that are too big for the space, a couch that we have only owned for a short amount of time and it doesn't fit
Starting point is 00:30:42 anywhere. A number of things have gone up on Trade Me over the weekend. And I don't know if you've used Trade Me on your phone to upload, to list an item. But when you list the item, you choose the photos first and it just opens your camera roll and you just go tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. All the ones. Easy.
Starting point is 00:30:57 Yeah, upload. I've never done it. I despise listing things. Yeah, it's hard. Is there a service that does it for you? And they are more than welcome to have like 50%. They've got things for sale. Yeah, it's hard. Is there a service that does it for you and they are more than welcome to have like 50%? They've got that for clothing. Yeah, I guess, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:11 There's clothing stores that do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's going to be somebody sitting at home writing and you take them the stuff and they sell it for you and then... Maybe. Okay. Well... It is such a pain in the...
Starting point is 00:31:24 And already, like, they've been up for about 24 hours and like, can I have the measurement from armpit to armpit? From nape to hem. I'm like, get a grip. What is a nape? It's a size 12. What is a nape? What's the nape?
Starting point is 00:31:35 What is the nape? Anyway, so this particular listing in question here that got me a little bit embarrassed was vintage side tables forward slash bedside tables. Wait, are you just trying to get an ad out there for free on our very popular radio show? Yeah, I don't have a story. What I'm trying to do is head to my Trade Me listings. Right.
Starting point is 00:31:56 You're circumventing the advertising process. I am. It's got to go. Which would cost you money. Everything's got to go. Right, okay. You can come over to my house, pick it up, and have a little nosy.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Right, okay. Anyway, so vintage side tables, they're very cute. They're these little red and gold style vintage side tables, but they don't fit anywhere. So I listed those and then I went about my day and then got a notification saying question on your listing. Yeah. And it was like, what's the interior measurement of the drawer
Starting point is 00:32:25 at the bottom because i've got a specially made case for all my fun time toys anyway so when it but when i clicked on the listing the first photo on the listing like the the thumbnail that you'd see when you're scrolling through vintage homewares wasn't of the side tables. It was of a berry smoothie. Like sitting on the desk here at work, you can see the ZM logos in the background. Yeah, you can. So like every meal I eat at the moment,
Starting point is 00:32:59 I take a photo of it to talk to my nutritionist at the moment because I'm dealing with my gut. And I just take a photo like, that's my smoothie. And it's a bad smoothie too. It's all separated and clumpy and gross and there's like a used mask and yeah, the ZM backdrop in the background.
Starting point is 00:33:15 And I accidentally, when I was uploading my photos, uploaded this photo of this honestly awful looking smoothie as the key photo. What's in your gallery at the moment? Out of everything in your gallery right now, how bad could it have been?
Starting point is 00:33:32 So if I go close to the photos I took of the glutes, yeah, a lot of food. A lot of food, okay. A lot of food stuff A lot of food, okay. A lot of food stuff. So not too bad then. There's a screenshot of Surge Tank in a System of a Down announces live solo album. I could have uploaded that and shared that with the word of trade me.
Starting point is 00:33:58 Cat pics, no, there's nothing dodgy in here yet. Some, I wouldn't want that up. Just having a scroll, I would just say I wouldn't want that up. Just having a scroll, I would just say I wouldn't want that up. What's in your recents? Fletch? A lot of food.
Starting point is 00:34:13 A lot of screenshots. Last night with the lads we were discussing our favourite dance based movies from the early to mid 2000s. Do you remember
Starting point is 00:34:21 when there was that big craze of dance movies? Yeah. And I said my vote had to be with Honey, the Jessica Alba-led, purely for Jessica Alba alone. Yes. And so there was a lot of screenshots of dance movies.
Starting point is 00:34:33 Step up to the streets. Vintage side tables. The Honey poster. Exactly. Or one movie where she's spinning around and like, water's coming up. Yeah. I'd be like, yeah, that could have been.
Starting point is 00:34:44 But it could have been so much worse. Honestly, it's a busy and like, water's coming up. Yeah. I'd be like, yeah, that could have been. But it could have been so much worse. Honestly, it's a busy phone, let's just say that. There's a lot going on in there. So I wanted to ask you, listeners, when did you accidentally upload something that you weren't supposed to? Also, feel free
Starting point is 00:34:59 to dob in. Receiving. The boomers in your life. I'm reluctant to say boomers. I know that raises their heckles. But that, I would say, it's absolutely boomer territory. A lot of community notices we get is where somebody will be alerting the community to something or trying to sell something locally and then they end up putting up a whole lot of photos of them
Starting point is 00:35:20 and their lovely wife in front of a waterfall. But whether you accidentally uploaded it in an email or a text message. Absolutely, or you were submitting a CV for Ray. There's something in the news recently, isn't there, about a guy
Starting point is 00:35:37 who was trying to upload a CV I think. Was it a CV? And instead uploaded his STD results that's right yeah his results from the doctor it's always
Starting point is 00:35:48 when a website it's always like attach your files here and you're like okay click I know and then it opens and downloads
Starting point is 00:35:54 and they're all just like code like a bunch of numbers and letters and stuff you're like oh that's the most recent one that's my CV
Starting point is 00:36:01 click yeah but it's not no that's your your herpes results alright so 0800-DARZEN-M 9696 to text in recent one, that's my CV. Click, yeah. But it's not. No, that's your herpes results. Alright, so 0800-966 to text in. When did you accidentally
Starting point is 00:36:10 upload something? And what was the aftermath? Alright, give us a call. We're talking about when you uploaded something you weren't supposed to yesterday. Over the weekend I was listing a few things on Trade Me and the key thumbnail I put for my vintage side tables
Starting point is 00:36:26 was a picture of my manky berry smoothie from Friday morning. You've got to be careful when you're uploading from your phone. You double check. But you just go, you just like tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. And they all just go up. It's easy, yeah, yeah. You don't see them. You only ever see the last one.
Starting point is 00:36:41 So we asked you, yeah, when did you upload something you weren't supposed to? Some messages in. We've got some some nudies definitely some nudies because it was that story we mentioned just before the guy in the uk accidentally was up attaching a file on his computer uploaded his sti results yeah also one thing you've got to be careful of if you've got the email all composed and then you nip out, screenshot something, quickly go back into the email, click attachments, and do the last screenshot. It might not be the screenshot you just took
Starting point is 00:37:13 because that takes like five seconds to be like, do you want to do anything with this one? Are you going to edit this one? On a Mac it does, yeah. And then I'll put it on for a bit. Yeah, so you could do totally the wrong screenshot. A message on Instagram, I was talking SHIT about my employee and accidentally attached it to an email to said employee.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Oh, that's a good payout if you're the employee. Yeah. I sent my new job contract to somebody I work with, not the new HR person. They both start with K, so that was wrong. Oh, like that applied for a new job. Yeah. Anonymous joins us, that applied for a new job. Yeah. Anonymous joins us, which normally indicates a good story. Anonymous, good morning.
Starting point is 00:37:50 Good morning, Aidan. Good, good. So who accidentally uploaded? It's actually a sick man story from my wife. So on our first date, the first thing she ever told me about was her boss accidentally uploaded a downstairs operation pic on Valentine's Day to his Facebook story. Oh!
Starting point is 00:38:10 Wow, okay. And what mode was downstairs during said photo shoot? It wasn't flattering by all accounts. I don't think it was at its best photo position. Relaxed.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Relaxed. Re best photo position. Relaxed. Relaxed. Yeah, relaxed. Reclined. Reclined position. Who's taking a photo of a relaxed downstairs situation? I believe he's a boomer, so that could have had something to do with it. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:38:37 And it was on Valentine's Day, so. Oh, he's like, he's like, oh, I miss you, Sue. I'm floppy without you. And Sue's like, well, you nip home after work and I'll sort that out for you. I'll sort out that for you. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:38:52 Anonymous, thanks for your call. Josh, did you accidentally upload something? No, so it was my partner's dad and mum have recently broken up. So we have a group chat and about three times he's uploaded a picture of his willy I guess to a family group chat
Starting point is 00:39:13 no dad dad no but he keeps forgetting and so the most recent one was he uploaded a pic of himself and then the mum wrote back this is why I left. Oh mum.
Starting point is 00:39:30 How old a guy is this? Yeah, no, he's decent. Decent age. Okay. Yeah, so he's obviously trolling the sites and then uploaded a picture of himself but he's left a group chat now so we don't know. Oh he has.
Starting point is 00:39:44 It's probably for the best to be honest. How embarrassing to upload a picture of himself, but he's left the group chat now, so we don't know. Oh, he has. Right. It's probably for the best, to be honest. How embarrassing to upload a dick pic and then immediately leave the group. He needs to use if this is in, like, WhatsApp. He just needs to only have the one conversation in WhatsApp. You know, like he needs to segment these things to different apps. But yeah, it's a little funny. Well, I'm so sorry you had to look that in the eye. That's all right.
Starting point is 00:40:07 That is terrible. Good God. Thanks for your call. Another message said, I came across a tradies promotional post on social media, which was highlighting
Starting point is 00:40:17 their recently completed jobs. Included in the photos was a screenshot of someone demanding payment and threatening debt collection for their ongoing financial situation. Okay, so that's not a good advertisement for the business. photos was a screenshot of someone demanding payment and threatening debt collection for their ongoing financial situation. Okay, so that's not
Starting point is 00:40:28 a good advertisement for the business. They might make a bloody great awning. Yeah. Or deck. Oh, they're known for their awnings. Lovely awnings. But the finances need to be taken care of. Oh, no. I did my GST
Starting point is 00:40:43 over the weekend. Did you do your GST? I did do my GST over the weekend. Some bizarre payments in there. Yeah. I like that about GST too. I'm like, what was that? You know when you can't find the receipt for something and then the bank statement sort of cuts off what it's from? So I had one that was like, the location for NZ space U.
Starting point is 00:41:03 And I was like like what is this? It's likely to be a bar. But it was like $480. Oh wow, okay. What was it? It was the bar when
Starting point is 00:41:12 we took a credit card and paid the final bill with it. Ah, yeah, yeah. That was right. You remember you shouted the whole bar? Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:41:19 We had drinks. address. Today's silly little poll. Do you share your food with your pet? I guess that's anything from like scraping off your scraps for your dog to hone on. A little bit chicken. No, bad habit. Bad habit. Feeding your dog from the dinner table.
Starting point is 00:41:58 Bad habit. Feeding it human food so when it can smell it, it thinks it's food it's had before, it'll have again. It's a bad habit. Yeah. Also, we season, like, why season the meat too much? And, like, we're going to get a cat. Cats aren't supposed to have garlic and pepper and onions.
Starting point is 00:42:14 No. They're not supposed to eat cooked. Onions. No. No. Well, this is very, very close. One of the closest, in fact. Yeah, 49%. Nah,
Starting point is 00:42:26 51%. See, there's chucking a bit of sausage to your dog off your plate, but then there's letting a dog lick your ice cream. Both bad. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Or like spoon feeding. Get the dog its own ice cream.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Yeah, get a little doggy ice cream. Cheapest ice, your little doggy ice cream. Isn't dairy terrible for pets? Yeah, it rips right through them. Like cheese for cats and stuff. Yeah, no, no, no. Cheese is only because animals love it so much you can hide pills in it.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Yes. That's the only time an animal gets cheese at our place. The only human food we'll share with Raleigh every now and then will be a little bit of shaved ham. He loves ham. A little bit of shaved ham. Yeah, he. He loves a little bit of shaved ham. Yeah, he always comes in like, hey, I'm here about the ham.
Starting point is 00:43:10 Got some processed salty ham there. He loves a bit of processed champagne. He loves champagne. Shaved ham. He's a cat from the streets who has a fine taste for things. Yeah. Some messages in. Not really,
Starting point is 00:43:26 but if I'm using cheese, the dogs get a little and they love the end of the carrot. The end of the carrot. The hard bit of the carrot. I'd give them that, but I'd feed them in their bowl.
Starting point is 00:43:34 Don't chuck it to them. See, this is why you can't do it. Kieran message saying, my dog has IBS. Last time I gave her some of my food, she shat in her sleep all over me,
Starting point is 00:43:44 my bed, the wall, the carpet, even my face. Never again. Never again. Oh, that is gross. But also you've got a dog sleeping with a human there, and I'm also against dogs on the bed. My cat Bruno, says Rachel, has fish and chips with us.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Will choose his chippies from the floor and eat with us. No, not off the paper. Total snob, though, and has'll choose his chippies from the floor and eat with us. No, not off the paper. Total snob though and has to choose his own chips. Disproves if we choose his chips for him. No, because then you've got a cat pawing amongst all the chips. Yeah. If you're eating fish and chips on the floor, which is a sacred institution. Yeah. Every animal has to
Starting point is 00:44:20 get out. Get out. I think a lot of people that are messaging against the idea of sharing your food with pets have been scorned before. Katie messages not anymore because she got the shits from it and cost us bloody $500 for a really bad case of gastro. Yeah. I want to know what the cat and or dog ate there that caused the gastro. Oh, every time, Pauline, every time we open an ice cream,
Starting point is 00:44:40 the cat comes running and will sit and wait for a taste. If we don't give her a taste, she swipes at us. Put her on the nose. Spray her with a water bottle. The cat doesn't run the household, Pauline. I believe Rebecca will be a dog owner. Honestly, sometimes I just can't be bothered getting the vacuum cleaner out. That's just a scoop onto the floor.
Starting point is 00:44:57 They just hoover it up. Our cats are allowed to lick the plates after we've eaten. I know you're going to clean this. This is gross. And if they're around while I'm cutting up meat, they'll get little bits. Oh, yeah. Cassie messages saying,
Starting point is 00:45:11 my seriously fussy cat refuses to eat human food. He eats one type and one type only of cat food and it must be fresh. Oh, really? That's too good for your food. Oh, yeah. And then it'll lick its bum, won't it? Yeah, well, lick its bum and then lick its paws and then...
Starting point is 00:45:27 And then turn down your delicious... And then turn down your roast lamb. Yeah. Stupid cats. Can't say. Stupid animals. Bless them. Well, this comes out of the UK.
Starting point is 00:45:47 Of course, same as us. Their cost of living is skyrocketing at the moment. Food's expensive. Gas is expensive. Bills are expensive. So some new research has revealed that almost a third, 31%, of single Brits want a partner just to help them save money. Well, you think about it. It makes everything like half price, right?
Starting point is 00:46:08 Like rent. No. No, that's not quite how it works. It does. It does. It makes everything cheaper. But they believe that couples pay less for housing and can budget better as a duo. I mean, I think it does work out that way.
Starting point is 00:46:20 It's definitely not half. No. It's definitely not. No, because if you're living in a small room, that's going to be two people in a room and then that's not going to be half. No. It's definitely not. No, because if you're living in a small room, that's going to be two people in a room, and then that's not going to be enjoyable. No. You're probably going to have to get a bigger place,
Starting point is 00:46:31 which is going to cost more. Yeah, but if two people moved into a room, and one person moved into a room, and they were the same size room, the couple would still pay more, because they're still using the house. Yes. But when you split that in half, if you do 50-50,
Starting point is 00:46:44 it does work out cheaper. So you're saying it's better to be in a loveless relationship just to have cheaper bills. Well, this is the thing though. So this is the perception that singles have. If I get a partner,
Starting point is 00:46:57 we'll split 50-50 on everything, bills and everything included. Yeah. And it'll be cheaper. However, the data shows that that's actually not true. Oh, because you've got to take them out for dinner and stuff, eh? You actually end up spending.
Starting point is 00:47:09 Spending more. They said there's a, they assessed the average spending habits of those who were single and those who were together, cohabitating, they said. And they found that couples spend 17% more per month than those unattached once you split it. Right. Yeah, I know. Well, is it because, is this just on utilities and bills
Starting point is 00:47:33 or is this like because they're together they have to go out and- Weekly food shop. You're probably also more likely to live by yourself if you're a couple compared to if you're single you're more likely to live with people. Live in a flat, that's right. Yeah. They spend 33% more each on bills compared to their single counterparts. An extra 26% on their food shop.
Starting point is 00:47:57 I guess he's just always making more food. Whereas I'm definitely like that. Like when Aaron's away or when I was living on my own, I would just buy what I needed to eat whereas if Aaron I'm constantly like oh my god I've got to buy all this food
Starting point is 00:48:07 yeah right especially feeding a big man like I am where's the big man he eats he eats a lot you've got to feel the fire
Starting point is 00:48:13 yeah in fact the only area where singles are actually spending more money is on clothing and beauty oh right
Starting point is 00:48:20 because you just let yourself go when you've got a partner don't you you just put on trackies all the time and you let your monobrow grow out
Starting point is 00:48:27 Right, but overall it's the couple spending more Overall, couples are spending more I wouldn't have thought that would have been the case It's crazy You can't argue with stats So don't get with someone you're not that keen on just to save money because it sounds like you're not going to save much money
Starting point is 00:48:42 Not going to save that much money at all Be single. Be single. Be ready to mingle. Yeah. But the cost of living and see lots of people. It's expensive anywhere.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Yeah. It's expensive whether you're single or together. They're going to cost you money. You might as well enjoy seeing them naked, you know? Good point. Yeah, actually free nudity
Starting point is 00:49:00 at the drop of a hat. For a year, you can't put a price on that, can you? At any given moment, you could be like, give us a look at your jennies. Yeah. That's free.
Starting point is 00:49:07 Pop your trowel down. Yeah, right. I like that. I like that. I like having that around. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Border Break is a competition we have been running
Starting point is 00:49:19 because the borders have reopened again. Yes. Where can you travel? Vaccinated and you get your little snooze test before you come back to New Zealand and it's much easier to come. No MIQ. Oh, yeah. For the majority of people.
Starting point is 00:49:32 It's certainly easier to travel again. Looking forward to welcoming tourists and looking forward to welcoming people home. So we took some nominations. I want to say thousands. Thousands of entries. It was nearly a thousand. So you could say thousands. A thousand. We received thousands of entries. Tens of entries. It was nearly a thousand. So you could say thousands. A thousand.
Starting point is 00:49:45 We received thousands of entries. Tens of hundreds. Tens of hundreds. No, tens of tens. No, tens of hundreds is a thousand. No, it was nearly a thousand entries. Yeah, of people that thought they wanted to come at war. We've selected somebody.
Starting point is 00:49:57 Yeah. Now, I've got the voice disguiser. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 60 Minutes anonymous face. Yeah. Hello, good morning. Hello. Hello.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Can you hear me? I can hear you. Can you hear us? I can hear you. You're a finalist in our Border Break competition. You've been away for three years. Yes. And we hear that you're really missing your family.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yeah, I'm missing, especially my mum, I think. A lot of mum and dad, but my mum, yeah. I miss my mum. As a dad, as a dad, can I just say that that hurts on behalf of all dads. We know a lot of the time we're not the favourite. Like when you're sick, you run to mum. No, it's not a favourite thing, is it? But there's something in you as a woman, I feel it too,
Starting point is 00:50:44 where you're just like, I need my mum. Do you get that? Yeah, no, definitely. I'm actually born on my mum's birthday and we just have this connection. Oh, my God. Soul sisters. That's so special. Tell us, what would it mean to you if we were able to bring you home
Starting point is 00:50:58 to see your family and particularly your mum? It would mean the world. Even just thinking about it, I'm like, well, generally, I think I would probably, a lot of ugly crying, I think. Right. She's one of those people, she would do anything to have me home. So I think she would just be like overwhelmed with emotion as well. Well, here's the good news.
Starting point is 00:51:17 She doesn't need to do anything more because you are the winner of our ZM Border Break and we're bringing you home to be reunited with your family. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? It's you. We're just going to see when the cheapest flights are.
Starting point is 00:51:32 I'm not going to lie to you. We're not paying... We're not paying premium prices. We're looking for the specials. We're out there hunting. But we are going to be bringing you home and kind of following you as you see your parents and stuff for the first time. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:51:50 That means that I can't even. Oh, my God. That means the world, honestly. Is there anybody else that we should trick into being there at the time? Siblings? So I think I'll probably try and get my sister in on it to help out with the logistics. Oh, we're bringing sister in? We're bringing sister in.
Starting point is 00:52:07 Yeah, into the spirit. Can she be trusted? Oh, I think so. Oh, we're so excited to bring you home to see your family. I actually don't even know what to say. I'm so lost for words. I'm trying not to cry now. Just checking.
Starting point is 00:52:22 We're all fully vaccinated with no criminal records and no outstanding student loans. They're going to get you arrested at the airport? No, I'm fully not to cry now. Just checking. We're all fully vaccinated with no criminal records and no outstanding student loans. They're going to get you arrested at the airport? No, I'm fully vaxxed. I even got the first night, everything. Good to go. Nice, nice, nice. I'm just, imagine,
Starting point is 00:52:34 it would actually be a pretty good video that we fly you all the way home and then Inland Revenue's waiting for you at the airport to arrest you for skipping out on student loans. We're actually working for Jacinda in the government. We're trying to bring people who have student loans home. We're going to catch them. Because as much as it costs us to fly you home,
Starting point is 00:52:49 we'll get more out of you because you have been skipping student loans. All right, well, we're going to have to do some secret squirrelling. We'll be planning with you the big arrival. And then we're going to reunite you with your family. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe this. Oh, I'm overwhelmed right now my gosh. I can't believe this. Oh, I'm just overwhelmed right now.
Starting point is 00:53:07 Thank you guys so much. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. Well, nearly two decades, 19 years since. Has it been that long? Yeah, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez broke up. September 2003, they called off their engagement. Because they met doing Geely, right?
Starting point is 00:53:28 Yes, Geely, that's right. Currently at a 6% Rotten Tomato review and a 2.6 out of 10 on IMDb. Nothing brings you closer together than shared trauma. Yeah, that's true. And maybe that's what doing that film was. Yeah, well, so 2003, the wedding was planned. They called it off due to excessive media attention on their relationship.
Starting point is 00:53:49 And then four months later, they officially broke up. Well, we all know that they got back together. And everyone's very happy about it. And, of course, over the weekend, Ben proposed. Two decades later. Because I think everybody's noticed how, like, you know how he was in all those really sad memes? Yes. And it'd always be outside with a ciggy looking all like this.
Starting point is 00:54:07 And now he just looks so happy. And I think the world can just see how happy he is. He is so happy. Shay is so happy. And I would be too with a 8.5 carat natural green diamond. Have you seen this thing? It is like. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:54:21 It's like the size of a 10 cent coin. I mean, I'm shaking my head i don't know why did you say you'd be happy with it and then when i you showed me yeah can you also like we're like yeah because it's worth like millions it would be like um winning the lotto yeah i'd sell it and then get what i actually wanted yeah of equity value uh but it's absolutely like everyone's loving this story because they've just come around full circle. Yeah. They went out with other people, Ana de Armas,
Starting point is 00:54:54 and she was engaged to that dude, that business dude. And the, was it Rod Reyes was a baseball player? Yeah, A-Rod. A-Rod. That too. A-Rod. A-Rod. They were together for ages and they were super serious.
Starting point is 00:55:07 And that she's just like, she's peaking at the moment. Yeah. And now they're back. They gave it another go. The second time round, I reckon this is going to stick. After a big gap. Massive break. Do you think they kept in touch in those 20 years between?
Starting point is 00:55:21 I don't know. If you were Jennifer Garner, would you want your husband Ben Affleck still being in regular contact with Jennifer Lopez? No. A Jennifer of equal or higher standing? No. My rule is you can only contact people who are called Jennifer that are not as good looking. Okay, right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:38 Also, it sucks for Jennifer Garner because, you know, there's J-Lo, and that's very cool, but she can't be like J-Gar. No. That's not as cool. J-Gar. It sounds like one not as cool. J-Gar. It sounds like one of those little plates that you rub the bacteria in at school and then put them in the incubator to see what grew.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Yeah. Petri dish with that. Like an A-Gar. With the J-Gar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The J-Gar jelly. Look, it's a beautiful love story and we want to hear some more.
Starting point is 00:55:58 So when did it work out for you the second time round? So you want to hear from people that you saw someone, you started a relationship or maybe you had a fling and then you were like, this can't happen. No, and you went away for some time and then you came back together and it was the real deal. How much of a gap are we looking for?
Starting point is 00:56:18 Not as big as obviously 18 years. I mean, yeah, 20 years odd would be a miracle to find. Are you going to put a minimum time of at least six months or a year? At least a year. At least a year. We can't have this like, we broke up and then like the week after, I was like, he's the one.
Starting point is 00:56:33 Yeah, we broke up at the weekend and then Monday, I was like, I've made a mistake. I miss him so much. What have I done? What have I done? You guys are annoying. The people that do that, I'll just let you know, everybody, including some of your best friends,
Starting point is 00:56:44 think you're so annoying. Yeah. I want to hear from like, you went out and you lived your own life again. Maybe you got into another relationship. Yeah, you just like, you change. Because that's what they've both done, is they've gone and worked on themselves. Maybe you married someone else. And you were like, I'm married to this thing.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Three kids in the mix. Yeah. And then you went back to your high school boyfriend. Alright, so 0800DARLS. We want to hear your stories this morning. You can text as well, 9696. Tell us, when did it work out the second time around? Well, the world's a better place, isn't it, after the weekend? Because J-Lo and Ben Affleck got engaged after they got back together
Starting point is 00:57:20 after 19 years separated since they cancelled their first engagement. So we want to know, when is it worth the second time? Are you all right? I was just having a yawn. He's upset because J-Lo's gone. Off the market. She a bit of you? What do you think?
Starting point is 00:57:38 Who is it? I mean, run through the Vaughn Smith criteria. What do you think? Run through the Vaughn Smith criteria and you would, you know, you'd get a J-Lo. Oh, absolutely. She's 52 years old. Like, wow.
Starting point is 00:57:51 I mean, her face isn't. No. I think she said worse. Oh, my God. Absolutely. Her forehead doesn't move. Doesn't it? No.
Starting point is 00:58:01 I mean, you know, she's got her own skin care and all of that, but Jennifer Lopez has definitely had work. Are you just Googling now to back up your claims? Jennifer Lopez, work done. How many people do you reckon are Google celebrities? Work done. She has always claimed, this is as of last year as well, she said, for the 500 millionth time,
Starting point is 00:58:20 I have never had Botox or injectables or surgery. Yeah, she might just be one of those people. She's saying get you some J-Lo beauty and feel beautiful in your own skin. She's promoting her beauty brand. She's not going to admit that she gets a little bit of... She's done well. Yeah. A little full, a little right. Let's just say I've never seen a 52-year-old face
Starting point is 00:58:37 that looks like that. But she looks incredible. Regardless. 52-year-olds used to look like old as. Oh, like back in the... But is that just because I'm closer to 52 now than when I was like 12 and I whipped up. 52-year-olds used to look like old ass, eh? Oh, like back in the day. Are you just saying that because... But is that just because I'm closer to 52 now than when I was like 12 and I'd see a 52-year-old and to me that was an old person? No, but people do look, used to look older than they do now.
Starting point is 00:58:54 Is it sunscreen? Yeah, sunscreen, beauty products. We actually don't put things on our skin. Yeah. Anyway, we wanted to... I'm not having a dig. Her shirt looks incredible. We want to know when you've made it work a second time around,
Starting point is 00:59:07 when that love was lost and then found. Yeah, some messages. And my mother was married in her early 20s, not for very long, and they broke up. 20 years later, she remarried the same man. And they've been together for 17 years now. Oh, my God. Now, she refers to this guy as the same man,
Starting point is 00:59:24 so this obviously isn't her dad. Yeah. Her dad must have been in the middle. My husband and I were together at high school. We went our own ways at 17, 18. He had another relationship and a child. Then we got back together at about 24, 25. Okay. Been together since. Made it work a second time.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Annabelle, when did you make it work a second time? So this is my mum and so in 2003 she met my stepdad on a course for three days and then she ran away from him. Ran for the hills. She's like, no, get out of here. So then my dad came back home and they got married in 2008. And then they divorced in 2013
Starting point is 01:00:07 and she got back together with my stepfather in 2014 and now they've just recently married. Oh, she didn't run away. She didn't run away the second time. No, she didn't run away the second time. Maybe it's too early to tell still. You never know. Annabelle, thanks for your call.
Starting point is 01:00:23 Stacey, when did you make it work a second time? It was my mother and father-in-law. So my father-in-law was 18 and my mother-in-law got pregnant with my husband and I don't know what happened. They split up and we never saw it. He never saw him. And when we were
Starting point is 01:00:39 21, I was going to my husband, you could have walked past your dad and not known him. Let me find him. So I found him. They'd subsequently had their own families and they left each other and got back going to my husband you could have walked past your dad and not known him let me find him so i found him they'd subsequently had their own families and they left each other and got back together and my husband was 22 so yeah they were together for well they've been together ever since but she sadly passed away but she was the love of his life he hid a vinyl record yeah he hid in his in his bathroom his new house with his new family, which is a bit... But he had a Bob Marley record that he'd bought her and he had it framed behind a picture hidden with the date he gave it to her and everything
Starting point is 01:01:12 and he'd kept it all those years. Oh. Oh, wow. Love is alive. Love is alive. It is. Stacey, thanks for your call. Georgia, when did you make it work a second time?
Starting point is 01:01:22 Morning. I met this guy in primary school in Australia in 2007 and then high school. We were like, nah. And then both moved back to New Zealand in 2015 and we've been together ever since. Oh, a primary school love. Yeah, so it's like a little childhood sweetheart story.
Starting point is 01:01:42 A little sweetheart. Wow. Yeah. What was it that drew you back to the flame? Well, I was just like, because we were still like kept in contact. Our family were still really good friends. Oh, yeah. And I was actually going to move back to Australia because I was down south.
Starting point is 01:01:58 And so I came and visited him before I left. And I just haven't left yet. Oh, that's beautiful. That is. Georgia, amazing. Thanks, you call. Some more messages in. A friend of mine left his first wife in the 1970s,
Starting point is 01:02:14 married and divorced four more times and then remarried number one in the 2000s. Could have saved so much money and time. Yeah, do you use the same ring when you get back together? Oh, you've already got it. Yeah. I could already buy you this. My grand date of the guy in her teenage years,
Starting point is 01:02:31 50 years later, they met up again and got married. They were together 20 years before he passed away at the ripe old age of 93 last year. Oh, my God. 50 years apart. Yeah. Souls. It's souls connecting.
Starting point is 01:02:44 Yeah, intertwined souls. Lots of these, lots of these. I met my now wife 15 years apart. Yeah. Souls. Yeah. It's souls connecting. Intertwined souls. Lots of these. Lots of these. I met my now wife 15 years ago. We were together 18 months, then split, got back together, and have been married for over 10 years now. Oh, beautiful. Currently dating my very first boyfriend eight years later.
Starting point is 01:02:58 We went out for two weeks in year 10. Oh, God. What a disaster. That's a long time for year 10. Oh, my gosh. So many lunch times. Then matched again on Tinder after eight years. Oh God, what a disaster. That's a long time for year 10. So many lunch times. Then matched again on Tinder after eight years. Oh wow.
Starting point is 01:03:09 Can you imagine, I'm thinking about the boy that I sort of dated On a lunch break? No, in year 10. Imagine if I got married to him now, I'm just thinking about Have you looked him up? Have you had a stalk? Is he hot? Hang on.
Starting point is 01:03:25 I don't want to. Because he'll be listening. What if I say no? No, I remember he's married. We are still friends on Facebook. Oh, okay. Right, okay. I'm happy for him.
Starting point is 01:03:32 What are you trying to break up this guy's marriage for? I don't know. I don't want to see because she's no me, is she? She never will be. He had it all when I was 14. Did he? Is he the one that broke up? Yeah, rightfully so.
Starting point is 01:03:44 I was such an arsehole. His new partner would never do that. Yeah, no. I'm back with my high school sweetheart. We broke up in her early 20s. Both moved on with our lives. He, a new partner and kids. Myself, new relationships and travel.
Starting point is 01:03:59 Reconnected eight years later when we were both single. Two and a half years later, we're still together, building a new home and wanting to have our own baby. Aww. That's nice. Are they facing building shortages? Yeah, they're facing a big wait on jib. That's going to really put a test on this relationship.
Starting point is 01:04:13 Do they have it in on a jib? On a jib supply? Do they have it in on a jib? Hayley's desperately. Massive wait on jib. Massive wait on roof trusses. Yeah. Oh, gosh.
Starting point is 01:04:22 I don't know when they're going to be able to bloody get this. Can't even get railing Can't even get posts to make a bloody fence these days Oh Don't talk to me about shortages That'll tear apart a relationship I tell you what
Starting point is 01:04:30 Yeah You can't keep the kids in can you Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley Fact of the day Day day day, day. Today's fact of the day is about the only known mammal with an odd number of nipples. An odd number? An odd number of functioning nipples Not by like You know like
Starting point is 01:05:05 Humans have a third nipple But it's not even really a nipple It's a mole It's like a pokey mole So they have what One nipple Or three nipples Or five
Starting point is 01:05:15 No no they have 13 Oh Oh unlucky Okay Unlucky for some Unlucky for some Unlucky for some Any guesses?
Starting point is 01:05:25 Mammal. Yep. Oh, I don't know. Pig? No, pigs always an even number of teats. No, they got eight. Oh, right. Pigs are eight?
Starting point is 01:05:34 Six. How do you know? Do different pigs have different amounts? Because they always have a big litter of piggies. I'm a nipple fanatic. How many teats does a pig have? Because you always see them lying down in this mess of a... Pigs, on average, have 12 to 14, so it can vary.
Starting point is 01:05:49 I would like an apology. I beg your pardon. And I do apologise sincerely from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. 12 to 14. 14 is a breed standard. You want a pig with 14? Well, there could be a pig with 13.
Starting point is 01:06:02 You don't know. No, no, no. They're always in evens. Always evens. 12 or 14. I'm not saying 12 to 13. How many nips on a pig with 14. Well, there could be a pig with 13. You don't know. No, no, no. They're always in evens. Oh, always evens. 12 or 14. I'm not saying 12 to 13. How many nips on a quali? That's a good question.
Starting point is 01:06:12 Two? They're my favourite animal. I'd say two. I think they're two just on the chesticles. This would be a fun game show. How many teats? Well, you should do it
Starting point is 01:06:18 on your, have you been paying attention? How many nipples? Nipples in the news. Oh my God, nipples. We could do nipples in the news. That's a great one-on-one game. Yeah. How many nipples does this animal have? Yeah, because this animal Nipples in the news. Oh my god, nipples. We're going to do nipples in the news. That's a great one-on-one game. Yeah. How many nipples does this animal have? Yeah, because this animal's
Starting point is 01:06:28 been in the news. Yeah. Nipples of the news. Yeah. This is great. Producers, if you're listening, Maude and I have an idea. Female koala has two teats. Okay, yeah. I'm just looking at some mammals to make sure I don't get them confused.
Starting point is 01:06:44 Alice the camel had three nips. No, that was humps. Okay. Two on a camel. That would be my guess. Fox. Oh, I don't know how many a fox. Okay, what's a fox?
Starting point is 01:06:55 How many teats does a fox have? Is it, okay, just to narrow it down. Four pairs of teats. I guess they're a dog, right? So they would have like dogs have teats. Give us a clue. Is it land or sea? It's land.
Starting point is 01:07:07 Land mammal. And it's a marsupial. Otter. It's not a marsupial. Isn't it? What's that? It's just a mammal. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:15 And you picked an aquatic mammal. An otter came into my head and they're real cute. They are pretty cute. Hedgehog. Hedgehog. I don't know how many teats a hedgehog has. How many teats does an otter have? An otter has four nipples on the lower abdomen.
Starting point is 01:07:30 What did you just say? A hedgehog. No, they're not going to have lots of nips. I reckon a hedgehog's got two. That's my guess. A wombat. Kangaroo. A hedgehog has five sets of nipples.
Starting point is 01:07:43 So ten nipples all up on a hedgehog. But that's an even number. That's a huge sets of nipples, so ten nipples all up on a hedgehog. What? But that's an even number. That's a huge amount of nipples. Where does it pack all the nipples? Between the... They'd have to be on the soft underbelly. You can't put a nip between some prickly bristles.
Starting point is 01:07:54 You can't, and there's not nips on backs. The mole? No, it's not the mole. Okay, just tell us. Oh, and I just texted Chase. It's the opossum. Oh, my God. Not our possums.
Starting point is 01:08:03 The opossum. The American opossum. Another interesting fact about it, it has 50 teeth. That's the highest number of teeth on any land mammal. Yeah, they're super violent, eh? Yeah. The white ones. America's got the white ones.
Starting point is 01:08:17 Oh, no, I'm thinking of the honey badger. Honey badger. Honey badger. Honey badger. Honey badger. How many teeth does a honey badger have? But honey badgers are very violent animals. Because honey badgers don't give a damn.
Starting point is 01:08:28 Honey badgers do what they want. They don't even care. They're one of my favorite animals because they just trot around all day eating snakes and attacking things. They're awful. They're fantastic. So, yeah, 50 teeth. They usually give birth to 18 to 25 babies.
Starting point is 01:08:41 And with the time of birth, smaller than a bee. Smaller than a honeybee. And they latch onto the nipples, although the mother only has 13, so you've got to be quick. It's survival of the fittest in the pouch. And the other ones, because you pick a nipple and you stay on that nipple for your whole life. Right.
Starting point is 01:08:57 Oh, so it's allocated nipple. Allocated nipples. Yeah, like when you go to the movies and you've got to sit in the seat they give you. Yeah, you're like, damn it, we're too close to the centre. But you do get to pick the nipple, but then you stay in the nipple. So I guess it is like picking your own seat at the movies. Okay, but you do that online before you're born.
Starting point is 01:09:11 Yeah, you want to get an online booking form nice and early because of the shortages, because of the nipple shortages. Okay, right. First in, first served. So then, yeah, obviously if they don't get a nipple, they don't make it. Yeah. I hope I'm not really close to the screen up the front with the front nipple. Yeah, but you don't want to be too close to the back either. Because then you're right down the middle of the pouch. You're right by the toilets. Yeah. I hope I'm not really close to the screen up the front with the front nipple. Yeah, but you don't want to be too close to the back either.
Starting point is 01:09:26 Because then you're right down the middle of the pouch. You're right by the toilets. Yeah. It gets stinky. It gets stinky. So today's fact of the day is the opossum of North America has 13 nipples. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play.
Starting point is 01:09:53 Sid Ames, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Tried a new restaurant the other night, Saturday night. Very brave of you. Sort of an adventurer of sorts. You are. My wife found it She read rave reviews And I can tell you the food was delicious
Starting point is 01:10:10 Okay It's not about Willis restaurant What kind of food was it? Chinese food Yeah But like Chinese street food Oh okay Yeah like quick stuff
Starting point is 01:10:22 Not like a sit down Yeah but we sat down to eat it. It's not like Chinese fine dining. No, no, no. It was like street food, like fried chicken wings. Yum. Dumps? Yeah, there was dumplings.
Starting point is 01:10:35 There was like steamed pork buns. There was like skewers, like all the different sorts of skewers. And it was, yeah, it was real good. It was real good. And I tell you what, they were not afraid to go heavy handed with the MSG. Yum. I love MSG. MSG equals flavour
Starting point is 01:10:50 and yum. I know. And there was this big anti-MSG campaign for a while and it's not, is it? It's the type of salt. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:57 It comes in tomatoes. But it's so much that it was real thirsty so I had to pound like six beers. I just had to. I was a thirsty, I was a thirsty, so I had to pound like six beers. I just had to. I was a thirsty, thirsty boy. Anyway, we were ordering, as we always do,
Starting point is 01:11:11 and when you go somewhere new, I like to try a bit of everything. Yeah. And if there's anything left over, I'm going to ask for a doggie bag, take her home for later. But I want to try... I don't know what I'm getting back there.
Starting point is 01:11:22 Variation. Yeah, I want to try a bit of everything. Okay. So I'm ordering. I. Variation. Yeah, I want to try a bit of everything. Okay. So I'm ordering. I'm rattling off our order. And the waitress is like looking around, running it all down. And then she's like,
Starting point is 01:11:31 I get to the point where I'm thinking about the next thing I want to add to the list. Yeah. And she's like, more people joining you? I was like, no, no, it is myself, my wife, my two children and my father-in-law.
Starting point is 01:11:43 Yeah. Now those two look like they can't eat. Yeah. But they can eat. They can eat. I look like I can eat. Yeah. And my daughter, Andy, our oldest daughter,
Starting point is 01:11:51 she's getting to the point where she can eat. Yeah, good. Good girl. So, you know, we're eating. We're eaters and we're eating. And she said, anybody else joining in? And I said, no. And she said, this is probably looking like quite a bit.
Starting point is 01:12:02 I was like, you shut your mouth and take my order. I want three more of these. So we're then, whenever that she said, this is probably looking like quite a bit. I was like, you shut your mouth and don't order. I want three more of these. So we're then, whenever that gets said, a certain challenge has been issued and we've got to order some more stuff. Anyway, when it all started arriving, we thought, uh-oh, maybe we have pushed the boat out. But I've also thought, uh-oh, maybe we've pushed the boat out before. I've been out with you and we've ordered too much.
Starting point is 01:12:21 And we ate it all. You're going to eat it all. And then we were full and she was like, how was everything? I was like, delicious now about those desserts. And she laughed.
Starting point is 01:12:30 She thought I was kidding around. I was like, we ain't kidding around. I'm not kidding. There was mango pudding. Yeah. And what was the other, the other thing was so good.
Starting point is 01:12:38 Why am I having a memory failure to what it was? And did you eat it all? You ate a few of those as well. Did you take anything away in a doggy bag? No, sir. There was nothing left. And it's something at all? We had a few of those as well. Did you take anything away in a doggy bag? No, sir. There was nothing left.
Starting point is 01:12:47 It is something to witness. I've been at a Smith dinner where we did this. Yeah. Yeah. We eat. As I said, I don't know when we're getting back there again. There's other new restaurants. Yeah, you've got to order lots, right?
Starting point is 01:12:59 You've got to order heaps. And I'm the same. I want like some of everything. Yeah. So if something looks good on the menu, I'm ordering. And so if something looks really good and we're with a group of four, we always get like two of that. Right.
Starting point is 01:13:09 If there's like a beef rendang, we're like, we're going to need two of those. You're going to need two of them because I've got a feeling I'm going to hit that and I'm going to love it. Yeah. I'm going to have one for myself. You guys want one? You can order it. So a lot of meat then at the weekend.
Starting point is 01:13:21 Oh, there's a fair bit of meat, mate. Don't you worry about it. I'm just trying. I'm looking up the menu because I want to tell you what the desserts were. I don't think we can, it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. It really doesn't complete the story.
Starting point is 01:13:31 I think it does because you'd be imagining like I'm there, I'm really, really full and you're thinking... Like what could Vaughan possibly squeeze in? What would have made him be like,
Starting point is 01:13:40 yeah, I'm going to absolutely push that in. I don't know, website loading. I don't know, really, It's not going to matter. The story's kind of done its course now, hasn't it? Yeah, I think we've sort of cut to a break.
Starting point is 01:13:52 No, no, no, no, no. People will be dying. They'll be sitting in their cars outside their workplaces. We are going to cut to a break now. Wait a minute. I don't think we should. No, that's not the menu. Maybe we can come out of the break with it. No, I don't think this warrants a a decline. I don't think we should. Hot on here. No, that's not the menu. Maybe we can come out of the break with it.
Starting point is 01:14:05 No, I don't think this warrants a second break. I don't think people care. They know about this menu. The point of the story was you ate a lot of food. I ate a lot. I ate a ton. Say, for me, we're done now. Yeah, we're done.
Starting point is 01:14:16 Right. See, I would have thought people just would have wanted to know. No, I reckon cue to a break. Three, two, one. Play. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. No, I reckon cue to a break. Three, two, one. Chinese fried buns with sweetened condensed milk. Like you have the condensed milk. Like Chinese donuts.
Starting point is 01:14:39 It's effectively like a Chinese churro. Okay. Yeah, and you dip it in the sweetened condensed milk. I don't think it added to the story before. I think it did now because people are imagining me tearing them in half, these piping hot, steaming, soft on the inside because it's the same sort of bun as you get a barbecue pork bun. So on the outside it's crispy and fried and sweet, and on the inside it's soft and steamy and succulent.
Starting point is 01:15:00 And then you tear them in half with a little bit of the steam out, dip it in the sweetened condensed milk. Straight in the mouth. How much food did you eat? A lot of food. And then because of this chicken wing dish that I've got, it came with so many peppers and MSG, it wasn't even funny. Yesterday, I pooped three times. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 01:15:17 Congrats. It went in and it came out. Andrew, shut up. We did not need to know that. I'm so proud of you. Now, I was terrified because I had beetroot for lunch the time before, and I thought I was dying yesterday. But alas, I'm alive and well.
Starting point is 01:15:31 Bluff or stuff? Snow lying. Snow lying around here. Oh, absolutely. Actually, there's a lot of lying, actually. Well, two people are going to be lying. Two of us are lying. One of us right now is holding a big pair of snow boots,
Starting point is 01:15:46 snowboarding boots. Burden, I can see them right here because I'm holding them. They're white and they've got Burton on them. What else have they got on them? Laces.
Starting point is 01:15:56 They are lace boots. See, what happened just then is that I'm actually holding them. Sade joins us. Good morning, Sade. Good morning, guys. How are you? Sweetheart, you're not allowed to win.
Starting point is 01:16:06 No, this isn't your wife. We're already going to Queen's Seven. Huh? This is not your wife. It's a different Sade. What? Now, Sade, up for grabs right now is a multi-day pass for Kadrona and Tribble Cone. Okay.
Starting point is 01:16:22 All right. So, right now, actually, Kadrona and Tribble Cone's early bird multi right. So right now, actually, Kadrona and Tribble Cone's early bird multi-day sale is on now. They got a dusting the other day. I got very excited when I saw their socials. They're getting a dusting. I just checked on the webcam. The dusting's dusted away, though, but the dusting will be back.
Starting point is 01:16:35 There'll be more dusting. You can scan Snowbird from $75 a day, and it's just a short hop over the Crown Range to get to Cardi's from Queenstown Airport. Absolutely. Easy. So, Sade, we're each going to describe these boots and then you've got to pick who's actually holding them.
Starting point is 01:16:53 Okay. I'm going to start because, let's just cut to the chase, I'm actually holding them and I'll do you one step better. They're leather. They've got sort of guitars on them, which is sort of weird. And here's the sound of them on the desk. Oh, don't lie, Hayley. Here's the sound of them on the desk.
Starting point is 01:17:11 Sorry, your coffee just spilled on your mug when you jammed that on the table there. It's gone on the keyboard. I've got it on my foot. Now I'm stomping on the ground. Because I've got one on my feet. Sure you are. I've got them shut out. I've actually got the boots.
Starting point is 01:17:25 They're my boots. They're Sean White boots from about 2008 when I was allowed to spend money on snowboarding stuff. I'm not allowed anymore. I'm not allowed anymore because I've got a mortgage now. I have to say because I am holding them and wearing one of them, I'm surprised they fit me. They're quite a good fit.
Starting point is 01:17:44 They're a little bit bigger. I'm holding them. I look inside. I'll. They're quite a good fit. They're a little bit bigger. I'm holding them. I look inside. I'll tell you they're a 29 and a half centimetre long boot. I'm a size 10, but I'm just feeling them on my foot. I've got a little wiggle room around the toe. I'd go a size down. Well, with a big thick winter sock.
Starting point is 01:17:56 Thick sock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thick sock on there. Bit of sand. I'm just knocking the sole. Bit of sand coming off. What's that from? Well, I can tell you that's not sand.
Starting point is 01:18:03 I can tell you that's grit that they spread on the car park. Oh, yes. Of actually the last time that those were worn, apart from now where I'm wearing one and holding the other, was at Cardrona. Sorry, I just dropped it, Sade. Sade, who's not lying?
Starting point is 01:18:20 This is so hard. I haven't heard much from you, Fletch. Well, no, I banged them on. Did you want to hear me bang them on the desk again? Yeah. These, Sade, they are mugs. Those are boots. Those are boots.
Starting point is 01:18:35 This is boots, listen. That's cups. That's boots. That's me whacking my foot. That's a jandle. He's got a jandle on his hand. That's not a jandle, you liar. Who wears jandles to work?
Starting point is 01:18:47 That's not very professional. I'm a professional man. Sade, you've got to take a guess. A stab in the dark. Is it Hayley? Let's hurry up as well because they're getting hot on my feet. Is it Vaughn or is it me? Okay, I'm just going to go Vaughn.
Starting point is 01:19:05 You're right. No, Sade. No. Sorry, Sade. Holly. My other Sade would tell you never back Vaughan. Never back Vaughan. You never back Vaughan.
Starting point is 01:19:13 Holly, who's holding the snowboarding boots? Look, this is my fingernails, Holly. Going a little. I'm going to go Hayley. And you're going skiing. Yes, you are. You are. Congratulations. We've got
Starting point is 01:19:25 Fiona Saru-Bashade now. We really put her through the ringer and Holly just swooped in there. Holly, you have swooped in and you have picked up a multi-day pass for Gajrona and Triple Cone. Congratulations. Holly? Awesome. Thank you so, so much. She's crying. She's beside herself.
Starting point is 01:19:43 I thought we'd lost you for a second there. Another chance tomorrow and one every day this week with our game Bluff or Stuff. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. ZM's $100,000 secret sound. Soundkeeper Owls is in, refreshed after a weekend of no secret sounding. Although there was a lot of chat about it, which is fun.
Starting point is 01:20:08 It haunts you. It does. Well, you know what? It's $100,000 now, the jackpot, and people are like that. They want to know. They're like a dog with a bone. Yep, they do. So it was a good weekend, though.
Starting point is 01:20:20 Yeah. They're like a dog without a bone, and they want the bone. Yeah. They're going crazy until they get the bone. Wait, is the bone the sound or the $100,000? The money. The money, yeah. And the sound?
Starting point is 01:20:30 I'm not sure. We can figure that out. It's all in one. Okay, well, Danielle joins us. Good morning, Danielle. Oh, my God. Hello. Oh, my God, Danielle.
Starting point is 01:20:37 You made it through. Hello. Now, Danielle, no pressure, but we're going to give you $100,000 if you can tell us what this sound is. What do you think it is? I think it's a pair of high heels walking on, like, a hard surface. What? Get those high heels out of my house.
Starting point is 01:21:00 Are they ruining the hardwood floors? I don't know. It's hard to tell what kind of heels they are. You're denting my floors. Are you a long time player, Danielle? I've kind of played like all this season and
Starting point is 01:21:17 some of last season. So you know how this goes. You've looked at the clues then on the Instagram? Yeah, yeah. And I've got a bit of like an explanation for all of them, but they might not make sense to everyone. Fletch just mouthed, why not the seasons before that? Where were you the other seasons?
Starting point is 01:21:35 Why have you been playing all the seasons? Oh, who told me? I feel like I missed out. Okay. Well, it's like we've got an indoor netball team and you've just kind of like been playing for a couple of seasons. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:44 She's here now. Sometimes she doesn't come to practice. playing for a couple of seasons. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. She's here now. Sometimes she doesn't come to practice. Yeah, that's me. No practice, no play. Yeah, yeah. All right. Okay. It's a good guess.
Starting point is 01:21:54 It is a good guess. Danielle? Yeah. That is not the secret sound, Danielle. Danielle knew. She's like, yeah, I know, I know. Yeah. Oh, it's so annoying.
Starting point is 01:22:17 All right. You didn't ask me any more questions. I was like, crap. Oh, yeah, yeah. But then sometimes she does ask questions and teases them. That's really mean. Danielle, thank you for playing. We do have another chance this morning at 8 and then across the day at 11, 1, 4 and 5.
Starting point is 01:22:34 It's all thanks to Neon. You can sign up now for your free 14-day trial at neontv.co.nz. T's and C's apply. ZM's $100,000 secret sound. T's and C's apply. Things are heating up because the jackpot is now always $100,000. It's not just a Thursday thing. And it's all thanks to Neon.
Starting point is 01:23:01 You can sign up now for your free 14-day trial at neon.tv.co.nz. T's and C's apply. Loretta, good morning, Loretta. Hi there. How's it going? Good, good. Well, you've got through the first hard bit. The first hard bit. The next hard bit is telling us what this sound is.
Starting point is 01:23:16 For $100,000, Loretta, what is it? I think it's adjusting the dial on a thermostat, like a heat thermostat. Adjusting the dial on a thermostat. Like, heat thermostat, adjusting the dial on a thermostat. Like, is it a clicky dial? Yeah, the clicky dial like on a wall thermostat. Like, yeah, that's adjusting the dial. Like, anyone can go and adjust the dial on a thermostat.
Starting point is 01:23:35 Click. Okay, yeah, right. Yeah. Actually, can I just throw this in there? Yeah. I have done my research. Okay. Cool.
Starting point is 01:23:43 And in season two in the office, episode 17 where they keep adjusting a thermostat Yes, I remember this episode There you go, you've looked at the clues then It's getting through
Starting point is 01:24:00 It's been getting through, I've rung up so much over the weekend Oh gosh Your phone's cutting out Loretta Loretta are you there? through. I've been getting through. I've rung up so much over the weekend. Oh, your phone's cutting out, Loretta. Hold on. Loretta, are you there? Yes, I'm here. Oh, good. You don't want to get through and drop off. Well, let's get
Starting point is 01:24:16 to it while you've got phone reception. Thermostat adjusting. Loretta? Yeah. That is not the secret sound. All right, well, back to the drawing board, back to the research, Loretta. The latest clues, all the guesses that we've had,
Starting point is 01:24:41 ZM secret sound on Instagram. The next guess is coming up at 11 o'clock. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

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