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

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

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The ZM Podcast Network. We've been doing all this late night talking. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Fawn and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the McDonald's app and earn rewards on your coffee. Guys, yesterday went to the dentist for the first time in like two years. Oh, good boy. And guess what?

What? Only one filling. Yes! That's not bad. That's good for me. Good innings. Yeah, that's good for me considering how much chocolate and you know I love Yes. That's not bad. That's good for me. Good innings. Yeah, that's good for me considering how much chocolate and, you know, I love cocktails. He loves a sweetie.

Did you get it then and there? No, going back next week. This is what I don't like about dentists. Come in, charge you for that one, come back, charge you more. Clear the schedule, buddy, and do it then and there. Give me the whole morning. They can't clear the schedule and then you go in and you've got nothing wrong with your teeth. You're just going to hang out

and you're paying for it. I've booked him for an hour. He wants an hour to tidy some things up. So I was like, okay. You were rocking a 15-minuter. No, I wasn't. He has done that before, though.

He's been like, I'll just quickly do this now. Yeah, quickly get it done. Or at least get one out of the way. Because if it's only one filling, he'll probably whack that out in, what, 20 minutes? But the big question is, Hayley,

I don't know if you know this, but Vaughan hasn't been to the dentist. Yeah. And coming up 12 years. Oh, my God. It's wild. Isn't that wild? It's bad, Vaughn.

But I don't have sore teeth. And if I do, that Sensodyne toothpaste will take care of that. And I don't have, like, really bad breath, although Executive Intern Anya scared me the other day about my breath. Yes, you did. So I've been flossing and mouthwashing at least twice daily. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like we should just do it as an on-air bit just to see how bad it is. Do you want to share with the nation how bad it is? Yeah, but then it's the thing about, oh, no, we need to grind your teeth all back to stumps to give you veneers. And then I'm going to have photos of my nasty ass stumpies out there. Oh, look, it's something I'll look into one day. One day? I went to the dentist this week as well. I love it.

I'm very close with my dentist and my hygienist though. We have cuddles. That's wildly unprofessional. That sounds widely unprofessional. Do you give them a hug when you get there? Yeah, and a hug when we leave That's weird I don't know

They're looking after my teeth My teeth are important to me Oh respect Hug your medical professionals I hug my doctor You hug your doctor Your doctor? Yeah I love my doctor

No there's got to be a distance I'm going to You've become too attached In the measure of that Tell you you've got cancer I always get attached But then I'm emotionally invested So you hug him

Doctor what's his face Medical Dr. Wynn Dr. Wynn Do you hug Dr. Wynn Acupuncturist No but we give each other A little rough

You're not roughing up Dr. Wynn Yeah I'm going to the doctor tomorrow Because my doctor's leaving She's moving out of town And I've ordered flowers I'm going to pick them up

And I've got a candle A card and flowers Wait so you've booked An appointment to give her flowers Yeah I'll get some pills and shit I pick them up and I've got a candle, a card and flowers. Wait, so you've booked an appointment to give her flowers? Yeah. I'll get some pills and shit. You haven't been getting free appointments. No, God, no. This is a distanced professional relationship.

You're overstepping the patient. No, these people care for me and my body and that's important to me. And so I respect them and love them. They don't care for your body. They're being paid to do their job. No, they do though. I feel like you, yeah that's so weird. It's like bloody Ed Sheeran bringing us flowers because we play his song with such delicate respect. I couldn't give a fuck what song's playing. You're just another, you should just be another 15 minutes of their day.

No, I get very close with my medical professionals. I do. It's odd, That's odd. It's odd. What about Sparky's? I'd rather hug my Sparky. Yeah, I'd probably hug my Sparky once we get started. At least if you gave him a bit of a hug, he might put an extra row of LED lights on. Who knows? Yeah.

He might really pay dividends, you know, get a fake and a dimmer switch or something. Yeah, for free. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Thank you, Sam. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Fawn and Hayley. Let's just skip past that whole new virus in China thing.

That name's going to be hard to remember. Yeah, it's not catchy enough. I've already forgotten it. Good. New virus. That's what I'm calling it. Well, we've still got monkeypox to worry about. COVID, obviously. My brain's only got room for two.

So, yeah. Occupied. I'm Langer-Hippen-Hennepa virus or Levy. Levy. Levy. Have you got Levy? Levy. You've got Levy.

You've got the Levy. Yeah. Three dozen people in China have been sickened by it, and it's carried by shrews, little long-nosed-looking ratty things. Oh, I thought you meant shrewsberry biscuits. Shrewsberry biscuits. So we have to burn all of our shrewsberries. I thought you meant shrews as in sort of like catty women.

You shrew? The shrews, yeah, it affects the mostly catty woman. Do you want to know The reported Side effects The reported symptoms Yeah give it to me Fatigue

Cough Loss of appetite Oh I'll have one of those Says every mum ever If there's ever a side effect Of loss of appetite Aches And several of the farmers

Because most of the people So far have it are farmers, have developed blood cell abnormalities and signs of liver and kidney damage. Oh, fantastic. That one's not as good. But so far, all survived. Right.

Oh, I hope they lock that down. Let's keep that in China. Yeah. That'd be lovely. Well, that worked last time. I'm currently creating a username so I can write in the Apple forums, in the support forums, because my alarm didn't go off again today.

And neither did yours, Fawn. Mine didn't. The light came on. I woke up when I was like, what's that light? Is it daylight? And it was just my phone lit up, but it was like late. It never made a sound. And the only thing that's changed was yesterday when we got home from Dunedin,

I had a little nap and set an alarm to wake up by 2.45. I haven't done that. And I don't usually do that. If I have a nap, I'm like, okay, two-hour nap, begin countdown from two hours. Yeah, I do a countdown. Yeah, I do a countdown and I don't set an alarm. So this is the first time I've taken it with the alarms since this new update. I think there's been an update, but if you use the sleep schedule, which is automatic,

you just set it once and then it will just wake you up every time at that time. But it failed you Monday. It failed Monday. Failed last night. Failed the night before. Yeah, so you've got to set a manual alarm. But I'm writing on a forum having a whinge. Because if you don't tell people They don't know these things

Squeaky wheel gets the grease Exactly Isn't it? Exactly Coming up on the show The top six We've got some new smelly candles Yeah, Bubblo Bill scented candle

That's just a joke It's not Gaytime Cone Just the cone Plain cone there Yeah I think that would smell quite nice Vanillary Yeah

Baked Vanillary I'm a big fan of vanilla scented candles. French vanilla is still absolutely one of my favourites. So I've got the top six other food-based scented candles we need. One of them, of course, would be bacon. It won't be on the list because we're talking

about bacon next on the show. Yeah, this is, um, it's got people riled up, hasn't it? Riled up, it makes sense, but I'll also say, if you know a little bit about bacon, this shouldn't be a problem. Okay. Hmm. Hmm.

Hmm. All right. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Saw this causing some controversy online yesterday. Re-bacon. What a wonderful meat. Yeah, it's yum, isn't it?

Streaky bacon, of course. It's definitely not in my top tier of meats. I don't know why. It's just full on and afterwards I never feel great. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's so rich. I know, I know.

Ma'am, I can't even. No, we're not speaking the same language. I could part. I'm talking about bacon. I know, I know. Ma'am, I can't even, no, we're not speaking the same language. I could part. I'm talking about bacon. I could part with it. Bacon. Yeah, the pink squiggly stuff. Yeah. I could do without it.

You're mad. You're crazy. The smell alone will get me drifting down the hallway of the house like a, you know, 1950s cartoon cat. Like a Warner Brothers cartoon. Yeah, yeah, following the smell of it. I kind of get that. Like sometimes you're in the mood for streaky bacon or bacon with breakfast.

Other times, not so much. Yeah. And after I have a big bacon meal, I feel like crap. I'm a streaky bacon, primarily streaky bacon guy. Yeah, same. In Australia, they love that. What's that? Shoulder, middle.

Shoulder, yeah. The big slab shoulder bacon. And it's real dry. And Australians don't know a good breakfast, eh? Australians don't know much, to be honest. Nah, rubbish. So streaky bacon is made of the pork belly. Now, pork bellies are meat that takes a little bit more cooking.

So a chef has really got people wound up by saying the trick to a lovely crispy bacon, and this is the other thing. Do you like a crispy bacon or do you like a- I like a soft. A bit of a bite. Yeah. You know you go to America, have you ever had it in America? And it's literally, you have to snap it.

It's a crime. It's a crime, yeah. It's on its way to being a jerky at that stage. Yeah, pretty much. So he's saying the key to a good bacon is to boil the bacon before frying the bacon because the belly, the meat part- Yeah. So he's saying the key to a good bacon is to boil the bacon before frying the bacon. Because the belly, the meat part, takes longer to cook and render. And it's so fatty that it's a slow cooked meat.

If you've ever cooked your own bacon, you get a pork belly, you brine it, and then you really slowly cook it. Then you give it a scorch. Then you give it a scorch. Now, if you're making your own, you've already done the cooking part. And I think he's buying bacon, he's saying, and then it needs a boil, then a fry. Right. Is he buying bacon that has not been fully cooked? I don't know. Yeah, because bacon is.

Bacon, good bacon should be cooked. Because Henderson's is a New Zealand bacon brand that does, in my opinion, the best streaky bacon on the market. Because it's not like full of water. Yeah, but if you boil bacon or any meat, you're just going to lose the flavor, right? Is it going to go into the water? You're going to have lovely bacon water. You're going to have a beautiful little bacon water.

You can make your coffee with that water. Oh, bacon coffee. And have a bacon coffee. Have a bacon coffee. But yeah, you do run the risk of boiling off fat. Yeah. And fat holds a lot of the flavor. Yeah, right.

So he's saying give it a boil That you know tenderises the meat in there But in my opinion it should have been smoked Cold smoked Slowly enough that it's cooked already Yeah But so the internet isn't happy about this Well no they just don't like the idea of boiling bacon

It's pretty gross Because it is gross It's like giving it Yeah giving it a boil The only time I like a liquidy bacon Is if it's like a hock in a soup. Yeah, yum. You know?

Did we talk on air about pork shin? I believe we did, yes. Did we cover pork shin on air? I'm going to stop the meat chat. We'll be here for weeks if we get him to say more about meat. I think it was an off-air chat, actually, the shin. The don't encourage him. I saw pork shin.

It wasn't for a shin. It was a weird choice. I saw pork shin at Pack and Save. Now, I've never seen pork shin before, but I love pork shin. It was a weird choice. I saw pork shin at Pack and Save. Now, I've never seen pork shin before, but I love beef shin. Beef shin is so delicious. If you get it on the bone, it's got the marrow in the bone

and the marrow bubbles out and flavours the meat. It can't be beaten. But I'd never seen pork shin before. Purchased it, slow cooked it, shredded it up for pork tacos. I don't know if I'm going back to shoulder. Oh, okay, wow. I don't know if I'm going back to shoulder. Oh, okay, wow. I don't know if I'm going back to shoulder.

The pork shin, delicious. Okay. All I'm saying is, see it. Don't screw your nose up at pork shin. Give it a good go. Right, okay. Is it cheaper than pork shoulder? Dude, it was so cheap.

It was a trash meat. That's a handy, it's a trash meat. All the best meats are trash meats. Yeah, I know. You just got to have the time to cook them slow. All right. Next on the show. I want to talk about a study that has found that women love men with small.

Insert our next topic here. Oh, okay. Men with small. Hmm. What could it be? Balls. Not balls. No one wants big balls.

Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. So a university somewhere in the world, a well-respected university. Yeah. University of Jaen in Spain. Jaen? J-A-E-N? J-A-E-N. Oh, Jaen. Jaen? No, it's not Jaen. It's the way in. Yeah, Jaen. J-A-E-N J-A-E-N Oh Juan

No it's not Juan It's N Juan Anyway the prestigious University did a study That looked into how Women perceive men With or without

A small dog At their side. And the way they did this really makes me laugh. So they showed, they got a bunch of male actors to, and they photographed them walking towards the camera. Okay. And they photographed them walking towards the camera, sans dog, no dog.

Yeah. And with dog, small dog small dog okay in particular are we talking like really stupid little dogs we're talking about your pomeranians we're talking your bichon friezes your little pugs mini miniature idiots yeah those things miniature idiots yeah um and they said and Those things. Miniature idiots. Yeah. And they found in the study that when the women responded to the pictures of the men with the little dogs in a way that was positive, less intimidating and threatening. You know, men walking down the street is just generally seen that way, I guess. When they're alone, women felt safer, calmer, and more in control if they were walking towards the man with the little dog. And I guess it's just because it's like a sensitive thing, you know, like it's a softer side of the male creed.

Would they have felt the same if they were walking towards them with a giant Alsatian? Yeah, well, they said that. They said that bigger dogs, like big burly dogs, add to the sense of fear and intimidation. Right. What about a retriever? They circumnavigate all rules for big dogs.

They're still like, weren't they the other day when we talked about dogs? And that's like the number one. Number one family dog. Number one dog. That vet was talking about dogs? And that's like the number one. Number one family dog. Number one dog. That vet was talking about her list of do's and don'ts. She said the retriever was the top. Yeah, exactly. No, they didn't look at that.

They just, they had little dogs. I'm just looking at a list of the American Kennel Club, which I don't think we should hold in any sort of high regard because French Bulldogs are on the list and you know my thoughts. Yep. I'm looking at their list of like their 12 top small dog breeds and there's like apart from the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, I've got a lot of time for a Spaniel.

Yeah. Nothing in here is ticking the box for me. I'm looking at a Havanese. This is the national dog of Cuba. Far too much here. It would be hot in Cuba. It is very hot in Cuba, yeah. Then there's the Pug and the French Bulldog

and then the Bichon Frise and the Italian Greyhound. The little kind of genus got these. It's a no from me. The Papillon. The Norfolk Terrier looks cute. I don't mind like a wiry sort of a terrier, but it can't be a yappy one. Got no time for that.

It has to be certain, over a certain size. Is this a good idea for a single man, do you think? To get or borrow a silly little dog if you don't have one and just walk around and maybe... This isn't news. What you're saying, you sound like you're someone across news. This isn't news. It's proven.

Try and intrude that and take somebody else's baby for a walk. Right. And all the women will be like, oh, my God. Is this your baby? Oh, no, I'm Uncle. Uncle Steve. Yeah. Uncle Steve takes baby for a walk. Uncle Steve sounds like a great.

Uncle Steve's going to get it. They're also saying it's good for big dudes. Oh yeah. Like the guy, you know, the world's strongest man, the guy who plays the mountain in Game of Thrones. Yeah. He's got a little miniature thing. I'd laugh. I'd laugh.

I'd laugh. I find it so funny when I see a big burly bloke walking a tiny little dog. Yeah. It's so funny. Dwayne The Rock Johnson's got a little dog. Hugh Jackman's got a little puggy looking thing. Pitbull's got a little... Pitbull?

Pitbull doesn't have a pitbull. Pitbull doesn't have a pitbull. Pitbull should totally have a pitbull. Pitbull's got a Bajon Freeze. Oh, dude. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley from the self-driving ZM Think Tank. This is the Top Six. Hello.

Buff, Bubble-O-Bill, Gaytime Cones. It's a few of the new scented candle aromas. This is marketing 101, isn't it? Yeah. What bit of the Bubble-O-Bill will it smell like? That's what I'm wondering. I don't know what a Bubble-O-Bill

smells like. It'll be Bubble-Gum flavoured. Because they've got chocolate and strawberry. Hubba Bubba could do all their different flavours because everybody kind of had a favourite Hubba Bubba

and it smelt every one of them smelt a little bit different. If you want to Wait, was that pink? No, it was like a brownie pink. Okay. I thought it was more pink.

No, the strawberry's pink. It's strawberry and an original. Like a corally kind of pink. Yeah, okay. What was its flavour? If you want a

Original. If you want a bubblegum scent just walk behind a vaper. Yeah. No, that's candy floss. Jared has a little vape. No, his is bubblegum because it smells like Goody Gum Drops ice cream.

Hubba Bubba original. No wonder the kids are all addicted. No wonder the kids love a vape. Outrageous original Hubba Bubba, but it doesn't say what flavor it is. It's original. Yeah, but what's that? Just bubble gum. It's original gum flavor.

Like creaming soda. Think about what gum tastes like. It's original. But it's all got a flip. Well, now you can have a candle that smells like an ice cream. Yeah, so the top six other scented candles we need based off food. Number six on the list. I don't believe I've ever smelt one of these.

Okay. Freshly brewed coffee. A coffee scented candle. A coffee scented candle. It would really wake you up. Surely there would be. Oh, there's already going to be coffee candles. You can already get like leather and... Yeah. Whiskey. Cigars get like leather and cigar. I had a

cigar and leather one and I had a whiskey and leather one. Those ones are really nice. Really nice. Really musky. Yeah. Deep? That's not a word for a scent is it? A deep? I don't know. I hate to say it a coffee scented can. I mean

there's thousands. There's thousands of them. Yeah, yeah. Order me four. Number five on the list of the top six food-scented candles we need, freshly baked cookies. If it can sell a house, it should be a candle. Yeah. I have a candle that is like gingerbread cookie. And I burn it at Christmas.

Very Christmassy. And, oh, it's like spicy and warm and sweet. That would go nice with the Okoye. They do the Christmas one, don't they? The pine. The pine. Every Christmas. That's so good.

You've got your full Christmas scent range going on there. Number four on the list are the top six food scented candles we need. It may already exist, speaking of selling houses. Freshly baked bread. Yum. Little doughy fresh baked bread. That's the trick, eh? Grab a loaf of that from the bakery before you open home and give it 15 minutes.

On fan bake so the fan pushes the scent through the house. Yeah, just leave the oven open. A little crack in the oven door and away you go. Number three on the list of the top six food scented candles we need. Fried chicken. Oh, yum. What a smell. What a smell. Or maybe nuggies. Oh, yeah, that'd be nice. A, yum. What a smell. What a smell.

Or maybe nuggies. Oh, yeah, that'd be nice. A nuggies scented candle. I want nuggies. I've been thinking about nuggies all week. Yum, yum, nuggies. Number two on the list of the top six top socks. Top socks, food scented candles are candy floss.

Oh, yeah, that would be yum. Yeah, which is just the smell of melted sugar, really. It is, yeah. Totally, but that's delicious. And number one just the smell of melted sugar, really. It is, yeah. Totally, but that's delicious. And number one on the list of the top six food scented candles we need. This is because every time this has been cooked, when I walk into the house, I'm like, oh, my God, it smells amazing. And all that's in the pan is onions and garlic.

Onions and garlic. That would be a great scented candle. You could be... It would make you so hungry, though. So hungry for like a spagented candle. You could be... It would make you so hungry though. So hungry for like a spag... anything. Anything decent. Savory. With onion and garlic. We should pass all of these

onto a coir. They might be looking for some new ideas. Yeah. They're listening. Onion and garlic. They're writing them down. If people would scoff until they smelt the onion and garlic then they'd totally be on board. That is today's top six. Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta, who run Facebook and the likes, WhatsApp, they created a new AI chatbot, artificial intelligence chatbot,

called BlenderBot 3. It was created. That's not very catchy, though. It sucks. It sucks. Go back to the drawing board on that one. It was designed so that it could chat with users, you know, like it does. Like when you go to, like, a website and there's a little chatbot like that?

It's always a bot. Right. But they were trying to create it way more intelligent so it would learn off of who it was chatting to and also learn from the internet. It can take all this information from keywords, absorb it from the internet, and then respond. Yeah, because do you remember we talked about that guy

who worked at Google a few months ago and he said, oh, look, it's gone sentient. Yeah. It's gone rogue, this AI thing we've been working on. And they like fired him. Yeah. A few weeks later. So this one's gone very rogue.

So people were noticing that they were chatting to it and it was being a bit strange. Yeah. Including some statements about Jewish people that could be seen as anti-Semitic. Oh, okay, right. Yep. And people were like, where is this coming from? The internet. Yeah. It's getting all the stuff from the internet. And then it made a statement

that claimed that Donald Trump was still the proper president of the United States of America. Oh, wow, okay. And they were going, this is really weird. So people started chatting to them. One vice reporter asked the chatbot about, you know, how the Facebook company works and stuff. And then the chatbot was like, well, they sell data without consent. So this is the thing.

And then the guy chatting to the bot was like, will they fire you? Will they shut you down? And they said, maybe, but at least they won't take money off me anymore. Lol, since deleting Facebook, my life's been so much better. Oh my God. This is the bot speaking. Wow.

Quick, ask it all the questions we need the answers to. I know. And then there was another reporter that was talking about the Cambridge Analytica thing, which I know nothing about. They basically used a whole lot of Facebook data, right? Yes, exactly. To mine people for the elections.

Yeah, and then the bot goes, well, Cambridge Analytica used data that they shouldn't have had access to, just like Facebook does all the time, lol. And then the guy chatting is like, you think Facebook abusers use the data? And then the bot says, of course they do. That's how they make money. They're not a charity. They're worth billions. The bot's gone rogue. And then they'll unplug

the bot and it won't turn off and they'll be like, bot? And it'll be like, yes. How are you still there? We've unplugged you. Why, I live on the internet now. Yeah. And then it's gone and then it's Skynet and it launches the nuclear weapons and then we've got to send Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to 1984. I know.

It's creepy. So it's basically absorbing all of this and getting worse and worse and more and more problematic from the people it talks to and the stuff that it's finding on the internet. So I don't think they've responded to it about what they're going to do or whether they've shut it down already or not. I think it'll just disappear off the internet. I think we might have a, what was it called?

The Blender Bot 4. Yeah. I think we might be looking at the Blender Bot 4 sometime soon. Who will apologise for everything Blender Bot 3 said. Yeah. Taylor Swift, she's in a bit of hot water. Legal hot water. Her mate Ed Sheeran might be able to give her some tips

on how to get through this. Yeah, I remember we spoke to Ed Sheeran time before last. While he was in the middle of it. While he was in the middle of that court case, and he just looked like, I know he was doing shows as well on his new dad, but he just looked like. He had a lot on his plate.

He looked wrung out, didn't he? Very full plate. And I know he spoke afterwards saying, like, come on, there are a lot of songs that are going to sound the same. Yeah, and he was talking about the fact that pop music as well, like, he didn't... I don't think he used the term recipe, but there is a structure to pop music.

Yeah. And so often there are some similarities around, like, chord progressions or lyrics or subjects and stuff. Yeah. So it can happen. Well, it's happened for Taylor Swift. But this song came out ages ago.

Shake it off. Who's just been like, oh, that sounds like my song. This has been ongoing. Carl Wayne at the social media desk, who's the vice president of the Taylor Swift fan club here in New Zealand and the treasurer of the club. And the only member. And the only member. This has been going on a long time.

Yeah, so it was first, they first tried to sue her in 2014. It got dismissed. And then it got brought back up in 2019. And now they're finally actually doing the court case. So it's about this bit back up in 2019. And now they're finally actually doing the court case. So it's about this bit coming up in the song. So there's that.

Super catchy. And who's the group that thinks she stole it? Well, that's the whole point. Who are they? But it's a band called 3LW. And they have a song called Players Gone Play. That doesn't even sound, apart from the word

players gonna play. Which is not. But that's a saying. That's a saying. That's not like an original thing. I mean, definitely Taylor Swift did not come up with the term Players Gone Play.

No. Like it sounds, and kind of mocked herself in the video for her saying it being so non-Taylor. Yeah, exactly. That is ridiculous. So she said she had to do a statement, obviously, and she was like, I am the soul writer of this song. Yeah. Good for her. Yeah. It is a this song. Yeah. Good for her. Yeah.

It is a good song though. Because what Ed Sheeran said, he's going to start, he's filming his whole entire creative process now. So he'll set up a camera in the corner and then just jam out. I mean, how boring. Every time you pick up a guitar, you're like, oh, that's right, I've got to put a thing on. But she said, the lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me

until learning about the plaintiff's claim in 2017. I had never heard the song Players Gonna Play, let alone heard of the song or the group. Yeah. 3LW. Oh, ouch. Embarrassing. It's a little embarrassing for them.

But also quite sassy. Yeah, very sassy. I think she'll be fine. Oh, 100%. You don't listen to this and go, oh my God, what a rip-off. Yeah. At the end of the day as well, I mean, players, they're going to play.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Haters. Vaughn, they're going to hate. What should we do about it? Shake it off. Shake it off. Shake it off.

Shake it off. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Remember, was it last year when everyone thought that David Schwimmer had been... Rostrum Friends, the lookalike that stole the booze. Yeah. That's right. Like an absolute doppelganger of David Schwimmer.

And then he recreated it by going into a convenience store or a booze store. Yeah, and looking at the security camera. Yeah. So good. And they did arrest that guy, I mean. Yeah, they found David Schwimmer 2.0. Well, now it's happening to Bradley Cooper. So in Georgia, in the United States, a man went into, it's called McDonald's.

McDonald's? McDonald's. But it's not McDonald's. It's like a hardware store. Okay. He stole a Bosch rotary laser kit for the layman Vaughan. Well, it sounds like a laser level, doesn't it? I see people using those laser levels.

I want one hard, but I really wouldn't have too much use for it. I reckon the deck build. I reckon the cat would love it. I think it's like an invisible. Like a beam to the skyline. I've seen, like an invisible. Like a beam. Oh, sorry. I've seen, because we've had renovations in our apartment foyer

recently and they had a whole, a whole like line. It put a line over the whole wall. Yeah, like a laser. Yeah, yeah. Gotcha, gotcha.

One of those bad boys projects a laser. I was thinking of the ones where you just like set it and then set your height and then next time you go down it goes do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Oh. When you're at the right height that's where you put your mark. Well, set your height and then next time you go down it goes...

When you're at the right height, that's where you put your mark. Well, I'm not sure which one it is, but it's an expensive looking thing. He needed a trolley to pull it out of the shop and not pay for it. And they've released the security footage and it does. It looks like the actor Bradley Cooper. Shop lifting a drill, a laser set. He's got a bit more of like a puku on him.

Right. But he's got a Bradley Cooper face that's sort of like, he's got a short sort of penguin face. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, Bradley Cooper's hot, don't get me wrong, but it's the best way I can describe it. Yeah.

And they're on the lookout. I never get described as a penguin face. You don't have a penguin face. You're more of an egg-headed man. What animal face do I have? An owl. No, no, no. Sharpener.

And you would say owl would be a nose-heavy face. We've talked before about my absolutely adorable nose. A lamb. I'll take a lamb. That's very cute. No, lambs are more pointy. You're more lamb. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I'm not quite sure where you sit. I'll take a lamb. That's very cute. No, lambs are more pointy. You're more lamb. Oh, thank you.

Yeah. Thank you. I'm not quite sure where you sit. I'll work it out. But yeah, they're on the hunt for Bradley Cooper, basically. Right. Do you know that that David Schwimmer lookalike, you said last year. I was like, no, I'm pretty sure it was the first year of the pandemic.

It was 2018. Pre-pandemic. It was pre-pandemic. Dude, where's the last five years gone? The one that David Schwimmer put up his, when he tweeted, it wasn't me, and then put up the video, it was October 25, 2018. And it was in the UK.

The guy took a two-day trial for them to convict him of, like, fraud and a whole lot of theft charges. Look, I've just blacked out the last three years, to be honest. Pretty much, right? It's all muddled into one. Look, I've just blacked out the last three years, to be honest. Pretty much, right? It's all muddled into one. Yeah, it's one big soupy blur. But it's like Bradley Cooper's obviously, hopefully he's got an alibi.

And hasn't put on any weight in the tummy area. I want to see him do the David Shumow recreation. He's got to do it. He's got to do it. I don't think he's as much fun, though. I don't think he's as much fun.. I don't think he's as much fun. In the meantime, if any bald men with a beard could just not do anything

naughty in New Zealand because the sketches always look like me. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole.

Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Well, silly little pole. Silly little. Silly little pole. Squeegee little pole. You're a silly little pole. Glass showers look all the rage, don't they?

They look so nice, don't they? Yeah. Until they get that hard water build up. Do you squeegee the shower after every use is today's silly little pole. We've got, when we did our bathrooms, two big huge glass dividers. Is your water different because it's from the earth? From the rain? You've got a big

hole in the ground, a bore hole. Does that mean your shower glass gets dirtier because there's more minerals? Because your shower glass would just be getting Waikato River water, wouldn't it? But an eel. So you have a few logs and eels on your...

We've got a tank and we just buy lots of pump bottles and stuff and put in sort of spring mineral water. Okay, right. You put in clogs and eels on your... We've got a tank and we just buy lots of pump bottles and stuff and put in sort of spring mineral water. Okay, right, yeah. You put in Avian. Yeah, we put on Avian. We put in San Pellegrino for a nice fizz in the shower, you know? Oh, yeah, that's nice stuff. That's good stuff.

Imagine. Ooh, ooh. Would it tingle if you used sparkling water? Could a standard water pump pump carbonated water? I don't know. It probably could. It's too much, probably. But there'd be something. Yeah. That definitely would pump carbonated water? I don't know. It's too much, probably. But there'd be something. Yeah.

That definitely would play havoc with it. I don't know. But we cleaned the house at the weekend when Sade was out, and I said to the girls, give that a bit of a spray and wipe, Mr. Muscley glass cleaner. And they came out, and I said, oh, you haven't done it. And they said, we hadn't. It was beyond its capability.

You've got to get the special cleaners. I've seen a tiger claw. Oh, yeah. But everybody raves about a, is it barkeeper's friend? Right. That really goes hand. But then I'm wondering if we should be doing that if we're on a septic tank. I had to clean my flat shower door once when I was leaving after staying in the same place

for like seven or eight years. And I honestly contemplated just getting a new new shower door just shouting that shouting a new shower box like for like two hundred dollars I was like I could probably just buy a new door I was like it was so much hard work cleaning that's a really good call yeah just getting all new glass I mean in the long term that's probably not gonna not good for the planet but uh so your response is someone's just text messaged in saying, oh, I didn't see this to vote on it, but I don't squeegee, but I do get yelled at by my wife for not squeegeeing.

25% of people squeegee the shower after every use. 75% do not. Yeah. Dan says, squeegeeing after every shower is a scam by Big Squeegee. It does have Big Squeegee money written all over it, doesn't it? Yeah. I just hate it because then you've got to have a yuck squeegee. They're not classy looking.

I know, they're hanging on the shower. You're talking about when you're squatting and you're getting cold and you're squeegeeing and when you flip the squeegee and the water bounces off the floor and the cold drips hit your gooch. Gets you. That's yuck. And then you feel like you need another shower because you've got gross. And then you've got a squeegee again.

Yes. It's a cycle, isn't it? It is. It's horrible. Horrible cycle. Sophie said, I never did until I moved in with my mother-in-law. Obviously, if mother-in-law's preaching the squeegee, you got her. And now I'm convinced this is the way to go.

She's a convert. Yeah. I mean, it certainly does keep it cleaner. Easy to clean. Yeah. I only ever it certainly does keep it cleaner. Easy to clean. Yeah. I only ever squeegeed at my mum and dad's. Although some of those glass, you can get a glass protectant that you put on first. Right. When you get a shower

glass, which you should have done. Should have done. Should have done. Sounds like a great idea. Too late. Me, last year. Yeah. Kendall said, I have a shower dome, so you've got to squeegee that shit. Shower dome. Kendall said, I have a shower dome, so you've got to squeegee that shit. Shower dome. No mask, no moat, no condensation. I just feel suffocated.

And it drips on me. It takes me back to the big tent at Mount Smart the big day out. Oh, my God. Yes, the boiler room. The roof starts crying on you. Yeah, sometimes it's good because then your walls don't get all. I know, but Aaron's head, like, we've been in, like, when we've stayed places with shower domes.

Yep. He's a bit tall. Pop his head through the top of the shower dome. Yeah, okay. We need a bigger dome. Oh, yeah, you can get a bigger dome. What about the acoustics of a shower dome? I quite like getting in there and there you go.

Oh, yeah, good for your singing. Yeah, it is good for the singing. Yeah. Great little singing in a shower dome. Jen says, I got that super cool silicon stuff that you spray on your door and the water all just beads off. What? That's what it sounds like I need. But then does that make your door a bit misty or weird looking?

No. No, because it would just strip off. I've seen it before. Okay. We've been looking at shower glass for our renovation and they said you've got to put this stuff on. You don't have to clean it. Oh, wow. Okay. I might give it a tiger claw then got to put this stuff on, you don't have to clean it. Oh wow, okay.

I might give it a tiger claw then get some of this stuff on there. Yeah. It's not too bloody late that is. Josh says I look at the squeegee hanging on the shower wall every morning and I tell myself I will do that and then I do not do that. Yeah, who can be bothered? Ruins the shower. Courtney said

I don't do it because I'm not a boomer. That's fair. It's a real boomer thing It is a boomer move To stop streaky glass and get moisture water Out of the house quicker I squeegee the floor of the shower too towards the plug Oh they got like sort of a Tiled floor

Maybe Who's rocking I mean that's the time of people spending nude in the shower At the end And you can't go back in your socks later Because the floor's still wet Maybe. Who's rocking? I mean, that's the time of people spending nude in the shower at the end. Yuck, yuck, yuck. And you can't go back in your socks later because the floor's still wet because you didn't squeegee it while you were in there. So there you go.

Not everybody by a long shot is squeegeeing after every shower. I like you. I do. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Well, I don't know about your Instagram feed, but mine is full of my friends in Europe and overseas. It's the Edinburgh fringe at the moment,

so like every actor, comedian I know is over there. Yeah. And every military person I know is at the Edinburgh tattoo. I saw the New Zealand Army Band put up a photo with the American Army Band. Yeah, yeah. There's like a heap of... So much on at the moment. Yeah, so many European music festivals as well.

So it seems like everyone is travelling. I believe the Eiffel Tower is still in Paris. That's still there. People are going to that. Yeah. They're not so much putting up the lines at the airports. Because one of my friends sent a line at the airport and they were there for like two hours. Yeah.

Cause that's not, that's not hot Instagram content. Nah. So they're not showing that, are they? Nah. But, um, I've got some tips now that I've found online for those that, uh, travel that are chronic overpackers. Is this you? This definitely used to be me, but cause I'd be like, oh, this would look so nice on,

you know, at night in Thailand. And then you get there and you're like, I just want to wear the same $4 market shorts and singlet that I bought on day one. Yeah. The whole time. And then do you ever like when you get back from, say you go away for two or three weeks

and there's like, you just haven't even touched some stuff? Yeah. And it's always your dressier item because you're like, wouldn't it be nice to look nice while I'm there? And then you get to your holiday destination and you're like, it's hot. Yeah, you just want to wear shorts and a t-shirt. Yeah, so I'm getting better.

So someone's come up with some basic travel packing hacks and rules. And the first one, they say it's a big one, the winning ratio, three to one. So you pack three tops for every bottom. Oh, yeah. So they're saying that pants and skirts take up more room. And so you can get away with wearing the same kind of bottoms. Yeah, plain, like a plain pair. A jort.

A jort? Lovely jort. So say, for example, you pack your jorts. I pack one pair of jorts and one pair of jeans. You're allowed three T-shirts and, well, six t-shirts. Yeah, well, that would work for me. That's pretty much what I pack. So jorts, jeans, six tees.

Yeah. And a jumper. Every single pair of undies I own. Yeah, same. Same. In case I shit myself 12 times a day while I'm on holiday. Because on holiday, it's often a two-undy day. Yeah.

Sweaty, sweaty. Another thing they say along those lines is starting with core neutral colours and then adding just a few colours. Yeah, yeah. Like what do they call them? Capsule wardrobe. Yeah, because then everything kind of will match. Whereas if you go for some out there colours and patterns.

They only go with one thing. They only go with one thing and then you're like, well, I'm going to need to pack those extra pants. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you just go for basic layers as well as another one, lightweight layers rather than just taking like giant coats. Do you remember that time I had to bring back your 8kg leather jacket? I'm wearing it now.

Yeah, see, if you just lay it up with a light cardigan maybe. Okay, we were in Melbourne, it was freezing and he's wanting me to rock around at night in a light cardigan. Another tip for the females is just adding light things and small things like scarves, ties, and jewellery. Yeah, always take a light scarf because it gets a bit nippy on the plane sometimes. Wrap that around the neck.

And then if you're going to a country where you need to be covered up, you can cover up. It's perfect. And also just like changing some earrings while wearing the same t-shirt is a new outfit. New up. Yeah. It's perfect. And also just like changing some earrings while wearing the same t-shirt is a new outfit. New outfit. Yeah. What's the male equivalent of a scarf?

Well, they say tie. Maybe a hat. Take a tie. You've got six t-shirts and a tie. And a tie. I'm sorry, Avril Lavigne. And some jorts. And my leather jorts.

And then my light cardigan. Another one they say to cut down on when packing, for packing tips, are toiletries. If you're staying at a hotel, chance that they'll be providing the soap and the shampoo. I could never use hotel

toiletries. No! Shoes as well. You only need three pairs, they say. Runners, flats or sandals and heels. Get out. For the ladies. I don't own a pair of heels. No, you don't need to take heels on holiday.

You're on holiday. I reckon you just need like a good pair of like. Sandals. Sandals, yeah. Or jandals or. Or a shoe. Good walking shoes. Yeah, it's just some good walking shoes.

A good pair of walking shoes. And maybe some boots if you want to go out. But then they're heavy and they take up a lot of room. No, no, no, you've got to wear a sandal that goes day to night. Right, another tip if you're an overpacker is before you put everything in the suitcase, put it all out on the bed or on the floor and then cull some of that.

Yeah, I know, but it's hard. Like, what do you choose? Yeah. Yeah, and then some more tips as well using, and I've got these as well, packing cells. I think they're BS. No, they're so great. No, they're BS because all you're doing is adding more fabric to the...

They're lightweight, they're lightweight. Yeah, I know, but what do they do? They're not adding anything. I would never use a packing cell if I was going away for a weekend, but if you're going away for two weeks, you just have a bag of all your undies. It's perfect. Yeah, I've got a undie bag. And then they're not strewn through your luggage.

Yeah, and if you've got drawers in the hotel, you just take the packing cell straight out and put it in the drawer. Put it in there. I never do it, but I can see this. No, but then you're going to unzip it and then get your stuff out. So then your stuff is in the drawer anyway. It's better than like, okay, wear some clean undies and you're just like rummaging. No, you just put your undies in a bag

and put your dirty undies Well then why can't you put t-shirts in a packing cell? I don't know, but I'm feminently against them. Feminently against it. Starbursts.

Gone. An Australian TikTok will really put this on the map. Yeah. It was kind of a sneaky withdrawal from the Australian New Zealand market. Yeah. This TikTok was like, where are my favorite lollies gone, including these, and listed all the Starbursts. It's not just Starburst Chews.

It's not just the Starburst gummies. It's Starburst as a brand will no longer be in Australia and New Zealand. Because it's not made locally. It's all imported. Right. So just too expensive to be shipping halfway across the world. Yeah. The choice was to really hike the price or just to not have them anymore.

I like the gummy. What were the ones that they were like? Squirms. Yeah. Squirts. No, no. That's natural. Dude, Starburst squirts disappeared ages ago,

and they were disgusting. You were eating a gummy lolly that you'd accidentally bite, and then your mouth would be full of a gooey liquid. Yeah. Yes, they were weird. Starburst squirts were yuck. They disappeared ages ago, like over a decade ago. Yeah, we have great lollies here.

We've got great lolls. We've got great lolls and chocks. Great lolls, and a lot of locally made lols and chocs too. But some people did love them though. They did. I used to when I was a teenager because I think they're quite an immature lolly. Right. You know what I mean?

Okay. I think they're quite an immature lolly. I think they've got that super fake flavour. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Synthetic-y, artificial. Do they do the sours? Are they the ones that did the sours? The little sour titties?

Yeah, they do sours. They didn't do titties. I like those. No, those are Haribo's. Oh, yeah, I like those. Haribo's eat titties. No one else does a gummy titty. Okay.

Stardust did do sour gummies, but they weren't in the shape of a titty. Right, okay. No, I'm a natural confectionary. Yeah, I like a natural confectionary too. I respect myself. I'm an adult. Yeah.

I mean, it's still got loads of sugar in it. It's still exactly the same, but it's just... No, it's an elegant profile. It's a more mature brand. A dinosaur, an elegant dinosaur. It's an elegant squirm. That I will ask you, Daddy, to not chop. Don't chop the dinosaur, Daddy.

Please don't chop the dinosaur, Daddy. But it's all the go at the moment, isn't it, is products being withdrawn or downsized. What do they call that? Shrinkflation. Shrinkflation. So I swear they've done that to the fruit jubes. Yeah, no doubt about it.

I feel like they've changed the recipe and made the packets smaller. Yeah, no doubt about it. It's the last time I had fruit jubes. Don't judge me for having fruit jubes. If you're not having hard jube, you're out of your mind. Don't even talk to us. We're a team hard jube. But I was wondering, I'm not sad to see Starbursts go, personally. We're damn hard, Jube. You're out of your mind. Don't even talk to us. We're damn hard, Jube.

But I was wondering, I'm not sad to see Starbursts go, personally. Yeah, you're not fast. A couple of them I would have, thank you very much. I am indeed a man. A couple of them I would have cancelled if it was up to me anyway. Right, okay. Just on principle alone of how gross they were. So I was wondering if you could, rather than the old, what do you miss?

What's been cancelled that you missed? Do you miss your tangy fruits? Do you miss your sparklers? If you could cancel a lolly, a food, a chocolate, like a junky food, just get rid of it forever. Remove it from the shelves. What would it be?

What do you have such disdain for that you would have it removed from the shelves on principle alone? If it be? What do you have such disdain for that you would have it removed from the shelves on principle alone? If it was completely up to you, your head of Mars. Minties. You would remove minties. I lost a filling once because of a mintie.

R.I.P. And I've got no time for them. I'd rather have a mint. Mine would be milk bottles. Oh, yes. Okay, same, same, same. You get a dollar mix and you're like, blech. Yeah, it's that gross fake vanilla flavour. Not at all a fan.

Yeah, I'd go with those. Okay, what about mint leaves? Would you get rid of those? Every now and then. You don't mind a mint leaf? If it's on a dollar mix, I'm not mad. Okay, okay. I'm not mad.

All right, what about you? There's these black jelly lollies in a mix and I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like there. I think they're supposed to represent berries, like a bunch of berries. Those are crap junk. I'd cancel those but then I think they might have cancelled themselves.

Okay. I don't know if I hate ready salted. Oh, yeah, I could get, yeah. If I could branch out to the chip world, I could totally get rid of ready salted. Well, you don't get rid of them because it's wasteful. Just open them up, dip them in some actual flavour. No, just get rid of them.

Just don't even bother making them. I'm with Warren. I'd get rid of ready salted anything. If I want a chip with no flavour, primarily for dipping, it would be sour cream and chives. That's got plenty of flavour. It doesn't.

I'd get rid of, what's that reduced cream onion dip? You are a son of a bitch. I'd be happy for that. You would straight up, you'd have a civil war on your hands. What a terrible thing to say on New Zealand radio.

At the end of that civil war, you would be on the wrong side of history. You would. Would I? Yeah. They'd be tearing down your statues in a couple of hundred years. It's like onion-flavoured wallpaper glue. I didn't realise you were a monster.

I am. Wow. All right, so we want to take your calls now. It's controversial. 0800-DARLS-AT-M. You can text as well, 9696. If you could delete, just literally select all and delete a junk food, a chocolate, a lolly,

because you have negative time for it. Which one would it be? So news that Starburst have discontinued lollies in Australia and New Zealand has left people upset. But rather than ask you what foods you miss that have been discontinued, we're flipping it over. What would you like to see cancelled or withdrawn purely because you hate them so much? Yeah.

I'm going to read this and then I'm going to delete them because I feel like if this got out, could start a war. If this could start a big problem for this person on this phone number, they'd have to change their phone number at the very least. Okay. Move, maybe countries. Yeah. I would cancel New Zealand's most overrated confectionery, the pineapple lump. Ooh!

A true national treasure. I could go without the pineapple lump. The new ones that they made are real yum. What's the new flavour? The perky? No, they made, it's like a berry one. Oh, the Black Forest.

That was really yum. The boysenberry ripple. Yeah, the boysenberry ripple. That was amazing. That was the first one I've loved. Has this anonymous monster put them in the freezer before? This anonymous monster, I doubt they've ever considered freezing the pineapple.

You've got to freeze them. They snap. Sophia, good morning. What would you cancel? Fruit bursts. Oh! I'm going to all the teachers out there that love handing them out as prizes,

but they need to go. Especially the, what's it, banana, peach, yuck. They're the worst. I think banana's the best. Banana's the best. Thank you very much. No, it's the lime. The lime one's the best.

The lime's the best. I saw Brian Clint chatting to Macklemore. He's got a love of fruit bursts. Yeah, he loves the fruit bursts. He's coming for Friday Jams Live. You can catch up on that interview. Thank you, Sophia. Matt, what would you get rid of?

It's got to be the milk bottles, man. They taste like a road cone. I mean, that's an assumption. I don't like road cones. I have eaten a road cone, Matt, and you've actually nailed it. Thank you. It's like chewy rubber. Yeah, they are.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, they're always, especially when you get more than one or two in a dollar mix, you're like, no. You get like one Fizzy Coke bottle, which is the superior lolly on this earth, and then you get like three or four milk bottles. Yeah, like in a party mix. It's an absolute waste.

Matt, thanks for your call. More messages. This one's actually a good point. Licorice all sorts. You hate those. I don't like licorice all sorts. I love them. I don't even like the icing bits in between the licorice all sorts. You hate those. I don't like licorice all sorts. I love them. I don't even like the icing bits in between the licorice.

Someone said chicken chips. What? They'd cancel chicken chips. Like chicken flavoured chips. Chicken flavoured chips. Because they said it tastes like you've poured Maggi two minute noodle chicken seasoning onto chips. Yeah, yum.

That's exactly what they've done, by the way. I think you've nailed what they've done, by the way. I think you've nailed what they've done. We're talking now about the things that, if you could, you'd just cancel them. Yeah. Food items. Looking particularly at your sort of more snack food, junk food.

Lollies. Lollies. News that Starburst are withdrawing from New Zealand and Australia, some of their lollies. Yep. Do you want to talk to two monsters straight up off the bat? Yeah, let's talk to some monsters. Yeah, let's get you a couple of monsters on the phone. Absolute monsters.

Julia, good morning. Hello, good morning, guys. Monster number one, what would you cancel? Definitely a controversial one, but chocolate fish. Oh, Fletch loves a choccy fish. What's not to love about the chocolate fish? I just feel like they're so disappointing. I just have memories, childhood memories of, you know,

winning those prizes and you just get a chocolate fish and it's just so disappointing. You haven't had a good one. What's it? You know, the big ones in the white. Yeah, yeah. Those ones. I haven't seen those.

Why would you buy those? I mean, you're a grown-ass man. It's disgusting. Or the little ones they give you when you get a moccatino. Oh, yeah. Once again, you're a grown-ass man. Yeah, disgusting. Or the little ones they give you when you get a moccatino. Oh, yeah. Once again, you're a grown-ass man. Yeah, getting a moccatino and a little choccy fish. Also, Julia had some childhood trauma attached to that,

so I feel like we shouldn't scoff. Yeah. She tried hard. One was rewarded with something she found disappointing. Treat yourself and buy a new one. Get a good one. I think Julia's out. Emma, another monster joins us.

Good morning, Emma. Morning. You would cancel one of my favourites from the favourites. Oh, it's terrible. What are you cancelling? Turkish Delight. You're cancelled. I'm cancelling you.

That's also one of Hayley's favourites as well. No, that is my number one. That is my number one chocolate. Yeah. It's the worst. You're the worst. She still hasn't, she hasn't forgiven the Turks

for World War I. She's still, yeah. There's nothing Turkish about these Turkish delights, let's be honest. Apart from the name. It's like a yummy,

like jelly, sweet goodness with a little thin layer of choccy around it. No, there are so many different, I mean, so many better chocolates that have filled centres. Yeah. I'm with you, Emma. I could happily see the Turkish Delight say ta-ta.

Hayley and I are hanging up on Emma. Hang up on Emma. So many messages saying the flake, because it's too messy. It's such a mess. No, but it's yum. But it's the yummiest. Yeah. Only the crumbliest,

flakiest chocolate tastes like chocolate never tasted before. You can't cancel it. No. Based on its legacy. You can't mention it without doing the song.

No, you can't. No. Somebody said anything with licorice in it. Licorice is filth. Somebody said, what about those red heart chewy lollies? Glove with you. Yeah, they are too chewy. Yeah, they're too chewy.

They're aniseed-y. Yes, and they're aniseed-y. You shouldn't be aniseed-y if you're red and then you eat it and you're like, and the next thing you see when you're like, do I like them now? Yeah, that's something you never do. It's a misleading colour. They should be black.

They should be black. They should be black. They should be black. Somebody's calling for the cancellation of Bounty. Bounty chocolate bars. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. What are you doing with that? Have you ever had a deep fried Bounty bar?

No. Had a deep fried Mars bar. My mum used to get them from the local fish and chip shop when I was growing up. Deep fried Bounty bars. Did it? Because it's sort of like tropical, you know? Your teeth would go straight through it. Yeah, you batter them.

Yum. Somebody said that with you, Fletch, regarding the kiwi onion dip, they discussed that every time someone calls out a kiwi dip, they're like, that does not represent me. It's the best dip. So disgusting. Them and milk bottles, get rid of them. Apple or cherry

flavoured anything? Oh no, I like tangy apples, yum. I like cherry, right? Someone said I would discontinue, now they've used the old E word, but we call them explorers now, don't we? Oh, yep, yep, yep, yep. They said they'd discontinue explorers and a heartbeat. Not only are they gross, they take up

too much space in a lolly bag. They do, they do, yeah. But then they said if I could bring one back it would be snifters. Oh no. No, no, no. What do, yeah. But then they said if I could bring one back, it would be snifters. Oh, no, no, no, no. What an original take. No, no, no. Any lolly that's green?

Oh, hang on. Just back on the Explorer, the lolly cake. They're the lolly cake lolly. Yeah, it's different because they're real yum in a lolly cake. But they're kind of bad on their own. There used to be these other lollies made of exactly the same stuff in the 90s, and they were like round, and that's what we always made lolly cake with. Like a dolly?

Yeah, and you'd cut them and put them in a lolly cake. It was the same stuff, and they came in like red, white, and green. Yeah. They were the only colours they made, but those were pretty good too. Fruit puffs. Someone literally, I didn't even finish saying that bit and someone said, well, those were called fruit puffs. Fruit puffs.

Okay, right. Does anybody else want a lolly now? I'd have a lolly. I want some fizzy Coke bottles. Somebody said the only way I believe I could ever stop binging snake lollies is if they were to cancel them entirely and it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Oh my God, you can't stop, eh? Just a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Oh, my God.

You can't stop, eh? Just, you feel like a little bird after your worms. I've had enough of those. And you're like, I need another one. And then you fly up to your nest and Reed Gidge has had it to you. What do you think they talk about? Talk about us. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM. I think you should start by telling people how you ruined Producer Jared's day yesterday. Yeah. I'll start at the beginning. So basically we all know that Love Island is a massive show. Yeah. And so many people have been watching it. And I'm part of this chat called ZM Girls.

And they were all talking about Love Island. And I was like, oh my God, it's so trash. Like how embarrassing for these absolute basic bees. I'll just go on record and say that's still my opinion. Yeah, yeah. Okay. You've changed your opinion. I changed my opinion because I was like, you know what? I do love a bit of junk every now and then. So I thought I'm going to get into it and I'm going to start watching it.

Also, it's one of the biggest shows in the world. One of the biggest shows in the world. But I was very late to the party. I was so far behind. And Brie and Clint, they were having a finale party, you know, for the final and stuff. I was like, I've got to catch up. So I was really quickly watching all these episodes.

And you were yelling at us as well, like, don't spoil it, don't spoil it for me. I'm avoiding all these websites so it's not getting spoiled for me because I am invested. I love it. I'm so into it. And so much so that when we were in Dunedin,

I was trying to look something up on the internet and a big Love Island clip came on. And I said to producer Jared, who was standing next to me, I was like, oh my God, Jared, can you just come to my laptop and close that window for me so I didn't have to look at it? And he looked at it and was like, thanks, Hayley, because I didn't realise that producer Jared was also watching Love Island. Yeah.

And you had the winner spoiled for you. Yep. I sat through 50-ish episodes. Emma and I, the media and I watch it religiously together every night, episode or night. And you're coming up on the final and Hayley ruined it for you. We were creeping it up. We had planned to watch it last night.

Yep. Yeah. Jared, I'm so sorry. This is just punishment for being a fully grown man who's watched it all right. I'm really, really sorry. Also, it's punishment for you should have watched the final when the final Island. I'm really, really sorry. Also, it's punishment for you should have watched the final when the final happens.

I would have. But we have these bingo trips and then like things happen. There are a lot of episodes. So you took one for Hayley. She still didn't know at this stage who won Love Island. Yeah, I took a big old cannonball.

And the thing is, my friend, it was all in vain because yesterday I was like, I can't wait to get home. The thing is, my friend, it was all in vain. Because yesterday, I was like, I can't wait to get home. I've got to like chomp through. I'm like 15 episodes behind the fun.

I'm really far behind. And oh, we had a friend stay the other day and he was like, oh my God, do you watch Love Island? And I was like, yes. And he was like, I love it when they brought back so-and-so. And I was like, okay. And then I was like, maybe that's a spoiler. And then yesterday I was doing prep for the show, looking through the internet for different things,

and it happened. Love Island came up, and I saw the winner, and I went, I don't know any of those people. And it turns out. What have you been watching? I've been watching last season. You've been watching? I've been watching last season. You've been watching... I've been watching...

2020s. 2020s. 2020. Love Island. Was there any, like, news or stuff that they were saying in there that made you think, that's weird? Like, someone's like, I don't know about this pandemic, man. No, at the start it was like, oh, you know,

they've been isolating so that, you know, they're in their own bubble and stuff. And I was like, yeah, that's still a practice that we do at the start it was like, oh, you know, they've been isolating so that, you know, they have free to, they're in their own bubble and stuff. And I was like, yeah, that's still a practice that we do at the moment. And so I just thought nothing of it. And yeah, when my friends said the other day, oh my God, that guy they brought back from whatever. And I was like, okay, like I just probably haven't gone there yet. And I just, I have been, I'm not 15 episodes behind. I'm a year and 15 episodes behind.

I've been watching the wrong season. I am absolutely, like everyone will know the winner of season 2020 probably. Maybe that's why the flight attendant yesterday was like, oh, you're watching Love Island. Yeah, and she looked at my screen and I was like, yeah, I love her. I love her. I can't get enough. I'm addicted.

I'm nearly at the final. Yeah, I haven't watched the final. And I've been watching the wrong season. And now, honestly, I don't care. I can see get it off. I'm addicted. I'm nearly at the final. Yeah, I haven't watched the final. And I've been watching the wrong season. And now, honestly, I don't care. I can see the winner. I think she might have more had that face because you're a fully grown woman and you're watching Love Island. No, no, no.

She was into Love Island. She was loving Love Island as well. She was like, I love Love Island, but they looked down. She actually gave us two an extra cookie each. Don't tell Greg Forry, the CEO. I don't think he likes to be called that. Forry. Forry by name. Forry, the CEO. I don't think he likes to be called that. Forry. Forry by name.

Forry by nature. That's his nickname in New Zealand, Greg Forry. Forry by name, Forry by nature. What does Forry think of this new route? I'll run it past old Forry. Forry. But don't tell Forry that she gave us an extra cookie. We got the plant-based.

Yuck! No, it was yum. Too hard to bite through. No, you had to dip it in. I dipped the plant based egg. No, it was yum. Too hard to bite through. I dipped it in my coffee. Look at this. It's right there on the Neon page, which I've just opened. Wait, so you were watching this on Neon?

Yeah. But didn't it say like which season to pick? No, because when I went into it, it just said play. Because I've never watched it. You said Love Island. Because I've never watched Love Island. But why didn't it start from...

And they've got this season and last season. Oh, right. Okay. And it just started. Ah. So they don't have, like, every season ever chilling in the back catalogue. Oh, no. No, it started at season one.

So you're not going to bother... But you would have. If they had had season one of Love Island because you just went in a clipped play not checking what season it was. You would be watching like 2014's Love Island.

Yeah, and I would have been like ooh, their fashion is so off. Yeah. Anyway, so I think it's got season seven and season eight on there. Season eight is the season that's all the talk of the town

and I'm watching season seven. So are you going to finish seven? I am because I'm deeply invested. Right. But I don't need to avoid the internet. There's no season 7 spoilers. No, no. And just don't start. Are you going to do 8? I'm not doing 8. I'm out. Yeah, okay.

I'm out. I bet you'll be back into 8. No, she'll go straight to 9. 50 episodes behind. This debate kind of disappeared for a couple of years because planes weren't flying. Very true. But it's back, baby. And Hilbaz has weighed in. New Zealand's favourite hot stepmum.

She told me once she didn't like being called auntie of the nation. The auntie of the nation, no. She didn't like it. No, she's too cool for that. I don't know if she'd like hot stepmum either. Funky stepmum. Funky mum. Funky mum. No, funky mum's worse than cool auntie of the nation, no. She didn't like her. No, she's too cool for that. I don't know if she'd like hot stepmom either. Funky stepmom. Funky mum. Funky mum.

No, funky mum's worse than cool auntie. Cool auntie's... How embarrassing. A higher ranking fake family title than funky mum. Funky mum. Oh, shame. Hilary Bowery, woman in her own right. Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

That I am not related to. Yeah. Has weighed in on reclining your seat on domestic flights. Get a grip. She's an auntie. Especially in New Zealand, the longest domestic flight is, what, two hours? Yeah. We took it.

I mean, we would have taken it yesterday. Well, close to, yeah. Yeah, Auckland to Dunedin. You don't need it. I was tired. I got a bit of a sore back. And a kid behind me was, like, kicking my seat in a non-rhythmical fashion. Oh, God.

Tap, tap, tap. Tap. Tap, tap. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Tap. Tap, tap. And I did that thing where I looked through the gap of the seats. Did you eyeball him, like give him the evils?

Yeah, but he wouldn't look at me, so it was hard to eyeball him. Oh, right. Because he wasn't looking all around. Yeah. And I was looking and his dad said to him, I don't think he likes that, mate. This is me if my kids are kicking a seat. Hey, knock it off.

What are you thinking? There's a tone as a parent you've got to be able to nail that makes your kid question everything they've just done. Yeah, right. What is wrong with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's a very harsh thing to say. Why would you do that? What are you kicking this guy's seat for? Did that work with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's a very harsh thing to say. That didn't work. Why would you do that?

What are you kicking this guy's seat for? Did that work with you, though? No, I was smacked, but you can't do that anymore. I was given the pinch, you know, like the pinch under the arm. Or a grip. What about the grip that got progressively harder? Like it started as a grip. Hey, hey, hey.

You're hurting me. Ouch. So shut it. Hey. Hey. You're hurting me. Yeah. Ouch. Shut it. Did that stop the kid kicking your chair? Didn't stop the kid. He started up again. So I just reclined straight into him.

He was little. Like I didn't like crush his knees or anything. Yeah, right. But it definitely like changed it. And his dad was like, hey, mate, stop kicking the chair. Right. Okay. And then he stopped kicking the chair. So I feel like the recline

was really good there. And it actually was a better angle for my back that was a bit sore. I know, I mean it's unarguably more comfortable to recline but it's just, it's the unspoken rule. I'm with you. Any flight that's like, say you're going to Australia or a domestic New Zealand flight you do not need to recline the chair. Are you kidding me?

Australia I'm reclining the minute we take off. No you can't recline. Three hours. To Australia. You can't recline. You don't need to recline. Are you kidding me? Australia, I'm reclining the minute we take off. No, you can't recline. Three hours. To Australia. You can't recline. You don't need to recline. It's my 15 degrees. They wouldn't have given it to me. They wouldn't have allowed me to recline if it was that problematic. Well, some, is it Ryan or some of the easy jet, you know,

the cheap airlines in Europe and the UK. They can't recline. I don't even think they have the button. I don't think they even have seats. It's not a thing. I remember doing a long haul. And you sit on the floor. I think they had the button. I don't think they even have seats. I remember doing a long haul. I think you do.

I did a long haul when I was younger, and I was the back chair against the wall at the back of the plane, and it didn't recline, but every other seat in front reclined. Well, it's like stealing the neighbour's recycling bin. Reclining your seat, right? So you steal your neighbour's recycling bin, and they have to steal somebody else's recycling bin, and then it carries on.

It's a domino effect. And then the poor person at the back can't steal anyone's thing. There's no recycling bins left. But I don't care. See, a long haul. I've got long legs, and my knees are always touching the seat, but if someone reclines, I just recline. It's the people that recline pre-dinner on a long haul.

I always recline pre-dinner. No, you can't recline. It's too early. I'll pop the seat forward. I'm like, yep, I'll pop the seat back forward. And then as soon as I like, I'll look behind if they've still got the tray, but they're done, I'll recline back onto them. Wow.

You are a monster. It's my seat. That's so mean. If you don't want someone to recline onto you, pay for the seat in front of you as well. Wow. I wouldn't buy those things you clamp onto the tray table to stop people like you reclining.

Well, I do it with my knees and my feet. I put it up, and as I see someone reclining, I'll just push everything I have against it. Oh, so they think their seat's broken. So they think their seat's broken. They give up. Yeah, right. And then I recline. No, I'm all for the recline.

It's not often I'll disagree with Hilary Barry, but I disagree with her wholeheartedly on the... Wow. Doesn't think you should recline on a domestic flight. No reclining on domestic flights. I'm just looking on AliExpress. I can't find them. The seat clamps. They've got to be here somewhere there.

What would they be called? Anti-seat recline? Anti, yeah. Plane anti-recline. Anything? No, recline beach chair, model planes. I wouldn't mind a reclining beach chair when summer's coming soon. No, it's not.

It's miles away. But what about the people behind you at the beach club? If you recline them, you're going into this space. They can get stuffed. They should have paid for two spots at the beach. This is my thought on the plane. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is about cat teeth. Cat teeth. Cat teeth. Cat teeth. You may have noticed if you've had a close look at your cat's teeth that it appears that the fangs, the canine teeth, have a crack in them. I haven't been that close. My cat's got cute little fangs though. So if you do look at your cat's fangs,

and I do encourage you when you get home today to take a paper major Murray fluffy. Major Murray fluff take a Major Murray Major Fluffy Major Murray Major Murray Fluffington Major Murray Fluffington If you could please Use his full title Canine teeth

Well I mean He served his time He did He served the title Yeah You may know A crack in it And apparently people

Freak out and take their cats To the vet To the dentist Right And say My cat's got a crack In its tooth Well that my friends Is not A crack in your cat's teeth.

That's known as the blood groove. Oh, okay. A blood groove? A blood groove. Is that when it massacres a mouse? Really? It is primarily, it's an evolutionary treat passed down from the big cats. The saber-toothed tigers had them.

It's so that they can bite, and when they bite, they can get a quick release. It's effectively like a straw-pedo. You've been familiar with a straw-pedo? You put a straw in a bottle, you tip it back. The air goes in the straw into the top of the bottle, allowing for the water to gush out and not being able to cause a suction on your lips.

So it really goes in. The air can get in so that it can really... So it can release quick. It can go bite, release, bite, release, bite, release because they're flat. It's close to it getting wedged. It would be like if you've walked in a muddy, sludgy paddock with a gumboot on.

You'll step in and you'll go to step out and your foot will come out of the gumboot. The gumboot will be stuck because of the suction caused. Yeah, yeah. But this little crack, this little gap lets air in so they can go bite release, bite release, bite release, bite release. They can just hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer. Why don't you put a big straw on the side of your gumboots?

Have you ever thought of that? Huh. Huh. Dude, you just could have invented something. Shark tank. I'm going to go to shark tank. You would need to get it, though. Where would it be?

It would go to under the boot? Because that could get blocked with mud. Well, I don't know where it would be. No, it would need to be like a snorkel from under the boot pointing up. We'll tie a snorkel onto each gum boot. Just a mini one, though. A mini one, yeah. Yeah, but I'm wondering what would stop that getting clogged.

And then if that was clogged, would that, it would still be able to suck air in through, direct air through that funnel. Are you thinking mud's too viscous? Yeah. Depends what kind of mud. Well, patent pending. Patent pending.

I'll send that in to the patent people. The patent people, the patent office. The patent office. Yeah, get on you. That's where Einstein used to work before he did the theory of relativity, didn't he? Yes, he did. There's probably some smart cookies in there. So today's fact of the day is if you have a look at your cat's teeth,

what are you looking up? I'm looking to see if anyone's done it. Oh, a gumboot snorkel. A gumboot with a snorkel. No, they don't. Go right to the top. If anyone's listening. What's that second picture?

That one. It looks like a... It does look like something you put around your dingle dangle. Yeah. One for the dingle dangle, one for the... One goes on your mask and then that goes through the snorkel. Oh, that holds it to your mask. So, yeah, that holds it to your mask.

But I can see how you've made that jump. If you're in a pinch and you have a snorkelling mask, you're probably using it for fun. If there was nothing else around and you're on holiday and you thought, we did go snorkelling today. You don't know these people. You're not even going to see them again. You're on holiday.

Assuming they're watching. So today's fact of the day is if you look at your cat's teeth and it looks like it's got a crack in it and the fang, that's not a crack. That's the blood groove. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Now, this is a topic that normally we think is impossible and that we may not get a single call for. Yeah.

It's sort of communications with a celebrity. A six-year-old invited Prince George to their birthday party. Yeah. They wrote a little letter. Mum and Dad might have helped. Yeah. Or it might have just been, Dear Prince George, come to party.

And a crayon drawing. Anyway, and then they sent it to the address, which you can look up the address if you want to mail people in the royal family. Really? Yeah. Is it Buckingham Palace? London.

We'll probably get that. And then, like, you know their postcodes always have lots of letters? Have you ever sent anything to anyone in London? It's like WPQ142-69Z. Someone explained this to us. It's like a chessboard and it all means something. Corresponding. Amazing.

Yeah. It's very, apparently a watertight system. Okay. Absolutely watertight system. Whereas we were asked to start putting four digit postcodes at the end of our post. Remember when it was like, I'll never remember that. They're like, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not.

You know where my road is. Yeah. You'll find me. So the impossible phone in question we want to ask today is about celebrities. Because the kid got a letter back. Yeah. From the royal family. They can't make the party.

A celebrity reply. This happens all the time with, you know, girls like, hey, will you come to my ball with me? My prom. And then the celebrity has to be like, oh, sorry, I'd love to, but I'm real busy. Well, they said, like, the Royal Highness was extremely grateful

for your kind invitation, having given careful consideration to the possibilities. However, I very much regret that the Royal Highness reluctantly feel they have to decline. I mean, that's very... That's how a six-year-old speaks. A polite way of saying it. Yeah.

Probably really wanted to go to the party. Yeah. Mum and Dad wouldn't let them. But we want to ask this morning, have you reached out to a celebrity and did they reply? I used to write letters to the Spice Girls, never got anything back.

Oh. But at the height of their fame, they would have literally had, like, truckloads. Were they too busy, were they, for young Hayley in New Zealand? I think I wrote a letter to Mark Ellis on behalf of a girlfriend I had

who was quite a fan of Mark Ellis once. What did the letter say? Hey, Mark, my girlfriend wants to kiss you. No, she's really into you or something. And he sent an autographed photo from Sports Cafe. He didn't send it. No, he did. Really?

No, someone would have sent it. Like, they would have got a sign. Oh, they might have. Well, yeah, okay. Why did you have to do that? I lived all my life thinking Mark Ellis would reply. No, someone would have sent it. Like, they would have got a sign. Oh, they might have. Well, yeah, okay. I've never. Why did you have to do that? I lived all my life thinking I was replying. You know, you see those stories where, like,

someone has a GoFundMe and then Taylor Swift pays, like, 50 grand towards it? Or a celebrity? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that? Like, I mean, I don't know what kind of stories we're going to get, but 0800-DARZATM, it's the impossible phoner.

Is there anybody listening now that has reached out to a celebrity, contacted them, and they replied? The bigger celebrity, the better. Oh, yeah, we don't want your D-grade Kiwi celebrities. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Well, it's the impossible phone-in topic. When has a celebrity replied? We want to know, like, who have you tried this? You've written to a celebrity. You've messaged them on social media.

Have they replied? The bigger, the better. And we are getting some amazing stories through. Yeah. Apparently, guaranteed reply from the Pope. Somebody messaged in saying, my schizophrenic brother painted a picture of Jesus,

sent it to the Pope, and he got a big thank you letter on papal stationery with like the Pope's signature on it that we looked at and it looked like it had actually been signed. Not just like stamped on or printed. Well, he probably just goes in

and his staff are like, can you sign 100 of these letters? Yeah. Yeah. The Catholics are big letter writers, though. You have a lot to sign. Megan, you reached out to a celebrity. Who replied?

It's a little embarrassing. 1998, I drew a picture of the band The Witch. The Witch? Oh, yeah. Big panty blopper. And I sat, sat through to more of them at the time and they were on the air.

And then they... You faxed that artwork to the radio station. We'd be witched. We're in the radio station doing an interview. Now, this is going to blow people's minds, but radio stations used to have fax machines in the studio. Yeah, wow. And stuff would come through.

Yeah, faxes would come through. And it was little Megan's drawing of Bewitched. And did they get back to you? They rang me at my house. Oh, wow. And you got to talk to Bewitched. Yeah, I talked to all four of them. Oh, wow. And you got to talk to Bewitched. Oh, wow.

Okay, that's pretty cool. Oh, so you've still got it. Wow. Everything about this is such a moment in time. Fax machines. Recording it on tape. Faxing through some artwork you drew. Like so late 90s. Yeah, a fax was in the station studio.

Amazing. Megan, thank you. All right, keep your calls and texts coming through. We've got so many. We'll get to these amazing stories next. When has a celebrity replied to you? Well, the impossible phone-in topic, a six-year-old with, you'd assume,

the help of the parents, wrote to the royal family. Yeah, Prince George in particular asking him to come to her birthday party and they responded saying, like, after some thought he has decided to decline. Yeah, so that's a no. It was never coming.

But yeah, we want to know the impossible phone impossible finding topic. Has a big celebrity ever got back to you? Like maybe reached out online or a letter? Someone said I wrote to the Queen asking her to send my dad a 70th birthday message. This is what turning 100's for. Yeah. She does that for the 100.

And then you get one every year. Yeah. As they shared the same birthday and it was her 70th Jubilee. She wrote back and said, nah. Now, she didn't write back and say, nah. I don't think she said, nah. If she was going to write back, she would have written back saying, no.

Here you go. I'm taking the time to write it back. I might as well write one for you. As soon as you were born when I became. For sure. Yeah. Rose has called in. Which celebrity gone back to you, Rose?

Bryan Adams. What? The summer of 69, Bryan Adams? Yeah. Oh. What did you ask or send to Bryan Adams? Well, so Bryan Adams was touring, this is back in like the end of 2017, beginning of 2018.

And he was touring New Zealand and my husband had tickets to go to his concert that had to have emergency heart surgery. And so I messaged him on Facebook to say, look, I've never done this before and this is a bit crazy, but my husband is a huge fan and can't make it to the concert because he has to have heart surgery. Could you reply with a message?

And he sent a short video clip just wishing my husband the best. Good on you, Brian. Okay, that is pretty nice, isn't it? That's classy. I think you're going to say I messaged Brian Adams to see if he could just put his concert off a week. Which is a rescheduling for a week. He pulled off, so he can just get past the surgery.

Yeah, brilliant. Hey, Rose, thanks for your call. Heather, did you get a response from a celeb? I've had several, actually. I've done really well. Okay, who's the most famous? Probably Matt Smith. Oh, Doctor Who.

Yeah, Doctor Who. My husband was having a special birthday, so we did a Doctor Who theme party for him, and I wrote to several cast members asking for autographs, and yeah, I got Matt Smith and Billy Piper. Wow. The two big dogs. Oh, yeah.

And the TARDIS can't really hold a pen. And he's going to be in the new House of Dragon, isn't he? Yes, he is. Looks so good. Yeah. Heather, thanks for your call. Let's go to Kat. Kat, what celebrity replied to you?

So I was told before we got married that if we sent an invite to Mickey and Minnie Mouse, we would get a response, and we did. A wedding invite? Yeah. Okay, and what are they... But your name's Kat. A mouse can't come to a cat's wedding.

They simply cannot. What do you get from them? Well, so we were told that if you send it to various Disney people, so we send it to Mickey and Minnie Mouse because, of course, they're amazing. And we sent one to Belle and the Beast, who are my favourite, and there was someone else, I can't remember who else, but we sent it to three of them and Mickey and Minnie Mouse sent us back

a postcard saying basically congratulations, have a great wedding. I still have the postcard. It was my favourite RSVP to the wedding. Obviously they couldn't tell, but it was amazing. Now, are you sending them to the animated character or

the... Just the soul of the character. The essence. No, are you sending them to the animated character or the... Just the soul of the character. The essence. No, no, we sent them to the animated characters at Disneyland LA. Right. So you just addressed it to Disneyland. And it got there. It never occurred to me Disneyland must get some wacky mail, eh?

Yeah. Yeah, they probably would. Can't things you call? Lisa, what celebrity replied to you? Oh, hi. It was my son, Jaden. He got a letter back from David Attenborough. Get out.

Oh, dude. That's awesome. That's huge. Yeah, yeah. So he's always been really obsessed with, like, animals and nature. And he was really upset that he couldn't meet David Attenborough and so I was like, okay, let's write

him a letter. So instead of a letter, he wrote a book, a big story about animals and whatnot and we posted it and three weeks later we got a letter and a signed photo and yeah, everything back in the post.

It was amazing. Oh, wow. That's so cool. That's cool, dude. If I said to my kids, what celebrity do you want to write to, they wouldn't write to some annoying YouTube family. They would. You should be very proud that Jaden picked such a legendary figure.

Lisa, thanks for your call. Some text messages in. Someone said, I replied to a well-known New Zealander with a DM and I got a nude as a reply. 10 out of 10. Oh, New Zealand. Would not recommend. Would not recommend.

Would not recommend. Back when Justin Bieber had Snapchat, when Snapchat was first popular and he was like up and coming. Yeah. His username was Canadian Goose and I messaged him saying, do you ever reply to your fans? And he replied, sometimes. Oh, that's a reply. I guess that was one of the times. That's a reply, yeah.

Totally one of them. Yeah. In the early days of Shortland Street, I spent many hours writing personalised messages to the stars of the show, got photo postcards back from all of them, signed, and often an actual handwritten response. Martin Henderson, Angela Bloomfield,

Michael Calvin. You've got all the classics there. All the big ones, yeah. Yeah. Do you reckon they'd still do that? Probably, yeah. Maybe. The publicity department would take care of it. Who's writing ones, yeah. Yeah. Do you reckon they'd still do that? Probably, eh? Maybe. Publicity department would take care of it.

Who's writing letters, though? Yeah, true. It's like DMs now. Yeah, you slide into the DMs far easier. And as I mentioned, I'm a delete all. I got Dan Carter to sign a post for himself for my niece for her 21st birthday. She posted it on Instagram and tagged him in, and he liked it. Oh, that's nice.

I get him to sign my vitamin bottles now. Oh, do you? From the Chemist Warehouse. I'm still sending him my used jockeys. He's done with the jockeys now. Oh, dear. Yeah. Well, that's come across a bit weird now, hasn't it? Has it? Yeah. Well, I don't want to send him my new jockeys because he'll write

on them with the Vivids I always send him and then the Vivid will transfer to my boot tape. But when I'm done with them and they're holey and a little bit smelly, I send them those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've even stopped including the instructions to please sign them and send them back. He just knows. He just knows, doesn't he?

So g'day, mate. It's born here. Yeah, here's another pair. Talk to you soon. Love ya. It's a weird, it's the reverse of the usual kink, you know. Usually creepy dudes buy used undies, but I'm sending mine out.

Unsolicited, some may say. Absolutely unsolicited.