ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 18th January 2023

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley discuss The Butterfly EffectSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Try barista-made iced coffees available now at your local McCafe. Okay, I want to play Butterfly Effect. Oh, okay. Which is a game that probably exists, but I just made it up.

Is it based on the Ashton Kutcher movie? Well, it's based on the butterfly effect theory. Which is a mathematical theory, and after that movie, I was like, I could probably understand that, because I was in my early 20s and thought I was capable of anything, and then I looked it up and I was like, nope. There is an actual mathematical theory to the butterfly effect. It's insane.

But the basic idea is a butterfly flaps its wings, and Hayley falls off a chair. A hurricane. There's a hurricane in the Pacific. And that causes a hurricane in its wings and Hayley falls off a chair. A hurricane. There's a hurricane in the Pacific. And that causes a hurricane in the Pacific. I've never really understood it. I just remember thinking it was wild that Ashton Kutcher was being a drama. One small action can have massive repercussions is what I was saying. Yes.

So my one is pick something small that you don't think if it didn't exist it wouldn't affect the world. And then we extrapolate and try to see how it would and what's the biggest effect it could possibly have. Okay, so like an item or a movement or something. A tiny item, a tiny thing that you're like, really, we didn't need that.

The fork. The fork. We need the fork. We need the fork. We need the fork. No, but you've got the spoon. The fork does the stabbing. The spoon does the scooping. You can't stab a sausage with a spoon.

Okay, well, not a fork then. What's a tiny thing I don't feel like we need? The bra, you know? Free the nip. Free the nip. Free the nip. No, we need those. You need the bra. I'm just, no, I can't.

It's actually really hard to think of something we've got that we don't need. Here's one. Lozenges. Lozenges. You don't need lozenges. If we didn't have lozenges. You don't need lozenges. No, you just sort of work through a sore throat and then. Oh, heavens no.

You could have a honey lemon drink. Yeah, you can. Well, what if. We don't need lozenges. I was just saying, if we didn't have lozenges and someone hadn't had a calmed throat in the earlier days of COVID when people were still just rocking around, the cough might have been coughed onto somebody who then got the virus and they might have been the person that, you know,

turned it into a real full-blown death. Yeah, but what if somebody... I mean, it killed a lot of people, but it could have been a whole lot worse. Yeah, but what if that first person was going to the pharmacy to get lozenges? If there were no lozenges, they would have stayed home. They would have stayed home. But then famously in the early stages of COVID,

no one stayed home. No, they didn't. What if there weren't lozenges, but there was a serial killer in the making, in their soul they were going to become a serial killer. But they died at a young age because they choked on a lozenge. No lozenges. Then that person grows into being, let's say, a fully grown man.

At the age of 40, he murders 100 women in the forest. Okay. All because, oh, we don't need lozenges. And one of them was the woman that did the crucial calculations in the space race. Oh, okay. So we never landed on the moon. So there was a huge- Well, Russia landed on the moon first.

Russia got to the moon. The US didn't. Yeah. And not only that, the rocket came plummeting back down to Earth and right into downtown New York and exploded and killed a thousand more people. So Russia rules the world. And then Russia is laughing at the US. And, you know, that's just a small outcome from the lozenge not being invented. This butterfly effect is wild.

Yeah. All because of a lozenge. All because you said we didn't need lozenges. Oh, no. We could have stuck to cough syrup. Okay, what about tweezers? We don't need tweezers. We've got nature's tweezers.

People use tweezers to pull bones out of salmon. I mean, if there's still bones in salmon, someone might choke on the bone of the salmon. Yeah, like what will St. Pierre do? Exactly, if they come to debone their salmon, which they believe to be deboned. And that person who choked on it could be the person who was on their way to curing cancer. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, because tweezers exist. But the person who might have had, you know, the cure to cancer absolutely lined up really knock out the park could have been affected because there was no lozenge and there was no tweezers. Or they were choking on a lozenge. Somebody needed the tweezers and they didn't exist. To pull out the lozenge from their throat and they couldners. Or they were choking on a lozenge. Somebody needed the tweezers and they didn't exist. To pull out the lozenge from their throat and they couldn't.

Oh, my God. It's a double. Change one little thing. Wow. This was very deep, guys. Very deep. Deep and dark. We need it all, even the bad stuff.

I know people are often saying get rid of mosquitoes. They, like, literally hold up the ecosystem. Oh, I could do without them. I could do without them. On the next stage up, eat them and then they we eat that, and that gets eaten by that, and it holds it all together. But yeah, but like... Yeah, malaria and stuff's pretty bad, I suppose.

Yeah. You would need the mozzies. Hey guys, apparently being the company's most successful podcast isn't enough. They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends. So people are clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it. I would concentrate more on the shitter podcasts that the company makes. Yeah, same.

You know, the real losers out there. Same. No, no, no, we'll just... Yeah. Maybe we won't say names. Maybe we should even encourage people to listen to other podcasts that the company makes. Yeah, nah.

No, but only after ours. Yeah, nah. Nah, don't do that. And not more than ours. Give us a sexy little review, though. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.